Chapter 274 A Small Thing Changes Everything

In that instant, the entire battlefield quieted down slightly, awed by Fang Senyan's aura. Immediately afterward, the other pirates also raised their knives and howled wildly. In a normal boarding action, the attackers would definitely deploy a certain number of musketeers to suppress the enemy. A tough nut like Fang Senyan would have been riddled with bullets long ago. But today, the waves were too high and the lifeboats were too small. Even if they brought matchlock guns, they would only be a burden. Therefore, the lack of ranged firepower became the Spanish's fatal weakness!

At this time, the Bell and Goblet was not lacking in manpower, only in warriors who dared to charge to the front lines. After Fang Senyan stood out, several pirates who had returned to the ship due to injuries also had considerable combat experience. They saw the enemy's weakness, hastily bandaged their wounds, and followed Fang Senyan, their eyes gleaming fiercely, and approached. Their attacks were extremely vicious, not cutting people, but only the grappling hooks attached to the gunwale. As long as those Spanish sailors had no place to leverage themselves and could not climb up, that would be enough!

Sometimes, a small thing on the battlefield can often change the final outcome. The exemplary actions of a few people can often inspire the morale of more people. When those pirates who had originally thought they were doomed suddenly felt that the enemy was "nothing more than that," confidence and courage naturally returned to them. Even though the other two Spanish lifeboats also approached the Bell and Goblet and began to board, they felt that the resistance above their heads was also increasing. Many Spanish sailors were unable to use the rope ladders because they were continuously being chopped off. Some even tried to climb directly by hand, but the result was often the tragic ending of having their fingers chopped off alive.

Fang Senyan was no longer attacking at this time, but was looking into the distance at the Spanish flagship that was fighting the Black Pearl.

"If there are Contractors behind this attack... then you can't just stop there, there must be a follow-up! Because the core figures on a pirate ship are usually the captain and the first mate. Usually, the captain leads the boatswain in close combat, and the first mate stays behind. Therefore, you must have some way to be absolutely sure to defeat the remaining pirates led by the first mate!"

At this moment, suddenly a pirate screamed, covering his face with his hands and staggering backward. Fresh blood flowed from between his fingers, and he fell backward onto the deck, rolling around in pain. Then Fang Senyan saw a Spanish sailor begin to climb up. Fang Senyan stepped forward, and his heavy axe whistled down, splitting the sailor so that he splashed blood and fell back into the lifeboat. He was shocked to realize that the enemy's lifeboat had suddenly become a little higher. If the initial height difference with the Bell and Goblet was three meters, then now it was probably less than two meters. At this distance, the Spanish sailors could already raise their heads and wave their weapons to attack the pirates above, although they were still at a considerable disadvantage, it was no longer the terrible situation where they could only passively take a beating.

Fang Senyan's thoughts flashed in an instant. His experience sailing on the sea was extremely rich, and he immediately understood the enemy's vicious trick! That was ballast!

Ships are most afraid of empty holds. Once their own weight is insufficient and the center of gravity is unstable, they are extremely easy to capsize on this windy and wave-swept ocean. Especially when using lifeboats in boarding operations, once the draft is insufficient, the violent shaking during collisions alone can cause the boat to capsize. Therefore, when these three lifeboats set sail, they must have stacked a large amount of ballast in the bottom hold to lower the waterline in order to stabilize the hull. Now that the lifeboats were fixed to the Bell and Goblet after boarding, they naturally no longer had this concern! These Spanish sailors threw the ballast into the sea, and the lifeboat's own weight was reduced, so of course the draft became shallower, and the entire hull would rise.

As soon as he thought of this, Fang Senyan went to the side. He immediately saw that the Spanish sailors' ballast was actually square wooden boxes about one meter long, filled with paving stones. They threw the stones into the sea, but the wooden boxes were passed one by one to the deck near the enemy ship and stacked horizontally! This undoubtedly provided a platform for the melee boarding sailors to set foot on! In the end, those Spanish sailors near the gunwale were standing on the deck of the lifeboat, and their heads could actually be parallel to or even higher than the deck of the Bell and Goblet. In this way, their waving swords were more lethal, it was more convenient to fight, and once there was an opening, they could climb onto the opponent's deck without needing grappling hooks!

"Interesting." A cold smile appeared on the corner of Fang Senyan's mouth. He began to move forward, and slapped the head of a pirate who was bumping around like a headless fly. "What are you running around for? Go help over there!"

No man likes to be slapped on the head, especially these ferocious pirates. But when this guy looked up and saw that it was Fang Senyan, he immediately shrank his head and said fearfully, "Okay, Boss," and then ran in the direction Fang Senyan pointed.

At this time, Fang Senyan's prestige among the remaining pirates had invisibly risen to a considerable height. Most people would obey the orders he gave.

And Fang Senyan himself was like a tireless firefighter, rushing to wherever there was danger. These pirates also came back to their senses and understood that this was a situation where either you die or I die, and they were all fighting bloody battles regardless of casualties! The Spanish invincible fleet's sailors were certainly brave, but the pirates were after all high above, taking advantage of the terrain, and also had the advantage of being able to use matchlock guns. Under such a stalemate, Fang Senyan not only showed amazing fighting ability, but also his demonstrated dispatching ability and command ability were really amazing!

Don't forget that before entering the Nightmare Space, Fang Senyan had almost become a second mate on a ten-thousand-ton ship. He had extremely rich experience in living at sea, and his management methods/ideas and scheduling methods were thousands of years ahead of this world! These remaining defeated soldiers, the old, the weak, the sick, and the disabled, would naturally show the courage to fight to the death in the face of desperation, and at the same time, under his shouts and dispatches, they quickly formed a defense line like steel! Later, Fang Senyan even assembled a temporary matchlock gun team of a dozen people to shoot wherever he pointed. Once a Spanish sailor rushed up, there would immediately be a volley of guns! No matter how elite the sailors were, they could not help but retreat!

Armando, who was fighting fiercely on the merchant ship's deck, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

When he was first blocked, he was indeed desperate. No one knew better than him how bad the situation on the ship was, and the Gustav in front of him was also a cunning and powerful enemy. Although his strength was not as good as his own, he used the "delaying tactic" to the fullest. Although Armando was anxious at the time, he could only calm down and face it, otherwise, not to mention the Bell and Goblet, even his own life would be lost here!

But Armando could not avoid paying attention to the situation on the battlefield. When he saw Fang Senyan stand up and gradually turn the bad situation around, he was also inevitably excited. With excitement, the silver rapier in his hand flashed, and he had already nailed a guard of Gustav in front of him from the throat. A layer of silvery light, rippling like waves, always appeared on the slender sword tip, and not even a drop of blood was stained.

At this time, the Corrupted Soul had already killed the Caron group so much

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