Chapter 284: War at Sea

With the Jackdaw as the center, the pirates are flanked by the Sirens and the Black Pearl, the last of the three legendary pirate ships. Led by the legendary pirate ship, followed by dozens of pirate ships that have gradually touched over the past few days. However, in the next battle, the role they can play is probably quite limited.

For them, the navy didn't need to take a look at them and let them go, after all, these pirate ships are also the role of strong momentum, and what really determines the direction of this war depends on the outcome of the confrontation between the legendary pirate ships and the legendary naval warships.

"They're coming!" "Captain, what should we do?" "Go save the Lord first! he's the most important thing to us!" "Prepare to meet the enemy! Damn it, let the White Cliff stop moving!"

Faced with a series of sudden attacks by pirates, the naval fleet fell into chaos for a while. And at the edge of the fleet, a small boat took advantage of the cover of night to approach the Royal Navy's legendary battleship, the Dreadnought.

"Honor... Lord?" After some of the disheveled Becketts boarded the ship, the soldiers on the Intrepid did not react for a moment. "Captain, Captain James!" called the sailor, hoping that the captain of the Dreadnought, who had not been seen for a long time, would come out to greet the distinguished guests.

"Don't call him anymore. Lord Beckett laughed, he was very calm, as if the panic of the naval fleet was not a matter at all in his eyes, "Now the Dreadnought is directly under my command." Herald!"

"Yes!" the observer on the mast responded to Beckett's call. "The herald, all ships no longer care about the Endeavour, and now use the Dreadnought as the command center, and spread out a defensive formation according to the rehearsal. Beckett ordered succinctly. His orders quickly turned into the herald's flags and spread through the night to the other naval warships.

The fleet seemed to have rediscovered its backbone, and one by one it was in position, ready to meet the enemy. The Zhiyuan was equipped with a large number of mortars, with a long range and great power, and it was the first round of counterattacks of the navy.

"Attention, artillery fire is coming!" Ling Xiyue shouted loudly. The pirates didn't steal the Navy's flag language, and now they communicate with each other by roaring. I saw dozens of mortars eject into the sky, then crossed the parabola and fell straight into the sea where the pirate fleet was passing.

Mortars of this era were not as accurate as ordinary artillery, but they were far more powerful than the latter. An ordinary ship is either dead or maimed, even if it is a legendary pirate ship, it is not easy to suffer.

"Brothers, I'll go first!" Barbossa, who was at the helm, squinted his eyes and calculated where the shells would land, and shouted, as the Black Pearl nearly doubled its speed and sailed out of the sea before the mortar shells fell. As the fastest ship in the Caribbean, if it weren't for the other pirate ships, the Black Pearl would have rushed into the naval fleet.

"Xiyue, okay?" Kenway asked aloud. "Look!" Ling Xiyue turned on the skill dynamic killing, took a deep breath, and the transformed right eye glowed with blue light, tightly locking on each falling mortar shell, calculating their movement trajectory. Her rifle rang out three times in succession, shattering the shells that had landed on the deck of the Jackdaw.

The rest of the cannonballs crackled into the sea near the Jackdaw, sending the Jackdaw, the smallest of the legendary pirate ships, sideways to the side, but it didn't do any direct damage.

The Sirens next to it were more miserable, it had no effective countermeasures, and although Planck tried his best to avoid it, it was still hit by several shells. The entire ship was almost broken from the center of the deck, and the tall mast was also blown off, killing a few pirates who could not dodge before rolling to the surface of the sea.

The second echelon following the legendary pirate ship suffered even more casualties, and the damage of naval mortars was something that these ordinary pirate ships could not resist. In the pungent smoke of gunpowder, I don't know which pirate got up, and the melodious and uninhibited song drifted through the entire fleet.

“What do we do with a drunken sailor?”

“What do you do with a drunken sailor?”

"What will we do with a drunken sailor?"

As if infected by emotion, the pirates around him sang. The lyrics in their mouths are varied, there is no shortage of swearing and blasphemy, but it is like a dress rehearsal, and it can fall into a key.

"Early-eye in the morning"

“Way hey and up she rises,”400

"Way hey and up she rises!"

Kenway also sang loudly, and he nodded to his negro first mate, who understood, gave the order, and went at full speed towards the enemy's naval fleet.

"Shave his belly with a rusty razor!"

"Put him in a long boat till he is sober!"

"Stick him in a barrel with a hosepipe on him!"

"Put him in the bed with the captain's daughter!"

"Hmph, I've always thought your Nassau songs are really ugly. Planck got up and put on his three-cornered hat again to cover the splintering wound on his head. "Captain, we're too badly damaged to move!" the crew's report made Planck mutter, hell.

"We seem to be sinking?" Planck looked at himself getting closer and closer to the sea, a little annoyed, "I really didn't expect to sink two ships in a month under Lao Tzu!"

"Captain, let's get out!" the first mate cautioned, not loyal to the former overlord of Bilgewater, but very fearful. "There's no hurry," Planck grimaced, "can the Daughter of Death still be used?"

"The bow gun is indeed not damaged," the first mate was stunned for a moment, and then replied, "But this distance...", "just load," Planck interrupted, "Lao Tzu's cannon, Lao Tzu understands!"

The other pirate ships that swept past the Siren were now in their respective ranges with the naval vessels, and the glowing artillery fuses banished the darkness of the night. Cannonballs flew in the air, shattering the hard work of the craftsmen.

The Black Pearl rushed to the front, and with its agile speed, it scurried around in front of the navy like an annoying fly, and it still missed. However, Barbossa and Jack overlooked one thing, to stand out in the Royal Navy, these legendary ships naturally have something special.

The white paint on the hull of the White Cliff, the naval soldiers looked at it from a distance, as if they were seeing the White Cliff of Dover in the motherland. The White Cliff is equipped with twice as many guns as other ships, allowing it to deliver uninterrupted firepower. When the first round of artillery salvo is completed, the soldier pulls it to the rear to reload, and at the same time puts another batch of artillery on top of it, so that another round of shells can be replenished.

The Black Pearl, with its speed advantage and Barbossa's climactic piloting skills, easily dodged the first round of shelling of the White Cliff. But by the time the second round of artillery was set up, the Black Pearl was too busy evading the Exhilarate's output and had no room to dodge this round of gunfire.

"Oh, shit. Barbossa only had time to mumble that, and then... Then a huge cannonball hit the side of the White Cliff, knocking the entire battleship into pieces, and the guns that had been lit with the fuse were affected, losing their accuracy, and many shells even hit the White Cliff's own hull.

"Thanks, Planck!" Jack reacted before Barbossa, and regardless of whether Planck could see it or not, he took off his hat and bowed to the sinking siren.

“That’s what we do with a drunken sailor。 (That's how we deal with drunken sailors)" Planck unconsciously hummed the end of the song as he was upright and infected by his surroundings.

With the lifeboat ready, Planck took one last look at the Siren with mixed feelings, and left the legendary pirate ship for good.

Siren, sunk. There are currently only two legendary pirate ships left on the pirate side, the Jackdaw and the Black Pearl.

The White Cliff is different from the previous Iron Armor, after all, it is large in size, and this distance has indeed reached the limit of the range of the Daughter of Death, so after resisting the damage, there is still a chance to rescue. It's just that as pirates, Jack and Barbossa will never be merciful to their enemies, and falling into the well is the face of a pirate.

"Shoot me!" "Send it away with pleasure!" Jack and Barbossa ordered at the same time, and the Black Pearl's cannon made up for the last damage on the White Cliff, so that it could not escape the fate of sinking.