Chapter 442

The magical Caribbean can always breed a lot of strange things, especially the strange pirates.

Among them are the great Xia, such as the black prince who never established power and always regarded robbing the rich and helping the poor as the first to steal, and the black Prince of all dynasties.

Among them are self-esteem knights, like Katrina, who never looted Spanish merchant ships before washing her hands in the golden basin. Even if she found out which Spanish ship would be attacked in advance, she would go thousands of miles to save it, and she didn't care about her position and safety at all.

Among them, there also appeared Lorraine, the white flag pirate king, who did not do anything under his name. Even becoming a pirate king was to make it easier to fight pirates.

Another word... Best friend, iron porcelain, faxiao, partner?

These daily words associated with friendship and trust clearly have nothing to do with the species of pirates, but the Caribbean has bred a flower of friendship compared with green plum and bamboo horse, that is, the pirate king Blackbeard and the big pirate derricky.

No one knows how their friendship began. Anyway, in the early stage of the pirate war, Lorraine and Blackbeard were anxious at sea, and they could often meet derricky's flagship volgan.

The second war of association made this friendship officially known to the world.

Blackbeard took command and dricky poured out.

His pirate regiment is the main force of the pirate fourth fleet, and it is precisely because of his seat that the paper strength is not strong. The fourth fleet has been upgraded to a strong force second only to the black beard team, with tenacious fighting will and fierce fighting style.

The mob risked shore guns to launch another round of strong attack on Bridgeton, which eventually caused a fire in the port area, and finally became an excuse for Lorraine to crusade against him.

The Crusade war is like a mirror image of history.

When derricky encountered a strong enemy in the Virgin Islands, Blackbeard personally took Queen Anne's revenge to support him on the platform.

When bell cut dricky seriously in World War I, Blackbeard took advantage of the Christmas break to gather his most elite team from all over the world and threw his head into the war quagmire that had nothing to do with him.

The old news of the long overdue explosion stunned Lorraine for a long time.

He really didn't understand what his old rival thought.

Yes, thanks to the escalation of the pirate war, the pirate world in the Caribbean has set off a large-scale merger in the past two years, which is no less than the reshuffle of the takeout market in the future.

Pirate leaders such as Edward Blackbeard and black Baron pavlomus have reached the peak scale of the golden age. Even the second echelon of cotton Jack and hound Henry have more than 40 fleets, which can be strong enough.

According to the news that Drake chamber of Commerce bought from the Royal Navy, the Blackbeard pirate regiment has 147 armed merchant ships, including 86 warships above class 6, belonging to five teams. It is located in the northeast coast of the Caribbean, from the Bahamas to the Windward Islands.

But among the five teams, his team is still the one with the most elite combat power and the most times of fighting with Lorraine. It is the pirate Wang Weiyi who can best represent him

This part of the black beard team, the flagship Queen Anne revenge, has 19 warships under its jurisdiction, which are configured as four level Bagh type 2, five level Galen type 7, six level brig type 2, six level brigantin type 5, and non classified ultra-high speed slup 3.

Queen Anne's revenge is the most powerful firepower of the fleet.

It was a privatized, specially modified, heavy-duty barg high-speed ship.

Its prototype is an ordinary barg type clipper. After Blackbeard's modification without cost, the hull is replaced by oak from the original merchant ship material, and it is greatly thickened according to the three-level standard, which greatly improves the defense.

Her support has also been thoroughly reinforced and upgraded with fire.

The ship has 48 guns, including four 24 pound short-range bow guns on two layers, eight 18 pound medium range stern guns on three layers and eight 12 pound long-range deck guns.

Its main gunship is equipped with 14 doors on the left and right, with 4 12 pound long-range doors, and the Spanish made 24 pound long-range 20 doors and 32 pound long-range 4 doors purchased on the black market. Its firepower is unique in the whole pirate world.

Blackbeard even upgraded the sails. Its sails were fully replaced by Bermuda sails. While the ship's self weight was greatly raised, Kankan maintained the upper limit speed of 11 knots and the lower limit speed of 3.5 knots by taking advantage of the ship type.

Such an excellent Queen Anne's Revenge has been the ceiling of single ship combat power in the pirate war for a long time. Lorraine has suffered a lot under her. Even the irrational replacement speed of the direct fleet is largely due to her.

The reason is very simple. Even with Lorraine's wealth, she can't afford the Queen's appearance fee of at least 10000 pounds.

In four years, the golden deer and Queen Anne's Revenge had a total of six clashes in the vast sea of the Caribbean, and Lorraine remained unbeaten with two wins and four draws.

But the golden deer was obviously not the opponent of Queen Anne's revenge. Before valkiri and the ladies were launched, the whole direct fleet could not find a warship that could line up with the queen, neither could two.

Lorraine's most common tactic against Blackbeard is scuffle.

Taking advantage of the pirates' unskilled tactical literacy and relatively weak fighting will, they quickly approached and tore up the formation of both sides at the same time. Three to five high-speed ships entangled Queen Anne's revenge, and used the remaining combat power to concentrate on oppressing the stronger one of the Blackbeard fleet, pull out its feet and force it to abandon the war.

It's like running on a wire rope.

It is normal for warships with cross combat power to contain the queen. Lorraine and Blackbeard are like two poisonous snakes holding each other's tails. The competition is who will tear and tear each other's tails first.

Lorraine was very lucky. He was able to retreat with the fleet in six battles. The results were limited and the price was acceptable.

But bell

First, Pierce's Secret Service fleet was called out, and then Lorraine and his team were taken away. Bell's direct fleet level did not rise with the delivery of valkiri and the ladies, but plummeted, more than a step.

How should he deal with the menacing Blackbeard?

Lorraine tilted her head suspiciously, and bell smiled proudly.

"Blackbeard kept the mobilization of the fleet very secret. In our intelligence, they should be divided into three parts and active in several sea areas."

"They suddenly appeared and attacked Katrina's sub fleet on the third day after the Christmas holiday. As a result... 6-0. This time, the sub fleet was really broken up. In order to protect the main force from the war, the jerolul did not fight off Mona island."

Lorraine frowned at the news.

Jieluolu is one of the six class 5 high-speed destroyers directly under the fleet. It is named after the sixteen goddess of dis serving in the hall of the spirit, that is, the God names of the Valkyries in Viking mythology.

Her hull cost is 16000 pounds, plus more than 20000 pounds of equipment. It carries 218 people, including about 77 people. Regardless of firepower, ship type and staffing, it is a well deserved main core of the directly subordinate fleet.

She passed the sea trial in March 1783, less than two years before she sank.

Black beard really gave him a big surprise.

Lorraine sighed, "where are our people?"

"Because it was a rout and there was no chance to clean up the battlefield, we lost almost a thousand people in the first war."

Bell shrugged: "fortunately, I'm a procrastinator. The pirates captured before Christmas haven't had time to be hanged on the cross. I made a deal with Blackbeard through a broker with a 1.5-for-1 scheme, put on a brigantine, and finally replaced all the 812 living people."

Lorraine breathed out his sullen breath: "what happened later?"

"Now that I know who the opponent is, of course I won't be careless. The two fleets are merged into one place. I still have 43 ships, and the directly subordinate fleet is reduced by 4, and the combat power is still intact."

"Katrina and I took turns to attack based on the ship repair dock in St. Croix, maintain a third rotation and rest, and control the fleet at the most appropriate scale of 30 ships."

"The response of pirates is similar to ours. Blackbeard's team is not an iron man. Although there are many local pirates in the islands, they are far from our opponent in quality."

"We played three games in the Anegada Strait, in good order and with clear swords and guns. The narrow environment of the Strait basically could not make the fleet war any result, but Katrina and I understood at least two things."

Bell made a V with his fingers.

"Derricky still dominates the Pirates of the islands, and Blackbeard has a completely independent command. When, where and how to act, he does not accept any restraint."

Lorraine's eyes lit up: "you mean, make more doors?"

Bell nodded: "a month ago, the communication ship finally sent the news of your return. Calculate your return date..."

He licked his lips. "I decided to play a big game with those pirates."