() Du Fei has long since disappeared, and Bender's dart accidentally stuck into the face of the big gold tooth pirate.
The face of the big gold-toothed pirate was stuck in a honeycomb with darts, and he fell down bleeding! The pirates who were enjoying themselves suddenly stopped making noise and their eyes were straight. [Search for the latest updates at
Bender's heart tightened, and he began to understand that this apparent prisoner was actually an attacker with ulterior motives!
He looked around with his eyes, but Du Fei seemed to disappear out of thin air. The pirates looked at me and I looked at you. The wine bottles in the hands of some of the bewildered guys couldn't help but fall to the ground.
Bender could clearly feel Du Fei's presence, and could even hear Du Fei's breathing and strong murderous intent just a stone's throw away from him, but he couldn't see his opponent's shadow!
The scariest thing is that you know your opponent is sharpening his knife right next to you, but you just can't see him.
Suddenly he seemed to wake up and suddenly raised his head! But he only heard a biting sound of wind coming from the air! Before he could see clearly the weapon in Du Fei's hand, he felt a chill in his throat! Blood spurted out,
A feeling of suffocation lingered for a moment, and the entire human body went limp...
The pirates immediately fired at Du Fei indiscriminately like a pot was exploding! But due to too much panic, many of them missed the target.
"Ah! Damn it! James! You hit me! Idiot!"
"Where did he go again? Where?! Where?"
Du Fei dodged into the group of pirates, and at some point he found a large scimitar in his hand. Although this kind of scimitar looked clumsy, it was quite practical and highly lethal. Du Fei raised the knife and fell,
Kill the pirates in succession!
After more than a dozen people were chopped down, these pirates finally regained their composure. A pirate holding a harpoon tried to attack Du Fei from behind, but Du Fei grabbed the harpoon and threw it into the sea with great force.
Two red-bearded pirates armed with large scimitars rushed up with their bare upper bodies and screamed wildly! One attacked the left and the other attacked the right. It seemed that their sword skills were stronger than those of ordinary pirates, and the two of them cooperated well.
Better yet, in these few rounds, he and Du Fei were in a stalemate.
At this time, a pirate immediately took the opportunity to fire a shot at the side, but Du Fei grabbed the gap and grabbed a red-bearded pirate to block the shot for him, and then took advantage of the stunned moment of the other double-sword pirate to chop off the arm holding the knife.
Lose!
"Ah! This guy is a monster! He is a monster!" The pirates threw down their weapons and jumped into the sea to escape, abandoning the entire ship and the naked women and wine on it.
But the sharks in the sea had already smelled the pervasive smell of blood, and they waited below. The dozen pirates who jumped into the sea were instantly devoured by the sharks, leaving not even a bit of minced meat behind.
The women looked at Du Fei with uneasy eyes. They were all girls plundered from fishing villages and cities near the pirates. Each of them had been trained by the pirates and became obedient playthings. Although they were afraid at this time, they still did not dare.
Yelling, they had witnessed pirates killing sisters who resisted. They thought that when the pirate died, they just had another master. As long as they were obedient and continued to be the plaything of this new master, their lives would not be in danger.
Du Fei looked at these girls whose eyes had become dull and confused with a complicated look. Most of them were only about twenty years old, and the youngest was maybe only sixteen or seventeen years old. They were all sallow and thin, with heads and shoulders due to the destruction and torture of the pirates.
Their faces were all dirty, and some even had a few spots on their hair and face.
"You are free!" Du Fei said lightly: "Go home as soon as you land! Your family is waiting for you!"
Those girls hadn't woken up from the shock when they suddenly heard a burst of noise from the sea! Du Fei quickly poked his head out and saw that several small boats were already escorting the merchant ship Van Rooney, slowly
Approaching the pirate ship!
Oops! Now Du Fei has two concerns. One is that these girls may be in danger after getting into trouble with those people later, and the other is whether those Dutch people will question him when they see his excessive skills.
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At this moment, he saw the trembling girls. He suddenly had an idea and whispered to the girls: "Now you all go to the bow of the ship to welcome them, remember! Keep your expressions natural! Can you guys come back?"
It all depends on your own performance!"
The girls hesitated for a while, and finally, led by a tall, older woman, they walked onto the bow of the ship and began to shout in a wild language to the twenty or so pirates on the small boat and merchant ship.
The pirates were all very excited and couldn't wait to row towards the pirate ship, but they didn't even notice anything strange.
When they boarded the ship and saw that the deck was full of women, everyone was dumbfounded: "Where are they?"
"I will take you to see them..." A cold voice came from behind! Du Fei quickly killed the unsuspecting pirates and shouted to the Dutch on the merchant ship: "Now! Destroy them!"
Seeing the opportunity, the Dutchmen hugged or subdued the few pirates around them and took away their weapons. It turned out that they were willing to submit obediently because they were afraid that the pirate ship would bombard them. When they saw that the pirate ship had been controlled, they immediately let go
Get your hands and feet wet!
The number of pirates was originally small, and Du Fei killed most of them. The remaining twenty or so were scattered among a few small boats and Dutch merchant ships. They were too scattered and they were all subdued in a short time.
The disgraced pirates squatted on the deck for a long time, and some of them seemed to be wondering what was going on.
"Thanks to you! Mr. Du!" Captain Van Rooney injured his head in the battle with the pirates and said with a bandage on his head: "If it weren't for you, we would have been thrown into the sea by these cruel guys to feed the fish!
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"These pirates don't seem to have anything to do with the British Navy. They are pirates from Denmark. Look at this man! It seems like he has seen it somewhere before..." First mate Lei Zeming stared at the dead Bender from his arms.
He took out a wanted poster and compared it back and forth, and finally he exclaimed in surprise: "This guy! Isn't he the thief that the King of Denmark offered a reward of 500 gold coins to hunt down? It is said that he hacked to death a member of the Danish royal family! Mr. Du
!Now you will be rich!"
Du Fei was not very interested in offering rewards, but he was secretly glad that he was not suspected.
Only the first mate Fan Zingli hesitated: "How many people are left on this pirate ship? Did you kill it alone?"
"Oh! There weren't many of them. They were drinking and having fun. They were unprepared and I forced them with a gun to jump into the sea!" Du Fei tried his best to act low-key. He knew that the more conspicuous he was at this time, the greater the possibility of being suspected.
The bigger.
At this time, Captain Van Rooney touched some hard pieces of paper on the man. He opened it and saw that it was a privateering captain's certificate with the Spanish royal seal. The authorization content (that is, permission to loot)
The hijacked ships include the British, Dutch and Italian countries.
"What a bastard!" the angry Van Rooney yelled: "We all suspected that the British were playing tricks on us, but we didn't expect that the culprits turned out to be these Spanish bitches!"
"Father!" his son Van Hoos said angrily: "We should tell the Dutch royal family about this discovery as soon as possible. The Spanish are so insidious! They even do small tricks behind our backs! These greedy devils! They even linked their ally Italy to
Don’t let it go!”
The privateering captain's certificate is a deformed product of war. Some personal ships (mostly rogues and criminals who do not do their jobs properly) frequently plunder enemy merchant ships in order to obtain profits. This behavior is naturally beneficial to their own country. In order to encourage
This kind of behavior achieves the purpose of attacking opponents in disguise. Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom first initiated this behavior.
At that time, Spain and Portugal were the first to discover the American continent and made a lot of money through colonial expansion, which really made Britain, France and other countries jealous. Britain was especially coveted for the gold and silver plundered by Spain in the Americas. As early as 1496, the King of England
Henry VII hired the Venetian navigator Capote to search for the New World. In the following decades, British navigators went to Newfoundland, Hudson Bay and Virginia in North America, as well as Guyana and other places in South America to search for gold.
However, they came back empty-handed time and time again and lost all their money. These unlucky British people watched the Spanish treasure-laden fleets shuttle back and forth on the Atlantic Ocean. They couldn't help but feel jealous and evil, and committed murder and robbery.
Every year, Britain has at least one hundred and as many as two hundred armed merchant ships going out to sea, specifically to plunder Spanish transport fleets in the Atlantic and Caribbean Sea, and the average annual capture can reach hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Under her protection, some evil villains sailed in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, frequently robbed merchant ships of hostile countries, and provided them with certain conveniences. Sometimes they were even incorporated into the regular army for the best needs.
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When privateering was at its most popular, there were as many as 300 privateers registered in the UK! Other countries also had dozens to nearly a hundred privateers.
As the number of privateers increases, these countries begin to reap the consequences. These guys are not truly loyal and patriotic. Once the benefits are too great, they will immediately switch sides. No matter whether they are betraying their own country or not.
motherland.
Finally, in view of the out-of-control phenomenon of privateering captains and the huge losses suffered by merchant ships from various countries, governments of all countries have stopped this kind of behavior that is harmful to both others and themselves.
But it is obvious that the Spaniards have not adapted to this change, because their privateering business has become a fixed industry, and even some senior officers own privateers. In this way, even if Spain has its own intentions
It is not that easy to clean up these semi-pirate privateers.
In fact, they are really unwilling to let them stop at this time. Because they think they are the biggest victims. In their own words: "We haven't recovered our losses yet!"
"Let's get on the road as soon as possible! Maybe there will be other privateers coming to join in the fun! As far as I know, those guys almost always move in groups!" Du Fei in order to encourage everyone to pass the blockade of the Gatling fleet as soon as possible
, sparing no effort to intimidate.
"Yes! I've heard that too!" Taiding added in a jealous tone: "I heard that privateer captains attack in groups. If there are merchant ships in one place, several groups of pirates will act together!"
"Then, let's get out of here as soon as possible!" Van Rooney was obviously frightened. He was obviously still just a dentist at heart.
Du Fei and Taiding exchanged understanding glances. They understood that now that they had gained enough trust on the ship, the next thing would be much easier to handle.
After they hurriedly settled the robbed girls, they immediately passed the corner of the canal. After a few days of fast sailing, they could already vaguely see their country's fleet.
At first, there were only a few small single-masted boats responsible for reconnaissance cruising around them for inspection. Seeing that they were merchant ships from their own country, they became a little more polite and ignored them and sailed away.
"Why didn't they inspect that? Is the inspection of merchant ships in their own country so lax?" Du Fei asked Taiding quietly in the dark, puzzled.
Taiding smoked tobacco and said: "That's not the case! The main responsibility of these guys is just to observe the enemy's situation. They will not easily board the ship for inspection. This task is taken care of by the vanguard clipper behind."
"Pioneer Clipper Squadron?" Du Fei asked in confusion: "What type of ship is that?"
"That kind of ship is a new type of warship developed by the Dutch to adapt to encounters and small naval battles. It usually only has three masts, a hull of only ten meters long, and only four or five powerful cannons. The advantage is that it is flexible and difficult to be hit.
, and the Dutch's vanguard clippers usually appear in groups, and many large warships are very reluctant to attack small warships like poisonous bees like the Dutch." At this point, Taiding suddenly looked back.
He glanced at her and said hurriedly: "I'm leaving first! The first mate is here! He will be suspicious if he sees us always together!" After that, he quickly left.
Du Fei was about to leave the deck and return to his cabin to rest. Suddenly Captain Van Rooney appeared out of nowhere, smiled kindly at him and said: "Mr. Du, we have arrived at the destination of the cargo this time - Iceland.
It’s up to you, the people there speak Norwegian, are you sure you can communicate with them accurately?”
"Please rest assured about this. There is no language in the world that I, Du Fei, do not understand." After Du Fei said this, he suddenly remembered something. He asked solemnly: "Those so-called privateer captains,
How did it get past the defense of the Gatling fleet? It’s really strange.”
Captain Van Rooney scratched his head and said: "They must have come from this side just like us. They probably didn't expect that a war would suddenly break out. They wanted to rob the ship and then quickly escape from the canal to the Atlantic Ocean ahead.
Let’s go, but we didn’t expect to be blocked by the Gatling fleet.”
"It seems that these privateers are really brave enough to pretend to be the British navy and rob merchant ships around British territories. How could the British be so weak and not prevent and stop this behavior? It seems so
This ship had already robbed many ships before it robbed us. Why didn’t the victims go to the local garrison to complain?”
"I think there are only two possibilities; one. The British Navy is now in a lot of trouble. The main force is tightly besieged, and the few remaining ships no longer dare to wander far away from the base. They have already
They became frightened! Secondly, the victims you mentioned... may have been thrown into the sea, and their bones were eaten by sharks." At this point, Van Rooney shrugged regretfully and said: "You know, Bender...
This guy is a notorious murderer! Having said that, I really want to thank you again, Mr. Du! You saved all our lives!"
Du Fei saw a kind of sincere gratitude in Van Rooney's eyes. He suddenly felt a little embarrassed. After all, he saved them just to take advantage of them. He was about to say a few polite words, but unexpectedly there was a sound of cannon on the sea.
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"What? Who? Who fired at us? Who?" Van Rooney fell to the deck with the jolt caused by the cannon.
"Captain! It's bad!" First Officer Lei Zeming yelled from the upper deck in a panic: "The Gatling fleet fired at us for some reason!"
"What! Are you mistaken? That is our own fleet!" Captain Van Rooney shouted loudly: "How could he attack the merchant ships of his own country?"