44. Rescue plan
The situation near Conason Island was tense, and every day ships left the island to listen to the information of Marquis Boris's fleet, and some ships went out to reconnoitre, and the news brought back by the scouts was collected and passed on to Count Evan, who gave orders for the immediate battle.
The interior of the island seemed to be tense every day, and in the past two days, there were many scouts coming and going in and out of the island, and Count Evan's face became more and more ugly day by day.
Privately, it was rumored that Marquis Boris had sent a fleet of fifteen Galen-class galleons to be stationed on Conason Island, so that Earl Evan's bent intention to recover Connathan Island immediately came to naught.
The people on the island panicked, and a sense of anxiety about having no home to return began to breed on the island, and some people directly approached Earl Evan and asked him to go out of this coral reef in a sailing ship to fight to the death with the fleet of Marquis Boris Marquis who was roaming near Conason Island, but all those who thought of this idea were scolded by Earl Avan and rushed back to the island to be confined.
Since the island has fresh water, life has become much better.
I never have to worry about not being able to find something to eat at the beach, but there was no fresh water before, and the food fished out of the sea was salty, even if I was hungry, I didn't dare to eat more, and the salt I ate in my stomach could not be metabolized, and it was easy to die of dehydration.
But with fresh water, all this is no longer a problem.
We also carry some wheat flour on our boats, and the wheat cakes are brought to the island every day.
There are also tentacles on the hind limbs of the Mok fish monster like an octopus, I discussed it with Noah, and took out some of it and transported it to the island, this kind of meat of the primary sea beast, although it can't improve the physique after eating, but in terms of recovering physical strength and energy, it is much better than ordinary food, and I didn't transport all of these meat back to Xinliu Valley, but sealed a part of it with ice and left it on the ship.
At this time, it was taken out and supplied to those wounded soldiers on the island, hoping that their bodies would recover as soon as possible.
I spent every day busy, but I didn't expect that Countess Evan was a woman who was roughly proficient in the art of medicine, and that she had been on the island in charge of treating injuries and illnesses. My joining, not only brought the water magic 'hydrotherapy' to the wounded barracks, but also brought a batch of hemostatic bandages, which made the treatment work in the wounded barracks get a huge turnaround, many injuries and illnesses hovering on the line of life and death were pulled back by me from the door of death, and a smile could finally be seen on the face of Countess Evan.
Noah and I have gradually begun to be loved by the islanders, all of whom are Duke Evan's men, and the strong men are his warriors, and some are the families of these warriors, and our participation has breathed a new life into the island.
It's just that I found that the Countess of Evan, who is quite respected by the islanders, is not very willing to deal with Noah, and she can avoid it every time Noah is present, and I guess this countess is also a person with a story.
I stayed on the island for two days and finally figured something out.
The first thing is why the houses here are built on coconut trees, those tree houses are trembling on the coconut trees, and there is a soft ladder under each wooden house, although there are some inconveniences up and down, but all the wooden houses here are the same, the wooden houses are in the sea breeze, with the coconut trees swaying in the air.
It turns out that this is an island, and at high tide, it will be completely submerged by the sea.
This island was originally formed by the silt and sand of the coral reef group, but this coral reef has grown a coconut grove for some reason, these coconut groves have been growing in the sea, but the island is gentle, only one or two meters above the sea surface on average, at high tide, the sea water can just submerge the entire island, only a coconut grove is exposed on the sea.
All the huts are very cleverly built, and when the tide is high, the water just reaches the bottom of the hut, and you sit at the door of the house with your legs hanging outside, just enough to reach into the sea, like a house floating on the sea.
As for the coconut shells hanging under the coconut trees, in fact, in order to be able to catch some rain when the rain comes, the island is extremely short of fresh water, bitter rain is also a precious resource for the islanders, but when it rains, and then ready to collect, it is too late, it is better to make some preparations early, so some coconut shells are hung on the coconut trees by ropes.
However, the cauldron that boiled salt on the beach was not boiling salt, but a very inefficient seawater still, which relied on boiling the seawater, and the water vapor passed through a thin iron tube, and after the water vapor was slowly cooled in the pipe, it condensed into small droplets, which slowly converged and flowed out of the pipe wall.
I have tasted this kind of fresh water distilled by this soil method, which can only be said to be salty and lightened seawater, and further distillation is required to get pure distilled water.
All in all, the coral reef island, which has no fixed land, does not have enough resources to feed the people in Earl Evan's fleet, so this is only a temporary refuge, and Earl Evan's original plan was to quietly wait for Marquis Boris's fleet to slowly withdraw from Conason Island, after all, he needs to mobilize some military power to conquer the lords on the other islands.
At that time, Earl Evan will take his warriors and retake Connathan Island on a sea ship.
However, the plan has now run aground, and the scouts who went to sea have heard information that Marquis Boris has sent a new fleet to Conason Island.
On the morning of the third day, Count Evan sent for Noah and me to discuss matters on his ship, and Noah and I vaguely knew that Count Evan had made a new decision.
The dinghy leaned against the side of the boat, and Noah and I climbed up the ladder to the big ship, and then, guided by the sailors, we came to Earl Evan's council chamber, which was already full of people, these officers were probably the captains and first mates of Earl Evan's seven ships docked in the deep water next to the island. They were arguing in the conference hall, and it seemed that there was still a lot of controversy within them about some things.
Earl Evan frowned, standing in front of a huge chart, his eyes were covered with some subtle red bloodshots, but his hair was still meticulously combed behind his head, and the whole person was like a crusader sword, all the edges were hidden in the scabbard.
Seeing Noah push the door in, the conference hall became quieter, Count Evan beckoned Noah to come to his side, and there was no polite word, he directly told Noah his battle plan, our three sailing ships are also part of Count Evan's battle plan, I have to say, this is a very bold plan, putting me and Noah in danger.
However, I could not find any reason to refute it.
This is a great migration at sea, and Earl Evan finally gives up the idea of recovering Connathan Island in the short term, and decides to sail with his fleet to more remote seas, and look for islands with living conditions, which must have abundant fresh water, lush vegetation, and no fierce beasts to watch. However, such a feng shui treasure can no longer be found on Evan's chart, at least in Evan's chart, and if you want to find such an island, you must sail to the area outside Earl Evan's chart to try your luck.
At this time, it was not the Age of Discovery when Duke Mensa led his army to colonize the Vaschi plane, those habitable islands had already been clearly marked on the chart, and each island had a lord, but I didn't know where Marquis Boris's next target would be.
If we want to make a great migration at sea, this battle plan must be successful, otherwise once our fleet is targeted by Marquis Boris's fleet, it will be difficult for us ordinary five-masted galleons to get rid of those Galen-class sailing ships on the sea.
After Count Evan finished his battle plan, his eyes fell on Noah, and the captains around him fell silent, and for a while the conference hall became silent, and the focus of his eyes fell on Noah, he scratched his head a little unnaturally, and then turned to look at me and asked, "What do you say, Jiga?"
I knew that Noah had made up his mind at this moment, and such a relaxed expression meant that he basically agreed with Earl Evan's plan.
"What's there to say, it!" I said to Noah, clenching my fist and slamming into Noah.
Noah said to Count Evan, "We will complete the plan." ”
At this time, the atmosphere in the conference room became relaxed, and the captains gathered around Count Evan and began a new round of discussion.
Noah and I stood next to the charts and listened carefully to Earl Evan as he described the waters around Conason Island, the places where you could only get to the sea at high tide, and the places where even when the tide was low, which were still very good waterways.
Then we took a closer look at Conason Island City, where Count Avon had worked hard for more than twenty years, and knew everything about the island city, and Noahmer and I remembered every word Earl Evan said, and even the captains' additions on the side.
Walking out of Earl Evan's conference room, Noah stepped into the dinghy before he asked me, "Giga, how sure do you think we are in Earl Evan's plan?"
I smiled faintly and said to him, "Don't worry, we'll clean it up no matter what's in the way, won't we?"
"Of course, just ......"
At nightfall, Ying Li and I stood on the deck of the Slave Trader, watching the Belan sail into the darkness in front of us, followed by the Shirley, the Slave Trader still in the rear.
Sailing at night, and in the sea full of coral reefs, our ship did not dare to raise its sails, and the sailors on board ran to the oars room, lifted the huge wooden oars more than 20 meters long and stretched out into the sea, the sailors shouted trumpets, and pushed the huge oars together, and the big ship slowly sailed out of the coral reef island.
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Conason Island is not really an island city, it is a large island with an area of several square kilometers, and there is a small crater on the island, but the whole island has been completely covered by dense vegetation, only the highest part of the crater, because there are a lot of volcanic rocks, which are not suitable for plant growth, so some of the rocky parts are still exposed.
Conason Island City was just like a cliff next to a cliff, and from a distance it looked like a castle on a cliff, only to find that it was not a castle on a cliff at all, but a huge city surrounded by a sea cliff, and on that cliff there was this unusually gorgeous lighthouse.
The lighthouse is connected to some of the dwellings on the sea cliffs, and from a distance, it looks like a city on a cliff.
There is also a huge forest outside Conason Island City, this forest is very rich in vegetation, and the plant species are far more than that of Coral Reef Island, and there are some small beasts such as hares and moles in the jungle on the island, and it is a paradise for some birds.
Conason Island harbor is anchored with two Galen-class giant galleons, in addition to seven five-masted galleons, these warships seem to be the last force guarding Conason Island, if the plan goes well, the main fleet here should leave the harbor at noon, they are looking for the clues deliberately left by Earl Evan's fleet, and chase them into the sea.
As for the number of warships left on Conason Island, it was less than one-fifth of the entire fleet, it was entirely because those rebel scouts found that Earl Evan had dispatched all the sailing ships all the way to the south.
Because we hid in the waters near Conason Island after entering the waters near Conason Island, these rebels did not know any information about me and Noah's three slave trading ships, so when our ship approached Conason Island silently in the dark, those rebels kept it in the dark and knew nothing about us.
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Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, Noah and I quietly landed on a shallow unguarded shoal with three sailors, and with the skill of 'walking on water', the reef was so thick that it was easy to find some hidden spots.
This time Noah and I brought out three hundred sailors from the ship, and only a few dozen sailors were left on the ship to guard the ship, and Ying Li took Helena and Becky, Jacques, and Joan to stay on the ship, and they had to cheer up and watch the three ships for us, so as not to take advantage of our absence, the sailors on the ship to rebel and sneak away in the three ships.
And Noah and I sneaked ashore with the Minotaur Ruka, Karantso, Katerina, Miss Cherry, the Rand Knights and his constructed knights, and Captain Just, who led the way, and a dozen of his men, and some wanted slave traders.
Probably these 300 slave traders never imagined that one day, they would sneak into the island for the sake of what some people see as justice, and they would land on Connathan Island in order to rescue the families of the warriors in Earl Evan's fleet.
When these slave traders were on the side of justice, and then looked at the rebels stationed on the docks of the harbors, these outlaws actually had the urge to fight.
The first mate on the Slave Trader was lying behind a sea rock beside me, he looked a little excited, holding a sharp red-bladed scimitar in his hand, and smiled at Kalancuo beside me, with some flattering meaning in his eyes, and said: "Chief, if you want me to say, what city are we rushing to, you must not know how high the walls of Connorson City are, if you want me to say, we might as well go directly to the dock and grab their ship, I haven't sailed such a big Galen yet!"
The sailors on the side chimed in.
Kahan's knife-sharp eyes swept over, and suddenly, the noise fell silent, and only the sound of the waves could be heard all around......