The goblins that emerged from the city streets are not what the public imagines—individually afraid of death, but as a whole, they are a mob. Instead, they are like trained soldiers with well-founded advances and retreats. coaxed away. Although their level is still poor in Harrison's eyes, they have greatly subverted the traditional image of goblins.

The goblin army—let's call it the "army"—was not armed with scrap metal, but serious swords, and some were even equipped with leather armor.

Obviously, this wave of goblins was cannon fodder released by the pirates, deliberately used to disgust and consume the kingdom's army. The real main force of the pirates must still be lying in ambush, waiting for a fatal blow when the kingdom's army relaxes. Even if Harrison was killed, he wouldn't believe that a group of goblins could cross the sea and land on Aldo, annihilate the Kingdom's navy and occupy West Hills in one fell swoop, and the information collected before did not mention the appearance of goblins , The pirates are all normal human beings.

snort! If you want to ambush us in secret, if you want to be beautiful, we also have our own backhand.

Thinking of this, Harrison gave an order to the officers around him: "Raise two more columns of smoke! Let our friendly forces begin to attack the port."

The officer left quickly after taking orders.

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In the dock area, galley warships have untied their cables, and the deck is full of pirates with swords in their hands, ready to go.

Pirate leader Zod, a capable officer under Edward, smiled and said to Nathan who was standing next to him after listening to the report of a minion: "Master, the Kingdom army has received our gift, we Shouldn't it be time to clean up those Northwest folks, the brothers who went out to patrol are waiting outside."

They have detected that there is a fleet outside the port monitoring Westport. From the shape of the ship, it can be judged that it is the Northwest Fleet that came recently.

"Of course, Captain Zod." Nathan nodded with a smile: "You are in command here."

He turned his head and looked at the city where the sound of fighting came from, "Sir Harrison, our gift is more than that. In the days to come, the shadow of the gift will accompany you for a long time."

Pirate leader Zod waved his hand: "Go to sea! Meet the people from the hometown in the northwest bay!"

The rumble of war drums sounded, and the oarsmen rowed their long oars with the sound of the drums, urging the warships to sail to the sea.

…

"Two more pillars of smoke have risen!"

"The Royal Army is asking for our support!"

On the high mast of the Unicorn, the watchman shouted to the deck at the top of his voice.

Tirpitz raised his binoculars and looked in the direction of Westport for a while.

He hadn't made a decision yet, and the watchman's shout came from above again: "A fleet has come out of Westport! There is a skeleton flag on it!"

"Notify the entire fleet, the target is the pirate fleet in the southeast direction!" Tirpitz also noticed the change from the telescope, he didn't think about it, and quickly issued an order.

A series of small flags of different colors and shapes are hung on the mast. This is a new type of semaphore communication method improved to cooperate with linear tactics. Through the semaphore, Tirpitz's order was quickly conveyed to each warship.

At this time, the fleet was located in the northwest direction of the port, and Tirpitz ordered the fleet to move towards the west port.

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The pirates have a total of 18 ships. They are arranged in an inverted V shape tacitly. Keeping the overall situation in check, they also have a simple set of flag signals for command.

The spire of the V-shaped formation points to the Northwest Fleet in the distance. Although the wind direction is unfavorable, the fleet is slowly approaching each other under the propulsion of the human engine.

At this time on the bow of the pirate flagship, Nathan's eyes were wide open, and he stared toward the northwest direction blankly, seemingly in a daze, but if you look closely at his eyes, you will find that his pupils are slightly flickering.

Pirate leader Zod rubbed his hands beside him, and asked cautiously: "Master, how is the situation of the enemy?"

Nathan closed his eyes and panted slightly, as if he had just run for a while.

After breathing calmly, he opened his eyes: "6 sailboats are in front, and 6 oarboats are behind. They are lined up and heading towards Westport."

"Horizontal team?"

"The ones that are connected end to end...should be a column, right?"

There are basically two types of naval warfare tactics in this era: one is collision, using the huge ram angle installed in front of the warship to target the fragile side waterline of the enemy ship, destroying the hull and keel of the ship through collision, causing it to enter the water and sink Or lose the ability to sail, use the oars to bring flexibility so that the warship can carry out precise collisions, and can retreat quickly after the collision to avoid being dragged and sunk by the damaged enemy ship; The side of the ship is close to the side of the enemy ship. Before contact, the enemy ship is hooked with a hook rope, and then put on the springboard. The sailors use the springboard to start hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.

Naval battles at this time usually start in the form of ramming battles and end in the form of boarding battles. When the ships of the two sides are close to each other but cannot collide with each other, or one party takes action to avoid being collided at the last moment, or the other party is not damaged despite the collision, because the distance between the two sides is very close, they must be fought by boarding. decide the winner.

In order to deploy troops ~lightnovelpub.net~ so that more ships of one’s own side collide with the ships of the enemy, the fleet usually lines up in one or more rows and rushes towards the enemy side by side during combat. This is a test for sailors Or the skills of the oarsmen. If two adjacent ships get too close, their wood paddles will bump into each other. If they get too far away, the enemy ship will break into the gap between the two ships.

As for the long snake-shaped column, it is generally used during long-distance voyages.

"Haha! These idiots!" The pirate leader Zod laughed.

"Are we waiting to be cut in two with this formation? They probably thought we were still nesting in the port."

"Oh, that's right!" Zod slapped his forehead, "They don't have the magical ability to see thousands of miles like you and Lord Edward. This kind of powerful power is really useful in the endless sea."

Nathan smiled and asked: "So, Captain Zod, have you already figured out your strategy against the enemy?"

"Of course!" Zod said contemptuously, "I will go around to their side, and then attack their middle, cut their fleet in half, sink the paddle boats first, and then deal with the slow ones." A sailing ship, a ship without an oarsman must be poorly maneuverable."

"It doesn't matter if you don't want the 6 oarboats, but I will present the 6 sailboats as spoils of war to Lord Edward."

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