Four Hundred and Fifty Five Mang

"Bombardment! Port side shot! Repeat, port side shot!"

Amidst the repeated alarm sounds, the Vortex Escape spewed out tongues of fire 300 meters in front of Valkyrie and sprinkled a series of projectiles.

The projectiles arced across the air, scrambling to fall around the fast-moving Valkyrie, splashing water all over the sky.

Valkyrie passed through the water curtain with the bow raised high, and the port side roared immediately. There were three 32-pound doors and two 24-pound doors. And back.

Lorraine stood at the bow of the ship and looked down at the chaotic battle situation.

A pair of sevens, two sea turrets, four fifth-tier Galen ships, and the Queen Anne's Revenge, which has been transformed beyond recognition and is not suitable for simply rowing into a certain ship type just like the Valkyrie.

Valkyrie's enemy-facing mechanism is very novel. It not only makes full use of the horizontal and wing sails on the large sail surface, but also adds the vertical sail with the lowest sail position to the propulsion system of the entire ship.

This was originally the unique sailing technique of oriental hard sailing ships.

Oriental hard sailing ships have always liked to configure multi-masted schooners, because of the flexibility of schooners, they do not have to consider the wind and turbulence of the fore-mast to the backmast, and can maximize the use of deck space to increase the number of masts.

Increased masts require more deck space, increased deck space requires larger hulls, increased hulls require more sails and more masts to push...

This kind of closed-loop design idea made Dongfang Ship embark on a development direction completely different from that of the West from the very beginning.

Western shipbuilders focus on fluidity, wind suitability, center of gravity, stability... These are not important points in the eyes of Eastern shipbuilders. For them, only the strength of the keel and the distribution of cabins are the real design core of a ship.

According to the records handed down from the East Indian Islands, the Eastern Empire in its heyday built a 100-meter-class giant ship with nine masts in the early 16th century.

Most Western countries treat these histories as unreliable myths and legends. After all, at the beginning of the 16th century, even building a 30-meter-class Galen in Europe would be a waste of time. Even if the Drake family rose to prominence in the British-Western naval battle of Gvorinne, the mainstream configuration of both sides was Kirk type and Karak type.

As we all know, the Spanish Armada is equal to a dozen forty-meter-class carrack galleons.

But Lorraine knew that the 100-meter-class oriental giant ship really existed, and Zheng He's treasure ship did in some respects achieve design achievements that Western sailing ships had never achieved in their lifetime.

Of course, Lorraine has no intention of arguing with Western shipbuilders on this point. Whether the treasure ship and Noah's Ark are the same thing has nothing to do with Lorraine and Valkyrie.

Valkyrie is the quintessence of the shipbuilding industry in the New World. The most quintessential part of her body is the sail, which is the Bermuda full-fitted sail with excellent design of both East and West.

Like the oriental hard sailing ship, the Valkyrie's stern sail not only has a keel and a sail yard that can rotate up to 180 degrees left and right, but also has a sail yard assembly that is rarely seen in Western ships, the spinning sail scull.

The function of the spinning scull is to coordinate the steering of the schooner, so that the entire sail surface can be rotated uniformly, and fixed at any angle, so that it is convenient to turn the sail to both sides when needed, and temporarily use the schooner as a low sail position sails to use.

The low-sail square sail has the unique characteristic of driving, especially after the application of western-style soft sails, it is easier to form an effect similar to a pocket, so that the wind has nowhere to escape, and the effect of lowering the stern of the ship is achieved.

Lowering the stern is equivalent to raising the bow. On the one hand, raising the bow can greatly reduce the water resistance and increase the speed. On the other hand, it can also increase the freeboard facing the enemy.

Make more use of the Valkyrie's thick hull armor to kill two birds with one stone.

This is the mystery of Valkyrie's mechanism of meeting the enemy.

However, there are advantages and disadvantages in everything. In fact, there are relatively strict conditions to achieve a joyride in battle.

In terms of external forces, the wind direction on the battlefield must be stable, neither too weak nor scattered. The basic standard is 120-degree wind surface, with moderate or higher wind force.

In terms of internal force, the sailing and course should not change too much during the dash, the sails should not be reefed or mended at will, and the adjustment of the steering wheel should not exceed plus or minus 5 degrees.

These rigid restrictions make Valkyrie's head-raising assault really like the heavy knight's charge that was popular in the Middle Ages, resolute, brave, rigid, and indomitable.

Conventional evasion is doomed to be abandoned during the assault, and the opponent's shelling hit rate will increase exponentially. In order to prevent possible direct hits from high-throwing projectiles, the deck personnel must be limited to the minimum standard, resulting in insufficient manpower for the ship's operations. Turning beyond the limit, a large stall is almost inevitable...

Don't think about it too much.

Lorraine evaluated his new skills depressedly: "Isn't it reckless to say a thousand words and ten thousand..."

Valkyrie rushed headlong into Blackbeard's hunting ground, heading straight from north to south, aiming at Blackbeard's flagship Queen Anne's Revenge.

Blackbeard felt strongly insulted by her non-fancy straight forward.

He and Lorraine are old rivals.

And unlike Cotton Jack, who had almost never gotten any favors from Lorraine, Blackbeard had firmly grasped the initiative on the battlefield regardless of victory or defeat in previous fights.

Lorraine must rack his brains and exhaust his energy to narrowly defeat him. This is not only the consensus of the entire Caribbean, but also Blackbeard's own cognition.

But!

It was just a new ship, and Lorraine suddenly stopped cheating.

Wizards don't cast spells, and swordsmen don't draw their swords. There can only be one reason for them to do so, and that is that the opponent is not worth it!

He, the most powerful pirate king in the Caribbean, His Royal Highness Blackbeard, whose fierce reputation can easily stop children crying at night, is no longer worthy of being regarded as an opponent?

Because of that ridiculous big ship in a turtle shell?

It's a joke in the world!

Blackbeard seems to see a wild boar in a turtle shell rampaging in his carefully arranged enclosure, and his hunters...

"What are you doing!" Blackbeard gritted his teeth, "What are they afraid of? Are they afraid of being bitten by that iron turtle with no teeth or claws? Do you still remember that you are the most brutal pirate in the Caribbean Sea!"

"Zaniin, let them go up! Boldly cut the side, boldly go around, cut her windward, entangle her legs, throw shotguns on the deck of the white flag, and tear this madman... to pieces. Wan Duan!"

...

In the era without telecommunications, how far can a person's anger go?

Lorraine never thought about this question, nor did he try to combine the actions of the pirates with Blackbeard's anger.

After advancing less than a kilometer, he clearly felt the pirates on the opposite side become agitated.

The shelling is getting closer and closer, and the turning is getting later and later...

The pirates seem intent on disrupting the Valkyrie's windward position.

Although this is an excellent technique to interrupt the advance, with the current number of the Blackbeard Pirates, in order to achieve this, they need at least two ships to go around to the side of Valkyrie, and continue to catch up to one Within 100 meters.

However, Valkyrie is faster than any of Blackbeard's ships, and it is obviously impossible to catch up from behind. I tried to escape from the whirlpool, and now I have been thrown away by more than 300 meters.

All they could do was cut sides, heel against the windward side of the Valkyrie, roll sideways, and resign themselves to fate.

Lorraine suddenly realized something strange.

"It seems that my dear Yaza has been underestimated..." He whistled, turned his head and said to Adrey, "Go and tell the gunner Desai, the pirates will soon cut to within 100 meters of our starboard side. It must have been the windward that disturbed us. I know it sounds weird, but please prepare him for stationary close-in bombardment."

A moment later, Adlay faithfully passed Lorraine's exact words to Acharin's ears, including the exclamation that "dear Ajar is underestimated".

Yacharin was stunned for a while, blinking his eyes in a daze.

"Adrey, do you think the captain judged that those lifeless pirates are planning to approach and cut us from our starboard side? Parallel? Cross?"

"That's the captain's words, sir gunner-in-charge."

"Did they regard themselves as dead people? Or did they not see so many open gun ports in Valkyrie, and regarded us gunners as dead people?"

"There is a high probability that you are regarded as a dead person." Aidelai replied solemnly, "otherwise, no one would joke about his own life."

"Ah... Really exciting news..." Yacharin swung his arms and slipped into the gun bay from the bow cabin, "Please tell those pirates, Yacharin Desai greets their sisters."