The big cloth bag was filled with white ash, which quickly spread over the entire sea surface when the wind blew. The five boats that caught up were confused and didn't understand what the white fog that suddenly came with the wind was.
Something I didn’t discover until I got closer...
"Ah! My eyes!"
"Blind, my eyes are blind, I can't see anything!"
Suddenly, people on the decks of the five boats began to howl loudly and rub their eyes desperately. Many people began to look for water, but they could not open their eyes at all. Inadvertently, many people simply fell into the sea.
Screams kept coming and going!
This is the first time that this kind of weapon of mass destruction has been used in Europe. Regarding the method of throwing lime at the enemy, Wang Xuan doesn't think it is shameful at all. He is the enemy and you are telling me what the hell you are.
Humanism!
Only dead enemies are good enemies, and Wang Xuan doesn’t have that kind of mental mysophobia!
Of course, the main reason was that Port-au-Prince was under construction and many houses needed to be painted with white ash. Wang Xuan suddenly had an idea and came up with this superb method!
Indeed, for Europe, where knightly duels are still popular, this is really...too unexpected!
At this point, Wang Xuan's method slowly spread, completely changing some modes of naval warfare. Whether it is a merchant ship or a warship, whoever goes to sea can't bring a few barrels of white ash on the ship!
Come on, let’s hurt each other!
After a naval battle, everyone would often have red eyes, looking at everyone as if they were trying to eat someone!
Of course, many defense methods will be developed in the future. For example, no matter whether you are bald or not, you must wear a headscarf when going to sea. At critical moments, you can blind your eyes by just clicking it down!
But this time it was too sudden...
When the sea breeze completely blew away the white-ash attack, there were not many good people left in Richie Reed's fleet!
From the helmsman to the sailor, everyone was basically hit. Their eyes were as if they were going blind. Not to mention sailing the ship and firing cannons, even in hand-to-hand combat, they didn’t know where the knife would strike!
The remaining people saw Wang Xuan and six ships surrounding him, especially the Dauntless. All three decks were opened, and the black muzzles of the 100 cannons looked hideous and terrifying.
Even the best fourth-level battleship in the squadron, which was snatched from the British, might not be able to withstand two rounds of saturation attacks from the Dauntless at such a close distance!
Surrender is a matter of course!
Capturing the opponent's five ships and more than 400 people at once was equivalent to destroying one-fifth of the opponent's power at once. Wang Xuan was still very happy.
As for the prisoners, most of the people in this group were infected. Wang Xuan didn't have sesame oil to clean them, so he had to use a lot of sea water. In the end, Wang Xuan didn't care how many people's eyesight was affected. Anyway, pirates would never
He will never die.
Of course, using a strategy to capture the opponent this time was only the first step, it was to lay the foundation for Wang Xuan to kill their main force later.
He tied up all the other party's people and threw about 400 people onto his six broken ships, while all five of the other party's ships were replaced by his own people.
The five captains of the other side were caught in front of Wang Xuan. Wang Xuan didn't say anything nonsense or asked a question. He first had the five guys sentenced to death. In the past thousands of years, our empire has never seen any kind of punishment.
What kind of fishing nets can be cut into thousands of pieces, what kind of soldering irons, what kind of bamboo sticks for nailing nails, what kind of clamping sticks.
He just asked his subordinates to explain to them one by one the usage of various punishments and the rough pain. Looking at the bloodstains on the torture tools, the five guys were so frightened that they cried and said that they had to confess to everything.
The executioner glanced at Wang Xuan, and Wang Xuan said: "Just talking about the execution, they have not experienced it personally. Only the pain on their skin will make them confess honestly!"
After hearing Wang Xuan's order, the executioner was not polite and asked people to hold down the five struggling guys. Although they wanted to confess crazily, no one listened!
As soon as a pin was applied, someone fainted from the pain, and the nails were nailed with bamboo sticks again. The five guys didn't even need Wang Xuan to ask anything, and they automatically told all the news related to Rich Reed.
Only then did Wang Xuan feel satisfied and let him go.
Sure enough, asking yourself is the last resort. It is better to mobilize people's subjective initiative!
After getting a satisfactory answer, the fleet set off again. Six of their own ships found a small island to dock in the distance. Their own sailors drove the other party's five ships. The Intrepid and the Interceptor lowered half of their sails and slowly moved under the tow of the five ships.
Drive slowly into Richie Reed's lair, part one!
It was already evening at this time, and the pirates who were responsible for looking out were naturally happy to see their fleet returning home with a full load, but they did not know that the ships were fully loaded, but those who returned were not their own family!
For pirates, there is basically no fixed base of their own. Just like Rich Reed, there are more than a dozen strongholds throughout the Bahamas. As soon as the British Navy's encirclement and suppression fleet is discovered, they will immediately board the ship and run away, leaving no chance for the opponent to fight.
Chance,
If Wang Xuan hadn't returned disguised as the opponent's fleet this time, Richie Reed would have known about it as soon as he entered the nearby sea area, and then they would have fled in a swarm. You don't even know who you are chasing!
But...this time Wang Xuan really blocked the other party in the port!
Slowly approaching, Wang Xuan stood on the watchtower of the Fearless and could see the entire island bay from a distance.
Seventeen or eight boats were scattered and docked on the coast. There were dense reefs near the coast. A long plank road with a length of more than 100 meters spanned the sea with the help of the rocks.
On the small island, a large number of simple houses were built against the mountain wall. In the open space in front of the mountain wall, a group of pirates in ragged clothes were lighting bonfires. It seemed that tonight was another carnival.
Pirates live in a state of intoxication every day. After all, no one knows where they will die in an unknown place one day!
The body was thrown into the sea and it was unknown what was eating it.
Therefore, naturally, if you live one day, you will waste the day!
Faced with this situation, Wang Xuan was naturally not polite and quietly passed on the order. In an instant, all the ships' cannons were stretched out, half of them were pointed at the plank road, and most of them were replaced with chain ammunition and shotguns and pointed at the docked nearby.
Pirate Ship.
Three other ships have begun to quietly approach Richie Reed's three remaining battleships, especially the largest one. The Dauntless approached it personally.
When everything was ready, suddenly, a signal bomb shot into the sky, and the rumbling sound of artillery suddenly echoed throughout the island. While everyone was stunned, the 100-meter-long plank road was immediately blown to pieces.
Thousands of people on the island who were preparing for a carnival stood there stupidly for a while, looking at the boardwalk that was blown up in the air, not knowing what to do.
On the other side, Wang Xuan's Dauntless also approached Rich Reed's flagship, an old-fashioned third-level battleship with a displacement of 600!