The same time the person outside the cabin opened the door, the steel cone left Winters' hand.

No one expected that someone would open the door at this time, and Winters and Bud shouted at the same time.

If you hear their reminder and dodge it, it will definitely be too late. The people outside the door took action before the two of them could make a sound, and their bodies swayed and avoided the flying sharp weapon, resolving the danger.

The sharp little thing flew out of the door and nailed it to the wooden partition opposite the hatch door. The person outside the door reached out and pulled it down, took it into the cabin, and said with a smile: "What? You landlaughs want to fight with our navy?"

Winters jumped out of the bed, stepped to the other person's side, held the other person's shoulder, and said fearfully: "Fortunately you react quickly, Cage, fortunately. It's great that I didn't hurt you. I will never play like this in the cabin again."

Cage, an intern officer of the Glory, returned the steel cone to Winters and said with a smile: "If you want to injure the naval officer, you can't rely on this little toy."

"Okay, what do you say it is, what it is." Winters also smiled and lay back on the bed.

After Bud greeted Cage, he asked, "Don't you have to be on duty?"

"Get off the anchor and change shifts, now it's my turn to rest." Cage yawned tiredly and lay back on the bunk beneath Bud.

There are four beds in the room. In addition to the three army warrant officers of Winters, Bard and Andre, there is also a naval trainee officer living.

However, the navy's intern officers are not the same as the army intern officers like Winters. Cage is much more senior than the three roommates.

Winters, Bud and Andre are still newcomers to the military academy, and Cage was an intern officer on the Glory at the age of twelve, and had been on the ship for eight years. The same-qualified army officer had long been promoted to lieutenant, but Cage was only one of the eleven intern officers on the ship.

This is because the officer systems of the Navy and the Army are basically two systems and do not correspond.

Compared with the ladder structure of the Union Army's strict rank system, the Union Navy's rank system is very flat. The officer class on a ship has only three levels: Captain [Captain], Adjutant [Lieutenant] and Officer Alternate Student [Midshipman].

Among them, the official officers were the captain and adjutant, and the officer alternates were like the army warrant officers such as Winters, who were higher than sailors and soldiers, but lower than the official officers.

In the Army, Captain and Lieutenant are only lieutenants, the former is the third level of lieutenants and the latter is the second level of lieutenants. Officers of these two levels command a maximum of 80-person team.

But in the navy, Captain was the captain, the highest authority of a warship. Lieutenant was the captain's adjutant, under one person and above everyone else.

The power the captain can command depends on the ship. The Glory has thirty cannons and is loaded with more than 500 crew members. Her captain is at least one colonel when she is placed in the army.

The fat captain on the Skuo is also Captain. There are only a few more than twenty sailors on the Skuo. The fat captain is not even a warrant officer when he is put in the army.

But in the Navy's view, the captain of the Glory and the captain of the Skuo are theoretically the same as the captain class, and no one needs to salute anyone first.

Because of this huge difference, the Venetta Army and Navy simply ignored each other's ranks and went their own way. Army warrant officers like Winters do not need to salute even if they see the navy general, and the same is true for the navy.

If you want to be an officer in the Venetta Navy, you must first have a good background, and secondly, someone must guarantee it. With these two things, you can get on board and become an alternate officer. Then you need to work hard to get through the qualifications until the Navy headquarters approves them to become warrant officers. As for when can you become a captain? There must be a ship without a captain first.

Although Cage's officer was much older than the three Army warrant officers, he never acted like an old senior, and had a very easy-going personality. He told Winters and the other two about the knowledge on the ship. In addition, the four of them were about the same age, so they quickly became familiar with each other and got along very happily.

"By the way, starting from this anchorage, I will have a day off in Lighthouse Harbor next time, and you can take a break at that time." Cage covered his head with a pillow and said listlessly.

"What?" Winters sat up suddenly: "Drop off the boat?"

Life on the boat is like being in jail and can be seasick. But when you hear about getting off the boat, there is no joy in Winters' tone.

"Yes, get off the boat and rest, I will probably dock for one or two days."

"We have to go to the shore for a rest just two days after we set out?" Bard stretched out his head from the upper bunk and asked in confusion: "Aren't we going straight to the Tanirian Islands without stopping?"

Winters also joked: "We landlady ducks haven't complained yet, why is your navy going to dock and rest first?"

"Where are you suffering from living in the officer cabin?" Cage couldn't sleep anymore and sat up laughing and crying: "And you can still eat hot food. Is this still bitter?"

"We didn't have a day off when we returned to Vinetta from Guitu City before."

"What boat are you on?"

"Uh, I don't know what kind of ship it is," Winters asked, recalling the Skuo and said, "It's called Skuo, a small ship with three masts."

"I understand, how many people are there in the Skuo?"

"The crew members are about twenty, plus more than fifty people in the future."

"If there is only one ship of Glory, Glory can go straight to the archipelago without relying on the shore at once. A large sailing boat can do this, but a sailing boat cannot." Cage lay back on the bed weakly: "If you want to know why, when the ships behind arrive, I will take you to take a look when I go to send the charts, and you will understand."

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The navy carefully selected anchorage was shaded by an unknown island, and the fleet ships maintained a safe distance, scattered anchorages in this natural haven.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! A small boat was placed on the water from the Glory, and Winters followed Cage down from the rope ladder to the boat.

Cage clutched a wooden box with both hands, which contained a chart and the fleet's next destination.

In order to ensure that the fleet's route is not leaked, except for the senior officers on the flagship Glory, the captains of other ships can only get the position of the next anchorage every time they reassemble. In this way, even if individual ships are captured, the enemy does not know the route of the entire fleet.

Although the Revenge Fleet is huge, it is not that easy to accurately intercept this fleet on the vast ocean.

Four sailors rowed their oars hard, accompanied by the sound of the oars hitting the water. The boat moved away from the Glory and slid towards another galloping warship, the Golden Lion, in the undulating waves.

In the afterglow of the sunset, Winters looked at the gallopy warship in front of him.

The Golden Lion is not a pure oar or a pure sailing boat, but a product of pragmatism. Whether it is a paddle or a sail, I want it all.

Compared with the Glory, which has "wide shoulders and large shoulders", in order to arrange more paddlers, the hull of the Golden Lion is narrower, long and slimmer. The entire ship is relatively low, with only one deck, and only one floor of the bow and stern.

There was no gun door on the side of the hull, only dense oars. Recalling the arrangement of the Good Luck, Winters speculated that the Golden Lion's gun should have been arranged along the hull at the bow and stern.

"Why is the freeboard of this ship so low?" Winters patted Cage on the shoulder from behind and asked, "Don't you suffer a loss when fighting?"

Although he had only had one naval battle, Winters also understood one truth: when the ship is on the shore battle, the one with a high ship naturally has an advantage.

It is precisely because of this that the warship's tower will be built higher and higher, and finally become like a castle on the deck.

Not only does the Glory have a higher freeboard than the Golden Lion, but it also has a three-story ship building. The sailors of the Golden Lion face the Glory is equivalent to facing a city wall. When attacking the Glory from the Golden Lion, they must attack the Glory from the Golden Lion, but the Glory can easily deal with the Golden Lion from a high point.

"Of course, the new warships are all round ships. The Golden Lion is an old ship built more than ten years ago." Cage turned around and explained patiently to Winters: "And the Golden Lion also has its own advantages. Although it suffers from the boarding battle, it is not as unusable. The Golden Lion is very flexible."

"Indeed, when the sailboat encounters windless weather, they can only be anxious." Winters said as he recalled the naval battle he had experienced.

"Actually, I think the design of the warship is too extreme now, just like those cavalrymen who finally wrapped their men and horses into the iron plate." When talking about his favorite topic, Cage suddenly became interested. He pointed to the Glory and Winters and commented: "The Glory looks majestic, but it is actually very bulky. The tower is too high, so the center of gravity is unstable, so he dare not arrange too many artillery in the tower. Moreover, the tower is tall and there is a disadvantage that it is strong in the wind and has difficulty turning..."

"But the ship tower is high, isn't there an advantage in naval battle?" Winters asked weakly. This was a field he didn't understand, so he was very confident in speaking.

Cage slapped his thigh: "That's why I said extremes, just like those knights with full-body armor. Hand-to-hand combat is definitely the stronger the armor, the more advantage it is. So in the end the nobles wrapped their whole body into the iron plate. But what if the enemy fights hand-to-hand combat and uses muskets? The same is true for naval battles. In order to have advantages in boarding warfare, the ship building becomes higher and higher. The Glory is the ultimate boarding warship, but what if the enemy does not boarding?"

"If you don't fight a platoon battle... how can you fight a naval battle?"

Never pretend to understand, but ask if you don't understand. This is one of the good habits Winters learned from Antonio. The collision tactics gradually declined and the way of naval battles for nearly a thousand years is that the two ships first approach each other. The sailors fired each other with crossbows and muskets, and finally jumped to the gang battle and hit the final decision. Winters really couldn't think of any other way.

"Use artillery." Cage answered confidently: "Sink these bulky ships directly from a distance."

Winters burst into laughter: "Don't there be artillery on the ship now? And with the accuracy of the artillery, on the bumpy sea, not to mention long distances, it would be difficult to hit other ships fifty meters away."

"The artillery on the ship can only be used at close range except for large-caliber short-barrel guns or rotating guns." Cage explained anxiously: "Think about it, use agile and flexible ships to carry long-barrel guns, and only shoot at long distances without connecting. Large ships like the Glory cannot catch up and cannot hit, so they can only be beaten. Unfortunately, they are all old stubborn and do not intend to make progress at all. They just like the mighty big ships like the Glory, and allocate funds to build such high-rise round boats!"

Cage punched his thigh in anger.

"I don't know about naval wars, but there was a similar battle on land. In the Battle of Kale, the infantry of the ancient empire could not catch up with Parati's cavalry, and was wiped out by bows and arrows until their morale collapsed, and finally they were harvested by heavy cavalry." Winters joked: "If I become a military supervisor in the future, I will use all the military expenditure of the navy to build the ship you want for you."

Cage was also laughed at. He smiled and said, "If I become a military supervisor in the future, I will use the military expenditure of your army to build ships for our navy."

Winters laughed: "It's a matter of determination... Actually, I have always admired you who have new ideas like this. I can't do it, I will only learn from you."

Cage shook his head repeatedly and waved his hand and said, "No, no, no, it's not what I thought of. These are Captain Spear's theories. I'm just parrotting... Captain Spear is the Captain of the Golden Lion. You can meet him this time with me."

While talking, the boat rowed to the side of the Golden Lion. The rope ladder was thrown off the boat, and Winters followed Cage and boarded the Golden Lion.

The chat on the road made him almost forget the purpose of coming here. But after boarding the ship, Winters immediately remembered what he was doing on the Golden Lion.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! He instantly understood why Cage said: "The galley must be docked every two days. You can understand it when you go to the boat and take a look."

In front of me, the open-air deck of the Golden Lion was filled with people, and there was no place to take a foot.

The open-air deck was divided into two layers, roughly convex. In the middle is the upper platform, which is obviously naval soldiers. There is no room for them to lie down, so they can only snuggle and rest with each other.

The decks on both sides close to the side of the ship are the lower layer of the convex structure. The deck here is more than one meter shorter than the middle deck, which is where the paddlers sit. This structure makes the paddlers sit lower than the middle soldiers, so that they will not prevent the soldiers from using long-range weapons.

The unkempt and pale-faced paddlers were locked on the edge of the paddle with iron chains, and each paddle was driven by three or four paddlers. The paddlers did not even have room for movement, and they looked no different from the slave paddlers on the Good Luck.

Even though the deck was open, Winters could still smell a stinking. The Golden Lion, which was crowded with people, was like a transport ship transporting animals. People were crowded together like animals and could not move. On this ship, there was no one's dignity at all.

He couldn't hold on for an hour to leave Winters in such a place.

"Why are there so many people? How many people does this ship carry?" Winters asked Cage in shock.

Cage asked back: "How many people are there on the Glory?"

"About two or three hundred people?" Winters wasn't sure.

Cage said expressionlessly: "The Glory originally had more than 500 crew members. In order to make you live comfortably, you are now less than 400 people. The people on the Golden Lion are similar to those on the Glory now, and there are about 400 people."

"This... this ship is so much smaller than the Glory, and it actually contains 400 people? How can these people stand it?" The harsh living environment of the Golden Lion crew shocked Winters. The Glory is not only larger than the Glory, but also has multiple decks. Most of the people on the Golden Lion are squeezed on the open-air deck.

Cage seemed to have long been accustomed to the cruelty of sea life, and said coldly: "They are not humans, they are sailors. But even sailors can't last for a few days on such ships, so they have to go ashore to rest every two days. The essentials of the galloping boats are fortresses floating on the sea surface, and their self-sustaining power is extremely poor. More than half of the warships in our fleet are these galloping boats. For us, the importance of seizing transit ports is much greater than that of the warships that destroy the enemy."

"What should I do if it rains? There is not even a thing covering my head."

"Hold on."

"What about these paddlers? Why do you lock them?"

"They are all criminals, and no free people are willing to be oarsmen." Cage walked in front and replied without looking back: "There is no need to pity them. They have committed crimes and end up like this. And if they can be forgiven before they die after the war, it is better than dying in prison, right?"

Winters was silent. He followed Cage and looked for a place to settle between the limbs of the paddlers, and walked towards the stern of the boat. It should be the best place for the ship, and the captain always lived in the best place.

Suddenly, his hands hugged Winters' calves, and a paddler who seemed to be unconscious, begged in a vague voice: "Get kind, give me some water, please."

Cage, who was walking in front, turned around and saw a paddler grabbing Winters' leg, and suddenly became furious: "What a courage! You are looking for death!"

As he said that, he pulled out his naval scimitar and turned back. The paddlers who stood in front of him tried desperately to avoid him, giving way to Cage.

Others around were also alarmed. Navy soldiers poked their heads out of the high platform in the middle to watch, whispering to each other, but no one came to stop them. Under such harsh living conditions, the only reason why the people on the ship did not mutiny was military law. As a prisoner's oarsmen attacked the officer, Cage could kill him.

"Don't..." Winters raised his hand to stop Cage, who was carrying a scimitar, and came to help him with a scimitar: "I know this guy..."

Cage stood there in a daze.

Winters looked at the face of the paddler and asked indeterminately: "Gold, Good Luck Gold, the captain of Good Luck, are you?"
Chapter completed!