My system is not decent

Chapter 840
The big waves pushed the treasure ships one by one onto the reef.

Governor Ubia's flagship was also directly smashed and sunk.

One of the treasure ships "Limauca" had the best luck, and the commander desperately let it run aground in a river mouth.

Although the ship was eventually crushed by the storm, at least it avoided the fate of sinking to the bottom of the sea.

In the end, 11 of the 10 ships were completely destroyed, and debris was scattered on the seabed and sandy beaches.

The only one that escaped this catastrophe was the French frigate "Griffin". Because it was flexible enough, it kept driving at the forefront of the fleet and was lucky to escape the storm.

More than [-] people, including the commander-in-chief Ubia, died, and less than half of the crew could only huddle on unfamiliar beaches and wait for rescue.

After the Spaniards got the news, they immediately dispatched a rescue fleet to search and rescue sailors and salvage gold, silver and jewels.

The news quickly spread throughout the Americas, and all the pirates, including the former privateer captain and the poor sailors, couldn't hold back any longer and came by boat one after another to participate in the treasure hunting battle.

Of course, the Spaniards knew the great temptation of these treasures, so they rushed to the scene of the incident as quickly as possible.

Those sailors who survived have been organized to salvage and protect the gold and silver in the shallows and offshore.

Before the pirates swarmed in, the Spaniards forced the slaves to dive into the water to recover as much damage as possible.

The diving technology at that time was very primitive. After arriving at the shipwreck site, divers took boats and rafts, took a deep breath, and then jumped into the sea with a stone in their arms.

They can only stay on the bottom of the sea for a few minutes, scoop up as many coins and jewels as possible, mark the valuables, and then float to the surface to exchange business.

Soldiers would search them and send them back to the sea again.

If a large treasure chest is encountered, divers will tie it up with ropes and let the crew above drag it up.

Of course, this kind of diving is dangerous, not only to be careful of swimming sharks, but also to worry about problems such as decompression sickness.

In fact, the mortality rate of these divers was extremely high, but because they were slaves, no one cared at the time.

The Spaniards have brought back part of the salvaged gold and silver, but there are still many left on the bottom of the sea.

In addition, [-] eight-riel silver coins were buried in the temporary camp, waiting to be transported away.

It was at this time that Henry Jennings, the famous British pirate in the future, arrived with two ships.

After Jennings knew the temporary camp of the Spaniards, he boldly decided to rob it.

So he selected one hundred and fifty pirates, fully armed, and quietly rowed ashore in a small boat in the early hours of the morning.

At dawn, the two sides began to fight. Although the Spaniards had a few artillery pieces, they were few in number.

While Jennings was beating the drums, the Spanish soldiers thought that the other side had a large number of people, so they fled away one after another.

After Jennings took control of the temporary camp, he robbed silver coins worth [-] pounds and returned with a full load.

In addition to Jennings, more and more pirates gathered to search for sunken treasure ships and salvage treasures in this vast sea area.

In fact, with the salvage methods at the time, the Spaniards took back about one-third of the treasure at most, and the pirates got even less.

The rest of the gold, silver and jewels just lay quietly on the bottom of Florida, attracting countless salvagers for hundreds of years.

It is precisely because of the great allure of these treasures that a large number of pirates gather here, and a crazy and vibrant golden age of pirates is coming.

This incident was widely known and had a huge impact.

However, few people know about the series of naval battles that followed.

It can be said that this time the Florida shipwreck was actually just a fuse.

So many pirates gathered here, but they didn't gain much, how could they be reconciled?

At the same time, they also saw the weakness of the Spaniards, that is, they are out of reach and incapable of doing so!
The colonies occupied by Spain at that time were too many, too wide, and too deeply hated.

That is to say, from this time on, every time their treasure ship moves, it will be besieged.

They had no choice but to change the route, changing the original short-distance Atlantic transportation route to the long-distance Pacific transportation route.

However, even this is not enough.

Under the constant urging of the Spanish royal family, even if there were huge losses, the treasures that were salvaged from the waters of Florida were still shipped and shipped to Asia.

And the quantity of this batch of treasures far exceeds the previous fleet.

In fact, the previous hasty transportation did not gather all the wealth, and the treasure they salvaged was not one-third of what the outside world speculated.

Therefore, this time the transport fleet was even larger. There were only eleven treasure transport ships, all of which were armed merchant ships, and the escort fleet reached sixteen.

Of course, the armed merchant ships here also have the idea of ​​doing business with China, but their actions are still being watched by the pirates.

And this time the strength of the pirates was unprecedentedly strong.

There are more than [-] large warships alone, plus some other small pirate fleets, it can be said that there are hundreds of ships when they are dispatched.

Even so, the Spanish fleet did not fail at the beginning.

However, as time went on, the Spanish warships were still lost little by little.

This is a typical example of ants killing elephants, which seems to be the tactic of the pirates.

Traveling thousands of miles just for money, even a pirate is sensible.

Therefore, the final decisive battle took place in a sea area in the southeast of the South China Sea, which is close to Southeast Asia, but still some distance away.

None of them would be better off if they attacked the treasure ships in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and those treasures sank to the bottom of the ocean.

Therefore, at the beginning, the two sides had a tacit understanding and only attacked the other party's warships.

However, the decisive battle finally broke out before entering Southeast Asia!
After a great battle, because the Spanish warships did not dare to abandon the treasure ship, they suffered heavy losses.

However, it is not impossible for them to resist. When some treasure ships cannot escape, they will choose to stay behind.

In the end, they will choose to sink the ship to the bottom of the sea.

The places they chose were all outside the routes. For the pirates, they belonged to unfamiliar seas, but for the Spaniards, they were all hidden routes.

These places, they are very clear.

If the treasure ships sink into these places, those pirates will definitely not be able to salvage the water in a short time.

And as long as the Kingdom of Spain is given some time, these treasure ships that sink into the bottom of the sea are still theirs.

It's a pity that the calculation was very good, but they didn't count it. At the last stop, they encountered a storm again.

During that period, encountering a storm at sea was almost a narrow escape, not to mention that those wooden boats were also damaged.

After that, their fate can be imagined.

(End of this chapter)