Dealing with the young officer in front of him who didn't know his name, Zhang Heng didn't feel relaxed, because soon two more people rushed towards him, and he only had time to catch his breath before entering the battle again.

The first wave of pirates was fierce, and they followed the scattered group of British sailors to the Scarborough, so that the ship's 90 guns were completely useless, but they were then caught in a bitter battle.

In any case, there were nearly 700 men on board the Scarborough, and the pirates did not have enough of 200 men, and even a cook like Malvern had to join the battle at a huge numerical disadvantage.

The latter trembled with a boarding axe in his hand and charged with the large army, but he regretted it only halfway through, the bullets flying in the air, the smoke of gunpowder, the screams in his ears, and the corpses and blood on the ground all tortured his nerves.

The farmer's son wanted to turn around and run back, but there were figures all around, his brain stopped spinning completely because of fear, and when he came back to his senses he was already standing on the deck of the Scarborough, and after rushing to the ship, the nearby pirates scattered, each looking for his prey, and the next moment something grabbed his calf, Malven looked down and saw an English sailor with only half of his face left, and the other half of his face was shad off by something, revealing the muscles and stubble underneath.

The farmer's son let out a scream, fell to the ground, and the boarding axe in his hand fell to the side, and he almost crawled off the palm, and there was only one thought left in his head, that is, to escape from this purgatory, but all around him was fighting.

Less than five paces away from him, a pirate had been shot at least six times, but he refused to fall, and brandished his sailor's knife with red eyes, until he was stabbed in the lower abdomen, and his intestines flowed to the ground, and on the other side, a panicked musketeer who wanted to reload was cut off by an axe, and the hand holding the gunpowder was cut off, and he rolled on the ground in pain.

Marvin didn't dare to look any further, lowered his head and crawled forward desperately, but after crawling out a few steps, he was lifted from the ground by a hand that grabbed his neck, it was an exceptionally burly sailor, judging from the blood stains on his body, he should have a good record today, and grinned at the farmer's son who was desperately kicking the little short legs.

Holding the saber in his hand, he aimed at the latter in the back of the heart and was about to stab it, but the next moment a string of blood suddenly burst out of his forehead, and his tower-like body shook, and finally fell to the ground, motionless.

Zhang Heng withdrew the short musket, he had just eliminated the two opponents, and when he turned his head, he saw that Marven was in distress, so he rescued the latter, but he did not delay in this place for too long, and soon moved to the other side.

The pirates had the absolute upper hand in the first round of hand-to-hand combat, and the musketeers barely had much effect before they were cut down by the enemies who rushed in front of them, especially the recruits, who performed particularly badly, and began to break out after a long time, and even disrupted the formation behind them.

Naturally, the pirates would not let go of this opportunity, and rushed in and slashed again, and in this short period of five or six minutes, the British side suffered at least more than a hundred casualties. However, Zhang Heng knew that this was just an appearance, with the numerical advantage on the Scarborough, as long as he could stabilize his position, it would be a matter of time before the pirates were defeated.

Therefore, there is only one way to win this difficult battle, and that is to take out the commander of this ship.

The morale of the low-level sailors, especially the newcomers, is extremely unstable, there is no one to command, and it is easy to collapse in the face of heavy casualties.

And Zhang Heng has the same idea as the man with the black beard, he is also the most frightened pirate of the British army opposite, often see him with an enemy, jump into the crowd to kill, blood flows everywhere he passes, and he seems to never feel tired, and then he often has not moved, only to see the British army on the opposite side of the chaos first, many people were shocked by the violent momentum on his body, dropped the weapon in his hand, turned around and ran.

Both of them were eyeing Elmer not far away, who had been urging his men to get their sabers, but now they saw that the situation was not good, but they didn't mention rushing over to fight, but began to look left and right, wanting to give up the deck of the first floor and retreat on the next floor.

But it's a bit embarrassing to say this, and he hasn't made up his mind yet.

The first mate on the side has been partnered with him for so long, of course he knows what the other party is thinking, Elmer hopes that he can take the initiative to propose, and then reluctantly agree, to be honest, he is also shocked by the combat effectiveness shown by this group of pirates, but after all, he is also an old man of the Admiralty, and he also participated in the Battle of Vigo Bay back then, and fought against the French fleet, so he will not be frightened by a group of fierce pirates.

In his opinion, although the current situation is not favorable to them, it is not dangerous, he has already sent people to transfer men below, as long as he supports it for a while and waits for the new force to come up, the situation will gradually be reversed, on the contrary, if he loses a deck at this time, it will not be so easy to take it back.

So he chose to remain silent at this time.

Elmer on the side was anxious, seeing that some pirates were rushing towards this side, he finally couldn't care about his face anymore, and said, "I have to admit that we did underestimate those barbarians this time, and now we have heavy casualties, it's not a way to go on like this, do you have any good solutions?" ”

As he spoke, he turned his gaze to the first mate, who smiled bitterly in his heart, but since the captain had spoken, he could not remain silent any longer.

The Lord Elmer in front of him, although he didn't have much dry goods in his stomach and had a luxurious style, but he was from a famous family, had good connections and resources, and he rose through the ranks of the navy rapidly, and even more powerful was his wife, who was said to have maintained a close relationship with many big names in Whitehall, and the end of offending him was probably not much better than being killed by pirates.

The first mate thought about it, and could only take a compromise solution, and said, "The battle situation is unfavorable, we need more manpower, and it is better to have someone organize ...... below."

Before he could finish speaking, Elmer nodded and said, "What you said makes sense, without further ado, I'll go down now, you hold on, I'll bring someone back soon." ”

After saying that, he ordered a team of guards and hurried to the gangway, but at this moment a small group of pirates rushed over, fortunately, Elmer's side of the guards were experienced enough, and at the first time raised the musket in his hand, and beat the two pirates who rushed to the front into a sieve, but the most deadly killing god also caught up during the delay.