Green Wing is also on Caterina's flagship, while Regulus and Dark Sakura are monitored in Panama. Caterina was well acquainted with the native workers in the hideout, sorting the looted goods into the storehouse and waiting for the Stoke merchant fleet to dispose of them. Large and small galleons are towed into the dock, ready to be transformed, and then most of them are left behind, and the rest are sold. This raid earned at least two hundred thousand gold pounds for the Alliance!

Zhang Fan looked at Captain Hook, who was sitting on a big windward rock outside the camp and drinking sullen wine, and didn't know what to say. However, Greenwing understood the man's mind, and carried a few bottles of rum, but did not speak, but sat aside and drank with him. Caterina finished her work and joined in, and Zhang Fan could see that the corners of Captain Hook's eyes showed a slight hint of warmth.

"Grandma's! Do a few more strokes while you're in the middle of the road! Captain Hook was a little embarrassed to be silently held by two women to drink, so he got angry, broke the bottle, and was about to go to sea to do a few votes.

Caterina stopped and said, "Can't you figure out how to die?" Now the Spanish fleet is definitely in full Shijie wanted for us, and now there is a chance that we will fall into the trap of Enrikis! ”

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

"Trust me, I'm going to cut off his head sooner or later!" Caterina brushed her red hair from her forehead, "It's not the time, though, but I don't think it will be too long!" Since meeting Zhang Fan's team, Caterina has hope of revenge.

"Don't worry, sir. I'll be sure to help you! "Captain Hook still recognizes Caterina as his leader, but he doesn't recognize Zhang Fan. Even Greenwing has more authority over Captain Hook than Zhang Fan.

Seeing that Zhang Fan was left out in the cold, Caterina greeted him with a smile, "Hey, come and tell us the story of the Eastern Continent, that guy is full of nonsense, and he doesn't really ...... a word."

Zhang Fan shrugged his shoulders, "It's not as good as you think, I can take you to see it in the future." ”

"Talking counts?" Caterina is very happy, daxiao like a little girl, which makes Captain Hook infected with a cheerful atmosphere.

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

Caterina patted Captain Hook on the shoulder, "Did you hear what the boss said?" Later, we will go to his hometown to rob! Haha! ”

Zhang Fan was a little helpless when he heard this, and was about to say something, when Caterina proposed again: "In this way, how about we go to the Fountain of Youth?" The clue Victor gave us last time was broken, but I heard the old drunkard in Havana say that the fountain of youth is in Florida! Moreover, in the head of the Panamanian native, there is also a legend that there is a fountain of life in the north of Havana, and it should be said that it is the same spring. Let's try our luck in Florida and get out of the limelight. ”

"I'm okay with that." Zhang Fan shrugged.

Zhang Fan actually didn't have much interest in the so-called 'Fountain of Youth', because he and Yaoji lived next to the 'Moon Well', drinking the 'Water of Life' every day, and what else could he be interested in the 'Fountain of Youth'. But since the characters in the scene have been mentioned, it is a scene task that has to be completed, and no matter how interested it is, it has to be hard-headed. Because, if you don't go, I'm afraid you will miss an important scene indication and affect the completion of the main task.

"Just one boat." Greenwing nodded.

Captain Hook thought for a moment and agreed, "Okay, find a quicker one." ”

Caterina shook her red curls boldly, "I know a new clipper has just been built in the shipyard now, hehe, it's a new design from Captain Baka, but this time it's not the old guy's turn to go on a sea trial!" ”

"That's not good...... Zhang Fan hesitated.

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"Phew!" A bottle of champagne smashed into the scissor-shaped bow of the new battleship, which slowly slid into the sea.

"Nice baby, weishenme we must leave it to old Bakka?" Caterina said loudly.

"Don't touch his baby, old fellow...... Old Baca will be terrifying! Zhang Fan was a little worried.

Katerina Daxiao, "Haha! That old guy is falling in love, and he has long since empathized! Also, why should he take advantage of both! …… Hook, don't go, what's so good about an Oriental woman? Don't even dare to take a gun......"

This ship, in fact, is a kind of fast reconnaissance gunboat newly designed by Captain Baka and Akon, and it is long and narrow. Only one propeller was used under the stern, behind the rudder and integrated with the rudder. It looks very similar to the old German U-boat during World War II, with a long and narrow hull and low side and building. The hull is 20 meters long, more than 4 meters wide at its widest point, and has a displacement of less than 100 tons.

There is only one mast on the ship, on which are hung large and small slightly curved triangular sails, the main sail is a Bermuda sail, this kind of sail appeared after 200 years, and was designed and applied by the book demon in this era. This is to be able to borrow wind power and save manpower when sailing on the ocean.

The fast gunboat has a narrow bow and a sharp bow, and when viewed from the sky, it looks like a long, narrow and sharp wedge, which can easily break through the wind and waves at sea. The middle and rear parts of the hull are relatively wide, and the ratio of the length to width of the hull is 5:1 using a high-speed design. Outwardly, this is an ordinary sloop.

The gunboat was divided into three levels, and the bilge was the control room and cargo hold of the man-powered propellers. The middle cabins on the second deck are the living and cargo compartments. A new long-barreled cannon with a chassis fixed to the center line of the deck and a 360-degree rotation with a spiral rifling is installed on the upper foredeck, and the shells fired are also conical instead of spherical iron eggs, but spherical shells can be universal.

This is another contribution of the book demon and Aken, the conical warhead and the fixed propellant pack began to be standardized, and the ammunition was separated. As a result, both range and power have more than doubled. Some warheads are even filled with gunpowder and a fuse, and when the warhead hits the hull of the ship, the fuse is triggered, and it can explode! This is a shell in the modern sense of the word!

However, this kind of artillery shell technology is more complicated, the production cost is high, and only a dozen shells are generally distributed, and they are only used for close quarters, greatly destroying the opponent's ships and killing people! But when robbing, it is rarely used, otherwise the ship will be blown up, and it will be a fart! At present, the small foundry in the hiding place can only make some small-caliber gyroscopes, and cannot cast large-caliber guns by itself, so it can only make some fuss about the barrels and ammunition of the purchased guns.

On the upper deck of the middle and aft part of the gunboat, there were two two-pack long-barreled cannons, the chassis was also fixed in the center of the deck, and the gun body could also rotate 360 degrees in situ with spiral rifling. The five guns on the gunboat were arranged in a centerline instead of on two sides. In this way, the number of guns can be reduced by half under the condition that the firepower of the two sides remains unchanged, which not only reduces the stowage on the ship, but also reduces the cost. Moreover, a large amount of deck area is saved, and high-power guns with larger caliber and longer barrels can be arranged.

Although the number of guns of this fast gunboat was small, the spiral rifling and conical shells made by the Akon Bookdemon made the artillery range very long, theoretically the maximum range could reach 2000 meters, and the effective range was also 1200 meters. If you use a shell filled with gunpowder, it is lighter than a solid shell, and the range is even longer, probably up to 2500 meters.

Such a range far exceeds the 800-meter range of the Kou Feilin long-barreled cannon in this era. Moreover, it is equipped with a newly developed explosive shell filled with gunpowder, and the lethality is amazing. Although it has not yet been in actual combat, in theory, it is much more powerful than an ordinary Spanish battleship of more than 300 tons!

If it is verified in actual combat and can indeed reach the power of the 300-ton Spanish gunboat in this era, then this kind of 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, as well as agility and speed, these gunboats were even made of lighter pine and fir wood, so their durability was much lower than that of ironclad gunboats made of teak and ironwood. But because of the drastic weight reduction, the speed reached a terrible 25 knots at the fastest! The agility is unrivalled and much faster than the fast and light Galen and the fastest and most agile caravel caravel in the Caribbean!

That's the benefit of using a propeller jishu. Moreover, this gunboat also uses a 'flying scissor bow', which is quite wave-breaking, which is another important reason why this gunboat can achieve flexible and high speeds.

The bow of the 'Flying Shear' is a kind of high-speed flying shear sailing ship designed by the Americans in the 19th century, and its performance is very superior, which is very suitable for sailing in the storms and waves of the Atlantic, so it is also known as the 'Atlantic Bow'. The bow of the flying scissors will narrow the bow waterline to an almost blade-shaped, long and sharp curved scissor-shaped head column, which is in a situation suitable for racing, so as to achieve the ability to split the waves (shear waves) at sea to reduce the wave resistance, so it can increase the speed of the ship to a large extent!

Therefore, although the gunboat is not of great tonnage, it will be stable even in the stormy seas of the ocean. Captain Hook, who was steering on the aft deck, felt extremely relieved, and driving this ship really had the feeling of riding the wind and waves! It's as light as a blade cutting through butter, and it's as smooth as it hurtles across the sea......

Of course, Zhang Fan Green Wing will not have this feeling, no matter how fast this kind of gunboat is, it cannot have the speed and agility of a high-speed yacht in the real Shijie. But for the captain of the Age of Discovery, this is already a qualitative leap!

Captain Hook faced the sea breeze, opened his mind, and drove Captain Baka's boat with hahadaxiao, and there was a feeling of riding Wang Cuiqiao in his heart, and it was in front of Captain Baka. He's in a much better mood! However, he didn't know that at this time, Baka was trying to collide with Wang Cuiqiao, listening to the coquettish cry from the East, and at the same time caring about lewdness in front of the 'Blood Lion' Hook......

Men love the feeling of conquest, whether it's conquering the sea or women!