Once the Tempest was settled, Sterling found Chen.

The scruffy beard and haggard face showed that Sterling had not had a good time. Chen Shouxu remembered that he would never forget to take care of his appearance carefully before.

"Are you still leaving?" Chen Shouxu's tone was filled with regret, "Have you figured out where to go?" ”

Sterling's tone was tired, "I'm going to go back to Eleutera first, the Banshee will have to go to Blueport sooner or later, so I'll just wait there." ”

"I've asked at the port of Curacao, and there are no ships that go directly to the Bahamas, so if you have to go back to Lanharbour Town, you're going to have a very tossing journey."

"It doesn't matter." Sterling had a look of dismay.

"You can't go now." Chen Shouxu wanted to pull him out of this decadent state, "I have asked the governor of Curacao to help me inquire about the whereabouts of the Banshee, and I think there should be news soon." ”

"I'm tired of waiting."

"Are you tired of fighting, then? The governor of Curacao told me that the Spaniards might organize an attack on the Bahamas in the near future, and that everyone including Captain Grover would be in danger. How much of a difference can you make if you go back alone? Follow me, take a battleship and find the Banshee. ”

Sterling's expression became solemn.

"In this battle, the enemy we are about to face may have excellent artillery skills, I need you very much now, and the brothers on this ship also need you." Chen Shouxu did his best to keep Sterling. On British battleships, the second mate was also usually the commander of gunnery. Sterling's father was a well-known gunnery expert in the English Navy, and although in Chen Shouxu's opinion, Sterling's sailing skills were worse than his own, but the gunnery command was still first-class.

Seeing that Sterling was silent, Chen Shouxu decided to push the extra mile.

"I know you will never bear to abandon your brother before the battle. And I know that you have your own ideals, as well as the skills and guidelines to achieve them. But what you need most now is a stage to perform, and I promise you, stay, and you will become a captain. ”

Thanks to Chen Shouxu's efforts, Sterling still didn't leave after all.

A few days later, the Guard, a privateer with private investment by the Governor and several wealthy merchants, docked. It was a powerful three-masted cruiser with 36 guns and a captain named Wayne. Wayne didn't waste time, and immediately after arriving, he held a meeting in the captain's quarters of the Guard.

Wayne wore a boat's hat decorated with bird feathers, a white shirt made of Calicut cotton, and black trousers.

Sitting under Wayne was the French captain Labush in a round hat, with a hideous face and a fierce look between his eyes. A shirt soaked in cow's blood and leggings made of coarse linen indicate that he is a Bakenya. Baken originally means arahuak Indian word for grill, and later became synonymous with French settlers who hunted wild boar and bison on Hispaniola.

Wayne came up to greet everyone on behalf of the Governor, and then said, "I think everyone has received the information of the Belizean pirates. He looked at Bush, "Captain Bush, as far as I can see, this Pete Wallace, though Scotsman, has a fighting style very similar to your Rotisserie Gang. ”

The Bajanians originally lived peacefully on the island of Hispaniola, but the Spanish army carried out a large-scale raid on the herders and hunters in order to expel the infiltrating French forces. After driving the Bakenians out to sea with massacres and famine, the Spaniards, who thought they had a plan, did not expect that the Bakenians, who had retreated to the sea, gathered around the island of Tortuga and became pirates who fought the Spaniards to the death. Due to the lack of female immigrants, male-male pairing is prevalent among the Bakens, and there are even formal marriage-like relationships. Probably lost their loved one in the Spanish raid, the Bakenians have a brutal method of revenge, they are the nightmare of the Caribbean.

"Many of his men were our brothers, but now traitors to the Spaniards. ”

The Bakenians had a great influence on the pirates of the Caribbean, and there were quite a few of them in both the Bahamas and Belize. Bellamy's raids in the Windward Channel at that time were supported by the Roast Gang, otherwise he would not have gathered so many people. The Bahamian Coastal Brotherhood is inextricably linked to the Rotisserie Gang.

Chen Shouxu looked at LaBush, who had a reputation for terror, and after becoming the captain of the ship, his ability to gather intelligence in the Caribbean Sea has improved to a higher level than before. Many members of the Bahamian Coastal Brotherhood are cod fishermen from Newfoundland, and if there is a shadow of England looming behind the Bahamian Coastal Brotherhood, then behind the barbecue pirates is Bourbon France. England was not at war with Spain, and the Bahamian pirates were now only having ambiguous dealings with some of the North American governors of England, but the Roast Gang pirates were strongly supported by France. In fact, judging by the current power, the Bahamas is one line lower than the Barbecue Gang.

"I'm going to cut open the stomachs of these traitors, take out their intestines and nail them to the mast, and burn their bodies with torches until they die." ”

Chen Shouxu felt that something was wrong around him and glanced at Roberts. Probably succeeded in constructing the picture described by Labush in his mind, Roberts, who was sitting next to Chen Shouxu, turned pale and his fingers trembled on the table.

There was no expression on Wayne's face. These privateer captains were on the edge of the law, often working with all sorts of pure pirates, and were even promoted to the rank of commander of the pirate fleet.

Wayne spread out the charts on the table, pointed to Belize, and said to all the captains, "It's not our job to escort merchant ships, we only have four ships, and we can't fight an endless guerrilla war with Belizean pirates, we have only one way, to get into Pete Wallace's base at the mouth of the Belize River." ”

"As far as I know, the coast of the Belize estuary is full of reefs, and there's the world's largest lagoon. The sea situation is extremely complicated, Captain Wayne, do you know the exact route? ”

Wayne shook his head, "No. So Captain Roberts, your ship has the shallowest draft, and you have to be at the front of the fleet when you enter Belize waters. ”

Roberts' expression froze.

Chen Shouxu's brows furrowed, he didn't expect this to be an expedition mission, "Curacao is far away from Belize, are we ready for food and wine for the expedition?" ”

"There's a supply ship arriving later, full of beer." In a combat situation at sea, if there is no time to gather fresh fresh water, beer is the best substitute.

The four captains discussed the details of the expedition for a long time, and the Dutch were relatively well prepared. The news of Belizean pirates accepting employment from the Spaniards had not yet spread, and they could not have imagined that the Dutch would be the first to do so, and that they did not use their own army.

Wayne stressed, "The top priority is Pete Wallace himself. This cooperation with the Spanish was the most useful, and once Pete Wallace was killed, it would be difficult to rebuild trust between the Belizean pirates and the Spaniards. ”

Roberts pointed to the map, "We'll pass the coasts of Cartanach, Portovello and Honduras, four boats, and there's a great chance to do something big." ”

Wayne shook his head, "This is a combat operation, it must be concealed and fast, and all ashore looting is prohibited on the way to Belize."

"What about the Spanish ships that you encounter on the way?" ”

"When encountering a Spanish ship, the priority is not to leak the news. How to deal with it, you are all experts, I don't need to say more, right? ”

When Ravbush heard this, a smile appeared on his hideous face.

"After winning the battle, we will return to the sea route, and we can do some business by the way, and then my gunboats will act with you."

Chen Shouxu understood that if the Belizean pirates were solved, it would be the private business of these captains at that time.

Litmanning's dispatch to the Storm arrived with the supply ship, and it was actually the fat man who collected the money at the port, and Chen Shouxu's playful eyes saw that the fat man's expression was a little hairy.

The four ships were resupplied with supplies, and the next day set sail for Belize by the most direct route possible.

This was the first time that Chen Shouxu had sailed on the open sea, and the speed of the fleet was determined by the slowest ship. The blue desert was all around, and the scorching sun scorched on the deck. In order to prevent unnecessary attrition caused by the mass sunburn of sailors, Chen Shouxu decided to erect several canvas sheds on the ship. This would have slowed down the Tempest severely, but since the Tempest now has a lot of speed redundancy, it doesn't matter.

The voyage to the open sea was extremely boring, and the fleet did not encounter merchant ships for the first time until it approached the coast of Honduras and Nicaragua. The Tempest could not pick up speed and sailed alongside the Guard. LaBush's Rose rushed forward first, and in front of the three friendly ships, it showed how the Roast Gang pirates looted.

The Rose lowered two sailboats and sailed sideways to the stern of the Spanish ship, wrecking its rudder. Sailing boats take over the side, pirates jump into the gang. The seemingly conventional process gave Chen Shouxu a very different feeling from the Bahamian pirates, well, the ferocity and courage of the gang.

The Barbecue Gang has been dealing with the superior Spaniards for a long time, using the camouflage of lowering sails, deliberately slowing down the speed of the ship to show weakness, attacking the rudder, and attacking the jumping gang at night. Chen Shouxu's previous method of plundering English ships was influenced by them.

The flotilla approached the Spanish ship captured by LaBush, and Wayne reminded him not to delay the voyage.

Rabush looted the ship, put some of the captives in the bilge, and set the ship on fire.

The screams of the captives shocked the fat prison sent by Littmanning, who cried out, "Oh God! He must be a devil from hell. ”

Worse still, Rubsh dragged the officers and owners of the captive ship to the deck of the Rose. He lit a charcoal fire and grilled the limbs of several captives on the fire. The looming wails of the Spaniards accompanied the fleet until they slowly died in agony.

When Bahamian pirates needed to sail covertly to prevent their captives from leaking information, it was common practice to exile them on desert islands. At least it gave the captives hope of survival.

The Roast Gang was an unnecessary atrocity, and it had a very bad impact. According to Chen's observations, some Bahamian pirates now have a tendency to learn from the barbecue gang due to the flow of people.