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【Nautical Panel】

Name: Lu Yuan (Title: Racer)

ID: 23579

Points: 3000 (kill Silver Pinnacle Contractor) +3000 (capture Trinidad port)

Reputation: 1500 + 500 (Racer) + 1200 (Trinidad) + 300 (Slayer) [Villain's Excellent Captain]

Health: Physically strong

Load: 27/120Kg

Personal Stunts (4+1/6 items): Activation Rope, Mind Detection, Fireball Technique, Roaring Technique, Identification Technique (only in this world).

Ship Capabilities: Nautical 67+10 (can control ships below four stars), Precision 83, Gun 32, Receiver 47, Leader 38, Ship Repair 23, Trade 6

Ship Stunts: Precision Shooting, Heroic Deck, Basic Defense, Speed Increase, Good Guy Captain.

【New】

Catch the wind: You can feel the subtle changes in air currents and ocean currents and make good use of them. (When you're helmsman, the boat's performance is increased by 10%; When you are only the captain of the ship. 5% improvement in boat performance. ）

(New Title)

Slayer: You didn't hesitate to kill a hundred people who didn't like you with your cannon! Attaboy! (When you equip this title, manage +10.) +10% lethality against sailors, greatly increases the opponent's will to resist! ）

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After a series of battles in just a few days. From the one-on-two challenge of Coral Bay to the occupation of Trinidad Port by a single ship, with victory after victory, Lu Yuan's various values have once again stood on the pinnacle of the contractor! Despite forming such a formidable enemy as Spain, he also grew his reputation from "obscurity" to "famous" pirate captain.

Maybe it's because of the increased prestige, or maybe it's because of the deterrence of the killing...... In short, not only did the sailors on the ship become much more obedient, making his command more fluent. After the pirates of the port of Trinidad took possession of the Governor's Palace, they did not dare to come to him for trouble.

The whole port of Trinidad was tacitly divided into three parts, and the robbers occupied the governor's palace and dug three feet there; Lu Yuan occupies the dock, constantly sifting through the spoils of war; McLaren and the rest of the gunners were trapped in the battery, and Lu Yuan did not bother them, and the pirates did not dare to provoke them. McLaren had nothing but wet gunpowder, and he had not slept all night on the edge of the battery, and no one knew what he was thinking.

The temporary silence gave Lu Yuan more time to comb through the loot. Move more cargo. So three thousand barrels of rum were returned to him, muskets and scimitars and bayonets were replenished into the empty arsenal, and he chose two more good ships...... Preliminary estimates. The rest of the looted things are worth at least 210,000 pesos, except for what they want to use!

The most pity is the five hundred rifled flintlock pistols - McLaren is not unwilling to equip soldiers, he is probably pitted. This gun requires special bullets wrapped in oilcloth. Each reload needs to be hammered in little by little along the rifling of the barrel. Can't ...... fast yet Although the range is long, the accuracy is high. However, the reload time was ten times longer than that of ordinary flintlock guns, and there was no value in equipping the army at all.

Lu Yuan couldn't use it, the "musket salvo" was a job, and the density and persistence of firepower were much more important than accuracy. He had the carpenter build a waterproof box on the lookout, which contained ten rifled flintlock pistols for Jacques to use as a sniper.

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"What are they doing?"

It seems that this wet morning has also regained some of the energy of McLaren, which had been standing all night, and it is no longer so lifeless. He stood on an empty battery and looked through his binoculars in the direction of the docks. When he saw something strange, he consulted directly with the staff around him - in a somewhat low tone, but still very calm. Since he chose to raise the white flag, it seems that overnight, McLaren has also become much more mature.

After the same night's vigil, the tired musketeer captain also picked up a monocular and joined in the observation.

They saw that although the Portuguese "Louis" remained on his own "Kraken", Elizabeth and his stormtrooper Auguste slowly sailed away from the harbor with two four-star Frut merchant ships and headed east.

The Frute Merchant Marine is a Dutch-built flute-type ship with weak firepower but huge cargo capacity and excellent sailing performance, making it the best ocean-going merchant ship. The two ships had a deep draft, and although they had all the sails on their three masts open, they could only drag their heavy hulls in the direction of Port-au-Prince.

"Looks like he's trying to empty Trinidad, greedy Portuguese." McLaren said with some joking that he had been mentally prepared for this since the port fell.

"Those two ships from the Eckert Chamber of Commerce?! They also dare to rob the cargo ships of the Great Chamber of Commerce? The Portuguese are really desperate! Did he want to transport the loot first? Didn't he want Trinidad? The Musketeer captain wondered if Trinidad's true wealth lay in his location. Whoever occupies this port can sell it for a good price.

"No, that's a smart thing to do......" McLaren shook his head, no more explanation. He has provoked one of the most powerful countries, so it doesn't matter if the Chamber of Commerce or something. What's more, the relationship between the Eckert Chamber of Commerce and Morgan is ambiguous, and it is not very clean. Wasn't the reason why they were robbed of the ship because their crews had gone to rob the Governor's Palace? ”

McLaren's last sentence is gritted teeth! The captain of the musket smiled helplessly.

Because the port of Trinidad was divided by force, the sailors and guards who fled had nowhere to go, after nightfall. They returned to the fort one after another, and also brought back the latest news. This allowed McLaren and his staff to understand the cause and effect of the incident.

"If our fleet comes back......" Captain Musket finally said this most difficult question!

Theoretically. The commander of the local fleet and the governor are half a rank apart, and in wartime they can refuse unreasonable orders, such as surrender......

Therefore, if the fleet and the "Kraken" have a big battle, as long as the Portuguese are defeated, the whole battle will be reversed in an instant, and it will become a situation of no loss and no win! The rest of the pirates had nothing to worry about. But both McLaren and the Musketeer Captain knew that McLaren was a two-time man, he and the temporarily appointed Fleet Commander. It is an absolute superior-subordinate relationship! He surrendered, and the fleet had to surrender.

With the honor of the nobility on one side and the victory on the other, McLaren is undoubtedly suffering!

Perhaps because of this, McLaren did not directly answer the question of the musket captain, "I still have a batch of muskets under the battery, old-fashioned, and they can still be used." Let everyone peel off the wet gunpowder and find a dry one to store. Assign the muskets down. As soon as the Portuguese have withdrawn, you will immediately take all the men and raid the Doge's Palace...... Kill all the pirates over there! ”

"There are some understaff!" The Musketeer captain did not shy away from the difficulties. With a hundred against three hundred, he didn't think he would have a chance of winning.

"Rest assured, there are still the manpower of the Trinidad local fleet!" McLaren's voice. Like a cold wind blowing through the cracks of a glacier, "wait until the local fleet returns." You go and join them with my command. I will officially appoint him commander of the Trinidad local fleet! Ask him to fight for the honor of the kingdom!

If he wins, don't worry about me as a captive. Preferential negotiation of port ownership; If he fails, I will use my nobility to bear all the consequences! Even if he is stepped into the water again, even if he becomes a noble disgrace, even if he loses his inheritance, I don't care, I just ask him to put down all his burdens and fight with his opponent in a dignified manner! As for the manpower you want...... After that, we have enough people to win or lose. ”

Captain Musket is terrified, McLaren! It's really changed!

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At noon, when the teased fleet returned to Trinidad in a rage, they found that everything in the harbor had become unrecognizable! The pirate flag was erected on the Doge's Palace, the white flag of shame fluttered on the forts, and the "Kraken"? She anchored alone in the open sea of the harbor, quietly waiting for their return!

When the ships and batteries were exchanged for messengers in small boats, the Trinidad local fleet fell silent! It's just that in this silence, a volcanic flame is suppressed, and the entire fleet is on fire! The Kraken moved forward, firing three shots in three directions with precision, clearly demarcating the "scope of the battlefield", and then retreated to one side, giving up space for the Trinidad local fleet to be stationed.

The Trinidad local fleet sailed proudly into the predetermined battlefield and launched a majestic battle off the coast of Trininian Harbor. The number of ships on both sides was equal to three, and the conscripted "Esmeralda" withdrew from this sea duel, which had long been extinct in the middle of the Age of Discovery.

However, the battle lasted less than an hour......

Lu Yuan, who piloted the "Kraken" to fight the "Barrier" again, showed a completely different style from before!

If last time it was an assassin in the shadows, this time it's the untimely light cavalry!

He was no longer obsessed with letting the boat survive every shell unscathed.

As long as it is a small-caliber cannon that can resist, he would rather take a salvo than give up a fleeting fighter! So when the "Kraken" withstood the shelling of the boat "Rosario", directly smashed the boat blocking the way, and then broke the main mast of the "Barrier" with a volley of accurate chain bullets, the battle was actually over......

Even if the "Kraken" became brave and resolute, compared with her nimble and heroic fighting posture, the defects of the Galen ship and the merchant ship in turning clumsily and difficulty in grabbing the wind, even in a small and barrier-free battlefield, were still infinitely magnified, and the clumsy performance like an obese person constantly stung McLaren's eyes!

In the end, the four-star merchant ship "Ferrer" was broken rudder and rear mast and withdrew from the battle; The six-star reconnaissance ship "Rosario" was boarded and a white flag was raised; Only the "Barrier" galleon, all the way to the three masts were broken. When the rudder blew up, smoke billowed from the ship. They continued to fight like a floating battery until McLaren ordered them to surrender.

When McLaren's staff evacuated the Barrier with all the sailors. The similarly scarred "Kraken" stopped a hundred meters away, and with one salvo shot pierced the powder magazine of the Galen ship.

In the skyrocketing flames of the explosion of the "Barrier", she made a graceful arc and sailed away.

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McLaren dressed the torn Doge costume as neatly as possible, pressed his sword, pressed his hat against his chest, and stood alone on the turret, saluting the sinking "Barrier".

Galen's galleon was hula and burning, with a few pierced wounds. And the explosion blew through the huge trauma that had already made its hull seriously tilted......

At this time, his staff officers walked up briskly along the alley of the fort.

"I'm sorry, Your Excellency! We...... Lost. Officer No. 1 bowed his head deeply in front of McLaren, and several of the younger officers behind him were already crying out loud.

McLaren looked at the officers' staff, their bodies covered in gunsmoke and blood. Everyone has wounds big and small, and the fatigue of traveling for a day and a night. Especially the middle-aged officer No. 1, when he took off his hat and lowered his head. McLaren could clearly see that in the middle of his pale hair, there was a huge wound that tore half of his scalp open, but it was simply bandaged......

"Thank you! You've done your best! You have shown the enemy the honor of the Imperial Navy. Worthy of the military uniform on your body! Let's ...... Sending off the 'Barrier'. Leave the rest to me, the unsuccessful governor, to take care of the rest. ”

"Your Excellency!" "Your Excellency!" They looked at McLaren in shock.

McLaren shook his head. Re-establish yourself towards the sinking Barrier.

The staff stopped their admonishing voices and stood in a neat line behind him. Quietly watching the burning galleons of Galen.

Three minutes later, the gunpowder warehouse on the west side of the ship was also set on fire, and the Galen ship was broken in two in a blinding explosion...... By the time everyone's vision recovered from the white shadows, there were only two pieces of the ship left floating on the bottom of the boat, like the belly of a big fish, drifting towards the depths of the sea with the current.

It is said that in the depths of the sea, there is a city made entirely of the wreckage of ships, which is said to be the place where the god of the sea, Colybuso, is stationed in the mortal world, and is the final destination of every sunken ship......

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"That's Spain!" McLaren suddenly pointed to the sunken ship, and all the staff looked up at him in surprise.

"Let me do it...... Tell the truth! Ma Karen's hand rubbed his hat, and then fell to the side hard, "The era of the gangside is over, the era of the Galen ship is over, even the era of the Spanish Empire is over!" I can already see that on the ships of the future, there will be only gunners enough, and the marines will become dispensable...... What we have always been reluctant to admit is clearly displayed today by twenty 16-pounder guns! ”

McLaren gave a military salute to his staff, "Everyone, after today...... It's no longer possible for me to have an independent staff group! You are all pillars of the Imperial Navy, and I will ask my father to arrange it for you! Please accept my respect, it is the honor of my life to be able to fight with you! ”

The staff looked at each other uncomfortably, and now this mature and assertive McLaren seemed to be completely different from the person they knew! If it was the original person, what he probably had to do was to cry to his father first, and then put all the blame on the staff.

The current McLaren is not only uncomfortable, but also makes people really have the idea of allegiance.

Therefore, the captain of the musket, who saw McLaren's transformation most clearly, stepped forward first, "Your Excellency, can you ask you what you plan to do next?" ”

"I will join the British Navy as an ordinary person! The Portuguese used the tactics of the British, and if he could learn it, so could I! I wanted to learn more about the British navy and their ideas for the design of ships, and then bring it back to Spain. For the first time, a sincere smile appeared on his face that was not arrogant or aristocratic, "The Galen ship is old, but my Spain is forever young!" ”

"Your Excellency! Please let me keep following you!! (To be continued......)