Chapter 917 Caribbean Alliance
Aken shook his head, "Go to the hiding place called Shime...St. Nicholas Port hiding..."
The Saint Nicholas Harbor indeed retains some dilapidated buildings of the colonies, and no one has been here for at least ten years. However, the warehouses and houses built with stone and thick wood in the early colonies could withstand the invasion of the Caribbean sea breeze. As long as it was repaired, most of them would be used. The harbor has a small dock that can barely be docked by medium-sized ships. Six large Carac sailing ships are naturally moored in the sheltered bay deep in the harbor. "Please search for Piao Tianyi, the novel is better and faster! The cargo on the ship may have to be transported by small boats.
This St. Nicholas Harbor is a trumpet-shaped surround, formed by an east-west isthmus peninsula, just hǎoxiàng a large lobster with a wide open chalice. The bay is more than five kilometers deep and has a large mouth, with a cape at the bottom of the bay. The colonial docks and warehouses are here. It is a small town of one square kilometer, and it is ideal as a safe haven.
Further to the depth of the harbor, there is a deep waterway of 1,000 meters deep and 500 meters wide, turning to the northeast. There is a white sand wharf protruding more than 60 meters at the bottom, which is actually a natural wharf. There is a protruding small headland at the mouth of the bay, and the exit is only 300 meters wide. It is quite hidden. Nénggou is moored large ships. Six large Carac sailboats are parked here.
This small bay is not reassuring, because the deepest part of the bay, crossing a 500-meter is the sea on the other side, and there is also an arc-shaped bay on the other side. Ruguo Someone landed from the coast there, and they discovered the secrets in the bay. But the advantage is that Ruguo has Shime goods from the other side of the coast of the isthmus can also be delivered directly to the shore and then to the bay. Instead of having to circle the peninsula around a fifteen-kilometer circle, go around the bay.
"It's really good to be an outpost port. But Ruguo did this big deal and was a little scared. So many big sailing boats are so annoying..." Akan sighed while standing on the hillside of the port.
Katerina said: "Now we are recruiting local indigenous people and immigrants to enrich this harbor. Only our dozen large ships are parked here, which is naturally annoying. After all the construction is completed, there will be no problem." She also has a hiding place. This is a good place, which is rare. If the first and second largest pirate groups in the Caribbean have hiding places in this area, it is not so good. It is so close to the Pirate Island of Tortuga and Port-au-Prince.
Captain Hook nodded with envy, "Yes, this place is abandoned now, too desolate. Although it is a little less concealed, it is easier to deal with the increase of the population of ruguo. Pretending to be a merchant fleet, no matter how many ships are, it will not be annoying. Moreover, there is a natural dock at the deepest point of the bay. In the future, a large dock will be built to decompose and transform the snatched ships. Who would have discovered it? A pier was built on the other side of the isthmus, and it would be good to change business in the future. It would be convenient. The south bank of the peninsula and the cape town respectively built a fort, and then the bay was blocked..."
Aken smiled helplessly and said, "It's better to avoid the turret. The other party landed on the other side of the isthmus to attack. Your turret is useless. This difāng is surrounded by the sea on three sides, but it's easy to attack and defend. In fact, it's good to be a transit port in the future... Forget it, these are all things to come and go. Now there's finally a place to stay, and you don't have to spend the night on the shaking boat. You can clean up these buildings first and make a nest. Baron and I will meet the Carthaginian..."
Katerina agreed and went to work with Captain Hook with a group of pirate sailors. Aken couldn't wait to ask Zhang Fan and the Book Demon to take Ziji to the hiding place of the "Carthage Sunset" pirate group 60 nautical miles east. It's a coincidence that Tortuga Pirate Island is also 20 nautical miles east of the Harbor of St. Nicholas. What's more interesting is that the straight sea route from St. Nicholas to the west is Guantanamo Bay, the hiding place of the "Blood Dawn" pirate group. Zhang Fan's team's hiding place is in the middle of the two pirate groups' hiding places and the Pirate Island. I don't know what the purpose of this scene is to arrange it.
The speed of the Muquan "Sky Fire" is much faster than the Bone Dragon carrying Zhang Fan and the Book Demon. In less than half an hour, he flew to Captain Baccar's hiding place. After waiting for another half an hour, he saw the Bone Dragon coming out panting. Even though he only carried two humans, the Bone Dragon's speed was still much slower. Fortunately, it was still a dark gold prop, and it was not as fast as Donier. Akan was a little whispered, but he forgot that Donier's foundation was a bomber, and of course it was much better than the Bone Dragon's speed and endurance.
As soon as Aken arrived at Baccar's hiding place, he had not had time to say hello to the pirate leader who was dominating the Caribbean. He plunged into the sea to check the propeller of the armored ship. Fortunately, Captain Baccar was also a fellow man and didn't care. However, when he found Aken stayed at the bottom of the sea for an hour, he couldn't hold it in...
"Your friends won't drown, right..." Baka said in surprise.
Zhang Fan Shu Yao laughed, "Captain, don't worry, this kid can't die. It's just your spiral thruster that fascinated him."
As he was speaking, a splash of water appeared outside the dock. Akan jumped from the sea to the shore and shouted: "Good thing! I didn't expect it to be there in this era. If you improve it, there is still a lot of room for improvement in the performance of the ship!"
When Baka heard this, his eyes shook and asked loudly, "Tell me how to improve it?" He found it hard to believe that Ziji's efforts to improve it. After watching this dwarf for an hour under the water, he could improve it. Where did he see the spiral thruster propeller as a shime-level prop and has shime function. Although such technology is leading in this era, it is really not worth mentioning in the eyes of a top student in modern machinery majors.
Aken wiped his face and said impatiently: "There are so many improvements. When I dismantle this ship, I will draw a sketch for you. However, the casting of that thruster will not be rongyi in this era..."
"I have a team of craftsmen. Although it is more difficult to cast the propeller, just give it to me..." Baka's eyes glared out, and he said with some dissatisfaction.
Aken saw that there was an armored ship not far away and it seemed that it had only been halfway through construction. He said to Baka: "Let them stop that new ship quickly and don't waste materials. I will continue when I get out the detailed drawings..."
"You rely on Shime..." Baka was furious, but he was stunned the next moment because Aken drew a sketch of a propeller on the ground. At a glance, Baka saw that such a propeller was effective, which must be much stronger than Ziji's spiral thruster. Moreover, Aken was still continuing to draw a mechanical transmission mechanism connecting the propeller. Baka was a little difāng and even couldn't see it very much, but it did not prevent him from being above Ziji's mechanical manufacturing level! Aken was just a mechanical power system made by roughly nénggou in this era. Even if it was driven by humans, it was much more labor-saving and efficient than the transmission system designed by Baka.
Seeing that Baka's head stretched over, Akan kicked the sketch on the beach with his feet, and Baka was so anxious that he grabbed him. "Don't be so stingy, let me see qingchu...How did you solve the problem of water seepage in the connection?"
Aken threw away the branches and clapped his hands, "Don't worry, I will draw you a detailed construction drawing. But the premise is..."
"How much do you want?" Baka hurriedly said.
"Money?!" Aken smiled, "We have two Spanish gold treasure ships, will we still lack money?"
"Gold Treasure Ship?! You actually robbed Spain's Golden Treasure Ship?!" Bacca was so shocked that his eyes were full of envy and helplessness. He wanted the route of the Golden Treasure Ship to be the highest secret of the Spanish royal family, and no one would appear. Moreover, most of the Golden Treasure Ship had close contact with the Spanish Caribbean fleet. If you want to rob, you would encounter siege by more than a dozen Spanish warships!
When Baka saw that Zhang Fan Akan Shu Yao was smiling calmly, and what he said was true, he asked helplessly: "Nàme, do you need shime? To help me improve the spiral iron armored ship?"
Aken smiled and leaned over, hugged Captain Baccar's shoulder, and whispered in a low voice. Captain Baccar's face slowly changed with Aken's whisper, from shock and anger to confusion to hesitation, and then smiled and admired. Then he took a deep breath, exhaled, and said in a slightly tired voice: "I want to say, you are a devil! Always use temptations that I cannot refuse to let me fall into your trap. Well, I decided to accept your proposal and swear allegiance to my ancestor Hannibal Baccar, Baccar, to you, but the premise is that you must help me complete this armored ship first..."
That night, Zhang Fan Aken returned to the Harbor of St. Nicholas. Six Spanish Carac sailboats took advantage of the cover of night and rushed to Captain Baccar's hiding place overnight under the escort of Katerina and Captain Hook...
Three days later, a pirate and plunder captain organization called the "Caribbean Alliance" was quietly established. However, this organization seemed to be engaged in legitimate business activities on the surface. Moreover, with the support of the orthodox English nobles, they were a regular company with six large Carac sailboats of seven or eight hundred tons, and trade transportation. Among the investors were both lifelong British barons and royal knights. But their partners seemed to be mysterious...
Captain Baka is a pirate leader who is good at operating. His hiding place not only includes a wood processing factory, a brick production kiln, but also a large dock for manufacturing and repairing large ships. He even built a small factory for mechanical hardware design and production, and recruited a group of skilled European craftsmen. Making these mechanical inventions was his biggest hobby.
Chapter completed!