The Skua played a role in her timely evasive maneuvers, but after all, her reaction time was limited, and she had not yet had time to reach the ideal distance, and the effective range of the 4-pounder gun still covered her track.

"Bang!

The cannon shot hit the oak hull, and the White Tulip's shelling hit 4 out of 16, which was more than that, because the aiming time and angle calculation time of this shot were long enough, and the trajectory of the 4-pounder cannon pellet was deliberately pulled higher by Mary, in addition to the 4 shots that directly hit the hull, there were also 2 cannon pellets that swept over the deck at low altitude, breaking the intestines of the sailors along the road, and the deck was suddenly in disarray.

"Tut-tut, the ship on the other side is not simple, the response is very good, and the luck is also very good, originally I thought that after the stray bomb attack, I could directly start dismantling the ship, but I didn't expect them to be so calm, even if we win the artillery battle like this, it is estimated that we will suffer a lot of damage, at that time, what is the way to snatch the cargo on the ship?"

There was a lazy voice on the Skua that was not loud and the tail note was so long that anyone who listened to it would feel that the person who spoke had no spirit.

On the deck that had just been swept by the 4-pound lead pellet, the sailors of the Skua were busy, rescuing the wounded, clearing debris, reloading and other work was going on rapidly, only a figure that was out of place with the busy environment around him was still and motionless, and even the standing posture looked a little bored, if you looked closely, you would see that the figure was a slender young man, he was smiling at the helm, and it was clear that the scattered voice just now was his.

The young man wore a baggy sailor's shirt, and on a notoriously unrefined ship, it was a little shiny, but in the Baltic Sea, where the weather was already a little cold, the outfit looked strange and thin.

With a tricorne hat crooked, a musket and a sword at his waist, he looked like he should be the length of a ship, but his demeanor was too broken to look like he was in a fierce artillery battle.

"I said you, don't talk about it, how to kill the enemy, you should say it quickly!" said a female first mate who was directing the sailors on the deck to the lazy young captain, her tone completely disrespectful, her brown hair wet with sweat and sticking to her pretty face, which looked very seductive.

"My dear, why don't we fight? The current situation of the war is that we have not taken advantage of it, and they have suffered a small loss, and I always feel that if we go on board the ship to fight, we will not be able to guarantee this delicate balance of the situation. The captain smiled at the female first mate, and his eyes, which were narrowed because of laziness, were even more bent into two crescents at the moment, making it difficult to be angry with him.

"You!" the first mate was about to become angry, and when she met the young captain's crooked smiling eyes, her face turned red, and she didn't know what to say, so she could only mutter: "Damn lazy, do you know that we can't win?

"It's definitely okay to win, you have to believe me. The young captain stopped smiling, and said with a slightly more formal expression on his face, "But I always have a hunch that we can't guarantee that no one will die, and no one in our team will die, baby, especially you." ”

The female first mate was completely blushed by the young captain's words, turned her head and spat out, "Bastard Hearns, you are really a scoundrel." ”

"I hear you. The captain was still lazy, but after the first mate had finished teasing, he squinted his eyes and opened them slightly, and successive orders popped out of his mouth with an unquestionable tone, but the tone was still so unhurried.

He looked up at the mainmast lookout post and raised his voice slightly, "Mr. Harris, starting the flag, just say that the privateer Skua is confused, and it is purely a mistake, dear... Uh, White Tulip, please continue your ship's journey, and good luck with trade. ”

"Are you sure you want to add even the last part?" a serious male voice came from the lookout post, and you didn't need to look to know that the owner of the voice must be a serious and rigid middle-aged man.

"It must be added, and our politeness must not be lost at any time. The young captain named Hines replied, and then lowered his head and looked at his side gun emplacement, where a short, lean man was jumping up and down, with a soft whip in his hand like a living snake, and from time to time he sought out a sailor who was not quick to work.

"Artasin, don't whip these poor people anymore, put the gun emplacements on alert, I don't think we'll fire any more. The young captain said.

The short man was silent, the whip flicked back into his hand, and a few leaps came to the stern, standing beside the young man, a pair of harrier eyes locked tightly on the white tulip opposite, and there was a feeling of incomprehension and hatred in his eyes.

As if he knew that he could not let go, the young captain did not look at the little man, but patted him on the shoulder to soothe him, and continued: "Monsieur Pierre, please continue to hold on to your post, for our next move will require a lot of effort from the sails, and on the other side are the Dutch, whose sailing skills are a real headache. ”

The faces of an old black man with a gray beard and hair appeared in the cracks of several sailors, and he nodded to the young man, and the rope in his hand was wrapped a few more times.

"And my dearest Claudia, please take control of the deck and the sailors, you are the steward of the Skuak, and we are counting on you, my rose. Finally, the young captain spoke softly to the female first mate, his eyes gentle, his tone murmuring, and at the end he threw a flying kiss over, but the order was not of any substance as it was to the others.

The first mate seemed to blush easily, snorted angrily as an answer, and continued to be busy on the deck.

The young captain Hines is naturally the selector, he is not only the captain of the Skuak, but also the captain of the five-person picker team, after explaining his team, he lowered his head and repaired the rudder, and then almost the whole person leaned on the rudder, looking even more listless, a sound in his mouth did not float out with the sea breeze, and he was dispersed by the shouts of the sailors before he went far, and he could only faintly hear "foam... counter" a few vague words.

...

"Lao Wang, look, the other party is coming from the flag. Mary was in charge of the gun position, and her eyes never stopped observing the other party's ships, just now after the other side was hit by a round of shelling from her side, she has been repairing the route outward, and now the distance has been stretched to nearly 340 yards, even if it is a 3-pounder gun on the opposite side, it is now inaccurate.

The rise of this just killing, he turned around and left the battlefield, and the flag came out, didn't the other party have the upper hand, why did he leave first now?

Lao Wang pointed the telescope at the other party's lookout post, and saw a middle-aged man with a grim face waving the small flag in his hand, and he was conveying what Hines had just said.

"Accidental injury?" Wang Mancang put down the binoculars, a little bit of a feeling that Zhang Er King Kong was confused, the other party's ambush, shelling, and high-temperature lead bullets were exhausted, no matter how you look at it, the purpose was to kill his own group, and then robbed the tulips on the ship.

Now that he is halfway through, he said that he was injured by mistake, and then he retreated inexplicably, and the other party's selector was too child's play.

"What do you think. Lao Wang briefly introduced the flag and the other party's movements in the team channel and said: "If it is the ship of the interactive character, I still believe that the target confuses this statement, but now the control of the ship is obviously the selector, and the word mistaken injury is simply." ”

"I don't know what the situation of the bosses is, anyway, as long as the selectors I have met so far have Liang Zi with each other, it is a non-stop game, what kind of place is this? Tan Liang commanded the deck while saying to his teammates.

"Is it that the high-spirited selectors on the other side are suffering under Takenaka, knowing that we are not easy to mess with, they calculated according to common sense and concluded that the overall strength is not as good as ours, so they simply stopped fighting. Mary asked.

"Then why didn't you leave when you were detected at the beginning, and you have to fight until now?" Lao Wang was suspicious in his heart, and continued after asking rhetorically: "Another one, there are 4 of us, 5 of them, it is difficult to say who killed the deer, when we met the Scarface team before, it was obviously slightly inferior to the other party's strength, and we didn't go up to fight, I don't think we can understand it this way." ”

"Uncle, everyone, the biggest possibility is that after the other party and us engaged in an artillery battle, they understood our strength, so they came up with the idea of not fighting with us to lose both, so the most valuable information we can get now has appeared. Takenaka analyzed: "Their move shows a conclusion from the side, that is, the mission goal of this privateer's selection is not to kill people, but to seek money, so that they will retreat so calmly and do not play with us, bandits and others are not like this, they can rob naturally, and they will turn their heads and leave if they can't bite, which is reasonable." ”

"However, didn't we just deduce that our method in this space test is to let us be eliminated naturally by setting opposing tasks? This contradicts the behavior of the selector privateer just now, how can we explain it?" Tan Liang continued to ask.

Takenaka replied unhurriedly: "This point has not changed, but we have beaten the opponent painfully, the opponent feels that it is not beneficial to fight to the death with us, like I said, it is better to rob the safer target, I guess they should have a powerful planner to make a plan, he understands that we can't get enough profit to deliver the task at one time, in the same way, they can't grab enough goods at one time, if we lose the cost, it will be detrimental to the later plan." ”

"Reasonable, the other party has no will to fight, then we are also happy to be idle, Bamboo corrects the course and leaves this water, we continue to follow the established route to Stockholm, Mary and Boss Tan are a little more careful, the situation of vicious competition between the selectors is still a vicious situation, you two should pay attention to the sea, don't be taken advantage of the loophole to sneak attack us." Lao Wang gave a simple order, and the White Tulip repaired its course and continued to move forward.

The two ships were vigilant against each other and farther away, and after a while, even each other's sail shadows were invisible, it seemed that this Skua was really able to afford to put it down, and immediately retreated when it saw that the situation was not good, coupled with the high-temperature lead bullet attack just now, it was clear that the attribute value of the opponent's high spiritual power selector was not as good as Hakan, but he used simple tricks to get better results than Hakan, which made people very concerned, as Takenaka said, on the opposite ship, there was obviously a strong planner, and the selector was in the big test, and there were many excellent students.

The ship drove for a while, and now even the hidden danger of the Skua returning to the rifle was completely gone, and the White Tulip did not encounter any other robbers, but because of the damage to the hull, her sailing speed slowed down a little, and the boatmen kept knocking and repairing along the way.

Lao Wang and the others sailed for another 2 days while repairing, and finally arrived in Stockholm, according to the previous expected 7-8 days round trip, which has greatly exceeded the estimated time.

But the good news is also there, Lao Wang they sailed at sea in the past few days, the tulip bubble is more and more inflated, the Stockholm port exchange gave the transaction price has risen 10% compared with the old Wang in Amsterdam when he checked the quotation board, which makes the profit of the tulip transaction reached 5500 silver horses, so it seems that their voyage can run twice more, and it can be regarded as making up for the lost time.

The transaction is completed, the number in the task statistics in the spatial information column rolls for a while, and the task data of "Risk of High Profits" becomes 5500/16000, and Lao Wang tries to use the money to treat the sailors to a Swedish meatball feast.

After using the profit, the task data does not change, which means that once the profit is earned, it is counted as a fixed value and will not be reduced due to use.

Wang Lao was relieved, so he took the money out to repair the ship, and prepared to restore the White Tulip to its best condition and return to Amsterdam.

But while he was repairing, the supply commissioner at the dock brought a somewhat subtle message to Wang: Hedram Bergstone, the Swedish Admiral who had recently been very popular in both the Baltics and the North Sea, happened to be repairing ships in the port of Stockholm.

As a candidate for the legendary Admiral, he formally invited the unknown Wang Mancang, hoping that the two sides could meet, and when Lao Wang asked the supply commissioner why Admiral Bergstone would be interested in meeting with him, the other party was a little vague, only saying that the content of the meeting had a great deal to do with the recent fashion deal, so he looked at the sky and waited for Lao Wang to reply.

The problem arises, if they meet, the voyage of the trade in popular goods will be completely delayed, and if they do not meet, it will be equivalent to slapping the Swedish navy, which is gradually gaining strength, in the face, and the olive branch sent by the other party will be folded.

In the end, the opinions of the invincible uncle team were unified, and the voyage was delayed, but Bergstone could not be seen, this powerful interactive character has formed a considerable scale of sea power, after defeating the Shupaia Chamber of Commerce, his sphere of influence extended to Oslo, although the legend is that he is a bold northern man, and there is no record of retribution, but the business war is imminent, this uncertainty is the least needed, after all, Oslo is very close to Amsterdam.

The supply commissioner replied to Bergstone with the news that the Van der Kamp Chamber of Commerce had promised to meet, and 12 hours later, Wang was sitting in the largest tavern in Stockholm's port district, looking at each other with a handsome silver-haired man across a large table.