After Isabel Walton quietly told the Adjutant Baldwin that the Portuguese were secretly loading their arquebuses and preparing to fight back against the pirates, Baldwin immediately glanced at several of his fellow guards from the Duke of Richmond in the crowd. Fast, the artillery commander who had run with the rest of the crew to the Portuguese merchant ship to celebrate the victory, saw the old man's eyes, and walked quickly to Isabel's neighborhood with a few colleagues.

When the men approached their captain, Baldwin turned to them and whispered, "When the Portuguese guns go off, you will rush over and kill the musketeers." ”

"Muskets? Are you kidding old man? Fast frowned, somewhat disbelieving his long-time colleague.

"Don't ask again, you must kill these Portuguese." Baldwin whispered again.

The Portuguese captain, who was standing opposite, tilted his head slightly to the left, and noticed the small movements of Baldwin and Fast and others. Immediately, he returned to the state of facing the "female pirate" squarely, and said in Portuguese in a stern manner, "Woman, if you want to negotiate, speak Portuguese." ”

"Don't want to speak English? I'll let you speak. Isabel sneered and cursed secretly. Then he pulled out the handguard stabbing sword and short sword on both sides of his waist, turned his head and shouted at Baldwin and the others beside him: "I order you to kill these Portuguese!" ”

"Yes, Captain." Several of the Duke's palace guards, who had been with Isabel for a long time, did not hesitate to draw their swords and prepare to slaughter the surrendered Portuguese.

Perhaps it was the adjutant resistance of the adjutant maritime officer that gave the captain a chance to survive. After acquiescing in the rebellion of his crew to load their arquebuses, he tried to delay Isabel and create an opportunity for several of his sailors and musketeers to shoot.

Pirates who plunder merchant ships are just around the corner, and there is only one chance to shoot a pirate. If they had wanted to reload their arquebuses a second time, the pirates would have killed a few part-time musketeers. The Portuguese captain hurriedly stepped forward, looked at a group of pirates armed with sharp blades, and said in a loud and forceful English with a strong Portuguese accent, "Ma'am, wait! ”

The Portuguese captain was buying time for his men to shoot, and Isabel was stalling for time. Her plan was to dodge the first shots fired by the Portuguese before rushing forward to massacre them. Arquebuses, which take an average of more than a minute to fire, still have to complete more than a minute of preparation before the second shot. The three-minute interval between firing the two projectiles was enough for her to kill several of the opposing musketeers with ease.

The Portuguese maritime lieutenant, standing to the left of the captain, was very nervous, and from time to time he looked back at the musketeers hiding behind a few sailors, and asked eagerly, "Is the reloading complete?" ”

A pair of tall, strong sailors and part-time musketeers mounted a Spanish Mushkert heavy arquebus with mechanical sights on a fork stand, and a section of a lit arquebus was attached to the arquebus. It was clear that the musketeers had made all the preparations before firing. At the command of the adjutant of the maritime affairs, the musketeer can complete the final steps: blow the fire rope, pull the trigger, open the lid of the primer pot, and aim at the target - shoot!

Unfortunately, the maritime lieutenants and part-time musketeers, who were in a state of high nervous tension, had forgotten one thing. With a barrel length of 5.9 to 6.6 feet (1.8 to 2 meters), the heavy Spanish Mushket Heavy Arquebus was almost impossible for the pirates present to turn a blind eye to such a long arquebus mounted on a forked mount.

In addition, the musketeers also forgot two things: first, when the primer ignited the propellant and fired the projectile, in order to avoid the gunpowder burning their eyes and the dazzling fire generated, the musketeers closed their eyes at the moment of shooting.

Another thing is that a lit arquebus simply cannot sustain a long burning time. Therefore, once the fire rope is ignited, it is inevitable to shoot in the shortest possible time. Of course, the musketeers could use their arquebuses to fight back against the pirates, depending on the weather. If the weather is wet, rainy, or the sea breeze is strong, the arquebuses in the hands of the musketeers will be useless, and they will have to accept the fact that they have been captured.

A strong sailor closest to the adjutant nodded at him, "My lord, you're ready to shoot." ”

What happened in the crowd behind the Portuguese captain, Isabel deliberately pretended not to see. When she heard the other captain's words, she smiled lightly and looked at Baldwin and squirmed her lips a few times, "When I say squat, you guys immediately squat!" ”

From just now to now, the mind of the maritime adjutant Baldwin was full of all kinds of questions about the arquebus. However, he only silently obeyed Isabel's orders. Because he knew very well that every order Isabel issued on the battlefield could save his life and that of others.

"What? Captain, I can't hear what you're saying. Isabel replied to the Portuguese captain, but her eyes were fixed on the muzzles of several black arquebuses behind the sailors.

At this moment, the Portuguese adjutant of maritime affairs, after glaring at her viciously, shouted loudly: "Captain, get down!" ”

"Squat!" Almost at the same time, Isabel issued a similar order to her men.

"Bah... Bang... I heard a few loud gunshots on the quiet sea. Then, thick smoke from the pyrotechnic powder after the shot was also rising between the bodies of several musketeers after the shot. Eventually, the Portuguese sailors, desperately resisting the pirates, fought back and opened fire on the pirates with their arquebuses.

The sudden sound of a huge gunshot startled Captain Hawkins and many of the sailors standing near the bowhouse, and they immediately crouched on the deck as if to avoid the arquebus projectiles flying in all directions. While Captain Hawkins and the others were still looking for the source of the gunshots, they heard a young woman's shout from the direction of the stern: "Kill them!" ”

There is no need to ask, and there is no need to look at it at all, this voice was made by the captain of the "Nemesis", Miss Noble. Captain Hawkins was the first to stand up, reached out and pulled out the handguard sword at his waist and yelled at the others, "Brothers, rush up and kill this group of rebellious Portuguese!" ”

The privateers who were present raised their blades and rushed madly towards the Portuguese near the stern. The sailors who had fired the first shot stood there dumbfounded, staring at the pirates intact and the female pirate with wide eyes, and the question arose in everyone's mind, "Why didn't you kill these pirates?" Are they devils from hell? ”