On the city defense turret of Port Royal, Adjutant Groves was leading a group of soldiers on patrol in a neat line. He had just led the soldiers to complete a shift change at the city defense fortification on the seaside. Now it is His last routine patrol before resting.
Although Port Royal now nominally belongs to the witches, and even his own soldiers are nominally prisoners of others, Adjutant Groves still feels that sooner or later, here, Still belongs to the British Empire! Therefore, he still performed his duties diligently as usual.
In fact, this is indeed the case. Now, in addition to the witches having the final say in this city, their people are still in charge of various departments!
For example, here now, the most important city defenses and gun towers in the seaport city of Port Royal are still guarded by their soldiers, but they no longer fly the flag of the British Empire. If they are sure that someone can deal with those witches, they only need to raise the flag again, and then, this place will become a port city of the British Empire again!
"Who is over there! Uh... is it the Brigadier General?"
When they patrolled to the top of the city fortifications, Adjutant Groves discovered that their Brigadier General Norrington was alone, holding a pint of rum, squatting in a corner, drinking heavily, and leaning on Cannon looked at the non-existent scenery on the sea.
After signaling to the soldiers following him to patrol first, he walked to Brigadier General Norrington's side. Then, Groves looked at the sea. The night was very dark now, shrouded in dark clouds. In this weather, On the sea in the distance, there is no scene at all! Even the Intrepid and the Interceptor in the naval port below can only see the two wind lanterns at the stern.
"Your Excellency, Brigadier General, the night is already deep. It's time for you to go rest now. Leave the rest to us!"
After a moment of silence, Adjutant Groves dutifully walked up to the brigadier general and exhorted him. So many things happened today. Indeed, it is estimated that no one would be in a good mood.
"Oh? It's you Groves..."
Norrington ignored what the other party said and still leaned on the cannon. He raised his head and took another sip of rum before exhaling heavily.
"Haha... Groves, in just half a day, we have fallen to this point. Where can we sleep?"
He was promoted to brigadier general just a few days ago, and then he became a prisoner today. The ups and downs in his life happened too fast. Shouldn't he be allowed to drink some wine to relieve his frustration and depression?
"Your Excellency, Brigadier General! After all, we only have three short months, so why do you do this?"
Adjutant Groves couldn't bear to see the brigadier drowning his sorrows in drinking. Didn't the witch say it anyway? After three months, let them go. If that's the case, what's there to worry about? At that time, by sailing out to sea, you can completely get rid of the witch's control.
"Ha! You still don't understand, Groves. It's not that simple."
Norrington looked at the adjutant, then laughed at himself, and took another sip of wine!
This incident, for Norrington, was a stain that could never be erased for life. Even if the witch really let them go three months later as promised, other soldiers and low-level officers might be fine, but he promised Lingtong is miserable!
It can be as simple as seizing power and leaving it idle, and that's how it will be for the rest of your life! At worst, it is not impossible to be kicked out of the army, reduced from a brigadier general to a civilian, or even imprisoned for questioning!
Adjutant Groves looked at the Brigadier like this and said nothing. After watching another wave of soldiers changing the guard in the distance, he knew that it was late at night and that it should be the last wave of guard changing.
Then, he stood beside the brigadier silently, without saying a word. He just stood aside quietly, looking at the sea where nothing could be seen in the distance.
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Suddenly, several dull sounds of "whoosh, whoosh" came, and then bursts of explosions came from the distant sea. At the same time, bursts of solid cannonballs burst out from the city wall not far from them. There was a violent impact and a crackling sound when the city wall shattered.
Norrington and Groves both cheered up. Is this... shelling? Then, they quickly squatted under the parapet on the city wall!
For navy people like them who live at sea all year round, these sounds are very familiar! Now, someone actually shelled Port Royal late at night? Moreover, the other party is still taking advantage of the night to approach the port and bombard it?
"Shell attack! Enemy attack!!"
Adjutant Groves immediately started shouting. At the same time, the sounds of shells being hit on the surrounding city walls continued to be heard, and dense bursts of artillery sounds were also heard from the sea.
At this time, the coastal defense fort in Port Royal also began to make a noise. Well-trained royal soldiers began to run to their respective gun emplacements one by one, and began to carry shells and powder barrels in preparation for loading and counterattack.
"Quick! All artillery units are in position immediately! Prepare for counterattack!!"
Brigadier General Norrington also began to throw away his bottle, stood up and shouted loudly to the panicked soldiers!
Today, something happened in their Port Royal and was occupied by witches, and now someone comes to bombard the port? That would definitely not be their own British Royal Navy. As a Commodore, Norrington himself knew that his own navy's response would never be that fast! Then, it can only be enemy ships or pirates. This is definitely a premeditated attack!
After watching the soldiers quickly get into position, load gunpowder shells, close the gun doors, and push the artillery out of the muzzle of the city wall, Second Lieutenant Norrington breathed a sigh of relief. Even though so many things happened today, his soldiers The combat effectiveness is still there.
Then, he took out the telescope he carried with him and wanted to see where the enemy was!
It's a pity that the enemy did not continue to fire after a sudden bombardment. In addition, there seemed to be no lights on the opponent's ship. Therefore, in the current weather, he could not see the enemy's ship at all. The specific position can only be roughly judged in one direction. In this case, they cannot rashly counterattack, which will only be a waste of shells.
"Commodore! Look, there seems to be a ship on the sea? They even lowered the boat?!"
Adjutant Groves suddenly shouted to Norrington and pointed to the sea near the port, where the shadows of several small boats could be vaguely seen.
Upon hearing the adjutant's prompt, Norrington quickly turned his telescope to the direction indicated by the adjutant and looked in the direction indicated by the adjutant. No, it was even better to use a telescope, he had already seen it with his naked eyes.
There, on the dark sea, those small boats were filled with sailors! Judging from their inconsistent costumes, they should be a group of pirates?
Are those pirates crazy?
Norrington felt a little unbelievable. These pirates came to the port secretly and fired a few cannons to boost their momentum. They could just hit and run away, but now, they actually want to play a landing battle with the regular army? Are the Royal Musketeers under his command really that easy to bully? It’s okay to lose his temper after being beaten by a witch, but now, even these pirates and other cats and dogs come out and want to step on him?
"Glovs, lead 300 people down immediately! Go to the harbor square below to form an array and be sure to destroy the pirates who landed!"
After seeing the adjutant take the order and leave, Norrington said to the gun officer on standby: "No. 1 and No. 2 gun positions are free to fire and sink the approaching small boats! The other gun positions are on standby. Once an enemy ship is discovered, directly shooting!"
"As you command! Your Excellency!"
An artillery officer quickly took the order to leave. Not long after he turned around, more than 20 heavy coastal defense guns from the No. 1 and No. 2 gun positions at the lower cannon position began to roar. .
Boom~boom~boom~!
Waves of shells roared towards the small boats approaching the port, throwing up water jets. One shell even directly hit an unlucky small boat and tore it into a pile of pieces, even the people riding on it. The pirates were also blown away and fell into the sea.
At this time, on the dark sea that could not be seen in the distance, an arrogant voice was shouting loudly.
"Hahaha! You all feel it, right? That thing, it's in Port Royal! So hurry up, put down the last two boats, and let me find the gold coin! Can't find it? Don’t come back when you get there!”
Captain Hector Barbossa was grinning and giving orders on the Black Pearl. He drove the remaining pirates on the Black Pearl to join him and board the last two small boats.
Two days ago, the Black Pearl, which was still wandering around the sea, suddenly received a special wave from the cursed Aztec gold coin. Then, with the Black Pearl at full speed, it took a long time to reach Port Royal. Two whole days!
They have been looking for this cursed gold coin for a long time.
Although before that, they found most of the gold coins! But... there is only one last one left!
For this last gold coin, they have been searching hard for many years on the vast sea, but there is no information at all! And now, they finally received the wave from it, and it is now in Port Royal! They are about to find it, and this damn curse is about to leave them!
"Asshole, get down quickly! Attack the shore and attack the city!"
Captain Barbossa kicked a dawdling pirate into the boat, then waved his sword and shouted angrily: "Fire!"
Soon the artillery on the Pearl roared again, and its renewed fire finally allowed the defenders on the shore to discover the exact location, and then the defenders' heavy artillery counterattacked! Two solid shells even punched two opposite holes in the Black Pearl, and a few unlucky guys were torn into pieces as a result.
However, Captain Barbossa doesn't mind this at all. Now, people like him are cursed by the Aztec gold coins. Under this evil curse, people like him are now immortal!
Otherwise, he would not have been stupid enough to let dozens of pirates land at the port to confront the British who had at least a thousand regular soldiers. When he thought about it, since he would not die anyway, he would go ashore to wreak havoc and loot, then grab the Aztec gold coins and run away. No matter how many British people there were, what could he do to them?
As long as they are not caught on the spot, as long as they are not burned to ashes on fire, even if they are blown to pieces, they will still be immortal. This is why Basabo has the confidence to attack a city.
"Put the gun on your shoulder! Aim! The first row is ready..."
At this time, Adjutant Groves was leading two hundred soldiers to stand ready in the unloading square of the port. They formed two phalanxes of one hundred men. Near the city gate at the back, there was another centurion on standby.
"Fire!"
When he saw the thirty or forty pirates who had finally landed on the beach charging towards them in a chaotic formation, Adjutant Groves frowned in confusion. Although he was a little puzzled by the enemy's stupid behavior, he still The order was given to fire.
He didn't know, these pirates looked so insignificant, why would they dare to charge against their musketeer phalanx? Could it be that their brains are all drained? Want to come and die?
Bang~! Bang~! Bang~! Bang~! A neat volley of muskets was fired.
"Second row! Fire!"
Bang~! Bang~! Bang~! Bang~!
To deal with such a small number of enemies, Groves did not ask for three rounds of fire at all, but only asked the soldiers in the front two rows to fire a volley. He believed that in just two rounds, all of these pirates would die. Nothing left!
Sure enough, after two rounds of volleys, the pirates were all knocked to the ground by a large number of bullets.
Just when Groves thought that the battle at the port was over and was about to let the soldiers gather up the team and clean the battlefield, who would have thought that the pirates who should have been lying on the ground dead would actually stand up one by one? On their bodies, one can even clearly see the bullet holes that penetrated their bodies, but the strange thing is that they did not see any blood stains on their bodies?
"Aha! We can't die, brothers! Charge!"
The pirates who stood up looked at the panicked royal soldiers on the opposite side, then raised their scimitars with a grin and charged towards the opponent's military formation again.
Oh, God……
Groves gasped! Why is he an invincible enemy again? What happened to this world? First there were witches with invulnerability and terrifying witchcraft, and now here are these unkillable pirates? Can this still allow the Royal Navy to have fun?
"The third row shoots! The first and second rows hold back! Bayonets raised! Press them back!"
After trying to calm down his inner turmoil, Groves dutifully ordered.
At this point, it's obviously too late to reload! Fortunately, after the witch incident, their hearts and nerves have been trained to be relatively tough, so these pirates cannot scare them yet.
After another round of shooting, the moment the two sides came into close contact, the royal soldiers stabbed the running robbers with their bayonets. However, even though these pirates had been stabbed in the body by bayonets, they still continued to attack the soldiers with their swords as if nothing had happened!
For a time, the two sides were constantly attacking each other. Although it was still the large number of royal soldiers who were suppressing the pirates, it was the flesh and blood royal soldiers who began to suffer casualties!
Groves was horrified to find that although these pirates did not have the same desperate magical power as the witches, they seemed to be invincible!
"Stab him to death!!!"
Look, the pirate who was grabbed by several soldiers by his limbs and pushed to the ground and stabbed with bayonets still tried to stand up and fight back. What was going on? Even if they were stabbed dozens of times and they didn't die, why should they be broken into pieces?
"Where is my head? Ha, I found it!"
And the pirate over there, whose head was chopped off with a sword, his headless body was groping all over the ground. When he found his own head, he put his head back on his neck. Then can we continue fighting? This is too much...
The adjutant has already seen that these pirates are just like ordinary people in terms of strength, and they are not too outstanding. It only takes two or three soldiers to knock the opponent to the ground and beat him up! However, no matter how hard he fought, he was completely unable to effectively hurt the opponent. In just a moment, the royal soldiers had already suffered more than 20 casualties. Groves was frightened and was considering whether to do it now Order to retreat?
At this time, the clouds in the sky were blown away by the sea breeze, and then, a ray of moonlight came down, and it happened to shine on the two sides fighting in the port.
The pirates illuminated by the moonlight immediately changed into another look: they all turned into a look of ferocious skeletons, with their tattered bodies and shriveled and fleshless skeletons, they were all a group of pirates. Skeleton monster? !
I see!
Groves finally understood, no wonder they couldn't be killed! It turns out that these pirates are just a group of undead skeletons...
"Devil! Run quickly!!"
I don’t know who started it first. After seeing the true appearance of the enemy, the soldiers began to spontaneously and quickly break away from the battle, turned around and ran away. Some people even dropped their weapons directly!
They had gone through an afternoon of fighting with witches today, and they had finally calmed down. Now they encountered this kind of monster again. Their fighting will had already been reduced to zero. At this moment, they no longer wanted to fight. This inhuman monster goes to fight!
"retreat!!!"
Originally, there was a hundred-man phalanx near the city gate at the back. When the officer of this phalanx was still hesitating whether to step forward for support, he finally saw the specific situation of the pirates under the moonlight, so he Without waiting for Adjutant Groves' order, the decision to retreat was made directly. The hundred of them also turned around and quickly ran towards the city gate.
"Your Excellency, Brigadier General? What should we do now?"
On the city wall, the officers who had stopped shelling gathered around Norrington in twos and threes. They were also frightened by the battle below. Those pirates were actually a group of skeletons? How can this be?
"Hmph! Why panic? Let the witches handle it. Look, isn't she already here?"
Norrington stopped the commotion of his men and motioned them to look in the direction of the city. On the other side of the street, a girl floating in mid-air was speeding towards the city gate port.
This world is really becoming more and more interesting...
Tsk tsk, let’s see, first the terrifying witch appeared during the day, and now at night, the unbeatable skeleton pirate appears again? This is really interesting! So, let him, Norrington, take a good look and see what are these witches so powerful? Or are those unbeatable skeleton pirates more powerful? It would be great if both of them lose!
