The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 798 The Most Advanced Tactics

Trump knew very well that if he just chased him like this, he would be led by the nose by the Ming fleet, and they could calmly choose the time and sea area to intercept him.

But if they don't go north to rescue, the French port will suffer heavy losses, and maybe the alliance between peace and France will be over.

Nero caught a glimpse of him still hesitating, and urged loudly: "Our fleet has an absolute advantage and can defeat the Orientals under any circumstances, only one decisive battle is enough!

"Your Excellency, with all due respect, the enemy fleet can go to the port of La Rochelle, but it can also continue northward to attack the port of Rotterdam!"

"No," Tromp subconsciously said, "Rotterdam has the strongest fort..."

In the middle of his speech, he suddenly remembered the information sent back from the Far East. The people of Ming Dynasty had used arson ship suicide attack to burn down the fleet of the East India Company in Dali. If they launched a similar attack on Rotterdam...

Immediately, the tens of thousands of merchant ships packed more densely than sardines outside the port of Rotterdam appeared in his mind.

"Leyter," he said to his adjutant without hesitation, "an order, the fleet immediately turns to the north, and rushes to the Bay of Biscay at full speed!"

In the past few days, there has been no news of La Rochelle being attacked, which makes Tromp even more anxious. If the Ming Dynasty did not attack Bordeaux, then their target is likely to be Helan!
After another three days, the combined fleet finally sailed into the Bay of Biscay.In history, there have been many large-scale naval battles in this water area, and it is a veritable naval battlefield.

It was less than [-] nautical miles away from La Rochelle, and the sky was getting brighter. Tromp got up in his clothes and urged to advance with full sail. The days when he didn't know the intention of the enemy fleet made him extremely tormented.

Immediately, violent drums sounded from all decks of the Bradrod at the same time.Trump immediately became a shock, which means that there is an enemy attack!
He rushed to the bow deck quickly, and Luiter handed him the binoculars, "Commander, the enemy ship is coming quickly from the northeast, and the distance is still about eight nautical miles."

"Damn it, it's so close! Where's our guard ship?!"

"Commander, it's foggy in the early hours of the morning, and the enemy is extremely capable of grasping fighter opportunities." Luyter hesitated, "Do you think...do you want to retreat?"

Trump glanced around, and the United Fleet still maintained its formation at night.In particular, there were a few French warships that advanced a nautical mile and a half away. If they turned around and retreated at this time, they might be entangled by the enemy's high-speed and flexible boats, and then fell into a tight siege.

These arrogant Frenchmen!

These cunning Orientals!Step by step, they lured the United Fleet to the battlefield they were satisfied with, and patiently waited for the fighter, and finally let them wait until the foggy day.

It was only at this time that the Helan people deeply realized that what they had encountered was a very powerful opponent.

Suddenly, his eyebrows twitched slightly, his eyes widened and he turned around. He put his fingers into his mouth and sucked hard, then raised them high.

The back of the fingers is slightly cool, it is the southwest wind!
The wind has changed!

"God zegene!" Tromp shouted excitedly at the moment, and then turned to Luiter and said, "Command, battle line! Quick, turn to battle line, ready for a decisive battle!"

"Yes!" The latter replied, and said cautiously, "Commander, although we are now at the upper wind, the ocean current is still not good for us."

"Don't be wordy, we can't lose those third-tier battleships." Tromp waved vigorously, "We have a numerical advantage, we can fight!"

"Yes!" Luyter turned and left, ordered a few words to the herald, and then shouted to the deck, "Let the enemy see the superb sailing skills of the Dutch sailors!"

It is by no means a fluke to get the name of Lanhai Coachman. The Ming Pacific Fleet has only advanced five nautical miles, and a total of 34 battleships above the third rank in He and France have formed a battle line. The orientals rushed over.

Other smaller warships spread out skillfully around, ready to come up at any time to "repair" the damaged enemy ships.

Only the four French third-tier battleships that were too far away at the beginning needed to turn around, and their positions were still a bit off at this time, but they barely sailed to the west of the battle line and were struggling to turn their sides.

Nero also came to the front deck of the Bradrod, raised his binoculars to look carefully, but suddenly laughed, "Haha, they are finished! They are dead!"

In fact, the Helan people had already discovered the strangeness of the enemy fleet, but they kept silent.At this time, Luyter couldn't help but nodded and said: "They probably came here desperately because they were afraid that we would retreat, but they are still maintaining a column at such a close, and I'm afraid it's too late to turn into a battle line. We have a chance to hit a T-shaped head. "

The French shouted excitedly, "These Orientals don't understand naval warfare at all. Although they have heavy warships, their tactics are still more than 100 years ago.

"Soon, they will be subjected to concentrated shelling from the battle line!"

Only Trump still frowned suspiciously, and kept repeating a question in his mind, why did the Orientals, who used these strategies and tactics so exquisitely, make such a major mistake at the last moment?
Are you really lucky?
Soon, the Daming Pacific Fleet gave him the answer.The rapidly approaching single-row column gradually split into two parallel columns, maintaining a nearly perpendicular angle to the battle lines of the He and French fleets, and "piercing" straight to the front and rear thirds.

It is very similar to the scene that appeared in the Taiwan Strait a few years ago.The two strongest first-class battleships of the Ming army, "Hangzhou" and "Jinan", each rushed into the enemy's battle line with twelve or thirteen battleships behind them.

Immediately there was loud cannon fire on both sides.

On Hangzhou's side, the Helan third-class battleships Texel and Curacao were fully fired, and nearly [-] cannons on the ship's side poured shells on the hull of the Eastern battleship at the fastest speed.

The pressure on the Jinan was even greater. The position he chose to break through was a French second-tier battleship, equipped with 32 cannons, and the firepower density was extremely high, especially the [-]-pound cannon on the lowest gun deck, which was extremely powerful.

However, the Ming Fleet, which adopted Nelson's tactics, was almost unable to fight back because the bow of the ship was pointed to the enemy's side.

What they were waiting for was the moment to cut into the line of the United Fleet.At that time, the bow or stern of the enemy ship will be facing the side of the Ming warship, and it will be extremely difficult for the enemy ship to turn around or drive away due to the blocking of its own ships in front and behind the battle line.

After all, Trump was Helan's best naval commander, who was several grades better than his counterparts in the Far East. At this time, he actually understood the Ming army's intentions, and he couldn't help taking a breath.

　Thanks: Spring and Autumn don't wait, Pan Xuezhong, a soft heart is a disease @给我的大大目力!I am so grateful, thank you!
　　
　
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