"Oh! Is it? After a moment of silence, Nightfront asked his men to bring all the melee weapons they had captured and put them in front of the pirates who had just taken refuge. 35xs

"Pick your weapons according to your habits! I'm sure you won't be kidding with your lives! ”

After hearing this, all the pirates looked at each other, and after a while, they all stepped forward to choose suitable weapons, after all, for pirates with rich combat experience, they knew very well that in battle, only by relying on their own weapons can they have a greater chance of surviving the battle.

After all, if you're good at using a short sailor's sword, but you want to use a heavy hatchet instead, the consequence may be that you're already being killed by the enemy while you're still getting used to the weapon.

The first to go up and choose a weapon was none other than Sinet, nicknamed the sea ape, although among the many weapons captured, there was no elongated sailor knife like the one he customized, but at this time, he couldn't hope for anything.

Therefore, he had to settle for two relatively sharp sailor knives and reluctantly use them.

In a few moments, the pirates had divided up the melee weapons that had been placed on the ground.

At this moment, Nightfeng turned his head and glanced around at the pirates, and ordered, "Next, you will obey the orders of the boatswain, the Viking warrior Huska, if he rushes forward, but you are still cowering, then don't blame me for being unkind!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a tall figure stepped out from behind him, and this figure was Huska.

Looking at the two eye-catching heavy axes behind Huskar's back, the pirates with some insight couldn't help but whisper: "Isn't he the two-axe Huskar known as the Berserker?" ”

"yes, yes!"

"I didn't expect that even such a strong man was only the boatswain of this ship!"

As they spoke, the expressions of these rescued pirates couldn't help but become excited and excited. 35xs

Because for most pirates, the stronger the pirate group, the safer their lives are, after all, relying on its fame alone is enough to deter most of the enemies who come to attack.

And the most important thing is that the stronger the pirate group, the more wealth it will gain, just like a modern civil servant, who guarantees income in drought and flood, and basically does not have to worry about the risk of unemployment.

On the other hand, if the pirate group is not strong, then the captain of the pirate group today is Tom, and tomorrow it may become Jack.

Therefore, when these pirates found out that the Viking berserker with a certain reputation, the double-axe Huska, was actually just the boatswain of this pirate group, they instantly felt that the future began to brighten.

After all, even the Viking Berserker, the Twin Axe Huskar, only resides in the position of a boatswain, so you can imagine how strong the overall strength of this pirate group will be.

After all, in pirates, there is no such thing as irrelevancy, only if you really have the corresponding strength, then you can get the corresponding position.

Otherwise, even if you are a relative of Her Majesty the Queen, I'm sorry, at most, you can only achieve the position of the third officer on the battleship.

At this time, after the pirates had chosen their weapons, several pirates came out of the cabin, all carrying simple but sufficient food in their hands.

Originally, the pirates had a lot of energy loss due to the consumption of a lot of physical strength in the sea, so when they saw the food, didn't they immediately flock to it?

However, at this time, Ye Feng suddenly stopped the pirates from grabbing food, and looked at the pirates who were full of anger, but he explained in a serious tone: "I don't mean that you will not be fed, but I want to remind you that there will be a fierce battle waiting for us in a while, so if you eat your stomach full now, then you should be very clear about the consequences of the battle." ”

"And I'm here to promise that as long as you win the battle for a while, then after you leave the battlefield, I will let you enjoy the food and rum to your heart's content!"

With that, Nightfeng immediately took a step back and put the food in front of the pirates again.

This time, however, none of the pirates began to rob as wildly as before, as if they were afraid that they would take less.

Because they have been fighting for a long time, of course, they know very well that if they are well fed, then in the battle, whether it is skill or reaction, will be much lower, which is undoubtedly risking their own lives.

Therefore, after looking at each other for a moment, the pirates took only the amount of food they could replenish, and although it was not enough to feed them, it was enough for them to recover most of their strength.

While the pirates were slowly eating their food, Yefeng gathered nearly 30 specially selected pirate men.

He then handed over all the captured arquebuses to the pirates, and simply taught them how to shoot in three stages, so that they could get the most out of their arquebuses.

The three-stage shooting is made up of a team of three people, first by the first musketeer to shoot, then retreat to the back of the line to concentrate on reloading, the second soldier comes forward to fire, and the three alternately reload and fire, so that the efficiency of the arquebus, which originally took a minute or more to shoot at a time, is tripled!

According to Ye Feng's observations, he was surprised to find that at this time, whether it was the regular Spanish Navy or the pirates, their shots were directly standing in a row and shooting at the same time.

Although the fire of the arquebus is indeed very violent in an instant, once the shooting is over, there will be a long gap in firepower on the battlefield due to the loading time of the arquebus.

Therefore, Ye Feng deliberately taught his pirates this three-stage shooting method, after all, it increased the shooting efficiency of the arquebus by 3 times! And it is not easy to have a fire vacuum.

According to the "History of the Ming Dynasty", Mu Ying, a general in the early Ming Dynasty who pacified the south (Yunnan), first used firearms to deal with rebel elephants and other beasts when he felt that the gunpowder loading speed was too slow and improved a tactical shooting method.

And this tactical shooting method invented by this general is also this three-stage shooting.

Because the current situation was that there were plenty of arquebuses and there were not enough pirates to wield them, Nightfeng arranged for each pirate to carry two arquebuses, so that in the first round of fire, the most amazing power could be exploded.

This was followed by the three-stage shooting method he taught, with ten gunners in each platoon, firing in turn.

At this time, just as Nightfront had simply taught the pirates the three-stage firing method, the Vere was already within range of the enemy ship's artillery.

So, after arranging the gunners slightly higher up on deck, he personally led the pirates with various melee weapons near the bow of the ship.

Because at this time, for Ye Feng, ordinary pirate warships can no longer enter his eyes, in fact, mainly because he simply does not have enough manpower to start all three warships.

After all, even if he could make all the pirates evenly spread across the three warships, in this case, if the battleship encountered the enemy ship at this time, it would not have any ability to fight back.

Therefore, for this battle, the main purpose of the night front is to gain prestige, so capturing or sinking enemy ships can achieve his goal.

Therefore, he was prepared to try first to see if he could sink the enemy ship with artillery, so that he would not have to rely so much on the side to win.

Thinking of this, Nightfront asked Hascal to bring a few skilled gunners over.

Hearing Nightstriker's order, Huskar quickly descended into the cabin, and after a while, he came with a few pirates.

Compared with ordinary pirates, these full-time gunners, although they are not strong, their arms are thick and powerful.

This was due to the fact that the gunners did not have to run around during the battle, but they had to carry gunpowder and shells all the time.

You must know that the weight of the shells of the artillery at this time is not light, even if it is only the smallest two-pound gun, the weight of one shell is also two pounds.

It's okay if it's not frequent, but once it's frequent, it's quite a good exercise for arm muscles.

When these gunners came, Nightfront asked them to control the five-pounder cannon at the bow of the ship, believing that if they were hit by these five-pounder guns, then for the pirate ships that were generally in disrepair, being hit by the five-pounder cannon would be a catastrophe!

And although these gunners have not really operated a five-pounder gun strictly speaking, after all, most pirate ships have a few three-pounder guns, which are already very rare, so let alone five-pounder guns.

And the most important thing is that although in the navy's sequence, the five-pounder gun is the lowest grade configuration, but this is relative to the navy, so the control of the purchase and sale of more than five pounder guns is also quite strict.

Therefore, this has led to the fact that artillery with more than five pounds can be circulated, which is very rare, and perhaps only on large pirate warships, there may be sporadic guns of more than five pounds!

As a result, most pirate gunners may never have the opportunity to operate a five-pounder gun for most of their lives!

(End of chapter)