Chapter 179: Turning Defeat into Victory
"Captain, what shall we do?" The sailors on the Severe Winter looked nervous.
Hutchison's expression was also very entangled at this time, the Vida not far away had suffered three waves of shelling when it turned around and charged before, and the hull was heavily damaged, and it was obviously the end of the strong crossbow, but not only did the opposite side not repair, but rushed to this side after turning around, putting on a posture of burning jade.
On the other hand, the Jackdaw had also dealt with the intruders who had climbed up from the side of the ship and was ready to come to the aid of the Vidah, so Hutchison hesitated and finally gave the order to retreat.
The Jackdaw pursued after her for a while, trying to attack the Severe Winter with her bow gun, but was dodged by Hutchison's coquettish maneuver.
Anne wanted to chase down the Severe Winter to settle accounts, but was stopped by Di Freina, although the Jackdaw's firepower was superior, but now the crew on the ship was too small, only more than twenty people left, which was not even a gunner, and could not fully exert its own firepower advantage.
It is very likely that the pursuit will lead to a counterattack from the Winter, so the Jackdaw chased for a while and then turned the bow, Hutchison looked at the returning Jackdaw, his heart was dripping blood, this time they suffered too much loss, originally wanted to give full play to the advantages of the two ships, swallow the spoils on the Vader and the Spear of the Goddess together, and become famous in this fight, stepping into the ranks of top pirates.
But I didn't expect that stealing chickens would not be a counter-erosion of rice, not only did I not catch anything, but I also lost a boat, and half of my manpower was lost.
Perhaps the only consolation was that his Severe Winter had not suffered much damage in the battle just now, so he did have the idea of taking down the Jackdaw to make up for the loss, but the other party did not continue to follow up, so the Severe Winter could only leave in disgrace.
The battle came and went quickly, and although the process in the middle was thrilling and tortuous, less than twenty minutes passed from the beginning of the Winter's fire on the Whyda to the former's escape.
The situation of the Vida was a little more serious than Hutchison had predicted, the leak in the bottom compartment was serious, and although the carpenters had been repairing it, the water had reached the lap of the paddle pirate, and the black helmsman's previous U-turn was only for show, and in the current condition of the Vader, it was impossible to have a second round of fighting.
Before the Severe Winter had completely left the Vidah, it had already organized emergency repairs, and all of them, including the black helmsman Eric, mobilized to find everything they could find at hand to plug the holes in the hull, while the others pumped out the stagnant water from the bottom of the ship, and finally controlled the situation after a long day, so that the drainage rate exceeded the water inflow rate.
At this time, Sam, the black prince on the Spear of the Goddess, also took stock of the goods, and the Severe Winter made the distribution easier, and the two sides now only need to divide it in half.
With a little apology on his face, he said, "Thank you for your help this time, it stands to reason that I should give you more loot, but this time the Vader is badly damaged, and it will probably cost a lot of money to completely repair it, so I owe you a favor this time." ”
Zhang Heng had no objection to this distribution plan, and said, "Captain Sam is too polite, if there is no Vader, we will be the ones who are flanked, and if we can complete the counterattack and sink the opposite ship in that situation, this sea area is probably only the righteous thieves can do it." ”
Black Prince Sam shrugged his shoulders, it was indeed not easy to turn defeat into victory in the situation that the Vader was in at that time, he did not hesitate to praise himself, "Eric is very good at commanding the battle, he can actually be the captain of the ship himself, I have told him many times, but he doesn't seem to be interested in this." ”
The two chatted as they completed the distribution of goods, the Black Prince Sam was probably the best talker of all the top captains in Nassau, and he had an indescribable charm about him that made people feel close, although he himself had always been very modest, attributing the strength of the pirate group to the strength of his men.
But if anyone really thinks so, it would be very wrong, all the people in the group of thieves can find a replacement, but the captain of the black prince Sam is unique, without his strong personal charm, there is no way to unite this group of pirates,
Most powerful people have a big temper, which is an eternal truth. The whole group of pirates searched up and down, and the only one who could convince everyone was the Black Prince Sam, a captain who seemed to be ordinary in every way.
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The Jackdaw sailed back from a distance, and Anne fished out a few pirates who had fallen overboard on the way, all of whom belonged to the pirate ship that had been sunk by the Vader, and after some torture, finally figured out the origin of the group.
The pirate group led by Hutchison has only recently appeared, they were not pirates, but armed privateers, but encountered a merchant ship on the way, the latter flew the British flag, which is supposed to be an unlooting object, but after finding that it was carrying a large amount of silk, the Severe Winter could not resist the temptation to attack the merchant ship, and then in order to prevent the wind from being revealed, he also killed all the crew members above, but he did not expect to be betrayed by his own people in the end.
Hutchison got the news in advance and fled the harbor with the rest of the crew, but they had no clues about the prey, and went to sea for two weeks without finding anything, when they met two groups of pirates for a ship of booty, and Hutchison helped one of the pirates eliminate their opponents, and finally not only shared the spoils, but also got the gratitude of the other pirate ship, but Hutchison turned his head and suddenly attacked the latter, and killed the unsuspecting pirate ship, and took the trophy for himself.
Having tasted the sweetness, Hutchison decided that it was a good deal to eat black and black, so he decided to divide a part of his men on the ship he had just captured, and recruited a group of new men on the shore to guard the area where pirates were most frequented, robbing passing merchant ships and attacking the pirate ships that were full of them.
He is very cunning, the two ships act separately, not too far apart, through the reflection of the mirror to transmit the message, one ship entangles the other, the other pretends to pass by, at first will help the attacked pirates to deal with their own pirate ship, and then turn around at the critical moment, and finally take down the opponent effortlessly.
Hutchison's maneuver of dodging cannonballs with one hand was also practiced at that time, and many pirates who were stronger than them suffered at their hands, this time Hutchison just changed his routine slightly, but the core idea did not change, but he did not deal with the Vader simply for the spoils of war.
During this time, Hutchison's pirate career was going well, his ambitions began to swell, and making money could no longer fully satisfy him, and he also wanted to spread his name all over the seas, if he could take the famous Vader, then he could also replace the Black Prince as a famous pirate.
It's a pity that this time he kicked the iron plate, obviously Captain Sam had already disembarked with some elites, and he deceived everyone with his superb acting skills, and successfully completed the pincer attack on the Vida, but in the end, he was killed by the Vader, who had been cornered.