Struggle in the Steam Age

From the beginning to the end of the battle, Lawrence and the others only spent more than three hours. But repairing the ship afterwards took a whole day. In the process, another fifty or sixty pirates rushed to the beach to surrender to Lawrence and the others, and then they were screened and detained.

A day later, Lawrence and the others finally repaired the two captured ships temporarily and then returned to their hometown. Only a team of more than a dozen people was left guarding the island with two small-caliber artillery salvaged from the sunken ship.

Anyway, after the two boats on the beach were completely burnt down, Lawrence and the others took some time to install all the artillery that looked to be usable on the two boats, and they only relied on the guns carried by ordinary people pirates. There is no way to pose any security threats to this small team.

On the way back, Lawrence began to discuss the pros and cons of the battle in the captain's room of the Enterprise. On the whole, this battle was considered very good for the crew of Lawrence and his crew, who were mostly novices. But it still caused some losses because of the novice.

And now Lawrence and the commanders who participated in this war discussed the experience and lessons of this war, because he believes that the battle for himself and the many people here has never been before. It can be experienced, so only by studying war in war can we make progress in this area.

"Everyone talk about what we found in this battle." As the host of the meeting, Lawrence was the first to speak. "Let’s talk about myself first. When I jumped into the gang, I divided the crew into two teams, but I didn’t consider that after boarding the enemy ship, the two teams could only fight on their own, instead of focusing on the firepower. Effect."

"However, it is fortunate that this time the opponent has no extraordinary people except the captain, so the two commandos can defeat the pirates under the leadership of the extraordinary."

This problem was only discovered in actual operation, because when Lawrence was considering the task, he ignored the huge difference in communication between this era and the previous life, so it is difficult to communicate with each other even on a ship of tens of meters long.

After Lawrence finished speaking, everyone present felt a little surprised. Because according to habit, most aristocrats will not directly admit their mistakes but will let their subordinates take the blame. Aristocrats like him who directly admit their shortcomings can be said to be rare, and even give people an extremely unexpected feeling.

After a few seconds in the cold, Syfiel said: "You are right, but how can everything go according to plan during the war? Even the priests of the God of War Church repeatedly said in their sermons War is extremely uncertain, and even the gods cannot make perfect plans every time."

"But the problem you just mentioned does exist. I think we must test the thoughts and make up for it before the next fight. For example, next time we can attack by a whole team, or buy something that will allow everyone to be able to real-time Something to keep in touch."

After Safir finished speaking, everyone nodded in agreement, and at the same time, because the two people sang a harmony, the others began to slowly raise their hands to speak. For example, Mr. Gunner was the first to raise his hand. "Your Excellency, I found some problems, can I talk about it now?"

"Of course, of course." Lawrence nodded and smiled on his face. "This summary meeting is to summarize these shortcomings. Only in this way can we win again in the next battle. By the way, you are Owens. If I remember correctly, you are originally from the Family Guard."

"Yes, I am your retainer." The gun commander named Owens nodded. "I used to be a gunner on an inland gunship on the southern front of the Holy Visby Empire. After retiring, I joined the Family Guard. After I came to the New World, I was appointed as the only commander who had experience in naval gun command. For the gunner on the Enterprise."

"Following me across the vast ocean and giving up the superior life in the past to the New World is really hard for you." Lawrence sighed and asked. "Owens, what do you think you have?"

"That's it, Lord Lord. In this naval battle, the gun positions fired on their own, so the distribution of the artillery weaknesses seemed messy. The most important thing is that the shells hit the opponent's hull even though they looked A lot of wounds were created on the opponent’s hull, but they were not critical."

"I thought about it afterwards and felt that this time it was purely because of our good luck. Because most of the pirates on the ship did not have enough manpower to control the artillery, we did not encounter the opponent’s artillery counterattack. But if we face that An enemy with strong firepower will definitely suffer."

"That's right," Lawrence said loudly. "It is very good to give opinions like Owens. This kind of straightforward style is the purpose of our discussion. As he said, if the enemy is not paralyzed this time, the problem is very likely. It will make us lose in battle. It will even bring us great sacrifices."

After the praise, Lawrence turned his head to look at the gunner Owens and asked. "Because I am not very clear about the Navy, so I want to ask what you think is the cause of this problem. Is it due to insufficient training, because everyone is a rookie, or other problems?"

"The guys on the ship have been training very seriously." Captain Owens said a fair word. "I think the problem lies mainly in the code of conduct. After all, our code of conduct is a direct copy of the code of the Holy Visby Imperial Navy."

"Is there any problem with this?" Lawrence asked after a daze. "If I remember correctly, these codes themselves are the active codes of the Imperial Navy, and the codes of other naval powers are similar to the contents of this book."

"You are right." Captain Owens nodded. "But the problem is that these codes are from 30 to 40 years ago, and they simply can't keep up with the times."

Looking at the blank faces of most people sitting around, Owens also knew that many people were not clear about the Navy. So further explained. "In the past, it was completely reasonable to replace the naval code of conduct every half a century~www.ltnovel.com~ because the ships of that era had very little changes even in the centuries, so the technology for maneuvering ships was not very changed. "

"But with the development of science and technology in the past half a century, the Navy’s weapons and equipment have undergone tremendous changes. From the front-mounted smooth-bore gun sailing warship using spherical shells, it has suddenly evolved to the rear-mounted rifled gun using cone-shaped shells. Not to mention the power of artillery and the power of ships have been greatly different from decades ago."

"So the previous rules based on old ships are no longer suitable for these new ships." Gunner Owens concluded, "For example, each gun position is a habit left in the smoothbore era, because at that time The accuracy of the artillery is too low, so it is basically impossible to fire uniformly, but now the artillery can meet the requirements of uniform firing, and it is very inappropriate to follow those old rules."

"What you said makes sense." Lawrence made a final decision, "After we go back, we can actually modify these things. After all, the code should help users, not drag back like we do now."

After Gunner Owens spoke and accepted, everyone's enthusiasm was mobilized. Then he put forward more than a dozen problems found in the current combat and previous training. These problems have all been recorded and will be improved in the days to come.