It was a rather peculiar initiation experience.

After splitting the sturdy table, threatening the noble Guardian, and declaring that she would hunt pirates as pirates, Lorraine left the Dome with Henna and Bartow.

Only half an hour later, Dylan led a dozen seamen aboard and brought a brand new flag painted with a skull painted with colorful pupils to the Brotherhood of the Sea, which was neatly covered with five thousand gold pounds that had been haphazardly placed.

Dylan drew his sidearm and pressed the flag, and said proudly, "The Admiral has ordered me to convey his greetings and thanks, you have made him have a pleasant afternoon." He also said that it was time for Tortuga to be remediated, and that neither the dilapidated domed halls nor the filthy lakeside shrines were worthy of a great organization with a glorious history. ”

The old captain's face was cloudy, his eyes flickered, and his voice fluttered.

"We only have one problem, the thief who stole Drake's fortune......"

"Alessandro. Dhirabhi, a shameless man who only dares to swing a knife at those who surrender. If this name seems strange to you, he has another name in the world of pirates, Pirate King Cotton Jack VII. ”

"He's going to challenge a pirate king?"

"You're wrong." Dylan sneered, "It's not a challenge, it's a hunt!" ”

……

Bimini Islands.

Although the Bahamas is the exclusive hunting ground of Cottonjack, Bimini, which is operated as a base by him, is not part of the Bahamas.

It is located off the coast of Florida 80 kilometers northwest of the Bahamas, 175 kilometers from the core town of the Bahamian Sea and Nassau on New Providence Island.

This archipelago is mainly composed of two main islands, scattered islands, reefs and sandbanks, and the outer outline of the continental shelf is approximately an isosceles triangle.

Its north island fits the apex of the triangle and the east waist line, the north is narrow and the south is wide, and the south island is a long strip occupying the bottom line of the south side of the triangle, like a lazy lying silkworm.

In the middle of the two islands is the inland sea of the archipelago, which is open from east to west, the center is cramped, the average depth is less than 5 meters, and there are scattered sandbars in the sea area, the depth is uncertain, the hydrology is complex, and if you want to cross it, the big ship is very easy to run aground.

Obviously, this is not a suitable place for humans to thrive, or the greedy colonists would not ignore it and let it become a den of pirates.

Four days after the declaration of war on Turtle Island, Lorraine and his fleet hid on an uninhabited Palm Island off the east coast of Florida.

The island is a standard weir island, flat, desolate and long, because the main direction runs parallel to the coast, so the west beach faces the busy near-shore shipping routes, and the east beach is adjacent to the ocean, so it is unvisited all year round.

This is the closest location off the coast of Florida to Bimini, making it both a unique hiding place for the fleet and an excellent starting point for an attack.

Lorraine's fleet anchored here for ten days.

During the ten days, Lorraine would take the three-eyed crow to visit the north and south islands of Bimini almost every day, and the longest time was to take henna to stay on the north island for three days, hiding in the dense island woods, and surveying the entire coast up close.

It wasn't until the basic exploration was over that Lorraine gathered all the seamen of the fleet and convened a pre-war meeting on the Palm.

"I've heard about Bimini for a long time." "It was when I was a child, 10 or 11 years old," he recalled, "when my father, Elijah, arranged for Shaq to put a fleet in Bimini as a strategic extension of Bermuda and compete with Spain for dominance of the important Florida Passage. ”

"In that battle, Shaq represented Spain, and my father was Great Britain, and as a result, Shaq won."

"That's the main reason I remember this old story, Shaq was the only time he won over my father on the map, so the Battle of Bimini became my only bedtime story for the next month."

He laughed. Laughing as he spreads out the charts on the sand.

"This is the topography of Bimini, with a high outer profile and a low inner rim. Its natural berths are distributed on both sides of the inner sea, with the South Island berths concentrated in the middle of the North Shore and the North Island suitable for berthing on the upper part of the Western Line. ”

"The inner sea of Bimini has two outlets, east and west, and the sandbanks are mainly scattered in the central and eastern parts, and there are not many sandbanks in the western sea, but they have their own unique regularity."

He drew a short line off the coast of the North Island and then moved sideways.

"Just further west of the North Island berth, along the western waistline of the shelf, almost all the sandbars and most of the scattered reefs in the western seas are concentrated. Although the sandbar and the reef are not connected to each other, the gaps between them are silted up in the shallows less than 2 meters deep, making most boats impassable except for assault boats and small fishing boats. ”

"This natural underwater seawall creates a huge difference in port conditions between the north and south islands. The South Island berth is facing the sandbar area, and the hydrology is complex, making it impassable for large ships and with a narrow field of vision. The North Island berth is tucked away in a natural haven with an open sea and a good view. ”

"In the battle on the map that year, my father took a fancy to the good port conditions of the berths in the North Island to design this problem. But the end result turned out that good ports do not necessarily have a corresponding military potential. Just like the North Island berth, it must have excellent conditions for being used as a civil port, but as a military port, it has a fatal flaw. ”

At this point, Lorraine's fingers slowly advanced from the Palm Island, along the cliffs of the northeast coast of the North Island all the way to the eastern mouth of the Inner Sea.

"At that time, Shaq split the fleet in two. Taking advantage of the shallow draft of the Brig ship, one infiltrated from the east exit and ventured through the sandbar sea, easily avoiding all of his father's observation posts and closing the door without his father's knowledge. ”

He made a gesture to close the door, his fingers moving slightly to the mouth of the haven.

"This is the mouth of the bay. Two unnamed reefs are stuck on the west side, and the remaining width is less than 60 meters, and if you put a Briganting transversely at the midpoint, the whole harbor becomes a tight pocket. ”

Then, another large ship burst into the west entrance from the front of the observation post set up by his father. Because the gates had been shut, no matter how dedicated his father's sailors were, they could not stop Shaq from picking the fruits of victory. ”

Seeing that Lorraine had finished speaking, Acharin touched his chin and tilted his head to look at the chart in front of him.

"Could it be that Cottonjack also puts his old nest in his pocket?"

Lorraine shrugged regretfully.

"The North Island Haven is a natural trap set by nature for the defenders, and it fits all the boxes perfectly. Although the situation of military ports and private ports, and navy and pirates, is somewhat different, but in terms of results, what my father was fooled in the past, and now Cotton Jack is not aware of it. ”

Olvis whistled: "Looks like we can celebrate the victory in advance!" ”

Lorraine nodded as a matter of course: "This operation, codenamed [Dam]. Next, I announce the specific operational details and personnel plan ......"