The ship soon approached Sursari Island, the largest island in the Gulf of Finland Islands. There are several small islands in the south of the island. At this time, Estonia in the south has been occupied by Russia. Unless it is hanging on the Russian

People's flags are allowed to walk along the coastline, otherwise they must pass between the islands.

At this time, although the northern part of the Gulf of Finland was still Swedish territory, this area was almost under the control of the Russian fleet.

Of course, depending on the speed of the ships at this time, although the sea area is nominally controlled, it is obviously impossible to dispatch a large number of ships to patrol.

A large number of pirates roamed here. During the Queen Elizabeth era, fleets were also dispatched to clear them out, but with little success. However, the queen still issued an order that anyone who dared to board these islands was declared an enemy of Russia, and ships were allowed to travel.

All proceeds from encirclement and suppression belong to the shipowner himself.

Therefore, these islands are all deserted islands - of course, this is for ordinary people, but does not exist for pirates.

There is not much space in this sea area, and the pirates drive fast boats. Even if the warships come, they can escape first. What's more, a large number of merchant ships coming from the south can also buy stolen goods from the pirates at very low prices.

Obviously these stolen goods cannot be sold in St. Petersburg, but they can still be shipped to the Netherlands, Denmark and other places for sale.

When he arrived at Sursari Island, Philip raised his telescope and carefully explored the sea area in front of him.

When he just raised the telescope, the lookout man on the middle mast suddenly shouted.

"Captain, look!"

Philip felt a chill in his heart and quickly pointed the telescope at the waters to the north.

When I saw this, I couldn’t help but feel a little bit in my heart!

I saw two ships appearing from the north, both of the Galen type. One was smaller and did not fly a flag, but the cannons on the gun emplacements on the ship were exposed.

There is a larger ship, but it flies the flag of the Russians!

At this time, the wind direction was north-northwest, and the wind was strong. I saw the larger Galen ship rushing straight towards his flat-bottomed merchant ship "The Unrestrained Tulip" at an extremely fast speed!

The smaller Galen ship followed closely behind the larger ship, but at least a distance of two hundred meters was maintained between the two sides!

"What's going on?"

Generally speaking, pirates will not fly flags in narrow waters, but what about the big Galen ship flying the Russian flag?

Such a large Galen ship, or an improved Galen ship, looks like a warship at first glance. Are the Russians suddenly going to be disadvantageous to the Dutch?

At this time, the unrestrained Tulip was located between Sursari Island and several small islands in the south. The distance between them was very close. Now the big Galen ship was rushing towards them taking advantage of the strong wind. If Philip

If they order a turn, it will take a long time to complete since their ship is a large flat-bottomed merchant ship.

Once the operation is improper, the ship may not be able to avoid the big ship, but it is also very likely to wash up on the beach of the island and be stranded!

"Fake!"

Philip cursed and gave the order to speed up towards the sea ahead.

At this time, the big ship was still about 500 meters away from the unrestrained Tulip, and his current position was almost the same distance from the southern waters of Sursari Island. The ship's trajectory was at an acute angle with his.

, if he is lucky, his ship may still be able to avoid this big ship.

After crossing the southern part of Sursari Island, it will be possible to bombard it with the artillery at the stern.

As the ship accelerated, Philip's mood became increasingly heavy.

"The carvings on the bow of that big ship are extremely exquisite. The ship is brand new at first glance, and it carries the flag of the Russian royal family. Although Russia has recently sent out many such flags in the form of auctions, the royal flag is not

Anyone can get it"

"Most of them are merchants with aristocratic backgrounds in Russia and neighboring friendly countries. This big ship also has a gun window, but it is not open at the moment. It is obviously intended to use it to crash my ship."

"If it were a pirate, he would never have sacrificed such a good ship for nothing. Also, there was no one on the ship, but the track did not change. It was obvious that the sails had been adjusted in advance and were only kept in the cabin.

Sailor at the helm"

"Pirates also use ships that are about to be scrapped to ram merchant ships and then take advantage of the damage to rob the property on board. But the smaller merchant ship behind is obviously small and broken. How can they be willing to use a big ship to accomplish this?"
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When I thought about the new style of this big ship and the flag of the Russian royal family, the scene in front of me became even more bizarre.

Philip's ship was loaded with cloth and spices shipped from the Netherlands and grain loaded in Poland. It was fully loaded at this time, and with its wide head and flat bottom, the speed of the ship was obviously not fast enough.

At this time, the wind direction suddenly changed from the original west-northwest wind to northwest-north wind, and it took time to complete the adjustment of the sail position. However, the big ship opposite could perfectly withstand the full wind, and with the pointed bow,

The speed is obviously much faster than his ship.

Fortunately, there was still a distance of 500 meters. Both sides were fighting for time. Soon, the southern end of the triangular shape of Sursari Island was within easy reach, but the distance between the big ship and him was also reduced to 100 meters!
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At this time, the angle between the big ship and the unrestrained Tulip was close to 90 degrees!

Cold sweat broke out on Philip's face. At the moment, he had no choice but to pray to God. Everyone on the boat was also watching this scene nervously. Their sails had been adjusted in place. If they could get over Su before the big ship hit them,

The southern tip of Irsari Island, then they will be safe and sound.

Because there are densely populated islands here, the big ship must adjust its sail position if it wants to continue to collide with the unrestrained Tulip after entering this sea area. Once it goes back and forth, the distance between the two sides will widen.

However, Philip ignored one thing - the wind direction at this time was north-northwest. When the ship sailed into the southern end of Sursari Island, the tall birch and pine trees on the island blocked a considerable part of the wind, so the ship

The speed is actually slower than before!

At this time, the big ship was only twenty meters away from their stern!

"Bang..."

Just when the unrestrained Tulip had just sailed out of the southern tip of Sursari Island, the bow of the big ship hit her stern hard. The dull impact was accompanied by a crunching sound of the ship's planks cracking, and the entire hull suddenly shook.

Shake, and then tilt sharply to the south.

In an instant, many sailors were thrown into the sea.

At the moment when the ships collided, Ahai and Qiqige were both in the cabin. There were two beds in the cabin. They were both sitting on the boat. When the collision occurred, Qiqige, who was sitting on the north side, was violently thrown towards Ahai.

Hai, if A Hai were an ordinary person at this time, both parties would be injured in the panic.

But after all, Ah Hai had received three years of training from the Elista Military Academy and the Intelligence Department. The moment Qiqige was thrown over, she suddenly tilted her head to the side and at the same time hooked her tightly with her feet.

The bed board, and then hugged Qiqige’s waist.

In the past few days, since the boat competition incident, both of them gave up their tutu skirts, which caused great inconvenience to movement, and instead put on short clothes, a brown hunting top, and loose brown trousers. Otherwise, even if they were training well,

Even she couldn't complete this action in such a short time.

After the ship was hit, because the big ship continued to ride the strong wind against the ship, she continued to tilt to the south, but she stabilized after a period of time.

Ah Hai pondered for a long time, but finally pulled out a wooden box from under the bed. After opening it, he took out two pieces of things from under his clothes and assembled them as quickly as possible into a breech-loaded flintlock spear!

Qiqige on the side was not idle either. She and Ahai completed the assembly of the flintlock gun almost at the same time.

The two stumbled onto the deck.

At this time, the small Galen ship that had been following finally arrived. Since the unrestrained Tulip was still tilting at this time, it was obviously impossible for the people on the ship to shoot it with muskets. However, during the collision just now,

Phillip, who was holding the main mast tightly, was not thrown into the sea.

They all had flint-haired muskets on them, and they all took them out at this time. Then they held the mast in one hand and held the musket in the other hand and started shooting at the people in the small boat that had come up.

However, all this was obviously in vain. Little Galen's boat was densely packed with people. Looking at it, they were all serious pirates. They all held muskets, blunderbuss, hatchets and other objects in their hands. After a volley of fire,

Next, let most people on the boat settle the account.

Both of Philip and Garcia's shots just failed, but with the help of the mast's cover, they were lucky enough not to be hit by the opponent's dense bullets.

"Gah..."

That was the unpleasant sound made by the bow of the big Galen ship finally sliding from the stern of the merchant ship into the sea. It seemed that although this large Dutch flat-bottomed ship was old, it was obviously made of good materials. The violent impact just now did not make him feel any pain.

The fatal damage was just knocking over the side of the ship.

The merchant ship recovered calmly, but at this time there were not many sailors on the ship, and a large number of pirates had jumped on board!

At the moment, the only ones who can still use the cover of the mast and cabin to shoot at them are Philip and Garcia, as well as Dion and the drunk druid.

However, Dion and Druid were holding long swords in their hands. When the pirates fired the first batch of lead bullets, they were also holding long swords.

A swordsmanship competition that seemed to be very different between strong and weak began. Although Dion and Druid were both good at swordsmanship, they had never encountered such a crazy attack by many people against one person. Soon, Philip and Garcia

, Dion, and the druids were hit with swords one after another!

Philip had just been hit by a sword in his right arm, and the long sword in his hand immediately fell to the deck with a clang. He couldn't help but sigh, and then raised his hands...

"Bang..."

Just when everyone had no choice but to throw down their swords and kneel on the ground ready to surrender, there was another burst of musketry on the ship.

Near the cabin, the muskets in the hands of Ahai and Qiqige fired!

When they looked again, although the muskets in their hands were assembled, there was a big bulge in the middle. If they were Truqin soldiers, they would definitely recognize it - a rotating spear!

This kind of long gun is just an ordinary breech-loaded flintlock gun without the rotating part, but after adding the rotating part, it becomes a rotating long gun!

This kind of spear is only used in small quantities in the Intelligence Department. According to Chitard's warning to them, if it is used in a foreign land, after using it once, the rotating part must be disassembled and thrown away (at sea), or destroyed (on land).

(on).

Since it is used on a long gun, there are not six bullets, but ten!

Ahai and Qiqige leaned against the cabin wall and started shooting methodically at the dozens of pirates who jumped up.
To be continued...