Chapter 396: Captain Barbossa!
Most of the true face of the black battleship in front of him was hidden in the diffuse hazy mist, and the thin mist seemed to have turned into substance, casting a veil of mystery over it. The black-clad battleship resembles a gypsy dancer, obscuring her pretty face with a veil of mystery, but dimly revealing a few rays of chūn light, evoking the imagination of the mind.
At this time, however, the beautiful "black saree" seemed to be in a state of enragment, with the rumbling of cannons, smoke and dazzling fire spewing out from her starboard side, and the scorching cannonballs destroying the two-masted schooner. As if she were a depraved black widow, her mouth spewed out countless vicious curses like sharp blades.
The poor brig schooner had only twelve guns on one side, and such a ship, in front of the Black Pearl, was like a little girl with a weak wind. The Black Pearl has more than twice as many guns on one side, up to 28 guns!
You might say that 28 doors is not as much as the 30 doors per side of the main character's Ranger, wouldn't it damage the prestige of the Black Pearl?
There is a reason for this, the Ranger, or all cruisers, is a light ocean-going warship for escort and combat positioning. But also precisely because it is light, in general, the cruiser will be equipped with no more than 24 pounds of artillery! For example, the Ranger is equipped with an 18-pounder cannon.
And the Black Pearl, Han Xing is sure that most of its equipment is a 24-pounder cannon! Its range and power are far above the cruiser, and they cannot be said to be the same, but generally speaking, when the cruiser encounters the galleon, the result must be that the cruiser wins, why?
Because the cruiser is more maneuverable and faster, it can easily go around the stern or directly in front of the galleon, and occupy a favorable position. And its relatively low hull also made it more difficult for the guns on the Galen galleons to hit.
After all, cruisers are born for battle, and Galen sailing ships are the definition of merchant ships, of course, everything is not inevitable, and it is not that there are no cases of Galen sailing ships counter-killing cruisers, such as ramming, broadside, relatively light, and less personnel cruisers are vulnerable in front of large-scale Galen sailing ships.
"You've entered the waters where the Black Pearl is! Your main quest, Finding the Black Pearl, has been completed! You get 100 points reward! ”
"Since you are the first individual/team to reach the designated sea, you are rewarded with 200 extra points!"
"You have accepted the main quest and encountered the Black Pearl, and you must hold out under the attack of the Black Pearl until the Interceptor arrives!"
"Warning: Failure to complete this mission will cause serious adverse consequences to the development of this world drama (qíng)!"
"So, now is the very beginning of the Pirates of the Caribbean World Drama (qíng), and isn't the two-masted schooner in front of you the same one Will Turner was on?" Han Xing originally felt that the scene in front of him was a little familiar, but as soon as he heard the new task, Han Xing suddenly became enlightened. The two-masted clipper in front of you is the burning ship that was cut off in the middle at the beginning of Pirates of the Caribbean!
And one of the main characters, Will Turner (shēn) is in this schooner at this time. The so-called "serious adverse consequences" are probably that Elizabeth Swan could not save Will Turner just right, and without that pirate gold coin, there would naturally be no follow-up story!
"I'll go, is this task so difficult? Do you want me to hold out under the attack of the Black Pearl until Norrington's Interceptor arrives? God knows when Norrington will come! Han Xing cried for a while in his heart.
"By the way, Brother Sugarcane, have you received a mission prompt?" Han Xing wanted to know if he was the only one who received such a perverted task, so he asked Li Xinshu next to him.
"I also received it, this is the prologue of the Pirates of the Caribbean world, that ship, it must be the one that Will Turner Jr. sits!" Li Xinshu trembled as he looked at the looming silhouette of the Black Pearl in the fog in the distance, and then looked at the merchant ship road in front of him, which kept coming with an overwhelmed creaking sound.
"That black sailboat looks so weird, ghostly, and no matter how I look at it, I can't really see it, as long as I see it, my vision is inexplicably blurred!" From the watchtower at the top of the mast came Lyanna's voice.
"Look! That merchant ship, it's on fire! Lyanna exclaimed. Following her gaze, she saw that the already overwhelmed schooner had been caught in flames, accompanied by a small explosion, apparently hit by the ammunition bin where the gunpowder was stored.
The smoke billowed and the flames soared into the sky, and even the strange fog around it was diluted a lot by the skyrocketing firelight, and then there was a particularly violent explosion in the middle of the ship (shēn), the ship (shēn) broke in two from the middle, and a large number of daily necessities and goods floated out of the breach, mostly some round oak barrels, which were mostly stored with some lighter goods, so that they were able to float on the sea.
At this moment, the Black Pearl, which was sailing southwest like the Ranger, suddenly made a beautiful left turn, leaving a perfect arc on the sea, and turned around and headed in the direction of the Ranger.
"Port side, reload the chainball!" Without thinking about it, Han Xing gave the order to load the chain bomb, which is also the best plan for naval warfare against the fast ship, using the chain bomb to hit the opponent's sails to slow down its speed, so as to gain speed and maneuverability. In this way, whether it is fighting or escaping, you will gain the initiative.
The speed of the Black Pearl was very fast, and Han Xing visually estimated that its speed was definitely more than 30 knots (1852 m/h, 30 knots is 55 km/h), or even higher, maybe 35 knots (about 64 km/h)!
And the speed of the Ranger is also not slow, the speed of the Ranger is also around twenty-eight knots (about 51 km/h), after all, today is not a tailwind day, but it is not a headwind day, if the wind is downwind, the speed of the Ranger can reach more than thirty-five knots.
In the blink of an eye, the two ships entered the (shè) journey, but the first to fire was the Black Pearl, the fire flickered in the fog, the smoke was filled, and the solid bullets that came out of the disembowelment flew with a sound of breaking through the air (shè), and several heavy shots smashed on the Ranger ship (shēn), but most of them only skimmed from above, the Black Pearl was a galleon after all, with a total of seven cabins, and its gun deck height was even above the top deck of the Ranger.
Rao was like this, Han Xing was also frightened enough by the cannonballs whistling over his head, and hurriedly lowered (shēn) and hid under the side of the ship, I have to say that even Nelson's Victory did not bring Han Xing so much pressure. Because no matter how legendary the Victory is, it is an ordinary warship after all, and it is necessary to pay attention to science. And the Black Pearl in front of him, just the amazing "drift" just now, can make Brother Newton crawl out of the coffin so angry that he scolds!
Han Xing never gave the order to open the artillery, he knew that in the early days when the accuracy of guns was not developed, the closer they were, the higher the accuracy, the higher the hit rate, and the greater the lethality. It wasn't until the Black Pearl entered within one hundred and fifty meters that Han Xing pulled out his heartbreak and ordered the port side to open fire.
The chain bullet with its long tail dragged seemed to be a sharp blade, flying (shè) towards the black sails of the Black Pearl, and the sound of cloth tearing in the ears came into the ears. The already tattered sails of the Black Pearl were filled with a few hideous gaps. However, the speed of the Black Pearl did not slow down in the slightest!
"It's miserable!" If Han Xing was just a guess before, now it is certain that the forward momentum of this "Black Saris" does not come from the sails, but some kind of incomprehensible energy or to put it bluntly - magic!
"I can feel that the ship is wrapped in some mysterious energy, it must be a kind of magic! It's just that it's not any system I've ever seen, (yīn) cold, wet, and cold, like some kind of curse, a trace of necromancy! Le Vons closed his eyes and said as he meditated.
"Port side, reload grapeshot!" Han Xing didn't care about it so much, he directly took out the notebook with a red leather cover and some wrinkles in the corners - [Napoleon's Artillery Tactics], and chose to use [Break One by One], and suddenly a purple luster gushed out from it, quickly spreading and covering the Ranger, leaving a faint purple light on the surface of the Ranger's oak hull.
As the distance between the two sides shortened to within 100 meters, Han Xing could already faintly see the bow of the Black Pearl and the shadow (shēn) that pierced through, it was a pirate leader with slightly curly hair, a weathered face, and a hawkish look at the wolf, wearing a wide-brimmed hat decorated with blue and yellow feathers, perhaps because it had not been changed or cleaned for a long time, or because it had been baptized by the wind and rain, it was a dull gray, and he could only barely make out the original color of the feather.
On his left shoulder stood a monkey squatting, grinning in the direction of the Ranger. The captain took out a green apple, took a vicious bite, chewed it twice, and then shoved the remaining half of the apple into the monkey's mouth on his shoulder and said, "Calm (easy), calm down, Jack, we will tear them apart, yes!" We will chew their blood (ròu), suck (shǔn) their bone marrow, chew their bones ~~ No one, no one can slip out of the hands of my Captain Barbossa! ”
The pirate captain spoke with a lot of vigour, and with a "poof" mouthful, he spat out the chewed fruit (ròu) in his mouth, the delicious and juicy fruit (ròu) tasted like chewing wax to him, and he ate the fresh fruit (ròu), but spit out gray dust.
"This damn curse!" He cursed viciously, then wiped the juice from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve.
This scene all fell into Han Xing's eyes, and he immediately exclaimed, "Barbossa! ”。
This Captain Barbossa is probably the closest pirate captain to reality in the Pirates of the Caribbean! He is a representative (xìng) figure of pirates, a villain, a gambler, a scoundrel, and a traitor, but he still has his own code of conduct, and is a brilliant and capable pirate captain.
His unique voice, tone, and richness of the qíng, as well as the tragic ending at the end, make him a charismatic character in the Pirates of the Caribbean series that is not inferior to the protagonist Jack Sparrow.