Struggle in the Steam Age

The finishing work took only an hour or so to end, and the old sailing boat completely lost its salvage value because the keel was blown off. At that very little time, the entire ship was already tilted so badly because of the water entering, that the topmost cannon windows on one side were already immersed in the water.

This, in turn, speeded up the water entering the ship. The pirates on the pirate ship found that their ship was of no salvage value and began to jump off the ship and swim towards the coast.

After all, for them, the deputy commander of the pirate regiment is now on the shore. It is better to escape there than to be captured by Lawrence and the others. And this place is only a few hundred meters away from the coast, there are no dangerous creatures underwater, and the sea in the tropics is not cold. Any normal pirate can swim ashore.

The other steam sailing ship whose bow and mast had just been blown up simply hung a white flag to indicate surrender. After Lawrence and the others sent people up to receive it, they learned that the ship was actually just a fast merchant ship captured by the pirates. The current official-level mechanic as the temporary captain, like the ship, was a captured prisoner.

At that time, the ship was sailing to test a new steam engine after an overhaul, and the mechanic wanted to see how effective his new invention of the condenser that should be installed on the steam engine was. Unexpectedly, I was captured by a group of pirates just short of sailing out where I could see the city near the sea.

In order to save everyone, this extraordinary man who was supposed to be a mechanic on the ship stepped forward and used his entry as a bargaining chip to let the pirates let others go. As an extraordinary person who took the initiative to take refuge in, he was appointed as the new captain after the death of the original captain during the escape of the entire pirate group.

Although he was appointed as the captain, the rights of the ship are still in the hands of the chief mate and financial officer sent by the pirate group. He can only be regarded as the honorary captain of the pirate ship and the repairman of the machinery on the ship.

In the first round of engagement just now, the four shells that hit the ship’s side just killed the storm captain on the artillery deck and all the stormtroopers left on the ship, plus the gun captain who stayed in the stern at the time. However, under the orders of the ship's chief mate and financial officer, the ship still tried to rescue the captain of the pirate regiment through an active attack.

However, the result of this is that the first mate and financial officer and a group of buddies issued orders to rotate the hull and were standing on the bow of the ship when they were preparing to engage in battle. They were discovered by the Enterprise, and then by the gunner of the Enterprise, he directly commanded the ship. The cannon blew them up together with the bow. In this way, the only people on board that can be called a commander are the mechanics who were thought to be just an honorary captain.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, he successfully persuaded the pirates who appeared to be innocent because the previous bosses were all finished. Then they surrendered directly to Lawrence.

Of course, this group of pirates can be persuaded to surrender except that they are now indeed in an extremely unfavorable environment, and they will be dead if they don't surrender. These surviving pirates belonged to the mess or the lowest level cannon fodder on the pirate ship. Even if they were caught, they were not guilty of death. This was an important reason why they chose to surrender.

"What should we do next?" After taking in the prisoners and temporarily repairing the two badly damaged steam sailing ships, the first officer ran up and asked. In the previous battle, the Enterprise sacrificed 3 people and injured 27. However, killing more than 150 pirates, sinking an old-fashioned sailing ship of about 300 tons, and capturing two steam sailing ships with a displacement of 4 to 500 tons. It can be said that it is a great victory.

"First, use artillery to destroy the two boats the other side stranded on the shore, and then leave a few people to build an observation post on the island." Lawrence thought about the arrangement. Because he just saw that after his own victory, the pirates who were watching the battlefield on the shore fire ran into the forest, leaving only the two boats that had landed and rested on the beach.

"Aren't we going ashore to clean up?" Saifei asked Lawrence while wiping the blood on the breastplate with a handkerchief. Just now, she and Fatina cooperated in pairs, leading the other commandos directly from The stern hit the ship, so a lot of blood was splashed on his body.

"Of course not going ashore." Lawrence smiled and shook his head. "I don't want to throw our precious manpower into the jungle to play hide-and-seek with these pirates. For us, it is enough to block this stretch of coastline."

The most important reason why he made such a decision is that most of the pirate group is now on the shore. Although he has an advantage in extraordinary power, he has a disadvantage in terms of numbers. Therefore, it is not wise to go ashore at this time on the basis of one's shortcomings and the strengths of the enemy.

On the other hand, there are only two small coastal settlements within more than 30 kilometers around this place. The two fishing-based settlements have recently moved to ports with better conditions because of Lawrence’s recruitment of fishermen in the Niu Jiao Bay port area. Therefore, as long as the two ships and the possible supplies on board are destroyed, the more than 500 pirates on the shore will try to survive in the extreme wild.

After making the decision, Lawrence commanded the Enterprise to approach the coastline, and then set the two sailing ships under repair into two burning fires with high-explosive bombs. At the same time, Nora took the two transcendents from the agricultural church and flew from the Enterprise to the jungle on the island.

Although the decision to siege was made, the group of captives learned that there was a professional-level warrior among the group of pirates on the shore. Everyone quickly made the decision to kill that guy first.

Obviously, a professional warrior in the jungle is definitely impossible to defeat two spellcasters with higher transcendent levels and good at fighting in this environment. So when the two boats on the beach began to collapse due to the flames, Nora and the three of them came out of the woods and appeared on the beach with a corpse and dozens of prisoners.

The corpse is naturally the deputy commander of the pirate regiment who was killed. After all, his head is also worth a lot of money as an important wanted criminal, not to mention that there are some good things on the supernatural person of this level. You can touch the corpse. equipment.

And this group of prisoners are the three of them who voluntarily appeared near them and surrendered through shouting after they killed the deputy commander of the pirate regiment and more than a dozen pirates who had resisted. Because these pirates feel that they are not guilty of death, and being outsiders in the jungle is really going to die.

After detaining this group of voluntarily surrendered pirates and the group of pirates captured just now, Lawrence and the others anchored at the mouth of the river and began detailed post-war statistics and searches. By the way, the two captured steam sailing ships were temporarily repaired. ~www.ltnovel.com~ Especially those two steam sailing boats were seriously injured in the previous battle. If they are not repaired, Lawrence is a little worried that it might enter the water halfway and sink directly.

Fortunately, after inspection by the carpenter on the ship, it was found that although the two captured ships looked messed up, especially the pirate flagship, it seemed that the entire upper deck had disappeared because of the extraordinary battle just now. However, the ship's keel, ship ribs, steam engine, and the parts below the waterline of the two ships are not very problematic, so there is a repair value.

When everyone started to work, Lawrence boarded the two captured pirate ships with the transcendents on board, and then searched for the spoils on board.

In the beginning, these transcendents wanted to roll up their sleeves and find them by themselves, but Lawrence quickly stopped them. He first summoned the few aquatic monster phantoms to let them go to the silent sailing boat, and then summoned the paper man to enter the two captured pirate ships and start searching every place.

"Let's wait." Lawrence said and summoned a few monster ghosts to let them deal with the coconuts they had just picked up during the process of escorting the captives from the shore, and then distributed them to everyone. "In just half an hour, I can search these three ships thoroughly."