――Wren――

The clouds on the sea were overwhelming, and although it had not yet rained, the lightning and thunder were enough to make people feel that the weather was not good. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

None of the people on board the Dragon Eagle have time to worry about the weather, and they are nervously preparing for battle, following behind the Dragon Eagle their sworn enemies, the Rose Pirates, formerly known as the Blade Mountain Bandits.

I thought that by staying in Port-au-Prince for a few more days, I could hide my ship's tracks, but I didn't want to run into this mortal enemy again when I went to sea today.

The Rose Pirates had already lost a destroyer-class battleship when they were on a desert island, and now there was only one destroyer-class that was being pursued.

I don't know how this Rose Pirate Regiment entered the port for maintenance, and now the ship is looking brand new, and it seems that it has a new captain.

In short, Old Captain Robert told Wren to be ready for battle, and the other party's ship was bitten very tightly this time and could not be shaken off.

After selling his goods in Port-au-Prince, making a small profit and setting aside enough money for Mr. Hobdente's trading practice, Wren added two more rusty iron cannons.

Wren has seen the power of artillery, even the red fighting Benjamin has to shy away from artillery, and the armament of the Dragon Eagle is also to deal with the current situation.

However, the Dragon Eagle only had a total of six guns, two tail guns, two bow guns, and two flanking guns on the left and right sides.

This firepower should be enough to deal with the average pirate ship, but the Rose Pirates seem to be a complete gold master, and their pirate ship gun positions are all artillery, and at least twenty flank guns are roughly.

Such a difference in firepower made the Dragon Eagle dare not go head-to-head with the Rose Pirates.

However, Captain Robert calmly let Wren concentrate on the bow and stern guns, and he would try to avoid exposing the Dragon Eagle to the enemy's flank attack.

If you simply compare the number of bow and stern guns, the two ships are of the same class, and the difference is certainly not big.

Commanding the sailors to operate the guns was left to Bambo, the captain of the Naval Combat Captain who was the best at the art, who was responsible for the bow guns, and the stern was commanded by the first mate.

"Cannonballs are coming! Hide!" the stern mate suddenly sounded the danger alarm to everyone.

The sound of the heavy object breaking through the air caused most of the crew except the captain to hide behind various obstacles, but the cannon missed, and the small splash of the cannonball did not explode.

"All right, boys, don't be a turtle with a shrunken head. Captain Robert yelled, and the ship began to turn: "Let's go back and beat these pirates to death!"

"Roar!" all the sailors on deck responded loudly.

The Dragon Eagle was slightly slower than the Rose Corsair, but the captain was still better at turning, and he was able to get far ahead of the pirate ship's flank fire.

The pirates tried to fire a round of flank guns, and the whizzing of ten cannonballs was really terrifying, and even the old captain was a little nervous to pay attention to the trajectory of the cannonballs.

Fortunately, all the shells fell within range, and there were ten small splashes of water at a distance of one or twenty meters from the Dragon Eagle.

The Dragon Eagle did not give the pirate ship a second round, and Captain Robert had already made the ship go around the back of the pirate ship, which was a golden opportunity, and Captain Bamber asked the sailors to quickly adjust the gun angle and order fire when the Dragon Eagle left the best angle of fire.

The two ran to the tail of the pirate ship with a whistling parabola, and everyone's hearts flew with the cannonballs.

It's a pity that the cannonball grazed the butt of the pirate ship and fell into the sea.

"Don't be discouraged! Rock the boat, we're leaving!" Captain Robert duly interrupted everyone's frustration and began to give orders to the first mate.

The first mate passed the order to the deck, and the mercenaries and sailors below were already ready, stretching out the extra-long oars through the oar hole, and the groups of three and ten began to row with slogans.

They had to race against the speed of the pirate ship, and it was a tailwind when they got around the tail of the pirate ship, so the pirate ship couldn't do anything with them.

But after two shots on the pirate ship's butt, the wind level is reversed, the enemy is in the downwind position, and the himself is in the upwind position.

In order to get an advantageous angle before the enemy's bow turns, the best and most flexible method is to use oars.

When the Dragon Eagle grabbed a new angle, the Dragon Eagle began to sail away from the pirate ship's attack range obliquely, and regained the distance to wait for the next round to grab the tail of the enemy ship.

The pirate ships would fire their cannons when they approached the Dragon Eagle, and due to the wind advantage, the range of their shells increased, and one of the shells actually hit the sea area one meter around the Dragon Eagle.

Although a cannonball was not enough to wreck a ship, it was not a good thing to be hit by a cannonball, and everyone on the deck worked harder.

The sails were adjusted very quickly, allowing the Dragon Eagle to always borrow the best wind and maintain a safe distance from the pirate ship.

Finally, the pirate ship entered the downwind position, and the Dragon Eagle was in the upwind position, this time the Dragon Eagle switched to the other side and went back, although the distance was more, but at least it was able to avoid the flanking attack of the pirate ship more safely.

Soon Captain Robert asked the bow of the Dragon Eagle to bite the butt of the SH pirate ship, and the battle captain Bamber calmly gave the order, and two shells bombarded the cannon again.

The cannonballs struck high in the air, and just when Wren thought the shell was going to miss, one of the shells actually hit the stern of the opponent's ship accurately.

The violent explosion caused the stern of the pirate ship to catch fire, and Wren hurried to observe the results with a telescope.

"Blow up one of the enemy's stern guns, kill and wound a total of four!" Wren loudly relayed the results of the battle to everyone, which made the sailors roar excitedly.

Each one is full of fighting spirit, which is what the captain is most happy to see.

However, Captain Robt only laughed for a moment, his face suddenly became solemn, and he stretched out his hand to Wren and pointed to a huge fireball flying out of the pirate ship and asked Wren, "Commander, what is that?"

Wren hurriedly lifted the unput telescope again, the huge fireball was not a cannonball, it was much like the magic of a magician.

Recalling that he was blown into the water by a fireball on the desert island, Wren understood who the author of the huge fireball was.

"Captain, that's the magician's big fireball!" Wren shouted at Robert, unable to calm down.

Although the fireball did not have the speed of a cannonball, it still flew much faster than the speed of the Dragon Eagle.

When Captain Robert heard this, he reacted quickly, slammed the steering wheel, and turned the ship sideways fiercely, trying to run far out of the fireball with the help of the downwind direction.

However, the fireball was also downwind, and the fireball was climbing in height, as if it was intending to use gravity from top to bottom to make the attack hit the Dragon Eagle faster.

Wren stood by the fence near the stern, clutching the railing with both hands, and such a large fireball must have hit the ship no less powerful than the artillery.

And this is a fireball, the ship is made of wood, and if it is hit, it will definitely catch fire, especially if it is smashed from above, and according to the trajectory, it may hit the sail.

This is a problem, you must not let the fireball hit the sail, otherwise they will be finished this time, Wren forgot that the captain was also observing the situation behind him, and shouted at Captain Robert: "Captain, adjust the angle, don't let the fireball hit the sail." ”

"Don't worry, commander, I have a solution!" Robert replied to Wren briefly, and began to give instructions to the sailors: "Lower all the sails!

The sailors climbing the rope ladder responded quickly to the captain's orders, while the first mate helped relay the instructions to the deck through the wooden pipes.

Soon the Eagle slowed down and all the oars began to slip backwards.

Originally, the trajectory of the fireball was about to hit the mainmast of the Dragon Eagle, but after Captain Robert adjusted the ship's speed, the fireball passed over the mainmast and smashed onto the foremast.

The explosion of the huge fireball broke the entire foremast, igniting the remainder of it, killing all six sailors who had previously loaded the sails on it.

"Raise the sails! The oars are rowing, let the sea hedgehog go!" Robert did not forget his duty because of the death of the sailor, and gave a new command in a loud voice with the grief in his heart.

"Raise the sails, paddle the oars, release the hedgehog!" the first mate repeated Robert's command, and the sailors recovered from the fear of being attacked, and they were busy.

The Sea Hedgehog is a long log with wooden spikes, with ropes tied to each other, and throwing them to the stern of the ship can hinder the pursuit of enemy ships, or at least affect the course of enemy ships.

Originally, there was still hope to send the pirate ship into the sea, but everyone did not expect that there were such powerful magicians on the pirate ship, which made the idea of sinking the pirate ship frustrated.

Now it's a broken mast, and it's slower than a pirate ship.

"Don't be nervous! It's going to rain. We can get away from them. "The old captain is still the calmest man on board, and no matter what kind of tension, he can always be the first to speak to soothe everyone's low mood.

The rain really started to fall, and it gradually turned from a misty drizzle to a downpour.

With the help of the heavy rain obstructing the view, the Dragon Eagle sailed far away from the original course and entered a dark sea area covered with dark clouds all year round.

Even during the day, there will be night-like darkness here, and the rain does not fall under the entire dark sea, and when the Dragon Eagle completely enters the dark sea, it is no longer in the rain.

Wren anxiously observed the ship with a telescope, and after making sure that there was no image of the ship within the telescope's visual range, he breathed a sigh of relief and said loudly to everyone: "We have gotten rid of the pirate ship!"

"Captain, look ahead, there seems to be a big ship in the black fog!" The observer on the main mast suddenly said to the captain at this time, and Wren hurriedly came to the captain's side, stretched out the telescope tube to observe the black fog a mile in front of the Dragon Eagle.

The black fog was strange, as if it only circled a certain area, and this range was a little larger than a destroyer-class ship, and the ship's mast and bow image could be seen looming in the black fog.

"Sure enough, there's a big ship! just hiding in the black fog!" Wren briefly reported to Captain Robt what he had seen.

Captain Robert frowned, adjusted the angle of the ship, so that the Dragon Eagle did not break in directly against the black fog, and only after finishing his work did he ask Wren: "Captain, can you describe what the bow of the ship looks like?"

Wren examined it carefully for a moment and told the captain what he had seen: "Little black boy angel!"

"Oh no! it's a ghost ship, the Black Princess Frigate!" Captain Robert's eyes widened, as if Wren was describing some terrifying devil monster.