? Both ships gave up shelling, which is very rare in general naval battles. Everyone gave up weapons of mass destruction and chose the most primitive melee combat.

The pirates have sealed the cabin and have given up blocking the water inlet, just hoping the ship will hold up until they can attack the enemy ship.

The boarding hooks are ready on both sides, the only difference is that the pirate ship's mast is so damaged that they are in a passive state - unable to board enemy ships via the rigging.

When he got close enough, Gordon could clearly see the pirates on the pirate ship, which was not what he wanted.

The ship's side guns of the Jackdaw played a role at this moment. He shot two shots at random towards the places where the people were most densely populated, or where gunpowder was stored.

boom! boom!

The power of this gun is not great, but it can cause great panic to the enemy. The pirates leaned down and approached the ship's side, and the two ships were close enough.

The sailors pulled the ropes and, under Gordon's nod, swung towards the enemy ship with machetes in their mouths.

Captain to captain, sailor to sailor, Gordon targeted the guy with the three-cornered hat from the very beginning and strictly followed the rules of this fight.

Kill or subdue the captain, and then force the rest to surrender, he is silent in this battle and does not listen to what the enemy is saying at all.

It just cut down a sailor who came to block, and then rushed forward with great oppression.

The broad knight's sword looks very nondescript, but no one dares to laugh at this murderous weapon.

Blood dripped down the blade of the sword, and everyone around was going to be frightened, because their captain was directly cut off the machete in a confrontation, and then was cut in half from the neck to the waist, and the bones were as fragile as paper. .

"Surrender! Or die!"

Gordon stood at the helm and shouted, holding the pirate captain's head so everyone could see him.

But the pirates are indeed desperados. They know the identity of the enemy. After being caught, they can only die. Their number is several times that of the Jackdaw.

Even though these pirates are just some cowardly rats, greedy for life and fear of death, but in the face of absolute numerical superiority, in the **** for survival and greed, bloodthirsty madness still arises.

The captain's death may have given them a little dread, but it was no reason to stop.

The sailors of the Jackdaw can be said to be experienced in hundreds of battles, and they can barely fight a dozen or so even in a head-to-head confrontation with the Spanish regular army. The combat effectiveness of the survivors' sailors has surpassed these pirates by more than one level.

Maybe their battles are not so fancy, but their strength and precision are better, and their calmness in the face of blood and swords has given them a sharper fighting mind.

There were sailors wounded, it was inevitable, but no one had fallen.

Only the ship building was stunned by Gordon alone, and the battle on the deck was a little evenly matched. He shook his head and decided to give these people another chance.

"If you surrender, you can join us. As long as you are loyal, I will give you gold coins or be buried with this ship. My patience is limited."

The words are extremely penetrating, and after the threat of death is lifted, the greed for money also fades instantly.

The pirates and sailors distanced themselves and then looked at each other. After the captain died, they had no direction and no leadership. If surrendering not only saves lives, then why fight?

"Kill them, we only need to rob their ship, the gold coins are also ours!"

An assertive sailor stood up and shouted loudly, almost crying for the people around him. Why should he surrender? Is it possible to live by being a pirate by someone else's alms? It's not because he picked up the sword and made his own decisions.

"You can't win, there is only one way to die if you resist!"

Gordon looked calm, and even had some admiration. There are too many idiots these days, and this is a rare understanding.

The sailor's face was hideous: "Kill you, your ship is ours!"

"right!"

The surrounding sailors responded loudly, waving the swords in their hands, as if they were already impatient!

The naive sailor didn't know what happened to the ship building at all, and he couldn't see the captain's body that was cut in half. He just moved forward slowly with the knife in hand. As long as he saw a trace of Gordon's fear, he could know the reality of the enemy.

"Pity."

Gordon shook his head and sighed slightly. While the sailor still had a puzzled expression, a machete stabbed directly into his heart from the back, and the unexpected fatal blow made him unable to make any sound. , only a painful moan was drawn in his throat.

Blood spat out of his mouth, and there was a final vague sentence: "Why?"

Because the one who stabbed him fatally was a sailor who was usually close to each other, but at this time there was a sneer of contempt on his face.

"Haha, because as long as you join them, the treasure will also have our share. You idiot, since you surrendered and you can get gold, why gamble your life? By the way, you will lose a penny if you die."

Betrayed with a flattering smile on his face, he threw the corpse and the knife aside: "Captain, we are yours now... Everyone throws away their weapons, we surrender!"

Pirates are such a strange group, and no one even has any doubts or shame about this pirate's stabbing behavior, and they all threw away their weapons and announced their surrender.

Gordon nodded with satisfaction. He admired these people's sense of current affairs, but he didn't want such people to exist on his ship. Fortunately, these people were not accepted by him.

"Take all your gunpowder, chain bombs, and sixteen-pound iron bullets aboard the Jackdaw, and no one shall be armed~lightnovelpub.net~ or be executed immediately."

"No, you can join you after you surrender, it's not fair!"

The pirates were so outraged that they even took the machete to fight again.

"It's not that easy to join the Jackdaw, gentlemen, if I'm going to kill you, I can just sink this ship and let you go to the bottom of the ocean. Before that, you have another ship to go. Everyone act. Get up, or you will stay here forever."

Gordon's words became the only guide for everyone present. In the absence of a leader, the pirates were a little silent, but they still began to carry the fighting supplies on the ship, the ship began to shake, and their time was running out.

The sailors of the Jackdaw temporarily turned into overseers and erected wooden boards between the two ships. Every pirate who brought supplies into the Jackdaw was eventually locked in an empty cabin. He dared not let these guys know. The Jackdaw had less than half of them.

The night was still long, and the reef area blocked some timid pirates, and also scattered daring pirates. Many ships hit the rocks here, and only the Jackdaw became a safari in this sea area.