Chapter 178: Collision Horns

The sailors on the Spear of the Goddess couldn't help but be overjoyed when they saw the infighting between the pirates in front of them, they were not willing to be robbed of their goods like this, and they couldn't help but get ready to move when they saw this.

However, to their surprise, the looks of the two captains in front of them did not look very flustered, Zhang Heng didn't expect Hutchison to play this trick, he let Anne stay on the Jackdaw just out of caution, because the strength of the Jackdaw lies in the ship's artillery, not in the crew.

Therefore, the people left behind by Zhang Heng were mainly gunners, but most of them were young people in their twenties and thirties, and they did not suffer in hand-to-hand combat, especially with Anne there, they soon gained the upper hand. Zhang Heng also saw at this time that Hutchison's surprise attack on the Jackdaw did not really want to take the Jackdaw in one fell swoop, but only to drag the latter as much as possible and prevent the Jackdaw from joining the battle on the other side.

Obviously, the Vader is his real target, but to Zhang Heng's surprise, the black prince Sam is not too worried at this time.

The Vader is now being caught between two ships, and the situation looks very bad, but the Black Prince Sam is still unhurriedly commanding the manpower to maintain stability on the deck, and he even smiled when he saw Zhang Heng looking at him, and said, "Many people say that I am the best captain in this sea, and I am juxtaposed with Honig and Blackbeard, I can only say that they think a little too highly of me."

"I only started sailing four years ago, and a year later I came to Nassau, when I was a nobody, and I met Eric, who was the helmsman, at the tavern, and their original captain had secretly withheld some of their booty, and when it was revealed, he was dismissed, I had no job, they happened to be short of a captain, and we both happened to be drunk, so I opened my eyes the next morning and became the new captain of that ship."

The Black Prince Sam paused, "I still wanted to work hard after I first became captain, I made a lot of preparations for my first expedition to the sea, a lot, but unfortunately I accidentally drank too much the night before, so by the time I opened my eyes again, we were fully loaded." ”

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"To this day, few people know that my seafaring skills are actually terrible, my gunnery is not good, and I still don't know how to do a good pre-war mobilization, but even so my pirate regiment has become one of the strongest pirate regiments in Nassau, and it took less than three years, all because I have the best men, and they want to trust me, and I trust them to the fullest, which is why we can sail the seven seas, and if anyone thinks that I am not on the ship, they will despise the Vidah, Then they will inevitably pay the price. ”

The black helmsman was a little embarrassed by the two rounds of artillery fire, the mainmast of the Vida was hit by a cannonball, and fell, and the huge canvas covered many people, and most of the pirate group would begin to panic after suffering such a blow, especially the captain was not on the ship at this time, lacking the backbone, but the pirates on the Vida returned to their respective positions as quickly as possible after a short period of stunned.

The gunners continued to reload the shells, the ship's doctor began to treat the wounded, the carpenters repaired the leaks, even the cooks helped clean the deck, and the black helmsman got up from the ground while scolding his mother, patting the wood chips off his body and directing the Vida to turn the hull.

The other two ships, of course, would not miss such a good opportunity, and the artillery fire became more ferocious.

But the sturdy hull of the Vidah also played a role at this time, and under such an attack, it was not sunk, and several carpenters on the ship rushed up and down, repairing the cracks, and miraculously survived, and then saw the Vida put away the auxiliary sails.

Hutchison was a little strange, he didn't know what the Vida meant, the other party was now facing them with the bow and stern, so that the side guns on the Vida were useless, and the bow and stern guns could still be used, but this bit of fire did not help at all, and lowering the sails also meant losing power and completely falling into a situation of passive beating.

No sane captain would make such a choice.

Then he saw the bottom of the Vidah suddenly open, stretching out two rows of oars and churning the water, while the Vida rushed towards another pirate ship.

Hutchison was shocked, although he had also heard of the name of the Vidah, but after all, he was not a local pirate in Nassau, and he had collected limited information, and he did not know that the other party was actually an oar-sail boat, and in the headwind state, the black helmsman decisively ordered to put away the sails and use oars instead, and the Vida is now the fastest ship in this sea.

The other pirate ship obviously didn't expect the Vida to be so fierce, putting on a posture of losing both of them, in order to pursue maximum damage, the two sides were very close to each other, and it was too late to order the ship to turn around again, so it could only continue to fire, wanting to sink the Vader's before then, but his calculation was ultimately in vain.

Seeing that the two ships were about to collide, the corner of the black helmsman's mouth showed a solemn smile, both defeated? That's naΓ―ve.

Before the Vida hit the other side, he saw the pirate ship shake violently, and then a large hole opened in the hull of the ship underwater, and the turbulent sea water poured into the cabin, such a large crack was beyond the scope of the carpenter's ability, and it could not be repaired at all, which also meant that the sinking was inevitable, and the pirates on the deck fled in horror, and the captain was still confused at this time, not knowing what was happening.

Hutchison, who had witnessed all this from a distance, was also a little incredulous, but he quickly thought of something, and lost his voice, "Hit the horns?!" ”

The ramming angle is a protrusion fixed to the bow of a ship to crash into enemy ships, usually hidden underwater (the long pole in the bow is not a ramming angle), which was widely used by the ancient Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans, but in the 18th century, when artillery was popular, it was largely withdrawn from the stage of history, and it was not until the middle of the 19th century that it was revived on ironclad ships.

Hutchison didn't expect the configuration on the Vida to be so retro, and it was still equipped with ramming angles that had been abandoned by other ships, if they had learned this information earlier, in fact, it was not too much of a problem, as long as they kept a safe distance from the Vida, but now they suffered a big loss and lost a ship directly.

Hutchison didn't want to mention how much he regretted it, but it was too late to say anything, and he could only watch as the other ship gradually sank, and the sailors above fell overboard in desperation, and the Whydah had already turned its bow.