The finishing work only took about an hour to complete. The old sailing ship completely lost its salvage value because the keel was blown off. In just that little time, the entire ship had tilted seriously due to water intrusion, so that
The topmost gun window on one side has been soaked in water.
This, in turn, accelerated the speed at which the ship took on water. After discovering that their ship was worthless, the pirates on the pirate ship began to jump off the ship and swim to the coast.
After all, for them, the deputy leader of the pirate group is on the shore now. It is better to escape there than to be captured by Lawrence and the others. And this place is only a few hundred meters away from the coast, and there are no dangerous creatures underwater.
The sea water in the tropics is not cold either. Any normal pirate can swim ashore.
Another steam sailing ship whose bow and mast had just been blown off simply hung a white flag to express its surrender. After Lawrence and the others sent people to pick it up, they learned that this ship was actually just a fast merchant ship captured by pirates, and on board
The current full-level mechanic who is the temporary captain is just a captive, just like the ship.
At that time, the ship was sailing to test a new steam engine after an overhaul, and the mechanic also wanted to see how effective his newly invented condenser should be installed on the steam engine. Unexpectedly, it was only sailing offshore where the city could be seen.
He was captured by a group of pirates when he had not gone far.
In order to save everyone, this extraordinary person who was working as a mechanic on the ship stepped forward and used his membership as a bargaining chip to get the pirates to let the others go. As an extraordinary person who took the initiative to join the group, he was able to escape during the entire pirate group's escape.
It turns out that the captain was designated as the new captain after his death.
Although he was appointed as the captain, the power on the ship was still in the hands of the first mate and financial officer sent by the pirate group. He could only be regarded as the honorary captain of the pirate ship and the repairman of the machinery on the ship.
In the first round of engagement just now, the four shells that hit the side of the ship just killed the stormtrooper captain who was on the gun deck and all the stormtroopers who were left on the ship, plus the gunner who was staying at the stern. But on the ship
Under the orders of the chief mate and treasurer, the ship still tried to rescue the leader of the pirate group through an active attack.
However, the result of this was that the first mate and financial officer and a group of buddies gave the order to rotate the hull and were discovered by the Enterprise when they were standing on the bow of the ship preparing for battle. Then the gunner of the Enterprise discovered that something was wrong and directly commanded the ship.
The cannon blew them away along with the bow. As a result, the only person on the ship who could be called the commander was the mechanic, who was originally considered to be just an honorary captain.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, he successfully persuaded the pirates who seemed to be disoriented because all their previous leaders had been destroyed. Then he surrendered directly to Lawrence and the others.
Of course, the only way to convince this group of pirates to surrender is that they are indeed in an extremely unfavorable environment now and will be dead if they don't surrender. These surviving pirates are all handymen or cannon fodder on the pirate ship, even if they are caught.
The fact that they would not be punished to death was also an important reason why they chose to surrender.
"What should we do next?" After taking in the prisoners and temporarily repairing the two severely damaged steam sailing ships, the first mate ran up and asked. In the battle just now, the Enterprise sacrificed three people.
27 people were injured. However, they killed more than 150 pirates, sank an old sailing ship of about 300 tons, and captured two steam sailing ships with a displacement of 4,500 tons. It can be said to be a great victory.
"First use artillery to destroy the two ships stranded on the shore, and then leave a few people to establish an observation post on the island." Lawrence thought about the arrangement. Because he just saw that after his side's victory, he was originally beside the fire on the shore.
The pirates who looked at the battlefield here ran into the forest, leaving only the two boats that had gone ashore to rest on the beach.
"Why don't we go ashore and clean up?" Saphiel asked Lawrence while wiping the blood on his breastplate with a handkerchief. Just now she and Fatina cooperated in pairs, taking the lead and leading another group of commandos directly from
The stern of the boat was killed in the middle of the boat, so a lot of blood was splashed on his body.
"Of course not ashore." Lawrence smiled and shook his head, "I don't want to throw our precious manpower into the jungle to play hide-and-seek with these pirates. For us, it is enough to block this section of the coastline."
The most important reason why he made such a decision is that more than half of the pirate group is now on the shore. Although we have an advantage in extraordinary strength, we are at a disadvantage in terms of numbers. Therefore, we went ashore at this time to attack with our own shortcomings.
The enemy's strength is extremely unwise.
On the other hand, there are only two small coastal settlements within more than 30 kilometers from this place as the center. These two fishing-based settlements have recently been moved because Lawrence recruited fishermen from the Niujiao Bay port area.
to obtain a port with better conditions. Therefore, as long as those two ships and the possible supplies on board are destroyed, the more than 500 pirates now on the shore will try to survive in the extreme wilderness.
After making the decision, Lawrence commanded the Enterprise to approach the coastline, and then used high-explosive bombs to burn two sailboats under repair into two blazing fires. At the same time, Nora took the two Agricultural Churchmen
The superhumans took off from the Enterprise and flew towards the jungle area of the island.
Although the decision to besiege was made, after learning from the prisoners that there was a professional warrior among the pirates on the shore, everyone quickly made the decision to kill that guy first.
Obviously, it is impossible for a professional-level warrior in the jungle to defeat two spellcasters with a higher extraordinary level and who are good at fighting in this environment. Therefore, the two ships on the beach were blocked by flames.
When it started to collapse, Nora and three of them walked out of the woods and appeared on the beach with a corpse and dozens of prisoners.
The corpse is naturally the deputy leader of the pirate group who was killed. After all, as an important wanted criminal, his head is worth a lot of money, not to mention that extraordinary people of this level often have some good things on their bodies, which can be opened by touching the corpse.
equipment.
And this group of prisoners were the three pirates who took the initiative to surrender near them by shouting after killing the deputy leader of the pirate group and a dozen pirates who resisted. Because these pirates felt that they were not worthy of death, and as outsiders
It is really dangerous to stay in the jungle.
After imprisoning this group of pirates who had voluntarily surrendered together with the group of pirates they had captured just now, Lawrence and the others anchored at the mouth of the river and began to conduct detailed post-war statistics and searches. They also temporarily repaired the two captured steam sailing ships.
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In particular, the two steam sailboats had been seriously injured in the battle just now. If they were not repaired, Lawrence was worried that they would be flooded halfway and sink directly.
Fortunately, after inspection by the carpenters on the ship, it was discovered that although the two captured ships looked in a mess, especially the pirate flagship, it seemed that the entire upper deck had disappeared due to the extraordinary battle just now. But the keels and ribs of the ships,
The problems with the steam engine and the parts below the waterline of these two ships are not serious, so they are worth repairing.
When everyone started to work, Lawrence and the extraordinary people on board boarded the two captured pirate ships, and then searched for the loot on board.
At first, these extraordinary beings wanted to roll up their sleeves and look for it themselves, but Lawrence quickly stopped them. He first summoned the phantoms of the aquatic monsters and asked them to go to the silent sailboat.
Then he summoned paper men and entered the two captured pirate ships to search every place.
"We'll just wait." Lawrence said, summoning several more monster phantoms and asking them to process the coconuts they had just picked up while escorting the prisoners from the shore, and then distributed them to everyone. "It only takes half an hour.