When it comes to the guiding thinking of naval warfare, battle line is a heavy term that has to be mentioned.

Once upon a time, sailing was booming. With the expansion of tonnage and the development of the cast iron industry, larger and larger artillery and longer and longer ranges changed the stereotyped understanding that naval warfare is equal to receiving a ship for the first time.

However, the precision of artillery at that time was limited, the extremely low hit rate and unstable performance made the navy miserable. At one time, it could only re-raise the banner of "braveness", abandon artillery fire and advocate swords in the army.

Until 1588, at the Battle of Gravoline, Francis Drake used the pirates' surprise attack to disperse the front of the Invincible fleet. Charles Howard gave the Spaniard a fatal blow with limited artillery fire and the first line of artillery. Sounded the elegy of the Spanish maritime empire.

England’s road to maritime hegemony started from this moment, and the line artillery tactics co-created by Charles Howard and Francis Drake became the banner of this step. The battle line has since been regarded as the standard by all countries in the world. Powerful battleships are all given the brave names of battleships.

However, the equipment of war will always change due to changes in tactics.

After the battle line was born, the navies of all countries in the world continued to move towards strong guns, and the penetrating power of artillery could not keep up with the thickness of the hull. It is becoming more and more to sink a main battleship in the battle line. difficult.

According to the internal data of the British Admiralty, 80% of medium-scale naval battles over 300 gates are tied.

This is by no means a world pursued by soldiers.

Therefore, since the middle of the 18th century, a discussion of retro tactics has been rampant in the Royal Navy.

Arrived!

Extremely advocating high-speed approach, pursuing short soldiers in naval battles, imitating pirates, and achieving quick battles and victory in single-ship duels or small-scale battle groups.

This kind of discussion is mainly focused on young people who are active in thinking and are not troubled by tradition, and their first achievement is to put dangerous mortars on the battleship.

The sideboard cutting tactics give full play to the short-range penetrating power of heavy artillery and the high side of large warships, launching movement shelling at a distance of 50 to 150 meters, greatly improving the bombing hit rate.

Staggered flank attack tactics, using static artillery shots within 300 meters of mid-to-short range to take advantage of sideboard firepower and protection, quickly sweep the enemy's deck, or aim at the mast to destroy the enemy's maneuverability.

Frontal assault tactics, challenge the opponent's most powerful sideboard with the bow of the ship, and use ultra-high destructive mortars to establish an advantage in short-term continuous evasion.

The three detailed tactics greatly enriched the reasoning on the map of the battle changes, and as the first group of believers who approached the thinking gradually became the backbone of the navy, the new tactics gained a lot of experience in practice.

However, because of conflicts in thinking with the older generation of commanders, these determined, determined, brave, and radical officers themselves have not been correspondingly affirmed.

They disobey orders and often break up battles. Whether they win or lose, they are prone to huge casualties. Various negative aspects are expanded for no reason. Approaching tactics are regarded as heresy.

Shaq is one of the representative figures, and one of them can be called lucky and prosperous. And his round formation defense is a practical deduction close to thinking, and it is also a large-scale one that has been able to enter the practical stage of that generation. One of the close combat methods.

As a result, the approaching thinking was subdued, and the battlefield of arguments shrank from the Admiralty to the Marine School, and two freaks were immersed, Nelson of the experience school and Lorraine of the academic school.

Nelson is the orthodox heir to the Navy's approach to thinking.

In a handful of intra-school deductions and confrontations, he invented and perfected the oblique interleaving method known as deviant, that is, completely abandoning the advantages of traditional battle lines and using the T-shaped straight line, an absolute disadvantage in the traditional field of vision, as the starting point of the campaign. , To achieve local chaos with brave advances, to find and seize temporary T heads in the gaps of the opponent's battle line.

Sinking us, or being sunk by us, this is the essence of Nelson's tactics.

In contrast, Lorraine's thinking is more biased.

Based on the self-centered influence brought about by later generations, he hated collective victory, and he did not want to ignore his own safety or regard sacrifice as glory.

So he resisted entrusting the weight of victory to others.

In his game of play, he rarely considers the head-to-head confrontation of the big group, and actively seeks to divide and tear the battlefield under any circumstances, hoping to use the victory or defeat of the core battle group to control the balance of the battlefield.

In short, it means sinking me, or being sunk by me.

Lorraine and Nelson, I am still us, individually or collectively, have had a confrontation in this approaching trend of thought.

In order to create proactive opportunities for decisive battles, Lorraine's tactics are full of strong unplanning and non-reference. The value of inspiration and sensibility is often greater than rationality and planning.

For example, the use of triangular observations to perform out-of-view raids in Cantabrian, or Le Francois' exchange to lure enemies, etc., are all representative manifestations of this characteristic.

Among them, Lorraine's favorite is the night.

At night without lights and no fire, the observation range is two to three kilometers, especially when you are in a relatively complex geomorphic environment, holding the uneven and tortuous coastline in your hand...

Lorraine's advantages are fully developed under such extreme conditions, and the night is Lorraine's home court.

However, today, in the Chesapeake Bay, at the estuary of the Choptangk River, at the home court of Lorraine, the Jackdaw was actually ambushed.

The opponent made full use of the night, the terrain, and the Jackdaw’s slackness and relaxation on and off in a safe state. They parked the ship openly on their way home, and used static artillery to hit the preset sea surface with precision!

Just when the Jackdaw took the initiative to sail into this preset sea!

"Bombed on the port side! Avoid it!"

Pierce screamed in the night sky with the grind-iron voice characteristic of a young man, and Bell rolled to the ground and pushed the helmsman away, pinching the hand wheel to the right to full the rudder.

But all this is too late after all!

The first round was a volley of Brigentine on both sides. The impact of the shells was around the jackdaw, distributed at a distance of 20 to 50 meters.

The second round was the additional shelling of the Galen ship. The dense projectiles whizzed and arced. One smashed a large hole on the port side near the bow, and the other pierced the sail between the two masts. Fire.

Lorraine stood in the middle of the fire and the water, his feet motionless like nails.

"Report damage!"

Karen, who was holding his forehead, grinned and rushed over, walking all the way, dripping blood all the way, his face was pale, and his eyes were flushed.

"The second sail of the main fore mast caught fire. The three-story main mast and the second-tier horizontal sail of the fore mast failed. The estimated speed was reduced by 20%! Another port side gun bay No. 1 was broken and the stored corn caught fire!"

"Put out all the corn in stock and solve the fire problem within five minutes. At the same time, send someone to the mast. I don't need the lifting function, as long as it can blow the wind!"

"Yes!"

Lorraine took a deep breath: "Let Pierce see who's writing it, I don't believe it is the wrong person!"

His anger was instantly transformed into an order, and soon the report came back. The attacking side's Galen ship type five, the bow is like a red goddess, combined with the flag and the pirate flag, it is the flagship Bloody Mary of Cotton Jack VII.

"Cotton Jack..." Lorraine gritted his teeth, "The pirate king's demeanor and honorable name don't match at all!"

The matter is now completely clear.

Two months ago, Catalina rushed into the mouth of the bay under the cover of Cotton Jack. Cotton Jack survived somehow, dormant for a long time, and today taught Lorraine a great party lesson.

[In the face of pirates' private hatred, the country is not fart].

After thinking about it, Lorraine strode to the stern tower.

"Noya, it's time for the first round of shelling!"

"1 minute and 13 seconds!"

There is still time...

The water mist in the sky thinned, Lorraine stared at the **** Mary who was close at hand and gave orders loudly.

"Bell, perform a frontal assault tactic on Bloody Mary, and the bow against the enemy!"

"Are you mad again!" Bell was shocked, but he adjusted the bow quickly according to Lorraine's orders.

"Pierce, report the enemy's distance at 20 meters, early warning of shelling!"

"270, 250, 230 away from the enemy..."

"Acharin! I hope you have finished reloading the bow gun!"

Acharin poked his head out of the gun bay: "Of course, Captain! Every lady knows that she must never open her legs when being entangled by a tramp, especially a delicate beauty like the Jackdaw!"

"Very good, next..."

"150, 130, 110, 90... shelling! The bow of the ship was shot! Avoid it!"

Pierce shouted sternly, and as he shouted, Lorraine's order also sounded.

"Acharin!"

"Next time you pick flowers, don't show your eyes! Bow shots, let go!"

boom! Boom boom boom boom!

The Bloody Mary artillery roared, and at a distance of less than ninety meters, starting from the last gun bay on the port side, the flames exploded for the second time.

The Jackdaw fired almost at the same time, the bow of the gun roared, and the sky filled the shell of the gun bay in the forward section of the Bloody Mary. The sporadic stray bullets shot into the large artillery door, instantly interrupting the opponent's round of shelling.

The sailor's screams immediately sounded, and the ear-splitting roar was abruptly cut off!

The distance between the two sides is less than fifty!

"Bell, left full rudder!"

Wow!

The Jackdaw, which was rushing forward, flicked and turned around at close range, and the huge wave that was set off hit Bloody Mary, the head of the wave was higher than the freeboard, and the sky was falling down!

Brigentine next to Bloody Mary launched a shelling at the right time. Pierce didn’t even have time to warn. Three nine-pounder chain bullets hit the Jackdaw’s heavy hull, making a puff, puff, and dull sound, and there was no follow-up. News.

"Leave!" Lorraine yelled out loudly while pulling his throat tightly on the guardrail, "Go back to Baltimore now!"

"A gift from this pirate...We will report it again tomorrow!"

...

After a short while, the Qiaoputang River estuary.

The rolling waves in front of him were gradually calming down, but Cotton Jack's heart couldn't calm down at all.

The ambush with a certain degree of success failed...

The smuggling ship named Jackdaw was more cunning than the rabbits in the prairie, and it was suddenly attacked without showing the slightest panic.

Avoid, rush, feint, turn in.

Each of her responses was unexpected. When Bloody Mary stabilized, she had recovered the cut corner of the wind and fled five hundred meters away, with no possibility of chasing her again.

Cotton Jack vaguely felt that ~lightnovelpub.net~ he seemed to have provoke a troublesome opponent.

The helmsman, whom he regarded as his arm, approached him and whispered: "Captain, one of the gunners in the lower cabin died, four were seriously injured, and there are more than a dozen minor injuries... such a terrible opponent, don't you really pursue it?"

"The other party is a Bagh-type high-speed ship, and now I have found the wind... It's not that I don't want to chase it, it's that I can't catch it at all."

"But she hurt the sail after all, if it's Brigentine..."

"Didn't you see? She has given up evading Brigentine's shelling. If a Tier 5 ship decides to run away, even if she is a commercial type, a mere nine-pounder gun can't stop her. What's more..."

Cotton Jack shook his head bitterly.

"I bought the Brit's roster from New Orleans at a high price, and that Drake is coming back. The characteristics of the Bloody Mary are too obvious. When Drake blocks the bay mouth, we can't get out..."

"Go ahead, lower the flag... and leave."

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