When Alka and Sigurt walked out of the captain's cabin.

Many sailors have gathered on the deck.

Seeing the arrival of the captain, they all made way.

"What happened?"

As soon as Halls asked, a well-dressed middle-aged man, also wearing leather clothes, came over with a serious expression on his face.

Giving people a sense of calm and self-power, he is the first mate of this ship.

"Captain, pirates have been discovered."

As he spoke, he pointed towards the sea.

Several people immediately looked in the direction they were pointing at, and saw a sailboat approaching that place slowly.

Due to the light fog on the sea and the distance, it was not very clear.

Halls immediately took out a monocular telescope from his pocket and stretched it out, squinting his eyes and taking a closer look.

"They are pirates. They should be the ones that have been running around in this area recently. They are really unlucky."

Then he immediately turned around and shouted to the sailors behind him: "What are you doing standing still? Do you expect them to let us go?"

Hearing the captain's shout, everyone started to move.

Alka couldn't help but hold his hand on the short knife at his waist.

Sigurt looked at Alka and patted him: "Don't panic, haven't you seen that these sailors are actually very calm?"

"It's normal to encounter pirates when sailing on the sea. There are too many dangers in the sea. Are you ready to see blood?"

As he spoke, he directly took out the sailor sword in his hand and held it in his hand.

"Follow me closely, don't worry."

Alka, who was slightly nervous, nodded, and then looked at the ring on his thumb.

He also pulled out the sailor sword from his waist.

They looked at the pirate ship that was speeding towards them.

That ship was obviously smaller than the one he was stepping on. It also had two masts, was smaller, and had a slimmer hull.

It seemed that it was time for him to have a favorable wind at this time, and it looked like he would rush over soon.

Then one ballista after another was rolled out from the plywood and lined up on the side of the ship, facing the direction in which the enemy ship was rushing.

"There was no gunpowder sailing period yet?"

Only then did Alka remember what he had not noticed, which was that the ship had no sight of the artillery and the artillery deck.

Ship-borne artillery can be said to be the most effective attack between ships in the age of sail.

It is also the most iconic weapon.

If there were no artillery, each other might have to rely on collision and gang-hopping to fight.

While Alka was thinking this, Captain Holes raised the long knife at his waist and shouted: "Where is my baby? Pull me up!"

As soon as he finished speaking, several sailors pushed a heavy object from the cabin onto the deck.

artillery?

This thing is almost not much different from the artillery that Alka has seen in some materials.

However, the appearance has changed from pure black to dark gray, but it can be seen that it is still made of metal.

But it looks more sophisticated than the artillery.

The gun barrel is a cylindrical shape about three meters long. Under the barrel is a bracket that can rotate left and right and float up and down, equipped with 4 wheels.

It can be seen from this bracket that the barrel is not as heavy as I thought.

In other words, the technology may be more sophisticated.

But no matter what, it should be a cannon.

Sigert obviously recognized this thing and couldn't help but cheered.

"Uncle Halls, you are really willing to give up. When will there be a fight?"

Halls' expression was obviously a bit embarrassing, and he said as if he was showing off his treasure: "It's been a long time, but I rarely have time to use it, so you don't know."

As he spoke, he turned to a somewhat skinny man and said, "Taxi, I leave this thing to you to use. Give it a good shot and make sure it's accurate."

Tassie rubbed her hands and made a no problem gesture.

"Leave it to me, captain, I will definitely let these pirates drink a pot, hehe!"

Then he took a palm-sized cylinder from the hands of the group leader. It was also inlaid with gold rims and looked very expensive.

With the combined efforts of several people, the artillery was pushed to the side of the ship.

A sailor holding a barrel placed the contents in his arms heavily next to the cannon.

Tassie directed the sailors to stuff fist-sized objects into the barrel one after another, which seemed to be ammunition.

Nothing was added to it, just ammunition was inserted directly into it.

And the ammunition stuffed there is all smaller ammunition about the size of a fist. So many, are they loose bullets?

Sigert pulled Alcala aside, about four or five meters away from the artillery.

"We've seen a good show, it doesn't look like it will be too dangerous this time."

"What is that?"

"The rock-shaking cannon is a very expensive weapon and very powerful."

"Any idea what it's made of?"

"I don't know, and not many people know."

It seems that Sigurt doesn't know much.

"Get ready!"

Taxi said something, and the four sailors on both sides of the rock-shattering cannon blocked the cannon.

Alka looked into the distance and saw that the enemy pirate ship was still about 600 meters away from them.

Is it possible to shoot accurately from such a distance?

"fire!"

Roaring angrily, Taxi took the pillar handed to him by the captain in his hand and struck it hard on a palm-sized platform behind the cannon.

With the knocking, Alka clearly felt the ship shake slightly.

But there was no loud noise like a cannon being fired.

It's a very dull sound.

I watched several fist-sized objects slice through the air, making sharp sounds.

They hit the enemy ships hard, and some of them hit the deck directly.

Accurate hit!

"I hit it, hurry up, keep pretending."

It takes about 30 seconds to launch.

It was a precise hit every time.

Alka discovered that it was not that Taxi's skills were good, but that the artillery had an extremely high hit rate, and the distance of about 500 meters was almost a straight line.

The effective range will only be further.

This is obviously no ordinary artillery piece.

As the ship approached, the ballistas also fired their crossbow arrows one after another.

However, after launching it once, I didn’t consider continuing the installation at all.

After firing four or five rounds from the cannon, the enemy's ship, although somewhat in tatters, still sailed to their side.

But it's not aimed at sinking enemy ships.

This kind of shotgun should be used to better kill the pirates above.

"The enemy is going to join the gang. Take out your weapons and teach these gutter rats a lesson!"

TOEFL roared angrily, and then took out the sailor sword from his waist.

Ropes with grappling hooks flew over one after another, either catching on the side of the ship, or getting entangled in the cable.

Sigurt always stood by Alka's side.

Many sailors were already using their long knives to chop down the flying grappling hooks.

At this time, several arrows flew up and hit the two sailors accurately.
To be continued...