48 Hours a Day

When the people on board were awake, the Cold Raven was no longer understaffed, and the guns on board finally had a place to use their weapons. However, in the current situation of the Cold Raven, although the cracks and loopholes in the hull were largely blocked and no longer affected navigation, much time remained to be fully repaired, most notably the lack of sufficient material, and subsequent repairs could only be carried out once it had returned to Nassau.

It is therefore dangerous to fight again in the current state of the Cold Raven.

This pre-war meeting between Divrena, Billy, Annie and Harry, especially the latter, before dealing with the treasure boat, he could only hear a noise in the kitchen with Chef Ramsey, which became his most frustrating thing. How could he expect to be able to personally participate in this pre-war meeting, which only high-level people can attend, without being excited. Although Zhang Hengler ordered not to talk, he could not stop the excitement that was spilling over his face.

In contrast, Billy looked guilty. He drank too much wine last night, but at the most critical time he was useless. He failed in his duties. After sobriety, he tried to induce him to resign from the helmsman position, but Zhang Heng and others spoke and left him.

Nobody on this boat is better suited to be a helmsman than Billy. DiFresner still prefers to be a munitions officer. Until then, Billy's dedication cannot be denied all his previous credit for one thing. Of course, the corresponding punishment is there. Three trips out to sea after that, Billy's loot will be halved, but he himself has an extra bonus, which is about the same as an average sailor.

Now he's back into the helmsman's work, and he says, “Are you sure they'll come after us again? ”

“Definitely will.” Zhang Heng is very certain, “before they split up two ships to chase us all, obviously trying to get rid of us, but because we escaped the sudden storm, but after last night they must have sunk all the pirate ships on the island, so all they have to do is leave one or two boats to stare at the people on the island, the rest of the boats can continue to hunt us, after all, we were badly damaged and less than half a day away from Nautilus Island, if they leave now they are perfectly likely to chase us halfway. ”

“But what if they chose a few boats to work together, and then we just threw ourselves into the net?” Diffrena asked.

“This is a very unlikely possibility. The other commander is a very powerful guy from previous opponents and should be aware that even if we were to return to Nassau, we might choose to detour from the pursuit behind them, so their best option would be to spread out and search.

“Our hulls have been severely damaged, and if we fought head-on, they won't last long, and even if they split up, they can deal with us. In this case, I believe their commanders are willing to take a little risk to kill us. ”

Zhang Hengton went on to say, "Coral Island is 200 nautical miles east of Nautilus, just in the same direction as Nassau, but it's a little further north than Nassau, and we wait here for a day, and if I'm wrong, and the Navy people act together, they should go straight to Nassau, so they can rub their shoulders past us, and we won't run into any danger, but instead, if my guess is no problem, they expand their search, they'll have ships here to meet us, and then we can take it all together to solve freshwater and food problems. ”

“How? My hull is indeed badly damaged, and I doubt that we can survive a high-intensity battle.” Billy was worried.

“That's why we need an island.” Zhang Hengdao, "in fact, this is similar to our previous strategy against the Spanish treasure ship. We first dismantle the cannon on the ship, move it to the island, and then use the Cold Crow to bring the ship into the range of the cannon attack, and then attack it directly from the island, so as to avoid damage to the hull caused by the fighting. ”

Zhang Hengzhi's all this grasp was due to the previous sound system coming from his ear prompting him to upgrade his sailing skills from LV2 to LV3, but at that time he was too focused and ignored the message directly. He waited until after the storm he noticed a change in skills from the character panel.

Previously, he drove the Cold Crow into the naval blockade in the harbor, and enormous pressure pushed his potential. His steering technology produced a qualitative leap forward, and after successfully upgrading to LV3, he now manipulates the Cold Crow with a sense of arm command and confidence to lure the target to Coral Island without much attack.

However, the key to the success of the plan, apart from the fact that the Cold Raven is able to lure the target within the scope of the artillery attack, it is also important that the manipulator of the artillery successfully destroy the target before he realizes the target and escapes. After all, once the target has escaped the scope of the artillery attack, there cannot be time for the Cold Raven to go back to the island and retrieve the artillery.

“Let's look at the terrain there first. There's got to be a way to fix this.” Zhang Hengdao.

The nautical charts of the beginning of the eighteenth century were not a point of precision and future generations, there was no satellite positioning and the shape of the islands was very rough, and virtually no useful information was available other than a name and approximate distance.

But luckily, the Cold Raven was close enough to get there, and after another half day or so, people came to the island.

Zhang Heng rode around the island with Annie and others, and the red-haired girl said, "I finally know why this place is called Coral Island. ”

“By the way, there are a lot more corals here than anywhere else.” Billy also said, along the way, people have seen a lot of corals, all kinds of colors, but what's more appealing is the coral reefs hidden beneath the water.

“Perhaps we can keep that ship within the confines of the artillery attack.” Zhang Heng said.

“You want to use the reef here to put that ship on hold? That's an option, but we're also at risk, and we probably don't have time to explore all the reefs now. ”

“It depends on the water line between us. Our boat is about the same size, but when we dismantle the artillery, our boat will become lighter, and the gunmen, and they will get off the boat to further reduce our weight, and then we will move everything else on the boat, including food and fresh water, to the island, so that we can safely cross that reef area. ”