Azeroth Shadow Trail

Chapter 278 97. The North Sea Pirates said that the advantage lies with me

"I see a ship! A vrykul ship with a Jolly Roger. Hell! What kind of power is that? I've never seen a Jolly Roger like this before."

In the sea north of Tol Barad, 20 nautical miles away from the main island, three large ships were heading for the looming island.

All three ships were flying the same Jolly Roger.

Needless to say, the black background and the skull pattern are the standard configuration of the pirate flag. A trident is drawn next to the skull, representing the origin of the three pirate ships.

They are from the North Sea.

To be precise, it is the ice and snow land of Northrend.

The North Sea pirates are less well-known than the South Sea pirates, but like their South Sea counterparts, these bastards who plunder the frozen seas are just as despicable, greedy, and bloodthirsty.

On the largest ship, a female pirate with a red cloth wrapped around her head, wearing a white blouse, red shorts on her lower body, weird tattoos on her legs and arms, and a nose ring put down her binoculars.

She turned and shouted to the group of lazy fellows behind her:

"There are daggers and crows next to the skeleton. What kind of force is this? Does anyone know?"

No one answered her.

Probably no one knows, and no one is interested in answering.

Because the pirates on this ship were not in very good condition, basically everyone who was active on the deck was injured, and only a few had no bandages or scars on their bodies.

Obviously, they had just been through a fierce battle before.

"You bastards!"

The tattooed female pirate didn't hear the answer, and immediately cursed.

But still no reaction.

This dissatisfied the female pirate who was the temporary first mate, and she raised her binoculars to look at the Vrykul dragon-headed warship rushing towards it at an extremely fast speed.

After estimating the distance between the two sides, he leaned on his sailor knife, grabbed the cable at hand, and kicked the steering rudder next to him. The next moment, the whole person was caught by the moving cable and flew into the foremast.

He also moves swiftly like a monkey, walking through the boat net, jumping and jumping, and rushing to the poop.

Her movements are so nimble, and she walks on the ground on a swaying ship. At first glance, she looks like an old pirate, but she is also very young, and she probably grew up on a ship since she was a child.

"My lord Anne, there is a pirate ship of an unknown force approaching us, coming from the direction of Tol Barad."

The moment she rushed into the captain's cabin, the tattooed woman smelled the pungent smell of herbs. There must be some wounded here, and on the captain's seat in front of her was a female pirate wearing a captain's uniform.

Wearing a pirate hat with the North Sea pirate logo, a long windbreaker and a set of red leather armor, a dagger hanging from his waist, a sailor sword in his hand, and no blindfold.

She should be in her thirties, her weather-beaten skin is not too delicate, but her eyes are sharp and shining, she is not a character easy to deal with at first glance.

However, the shrewd and powerful female captain now looked haggard, her chest was wrapped in a thick bandage, and blood was still oozing from it.

This meant that she had just recovered from a fatal attack.

"A ship from Tol Barad?"

Hearing the chief mate's report, the haggard female captain suddenly raised her head and said:

"Those merchants from Lordaeron, didn't they say that Tol Barad has been destroyed by the orcs? It has been abandoned for more than a year, so why are there still pirate ships?

Was it our colleagues who took over the island? Marcy, can you spot their logo? "

"I don't know, Captain."

Marcie, the tattooed female first mate, shook her head, and replied with the cunning that an old pirate should have:

"However, they only have one boat, which is still a small boat, and it can carry dozens of people at most. We have three boats with nearly 600 people. Although there are many wounded, our firepower is strong.

They are not our opponents.

Even if they rob Tol Barad, we can easily snatch it back, recuperate there, recruit some new people to board the ship, and then take advantage of the opportunity of the Kul Tirans to fight the orcs, rush into Gilneas and Arathi. Take a look.

Before the Kul Tirans find us, we can take the loot and return to the North Sea, or go to Kalimdor to find a new home port. "

Having said that, the first officer with the tattoo gritted his teeth and said bitterly:

"Yona is already crazy. He and his mad dogs will attack us tenfold in the future!"

"Cough cough later."

Captain Anne Bonn, who was sitting in the captain's cabin, waved her hand. This action touched the wound and made her cough a few times in pain. Marci immediately sent a bottle of rum up.

The female captain took a sip of wine, using the comfort brought by alcohol to numb the pain in her body.

This sip of wine also made her face rosy.

She wiped her mouth and said to the first officer in front of her:

"We've lost the firefight, and now need a place to recuperate. Speak to those who occupy Tol Barad.

It's best not to fight.

If they don't give face, they can only attack by force.

Send a signal to Harry and Terry to get their ships ready, and if they want to fight, they will sink the opponent's ship as soon as possible! Then land from the village of Losberg.

We have the maps left by Captain Al Reiss, decades are not enough to change the topography of that island.

Never go to Cape Lost Hope.

There are too many reefs over there, and it is difficult to get out after entering. "

As she spoke, Captain Anne's cheeks turned pale again, she rubbed her head and said:

"This battle, you... you three come to fight, I will rest for a while, settle down, and go to the mainland as soon as possible, and bring back some doctors, preferably a priest.

The dagger with which Jonah stabbed me was odd.

I can feel my life force go fast, hell

My head hurts. "

Saying so, she raised the wine bottle in her hand, drank the rest of the wine, tilted her head again, leaned on the seat, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

The first mate, Marci, looked distressed.

She was once a "trophy" after a robbery by North Sea pirates. Those stinky pirates originally planned to sell her to a slave trader when she was only ten years old, but was stopped by Captain Anne.

She grew up under the protection of Captain Anne Bonn, the second-in-command of the North Sea pirates. Although Anne was very strict with her, in Marci's heart, the captain in front of her was the only one in the entire pirate group that she could trusted person.

"Sleep, Captain. I will find a doctor for you, and I will not let you leave me."

The tattooed girl Marci stretched out her hand and covered Annie with a dirty blanket, then picked up the map in her hand, opened it and looked at it.

The map shows the detailed topography of the island of Tol Barad.

This was drawn before the North Sea pirates were driven out of the island by the Kul Tiras fleet. According to Captain Grayson, in his time, Tol Barad was the home port of the North Sea pirates more than a hundred years ago. .

Soon, the first officer who took over the ship gave the order to fight, and used the domesticated seagull to take his order to the other two ships.

They agreed on a plan.

Annie asked Marci to negotiate with the unknown pirates on Tol Barad first, but the first mate who was eager to save the captain skipped this process. Annie had been stabbed by rebels, and was in dire straits now.

Our own side has an advantage, how can we have time to negotiate with these youngsters in the pirate world?

whispering sound.

They clearly occupied Tol Barad, but they only sent a small boat without artillery to fight. How strong can those pirates who are not well-known at all be?

How could they be the opponents of the North Sea lunatics, who were brave and good at fighting in the storms, sea monsters and severe cold of the frozen sea?

What's more, these three ships also have the "secret weapon" of the North Sea pirates.

"Six hundred to sixty"

When the weird-looking vrykul boat in front of her approached within range, the tattooed female pirate holding a torch sneered and adjusted the gun positions on the deck herself.

Then use a torch to light the shell fuze.

She sneered and said:

"We'll be damned if we can lose! I have the advantage, this battle is safe!"

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"Bang, bang, bang"

The Might of Jotunheim was extremely fast at sea. Under the sails of Captain Grayson himself, this shallow-draft warhammer escaped the artillery bombardment of the three ships behind with a rather snake-skinned position.

Around the fast-moving ship, flying cannonballs smashed into the water, shooting up a water column, but this kind of uncalibrated pursuit bombardment made it difficult to hit fast and small targets.

"What an arrogant bastard."

Captain Ghost glanced back, spat to the side, and cursed:

"They didn't even enter the gun positions, but just fired forward while sailing. It seems that these North Sea pirates are full of confidence, stupid and arrogant, and they are really embarrassing to their predecessors.

In my time, the leader of the North Sea pirates, 'Black Heart' Al Reiss and his 'Sister of Mercy', were the idols of all pirates!

The once invincible Beihai madman has not fallen in the past hundred years. "

"Ah, arrogant pirate, come and fend swords with me. I will win the laurels of the sea on the thousands of miles of waves, and dedicate it to the girl I love the most in my life."

The crazy and handsome ghost swordsman Romeo will stand behind the side of the ship, swinging his sword towards the sky and the sea, while shouting nasty love words.

Let the orcs and trolls who were manipulating the harpoon gun look at each other.

But sitting on the boat, the ghost Juliet, who is also not quite normal, holds her heart in her hands, not caring about the danger that the boat will be hit by a shell at any time, and looks at her lover with a nympho. prestige.

"Uncle Pirate! Why don't you hit them?"

Little Dorothy looked angrily at the fact that her ship could only escape under the bombardment of the three ships in the rear, so she looked up at Captain Grayson and said dissatisfiedly:

"Let's rush over and I'll let Totti bite those bad guys!"

"Hey, we're fishing for bait, little fool."

Captain Grayson was manipulating the direction of the sails of the ship, maintaining a speed that was neither too fast nor too slow, and constantly changing its course in the water column of the bombardment. At the same time, he said to little Dorothy at his feet:

"If you scare them, how can you seduce them? Harpoon guns? Bastards, fight back! Let them see our weakness, let them believe in our escape."

Following the captain's yelling, several harpoon guns on the Jotunheim Power also fired.

However, these large ballistas may be able to compete with artillery in destructive power in close-range combat. In the current chase battle, the harpoon cannot be aimed at all, and the target will be lost when fired.

"Ahahaha! Those idiots tried to hit us with harpoon cannons. What are they? Are they primitive people? Hahahaha"

The counterattack of the small boat in front of them made the North Sea pirates laugh wildly, and made them more confident and bold to use the artillery pushed over from the deck, just like a cat teasing a mouse, constantly firing shells to threaten the small boat in front of them.

In this pursuit of three chases and one escape, the four ships approached Tol Barad Island, and when they were about to sail to the Cape of Lost Hope, Marci, the first officer on the flagship, sneered.

The tattooed female pirate had received an instruction from Lady Anne before, and when she saw the small boat leading them into the bay full of islands and reefs, she immediately raised a semaphore to make the other two ships stop chasing.

"Want to lay an ambush? Think beautifully!"

The female pirate spat rudely, dropped the binoculars on the poop, pushed the helmsman away, grabbed the steering wheel herself, and steered the big ship to change course, heading northeast of Losberg Village.

The coast there is very gentle and suitable for landing.

"No, they are going to run!"

Captain Grayson saw the North Sea Pirates' flagship change direction, and immediately realized that the bait plan had failed. The ghost captain gritted his teeth, manipulated the sails, and let the dragon head warship turn around flexibly on the sea.

After changing the style of fleeing in embarrassment just now, like a brave warrior, he launched a sea charge against the nearest pirate ship.

This is his first mission to join the Undead Fleet.

If he failed like this, he, the "senior pirate", would be humiliated in front of a group of youngsters.

"Commander Braike has always told me that you are the most valiant fighters under his command, and you will definitely make your name in the sea in the future! But I don't really believe you landlubbers."

While charging towards the pirate ship that was three times bigger than his own, Grayson yelled at the undead pirates on board:

"When I ran wild in the sea and plundered wildly, your fathers hadn't been born yet! You trash, now is a chance to prove to me that Commander Laike's praise for you is not bragging!"

"Take up arms, undead pirates!"

"Prepare to storm and seize the ship! Show this group of arrogant North Sea guys, let's see how good we are!"

(end of this chapter)