Reborn As a Pirate

Even if it is honored to be the focus of attention from many parties, Aldabra Island is still the unremarkable and uninhabited island in the North Island Chain of Madagascar.

The distance between her and Madagascar is 460 kilometers, and the distance between her and the east coast of Africa is 640 kilometers, which is not too far or too close. Even at the speed of Sunflower, it will take a day and night to get from Mombasa to the preset battlefield at full speed.

This day and night is the time for the future and the new code to arrive on the battlefield ahead of schedule.

The secret service formation is about to direct an unconventional naval battle. As the absolute initiative, they choose their opponents, time, and battlefield, and they also choose to dance on the wire rope to make themselves the party being raided.

In order not to fall off the rope, every step of this battle has undergone heated discussions, and the most discussed and most divided one is time.

How to execute this complex ruse is everyone's concern.

The earliest plan was put forward by old Dylan.

He suggested taking Sunflower's progress in luring the enemy in Mombasa as a yardstick, adjusting the itinerary of the Future through the middle contact of the Lady, and realizing the arrival of the Sunflower in stages, the attack, and the appearance of the Future. The observers confirmed that the Portuguese A series of incidents such as the identity of the assailant, the outflanking of the Noble Lady, and the declaration of war on the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce in the name of revenge.

The advantage of this plan is that the fault tolerance rate is extremely high, and Sunflower, which undertakes the most work, will lead the action. The executor can decide the process according to his own judgment, and let the incident develop naturally and orderly within a certain limit.

The disadvantage of the solution is risk.

The Sunflower will bear almost all the risks of the entire operation, especially the long period of time between arriving at Aldabra Island and when the Future enters the battlefield. They must face the attack from the Portuguese merchants alone. If they don't live long enough for the Future to enter the battlefield, the whole plan will come to naught.

So Freemany and the senior class members quickly came up with what could be called an improved second plan.

The Mombasa part is still led by the Sunflower. When the enemy is successfully lured, the Sunflower leaves the post, and the leadership is immediately transferred to the Lady.

The strongest combat force of the special service formation will be the first to enter the preset battlefield, guiding the Future and Sunflower to converge at a suitable location to jointly deal with the Portuguese merchant's attack.

Compared with the first plan, the second plan seems safe, and the risk borne by the Sunflower is greatly reduced. After all, with the future and the new code supporting the battlefield, even if the Portuguese opponents mobilize an unexpected number of warships, Drake will not easily sacrifice.

But its flaws are also obvious. The Lady, the last to appear in the plan, must take on the heavy responsibility of the command center.

This is not a problem on hardware.

The Lady is a Valkyrie class designed by Drake Marine Group as the flagship of the branch. In the configuration of the assault boat, it is equipped with two 15-meter-class large sea-land transfer boats and four 5-meter-class ultra-high-speed communication boats .

The communication boat is a Bermuda Sloop type with a detachable mast. When fully loaded with 8 people, the sail can reach a peak speed of 20 knots, and the communication radius is as high as 300 kilometers.

However, the risks in the vast sea cannot be generalized on paper after all.

Once Faraming succeeds in luring the enemy, Sunflower, Future, and the Lady as a fulcrum will all enter a state of high-speed movement for a long time. Under the strong winds and huge waves in winter, no one can guarantee that the contact ships can sail safely on the sea, nor can they guarantee that they can accurately find the destination of the letter every time.

The consequences of a missed delivery can be disastrous. In the most pessimistic estimate, there will be unpredictable problems in the connection of the battlefield, the battle situation will be fully biased towards the Portuguese, and the special service formation will be reduced to a situation where it will be defeated one by one.

Because of this, Acharin's French fellow Matilier, who is not at all French in temperament, proposed the final plan, excluding all the flexibility and risk factors in the original plan, and let the future choose the battlefield and nail everything down. dead in the frame.

This is a set of radical plans. Once the future number becomes the leader,

Her nature has become the rhythm that the whole action must refer to.

Natural Future's voyage should be unhurried, and it should not take more than a week to reach Aldabra from the time it crosses the Cape of Good Hope.

Aldabra is a beautiful and unique remote island. The Future has a reason for a short stay, but the delay should not exceed one day.

This timeline means that the maximum time left for the Sunflower is only eight days, and the things to do include detouring to the direction of the Red Sea, entering Mombasa from that direction, enraging the enemy, leaving enough messages to be tracked, and catching up. Rendezvous with the Future at the preset battlefield, loosen the outside and tighten the inside to prepare for the battle.

For this reason, Faraming had to give up the gentle and refined Mr. Mincy Howard Johnson in his mind, turned himself into a villain who killed thousands of knives, used his flamboyant personality to cover up the haste of the plan, and used a method almost like cramming the Portuguese to know. It took one night for the news to spread out.

The Lady also had to leave the battlefield far away, because the Future had to dock if it wanted to stay on Aldabra Island, and if it wanted to stay overnight, it had to organize an expedition and move freely. Observers in free movement would lose control, no matter how expensive Where the Woman is hidden, there is no qualitative difference in the probability of being discovered.

Martilier's plan caused an uproar among the sailors. Under his ingenious design, there was no safe way to lure the enemy, and no safe way to engage in battle. The Sunflower became a donkey with only carrots in its eyes, and the Lady hung alone in the dark, and it would take at least two hours to join the battle.

Facing the doubt, Matilier only said one sentence: The first battle of the secret service formation requires Admiral Artis to choose the battlefield. This is both a right and an obligation.

The controversy came to an abrupt end, and the plan with the lowest success rate became the final winning plan.

The sailors of the special service formation devoted themselves wholeheartedly to their role-playing, concealing their apprehension and uneasiness, ushering in the eighth day of sunrise...

It's a good weather... Pierce leaned on the side of the boat with his hands propped up, looked at the rising sun, and sighed softly to Freemani beside him, Are all our guests awake?

I woke up a long time ago. Freeman pouted his mouth in disgust, The Dutchman is showing off the giant tortoise he killed last night, the Frenchman directed our sailors to dig coral, and the Spaniard picked up two ripe sea coconuts , Said to go back and make a specimen, and use it as a family heirloom.

Pierce couldn't help laughing: How long is their playtime left?

3 hours and 6 minutes. Apparently, Freemany had checked the time countless times, and said the answer without thinking, In addition, we need an hour to gather the crew, and three hours to follow the established route and cross at a half-drifting speed. atoll.

If Little Dylan lures the enemy well, we will meet him when we cross the atoll. When we get out of the atoll and reach the open sea, the obedient Portuguese should also appear. I only hope that they will show courtesy first and then attack, symbolically Fire a few shots, threaten us to surrender, and wait two hours before we tell them the answer.

You have a good idea... Pierce stomped the deck angrily, This is my first battle since I became an admiral, and I hope that my opponent will be brave and diligent.

Your first battle was in Cape Verde, my dear Admiral. In that battle, your wise command allowed us to sink six ships and capture ten ships under the siege of sixteen enemy ships. A real big win.

Can the matter in Cape Verde be counted as a battle?

Pierce thought back to the pitiful and pathetic battle of the pigs in Hashem. The Praia Revenge Army has nearly 2,000 people, not a single professional sailor, not a single non-professional gunner, the whole regiment has more than 370 firearms, and only 62 people know how to shoot, and 41 of them are in the During the approach, he was shot and killed on the deck by Pierce with five shots.

That is the most intense excerpt from the warring of the entire Cape Verdean conflict.

Thinking that such a shameful bullying might become the first battle of Admiral Artis' life, Pierce couldn't help but shuddered violently.

Hashim should just be my navigator honestly. He is definitely not a competent pirate, and compared to his performance as an admiral, he has become a great pirate.