Set Sail! Storm in the Caribbean! Chapter 17: Trap
Chapter 17 Trap
With a loud "crackling" sound, the hulls of the two ships shook violently! The ramming horn at the front of the Bell and the Wineglass was probably some special legendary item. When it collided violently, a dazzling light flashed on it, and it crashed into the huge merchant ship's hull with great force. Looking down from the sky, the Bell and the Wineglass were like a sharp dagger filled with poison, stabbing deeply into the vital abdomen of the merchant ship!
The crouching pirates screamed excitedly, first waving the lasso tied with heavy objects and throwing them over, tying up the two ships while setting up multiple passages, and then charging up in ragged clothes waving muskets and sailor knives. Although the merchant ship on the other side organized a round of volleys, the sparse bullets only knocked down five or six pirates, which aroused the ferocity of the remaining people. The one-eyed dragon Caron showed his strong ability to serve as a boatswain. He not only charged to the front line, but also was covered in blood. He roared and chopped down five or six people in a row with a sailor's axe. The morale of the pirates following him was greatly boosted, and they cleared the deck in one go.
In the hand-to-hand combat on the boarding, occupying the deck of the enemy ship can be regarded as a great advantage. However, if the enemy's will to resist is tenacious, the most difficult thing is the subsequent room-by-room clearing battle. In particular, the draft of this merchant ship should be more than a thousand tons, and it is divided into at least three floors, with twenty or thirty rooms on each floor. The sailors hid inside, and the muskets and axes were ready to form a situation of fighting more with fewer people in a local area. It was really a hard bone to chew.
At this time, Armand stood up, his face gloomy, but his eyes flashed with bloodthirsty and excited light. He stood straight and put his hand on the hilt of the rapier at his waist, and strode down the stairs of the cabin with the grace of a general stepping into the dance floor. The pirates behind him shouted wildly and raised their weapons and rushed in.
When they went down the stairs, they were met with a resistance line organized by more than a dozen sailors. They relied on the narrow terrain of the cabin passage. In front of them were several matchlock gunners half-kneeling on the ground, "pa pa" pulling the trigger. Because Armand's appearance was obviously a leader among the pirates, almost all the lead bullets poured into him! However, Armand's face showed a cruel and bloodthirsty grin. He immediately drew out the silver rapier from his waist and stabbed it in the air at a dazzling speed. The speed of his move was so fast that it was completely impossible for the human eye to catch it. As a result, everyone saw a few silver lines appearing around Armand, and then the lead bullets shot at him were bounced out and deeply embedded in the surrounding wooden walls.
Then Armand's forward speed did not slow down. He strode through the temporary position built by the sailors. Behind him, the faces of more than ten sailors were full of fear and disbelief. They froze in place. After a long time, their throats, eyebrows, chests and other vital parts spurted out a stream of blood, and then they slowly fell down. The residual image lingering in their pupils after they died was still the elegant, majestic, and straight figure of Armand who was slowly fading away!
The pirates behind were used to this kind of situation. They looked at their captain in awe, and then rushed forward, plundering the bodies very professionally, sorting the looted property, and then wiped the blood off their hands with the clothes of the dead, and threw the naked bodies into the sea. Fang Senyan also wanted to try to follow, but seeing the terrifying power of Armand leading the way, and the clean and neat assembly line processing of the pirates, he immediately stopped his steps with self-awareness.
Because if he went over like this, even if he could pick up a little bargain, he would be despised by the pirates. Don't forget that he still has a side quest on his back, to improve his reputation among the pirates as much as possible, he will never do such a thing that loses the big picture for the small. But Kerry was unwilling to sit back and watch this great opportunity to beat the dog when it's down, and followed directly.
The shouts and screams gradually disappeared in the depths of the cabin. Obviously, Armand could not always maintain that abnormal state of one man against a thousand, but it is indisputable that these pirates, under his leadership, burst out with the strongest strength. Fang Senyan stayed on the deck of the Bell and Wineglass. He folded his hands in front of his chest, and seemed to ignore the contemptuous eyes of the pirates around him. He looked coldly at the rows of black muzzles exposed on the side of the merchant ship in front of him. In his heart, he had a faint feeling that the pirates' attack was too smooth.
After all, most of the pirate ships had not arrived at this time because of the speed of the ship, which means that at least one-third of the alliance's forces had not been invested, and the Spanish fleet was actually showing a clear trend of defeat. This is really a bit unreasonable. If the Invincible Fleet is so easy to deal with, then why does the British Navy still need to rely on the power of pirates? The only explanation... is that the killer mace reserved by the Spanish businessman Fernandez is definitely more than this!
Just as Fang Senyan stood at the bow of the ship to look out, the flagship of the Spanish Invincible Armada that was fighting with the Black Pearl suddenly turned around and forced the Black Pearl back with fierce artillery fire, and then it suddenly dropped three lifeboats onto this side of the ship!
At this time, the Age of Discovery had begun for a full century, and the shipbuilding technology was quite sophisticated, with clear divisions of labor. Although the three ships thrown into the sea were lifeboats, each of them had a displacement of nearly 100 tons, and the sailors were well equipped. It was clear that there were many fully armed Spanish regular sailors on them, riding the wind and waves like an arrow from a string and piercing the bell and the wine glass!
If it were normal, the people on these three ships could only be described as "looking for death". With the high speed of the bell and the wine glass, they could easily hang them behind them forever, and use the three five-pound curved cannons at the stern to kite them to death! But now the bell and the wine glass crashed deeply into the belly of the merchant ship, and were tied up tightly by the pirates on the boarding, fearing that the other party would escape, which was equivalent to completely losing the power of maneuver.
What was even more serious was that at this time, Captain Armand led the boatswain Caron and most of the elite to rush into the merchant ship! The first mate Scar Henry was hit in the head and was unconscious. In this case, the remaining pirates were either old, weak, sick or injured pirates who came back to recuperate. Once they boarded, how could they stop these regular Spanish Invincible Fleet sailors who were as fierce as wolves? Just looking at their neatly arranged, hands on swords, and silent appearance, they formed an extremely sharp contrast with the panicked pirates running and shouting on the deck!
At this time, all the pirates who stayed on the ship had a blank mind, and the only thought was "Captain! Come back soon!"
But for Armand, he was facing the biggest crisis in his pirate career at this time!
When he led the pirates into the cabin, he cleared the enemies one cabin at a time. Armand was very careful because his father missed a crew member when he seized the ship. After midnight, when the pirates were drunk, the crew member quietly climbed out and ignited the gunpowder magazine on the pirate ship! As a result, the foundation that his father had spent twenty years to build was destroyed. If Armand had not gone out to sea, he would have died.
However, the price of a careful search is bound to determine the low efficiency. When Armand found that the resistance from the front was unexpectedly weak, a large number of gold coins began to scatter on the ground. After all, these pirates were used to being free and undisciplined. Although they fought bravely, their fighting discipline was a mess, and their personal qualities were also quite poor. In addition, they thought they were in an overall advantage at this time, so they immediately rushed up and started to rob. Some even insulted each other because of the uneven distribution of spoils. If it weren't for Armand's high prestige, they might have drawn their knives and fought each other in private.
The greedy and chaotic pirates quickly moved forward along the falling gold coins and soon came to a wide place similar to a dining room. The one-eyed dragon Kalon was always the first to fight, and he was not behind when he robbed. He saw a bag of piastres (Spanish currency) in the passage on the left, and immediately rushed over with his eyes shining. But at this moment, Armand's face suddenly sank, because he smelled an indescribable stench in his nose!
With a loud "crack", the broken wooden boards flew everywhere! A huge black two-handed axe broke through the board wall of the cabin and flew down! The axe face of this axe was extremely wide, and it was at least the size of a round table. If you want to calculate the weight carefully, it must be at least 200 kilograms! Kalon's eyes were filled with bloodshot in an instant. He barely raised the sailor axe in his right hand to block it. The sailor axe was immediately knocked away, and the huge axe blade swept him five or six meters away. He rolled on the ground a few times, hit the pillar behind him, and bounced back. A mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth! It seemed that at least several bones in his body were broken!