Reborn As a Pirate

"Young and energetic..."

By the quiet river of Jian, Hierro looked at Lorraine with a complicated expression.

Lorraine's face was calm and breezy, pointing to the little sail shadows on the Jianhe, and chanting softly.

"Quietly, I leave, just as I came quietly. With a flick of my sleeves, I won't take a single cloud away."

"You let me know that Cambridge is a magical place that will record everything that happened. Today I let the party break up, but when the prophecy comes true, they will remember today, hate me, and dependent on me."

"The question is, how long will that day be?"

"It won't be long." Lorraine brushed off his shirt, put his elbows on Carmen, "Thank you for your introduction, Mr. Mindell, it's time for me to go back to Plymouth. Even if everyone decides to sit still, I will To rebel, to Cantabria, to seek the chance of victory."

"The little Drake Chamber of Commerce is preparing to independently fight against the United Fleet?"

A loud laugh resounded in the path, and Odilan Suckling walked out of the woods alone.

He failed to manage his figure, he looked fat and greasy, and he had a slight limp when he walked. He had to be supported by a long umbrella to walk steadily.

Lorraine was already interested in him.

In the brief small-scale communication before the toast, his position seemed to be the main one. Like Hierro, he had the potential to become an ally of Lorraine.

So Lorraine stopped in her tracks and watched Odilan leaning on the handle of an umbrella with a smile on her face.

"You're going to fight, Mr. Drake?"

"Yes." Lorraine nodded casually, "Before I came, I adjusted the structure of the Chamber of Commerce and freed up three Brigantines to form a temporary fleet. I will personally take them to tease the tiger whiskers of the United Fleet and send them my hunting ground, become my hunting ground."

"Strike fast!" Odilan stared at Lorraine appreciatively, smiled, and turned to Hierro, "Hierro, old friend, why didn't you introduce such an interesting young man to me earlier?"

"He died a few days ago." Hierro shrugged. "I don't think you'd be interested in a dead young man."

"That's true." Odilan accepted Hierro's explanation, and turned his head back again. "You are going to escalate the broken war into a real war among merchants. What about the Cantabrian trade?"

"Suspend trade, or only keep the North Sea trade. The current Cantabrian has long lost the business environment, and any loss is enough to make the chamber of commerce lose everything."

"Suspending the Spanish line will cause huge losses to the chamber of commerce. Young man, are you sure you can make a quick decision?"

"We don't have a choice, do we?"

There was a brief silence.

Odilan and Hierro made eye contact in front of Lorraine. After a while, he asked Lorraine: "How many Brigantines do you think are enough to support you in a big battle?"

The Drake Chamber of Commerce, the Mindell Chamber of Commerce and the Sackling Chamber of Commerce signed an alliance agreement in Southampton.

The agreement announced that the Alliance of the Three Chambers of Commerce will suspend all trade activities via the Cantabrian route, and set up a break-off fleet during the war.

The fleet is all composed of high-speed Brigantine-type frigates, with a number of seven ships, specifically the Butterfly, Cattail, and Clover of the Drake Chamber of Commerce, the Tuna and Cod of the Mindel Chamber of Commerce, and the Sackling Chamber of Commerce Hurricane and Tempest.

The Butterfly became the flagship of the fleet, Lorraine served as the admiral, and the two deputy admirals were Lei Wen from the Minder Chamber of Commerce and Yashin, the young admiral from the Saklin Chamber of Commerce.

The three chambers of commerce jointly promised that each Brigantine would be priced at 5,000 pounds, and that the loss of the shipwreck and the compensation for the sailors would be shared by the three parties, and the profits converted into gold pounds would also be equally shared by the three companies.

There are also many fine-grained clauses, including maintenance, repairs, loss, personnel expenses, and other fragmented areas of interest, which are temporarily used by Carmen and the plenipotentiary agents of the two chambers of commerce in Drake, which is temporarily used as the headquarters of the fleet. The small building of the General Chamber of Commerce can negotiate at any time,

Complements.

On November 3, with the order of Lorraine, the fleet ships set sail from the port of Purcell at Plymouth.

Lorraine wrote in his sailing journal.

[The signing of the alliance agreement by the Chamber of Commerce of the Three Kingdoms is the first stage of the Cantabrian battle]

[The arrival of Villen Desai and Reindeer in Port La Rochelle is the second stage]

[During these two stages, we have been in a passive state of being beaten. Facing the superior enemy, the merchants in England have no power to resist, and can only let mermaids, howling in pain]

[The formation of the United Fleet heralds that the war will enter a more brutal third stage. Fortunately, I finally have a reliable ally]

[The joining of Hierro and Minder Chamber of Commerce was expected, and Odilan Suckling was a surprise]

[If there is a chance, I would like to thank Mr. Reshawna Nelson, this destined legend is actually Odilan's nephew]

【His estimate of the situation is as pessimistic as mine, and Odilan trusts his judgment】

【What a wonderful fate...】

[I will lead the cross-border fleet into the battlefield. Villen Desai, look forward to our next meeting]

...

Robbery is one of the most lucrative businesses in the world, so long as it remains successful.

The war in the Cantabrian waters has entered the third stage, and the combined fleet of France, Spain, and the Netherlands has become the absolute hegemon on the route.

As a result, the situation on the route took a further turn.

On the one hand, the British merchants who were weak but unwilling to give up Spanish profits basically gave up retaliatory counterattacks and formed a large-scale cargo fleet. As long as they were not blocked by the main force of the combined fleet, they could maintain the smooth flow of trade routes.

The side effect of this response is that once a large or expensive fleet falls into the preset trap, the price paid by the chamber of commerce will be unbearably high.

In the past month, four Chambers of Commerce in the Offshore Guild have declared bankruptcy. Among them, the Charon Chamber of Commerce in Dartmouth is even a director of the Guild. The impact of such a cruel situation on the members of the Guild can be imagined.

On the other hand, the small chambers of commerce in France, Spain, and the Netherlands took advantage of this opportunity to dominate the Spanish foreign trade market.

The air routes became busier than before, and the loss of the generous English did not cause much impact on Spain's foreign trade.

It is also thanks to the massive expansion of scattered commerce and trade in the three countries that Lorraine's breaking fleet has reaped a lot.

During more than 20 days of cruising, they launched two pirate raids, captured three mixed-sail Skuner-type merchant ships, seven Kirk-type merchant ships, sunk one each of the Skuner-type merchant ships and one Kirk-type merchant ship, and plundered all merchandise. The price is 6400 pounds.

Although the trade with Spain was stopped, the profits of the three chambers of commerce in Cantabrian showed a strange upward trend.

According to the agreement, they shared all the harvest equally.

Lorraine Xi mentioned a mixed-sail Schooner, named it Naga, and incorporated it into the British transshipment fleet. Two of the Kirk type, named the Celtic Warrior and the Irish Poet, were incorporated into the chapter's cargo fleet.

The Minder Chamber of Commerce bought the extra Kirk for 300 pounds, which gave Lorraine another 2,200 pounds worth of goods.

The Breaking Fleet also fought two battles with the United Fleet, because neither of them were sudden encounters, and the two sides did not have too obvious sparks.

There were victories and defeats, and there was no major loss. The biggest loss was that the Clover was interrupted in the middle of a battle, and had to be sent back to Southampton Dock for repairs, temporarily out of the sequence of the broken fleet.

Hierro and Odilan never let go of their promotion of their own benefits, especially after the bankruptcy of the Chalun Chamber of Commerce, the prosperity of the Three Chambers of Commerce Alliance and the heavy losses of other offshore chambers of commerce formed a sharp contrast.

The performance of the navy finally let the merchants down.

They began to spontaneously set up a break-off fleet like the Three Chambers of Commerce Alliance, but the effect was not good.

Not every admiral can receive the full education of the navy like Lorraine, and is familiar with and good at fleet-scale naval battles; not everyone can be like Hierro and Odiland, who are willing to entrust their wealth and life to outsiders Hands, but also share the risk.

After a crushing defeat, the Lufthansa Chamber of Commerce, which is also a director of the guild, declared bankruptcy. After less than two weeks of prosperity, those broken-off fleets that sprung up like mushrooms announced their disbandment one after another, which became an out-and-out joke.

The clever chambers of commerce proposed to join the alliance of the three chambers of commerce, but the three chambers of commerce were unwilling to share the original covenant with the newcomers, and the newcomers were unwilling to give up their dominance over their own ships. Carmen received three chambers of commerce, and the final result was nothing.

Lorraine knows that the time to form a broader alliance is not yet ripe...

The Broken Fleet is cruising on the connecting line between Cantabrian and the Atlantic Ocean like a cunning shark, sharpening its minions and ready to hang the pirate flag at any time and start the third plunder.

Who knows... On November 26, in the waters off Lei Island.

"Three o'clock direction! The distance is sixteen kilometers, a big fight!" Haina on the observation deck shouted in shock, "Lorraine, the main force of the United Fleet surrounded the fleet of the Roy Chamber of Commerce, and the Reindeer suppressed the Karak-type Mamluk No, the Roy Chamber of Commerce is in danger!"