48 Hours a Day

The sailors on the Spear of the Goddess could not help but rejoice when they saw the pirates in front of them. They were unwilling to take the cargo away like this, and they could not help but be foolish.

Unexpectedly, however, neither of the two captains appeared to panic. Zhang Hengfang did not expect Hutchison to play with this hand. He left Annie on the Cold Raven only out of caution, because the strength of the Cold Raven lay in the guns on board, not in the crew.

Therefore, Zhang Heng left behind mainly gunners, but most of them were young men of twenty and thirty years of age. There was no loss in close physical struggle, especially with Annie, who soon took the upper hand. Zhang Heng also saw that Hutchison's raid on the Cold Raven did not really want to take the Cold Raven down one by one, just to stall the latter as much as possible and avoid the Cold Raven joining the other side of the battlefield.

Obviously, the Veda was his real target, but it was Black Prince Sam who surprised Zhang Heng that he wasn't too worried at this time.

The Veda is now being hit by two ships, and it looks very bad, but Black Prince Sam still hasn't panicked to keep the conductor steady on the deck, and seeing Zhang Hengwang come, he's even in the mood to smile, and say, “A lot of people say I'm the best captain in the ocean, putting me alongside Honig and Blackbeard, and I can only say that they can't help but think of me.

“I only started sailing four years ago, came to Nassau a year later, I was just an unknown pawn, I met Eric as a helmsman in a tavern, their original captain secretly grabbed some of their trophies, when things were lost, I was dismissed, I had no job, they just ran out of a captain, and both of us happened to be drunk, so the next morning I opened my eyes and became the new captain of that ship. ”

Black Prince Samton said, "After I was captain, I still wanted to work hard. I made a lot of preparations for my first sailboat raid, a lot really, but unfortunately I accidentally drank too much the night before, so when I opened my eyes again, we were full. ”

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“Until today, very few people know that my navigation skills are actually bad, my artillery is not good, I don't know how to mobilize before the war, but even then, my pirates have become one of Nassau's most powerful pirates, and it took less than three years, all because I have one of my best men, and they are willing to trust me, and I trust them fully, which is why we can cross the Seven Seas, and if anyone feels that I am not on board and therefore despises the Veda, they will certainly pay the price. ”

The black rudder was hit by two rounds of gunfire, the main mast of the Veda was hit by a shell, fell down, huge canvas covered many people, the vast majority of the pirates began to panic after such a blow, especially now that the captain was not on board and lacked the main bone, yet the pirates on the Veda returned to their positions at the fastest possible speed after a brief standstill.

The gunmen continued to fill the shells, the boat doctors began to heal the wounded, the carpenters repaired the water leak, even the cook was helping to clean the deck, the black rudder scolded the mother as she climbed up from the ground, photographed the wood chips off her body and commanded the Veda to turn the hull.

The other two ships will certainly not let go of such a good opportunity, and the gunfire will become even more fierce.

But the sturdy hull of the Veda also played a role at this time. In such an offensive, it was not sunk, and several carpenters on board flew up and down, blocking the cracks, and miraculously survived, and then saw the Veda put away the sails as well.

Hutchison was a little strange, not knowing what the Veda meant, and the other side guns on the Veda were now pointing at them with the bow and stern, so that the bow guns and stern guns could still be used, but the ignition was not helping at all, and lowering the sail meant losing power and being completely caught passively.

No sensible captain would make such a choice.

Then he saw the bottom of the Veda suddenly open, stretching out two rows of paddles and starting to stir the sea water, and the Veda rushed towards another pirate ship.

Hutchison was shocked, although he had heard the fame of the Veda, after all, he was not a local Nassau pirate. The information collected was limited, and he did not know that the other party was actually a paddle sail dual-use ship. In the windy state, the black rudder decisively ordered the wind sail to be stowed and the Veda paddled. The Veda is now the fastest ship in the area.

The other pirate ship apparently did not expect the Veda to be so fierce that it set up a defeat with them. At that time, it was too late to order a further rotation of the hull in pursuit of maximum casualties. It was only too late to continue firing, but his Abacus was still missing.

Seeing two ships collide, black rudder's mouth smiling, two defeats? That's a naive idea, isn't it?

Without hitting the other side, the Veda saw the pirate ship shake violently, then the underwater hull split a large mouth and poured the tumultuous sea water into the cabin. Such a large fracture was beyond the capabilities of the carpenter and could not be repaired at all, which also meant that the pirates on the deck inevitably fled in horror, and the captain still had an obsessive face at this time, not knowing what had happened.

Hutchison, who witnessed all of this in the distance, was also somewhat incredible, but he quickly came up with something, lost his voice, “Collision Angle?! ”

The collision angle, a projection fixed to the bow of an enemy ship and usually hidden beneath the water (the pole on the bow is not a collision angle), was widely used by the ancient Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans, although it was largely withdrawn from the historical stage in the 18th century, when the popular artillery fired against each other, until the mid-19th century when it was revived again on board the Ironclad.

Hutchison didn't expect the Veda configuration to be so retro, but it still contained collision angles that had already been abandoned by other ships. If we had known about this earlier, it would not have been too much of a problem, as long as the Veda was kept at a safe distance, but now they are losing a ship.

Hutchison did not mention how sorry he was, but it was too late to say anything. He could only watch the other ship sink, the sailors on it fell all the way down, and the Veda had turned the bow.