Chapter 136: The Big Ship
"Baby!
As soon as Cole reached the top of the city, he heard Rafa's cry of ecstasy, and he looked toward Rafa's gaze toward the river in the distance.
In the distance of the winding river, a large ship was lying across the course of the Hirry River, but it was too far away for Cole to think it was that big, but after seeing the Icefield and other merchant ships flying the Flame Rose flag in front of the large ship, he immediately understood how huge the ship was, compared to it, the ship in front of it looked like a small tugboat.
The river was already very wide, and the big ship occupied almost half of the course of the river, and the small boat in front of it had no time to dodge, and now the wind was just right, and the huge sails of the big ship were blown, and it was about to crush all the small boats in front of it.
"Boom!"
With a loud bang, the head of the city shook again, and it turned out to be the cannon operated by Rafa himself.
The galloping cannonball flew over the big ship, and landed on the foremast, which was already a little crooked, completely breaking the mast that had been hit by a cannonball, and Cole could feel the horror of the sailors on the big ship, although this mast was not the mainmast, but it was also very huge, and it fell backwards, and suddenly scratched the mainsail of the big ship, and by the way, the mainmast was also skewed.
"Damn, I made a mistake, but I can fix it now. Rafa scolded when he saw the mast smash against the mainmast, and it seemed that he had taken the great ship into his possession.
"Captain, what's going on with that ship?" Cole asked as he walked over to his father, Captain Curnow and Rafa.
"Who knows, but looking at the white rose banner it hangs, it should be a bad visitor. Captain Kono picked up the binoculars and looked at it, and saw that the speed of the big ship was dropping sharply, and the small boat in front of it was distancing itself from it, and was rapidly approaching Lake Shinai.
"White Rose, isn't that the Capetian family in the Central Plains, how can the nobles who control the three big cities of Bordeaux, SaΓ΄ne, and Acre make trouble for our Icefield City?"
"Maybe it's not for our trouble, but for the little boat in front of it. Rafa stood on the battlements and looked into the distance.
"Little boat?" Kono and Cole quickly looked at the fleeing boat in front of them with their binoculars.
The Icefield was not the only ship being chased by the big ships, there were merchant ships with flags from other cities, and some of them were not flagged at all, and all of these ships could not be the targets of the big ships, but they were too far away to see anything with their binoculars.
In the end, Rafa, who had seen everything clearly, had to explain, "The people on the big ship have been firing arrows at the small boat on the right side of the Icefield, and that ship should be their real target, a target that they can't let go even if it offends many people." β
"So what are we going to do?" Cole asked.
"We've all opened fire, what do you say?" Rafa looked at him quizzically, "gather two hundred knights, bring enough ammunition, and let the horses drag a cannon to the bank of the river to listen to my orders." β
"Yes!"
The dull horn sounded, and the people of the entire Ice Plain City unconsciously looked towards the place at the head of the city, in Aura, the horn sound generally represents an attack or enemy attack, and the Icefield City did not send troops, the horn represents the enemy attack, for a while, many newcomers who have just come to the Icefield City are a little worried, but the old people who have come here a long time ago are very relieved about the strength of the Icefield City.
The peasants who heard the horn hurried towards the city, but the orcs on the farm on the other side of the river were still at a loss, and it seemed that they did not know the meaning of the horn, but fortunately the big ship was extremely slow, and the target was not them, so they should not be in any danger.
The neat knights rushed out of the city from the crowd like fish against the current, and the grenades and magazines hanging on their bodies collided with each other to make a "clanging" sound, which was very pleasant.
"Go up to the vine bridge, they attack us and then shoot. β
Rafa led the knights up to the huge vine bridge built by Cole with magic, waiting for the boats to pass under their feet, the knights stretched their spears out of the bridge, and put their fingers on the trigger, now it has been more than half a month since the last attack on Kosol City, except for the usual training, the knights have not done real swords and guns for a long time, and now they finally have an opponent, all riveted
is motivated, and I can't wait to shoot recklessly.
Five merchant ships, including the Icefield, passed through the vine bridge at their feet in turn, and then the knights saw that there was a white ship as Rafa said, the back half was full of arrows, and there were many blood stains on the deck, and other merchant ships around were also affected by this ship, and there were some arrows sporadically stuck in the tail, it seemed that this white ship was the target of the big ship.
Although the sails of the big ship were broken, it was still enough to slide under the vine bridge by the force of inertia, and it seemed that they did not intend to stop, but pursued them to the end.
"Cole, sending an army into another lord's territory without prior notice is not a provocation. Rafa saw that the men on the big ship were aiming at him.
"Your Highness, in fact this is much more serious than a provocation, and according to the regulations of the lordship of Aura, this should be regarded as a declaration of war. β
"Good. Rafa nodded, although he didn't want to provoke a powerful nobleman, but others had already hit the head, and if he didn't fight back, it would make people look down on him, and in the future, others would definitely think that Icefield City was easy to bully.
"Whoosh!"
There was a cracking sound, and a glittering arrow shot at Rafa's forehead.
Rafa was unhurried, grabbed the arrow in front of him steadily, and then threw it aside, as if he had done a very ordinary thing.
His operation could have stunned the knights around him, they had long known that His Highness Rafa was extraordinary, but to be able to catch the attacking arrows with his bare hands was obviously a bit beyond the scope of "extraordinary".
Cole was also a little stunned, but he was the first to react, and hurriedly ordered the knights, "Fire!"
Loud and dense gunfire rang out, and the ship sailed on the river like a terrifying troll, but the people on it were all flesh and blood, and bullets rained down like a meteor shower, and many unknown knights and sailors were killed by bullets in such a daze.
The cannon standing by the shore also began to fire, and the main mast of the big ship was crooked a little more with a single blow, which made Rafa a little distressed, and hurriedly asked the gunner to stop firing.
At this time, the big ship was also in a panic, and the unknown weapon inexplicably took the lives of the people around it, and no matter how the chief knight in charge of the ship reprimanded, the people around him were still panicking and shouting "Devil, devil!" and could no longer form combat effectiveness.
The real rout began with the jumping of one man, the chief knight forced them not to hide on the deck, the violator was killed, they had no choice, they did not want to face the enemy's "devil's power" nor be killed by the chief knight, they could only jump ship, with one person taking the lead, more people rushed to the side of the ship without hesitation and jumped down.
"Stop shooting, hold the shore, don't kill without weapons. β
"Yes!"
No sooner had the gunfire ceased than Rafa jumped out of the vine bridge amid the exclamations of the knights, leapt through the air, and landed firmly on the deck of the great ship.
At this time, the deck was in shambles, and the bullets fired from the muskets of more than two hundred knights had shot bullet holes everywhere on the deck, and dead bodies were everywhere, some were killed by bullets, some were killed by the knights' own men, and the blood was flowing freely, and the ones who were not yet dead were lying in a pool of blood and groaning, praying to God to save them.
Rafa felt nothing to be sorry for, for the impact of hot weapons on the age of cold weapons was so great that he knew what the consequences would be when he gave the order to shoot, but so what? To be merciful to the enemy was to be cruel to oneself, and in his eyes no one but his own was worthless, and the man who fell at his feet and groaned was no different from an animal to be slaughtered.
When the remaining enemies on the ship saw that the gunfire had stopped, they all stuck their heads out from behind the barrier, and saw a strange man approaching the rudder, and without thinking about it, they knew that it was the enemy, so they rushed towards Rafa with a shout.
However, their movements were flawed in Rafa's eyes, and he did not hesitate to draw his longsword with a gap, mercilessly causing all the attacking knights to fall to the ground.
Blood gushed out, the headless corpse fell weakly to the ground, and the knights with swords behind them all looked frightened and did not dare to step forward, Rafa also came to the position of the rudder in the encirclement of the knights but did not dare to come forward, and beat the rudder to the left full rudder
The ship leaned slightly, and then slowly approached the shore, and the foremast, which had been broken before, also fell out of the mainmast because of the tilt of the ship, and smashed the side with a series of loud noises, and then collapsed on the shore.
"You guys entered my territory without saying hello first, and I'll make some counterattacks, isn't it too much?"
When the ship came to rest on the shore, Rafa said to the knight in light blue armor, the armor on his body was more delicate than that of ordinary knights, and he should be the leader of the ship.
"You're Rafa?" The chief knight saw Rafa's skills and knew that even if he added himself, the knights around him should not be his opponent, so he didn't rush forward.
"Hey, you even call me by my name, you disrespect me too much, don't you?" Rafa looked into the distance and saw that the boats being pursued by the big boats had all entered Lake Shinai.
"The Hevian family is about to fall, and it's only a matter of time before Icefield City is wiped out. The chief knight stood straight, as if he had completely forgotten the body beside him that had been beheaded by Rafa.
"It's the first time I've seen a soon-to-be-captive guy so arrogant," Rafa continued, putting away his bloodless sword, "Say, what are you doing in my territory?"
"Chasing. The chief knight replied unabashedly.
"Who?"
"The people of the Capet family. β
"Be more specific. β
"Sister of Count Capet. β
"Why are you chasing her?"
"You don't need to know. β
Say. As soon as Rafa finished speaking, the sword that had just been put away was already on the knight's neck.
"The old Count of Capet is dead, and her successor is her daughter, but her brother usurped her title and became the new Count of Capet, and now he wants to kill his sister and secure his position. The chief knight still stood straight, and his voice remained grim.
"You seem to look down on Count Capet, so why do you have to do things for him?"
"I swore allegiance to him. β
"Oh, it's a foolish chivalry to do what he thinks is wrong for the stupid reason of loyalty. β
"So you lords of high will never understand what the loyalty of knights is, and you will only take for granted everything that knights give. β
"Heh..."Rafaben wanted to contradict him, but when he thought about it, what he said made sense, "Ahem.. You look quite young, what's your name?"
Gray Bern
"Bern, are you an Eastern nobleman?"
"No, I took it myself. β
"Who else are you in your family?"
"I'm the only one. β
"Do you have a girlfriend... Or a fiancΓ©e?"
Gray frowned, "What the hell are you going to do?"
Say. Rafa approached his neck with a cold sword.
"Nope. Gray replied coldly.
"Good. Rafa retracted the sword satisfied, he had decided to take Gray into custody.
At this time, the knights of Icefield City also took the ladder to the big ship, and Gray knew that he could not resist with his own little points, so he ordered his men to lay down their weapons.
In the distance, on the pier of Lake Shinai, a young lady with blond hair was being led off the boat by her female knight.
Standing on the dock, she looked around blankly, and when she saw that there were no enemies around her, she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and brushed her somewhat disheveled sideburns to her ears.
She knew that she had made the right bet by ordering the boat to sail into the river leading to Icefield City, but now she had new concerns, she heard that the lord of Icefield City, Prince Rafa, was a wanderer, and now he was going to stoop under the protection of others, who knew what he would do to herself?
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but sigh the sadness of being a woman. 2k reading web