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Chapter 18 The Mighty Dreadnought

Chapter 14 .,!

Fang Senyan no longer paid attention to the things on the deck. After all, what had happened today was enough for these pirates to digest. So, he turned around and left. He hadn't inspected the two newly captured ships yet. Who knew, he might discover some good things. His reputation among the pirates had risen to an unbelievable level, so there was hardly any chance of trouble. The other pirates didn't know how much they envied Canby's luck and were even more determined to stay in this team.

This time, Fang Senyan's inspection could be said to have yielded unexpected surprises. He actually discovered two more special plot equipment items, though they were for ships. On the Royal Navy ship, he found:

Lisbon "McKinney" Jib
Category: Sail
Origin: Lisbon
Equipment Nature: Special Plot Equipment (can only be installed on plot battleships and cannot be taken out of this world).
Equipment Rarity: Deep Blue
Material: Coarse Canvas
Attachable Devices: None
Effect: When installed on a ship, it provides an additional 5% movement speed compared to ordinary jibs.
Installation Position: Mast
Description: The climate in 1689 was very suitable for flax growth, so the flax harvest that year was abundant. The quality of the thick canvas produced by the McKinney workshop that year received extremely excellent reputation and evaluation. The jibs made of the thick canvas they produced, therefore, had better and more excellent performance.

On the pirate ship, there appeared a good thing that Fang Senyan had always wanted to obtain:

Teji's Symbol
Category: Ram
Origin: Savage Islands, Caribbean Sea
Equipment Nature: Special Plot Equipment (can only be installed on plot battleships and cannot be taken out of this world)
Equipment Rarity: Black
Material: Chitin, Osteodentine
Attachable Devices: Iron Hoop
Effect: When installed on a ship, it can cause 2.5 times the normal ramming damage to enemy ships, while increasing the chance of tearing the enemy hull by 33%.
Installation Position: Bow
Description: Three years ago, Blood Anchor led a group of people to the Savage Island and plundered a native tribe called Teji. They obtained a very powerful tusk from this tribe. After identification, it was a narwhal's tusk.
Because Blood Anchor didn't leave any survivors when plundering the tribe, no one knew why the narwhal's tusk, which only lives in the Arctic, would appear in the Caribbean. However, it was certain that this tusk was very powerful. So, after Blood Anchor was punished to Kit's ship, he made this tusk into a ram and placed it on the bow of the ship.

With this ram, it could be said that the process of conventional boarding was simplified. There was no need for grappling hooks, just ram straight into the enemy ship's belly. Once the violent collision tore the enemy's hull, the bow of the ship could be cut deeply into the enemy's hull, and the two ships would even form a temporary integrated state. Boarding the enemy ship was a simple matter of taking a step.

Just as Fang Senyan began to direct his men to install the ram, a pirate suddenly pointed to the sky behind him and said, "Lord Sivale has released the signal to return. Today's battle should be over."

Fang Senyan immediately turned around and saw a winding light rising into the sky from the core battlefield dozens of nautical miles away. It should be something similar to a signal flare soaring upwards. Looking at the momentum of the light column, it seemed to directly connect to the sky, leading to the deep and mysterious depths of the sky.

As the signal flare rose, all the pirate ships began to converge toward one place. But at this moment, a seven-masted ship suddenly rushed out of the British Royal Fleet. It looked like the latest type of heavy caravel sailboat for strong attacks, one of the three main battleships of the British Royal Navy, Norrington's flagship, Dauntless!

It could be seen that this powerful ship was not afraid of facing the grouped pirates with its own strength. It gave people the feeling that it was facing the enemy's thousands of troops, still bravely stepping forward to challenge the battle, a general wielding a saber and standing on his horse!

After sailing for several nautical miles, the Dauntless suddenly made a sharp turn, and the entire ship swung sideways, pulling out a magnificent white wave arc on the sea, and then pointed its starboard side at the pirates gathered in front! In the next second, the cannons roared, and the indescribable loud noise instantly covered even the sound of the ocean tide!

Even more astonishing was that all 106 thirty-two-pound cannons on the entire Dauntless fired simultaneously and ended at the same time. This immediately created an auditory break. After the entire world seemed to stand still for a few seconds, continuous and dull swaying sounds appeared in the pirate ship group, and then even a violent explosion like a gunpowder magazine being detonated occurred. Then, a storm of wind and waves swept in!

The faces of Fang Senyan and the other two were a little pale. The contractor's vision was originally beyond ordinary people, and they could clearly see that when the Dauntless fired, a large area of densely packed thirty-five-pound shells directly crushed over them. The terrifying power contained in them effortlessly destroyed all obstacles. At least three ships of the gathered pirates were sunk in an instant.

And those shells, after achieving such great results, still had undiminished power. They hit the seven-masted giant ship in the rear, and wood chips flew everywhere. Even the main masts of two or three large ships were broken very simply, crashing down with indescribable loud noises and creaking sounds, splashing up a sky of water. Then, pirate ships whose gunpowder magazines had been hit exploded violently!

"In an instant, like a rocket launcher, it can pour out several times the usual firepower output to the enemy. Is this the special skill of the legendary warship Dauntless?" Fang Senyan muttered to himself.

"The weaknesses are also obvious. As long as you avoid this wave of firepower, then the Dauntless will have no ammunition. Once you board the ship, you will have to face a large group of gunners."

At the moment when the Dauntless fired, he, with his extremely strong perception, suddenly felt a strong threat from death. Obviously, even Fang Senyan's current strength could definitely not confront these top-level objects in the Caribbean world head-on. However, for Fang Senyan, it seemed that there was no need to do such a thing in a short period of time.

"Set sail, it's time to leave." Fang Senyan said lightly, "Raise the sails! Target: Tortuga, maximum speed."

A pirate hurried to take orders and left. Then Fang Senyan thought for a while and added, "Remember to sink Blood Anchor's pirate ship and only take our captured British warship."

Fang Senyan chose to leave the battlefield at the time when both sides were most chaotic. The scale of ships invested in this naval battle was very amazing. In addition, Norrington's performance at the end was too powerful, attracting most people's attention, so their departure was silent and did not attract the attention of others.

Although Old Bass's "Ridge" was quite good, it was a warship that focused on gun positions, and it would take a lot of effort to改造 it. Therefore, Fang Senyan's flagship at this time was still the "Sam" that Philip originally served on.

In order to cover up his eyes and ears and slow down the time when he would turn against the Sivale pirate group, Fang Senyan sank all the pirate ships. But he could still take away three three-masted Royal Navy "Galleon" ships with oars and sails that were slightly injured. This was because the ships themselves were a very considerable wealth, even without calculating the weapons and equipment on them.

The experience of the last Caribbean world had fully told Fang Senyan that if he wanted to thrive and stand out in this world, then a lot of money was essential. Especially for Fang Senyan, who had become a pirate captain at this time, he had to consider the food, drink, and 拉撒 of nearly two hundred people under his command! Feeding these greedy guys was the first principle.

More importantly, Fang Senyan was now considering that the main theme of Pirates of the Caribbean was of course adventure and freedom, but almost all the stories and plots in this world were inseparable from ships and naval battles!

In terms of the plot characters encountered in the process of carrying out the task, it could be said that they could not pose any threat to Fang Senyan and the others now. However! The difficulty of this world was still B—, although this difficulty was low, it still meant that in the process of carrying out the task, there would also be processes or characters that threatened the lives of Fang Senyan and the others.

According to Fang Senyan's careful analysis, he believed that the difficulty should mainly be reflected in the vast sea. To give a simple example, Fang Senyan and the others could easily kill a hundred guys like Old Sea Dog, but if they were at sea, the three of them would take a small boat and encounter even only fifty pirates with strength close to the Old Sea Dog driving a fast sailboat gunboat, then without a doubt, Fang Senyan and the others would die miserably: the range of the cannon was farther than the range of Mogansha, and once a small ship sank, even if it was as strong as a contractor, it would not be possible to survive in the ocean for a long time. After the continuous swimming reached the limit of the body, the life value would continue to decrease.

At this time, there were still more than thirty hours left before the forty-eight hours stipulated by the main mission: Sailing. However, in order to arrive at the pirate neutral port of Tortuga in advance, Fang Senyan directed the fastest flagship, "Sam," to go first, and then divided half of the manpower to the other ships, so that they could then slowly carry the wounded.