People in this chapter: (Victor), (Mathilde), (Resarit), (Ellene), (Jamila), (Porcha), (Cress), (Roman), (Hank).

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Chapter 062: (Encounter with Pirates)

When Victor heard the voice, he got out of the cabin, and he looked up and asked loudly, "How many? What flag? What kind of ship?"

"Ten of them!" The voice of the little mercenary came clearly from the observation deck. It's a little hard to see what kind of ship it is, but it is estimated that the smallest ones are all three-masted battleships!"

The pirate flag is also known as the skeleton flag. The Skull Banner – that is, a skeleton with two crossed bones – is definitely a pirate sign.

In most cases, pirates hoist white flags to identify themselves when chasing their prey – sometimes the prey will bow to the king's flag, if the prey refuses to surrender, the black and white flag will be raised to indicate intent, and if the prey continues to flee or if the pirate captain is too brutal, the red flag will fly at the top of the mast, meaning that once the prey is captured, nothing will be left alive.

The mercenaries on the deck gasped when they heard Roman's voice! Ten warships! I am afraid that in the entire sea area under the jurisdiction of the Nord Kingdom, only the notorious White Raven Pirate Regiment has a pirate fleet of this size.

The Nords were fierce warriors, and in battle they showed unusual fanaticism and fearlessness to death, so people talked about pirates. Their assaults are often divided into two sections: throwing spears and firing rockets at long range, followed by close-range attacks with swords and tomahawks.

The mercenaries all ran from the cabin to the deck with their weapons in hand, only to see the horse thief limping into the cabin alone, and Jamila and Kress happened to get out of the cabin.

When Kress saw the horse thief in front of her heading into the cabin, a look of disdain appeared on her cold countenance. "Coward!" she hated the horse thief who had something in common with her, and even more hated the other man's behavior of running away several times during the battle.

Porcha stopped, turned and retorted, "Do you want a wounded man to fight these murderous pirates?"

"Are you making excuses for yourself?" said Kress's expression with a little more disdain.

"He's got a leg injury, that's a fact. Jamila pointed out.

"Don't you have a wound in your hand, too? You can hide in the cabin. There was an interesting sarcasm in Kress's words. "You won't be able to help on deck anyway, maybe you can help take care of our wounds. ”

"You're unreasonable!" Jamila ran away in a frustration, not caring how Cress was taunting Porcha with words. And Porcha didn't bother to continue talking to the other party, and walked away in a witty way.

On the bow deck, Alleyne ran to Victor and asked with a solemn face, "Commander, what is your order?"

Victor's gaze swept across the deck, and Mathilde, Resarit, Hank the sailman, Roman the crossbowman who had slipped down from the lookout, and more than eighty other mercenaries looked at him with hundreds of pairs of eyes, expecting the ship's king to give his will.

Victor knew very well that this battle was definitely not as simple as the storm he encountered before, and what was going to happen next was a battle at sea with outnumbered people, the first time in his life that he experienced a war at sea between warships!

He took a deep breath, this action allowed him to quickly clear out the distractions in his mind, let him calm down quickly, he had to show his most fearless and determined posture to his crew!

I am their leader, I am their soul!

This ship, anyone can be confused, everyone can be afraid, but I can't!

Because, I'm the captain!

"Listen to my orders!" Victor's voice seemed to burst out of his chest, resounding through the sky, shaking everyone on the deck!

"Turn the rudder fifteen degrees to the left, the three masts will be raised to full sail, the sailman will control the sail line and winch, the crossbowman will go to the deck, and the rest of the sailors will take their positions and prepare for battle!" Victor said in a sonorous voice like iron.

Victor gave the order, and the mercenaries on the ship "whew", and immediately returned to their respective posts like precision machines, and these mercenaries carefully recruited by Victor did not show too much fear in the face of the upcoming battle.

Mathilde's tall leather boots rattled on the deck, like a dense drum before battle. When Victor is not speaking, her voice is always the loudest, and it can be heard from anywhere in the ship!

"Loosen the halyard, tighten the halyard!Hell, you idiots, don't procrastinate, want to be thrown out into the sea to feed the fish?" Mathilde commanded every sailor on deck. "Hank, the mainsail will be handed over to you, and I'll steer the foresail!"

'Queen of Plunder' Mathilde refined Victor's orders to the extreme, this is the most perfect assistant and the most competent first mate.

Mathilde, a Nordian, was no stranger to ships, and in the northern continent of ice and snow, her dead husband owned a pirate ship larger than that, and they had sailed together to lead the Nord warriors out to sea to rob all kinds of ships sailing on the sea.

"Leave it to me!" The big man Hank, shirtless and showing a tuft of fluffy chest hair on his chest, dragged the thick and long sail rope with both hands, and after answering Matildel's words loudly, he turned to Roman and said, "Little man, it's time for you to show off your skills!"

Roman Ha Lu laughed. "No problem!"

The easterly sea breeze swayed the strong sails and made the sound of hunting, and Victor stood on the deck like a flag, his eyes blazing in the direction of the ship's bow.

There, a whole ten warships were connected in a line, like a rope across the sea, blocking his way.

The slight damp and salty smell of the sea breeze blew in gusts, but it could not dispel the heavy smell of gunpowder on the deck, and every sailor clenched his fists, his palms covered with fine sweat, except for the sound of the sails agitating and the sound of the waves crashing against the hull.

There seems to be a restless force brewing in the sea and air, and it will explode in the next second!

The wind pushed the warships on both sides, getting closer and closer......

"Captain," shouted as Lookout Roman went down to the deck, and the lookout was replaced by an old sailor in his thirties, pointing ahead. "They sent us a flag!"

Victor asked aloud, "What did they say?"

"They said," the lookout shouted. "Let's lower the sails, and the sailors assemble on deck and surrender to them!"

Victor frowned, even if he didn't know about naval warfare, he knew that it would be a suicidal act to challenge these ten ships with their sea ship. How should this battle be fought?

The sailors on deck all stared nervously at their captain, waiting for his orders.

Victor pondered for a moment, then looked at Mathilde to the side. "What do you think?"

Mathilde's face was very ugly, although she had experienced many battles at sea, but there had never been such a danger as in front of her, and the disparity in strength was so great as in front of her! She took a breath, gritted her teeth, and every word was like iron. "Two ways, one is to turn around and run away immediately! The other is to break through!"

"Turn around, no!" Victor raised his eyebrows, flatly denied. "Of course you have to break through! But the question is, how?"

Mathilde said in a deep voice: "Whatever we run, we must pass through their lines, and we will surely pass under the attack of their two ships. This kind of situation of being flanked by one warship on the left and right, on one side, absolutely cannot occur! Once it is flanked by the left and right, then the ship will have nowhere to escape. ”

"I remember a Nord mercenary once told me about it......" Victor suddenly remembered some of the basics of naval warfare that the Nord mercenary had taught him. "This kind of left-right attack is what you describe as 'Death Canyon', right?"

"That's right!" Mathilde nodded. "They have ten ships, and if we decide to break through, they can immediately hold us down with three or four ships, and then another ship will come back from the left and right to flank us. We can only watch and be surrounded by them, and there is nothing we can do! This is the difference in strength......

Victor clenched his fists. "You mean, if we are caught between them, we will definitely lose?"

Mathilde's face was heavy. "Yes, so, we must not fall into their trap......!

"But what?" asked Victor.

"But even if they don't flank us, our chances of victory are almost zero......" Mathilde's clenched fists trembled slightly, her eyes fixed on the pirate ship that was getting bigger and bigger on the sea.

Victor's face gradually sank, and his eyebrows tightened.

And this time, Victor knew very clearly in his heart that this battle had nothing to do with his bravery, nothing to do with his strength, this was a real naval battle, and the only thing he could do was to pray that the other party's commander would be relaxed for a moment because of this disparity in strength.

Because, Victor quickly came up with a bold idea in his heart!

"Pass my orders!" Victor looked up, a strange glint in his eyes. "Lower the mainsail, the sailman and other sailors assemble on deck, ready for my orders!"

Mathilde's eyes widened. "Lower the mainsail? Are you crazy? We'll be targeted by them and beaten to death!"

As soon as she said this, Mathilde reacted quickly, and she opened her mouth to stammer, as if shocked by Victor's idea!, "Ah, you, you mean, we surrendered?" said Mathilde.

Victor nodded heavily, punched it in his palm, and said categorically: "Since everyone thinks that Death Valley is a place where death, then I want to drill into it!

She said hurriedly: "However, once we stop, we will easily be caught by our opponents and unable to move! Moreover, we can easily fall into the dangerous situation of being flanked on both the left and right sides at the same time!"

Victor's face remained unchanged, and his eyes were staring at the front: "Of course I know what you said! But this kind of blow is short-lived, and we must endure it!"

"Whether we can escape from Death Valley in this short period of time depends on whether we move fast enough!" Victor's voice was like iron, and the light in his eyes flashed like that of a wildest gambler!

Mathilde opened her mouth, but said nothing, stunned by Victor's gambler-like madness. And she also understands that they have no other option than this way.

They can only gamble, bet that their reactions and movements are faster than each other! Bet on the captain of the enemy ship, who is arrogant and underestimated because of this huge difference in strength!

Mathilde was persuaded by Victor, and once she was persuaded and made up her mind, she would do whatever it took to help Victor do everything she could!

Mathilde carried Victor's order to every corner of the ship with great detail and speed, and all the sailors who heard it were shocked!

The mercenaries quickly raised their flags, the sails on the mainmast lowered little by little, and the speed of the ships gradually decreased.

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