Among the firearms of the time, the power of the arquebus was almost as powerful as that of the modern ordinary pistol, but unfortunately, after his inquiry, it was discovered that none of these pirates had a long arquebus. 35xs

And even if it's a short firearm, there aren't a lot of them.

But if you think about it carefully, this is actually a very normal thing, after all, the pirates who are still left on this sea area at this time, their position on the original pirate ship is definitely not too high, and they should belong to the category of low-level pirates.

After all, under normal circumstances, pirates are divided according to their strength.

And there is no doubt that at this time, it can be said that this sea battlefield has been abandoned, and those who remain here must be those sailors who belong to the bottom of the pirates.

For the sailors at the bottom, they are generally only equipped with melee weapons such as sailor knives and short axes, and the pirates who can be equipped with arquebuses are at least in the middle of the pirate ship.

Fortunately, Nightfeng didn't expect much from these pirates, so although these pirates were terrible, he was not discouraged.

Then he thought for a moment, and then he shouted to the pirates, "I will give you a choice now, whether to rush to the front with me or stay behind and wait for us to successfully capture the enemy ship, and then come and receive the battleship." ”

"But I want to make it clear that my code of conduct is also very simple, that is, you get as much as you give, so after the victory, only the pirates who rush with me will receive a large share, and those who remain behind will only get a fraction of the wealth in the end."

Hearing this, the pirates couldn't help but communicate with each other, but to Nightfeng's surprise, in the end, more than half of the pirates were willing to rush to the front with him.

This couldn't help but surprise him, because judging by the performance of the pirates just now, they must have chosen to be relatively safe as soon as they heard that they were going to rush to the front: to stay behind.

What Nightfront doesn't know is that none of them can be pirates who put life and death on the line, and for pirates, as long as they have enough benefits, they will immediately turn into fierce wolves and tear their enemies to pieces.

It's just that if you want to inspire these low-willed pirates to fight, you have to have enough benefits.

And what he just said that if you rush forward with him, you can get the final share of the wealth, this undoubtedly succeeded in arousing the pirates' desire.

Because in the Caribbean Sea at this time, the average pirate did not have the opportunity to directly participate in the share of the spoils, but the captain directly distributed a certain amount of gold coins as a reward for victory, so it can be said that the income of ordinary pirates at this time was not very high.

Rather, it is only those members of the important positions on the pirate ship who are the ones who receive the greatest benefits.

Therefore, when these pirates heard Yefeng announce that as long as they followed him to the front, they would be able to participate in the final share of the spoils, how could this not make these pirates who were originally at the bottom of the pirate ship excited!

In the end, Yefeng arranged to arrange those pirates who were willing to rush with him as the second echelon, and as for the first echelon, it was naturally his summoned beasts to act as the act.

After all, strictly speaking, compared to those pirates, it was his summoned beasts that could reassure him more.

And although because of being in the sea, his war elephants and rhinoceros basically can't exert any combat effectiveness, but he still has giant python corpse souls and hunters who are very suitable for naval warfare.

You must know that the giant python is not only the overlord in the forest, strictly speaking, it is also the overlord in the water, and the amphibious python in the water can also exert 100% combat effectiveness in the water.

Then Yefeng thought about it for a while, and felt that the current long-range combat power on the sailboat was still very lacking, so he summoned Yadeyan and Ice Ness to make up for the disadvantage of their ship in terms of long-range. 35xs

Seeing that Nightfront summoned a humanoid fireman and an iceman full of icy cold air with a wave of his hand, the pirates' awe of Nightblade was even deeper.

Moreover, there are quite a few pirates, and after seeing Nightfeng summon Yadyan and Bingnais, their confidence is even more sufficient.

Because of Nightblade's performance, the pirates guessed that he must be a dark mage with a strong sorcery.

You must know that in the Caribbean at this time, the black magicians are not just legends, but have seen them all, as in later generations.

It was precisely because of this that they were more confident in this battle, because they knew that their leader was now a powerful black mage.

At this time, just after Ye Feng had ordered the arrangements for the battle, the monorail he was riding on was also about to sail to the edge of the battlefield.

At this time, he could clearly see the general situation on the battlefield, but the ships still fighting on the battlefield at this time were only 25 or 6 left, which was still different from the nearly thirty warships reported by the old pirate before.

However, this confusion was explained when he saw the wreckage of the ship still burning on the sea.

There is no doubt that these ships must have been sunk or heavily damaged during the battle.

And on the 25 warships that are still fighting, Ye Feng, who has learned some common sense by surprise before entering the world, can roughly see that most of these warships are just small and medium-sized warships with small tonnage.

According to the distribution of warship classes in the Caribbean Sea at that time, most of these warships belonged to Class VI warships, and most of these warships had a displacement of less than 700 tons, and the number of guns would not exceed ten.

Among them, only a small number of warships belong to the V-class warships, and only these warships can really be regarded as warships, because their displacement will at least exceed 700 tons, and the number of guns is about 30.

However, among this small number of V-class warships, there is no doubt that most of them belong to the Spanish Navy, and only one belongs to the pirates, and the only V-class warship is also the flagship of the medium-sized pirate force - the Redbeard Pirate Regiment.

However, although the Spanish Navy had more V-class warships than the pirates, the two sides were evenly matched at this time, and the battle situation fell into a stalemate.

This was due to the fact that since the Spanish Navy had reported that they were just ordinary armed merchant ships, the number of guns on their ships would have been greatly reduced.

Otherwise, a fool would come up and besiege them?

After all, in the face of 7 or 8 V-class warships, if it were not a large pirate group, then ordinary pirates would not have the strength to eat this hard bone at all.

After all, a V-class battleship has at least 25 guns, so 8 V-class warships have nearly 200 guns.

If it was really such a number of artillery, even if the pirates were given a dozen more Tier VI warships, they would not dare to attack the Spanish fleet.

Therefore, in order to lure the pirates into the bait, the Spanish naval forces deliberately reduced the number of artillery by nearly half.

However, even so, the Spanish Navy was not worried about being wiped out by the pirates, they were only worried that it might eventually lead to the release of the pirate ship.

After all, they belong to the real navy, and if they can't even defeat such a number of pirates, then they will simply wipe their necks and commit suicide, because they can't afford to lose this person.

It's like an armed battalion of a modern army, if they were defeated by a bandit of the same number as a regiment, then they would really be outlawed.

Because it's impossible!

Originally, the Spanish Navy had conceived that they would have to engage pirates in broadside battles due to the drastic reduction in the number of artillery, but they were not worried at all, because they were a regular Spanish naval force.

However, to the surprise of the Spanish navy, the final result of the battle was much more than they expected, and the battle should have been easily resolved, but in the end the two sides fought evenly matched.

This really makes the Spanish Navy feel a sense of shame!

However, compared to the accident of the Spanish Navy, the pirate side is really an accident!

Because although the warships on the pirate side are all VI class warships, and the number of guns on the pirates is not as good as that of regular troops, in terms of artillery, the number of guns on all the pirates' warships combined is close to a hundred.

On the pirate side, the total number of guns of 25 or 6 warships is only the same as the number of guns of 7 or 8 Spanish Navy warships, you know, this is the case, or because the Spanish Navy deliberately dismantled half of the number of guns.

From this, it can be imagined that the pirates lacked artillery.

However, this is also related to the pirate's combat mode, because the main purpose of the pirate battle is to plunder wealth, so they are more interested in close-quarters combat than artillery combat.

Because artillery bombardment means that even if the pirates win the battle, all they end up with is the wreckage of the ship floating on the sea.

For pirates, what is the point of fighting if there is no interest?

Therefore, it has led to the fact that the pirates are keen on close-range hand-to-side combat, and at the same time, although the pirates have not been strong in long-range artillery, it also makes them exceptionally strong in close-range melee combat, even if it is an ordinary low-level pirate, their melee strength is also very brave.

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