48 Hours a Day

Less than a day after the last battle, the Cold Raven was once again engaged in intense pre-war preparations, without any complaints from the crew.

Mainly because the pirate side of the previous war was really too tedious, the vast majority of people were in a state of sparse confusion, they had no idea what had happened, and were suddenly caught by the navy in front of them and beaten, knowing that their strength was not weaker than that of the other side, but the deviation had no power to fight back.

Such a defeat is unacceptable to all.

So when Zhang Heng said he was going to avenge each other and grab enough fresh water and food to return to Nassau, everyone immediately broke out of the low mood, rekindled the fighting spirit, plus Zhang Heng had already saved the trust and worship of the crew several times before, now no one will question his order.

All the sailors mobilized and dismantled the guns on board at the fastest possible speed, retaining only one stern gun, as well as the food in the cabin and a little bit of fresh water and everything else that could be dismantled were moved to the island, eventually Zhang Heng left only twenty sailors, which is almost the smallest person who can sustain the normal navigation of the Raven.

There is nothing left in the new chamber of the Cold Raven but half a day of food and fresh water, but in exchange for a dramatic drop in the line of food.

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The target arrived quicker than expected, and the Cold Raven left the island less than two hours later, and the viewer saw the shadow of the distant boat.

Zhang Heng's previous assumptions were correct. This time the Navy was clearly trying to wipe them out. Just killing five pirate ships did not satisfy Walden. He could not accept that there was still a boat of pirates who could escape from his sight in the presence of a huge advantage.

So, right after the storm, he sent men to hunt down the Cold Raven.

Zhang Heng met an old acquaintance this time near Coral Island. For the first time, he pursued the Miranda, one of his two armed boats, which also persisted until the last armed boat, but eventually had to return because of the wind wave.

Walden didn't say anything, but Ford, as captain of the ship, was in full swing, and for the first time in his years as a pirate hunter, prey had been delivered to his mouth and slipped away.

So he and his Miranda joined the hunt, and Ford eagerly wanted the Cold Raven to be his name, proving that he was still one of the best pirate hunters in the area.

But because it was a scattered search, each boat chose one direction, and Ford didn't really report much hope, but what he didn't expect was that the Goddess of Fortune would actually see him again.

Immediately after the Cold Raven was discovered, Ford ordered the men on board to enter a state of readiness, this time vowing not to let the prey escape.

At the same time, Zhang Heng also saw the fierce Miranda. Half a mile later, he put down his telescope and said to the sailor's lane on the boat, "Let's do as planned. ”

After a distance, the Miranda noticed that the Cold Raven had begun to lower its top sail to speed up, seemingly trying to escape, but with limited effect, there were obvious holes in the main sail of the latter, which should have been left over from the last battle, but somehow had not been repaired.

But that explains why they met the Cold Raven earlier, which, according to Ford's calculations, was the quickest way to catch up with the Cold Raven.

Now that the two parties had met earlier, it was a surprise to Ford, who was not going to waste any more brain cells to think about what had happened on the Cold Crow, but just took the opportunity to sink the Cold Crow and everything was resolved.

Since Ford dares to be a pirate hunter, his Miranda is naturally a first-class fast ship, not far from the Cold Raven itself, and now the speed of the Cold Raven cannot be mentioned, which is when the Miranda comes into play.

The two sides launched a new round of competition on the sea and the steering power of the opposite ship was very good, as Ford had noticed when he was fighting in the harbor, and this time the opposite party was doing equally well, but there was a natural difference in speed between the two sides, so the distance between the two ships was constantly increasing at a visible speed.

Ford stood on the bow, and now he can clearly see the busy figure on the Cold Crow deck even without a telescope, and he can feel the blood in his heart starting to boil.

Like the vast majority of pirate hunters, Ford came from the Navy and was later hired as captain of a merchant ship for some time, earning a lot of money, but unlike his peers who became pirate hunters because of the robbery, Ford was not robbed by pirates when he was captain of a merchant ship.

He will become a pirate hunter purely because of the adventurous blood flowing in his bones. In addition to his bounty and honor, what he is doing now reminds him of his childhood and his father's good experience hunting in the woods. The feeling of constant intellectual struggle with the prey and then enjoying the harvest is completely inexperienced as a merchant captain.

But that's when the first mate around him said, “Captain Ford, there's an island in front of you. ”

“Hmm?”

“From the chart, it looks like a deserted island called Coral Island,” the first mate hesitated, "do you think they would have fled here deliberately? ”

“For what?” Ford picked the eyebrows.

After all, the pirates had just ambushed a Spanish treasure ship on Nautilus Island, and he was instinctively vigilant when he saw the island, but then he thought that the current Cold Raven had no capital to ambush at all. Six pirate ships of the joint operation had been destroyed by them, leaving only one ship, the Cold Raven, to escape, even if they wanted to ambush it, without the cooperation of their companions.

But the first mate came up with another question, "This area is marked as dangerous on the chart, and there are many nearby reefs, and they might want to lure us into a shallow reef. ”

Ford frowned, "This possibility… they don't have time to explore it, and unless they have someone on board who is very familiar with the area, they run a greater risk than we do, but we don't have to get lucky with them and tell the helmsmen to stay close to them and just walk where they walk, so if they want to touch the reef, they touch the reef first. ”

Fordton snorted, "That time they got rid of us with a storm, and this time they tried to scare us back with a reef. Do you really think we only have that much guts? If they run away again this time, we don't have to do this. ”