This year's galleon fleet and fleet have arrived at their destinations, and a grand trade fair is being held in the harbor. Merchant ships from all over the West Indies converged on Veracruz and Katanakh, and the Windward Channel was a must-pass, which also created a golden opportunity for the Bahamian pirates.

Bellamy divided the pirates into teams and went their separate ways, and it wasn't long before the Blue Banshee encountered its first victory. A Spanish sloop sailing along the coast, the Dolphin. When the Dolphin saw the muzzle of the black hole on the side of the Blue Banshee, it immediately leaned towards the shore, trying to take advantage of the ship's shallower draft to get rid of the Blue Banshee.

Captain Grover did not risk pursuit, and with the Dolphin in sight at all times, he ordered the longboat to be lowered. Chen Shouxu began his first sortie as a commander.

Chen Shouxu hung the officer's short sword on his waist, picked up the sailor's sword, and climbed to the longboat with 20 sailors. William stood on the bow of the Peliaga, and tapped the brim of his hat with his right hand to greet Chen Shouxu. One-eyed instructed the sailors to untie the cable connecting the big ship, and Chen Shouxu ordered to set off. The Pelaga and the longboat raised their sails and sailed side by side, and the sailors shouted trumpets and rowed their oars vigorously.

There was no need for him to command anything, the two galleys were getting closer and closer to the target, Chen Shouxu clenched the sailor knife in his hand, maybe he was going to kill someone today.

But what made him jaw-dropping next was that the Spaniards on the Dolphin lowered their sails and anchored, lowered the dinghy, and a group of people changed to the dinghy and rowed to the shore.

The Spaniards actually abandoned ship.

The longboat rests on the side of the Dolphin, a small dhow common in the Caribbean with a displacement of about 70 tons.

William and Chen Shouxu instructed the sailors to board the Dolphin and inspect it. William's expression was quite relaxed, "This ship is not equipped with artillery, and the Spaniards run very simply. "The ship was laden with cocoa destined for mainland Spain, and there was nothing of gold or silver of any value.

Chen Shouxu saw that William had been looking at the Spaniards who had run into the mangrove forest, and said to William, "They didn't destroy the ships and goods, and they didn't have much money with them, so let them go." We still took our cargo and joined the Blue Banshee. ”

"There's really no need to waste time." William and Chen Shouxu each sent a few sailors to the Dolphin to steer the ship, and the rudder joined the Blue Banshee.

The Dolphin is a good ship, but it is unarmed, and pirates need to equip the ship with cannons before they can use it. Grover appointed Captain Chatfield as captain of the Dolphin and escorted the ship with 20 sailors.

Over the next few days, the Blue Banshee robbed several large sailing yachts and dhows, and although not much gold or silver was captured, the drinks, fresh food, and spare sail lines on the trophies still made everyone happy, and there were no casualties, and life was comfortable, eating and drinking. When I saw the boat, I approached and met no fierce resistance.

The happiest was William, who captured one of the most valuable trophies. A 100-ton sloop with 3 sails and a slender hull. Although unarmed, the pirates loved the clipper very much. They threw away the dilapidated Pelaga, and William consulted with Captain Grover for a while, leaving the ship for his own use in the form of a temporary debt, and naming the ship Mary.

The holiday-like looting didn't last long, when the Blue Banshee spotted a Portuguese merchant ship.

Now Chen Shouxu can also identify the ship type of this era, this is a three-masted Ahat ship imitating the Netherlands, through the ship's gun door, you can count a total of 14 guns on the side plus 2 stern, a total of 16 cannons. The Yahat ship had a deep draft and was slow.

The small fleet of three ships, the Blue Banshee, Mary, and the Dolphin, tracked the Portuguese for a day and brought them closer, but Captain Grover thought for a long time before he decided to attack.

At a distance of 1 nautical mile from the Portuguese, three pirate ships lowered their longboats and boarded the longboats with arquebuses and swords.

The Blue Banshee entered the parallel course of the Portuguese, and the Portuguese ship raised the blood flag and erupted in a cry: "Santiago! ”

The two ships began a broadside artillery battle, which was a hard-to-face duel belonging to the warriors of the sea.

Chen Shouxu commanded the Banshee longboat, One-Eye commanded the Dolphin longboat, and the longboat belonging to the Mary rowed towards the stern of the Portuguese at the end.

One-Eye scolded loudly from one side, "The Portuguese are crazy, they will fight to the end." ”

The Ahat ship had a continuous gun deck and two guns in the stern, and a single salvo delivered more than the Banshee, whose trained gunners fired faster than the Portuguese. Both ships did not have heavy artillery, and it was difficult to inflict fatal injuries on the hull. But the Portuguese had a tall stern, and a pound of boom gun-loaded shotguns on the stern bulwark swept towards the deck of the Banshee, each shot carrying a mist of blood. The Banshee's whirling cannons were useless in such engagements, and the sailors on deck had to withstand the sweep of the shotguns as they opened their cannons.

Chen Shouxu shouted at One-Eye, "This won't work, we have to do something." ”

One-eyed watched in anguish as the Portuguese fired one volley after another, the cannonballs struck the board of the Banshee, hit the sails, and the chain shells swept across the Banshee, carrying up a piece of flesh and breaking the mast.

The Ahat ship is a modified Galen with a castle-like stern that makes it difficult to jump directly. Before the Banshee overwhelmed the Portuguese's broadside fire, Chen Shouxu was helpless. At sea, in the face of an enemy with many ships and cannons, it can only be filled with human lives.

Just as the two sides were deadlocked, the Mary suddenly turned sharply to the right and entered the right course of the non-belligerent side of the Portuguese. William followed up with an unusually nice downwind change of gunwale, grazing the starboard side of the Grapevines.

"Boom!" The Mary slammed into the Ahat ship, and the pirates let out a strange cry, brandished their knives, and jumped onto the Grape Man's ship with a sail line.

Chen Shouxu took this opportunity to get on the Portuguese ship and tied the Portuguese ship with a throwing hook and rope.

"Follow me." Couldn't care much, biting the knife with his teeth, Chen Shouxu grabbed the rope with both hands and climbed up. When he reached the stern deck, he saw that William's sailors were fighting with the Grapevines on the deck, and the Portuguese were numerous, and they surrounded William's sailors and slashed them. The longship belonging to One-Eye and the Marie was climbing up from the side of the gang to support them.

Seeing that the pirates on the deck were gathering more and more, the Portuguese captain on the stern ordered to use a boom cannon to strafe the enemy and the enemy. Chen Shouxu jumped onto the stern deck with three sailors, and cut down the Portuguese sailors guarding the stern with a knife.

In addition to the sailors, there were four Portuguese tin cans in plate armor.

How can this be fought, the light knife of the sailor knife does not react at all when it is cut, and the opponent can pierce the pirate's chest with a single sword.

It's nothing short of cheating.