Treasure hunter, sailing on the blue sea

When Alka and Sigurt walked out of the captain's cabin.

Many sailors have gathered on the deck.

Seeing the arrival of the captain, they all made way.

"what happened?"

As soon as Halls asked, a well-dressed middle-aged man, also wearing leather clothes, came over with a serious expression on his face.

He gives people a feeling of calmness and authority, and he is the first mate of this ship.

"Captain, pirates found."

As he spoke, he pointed towards the sea.

Several people immediately looked in the direction they were pointing at, and saw a sailboat approaching that place slowly.

Due to the light fog on the sea and the distance, it was not very clear.

Halls immediately took out a monocular telescope from his pocket and stretched it out, squinting his eyes and looking at it carefully.

"They are pirates. They should be the group that have been running around in this sea area recently. They are really unlucky."

Then he immediately turned around and shouted to the sailors behind him: "What are you doing standing still? Do you expect them to let us go?"

Hearing the captain's shout, everyone started to move.

Alka couldn't help but hold his hand on the short knife at his waist.

Sigurt looked at Alka and patted him: "Don't panic, haven't you seen that these sailors are actually very calm?"

"It's normal to encounter pirates when sailing on the sea. There are too many dangers in the sea. Are you ready to see blood?"

As he spoke, he took out the sailor sword in his hand and held it in his hand.

"Follow me closely, don't worry."

Alka, who was slightly nervous, nodded, and then looked at the ring on her thumb.

He also pulled out the sailor sword from his waist.

Looking at the pirate ship that was already speeding towards them.

That ship was obviously smaller than the one he was stepping on. It also had two masts, was smaller, and had a slimmer hull.

It seemed that it was time for him to have a favorable wind at this time, and it looked like he would be charging over soon.

Then one ballista after another was rolled out from the plywood and lined up on the side of the ship, facing the direction in which the enemy ship was rushing.

"There was no gunpowder sailing period yet?"

Only then did Alka remember what he had not noticed, which was that the ship had not seen any artillery or artillery decks.

Ship-borne artillery can be said to be the most effective attack between ships in the age of sail.

It is also the most iconic weapon.

If there were no artillery, each other might have to rely on collision and gang-hopping to fight.

While Alka was thinking this, Captain Holes raised the long knife at his waist and shouted: "Where is my baby? Pull me up!"

After the words fell, several sailors soon pushed a heavy object from the cabin onto the deck.

artillery?

This thing is almost not much different from the artillery that Alka has seen in some materials.

However, the appearance has changed from pure black to dark gray, but it can be seen that it is still made of metal.

But it looks more sophisticated than the artillery.

The gun barrel is a cylindrical shape about three meters long. Under the gun barrel is a bracket that can rotate left and right and float up and down, equipped with 4 wheels.

It can be seen from this bracket that the barrel is not as heavy as I thought.

Or the technology may be more advanced.

But no matter what, it should be a cannon.

Sigurt obviously recognized this thing and couldn't help but cheered.

"Uncle Halls, you are really willing to give up. When will there be a fight?"

Halls' expression was obviously a bit embarrassing, and he said as if he was showing off his treasure: "It's been a long time, but I rarely have time to use it, so you don't know."

As he spoke, he turned to a somewhat skinny man and said, "Taxi, I leave this thing to you. Give it a good shot and make sure it's accurate."

Tassie rubbed her hands and made a no problem gesture.

"Leave it to me, captain, I will definitely let these pirates drink a pot, hehe!"

Then he took a palm-sized cylinder from the hands of the group leader. It was also inlaid with gold rims and looked very expensive.

With the combined efforts of several people, the artillery was pushed to the side of the ship.

A sailor holding a barrel placed the contents in his arms heavily next to the cannon.

Tassie directed the sailors and stuffed fist-sized objects into the barrel one after another, which seemed to be ammunition.

Nothing was added to it, just ammunition.

And they are filled with smaller ammunition the size of a fist. So many, are they loose bullets?

Sigert pulled Alcala aside, about four or five meters away from the artillery.

"We've seen something good. It doesn't look too dangerous this time."

"What it is?"

"The rock-shaking cannon is a very expensive weapon and very powerful."

"Do you know what it's made of?"

"I don't know, and not many people know."

It seems that Sigurt doesn't know much either.

"get ready!"

Taxi said something, and the four sailors on both sides of the rock-shattering cannon blocked the cannon.

Alka looked into the distance and saw that the enemy's pirate ship was still about 600 meters away from them.

Can it be accurately shot from such a distance?

"fire!"

Roaring angrily, Taxi slammed the pillar handed to him by the captain in his hand onto a palm-sized platform behind the cannon.

With the knocking, Alka clearly felt the ship shake slightly.

But there was no loud sound like a cannon being fired.

It's a very dull sound.

He watched several fist-sized objects cut through the air, making sharp sounds.

They hit the enemy ships hard, and some of them hit the deck directly.

Accurate hit!

"I hit it, hurry up, keep pretending."

It takes about 30 seconds to fire.

Every time it was a precise hit.

Alka discovered that it was not that Taxi was technically superior, but that the artillery had an extremely high hit rate, and the distance of about 500 meters was almost a straight line.

The effective range will only be longer.

This is obviously no ordinary artillery piece.

As the ship approached, the ballistas also fired their crossbow arrows one after another.

However, after launching it once, I didn’t consider continuing the installation at all.

After firing four or five rounds from the cannon, the enemy's ship, although somewhat in tatters, still sailed to them.

But it is not aimed at sinking enemy ships.

This kind of shotgun should be used to better kill the pirates above.

"The enemy is going to join the gang. Take out your weapons and teach these gutter rats a lesson!"

Toph roared angrily, and then took out the sailor sword from his waist.

Ropes with grappling hooks flew over one after another, either catching on the side of the ship, or getting entangled in the cable.

Sigurt has always stood by Alka's side.

Many sailors were already using their long knives to chop down the flying grappling hooks.

At this time, several arrows flew up and hit the two sailors accurately.

As the battle progresses.

Many pirates boarded it.

There were many more people than they thought.

The two pirates saw Alka and rushed over waving their boatswain's knives.

Sigurt immediately stepped forward and kicked one of the pirates to the ground. The sailor sword blocked the attack of the pirate next to him.

The short sword was slashed with force, and the enemy's blade was pushed away and struck on the enemy's shoulder.

He tripped the enemy with his right foot and struck the enemy's neck hard with the knife in his hand.

Blood spurted violently.

Sigurt was experienced and his head turned slightly.

The blood didn't blur his vision, it just sprayed on his neck and cheeks.

He rolled towards the back as a donkey and avoided the attack of the pirate who stood up after being kicked down before.

Seeing the blood splattering and the swords fighting, Alka's heartbeat became faster and faster, and his breathing became heavier.

His ears were filled with screams and extremely angry roars.

A cold feeling reached his mind, reminding him that he needed to calm down.

He suddenly saw something and quickly reminded loudly: "Be careful!"

The body couldn't help but move.