Time is capricious, flying with wings flapped.

- Horace (founder and founder of Roman classicism)

When the four trirees under Anne's command blew the horn for help, Shi Xiu reacted; The direction in which Blackbeard fled just now was the direction where Oscar's main fleet was located! It's bad now, the fleet led by Anne this time is said to be the main fleet, but in fact it is a pure transport fleet at all; Apart from the symbolic four triremes, there was not a single battleship at all!

With only four triremes, it is impossible to protect ten transports while blocking the five-riremit Queen! In addition, the triremit of Anne, which Oscar personally sits, is absolutely impossible to participate in the battle, and the battleships that can deal with the Vengeful Queen in the end are only three triremes; This is not a symmetrical comparison of strength!

Therefore, after hearing the cry for help from Anne's fleet, Shi Xiu immediately ordered the other three triremes and four twinships under his command to immediately abandon the siege of the pirate warships and return to rescue the main fleet with all their might! The three battleships that had already been attacked by Shixiu's fleet finally escaped the attack of Shixiu's fleet after the fire raged; Unfortunately, at this time, they were all unable to escape.

When the Shixiu fleet hurriedly returned to the main fleet, Blackbeard's Queen of Vengeance was not seen; After contacting the Anne with the flag, Shi Xiu understood everything. At this point, it is impossible to pursue Blackbeard again; On the one hand, Blackbeard's Queen of Vengeance had sailed far enough, and on the other hand, Shi Xiu no longer dared to leave the main fleet easily.

Although the possibility of the appearance of more enemy ships is not very large, such a risk is still not worth taking; Could there be anything more important than the safety of the leader of House Augustus? The previous naval battle was almost underway at this time. Shi Xiu took seven battleships near him to escort the main fleet. Together, they slowly sailed to the battlefield of naval warfare not far away.

Until Oscar was able to stand on the deck and see the surface of the warring sea. All the engagements are over; Calico Jack's flagship, the Calico and two other twin battleships, had already sunk into the sea with a raging fire, and only a few pirates who were lucky enough to survive were struggling with the planks.

As for the flank battle, it was completed more cleanly, and the seven twin battleships of the pirate fleet were besieged by six triremes and six twin battleships of the Shixiu fleet; After just a few rounds of arrows, four of the seven pirate warships suffered nearly half of the pirate casualties. There are two reasons why we have been able to achieve such great results.

First, the weapons and equipment of the warriors on the battleships of the Augustus family exceeded the expectations of the pirates, and it was inevitable that there would be heavy casualties when caught off guard; The second reason is that the pirates on these pirate warships are just ordinary pirates. They don't have the relatively sophisticated weaponry of the pirates on the Vengeful Queen and the Calico.

After that, the hand-to-hand combat was even easier, and after two pirate warships in a row were forcibly captured by the warships of the Augustan family, the remaining pirate warships directly planned to escape; It was at this time that Shi Xiu began to use rockets to attack the Calico Cloth. These twelve battleships also attacked with rockets according to the gourd drawing, and none of the five battleships escaped the fire attack, and all of them burned.

When Oscar and the main fleet came to the surface of the battle, in addition to the three pirate warships that had sunk, there were five pirate warships burning with flames; Then there were the two twin battleships that were captured, as well as the quiet Kidd and Roberts fleets.

As soon as the main fleet appeared, the twelve battleships naturally regrouped into the fleet formation with two captured warships; Looking at the Kidd fleet and Roberts fleet, which were still anchored not far away and did not move, Oscar directly ordered Shi Xiu to send a double battleship to persuade him to surrender. And gave them favorable terms of surrender.

To be honest, Oscar's image of Kidd and Roberts is quite good; After all, they are in the two. The former were the most famous pirates, and the latter were also pirate princes known for their generosity, and Oscar was willing to accept them into the Augustus navy.

This is not to say that Oscar himself had a crush on these well-known pirates and was willing to include them in the naval system of the House of Augustus; It's just that the navy of the Augustus family is too short of talent. Among the only three naval fleet commanders, Gatsea is just an ordinary admiral, Shi Xiu and Anne are even pirates, and the family is really desperately lacking admirals!

Soon, Kidd and Roberts declared their willingness to surrender to the naval fleet of the House of Augustus; However, they also raised the question of why Shi Xiu offered them such favorable conditions. Regardless of the past, they will be appointed as admirals of the Augustus family's navy and command more warships; This is not something that a small naval fleet commander can decide.

This reply made Oscar smile, and it seemed that this Kidd and Roberts were not inactive; These two pirates who can sit on one of the top ten pirates are not trivial. After Oscar revealed his identity, Kidd and Roberts surrendered outright; And very barely, they handed over their two flagships and four double-column battleships.

This was beyond Oscar's expectations, no matter how good their reputation was, these two people would never be willing to surrender when they were forced to surrender; Oscar originally thought that it would take a while to cultivate their loyalty, but he didn't expect these two people to do it so thoroughly, surrender directly, and sacrifice all their warships!

It wasn't until Kidd and Roberts boarded the Anne in a boat, and the pirates on the other six ships boarded the transport, that Oscar understood why Kidd and Roberts didn't take the opportunity to escape just now, but stayed anchored in the distance; Even after Oscar sent people to persuade them to surrender, they surrendered very shamelessly.

It turned out that the fleets of Kidd and Roberts, although it seemed that not a single battleship had been lost, in fact there was not much combat power left; The average double battleship had a hundred men and a hundred sailors if it was fully manned, but the four twin ships that Kidd and Roberts surrendered had less than two hundred men.

As for Kidd's flagship, the Quiduff Merchant, and Roberts's flagship, the Royal Happiness, it was even more miserable, under the watchful eye of Edward Blackbeard and Calico Jack; The two triremes, which were originally full of one hundred and fifty warriors and two hundred sailors, were able to leave the battleship alive, and the pirates who were able to leave the battleship alive added up to only ninety-three!

No wonder Kidd and Roberts surrendered so decisively, if they didn't; With all the sailors and warriors they had now, they could only muster all their men together and barely drive away two triremes. As for the remaining four double-column battleships, they can only be directly abandoned; Either let it drift with the flow, or take the initiative to sink, there is no other way.

However, even if you take away two three-column battleships and escape, it is better than staying as a prisoner; Before the Oscars did not offer conditions, who of them knew what kind of enemies they would encounter? What if the commander of the fleet of the House of Augustus directly ordered an attack on them, wouldn't it be in vain to give up the chance to survive?

Blackbeard's choice is very representative, after he knows that he will not be forgiven by the Augustan family; was very resolute and chose to abandon his comrades and flee from the battle. Kidd and Roberts are in a much better situation than Blackbeard, so why do they choose to stay and eventually surrender to the House of Augustus?

Oscar thus stood on the deck of the Annie with a full stomach of questions, ready to meet the approaching Kidd and Roberts; The dusty and tall and handsome Kidd and the blood-stained and meticulous Roberts soon arrived on the deck of the Annie, and Oscar's biggest feeling when he saw them was that these two legendary pirates were too young and handsome!

And Kidd and Roberts also recognized Oscar's identity at a glance, after all, they are also familiar with Anne, who is also one of the top ten pirates, and Mary, Anne's best friend and thinker; When they found Anne and Mary standing behind the extraordinary and smiling aristocrat in front of them, they naturally understood Oscar's identity.

What's even more coincidental is that Kidd and Roberts' biggest feeling for Oscar is that this legendary leader of the Augustan family is too young, too young! As for handsomeness, the nobles of Rome have always been known for their good looks; It was only natural that the young Roman nobles were handsome.

Oscar found that the two young legendary pirates were a little stunned when they looked at him, so he took the lead in stepping forward with a smile on his face, grabbed Kidd and Roberts by the arms at the same time, and said, "Welcome the two legendary nobles of the sea to join our big family of Augustus; Anne and Mary, as well as Shi Xiu, who is not on the ship, are also old acquaintances of yours, so don't be restrained! ”

Oscar's initiative and enthusiasm greatly infected Kidd and Roberts, who were originally slightly cramped and uneasy, and Roberts said to Oscar with gratitude: "Thank you Your Excellency Oscar for rescuing us!" If it weren't for His Excellency Oscar's timely dispatch of a fleet to defeat Blackbeard and Calico's combined fleet, I'm afraid Kidd and I would have sunk in the sea today! ”

Roberts' words of thanks also woke up Kidd, but Kidd may not be good at expressing himself; Therefore, he wanted to be grateful to Oscar but didn't know how to express it, so he just said in a very stiff tone: "Kidd is also very grateful to His Excellency Oscar for saving his life; From now on, as long as His Excellency Oscar has a life, Kidd will definitely go to the soup and go to the fire! ”

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