Chapter 135: Showdown with Pirates (Part 1)

Watching his familiar subordinates treat him in this way, Sea Wolf's face suddenly became gloomy.
Notify all fleets to pursue the enemy, with the focus on using jump-link warfare. Do not engage in direct firefights with the enemy.
Immediately, Sea Wolf issued the command to all the ships, and twenty-two warships poured out of the harbor.
Watching the fully deployed battleships, the lure plan seems to have been successful, and the next step is the third phase, to completely eliminate the opponent!
"Black Coral and Robin, disengage starboard rudder, 101 and 102 escort ships, engage port rudder and increase speed to harass the opponent."
As the other side made changes, Lin Feng also began to respond.
After the command was issued, the fleet split into two and departed from two different directions.
During the boarding process, Sea Wolfs saw this scene and immediately ordered a pursuit.
"Listen up, everyone. We must capture that bastard Rockun today, dead or alive. Whoever catches Rockun will be promoted to the captain of the Fourth Fleet, and the first person to board the enemy's warship will receive a bounty of one hundred."
"Hooray!"
Upon hearing the leader's words, countless pirates erupted with immense enthusiasm.
"Furthermore, Numbers Five, Six, and Seven, you will stay behind to guard the base, in case the enemy has other fleets attempting a sneak attack."
Seabooth is also a character who adventures at sea all year round and it is impossible to send out all the fleet for one chase.
How could he not see through such a lure from the other party?
But in the face of only four warships, although two of them are battleships, they will eventually be swallowed up by his eighteen warships' encirclement.
Soon, eighteen warships left the island port and chased after Lin Feng's fleet.
In order to ensure that the other party can catch up, Lin Feng also specially instructed someone to take down some of the sails to reduce speed and wait for the other party.
Through perspective rangefinding, when the pursuer reached a position two kilometers away, he instructed someone to start sailing at full speed again.
With the separation of the four warships, the Sea Wolf also ordered the four warships to leave the fleet and go after those two "small boats."
In order to ensure a successful capture, one of the four warships is a destroyer.
In this case, taking down a small ship like a frigate is definitely feasible.
But the target they encountered this time is not ordinary, two fully modified frigates, now capable of reaching nearly ten knots at sea.
Converted, this is equivalent to eighteen kilometers per hour.
While this speed may not seem fast, for a sailing ship, it is a speed that they can only dream of reaching.
In this kind of warship and favorable wind conditions, the maximum can only run at a speed of five to six knots at best.
Each knot of speed increase is a qualitative leap, not to mention directly increasing to a speed of ten knots.
At this speed, the pursuing fleet can only touch the opponent's ass, and they can't catch up or hit them at all.
At the same time, after taking the four chasing fleets out of the main battlefield, the two escort ships, 101 and 102, immediately split into two again and act separately according to the previously planned plan.
This time, they were not going to run away again, but to turn around and destroy the four warships chasing them.
Watching the two warships turning around, the pursuing captain's face lit up.
Just now he was still worrying about how to eliminate the other party, escaping from here at the speed of the other party is not a problem at all.
But now he suddenly turned around, isn't this seeking death?
How could two escort ships lose to three escort ships and a destroyer? Such a force of combat is impossible to lose?
Here, the warship has a total of ninety cannons, although only one side can fire at a time.
But dealing with two "escort ships" like this is just a breeze.
The combined physique and tonnage of an adversary, how many guns can a battleship carry?
Sixteen? Twenty? Or twenty-four?
Doesn't matter how many, in the face of numerical superiority, the adversary has absolutely no possibility of winning.
On the 101 escort warship, Claire watched the 102 escort warship next door already in position, and immediately issued the attack command.
The upgraded side 12 grenade launchers roared in sequence according to the preset settings.
Here the artillery of 101 starts, followed by the naval guns of 102.
A total of twenty-four mortar shells are fired towards four warships turning and exposing their broadsides for attack.
According to the plan, they will first deal with the three pursuing boats, and then join forces to attack the destroyer.
Therefore, the target of the twenty-four mortar shells is those three escort ships.
"Boom - boom - boom -"
At a distance of eight hundred meters, twenty-four shells hit seventeen!
This terrifying hit rate shocked the pursuing pirates.
But then, even more terrifying things happened - the shrapnel instantly blasted three escort ships with several holes.
One of the frigates had its mast directly blown off, and the sturdy mast slowly fell down, causing the entire warship to tilt more than thirty degrees!
Before the enemy could react, the second round of strikes arrived in an instant.
Unlike solid bullets, the main purpose of a shell is to achieve a killing effect through explosion.
And solid bullets focus on penetration, similar to armor-piercing shells.
But in the case of wooden sailing warships, no ship can withstand the attack of a shell.
The explosive charge of a grenade can be as much as five hundred grams. According to Lin Feng's test, the killing range of the grenade is at least ten meters, and there is enough damage within twenty meters.
In theory, three grenades can directly eliminate all the people on the deck of a frigate as a target.
However, in actual combat, it took three rounds of attacks, with a sustained bombardment of seventy-two grenades, to completely destroy three frigates.
For the gunner of a three-wheel attack, it only takes thirty seconds.
Aim, fire, load the shell, aim again, all in ten seconds.
For pirates, what can they do in thirty seconds?
Load the gun?
Before the cannonballs are loaded into the barrel, all the teammates around have already fallen, how can they continue to attack?
After destroying three escort ships, the 101 and 102 escort ships immediately turned and fled the destroyer's attack at the fastest speed.
At this moment, the captain of the destroyer looked at the 'small boat' leaving with a look of horror on his face.
What just happened?
In the blink of an eye, the other party has managed to obliterate three escort ships under his command?
Prior to departure, the leader Sea Wolf had warned him to be cautious of the opponent's firepower.
But he paid no attention, and yet in this brief confrontation... no, massacre!
After the one-sided massacre, he finally came to his senses.
"Load the shotgun, quickly, everyone get moving for me, the enemy is within ten sails, start shooting if they're not within fifteen sails!"
The captain's reprimand woke up the crew, and they immediately began to act according to the instructions.
Although they were on a destroyer, they could clearly see the combat effectiveness of the two escort ships just now.
Is there still a chance of winning when the situation of 2v4 suddenly becomes 2v1 on our side?!