The sound of artillery from the West completely broke the balance of the battle at the mouth of the bay.

Asaros stared at the smoke rising faintly in the sky, his face as pale as iron.

His trusty first mate slid down the lookout with a cable swing and trotted in front of him in a few steps.

"Deputy Commander, see clearly!"

"How?"

"Two fifth-level galen, both with pirate flags with colorful pupils and skeletons, one standard type is bombarding the haven across the sandbar, and the other is also bombarding, but the course is heading south, it seems that it is very likely to come to us!"

"Two fifth-level galenic ......" Asaros's face became more and more ugly, "Drake boy, hide so deeply!" ”

The first mate took off his turban and wiped the sweat from his face.

"Deputy Commander, are we going to come back immediately?"

"Reinforcements?" Asaros gritted his teeth, "The haven is the cage of the trapped beast, and when Drake Kid closes the door, we are locked in the cage. What is the use of the beast in the cage, no matter how sharp the claws are? ”

"But at least we can push back the shelling outside the sandbar......"

"Press back, turn in, they are in the Atlantic, we are in a safe haven, the speed, agility, and maneuver space are not as good as theirs, and even Bloody Mary is not there, we don't even have an advantage in firepower!"

"Drake the Kid is doing the math! We have a small port, and there are only a few berths that can avoid shelling, and we definitely need to give priority to the ships in the regiment, which means that most of the merchants can only pray to God in the shelling area. ”

"Drake the Kid wanders in the Atlantic, we rush, he retreats, we retreat, he pushes. In a few days, the merchants of the sea will become his helpers, begging him to help him drive us out. We simply can't wait for the regimental commander and the Bloody Mary to return. ”

"That's not ......," the first mate suppressed his horror and stood firm, "but the deputy commander, that special modification fifth-class ship is rushing here." The mouth of the bay is small, and we are now crowded here......"

"The cage must be opened!" Asaros stared viciously at the turtle-like three-eyed crow not far away, "You immediately transfer to the Black Goat and return to Hong Kong with Rogrigues and Orlando to replenish the manpower." ”

"Holy Anne is in charge of opening the cage! More precisely, it was me who was responsible for opening the cage. When we get the tortoise, Holy Anne will return to Hong Kong, and this is the only way to hold the cage door in your hands......"

"As for you, when you go back, find the lame Romy, and tell him that I will hand over the entire fleet left behind to him."

"He had to do three things! First, occupy berths, stabilize people's hearts, and allocate manpower on ships and shores. ”

"Second, organize firepower to drive away the colored pupil skeletons on the other side of the sandbar, even if it is only temporary, so that the merchants can take a breath."

"Third, stare at the mouth of the Bay." Asaros drew his sword with a bang, "Once the turtle on the opposite side lowers the Colored Pupil Skull, immediately organize the fleet to clear the obstacle and counterattack, and we can't give them a chance to reinforce." ”

"Yes!"

Not long after, the Three-Eyed Raven was aboard.

Lorraine held the mast on the bottom boom and leaped high above the gunplate, while Leonard stood below him with a smile.

Leonard is not young, and since he left the sailor class, it is neither beautiful nor in line with his status to do things that climb high and low.

This in itself is an interesting contrast.

Lorraine, who was firmly in the class, was obviously of a higher status, but she did not have to worry about her behavior and image.

Although Leonard, who has just completed the class jump, has a lower status, it is precisely because of the unstable class that he needs to always pay attention to the details that fit his identity.

He tilted his head and looked at Lorraine: "Captain, as you might expect, the sailors on Brig began to transfer towards Holy Anne. It seems that Holy Anne is planning to take the board herself. ”

Lorraine tugged at the corners of her mouth disdainfully.

"The trap of wisdom is reserved for the wise. If there is a cowardly and reckless man on the other side, and he runs away when he sees the Golden Deer turn around, won't our preparations all fall into the void? ”

"But didn't it save a lot of trouble?"

"It seems to save a lot of trouble, but it is passive to rely on businessmen to turn against the water. And the two destroyers of the Cotton Jack Pirate Regiment, only Holy Anne has appeared so far. With Cotton Jack VII himself in charge of the harbor, the smugglers did not necessarily dare to turn their backs. ”

Leonard sighed helplessly: "Captain, speaking of which, that cotton jack is really calm. ”

"That's where I was surprised...... Lorraine looked not far away, the Black Goat and the Holy Anne handing over in an orderly manner, "It stands to reason that Cottonjack should have come out to greet us when we were discovered." He hasn't shown up yet, so he can't be out of the haven......"

……

"The whole ship scatters, release!"

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

The battlefield at the mouth of the bay was filled with gunsmoke. More than 20 minutes after the handover of personnel, at the moment when the Golden Deer at the far end turned into the inner sea, Holy Anne officially launched a broadside to the Three-Eyed Raven.

In naval warfare, this kind of static sideboard is extremely rare, and its form is more like beach grabbing, but the attacking side has a narrower offensive surface, and the firepower pressure it faces is of course greater.

Fortunately, the Three-Eyed Raven's original defenses were weak, and in order to stand on its feet, Lorraine gave up almost all of its shipboard firepower.

Asaros didn't have to face heavy shore artillery like a real beachman, so he barely had the strength to fight.

But at a distance of only 300 meters, the Holy Anne was still miserable.

The 2.5-metre broadside difference could only wipe out the Three-Eyed Raven's remaining 4-9-pound firepower within 50 metres, and until then, she could only dodge in the cramped bay.

And this dodge is in fact almost futile.

The Holy Anne now has 330 sailors, at least 280 of whom are on deck.

The small deck was overcrowded, and the Three-Eyed Raven's hit rate didn't need to be high at all, and it only took one shot to inflict massive damage.

So Asaros marched with fear. Every time the nine-pounder cannon sounded, he gritted his teeth and cried out the name of God in his heart.

In the first round, four shots missed, and Holy Anne counterattacked with a bow cannon, but it failed to produce significant results.

In the second round, three shots missed, and a scatter shot swept through the hull of Holy Anne, but because the landing position was not high enough, it only broke the ankle of a hapless pirate who was on the side, and Holy Anne's bow gun was not fully loaded.

In the third round, Holy Anne made the first move, and a solid projectile from the bow gun hit the three-eyed Raven's baffle directly, and the distance of 120 meters directly folded the bracket of the baffle, and the entire baffle flew high.

This time, it was Lorraine's turn to be terrified.

The two-meter-wide gap was a hole in the Three-Eyed Raven's overall defense system, and if it wasn't plugged immediately, the ship's sailors would pay a huge price.

The carpentry team, which had been on standby for a long time, rushed out of the cabin, and more than 20 people, together with the wounded who were still able to move, dragged dozens of bags of sandbags out of the cabin by means of carrying and pushing, and piled them up on top of each other until they were as high as the gun shield.

They used the gun carriage and the broken pillars as supports, and temporarily put up ugly but effective support behind the sandbags, and in the fourth round of shelling, they stubbornly blocked another shit-like blow from Holy Anne.

The good fortune of the battlefield will always fade here.

Also in the fourth round of shelling, Leonard, who had no results in three consecutive rounds, finally took a good fortune and sent the second scatter bomb high up the main deck of Holy Anne at a distance of 70 meters, causing at least 40 pirate casualties like a storm.

The three-eyed crow's cannon door fails.

Lorraine did not wait stiffly for Holy Anne to enter the 50-meter line of ineffective shelling, and gave the order as soon as the fourth round of shelling was over.

"The carpenters and the wounded moved all the gunpowder and ammunition out of the cabin and blocked the hatch! The musketeers began to counterattack, maintaining maximum fire density, and the guns were inexhaustible, trying their best to kill! ”

The deck began to make final preparations for the next broadside, and amid the intense gunfire, the Holy Anne fired a final round of bow guns less than 30 metres away.

Four shells struck the side of the three-eyed crow without any fancy impact, causing the hull to tremble, the sailors were shaken away, the sandbags were shattered, and the port hull shattered into two huge holes, and for the first time Asaros saw Lorraine's preparations for this battle.

"Damn Drake......" he took a deep breath, "get ready for the shipwning!" Grab the deck! Don't give muskets a chance to shoot again! ”

Rumble!

A dull crash came from the bow, and Asaros heard his own stormtrooper roar.

"First team, pick up, board!"