Reborn As a Pirate

What can make Carmen so urgent can only be bad news.

At a high-class ball in Bilbao, she inquired about a startling information.

The Jose and Kalmar Chamber of Commerce in France, the Jodl Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands, and the Herrera Chamber of Commerce in Spain have formally signed an alliance agreement. They are planning to set up hunting grounds in the Cantabrian Sea, targeting British merchants, and completely expel the enemies of the kingdom. Off the coast of France.

The matter is of great importance, and Carmen did not inform Lorraine immediately, but spent more than a month to confirm the authenticity of the information, and the result...is not optimistic.

Intelligence is true.

These four chambers of commerce are all established offshore privateering chambers of commerce, each with more than twenty merchant ships, each of which is a colossus for the current Drake chamber of commerce.

They had already formed an alliance and met several times in secret in France.

The Drake Chamber of Commerce lived two lives there, and Carmen tried her best, but she still didn't know the key information about the hunting start time, duration, and the size of the participating fleet.

The enemy is dark, we are clear, the enemy is strong, we are weak, the enemy is many, we are few...

Looking at such an urgent letter, Lorraine couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

He asked himself, can Spain give up?

cannot.

Spain is the only country in Europe that has a vast and mature overseas colony, but at the same time, because of the economic depression, it does not have a sufficient domestic market.

She is the core place for the Chamber of Commerce to obtain cheap goods from the New World and Asia and Africa. The profits related to it account for 70% of the total profits of the Chamber of Commerce. If you don't want to become mediocre, Lorraine has no reason to give up.

So can the Cantabrian route be abandoned?

The answer... still seems to be no.

The Cantabrian route is the only continental sea route from Britain to Spain. Without it, the only choice for Lorraine is the Celtic Sea.

Although the Celtic Sea is adjacent to the Cantabrian Sea, the hydrology of the two is quite different.

It's already part of the Atlantic Ocean.

The water is deep, the waves are high, and it reaches Cape Barres in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula.

If Lorraine chooses this deep-water route, it means that every time they go to Bilbao, they have to go around a huge circle, which will greatly affect the logistics efficiency of the chamber of commerce.

What's more, this is not the only price the Chamber of Commerce needs to pay.

The wide-bottomed Kirk-type is not suitable for deep-water environments. Under such hydrological conditions, the ship is at risk of capsizing at any time.

Only give up the Kirk type.

However, the Kirk type was abandoned all of a sudden, and the Chamber of Commerce could not gather enough capacity to maintain the demand for profit growth.

The Clover must never leave the Second Fleet.

The calm of the North Sea is due to the deterrence of the Clover, and if she is transferred out hastily, Lorraine may not be able to hold on to the Spanish route, but will only lose the stable but low-yield Northern Sea Route.

What should I do?

He took the exam for a long night, and it was not until the sun rose the next day that he finally wrote back the letter.

Miss Carmen Xavier:

The letter has been received, hope to continue to inquire.

I'll be at sea and wait and see.

your friend lorraine anathan drake

...

The Chamber of Commerce declares a state of war.

Lorraine immediately canceled the rest of all sailors and sailors.

He went to Plymouth and bought eight nine-pounders for £2,800, replacing the six-pounders on the Clover to arm the Artis Belle and the Beverly Merchant.

On the one hand, the number of sailors on the Butterfly was increased from 20 at the bottom to 120 to ensure that its powerful firepower can be fully utilized.

The First Fleet made a gesture of grabbing luck.

The Spanish branch tried its best to collect goods, and the three ships traveled frequently on the Cantabrian route with an average frequency of once a week, which actually caused the profit in August to rise in a straight line.

far exceeded previous expectations.

It was just a surprise after all.

In the third week, when the First Fleet departed from Gijon and sailed to the sea 120 kilometers west of Belle Ile in France, Pierce finally discovered the smoke of battle.

"Brother! There is a naval battle at two o'clock, ten kilometers away!"

Lorraine jumped up from the deck suddenly: "Transfer the flagship cargo to the subordinate ship, the Butterfly, pack lightly, and move forward!"

Ten kilometers is about 5.5 nautical miles. In the case of not completely headwind, the Butterfly dropped two fully loaded Kirk-type ships, and quietly approached the battlefield from the downwind after only more than an hour.

The thick smoke floating on the sea gave Lorraine the greatest cover.

Both sides in the battle did not find the Butterfly. Lorraine stood on the foremast's vice watchtower, holding up his binoculars to observe the battlefield.

The battle was about two kilometers away from them, very close, even if there was a headwind, the Butterfly was sure to enter the attack position within fifteen minutes.

Lorraine observed a total of nine ships.

The party that was attacked flew the British Chamber of Commerce flag, which featured a unicorn.

They have four ships, two Kirks are sinking slowly in the flames, and two mixed-sail Skuners are trying to escape south, but Lorraine can't see the possibility of success.

Because the attacker is much stronger than them.

Their flagship was a Brigentine gunboat of the same class as the Butterfly, with its guns fully open and its flanks in hot pursuit.

There are four mixed sails under his command, only one temporarily broke down due to the fire, and the other three drew arcs on the sea surface, preparing to cross the British ship and form a double team.

Lorraine jumped down along the cable, and all the sailors surrounded him.

"Pierce, I need you to return to the port and report the position of the enemy's flagship at any time."

"Hina, go around to the upwind from the west, cut in from the bow of the enemy ship, and seize the T head. They are in the middle of the battle, and there is no lookout, so you only need to control the distance to the current two kilometers."

"Ramos, get your gunners ready, we're going to fire on both sides."

"Karen, full sail, top speed."

"Noah... Let the sailors know that fate has chosen us."

He walked to the bow, looked at the sailors, and with a whoosh removed the tarpaulin covering the harpoon gun.

"I see a huge opportunity..." he said, "Flags of the Chamber of Commerce! Butterfly, join the battle!"

Following Lorraine's order, the Butterfly raised its huge sails.

The bowsail, catching sail, and main schooner are bulged to the maximum at the same time, and the slender hull draws a huge arc on the calm sea, crossing the wind belt, going retrograde from the crosswind, and entering the downwind sailing position.

There was a lot of activity on deck.

A six-pound gun was pushed out of the bow cabin and placed on both sides at a uniform distance, and the gun ports on both sides of the gun deck were fully opened.

The ammunition is loaded, fired and compacted, and the black holed barrel sticks out of the porthole.

At the back of the hull, there are five sailors on each side of the cannon, and everyone is engrossed and gearing up.

Pierce notified the position of the enemy flagship for the last time, and Lorraine asked him to fix himself, then took a deep breath, and sat in the firing position of the harpoon gun.

Lorraine yelled: "15 degrees left rudder! Full sail! Grab the wind!"

"15 degrees left rudder! Full sail! Tackle the wind!"

"Full sail! Grab the wind!"

"Grab the wind!"