New World 1620

When looking back at history, you will always get various experiences.Cruel, coincidental, never similar, unimaginable, or ironic... But no matter what kind of experience, most of them make us feel "why" it is like this.

The image of the red-haired female pirate Catalina in a certain game as a flamboyant, sexy and tall Spanish girl is simply not suitable for this little woman dressed as an ordinary sailor who is obviously much smaller and thinner, feminine and lackluster.

But no matter what, looking at the background of that era, Caterina de Alanzo is indeed one of the female legends of the Age of Discovery, but for most ordinary people, her experience is in a more vast historical script It's not that it's particularly brilliant.

Catalina, who was born in a low-level noble family in Spain, has completely different ideas from other girls of the same generation.She has a stubborn personality and is difficult to be quiet. She was once sent to a monastery by her parents, and then ran out by herself.Catalina, who disguised herself as a man, became an ordinary soldier in the Spanish army, changed several names, and even participated in several Spanish battles in Chile.

An encounter made her kill someone for the first time in her life. The terrified Katerina confessed for the first time that she had concealed her true identity. The army commander finally realized that this outstanding subordinate was actually a woman.

Maybe Spain needs heroes too much at this time, maybe Catalina's former nun status made the Spanish bishops feel valuable.So this deviant little Spanish woman was sought after as the bravest soldier in Spain who defended Christ, and was even received by the Pope, who was allowed to freely choose to wear men's clothing on formal occasions.

However, the historical records are also confusing. At least for now, Su Zining is still unable to determine the reason why this reckless little Spanish officer led a small warship wandering around the Azores alone.

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The poor Spaniard was shut up in the cabin of his own battleship.Captain Adelaide almost laughed his teeth out. In his eyes, the Spaniards should be so unlucky by nature.According to him, he already knew that these Americans would not give the Spaniards any good fruit to eat.In the face of that kind of strange musket that can be fired continuously, the performance of Spanish officers and soldiers is not much better than that of Indians.

About an hour later, Su Zining and the female translator Yuan Xinyi came out of the room with strange smiles on their faces.The accountant Ren Changle, who had been guarding the door for a long time, hurried up, very proud.

"Haha, developed, tens of thousands of Spanish silver dollars!" Ren Changle whistled, very satisfied with what he found today.

"Well, we also killed and wounded 10 Spanish sailors, and captured Spanish warships. Now we are more like pirates. Maybe we will be hanged in Seville soon." Su Zining dropped the sentence casually. He covered his mouth and smiled.

"Are there any mistakes? They are the ones who robbed us, okay?!" Ren Changle was stunned and almost roared.

"It doesn't matter. The important thing is that our acting captain, Lieutenant Catalina, will attack all English ships as pirates. In fact, in this era, there is not a single English ship at sea that is clean." Su Zining helplessly spread his hands.

"Okay, don't scare him." Yuan Xinyi fluttered again at Su Zining's serious expression, and then put on a serious expression, "Our tomboy hopes to go to Yan Xiaosong to repent in person. She may think that she has been beaten like this by her." The man who lives will not live long, or at least be crippled."

"Well, Yuan Xinyi, you fooled her miserably. What happened to representatives of the US Congress who were unreasonably threatened by Spanish warships on their way to visit the European royal family..." Su Zining smiled happily, "Especially, Yan Xiaosong at the time misunderstood that she was going to The action that hurt me, she has never seen a man who took the initiative to block a knife for others."

"Then you should be ashamed!" Suddenly, Yan Xiaosong came from the other side of the cabin, leaning on the wall, with a very tangled expression, with half of his upper body exposed, a coat behind him, and his entire left shoulder was wrapped in thick gauze.

"How could Lao Zhao and Xia Qiuyu allow you to leave the room!" Su Zining frowned when he saw the hanging portrait of his best friend, but he still couldn't hide the joy in his eyes.

"Xia Qiuyu insisted on going to rescue those seriously injured Spanish sailors, but Lao Zhao couldn't make it through, so he went too. The woman is like this..." Yan Xiaosong touched the gauze on his shoulder and smiled helplessly.

"Then why are you leaving? You should have a good rest." Su Zining breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that today's incident might consume more time for the group to deal with the aftermath.

"Leave me alone, let's go and see Zhou Kemin. This kid killed several Spaniards today, and he probably has a little psychological shadow." After Yan Xiaosong finished speaking, he looked at the cabin door not far away, and then put on a mysterious smile. "Su Zining, tell me, does the lady lieutenant not have the consciousness of being a prisoner to die?"

"You two men who didn't die seriously..." Yuan Xinyi explained Yan Xiaosong who was seriously injured but still spoke out, and walked towards the ship's deck stairs by himself.

"Well, here's your chance. Someone wants to confess to you. Remember to listen with a painful expression. The more serious the better, the more perfect it is to be able to faint halfway through!"

Su Zining whispered a few words to the English sailor who was in charge of safety in the cabin passage, holding a machete and a musket, and then left with Ren Changle.

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"my God……"

The tall young man who bravely faced his scimitar to save his companions walked into his room with wounds. The Spanish Lieutenant Caterina let out a sigh of relief in surprise, then quickly closed her eyes and clasped her hands on her chest. A few days ago, he muttered words that he didn't know what they meant, and he was babbling for a while.

"I'm sorry." Before Yan Xiaosong sat firmly on the bed, Katerina opened her eyes, and then suddenly muttered something in English.

"People before probably didn't expect that you can actually speak English. You have a lot of secrets...A daring girl..." Yan Xiaosong showed a harmless smile, and secretly looked at Spain, who was sitting on a wooden bench with her head bowed in prayer. woman.

"Are you really that...American?" The Spanish female lieutenant suddenly raised her head, her big eyes flickering and questioning, "I have never heard of a country more powerful than Spain in the New World!"

"Hmm... You haven't heard too much, and you haven't seen even more." Yan Xiaosong raised a finger on his right hand and pointed in a random direction, "You should know the distant eastern country? We and the people there Like people, only we came to America before you, and your New Spain is nothing more than a bunch of farmers who get lost and think it's their home."

"Oh! Dongfang! I know, I read Marco Polo's Travels!" The eyes of the Spanish female lieutenant, who was still a little childlike, lit up immediately, "It's still the English translation, and I learned it secretly at that time!"

After finishing speaking, he seemed to feel that something was missed just now, and his face suddenly changed: "Spain is invincible! No one can shake and deprive Spain of the right to obtain justice from the Pope of Rome under the Treaty of Taordesilias!"

"But the pope's meridian was an ignorant thing full of mistakes and omissions from the beginning, otherwise it would not have been changed later..." Yan Xiaosong laughed, but accidentally twisted his shoulder, grinning his teeth in pain for a while.

"Are you helping the English?!" The Spanish female lieutenant, who knew the identity of the captive, was discouraged.She knew that except for Spain itself, almost all countries in Europe had a dismissive attitude towards the so-called division of world rights presided over by the Holy See, otherwise there would not be so many conflicts at sea.

"I believe my companion has explained this answer to you before." Yan Xiaosong said, showing a scary expression, "Do you know? We can arrest you for piracy, and then extradite you to the American court, and then... ..."

It goes without saying that according to the maritime rules of this era, even if a pirate has a privateer license granted by a backstage country, once caught by another country, he will basically be hanged for the crime of piracy.

"No! I'm not a pirate, and I don't know your identities! It's not fair!" The Spanish female lieutenant was about to collapse, tears streaming down her face.

"Then, Lieutenant, how do you explain your previous behavior?" Yan Xiaosong looked at the changes in the little woman in front of him with great interest, and felt that there was something hidden in it. First of all, it is not normal for a woman to run around with a boat as an acting captain, let alone It is still a warship that originally belonged to the Spanish Navy.

"God forgive me..."

The Spanish female lieutenant wiped away her tears, and gradually told what she had concealed from Su Zining and others while weeping. The expression of Yan Xiaosong, who was listening, changed several times...

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It was night, and the Mayflower and the Santa Maria sailed quietly to the northwest. According to this speed, they would be able to enter the port of Heroes in the Azores in the early morning of the day after tomorrow.

On the deck, Su Zining and Yan Xiaosong were leaning side by side on the side of the ship and smoking as usual.

"This poor Spanish woman." Yan Xiaosong took a puff of smoke, with an imperceptible smile in his eyes, "During the battle with the Dutch, the captain was killed, and then the first officer of the Santa Maria took over the command and arrived in Las Vegas. The Sparmas Islands was preparing to rest, but she was almost raped by the lustful first officer and other officers on the shore, and she accidentally killed several officers including the first officer, she was indeed very strong."

"A unique female officer is more of a symbolic meaning on the ship. I think if it wasn't for the umbrella of the captain, he would have been given by other male officers on the ship...you know what I mean." Su Zining was also full of such stories. "I was wanted by the Spanish Navy in the Las Palmas Islands, and fled in a hurry with dozens of people and a small battleship that had not been fully repaired. In the end, my subordinates coerced me to rob passing ships, and finally ran away." How romantic it is to get lost in the waters of the Azores Islands!"

"What are you going to do?" Yan Xiaosong suddenly turned his head to the side, and asked with some overtones, "Don't tell me, you plan to hand them all over to the Portuguese in Azores."

"She can tell you everything, it seems that she agrees with you more." Su Zining threw out the cigarette butt and shook his head slightly, "The pirate who threatened her to rob the ship was killed by Zhou Kemin and the others on the spot, and now she belongs to us Prisoners of war, we have a full say in how to deal with them."

"Well, I knew you were a cannibal." Yan Xiaosong chuckled, and then seemed to think of something, "By the way, Zhou Kemin's journey was abnormal, I think he must have gone crazy."

"It's nothing, it's the same as Li Xiang... No, it's more unlucky than Li Xiang. He fell in love with an Indian girl, but the other party is not yet 15 years old..." Su Zining was a little bit dumbfounded, "People in the newly established maritime guard team It's not like you don't know, they are all passionate nationalist fighters, even if Zhou Kemin is a celebrity in front of Zheng Quan, he is still a marginal person there."

"Promising! Lolicon!" Yan Xiaosong yelled loudly, with a strange smile on his face, "Actually, this is not bad, at least the race is the same. Doesn't it mean that the Indians are actually descendants of Yin and Shang?"

"The Censorship Party is one of the most tangled people in the world. You have to believe their hard evidence, but after you believe it, you have to reject the final result." Su Zining shrugged and distanced himself from this relationship. "It's like this Catalina, do you think we should classify her as a pirate or a Spanish soldier?"

"Hehe, it counts."

Yan Xiaosong patted his friend on the shoulder, covered his shoulders and walked away, leaving only Su Zining to continue watching the moon from the side of the boat in a daze.