Contrary to what most people think, pirates don't always fly the pirate flag.
Under normal circumstances, pirate ships will not actively fly the pirate flag, but will normally fly the national flags of various countries as a camouflage, and use normal merchant ship activities to cover up.
Most pirates only occasionally perform robberies, and many of them are just for fun and quit after making a fortune.
The main function of flying the pirate flag is to identify and intimidate the target being robbed, so as to intimidate the other party and make the other party surrender directly and not dare to resist.
Even if the vast majority of merchant ships chosen as targets for robbery by pirates do not have many artillery guns, when facing pirates, they will run if they can. If they fail to run, they will choose to surrender in most cases.
As long as the pirates are not particularly cruel, they usually only seek wealth, not life, so the possibility of surviving and saving the ship is very high.
After all, pirates are just a group of poor sailors who can't make a living. No one wants to be a pirate unless they are desperate, so it is very difficult for a pirate ship to replenish manpower, and they are not willing to work hard to gain wealth every time they rob.
After all, there are very few people who are as skilled in business as Blackbeard Edward Teach and Black Baronet Bartholomew Roberts and are passionate about their job as pirates.
But at this time, the warship blocking the Blood Sail and the Black Pearl on the sea had a red flag raised.
The red flag is rarely raised even by pirates because it means that once caught, everyone will be killed.
The pattern on the red flag is the logo of the black baronet Bartholomew Roberts. Both Jack Sparrow and Barbossa know this man who created the unparalleled flag in the Caribbean more than ten years ago.
Flag of the legendary Pirate King.
"What's going on?" Chen Mo was called out of the captain's room by Jack. Naturally, he saw the ship on the sea, so he flew directly to the Black Pearl and asked Barbossa and Jack Sparrow.
Luo asked what was going on.
Jack Sparrow was still surprised that Chen Mo could actually fly, but Barbossa on the side was the first to explain: "That was Bartholomew's flagship Royal Happiness. It was said that he was killed in Guinea, Africa more than ten years ago.
, it seems that Davy Jones has also been imprisoned in the devil's prison."
"Then what does he mean now? Does he want to rob us?" Chen Mo raised his telescope. The telescope with the eagle eye function could see more clearly than Barbossa's telescope.
He was surprised to find that the Royal Happiness in front of him seemed extremely exaggerated, because Chen Mo could see the fourth floor just by opening the gun door deck.
And its huge poop looks more like a large illegal building, not to mention the big whale gun on the bow deck that looks like a Tsarist cannon.
"How did he build this boat? It looks much more impressive than Davy Jones's Flying Dutchman." Chen Mo looked at Barbosa and asked him.
The Royal Happiness in front of him has obviously reached the standard that is exceeded by the first-class battleships of various navies. It looks more like the magic ship in the various fantasy games that Chen Mo has played before, rather than like something that can be built in the real world.
thing.
Although his Blood Sail was actually something similar, Chen Mo was still surprised by the sudden appearance of such a ship in front of him.
Even Gibbs, who has always been well-informed, couldn't answer this question. Only an old pirate like Barbossa could answer: "It is said that Bartholomew's flagship has a magical power.
, can devour the ships he plundered to strengthen his own ship.
In the past, I thought it was a legend, but now it seems that he must indeed have this ability, otherwise he would not have robbed more than 400 ships in three years and directly looted the French military port."
"Sounds interesting. Is this the ability of his ship, his own ability, or the ability of a certain treasure?" Chen Mo suddenly became interested and asked Barbossa who was standing aside.
"I don't know about that. When Bartholomew was roaming the sea, I was just a small pirate. I didn't have much dealings with such big pirates. I can't know such core secrets." Barbossa shook his head.
He shook his head, but he also gave Chen Mo a very constructive suggestion: "You can seize his ship and ask him directly, or study it slowly."
"Good idea! Then let the Black Pearl get out of the way of the battlefield, and I will let the Blood Sail run." After saying that, Chen Mo used magic to fly back to the Blood Sail again.
Chen Mo, who returned to the Blood Sail, directly asked the Blood Sail to open all the sails and activated the magic attached to the sails.
As the magic was activated, the blood-red sails ignited with a red light like a flame. The speed of the entire ship suddenly doubled. The waves stirred up on both sides of the ship even hit the ship's side. From a distance, it looked like
It's like spreading its wings.
Everyone on the Black Pearl looked at the sudden acceleration of the Blood Sail, and finally understood why Chen Mo said that the Black Pearl should get out of the way of the battlefield.
With such a high ship speed, even the Black Pearl could not keep up with the speed of the Blood Sail.
"Lower the sails, slow down, prepare to fight, and stay away from them!" Barbossa shouted loudly, and simply came to the helm himself and began to steer.
At this time, the expression on Jack Sparrow's face was more solemn than ever before, because the two ships that had begun to attack each other in front of him were indeed more powerful than he had imagined.
The Blood Sail surrounded the Royal Happiness at a speed beyond imagination, and launched a salvo of bombardments at a speed that Jack Sparrow had never seen before. The shells hit the Royal Happiness like raindrops, raging around it.
Countless water jets arose.
However, the Royal Happiness is also extremely powerful. Although it does not have the speed of the Blood Sail, its bombardment is equally terrifying.
As many as four levels of artillery decks fired a salvo at once, which was like shooting up a wall of cannonballs.
Especially since it was still using chain bombs, the sound of the chains cutting through the air between the shells made people's scalp numb.
However, although both ships were shelling, it was obvious that the Blood Sail had hardly been hit due to its super high speed. Only a few shells grazed its deck and were deflected by the protective magic on the ship.
Already.
The Royal Happiness on the other side was not so lucky. The cannonballs fired by the Blood Sail kept hitting its hull.
Although the hull of the Royal Happiness is also very strong and has good defense against cannonballs, it was still hit with sawdust flying.
But as the flagship of the pirate king Bartholomew who once sailed the Caribbean and robbed more than 400 ships in three years, the Royal Happiness was obviously not a passive owner. It quickly adjusted its direction and turned the bow of its bow.
