Chapter Sixty-Seven: I Can Make You the King of Pirates
Edward Newgate sighed and continued to tell the story of his ancestors with a little choked up!
Even more unimaginable, it soon became clear that gold and money were not Blackbeard's only hobbies, and that his greatest hobby was to torture people for pleasure until they died.
Later, Blackbeard ordered the passengers to be tied with their hands, blindfolded, and forced them to jump into the sea one by one on the side of the ship with a sharp sword, until all the passengers on the ship were dead.
Once, when a captured captain resisted Blackbeard slightly, he cut off the captain's nose and ears, forcing him to eat the bloody ears and nose on the spot. The most cruel thing is that Blackbeard not only kills innocents indiscriminately, but also does not let go of his subordinates who follow him for their lives. It is said that whenever he looted a treasure and needed to be buried, he took a sailor with him, however, when he was halfway buried, he often killed the sailor by striking from behind, burying his body along with the treasure.
After receiving a huge ransom from the government, which was enough for him to enjoy for the rest of his life, he wanted to take the opportunity to break up and take the treasure to himself.
In order to get rid of the accomplices who were with him in life and death, he set up a poisonous plan, piloted the "Queen Anne's Revenge" and two other ships to a remote island and deliberately ran aground, so that his men could go ashore to inspect and repair, and he and forty other henchmen took the opportunity to quickly leave the island by boat.
Two days later, Major Bonet of England accidentally arrived on the deserted island in his sailing ship, and rescued all the pirates who had been left behind by Blackbeard Edwardditch.
At the time, while most of the South Carolina state councilors were intimidated by Blackbeard's obscenity, there was one exception: Virginia Governor Alexander Sappswood.
This man was determined to kill "Blackbeard" at any cost, and Blackbeard's ruthlessness towards his accomplices angered all the pirates who came back alive at the time. They contact a number of merchants and plantation owners who have been hurt by Blackbeard to find Sappswood and resolve to take revenge on him.
Soon, the governor issued a proclamation encouraging the general public to help the government arrest Blackbeard and his accomplices. The city government offered a reward of £100 for Blackbeard himself; Forty pounds for catching other pirate captains; Twenty pounds for catching his men; Fifteen pounds for catching a junior officer; Ten pounds for catching a common pirate.
In addition, Premier Sappswood turned to the English naval base for help.
The Royal Navy sent two battleships, the Pearl and the Reem, loaded with more than 60 sailors and a large number of weapons, to help capture Blackbeard. And Lieutenant Robert 61 Maynard was the commander-in-chief of the two battleships.
Later, Sappswood received a secret report that Blackbeard's flagship "Adventurer" was anchored in Oklacook Bay, and he immediately sent the two warships to arrest him. At this time, Blackbeard also had access to his inner line, and the governor's secretariat got a secret report. In the evening they drank all night ashore before returning to the pirate ship, which was equipped with nine guns, after dawn.
The next afternoon, when an exchange of fire began, Lieutenant Maynard saw Blackbeard's flag hanging from the top of the mast of the opposing pirate ship—a blood-red heart and a white skull on a black basemap.
Blackbeard's gunners, after all, had been on the battlefield for a long time, and at the beginning of the battle they accurately hit the "Reem", and the soldiers on board suffered heavy casualties, and the captain Baker was killed instantly. Blackbeard turned his gun and fired at the Pearl.
In the fierce battle between the two sides, Captain Blackbeard was seen holding a lit fuse close to the fuse of the cannon, and he shouted with a gloomy face: "To hell! Immediately, a small spark in his hand jumped up and spread backwards along the fuse. Then, the rear boring gun slammed into the forked movable gun carriage, and a deadly shell was fired at the English warship. The artillery teams on the pirate ships shelled the warships of the Royal Navy with back boring guns one after another. The English sloop and the corsair approached meter by meter, until the two ships suddenly touched and the sides of the ships came together.
Due to the complex topography of Oklacook Bay, which was full of shoals and reefs, ships on both sides soon ran aground, and the naval battle turned into a land battle.
At this time, Lieutenant Maynard on the Navy ship ordered all the soldiers to hide immediately, leaving only two people still standing on the deck as bait, and Blackbeard was really fooled, he thought that all the people on board were killed. He climbed onto the "Pearl" with his men roaring, and the Royal Navy suddenly rushed out from below and began a fierce hand-to-hand combat.
In the bloody battle, Lieutenant Maynard ended up with only twelve soldiers left alive. Blackbeard Titch thought he was going to win right away. Suddenly, he spotted Lieutenant Maynard and drew his gun and fired. Blackbeard Titch and Lieutenant Maynard drew their pistols almost at the same time, but Blackbeard Titch couldn't hit because he was drunk, but Maynard shot him in the stomach, Blackbeard Titch screamed and pounced and broke Maynard's saber, and a sailor quickly came up and stabbed him in the neck. Blackbeard Edward Teach, spurting blood, grabbed Maynard by the throat, and the other sailors rushed in droves until they killed him.
Afterwards, when Lieutenant Maynard and his soldiers cleaned up the battlefield, a total of twenty-five stab wounds and five gunshot wounds were found on Blackbeard's body. He ordered his men to cut off Blackbeard's head and fed his body to the shark.
There are two theories about Blackbeard's head: some say that after Blackbeard's head was cut off, he swam around the Adventure many times until it disappeared into the depths of the sea forever.
It is also said that Lieutenant Maynard took the severed head as a warning and brought it back to Virginia by hanging it on the tooth canopy of the warship. A week later, Blackbeard's head was boiled, wrapped in silver leaf, and made into a wine glass.
Later, it was used in many taverns until this silver-plated pirate head mysteriously disappeared off the East Coast of the United States.
"Blackbeard is a hero! I didn't expect to end up in a different place! ”
After listening to Newgate's story, Haitian couldn't help but sigh, and couldn't help but think about how he would die in the future!
"Now it seems that my ancestor Blackbeard is also to blame!"
"Didn't Titch Blackbeard have a lot of treasures back then? Since you are his descendant, you don't know the whereabouts of the treasure, do you? With these treasures, you can buy ships, weapons, and build a powerful sea force! Haitian asked suddenly.
"My great-grandfather, the son of Blackbeard Teach, did not meet him, my great-grandfather was born after Blackbeard Titch died, and all the qiē about Blackbeard was told by my great-grandfather's mother! Even Blackbeard Titch's closest people didn't know that he actually had a wife and gave birth to a boy for him! But the great-grandfather's mother didn't know about the treasure! ”
"Your great-grandfather also became a pirate?" Haitian asked with some gossip.
"Nope! He became a Royal Navy! Including my grandfather, my father, they are all navy! "Newgate doesn't seem to be willing to talk about his father!
"Then why didn't you become a navy, but a pirate! Isn't it possible to gallop on the sea when you become a navy? Haitian didn't seem to notice Newgate's expression and continued to ask.
"I also have two older brothers, both of whom are in the Navy! When I was a child, I also aspired to be a good navy, but one day I stumbled upon a worn-out diary, and after I opened it, I changed my original intention!
It was a diary left by my great-grandfather's mother, which told the story of Edward Ditch the Blackbeard, and after reading it, I was attracted by this free and exciting pirate life, and began to plan to go to the pirate life, and then my father found out about it, and he told me to dispel this idea, but I refused, and I was expelled from the family! So I gathered a group of friends who longed for a pirate life and embarked on this path! ”
Haitian can feel that Newgate's pirate life is not very smooth, he can imagine that he must have had a hard time with these years of pirate experience!
"Because we didn't have enough money to afford even a decent ship, we began to rob merchant ships like other pirates, at first we only robbed some smuggling ships, or some rich people with a bad reputation, and did not harm the common people, but gradually we became more greedy and lost our original pursuit! I slowly felt more and more like Blackbeard Teach, always imitating him without even noticing! More and more arrogant! Even if I hadn't met you today, I'm sure our results wouldn't have been much better? ”
In the conversation with Haitian, Newgate couldn't help but express his innermost thoughts.
"I can tell that you are not a truly cruel person! What you're doing is just hiding your vulnerability! Otherwise, you'd be dead! Haitian stood up, looked at the sea, and said softly.
"Newgate! Do you want to be a real king of the sea? Haitian suddenly turned to Newgate and asked.
"It is my dream to become the king of pirates and gallop on the seas! But I know I don't have that strength! When Newgate heard Haitian's words, his eyes lit up, but when he thought of himself, he immediately dimmed!
"I can make you the king of pirates! If you believe it! Haitian said, staring into Newgate's eyes.
Newgate looked at Haitian in front of him, especially his eyes, which made Newgate's heart rise with a strong hope, especially when he felt the kingly breath of Haitian, Newgate couldn't help but agree:
"I believe it! Mr. Asura, I don't know much about your deeds, but I believe in you! Let me be your subordinate! ”
A smile appeared on Haitian's face, and he had a bold idea in his heart after listening to Newgate tell him about Blackbeard's deeds......