Chapter 794 Hurisham's Countermeasure
The staff officer sent Hotham statistics on the fleet's losses.
The officer can still hear the moan of the injured sailor outdoors outdoors, even though the officers have severely ordered them to keep them quiet.
Herham was thrown aside with the loss of losses.
He didn't have to watch it at all, because he participated in his own fighting all day, and the loss was clear.
The French fleet launched a total of 5 attacks, damaging 1 third-level ship and 2 fourth-level ships.
Well, the injured third-level ship was the "Tisius" on which he was aboard.
Although it was only the mouth of the barrel size on the deck, it had little effect on the battle, but the French shells caused 16 sailors to be injured.
The situation of the two fourth-level ships was similar. The damage to the ships was not serious - the loss of the stern sail of the "Roughfin Shark" was the most serious - but there were many casualties among the sailors, which would seriously affect morale.
Of course, the loss of the cruise ship formation that had taken the initiative to harass the French fleet at the beginning had been automatically ignored by him.
Those boats are nothing to him.
Hotham and senior officers held a meeting until two in the morning, but still did not discuss any effective countermeasures. They only sent two ships to contact Lord Hood's main fleet.
The next day.
A scene similar to yesterday happened again.
The flexible French steam battleships kept rushing up to "bite" the huge British battleships, then quickly turned around to avoid them, organized their formations, and rushed forward again...
They have been repeatedly struck like this, and they did not pull the whistle until the sunset west.
However, after yesterday's practice, the French sailors were obviously more proficient in tactics, which made them launch a total of 6 offensives and injured 4 British warships.
In the conference room of the Theseus, Hotham was going crazy.
It was clear that he could sink the French boat with one volley, but he could not touch them and could only be beaten in frustration.
Especially the Roughfin Shark. Today, due to its slow movement, it was once again attacked by the French. A large piece of the rear starboard side was blasted, and several cannons fell into the sea from the breach.
"General, I think my ship has to return to Gibraltar for repairs." The captain of the "Roughfin Shark" whispered, "I'm worried that the superstructure of the stern will not be able to hold up and collapse..."
Hodoum frowned and shook his head: "The French are likely to be supplied at a port on the north side of Cosca. If the" Coarse fin shark "was found by them after leaving the formation, it would be very dangerous."
Lieutenant Colonel Smith on the side said angrily: "General, we should seek an active attack. As long as we can find a chance, we can destroy those French cruisers!"
"That's exactly what the French expect." Colonel Harriet opposite him immediately objected, "As long as we chase those black smoke-emitting ships, the French transport fleet will immediately sail out of Marseille Port and send supplies to Genoa. .”
I don't know who whispered: "And we can't catch up..."
Lieutenant Colonel Smith said loudly: "Then we can't stay here forever. The French cruiser will come tomorrow."
Several others nodded subconsciously, "Yes, you can't continue to be beaten passively."
"We have to think of something!"
"Transportation fleet?" Hodoum repeated these two words, and suddenly raised his hand to signal everyone's quietness, and said, "We will leave here tomorrow morning."
"General, but the port of Genoa..."
Hotham smiled: "We are heading towards Marseille so that we can intercept the French transport ship on the way.
"Afterwards, we maintained maneuvering in the waters between Marseille and Genoa to avoid harassment by French cruisers."
In an era without aircraft and radar, it was very difficult to find an irregularly maneuvering fleet on the sea.
If the French want to find the Genoa's fleet, a large number of warships must be dispersed. When they discover the trace of the British fleet, and then gather the warship organization attack, it will pass for several days.
Hoetham knew that time was on his own side.
Even if Lord Hu De does not led the main fleet to return, the battle of Greasaka Harbor will end after ten days.
Just try to delay it for ten days.
It's just that Hotham himself didn't notice. Unknowingly, he was only thinking about how to delay time instead of defeating the French fleet.
You know, he has 9 battleships in his hands, while the opponent is just a group of cruisers or even frigates...
In the early morning of the next day, when the French steam warship formation came to the south side of the Harbor of Genoa, it was found that the British fleet was gone.
Commodore Di Chayela immediately dispersed the frigates to search the nearby 20 nautical mile area to confirm that the British had left.
He stood on the front deck of the "Tunisia" and couldn't help but exhale: "It seems that the British are more impatient than I thought."
He signaled to the staff on the side: "Contact the Marseille immediately and tell them that the blockade of Greasia has been lifted."
There is no mistake in every song, one post, one content, one 6 one, one book, one book, take a look!
"Yes, General."
The steam frigates "Haijiao Parrot" opened full horsepower. It took only a day to send the good news to Marseille.
The first batch of three transport ships that had long been prepared immediately left Hong Kong and went to Genoa.
However, the day after the transport ship entered the waters of the Côte d'Azur, it encountered a British galley.
After a while, the Hogoum's Genoa's fleet appeared on the east side of the channel as a monster.
The transport ship hurriedly turned around and escaped, but because there were too many loaded goods, the speed of these ships was very slow. In the end, only one was successfully returned to Marseille, and the other two were captured by the British fleet.
On the "Tunisian", Diccchara's face was iron.
He did not expect that although the British left the port of Genoa, they were still patrolling the waters of the Côte d'Azur.
At the speed of the transport ship, it might be difficult to find a gap to slip through.
The captain of the "Cape Parrot" next to him suggested: "General, should we go to Marseille for escort?"
Before Diccchara would say something, he shook his head first.
Our own steam battleships are only good at harassment, but cannot be used for escort at all.
The British battleship can hardly top the attacks of these small ships and sink all the transport ships -for the third -class ship, sinking the transport ship is just a few rounds of shooting.
Brigadier General Dichayela held the railing on the deck hard. In more than ten days at most, General Dimobin's logistics supplies will be exhausted.
Although he repelled the British fleet, he did not expect that the British would use shameless delay tactics.
At this moment, there was a timid voice behind him: "General, that, I may have a way to supply the Asian Games of the Greater ..."
Dicchara turned his head and saw a 20 -year -old non -commissioned officer.
He tried to remember, saying, "Henry Demville? Are you a high sailor responsible for the Lord sail?"
"It's me." Dumville owed himself nervously, "I am honored to remember my name."
(End of chapter)