From the beginning to the end of the battle, Lawrence and the others only spent more than three hours in total. However, it took a whole day to repair the ship afterwards. In the process, fifty or sixty pirates ran sporadically onto the beach.
Surrendered to Lawrence and the others, and were then individually screened and imprisoned.
One day later, Lawrence and the others finally temporarily repaired the two captured boats and began to return home. Only a small team of more than a dozen people was left to guard the island with two small-caliber artillery fished out of the sunken ship.
superior.
Anyway, after the two ships on the beach were completely burned, Lawrence and the others took some time to install all the cannons on the two ships that seemed to be still usable, and they only relied on the guns carried by ordinary pirates.
There is no way to pose any security threat to this small team.
On the way back, Lawrence began to discuss the gains and losses of the battle in the captain's cabin of the Enterprise. Overall, the battle was very good for Lawrence and his crew, who were mostly novices.
Yes. But I still caused some losses due to the newbie.
And now Lawrence is discussing with the commanders who participated in this war the lessons learned from this war, because he believes that fighting this war is something that has never happened before for him and so many people here.
It can be experienced, so only by learning war in war can we make progress in this aspect.
"Everyone, please tell me what shortcomings you found in this battle." As the host of the meeting, Lawrence was the first to speak. "Let me talk about myself first. When I joined the gang, I divided the crew into two teams.
They jumped into gangs, but did not consider that after boarding the enemy ship, the two teams would have to fight independently, but it did not have the effect of concentrating firepower to pursue and fight fiercely."
"But fortunately, this time the opponent has no extraordinary people except the captain, so the two commandos can defeat those pirates with the extraordinary people taking the lead."
This problem was discovered during actual operations, because when Lawrence was considering the mission, he ignored that there was a huge difference in communication between this era and the previous life, so it was difficult to contact each other even on ships that were only a few dozen meters long.
After Lawrence finished speaking, everyone present felt a little surprised. Because according to custom, most nobles would not admit their mistakes directly but would let their subordinates take the blame. A noble like him who admits his shortcomings directly can say
It is so rare that it even gives people an extremely unexpected feeling.
After a few seconds of silence, Saphiel spoke: "You are right, but how can everything go exactly as planned during a war? Even the priests of the God of War Church said it repeatedly in their sermons
War is extremely uncertain, and even the gods cannot plan perfectly in advance every time."
"But the problem you just mentioned does exist. I think we must think about this and make up for it before the next battle. For example, next time we can attack as a whole team, or buy some tools that allow everyone to attack in real time.
Something to keep in touch with.”
After Saifei finished speaking, everyone nodded in agreement. At the same time, because the two people sang in harmony, others slowly began to raise their hands to speak. For example, the first person to raise his hand was Mr. Gunner. "Your Excellency, I
I found some problems, can I talk about them now?"
"Of course, of course." Lawrence nodded, with a smile 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 from the Family Guard."
"Yes, I am your retainer." The gunner named Owens nodded. "I used to be a gunner on a river gunboat on the southern front of the Holy Visby Empire. After retiring, I joined the family guard. After arriving in the New World
, because I was the only commander who had experience in commanding naval guns, so I was appointed as the gunner on the Enterprise."
"It's really hard for you to follow me across the vast ocean and give up the privileged life in the past to come to the New World." Lawrence sighed and asked. "Owens, what do you think?"
"That's it, Your Excellency. In this naval battle, each gun position basically fired independently, so the distribution of the weak points of the artillery seemed very messy. The most important thing is that although these shells looked like they were hitting the opponent's hull,
It caused a large number of wounds on the opponent's hull, but it did not hit the vital points."
"I thought about it afterwards and felt that this time it was purely because we were lucky. The other party's ship did not have enough manpower to operate the artillery because most of the pirates came ashore, so we did not encounter a counterattack from the other party's artillery. But if we faced that
You will definitely suffer from an enemy with strong firepower."
"That's right." Lawrence said loudly. "It's very good to give opinions like Owens. This style of speaking directly is the purpose of our discussion. As he said, if
If the enemy is not careless this time, this problem may very well cause us to fail in the battle and even bring us huge sacrifices."
After the praise, Lawrence turned his head and looked at Gunner Owens and asked. "Because I don't know much about the Navy, so I want to ask you what you think is the cause of this problem. It's due to lack of training, and everyone is new.
Is it because of the reason or some other problem?”
"The boys on the ship have been training very seriously." Gunnery Officer Owens said a fair word. "I think the problem mainly lies in the drill code. After all, our drill code is directly copied from the Holy Visby Imperial Navy.
drill book."
"Is there any problem with this?" Lawrence asked after being stunned for a moment. "If I remember correctly, these drills themselves are the active drills of the Imperial Navy, and the drills of other naval powers are also similar to the contents in this book.
"
"You are right." Gunnery Commander Owens nodded. "But the problem is that these drills are from thirty or forty years ago and simply cannot keep up with the times."
Looking at the blank faces of most of the people sitting around him, Owens also knew that many people were unclear about the Navy. So he further explained. "In the past, it was completely reasonable to change the Naval Code of Conduct every half century or so, because the standards of that era were
Ships change very little even over the centuries, so there are not a lot of changes in the techniques for operating them."
"But with the development of science and technology in the past half century, the navy's weapons and equipment have undergone tremendous changes. From the forward-loading smoothbore cannon sailing warships that use spherical cannonballs to the breech-loaded rifled cannons that use conical cannonballs, and more
Not to mention that the power of artillery and the power of ships are hugely different from what they were decades ago."
"So the rules that were formulated based on the old ships are no longer suitable for these new ships." Gunner Owens concluded, "For example, each gun position fighting independently is a habit left over from the smoothbore gun era, because at that time
The accuracy of artillery is too low, so it is basically impossible to fire uniformly. Now that artillery can meet the requirements of unified firing, it is very inappropriate to follow those ancient rules."
"What you said makes sense." Lawrence made a final decision. "We can actually modify these things when we go back. After all, the Code of Practice should help users, not hinder them like it is now."
After Gunner Owens spoke and accepted the speech, everyone's enthusiasm was mobilized. Then he raised more than a dozen problems discovered in the current battle and previous training. All of these problems were recorded and will be published in the future.