The cool morning breeze blew through Captain Daddock's swarthy beard and sent his rough roar to all directions: "Brothers, slow down, get ready to release the speedboat!" "Because of the speed advantage of smuggling speedboats, the current smuggling operations are more in

The Mississippi Slut slowed down, the waves on the bow began to decrease, and the speed of the ship slowed down, and after a few minutes, the ship finally stopped. At this time, the lookout post climbing on the high mast also issued a report that "no other ships were found around". Adol pulled the white gloves on his hand and said to the first mate, "Okay, let's get the speedboat." ”

In order to retract the speedboat faster, the "Mississippi Slut" was modified with a large crane that could directly release the empty speedboat into the sea, and then several sailors descended the rope ladder to the speedboat. Then the cranes on the big ships began to load the boxes full of cargo onto the dinghy. With such a crane, the speed at which the ship can load and unload goods is greatly increased.

The first dinghy had already been launched. Then boxes and boxes of supplies were slowly hoisted down. The contents of these boxes generally weighed no more than 150 pounds, so that they could be quickly thrown into the sea in the event of an interception by the Spanish anti-smuggling team, so as to reduce the load of the ship and increase the speed of the ship.

Soon, the first speedboat was already full of cargo, and Nelson waved at the stern of the dinghy to the big boat, then activated the gasoline engine on board, and then the dinghy ploughed through the turquoise waters and headed in the direction of the island of Cuba.

Addock looked at the dinghy in the distance and said indifferently, "Next." ”

Just as the sailors hung the four iron cables on the second speedboat, the lookout post on the mast shouted: "Spanish cruisers! ”

"Damn, stop the dinghy and signal to Nelson that they have a Spaniard coming." Now the location of the "Mississippi Slut" is still outside the territorial waters of Cuba, and it enjoys the right of free navigation, and in the current situation, the Spaniards should not dare to do anything directly on the high seas against American ships. So, Addock had nothing to worry about, except for the dinghy that had been released. However, with the speed of that dinghy, it should not be too much of a problem to get rid of the Spanish cruiser.

The sailors fired a shot into the sky and at the same time waved flags at the dinghy, informing them of the approaching Spanish ship.

"Nelson, look! There is an alarm! Odom, who was in the dinghy with Nelson, shouted.

In fact, there is no need for Odom to shout, Nelson also found out.

"It doesn't matter, the Spaniards can't catch up with us, as long as we enter the port of the autonomous region, they won't dare to chase after us." Nelson wasn't too concerned about the arrival of the Spaniard. He also comforted Odom, who was running this kind of mission for the first time.

In order to facilitate communication, the sailors on the big ship just fired with old-fashioned fire. Medicine. Guns, this kind of guns are now used to fight wars, which is long outdated, but when used to send signals, it couldn't be better. It has a lot of charges, a loud gunshot, and a large puff of smoke from the muzzle. You can see it from afar.

The people in the dinghy could see it, and the people on the Spanish cruiser could see it naturally.

"Captain, there's a smuggling mother ship over there, and you may have just lowered the dinghy." The lookout post reported to the ship's commander, Major Torke.

"Good, see the dinghy?" Captain Traucer shouted to the lookout on the mast.

"Not yet...... Ah, see, over there, not far from that big ship. The lookout's eyes left the telescope and he shouted loudly.

"Slow down, get ready to release the speedboat!" Major Traucer shouted.

Although the Yankees' speedboats had gone a long way, Major Teucer was confident that his speedboat would catch up with the guys over there, because his speedboat was lighter and faster.

The cruiser gradually stopped, and the speedboat was slowly lowered from the side of the ship. The Spaniards lowered their speedboats a little faster than smuggling boats, as they did not need to load them.

Several Spanish sailors with rifles got into the speedboat, started the engine, and then the speedboat split the waves and chased in the direction of the smuggling boat.

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"Captain, Captain! The Spaniards put down the speedboat! The lookout aboard the "Mississippi Slut" shouted.

"What? Damn it! Hell alive it! When did those Spanish stinky fish have this too! Hell alive it! Signal now! Let Nils throw away the goods! What a hell of a life! Captain Haddock yelled as he slammed the freshly drunk tin flask on the deck.

A sailor hurriedly loaded his old rifle with gunpowder and fired another shot into the air.

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"Nils, there's another signal over there." Odom, who had been looking around nervously, shouted.

"Hell! What's wrong? Nelson also felt that something might be wrong, and he grabbed a telescope and looked in the direction of the Mississippi Slut.

"Enemy speedboats approaching?" Nelson read the meaning of the flag language.

"Hell! Throw all the boxes down! Nelson shouted, pulling out his dagger and cutting the ropes tied to the boxes. Then with a sharp push, a box fell into the sea, splashing Nelson's clothes wet. The other sailors also got busy, constantly pushing the boxes into the sea, while the sailors at the helm began to increase their horsepower and speed.

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"Nelson, look!" Nelson had just dropped the last of the boxes into the sea when Odom screamed again.

Nelson looked in the direction Odom had pointed out: a speedboat dragging long waves of snow as they approached.

"That's fast!" Nelson said, and then shouted, "Speed up! Hurry up! ”

The distance between the two boats was still close, because even without loads, the Spaniard's speedboat itself was lighter, and with an extra engine, it was significantly faster than Nelson's. Fortunately, the Spaniards' boats were too fast, which also made them inflexible when turning, and every time they got close enough, Nelson always managed to make a quick transfer to pounce on them.

"Shoot, do warning shots, tell them, don't stop the boat, we'll fire!" Said Ensign Dui on a Spanish speedboat.

So one of the soldiers raised his gun and fired a shot into the sky.

"What should I do?" Odom asked in a panic.

"Leave him alone!" Nelson spat hard.

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After several laps in a row, Second Lieutenant Doe still couldn't get a chance to catch the speedboat. The driver of that speedboat was very cunning, and he always managed to open up the distance with a nice sharp turn when it mattered.

"Fire at them!" Second Lieutenant Doe said that his speedboat was indeed faster, but it also consumed more fuel, and that the full operation of the two engines was extraordinarily fuel-guzzling, and that their boat was small and had less fuel, and that the amount of fuel was now somewhat insufficient.

Several Spaniards began to shoot at the Americans. It's just that on the sea, the boats on both sides are running fast, and at the same time, they are also jolting so badly that it is almost impossible to take effective aim when shooting from such a ship, which is why Nelson dared to ignore the warning shots of the Spaniards just now. Sure enough, although the Spaniards fired a lot of shots, where their bullets flew, it really only Poseidon knows.

"Get as close as you can and shoot a salvo!" Second Lieutenant Dui also knew that firing like this was of limited significance, so he said to the sailor at the helm.

"Okay, I'll try." The sailor replied.

However, it was at this time that Nelson's auspicious character finally broke out, and one of the Spaniard's engines suddenly smoked and then stopped.

"Damn it!" Second Lieutenant Dui yelled.

"Second Lieutenant, I'm going to lower my output, or I'm afraid the other one will be enough." The sailor said.

"These damn bastards!" Second Lieutenant Doy scolded. However, he was not scolding the Yankees, but the Spaniards, because, he heard that these two engines originally had a set of water cooling system for brass fan hot plates, but damn it, a few days ago, those two sets of brass fan hot plates were missing, and they must have been stolen by that bastard to change the drink. As a result, they can only make an emergency by themselves, and the one they made is obviously not very effective, and now they can only watch the Americans run away.

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Duck Castle, Scrooge's office.

Scrooge was frowning at this piece of information.

"Morgan, what is this for? He has sold so many things for a while, and he has a large amount of money in his hands, what does he want to do? Now he has tens of millions of funds in his hands that can be moved at any time, right? He must have seen a big goal, but what was it? ”

After thinking about it for a long time, he still didn't have a clue, so Scrooge simply stopped thinking about it, maybe there was an opportunity to make money, but he didn't find it. But even if I had such an opportunity, I probably wouldn't be able to keep myself busy now. Okay, what's all this for? So he put the information aside and began to look at the next report.

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"The MacDonald consortium has one of its greatest weaknesses, and that is that it holds an irreplaceable core. That's Scrooge MacDonald. He was the strongest and weakest of the consortium, and if something went wrong with him, I was sure that no one in his family would be able to sustain this rapidly expanding consortium. His allies will take the opportunity to fight back in order to reap greater benefits. And his brother would not be able to sustain the whole consortium, and the consortium would collapse to the ground, and its corpse would fatten a large herd of hyenas and vultures. "In a hut, one man was saying this to the others.