Chapter 49: Escape
The fat man walked up to Wolfrin and put the sword flat on his shoulder: "I accept your allegiance, and now give you a task, go out and get the ship to the Duke of Auston, and then set up a ropeway between the two ships, Duke Auston is going to return to the ship." ”
It is common knowledge that large ships cannot be close to each other, because the waves that separate the two ships will push each other away when the ship is moving forward, but this force can be ignored when colliding with each other in a naval battle.
Therefore, if you want to carry a small amount of things between two large ships that are sailing, or if you want to carry two people, you can only take a ropeway, and let the small boat travel between the large ships under sail, which is looking for death, and you will be smashed if you are not careful.
It is very simple to take a ropeway, use a flag or a horn to remind the other party to pay attention and shoot an arrow without an arrow but tied with a rope, and the other party will pull the rope over after the arrow passes with the rope, because behind the rope is a rope that can be used to build a rope.
If it is from ship A to ship B, of course, the cable tie of boat B is low.
"Hey! Rude boy, I didn't agree to go back to the ship! Duke Auston blew his beard and glared at the beads of his eyes.
But the fat man pushed him back with a word: "But what if there are fifteen three-masted pirate ships coming four kilometers behind us?" Won't you go back to command on your Duke? ”
"Fifteen?" Duke Auston jumped up from his chair: "You tell me seriously, are you really joking?" ”
The fat man said very seriously: "Behind us, four or five kilometers away, fifteen British three-masted warships, lowering their flags and hoisting their pirate flags, are pulling out of formation and surrounding us in the posture of spreading their nets. ”
Duke Auston still didn't believe it: "How can you be so clear about what is going on four or five kilometers away?" ”
The fat man was asked, he couldn't say that he had a small map, he could see five kilometers away! I had to drop a sentence: "I can hear the wind talking, they told me." ”
When he said this, Duke Auston believed it, the Oriental man in front of him even had two talents, so what was so strange about a third talent?
So he hurriedly asked, "Are you talking about fifteen three-masted battleships?" Damn, I've got to go back, I've got to get back to my Duke of Auston, damn the Britons and we French have a feud, they must be coming at me, I've got to go back and command my fleet to escape, boy, hang the biggest sails! Flee as fast as you can, and fall into the hands of the British, with no good end. ”
Soon the Duke of Auston returned to his flagship from the ropeway, and as soon as he untied the rope from his waist, he heard the neighing voice of the lookout: "There are pirates, there are many pirate ships, more than a dozen!" There are a dozen large pirate ships, and they are catching up! Their ship is so fast! ”
The Duke of Auston, who returned to his ship, shouted: "Hang the biggest sail, full sails, send a flag to the Yinglong, let them run separately, the British are here to chase us, they will be involved by us if they follow us, let them escape separately!" ”
At this time, the fat man was also sending a flag to the Chang'an, telling him that there were pirates chasing after him, hanging full sails, and running with the Yinglong.
Then Caterina ran and said, "The Duke of Auston told us to run separately, he thinks that the Englishman is here to chase him, his ship is faster, faster than ours, and the Englishman's ship is not slow, so let us run separately and let the Englishman chase him." ”
"Good! Then run separately, quick, full sail to the west! "The fat man looked at the beautiful first mate who was snatching the helmsman from the helmsman's hand, and it was up to you, Katarina.
"Send the flag, tell the Chang'an to the west, let's go into the depths of the ocean!" The fat man yelled at the flag sailor, "Do you have a problem with them?" ”
He believed that there was no problem, and there should be no problem with O'Neill's strength, and then he thought of one, what if Arthur didn't listen to O'Neill?
So he shouted at the flag hand: "Tell the Chang'an, now the Chang'an is temporarily under the command of the first mate O'Neill, and Arthur learns!" ”
At this time, you can't let Arthur, a novice captain, ruin it! Because if you die here, you're really dead, and it's really not a game for yourself! It's going to kill people.
The received flag soon came from the Chang'an, which made the fat man feel at ease, he knew that his level was not enough, so he temporarily handed over all power to Katarina.
Caterina returned the rudder to the helmsman after quickly turning the bow, climbed into the stern herself, and shouted: "Captain, push your steel howitzers behind, and don't let them chase too closely!" ”
The fat man looked at the fleet of Duke Auston who was getting farther and farther away, and asked the second officer to find someone to push the cannon over, Duke Auston's fleet led away ten warships, but there were five more behind him, looking at his two ships and the other party's five, there was no way, let's fight! If you can't fight, run! He didn't think that the other party's warships couldn't outrun him, but fortunately, although there were cannons in the current naval battles, the learning was mainly based on jumping gangs, because he only had two guns on each pirate ship, which looked like fine iron cannons.
What he hoped was that the cannons that were laid out were not so good! You can use the range advantage of the steel cannon to force them not to approach.
All right! The big war is coming, and the captain of the ship can't be idle, so help carry the shells!
At this time, he suddenly saw an acquaintance, Shark Figo? The fellow was now dressed in human form, giving orders in the form of one of the five remaining ships, and as the night wore on, they lit a lamp at Figo's orders and replaced the daytime flag with a lantern language.
It seems that their target is not Duke Auston, but themselves, just to beat him up at the dock inn?
Figo was excited now, though he couldn't see the two boats in front of him in the misty twilight. But he had already found out before he came out, and this time the fleet consisted of five Portuguese galleons, as well as a three-masted merchant ship and a two-masted clipper.
He knew that the five Portuguese galleons belonged to the Duke of Auston of Bordeaux, and that the two ships in front of him were his targets.
Seeing that the main forces of the navy went to chase the Duke of Auston, the ships left five for themselves, but only against two merchant ships, and the five warships were already looking down on those two merchant ships.
Remembering that he was injured, after going back, he thought about it, a nobleman from the East, how did he come here? I went to check it out, and it turned out that it was from the sea, and then he was excited.
Not only did the Duke of Auston think that this nobleman from the East had a chart in his hand, Figo also thought of it, and he immediately took a clipper back to England, met a mysterious person, told him that there was a chart to go to the East, and then he got the coveted title of nocracy.
He is also Lord Figo now, and he has five ships under his command to command, but all of them are unstable, and the reason he got this title is that he will take this chart from the East and hand it over to the mysterious man, and if he can't, then all the ships under his command will leave him.
All right! For the sake of his title, Figo's eyes were already a little red, and he hated the twilight that was almost blocking his vision, but he loved the two merchant ships that were fleeing.
Because, there are charts to the east.
At this moment, the lookout shouted from the high mast: "Lord Figo, it's dark, and you can't see it!" ”
Not only Figo heard his words, but the fat man also heard it, and he glanced at the deep night outside and smiled!
It's late at night!
Others can't see it, but you can! As soon as the minimap is opened, everything within five kilometers is clear at a glance, so can you escape?
He called to Katarina, who was nervously watching the sailors set up their guns: "Send the signal, let the Chang'an go west, turn off the guiding lights, I can see them, and then we will follow them." ”
In the period of great discovery, each fleet has its own unique flag and light, and there is a set of common flags or lights that everyone shares, so there is no problem in communicating with your own fleet on the sea, or meeting other fleets to communicate with it, and because you have a unique set of lights and flags, the communication between your own fleets will not be afraid of being known by others.
When sailing at night, a guiding light is lit on the boat, and the guiding light acts like a blind man lighting a lantern, just to prevent others from bumping into him.
O'Neill, when he heard the sailors report to him on the Yinglong, immediately turned off the guiding lights, and then went straight west, and drove the ship out into the ocean.
The fat man also asked the sailors of the Ying Long to turn off the guiding lights, and then he sat next to the helmsman and directed his course.
O'Neill lowered the sail after walking a short distance, although there was a little moonlight at night, but the lookout really couldn't see far, and now it was impossible to look at the telescope, in order to avoid the lookout hand finding the reef very close, it was better to change the small sail on!
Under the cover of the night, the fat man's two boats had quietly turned their course and quietly disappeared into the night in the ocean.
When the sky gradually turned white, there was jubilation on the Yinglong and Chang'an, and the fat man gave an order, adding vegetables today, and asked the cook to hurry up to cook for the sailors who had been busy all night, and also killed a pig, the pig is not big, but each boat has a fan of pork still makes the sailors eat it directly, which is much better than salted meat.
As long as people work hard, the amount of food will rise! The sailors, too, had worked all night, and the food was called a joy, and the cooks had to cook another meal on the orders of the fat man.
The sailors were so happy that some of them had leftovers and simply fell into the sea, and the cooks threw all the garbage into the sea when they cleaned the kitchen.
Then, the garbage drifts down the ocean current until someone picks it up and looks at it.