"Slippery hand, slippery hand... Lorraine, in your eyes, I always seem to be only worthy to be a supporting role..."
Bonette whispered softly.
The battle of baster began for an hour and twenty minutes, and the Eriksson had joined the scuffle for more than forty minutes.
A total of 60 armed merchant ships were stuck in this narrow sea with a length and width of no more than 15 kilometers, with a combat power ratio of 41 to 19 and 1028 to 530 guns.
Of course, the strength of the fleet can never be generalized simply by the number of ships and guns. The directly subordinate fleet has far more offensive and defensive hardware and organizational level than pirates. The war situation between the two sides is not one-sided, but five to five.
The five regiments fought at the same time. Up to now, the pirates have fought against one ship of chengelun type, one ship of brigantine type, two ships of skuna type, one ship of Dabbage type, one ship of skuna type of battery type, four ships of brigantine type and one ship of skuna type.
The loss of the immediate fleet was much smaller, with two Briggs and two brigantines seriously damaged.
Although the brig black billed Gull was among the hardest hit, the damage to the ship was not large. After replenishing sailors, it joined the battle regiment of the grey, so the number of ships directly under the fleet that really lost their combat capability was actually three.
From 41 to 19 to 30 to 16, it sounds that the direct fleet has a significant advantage, but the war situation has not changed fundamentally.
Moreover, the consumption of physical strength and energy of sailors in sports warfare is very different from the mainstream semi-static artillery warfare and ocean pursuit warfare in the world. The crew of the direct fleet are seriously lack of practical experience, and even Lorraine can''t guarantee when their will can last.
fight a quick battle to force a quick decision!
Unknowingly, it has become the common wish of the heavily damaged pirates and the dominant Drake.
The arvit''s surprise attack on brigantine missed, and the battle group rearranged a clear-cut situation.
From the northwest to the southeast, the northernmost is the lucky one who escaped from death and smoked in the bow. A little south is Eriksson''s other two wingmen, and then the only remaining scuna.
Eriksson and arvit confront each other 500 meters from east to west, and arvit further south is the skua and sea parrot hiding in the shadow surface waiting for orders.
Two brigantines on the bonite side were slightly shot, while Katrina fangalvit and the skua were shot a few times, and there was no meaningful injury.
The Eriksson pressed against arvit for the fifth time. It entered the 300m line and the bow gun couldn''t wait to sound.
Arvit chose to avoid without hesitation. With a twist of the bow, she took the skua and sea parrot to the far end. Like previous times, she didn''t give Eriksson a chance to get close at all.
Bonette saw everything in his eyes. In a trance, he almost thought that time and space were reversed. He returned to the day when he first met Lorraine in Stavanger.
It was the same scene at that time.
On the Gemini, he and LEV awakened the blood of the crazy warrior, and their strength was almost the same, but Lorraine did not hesitate to choose Lev as their opponent, but lost him to Haina.
This is not to say that Haina''s combat effectiveness must be lower than Lorraine. The problem is the Viking instinct
Viking''s soul hides greedy monsters who feed on strong enemies. When facing a war, they never consider things other than life and death, honor and disgrace. This is an instinct, and even talented businessmen like Lorraine can''t restrain it.
He chose Lev that year, which shows that LEV is stronger than bonit in his eyes. His choice of Blackbeard now shows that Blackbeard is more threatening than Bonet in his heart.
Bonette hated the feeling of being despised, but... Lorraine never paid enough attention to him.
"If only heina yesla had been killed at that time." looking at alvette who couldn''t get close, bonette was full of irritability.
The chief mate strode over from the back deck: "Captain, look out and report that our Highness has lost another ship. The main mast of the golden yoke is broken and disabled."
Bonette''s eyebrow jumped: "so fast? Lorraine is still unharmed?"
"Unharmed!" the chief mate said with a smile, "Jonathan is really brave this time. After killing the golden shackles, he stared at Queen Anne''s revenge. The old brothers think Blackbeard is doomed this time. If possible, shall we..."
"Lev..."
"Lev?"
"Lev is on Lorraine''s boat."
"Chief commander... No!" the chief mate''s voice trembled. "Lev Erickson... On the ship headed by Jonathan?"
Bonette looked cold: "Vikings worship heroes, so I don''t mind you respecting Lorraine Jonathan. But he has made a choice, and you have made a choice."
"Only one of us is destined to live, so tell the old brothers to put away the luck. If there is only one fleet in the Caribbean that needs us to work hard, it must be the Drake chamber of Commerce."
"Yes!"
"And..." bonette stopped suddenly in the middle of his words.
He squinted across the sea. On the alvette, a group of sailors were shouting to hang someone on the mast.
"Looking at the mirror!" he said to the chief officer with his back on his back.
The chief officer quickly took out the looking glass and handed it to bonette: "Captain, how..."
"Silence!"
Bonette raised his goggle to his eyes, and soon the camera was set in a strange hanging ceremony.
"That man seems a little familiar..." bonette chased arvit''s track, "eagle eye, curled moustache, in his thirties, listless..."
"It''s dexterous derricky! Captain, you''re right. Dexterous derricky was hidden on the deputy governor''s ship by Jonathan!"
"It was him..." bonette was stunned.
Rescuing the skillful Derek is Blackbeard''s fundamental purpose of inviting the thieves in skeleton Bay, but Bonnie has never paid attention to it before. He will promise Blackbeard that he just wants to kill Lorraine in this sea area by taking advantage of Blackbeard''s east wind, at least to hurt Lorraine''s vitality.
But now an excuse suddenly appeared.
Arvit lifted derricky out of the bottom cabin and hung him swaggeringly on the main mast. The sling was not long or short. Derricky couldn''t touch the ground and didn''t hang in the air. It looked like
Meat shield
Lorraine should have guessed that Blackbeard''s purpose was to rob prisoners, and his deputy commander did so as if he were announcing to the pirates that no one was allowed to throw shells on alvette''s deck.
But Alvey''s previous tactics have been negative. It''s not so easy to throw shells onto Alvey''s deck just with that cautious momentum.
In that case
In a daze, alvette suddenly took off the lens of the lookout mirror.
Bonette suddenly opened his other eye: "she has changed direction!"
The sound of lookout echoed on the deck at the same time: "the target changes direction! Ten degrees on the port side, the included angle is opened!"
"The target is slowing down! Alarm, tangle in 2 minutes!"
The chief officer opened his mouth slightly and tried to digest a series of changes without warning: "Captain, how do I feel... It seems that alvette is inviting us to come near?"
"It was an invitation." bonette raised his hand and threw away the chief officer''s looking glass. "It seems that they also have difficulties that we don''t know. The decisive battle is about to begin."
"Sink them!" he said word by word, biting the stress. "Only by sinking them, sinking her, can we be qualified to challenge Lorraine and his iron turtle."
"So Vikings, fill the sails... Kill."
silent.
Soon
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!!!"