488 Duchess Margaret

As for the two young men, it was purely because they were not mentally prepared for this bloody scene, which was the same feeling as when I was a student in medical school and took a human anatomy class for the first time.

Yes, even I can't stand this bloody scene just now, not to mention these who have never experienced a battle formation, today's encounter has indeed stimulated their sensitive nerves, but people, they have the first time, and they will turn a blind eye as long as they see it a few more times in the future.

Dai Xiaoshan smiled secretly in his heart, don't look at Xiao Han Xiaomiao, the two of them are usually the kind of people who are high-profile and iron-blooded in the Huotang Club, and they really need to exercise, but then again, the doctor thinks that the performance of the two is actually quite good, especially this kind of scene of witnessing blood all over the ground and broken arms and limbs at close range, these young people are already quite brave and calm without trembling on the spot and diapers at the scene, okay, this should be attributed to Captain Gu's tight grasp of their usual training......

"Put the second lifeboat! The second group is on! ”

At this moment, on the main deck in front of the cockpit, the sailors are very busy, Zhu Beiguo is directing them to board the lifeboats in turn, the sea in the distance is full of people who have fallen into the sea, as well as scattered floating barrels, planks, sail fragments, and several broken, half-floating oarboats, of course, the North Sea Kirk sailboat that is floating on the sea not far away as the background of the battlefield, and is about to be burned into a torch.

"Maintain pressure in the engine room!"

"Right full rudder!"

"Sail at a constant speed for two knots!"

Li Sanduo, who was in the cockpit, continued to calmly issue orders.

"Put the third boat, the third group on!"

"Boat Four, Ready!"

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Ten minutes later, everyone on the Pride lowered five dinghys, each with three people sitting on it, and they rowed to the drowning and began to nervously fish for people on the surface of the sea to rescue people......

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Margaret finally came to her senses, and she found herself lying on a soft bed, and the soft cotton mattress under her body surprised her, could it be that she was back in her bedroom?

In fact, Margaret, who had been in a semi-comatose state, was awakened by a bright light, which had been in this state of confusion until the bright light hit her pupils.

What she didn't know was that just now, Duan Leyue, the ship doctor of the Nicole, had just checked her body under the commission of Sun Lao, and also took a flashlight to shine on her pupils, and quietly left after seeing that the woman had basically recovered.

Although Margaret had been in a coma, her mind was not at peace, and she was in a trance of horror, despair, and sadness, and did not respond to any external stimuli other than muttering the names of her loved ones.

Marguerite Farr de Maria, a direct descendant of the House of Habsburg, had a long title: Princess of Portugal, Marquis de Parma, Lord of Montigny and Duchess of South Dutch Henkshire, all of which came from her birth and unsuccessful political marriages in her early years.

She is the great-granddaughter of Margaret, Duchess of Parma and Governor of the Netherlands, her grandmother is Princess Mary of Spain, and her grandfather is the Duke of Farnese, the half-brother of King Grimm II of Spain.

As such, her direct lineage can be traced directly back to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, the European lord known as Charlemagne.

Because of the complicated aristocratic blood politics and marriage contract, Maria married Duke Genk of Aachen at the age of twenty-one.

Although she did not like the man who was three years younger than her, as a daughter of the Habsburgs, her marriage was never voluntary.

However, less than a month after the wedding, her young husband, who was in the period of adolescent rebellion, actually participated in the Anglo-Dutch War and was killed in the Battle of Portland, so the young Maria became a widow.

However, this gave Maria a sense of life, and she inherited her husband's property and fief and became the Duchess of Henk of the Netherlands, but unfortunately, her fiefdom was eventually drawn into the war between Spain and the Netherlands.

At this time, the Netherlands was plagued by wars, the northern lowland coastal provinces betrayed Spain, and the Seven-Province Commonwealth after the armed uprising ---- the Utrecht League, which eventually became the United Provinces Republic of the Netherlands.

Henkshire, a small principality in the southern Netherlands, was under the control of the Spaniards, and the southern Netherlands was in turmoil, and not only the Dutch dreamed of recovering the land, but also their western neighbor, King Henry of France, coveted its wealth.

Finally, during the Franco-Spanish Wars of Religion, the Portuguese princess, Maria, who was not well received in the eyes of both the French and Spanish kings, was forced to leave her fiefdom and return to the newly independent Portugal.

For at this moment, only Portugal still recognized the princess, and in the Netherlands, both the Dutch and the French, and even her relative, the King of Spain, regarded the down-and-out Habsburg woman as a hostile force.

In particular, his native country, Spain, had been devastated by the Anglo-Dutch War and the war with France, and they all regarded the duchess, who had lost her fiefdom, as a burden.

However, Maria was not willing to live under the fence in Lisbon, and did not want to marry a baron again, she was still young, and she was still a beautiful woman who had just turned thirty, and this stubborn woman wanted to fight and make a comeback.

She even thought of revenge, vowing to embarrass the Spanish nobles who rejected her.

Eventually, through a series of complicated inheritance formalities and favors, she was able to obtain the inheritance of her grandmother, Princess Marie of Portugal, on the spice estate of the island of Timor, which is famous for its sandalwood, which is known as the golden wood in Europe.

However, when her small fleet arrived in Batavia for supplies, she heard the disturbing news that there was war going on on the island of Timor.

Frightened by the terrible rumor that a man named Orne had slaughtered the city of Dili and reduced many manors to ruins, Maria was so anxious that she bravely, or rather willfully and recklessly, hurried her fleet to the island of Timor despite the dissuasion of her retinue.

As soon as the convoy arrived at the port of Dili, the rumors of Batavia were confirmed, and she was greeted at the port of Dili by a group of armed indigenous mestizos and natives, who clearly had bad intentions towards the Portuguese princess, who by this time seemed to be out of the control of the Portuguese governor.

The princess was horrified by the fact that the governor sent by Goa had been driven away, and that Orne was a careerist!

Originally, Maria wanted to revive the Henk family by inheriting this oriental inheritance - although she was not in a relationship with her late husband, as the sole heir of the Henk family, it was actually for her own future.

What's more, she has a deep relationship with her husband's youngest sister, Zezilia, poor Zezilia, a lively and lovely girl, if it weren't for her protection, I'm afraid she would be living on the streets now.

At the time, however, Maria's hope was only that her small fleet would not be annexed by Orne.