Reborn As a Pirate

Latest URL: Late 18th century.

In this era, the confrontation between cold weapons and hot weapons is far from the time to decide the winner.

On land, with the development of technology, the application of cannons and muskets has gradually become the mainstream issue of warfare. The era of heavy armored knights rampant on the battlefield has come to an end, and cavalry is king has become a vocabulary that can only be found in piles of old papers without knowing it.

However, even in the not-too-distant future, His Majesty Napoleon, who is about to make the whole of Europe tremble, the army under his command would not dare to hope to stop the desperate charge of a cavalry with pure firearms.

The bayonet was an extremely important tactical complement to the flintlock rifle.

In fact, the reason why Europe has long insisted on the volley tactics is that apart from the theory that salvos are beneficial to increase the density of firepower, a very important aspect is that volleys are one. It is most suitable for the buried battle formation that takes into account the infantry, which is the legacy of the cold weapon war left to Europe by the culture of the ancient Roman legion.

The same goes for naval warfare.

Huge wind-powered battleships run across the water, and large-caliber cannons are their most trusted claws and fangs.

Every maritime power is obsessed with a more stable hull, more and longer gun decks, larger caliber guns and faster reloading speeds, but looking at the entire age of sails, the number of sailing ships that were really buried under guns is actually Very few.

The artillery battle at sea lasted for as little as two hours, and as long as several days and nights. Relying on the characteristics of the times when the ships were strong and the guns were unfavorable, they often fought until they ran out of ammunition and food, and the two sides might not be able to tell the winner.

The core means of quick victory and decisive victory is still the boarding.

Boarding warfare is an independent discipline of naval warfare, including subjects such as approaching, docking, boarding, and seizing ships, each of which has a much longer history than artillery battles.

The long history means that the predecessors have carried out in-depth exploration and optimization of these projects. It is difficult to innovate, the model is rigid, and some basic principles are regarded as canon, as if a little change is a heinous crime.

No shelling in the boarding state is one of the so-called basic principles.

There are many reasons for this principle.

For example, with the development of the iron casting industry, the caliber and weight of the guns on the ship far exceed the specifications of the land. An ordinary cannon requires 3 to 10 people to operate, such as heavy guns weighing more than 24 pounds, and the number of gunners is even higher. It is up to 12-14 people.

The space on the ship is limited, and the number of sailors is also limited. In order to ensure that there are enough sailors to participate in the artillery battle, other types of sailors have been greatly reduced.

In general, except for the most basic operator, every sailor exists for artillery.

Therefore, in the event of a boarding battle, the stormtroopers must be drawn from the gunners, and it is difficult to have both.

This is one of them.

The second reason is that the best distance for naval battles is between 30 and 200 meters. If it is farther away, the turbulence of the sea will make the accuracy become empty talk. If it is too close, the power of the shells cannot be released.

The projectile pushed out of the smoothbore by the black powder needs a sufficient distance to accelerate, and also needs a sufficient arc to convert kinetic energy into potential energy, and then further converted into kinetic energy to cause damage.

The boarding obviously does not meet this condition. Even if the artillery is activated, it is difficult for the shells fired to penetrate the hard hull and cause effective damage.

However, there are no absolutes.

The root cause of the lack of shelling in the boarding state is the uselessness of shelling and the lack of manpower. These two points are not true in this boarding between the Jackdaw and Brigantine.

Lorraine has fewer enemies and more enemies, and the requirement for this small-scale surface war is to win quickly, so it is impossible to put all the sailors on board. Only a small number of people actually boarded with him, and the manpower left on board is enough to complete Saturation shot on one side.

As an armed merchant ship of the destroyer class, the Jackdaw far surpasses the Brigentine, which ranks as a frigate, in terms of height. There is a height difference of at least 2 meters between the two sides, which is a standard condescension.

As the two sides approached, Brigantine's gun ports were facing the strongest hull of the Jackdaw, while the Jackdaw's gun ports were facing the opponent's unobstructed main deck.

The kinetic energy of the shotgun can no longer be released, and it is enough to crush the human body.

Following Lorraine's order, the artillery roared, and 10 twelve-pounders splashed thousands of shotguns across the deck of Brigantine, setting off a bloody storm and sweeping away all moving objects on the deck.

For a while, it was impossible to calculate how big the gains were from this round of shelling. Blood and brains were all over the deck, and there was no standing enemy in front of Lorraine.

He threw the first hookline.

After him, Noah and the sailors who had been waiting for a long time threw hooks, howled, rushed through the narrow gap between the two ships in their own ways, and stepped firmly on a piece of flesh and blood.

Katerina beat Lorraine's chest in salute across the side of the ship, then bent down and untied the hook rope.

"We will definitely not give the Skuner type an opportunity to take advantage of, and please take care of the captain. If you encounter difficulties, don't rush in!"

"What is difficult..." Lorraine slowly drew out the knife, raised his eyes to scan the messy scene, "I don't know if the captain of this ship is still alive. To be honest, I really want to know which unlucky guy took it This work, because the sea people died in the lake, is a disgrace."

...

The battle on land quickly came to an end as the Iron Felt Battalion joined the encirclement.

After all, the time for the civilization of the Indians was short, and it is only a matter of recent generations to fully enter the age of firearms.

Even though they are already familiar with firearms, they are still far behind the whites in positional warfare.

Not to mention that the Indians who are willing to take risks for more than a hundred leather rifles are definitely not the elite tribes among the Indians, but their opponent is the Iron Felt Battalion, the leader of the French Army, which claims to be the best in the world except for willfulness.

The gap in combat power further widened, and the unlucky Bronze was accidentally placed in the king's game.

Screams, elegy, despair, crying...

When Lieutenant Colonel Erwin walked out of the jungle, the guards had already given up the battlefield to the soldiers of the Iron Felt Battalion. Even the Earl jumped out of the carriage and breathed the early spring air under the bright sun by the side of the battlefield.

Seeing Lieutenant Colonel Irwin approaching, the Earl smiled slightly: "I didn't expect to meet Lieutenant Colonel by chance in a place far away from the barracks."

The lieutenant colonel snapped his legs together and saluted: "The Iron Felt Battalion is conducting a defense drill. I didn't expect that the Earl would be involved, causing you to suffer an unwarranted disaster!"

"It's not your fault." The count waved his hand generously, "It's just because of some trivial matters, I need to stay by the forest for a while."

Just as he was talking, there was a sudden thunderous cannon fire from the sky.

The lieutenant colonel frowned: "The situation on the lake is..."

"I heard that a group of pirates mixed the boat into Lake Pontchartrain. My captain of the guard is cleaning the lake."

"Sea ship? Shelling?"

"Don't the lieutenant colonel know about this?"

The count glanced at Acharin in surprise, and Acharin shook his head slightly with a smile on his face.

This reaction made the Earl laugh.

He patted the lieutenant colonel on the shoulder affectionately, and said slowly: "Some people want to make a conclusion about what happened in the past two months, but they don't get my support. So they probably think that as long as the person who raised the objection is resolved , there is no objection.”

"You mean... the final conclusion after the coffin?"

"Yes, the question of who is a patriot is very divided."