Chapter 449

As most of the time, the meeting with Nelson was just a small episode on Lorraine's way.

He was really worried about Nelson and that the doomed legend would never recover in the face of repeated setbacks, but he was not as worried as he was at the dinner party.

After all, there are few so-called doomed legends like Nelson in the whole history of mankind.

Luck has made their achievements, but if we think that they only have more luck than their contemporaries, this idea is too high on luck.

Nelson will slow down, and Lorraine believes it.

After a night at the quiet woolward farm, at dawn the next day, the direct fleet left the port and sailed due south along the inner chain of the Leeward Islands.

This area already belongs to the middle of the Leeward Islands. On the vast sea surface, there are unmanned islands with a land area of 32 square kilometers, which far exceeds the standard of reefs and can not meet the needs of human settlements. In terms of sovereignty, they are scattered and controlled by six or seven countries, such as Britain, France, Spain and the Netherlands. The nearest garrison is far away from Antigua, not far from Nevis.

In other words, if Blackbeard's friendship with dricky is 50% sincere, this is the best place for him to ambush.

Lorraine adjusted the alert level of the fleet to level 3, and the fleet entered the alert state. Brigantin in the back column spread forward into two wings to cable the enemy. Brig in the front fell back and pushed out of valkiri. Viewed from a high altitude, it was like a [w] with thick center and thin wings.

The ship's lookout was earlier than other posts, and the rotation was cancelled. The lookout No. 123 of valkiri boarded the mast tip at the same time, and the observation surface of 3x120 degrees was expanded to 42 kilometers at most.

The atmosphere became more and more tense.

Although valkiri has made full achievements on the sea of the Sultanate, his losers include the most representative three-stage Galen in the fully loaded sail system and the most classic bagala ship in the Arabian PA system. Compared with them, Queen Anne's revenge is obviously worse than them.

But they are all strange enemies, and Blackbeard is an old enemy.

Queen Anne's revenge and the golden deer had more than one fierce confrontation. Lorraine played almost all the flower work she could play with the weak against the strong.

No matter how strong valkiri is, she adheres to Drake's consistent high-speed and proximity thinking in shipbuilding industry. Whether she can surprise Blackbeard and how much surprise she can bring are unknown.

Lorraine was thinking about the untrue external sea trial report.

If valkiri arrived in Barbados with great fanfare, Lorraine had returned to the Caribbean for almost a month.

It was enough time for Blackbeard to pay attention to valkiri and get a copy of the report.

Of course, he will doubt the authenticity of the complaint. The higher the degree of doubt, the less space valkiri can play.

Can we sink Queen Anne's Revenge in the first battle between the two sides and this naval battle.

What can Drake do after sinking and what should Drake do if he doesn't sink? Lorraine's focus was more on the post-war than the immediate naval battle that could start at any time.

Thinking of this, Lorraine suddenly found that he didn't seem to have considered defeat at all

He smiled, "Blackbeard, can you really beat me?"

……

Baster island.

As part of the Lesser Antilles, the leeward and Windward Islands are at the border between baster and Russell.

Baster belonged to France and together with its sister Island, Grande Terre, formed the French Guadeloupe colony.

Compared with Martinique, who is close at hand, Guadeloupe's development lags far behind.

This is mainly because of her barren landscape.

Baster and Grande Terre are mountainous, with a total area of less than 1000 square kilometers. Most of the island area is covered by mountains, and only a small amount of land is suitable for the economic rooting of plantations. Most of them are concentrated around baster town in the southwest of baster island and baimayo town in the Northeast of Grande Terre Island.

It is also the only two trading ports in Guadeloupe.

Comparing the two, the landform of baster island is more complex. Behind baster town is the sufriere active volcano with an altitude of nearly 1500 meters. The basin shaped crater is misty with black smoke all year round, as if it would spray out bright red slurry that destroys the sky and the earth at any time.

TranX, the watchman of the Blackbeard pirate regiment, stood on a volcanic rock halfway up the mountain with a lookout mirror, which cruised smoothly on the sea.

His hand suddenly stopped and his mouth was saying something.

"62 kilometers northwest of the sea, Trident formation, number 1, 2, 3, 4... A total of 19 ships, including the new flagship wrapped in a turtle shell and 4 class V ships."

"It is worthy of being a white flag of invincible wealth, and its pomp is still as big as ever."

He put down his mirror and shouted.

"Inform the captain that the white flag fleet is located 62 kilometers northwest of the observation point, with a total of 19 ships, Trident array and 550 guns."

"The enemy ship team is moving along the coastline at a speed of 7 knots and is expected to leave the baster sea area in 4 hours."

"Yes!"

A few minutes later, Guadeloupe Bay.

Baster is adjacent to the sister Island Grande Terre, which is only separated by the narrow Sarai Strait. Its shape is like a recumbent L. baster is the short side and Grande Terre is the long side, and the two intersect. The Bay connecting the Sarai Strait is Guadeloupe Bay.

Different from the general law that the bay is a gold mine, although Guadeloupe Bay is a vast natural haven, there is no large-scale settlement on both sides, and naturally there will be no commercial ports, docks and ships

Guadeloupe's human activities are basically concentrated in baster on the Caribbean coast and baimayo on the Atlantic coast. This natural haven has been abandoned. Naturally, it has gathered all pervasive pirates and become the foundation of pirate activity in this area.

Skeleton Bay, which is the exclusive title given by pirates to Guadeloupe Bay.

Queen Anne's revenge was moored in the calm sea. On board, the pirate on duty trotted to the pilot semras.

"Sir, a letter came from the mountain peak saying that the trace of Baiqi was found. The specific information is on the paper. Please have a look."

Semras took it clearly, shook his hand and spread out the paper.

"White flag's new ship has a main mast of 55 meters, and the observation distance at sea is much longer than that of our Queen Anne, so the ambush on the sea is not effective for him. If he wants to find him in advance, he can only pass through the land-based altitude."

"62 kilometers... Although it is much closer than the 80 kilometers I expected, it is barely enough. Tranks bought us four hours to arrange the battlefield."

"Order, the whole ship of this part of the team is in combat readiness. Tell Tranks to report the position of Bai Qi every half an hour, and send some more ashore to let the head end the negotiations with those cowards."

"I still understand them." semras flicked the parchment to record the information. "Skeleton Bay is too close to the Windward Islands. It's common for the associated press and the navy to be surrounded and suppressed. The pirates here are used to it. If they want them to make cannon fodder, the head needs eloquence like the black baron or his highness white flag..."