But at this moment, Night Blade and the others suddenly heard several cannon shots in the distance. 35xs

A few seconds later, several huge waves rose above the sea next to the pirate ship, which was exactly the same spray that the cannonball hit the water!

At the same time, a cannonball happened to hit the side side of the corsair, and under the huge kinetic energy bonus of the solid cannonball, its power directly blasted a large hole in the side of the ship.

A large number of splintered wood chips are ejected at an astonishing speed, and with such a speed bonus, even the small wood chips as small as chopsticks are not weaker than ordinary arrows!

Luckily, there weren't many pirates near the side of the ship that was hit by the shell, so only one or two unlucky pirates were stabbed by the ejected sawdust!

However, as long as it is not the most unfortunate part of the stab that is the eye, then these two pirates will not lose most of their combat effectiveness because of this!

After the sudden harassment of the shelling, Nightfront immediately raised his head and shouted, "Look at the hand! Report the situation! ”

Generally speaking, a battleship will be equipped with two or three lookouts, as lookouts, their strength may not be the strongest, but in their eyes and endurance, they must be among the best in the ship!

After all, if you don't have amazing eyesight, then what do you have to do when the enemy is already within the range of your artillery?

And unlike ordinary warships, there is only one lookout on the Ver of the Night Blade, but even if there is only one, he believes that this lookout plays a greater role than the three lookouts!

This is because the lookout has eagle-like eyes, allowing him to see more than a dozen nautical miles away.

And this ability was not born with this lookout, but he was lucky to get it after some hardship.

The lookout's name was Philon and he was a black man, and his previous occupation was slave like most black people of this era!

However, his fate is one thing different from that of ordinary black slaves, that is, his master is an alchemist, and he is also an evil alchemist who is keen on body modification.

However, it is a pity that in this era, alchemists are often of the same status as the aristocratic class, and this lookout is a very lowly black slave.

Therefore, there will be no knights like the knights who will save these black slaves from suffering!

In the beginning, a total of two dozen black slaves were sold to the evil alchemist along with Philon.

But in the series of experiments that followed, only Filon was lucky to survive, and he was lucky to survive after transplanting the eyes of the sea eagle!

The result is a pair of magical eagle eyes comparable to telescopes!

However, this did not mean that his status had increased, on the contrary, the alchemist had become even more powerful because of this.

If this situation continues, then Filon's fate is likely to end up being the same as those slaves before him, who will die in an endless experiment!

After all, not every god of luck will favor him!

But his good fortune eventually came.

During one of the experiments, the evil alchemist's enemy came to the door, and strictly speaking, his enemy was not a good bird.

But it didn't matter to Filon, because he finally saw the hope of escaping!

While the two mages were fighting, he quietly stole a lifeboat-sized sailboat and escaped from an uninhabited island where the alchemist lived.

And the evil alchemist, although he also discovered Filon's escape, but unfortunately, he is now in the midst of a fierce battle with the enemy, so at this time he can't care about the escaped black slaves at all. 35xs

However, although Filon managed to escape from the alchemist's island, he will have to face various natural disasters such as hurricanes and waves!

After nearly a week of floating on the sea, the food he was carrying with him had already been eaten, and he was also in the point of dying.

If there is no miracle, then in the end, he will not be able to avoid the doom of death!

But in the end, the god of luck still favored him.

Just when Filon was about to die, he was rescued by a passing fishing boat.

It turned out that the lifeboat he was riding in had floated to the vicinity of the port with the waves, but I believe that even if he had floated to the vicinity of the port at this time, if he had been discovered a little later, then in the end he would still not have been able to escape the doom of death.

And the latest to find him is the fisherwoman on the fishing boat.

In the end, he is also very old-fashioned, he falls in love with the fisherwoman, and finally succeeds in being with her, which is like the plot in the knight.

But the reality is often much more cruel than that, and after they are together, they soon have children of their own.

However, although the fisherwoman did not look down on Filon because of his black status, the other whites in the harbor were not.

As a result, it was difficult for him to find a suitable job in the port.

However, at this time, the burden of various expenses on the family forced him to look for a job.

It is a pity that the class concept between blacks and whites, even in later generations of country m, gradually improved after a long time.

So in desperation, in order to support his family, he had to go to Yefeng for an interview.

After all, his ability was also very suitable for becoming a sailor, but unfortunately, in the regular navy at that time, it was very difficult to see a black man become a navy.

Therefore, he can only choose the profession of pirate, but fortunately, most of the pirates are composed of people from the bottom, so they will not look down on him because of his black identity.

It is precisely because of this that Ye Feng directly paid 300 gold pounds for settling-in in order to recruit him.

However, in Ye Feng's opinion, Philon's eagle eye ability is worth the price.

After all, at that time, the development of glass was not as developed as in later generations, so telescopes were very rare in this era.

It's like in Caribbean movies, basically only the captain has a telescope on a battleship, and the rest of the world, even the second mate, boatswain and other high-ranking people don't have binoculars.

And Philon's eagle eye, in his opinion, is like a telescope that is almost indestructible, and it is the kind that can see farther than ordinary telescopes.

This human telescope alone is already worth the price of 300 gold pounds!

At this moment, not long after the night front asked about the situation in a loud voice, a clear shout was immediately heard from the sky above the Verre: "Report to the captain, at a course of 34 degrees to the southeast, a merchant ship is rapidly approaching, and these shells are also fired by this merchant ship!" ”

When he said this, Philon's words were also full of grievances!

Because from the fact that a battleship as large as the Ver is equipped with only one lookout, it can be seen how great his role is, after all, the lookout is equivalent to the eyes of a battleship.

But this time, he only warned him after the enemy had attacked, which was really a slap in the face.

But what really made him feel aggrieved was that he had actually seen this merchant ship before, but the problem was that when he saw that this was approaching a merchant ship, he naturally thought in his heart that this merchant ship would consciously leave after seeing the flag raised over the Verl.

After all, there is a pirate flag in the shape of a skeleton hanging over the Verne!

Under normal circumstances, a merchant ship sees a pirate ship, and thinks that it must be a merchant ship that turns around and runs, which means that the merchant ship is the fleeing party, and the pirate ship is the additional party!

But now it has completely changed, and this merchant ship has unusually not turned around and run, and actually took the initiative to take the lead in attacking.

This is simply an act of looking for death!

And at this time, after Ye Feng heard that it was actually a merchant ship that was shelled just now, he couldn't help but feel a little uneasy in his heart, after all, the old ancestor had already said such a sentence: There are demons when things go wrong!

But soon, he put this uneasiness in his heart, after all, even if he knew that there was something wrong with this merchant ship, it was impossible for him to leave without a sound now!

In that case, then he doesn't want to keep working.

Because pirates will never listen to a cowardly captain.

However, although the battle is definitely to be fought, how to fight in order to minimize losses in the event of an accident must also be considered.

Thinking of this, Nightfront immediately announced loudly to his men: "The oarsmen will immediately carry all the supplies on this ship to the Verre. ”

"As for the rest, follow me on the two monorails aboard the Vere to attack."

Speaking of this, Ye Feng deliberately laughed wittily: "After all, a salvo of the Verne is very likely to sink this fat sheep, and I don't want to go to the bottom of the sea to salvage these riches in the end!" ”

Hearing this, the pirates couldn't help but smile.

As for the shortcomings of the absence of artillery on the monorail, they did not care at all.

Because based on the shelling just now, the experience accumulated over many years of pirate life made it easy for them to judge that the merchant ships on the opposite side had only seven or eight guns at most.

(Thanks to the book friend Gray Left Eye, Qikong, , Young Master) (for the recommendation vote support!) ★ ）

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