Author: Irons Deno
Last Issue Summary: Wen Neng wrote a book with a pen, and Wu Neng went to the sea to rob and talk about the legendary story of "Pirate Hunter" Rogers (1)
In the last story, our protagonist, Woods Rogers, had just experienced the loss of his father and was drawn into the historical torrent of the Spanish struggle for the throne and the advent of the golden age of piracy. As a young man who has been following his father to run the family's maritime trade since he was a child, and now he is the slash of the son-in-law of British Rear Admiral Hui Shidong, Rogers carries the hope of the whole port, investing all the shares of the local government and merchants in the two new ships of "Duke" and "Duchess", with the privateership license obtained from the Queen of England by virtue of family relations, Rogers set out from the port of Bristol in the United Kingdom, targeting the "maritime money truck" full of goods in the Pacific Sea - the Spanish treasure ship.
In the face of the "maritime armed cash carrier" of the age of great navigation, the Spanish treasure ship, I ask you who wants to do a big vote?
This is probably equivalent to a brave man just out of the novice village, just shouting to slay the dragon, and his teammate, the old captain Dampier, seems to be a seafaring high play, but he does not know that it is actually rubbing experience to mix with the title of big V, so this journey is destined to be more sinister and less auspicious.
Of course, the sharing of treasure is very fragrant, but if you have a life to earn, you must also have a life to spend, right?
There are no evil spirits in the polar regions, but there is Baye 1.0 on the desert island
Although most of the scenes we see in the nautical film and television drama and "One Piece" are angry and bloody scenes, in fact, the sea voyages in the early 18th century, especially Rogers's journey from England to the Pacific Ocean, accompanied the crew more with shaky decks, fresh food, and weather that could turn their faces at any time. When the fleet circumnavigates the South American continent and continues to approach the Antarctic sea, the result of the south cangnan is that the low temperature of the Antarctic Circle comes uninvited, and although the game can be brushed again and again, no one in reality wants to single out the Lich King and the sorrow of frost in the ice and snow.
At this point, Rogers' crew didn't have time to see seals, albatrosses, penguins, icebergs, and ice floes that doted the sea, and in January 1709, the cold winds of the Antarctic Sea roared and the waves poured cold waters on the crew. Rogers repeatedly urged the ship's six tailors to make warm clothing for the crew, unaware that his fleet had just unlocked a new achievement of "the record for human navigation on the southernmost part of the earth".
Based on his previous experience, Dampier commanded the fleet of ships all the way north along the west coast of South America (I admit that our story does have certain requirements for everyone's sense of geographical orientation, but it is much easier than the "North Gate on the East Side of the South Square of Beijing West Railway Station" that foreigners can never understand), and docked on an uninhabited island called "Juan Fernandez".
Rogers' Duke, players can also command the same sailing ship in Sea of Dawn
The world is so big, Rogers and his party met the protagonist prototype of the novel "Robinson Crusoe" here- Alexander Selkirk. The reason why this man was far away from civilization and wandered to the isolated island was actually given by Bai Dan Pier - it turned out that the last time Dampier led the team to land on the island, the badly damaged ship seemed to be difficult to support the next voyage, so the sailor Selkirk chose the latter between dying in a shipwreck and spending his life with wild goats on the isolated island.
Tenacious survival can make Slcock survive on the island alone, and Rogers is even more detailed about how he grabbed sheep with his bare hands, built his own hut, and danced with goats while singing hymns to relieve boredom, providing an important reference for the future writer Defoe to create "Robinson Crusoe", which is a dream linkage between navigators, wilderness survival masters and writers.
When are you still sending text messages!? Turn on the voice!
Leaving the uninhabited island with only one man, Rogers' fleet came to Colombia's port of Gaugna, where they made their final supplies in the modern port, and then went off the coast of California to await the real goal of their trip— the Spanish treasure ship sailing from Manila to the American colonies.
The so-called "treasure ship" here is not the specification of the ship itself, but specifically refers to those large ships full of precious goods for ocean trade. These "maritime cash trucks" are often huge tonnage and heavily armed, and even the fiercest pirates can only symbolically add them to the shopping cart, but they have absolutely no strength to pay.
In December 1709, off the coast of California, the Spanish "Avatar" treasure ship appeared in Rogers' telescope vision, this galleon weighed 450 tons, armed with twenty heavy guns, and the ship's belongings were equivalent to a moving sea vault. After weighing the combat strength, Rogers decided to attack at night, first let the "Duchess" lure the enemy near the range of the "Avatar", and then let the "Duke" launch a surprise attack, hoping that "the world of martial arts, only fast and not broken.".
In order to boost the morale of the crew, he even temporarily announced that the dividends that originally belonged to the management were taken out as an additional reward for the crew, and the crew was naturally overjoyed, but other management was inevitably dissatisfied with the deduction of their own gains in this way, which was a hidden danger for the subsequent outbreak of the general contradiction.
But the first thing that erupted was not the contradiction, but Rogers's cheek. When the Duchess successfully completed the paddling mission, and the Duke took the opportunity to rush into the effective range of the Avatar, the Spaniards immediately turned the muzzle of the gun and launched a close-range shelling at sea with the Duke.
At this time, a musket bullet shot into Rogers's left cheek, knocking off a few teeth and piercing most of his upper jaw, so that when the captain wanted to direct the crew to concentrate fire on the enemy's protruding bow deck area, the sharp pain and a few mouthfuls of blood choked in his throat made him unable to speak, so he temporarily wrote instructions on the straw paper, and then the commander next to him gave orders, and finally grasped the key fighter and gave a fatal blow to the bow mast of the Avatar. Eventually, the crew quickly boarded the ship in close combat and dismantled the enemy's battery, and in one fell swoop took the "Avatar" with a total of 149,975 pounds of belongings.
What made the crew feel even more boiling was that they learned from the captain of the Avatar (supposedly without much torture) that there was also a "Benago" slowly approaching not far behind the "Avatar", full of Oriental luxuries, and definitely the kind of big fish that can be financially free with a single vote - a big fish weighing nine hundred tons and a double-decked artillery deck. So Rogers (whose face and throat were visibly swollen and unable to speak at all) wrote a letter and pushed the Duke, the Duchess, and grace, which had always been used as a supply ship, onto the line of arms, hoping to make up for the lack of quality with its quantitative superiority.
As a result, Rogers and his party, who wanted to fish, were killed by the big fish, and the absolute superiority of "Benaggio" in tonnage and firepower was reflected in the battlefield, that is, after three ships under Rogers fought for several hours to fire three hundred six-pounder shells and fifty rounds of sailor shooting, the heavy hull of the "Benagore" was still rock solid. The "Benagora" used fifty cannons to kill and injure thirty people on Rogers' side, and the sputtering damage caused by the shells also pierced Rogers's left foot, causing him to lose half of his ankle in an instant, and finally barely saved his life by virtue of the maneuverability of the ship, and hit the GG.
Overwhelmed by wealth, Rogers swallowed the bitter fruit of defeat
What about my bootlegging proceeds? A whole bunch of them were still here?
Although the total score was 1-1, the nearly £150,000 worth of cargo on the Avatar made Rogers' Pacific expedition a lucrative. However, the vast majority of these proceeds did not go into Rogers' own pockets. On the way back, the conflict between his crew and him over the issue of dividends intensified.
Previously, Dover, who had been "bringing money into the group" and Cotney and others who had watched Rogers unhappy along the way, when they stopped in India (which was already a British colony at the time), took advantage of Rogers's weakness that it was inconvenient to speak, fabricated lies, and accused Rogers of smuggling to the local East India Company, and the East India Company, as an outstanding representative of the evil capitalism, could not bear it most was that others were rubbing oil on their own boundaries, so no matter what the facts were, a set of legal procedures went down, and Rogers was stunned to compensate them for six thousand pounds.
The reason why India was the "jewel in the crown of the Queen of England" was due to the greed and efficiency of the East India Company
In addition to this unexpected loss, Rogers also deducted the sailor's dividends from all the privateers, and the shareholders who had funded him to go to sea also received double the investment income according to the contract, and then deducted the daily expenses of the fleet, the depreciation of the ships, and finally fell into Rogers' own pocket, only the only one he had exchanged for half of his face and left ankle was a small amount of sixteen hundred pounds.
In order to pay for the medical expenses and maintain a decent life in high society, Rogers took out his own sailing notes, published these experiences in the form of a log, and accumulated a lot of fame from readers, and once became the traffic of the literary circle at that time. And his gradually silent daily life was soon merged into the pirate storm that swept half the world...
The development of the navigation career is not smooth, Rogers had to go home to do "self-media"
As long as you don't hit the idea of the treasure on my ship, we're HXD
Rogers, who was already half disabled, did not know at this time that Fate was just preparing to start a formal move with him, just like the player will see the world of the Sea of Dawn in the world, but there is no trace of the word "boring". "Sea of Dawn" has three main gameplay methods of combat, trade and exploration, and the three gameplay modules will complete the internal circulation of resources and character continuity through the player's management and adventure journey, and each adventurer can form his own fleet like Rogers of the year, and challenge the Spanish treasure ship full of wealth in the game.
When your flag is raised, are you looking for navigators scattered around the world to join your team? Profit from sea trade, buy and build more powerful ships? Or face the sea, form your own Armada, and then set up a chamber of commerce to invite other players to join? It will all be up to you to decide. In short, captains, it is like the player's full journey in the game, our story has just been told at this point, please look forward to the next wonderful development!
(To be continued)