Green Wings are also on Caterina's flagship, while Xuanyuan Xing and Anying are monitoring it in Panama. Caterina familiarly directs the indigenous workers in the hiding place to move the looted goods into the warehouse, waiting for the Stock Merchant Fleet to deal with it. The sailboats of all sizes are towed into the dock, ready to undergo transformation, and then stay the best, and the rest are sold. This looting earned at least 200,000 pounds for the alliance!

Zhang Fan looked at Captain Hook, who was drinking a slutty wine on a big rock outside the camp, and didn't know what to say. However, Green Wing understood the thoughts of such a man. He brought up a few bottles of rum without saying anything, but just sat aside and drank with him. After Katerina finished her work, she joined in. Zhang Fan could see that Captain Hook's eyes were slightly warm.

"Grandma! Let's do a few more things while you're just doing it!" Captain Hook was drunk by two women without a word. Instead, he felt a little embarrassed, so he became ruthless, broke the bottle and was about to go out to sea to do some tickets.

Caterina stopped him and said, "Do you can't figure out that you want to die? The Spanish fleet must be wanted all over the world. Now when you go out, you will probably fall into Enrikis' trap!"

"I'm afraid of him!" Hook shouted heartily.

"Believe me, I'll cut off his head sooner or later!" Katerina stroked her red hair on her forehead, "But now is not the time, but I don't think it will take too long!" Since she met Zhang Fan's team, Katerina has hope of revenge.

"Don't worry, boss. I will definitely help you!" Captain Hook still recognizes Katerina as his leader, but does not recognize Zhang Fan. Even Green Wings have prestige towards Captain Hook than Zhang Fan.

Seeing that Zhang Fan was left alone, Katerina smiled and called him over, "Hey, come here and tell us the story of the Eastern Continent. Akan was full of nonsense, nothing really happened..."

Zhang Fan shrugged, "It's not as good as you thought. You can take you to see it in the future."

"Keep your word?" Katerina was very happy and laughed like a little girl, which made Captain Hook also infected with a cheerful atmosphere.

"Of course, as long as you want to go." Zhang Fan sat down with a smile.

Katerina patted Captain Hook on the shoulder, "Did you hear what the boss said? We will go to his hometown to rob him in the future! Hahaha!"

Zhang Fan was helpless when he heard this, and was about to say something, Caterina suggested again: "Let's do you want to find the Spring of Youth? The clue Victor gave us last time was cut off, but I heard from the old drunkard in Havana that the Spring of Youth is in Florida! And the Panama native in the head also said that there is a Spring of Life in the north of Havana, which should be said to be the same spring. So let's go to Florida to try your luck and avoid the limelight."

"I have no objection." Zhang Fan shrugged.

Zhang Fan was actually not very interested in the so-called "Fourth of Youth", because he and Yao Ji lived next to the "Moon Well". He drank the "Water of Life" every day, and could he be interested in what "Fourth of Youthless"? However, since the characters mentioned in the scene, it was a scene task that had to be completed. If you were not interested, you would have to bite the bullet. Because, if you don't go, you might miss an important scene instruction and affect the completion of the main task.

"Only one ship." Green Wing nodded.

Captain Hook thought for a while and agreed, "Okay, find a faster one."

Katerina generously shook her red curly hair, "I know that a new type of Clipper has just been built in the shipyard. Hehe, it was newly designed by Captain Baccar, but this time it was not the turn of that old guy to try the sail!"

"It's not good to do this..." Zhang Fan hesitated a little.

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"Bang!" A bottle of champagne smashed on the fly-scissor bow of the new warship that set sail, and the new warship slowly slid into the sea.

"Good baby, why do we have to leave it to Old Baka?" Katerina yelled.

"Don't touch his baby, this old guy... Old Baka will be very scary!" Zhang Fan was a little worried.

Katerina laughed, "Hahaha! That old guy is falling in love, he has long been in love with him! Also, why do he take both benefits!... Hook, don't leave, what's the good for the oriental woman? He doesn't even dare to take a gun..."

This ship is actually a fast reconnaissance gunboat newly designed by Captain Baccar and Akan. The ship has a narrow and long shape. Only a propeller is used below the stern, behind the rudder board and connected with the rudder board. The style looks very similar to the old German U-shaped submarine from World War II. The hull is narrow and long, the side and the tower are low. The hull is 20 meters long, the widest is more than 4 meters, and the displacement is less than 100 tons.

There is only one mast on the ship, with slightly curved triangular sails on both sides, one in front and one behind, and the main sail is the Bermuda sail. This sail only appeared 200 years later and was designed and used by Shu Yao in this era. This is to borrow wind power when sailing on the ocean and save manpower.

The fast gunboat has a long bow and a sharp bow. Looking down from the sky, it is like a narrow, long and sharp wedge that can easily break the wind and waves on the sea. The middle and rear of the hull are relatively wide, and the length-to-width ratio of the hull is a large proportion of 5 to 1 with a high-speed design. On the surface, this is an ordinary sloop schooner.

The gunboat is divided into three layers, the bottom cabin is the control room and cargo compartment of the man-driven propeller. The middle cabin of the second deck is the living compartment and cargo compartment. A chassis is installed on the upper fore deck and is fixed on the deck center line. The gun body can rotate 360 ​​degrees with a new long-barrel gun with spiral rifle. The shells fired are also conical, rather than spherical iron eggs, but spherical bullets can be universal.

This is another contribution of Shu Yao and Akan. The conical warhead and fixed-loading drug package began to be standardized and the ammunition was separated. Therefore, the range and power were more than doubled. Some warheads even had gunpowder and fuses installed, and the warhead hit the hull and triggered the fuse, which could explode! This is a shell in the modern sense!

However, this kind of shell is relatively complicated and has a high production cost. Generally, only a dozen pieces are issued. They are only used for close-range mounts, which greatly destroy the opponent's ships and killing personnel! However, when robbing and robbing, they are rarely used, otherwise the ship will be blown up and it will be a big deal! The small casting factory in the hiding place can only make some small-caliber cyclone cannons, and cannot cast large-caliber cannons by themselves, so they can only do some work on the cannon barrels and ammunition they purchased.

On the upper deck of the middle and rear of the gunboat, there are two two-unit long-tube cannons, with the chassis fixed in the center of the deck, and the gun body can also rotate in situ 360 degrees with spiral rifle. The five guns on the gunboat are arranged in the center line, rather than on both sides. In this way, the number of guns can be reduced by half when the firepower on both sides remains unchanged, which not only reduces the load on the ship and reduces costs. It also saves a large deck area and can arrange large-power cannons with larger calibers and longer gun bodies.

Although there are not many artillery items in this fast gunboat, the spiral rifle and conical shells created by Akanshu Demon make the gun range very far. Theoretically, the maximum range can reach 2,000 meters and the effective range is 1,200 meters. If a shell loaded with gunpowder is lighter than a solid bullet, the range will be even longer, and it can reach about 2,500 meters.

Such a range is far beyond the 800-meter range of Kou Feilin's long-distance gun of this era. It is also equipped with newly developed explosive shells loaded with gunpowder, and its lethality is amazing. Although it has not been through actual combat, it is theoretically much more powerful than an ordinary Spanish warship of 300 tons or above!

If it is verified in actual combat, it can indeed achieve the power of a 300-ton Spanish gunboat in this era, then this fast gunboat with small size, fast speed, short construction time and low cost will be the main battleship of Zhang Fan's team.

In order to emphasize low cost, flexibility and speed, this gunboat is even made of lighter pine fir, so its durability is much lower than that of the iron armored gunboat made of teak and ironwood. However, due to the significant weight reduction, its speed reaches the terrible 25 knots at the fastest speed! The flexibility is unparalleled, much faster and more flexible than the fastest and most flexible Calaville small light sailboat on the Caribbean Sea!

This is the benefit of using propeller technology. Moreover, this gunboat also uses a "flying cutter bow", which has a strong wave breaking ability, which is another important reason why this gunboat can achieve flexible high speed.

The "flying shear bow" is a high-speed fly shear bow designed by the Americans in the 19th century. It has excellent performance and is very suitable for navigating in Atlantic storms and huge waves, so it is also known as the "Atlantic bow". The fly shear bow will narrow the waterline of the bow to nearly blade-shaped, with a long and sharp curved scissor-shaped head column, which is a suitable trend for racing, so that it can cut waves (slitting waves) forward at sea to reduce wave resistance, so it can greatly increase the speed of the ship!

Therefore, although the tonnage of this gunboat is not large, it will be very stable even in the strong winds and waves on the ocean. Captain Hook, who was steering the rear deck, felt extremely comfortable. It was only when he drove this ship to truly feel like he was riding the wind and waves! It was as light as if the sharp blade was passing through butter, as if it was flying smoothly on the sea...

Of course, Zhang Fan’s green wings would not have this feeling. No matter how fast this gunboat is, it is impossible to have the speed and flexibility of a high-speed yacht in the real world. However, for the captain of the Age of Discovery, this is already a qualitative leap!

Captain Hook opened his heart in the sea breeze, laughing and driving Captain Baccar's boat. He felt like he was riding Wang Cuiqiao in his heart, and he was in front of Captain Baccar. He was in a much better mood! But he didn't know that Baccar was struggling with Wang Cuiqiao at this time, listening to the Jiao Ti Wanhua from the East, and at the same time, he was also fantasizing about the "blood lion" Hook in front of the "blood lion"...

Men like the feeling of conquest, whether it is conquering the sea or women!
Chapter completed!