In the Battle of Port Royal, England deployed fifty-one warships. The result was twenty-nine sunk, seven escaped, and the remaining fifteen surrendered, raising white flags.
Lord Beckett's plan was sound. He was willing to sacrifice half his fleet, intending to have the rest reach the shore. With several thousand English soldiers, he was confident they could win in street fighting.
However, warfare is not something that can be measured by data alone.
After eighteen warships were consecutively sunk, the remaining English soldiers revolted!
The constant sinking of warships shattered the soldiers' psychological defenses. Watching the ships around them suddenly become a pile of wreckage, with countless comrades turning into dust in the sea before they could even scream, the psychological pressure was simply overwhelming.
Who knew if they would suddenly meet their demise if the battle continued?
Lord Beckett had calculated the firepower of Port Royal's cannons, but he had not accounted for the lack of unwavering resolve among his soldiers.
He was the King's appointed Governor of the Caribbean, and had just been granted a Lordship. In Lord Beckett's mind, even dying for the King's great cause was worthwhile.
But he wasn't afraid of death, which didn't mean his soldiers felt the same way!
They were just there to earn a living, to get their eighteen pounds a year. Now they were being asked to attack the enemy with the resolve to die.
Sorry, but that just wasn't going to happen!
So, the soldiers on a dozen or so warships revolted, tying up their captains and raising white flags to surrender.
Suddenly, a dozen traitors appeared in the previously unstoppable fleet, and the remaining ships immediately lost their courage to continue the attack. Those unwilling to go along with it instantly fell into chaos.
Some wanted to charge forward and directly onto the docks, while others prepared to retreat and escape.
The sea was in a state of utter chaos, and in the end, all those who dared to charge forward were turned into fragments. Only a few ships managed to escape.
Lord Beckett jumped into the sea and killed himself. After all, a single battle had wiped out the entire English Western Sea Fleet. Even if he hadn't killed himself, the King wouldn't have spared him. Suicide was the more straightforward option.
Li Qingyuan instantly gained eighteen warships. It wasn't an exaggeration to say that with just these warships, he could dominate the entire Caribbean Sea!
However, what was even more troublesome than his own rapid increase in strength was how to deal with those nearly ten thousand English soldiers.
He had less than two thousand men, even counting the pirates who had surrendered. Suddenly, he had seven or eight thousand English prisoners of war, and he really didn't know how to handle them.
There wasn't enough space to hold so many people, even if he put them all in prison. As for directly incorporating them into his ranks?
Who knew if these soldiers would suddenly rebel under the instigation of some schemers?
So, he finally understood Bai Qi's mindset back then!
If he hadn't considered that these soldiers might be useful for his control over the entire Caribbean Sea, he would really have wanted to follow Bai Qi's example and have them dig their own graves and bury themselves.
After some thought, he selected a thousand of the soldiers with the best attitudes to join his guard, bringing Port Royal's defense force to three thousand.
As for the remaining six thousand prisoners?
They were all sent to the rear to work on infrastructure.
Since he wanted to make Port Royal the economic center of the entire New World shipping route, the original land was definitely not enough. Anyway, there was a large area of virgin forest behind Port Royal, so it was good to have these guys clear the land.
He left these small matters to Governor Swann to handle. After watching the entire Caribbean Sea battle from the mountaintop, Governor Swann's attitude instantly took a 180-degree turn, from being a nobody to eagerly taking on every task.
Li Qingyuan understood the old man's change of attitude. Although he used to write male-oriented novels, he had also guest-written a few female-oriented novels when he was really short on money.
It was nothing more than Governor Swann seeing Li Qingyuan's immense power and having some strange ideas in his mind.
Now he only had Elizabeth Swann as a legal wife, even if Miss Swann herself disagreed, in the eyes of others, Elizabeth Swann was the rightful mistress of Port Royal.
With Li Qingyuan's current strength, Governor Swann felt that it might be difficult to fight back to England, but it should be no problem to carve out a territory and become a country here in the Caribbean Sea.
After Elizabeth gives birth to a child, wouldn't the vast kingdom they conquered be the property of the Weatherby Family?
Being a dog for the King of England versus being the maternal grandfather of a king... even a fool could see which was the better deal!
Others might not see Governor Swann's little scheme, but for Li Qingyuan, who had watched countless palace dramas, it was all too simple.
However, compared to Governor Swann's political acumen, Elizabeth Swann's political mind was almost nonexistent. She was still in a state of non-violent non-cooperation these days. If she were in a palace drama, she wouldn't even make it past the second episode, given her performance.
But it didn't matter. He didn't need her heart, just her presence!
As for the idea that obtaining her heart would unlock more… positions?
Pure nonsense!
With ropes, pulleys, and grappling hooks, what position couldn't he achieve?
Man, I got sidetracked!
After defeating the fleet led by Lord Beckett, the system deemed his mission complete, directly rewarding him with five free attribute points and a special passive skill—Mastery of Water.
This skill was exactly as its name suggested. Li Qingyuan tested the skill's effects in the sea.
He originally thought the skill would just make him swim faster. But after getting in the water, he discovered that with this skill, he could completely impersonate a mermaid, holding his breath underwater for over an hour without needing to surface.
Furthermore, he could ignore the water pressure in the ocean, diving as deep as three hundred meters before feeling a slight stuffiness.
In the world of Pirates of the Caribbean, having this skill was like gaining a trump card for survival.
Even though he had already defeated the English fleet, and his reputation was spreading throughout the Caribbean Sea, the real fight and test had only just begun.
He had already considered this when he first occupied Port Royal. The English fleet wasn't much of a problem for him at the moment.
After all, he possessed the Demolition Expert skill and had over three hundred years of experience in weaponry, making it a complete walkover to deal with armies still using solid shot cannons.
In the Pirates of the Caribbean world, the most dangerous things were the various black magic and the endless sea monsters.
Speaking of which!
That bastard Jack Sparrow had been sailing with his ship for almost three months. He didn't know if he had done any work?
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