In the northern Africa, in the Tripoli port tavern on the southern coast of the Mediterranean, a group of drunk and dirty drunkards, sailors who were waiting for work, exposed clothes and laughter, and the guys wearing captain's hats who didn't know what to do, were now reveling here or whispering, making the entire tavern smoky.
In fact, in this crazy era of navigation, this situation is not surprising in taverns around the world.
At this time, in a corner, an alcoholic sat at the table and didn't know what he was saying, and gradually attracted the attention of many people.
"Tell you a hot latest news, uh..."
"Pirate King Haireding!"
"You all know, right?"
After a burp, a turbid and foul smell of alcohol surged in his throat, the drunkard with yellow teeth and dirt on his face continued to say:
"threaten!"
"Barbarosha Fasr Heiding, the pirate king of the Mediterranean, threatened the admiral of the Li family fleet in the port of Algiers a month ago!"
"What's the result..."
"You might as well guess?"
Halfway through, the drunkard suddenly stopped, then grinned and asked the drunkards and prostitutes and captains who were attracted by their own topics.
“??”
"Speak quickly!"
"Stop talking! Tell me quickly!"
"I've invited you this glass of wine!"
After making a fuss for a while, without waiting for everyone to continue urging more, a captain who seemed to have a little money threw a coin into the empty oak cup in front of the drunkard, indicating that he could continue talking.
"Okay, okay!"
"I tell you, the Li family fleet, those Orientals, after they had finished supplying, they actually left the port and fought with the pirate king Barbarosha Fasr Heiding, who wanted to escort them away!"
Speaking of this, the drunkard stopped again and looked at the people around him who were listening to him with their breath in their eyes. He felt so proud.
"Then what?"
"Speak quickly!"
It was the captain who had just dropped the coins, and he was obviously a little impatient.
"Then?"
"Of course it's..."
This time, the drunkard did not continue to keep insincerely, but after seeing everyone being attracted and no one interrupted, he said with lingering fear:
"Of course, the dozen ships of the Pirate King were all sunk!"
"All be beaten!"
"You don't know, those Eastern people are too cruel... The naval guns are directly from a few hundred yards away, and they are shot in one shot. Then there are big holes in the hull of the Pirate King fleet, and the sea water continues to pour in, and even if you can't save them!"
"The cannons of the Li family fleet are really well-deserved, they are really too cruel and accurate, just like a devil!"
"At that time, the Pirate King ordered the abandonment of the ship on the spot!"
"They fled back to Algiers in a panic, and less than half of them came back..."
Speaking of this, the drunkard seemed to be recalling something, and after a while, he continued to say.
"You know, we were slapped hard by those Easterners in the face just after the threat. Of course, our Mediterranean pirate king would not give up, right?"
"so……"
"Half a month later, they fought again in the sea north of Tripoli!"
"This time, the Pirate King learned his lesson. He dispatched nearly thirty Clippers, all of which were Clippers! Because he knew that the Li family fleet's cannons were powerful, so he simply did not plan to play artillery battles with those Easterners. He was preparing to fight the Jump Gang!"
"You also know that the pirate king Barbarosha Fasr Heiding is the closest to the limit of humanity. No one can beat him!"
"No one!"
"but……"
At this time, almost all the people in the tavern became quiet and gathered here unconsciously. They surrounded several floors. Even the owner of the tavern and the stingy bartender surrounded him, waiting for the drunkard sailor with yellow teeth and dirt on his face to continue talking.
"No one expected..."
"The ships of the Li family fleet, those warships that are larger than the largest Dutch big-bellied cargo ships, actually run faster than the Pirate King's Clippers?"
The drunkard's eyes gradually became a little confused and began to recall them.
"It was a stormy night, electric fan-like..."
"Take on the night, the strong wind and huge waves, and with the pouring rain, the pirate king Barbarosha Fasr Heiding was naked, holding two scimitars in his hand, and his feet were nailed to the deck of the bow like a lion, and he glared fiercely at the Li family fleet that appeared and disappeared in the darkness ahead."
"That night, it was raining heavily, and the sky was dark. Only the lightning that occasionally struck the sea could allow the sailors on both sides to see each other's location and distance for a short time."
"That's right!"
"The Pirate King's plan is correct. Under that bad sea conditions, the naval guns of the Li family fleet were greatly reduced in terms of accuracy and shooting frequency. Under the wind, more than 20 of the Pirate King's more than 30 clutches successfully rushed to the Li family fleet within 300 yards!"
"That was a successful strategy and a perfect sneak attack, just like the Pirate King usually does against those merchant ships or warships."
"But……"
"When both sides reached a distance of 200 yards, it was surprising that the naval guns of the Li family fleet suddenly sounded again and rushed towards the Pirate King's fleet in an overwhelming manner!"
Speaking of this, the alcoholic with yellow teeth and dirt on her face stopped again, and the expression called fear began to appear on her face as if she was in the scene.
"It's so scary!"
"Those Eastern people are really cunning. They actually deliberately put the Pirate King's fleet closer, and then they suddenly opened fire."
“It’s so tragic…”
"It's really tragic!"
"You guys think about it, because they were going to fight the jump gang battle, so almost all the melee players under the Pirate King gathered on the deck in the wind and rain, but the result was…"
"With the double blow of fierce shelling and rafting by the Li family fleet, that's how miserable it is!"
"Blacks whistled over, and the people on the straight lines on the deck were instantly smashed into pieces!"
“There is no place to hide!”
"Because, in addition to the shells, the overwhelming rain-like bullets were also shot from a high point."
"It wasn't long before all the dead bodies were left on the entire deck..."
"Those Eastern cannons continue to roar..."
"More than twenty clutches, at the end of the first round of artillery, sank nearly ten of them on the spot, and several of them broke up and ran away!"
"Immediately afterwards, the opponent's second round of artillery fired again..."
"In the end, only the flagship "Bald Eagle" of Haileding, like a flash of lightning, took advantage of the chaos and darkness and headed towards the flagship "Xiang Feihu" of the Orient."
"result……"
"Next, guess what?"
Speaking of this, the drunkard, whose face was full of fear and confusion, suddenly stopped talking, but kept heading into his wine glass that had been empty.
“!!”
"Speak quickly!"
"You should tell me quickly!"
"I'm so anxious!"
"that is!"
"cough!"
"Shut up!"
"I'll treat you to two drinks, keep going!"
Before the drunkards who were anxious to hear the noise, two glasses of beer viciously slapped the table in front of the drunkard sailor whose teeth turned yellow and their faces were covered with dirt.
“!!”
Seeing this, the drunkard couldn't wait to pick up one of the glasses and sip it in big gulp.
"ha!"
Soon, he finished one of the drinks in one breath, and then he slowly said under the impatient look of everyone and various urgings of his ancestors and women:
"To be honest, at that time, the Bald Eagle almost succeeded..."
"It was like a bolt of lightning, under the control of the best red-nosed helmsman under Hereading, skillfully avoided the enemy's shelling, preventing the enemy from changing courses and using the sidewalk shelling, and using the ups and downs of the waves to block the enemy's volleyball guns."
"They soon rushed to within fifty yards of the bow of the 'Xiang Feihu', and even saw clearly the image of the hideous demon bear on the bow of the Oriental ship. They could fight with gangs immediately!"
"But……"
"You probably couldn't imagine it?"
"At this time, when the bow of the 'Bald Eagle' was facing the bow of the 'Xiang Feihu', the two sides were about to collide together, and then when the Pirate King and his men could jump onto the ship to slaughter those Easterners, the bow guns of the damn Easterners actually opened fire!"
"And, that damn God or the gods might have really abandoned our Pirate King..."
"Four shells came, three were lost."
"That's a normal thing. After all, it was night, it was raining heavily, with strong winds blowing, and the waves were higher than both of them. In that case, the best gunner could hit the shells into the sky, and there was nothing strange about it."
"But..."
"At that critical moment, a shell was like an eye. When it came over, it accurately broke the two masts of the Bald Eagle... "
"Then the deck of the Bald Eagle was in chaos, and after losing two main masts, it quickly lost its power and control, and it crossed the sea, shaking by the ruthless waves."
"All the crew heard it."
"The pirate king Barbarosha Fasr Heiding roared angrily on the bow of the ship, and when the Li family fleet flagship adjusted its direction and prepared to bombard him, people hung the flag of invitation!"
"That's right!"
"It is the duel skeleton flag that requested a decisive battle with the other captain or the strongest man on the ship, which made all the captains and admirals in the Mediterranean scared!"
There is no reason why the pirate king Barbarosha Fasr Heiding can become the leader of North African pirates and dominate the Mediterranean. At least everyone here knows that no one can defeat Barbarosha in a gang fight or duel!
And everyone who dares to meet the challenge will die!
"Then what?"
"The Li family fleet will definitely not agree and directly bombarded the Pirate King's flagship, right?"
"Absolutely!"
"If it were me, I would fire too, so I wouldn't be stupid!"
"Shut up!"
"Speak quickly!"
"And what happened?"
The audience started to make a fuss. After guessing and expressing their respective opinions for a while, they continued to ask the drunkard who was drinking the second glass of wine.
"Gulugulu..."
"ha!"
The empty oak cup was slapped on the table, and then the drunkard continued:
"Then……"
"You all guessed wrongly. The Li family fleet did not fire. They agreed to the invitation of the pirate king Barbarosha Fasr Heiding and allowed him to board the flagship of the "Xiang Feihu" to fight."
"then……"
"No one knows what happened on the spacious deck of the 'Xiang Feihu'..."
"Anyway, in less than ten minutes, the pirate king Barbarosha Fasr Heiding came back in a very embarrassed manner. There were three bloody wounds on his upper body."
"He walked straight to his captain's room without saying a word and closed the hatch!"
“…”
"Some people say he won, but was humiliated by the enemy?"
"but……"
"Some people also say that he lost, and he lost miserably..."
“But who knows?”
"Anyway, after two big defeats, you know what's left."
"The Pirate King no longer mentioned the matter of going to trouble the Li family fleet and those Oriental people. He even ordered the ports along the Mediterranean and North Africa, saying that everyone would not make things difficult for the Li family fleet and allow them to dock and replenish supplies?"
Finally, the rotten drunkard with yellow teeth and dirty face finished his story, then reached out drunk and took out the coin that had just thrown into his wine glass.
“…”
"wrong!"
"How could you know so clearly?"
"yes!"
"You made it up?"
"I still don't believe it. Pirate King Babalosha has never lost. If those Easterners really dare to duel with him, the other party will definitely lose!"
"That's it!"
After listening to the story, the sailors, pirates, dancers and captains who were still interested here were not too interested in it, and some even suspected that the drunkard's words were said.
"Pooh!"
Bang!
I let out a vicious saliva, and then a bandage and prosthetic legs were placed on the table.
"Tell you!"
"I was on the Bald Eagle at that time, and this leg was broken by shells!"
"Otherwise, why do you think I don't continue to go to the sea to eat delicious food and drink spicy food, but drink here every day?"
"I tell you, the Pirate King Barbarosha was indeed defeated, and he was defeated miserably!"
"Also, you must have never imagined it?"
"In the duel, he was defeated by the Grand Admiral of the Li family fleet, the little girl like a devil!"
"Just three swords!"
"There were three swords at that time, which was recognized by everyone. The combat power exceeded the limit of human beings. It was impossible for anyone to be the enemy. The pirate king Barbarosha Fasr Heiding, who dominated the Mediterranean, was defeated under the hands of the little girl!"
Three fingers that were also covered with dirt and were covered with black substance in the gaps of their nails were stretched out. After seeing the depressed people, the pirate sailor smirked and said the reason why he knew so clearly.
“!!”
"this!"
“…”
“…”
Now, everyone gradually believed it a little and couldn't help but take a breath.
"impossible!"
"A little girl can't defeat Barbarosha!"
"He is lying!"
"But……"
"Haireding seems to have indeed failed. You should have heard that rumor, right?"
“…”
"That little girl, is she a witch?"
"have no idea……"
"No!"
"She is not a witch, she is a devil!"
"It is the devil admiral from the distant, ancient, mysterious Eastern Ming Empire. She is here to punish us Europeans who invade the distant and sacred Eastern seas!"
"We're all going to be finished!"
"Shut up!!"
"Damn it, dare to step on me, come on, let's fight!!"
“…”
The tavern was silent for a while, and then soon became a riot again.
And what the bad drunkard who claimed to be Heiding's men just now said was soon forgotten by people.
After all, that was just a topic of conversation after dinner. People might write down and brag about it whenever they met, and evolved into many versions of the song, and might even put themselves into the lame sailor, bragging to those who didn't know about their deeds of fighting side by side with the Pirate King and resisting the devil in the East?
...
Istanbul, in this Mediterranean port city of the Ottoman Empire, the commander-in-chief of the Ottoman Empire's naval commander Hedm Affmedo Basha finally received a handwritten letter from his ally North African pirate leader, Barbarosha Fasr Heiding, the pirate king who dominates the Mediterranean.
“…”
"What?"
"Even Barbarosha failed?"
Hedm Affmedo Basha was really shocked when he saw what was written in the letter.
“Um…”
"Okay!"
"Go and send orders to our warship admirals, so that they will not make things difficult for the Li family fleet for the time being, and the port officials who rule us, from today on, the ports we control will be open to the Li family fleet and allow them to dock or replenish them!"
After pondering for a while, Hedm Affmedo Basha didn't even put down the letter and said directly to a commissar on the side.
"yes!"
"Abide by the order!!"
The commemorator did not dare to ask more questions, so he went out to convey the order.
“…”
"Let those Orientals fight with Barudis first, and when those guys consume almost the same amount, it is time for us to dominate the Mediterranean!"
“Hmph…”
Hedm Affmedo Basha snorted and laughed out loud.
In Asia Minor, the powerful Ottoman navy has wiped out the countries along the Eastern Mediterranean coast one by one. However, in order to gain maritime power, all this is not enough, and it is far from enough that he will attack Italy, attack Spain and open up the Strait of Gibraltar!
Otherwise, their Ottoman navy would always be just an inland sea fleet and would never be able to get involved in trade in the New World or the Far East!
If you want to achieve his goal, the Spanish Invincible Armada is a hurdle that you can't overcome!
It is said that at this time the Italian Paoluo Chentelio had completely turned to Barudis. In this way, it became unlikely that the Ottoman navy would invade Italy.
but……
The situation is different now. Those Orientals have come, and it is said that they have fought the Port of Seville and have wiped out many ships of the Invincible Armada?
In that way, it seems that there is more room and opportunity for them to operate in the Ottoman Empire.
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Chapter completed!