Two Hundred and Thirty-Five Circular Formation Defense Tactics

Spread out in the war room is a huge chart, which covers almost the entire east coast of North America, extending from the southernmost point of Florida to the remote island of Newfoundland.

Bermuda hangs alone in the ocean, with a bright red fan-shaped frame at its center, wrapping the vast coast from Cape Sable on the Florida Peninsula to the Long Island town of Montauk, New York.

Another fan-shaped frame is connected to it, starting from Montauk, covering the entire Canada and the remaining east coast of the United States.

This is the patrol range of the two formations under the Continental Squadron of the New Continent Fleet of the Royal Navy of Great Britain.

The first formation is stationed in Hamilton, leading New York to the south, and the second formation is stationed in Chanel Basque, Newfoundland, leading New York to the north.

Rear Admiral Shaq Drake is the admiral of this squadron and the commander-in-chief of the mighty First Formation.

Lorraine is familiar with Shaq, and even dared to boast that he is the person most familiar with Shaq's commanding characteristics and war thinking in the world. Hundreds of assignments on the map have brought the two brothers not only mutual progress, but also a deep mutual understanding.

However, now the enemy is out and we are in the dark!

In the fan-shaped frame of the first formation, there are six strange perfect circles, three red and three black.

The six perfect circles occupy the entire position from Grand Bahama Island to the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, which are either near or far from the mainland, and the piece representing the Jackdaw is at the center of the northernmost perfect circle.

Lorraine picked up the stick.

"Shaq's fleet warfare thinking is based on a special kind of defensive thinking, which is the circular formation defense tactic you see."

"In this tactic, the fleet will be split into small formations of different sizes, arranged in a circular trajectory in a clockwise, counterclockwise, clockwise, and so on."

"Each route track has one to three observation points. Within a limited time, the lower-level track must observe the normal navigation of the upper-level track before allowing the second round of patrols. If the upper-level track loses contact, it will be regarded as encountering the enemy, and the lower-level track will follow the higher-level track. Search in the opposite direction of the ship, and join the battle as reinforcements."

"The route is limited, the speed is limited, and the handover is limited! Because of the overly complicated basic structure, Shaq's circular formation defense tactics are regarded as blunt, rigid, outdated, and lack of initiative in the eyes of the Royal Navy's staff officers. Shaq's leadership skills have been underrated."

"but!"

Lorraine pushed the chess piece of the Jackdaw all the way south until it coincided with a certain arc of the southernmost perfect circle.

"Suppose we don't know as much about Shaq's tactical thinking as the Admiralty staff who have read his three related papers, and the Jackdaw collided with No. 1 patrol formation at this point, what would happen?"

"There will be a firefight."

Bell took over the conversation, fished out more chess pieces from the small box on the side, and placed three pieces to surround the Jackdaw.

"The number of a patrol formation is between two and four ships. If three ships are selected, the enemies found by the patrol circle will be engaged in combat. If the enemy in front of us cannot be quickly defeated..."

"The No. 2 patrol formation will seek reinforcements from the enemy." Bell placed three more chess pieces, and the Jackdaw played a pair of six. "Then No. 3, No. 4, and No. 5..."

Seeing the densely packed chess pieces on the opposite side of the Jackdaw, Lorraine swept the stick and knocked all the chess pieces to the ground.

"This is the basic principle of Shaq's tactics. The tactical structure is static, but the tactical defense is dynamic. It is the opposite of the active defense and static bombardment of the world's mainstream powers."

"The invading enemies are often confused by the few enemies at the beginning. But the duration of a standard encounter battle is usually longer than two hours, and Shaq's orders to his subordinates are mainly to delay, defend and counterattack, and wait for the enemy to react. Shaq It has turned the tide of the battle, steadily rising from the weak side to the dominant side and even the strong side."

Bell interjected again: "Our teacher, Sir Layton, called Shaq Drake an anaconda in the Royal Navy. What's scary about him is that the circular defense is an open conspiracy, an upright tactic. "

"Hide the lower-level formations in the hinterland, let the upper-level formations break into the enemy's formation, and the enemy will delay reinforcements if they are equal.

If the enemy is strong and strong, he will abandon his sons and form an army to form a battle line and retreat thousands of miles away from the enemy. "

"His tactics are mature. Being caught in it is like being strangled by an anaconda. There is no second way except to kill the snake and escape."

Bell took a long breath, and raised his head to appreciate everyone's hard thinking.

Acharin has the most solid military foundation, so he frowned the most, then the half-baked Pierce and the elite pirate Katerina, Karen and Wang Ye who can understand a little bit, and the one who doesn't care at all, Hana , Noah, Carmen and Daniel.

After a long silence, Karen swallowed hard.

"Since this tactic has no solution, why didn't we encounter any decent obstacles along the way except to be careful? The Jackdaw has even been parked in this sea area for several hours, and has not been discovered by that defensive tactic until now... ..."

Bell rolled his eyes angrily: "Because in this world, only the freak Lorraine is special."

"Huh?" Everyone was surprised.

Lorraine spread his hands with enthusiastic eyes: "You should all know the relationship between Shaq and me. Some small grievances have nothing to do with today, but before the grievances happened, our relationship was actually very good."

"Huh?!" Except for a few people such as Hai Na and Bell, the surprise and suspicion on everyone's faces became heavier.

"There is nothing to make a fuss about. The father is kind and the son is filial. We were model brothers when my father was still alive. Many of his circular tactics are my suggestions. Of course, the creativity and creation are all his, there is no doubt about it. "

"I helped him perfect the circular tactic, and discussed the biggest flaw of the tactic with him. It is still the characteristic of the python. This tactic can only make various changes after being activated by the intruder, just like if the python can't be strangled My opponent, in the final analysis, is just a large lump of non-toxic and speedless snake meat."

Acharin couldn't help but say, "Is this considered a defect?"

"As a kind of regional defense based on the assumption of an enemy country's invasion, this is really not a defect. After all, no country will condone one or two fast ships to independently launch an invasion. Doing so is useless except for laughing."

"But we are different. The Viper is all we have. It is nimble, high-speed, and can advance and retreat freely. Under the same wind conditions, its speed is higher than that of the fastest Brig type among warships."

"Our observation distance exceeds 20 kilometers, and the defense formation can't do anything to us, they can't catch up with us, and they can't shut them down."

"Even after I only observed three circles, I calculated the specific trajectories of the other three circles. Karen said that the Jackdaw had been moored in this sea area for a long time, which showed that my calculations were correct, so I was able to hide in it." The center of the sixth circle is hidden in the blind spot observed by the entire formation."

"In short, the tactics that Shaq is proud of are useless to us. In this smuggling line, we have only one difficulty..."

The teaching stick was pushed forward, slowly, slowly, and firmly pressed to a point.

"The gap between Cape Charles and Cape Henry, the big shells of Algonquin, the treasures of Virginia and Maryland, that is... the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, which is only 19 kilometers wide, is our gate of hell."