Chapter 128 Surrender

In a room in the pirate stronghold, the remaining leaders of the Garden Gang gathered here to discuss countermeasures.

The room was filled with gloom and gloom, and everyone frowned and remained silent.

Finally, it was the oldest Donahue who broke the dead atmosphere, "Everyone, please tell me any good opinions you have. If you don't say them, you probably won't have the chance to say them in the future."

Finally, someone whispered: "I guess they have heard about our stronghold from the mouths of the captured brothers."

"You're so stupid! Is that boat outside for sightseeing?"

"So...otherwise...we'd better surrender!"

"Coward!" A leader slammed the table and retorted loudly: "Is it easy for us to earn such a big family fortune by following Leader Garden? If you ask me, we still have four or five ships and some medicines left. Here comes the blue-striped dog. Let’s fight them to the death.”

"Four or five boats? Four or five sampans, right?" Someone immediately poured cold water on him.

"You coward!"

"You are the brainless fool!"

Seeing that the two parties were about to use their knives, a muffled thunder-like sound suddenly came from a distance. Although the sound was not loud when it reached here, it also frightened the pirates who were already frightened.

This is the sound of shelling from the Hope.

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"Adjust the angle! Give me the right shot for the next shot!"

Captain Quirk and the gunnery officer were holding telescopes to observe the impact point of the first shot. The shell did not hit the target. It crossed the pirate ship and landed in the water not far away.

After the Hope sailed into the harbor, the pirate ship responsible for guarding the dock immediately discovered them and came to check. The naval officers and soldiers responded to the host's hospitality with red-hot cannonballs.

There was a burning stove on the deck, using coal as fuel, and inside it were several red-hot cannonballs.

The loader clamped a red-hot cannonball with a special large iron tong and came to the side of the artillery. The companion on the side had already stuffed a wooden plug into the barrel in advance. Its function was to prevent the red-hot cannonball from igniting the propellant inside. Bag.

After the loader loaded the cannon shell into the barrel, the gunners worked together to reset the cannon, adjust the angle, and aim at the pirate ship that was moving away from them.

The pirate ship responsible for guarding was about ten meters long, and there were only about ten people on board. Compared to this ship, the Hope was already considered a giant.

The sudden shelling scared the courage of the pirates on the ship. At that moment, everyone on the ship felt something flying past their scalp at an extremely fast speed, and then the sea surface in the distance Big waves splashed up.

It's so scary. At such a high speed, what if it hits your own boat or your own body?

"It's the terrible weapon of the Arda people!" People on the ship exclaimed. It has been spread among the pirates that the Arda army has a powerful weapon that can be projected from a distance.

They immediately rowed hard towards the dock. Facing the unknown force from the sea, it was better to stay down to earth.

Most of the pirates who stayed in the stronghold were old, weak, sick, and disabled. It was indeed a bit embarrassing for them to fight against the powerful enemies who carelessly broke into their homes.

According to the impact point of the first shot, the gunners quickly adjusted the artillery, and then fired all four side guns and officially opened fire.

This time, three shells hit the pirates' guard ship firmly. At that moment, three big holes were opened in the unlucky ship, and 2 people were killed. The remaining pirates were so horrified that they tried their best to eat. I rowed towards the pier.

Everyone on the Hope laughed, it felt great to play with the enemy.

They did not continue the bombardment, but turned the ship's bow and sailed toward the interior of the harbor, and finally slowly approached the dock of the pirate stronghold.

The pirates on the previous guard ship had already run to the land and were anxiously telling their companions who came to rescue them about the terrible experience they had just experienced.

"They also have five small galleys. Let's practice target shooting here."

Quick was determined to destroy the pirates' remaining ships so that they would have no chance of escape.

Next, the Hope opened fire continuously, constantly shooting at the pirate ships at the dock.

The pirates on the shore were trembling, and no one dared to sail a boat to resist.

With the current solid ammunition, it is quite difficult to sink a wooden ship if it does not happen to hit near the waterline. The Hope fired several rounds of shells and completely destroyed two pirate ships. One of them sank due to flooding. On one ship, searing bombs ignited the canvas on the deck, and the fire eventually spread to the entire ship.

However, the remaining three ships were also riddled with holes and could no longer be used.

In the end, because the gun barrel overheated, the Hope had to stop shelling and wait for the gun barrel to cool down.

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"Hey! Did you hear that?"

Alan, who was braiding cables, asked his companions who were working together.

"I heard it, what on earth was that sound?"

Tom and Pine were also very surprised.

"The thundering wrath! The thundering wrath of the people of Arda!"

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Allen suddenly became excited and danced and said: "Have you heard? The lord of Alda, Count Paul Grayman, used a powerful weapon to destroy the pirates who invaded the territory. It made a huge noise, louder than the pirates who invaded the territory. The ballista is ten times more powerful and can even break city gates into pieces. Because of the loud noise, people call this weapon the Wrath of Thunder."

"Oh, oh! I've heard of this too."

"So the Alda people are really here?"

The news that the Alda people have come here quickly spread among the slaves. The reactions of the people were varied, some were crying, some were laughing, and it was a mess for a while.

When the pirate who was supervising at the door heard that there was a commotion inside, he rushed in immediately. Just when he was about to yell, he suddenly remembered something and left unhappily.

Seeing that the supervisor came in and left without doing anything, Alan became bolder. He stood up and said, "I can't wait any longer. I'm going to the dock now!"

"Hey, wait a minute. It's not 100% certain that it's the Alda people coming here. What if the other party is another pirate group? Wouldn't it be like leaving the wolf's den and entering the tiger's mouth again?"

But his companions' persuasion did not stop Alan, and he quickly ran out of the door.

"Wait for me, I'll go with you!"

A large group of people ran out with him.

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"In my opinion, let's surrender! The other party ran to our doorstep and refused to leave. There must be strong support behind them. Now they should be waiting for reinforcements to come and take us down in one fell swoop."

The old pirate Donahue expressed his opinion and judgment. The others said nothing. This time no one stood up to refute, which was regarded as tacitly agreeing to the decision to surrender.

Just now, a minion hurried over to report what happened on the dock. After learning that the other party was only a ship and used the legendary terrible weapon to destroy their only five remaining ships, the faces of the leaders present were all dead.

Seeing that no one objected, Donahue ordered the minion who came to report: "Raise a white flag on the dock and tell the other party that we are going to surrender."

"Yes!" The minion seemed relieved after hearing the order, turned around and ran out of the house to the dock.

"Everyone!" Donahue said to the leaders present with a wry smile: "Follow me to the dock."