i have a super island

Chapter 1257 Landing Operation
At about one o'clock in the afternoon, Harper led his golden battleship to the sea off Black Flag Island.

It was eight o'clock in the morning when he set off from Waterles, that is to say, in five hours, he took the battleship across about a hundred nautical miles and arrived at the destination smoothly.

The journey was very fast, and the faces of the soldiers were slightly tired.

But this time is not the time to rest. Harper ordered the soldiers to assemble on the deck and began the mobilization speech before the battle.

At the same time, Black Flag Island gradually appeared in sight.

It can be seen that the outline of Heiqi Island is very wide. In terms of the width in the east-west direction, Heiqi Island is actually about the same as Waterles.However, the shape of Heiqi Island is very irregular. It is long from east to west and short from north to south. It looks like a banana on the map.

In addition to the poor shape of the island, the natural conditions on Heiqi Island are not good. There is not much soil, and it is impossible to grow crops on a large scale. In addition, the animal and plant resources are not rich.

It is precisely because of this that the people on this island have become pirates.

Later, these people discovered that being a pirate was a once-and-for-all thing compared to farming and fishing, so the people on this island gradually became pirates.

Pirates on Black Flag Island can exist for hundreds of years. Apart from Nero's reluctance to wipe them out, there is another very important reason, that is, the waters of Black Flag Island are extremely complicated.

If the world is also regarded as a sphere, places such as Wan Guo, Waterles, and Nile are all located north of the equator, but Heiqi Island is located south of the equator, which means it is located in the southern hemisphere.

This is a place where several ocean currents intersect and converge, and the hydrology is very chaotic; in addition, the wind direction here is also changeable, sometimes the wind from all directions converges here, and sometimes there is no wind at all suddenly, so if it is Ships who are not familiar with the environment here rashly break into it, and they are likely to fall into a dangerous situation.

Then there is Black Flag Island, in addition to the main island that looks like a banana, there are sporadic small islands stretching hundreds of sea miles in the east and west directions. These islands are as big as Obsidian Island, and some are even small. An island reef, in short, this string of densely packed small islands forms a special island chain.

It is these thousands of small islands that form a natural shelter for these pirates. They can stay on Heiqi Island when they are safe and sound, and flee in all directions if they are in danger. So many islands escape at will. Wherever you go, you can make the enemy easy to find.

And each of these pirates is quite cunning, they will not hide valuables on Black Flag Island, but find an island to hide them, as long as they can remember where they hide them.

At this time, the defenses on Heiqi Island were loose, and a row of pirate boats were randomly parked on the shore, and a group of pirates were sitting there on the shore, distributing the gold and silver returned from the robbery.

It can be seen that these pirates also built a city on the island. The scale of the city is small, and the exterior is also the simplest earth wall. Inside the earth wall are some simple houses, which contain the most basic blacksmith shop, drug store, and grocery store. , taverns, etc.

Apart from these most basic facilities, most of the people living in this simple earthen city are the families of these pirates.

The people in the whole city seem so leisurely, and in their cognition, they never seem to be worried that enemies will attack them.

Maybe it was true before, but this time they were wrong.

Sometimes there is a chance to correct a mistake, but sometimes there is no chance to make a mistake.

When Harper led the golden battleship to the Black Flag Island, those pirates who were still sitting on the shore and sharing the gold would never have thought of this scene. They started to scramble for gold in a panic. Before Harper led the soldiers to kill When they came over, they had already started their hands, and in the blink of an eye, one pirate was chopped down to the ground by the other two pirates.

The reason why pirates are called pirates is because they are a piece of loose sand. It is okay for such guys to bully the common people at ordinary times, but once they encounter the regular army, they are too late to run away.

A total of 530 Nile soldiers came with the ship this time. Harper divided 80 people to stay on the battleship, and took another 450 people to board the Black Flag Island.

Of the 450 men, 50 were musketeers.

Before that, Harper had obtained 25 muskets from Equation. This time he went to Heiqi Island, Equation gave Harper 25 muskets, so there were a total of [-] muskets in total.

These musketeers are all Nero soldiers. They used to wear heavy armor and fight with scimitars. After being equipped with muskets, they also imitated the soldiers of all nations, and only wore light armor made of bamboo to fight.

Don't look at the light armor of these 50 men in a pile of brass heavy armor. In fact, being able to wear this light armor is what every Nile soldier looks forward to.

The soldiers have all seen the power of muskets. They can use this thing to fight. Who would want to use a big knife to slash in front of them.

But the number of muskets is really scarce, and there is no way to guarantee that every soldier can equip muskets, so they can only select the best soldiers to equip muskets first, so being selected into the musket team means being recognized by the general.

A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier. Every soldier has a competitive heart. It is an honor to be selected for the Musketeer team. Naturally, everyone wants to fight for it.

A 50-man musketeer team was surrounded in the middle, with 120 heavy armored soldiers at the front of the formation, 70 people on the left and right sides, and the last 40 people at the bottom. , just like this all the way to the city wall.

Along the way, those pirates who ran slowly were killed on the spot.

The other ones who ran fast also used their hands and feet, and fled back inside the city wall like hell.

Not long after Harper led his army to land, the alarm bell rang in the earthen city of Black Flag Island, and the pirates hid in the city from all sides of the island.

Although the soldiers led by Harper were caught off guard, these pirates were also accustomed to fighting and killing, and they did not collapse immediately.

They returned to Tucheng, closed the city gate, and stood on the wooden archery tower, waiting for battle.

The sound of killing was getting closer and closer, and soon Harper led the soldiers to kill.

The two sides were the first to meet each other, and a stream of arrows was shot from the earthen wall, crackling like raindrops and falling into Harper's army formation.These arrows hit the heavy armor of the soldiers in the front row, made a "nail" sound, and then scattered on the ground. This level of attack was far from being able to break through the defense of the heavy armor.

After the first burst of arrows, the heavy armored soldiers in the front row suddenly retreated, and the musketeers hiding in the back came up, and the loaded muskets fired angrily at the top of the city wall. In an instant, the pirates on the city wall were beaten. The casualties and wounds that could have killed them were already defeated in an instant.

(End of this chapter)