In 1503 A.D., the Spaniard Juan . In Bermuda, a small fishhook-shaped island with an area of just over 50 square kilometers has been discovered in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean about 1,100 nautical miles northeast of Florida off the east coast of North America.

It is not on the route between Europe and the Caribbean, and the best route from the Caribbean to North America has nothing to do with it, and Bermuda has been lonely and remote for a long time.

It wasn't until the middle of the 20th century that a freelance writer began his imaginative work, picking and choosing from a series of sailors' tales and seafaring stories from Columbian times, and the island has since stolen people's attention and become one of the most mysterious lands in modern human history.

Even though modern scholars have proven more than once that most of the "Bermuda Triangle" events are false, people still believe that this island at the very top of the mysterious triangle is not ordinary.

In any case, Bermuda has turned from hundreds of years of silence and has not only become a scenic tourist destination, but also a financial powerhouse and tax haven since economic globalization.

At dusk on May 16, 1622, northwest of the Bermuda Islands, a formation of two light cruisers and three flying clippers appeared on the sunset sea.

"Communicate to the headquarters that our formation has reached the waters of Bermuda, and the weather is good, so we can complete the landing operation before nightfall."

Captain Sun Yang, the commander-in-chief of the formation and the acting captain of the Liberty, put down the binoculars and gave instructions to the first mate Zhou Kemin.

In order to ensure that there are no surprises in the occupation of Bermuda. Not only did they use two light cruisers in a big way, but they even installed the precious shortwave radio on the Liberty, which served as the temporary flagship.

Soon, Wang Tiehammer's reply arrived, agreeing to the start of the operation, and the commodore did not intend to let the entire formation spend the night at sea.

An hour later, the formation sailed from the west of Bermuda into Gretel Bay, landing on the coast of what would become Hamilton, at the easternmost end of the bay. Previously after the preliminary reconnaissance of the Drava light cruiser. The little settlements of England and the rotten docks are right there.

At least for now, the English immigrants in Bermuda are still "private acts". Virginia was devastated by the Bohatan Indian War, New England had not yet appeared, and it was decades before the King of England integrated the entire North American colony. No one cares for such an island to fall into anyone's pocket.

As soon as the formation turned around the small island of Salters in Gretel Bay, the lookout sounded the alarm: near the small harbor dock at the landing site, two sailboats were moored, less than 3000 yards from the formation!

At dusk, the two sailboats are clearly visible through telescopes, the larger one is estimated to be about 500 tons, and the smaller one is about 300 tons. The big one was empty and lifeless, and the small one had a black flag on it!

Alarm bells are ringing. The first level of battle alert caught many of the officers and men of the Navy who thought that the operation was a trip at all, and they ran out of the deck cover in a wolf and rushed to their respective combat posts.

The terrible performance of coping with the state of emergency, the military elements of the rabble seemed to be exposed again, and the officers of the two light cruisers sighed secretly.

But. It seemed that the opponent was also taken aback, and from a distance, the ship's mast began to climb up the sailors, as if they were about to unsail out of the port, while the dozens of people on the shore were divided into two groups, and some of them ran desperately towards a wooden village far away on the land. Another wave jumped into the dinghy and rowed towards the black-flagged sailboat.

"Not the English, it's the pirates! Signal the merchant ships to the south and don't block the view! Give the Vostok a flag, prepare for the shelling, and today it's going to be meat again, haha! ”…,

Sun Yang's adrenaline has increased again, since he fought a pirate in European waters, he has been secretly dissatisfied with Bai Jun's results at that time, and now he is really sleepy and comes to send pillows.

Penetrating deep into Gretel Bay, it was no longer enough to provide a spacious space for wandering and engagement, so the two light cruisers simply lowered their sails and slowed down, blocking the opponent's exit channel from the port on one left and one right, and then slowly adjusted their direction and aimed the two naval guns in the bow at the pirate ship that had been slowly moving at the narrow end of the bay.

Probably already knowing that it was in a desperate situation, the pirate ship at this time actually headed for two strange white warships more than a thousand yards away against the wind.

Orange-red muzzle flames tore through the fading dusk, and a deafening roar echoed in the bay. The rapid fire of the two light cruisers began from a distance of 900 yards.

Shells smashed columns of water around the pirate ship, and the pirates, who knew they had no way out, did not retreat, and the deck was full of hysterical screams.

The distance between the two sides is still close, but Sun Yang knows that as the distance closes, the Grim Reaper is getting closer and closer to the opponent. Three minutes after the shelling, after an average of 10 shells per gun, at a distance of 600 yards, a shell fired from the Vostok finally exploded in the bow of the corsair.

The surging heat set off by the explosion of high-explosive shells instantly tore the ship's bow mast sails, blasting the bow deck into a burning bloody mouth, and large pieces of wooden fragments flew all over the sky.

Immediately after, the bow gun of the USS Liberty also hit a shot in a direct manner, and this time the explosion was even more violent, and almost half of the bow of the ship was destroyed in the heat storm.

The pirate ship began to lean forward, and dozens of pirates were in a mess, finally collapsing in a situation where they could only be beaten and unable to fight back. There were people who kept jumping into the sea with wooden barrels, and some people even tried to lower the dinghy to escape.

"Pirates don't dare to use it, we don't need prisoners, keep shelling!" Looking at Kemin next week, from the other party's eyes, Sun Yang read some hesitation, but he resolutely denied the plan to capture the pirates.

Another cannonball hit the pirate ship, which had its deck cocked high, penetrating the upper deck and going straight into the hull.

As with the Black Bat before it, the explosion inside inevitably ignited some of the gunpowder pokes stacked on the lower gun deck. The swollen flames disemboweled the unfortunate man, dismembering the entire pirate ship from the inside out like a long-suppressed burning hurricane.

It seems that the pirate ship was also loaded with a considerable amount of fire oil. For a while, the sea surface was centered on the hull garbage that could no longer be seen, and a fire broke out on the sea surface within a radius of hundreds of meters, and dozens of pirates who had dived into the water let out a terrifying and tragic cry in the sea of fire.

The shelling stopped, and in addition to the officers and men on the two battleships, the officers and men of the army on the three flying shear merchant ships all looked at the scene in front of them silently, shocked by the hell on earth that their naval artillery fire had created in a few minutes.

"God! I think even the navy of the Kingdom of Spain. Nor will it survive such a cannon! ”

On the Hussar, Private Makarov opened his already large mouth and stared blankly at the sea of fire in the distance. It seems inconceivable that the pirate ship, which had been intact just a few minutes ago, had been reduced to ashes so quickly.

"If you think that the landing after that will be easy, you are wrong, there is only one pirate still on land. It could kill one of you, who is not a simple barbarian. ”

Sergeant Scott said coldly with a distant fire in his eyes.

"That's it! One last time to check the gear, it may be our turn soon! Sergeant Scott, tell the soldiers to unload the extra heavy loads so as not to hinder the landing! ”

The voice of Lieutenant Deng Jian sounded behind the soldiers, and Sergeant Scott turned back and saluted, and before he could respond, a solid cannonball from the land deep in the harbor smashed a towering column of water on the side of the Hussar, and the point of entry of the cannonball was almost two meters away from the hull. …,

"I bet. That's a 24-pounder gun! Makarov was right on the side of the ship, and the falling column of water immediately drenched the tall soldier's whole body!

The shells were fired from a rudimentary civil fort deep on land, at least 1,000 yards away from the formation.

At this time, Sun Yang on the Liberty was also panicked, because judging from the experience of using the inner bay fortress on the mainland, the 24-pounder gun fired on land far exceeded the naval gun. And even a solid cannonball, with a single hit, would cause unimaginable damage to any wooden sailing ship, especially now that the opponent was clearly fighting against a much larger merchant ship.

"! Concentrate your firepower and blow up that garbage wooden fort! ”

The two sail battleships began to fight horizontally, and eight naval guns raised their muzzles. In a dim field of vision. The first test-fired shell exploded a hundred meters from the inland fortress.

The angle was adjusted, and another shot, this time less than ten meters from the fortress exploded. A minute later, a spectacular salvo of naval guns was repeated, this time twice as many guns as they had previously been used against the pirate ships, and with a total of more than 30 shells per minute, they smashed into the land fortress that was almost hidden in the darkness.

The undulating explosions, flames, roaring thunder, and all kinds of smoke and debris flying into the sky. A small, rudimentary 17th-century fort was drowned in a bright red storm.

The shelling lasted only two minutes, and when the last mass exploded, the fortress was gone as far as the eye could see, leaving only a burning bag of rubble.

The light cavalry flying shear merchant ship slowly approached the wharf, several small wooden boats were lowered from the side of the ship, and a platoon of army officers and men set out as the first wave of landing troops, and then, after rowing 200 meters, they jumped off the wooden boats one after another at a distance of several tens of meters from the harbor coast, and launched a beach-rushing landing.

"Pay attention to your body balance and raise your rifle! Makarov, no swimming! ”

"After going ashore, follow the training, work in groups of three, and disperse on the spot!"

The infantry platoon led by Sergeant Scott soon landed on land, and it was already dark, and only the ruins of the rotten wooden fortress more than two hundred meters away were still burning.

The infantry slowly approached the former civil fort in a large fan shape, which had been blasted into a huge fire, and in the light of the fire, a cloud of charred and rubble and scattered fragments of corpses that had been burned all around it, and a strange smell of charcoal and burnt incense filled the air.

A Delaware Indian soldier had a sore throat, and a stream of gastric juice mixed with dinner spit out, as if infected, and more soldiers began to vomit, and even Scott himself felt a little stuffy in his chest.

There was only one person on the scene who was normal, just running from side to side between the ruins and fires, as if trying to find some survivors.

"God, what did the Navy do? I can't count how many people were killed, maybe a hundred? Maybe ten? Are these arms one or two? ”

Private Makarov, a thick-nerved private, shrugged his shoulders as if he were accustomed to life and death. On a pile of ruins more than ten meters away from him, there was a mutilated bronze cannon that had been separated from the gun carriage.

"Intelligence says that there are English civilians in the villages of the island, if not pirates...... That should be locked up somewhere, too! In groups of three, separate searches, the remnants of militants were found, and they were shot on the spot! ”

Scott didn't dare to imagine that there would be civilians on such a small island where a group of pirates would be spared, but the thought that the civilians here were former English villagers couldn't help but feel a little lucky.

More officers and soldiers landed on land, a national flag was planted by several European soldiers on the dockside, and dozens of torches were lit. Under the command of the non-commissioned officers, the officers and men, in squads, began to occupy favorable terrain around them, took out sapper shovels, and built temporary fortifications. …,

There was nothing to be seen in the telescope except for the torches and the national flag shining in the firelight, and Sun Yang smiled with satisfaction at this time.

"Zhou Kemin, Bermuda Island is ours. Oh, and from now on, this should be called 'Double Bay City'. ”

Twin Bay, referring specifically to the later generations of Gretel Bay and Harrington Bay, are two natural harbors that are sandwiched between this small fishhook-like island in the Atlantic Ocean.

The original small wharf was dilapidated, and it was impossible to dock the flying scissors merchant ships to unload their cargo, and two light cruisers were outside, covering three flying scissor merchant ships, and before the expansion of the wharf was completed, the entire formation could only drop anchor on the spot and use small boats to transport supplies ashore.

"Hey, Captain, that nobody's ship is a Spanish cargo ship! It must have been captured by pirates and brought here not long ago, and the Vostok found ...... on it."

A Chinese non-commissioned officer walked from the side awkwardly, unable to hide the joy on his face.

"A cargo ship captured by pirates?" Zhou Kemin was stunned for a few seconds, and quickly reacted, "There is loot?" ”

"Damn! Needless to say, it must have been obtained from the Spaniards, the nouveau riche in the south, and immediately asked Wang Zhihua to send someone to board the ship to protect it! Wait, let's go too! Sun Yang also reacted, almost roaring.

An hour later, Sun Yang, Wang Zhihua, and Zhou Kemin were dumbfounded by something that a group of sailors had lifted from the hold of a Spanish merchant ship.

Two boxes of gold ingots, twenty boxes of silver ingots, three boxes totaling hundreds of kilograms of gold or silver jewelry with a strong South American Indian culture style, in addition, there is a box of various gemstones, weighing more than 100 kilograms.

Roughly calculated, there are nearly 2,000 kilograms of gold and more than 30 tons of silver, and aside from the inestimable gold and silver Indian jewelry and hundreds of kilograms of precious stones, the gold and silver ingots that are neatly smelted and stacked are worth at least $2.2 million!

"Developed...... This time it was developed...... One cannon and one shot, ten thousand taels of gold ......"

Touching the bright gems in the box, Navy Captain Wang Zhihua's mouth was trembling.

Just when Sun Yang and the others were about to be confused by the belongings in front of them, in the dark night, several gunshots rang out from the far inland direction. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )