Chapter 191 The Eve
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【Your ship is locked and cannot enable the "Long Range Raid" skill.】
Lu Yuan calmly ignored this message. The most important one among the conditions for launching "long-range raids" is the "non-combat state". Although Clifford did not know that he locked the "Erona", he actually indirectly destroyed one of Lu Yuan's skills. However, there are advantages and disadvantages. Lu Yuan launched reconnaissance every ten minutes. If Clifford canceled the lock, Lu Yuan would know it after up to ten minutes.
Tonight is the beginning of the moon, and there is only a faint crescent moon, and the light is originally very weak. However, when the heavy and humid fog on the sea rises, even this little bit of light is completely blocked, and there are white areas up, down and left and right. Even if people stand on the bow of the boat, they cannot see the main mast. The navigation lights hanging from the four corners of the boat are left with only a layer of dim halo.
In the thick fog, Lu Yuan drove blindly with extremely risky map information only. Based on the direction he calculated before, he turned the route to a small island on the northwest side little by little. Lu Yuan did not have GPS in his hand, so before he found a landmark object for positioning, most of the navigation data could only be guessed.
Therefore, all the adjutants and some selected sailors are now lying on the side of the boat with lanterns, searching nervously for less than ten feet of their vision in front of them. Even Edward, who is very dissatisfied, is such a fatal matter.
The cushioning distance of ten feet is simply not worth mentioning compared to the speed of the "Arona". If there is really a reef, from the time it is discovered to hit it, I am afraid there is not even time to shout a warning. So although the "Arona" has been as careful as possible and slowed forward, the risk is still extremely great. It was not until Li Huamei shouted "Brother Lu! Reef!" that Lu Yuan was relieved and put his heart in his stomach.
It was 400 meters away from the reef location he predicted, and this estimate was really a scam.
He stopped the boat, jumped directly from the stern to the reef, carefully observed and measured it up and down until he accurately matched the set of reefs with the information in his mind.
"Okay. The next journey will be easier, everyone can take a break."
With this set of reefs as positioning coordinates, Lu Yuan can accurately call out the nearby 3D map, and the next night flight will be much easier - as for what will happen to the warships that follow... Does Lu Yuan have that obligation to manage?
The "Erona" began to accelerate. At this time, the warship seemed to have eyes, and could always bypass every reef in advance. It might not be a big deal when the field of view is good, but this field of view is purely a desperate route. Go forward quickly. Although I don't know how Lu Yuan did it, Misha and Li Huamei believed him very much, and they sat together for a nap.
Only Edward, who was still lying on the bow of the boat with a lantern, shouting and watching the reefs passing by the boat. The reefs that were only close to him were always scared to his sweat. But when he turned around, he could not see Lu Yuan riding the boat, only a vast fog. Edward couldn't understand how Lu Yuan was driving a huge sailing warship in such a large fog and such a dark environment, driving in a narrow waterway full of reefs, was driving in a series of incredible things.
Unconsciously, most of the resentment of being robbed by his own sister disappeared.
"Edward". The sudden sound of coming scared him. When he turned around, he saw it. At some point, Misha was already standing behind him.
"Still angry?" Seeing Edward's embarrassing look, Misha asked with some amusement. She reached out and helped him tidy up his clothes.
"Hmph!" It's okay if you don't mention it, but when you mention it, Edward suddenly felt like he was pressing his chest. Not only the problem of robbing the ship, but also other things... For example, the famous pirate captain "Blackbeard", Lu Yuan actually appointed him as the storm captain! Is it necessary to be a first mate or something...
"You~" Misha held his hand, just like seeing the ignorant little brother back then. "Ayuan is your... brother-in-law, I won't treat you badly! Wait and see, the compensation I will give you in the future will probably be more than five times or ten times... What's your look?! Don't you believe what I said?! Tell you, even if the wedding is not held, I am his wife!"
"I... didn't mean that," Edward quickly denied that the price of misunderstanding of this sister was unbearable. "I am feeling sorry for my ship, and that ship is worth more than 100,000..." Edward said embarrassedly. It was really difficult for him to get a family fortune from the pirates at the bottom. When he saw the abandoned "Queen" sunk by the British fleet, he burst into tears.
"Small family!" Mishabeth glanced at the eye and took out a note and stuffed it to Edward. "These are only part of it. You don't know what Ayuan left for your sister... The battleship will make you dazzling at that time! Remember to train your subordinates immediately, and it can also be useful when grabbing the ship!" Misha was too lazy to say more to him. As for the matter in her position, Misha didn't want to hit him and let him be the storm captain, and she was really a high-profile... The first mate Li Huamei was once the admiral of the Ming Navy, and even the young king who was about to come had a record of more than a dozen ships under her.
He was a little pirate leader showing off something.
"Two million pesos!" Edward was stunned by the numbers on the bill, and did not even notice... As the ship turned, a clutch was quietly moored less than three meters ahead of him.
...
With Crystal Ball listening and Elizabeth transmitting information, Lu Yuan's message channels are not blocked. With one message puzzle after another, he was able to roughly judge the layout of Clifford and LeBron. Of course, he guessed that Young Nian Jin should have been deliberately "omitted" because both sides hoped that he could persevere.
So there is no doubt that when the "Sirencer" was supplied in the port of Caracas, the Spanish port, it must have been secretly helped by the Spanish.
Looking at the overall situation, the core issue of the entire situation is focused on "How long can the Arona last?"
Clifford believed that he could handle Lu Yuan at will, and could even leave him behind and solve the primary problem of Spain first.
However, under the suggestion of the "Tearers Squad", LeBron prefers that Lu Yuan can hold on for long enough to even drag the British fleet. In his camp, whether it is the Tearers or McLaren, the father of Dragon Dog, they seem to believe in Lu Yuan's strength. This way they can take the lead in capturing more British ports.
But they still underestimated the tacit understanding of the "Opera House". Lu Yuan and Jin chose this place as the place to meet without making an appointment in advance... Not only did the location not guess the location, but even the support time was six hours ahead of schedule.
...
"captain!"
"Smuggler!"
Seeing Lu Yuan, Jin and Longgou talked together, the people on both sides looked at each other. After a while, Lilu poked her head out from behind a group of young people and said in confusion, "Sister Li Huamei? Sister Li Huamei!" She jumped out happily and threw herself into Li Huamei's arms.
OK, it became a marriage recognition conference.
Not to mention the love and killing between Longgou and Lu Yuan, nor to mention the past of Lilu and Li Huamei, the ownership of the "Simon" belongs to August after all, and his agent Jin can handle everything on the ship with all rights reserved.
So at Lu Yuan's order, the supplies on the "Simon" were also quickly transferred to the "Erona". In terms of the most important number of crew members, they finally replenished 440 people in one breath.
Six hours are all the time for the "Erona" to integrate crew members. Lu Yuan did not seek anyone's opinions and directly appointed according to his skill level. Li Huamei served as the first mate and the open-air deck artillery officer, and would act as the captain when Lu Yuan left Squad A; Young Jin served as the non-commissioned officer on the closed artillery deck and directly commanded forty of the fifty-four artillery pieces; Edward and Xiao Kou were the chief and deputy captains of the stormtroopers, namely the musket team and the stormtroopers; Long Dog served as the deck officers, responsible for the operation of sails and the observation deck; Misha and Lilu served as logistics officers, responsible for material allocation and transportation, and plunder statistics...
"Release the gun!" "Let it go!" Under Edward's command, the musketeers lined up three rows along the side of the ship and trained as they listened to the orders; "Release the hook lock!" Dozens of hook locks were thrown out of the side of the ship and fell into the sea. "Pull it!" The pirates pulled the hook lock up together. "Fixed!" Everyone was fastly tied the rope to the side of the ship... "Nail the wooden mat! We don't need to adjust the angle, you just need to load and ignite according to the orders!" The cannon is the most difficult to control, and Li Huamei and Jin can only use forced commands to let everyone remember first... more of them are not too late to train.
"What are they doing?" Clifford said in confusion. Because after sailing out of the damn channel, the ship in front suddenly became extremely noisy, and at least two hundred lanterns were lit to shine the entire ship into a large ball of light. The adjutant himself couldn't figure it out, so he had to shout the fleet commander Clifford from the bed.
But even though the sea fog dissipated a little with the arrival of the morning, Clifford still couldn't see anything.
"Let the damaged ships hurry up and repair them, and let them go, and everything will be clear when dawn." Clifford could only order this way. On this night, more than a dozen ships were damaged, which made him very angry. However, he found the same abandoned "Sirens" near the island, knowing that the "Erona" had been replenished.
Everything is waiting for dawn.
Chapter completed!