Chapter 956 Looking for the Fountain of Youth
The ship first went to Havana for supplies, and by the way, asked the old drunkard for details about the 'Spring of Youth'. The ship is under the banner of Captain Stoke's Portuguese merchant ship, because Captain Stoke is Portuguese and can freely enter the Spanish port. Before entering the port, the sailors covered the artillery on the deck with waterproof canvas and blocked the muzzle with waterproof plugs, which was for the maintenance of the artillery, and secondly, they did not allow other forces to discover the secrets of the new artillery.
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"Little Katrina, do you know what you need to ask me?" A one-eyed drunkard with disabled legs and feet said drunkenly, "I've finished the whisky you gave me last time..."
Zhang Fan found that such a poor and old drunkard with a wide-brimmed broken sailor hat and one-eyed lame drunkard actually kept a crow as a pet. The red-eyed crow pecked the crumbs in the hands of the old drunkard from time to time. Interestingly, the paper crane on the shoulder of the green wing saw the red-eyed crow and behaved very kindly. He flew up and pecked the crow affectionately.
And the crow actually behaved like an elder, looking serious and calm, like a majestic family predecessor, disrespecting the paper crane. This surprised Zhang Fan's green wings.
Catrina laughed, "I've been ready for you for a long time!" After saying that, two black people carried a box of rum and put it in front of the old drunkard, and the old man's eyes suddenly shined!
"If you are willing to go with us, I will immerse you in a barrel every day!" Caterina put a dagger in the wooden box and blocked the old drunkard from reaching out to his dirty hands.
"You know my legs and feet are inconvenient, and I swear I will never go to that disgusting swamp again!" The old drunkard swallowed his saliva and his eyes couldn't leave the wine box. "Miss Caterina, my moon, my princess, you can do it. Poor me, this bad old man. If I go to the swamp in Florida again, my old bones will be completely rotten there..."
With a cunning smile, Caterina pulled out a bottle of rum from the box and picked out the cork with a dagger. "Whatever you want... But I can only pour this rum into the gutter..." Caterina poured the wine on the old drunkard's face.
The old man greedily licked the wine on his face, "Tut, come on, dear Katrina, you are so cruel! Don't bully me like this, a poor old man, don't waste my rum! I'll go with you, but I'm going to take the 'king'. I'm old and forget a lot of things. The 'king' can also help me show me the way, and when I get to my destination, I have to pay 30 gold pounds..." The red-eyed dark cloud is still the 'king'!
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Jack stood on the top of the mast, suddenly put down his telescope and shouted at the deck below: "See the land!"
The green wing ran out of the clouds on 'Bai Ze' and said, "There are not many ships in this area, only a Spanish exploration ship is seen. Would you like to try the new cannon with it?
"Forget it, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future." Zhang Fan has no love for robbery.
But it seemed counterproductive that the Spanish pirate ship disguised as an expedition ship did not want to let go of the single sloop in front of him. For the Spanish pirate ship, the sloop looks new and has a novel style. At first glance, he is a rookie explorer who only chases fashion. However, the other party's level of controlling the ship is not bad.
It is probably a noble dander in Portugal who wants to learn from the legendary explorer and come out to find the virtual 'spring of youth' to gain fame. In that case, you may still get a lot of ransom. No matter how bad it is, it can rob this new ship and sell it. It is hard to say that there is also a beautiful Portuguese noble young woman on the ship...
Chavez was in full bloom when he thought of this, and his lower body was a little excited. He took out a black blindfold from his coat pocket and put it on his intact left eye, pretending to be a battlefield-old one-eyed pirate. And put the wrinkled black wide-brimmed captain's hat on his head, then pulled out a rusty Turkish machete, waved a few times at the dhow, and then shouted at the sailors who were busy on the deck: "Raise the pirate flag and let them surrender obediently!"
"Ship...Captain! The other party's boat is not smaller than ours. We are just two-mud boats, and many shells are also rusty..." The young and young second officer reported panic.
"They are a group of rookies! Look at their boat, the hull is narrow and the hull is so short that it can't hold many people. Don't worry, as long as we raise the pirate flag of Chavez, this group of fat sheep will surrender obediently!" Chavez felt that he was wearing a blindfold, which seemed to have a grain of sand in it. His eyes were very uncomfortable, but he still couldn't help taking it off.
"That's what you said last time... As a result, you ran to Jamaica!" The young second officer muttered.
Chavez was hit by the point and was a little angry. "Get out! If you don't want to be the second mate, I'll go to the old drunkard in Port Havana! At least he won't talk nonsense when he's drunk!"
"Such as you wish, captain!" The young second mate ran away in a hurry and ordered the sailors to raise the black skeleton flag and ask the other ship to stop and submit to themselves!
Zhang Fan was very depressed. Caterina and Captain Hook laughed, "There are really short-sighted guys! Brothers, come out and exercise your muscles and bones. I think your bones are about to rust!"
As soon as Jack saw that the other party was still a pirate, he was so happy that he immediately slipped down from the watchtower at the top of the mast and let the black sailors lift the waterproof canvas to cover the cannon, "Hury on the ammunition! Let me have a good time first! Don't linger on your part! I haven't had a job for a month!"
Captain Hooker laughed and turned the bow, quickly occupied the upper position, and crossed the ship. Put the starboard side at the two-pronged pirate ship. A bow long-barrel gun, two double-loaded long-barrel cannons, five gunbarrels, aimed the muzzle at the starboard side in the sound of the sonorous rotating gun rack. The black sailors were busy stuffing the gunpowder bag into the muzzle and top-topped the bottom of the barrel with a long wooden plug. Then the conical shell was also painstakingly installed from the muzzle and pushed it to the bottom with a wooden plug.
The gunner immediately took position and began to turn the handle to adjust the firing angle. Jack stood next to a double cannon in the middle and loudly ordered the gunner to adjust the barrel angle. This guy is now a first-class gunner!
"Captain... They seem to have cannons, they are warships!" The young second officer saw it from the telescope and was a little afraid.