Five Hundred and Eighty Eighth Setting Sun
Text 0588 Setting sun
night scavenger
The setting sun is like blood.
The pursuit on the sea stopped temporarily, there was no wind to blow the sails, no ships to break the waves, only a dull and muffled echo, intermittent and capricious.
It was gunfire.
The gunshots of maritime commuters are like drums, or like iron needles with the thickness of drumsticks. The sharp needles poke and nail the screams of dying people, forming a tragic picture of doomsday.
The picture scroll is called "Cleaning the Battlefield".
Boom...boom...boom...boom...
There is no useful rhythm to be heard in the gunshots echoing on the sea surface. Such a sound cannot be listened to carefully. Once one is addicted to it, it is easy for people to shake on the board of the ship, and then fall into the sea by rubbing against the side of the ship.
Les stepped over the deck with trepidation, feeling the sticky and limp feedback as his brand-new moccasin boots stepped on the slippery blood and minced meat.
"It's like stepping into some monster's throat..." He stuck out his tongue in disgust, and walked to Harry's side, "Major, are these people really businessmen?"
Harry glanced over coldly, and said softly: "It's not the first time you have dealt with them, you should have known that they are the most bloodthirsty group of people on this sea."
"Uh... that's not what I meant." Les Wu thought for a long time, "Three-minute boarding tactics, I thought it was a storming of the deck within three minutes, there would definitely be a bloody battle, who knows..."
"The fundamental purpose of tactics is to achieve efficient killing." Harry interrupted Rice. "Whether it is incitement, luring the enemy, or storming, they are all means to achieve the goal. Although I don't understand naval warfare, I know Guess the boarding tactic probably wasn't just bravado."
Boom!
The poop hatch next to him was kicked open, and Leif came out of the cabin bleeding, showing his white teeth at Harry.
"I didn't expect you to be much smarter than your followers, landlubber." He laughed loudly, "Three-minute boarding refers to launching a boarding within three minutes. If there are few people on the deck, you will attack by force, and if there are many people on the deck, you will wash the ground. The ocean is not like There are so many twists and turns on the land, we only choose the most effective method, anyway, if people are killed, they will die."
Harry silently bowed to Leif.
Leif laughed even more happily, abandoned the army duo and walked to the middle of the deck in a few strides: "Boys, how can there be any living people who haven't surrendered?"
"The whole ship surrendered, the charge commander, we found 33 alive!" a sailor replied loudly.
"Separate five people to guard the prisoners, and the rest of them hurry up to clean the deck and notify the captain to take over the ship!"
"yes!"
The deck suddenly became lively.
The blood-stained stormtroopers walked out of the cabin with mops, and the shooters with muskets switched to short guns to make up for each intact head and chest. Leff kicked the collapsed cannon of the gun carriage into the sea, and commanded the card with his arms akimbo. Ao took people to clean up the inner cabin.
It is obviously a bloody hell scene, but Drake's sailors are full of factory prosperity, and their energetic yells are more creepy than the dying wailing of suffering.
Rice couldn't help but be clever: "This is probably the most energetic corpse-picking team I've ever seen..."
"Cold-blooded capital." Harry's voice was low and deep, "In addition to being cold-blooded, the characteristics of capital also have reality. We are being marginalized... If we don't show our value, I worry that we will soon lose our status as partners. Unknowingly become cannon fodder."
Les was taken aback: "No way? Although we can't do much on the ship, we still have a lieutenant colonel on the shore..."
"Tch! Who lost our greatest advantage?" Harry said with a black face, "That inarticulate idiot, an impulsive idiot, thanks to him, we can't use Drake as cannon fodder Come and command. Now, retribution!"
Lorraine soon received a signal to receive the captured ship. The time was about 10 to 15 minutes after the launch of the boarding. The speed was very fast, and according to the information sent back, there were only 2 minor injuries in the stormtroopers who boarded the ship. The price paid is minimal.
The biggest contributor to the complete victory was the gun bay. According to incomplete statistics, the round of shotgun saturation that was close to full board caused the direct death of more than 100 people, and a similar number of people were injured, ranging from severity to severity.
The only job of the stormtrooper after receiving the board was to make up the knife and put out the fire. During the process, they broke through the only three cabins that organized resistance. Kao hacked one to death, and Leff frightened the other to death. The above is almost the same The whole process of field docking.
All in all, the yield is very high...
It is a pity that it will take at least two hours to officially receive the warship, because it is getting dark and the ship is too dirty. It is inhumane to let the sailors walk blindly on a strange ship, and it is especially prone to non-combat damage. Additional compensation will be added expenditure.
Lorraine calculated the small account in his heart, raised his head and asked the sailor who came to report: "Erickson's charge commander also captured 33 live pirates?"
"Yes, Captain! We have searched the entire ship to ensure that nothing was missed."
"Is the Zodiac on board still usable?"
"One is still largely intact, and the other was shattered by shotguns." The sailor regretted.
"Is that so..." Lorraine shrugged, "Considering that there are still combat missions to come, we should seek the opinions of the captives as soon as possible."
"They can choose to drive away the Zodiac boat, or they can choose to be hanged on the side of the boat. We will provide two buckets of rum sprinkles and a few sailor knives for the boat in accordance with the pirate code, and they are not allowed to take away personal items."
The sailor opened his mouth.
"By the way, give them half an hour to think about it, don't waste too much time."
"yes."
The sun is already sinking low...
Lorraine looked at the sunset with only half of his face left, and was just about to organize more people to join in the cleaning of the Virgin Cigar, when he suddenly heard the roar from the north, and Aidelai rushed over from the poop.
"Captain! Emergency!"
"What's wrong?"
"The southern battlefield has been upgraded, and the Vader is in crisis! Ms. Dibo and Chief Tactician Hanji suggest that you give up the Virgin Cigar immediately. If you don't hurry up, the Black Prince Bellamy will probably die!"
...
The situation of the battle changed rapidly in an instant, and it was not even possible to say whether it was turning for the better or worse.
The Valkyrie sailors quickly got together, even Leif and Kaa who presided over the situation on the Maiden Cigar.
Katerina stood in front of the chart and reported the information seen in the observation room.
"Before and after we docked with the Maiden Cigar, the Vader launched a charge towards the Hound fleet. Because this charge was similar to most of the previous ones for more than an hour, the lookout did not warn."
"However, in the previous charge, the Vader would change direction every time it approached a close range, searching for a favorable position to launch an artillery attack, but this time..."
She raised her pointer and drew a narrow arc on the chart, from the Vader's position to the center of the Hounds.
"She crashed into it, and was embedded between Brig and a fifth-tier Galen. The three ships of the Hounds were originally difficult to move because of the lack of spacing. After the Vader crashed in, the four ships were almost completely stuck together. .”
Favna followed Katerina's instructions and marked on the chart, [Galen A, Vader, Brig, Galen B], and the four ships handed over and were closely connected.
"The Vader shelled on both sides, and Galen A and Brig countered with artillery immediately after the Vader shelled. The three ships caught fire to varying degrees, and because they were too close to each other, the fire spread to each other."
"I can't be sure whether it was a martyrdom!" Katerina took a deep breath, "I observed a big explosion on the deck of the Vader, and the three masts collapsed in different directions. The collapsed masts completely entangled the four ships, and then... The sailors of Dar are onboard to Brig."
"That's all that was observed."
Katerina finished her epilogue, raised her head after speaking, and stared at Lorraine with burning eyes.
"Captain, the purpose of our participation in this battle is to ask for help from the Vader. If the Vader sinks and Bellamy dies, even if we wipe out all the nutria, this battle will be lost for us."
"That's why you suggested giving up the Virgin Cigar, isn't it?" Lorraine asked, frowning.
"yes!"
"No need..." Lorraine's answer was beyond everyone's expectations. "Bellamy chose to fight to the death. No matter what his reasons are, we have no reason to be responsible for his life."
"But we still need to be saved..."
He pondered for a moment: "Karen, you, Kao, and Kerry board the Virgin Cigar, dispose of the prisoners, and clean the deck. After the preparations for sailing are completed, go north to capture the paralyzed Bagh. If she is unwilling to surrender, she can be sunk. .”
Keren calculated the manpower: "80 sailors are very tight. I can't spare many people to operate the gun except for sailing."
"Valkyrie is also understaffed, not to mention that we will probably have to pick up the ship for support. There are no more people for you."
Karen spread his hands helplessly: "I'll go right away."
"The remaining people... the whole ship is immediately transferred to the first-level combat readiness, set sail with full sail, and rush to rescue at full speed!"
"yes!"
The crowd dispersed, Valkyrie untied his virgin cigars, and the sailors galloped in the golden red of the setting sun.
Lorraine stared at the mark in the center of the chart depressedly, and murmured softly.
"To be or not to be, that is the question."
"Which choice is more noble? Is it to endure the ruthless destruction of the violent fate, or to stand up against the boundless troubles and sweep them away?"
"No one will be reconciled. Obviously moaning and sweating dragged on this remaining life, but when I think about the afterlife, I feel fear about the afterlife. After all, no one has ever returned from the land of death."
"The choice is therefore shaken! I would rather endure the present suffering than turn to another kind of suffering."
"Concern makes cowards of us all."
"It casts a pallid countenance of thought upon the resolute nature, and makes great deeds vanish, and lose the ability to act..."
The long chant flowed into the wind, and the setting sun sank to the surface of the sea unconsciously.
The burning cloud is still in the sky, and the battlefield that burns more fiercely than the cloud is on the other side.
Lorraine suddenly felt joy, and an indescribable sense of refreshment soaked into the limbs and bones along the wind.
"To be or not to be... When Shakespeare asked this question, it probably never occurred to him that there are really fools who can answer it in this world."
"How stupid can a person be?"
"But since you can be so stupid, you shouldn't die within half an hour, right?"
"The setting sun, it's so beautiful..."
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