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- Plato (one of the three great philosophers of ancient Greece)

Just as Oscar's expeditionary fleet was sailing from Sardinia to Sicily, less than two hours from Oscar's fleet; The last ten powerful pirates of the remnants of the Sicilian pirates are leading all the warships under their command to gather for secret talks.

Ten people gather on the ship "Morgan", the largest pirate leader, Captain Morgan, to find a way out together; Recently, with another tense confrontation between the Roman Republic and Carthage, the entire Western Mediterranean no longer has the same prosperous maritime trading fleet as it once was. This once again threatens to destroy the Sicilian pirate forces, which have lost their bases in Sicily; Therefore, these ten people, who were also from the Sicilian pirates, got together and began to find a way out for themselves and others.

The ten powerful pirates who participated in the secret talk were: Captain Morgan, Captain Kidd, the Blackbeard Pirate, the pirate Anne Bowley, the pirate prince Black Sam, Barthalomew Roberts, Cotton Jack, the Redbeard Brothers, Francis Drake, and the Oriental pirate Zheng Shishi. Together, these ten pirates are the Sicilian pirates who terrified the merchant ships of the Mediterranean!

Among them, Captain Morgan was once synonymous with a pirate leader. Henry Morgan was born on a large family estate in Sardinia. When the Carthaginian navy seized Sardinia in the Mediterranean from the city-state of Calarys, Henri Morgan was a soldier of the Sardinian army, and he became acquainted with thieves, swindlers, fugitives, and murderers on the island. These people are entangled in many gangs of pirates. To fight the Carthaginians, the Sicilian pirates needed them.

Morgan initially led armed civilian ships through the Sicilian Sea and later became a true pirate. He is best known for the looting and destruction of the Spanish city of Oscar (this Oscar is the name of the city). The city of Oscar was large and heavily defended, and many experienced pirates thought it was impossible to break it. Using a canoe, Morgan sneaked into the harbor at night and broke through the first two lines of defense, which were then blocked by a third strong line of defense.

He came up with the sinister idea of using the captured women and children as a shield for the army, taking advantage of the panic of the enemy whose own family had been captured. Henry Morgan became famous and was called the "Terrible Man"! Moreover, Captain Morgan was also the most powerful pirate of the Sicilian pirate forces; He has a total of 8 double-column battleships, and his ship "Morgan" is a powerful five-column battleship!

Captain Kidd's fleet is the second most powerful force, but is it an armed civilian ship or a pirate ship? There has been no definitive verdict on the evaluation of Captain William Kidd. Kidd was initially the captain of an armed civilian ship hired by Carthage, and during the Second Punic War, Kidd was ordered to capture an enemy privateer; He later obtained a permit from the Governor of Lower Sicilia to carry out armed privateering in the Mediterranean.

But unfortunately, Kidd did not find pirates in the Indian Ocean for a long time. According to Soraka, a Carthaginian captain claimed that the embarrassed Kidd attacked a Spanish emissary ship under Carthaginian protection. Soon, Kidd was declared a pirate; Carthage offered a large bounty in pursuit of Kidd. When Kidd returned to Carthage, he learned that he had been added to the list of pirates; So he immediately fled from the port of Carthage with his fleet.

In the end, in desperation, he led his fleet to join the Sicilian pirates; Even after joining the pirates, he did not plunder merchant ships, and generally only provided escorts for merchant ships in exchange for food, fresh water, and gold. So, Kidd's reputation is the best of all pirates. At present, Captain Kidd has a total of 6 double-lined battleships, and the "Quadaf Merchant" is a three-lane battleship.

In third place is the Blackbeard Pirate, whose original name is Edward Titch; The famous nickname "Blackbeard" comes from his long black beard that is messy and wild. During the First Punic War, Titch began sailing in armed civilian ships to raid merchant ships, and since then he has become the most notorious pirate in the Mediterranean.

Blackbeard's favorite way to torture and kill captives - why do you say that? It turned out that Blackbeard would order the passengers to be tied with their hands and blindfolded each time they robbed a ship, and forced them to jump into the sea one by one on the side of the ship with a sharp sword, until all the passengers on the ship died. Once, when a captured captain resisted Blackbeard slightly, he cut off the captain's nose and ears, forcing him to eat the bloody ears and nose on the spot.

The most cruel thing is that Blackbeard not only kills innocents indiscriminately, but also does not let go of his subordinates who follow him for their lives. It is said that whenever he looted a treasure and needed to be buried, he took a sailor with him, however, when he was halfway buried, he often killed the sailor by striking from behind, burying his body along with the treasure.

Of course, if it were just cruelty, Blackbeard would never have survived to this day. The pirates of that time always tried to avoid the Carthaginian navy by all means. Even if they met on a narrow road, they tried to avoid fighting, and they would not engage the Carthaginian navy unless they were in a desperate situation. But Blackbeard doesn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, he is a natural outlaw, and in the eyes of others, it seems to be a catastrophe that the sky has fallen, but in his eyes it happens to be the most exciting challenge. So as soon as he went to sea, he went straight to the Carthaginian coastal defense on the coast of North Africa, and in the port of the military port, he brazenly robbed the Carthaginian merchant ship "Sardinia".

The Carthaginian naval warship that was anchored in the harbor at that time was surprised when it turned out to be a Sicilian pirate attacking the Carthaginian warship under the blue sky and daylight, and quickly left the port to intercept it. The Carthaginian battleship attacked first, and Blackbeard avoided the enemy's crossbow arrows on the "Vengeful Queen" ship, and saw the opportunity to go full speed ahead and crash into the Carthaginian battleship. This suicidal outlaw approach simply frightened the Carthaginian navy, who had never seen such a fight before, and for a moment they were at a loss.

Blackbeard's pirates took the opportunity to shoot arrows at the deck with their guns raised, and the Carthaginian officers and men suffered heavy casualties and fled in terror. Blackbeard became famous all over the world, and ships all over the Mediterranean coast fled when they heard the name. Although he only had four double-lined warships, his ship, the Queen of Vengeance, was also a five-column battleship; Coupled with its cruel methods and strong combat effectiveness, it ranks third among the pirate forces.

In fourth place is the female pirate Anne Bowley, one of the most famous female pirates in the Mediterranean, who was the daughter of a plantation owner. Anne Bowley has red hair and is very beautiful, but she has a very violent personality. When Anne Bowley was 13 years old, she stabbed a servant in the stomach with a knife and stabbed many suitors around her with a sharp sword.

During the Second Punic War, she left her hometown to join the fleet of the pirate leader "Cotton Jack", and began her career as a pirate. Later, as it became increasingly contrary to Jack's claims, it became independent; After assembling her own pirate fleet, she quickly expanded in power and surpassed Jack. She now has five twin ships under her command, and her ship, the Anne, is a three-lane battleship.

In fifth place is the pirate prince Black Sam, the name "Black Sam" comes from Bellamy's long black hair, which he usually ties into a ponytail with a belt. The origin of the name "Pirate Prince" and "Robin Hood of the High Seas" is because Bellamy's style of behavior was different from that of other pirates at that time, he was very lenient and generous to his captives, and even gave his old ship to prisoners after capturing the ship, so that the captives could escape. His pirate corps also called themselves the "Righteous Thieves".

When Bellamy was 9 years old, his family moved to Lower Sicily, where he learned the skills of sailing, and when he arrived in Sardinia, Bellamy fell in love with a girl named Maria Hallett, but because he was only a poor sailor, the woman's parents did not approve of the couple. Later, a Spanish treasure ship was sunk by a hurricane off the coast of Sardinia, and Bellamy wanted to salvage the treasure to fulfill his wish to be with his lover, but he found nothing, so he decided to become a pirate in order not to return to his lover empty-handed.

He left Sardinia for the seaports of Sicily to begin his career as a pirate, where Bellamy joined Benjamin Hornigo's pirate regiment and replaced Honeygo as the new pirate leader through a pirate's democratic vote. During the Second Punic War, he successfully plundered the Carthaginian triremit Vida and used it as its flagship.

With the rearmament of the Vidah, the 28-year-old Bellamy spread his famous nickname of "Black Sam" throughout the Mediterranean pirate community through several daring sea hijackings, so he was also known as the "Pirate Prince". Become one of the most feared pirates in the Mediterranean. Now, he has four two-column battleships under his command, and the three-column battleship "Vida" is still the one.