From London, the voyage took eight days to cross the Atlantic, south through the island of Newfoundland, across the Bahamas, and into the Caribbean.

Along the way, the fleet was rampant, occasionally targeted by pirates, and when the pirates saw the tonnage of the Seed Flower and the hundreds of cannons, they would forget about unrealistic plans.

Sail all the way to the Caribbean, where there are more pirates and even crazier.

"Captain, we're being targeted again, this is the fourth group of people today, these pirates are so enthusiastic, do they think they can rob us?" Standing on the deck, Old Bart was at the helm, constantly looking into the distance with a telescope.

Wang Xu put down his wine glass, picked up his binoculars, and looked at the sea in the distance.

In sight, two medium-sized ships without flags were following the Seed Flower in the surrounding waters, hanging a few nautical miles away.

The captain of the other ship was also looking out with a telescope, and from time to time he said something to his subordinates.

"There are so many pirates here!" Just by taking a look, Wang Xu knew that there was a pirate ship opposite.

There is a clear difference between merchant ships and pirate ships, the former is mostly warehouses, and the latter is more artillery.

The two medium-sized ships that followed them had too many guns on board, each of which had more than thirty guns, which seriously exceeded the standards of medium-sized ships.

The average medium-sized ship usually has only a dozen guns, and any more will affect the speed and loading capacity. Only medium-sized pirate ships, which do not need to sail long distances and rely only on robbery for a living, will all the cabins be improved into artillery rooms, so that medium-sized pirate ships have firepower that is not inferior to that of large merchant ships.

"Activate the deck guns and sink them!" Wang Xu held up the telescope and ordered without looking back.

In the next second, the 32 cannons on the deck were pushed out by the gunners in unison, aiming at the pirate ships on the left and right.

Aim, load, ignite the fuse.

Boom Boom Boom !!

From Wang Xu's position, you can clearly see the cannonball crossing the sky and turning into a black dot in a distant arc.

In an instant, countless splashes exploded on both sides of the pirate ship, and the one on the left was unlucky enough to be hit by a cannonball.

With the picture of the pirate screaming with the wood flying around, the pirate ship is like a bite of bread, and a clear gap appears in the hull.

"Shoot back, shoot back!"

"No, they use 24-pounder guns, and our largest gun is only 4-pounder, so we can't hit them at all."

The larger the ship, the stronger the artillery it can equip, and Wang Xu's Seed Flower is a second-class sail battleship that can be equipped with a 32-pounder cannon at its largest caliber.

Although the Corsair has been refitted, it cannot hide its own design, just a medium-sized ship.

Not to mention the 32-pounder cannon, even if the 12-pounder cannon is put on it, it will shatter its deck, and it will be finished with one shot.

"It's like shooting a turkey, and they're definitely going to regret following us."

The cannon roared, and the gunners on the deck cheered.

After three rounds of artillery fire, the smoke cleared, and only the wreckage of the ship remained on the sea, and the pirates did not get into the range of their own artillery, and the flower was swept over in the sea without touching a single hair.

"Go ahead, target Aruba, and have a two-day break when you arrive!" Wang Xu withdrew the binoculars with a sneer on the corner of his mouth.

When the sailors heard that they could take a holiday, they waved their hats and cheered, and no one cared about the pirates who were exterminated, because in the Age of Discovery, the sea itself was a place where the weak eat the strong, and if they died, they could only blame themselves for not being strong enough, and they were afraid of death and went to the farm to milk cows.

... Aruba...

"Report to the captain, we have arrived in the Aruba Islands, and in twenty minutes we will enter the Aruba seaport."

Aruba is a large island that connects dozens of large and small islands around it, collectively known as the Aruba archipelago.

Wang Xu stood on the deck, eating washed cherries, listening to Zacquero's report.

As far as the eye can see, there are many fishermen going out to sea to fish on the surrounding islands, and there are also many merchant ships converging here.

Among the many ships, the Seed Flower is the largest and travels in the sea, like the difference between a heavy truck and a private car.

Many of the island's inhabitants, as well as sailors on other ships, stood on deck or on land, craned their necks to look at the plantation.

Wang Xu's sailors enjoyed the feeling of being watched, and they raised their heads one by one and pretended to be busy, but in fact, they were already smiling in their hearts.

"In the Age of Discovery, barbarism and elegance coexist, artillery and truth are intertwined!" Wang Xu looked at the island in front of him, and after seeing five people who were hanging from a tree and had dried into skeletons, he whispered this sentence.

These five unlucky ghosts are pirates, and the worst of all, pirates caught by the navy.

Why did Wang Xu know, because under the big tree where the skeleton was hanging, there was a wooden plaque more than two meters long.

The sign clearly says that this is what happens to pirates, please think clearly about your actions, otherwise you will be the one who will be hanged.

"Lower the sails, put away the artillery, we're going to enter the harbor!"

With shouting, the sailors lowered the sails halfway and covered the guns with waterproof tarpaulins.

These were the rules of the port, and if they did not do so, the shore guns of the two guns of the harbor would open fire, and the ships in the port would be treated as pirates.

These rules are not found in textbooks, but belong to the consensus between the shipowner and the harbor, and he uses the cannon to show that he has no idea about the harbor.

"Drop the anchor, put the sails away completely, and work hard, guys, we're going to go ashore." With a command, the Plantation slowly approached the harbor.

As the first port in the Caribbean Sea of the Great Eagle Empire, the Port of Aruba is very prosperous.

Wang Xu stood on the deck and looked up, hundreds of merchant ships were docked in the harbor, and there were five naval warships stationed on both sides.

Of the five naval warships, four were three-treacherous galleons equipped with 56 guns, and one was a sail battleship equipped with 100 guns.

Such a firepower, whether it is to suppress the natives or exterminate the pirates, allows the Great Eagle Empire to ensure that the Caribbean Sea is under its control.

"With at least hundreds of naval guns on the shore, plus five naval warships, as long as it is not a big attack by the naval fleets of other countries, the port of Aruba is as stable as a mountain. A small Caribbean Sea has such a powerful force, not to mention the fleet of the London headquarters and the fleet of the East India Company, it is no wonder that the second-class sail battleships dare to sell. ”

Looking at the Aruba seaport in front of him, Wang Xu was even more curious about what kind of demeanor it would be to be able to suppress the invincible fleet of the Royal Navy.

Before he could continue to think about it, there was a sudden scream in the sky.

When I looked up, a woman dressed in white was flying down from a cliff and plunged into the water.

"What's the situation, suicide?" Wang Xu looked at the top of the cliff, which was the cliff at the entrance of the port, and above it was the port shore artillery position.

Dozens of figures were standing on it and looking down, Wang Xu was in the sound of the waves, and he vaguely heard them shouting something.

The sound of the waves was so loud that I couldn't hear what these people were saying after listening to it for a while.

Wang Xu stood at the bow of the boat and looked into the sea, but did not see the woman in white surface, so he said, "Help her up!" ”

Puff !!

Hearing the command, several sailors jumped into the water with all their might and swam towards the drop point.

Wang Xu held the binoculars and watched, and just as his sailors were about to approach, a figure approached at a faster speed.

The next moment, the figure overtook his sailor and plunged into the water.

Ten seconds later, the figure of the woman in white resurfaced, and at the same time, a man wearing a turban and a mustache on his chin appeared.