European Financial Emperor

037 First Battle (2)

Lee Hwan shouted at the captain and the helmsman.

“Keep the distance from the enemy at about 100 meters and turn and fire!”

“Keep a distance of 100 meters from the enemy! Ring the drum for turning fire!”

Tack Tak Tak Tak Tak Tak Tak Tak!

As the formation of turning fire was established, where the shots were fired while spinning round and round the enemy, the deckmen and the helmsman began to move in unison.

A battlefield still flowing with still silence.

The rain stopped as if it had happened.

As soon as the rain stopped, thick sea fog began to fall.

‘Visibility is not good.’

The sea fog was so thick that shooting from 100 meters away didn’t seem like an easy task.

To make matters worse, even the watch was stolen, so it was really dark in front of my eyes.

He gave Lee Hwan a chance.

Tang Tang!

“It’s an enemy fire!”

“Don’t get up from your knees!”

Bullets started flying in all directions.

Shhh!

There were many enemies, so there were many bullets.

A huge amount of bullets started pouring instead of the stopped rain, but Lee Hwan smiled with a smile of conversion.

“Shoot at the light!”

“launch!”

A feast of bullets pouring out with Lee Hwan’s voice.

Ride and go!

Soon after, the faint screams of the enemies reached Lee Hwan’s ears.

If you want to shoot with a matchlock rifle, of course you have to shoot while standing, so you didn’t have the talent to get hit by a cartridge rifle.

“… … Aww!”

On the other hand, the bullets fired by the enemies did not cause a significant hit even if they hit the ship.

Even the bullets were often bounced off the iron plate.

Lee Hwan remembered the glove tactic that Jeff had shown the other day, and was using it to such an advantage.

There was no way the enemy could accurately hit Lee Hwan’s troops, who consistently shot while lying down with the gloves in front.

It was absurd that those who didn’t even have a cannon could beat a cartridge rifle.

Lee Hwan fired indiscriminately at the enemies.

“Shoot without rest! Defeat the enemies!”

Tang Tang Tang!

At the same time, the fog was gradually clearing.

However, there was thick smoke everywhere, and in some cases, the nozzle of the muzzle was clogged and shooting was not performed properly.

However, the soldiers had already been living with their guns for months and had the ability to disassemble and reassemble them in an instant, and they knew how to clear a clogged nozzle.

Even for those who practice decomposition and bonding every day, the current situation was not a sudden situation.

Lee Hwan got caught among his subordinates who were shooting nonstop and decided to catch the enemy while shooting together and destroy the enemy’s morale.

He immediately climbed to the top of the watchtower.

The figure of Lee Hwan climbing up on a single rope was as sharp and energetic as seeing a monkey.

After Lee Hwan climbed the watchtower, he looked at the enemy camp with a sight.

The enemies did not give up the dense formation until they died, and they stood there until the end.

Again, the enemies showed a fairly impressive appearance.

‘… … He looks familiar with line battles. Those bastards must be veterans!’

Similar to the privateer he saw last time, Lee Hwan realized that they were highly trained soldiers.

Even those called slaves stood firm in the midst of trembling.

Perhaps he should have thought of rebelling, but the slaves just went crazy and did what the slave trader told them to do.

I don’t know what kind of skill he had to tame a slave like that, but right now, he wasn’t in a situation to even consider such a thing.

Lee Hwan walked around with a whip and found a man who was longing for slaves.

‘… … found. That bastard is the caretaker!’

It is impossible for a slave ship to carry more than 200 elite troops.

If the proportion of soldiers becomes too high, it will be difficult to board the slaves, and if that happens, their profits will decrease.

He didn’t want to do this, but Lee Hwan picked up only the slave traders and started sniping them.

Taang!

His bullets flew to the enemy without a single error, leaving a hole in his head.

The accuracy that the cartridge rifle has shown so far can be proud of being the best of its time, but the Springfield rifle was accurate enough to surpass him lightly.

With Lee Hwan’s fantastic shooting skills added to it, the enemy could not survive.

Whoa!

Whenever there was a wind hole in the enemy’s head, the surroundings were filled with noise.

In the battlefield where blood and flesh splashed in all directions, it was difficult for a person who had tasted the extreme fear to stand sane, so Lee Hwan continued to aim only at the enemy’s head.

bang! bang! bang!

Lee Hwan shoots non-stop.

Nevertheless, the slaves didn’t even think of surrendering, they just grabbed their guns and fell.

‘What the hell is going on… … .’

Lee Hwan put his gun down for a moment and began to look around the ship.

Why is it that the slaves who are running wildly on the deck almost as if they’re having a sit-down hold up like that?

His doubts were resolved by the entrance to the underground cabin.

There were men with guns grabbing women and children and yelling at them.

“… … You have taken your family hostage!”

The slave trade buys people for money, but there are also quite a few cases where they are taken for hunting as if they were catching livestock.

It was the same as hearing that Lee Hwan would pay more for his father to work because his wife and children would be held hostage if he captured a family during the hunting process.

However, when I saw that it was actually being done, my anger rose to the top of my head.

“These f*cking bastards!”

Lee Hwan immediately picked up his gun and made a hole in the head of the guy who was sitting in the cabin.

Taang!

When a single shot left a hole in their head, the remaining slave traders began to shout and scream.

Lee Hwan immediately changed the angle and decided to shoot the bullet where the enemy ran wild.

Lee Hwan, who climbed up to Stern’s slightly higher watchtower, took a seat so that he could see the enemy’s head clearly.

Then he fired again right away.

bang! bang! bang!

Exactly one death at a time, the slave dealers were very neatly arranged.

Then the slaves dropped their guns and started running to the cabin.

victory is slanted.

Lee Hwan came down from the watchtower and ordered to stop shooting.

“Stop shooting!”

“Are you going into hand-to-hand combat?”

“for a moment.”

Lee Hwan slowly looked around.

The deck was a mess from the previous battle.

None of the soldiers were seriously injured or dead.

It was only that a blind bullet had passed his shoulder.

“All four enemy ships have raised a white flag!”

“You won. I don’t think I’ll ever go to a hand-to-hand battle.”

Lee Hwan turned his head and looked at Ben Heren.

Then he ordered the preparations for the capture.

“End the battle! Capture all the enemy ships and arrest the criminals!”

“Yes!”

Soldiers moving in unison.

At that moment, Lee Hwan decided to take a breather.

***

Today was a great victory, a perfect victory.

Yi Hwan took over 1,800 slaves and arrested 10 criminals and detained them in a cabin.

They also captured four slave traders and returned to Cape Verde.

As soon as it landed, the ship was repaired and the ten criminals were interrogated at a nearby British base.

damn!

The scene of torture unfolding inside the dungeon.

Involuntarily, Lee Hwan closed his eyes tightly at the torture of torn flesh and dripping blood.

But I woke up again to the words of the criminal.

“… … Is it okay to capture and abuse such a good citizen? Can you still say that you are the soldiers in charge of the sea route?”

“You guys were catching and selling slaves in violation of national law and even international law. How can you guys be called good citizens?!”

“Hey, you’re a grown man! Since when did you guys become interested in human rights? Even when our lower class people starved to death on the streets, you didn’t even blink. Even when it was hard to eat even a single frozen potato, he showed no mercy and drove us even more vicious.”

“… … You keep talking like a traitor!”

damn!

Once again, fresh blood splattered all over the place, and the flesh could not be split, and the flesh was barely visible.

However, the slave trader clenched his teeth and resisted to the end.

“Even if I die like this, one day your upper classes will perish and the world of our good citizens will come! Leave it alone!”

“You idiot!”

repeated whipping.

👌👌👌👌👌

“Huh… … .”

In the end, the slave trader foamed up on the spot, lost consciousness, and fell limp.

The soldiers put their hands on his nose and shook their heads.

died of shock.

“It’s dead.”

“… … Damn, what’s with all these damn bastards?”

There are now nine slave traders left.

But the rest of them didn’t seem to be able to open their mouths easily.

Ben-Heren, who seemed to be getting clues when only the slave traders were arrested, turned into a slightly frustrated expression.

“It’s a big deal. If they open their mouths, they will catch a private fleet and spit it out.”

“Why don’t you write a conciliatory book rather than a hard one?”

“A reconciliation?”

“I don’t think they’ll open their mouths no matter how much they whip. If that’s the case, wouldn’t it be possible to shake your heart a little if you treat me like a human being?”

“Anyway, they will return to their home countries and be sentenced to death.”

“They know they are going to die. Maybe that’s why it’s so annoying. But on the way to the end like that, if you give me a glass of acknowledgment, I think your mouth will open.”

Lee Hwan also felt like he wanted to make a hole in his head right now, considering what those guys had done.

I thought it would be a waste of time to torture them in an obvious way with no progress.

Ben Heren decided to collect Lee Hwan’s opinion.

“good night. Then, instead of torture, we will invite experts who are good at conciliation.”

There were quite a few women from southern Europe in Cape Verde, who offered pleasure and received flowers to merchants and soldiers.

Ben Heren decided to hire them from the back alley of the market and put them in prison.

He said, handed me three pieces of money.

“If you make them open their mouths, I’ll pay you three times as much.”

“Does it matter which way?”

“It’s okay to kill, but the information must be taken out.”

“I know.”

Sometimes women are several times more terrifying than men.

They came out less than an hour after entering the prison.

Lee Hwan wondered what kind of technology he was so good at so he got information.

“There is a route to sell slaves to large farms in the southern United States. I wrote down that route, so I think you should pursue it.”

“What about the Private Fleet?”

“That’s what they say they don’t know.”

“Hmm, are you sure you don’t know?”

“There is no one who wouldn’t open his mouth even if he ate opium like that.”

In an instant, Lee Hwan opened his eyes.

I never thought that drugs would make people open their mouths.

‘These are wretched people.’

When Lee Hwan stared blankly at them, they laughed and said,

“They say they are going to the other world anyway. Wouldn’t it be good for them to at least go without pain?”

“… … .”

“Perhaps now that you have tasted heaven, at least you will not feel resentful when you taste hell. Isn’t it?”

He had nothing more to say.

Anyway, thanks to the girls in the back alley, the royal voyage was able to set a second goal.