"Briefing! The target leaves the strait with the same course and a relative speed of minus 1.5 knots, and contact is expected in 30 minutes! ”

"The distance between the mouth of the gorge is 3 kilometers, and it is about to go out of the gorge, and it is about to go out of the gorge!"

"Sail by! The captain opened the wings and sails as soon as he left the gorge, and the whole ship accelerated! ”

"Speed up alert! Crash Alert! The deck crew is fixed nearby, the right wind is expected to cut in the right direction, and the speed is expected to be 12 knots! ”

"Level 2 combat readiness! Idle personnel immediately go to their commander's office to collect their weapons, and fully receive the board warning! ”

"Combat readiness!"

As the mouth of the gorge approached, the deck of the Lucky Horseshoe was in a hurry, and the sailors methodically carried out the orders issued one after another, accelerating, cutting the wind, giving warnings, and receiving the ship......

The plural orders were arranged in the minds of each sailor according to the training manual, and then subdivided into each post, forming individual instructions on where to go and what to do.

Every sailor knows his or her duties, and even if he runs on the deck, he can't find a dazed and idle figure, which fully demonstrates the peerless demeanor of the world's second maritime power.

Zilnede reveled in the pomp and circumstance of the Lucky Horseshoe in full swing.

This is his ship, even if it is far inferior to those big ships of the fourth and fifth rank in terms of shipboard firepower, but with the elite quality of the crew, he has the confidence to challenge all opponents below the battleship level.

Such as...... Those flickering sparks in the distance.

The adjutant ran up with a thick cable: "Captain, consider the hull tilt ...... for a while"

Zilnedshi Shiran opened his arms: "Trouble the second lieutenant fixed me in the bow, I am ready to enjoy the beautiful scenery here to come." ”

"Yes!"

The lucky horseshoe puffs up the wind and waves, the sides gradually widen, and the vision gradually becomes clearer.

Zilnede closed his eyes comfortably and embraced the moon with an open mind.

"Come on, Porto pups, I'll show you the speed of the Americas today, Wingsail ......"

"Hook! Throw! ”

A heart-rending cry exploded in his ears, and Zilned's eyes opened in horror to see dozens of hooks flying through the air like snakes.

Sharp iron claws scrambled to the deck of the Lucky Horseshoe, some snapping straight into the hull and crumbling into it, while others only scratched shallow claw marks and staggered out a roll of sawdust as the ship staggered.

The most tragic one, which had struck a sailman, was suspended without any resistance at the high speed of the Lucky Horseshoe, his body stretched like dough, longer, his flesh cracked, and his spine segmented.

Until he could not pull it out, he screamed, and was cut in two in front of more than 500 sailors on three battleships, his flesh and blood were scattered all over the sky, and the rebounding upper body smashed on the other sailman on the side of the mainmast, and with one blow smashed the unlucky man into the chest, and there was no life left.

The Lucky Horseshoe slowed down suddenly, and the sailors on deck were saved from losing control by the pre-fixation.

But they soon heard the next command that made them scatter: "Musket, release!" ”

With deliberate calculations or not, the Badger and the Wasp gathered a musket of nearly 200 men on the side of the ship, and fired simultaneously in a standard platoon of guns, aiming at every French sailor who was tied to the deck like a punishment.

Flesh and blood flying!

There were no cannons, no swords, and the platoon guns at sea exerted no less power in this particular ambush than on land, and the dense buckshot almost tore the living creatures on the deck to pieces.

The adjutant died, and the young soldier pounced on Zilnede at the moment when the ambush was initiated, subconsciously turning himself into a shield and blocking nearly twenty bullets with his back.

Dirty blood flowed down the corpse's face, highlighting the pale eyeballs and the pinpoint-like pupils in the center of the eyeballs.

Submit...... Ambush?

Zilnede watched in disbelief as the Badger and the Wasp, dragged by inertia, smashed the side of the Lucky Horseshoe.

The ships were crowded, and dozens of Red Army soldiers armed with sailors' swords shouted and jumped to fight.

This Red Army uniform...... Briton?

Zilnede stared blankly at his opponent's mainmast, which was reaching into the sky, and finally saw the large banner of rice waving in the wind above the tip of the mast.

The red cross is the guardian of St. George, symbolizing England, and the diagonal cross with white stripes on a blue background is the guardian of St. Andrew, symbolizing Scotland.

The two sacred guardians gathered into a flag, forming a blue background, red straight, white oblique peculiar [rice] characters, which is the symbol of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

This flag may be everywhere on land, but at sea it has a unique meaning, it is the most powerful sea power that leads the whole world, the Royal Navy of Great Britain!

Naval ...... of the British

Why did they ambush Martinique......

Why did you let go of the puppies in Porto......

Why......

Zilned's eyes twitched, and he saw a tall and handsome young officer standing in front of him on the blood stain.

"Nesi. Captain Zilned? ”

Zilnede nodded sheepishly.

The young officer snorted: "I am Lieutenant Commander of the Royal Navy, a special detachment under the command of the New World Fleet, and Admiral Horatio of the Halloween Fleet. Nelson, I'm sorry to tell you that in order to keep the operation confidential, please hurry up and pray. ”

"I'm a senior military officer...... I should have the right to buy my life......"

"About that...... The fleet estimates that a temporary military tribunal will be organized, and the time for the trial materials will be reasonably advanced, and you will probably have to fabricate some useful charges for you, which is pretty much it. ”

"Really...... Then my last request ......"

Burst!

Before Zilnede could finish speaking, the sharp command sword had already been inserted into the back of his neck, slicing his cervical vertebrae, tearing through muscles and blood vessels along the way.

Zilnede twitched, staring at Nelson's boots suspiciously, his pupils dilating little by little, slowly losing their highlights.

Nelson drew his sword with a blank face and whispered, "The gentleman's ethics make it impossible for me to ignore the petition of the dying, so you still don't say anything, and it is good for everyone." ”

He put his sword back into his sheath and turned around and swept over the sailors who had boarded the ship: "Mr. Frey, please organize the valiant soldiers to sweep the cabin, and in two hours, I will deal with the aftermath on this ship." ”

Young Frey snapped and saluted: "Yes! Sir! ”

……

The morning star is still looming in the west, but the east can't wait to show the whiteness of the fish's belly.

In the morning dawn, the wind of the Hellingers Point all year round stirred the waves against the rock wall, foaming at the white foam and dissipating the smoke of gunpowder all night.

The Golden Deer made a lazy arc, like a sliding old man sailing out of the end of the sea and sky, and Bell gently flicked his hand to control the huge battleship into the gap between the three frigates.

The sailors piloting the ship were stunned by this bold move, and when they saw Drake's sailors carrying the planks of the ship, humming and connecting the golden deer and the lucky horseshoe, they forgot to report it for a while.

But to tell the truth, the Golden Deer doesn't need a boring bulletin to refresh its presence, in the middle of the three frigates, she is like a huge floating island, with a deck two meters high that stands out from the crowd, and even the figures on the deck look extraordinarily tall.

Lorraine scurried across the rickety planks in three or two steps, and stepped on the blood-stained deck of the Lucky Horseshoe, catching a glimpse of Nelson in the crowd.

"Hey, there was blood and shredded flesh all over the floor, there were scratches on the deck, there were scrapes on the sides, and there were burnt marks on the sails...... I remember telling you to be careful with my boat. ”

Nelson snorted coldly: "This is the trophy of the Royal Navy, and for your beautiful plan, I lost seven brave sailors." ”

"You'll have to be more frank, Admiral, and don't forget that I've invested more than ten thousand pounds in this business. Have you ever seen a mountain of gold coins? Put seventy-five kilograms of gold in front of you, and that's a small mountain of gold. ”

Lorraine flicked her sleeve disdainfully.

"So, please be grateful. Dying on the battlefield is the glory of a soldier, and a new Brig with three percent can't even pay back to my roots. ”

Nelson blinked: "Sancheng new? ”

"Every businessman knows that the market is far more just than God, and I am willing to swear to God for my assessment."

"But aren't you an infidel?"

"Don't worry about the details, Admiral, I'm an infidel and you're not!"

A boat full of black lines......

Nelson looked at Lorraine in a daze and muttered, "I wasn't convinced that you were a good businessman until I was talking to you about business......"

"Input, output, thank you for your patronage."

The matter was decided, and Bell was appointed as the temporary captain of the Lucky Horseshoe, with 50 sailors on the Golden Deer, and rushed to the nearby British colony of Grenada to replenish the sailors as soon as possible.

Until Operation Halloween is over, the ship will be under Nelson's command as a hired vessel of the Drake Chamber of Commerce alongside the Golden Deer, and will not be allowed to leave the operation in any form.

This is certainly not the result of that game-style dialogue.

In the Age of Sails, armed merchant ships were no less powerful than low-tier warships, and more numerous.

In order to make full use of this civilian armed force, each country has a well-developed employment system.

The forms of employment are generally divided into employment and recruitment.

Conscription is forced conscription, and the state will give cash compensation to personnel, materials, ships and other items incorporated into the military sequence according to legal standards, and from then on, the military template will be applied, and no special treatment will be made.

Employment is more common, as is the case with Lorraine's relationship with Nelson today.

This employment was unpaid, and the British would not pay Lorraine a salary, count military merits, or compensate for losses.

Lorraine, on the other hand, had the right to refuse tasks that he considered too risky, and at the same time had limited, sacrosanct control over the materials he had captured, which were recorded in military exploits as sabotage and sinking.

The so-called limited means that the Chamber of Commerce generally does not allow the possession of battleships of the rank or above, that is, even if Lorraine captures a large warship of the third rank or above, Britain has the absolute priority of redemption according to the market price, and this priority is even higher than Lorraine's dominance.

The attribution of the lucky horseshoe is a special case.

It costs a lot of money to carry out the Arsonist operation, Nelson can't come up with the money, he needs Lorraine's advance, and now that the operation is successful, the lucky horseshoe is Nelson's debt, which is assigned to Lorraine in the name of Lorraine's seizure, and for those soldiers, it is credited as sinking.

This state of affairs is conventional, and in a way, it is also a special way for the army to thank the merchant for his merits, and it is no different from taking care of the merit of the merit.

More than half an hour later, after completing the handover, Bell galloped into the depths of the ocean in a bloody warship, and Lorraine and Nelson stood side by side on the stern of the Badger, raising their heads to look at the series of "wind chimes" at the mouth of the gorge.

The wind chimes were strung together by hundreds of French people who were hanging from the cliff, there was no struggle, no life, and Zilned's senior officer uniform fluttered at the top, facing the wind, looking particularly conspicuous.

Lorraine touched his nose: "Admiral, you just hanged all the captives like this?" ”

"Most of them were dead, and a small number of hanged living people, I remember eighty-seven."

"Never die......"

"Isn't what we're after to never die?" Nelson smiled, "I picked the twenty people in the worst mental state and put them back, those madmen will bring the defense fleet over, and then, it's a bloody battle......"

"Fifteen days left, we will choose the battlefield." Lorraine whistled and echoed the silent bells, "It's exciting." ”

"So, don't die."

"One is principal-preserving, two are profitable. Did you know? Since I went to sea, I have never done a loss-making business. ”