Chapter 35: Embarkation

Fidel in the back didn't expect John to paralyze two small gunboats at one time and have no combat ability, so he panicked for a while. As the commander-in-chief of the fleet, he lost two gunboats due to his own command mistakes, even if he had some power in his own family, it was a very troublesome thing to deal with. Now only by sinking this pirate ship and returning to the fortress to resolve the crisis there, can it be solved with credit. Thinking of this, Fidel ordered all the crew to speed up and not let the pirate ship slip away.

John saw that the main battleship over there was already heading towards his side, and he also guessed the other party's plan: it seemed that he wanted to catch him alive. Thinking of this, John stopped the cheering sailors, "We are about to face a fierce battle, do you see that big fellow? He is coming soon!" John looked at them: "We have crushed them, and with a naval battle, we have spread our name throughout the Mediterranean!"

"Good!" cheered the sailors and returned to their posts.

John looked up: "George, report the location, we told them before they approached us, we are not easy to mess with!"

Then there was another chase, and this time Fidel did not dare to let the remaining gunboat go after him, so he could only let it go with him, which made him face the mortar shells falling from the sky as much as he did.

"Damn, what a cunning pirate!" Fidel looked at the stern of John's ship with his pipe, so angry that he almost kicked the co-captain at the helm away: "Hurry up! Don't let him run!" and then ordered the bow gun: "Fire! fire at me!" But the rage did not increase the range of the cannon, and all the shells fell into the sea water behind John, and the splash of water seemed to Fidel to laugh at his own inadequacy, which made him even more angry.

But even so, he has no good way, and now the pirate is attacking with weapons that have a longer range than him, and he can't catch up with him

You can only be beaten in the back. But fortunately, as long as the luck is not too bad, something as unlucky as breaking the sail and hitting the powder keg happens, the damage to the hull is not serious. "Just wait until this damn pirate is out of shells...... Fidel, who was hiding under cover. As long as there are no mortars, the threat to himself is minimized, and it is difficult for his small cannons to pose a serious threat to himself, but his own ship ...... Thinking of this, Fidel glanced at the side of the ship: I have 12 doors on one side of my ship, and one salvo can send these damned pirates to the bottom of the sea!

Yes, although Fidel initially incapacitated two gunboats due to his own light enemy, this does not mean that he was an unqualified navy. He was right, John's mortar reserves were running out, but that didn't stop John, who had not planned mortars in the first place. So, after the mortars were already exhausted, John ordered the ship to turn around, ride the wind, and use the huge ramming angle at the front of the ship to slam into the last gunboat that had not yet reacted.

In the desperate eyes of the captain of the last gunboat, the big one, twice as long as his own, leaked its hideous fangs and slammed headfirst into the bow of his ship. Even though the gunboat had a ramming horn installed in the bow, when he faced the collision of John's ship, he looked like a giant wielding a dagger, and it was too late to steer at this time, and he might even expose the fragile hull to the impact of the ramming horn, which meant that he could only collide with the giant head-on. The captain closed his eyes and prayed, hoping only that his boat would not disintegrate from the impact.

At this time, Fidel's eyes were also wide, he couldn't have imagined that this wave of pirates would be so rampant, facing the hull of a warship and a frigate larger than it, he actually dared to rush over directly, the most important thing is that he has no way to stop it now, he can't use the body of the flagship to block the attack of the frigate, what can I do if the flagship is damaged at that time!

Fidel could only order all the guns to be ready to fire, and at the same time turn the hull of the ship and deal a heavy blow after the corsair collided with the escort gunboat and stopped, even if it could not be stopped.

Yes, he succeeded. John's boat stopped itself after ramming the small gunboat, although it smashed the bow of the small gunboat directly. At this moment, Fidel's flagship had already turned, and all the gun ports on the right side were opened, and a volley was fired at John's ship, making a large hole in the right side of John's ship, and the sea breeze was whistling into the hull.

Seeing that the hull was damaged, John hurriedly turned the rudder and drove the boat out of the small gunboat, allowing the sea water to pour through the hole in the gunboat's bow. Under the horrified gaze of the crew of the small gunboat, the small gunboat began to slowly sink to the bottom of the sea. But this was not John's concern, at this time he said to the crew: "You see, our ship has been damaged, but there is still a good warship there, much better than our own, what should we do now?" The sailors naturally understood what John meant: "Let them see the strength of pirates!"

Yes, at John's instigation, the broken battleship went straight to the last flagship of the Combined Fleet.

Fidel looked at the situation: could it be that this group of pirates still wanted to take over the battle? Thinking of this, she could not suppress her anger, and ordered the navy, which was loading the artillery, to stop and get ready to go to the deck to prepare for the pit stop. "It's time to give these damned Brits a taste of the wrath of the overlord at sea!" In fact, there is no better way not to prepare for close combat, after all, the artillery loading at this time is not something that can be completed in a short time, it is better to give up the useless work and prepare directly for the broadside battle.

Seeing that the other party was also ready to engage in broadside battle, John ordered the ship to lean over, and without waiting for the sailors to hang the cable hook on the opposite side, he climbed on the mast and grabbed a cable and swung it from a high place, letting go of the hand holding the cable in the air, and with the other hand he held a sailor's knife and plunged it straight into the neck of a tall ordinary soldier who was not caught at random at first glance. Before the soldier could react, John killed him outright.

John, who landed safely, saw that his knife was stuck in the bones of the dead soldier on his back, and there were already soldiers behind him who were slashing at him with knives, so he rolled on the ground to avoid the attack, and at the same time picked up the boarding axe held by the burly soldier just now in his hand, and lay on the ground and was not in a hurry to stand up, and swung the axe directly at the hand of the soldier who had just seen. With John's great force, the axe cut off the soldier's hand, and the severed hand fell to the deck with the soldier's screams.

John stood up and saw that his sailors had also boarded the ship, and were engaged in a two-by-one battle with the navy. John is not idle, he is looking for the captain of the ship, in John's mind, the captain is the symbol of a ship, if you want to take the ship as soon as possible, the best way is to kill or capture the captain. Thinking of this, John began to look around, and saw that sailors who were besieged by the navy would also go up to the rescue, or take the navy's flintlock pistol to attack the enemy who was preparing to shoot in the distance.

After John freed the three besieged crew members, he found a well-dressed man who was engaged with a saber and the three crew members surrounding him. This person seems to have good swordsmanship, although the besieged of him are only ordinary people who have not learned swordsmanship, but he is not afraid of their numerical superiority. John didn't care if it was the captain or not, anyway, it was better to go and deal with him first. Thinking of this, John rushed over with an axe in both hands.