Chapter 2 Routes to the East
“…… Lord Lorraine, we've been sailing for fifty days, haven't we reached the Silk Continent yet!? ”
"This ...... I don't know, I haven't practiced prophecy spells much......"
With sighs and sighs and the daily life of constant fighting, Lorraine couldn't say anything for a while, after all, he came out with a large army to make extra money, phew, he was sent to the East but got lost, which was really helpless. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
But you can't blame Lorraine for being incompetent, the route from the New World to the East has always been very dangerous, although there are now technological upgrades brought by the magic industry, but the map is wrong!
In order to reassure the depressed soldiers and the frenzied Alexander, Lorraine does everything in her power to entertain them, such as fishing with magic or something.
Relying on plenty of magic and skill, all kinds of tricks were carried out, and a large amount of seafood was caught by the way, and many various sea creatures were thrown out of the water column as if they had been dried by a centrifuge, and then fell heavily on the deck.
The soldiers, who had never seen so much seafood, cheered and laid out the seafood one by one—fish to fish, shrimp to shrimp, crab to crab...... Soon it piled up into a high hill, which was simply spectacular.
If he had come in a different capacity, maybe Lorraine would have been able to use this method to develop new fishing methods, and eventually start the era of industrial fishing and become a generation of tycoons.
Of course, it doesn't matter now, it's good that everyone can eat and drink happily without making trouble, but you can't eat this thing all the time, right?
"General, we have salvaged a lot of seafood today, and it seems that there are ...... Tuna, dolphins, sharks, sea snakes, prawns, crabs, ...... This one...... There are also human corpses ......"
"Huh? How can there be human corpses in this hellish place? ”
"Maybe it's a pirate or a refugee."
"Let's go over and have a look, by the way, let the soldiers be on combat alert, I feel a little wrong."
"Okay, General!"
Soon Lorraine saw the so-called human corpses, which should be orientals in appearance and clothing, but the markers on the body did not look like a good citizen, but like a pirate.
"See what's missing, Alexander?"
"It's kind of pirate or something...... Miss Charlotte will not be in danger! What to do! What to do! ”
Ignoring the rampaging Alexander, Lorraine felt that the presence of corpses here was really not good news, but according to the image depicted in the Race Atlas, Lorraine believed that this time he had indeed caught a very standard adult Oriental.
And it can be confirmed that it is male—although the little brother is too broken to look like a strip of sun-dried turnips.
"If there are corpses here, will there be a battle nearby?"
Lorraine's question was too much for the soldiers to answer, and the next morning a large number of corpses were floating on the ground, and although they all looked tattered, they could still be roughly seen from their clothing.
Those who are in the same costume are probably the regular army of the East, and most of the armor on their bodies is made of bamboo, and they don't feel the existence of magic at all, and they look poor.
As for the rest of the corpses, they were probably the unlucky ones of the levies or pirates, with all sorts of equipment and even more messy wounds, but they could still see the musket damage.
It seems that the East has also entered the age of firearms.
"General!" At this time, a herald finally ran over, "The lookout post found the shadow of a ship in the distance, and it seemed that they were still fighting each other!" ”
"...... fighting?"
"Is it war!? Maybe Miss Charlotte is over there! Urgent gathering! Let's kill it! It's time to get rich! ”
"Hooray!"
Does this weird command sound so wrong?
Lorraine himself couldn't figure it out, but he didn't stop the fleet's movements, after all, there were so many ships here, and a regular navy with hundreds of guns would be afraid of pirates.
Generally speaking, such a large-scale operation would definitely be discovered by others in advance, but Songyue, Dongying, and Batu in the East did not set their eyes on the sea for the time being, and as a result, they entered the Eastern Sea.
The first time they met was a pirate.
The pirates of the East were not much different from their Western counterparts, they would rob merchant ships if they were able, and those who resisted were usually taken to small islands and stabbed with sharp spears as a warning to others.
From the point of view of equipment, most of the Oriental people also use knives and muskets, but cold weapons are more horizontal knives than scimitars, and muskets are very primitive arquebuses.
In terms of ships, they are a little worse than their Western counterparts, and they usually can't go on ocean voyages, but they don't care about this, and the merchant ships in the eastern seas alone are enough for them to grab enough.
But now it's not a good thing to meet Lorraine's high-speed ocean-going fleet.
"Big sister! There are a large number of warships over there, and they are definitely not Song and Dongying! ”
"Cut, who will disrupt the situation at this time?"
The woman called the head of the eldest sister is wearing light armor and holding a horizontal sword, and there are three muskets hanging between her chest and abdomen, but from her temperament and the guards around her, she is not like an ordinary pirate, but a bit like a nobleman.
"Telescope...... A flag that I haven't seen before, a lily? ”
"Eldest sister, the person on there doesn't seem to be an Oriental! Why are they all white-skinned? ”
"White skin? That means Westerners? ”
The eldest lady touched her chin and let me think twice, but unfortunately it was useless, I couldn't think of any good strategy, and there was a large fleet outside that didn't know the enemy and me, and it was really better to retreat.
"Forget it this time, pass my order, retreat!"
"Yes!"
When Lorraine's fleet entered the battlefield, the pirates flying the black flag were retreating in an orderly manner, and it was better to keep a conservative situation when everything was unknown.
Therefore, Lorraine did not choose to pursue, but saved the few remaining merchant ships, and after receiving the gratitude of the other party, he relied on omnipotent spells to obtain information from the East.
"What? The Songyue Empire is mired in civil strife and is asking for help? ”
"What? The civil war in the Dongying Islands intensified further? ”
"What? The pirate who escaped just now was actually armed by the nobles of Songren, and the leader was still a girl, whose name was Murong Ying? ”
Well, the merchant's intelligence made Lorraine dumbfounded, he didn't expect the East to be so chaotic, just to provide enough jobs for the mercenary army on his side, maybe he could expand more business.
"Lord Lorraine, where are we going now? Go straight to Songyue, or go to Dongying? ”
"Song Yue...... Don't be in a hurry, let's go to Dongying first. ”
So the fleet, guided by merchant ships, slowly advanced in the direction of Toei Edo Castle.