Sabertooth - Chapter 31
Chapter 31: Action Fox Hunting (1)
“Hello, Lieutenant Colonel Victor. My name is William Smith. I am the captain of the Federal Navy’s” San Jacinto “. I will cooperate with you and your subordinates in this operation.”
Waiting for Victor in the Admiralty would be a naval captain, and this captain is still very young, only about 30 years old.
“Hello, Lieutenant Colonel William, it seems that we will be together for a long time, hoping to be happy together.”
Victor’s understanding of things is still limited to book knowledge, so for those who didn’t harm him, there is definitely nothing wrong with being good.
You know, a gangwolf was thrown into the river because of provoking Magneto’s skewers with steel bars, and finally was picked up by Stryker. If it falls into the sea, maybe feed the fish.
Presumably, it would be quite troublesome if you fell into the sea by yourself. After all, if you want to swim back to the shore, it probably takes a long time, let alone a shark.
When you go out to the sea, everyone is really a person on a boat, so there is no need to engage in outrageous things.
“Of course, I am also very interested in the legends you created on the battlefield. I hope that you will be able to give me your enlightenment.”
Obviously, William is also very happy about Victor’s favor. After all, the name of the ‘Sabertooth Victor’ is no less than the ‘Stone Wall’ Jackson for the Southern League.
The legend of the super soldier, who killed the ‘Stone Wall’ Jackson has spread between the North and the South. As for the party, only Victor has a living mouth. How did this legend spread? Then you can only ask the Federal Propaganda Department.
Fortunately, the information circulation in this era is not as developed as in later generations, so in the end there are only some specious legends circulating. After all, the ‘Team X’ is also a secret department.
“Is it so? Then we will have a chance to have a good chat. After all, our operation is called ‘Hunting Fox’. After all, our enemy is like a fox. The same cunning Mrs. Greenhow.”
“No problem, I heard that in that distant eastern country, foxes also mean beauties that deceive people. ‘Action Fox Hunting’! Seconds! Hahahaha!”
It seems that this Captain William is also very versatile, but he is a wonderful person. It seems that the days on board should not be so boring.
Just when Victor and William started the business blow model, Mrs. Greenhow on the other side of the Atlantic finally set foot on her way back.
“Hello, ma’am. Nice to meet you! This is Kane Jones. This time I and my ‘San Juan’ will escort you home.”
I have to say that the Southern League attaches great importance to their heroines, and actually sent their new sharp armored ship San Juan to escort.
“Then you have to take care of this journey, Captain Jones. I believe we will have an unforgettable time along the way.”
Mrs. Greenhow said, while she put her hand on Captain Jones’s outstretched arm, and boarded the San Juan ship under the guidance of the other party. Although it was not beautiful, it was a very powerful battleship.
“Anchor lift! Turn on the steam engine! The rudder is ready to sail!”
In this way, with the order of Kane Jones, the San Juan carried the Southern League heroine, Mrs. Greenhow, and began her journey back across the Atlantic.
At the same time, the land is located in the forest at the junction of the North of the Federation and the Maple Leaf State, which is still a colony of the Great Empire.
“Oh ~”
With a wolf howling through the night sky, ‘Wolverine’ Logan led his wolves across the border, and came to the territory of the Federation.
In the forest, far behind the wolves, a somewhat similar hunter to Victor, armed with a shotgun, was tracking the location of Logan and his wolves.
He is Logan’s half-brother: Dog Logan. In the last conflict with Logan, he escaped because of Rose’s death, but he did not give up, but continued to embark on the journey of killing his half-younger brother.
Logan suffered from grief and guilt because of the death of Rose, his first love. He thought it was his own fault, so he had no choice to conflict with Dog again.
Instead, he led the wolf pack all the way south, wanting to get rid of the tracking from Dog. Obviously he didn’t expect that even if he crossed the border, he still couldn’t stop Dog’s determination to pursue him.
After a long train and carriage journey, Victor finally arrived at the port of the Northern Federation in North Carolina, where he finally saw his upcoming EFF armored ship San Jacinto.
The armored ship that was just born in this era has neither the grace of a sail warship nor the grimness of a steel giant in the future. But these toddler ‘sea kings’ at sea are the prototypes of the steel giants that will ride the seven seas in the future.
Although there are still many shortcomings, it has an overwhelming advantage while facing the gradually outdated sail warship. After all, one side basically does not break the defense, and the other side will sink after a few rounds. This is no longer a level of battle.
Interestingly, the first to adopt the armored ships was not the Northern Federation, which had better production capacity, but the Southern Alliance, which suffered from the federal maritime blockade.
At this time, the world-famous Marine Corps was only a subsidiary of the Navy at this time, and was divided into two halves because of the civil war. The half that belonged to the South was wiped out in the first battle, and it was not rebuilt until the Union was destroyed.
That’s right, it was the Brooklyn 14th Militia Regiment, charged by Victor, who did this.
At the time, Victor was also curious about how the Navy would take a rifle to participate in the land battle, and the combat effectiveness was so scum, it was simply to give people a head.
Cough, off topic, let’s return to the first armored ship of the Southern Army. This ship was not even built by the Southern Union Navy itself, but was modified from the wreckage of the captured Northern Federal Navy cruiser Merrimack.
Subsequently, the iron armored ship modified by the magic hanged the poor northern federal navy in a series of battles. The wooden ships of all levels of the federal navy were beaten in front of this iron-clad monster.
As a result, the heavily lost federal navy immediately built its own armored ship: ‘Monitor’. Then these two wonderfully shaped an armored ship battle at the Hamptons anchored in the history of the Qing Dynasty, became the history of naval warfare.
Neither of them penetrated each other’s armor, and the shells of both sides were finished. The epic battle ended in a draw, but strategically, the Southern Navy lost because they failed to break the blockade of the Federal Navy.
Finally, in the face of the naval blockade of the powerful federal navy, the Confederate navy adopted the same fighting method as the German: breaking the sea.
The ‘San Juan’ armored ship, which Mrs. Greenhow is riding, is the product of this type of combat. Its most unique feature is that it is a pure steam-powered armored ship and a secret weapon of the southern navy.
The steam-powered ‘heart’ gives it strong power. The latest rear-mounted artillery makes its firepower unmatched, and the steel-made armor makes its defense impeccable.
In short, this ship may be ugly enough, but it is indeed one of the most powerful ocean-going warships on the oceans of this era, and its maiden voyage is the heroine who came to Europe to pick up the south.
As for the Victor’s ‘San Jacinto’, it is a sailboat. Although it installed steam power, it still has sails, and the hull is only based on the wooden hull. From the two sides of the ship, about 2m from the waterline to the height of the upper deck of the battleship, covered with a layer of wrought iron armor with a thickness of about 110-120mm.
Although theoretically, it is still able to resist the firing of all naval guns at that time, it is clear that the ‘San Juan’ is not within this navy. Victor and William didn’t even know that ‘Sun Juan” a monster come to pick up Mrs. Greenhow. The intelligence they got was that the Southern Navy sent a new warship to pick up Mrs. Greenow home.
So, at first, the Federal Navy’s plan was to send an ordinary ironless armored sailing warship to intercept, but considering the ‘Iron King Eight’ made by the Southern Navy last time and the recent secret cooperation between them and the monks, they might have another moth to came out.
In the end, out of prudent considerations and the strong request of President Lincoln, the Federal Navy agreed to send the ‘San Jacinto’, which had been very advanced at that time, to the interception of the ocean-going armored ship. After all, other pure armored ships are limited to power and tonnage issues can only fight offshore.
In this way, Victor and William, without knowing the power, used William’s extensive experience to successfully infer the route returned by the San Juan, and successfully blocked each other at sea.
“What the hell is that, a warship made purely of steel!?”
But when they saw their goal, they were in a state of stagnation like the other crew members of the ‘San Jacinto’.
Of course, William was shocked when he first saw the ocean-going warship made of pure steel, but Victor was not. The steel warships he remembered were all warships with beautiful lines in the future, not the long strip-shaped iron ship.