One day in April 1740, the stage shifted to North America, half a world away, and a tattered three-masted warship sailed into the Chesapeake Bay. When the ship docked at Baltimore Harbor, the Baltimoreans on the pier erupted in an exclamation of surprise, as if a cold wind was passing through.

It was not until the ship docked in port that it was judged by the vaguely recognizable gun deck that it was a cruiser, and the three masts were of different colors from the top and bottom, apparently repaired, with cracks in the hull, broken planks, and even if they were intact, the surface was pitted. Several gun doors on the gun deck were torn open and nailed with only wooden planks, and the whole ship looked as if it had been corroded by the gastric juice of a giant sea monster.

No sooner had the pedals hit the ship than a group of sailors in ragged clothes and beards that looked like savages rushed out and threw themselves on the ground one by one, clutching at the dirt and with tears in their eyes. The people on the dock were about to comfort the officers and men of the mother navy with pity on them, but an officer with a command knife at his waist burst out laughing madly with straight eyes.

“Finally！ Victory！ Sa～～～fely！ ”

The officer laughed and shouted, raising suspicions as to whether the ship had escaped from the belly of the sea monster.

“Treasureism～～～mine!”

But then, the officer looked up at the sky and howled like a wolf, and became so agitated that instead of saying "God," he shouted "Treasure," causing the Baltimoreans to shudder, and began to wonder if the ship had been washed by demons.

The officer stood up, scanned everyone with blood-red eyes, and smiled as hideously as a demon: "Please inform the banks here and let them receive the wealth ......"

He stretched out his arms and said, "The wealth I have received from Seris, I." The wealth of George Anson. ”

When the cargo on board was unloaded, there was another gasping sound on the dock before the bank clerk could assess the value, but this time it was a scorching wind.

Although most of the goods are packed in wooden boxes. A few wooden crates have been damaged, but the exposed goods have been fully displayed with "treasures": gold, silk, porcelain, ivory, furs...... Each one of them is a luxury item that the upper class of society grabs of, and looking at hundreds of boxes of goods, people are like George Anson, and there is no God in their hearts.

In an instant, George Anson's name spread from Baltimore throughout Maryland, as well as neighboring Virginia, North Carolina, and New Jersey. According to bank estimates. Anson's cargo was worth more than £300,000. As far north as Philadelphia and as far south as Richmond, people flocked to snap up the goods, according to Anson, from the mysterious nation of Seris, and listen to his stories of adventures in the East.

"Where is Seris? I don't understand it to you, El Dorado? No, no, it's a land of treasures, and there's all kinds of treasures. ”

"How? The Jenkins War was not just a war between Britain and Spain. Britain and Seris were also at war in India, and when I arrived in the Caribbean, I learned that our British navy had suffered another setback in Ceylon. Of course. For you people in the North American colonies, it's pretty much a war on the moon. And the shameful defeat of General Howard is not equal to the defeat of Britain, much less to my defeat, and these trophies taken from the Cyris are proof of victory. ”

"Yes, I also know that the war is long over, but what does this have to do with my treasure? It's loot! Will the British royal navy return the spoils of war to the other side? That's what London's old men do. ”

"Why sell here? I'm just selling what belongs to me and the crew according to the rules, and what belongs to the king will of course be shipped back to London, when will it depart...... At least we'll have to wait for the ship to be repaired. ”…,

In the face of all kinds of questions, Anson answered them with confidence. But when asked certain questions, the tone of voice changed significantly.

"It would be better if it could change ships."

Occasionally, Anson would turn his head to look at the sea, a hint of worry flashing across his face, and muttering in a low voice from time to time.

The Jenkins War was long over, and Britain had not only reached a temporary peace agreement with Spain. The war with Seris has also ended in defeat. News of the signing of the peace agreement between the two countries also reached the Americas because it involved Spain.

But for Anson, his war wasn't over yet.

After the First Battle of Ceylon in 1737, Anson fled to Java with a cruiser, intending to contact the Dutch to cause trouble in Java and burn down Seris's backyard in the South Seas. Unexpectedly, the Dutch did not agitate, and became a lost dog, being chased and killed by a large number of Ceris cruisers.

The British royal navy sees itself as the dominant force of the seas, and its generals are extremely enterprising, and Anson is one of the best. Not only did he not retreat to Africa, but he was also fascinated by the Nanzhou described by the Dutch, and wanted to create Nanzhou with a single ship to see what was going on. As far as political considerations are concerned, finding out the details of this land, which is still unknown to the Kingdom of Britain, can also encourage the king and the House to cast more weight and continue the war against Seris.

Therefore, he went all the way south to the south of Nanzhou, and even to Penglai Prefecture to the east of Nanzhou. After discovering that the colonies of the Seris had spread throughout the new world, and that his political plot had failed, Anson concentrated on plundering the colonies of Seris South and reaped the rewards.

But Anson's trip is not a tour, the Ceris cruiser has been chasing behind the butt, and has been caught up several times, although Anson's twenty-eight eighteen-pounder gun cruiser has good combat effectiveness, but in the face of Seris's super cruiser, it is powerless, the other party is equipped with a powerful 24-pound heavy gun equal to the European system, and the kind of "stinger gun" that makes the British Navy hate to the bone, and there is more than one cruiser chasing him.

Many of the scars on Anson's cruiser "Galati" were left by those encounters, and if it weren't for Anson's command skills far surpassing that of Naval Officer Ceris, and the ship's crew maneuvering skills far surpassing that of Sailor Ceris, Anson would have sunk with the ship into the unfathomable Pacific Ocean.

When Anson's colleague, Admiral Howard, was captured in the Third Battle of Ceylon, Anson, who was playing hide-and-seek with the cruiser Ceris in the paradisiacal state of Penglai in the southeast of Nanzhou, had to choose which route back to Britain.

Considering that it was possible to encounter the French Navy by taking the Indian Ocean route, and that his own warship full of treasures was fat, Anson closed his eyes and chose the route he had never taken, sailing east to South America. Then go around the Drake Passage, which was discovered by Drake more than a hundred years ago, and enter the Caribbean Sea.

Although there was a risk of encountering the Spanish and French navies along the way, Britain was already quite strong in the Caribbean, and as long as it could reach the Caribbean, it would be a victory. The only trouble is, plus the previous trip from Britain to India. He is almost making a circumnavigation around the world, and the route from Penglai Prefecture to South America has never been traveled, and he needs to try it himself.

Soon after Anson set off, he realized that he had been very wrong, and that compared to the unknown route, the Seris was a real big problem. The Ceris cruiser was still following behind the ass, this perseverance. made him even wonder if he had robbed Seris of some national treasure.

Fortunately, the sailors of the Seris were too dogmatic, and the skills of maneuvering the sails in unfamiliar waters were very unskillful, and the technology of positioning at sea was also lacking, and the pursuers of at least five cruisers gradually decreased one by one, and when they arrived on the west coast of South America, it seemed that only two were left. …,

The next sea route is no stranger, and the route opened up by the predecessors is wealth. With this wealth, Anson bypassed the Drake Passage and entered his intended safe zone in mid-1739: the Caribbean.

After two years at sea. The ship was in tatters, and most of the sailors were killed or wounded. Anson was ready to take a good rest in the Caribbean, but he didn't expect that the ghost of the Sailor Cyris would not go away, and he actually chased all the way to the Caribbean!

The Seris must have been helped by the Portuguese in South America and the Spaniards in the Caribbean, as seen in the First Battle of Ceylon, where the Seris clearly carried traces of the Spanish Navy in the formation and command of the warships, and Anson even felt that there might be Spaniards on the pursuing Seris cruiser.

At this point, Anson was no longer too afraid, and felt that he only had to retreat into the British-controlled port. The Ceris cruiser could not help it, after all, there were many wars in the Caribbean, and there were artillery batteries in the harbor. Even if the Seris were to get stuck outside the harbor, he would be able to get rid of the pesky pursuers by contacting Britain's naval detachment in the Caribbean.

Unexpectedly, Anson's two ideas came to naught.

The colonies of the Caribbean learn why Anson is being pursued by the Cruiser Cyris. They all refused to accept him into Hong Kong. The governors were afraid of provoking another war in the Caribbean because of this, and even feared that Seris would conclude a cooperation agreement with Spain to send a fleet into the Caribbean.

By this time, the news of the British navy's crushing defeat in the Third Battle of Ceylon had reached the Caribbean, and in the minds of the governors, the Cyris navy had become a powerful presence beyond the French and Spanish navies, and they certainly did not want Anson's rat to spoil the whole pot of soup in the Caribbean.

After months of hiding in the Caribbean with Seris's pursuers, Anson finally determined that no governor had the courage to take him in, so he had no choice but to flee north to the North American colonies. He wanted to return to Britain directly from the Caribbean, but the ship was no longer working, and the sailors were dying, so he had to go to North America to catch his breath first.

What drove Anson almost mad was that the Cruiser Ceris was still chasing after his ass, and it wasn't until it sailed into Cessac Bay that the trail of the pursuers finally disappeared, and there was the uncontrollable scene when he went ashore. This is already British territory, and no matter how crazy the Cyrisians are, they don't have the courage to rush into the Chesapeake Bay and sail into the port of Baltimore to arrest him, right?

But the pursuers of Ceris haunted him like a demon for three years, and the psychological shadow was too heavy, even if he was in Baltimore, even if he was surrounded by people from the North American colonies, he still had no bottom in his heart.

Seris, really gave up?

During his seven days in Baltimore, Anson could not sleep peacefully every night, waking up again and again, first laughing at a mountain of pounds, and then awakened by the sudden appearance of the Red Dragon Banner of the Serisians.

On the eighth day, a British cruiser belonging to the North American Squadron entered the port, which made Anson completely relaxed.

On the ninth day, Anson was at the docks to discuss with the patrol ship about carrying the remaining treasure back to Britain.

"What a strange ship......"

"I've never seen a flag before."

There was a lot of talk, but Anson twisted his neck with great difficulty, looked into the distance of the harbor, did not have to focus, only the color was spotted, and at that moment, his whole body was like the bow of a ship, completely frozen.

Golden Dragon Banner on Red Background!

Although the sails were tattered and the hull was damaged, the black and red paintwork, the slender and elegant hull, and the round platform with the flounder's eye on the bow of the ship all clearly revealed the identity of the comer: the cruiser of Seris.

Seeing that the other party looked at the battery on the west side of the harbor and the other British cruiser in the harbor as if there was nothing, they were blocked at the harbor, and the hull of the ship began to fight horizontally, Anson held his jaw that was about to dislocate, held down the eyeball that was about to burst his eye socket and the heart that popped out of his throat, and let out a terrible wail: "Noo~~oo!!"

Boom Boom Boom ......

On the cruiser "Xiangjiang", the commander of the cruiser detachment of the Nanyang Fleet of the Anglo-Chinese Navy, and the Navy lieutenant general Shi Tingge was also dressed in rags, like a savage, and he roared in red blood: "You rob it!" It's up to you to grab it! Three years ago, I swore that even if I had to chase to the ends of the earth, I would never stop! Now is the time for you to pay the bloody debt! ”

Flowering bombs and solid round bombs bombed Anson's Galaty headlessly, even if it affected another British cruiser, and because this battleship had the power to fight back, and also gave equal reciprocity, it didn't take long for orange fireworks and black smoke to cover the entire Baltimore harbor.

On April 19, 1740, Anglo-Chinese warships bombarded Baltimore, settling Britain's old war debts, and the Anglo-Chinese also had "close" contact with the North American colonies for the first time. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )