Chapter 66: Hot and not good news
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It is conceivable that the loyalty of those forcibly recruited soldiers is of course negative, in order to prevent these forced sailors from finding an opportunity to slip away halfway, every time the John Bull Navy docks at the port to rest, the officers from noble families have to open their eyes, they send heavily armed 6 teams to guard the entrances and exits, and those who do not have a pass will be mercilessly shot by the guards if they try to leave the battleship, assuming that those deserters are sure that their two legs can run faster than bullets, it is indeed possible to regain freedom. (Please search for the fastest novel website!) Sailors with limited personal freedom also had to deal with their physical needs, and a large group of bachelors could not be comforted by Little Thunder alone, and the navy did not encourage them to pick up soap from each other, and these unfortunate people could only wait for the warblers at the port to provide door-to-door service.
Knowing what was going on, whenever the officers came across those warblers who openly proclaimed that "there is a husband on your ship", they had a rather tolerant and acquiescing attitude, even at the risk of infecting the crew with syphilis, gonorrhea and other malignant diseases, and who would make them dare not let the sailors go ashore!
First mate Brando Scarlet had not known Luo Zhengdao for a long time, and after inquiring about Najaf's bad deeds, he deeply despised the character of this evil warlock, and said:
"Lord Earl, that Najaf won't give up lightly! Do we have to prepare in advance? ”
Luo Zhengdao was accustomed to these wicked guests, and said with an indifferent smile:
"It's okay, just act according to the original plan, and don't disturb everyone's good mood on vacation. I'm not as strong as I used to be, and Najaf will probably use external forces to deal with me, so be careful. ”
When Vena Dubov, the half-elf heard this, she seemed to remember something important, and interjected anxiously:
"Will, are you saying Najaf will collude with goblins?"
Blinking, the smile on Luo Zhengdao's face became thicker, shrugged his shoulders and said:
"Maybe! Those greenskins should still be searching for our traces along the coast of the main big 6, I don't think it's necessarily goblins, that Najaf is a problem, but it's not a big problem. ”
Dropping such an ambiguous sentence, Luo Zhengdao turned around and walked forward, things have to be done after all, anyway, since the crossing, he has not had a day of leisure, for Luo Zhengdao, it is normal to run into any trouble when going out, and it is not worth making a fuss at all.
As the saying goes: if there are more lice, you don't have to itch, if you have more debts, you don't have to worry, and if you encounter too many bad things, it will inevitably make people feel numb!
In the early morning of the next day, he paid a sum of money to beat away the bar girl with plump breasts and fat buttocks around him, Luo Zhengdao ran to the street again in his limited leisure time before the gathering, this time he wisely brought the guards, and a large group of people went out like the black boss.
These guards, all sailors from Qiongzhou, heard the news of the appearance of the warlock Najaf yesterday and volunteered to protect Luo Zhengdao's safety, lest he be assassinated, and the hope of the Count Fu family's restoration of its former glory would be completely shattered.
In contrast, those pirates under Luo Zhengdao seemed to have nothing to do with themselves at this time, and a superfluous figure did not appear, these pirates were adrift in the Aether Sea for more than half a year, and finally seized the opportunity to have a happy night, and it was very reasonable to not be able to get up early the next day, Luo Zhengdao also understood the sabotage of the sailors, but he also noticed a strange atmosphere. The atmosphere in the pirate bazaar, which was usually bustling with hustle and bustle, was so strange that whenever he walked by, the surroundings would be inexplicably quiet, and many idlers with wooden wine glasses would peek at him on the side of the road and whisper to him.
Seeing this scene, no matter how sluggish the guy feels, he should be conscious, something strange must have happened, and most of them are negative possibilities, Luo Zhengdao's face gradually darkened.
Brando Scarlet, who was familiar with the doorway and ran to inquire about the news, walked around the street, and then he cautiously approached Luo Zhengdao from behind, and said in a low voice:
"Lord Earl, that bastard of Najaf asked for your life with 20,000 gold coins, saying that he will never default on the payment of the head."
Twenty thousand gold coins? When he heard this number, Luo Zhengdao couldn't help but sneer, for the poor ghost pirates who had no fixed residence, this money was enough for hundreds of people to go back to their hometowns and live a happy life of rich people spending all day and drinking. Knowing that his situation was not good, he restrained his smile and said:
"Hmph, Najaf is very shrewd, and he can do big things with little money! It seems that the last beating was not in vain, and it really made him learn a lot to behave. Brando, beckoning the men to get on board immediately. ”
Dealing with a threat from Najaf, Luo Zhengdao didn't find it too difficult, in the caster industry, the mage is the serious boss, compared to the Arcanist, the son of the wizarding world, the warlocks who eat purely by talent can only be regarded as the little brother who accompanies the last seat, and Najaf can come up with the hand of the bounty is indeed vicious enough. How many ants bite and kill elephants! A pirate ship with a comprehensive strength of the Yangwei can be called a luxury top configuration, and it may not be able to parry the siege of countless armed boats in the complex water environment of the offshore waters, although the pirate bazaar has rules that prohibit the use of force to make trouble, but no one stipulates that you can't do it on the sea outside!
Soon after Luo Zhengdao and his party boarded the ship, armed dinghys began to wander in the waters near the anchorage, and when the Yangwei and Yong left the customary three-nautical-mile safe zone from the pirate bazaar, they would pounce on them like hungry wolves in winter and tear them to pieces.
The pirates returned from their leave6 back on board, still yawning, and the whip and angry scolding of Boatswain Zola Hegel helped them return to their normal working condition from their flabby and rotten holiday life. As the battleship began to raise its sails and move slowly, Luo Zhengdao pulled down the cork that plugged the brass of the command platform and shouted loudly into the bilge:
"I'm Captain Will Needham, and I'm throwing away a hundred barrels of ballast at once."
Due to the slight variation in the density of aether particles in different regions, the ships of the New World need to adjust the weight of the ballast to control the sailing altitude of the ships according to the actual situation according to the actual situation. Assuming that the ship rises above sea level, with the help of the strong Mana wind, the sail can indeed be increased by a certain percentage, but it may be attacked by the instantaneous increase of the Mana wind at any time, and the battleship that has not had time to adjust its sails will break a few masts, which will be light, and it is not uncommon for the whole battleship to be torn apart. Luo Zhengdao is now abandoning part of the ballast, which shows that he is angry, this is obviously a gamble!
The sailors nearby peeked at the iron-faced Luo Zhengdao pacing back and forth on the command platform, whispering below, while Boatswain Zola walked on the deck with a nine-tailed cat leather whip made of rhinoceros skin, and shouted loudly:
"Work honestly, don't mess with the captain, don't you see he's angry? You muddy balls, you don't want to be sent to scrub the keel! ”
"Boatswain, the captain isn't planning to kill himself with us, is he?"
"Shut your dog's mouth, is your life worth more than the captain's life?"
Hearing this, Sailor A obviously remembered the heavy reward for Luo Zhengdao, smacked his lips and said:
"My little life is not even worth a hundred gold coins, and the captain's life can be worth 20,000, of course there is no comparison."
As soon as he heard this, sailor B, who was squatting next to him to brush the deck, touched his wallet with empathy, and quickly dried up his wallet after a day of leisurely and happy life, and said very simply:
"That's right, the captain dares to come out with such a life, what is there to be afraid of as a poor bastard?"
The huge sails as white as snow slowly unfurled under the wind of Mana, and the hull of the battleship Yangwei rose in height as the ballast decreased, and soon the dark yellow bottom of the ship covered with a thick layer of copper skin was exposed.
Seeing this scene, the nearby boats became scrambling, originally they were going to rely on fire attack tactics and white-knuckle combat to deal with this fat sheep, but they were dumbfounded when they saw that the Yangwei suddenly increased its sailing altitude, and the stragglers who had an absolute advantage in numbers were dumbfounded. The dinghy, which has no reserves of buoyancy at all, does not have the configuration of ballast at all, and the artillery that can barely shoot high is also dedicated to the 6th battle, not to mention that it is impossible to equip the boat, even if they have prepared mortar guns, the shooting accuracy can also make people teary-eyed, is it impossible to watch the Yangwei grow away from the encirclement? This is really a boiled duck can fly!
On a dinghy stood a strong man with a dark complexion, who brandished a bright scimitar and shouted:
"The boat in the back, everyone stop the boat in the back, get on!"
Hearing this reminder, the pirates suddenly woke up, the Yang Wei in front of them was too late for them to intercept it, and the backward Yong Hao was still within the attack range, is it still polite at this time?
"Bang! Boom! Bang ......"
"Hooked, hurry up and grab it."
After the explosion of stone pine powder, the iron hooks and chains shot from these armed dinghys flew towards the Yong one after another, some hooking the side of the ship, some hooking the sail line, and soon it was unable to move. Although the Yong has undergone some technical transformation, it is not a professional warship after all, and the number of ballast configurations is limited, and it cannot use altitude difference tactics like the Yangwei to make the enemy completely desperate. The pirates, who had changed their target, used their ballistas and eagle cannons to shoot anchor chains with hooks and claws around the hull of the Brave, and the pirates began to climb and attack.
From the very beginning, the battle was so tense that it was like a fleshy caterpillar besieged by a swarm of ants.
Not far away, Luo Zhengdao on the Yangwei saw it clearly, and after a few seconds of short hesitation, his wandering gaze became firm again, Luo Zhengdao held the hilt of the sword in his hand, and said:
"Brando, turn around, let's go back."
Hearing Luo Zhengdao's order, First Officer Brando Scarlet, who was holding the steering wheel, had a stunned look on his face, and he asked in disbelief:
"Lord Earl, please think about it seriously, there are too many enemies, and we can't save Yong when we go back, so we can only send them to death!"
Luo Zhengdao sneered twice, and stared at Brando with a vicious gaze. 绯inflammation, says:
"My dear first mate, am I blind to see the enemies? Answer me, Lord Scarlet, are you afraid? Are you scared of those beggar-like pirates and crotch your crotch to run away from them? ”