Chapter 232: Half a Year
Counting the days when Wang Hao stopped in London, this time, he left the Caribbean for half a year, which can be called the longest trip since coming to this world.
At this time, Wang Hao, who had been away for half a year and did not know anything about the recent situation in the Caribbean, was directing his car to sail in the direction of Nassau.
However, just as he was approaching Nassau, Wang Hao sensed a hint of something wrong at the end of the sea level.
After half a year, Nassau actually built a huge fortress!
Although you can't see the number of guns and pounds on the battery, even with your toes can imagine that this huge masonry structure that juts out of the sea is definitely not Benjamin's observation deck built to develop Nassau's tourism industry.
"U-turn, let's go to Tortuga!" Wang Hao turned his head to the helmsman and gave orders.
"What? Nassau, Captain, has no reason to go out of our way to such a chaotic and backward place......"
"Shut up! I'm the captain of the ship, and everyone on this ship is going to do my bidding before I go ashore! ”
Wang Hao unceremoniously interrupted the helmsman's words, and pushed him to the side, taking the helm himself.
The weather was fine today, and the direction to Nassau was smooth, and it was at this time of hesitation that the Equality was getting closer to Nassau.
If Nassau's new fort had been equipped with large-caliber cannons, it would not be a few minutes before the Equality would have been in their range.
With Wang Hao's order, although the other sailors didn't understand what was happening, they all moved quickly, Wang Hao hit the steering wheel, and the Equality drew a beautiful arc on the sea, turned and sailed towards Tortuga.
At this time, inside the bunker, a navy put down the monocular in his hand and reported to the officer next to him: "Commodore Norrington, this ship flying the Thunder Pirate flag turned its bow when it came within range of the artillery, and now it is gone. ”
James Norrington fiercely shook the naval bayonet sword straddling his waist and said coldly: "We have received an order to stay here, then let him go." ”
casually caught a merchant ship at sea for a little supply, and Wang Hao impatiently urged everyone to go to Tortuga.
Wang Hao always had a feeling that something must have happened in the Caribbean in the past six months, and there is a high probability that Cutler Beckett was the little guy who did it.
This feeling was confirmed from the side when the Equality arrived in the port of Tortuga.
When the ship flying the black flag with the lightning piercing the skull symbol appeared in the port of Tortuga, Wang Hao could clearly feel that the people in the entire port were looking at him wrongly.
In the past, these cowards never dared to look directly at themselves, and the eyes of their eyes were mostly in awe, and some were afraid of them.
And now, Wang Hao can see some other emotions in the eyes of this group of cowards, such as schadenfreude.
Now there is an urgent need for information about the recent Caribbean, especially the piles and piles that have happened in the past six months, and Wang Hao wants to know in detail.
In the end, Wang Hao found him in a dilapidated tavern and wanted to find someone.
This is a drunkard, a sailor who doesn't even dare to set foot on deck again, and at the same time he has an identity, a survivor of the port of Nassau four months ago.
Every time he talked about that day four months ago, he would tremble and scream in pain.
In his intermittent telling, Wang Hao roughly understood the beginning and end of the matter.
Back to five months ago, when Wang Hao was still driving the Equality to London, the sharp roar of cannons pierced the sky in the harbor full of pirate ships in Nassau.
"Damn! Who had the audacity to run in the harbor of Nassau?! ”
"Haha, I guess which navy is not afraid of death wants to show off its might here."
"Hmph, is that the Navy that just arrived in Havana? They probably don't know whose territory it is! ”
The sound of the cannon naturally attracted the attention of the pirates who were having fun in the harbor, but very few people would actually come out to check on the situation.
Nassau is a safe place where anyone can find pleasure in comfort, as all pirates agree on, and it is the greatest result of Benjamin's years of hard work.
Today, however, was completely different from any of the previous ones, and if they were willing to put down the wine, beauty, or gambling equipment in their hands and take a look at the port, they might be able to perceive that this time the situation was probably different.
Not far from the harbor, a first-class battleship named the Dreadnought was moored.
Experienced sailors could tell at a glance that the Dreadnought was anchored just outside the range of the pirates' small-caliber guns.
James Norrington, who had just resumed his status as a brigadier general, rowed seven or eight small boats to the dock, surrounded by a group of navy officers in red naval uniforms and spears in their hands.
Stepping onto the docks, in the face of the hostile gaze of the pirates, Brigadier General Norrington was undaunted and shouted: "We want to meet the leaders of this island, Benjamin Hornigold, Edward Titch, and Samus Bellamy, please take us to them!" ”
Soon after, Benjamin's men arrived at the docks and took James Norrington and his party to Benjamin's executive residence, where they had a secret conversation behind closed doors.
And after Commodore Norrington left, a dozen battleships blocked all entry and exit points in Nassau from the sea, as they had done in Havana.
No entry or exit is allowed, and any ship that moves is abnormal will be blown to pieces by the new large-caliber cannon.
This blockade has been going on for a month.
At this time, it was a coincidence that the plague began to break out in Nassau, and under the great pressure of lack of food and medicine, and facing death every day, many pirates began to loot shops and kill each other unscrupulously, and the little foundation that Nassau had just established was wiped out in an instant.
Benjamin, who has always regarded the Pirate Republic of Nassau as his own forbidden and self-proclaimed king, turned a blind eye to this and just lived his own life behind closed doors.
"It's Benjamin! It's this bastard who betrayed us! The drunkard cried out in a hoarse voice, "He has deceived us, telling us that a booty operation no less than Cape Guarico needs manpower, especially since you and Blackbeard and Black Sam are not in Nassau, and more manpower is needed." As a result, we had just assembled in Nassau, and the navy blocked Nassau! ”
"What we didn't expect was that after a month of blockade, the Navy bombarded Nassau, and with the large-caliber guns of our huge battleships, we didn't even have a chance to fight back. Subsequently, thousands of navy landed and killed anyone they saw. Everyone, the ship, the building was destroyed......"