Chapter 2456: Make a sharp turn!

Just as Druidl was feeling his mind, just ten miles away from the Dutch fleet, a high-speed cruise ship of the South China Empire named "Kaohsiung II 169" was monitoring them.

There are many "cannons" on the ship. The officers and soldiers in charge of observation are using barrel-type telescopes, binoculars, and portable single-tube telescopes to record the data of the white-skinned warship.

With the help of high-quality telescopes and first-class surveying technicians, it is possible to record the length and even width of enemy ships, record their masts, number of people, blastholes, etc., in addition to remembering, but also drawing, drawing a schematic diagram of the enemy ship, it is a collection An important aspect of intelligence.

The army has talents, and the enemy ships drawn by the officers and soldiers sitting in front of the easel are on paper, as if they were taken with a camera!

Captain Li Baozhong is less than 30 years old and he is quick to move. He shouted at the officers and soldiers and said, "Hurry up and work, it's going to be sunset. We will have dinner after dark. We will give everyone a meal tonight and have bean sprouts. surface!"

"Okay!" The officers and soldiers lifted up their spirits and speeded up their gestures.

Life on the sea is not easy. Eating bean sprouts can make the soldiers happy. Everyone knows that the chef has launched bean sprouts on the warship today, as well as the latest dated scum from a military farm in Cyprus. They are cooked and eaten later. !

Even though bean sprouts are inconspicuous in food on land, they are a gift from the sea. After all, bean sprouts require water, and water in warships is more expensive than oil.

The South China Fleet is very concerned about the food provided by the officers and soldiers, and try to build military farms and food processing plants as close as possible to provide fresh food for the soldiers, and Qianzi is one of them.

So the food tonight is really better than eating bread, biscuits and bacon.

When everyone was busy, there was a sirens. It turned out that a white-skinned cruise ship came to drive the No.169 ship.

This is a fast cruise ship equipped with 28 guns. The maximum caliber of the gun is 12 pounds. Compared with the maximum caliber of the gun on the 169, which is 18 pounds of firepower, the officers and soldiers on the 169 think that they have suppressing power.

Ship 169 is as hateful as a fly. For a while, I have been entangled with the white skin fleet desperately to spy on intelligence. When the white skins sailed to catch them, they ran fast, so that the white skins could not chase them and hate it. Into the bone.

Right now there is a cruise ship coming over to drive the No. 169 ship, but Major Li Baozhong is a little moved: "Before the white skin was two ships, plus a bunch of evil dogs behind, we can't provoke them, but now it's just one. For a ship, can I get a vote?"

Li Baozhong was really audacious, and turned a blind eye to the battleship behind the white-skinned ship, and wanted to fight a battle before leaving!

The army has long issued the right to freedom of movement. It is up to the battlefield commander to decide whether to retreat or retreat!

Therefore, Major Li Baozhong asked his political officer Zhu Zhiqiang, navigator Yu Gongbin, and gunner Ke Caishan (both captain) to discuss with him. When they heard that he wanted to fight, they agreed.

They are all young people, passionate, but it can't be said that they lack experience, and they are all promising.

"Fight against the enemy" is the glorious tradition of the South China Fleet. Of course, it will not be so stupid as to use cruise ships to challenge battleships, one-on-one against enemy cruisers, but it has never been false.

"Be careful that they attack our sails and cables, so we have to fight against the wind, and when the situation is bad, we should hurry!" Yu Gongbin suggested.

"Extremely!" Everyone agreed.

After reaching a consensus, a rapid bell sounded on cruise ship No. 169. This was a signal to prepare for battle. Everyone put aside all their work that had nothing to do with the battle, rushed to their battle position, and waited.

The cannon is in place, the musketeer is in place, the sailors are lowered, and the officer is standing!

The shelling of the two ships was a bayonet battle, and the danger was not small. If the officer was counseled, this battle would not even be necessary.

Navigator Yu Gongbin stood beside the helmsman and looked at the enemy ship coming.

The captain Van Den Gaven on the arriving Dutch cruise ship "Falcon" had white sideburns. He looked through his sight glasses and saw that there were few middle-aged people on the South China warships, most of them were young people, showing the breadth of the South China Empire’s military resources. .

The sailors and sailors on his ship are three generations of old, middle and young men. There are more people in the old and middle, and the proportion of young men is low.

Due to the hard training and nutrition, the young people on the South China warship move faster than the white skin. It is really a battle between the two ships. I am afraid that the "Falcon" is more likely to lose.

But Van Deng Jiawen didn't care. He only needed to get stuck on the heathen cruise ship and waited for the warship on the side to arrive before he could take down the enemy ship.

Now the wind is blowing to the southeast, and the Falcon is upwind, with full sails, and sailing at full speed towards the Chinese cruise ship "169", which is moving at a gentle "Z" speed, and The "Falcon" is getting closer and closer, and the officers and soldiers on the "169" can see the white waves plowed by the "Falcon".

"Ready, Aso!" Van Denjawen greeted Laskar Asso, the helmsman. The Falcon was turning the bow of the ship steadily.

The two warships were about to meet, and the officers and men on both sides stared!

"It's now, turn the rudder and go downwind! Insert behind the enemy ship!" Fan Deng Jiawen shouted, watching the ship rush to the right side of the enemy ship, he issued a series of commands, "Turn around, Zhang Fan!"

The crew members moved as they listened to him, running barefoot and making a thumping sound, as well as the sound of sails crashing on the bracing.

Fan Dengjiawen waited with bated breath, and waited until the bow of the ship reached a point with the wind direction. He raised his voice and said: "The main sail is turning!" The ship was rushing to adjust the direction of the wind and quickly turned to the tailwind. At this time, the wind hit his face. On the other side of the ship, the bow of the ship went straight to the rear of the Chinese cruise ship, beautiful!

It’s a pity that the Whiteskins were not happy for three seconds, but saw the rapid bell ringing on the bow of the cruise ship "169", and then the bow of the cruise ship turned sharply and turned to the right by a large margin. It was eating the wind, so With a sharp turn, the protruding gun port of the cruise ship’s gun deck almost touched the sea.

This is a thrilling action!

In the era of sailing, it is extremely dangerous for a sailboat to make a sharp turn when the wind speeds on the sea surface. If one is careless, everyone will be soaked in the water.

However, the "169" succeeded. After the hull was realigned, the wind rushed to the leeward of the "Falcon" and headed east.

Zhu Baipi was taken aback by this, and he couldn't help but stretch out his thumb to praise.

Fan Deng Jiawen was not discouraged and commanded the "Falcon" to adjust its position. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com again aggressively wanted to grab the rear of the "169" cruise ship.

The cruise ship "169" was under the command of Yu Gongbin, the captain of the ship. He successfully used the speed of the ship to make a sharp turn. He said to Captain Li Baozhong: "The enemy ship wants to take our ship down. , I definitely want to invite us to eat chain bullets (specially for rigging), I suggest getting out of combat!"

Li Baozhong simply said: "Run!"

The cruise ship "169" ignored the enemy ship, lowered several mid-mast and upper-mast sails so that it did not eat too much wind, and ran quickly.

Generally, a large and medium-sized sailing ship has four masts, namely, a bow mast, a fore mast, a middle mast, and a rear mast. The sails hanging on each mast are the main sail, the middle mast and the upper mast from the deck up.

You don’t have to eat enough wind when you are downwind. When there is too much wind, the bow of the ship will be buried, which will increase the resistance. It is obvious that the sailing officer of the cruise ship "169" is a veteran, driving the cruise ship elephant to fly on the water. In general, showing first-class manipulation technology!

Fan Deng Jiawen chased for several nautical miles, but was too late, so he had to slow down and watched the Chinese cruise ship sail away!