"Just five guns, this is also a warship, let the teeth of our Spanish warship commander laugh off! Tell them that if they don't surrender, they won't be left alive! Seeing that the opponent only had five cannons, he shouted proudly, but there was some panic in his heart for no reason, the caliber of those five cannons seemed to be a little too large, they were sloops!

The second mate ran away with a sad face, and let the sailors also push the rusty cannon to the side of the ship, it seems that the number of their own guns is more than that of the opponent, but the opponent's barrel is obviously much thicker! Those large-caliber cannon guns are clearly equipped only on large warships. How could they fit such a big cannon in a small boat?! If you know that the other side of the ship is also going to fire cannons, wouldn't there be no place? Could it be that they put all the artillery aside? Empty on the other side? Is it really weird? Maybe the other party is bluffing, right?

"Bring the boat over, the range is not enough!" Chavez shouted, and the helmsman nervously steered the ship around.

Red Striped Jack shouted, "Captains, those bunnies are in range!" Do you want to shoot? ”

Caterina held up her binoculars and ordered loudly: "Wait for them to get closer, this ship is all short-barreled cannons, and it has no power." ”

"Ahh Yes! It's all a short-barreled little cannon who can't pee far, and it's nearly ...... than the girls" The red cloth strip forgot that he was talking to Caterina's girl, and when he said it, he shrank his neck in fright, and swallowed the second half of the sentence.

Caterina glared at Red Strip Jack fiercely and shouted, "The second cannon is replaced with a flowering shell, don't stay on the boat!" ”

Red Strip Jack even claimed to be, turned his head and shouted viciously to the gunner behind him: "Did you hear it? Cheer me up, let that short-sighted Spanish ship have a good taste of the blossoming bomb! ”

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Five roars, 17-pound large-caliber shells whizzed towards the opposite corsair.

The young second mate heard the cannon fire on the opposite side and shouted, "Damn it! What a long-barreled cannon! We're not rivals, run! He understood that the short-barreled small cannon on his ship, which had the largest caliber of only 13 pounds, was no match for its opponents in terms of power and range! Although he didn't know how the dhow on the opposite side, which didn't look big, had installed such a large long-barreled cannon!

"Mom! Their shells are the size of wine barrels! Be able to hit from Havana to Florida! "A timid gunner, looking at the whistling shells, shrank his neck in fright.

Although only two shells hit the bow of the ship, because of the large warhead, it actually knocked off the opponent's bow sprit! Even the foremast is torn crooked by cables! Chavez only then reacted, today is to mention the iron plate. The other party is obviously pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, and now he can only pray that the opponent's speed is not as fast as his own. After all, they are dhows......

Ten minutes later, though, Chavez was in despair! Obviously, everyone is downwind, and their two masts are full of mainsails, but they can't outrun each other's sloops! If you don't have as much agility and steering power as they do, that's fine. But the sail area of their own ship is more than three times larger than theirs! I was caught up by a schooner downwind! Is there any reason for this?

The two-masted galleon that was caught up was naturally not as agile as the dhow, but the opponent's speed was too fast! Rushing to the front, before his gunner could be in position, five shells bombarded at close range! Fortunately, the other party didn't use a chain bullet, otherwise he would really not be able to run away! Just when Chavez rejoiced. Three terrible explosions rang out from the hull of the ship that was hit! The shock made Chavez's scalp tingle, could it be that the compartment where he stored gunpowder was hit?

"Going to see? Did the powder keg blow up?! Chavez shouted, but he was shocked by the explosion and fell to the deck, only to see that the deck under his feet was unexpectedly lifted open by the air waves, and the hull of the ship seemed to be about to break! All the sailors were screaming and crying, where could they still obey their orders, and some even jumped into the sea to flee for their lives!

Blazing flames ignited from the hull of the ship that had been hit, and it seemed that the opponent had really been kissed by Lady Luck, and luck Haode actually hit his own powder bay. But even so, his few two barrels of black powder are still damp, and it is impossible for them to explode like this? Could it be that the opponent's cannonball was cursed by the fire dragon, and it was so powerful?

With a barrage of questions, Chavez sank into the sea with his two-masted pirate ship. Before his men could untie the lifeboats on the deck, they were all swept into the sea by the ship, which had been blown up by the enemy's secondary shelling. The young second mate now understood that it was not the gunpowder in his own cabin that had been hit, because the captain's two damp barrels of gunpowder, even if they were all exploded, would not have been so powerful. It's that the opponent's shells will really explode! God, are these guys' shells made from the bones of the Fire Demon......

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Although everyone has seen the power of this flowering projectile in the test before, it has never been used in naval battles. Unexpectedly, the first time it was used today, it only bombarded two rounds at close range, and less than six flowering shells hit the opponent's hull, and it actually sank the opponent's ship! And everyone found out that even if the opponent's ship is unsinkable, it will be burned by the fire caused by the explosion of the flowering shell!

Zhang Fan Luyi was not surprised, because they had seen the 380mm main gun shells of the Japanese Kongo-class battleships in the rain of bullets during World War II! When it goes down, it's a sea of fire! This two-masted galleon is not enough for the Kongo-class battleship to bombard one side of the gun. It will take six more shells, where will it go?

Cleaning up this short-sighted pirate ship, the crew was full of confidence, and even the bilge propulsion machinery and the sailors who turned the propeller thrusters were even more energetic. At this time, the wind was in the right direction, the sea current was smooth, and the speed of the clipper reached 27 knots! That speed made Zhang Fan Luyi a little surprised. It seems that the morale is high, and it will also have an impact on the speed of the ship!

Led by the old drunkard, the ship docked at a Spanish colonial port on the west coast of Florida, the first Spanish colony in North America, more than 50 years after the establishment of the colony. Zhang Fan Luyi and Caterina and Captain Hook left most of the crew in the harbor to guard the ship. With only a few black retinues and enough for half a month's provisions, he headed east from the colonial port town to Lake Okeechobee in Florida.

"Fifty years ago, the Spaniard Juan Ponce de León came here in search of the Fountain of Youth, but I think he went in the wrong direction and went north of Tampa Bay. The result, of course, was empty-handed. Ten years later, however, he came again, this time in the right direction, near Port Charlotte, but still empty-handed...... "The one-eyed old drunkard's broad-brimmed sailor's hat lowered the brim and obscured the blindness." He carried a bottle of rum and a long, smooth, shiny cane, and limped as he walked.

"This is because the Spaniards were too timid to go deeper when they were hindered by the Indians. But don't blame them, because the Indians are very cunning, and their poisoned arrows can pass through your eyes two miles away! Juan Ponce de León was shot dead by them! Poor fellow, he's only a hundred miles away from the Fountain of Youth......"

Caterina asked, "So was the Fountain of Youth really found?" I've heard that your old man once approached the 'Fountain of Youth', and Weishenme didn't heal your legs and eyes? And you're not young......"

The old drunkard took a sip of wine, narrowed his eyes, and seemed to be caught in some kind of meeting, "Maybe everyone who has seen the 'Fountain of Youth' is dead, isn't it ridiculous?" Oh, yes...... What about Weishenme? None of the people who have seen the Fountain of Youth' have come back alive, except for me...... But I want to tell you that the Fountain of Youthfulness really exists, and I have seen its magic with my own eyes! But the Fountain of Youth' is also cursed, and you may be killed by its curse before you can get its magical liliang! ”

"Cursed?" Zhang Fan's heart moved, maybe the book demon would have some opportunities here.

"Yes, a terrible curse!" The old drunkard said alarmistly, but the creepy atmosphere he had created himself frightened, "Ah! Terrible curse! …… But I've never seen it, I've heard the Indians say it......"

"The magic of the 'Fountain of Youth' you mentioned is also from the Indians, right?!" Captain Hook sneered, he didn't believe there was any 'fountain of youth'.

"How do you know?" The old drunkard was slightly reddened by Captain Hook's words, but this guy had drunk too much rum and couldn't tell it. "I've heard of it, but I'm the closest living person in the Caribbean to the Fountain of Youth! Victor wanted me to take him there, but I don't think this kid is honest, and even if he gives me a case of golden rum, I won't go! ”

"He wouldn't be so stupid!" Captain Hook said disdainfully, in his eyes, this old fellow was an out-and-out liar, who knew nothing but some drink. He has seen a lot of such people. The secret of the so-called 'fountain of youth' is probably made up by this old guy in order to cheat and drink. Rather than believe in this old liar, it is better to believe in the crow. But since Caterina wanted to go, it was not good to chill her heart, after all, she still swore allegiance to this red-haired woman.

"Do you speak Indian?" Greenwing asked suddenly.

The old drunkard raised his head proudly, "Of course, how could I bring you here?" If you go any further, you will enter the territory of the Calusa tribe, so you must be careful......"

Zhang Fan suddenly smiled slightly, and said to the old drunkard, "Can you let me see your cane?" This cane reminds me of some interesting stories. He seemed to find that this slender old cane seemed to be engraved with some simple and simple symbols, which made him feel very familiar. And for a collector, these symbols inevitably touch his sensitivity to antiquities.