Kan Shu clenched the steering wheel, and with the greatest strength, he tried to control the 500-ton big guy under him. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Alas, if you can survive, you must react to the shipyard, this steering wheel is too difficult to control." Muttering to himself, Kanshu knew that he had overestimated his level of strength.

I finally know why I want a tiger to be my first mate.

Because it's really hard for ordinary people to control this thing for a long time.

However, now the tigers on the ship have more important things to do, so they can only grit their teeth and hold on.

"Alternatively, it would seem more convenient to engrave a detailed scale on the wheel of the wheel, and then train some of the more powerful sailors to operate the rudder under the command of the officer."

Kanshu was already a little scared by the steering wheel at this time, and actually thought about how to be lazy in the moment before the war.

However, he never took his eyes off Peter's fleet, which was making a big turn on the opposite side.

He stared at one of the professional warships with the most gun windows, silently waiting for the distance to approach.

In less than 10 minutes, the Sea Shark-class No. 1 had approached the vicinity of Peter's fleet, which had just completed its turn.

The Sea Shark-class No. 1 was less than 1,000 meters away from the nearest enemy ship.

Before Kanshu could give the order, there were several loud bangs from the gun deck below, and the guns below had already fired.

At this distance, it is still in a state of high-speed movement, so naturally it is still an empty cannon.

With a cold face, Kan Shu casually opened the lid of the communication pipe beside him, and ordered in a loud voice, "Before approaching the enemy 300 meters, no artillery is allowed." ”

This order caused an uproar, and Kan Shu turned a deaf ear to the noise coming from the pipeline, and naturally there were the tiger ben who were always the last general in charge, and he drove his boat to the enemy ship that fell behind.

There was another cannon shot from below, and it didn't disturb Kanshu, he believed that Tiger Ben would be able to solve the problem.

Sure enough, after a while, there was silence below, and for a long time, there was no more indiscriminate firing of artillery.

Now, it feels like a high-secret mission, and the state of the light control is somewhat similar, and although I can't hear the sound, I can still feel the tension of the storm below.

As the Sea Shark-class ship got closer and closer, the enemy's fleet also turned again, and now, the enemy's wind direction is favorable, and the speed of turning is also much faster.

However, the enemy is fast, and the canon is faster.

"The steam engine is running at full capacity."

Commands reverberated through the copper pipes in the silent cabins of the lower floor.

In an instant, with the sudden shock of the Sea Shark-class No. 1 ship, the speed that had already reached 19 knots climbed again, reaching a high speed of 25 knots that no one dared to imagine even a hundred years later.

Originally, after turning on the steam engine, it should not only reach this speed, but it can be faster, but after the speed reaches a certain level, the sail, which was originally used for acceleration, will become something that hinders the increase in speed. The huge sail area dragged down the operation of the steam engine.

However, it was not possible to give up the sail at this time, because the speed could only reach 10 knots with the steam engine alone, and the current speed was also increased on the basis of the original speed of the sail.

This creates a paradox, if you want to increase the speed again, you have to give up the sail, but without the sail, it is impossible to achieve this speed with the power of a steam engine.

However, these things only flashed in Kanshu's mind, and he was attracted to the past by other things.

The sturdy hull began slowly, constantly making bursts of overwhelming squeezing sounds.

Kanshu knew that he could not use this speed for a long time, and when it was first built, the specially reinforced hull did not consider such a high speed, and the speed of technological development exceeded the expectations of the shipyard's designers.

The Sea Shark-class No. 1 ship suddenly accelerated again, and added a lot, this move suddenly broke the counterattack strategy that Peter's fleet had formulated before.

Originally, they thought that once they couldn't run, they would lure the Xuanjun Clippers closer, and then relying on the dominant wind direction, they suddenly turned around and dealt a severe blow to the Xuanjun Clippers in the form of a battle line.

Although the speed of the Xuan army's ships is very fast and the artillery is extremely fierce, they do not believe that as the same wooden ships, the defense of the Xuan army's fast ships will be much more powerful than their ships.

Even those thousand-ton professional warships loaded with nearly 100 guns could not withstand the close-range fire of hundreds of guns.

The men of Peter's fleet were confident that with just a few hundred guns of fire, any enemy who came within range would be reduced to ashes.

The two small clippers that stopped them before are proof of this.

However, the Sea Shark Class One, which was suddenly nearly thirty percent faster, completely disrupted their deployment.

Taking advantage of the fact that the enemy was still turning, Kanshu found a place where the sidechord guns and stern guns could not be aimed at and quickly approached the enemy.

However, Kan Shu had ordered all the guns to be moved to the right deck, and at this angle, his own side could not fire.

However, Kanshu didn't care at all, so he used this angle to rush straight towards Peter's fleet.

Amid the terrified shouts of the sailors below, the Sea Shark-class No. 1 plunged directly into the gap between the last enemy ship and the fleet.

"Fire." With a burst of applause, more than a dozen artillery pieces of the size below opened fire one after another.

In the flash of fire, the whole ship moved almost sideways, and then, in great danger, grazing the bow of the last of the enemy's boats, appeared on the other side of the enemy line.

Then, Kan Shu pulled the rudder fiercely, and directly turned the rudder wheel all the way to the left for the last turn.

Driven by the propellers of the steam engine, the Sea Shark-class No. 1 made a big turn at an angle that a sailboat would never have done, and then disappeared into the side of the armed merchant ship, which was almost crippled.

Although this round of attacks is smooth and very beautiful, after all, it is a 57-meter-long ship that can be manipulated now, and its flexibility is also relative to the sailing ships of this era.

In fact, by the time he had just turned, an armed merchant ship close to the Sea Shark-class No. 1 had already fired several shots at his left side.

Although most of them flew away due to time constraints and no adjustment of the muzzle, a solid ball still penetrated the side chord and hit not far in front of Kanshu.

There was even a sign of wood that grazed Kanshu's face, leaving a deep blood mark on it.

However, Kan Shu didn't care, wiped the blood with his hands, and his eyes were full of wolf-like ferocity.

There were no major mistakes in his plan, and he got off to a good start.

However, it is not too early to rejoice, enemies, there are many more.