Chapter 166: The Chase at Sea
Chapter 162 – Sea Chase
In the end, Owen decided to let the people from Queen’s Island on board, as he was curious about what had just happened.
If it was the previous world, even if he had curiosity, Owen would have chosen to hold it back because the water in that world was too deep, and with his small body, he couldn’t even reach Emile, so how could he dare to just wave.
Here is different, shallow water, but there will not be a predator, even if the occasional miss, as a bite by the king, directly turned face chopped stew.
Only what Owen did not expect is that all the women who came, even if the soldiers are the same.
Queen’s Island is not without men, only the men are only responsible for production and production, show their faces and fight all rely on women, so come to a dozen Queen’s Island people are all women, ten of them are carrying a musket equipped with a short sword soldiers, the rest are clerical and maidservant, the head is a thirty-year-old mature female nobleman.
Interestingly, the people of Queen’s Island have an unfathomable hobby for leather clothes, no matter the soldiers or the leader of the aristocrats, all of them are wearing various colors of leather clothes, and the higher the status, the more exquisite and close-fitting the leather clothes are, which made Owen couldn’t help but look at them a few more times.
There is no way, the sailboat can not have stairs can be put down to let people walk up step by step, in addition to the rope ladder, the most convenient is the rope net.
Coarse hemp rope compiled by the rope net is very strong, the grid is very large, can be very convenient to climb up, but the action of what do not expect to have much elegance, even if how ladylike, but also have to pout buttocks twisted crotch upward, it so happens that Owen’s eyes are very good.
“Is it true that the more the Queen’s Islanders pucker up in the back, the higher their status?” Owen murmured and whispered, then snapped back to his senses, wondering if it had been too long since he’d relaxed to be distracted at a time like this.
Thinking of this, Owen returned to the captain’s room and waited for the other party to pay his respects, after all, the other party was the one who had asked for something.
However, Owen forgot that the Queen’s Island is a woman’s fist is the biggest, he is clearly this kind of action to annoy the other side, after all, in the eyes of the Queen’s Island, he is just a pirate head, which has any status to speak of.
But the presence of the Blizzard let the angry Abigail calm down a lot, she expressionless stopped the same anger surging underlings, and then let scared out of a cold sweat old Rui lead the way.
Along the way Abigail was surveying the surrounding situation, and found that this was obviously a new ship, the rows of guns had not even been corroded by seawater, the sailors were also made up of two parts, one part of them were disgusting pirates, and the other part of them were obviously the descendants of the savages trained as soldiers, although they were short in stature, but their morale was high, and they were equipped with a large number of muskets, so it seemed that they were not just ordinary cannon fodder.
“Lord Captain, the messenger from the Queen’s Island has arrived.” Old Rui said in front of the door with his head bowed.
“Let them in.” Old Rui sighed in relief just as Owen’s voice came through.
The people of Queen’s Island were not to be messed with, and their Lord Captain was not one to be messed with, and he was an old pirate caught in the middle of the old suffering.
The young man’s voice made Abigail freeze, then she nonchalantly pushed the door open, and was about to give the other man a piece of her mind when she froze again.
Pirates she has seen a lot, but such a handsome pirate, no, the other side is definitely not a pirate, a noble temperament is simply more than she is like a nobleman, said the other side is a pirate is simply an insult.
As for why they call themselves pirates, think of those noble young people to play a variety of flower work, Abigail understood.
In fact, their Queen’s Island is not the same, otherwise where is this fateful thing.
“Your Excellency Captain, my name is Abigail, a noble of the Queen’s Isle, and I have come this time looking for help.” Abigail slightly bent down to show her respect, after all, from the other party’s temperament, the status couldn’t be lower, not to mention the fact that there was a request at the moment.
“Destroy the Bone Eating Sharks or rescue the hostages.” Owen said as he looked at the other party playfully.
“Rescue the hostages.” Abigail said with a sigh after a moment’s pause. “Not with much certainty, let’s just say we’ll do our best.” Owen said with a shake of his head when he heard that was true.
“The Queen’s Island will pay handsomely for this.” Abigail of course knew how difficult it was, but thinking about the people who were plundered, she immediately promised to.
“It’s not a matter of payment, the Bone Eater Sharks are a bunch of crazy people, even if you can beat them, can you expect them to obediently surrender or release the hostages?” Owen asked rhetorically.
Abigail was speechless, because she knew the Bone Eater Sharks bunch of lunatics too well, otherwise who would dare to easily kidnap the people from their Queen’s Island.
“Now we can only take one step and fight first.” Owen said with the same helplessness, unless the Woolly Bear Hostage Rescue method was adopted, he could only be subjected to the other side.
“Please.” Abigail took a deep breath, the leather jacket in front of her chest all made a strange sound before she slowly exhaled, and waited to calm down and said to Owen.
Owen nodded and informed Old Rui to go to the pirate island first to gather a group of manpower before setting sail.
It took almost two hours for the people from Queen’s Island to board the ship and get ready to set sail, but the Bone Eater Shark’s ship was still within sight and there was no problem of not being able to find anyone.
It wasn’t surprising, sailing ships weren’t as fast as one would think, call it a water bike if you will, sometimes they would leave in the morning and still see the sails of the ship far away at the pier by noon.
Like pirate plundering, it is not uncommon to chase a targeted ship for two or three days.
Fortunately, the Blast is a new ship, the Flying Fish is even lighter and faster than the two ships of the Bone Eater Sharks, the speed is much faster than the two ships, in the fast dark when it is about to catch up.
“Did the Bone Eater Sharks just plunder?” Owen asked after seeing that Bone Eater Shark’s two ships had a deep draft line.
“Yes, those lunatics were supposed to sell their loot at the Pirate Island, but as a result…” Abigail’s face turned ugly as she spoke, apparently the Bone Eater Sharks had seen someone and plundered them on a whim.
“In a moment I will order to open fire, try to reduce the speed of the Bone Eater Sharks, you guys take the opportunity to jump help, whether you can save the hostages or not depends on you.” Owen calculated the speed and spoke to Abigail.
“Good.” Abigail said and went to gather men.
The Flying Fish was used by Owen as a destroyer, focusing on speed and agility, so it was only equipped with twelve guns, including five sub-master cannons on each side, and two cannons at the bow, at this moment Watanabe, who had received the semaphore, immediately ordered his men’s gunners to load the cannons.
The cannons had longer barrels, so the loading process was more tedious, but the speed of the shells was faster and the trajectory was more stable, which made them the most suitable for attacking the pursuing enemy.
With two gunshots, the two shells arced into the sea, and then there was a monotonous bang, with occasional hits, the pure metal shells could not exert much lethality, and did not do as much damage as the splinters of wood splinters that broke the wooden boards.
Seeing this scene Owen couldn’t help but shake his head straight, but sea battles are like this, unless it evolves to the point where everyone is using missiles to paste each other’s faces, otherwise you can only fight for luck, and if you want to decide the winner, you have to rely on the gangway battle.
However, the passive bone-eating sharks don’t think so, in the case of not knowing when they will be stabbed into hedgehogs, who dares to rest assured and boldly work on the deck, but on the contrary, in order to maintain the speed must constantly adjust the sails, and therefore inevitably be caught up by the Flying Fish ship.
(End of chapter)