Chapter 637: Ransacking
"Pirates...!" Two white adult men of unknown nationality with leather whips and daggers around their waists subconsciously screamed when they saw an unknown intruder.
At the same time, Isabel Walton, the captain of the "Nemesis", quickly ran to the right of the entrance to the small square with a wide view and no obstructions. I saw that her left arm was flat in mid-air, her left hand was holding the bow back grip, and the three fingers of her right hand holding the bowstring pulled the bowstring back violently, aiming at the target and throwing the three fingers away, and a heavy arrow suitable for close combat flew at high speed towards a white man on the right.
"Whoosh......!" There was a faint sound of metal cutting through the air, and sharp iron arrowheads with wooden shafts and feathers spun in mid-air and pierced mercilessly into the left chest of their target.
"Ahh The white adult man on the right fell to the ground on his back in the blink of an eye.
The white man on the left turned his head and glanced in amazement at his companion who had fallen to the ground, then pulled his leg and ran towards the house on the right. By this time, the captain had placed the second arrow on the bowstring, which he pulled and aimed at the moving target.
The iron arrow of the second arrow on the bowstring moved smoothly to the right, biting the moving target, "One, two, three......" When the target opened his left leg and was about to complete the fourth step, he heard "Whoosh...!" again! Without even saying a word, the target fell on the way to escape with an arrow in a gnawing mud posture, never moving again.
The captain withdrew his left arm, which was holding the bow, turned his head to look at the five young men on the left, armed with handguards and short-handled battle axes, and ordered one of the men in the lead: "Hall, search the houses here, find all the white men killed, find the treasure!" ”
"Yes, Captain." The young guard, armed with a handguard and a sword, nodded his head in agreement, and immediately rushed towards the plantation owner's house on the right side of the small square field with his four companions.
At this moment, Isabel turned to look at a large sugar cane field across the road behind her, and issued a code: "Goo... Mutter... Goo ......"
A short time later, three secret horns imitating the call of an eagle were heard from inside the sugar cane field. Baldwin and Fast, the guards who had been hiding in the sugar cane field, held their swords in hand, and pushed away the sugar cane that stood in front of them and came out of the sugar cane field. As the two approached Isabel, Baldwin looked at her and nodded, "Captain, we're here." ”
"The road has a locked fence gate on the north side, and there are several houses nearby. Immediately you two will take men and search some houses and guard the door. Isabel issued a new order, "Wait, if you meet someone who resists, you can only kill the white people." ”
"Yes, Captain." Baldwin didn't understand her second order, but he and Fast took the remaining three guards and went downhill to outflank the plantation.
Now, Isabel is the only one left in the small square. Of course, she wouldn't let herself sit idle in such a tense moment of battle. After alertly observing the sugar cane fields around the plantation owner's house and a path leading to the sugar cane fields to the west, and then looking up at the roof of the three-story house, he made a plan of action for the next step.
When she climbed up to the roof from the back of the house, she was able to look down on the entire plantation of the fleet navigator Cassiano Avigliana. In addition, she can use her height to monitor the plantation's movements, and if she detects someone fleeing to the sugar cane field or out of the plantation, she can immediately destroy them with her bow and arrow.
It wasn't long before she heard the screams of men and the screams of women coming from the house beneath her feet. Occasionally, the sound of wooden crates being knocked over on the floor, and the sound of clay pots or glasses being broken reached her ears from time to time.
Isabel half-crouched on the roof and turned around, then looking at the back door to the north of the plantation and the two nearby houses. Soon, as she looked over several fields of tall sugar cane with turquoise leaves at the top, she saw Baldwin and the others drive out of the houses and gather them in the open space between the two houses.
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By the time Isabel had led the Duke's palace guard ashore and left in a carriage, the plantation owner and navigator, Cajasino Avigliana, had moved from the artillery deck to the open deck above. The reason why Captain Hawkins took the navigator to his armed merchant ship was a plan that had been discussed with Isabel in order to divert the navigator's attention and attention.
The two of them walked slowly to the starboard side of the open deck, and Captain Hawkins pointed to an armed merchant ship moored on the east side of the harbor, and said with a smile, "Sir, that is the merchant ship commanded by Miss Brenda." ”
Kasiano looked up at the clear sky and turned unusually comfortably to lean against the fence. With his arms folded over his chest, he looked at Captain Hawkins with a smile on his face, "Captain, don't your trading partners have a son?" Why would a woman be put in command of a merchant ship? ”
Captain Hawkins stroked his beard slowly, and began to talk nonsense with one mouth, "Of course my partner has a son, and he also pilots merchant ships overseas to conduct trade. It's just that his daughter Brenda grew up on a boat, so many times she doesn't look like a traditional woman. ”
Kasiano nodded in disbelief, and suddenly added, "But, Captain, it seems to me that Miss Brenda looks more like... A nobleman?! ”
"How did he know?" Captain Hawkins was shocked, but still looked at the dark-skinned young plantation owner calmly, "Sir, this is impossible, I have known Miss Brenda since she was on board the ship as a trainee sailor at the age of 11. ”
"Oh, that's right. Perhaps, it was just some of her actions that made me suspicious. ”
Captain Hawkins unconsciously turned his head to look at the road on the shore of the harbor south of the bow, and he very badly did not want to see Isabel appear on the road with sailors and looted treasures. By the time the captain was trying to stall on board, several white men on the navigator Cassiano's plantation had all been killed.
These white slave guards from Spain, Portugal, Italy, and even Flanders (a general reference to the southern part of the ancient Netherlands, ruled by the Habsburgs) could never have dreamed of being killed by the English in their Spanish colonies.
By this time, the looting operation was almost complete. As Isabel stood in the dining room on the first floor, in the open space in front of her were a dozen or so animal skins, delicate and small cash boxes, spices, cane sugar, and some precious metal cutlery stored in dozens of clay pots. If nothing else, just such a valuable item as spices can sell for a sky-high price in Leeds and York City in the north.