Zhou Weisen has never learned Spanish, but he had a lot of dealings with Lao Mo when he was in the United States, and he can also tinker with a few daily conversations - otherwise it would not be so easy to hook up with Mendoza. The word "surrender"
He understood. He immediately stopped the commando's attempt to throw a second tear gas bomb. He turned to the translator Asan and said:
"Tell them to raise their hands above their heads and come out one by one!" Translator Ah San said it once, and then said it again. At this time, there was a reaction inside, and a Spanish man emerged from the smoke of the pepper.
Come, he was sneezing and crying again, but he didn't forget to raise his hands above his head.
Looking at the woolen woolen clothes and layers of wrinkled stiff collars on this man, it goes without saying that he is a person of status. The empty scabbard on his thigh also illustrates this point - only people of status: if not nobles, at least
You have to be a so-called "child of a noble family" to wear a sword.
Because this man was irritated by the pepper smoke, he was crying and sneezing. Without seeing anything, the commandos took him aside and tied him up. Then Ah San yelled at him, "Kneel down!" They knelt down one by one.
On the deck, it looks like a bunch of hairy crabs.
Someone tried to stand up and speak, but Zhou Weisen had neither the time nor the interest to listen now. With a gesture, Translator Asan went over and beat the unlucky Spaniard with a stick as if on stimulants until he lay on the ground unable to move.
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Zhou Weisen pointed out that there were ten people kneeling on the deck, and two of them were young attendants. It seemed that they were all prominent people on the ship and their servants.
After ten people, there was no more sound inside. Zhou Weisen installed a tactical flashlight on SW629 and was the first to break into the cabin. Commandos wearing masks and goggles broke in one after another.
There was no need to show the results of their tactical training inside - the cabin was in a mess, furniture and various utensils were scattered all over the floor, and there were also many swords, sabers and matchlocks scattered in the mess. It seemed that the people inside had prepared to
It was a fight to the death. But at this moment, there was no one inside.
"Pay attention to occupying the entrance and exit of the gun deck!" Zhou Weisen shouted. This entrance is the connecting passage between the bottom warehouse and the stern cabin. If the Spaniards want to counterattack, it is a shortcut. "Pay attention to the search!"
There are two entrances and exits to the poop. One is the hatch leading to the upper deck, which is where they break in. From here, you can go to the upper deck. You can also go to the poop deck through the stairs on both sides - the helmsman and the ship.
The command place. The other entrance is on the upper floor of the poop building, which can lead to the gun deck. This entrance is usually locked to prevent sailors from scheming to use this entrance to unexpectedly attack the poop tower from the lower deck. In case of being attacked
When pirates board the ship and join gangs to fight, the poop is also a support point for resistance.
The commandos quickly cleaned the senior seamen's cabins on the first floor and then entered the second floor. The second floor was divided into three rooms. The outside was a large room used by the captain to handle various official duties on the ship, and the middle room was on the ship.
The senior crew's dining room. The innermost part is divided into two cabins, the left and right cabins. They belong to the ship owner and the captain respectively. When the ship owner is away, this room can also be used by VIPs on the ship.
"Safe!" "Safe!" "Safe!" Voices confirming safety came from all directions.
"Pay attention to the search!" Zhou Weisen shouted. The stern cabin is often stored with the personal belongings of the captain and VIPs on the ship - especially this kind of scheduled ship between the two colonies. Everyone will seize the opportunity to engage in smuggling, the captain of the St. Louis
It's no exception. Maybe you can make a small fortune from here.
"Report to the leader!" A team member suddenly shouted, "There is a woman on the boat!"
The word woman made Zhou Weisen suddenly excited - except for slaves, there were very few women sailing on ships these days. Although some captains would bring their wives or daughters with them, these were very few exceptions.
However, this was a royal ship between New Spain and the Philippines, and it was entirely possible that it carried the families of several important officials.
The woman on the Spanish ship, not to mention the hot and unrestrained Latin girl. Although Zhou Weisen already had a Ocean Horse that made him want to vomit, but capturing a Ocean Horse and a boatload of Spanish men can earn more merit points in the Senate.
Come.
"Where?" he asked hurriedly.
"In the owner's cabin." The team member said, "She refuses to come out. We can't understand her..."
"You won't drag her out if she doesn't want to come out?" Zhou Weisen said coldly, "Catch her alive!"
A few minutes later, two team members dragged a woman in front of him. Zhou Weisen was greatly disappointed: This woman was indeed a big girl, but she looked much older. She was wrapped in a thick black dress - he was very disappointed.
I know a little bit about European clothing, and I know that this is a kind of widow's clothing. Look carefully at her face: she must be at least fifty.
When Zhou Weisen saw that it was a Ocean Horse that had expired, he didn't bother to ask any more questions. He just waved his hand and asked the team members to escort her out. He also got out of the stern cabin.
At this time, members of the Marine Commando came to report to him: the entrance and exit to the middle and lower decks on the deck had been controlled, and Ah San was currently being asked to speak, but the people below did not respond.
"Keep shouting!" Just as Zhou Weisen finished speaking, suddenly there was loud gunfire on the deck and white smoke filled the air. The Spaniards below the deck suddenly fired a volley of matchlocks from the entrance and exit, and then violently pushed open the wooden grille, and a swarm of attempts came out.
However, their attempt was immediately met with a fierce counterattack by the Marines who had been waiting nearby. As soon as the seven or eight people who climbed out of the hatch leaned out half of their bodies, their brains were split open by dense shells and they died.
It seemed that extreme measures had to be taken. Zhou Weisen didn't like poison gas at all, and hundreds of sailors and soldiers were also good labor forces in the mine.
Zhou Weisen picked up the walkie-talkie and called Lin Chuanqing, "Old Lin, prepare the 'disinfectant'!"
"clear!"
As he was talking, he saw another team member pulling two women out of the stern cabin with a tow rack. Zhou Weisen was curious, what happened on this ship? There are so many women!
He quickly asked: "What's going on?"
"Report to the chief! He was found in the cabin below, hiding in the cabin where the luggage was piled."
Zhou Weisen looked at the two women and found that these two women were very young, but their faces showed the characteristics of a mixture of yellow and white. They should be the Crevaos in America, the mixed descendants of Spanish conquistadors and Indian women.
Judging from their clothes, they didn't look like women of high status, they were probably maids or the like. As he thought this, a strange aroma suddenly drifted from his nose - it was the smell of perfume.
Zhou Weisen was suddenly stunned. Thinking of the "crow" just now, he suddenly became excited. He gave a few instructions to the captain of the marine commando team, and then returned to the stern cabin with a few people.
I'm so slow that I didn't think of it! He thought to himself, isn't this widow a "chaperone"? The Spanish upper class is always used to hiring older widows to be the companions of young girls or young women.
The role of supervision. Otherwise, why would a plainly dressed widow live in the owner's cabin and sail across the ocean? And the two maids, the smell of perfume on the maids - this is really obvious!
In the owner's cabin in the stern cabin, there must have been a young and distinguished Yangma! She must have been hiding!
"Attention, start the search again now! Search each cabin for me carefully!" Zhou Weisen ordered, "If you find anything suspicious, report it to me immediately!"
Not long after, a young woman was pulled in front of him. She was wearing a long skirt made of a gorgeous material that looked like silk and was embroidered with gold thread that Zhou Weisen had never seen before. She was holding a folding fan tightly in her hand. Look.
Apparently, she was a woman from the upper class, most likely the family member of a high-ranking Spanish official or aristocrat in New Spain or the Philippines.
Zhou Weisen estimated that the woman was about twenty years old, petite in stature, with long brown hair in thin curls hanging down from her temples. She stared at the man wearing strange clothes in front of her with a pair of panicked brown eyes.
What wafted to my nose was the scent of the maid's perfume just now, but it was stronger and weirder.
"Take her away." Zhou Weisen has no intention of asking her now. He has more important things to do.
"Who is the captain? Bring the captain."
The team members pushed a Spaniard over, and he had a big bump on his head. It was the ruthless translator Asan who beat him.
"How many people are there below?" Zhou Weisen asked with his face covered.
The captain originally wanted to say a few nice and impressive words to fully express his demeanor as a son of a noble family, but Ah San's beatings with sticks just now made him dizzy, and he no longer had the energy to maintain his image.
Seeing the strange-looking pirates and their ship, the captain decided to tell the truth.
"There were 412 people in total when we left Acapulco, and there were still 375 people at the last roll call three days ago."
"How many soldiers are on board?"
"At that time, a company of 90 men was loaded in New Spain. I don't know how many are left now."
"Why didn't you surrender just now? You have clearly raised the white flag." Zhou Weisen said fiercely, "Do you know the consequences of pretending to surrender? I will hang you all on the mast!"
"Please don't insult my honor!" Although the captain's hands were tied, he still maintained a noble temperament. "I have ordered to surrender, but Lieutenant Alvarado refused to surrender..."
"Who is Alvarado?"
"That's the company commander of that company. He's a restless boy from an aristocratic family." The captain was shocked. "He also tried to seize the poop tower. It's terrible!"