Chapter 65: Fooling Around
Looking at the little guy's determined eyes, Martha looked back at Murong Tao, and then touched the little guy's head and said, "Of course I'm going too!" Or what am I telling you to do? What do you think? We can all be together in the future, happy? ”
"Happy!" Little Varus put his arms around Martha's neck and began to weep bitterly. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Murong Tao naturally understood Martha's intention by saying this, she didn't want to embarrass herself. He breathed a sigh of relief, for a moment he was really worried that Martha would insist on getting on board. Martha is a rare good woman, but this good woman should not stay by his side for a lifetime, otherwise it is better to become a parish saint and be admired by future generations.
For the next few days, Bayard stayed in Port Bavrel to preside over the situation, negotiate cooperation with the Poclain family, and then wait here for Fat Willy to arrive. In the future, in this area, Fat Willy is the head of the Normandy region of the Sailor Tavern, and all the chambers of commerce or families that ask to join can go to negotiate business with him, and Murong Tao promised that he can take 15% of the total profits in the future as a commission.
Marcus sat in the inn where the sailor's tavern stayed, mainly to take care of Melody and Ulysses, Murong Tao did not tell Melody about the slaves, although Melody had already guessed Serra's true identity, but he was not petty, but he was busy with Martha's related matters related to Lillian's egg tart shop.
As for Murong Tao, Serra, Popoca and others, they had already boarded a leased merchant ship at midnight, and the tail of the merchant ship was hoisting the flag of England, which was preparing to lead the water of trouble to the Royal Navy of England, anyway, the feud between England and Spain was not bad for such a time.
The leased merchant ship belongs to the Dutch merchant ship, and because the bottom of the ship is relatively smooth, the sailing speed is fast, and with René, the old driver, it is simply like a tiger with wings.
Because it is a merchant ship, the ship is only loaded with a few short-range shipborne guns such as half-snake cannons, which is almost equivalent to no attack ability, and except for these unshakable shipborne guns, the rest of the components were temporarily dismantled by Murong Tao, and the speed of the whole ship has increased a lot.
It took nearly three days to arrive, and by the time I got back, I had already sailed through the port of Cherbourg a little more than a day, and by the afternoon of the next day, I could already see the outline of Guernsey in the distance.
"Captain, a Spanish fleet has been found in the sea ahead, the one in the middle looks like a merchant ship, and there is a frigate on the left and right, which is a regular naval fleet, and there are at least 180 people on each ship!" The lookout immediately informed Murong Tao of his discovery, and Murong Tao put one hand on Rene's shoulder, signaling him to slow down the speed of the ship for the time being.
"René, do you know water?" Murong Tao asked, which caused the old guy to be disdainful, how can anyone who can't water when he is a sailor? It's!
"And will you sail a Spanish galleon?" Murong Tao said with a nod to the approaching frigate in front.
"It's not all the same." René dissatisfied.
"Just have your words, follow me later, don't drown!" Murong Tao told a few people around him about his plan, Popoca and the others were originally good at going into the water, and their skills in the water were already strong, and during this time, with the help of Serra, they could already do simple communication.
Murong Tao's plan is very simple, taking advantage of the night, before the other party is not sure of the strength of his side, a few people went down to the sampan, slowly rowed close to the frigate on the left side of the other party, and then climbed up to the deck along the stern, and took control of the frigate on the left side in one go, because the distance between the three ships The merchant ship is obviously very close to the frigate on the left, and the deck of the merchant ship is a lot lower than the frigate on both sides, and you can swing from the frigate to the slave ship with a rope, and wait until the resistance on the slave ship is solved. The Spanish galleon controlled on the left side leaned against the frigate on the right, launched a surprise attack, and disabled the opponent, and basically the victory was decided.
There were eight people on Popoca's side, each carrying two bags of arrows on their backs, but their task was to wait for the merchant ship to approach the frigate on the left after Murong Tao and them succeeded, and then use the gangway to quickly go up to the opponent's deck, although there was only one chance, but at the beginning of that chaos, no one would pay attention to such a merchant ship.
After René handed over the rudder to a reliable sailor, he followed Murong Tao onto a sampan with six guards around Serra, and in addition to that, a sampan followed to avoid any problems.
A canvas was pulled up on the sampan, no oars were used, and the speed was also extremely fast, but Murong Tao still used the oars to grasp the sense of direction, under such a dim vision, the sampan that Murong Tao was riding on had approached the frigate on the left, and he could already clearly hear the chaotic shouts coming from the ship, as if their lookout had vaguely spotted the approaching merchant ship pretending to be England.
Murong Tao used the oars to push the sampan he was riding on, so as not to make a sound with the frigate on the left, so that the Spaniards above were alert, fortunately, there was no danger, the wind speed made the sampan come to the stern like an arrow from the string, René had already chiseled the prepared hook lock into the wooden board at the stern, the other end of the hook lock was a nearly five-meter-long hemp rope, Murong Tao grabbed one end of the hook lock and climbed onto the stern, followed by René, and the other six people, As for the other sampan, which had not been close to the frigate's field of vision, it was far away from the sea, and of course they had clung to the other end of the hemp rope in their hands, in order to take advantage of the opportunity to climb up the stern of the ship along the hemp rope.
This was all planned at the beginning, and it could only be done at night.
Murong Tao had already climbed into an open cabin on the second floor of the stern of the ship, and then stretched out his hand to pull Rene, who was following behind, and then the other six, until even the eight people on the second sampan were dragged to the cabin one after another, Murong Tao had already taken the rest of the people to touch in the direction of the deck.
All the Spanish sailors they met along the way were cleanly incapacitated, and by the time they reached deck, they had lost count of how many hapless sailors had been left behind.
This is the strategy proposed by Murong Tao before, in fact, killing people is very troublesome, with a smell of blood, and it is easy to be discovered by the masters, it is easier to be stunned directly, this matter is done by him, followed by René and the others The eyes were full of surprise, you said that it was simple for these two big living people to be stunned by a photo, but there were at least hundreds of people lying on the ground along the way, all of them were stunned by a blow, some were hit in the back of the head, some were punched directly in the chest, and some were kicked in the lower abdomen, But everyone failed to warn, and almost just found Murong Tao and the others who appeared in the cabin, they were covered by Murong Tao's mouth and nose, and the next step was to collapse to the ground.
In this regard, the six Sierra guards were also very convinced. Even if this kind of thing is handed over to them, there is no guarantee that it will be solved smoothly every time.
Murong Tao, who appeared on the deck, was like a murderous tiger breaking into a flock of sheep, and instantly knocked down several Spanish sailors, as for the rest, their job was to wait for the anchor and gangway thrown by the English merchant ship that slowly entered the field of vision, and then almost the entire sailors on the ship washed along the gangway into the deck of the Spanish galleon, and a fight was inevitable.
It's just that the only remaining sailors on the frigate on the left, including their captain, a Spanish Navy lieutenant, and two Spanish Navy ensigns, were blocked on the bow of the ship by the large number of Murong Tao and others, and the muskets in their hands could no longer fire, except for the saber at the waist in front of them, and they kept retreating until there was no way to retreat.
"Who are you?" The Spanish naval lieutenant, the captain of the frigate, questioned Murong Tao who jumped off the mast.
"Lay down your arms and surrender without killing!" Murong Tao shouted at those people in English, stunned the nearest second lieutenant with a punch, picked up his saber with a shout, held it in his hand and played with it, and then pointed at the lieutenant, "Don't tell me you don't understand me, otherwise believe it or not, I will strip you naked, put some blood and throw it to feed the sharks?" ”
"You shameless pirates of England!" The mouth is so aggressive, but the lieutenant has already thrown the sword in his hand on the ground, and the rest of the people have followed suit, everyone is smart, the other party only relies on dozens of people to control their own shipload of hundreds of people, this naval lieutenant racked his brains and didn't come up with any of the famous pirates in England who dared to resist a full Spanish galleon with only one merchant ship, and finally succeeded in capturing it, he only asked his colleagues on the right flank to find something wrong and come to support!
Unfortunately, the movement here was very large, but it was not enough to alert the other frigate across a slave ship, and besides, it was pitch black all around, and it was going upstream, and the sound of the waves crashing against the reef along the coast alone had drowned out the movement just now.
On the contrary, the sailors on the slave ship were shocked, but because the deck on his side was too low to see the situation on the frigate on the left, he could only keep calling to the left.
Only Popoca and others on this deck are proficient in Spanish, Popoca nodded and walked to the right side of the ship, and condescendingly replied to the people who asked below, which roughly means that someone on the ship just proposed to wrestle, and opened a handicap, and finally the sailors on his side won the competition, but it caused the sailors on the slave ship to sigh for a while, probably because they had no chance to bet, and the money in hand slipped away and was a little regretful.
Murong Tao gave Popoca a thumbs up, causing Popoca to laugh for a while, the captain's uniform on his body was directly taken off the body of the lieutenant, and the flickering just now was a bit like a captain.