When Alka and Sigurd walked out of the captain's room.
Many sailors had gathered on the deck.
Seeing the arrival of the captain, they made way for him.
"What happened?"
As soon as Hols asked, a middle-aged man dressed in leather clothes came over with a serious expression.
Giving people a sense of majesty without anger, he was the first mate of the ship.
"Captain, pirates are found."
He pointed at the sea.
Several people immediately looked in the direction pointed, and saw a sailboat in that place, slowly approaching.
Because there was a light fog on the sea and the distance was too far, it was not very clear.
Hols immediately took out a monocular telescope from his pocket and stretched it out, squinting his eyes and looked carefully.
"It's pirates. They should be the ones that have been roaming around in this sea area recently. It's really unlucky."
Then he immediately turned around and shouted to the sailors behind him: "What are you still standing there for? 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.
Siegert looked at Alka and patted him: "Don't panic, don't you see 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?"
He took out the sailor knife in his hand and held it in his hand.
"Follow me closely, don't worry."
Alka nodded, feeling a little nervous, and then looked at the ring on his thumb.
He also took out the sailor knife at his waist.
Look at the pirate ship that was already coming towards them quickly.
That ship was obviously smaller than the one he was standing on. It also had two masts, but it was smaller and thinner.
It seemed that he was in a favorable wind at this time, and it looked like he would rush over in a short while.
Then, one crossbow cart after another was pushed out from the plywood, lined up on the side of the ship, facing the direction of the enemy ship.
"Is it not the sailing period when gunpowder has not appeared yet?"
At this time, Alka remembered what he had not noticed, that is, there were no cannons or gun decks on this ship.
Shipborne cannons can be said to be the most effective attack between ships in the sailing period.
It is also the most iconic weapon.
If there were no cannons, the two could only fight by ramming and boarding.
Just as Alka was thinking about this, Captain Hols raised the long knife at his waist and shouted: "Where is my baby? Pull it up for me!"
After the voice fell, several sailors pushed a heavy object from the cabin to the deck together.
Cannon?
This thing is almost the same as the cannon that Alka had seen in some materials.
It's just that the appearance has changed from pure black to black and gray, but it can be seen that it is still made of metal.
But it looks more sophisticated than the cannon.
The barrel is a cylindrical shape about three meters long. There is a bracket under the barrel that can rotate left and right and float up and down, equipped with 4 wheels.
From this bracket, it can be seen that the barrel is not as heavy as you think.
Or the technology may be more advanced.
But in any case, it should be a cannon.
Siegert obviously recognized the thing and couldn't help but cheer.
"Uncle Hols, you are really willing to spend money. When will you get one?"
Hols was obviously a little proud, as if he was showing off his treasure and said: "It's been a long time, but I rarely have time to use it, so you don't know."
He turned around and said to a skinny man: "Tassi, this thing is for you to use. Hit it well and hit it accurately."
Tassi rubbed his hands and made a gesture of no problem.
"Leave it to me, Captain. I will definitely let these pirates drink a pot, hehe!"
Then he took a palm-sized cylinder from the captain's hand. It was inlaid with gold edges and looked very valuable.
With the joint efforts of several people, the cannon was pushed to the side of the ship.
A sailor holding a wooden barrel put the thing in his arms heavily next to the cannon.
Tassi commanded the sailors to stuff fist-sized objects into the barrel one by one, which seemed to be ammunition.
Nothing was added to it, just stuffing the ammunition directly.
And the ammunition was smaller, the size of a fist. So much, shotgun?
Siegert moved Alka to one side, about four or five meters away from the cannon.
"It's going to be a good show. It doesn't look too dangerous this time."
"What is that?"
"The rock-shaking cannon, a very expensive weapon with great power."
"Do you know what it's made of?"
"I don't know, and not many people know."
It seems that Siegert doesn't know much.
"Get ready!"
Tassi said, and the four sailors on both sides of the rock-shaking cannon held the cannon.
Alka looked into the distance, and the enemy's pirate ship was about 600 meters away from them.
Can you hit it accurately from such a distance?
"Fire!"
With a roar, Tashi knocked the pillar handed to him by the captain on a palm-sized platform behind the cannon.
As he knocked, Alka clearly felt that the ship shook slightly.
But there was no loud sound like firing a cannon.
It was a very dull sound.
Watching several fist-sized objects cut through the air, making a sharp sound.
It hit the enemy's ship hard, and some of them hit the deck directly.
Accurate hit!
"Hit it, hurry up, hurry up, keep loading."
It takes about 30 seconds to fire once.
Every time it hits accurately.
Alka discovered that it was not that Tashi had good skills, but that the cannon had a very high hit rate, and the distance of about 500 meters was almost a straight line.
The effective range would only be farther.
This was obviously not an ordinary cannon.
As the ship approached, the crossbow carts also fired crossbow arrows one by one.
However, after firing once, they did not consider installing them again.
After the cannon fired four or five rounds, although the enemy's ship was a little tattered, it still sailed to their side.
But it was not aimed at sinking the enemy's ship.
Using this kind of shotgun should be to better kill the pirates above.
"The enemy is going to board, take out your weapons and teach these rats in the gutter a hard lesson!"
Toef roared, and then drew the sailor knife from his waist.
One after another, ropes with grappling hooks flew over, either grabbing the side of the ship or entangled on the cables.
Sigurd stood beside Alka all the time.
And many sailors were already using their long knives to chop the grappling hooks that flew up.
At this time, several arrows flew up and hit the two sailors accurately.
As the battle progressed.
Many pirates came up.
The number was much larger than they thought.
The two pirates saw Alka and the other two, and rushed over waving their sailor's long knives.
Sigurd immediately went up and kicked one of the pirates to the ground with one foot, and the sailor's knife blocked the attack of the pirate next to him.
The short knife swung hard and pushed the enemy's blade away and chopped on the enemy's shoulder.
He tripped the enemy with his right foot and chopped the enemy's neck with the knife in his hand.
Blood spurted violently.
Sigert was experienced and turned his head slightly.
The blood did not blur his vision, but only sprayed on his neck and cheek.
He rolled backwards and avoided the attack of the pirate who had been kicked down by him and stood up again.
Looking at the blood splashing and the sword fighting, Alka's heart beat faster and faster, and his breathing became heavier.
All around his ears were screams and extremely angry roars.
A cold touch was transmitted to his brain, reminding him to stay calm.
He suddenly saw something and hurriedly reminded loudly: "Be careful!"
The body couldn't help but move.