"Hey, is it really here?" The fat captain's tone was very relaxed. Seeing that the visitor was not good, he looked like a wise bead holding his face: "Rise the flag, raise the naval flag."

The sailor climbed up the main mast, and the blue and yellow pinstripe flag symbolizing the sea blue republic was removed and replaced with a striking red-bottomed oblique cross flag fluttered in the wind.

This flag represents the Venetta Navy. Blue symbolizes Venetta and red symbolizes blood. The meaning of the flag is that the navy established the Aquatic Blue Republic with blood.

But in fact, the real reason for adopting red back then was that the designers of the banner thought that red was more conspicuous and could be recognized from afar. The explanation for blood was later, but it turned out to be a formal official statement.

The fat captain put his hands on his hips and boasted to the army landslides: "Above the inner sea, pirates will give the navy a face no matter what. Seeing this flag, the evildoer with ill-heartedness retreated."

The captain's determined attitude infected the trainee officers. It seemed that he would not see the pirates today, and Winters still had a little regret.

But then things developed away from the fat captain's prediction. Winters looked at the other person's ship with only the mast exposed, then the sails exposed, and then the deck exposed, and finally the entire ship appeared in his own field of view.

If it wasn't for your own hallucination, it was the distance between the two ships being shortened.

The fat captain was still calm: "I guess he couldn't see the flag clearly because he was too far away. Give them some time."

After "a little time", Winters could clearly see the other party's bare mast top - the other party had no flag hanging. This meant that the other party could also see the Skuo's flag clearly, and the visitor was not scared away by this naval flag.

"Put down all the sails and move forward." The fat captain was a little anxious. The sailors followed the orders and climbed up the sail truss along the locks, unfolded the bundled canvas again, and the main mast and front mast of the Skuo were hung on the cross sail again.

The sails on the three masts of the Skuo were all filled with wind, causing the people on the deck to stagger. Even the slow passengers could feel the ship being accelerated slowly. Unknown trainees walked onto the deck from the cabin, and even Major General Leighton and Major Moritz came out.

"It's okay, their sails are small and they are not fast at full speed. The Skua will be able to shake them away in a while." The fat captain wiped the sweat from his forehead as he said."

The bulging sails of the skuo hu were blown suddenly began to gradually become a little deflated. The sea was a fickle lover, and the power of the sea breeze was weakening.

"It doesn't matter if the wind is low. The skuo sails are more than them. We are slower than them." The fat captain made a judgment confidently.

Before he finished speaking, under the gaze of everyone on the Skuo, a pair of wings stretched out on both sides of the other party's ship's side and began to slap the water surface.

It is a paddle, and the ship is not only equipped with sails, but also with paddles. The wind power is reduced, but as the paddles waving, the speed of the ship does not decrease but increases, and the distance between the two ships is accelerated and closer.

In fact, hybrid sailing power is the standard configuration of the Senas Gulf in this era. Most of the ships sailing in this sea area are flat-bottomed cross-sailing boats, which are sailed with the wind and used when a set of oars is used against the wind.

"The Skuo's ship is shallow and the tower is high, and the center of gravity is unstable. I am afraid of capsizing when put on the deck." The fat captain licked his lips: "There are four six-pound cannons on the ship and several spinning cannons."

"Carry them all!"

"This general! Please wait..." A middle-aged passenger with elegant temperament and well-dressed clothes stood up: "You must understand that you are going to use your officer's life to guard the property for the owner of this ship!"

"I am protecting the honor of the Venetta Army!" Major General Layton refuted sternly.

"It has nothing to do with honor!"

"Honor is the life of a soldier! If my officer can even give up honor in order to survive, then he is not worthy of becoming an officer! You said I don't cherish the lives of my subordinates? I will be the first to jump to the gang after a while!" Major General Layton's words made everyone on the deck silent.

"It's not safe to surrender." The fat captain who came to his senses hurriedly said: "The pirates will rob you of all the money and then deduct you for a ransom. If you can't pay the ransom, you will be sold to the plantation in Taniria as a slave."

The middle-aged passenger who obviously has a little social status stopped talking. I don’t know if he was frightened by the major general’s momentum or was frightened by the fat captain’s words that were difficult to distinguish between true and false.

"Stop talking nonsense! Prepare the weapon!" The major general punched the stern mast.

He walked to the stern of the boat, looked directly at the eyes of the warrant officers standing on the deck, and said hatefully: "The one behind is a pirate ship, who is here to find us. Some people think that you are all waste and cannot defeat pirates, so it is better to surrender. Which coward wants to surrender? Stand out and I will give you a small boat to surrender!"

He glanced around, and the warrant officers were still moving: "Veneta man, how could he surrender to the pirates? You are officers who have trained heavily in the army. It's time to see how good you are! Are you cowards or heroes? You'll know it after a try today! A group of bad guys born from (swear words) dare to come to trouble us? Get weapons! Kill all these miscellaneous people with me!"

The warrant officers were so excited by the major general that they screamed, and Winters also felt a fire ignited in his chest. He jumped off the stern of the ship and went straight to the cabin to get his sword.

Major Moritz said to the fat captain in a bad tone: "You are lucky. Today's battle seems inevitable. It is indeed unreasonable for the army to surrender to the pirates. But we may be able to make a reasonable plan..."

Winters jumped off the stern of the boat two floors and headed straight to the cabin to find his luggage. His long sword was with his luggage. Although his long sword was a sword that was not used in swordsmanship, it was the only weapon he could think of in a hurry.

However, after he really got the sword, he realized that this weapon did not seem to be suitable for use on the ship. The long sword was too long. If it was to be swung without barriers, the height of the surrounding space would be at least three meters and five meters high.

If used in a narrow and low space like a cabin, it is easy to hit the roof or bulkhead. The deck is not easy to use, because the deck is full of cables, which makes it easier to be hung.

However, Winters had no other available weapons on hand, so he still brought a long sword. After all, if there is one, it is better than not.

Winters suddenly remembered that the female thief's dagger was still there, so he hurriedly searched. Ike carefully wrapped his bag in his luggage, and he quickly found the dagger.

Because this dagger was once used as a casting material for light, the surface changed from an ordinary metallic color to a red-black color. Winters tried it and it was still very sharp, so he put the dagger on his belt for later use.

Bud also walked into the cabin to get the sword. Seeing Winters putting the dagger into his belt, he quickly stopped him: "You look so miserable, don't think about jumping to help. Just as your arm was sewn with a needle, it broke again after exerting force?"

"If you break it open, then sew it up!" How could Winters ask his classmates and comrades to fight and pretend to be a wounded person behind him.

After he fought with the female thief, he knew that the actual combat was dangerous and would really kill people, but he was even more unwilling to be a coward.

"You go and help the artillery department fiddling with artillery, you're not the only one who fights hand-to-hand combat." Bard said firmly.

When Wintersquan didn't hear it, he walked straight out of the lower stern building where the wounded casters were resting. As soon as he went out, he saw the first mate and a sailor lifting a wooden barrel full of swords onto the deck and splitting it one by one for the people on the boat.

Winters also quickly changed into a one-handed scimitar. This scimitar has a wide body, a short length, a front center of gravity, and a large scimitar.

Winters often saw sailors carrying this kind of knife. After holding it in his hand, he immediately understood why sailors like to use this kind of weapon.

The shorter length makes it easier to be used on a narrow boat and is not easily hung by the hull or cable. The blade is wide and the center of gravity is close to the front, so the force of slashing is more powerful. The sailors do not wear armor, so the chopping effect is great.

"A few more people will help move the cannons! Come on!" As soon as he changed into a better short scimitar, Winters heard a call for help from the cabin, and he immediately went to help.

As Winters climbed down the ladder to the bottom cabin, several trainee officers from the artillery department were using their strength to move an iron cannon.

The cannons on the ship were short-barrels, with a small caliber but a thick wall. They were covered with rounds of iron hoops, which were extremely bulky. The cabin was small and full of cargo, so the warrant officers had nowhere to exert force.

Winters looked at it and thought that the goods had to be unloaded first to facilitate the transfer, but it was obviously unrealistic to unload the goods now. So Winters had to go over and put on the handle, and the cannon could only rub out inch by inch.

Major Moritz also got down to the lower cabin and saw the trainee officers moving cannons. He felt that he was about to be crying by these young people: "Don't move these broken six-pound cannons, can they be moved? Is it too late? Isn't there a rotating cannon? Where?"

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Seeing the spinning cannon equipped by the Skuo, Major Moritz's eyes lit up: "Or should I be careful and install the cannon? OK! It's just right to deal with the pirates."

"Where is the Zi Gun? Find out all the Zi Guns first." The major started rummaging around the cabins on the bottom floor, and finally found the Zi Guns of the rotating cannon in several wooden boxes: "Go and load the Zi Guns first, and lift the body of the rotating cannon on one."

The sniffy rear-mounted rotary cannon on the Skuo is called the Folang machine and the mother-child cannon in the Silk Country. Gunpowder and shells are loaded in a sub-gun, and when used, they are stuffed into the main cannon's back chamber and then ignited. The combustion process mainly occurs inside the sub-gun, and the main body of the cannon plays a role as a barrel.

The advantage is that you can prepare many sub-guns in advance, and change one after another after shooting. You don’t need to install one shot and hit one shot, and the firing rate is very fast.

The disadvantage is that due to the craft level, the air leakage at the joint of the sub-gun and cannon body is severe. Therefore, the power of the cannon is very low and it is not far away. However, it is completely fine to use it in close range of mount combat.

Winters and several artillery officers left the six-pound cannon without hesitation, turned around and lifted the spinning cannon.

"Don't just take care of lifting the cannon, loading medicine for the cannons, and holding all the cannons." Major Moritz saw these young men first moving the cannons and then moving the rotating cannons. He was both angry and funny: "Let's relax, there are just dozens of pirates, and there will be more scenes than this in the future."

Winters was commanded by the major and he and another artillery officer crawled to the lower deck with more than a dozen rotating cannon tubes.

At this time, the lower deck was already in chaos, and the warrant officers and sailors were running back and forth. Everyone didn't know what they were busy with, but everyone was very busy.

Winters stopped the first mate holding a grenade and asked the first mate to take the two of them to get the gunpowder and lead.

The fat captain is so stingy. He is a guy who only enters and cannot leave. He is so precious to everything.

He had everything he could have, cannons, spinning cannons, grenade guns, swords, gunpowder, and armed merchant ships. But he locked them up and kept them carefully on the ship but never took them out for the sailors to practice, for fear of being broken by the rude sailors.

The most important thing in the fat captain's eyes is to prevent the depreciation and depreciation of this ship and all the property on the ship.

But when the first mate broke the lock and opened the captain's "collected" powder barrel, Winters was stunned. He only knew how to use a mesh rope, but he had never learned how to fiddle with the cannon.

"How to load the medicine?" Winters was holding a few rotating cannon guns in his hand and didn't know what to do.

"It's like loading a musket!" The artillery warrant officer was blaming and was busy without looking back.

"I mean how much do I need to install? How much do I need to install gunpowder? Where is the shell?" The gunner was not powerful enough if the gunpowder was loaded too much. If the gunpowder was loaded too much, the gunner was killed first.

"If you don't have time to find shells, just put lead in it. Use it as a shotgun. As much lead as you put, you can put as much gunpowder."

"Are you talking about volume or weight?"
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