If it weren't for a boss like York, Fenriel might never know the secret for the rest of her life, and she couldn't help but ask, "What about the other team, they also opened a coast security company?" ”

"No, they are mercenaries who specialize in special work that needs to be done at sea. Assassinations, explosives, kidnappings, hostage rescues, negotiations, and cooperation with certain government intelligence agencies in maritime counterterrorism operations...... As long as the place of work is on the sea, and the employer can produce enough money, they dare to take any job, and they can always do it beautifully. ”

York doesn't need to say anything more about the rest of the story, and the following inferences can be drawn from his model...... Who said pirates can't be mercenaries at sea?

A group that has survived and fought in the sea for hundreds of years, after accepting modern combat ideas and advanced weapons, will never be worse than those naval special forces that have only been established for several decades, and in some details, it will even be even better.

"Then why are they so hostile to each other, because they once had a conflict on the sea?"

"Of course," York said lightly, "the Queen Star and the privateer are the super pirates who were born from the sea, have formed a feud with each other for more than 500 years, and have even promoted the development of human civilization and history!" ”

The pirate group that promoted the development of human civilization and history...... Hearing such a content that can only appear in comic books, Fenriel was really blown away!

If she hadn't known York too well, she would have thought that York was playing a harmless joke with herself!

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The "Queen's Star" pirate group was active on the sea in the 16th century, as a pirate group that once promoted the process of human history and civilization, the reason why they are called such a name is because among them there was a legendary female pirate captain, her name is Mershina.

Mercina was born in a noble family in Spain in the 16th century, but she could not find the gentleness of a lady, she liked swordsmanship since she was a child, and learned swordsmanship from famous teachers, on the night of her marriage, she disguised herself as a man and escaped from the house, in order to completely avoid the family's search, she simply disguised herself as a man and entered the sea and became a pirate.

As early as the fifteenth century, the great navigator Christopher Columbus completed a round-the-world trip with the financial support of the Spanish government, which gave Spain a far more knowledge and understanding of the sea than other countries, and by virtue of its maritime superiority, it controlled the South American continent and the Yale gold mines, monopolized the maritime trade routes with Asia and the Americas, and became the most powerful naval country at that time.

According to statistics, in the fifteen years from 1545 to 1560 AD, the Spanish navy brought back 5,500 kilograms of gold and 246,000 kilograms of silver, and 83% of the world's precious metal mining at that time was obtained by Spain.

In the face of the huge wealth monopolized by Spain, the sea power is not strong, and the British can not compete with the Spanish navy from the front, the British Empress Elizabeth ordered the conscription of "pirates" to rob the Spanish convoy to attack the Spanish economy at the same time, enhance their own strength.

At that time, the first to sign up was the famous British navigator Drake, who became a British royal pirate with a "legal" license, and thus formed his own pirate group...... privateer.

Redk is the second sea hero after Magellan to complete the global voyage, he used his own navigation chart to open a new sea lane for Britain, to promote the development of British navigation, he also found a wide strait in the Pacific Ocean, and named it "Redke Strait" after himself, breaking the history of Spain's monopoly on the Pacific Ocean, he also sank dozens of Spanish capital warships in guerrilla warfare, and grabbed a huge amount of gold and silver.

Time passed little by little to 1588, with the organization of pirates to plunder the British navy and Spain, which controlled the Pacific route at that time and had the world's most powerful navy, the confrontation became more and more serious, and the two sides finally launched a super naval battle in the English Channel that had a direct impact on the modern maritime pattern!

In that naval battle, the Spanish Navy had the most powerful fleet in the world, with more than 130 warships and more than 30,000 naval soldiers, known as the "Invincible Armada"; The British Navy is at an absolute disadvantage in terms of the tonnage of warships and the number of soldiers, and there are only thirty-four warships in the Royal Navy, but under the hands of Queen Elizabeth, there is still a group of "royal" pirate regiments led by Drake!

There are more than 60 private warships composed of "royal" pirates, and in this war that has affected the course of human civilization and opened the curtain for the opening of the Age of Discovery, the British Royal Navy is the "Drake Detachment" commanded by the nickname "Sea Devil" Drake!

As the best "royal" pirate, Drake, the "Sea Devil", abandoned the mainstream "string warfare" at that time, and let artillery become the protagonist of naval warfare, in his words, naval battles should be solved by ships, and have nothing to do with infantry. In the later part of the campaign, Drake took advantage of the change of wind direction at sea, and used fireship tactics (equivalent to the burning of serial ships in the Red Cliff War) to launch a sneak attack on the Spanish Invincible Armada, and in the face of the raging fire that human beings were unable to extinguish at that time, the fatally damaged "Invincible Armada" fled in panic, and finally only more than 40 dilapidated warships fled back to the motherland, and more than 20,000 soldiers died at the bottom of the sea.

After this war, Britain finally became the dominant power on the sea, and the most glorious era of Queen Elizabeth began.

The "Sea Devil" Drake, the "royal" pirate, was named Lord of England by the Empress by virtue of his great contributions before and after this battle, leaving a strong mark in the history of piracy.

Therefore, some scholars who know that period of history sometimes joke that Queen Elizabeth was the largest pirate leader in the world, and she won the Armada at that time by commanding a large group of "royal" pirates.

In the long river of history, time flies, and in a blink of an eye, five years after the end of the Battle of the English Channel, in 1593, the "Sea Devil" Drake once again led an expedition to try to completely defeat the declining Spanish Navy.

At that time, Drake was full of confidence, because his command was already the strongest navy in the world, and the former Spanish fleet had already become a thing of the past.

But Drake never imagined that it was at this critical moment of life and death that the legendary female pirate "Queen of the Seas" Mercina was finally ordered to accept the order of King Philip II of Spain to lead the remaining Spanish navy and her own pirate group to meet the "Sea Devil" Drake.

"Queen of the Sea" Mercina vs "Sea Lord" Drake!

In the Battle of the English Channel, Drake had already proved that the Spanish Navy's tactics of carrying tens of thousands of infantry in battleships were outdated.

At that time, the ships of the British Navy were fast and light, and although the caliber of the guns was far inferior to that of the Spanish warships, they had a long range and a large number of guns.

Drake may never have dreamed that Mershina, another legendary pirate born in Spain, would attack him with the "String War" that he proved to be outdated!

Melsina commanded ships full of pirate colors, they were lighter, more agile, and faster than those of the British Navy, and she took advantage of the night to lead her army in the Puerto Rican Sea to attack Drake, and at the beginning of the battle, a series of battles broke out, armed with short guns and scimitars, skilled pirates and Spanish army soldiers, wave after wave rushed onto the British battleship, and the most frantic fierce battle broke out on the deck of the battleship.

Because he likes shelling, and gave up close combat, Drake, in the labor expedition all the soldiers were already exhausted, was caught by Mercina weakness, targeted fatal attack, he finally did not complete the task, forced to retreat, on the way back to the defeat of the fleet "yellow fever" rampant, even over fifty years old Decre was also infected, three years later, fifty-six-year-old Drake, the world in the eyes of the sea demon king, for the British maritime hegemony era made great contributions, And the seafaring hero who personally opened the curtain for the advent of the Age of Discovery, closed his eyes forever on his own ship.

Mercina defeated Drake, she led the Spanish fleet to several battles, but her personal strength was limited after all, in the face of the inevitable rise of Britain on the sea, the Spanish navy has inevitably weakened the historical background, although she won victories on the local battlefield again and again, but after all, it was impossible to reverse the general trend. In 1596, three years after Declave's death, King Philip II of Spain died, and Mercina was once again engaged in battle with the English navy.

It was in that year that the Spanish Navy no longer had the strength to compete with the British Navy, and was reduced from the world's number one military power to the second rate.

On the stage of history when the Age of Discovery was approaching, two legendary pirates of Spain and England stood in hostile positions, burst out with their own brilliant brilliance, and successively fell on the blue sea that made countless heroes bend their waists, leaving their eternal names.

(To be continued)