At the sight of the word "pirate," the people on board returned to their posts like rabbits suddenly frightened, and Lord William's face turned white with fright.

Walker, the lookout, quickly climbed down from the mast, ran to Lord William, and shouted: "Captain, it is a rampant bandit who has come, and I don't know which country's navy is pretending, and when he sees our Spanish flag, he will come to look for trouble, it should be British, there are three ships, all of them are clippers." ”

Lord William couldn't help but curse: "Shit! It's these shit-like Britons again, how far away are we and is it possible to escape? ”

Walker hurriedly said, "Captain, the other party is not too far away from us. ”

Then he stopped talking, and then turned his gaze to the captain in front of him, the first mate beside him.

Lord William's first mate did not have a surname, it seemed that he was a commoner, named Ot, a middle-aged man in his early forties, although he was only the first mate, but his sailing rank was actually twenty, his trade was seventeen, and only the combat was a little lower, only three ranks.

Ao thought for a moment and told Lord William: "Dear captain, get ready for battle!" We can't run, the other party is a clipper, faster than us, and our boat has been seriously injured, the hull has been a little crooked, the hull is not just representing that we can't get up fast, so, with the other party chasing us like a dog chasing a marmot, it is better for us to take the initiative,

Rest assured, we will all do our best, because although the crew has only been to sea twice, they have also heard a lot of pirate legends that pirates will not leave people alive to waste their food on the ship, they will do the same as every time before, put the captured man in the bow of the ship and jump down, and then they will watch the captives being devoured by sharks on the boat. ”

The main threat now is the oncoming rampant pirates, not the fat man who has become a great nobleman in the heart of Lord William, who has to call for help under the threat of three clippers.

He bent down and saluted the fat man: "Distinguished guest, I apologize to you for the rudeness we just treated you, but now, your strength has conquered our hearts, so, can we reconcile each other to peace?" As you can see, we have pirates, and in the face of pirates, all of us should be united against the enemy, right? ”

"Yes! Your Excellency, there is only a misunderstanding between us, but to the pirates, we must be united, I heard that the pirates have never left a living mouth? "The fat man is very willing to reconcile with Lord William, after all, they fished him out of the sea, but he beat him himself, how inappropriate!

Although it was the other party who broke his own raft, it was also the other party's person who made the first move.

"Nope! If it is a real pirate, maybe there may be some nobles who can let their families send gold coins to ransom people, but if it is a pirate pretending to be a pirate in the navy of another country, then it is impossible for them to stay alive, and the three ships in front of them are all new ships, this cannot be a pirate, because the ships used by pirates are all stolen, and they cannot all be new ships, so we may all die, Lord! Punish those who are wicked! Lord William, whose face turned pale, thought that this time he might be finished.

Soon, a mast appeared at sea level with a skull flag hanging from it.

"Ding! Trigger Mission: Capture the Lord and capture a pirate clipper, if Lord William dies or the Lord brig sinks, the mission fails;

Rewards: Get a brig clipper, 1000 combat experience, 200 sailing experience, 200 trade experience, 500 reputation, 200 gold,

Punishment for failure, with the possibility of death, because the pirates will not leave an Eastern nobleman who cannot bring them a ransom. ”

The fat man was stunned, this is still forced! Then the cargo looked at Lord William with a hint of robbery: "Your Excellency, I would like to ask, is there any artillery on the ship?" ”

Lord William was stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted: "Artillery? There are some, but there are only two three-pounder guns, and our gunners have already died in the last battle, and I can only operate one, and the other gun because there is no gunner, it is difficult for the sailors to shoot accurately, with one gun against three clippers? In the end, it will definitely be the gang fighting that will work, and then your Excellency will need to take action. ”

"Okay, you go operate one cannon, I'll go see the other! That's right! Is there a lot of gunpowder? The fat man was noncommittal, he wanted to see things first, and he had other plans in his heart.

He attaches great importance to his own safety, and in today's battle, as long as the ship sinks, or this old boy dies, his fate is not yet known!

In the face of unfamiliar and uncontrollable emergencies, his first reaction is to make every effort to push everything to a better development, and he is doing exactly that.

The brig merchant ship has two gun emplacements, that is, on the deck of the bow and stern, Lord William in the stern has gone to operate, the bow is a fine iron mortar cannon, next to two powder kegs, a few sailors are busy loading the guns, looking at these scrambled sailors, he is dead to the cannons.

Suddenly, a piece of information about operating the cannon came to his mind, this was the combat experience he had gained when he had just completed the ceremonial task, although it was very little, but it was just enough for him to learn how to operate the artillery.

A burst of surprise flashed in the fat man's heart, and he stepped forward and kicked the sailors away: "Shit! You're all a bunch of shit! ”

The giant Ethan who was kicked away by him was not the giant man Ethan who had just cut him with a knife, and the giant Ethan was furious: "Bastard, I know that you are a nobleman, but can you, a nobleman, not make trouble?" Shit! Want to die at the hands of pirates together? ”

He scolded and clenched his fists to come up and beat away the oriental nobleman in front of him who he didn't like, and in his heart he was not much different from a demon.

But before he got in front of the fat man, he had already let the fat man slap him so much that he couldn't get up after falling to the deck.

When the sailors saw that Ethan, the most powerful and powerful of them all, was like a child in the hands of the Eastern nobles, they were all silent, listening to the roar of the fat man.

"Is there such a thing as you guys? Has gunpowder been weighed? Where is the gunpowder that has been weighed and packaged? Don't even weigh the gunpowder, do you want to blow it up? ”

Just now the fat man saw these bastards actually holding gunpowder in their hands and pouring it into the barrel, which made him angry! If he hadn't rushed up and kicked them away, I'm afraid this cannon would have killed them first.

Luckily, he's just fused the combat experience he had gained from completing the mission in his mind!

Although it is a little less, the common sense is still understood.

Now seeing that the sailors were still stupidly pestle there and didn't know what to do, I couldn't help but let him start the fire again:

"Fuck off, go and weigh the gunpowder, that gunpowder spoon is there, a spoon is a pound, now it needs three pounds, three pounds understand? Hurry up! ”

The sailor who was pointed out by the fat man hurriedly dug up the gunpowder with a powder spoon, and after digging up three pounds of gunpowder and bringing it over, the fat man also happened to clear the barrel with a cloth pier.

"That's it! Put gunpowder in there, what are you doing with this stick? Solidify the gunpowder! ”

No wonder the sailors in front of me are all level one or two, it turns out that they are all novices, and there are barely a few level three or four levels, and most of them are upgraded by the experience accumulated when they jump gangs!

The sailors suddenly became orderly under the command of the fat man, and the giant Ethan also got up from the deck, although his face was swollen, he seemed to be convinced now, of course, it was not the fat man's force that convinced him, but the fat man's ability to operate artillery.

"Cannonball......

Ethan handed over a cannonball, and the fat man took it and put it into the breech, and then put a lead through the lead hole in the barrel.

"That's it! The angle is wrong! Turn it a little to the left, and a little more! All right! Ignition! Idiot! What are you doing so close to that powder keg with a torch? Want to blow us up to the sky? ”

The sailor lit the torch on the short lead, and ran away as soon as the lead was sizzling.

The fat man's lead was very short, so as soon as the sailor ran away from the artillery, he had already "banged" the black round iron ball cannonball shell out.

As soon as the cannon went out, the artillery operation skills that the fat man had learned from the combat experience in his head worked, and they hit the gun emplacement on the bow of the clipper ship that was rushing head-on.

Looking at the human stumps flying up on the opponent's gun position, a trace of information flashed in the fat man's mind, if he had adjusted his position a little more correctly just now, the red shell that had been fired had already hit the powder keg on the gun position, but unfortunately, it was only a few dozen centimeters away.

The other party who was hit by a cannon didn't expect that a brig merchant ship would actually hit his own gun position a hundred meters away, and his gunners couldn't do it! Although shocked, the sailors who saw the dead and wounded on the gun emplacement immediately burst into flames, directing the ships to make a detour and attack the middle of the merchant ship before the opponent fired a second shell.

If it is a battleship, the opponent will definitely not dare to do this, because the bow and stern guns of the battleship are not very important, its firepower is reflected on the sides of the ship, and the dense artillery on both sides of the battleship will smash the opponent before the opponent has time to collide and feed the fish.

But who made this ship a merchant ship! And it was only a two-masted merchant ship, not even the most inferior armed merchant ship, only two guns in the bow and stern.

Then, just as they were in a hurry to make a turn, trying to use the thick and sharp angle of their bow to crash into the target's hull, and then jump, another shell was fired, hitting the powder keg under their discarded cannon, and then ......

In the sound of "boom", all the sailors on the Lord cheered, and suddenly a violent collision sound came, and everyone looked back, but it was the collision angle of another clipper that had crashed into the hull of the Lord, but because the speed was not raised, it did not knock the Lord in two at once, maybe this is also what the other party meant, because they are now pirates, they need to rob the cargo, if the target is smashed and sunk, and the price of serious injury to a clipper ship results in nothing, it will be a loss.

So the pirates did not shoot at the Lord, for they saw that there were not many sailors on the Lord, and they were armed with weapons, stepping on the side of the ship in contact, swinging a long cable, and rushing straight to this side, and they were going to fight with the superiority of numbers.