May 13, Le Robel Bay.

"The third channel found the ship, Skuna type, one!"

"Order the Badger to attack, and the Horseshoe to support it."

"Yes! Order the Badger to attack the Horseshoe to support the two ships, and they will receive the reply!"

Listening to the chaos of combat commands, Lorraine raised her sight glass and looked for traces of the Badger on the vast sea.

This is not difficult. Although the Halloween warships are far apart, their general location has never been concealed from Lorraine.

He found the target in a short while.

In the sight glass, the badger Zhang Manfengfan drew a straight waterline on the sea, and rushed towards the sneaky Skuna type more than ten kilometers away.

The ending is destined from this moment.

With warships against non-warships, soldiers against non-soldiers, Badgers have absolute advantages in both firepower and combat skills, and the Horseshoe commanded by Bell is supporting him.

No matter what the perspective is, that poor Skuna type has no chance of turning over.

Lorraine put down her glasses boredly, leaned against the mainmast, and glanced at Nelson, who was solemn in the observation deck.

"Mr. Admiral, this kind of battle does not require your attention, and the Major and Bell will soon sink Skuna."

"The lion fights the rabbit and also has to do his best, Drake." Nelson touched the smooth hoop of the watchtower, "I'm not grateful for lending the Golden Deer to me to command."

"It's always high. Compared to the Badger, you can obviously see further on the Golden Deer."

“Help a lot.”

This conversation took place at the tip of the mainmast of the Golden Deer. Nelson and his messengers occupied the highest mainmast lookout on the ship. Out of courtesy and boredom, Lorraine chose to accompany her and sat bored on the extended sail truss of the lookout, high above.

Lorraine calculated silently in her heart.

"Admiral, should you bombard the coast properly?"

"Adjust bombardment? Intimidation?"

"It's almost done." Lorraine stretched, "Since yesterday afternoon, when we started an indiscriminate hunting on the inside of the bay, all the boats in the bay hid in the dock, and there were thirteen scouts. It was also from that time that we had nothing to do except for the limited number of ships entering the bay."

Nelson covered his chin with depression: "I thought they would organize at least one counterattack on the ship, but now it seems that I overestimate the French's bloodiness..."

"The general thinking of merchants is rational. When facing the Golden Deer, I don't think the impulsive faction can dominate the dock. We have to help them make up their minds to save themselves."

"Bombardment?"

"Put off those two old turrets and let them know that the docks cannot protect them."

“I need to think about it again.”

On May 13, the second day after the Halloween fleet entered Lerober Bay, Bell and the lucky horseshoe, which had been supplemented, officially returned to the team and participated in the fleet's hunting operation for the first time.

Le Robel Bay is a sheltered bay outside the Martinique coastal town of Le Robel. It is adjacent to the Gulf of Galion on the coast of Latrinett, and to the south, it is close to Le François, the French defence fleet station.

This is a high-quality harbor on Martinique Island after Frankfort Bay, but it has not received corresponding attention and development.

Lerobel is not prosperous.

Compared with the core commercial port of Saint Mary on the Atlantic coast and the military pivotal Le François, this town looks ordinary from any angle, even if its geographical location is at the center of the two, there are plenty of opportunities to combine the functions of the two from the beginning.

The culprit of this situation is the island and reefs at the entrance of the bay.

The arc-shaped islands and reefs lie across the entrance of the bay like a threshold. There are a large number of messy light and dark reefs and islands along the route, resulting in the winding and narrow passages entering and exiting the bay, and it is impossible to accommodate the entry of battleships above Level 3. Even small boats must be careful when sailing in this area, walking on thin ice.

But it is precisely this geographical and hydrological environment that allowed Nelson to choose a place to fight the French defense fleet.

There are five imports and exports of the island and reef belt. The narrowest No. 2 and No. 3 can only be used for small brigs with single-mast and non-standard ships. The wider No. 1 and No. 5 can be used for Class 5 and Class 6 ships below 45 meters.

The conditions of the Channel 4 are the best, and they can barely be used by the fourth-level patrol ships with a length of about fifty meters and a draft of more than six meters.

After losing the Lucky Horseshoe, the existing combat power of the defense fleet still includes the fourth-class ship Andes, the fifth-class ship Jupiter and three sixth-class ships, and the soft and hard power are stronger than the Halloween fleet.

Only by being in this sieve-like bay can the Halloween fleet divide the opponents to the greatest extent, make up for the objective gap between the two sides in combat power as much as possible, and leave enough tactical space for the commander.

But Martinique is the home court of the French after all, and the situation in Le Rober Bay cannot be hidden from the defense fleet. How to make the opponent take the initiative to join the camp without knowing it has become a problem that Nelson must solve.

His answer is provocation.

The already dead plan to destroy Le Lolan was the first provocation originally planned. Nelson originally planned to start with Le Lolan, constantly exposing his whereabouts and destroying the large and small docks along the coast to convey the strength gap between the two sides, mocking the incompetence and cowardice of the defense fleet, and forcing them to fight the Halloween fleet on the battlefield chosen by Nelson.

As a result, that plan didn't go well.

Le Loran's fortress made Nelson's original plan still in his womb, and the heart-warming arsonist operation became a replacement for destroying Le Loran, and the Lucky Horseshoe and Zirned became new tools to tease the defense fleet.

This tool is the human flesh wind chime from the Gate of Hell.

The insulting meaning of wind chimes is self-evident, but compared to the ports trapped in water and fire, the weight seems insufficient.

In order to continue the original strategy, Nelson had no choice but to take the risk and change the original bombardment of Le Robel to blockade Le Robel.

Geographically, this is no longer the same as putting the word "incompetence" on the face of the admiral of the defense fleet.

The other party had to respond to Nelson's ultimate provocation. The British had already driven their ship into the French pockets. If the Halloween fleet was allowed to move away without any damage, the commanders of the defense fleet, who were responsible for the security order along the Atlantic coast, would have only one way to retreat.

Nelson felt that the bait he placed was heavy enough, and whether or not he bombarded Lerobel would not have an impact on the situation of the final battle. In this case, why did Lorraine tirelessly propose bombarding the land?

Attacking land, even if you only face two old turrets, the risks that the fleet has to bear are huge.

Could it be that the pirates' plundering nature is caused by it?

Nelson shook his head hard.

Lorraine just suggested bombardment and did not force landing, which means that his fundamental purpose was not Lerober's wealth, the refuge ships in the dock...

vessel!

Nelson suddenly woke up.

These days he has been so focused on the powerful defensive fleet that he has ignored the hidden threats that are so close to him.

The refuge ships in the dock are very weak, like children who have not grown up. They are only qualified to shiver in front of the Halloween Fleet.

But no matter how weak the boat is, there are still artillery on their decks, and no matter how young the children are, there are still blades on their hands.

If...if...if these merchant ships participate at any cost at the moment of the decisive battle between the two major fleets, the Halloween fleet, which is not advantageous, will fall into a desperate situation of being attacked from both sides, which is fatal!

Nelson was shocked and sweated.

"Drake, the defence fleet will arrive at the battlefield sometime, and I cannot turn all the muzzles to Lerobel."

"There are only golden deer and lucky horseshoe, only half a day. Before dawn tomorrow, are you sure to send all the boats on the pier into the sea?"

"There is certainly no way to grasp it." Lorraine scratched her hair and said embarrassedly, "But you have to do this kind of self-rescue thing no matter what, right?"
Chapter completed!