Leaning on the side of the boat peeling oranges, Cole was a little glad that Helmut's hand was not heavy and did not hurt his vital point, otherwise he might not have been able to lift his hand for several days.

"There's no one coming from Kosol City, and we should be safe. Kyle put down the binoculars.

Knowing that there were no boats chasing after the docks of Kosol City, the people on the Icefield were relieved, because last time Rafa made a big fuss in Kosol City, they thought that the lord of Kosol City would send troops to stop the merchants or ships coming and going, but there seemed to be no movement in Kosol City, and there were still many pedestrians, but they were all in a hurry, and they did not pull goods, as if they were not merchants.

"Fortunately, we didn't chase us, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to escape with the weight of our ship full of saltpeter. Cole swallowed the last of the oranges and glanced at the hill of saltpeter on the deck, covered with sackcloth.

"We're not afraid when we come, we have guns. Kyle picked up a firearm with her name engraved on it and checked the magazine.

"If they want to board the ship, we will definitely not be afraid, but we are afraid that they will drive the boat and crash into it without saying a word. ”

Not long after the two finished speaking, the wind in the sky gradually increased, and the knight standing on the mast hurriedly shook the bell to indicate the enemy attack.

Cole and the others hurriedly took out their binoculars and looked into the distance, and sure enough, several clippers that were slightly smaller than the Ice Plains had already left the dock in a good wind, and were quickly rushing towards the Ice Plains.

"Oh no, forgot to take down the Flame Rose flag!" Cole glanced at the flag at the top of the mast, knowing that he had been careless.

"All on alert, full sails!"

Kyle is the weapons handler on the Iceborne, and the knights are not allowed to get their hands on the guns unless she agrees, in order to prevent anyone from selling them.

The well-maintained guns quickly reached the knights, who were all gearing up and reloading, ready to give the guys a little color.

"If only we could fit two cannons on board, then the Icefield would have no rival in the Hirry River!" Kyle is a man of martial arts, and she had the idea when she first boarded the Icefield.

"I'm afraid that the recoil of the cannon will be too great, and the deck will be scrapped after a few openings," Cole held the binoculars the whole time, staring at the position of the three incoming clippers, "but I can guarantee that His Highness Rafa must have had such an idea a long time ago, otherwise he would not have bought a ship." ”

The course of the Hillry River is very wide, almost more than a hundred meters, there is no curved river channel to dodge at all, and at this time it is going upstream, although the wind is just right, but the pathogen full of cargo does look a little clumsy in front of the attacking clipper.

"Attack their helmsman when they get into range!" Kyle yelled.

The sails bulged, the Icefield kept picking up speed, and everyone put their fingers on the trigger, ready to shoot.

One of the fastest clippers followed, reaching the right tail of the Pathogen, and there were already many people on deck with weapons ready to jump.

"Shoot!" Kyle yelled.

The dense gunfire suddenly rang out, and the poor helmsman on the clipper was suddenly set on fire by dozens of people, and even if many people were missed, he was still beaten into a hornet's nest, and the whole person was overturned to the ground, miserable.

But the ship was controlled by both the sail and the rudder, the rudder lost control, and the sails were still full, so the clipper was slightly off, but the speed did not change at all, and then the two clippers behind finally followed, clamping the left and right of the pathogen respectively.

Cole, who understood the key, hurriedly shouted, "Shoot down their sails!"

Although the idea was good, most of the sails of these ships were hoisted by a rope, and this was still on a fast sailing ship, and the difficulty of hitting a rope could be imagined, and the knights fired many shots in a row, but at most they hit a few innocuous holes in the sails, and at this time the two ships clamped more and more tightly.

In desperation, Kyle had no choice but to abandon this somewhat unrealistic idea and order the knights to block the enemies on the clippers on either side.

The continuous shooting caused great casualties to the people on the two clippers, their original plan was to get close to the Icefield and jump on it for hand-to-hand combat, but the enemy's new weapons obviously would not give them a chance, and some people wanted to risk their lives to jump over and grab the hemp rope net on the side of the Icefield, but they were shot in the air and fell into the river, which was immediately stained red with blood.

The Clipper, who had tasted the might, finally flinched, and hurriedly adjusted its sails and rudders and left the Icefield, but they obviously did not give up completely, and cautiously followed behind, and did not come too close, like three cold poisonous snakes, waiting for the opportunity for their prey to relax.

Although the enemy bit tightly, Cole was not too worried, because these people did not seem to have any intention of ramming the ship into the ship.

Faced with an enemy following but not getting close, Kyle came up with the idea of wrapping her binoculars around the back of her gun with cotton cloth, replacing the original aiming scale with a telescope, so that she could aim her gun at enemy ships far away, and she knew that the guns could shoot at a very long distance.

"Medium!"

After aiming at the side of the ship for a long time, she finally pulled the trigger, and from the binoculars on the back of the gun, he could see some details that were invisible to the naked eye.

There was a panic on the enemy ships in the distance, as their mainsails suddenly fell for some unknown reason, and the speed of the ship was rapidly decreasing.

"Good marksmanship. Cole praised.

"Let's hope the wind doesn't stop, otherwise we will be easily overtaken by them. Kyle glanced at the sun, which was overhead, "How long do we have to get there?"

"The wind is already weakening, I reckon...... It's going to be late or late. Cole looked into the river in the distance, and a larger ship than the Pathogen was slowly approaching from behind the three clippers. ”

While Kyle and Cole are worried about the enemy ships, Rafa in Icefield is also worried about something.

"Your Highness, you have to be our master, we are full of goods, and we are just about to come to Icefield City from Kosol City, but the Hall family of Kosol City has not said a word and directly seized all our goods. A merchant cried to Rafah.

"I'm the same, Your Highness, I've been loaded with three wagons of salt and two wagons of cane sugar, all of which have been robbed by the Hall family. Another grimacing merchant stood up.

"Your Highness, it's really not that I deliberately broke the contract, I have long heard that the Hall family is wantonly plundering merchants, so I was going to use people to transport all the woven cloth and silk little by little, but I didn't expect that they not only confiscated all the cloth, but also locked up my people...... The most excessive is ...... They also confiscated your favorite Tokai black tea leaves......"

"Huh?" Hearing this, Rafa finally frowned, those black teas he had prepared for Felihill, but he didn't expect to be robbed as well, "They didn't pay you a penny?"

"Of course not!" a merchant immediately stood up, his eyes widening, "These hateful bandits! They don't confiscate goods from other cities, they only confiscate goods going to Icefield City, but now that other big cities are monopolized by giant merchants, where can we intervene?"

"That's ......"

Rafa's brows furrowed even tighter, in fact, he didn't want to do anything to Kosol City for the time being, Icefield City had just experienced a big war, and it was time to restore production order, but this neighbor closest to Icefield City didn't seem to think so, they didn't have the courage to do it directly against Icefield City, so they could only engage in some indiscriminate means in private.

Since one's own commodities cannot be sold, and the commodities from outside cannot be brought in, then any normal order of production is overproduction, and there is no point.

"Cutting off people's financial means is like killing their parents," Rafa thought for a while, and finally made up his mind and stood up from the throne, "Don't worry, everyone, within half a month, I will definitely give you an explanation." ”

With Rafa's assurance, the merchants were a little relieved, they had been doing business with Icefield City for a while, and they knew the credibility of Icefield City, although they didn't know what method he would use to solve it, but those were not what they needed to consider.

After dismissing the merchants, he immediately called Siphus and ordered the ironsmith to immediately stop the production of orders and start manufacturing guns and ammunition instead, after which he went to the backyard and told the witches of his decision.

The happiest of all was Lilith, whose favorite thing to make was these single-shaped bullets and shells, which she didn't need to do to fill gunpowder and assemble bullets, and she could finally get out of the punches and machine tools that had thousands of parts of various sizes at every turn, and make simple shells while eating strawberry cake.

"Won't this attract Renault's attention?" Philicille was a little worried.

"It doesn't matter, now that Aura's eastern and western legions are all contained, he shouldn't have the strength to deal with us anymore, besides, occupying Kosol City, we are equivalent to having an iron gate, the Imperial Army is coming to attack us, and Kosol City is our biggest barrier. ”

The two talked for a long time, discussing what would happen after the capture of Kosol City, as if it was a foregone conclusion that Kosol City would be taken into the bag.

"Stop!" the two talked for a while, and just as they were talking hotly, Rafa suddenly called out, and everyone around him looked at him, not knowing what he was doing.

After reaching the third floor of the Ming Terrace, his perception had reached an extremely sharp level, and as long as he was quiet and listened, he could even hear the sound of pedestrians walking outside the city.

"There were gunshots. He perceived it for a moment to make sure that what he heard was indeed a gunshot, but the rest of the people listened carefully for a while, looking at each other, and they heard nothing except the chirping of birds nesting in the green trees of the courtyard.

Rafa stood up, as if to leap up the wall, but Felihill said, "Take me." ”

He was slightly stunned, stretched out his hands, hugged Audair with his left hand, and Felihill with his right hand, flew up and jumped up, and immediately came to the highest spire of the City Lord's Mansion.

"Be careful. He admonished, and jumped out of the high wall, and the strong feeling of falling made both women unconsciously grasp him.

At this time, it was already dusk, Rafa jumped quickly on the roof, and soon came to the city wall, and the knights on the city wall were a little stunned when they saw him hugging him left and right, and Audrey's face was slightly red, and Felihill did not seem to react on the surface.

Putting the second daughter on the ground, he set his eyes into the distance.

The farmers were preparing to return to the city from their fields, and the farms across the Hillry River were about to close, and clouds drifted slowly in the sky, as if nothing had happened.

Ignoring the astonished gazes of others, Rafa personally went behind the largest howitzer and began to operate the cannon alone, he filled the shell, and then while looking into the distance, he raised the muzzle of the cannon, fine-tuned it for a while, and finally fired the shell.

"Boom!"

A cannon sound shook the city walls, and the cannonball pulled out a faint white smoke and disappeared into the river in the distance.