Chapter 154: North to the Baltic Sea
"You killed so many people, and burned people's shipyards and fleets, and you have to make people swallow their anger...... Otherwise, you can negotiate, and I'll go north with the fleet. "Carl understood what Hong Tao meant, and knew how difficult it was to settle the matter, and he couldn't think of any way.www.biquge.info
"If you had said this a few days earlier, I would have agreed with it, but now it won't work. I've done all the hard work, you just look for easy, my own son doesn't have such a good treatment, why are you? It's a bit difficult, but it's not difficult, and I still need you? Don't worry about it first, go back and discuss with Jiang Zhuyi and William, and then listen to what the other party means, and then decide what to do. If I can blow up this place, I can blow up London and Paris as well. You go and tell Henry and Louie that if they want to die, I will not be stingy with the strength to dig a pit. "You can worry, but you can't worry Carl, you have to give him strong support, whether you can do it or not, this cow has to blow it out first, and it has to be very real.
"Okay, I'll try it......" Carl felt that according to Hong Tao's words, it was indeed not impossible. After all, Hong Tao's force is here, and the negotiation is not based on who will say, but who can do it. With hard power, you can be unreasonable, and you are not standing on the opposite side of Europe, you are just a middleman, Hong Tao is not afraid, what are you afraid of.
"By the way, I heard that you arrested Jiang Zhuyi's younger brother, he is the naval minister of Flanders and Hansea, is there really such a thing?" Gossip people, wherever they go and encounter anything, they will not forget to inquire about gossip news. As soon as he got down to business, Carl's gossip heart came alive again.
"He's just the Minister of the Navy of the Duchy of Saxony, you just hand him over to Jiang Zhuyi, look at him by the way, don't let him do anything too out of the ordinary." This kid has hatred in his head, and he doesn't know where it came from. How long have you said that his father and brother's affairs have passed, and I didn't kill them on purpose, if it were you, would you hate me for so many years? As soon as Jiang Renjie was mentioned, Hong Tao was in a lawsuit, which was one of the reasons why he was reluctant to talk to anyone. The more worries you have, the more troubles you have, and when you encounter this kind of thing that can't be killed or rushed, it's really useless.
"If you didn't kill my father and brother, I would have hated you for the rest of my life! There are not many benefits to being remembered by others. Of course, Carl will not follow Hong Tao, because Hong Tao usually does not follow what others say, which is called self-inflicted.
"Get back on your ship! By the way, don't go yet, I'll show you something good! Hong Tao was not in the mood to play with Carl, but he was unwilling to let him leave with a smile, he had to make him cry, and if he didn't cry, he would be depressed, so that he would be in a good mood.
When the flagbearer on the flagship gave the order with the signal flag, some smoke slowly rose in the castle, and after a while the smoke became bigger and bigger, blown by the west wind, like a black dragon flying eastward.
"You burned the castle!" Carl understood.
"That's right, the thief's den can't be kept, and the grass must be eradicated! They left a lot of whale oil behind, and I can't take it with me, so don't waste it, just move it all to the castle and order it. Seeing that there was already a fire coming out of the window on the lower floor of the castle, Hong Tao was very relieved that the fire was hopeless. When these grandsons burned the Old Summer Palace, they probably laughed as happily as themselves, this time it was not the son who cheated his father, but the European ancestors of the thirteenth century who were paying off the debts for their descendants, and they had to be counted as pit ancestors.
"I beat someone's son to death and burned down someone's castle, how can I persuade people not to take revenge? Why didn't Jiang Renjie shoot you with one shot? He's a piece of crap too! Carl regretted that he had agreed to be the collaborator, which was obviously not easy to do. It's a pity that I want to regret it with Hong Tao, the price is very, very expensive, so I can only get off the boat and leave.
Hong Tao also left with the fleet, and as he walked, he glanced back at the black pillar of smoke to the east. This even the nautical chart is saved, and you can navigate directly with the smoke column as a marker, and you can see it more than ten kilometers away. The captives in the shipyard stared at the pillar of smoke as well, but their eyes were filled with more despair.
Being captured is not the worst, losing your home is the big problem. Even if they are released now, where will they live? You can only go to other lords' houses to become serfs, or simply go to church domains. The question is, now that the aliens with guns are driving them onto the ship, why do they need to get on the ship? Some people who understand already have a vague answer in their minds.
On the seventh day after the attack on the castle of Behenopzom, a cavalry force of four or five hundred men marched from the east. By this time the flames of the castle had been extinguished, and with it. All that could be seen on the high ground was a few walls and a large pile of rubble, and the entire castle had been burned down, and flocks of crows had used it as a picnic spot, and even as the army got closer, they were reluctant to walk away, howling desperately to try to drive the uninvited guests away.
The leading knight was still more cautious, he did not continue to lead the team forward, but first sent a few light cavalry to reconnoitre, and the information he received was that the shipyard was also burned down, and there was nothing left in the port except for a few sunken ships, and half a figure could not be found.
"You two take people to the north and east to look for it, and I go to the south, and we must find someone who knows what is going on here, otherwise we will not be able to explain to the head of the regiment when we go back." Standing in front of the collapsed pit in the middle of the courtyard, looking at the entrance that had obviously been dug up, the leading knight had a gloomy face. He couldn't think of anything that would have destroyed an entire section of the wall, and had collapsed an underground cavern. Now he needs an eyewitness in order to determine who the enemy really is.
"My lord, there seems to be a voice down there......" At this time, two soldiers patrolling the entrance noticed the anomaly.
"Dismount and send someone in to have a look!" The leading knight lifted his robe, turned over and dismounted, and walked briskly towards the entrance. When he dismounted, a white robe with a red cross was revealed, the insignia of the Knights Templar.
There were more than a dozen people who were found in the underground caves, all of them with wounds, and some of them had blood stains on their ears and nostrils. They were all stunned by the sound of the explosion, and the collapsed roof of the cave did not hit them. The Indian soldiers of Hong Tao did not dare to stay in this crumbling, dark cave for too long, so they searched hastily, and took out the obviously alive people and left no one to be buried here, so these people became fish that slipped through the net.
"They are devils and heretics! The church must be notified as soon as possible. After questioning more than a dozen survivors, the knight of the Templar Order had a sketch of the scene in his mind. He had never heard of this pattern of warfare, especially when the musketeers of the Nassau family told how they had slaughtered thousands of cavalry with 200 men, and his back was chilled. If you let your team run into that alien army, you will rush straight to it, and the result will not be different.
It was not the church that first learned of the news, but the reinforcements that came later. They came from France, from Germany, and as far as the fleets from England and from Bosnia. These people, including captains and sailors and knights who have been fighting for many years, walked from the castle to the exit of the bay, and under the guidance of the survivors, the whole battle was basically restored.
Then he returned to the ruins of the castle, buried the dead who had been dug out of the underground caverns, and finally walked away from the way he had come, with a full of grief and suspicion. The news that the castle of Berchenopzom had been captured in a few days, that nearly 30 nobles of all sizes had been captured, that more than 5,000 defenders had been killed and buried alive, and that more than 3,000 civilians had been taken captive had spread all over Europe.
Hong Tao had no idea that there were survivors, and he didn't think of pouring whale oil into the underground cave and burning it again. It's too inhumane to do that, and Hong Tao didn't expect this war to hide people's eyes and ears at all, even if all the people in the castle were burned to death, could everyone be unfortunate in the naval battle? The dukes and counts who were captured were also killed?
It doesn't matter if you know or not, what matters is whether you can make them afraid! To fight a war, you have to frighten the enemy, so that they will not dare to think anything wrong for a short time. If you can have it in the future, then fight it again, wars in the world are generally at this pace.
Now Hong Tao is battling the bad weather in the North Sea with eight warships, and he has no time to think about anything else. The further north you go, the cooler the temperature becomes, and you have to keep an eye out for not only the waves, but also the ice floes. What worries Hong Tao even more is the construction of the battleship itself, the steel keel is stronger and lighter than the wooden keel, but their thermal expansion and contraction coefficient is also much larger than that of wood.
Once the keel is greatly deformed, the bottom of the ship is bound to leak, these days Hong Tao has been fighting against these leaks, and a special person must be sent to check more than a dozen times a day, once the water leakage is found to be too serious, they must immediately turn around and return to the sea, otherwise these seven Virginia-class warships will have to die on the cold bottom of the North Sea.
In the thirteenth century, the climate seemed to be colder than in later times, and by the time Jutland was in the north, the buckets on the deck began to freeze, and a large group of Indian sailors spent all day looking at them. It's not like they've never seen ice, there are ice floes north of Prince Edward Island, but watching the water turn to ice up close is something they think is also a miracle of the sun god and must be worshipped.
(To be continued.) )