There was tension in the air. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Everyone in Bandar Abbas, even the animals, can feel it.

As one of the most important ports of the Paz Empire, Bandar Abbas once had a huge force of tens of thousands of infantry, and even the powerful fleet of the Path Empire was anchored here. However, since the division of the Paz Empire, the people here have to face the problem of how to choose their own position.

First of all, the garrison fleet decided to follow King Rudanel and leave, followed by nearly half of the infantry who also decided to go to Rudanel, and a third of them chose to defect to Penonkar I. Since these people accounted for the majority, Billiudas, the leader of Songres's party, had no way to force it to stop him, and could only watch these people leave.

After that, Songares withdrew fifty percent of his troops from Biludas for the safety of his territory, and the number of regular troops in Bandar Abbas was reduced to less than 3,000 men. Although Songares gave control of the surrounding army to Bilyudas in order to compensate, the 8,000 miscellaneous army was not even as strong as the 500 regular army in Bilyudas's eyes, but their stomach was no less than the regular army. This sixteen-to-one business is simply a loss to the extreme.

Now, with this amount of strength to resist Dadaran's 40,000-strong army, no matter how strong Abbas's walls are, it will not reassure the defenders and civilians in the city.

Biludas was not an incompetent general, but he knew in his heart that his opponent Dadaran was a formidable character, a general who had climbed to the rank of captain of ten thousand horsemen from a slave background, and who had led an expedition of 50,000 Paz against Sindra as a Sindra, and it was almost impossible to hold Bandar Abbas in the face of such an opponent's blow.

As Dadaran's army marched into the area controlled by Songres, it was not surprising that the ragtag army stationed at the border began to retreat like a tidal wave into Bandar Abbas. Speaking from the bottom of his heart, Biludas really didn't want these troops who didn't even have the courage to fight the enemy into the city, they probably couldn't play any positive role except to make trouble, but they couldn't watch these troops fall into Dahlan because they were cornered. Bandar Abbas had nearly five thousand more mouths, and Biludas felt lucky, for after all, not eight thousand men had fled together, and he sincerely hoped that the remaining three thousand would not come back to the city.

Having said that, Biljudas's preparations for the defense of the city were quite complete, especially in terms of the number of troops he could control, which could be called a success. Bandar Abbas had gathered almost all the food that could be collected in the surrounding area, the arsenal of equipment, especially the number of arrows, was quite abundant, the walls were fortified, all kinds of defensive weapons were ready to be stopped, the merchants of the city were semi-forced to donate a large amount of gold and silver treasures as morale boosting funds, and the people of the right age were organized to take on the responsibility of transportation and patrolling. Although Biludas himself was not optimistic about the final outcome of the war, he was confident that he would be able to consume a large number of enemy forces before the city was broken.

Just as the whole city was nervously waiting for the arrival of the Dadaran army, an unexpected thing happened, and this happened not on land, but at sea.

When the sky was dark, several boat shadows appeared on the sea level. Soon the sharp-eyed soldiers discovered that it was a Sindra armed merchant ship with the Paz flag, a total of ten. The first judgment of common sense was that these ships were Dadaran's fleet, since there was no Paz fleet east of Bandar Abbas. Strangely enough, Dadaran was not stupid enough to attack Bandar Abbas with ten armed merchant ships, a task that would have been impossible under any circumstances. Even stranger was the discovery of these ships, as if nine of them were chasing the front one with all their might.

Billiudas, who had received the soldier's report, quickly rushed to the south of the city, and when he looked closely, he found something even stranger—the boats had a very deep draft and were not moving at maximum speed.

Soon, the ship that fled at the front sent a signal claiming that it was Dadaran's fleet chasing after it, and asked to enter Bandar Abbas for temporary refuge.

"Confirm the other party's identity!" Biljudas ordered.

The reply from the other party was not long in coming, and they claimed to be sailors who had defected from Dadaran.

Biludas immediately ordered all the people to be on alert, because his first instinct was to surrender and to keep his opponent out of the water gate no matter what.

At this time, the chasing ship behind had gradually disappeared, and as soon as it was within range of the bow and arrow, it immediately began to fire rockets. The fleeing ship tried desperately to avoid it, but the tail sail was still shot and caused a fire, so its speed slowed down more and more, and the ships behind it clung to it, and more rockets kept shooting past, and the stern of the fleeing ship was full of rockets, and the fire gradually spread in the place where it was too late to put out. Seeing that Bandar Abbas was in sight, the people on board began to cry out and beg the people of the city to give them a way out.

"We can hand over all our weapons! It will not harm you! Trust us! Please help us! For the sake of the gods, open the door! All kinds of cries and pleas were heard.

Billiudas watched for a long time, and finally ordered the water gate to be opened to let the ship in, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to counterattack the pursuing ship, and arranged for three hundred elite soldiers to keep the dock firmly guarded, and all those who came down from the ship must be searched and cleared of all weapons.

Under the dense counterattack of arrows from the city, the pursuing ships had to retreat, and all that remained was the armed merchant ship that had been shot like a hedgehog in the butt and slowly sailed into Bandar Abbas.

The captain was a man of about forty years of age, his face and body were blackened with smoke, and he got out of the ship in embarrassment. After being searched, he was brought before Biludas.

"The villain Manum meets with Lord Bilyudas, thank you for reaching out in time to save the villain and his subordinates." The captain bowed respectfully.

"Who are you and why are you doing this?" Biludas asked expressionlessly.

"Lord Qiyu, the villain was originally subordinate to Lord Dadaran, but as you can see, he has now become an ownerless captain." Manum replied.

"As a soldier, you actually betrayed your commander?"

"My lord, the villain also knows that it is a dishonoring thing to do this, but the villain has to do such a thing for his own sake and for the sake of the brothers who have followed me for a long time. We fought for a year in a foreign land thousands of miles away, and the hardships of this period must have been felt by adults. We are only fortunate to be alive today, and many of our comrades have stayed in the stinking place of Sindra. To tell you the truth, we have plundered a lot of wealth during this period, and we can go home with this money and live a middle-class life. But Dadaran was now commanded to attack Bandar Abbas, a port that we all know as Paz people, and how many more brothers will die in battle. We didn't want to die, we didn't want our hard-earned wealth to come to naught, so we thought of fleeing. Isn't it providential that Dadaran has placed all the gold and silver treasures he has stolen on the ship? Originally, I made an appointment with another captain to flee to Arubania together, but this guy temporarily repented and went to tell the truth, but fortunately I got the news in time and fled immediately, otherwise none of my brothers on this ship would have survived. ”

Billiudas sneered after hearing this: "Someone! Pull it down and cut it! (To be continued.) )