"Young and vigorous ......"

On the quiet edge of the Sword River, Hierro looked at Lorraine with a complicated expression.

Lorraine's face was light and light, and he pointed to the little sail shadows on the Sword River and chanted softly.

"Quietly, I go, just as I came quietly, I waved my sleeves, and did not take away a cloud."

"You let me know that Cambridge is a magical place where everything that happens. Today I let the feast go unhappily, but when the prophecy comes true, they will remember this day, they will hate me, and they will rely on me. ”

"The question is, how long is that day?"

"It won't be long." Lorraine dusted off her shirt and put her elbow around Carmen, "Thank you for the introduction, Mr. Mindell, it's time for me to go back to Plymouth." Even if everyone decides to sit still, I will resist and go to Cantabrian to find a chance to win. ”

"The tiny Drake Chamber of Commerce prepares to independently confront the Combined Fleet?"

A loud laugh rang out in the trail. Shaklin came out of the woods alone.

He failed to manage his figure, looking fat, greasy, and a little lame when he walked, and he had to be supported by a long umbrella to be able to walk steadily.

Lorraine had been interested in him in the first place.

During a brief small exchange before the toast, his stance seemed to be that of the main battle, and like Hierro, he had the potential to be an ally of Lorraine.

So Lorraine stopped, smiling as Odilan swayed forward with the handle of the umbrella.

"You're going to war, Mr. Drake?"

"Yes." Lorraine nodded casually, "Before I came, I adjusted the structure of the Chamber of Commerce and freed up three Brigentines to form a temporary fleet. I will personally take them to tease the tiger whiskers of the combined fleet, and turn their hunting grounds into my hunting grounds. ”

"Fight strongly!" Odilan stared at Lorraine with admiration, smiled, and turned his gaze to Hierro, "Hierro, old friend, why didn't such an interesting young man introduce me earlier?" ”

"He died the other day." Hierro shrugged, "I don't think you'd be interested in a dead young man. ”

"That's right." Odilan accepted Hierro's explanation and turned his head back, "You are going to escalate the broken war into a real war between merchants, what about the trade in Cantabrian?" ”

"Suspend trade, or just keep North Sea trade. The current Cantabrian has long lost the environment for doing business, and any loss is enough to make the Chamber of Commerce lose all its money. ”

"The suspension of the Spanish line will cost the Chamber of Commerce a huge loss, young man, are you sure of a quick decision?"

"We don't have a choice, do we?"

There was a brief silence.

Odilan and Hierro made eye contact in front of Lorraine, and after a while, he asked Lorraine, "Do you think a few Briganting ships are enough to support you in a big battle?" ”

The Drake Chamber of Commerce, the Mindel Chamber of Commerce, and the Shackling Chamber of Commerce signed an alliance agreement in Southampton.

The agreement announced that the alliance of the three chambers of commerce would suspend all trade through the Cantabrian route and that a fleet of negotiable armies would be formed during the war.

The fleet consisted entirely of seven high-speed Brigentin-class frigates, specifically the Drake Chamber of Commerce's Butterfly Flower, Cattail Flower, and Clover, the Mindel Chamber of Commerce's Tuna and Cod, and the Shacklin Chamber of Commerce's Hurricane and Shower.

The Butterfly Flower became the flagship of the Broken Fleet, with Lorraine as Admiral, and the two Vice-Admirals were Raven of the Mindel Chamber of Commerce and Yashin, the young Admiral of the Shacklin Chamber of Commerce.

The three chambers of commerce jointly promised that each Brigentine would be worth five thousand pounds, that the loss of the wreck and the mariners' pensions would be borne by the three parties, and that the profits would be converted into gold pounds, which would also be shared equally among the three companies.

There were also many minor provisions, including maintenance, repairs, wear and tear, personnel expenses, and other odd and miscellaneous areas of interest, which were to be negotiated and supplemented by Carmen and the plenipotentiaries of the two chambers of commerce at any time in the small building of the Drake Chamber of Commerce, which was temporarily used as the headquarters of the Destruction Fleet.

On 3 November, at the behest of Lorraine, the ships of the fleet set sail from the port of Searle in Plymouth.

Lorraine wrote in his nautical diary.

[The signing of the alliance agreement between the three chambers of commerce is the first stage of the battle of Cantab Lianpo]

【Veron. The arrival of Desai and Reindeer in Port La Rocheli is the second phase.

[In these two stages, we have been in a state of passive beating. In the face of a superior enemy, the merchants of England had no power to resist, and could only let the mermaids eat and wail in pain.

[The formation of the Combined Fleet heralds a more brutal third phase of breaking the war, but fortunately, I finally have an ally I can trust]

[The addition of Hierro and Mindel Chamber of Commerce is expected, Odillan. Shaklin is a bonus]

[If I have the opportunity, I have to thank Rayshona. Mr. Nelson, the destined legend is actually Odillan's nephew]

[His predictions of events are as pessimistic as mine, and Odilan trusts his judgment]

[It's a wonderful fate......]

[I will lead the Broken Fleet into the battlefield. Veren. Desai, looking forward to our next meeting]

……

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The battle off Cantabrian entered the third stage, and the combined fleet of France, Spain, and the Netherlands with a loose alliance became the absolute hegemon on the shipping routes.

As a result, the situation on the route has led to further turnarounds.

On the one hand, the weak but unwilling to give up Spanish profits basically gave up a retaliatory counterattack and assembled a large cargo fleet that could maintain the smooth flow of trade routes as long as it was not intercepted by the main force of the combined fleet.

The side effect of this response is that if a large or expensive fleet falls into a predetermined trap, the cost to the Chamber can be too high to bear.

In the past month, four chambers of commerce of the Offshore Guild have declared bankruptcy, among which the Charron Chamber of Commerce in Dartmouth is even a director of the guild, and the impact of this cruel status quo on the guild members can be imagined.

On the other hand, the small chambers of commerce in France, Spain and the Netherlands took advantage of this opportunity to dominate the Spanish foreign trade market.

The shipping lanes became busier than ever, and the loss of the generous English did not take too much of a toll on Spain's foreign trade.

It is also thanks to the large-scale expansion of scattered commerce and trade between the three countries that Lorraine's broken fleet has gained a lot.

During more than 20 days of cruise, they launched two pirate raids, capturing three Mixed Sail Scuna merchant ships and seven Kirk, sinking one Skuna and one Kirk, and plundering goods worth 6,400 pounds.

Although trade with Spain was stopped, the profits of the three chambers of commerce in Cantabrian showed a strange upward trend.

As agreed, they divided all the harvest equally.

Lorraine was named the Naga and was included in the British transshipment fleet. Two Kirk-type ships, named the Celtic Warrior and the Irish Poet, were incorporated into the chapter's cargo fleet.

The Mindel Chamber of Commerce bought the extra Kirk for £300, which gave Lorraine another £2,200 worth of goods.

The Broken Fleet also fought two battles with the Combined Fleet, but because neither of them was a sudden encounter, the two sides did not make too obvious sparks.

The biggest loss was that the Clover had its mainmast broken in a battle and had to be sent back to the Southampton dockyard for repairs, temporarily breaking away from the sequence of breaking the fleet.

Hierro and Odilan did not relax for a moment to promote their own benefits, especially after the bankruptcy of the Charron Chamber of Commerce, the prosperity of the Three Chambers Alliance and the heavy losses of other offshore chambers of commerce became more and more stark.

The performance of the Navy finally disappointed the merchants.

They began to spontaneously form a broken fleet like the Three Chambers of Commerce Alliance, but it didn't work out well.

Not every admiral has received the full attention of the navy like Lorraine, and is familiar with and skilled in naval warfare on a fleet scale; Not everyone is like Hierro and Odillan, who are willing to entrust their net worth and life to outsiders, and they have to take risks together.

After a ruined defeat, the Lufthansa Chamber of Commerce, which was also a member of the guild council, declared bankruptcy, and in less than two weeks, the broken fleets that sprung up like mushrooms after a rain announced their disbandment, becoming an out-and-out joke.

The brainy chamber of commerce proposed to join the alliance of the three chambers of commerce, but none of the three chambers of commerce were willing to share the original alliance with the newcomers, and the newcomers were unwilling to give up their dominance of their own ships. Carmen hosted three chambers of commerce, and the end result was nothing.

Lorraine knew that the time was not yet ripe for a broader alliance......

The Broken Fleet cruises like a cunning shark on the line connecting Cantabrian and the Atlantic, sharpening its minions, ready to fly the pirate flag and start the third raid.

Behold...... November 26, the sea off the island of Ray.

"Three o'clock! Sixteen kilometers away, the big battle! Henna on the lookout shouted in alarm, "Lorraine, the main force of the combined fleet has surrounded the fleet of the Roy Chamber of Commerce, the Reindeer has suppressed the Karak-type Mamluk, and the Roy Chamber of Commerce is in danger!" ”