Ding ding! Ding ding! A crisp ringing of the bell broke through the quiet early morning in the Adriatic Sea. The Aris gradually woke up and began to cruise on the Adriatic Sea again. In the past few days, Li Si has sunk two player pirate ships, and with Li Si's deliberate practice, his gunnery skills have been upgraded to level 3, which is still far away from the level 5 required by the mission. "Captain! The cannons are all camouflaged!" There are only a few crew members here, and Li Si is responsible for everything. At night, the cannons are shown to scare the pirates so that they dare not act rashly. During the day, Li Si will The artillery was camouflaged and the Aris transformed into a merchant ship, attracting pirates to take the bait. The Aris was sailing slowly on the Adriatic Sea. The lookout suddenly reported to Li Sihui: "Captain, there is a ship behind us that has been following us for a long time!" "Did you notice anything unusual?" Li Si knew that following such a ship For a long time, he must be looking for an opportunity to strike. The ship behind is definitely a pirate ship. "No, Captain!" the lookout replied: "They are just following behind!" "Send the order: Turn and face the ships behind!" Li Si shouted, and the Aris turned and approached the ships behind. . "Prepare for war! Gunner, prepare!" Following Li Si's order, the entire crew of the Aris moved. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Uh-huh! Uh-huh! The camouflage of the artillery pieces was lifted one by one, revealing their ferocious faces, and solid shells were loaded into the artillery pieces. The movements of the Aris alerted the pirate ships following behind. Although telescopes have not been invented yet, the Aris is now less than two kilometers away from the pirate ships, and the movements of the Aris can be clearly seen with the naked eye. "Fire!" Li Si gave the order, and the cannons on the port side roared, and the scorching shells roared towards the pirate ship on the opposite side. "Reload the artillery!" Li Si ordered the sailors of the Aris. "Full right rudder!" It will take some time for the left cannon to be loaded. This time is enough to aim the Aris's starboard cannon at the pirate ship. Boom! boom! The other side's pirate ship also crossed the hull, and several shells roared towards the Aris. "Get down, get down!" Without Li Si's reminder, all the sailors shouted to each other to get down. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Whoops-bang! Click! Click! The bulwark of the Aris was hit by the shell and exploded. Fortunately, no one was injured, and the damage to the Aris was also very minor. "Hold on!" Li Si stood at a high place, calmly waiting for the Aris's starboard cannon to be aimed at the pirate ship. "Now, fire!" Li Si waved his arm downwards. The Aris's starboard cannon began to roar, and the scorching shells roared towards the pirate ship. "Captain! Captain! Their mainmast has been hit!" a gunner shouted loudly. I saw that the main mast of the pirate's three-masted sailboat was hit by a cannon and it was slowly falling down. "It's really unlucky!" Li Si couldn't help but sympathize with the pirates' misfortune. "Avoid the angle of fire of the opponent's ship's broadside guns!" Li Si ordered the Aris to stop one and a half kilometers in front of the bow of the opponent's pirate ship, and began to ravage the pirate ship. "Take turns firing!" The Aris first fired one round from left to right, then after the loading was completed, it fired another round from right to left, although it was only the forty cannons with the smallest power and the shortest range. Moreover, the accuracy was not very good, but as a living target, the pirate ship was still blasted into pieces by the Aris. ¡°Before, the pirates wanted to escape using the auxiliary mast. However, under the bombardment of forty artillery pieces on the starboard side of the Aris, the front and rear masts were also broken off by the artillery. "Captain, they raised the white flag!" A white knight asked Li Si. "Continue to attack! Leave no one alive!" Li Si watched the artillery skills and experience increase bit by bit. How could he miss the good opportunity to upgrade his skills? He decided to beat the pirate ship alive and sink it. Gain maximum skill experience. Li Si¡¯s non-stop fire made the surviving pirates on the pirate ship miserable. More and more pirates were directly hit by cannonballs into blood and mud, and their bodies were inserted into the bodies by flying sawdust. "Jumped into the sea? Haha, continue to aim at the pirate ship and fire!" Li Si didn't care at all about the pirates jumping into the sea to escape, or what supplies would be captured on the pirate ship. He only cared that his gunnery skills were now level four and a half. When the general If the entire pirate ship is smashed to pieces, it will almost be upgraded to level 5. The artillery on the Aris continued to roar, and the pirate ship was smashed bit by bit from the bow, especially after the pirates jumped ship, the Aris began to circle the pirate shipA circle of plowing was started, and the entire pirate ship was completely turned into a sieve. "This man is too cruel. I will never be a pirate again!" A pirate who fell into the water watched with lingering fear. Their pirate ship was smashed and sunk bit by bit by Li Si, and he rushed towards the man next to him who also escaped. said the pirate. "Yeah, it's so cruel. Have we offended them in any way? How much hatred is required!" "We are so rich, the captain is reluctant to let us use cannons!" "This time, there are hundreds of silver coins. It's gone!" "It's only a few hundred, I think it's tens of thousands of silver coins!" "Oh, don't talk so much, let's swim to the shore quickly, don't let them catch us for a while! "Yes!" "That's right, hurry up, let's run away, I'll go home and farm, and I won't do this pirate thing anymore!" "Me too!" "Ding!" System prompt: [Gunnery] skill level has been improved, current level is lv5. Successfully mastered the [Gunnery] branch skill [Destructive Strike]. Ding! System prompt: The personal main mission [Basic Military Course Advanced Training] - [Gunnery Mastery] is completed. Please rush back to Venice Voyager Academy to report to the military course instructor. ¡¾Destructive Strike¡¿: When the target ship's durability is less than 30%, the shelling damage will be +50%. "Haha, it's level 5!" Li Si laughed loudly, looking at the slowly sinking wreckage of the pirate ship, and loudly ordered: "Return, target Venice!" Just when Li Si was happy, a system prompt made Li Si's face change. Completely sunk. Ding! System prompt: Please note that your reputation with the Senate of the American Republic has been reduced. Current reputation: Normal. Li Si doesn¡¯t know what happened in the American Republic, but his reputation has been lowered for no reason. Nothing bad will definitely happen. Lis opened the navigation chart and found that the squadron had now left the Caribbean Sea and entered the Atlantic Ocean. "It's good that the squadron is fine!" Li Si breathed a sigh of relief. If this squadron cannot bring back enough gold to Li Si, then the upgrade of the Aris will be shelved indefinitely. "This group of people in the Senate is really hateful!" Li Si said with a sullen face, trying to figure it out with his heels. This group of people has now begun to seize power. There are no longer a few senators who seek Li Si's position as consul, even the high priest, in the face of national interests. Everything else is bullshit. "I just don't know what confidence they have to seize power. Is the navy completely controlled by them?" Li Si opened the territory panel and started to check one by one. Of course, he could only see some data and status. , the specific situation must be seen in person. "The reputation is declining!" Li Si only glanced at the reputation of the American Republic and was shocked. The reputation at this time. It is slowly declining, and it is estimated that you will receive a system prompt soon. "These people seem to have a very detailed plan!" Li Si's face turned completely dark after doing so many things. After working hard to establish the American Republic, he was betrayed and abandoned in the end. Li Si felt very complicated. There was anger and loss, and Li Si gradually fell into the experience of his previous life. The face is ferocious. Ding! System prompt: Due to the actions of the Senate, your reputation in the American Republic has become hostile. The citizens' assembly convened by the Senate dismissed you from the position of consul. Ding! System prompt: Your property in the American Republic has been completely confiscated, and the corresponding income has been withheld by the Senate. Ding! System prompt: You are wanted by the American Republic. Once you are found to have entered the territory of the American Republic, you will be attacked by the Navy of the American Republic. "What?!" Li Si looked at the system prompts with great anger. Teotihuacan, the capital of the American Republic. Weapons dealer Bradley was currently attending a dinner prepared for him by the Senate of the American Republic. It turns out that when Lis's squadron left, the weapons dealer Blasley did not leave with Vespucci, but chose to stay. In the next few days, he began to have close contact with the Senate, using firearms as his main card, and began to negotiate with the Senate. The elders of the Senate originally planned to get Li Si's consulship in their hands. Just because they were afraid of offending Li Si and not transporting artillery to them, they never acted rashly. However, now that there is a new source of firearms, the elders of the Senate, including the high priest, have gradually agreed to remove Li Si from the consulship and put the entire country under complete control of the Senate. After that, weapons dealer Bradley contacted Columbia.?, together with several big businessmen from Europe, they negotiated with the Senate to determine the division of their interests in the American Republic. Especially Columbus, after suffering the last disastrous defeat, changed his foreign policy and planned to start trade with the American Republic first, and then gradually colonize America. Diplomatic negotiations went very smoothly, especially after the merchants from Europe provided a large number of firearms to the American Republic, and the elders of the Senate completely turned to them. And with the instigation of Columbus and Blasley, Lisi was dismissed and Lisi's relationship with the American Republic was completely severed. After successfully deposing Lisi, the elders of the Senate held a grand banquet for Blasley and Columbus to celebrate the successful cooperation with them. In the middle of the banquet, a temple warrior hurried into the banquet hall and reported to the high priest: "Great Elder, things are not going well. News just came from the dock. Apache and Comanche brought half The navy fleet has defected!" "What?" The high priest slammed the scepter in his hand, "Didn't he tell you to take them into custody?" "We did put them under guard, but Just now, they were rescued by his navy men!" The temple warrior knelt on the ground and said with his head bowed deeply. "A bunch of trash!" The blue light on the high priest's mask skyrocketed: "Send the order, let Amanda chase them!" "Yes! Great Elder!" The temple warrior hurried down to inform Amanda, America's new naval commander. "Your Majesty the Great Elder, I think we can make a little contribution in this pursuit!" Columbus stood up and said to the high priest. "That's right! Our ships are all equipped with artillery, and we will definitely be able to intercept them all!" Weapons dealer Bradley also stood up and said. "Then thank you gentlemen. What happened to the Navy is really making you laugh." The high priest now just wants to capture the two defected Apaches to worship the gods. After hearing the suggestions of Columbus and Blasley , I agreed immediately. "Happy to serve you!" Just as the Senate organized ships to pursue the Apaches and the others, Apache and Comanche had already led the defecting fleet into the canal. "The elders will definitely send ships to chase us soon. Where should we go?" Comanche asked Apache. "We may not be able to catch up with the consul's fleet. The most important thing for us now is to escape the pursuit of the Senate, and then wait for the consul to return, and then fight to the death with the Senate!" Apache said solemnly, as The former naval commander of the American Republic, at this time the Apache already had the demeanor of a famous general. "Alas, as soon as the consul left, these people all jumped out!" Comanche looked at Teotihuacan bitterly. They were promoted by Li Si, and they have always had a good personal relationship with Li Si. Li Si, who personally taught them naval combat skills, was both a teacher and a friend. Their loyalty to Li Si was higher than the high priest thought. They originally thought they were intimidating them. The two could be induced to defect, but unexpectedly, half of the fleet was eventually taken away by the two, not to mention how upset the high priest was when he heard that the two had defected. "This is the navy formed by the Archon. We must preserve them intact and wait for the Archon's return." Apache pointed at a sailboat and said. "Admiral! Another ship is catching up from behind!" The lookout man lying on the mast reported to Apache. "How many ships are there?" Apache shouted. "All the ships are catching up, and those European ships are among them!" The lookout was an Indian with excellent eyesight, and he was also the chief lookout of the American Navy appointed by Li Si himself. "What?!" Apache and Comanche looked at each other in surprise, with deep solemnity in their eyes. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster! 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