Chapter I. Confrontation at sea (Part I)

In the waters of Flo, a small fleet of three ships is sailing the endless sea. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Of the three, the one in the middle was the largest and the slowest to sail, with a red hull and three decks, which were loaded with a large amount of cargo destined for other places.

Next to this cargo ship, there are two frigates that are obviously smaller, but compared to the cargo ship, these two frigates are obviously faster.

On either side of these two ships, there are four guns on each side, but judging by their caliber, they should only be the smallest caliber 8-pounder cannons, and on the two frigates, there are still a dozen strong men with rifles patrolling at all times, in case anything unexpected happens.

With such two fully armed frigates, even if they encounter pirates, as long as they are not the kind of pirate groups that are really large-scale, there is absolutely no problem in dealing with those pirates who are scattered and unorganized.

In this era, due to the underdevelopment of road transportation, it took too long and too much money to transport goods from one place to another, and the merchants who transported the goods even had to pay with their lives.

However, after entering the Age of Discovery, the circulation of goods in various places has become much smoother, with the development of navigation technology, shipbuilding technology is becoming more and more sophisticated, and the possibility of people encountering shipwrecks at sea is getting smaller and smaller.

After the first batch of merchants who transported goods by sea collided, countless merchants went crazy, and then all began to join the road of sea cargo transportation one after another.

However, with the emergence of more and more trading ships, another industry has also flourished, and that is piracy.

Pirates existed before the Age of Discovery, but at that time the number of pirates was extremely scarce, and most of their daily lives were the same as those of fishermen.

With the development of navigation technology, the Age of Discovery has come, and merchant ships with dreams of wealth have embarked on endless journeys, and for this reason, more and more people choose to become a member of the pirates.

In this way, the advent of the Age of Discovery promoted the trade exchanges and economic development of the entire Western world, but also opened a new era for pirates, a ...... The era of the heroes.

And countless people who are either for wealth, or for power, or forced to become pirates, after going through repeated bloody battles and competitions, four pirates at the top of the pirate class pyramid are finally born.

The growth experience of every pirate is enough to be called a dream, they are either born noble, or poor, but they have experienced countless tests of blood and anger, and then little by little they have grown to the point where they are today, even if they are as strong as the existence of the four empires, they are not willing to easily provoke these four pirates, on the contrary, they have to give a certain amount of "money" every year.

Kassel was one such merchant who was constantly on the move to realize his dream of wealth, and he was constantly traveling from port to port, and he had already made a lot of money by selling the difference in the price of goods from all over the world.

Thinking about the money he could make after the sale of this shipment, Caselle was also thrilled, but at the same time, he was also determined that this sea voyage would be the last sea trip of his life, and he would never go on such a thrilling adventure again.

He made enough money to spend the rest of his life to his heart's content, beautiful women, a luxurious life, these were not a problem for him at all.

The benefits of maritime trade are unimaginable, but with such high profits comes a staggering risk.

Even though navigation technology has developed and shipbuilding technology has been greatly improved, in the midst of the endless ocean, encountering such harsh conditions as storms, I am afraid that the fate of the ship can only be decided by heaven.

In addition to natural disasters such as storms, the greatest danger to maritime trade is the near-ubiquity of pirates.

Kassel had encountered several groups of pirates before and knew the horrors of this group, in fact, those pirates had many similarities with them as merchants, but the most common thing was that they were enough to abandon everything, even ...... Life.

Even though it is at sea, with enough wealth, Kassel can still live an almost fantastic life.

After a few sprints of his body on the delicate beauty beneath him, and then a low hiss like a beast came from Kassel's mouth, he slowly got up from the soft bed with some tiredness, and then completely ignored the pleading of the beauty beside him, wiped his body briefly, and walked straight to the deck.

If it is usual, with Kassel's character, it is necessary to have a good entanglement with the beauty on the soft bed, although the body is old, but with the assistance of some special drugs, he may not be able to regain his strength.

But today, Cassel always feels as if he is being pressed by a boulder in his heart, and the whole person always feels extremely depressed, as if something bad is about to happen.

Somewhat bored to get rid of the entanglement of the beauty on the bed, Cassel's body went directly to the deck.

The July sun was particularly scorching, the scorching sun kept roasting on the crew's body, and after a while, they were already sweating profusely, and found that the boss was not there, and the crew members relaxed one by one, and then glanced at each other, and then left their work units one after another, hiding in a place where the sun could not shine and began to cool off.

But at this moment, a crew member glanced at it, as if he had found something, and then hurried back to the same place, seeing the movements of this crew member, the rest of the crew members did not need to look back, they had already guessed what was happening, and in the blink of an eye, the scene on the deck was restored.

Cassel didn't have much of the heart to care about these crew members at this time, and it was up to them to go at the moment, but he repeatedly confirmed with the captains of the other two frigates that there were any accidents during this time, and after receiving the affirmative answers from the two captains, he was slightly relieved.

What Kassel didn't know was that behind their three ships, five ships of different sizes, shapes, and styles were following them unhurriedly, like cheetahs chasing their prey, and if they found a good opportunity, they would immediately pounce on them, and then ...... Kill the enemy in one hit! (To be continued.) )