Chapter 0509: Pirates of the Mediterranean
Huxi is the first knight on the island, although Huxi has worked hard for the construction of the political system on the island, but in the eyes of the people who generally don't understand the market, the actions of these governments are not very related to your personal ability. In addition, although there was a performance of the Marksman in Huxi, the center of the green space, it was in Constantinople, not on the island, and the people of the island did not witness it with their own eyes. In this regard, in order to build her own image, Hu Xi also had some other considerations, and took into account her own language barrier, she knew that it would be inconvenient for her to take the initiative to attack the dark waves surging around, so she waited for the rabbit. She has considerable experience in setting up a street square to sell her art, and now she is 246, every double and out, once every other day, in the square outside the Queen's official residence, showing Chinese martial arts, she placed the improved Chinese eighteen weapons one by one, and then practiced them one by one, in the words of Mumu Wangye, this is called deterrence!
What are the eighteen weapons that Huxi practiced? Yes: Harvard sniper bow, javelin, gun knife, dagger with gun, electric whip, chainsaw shield, chain hammer, command baton, military shovel, fire axe, police crutch, science and technology mace, fire fork, Longquan sword, Harvard lance, ceremonial halberd, medical hook, universal boring. Right now:
Huxi Zhang bow, ghost shooting magic; Greenland Center, fresh in memory; Harvard artifact, sound vibrating Rome; Wearing Yang Guan lice is the most shocking; Once a bow is out, there are no soldiers; ……。
Hu Xi holds a gun, and his heart and hand are guns; Meat and vegetarian matching, fire and poison are prepared; A body with several guns, the world is still salty; Bright as a pear flower, as fast as a flying locust; Harvard Javelin, no one can stop .......
Huxi double knife, eye to step; It also has guns and knives, and also guns and knives; Wrapped in flirtatious barricades, hidden fire bombs; Protect yourself and kill the enemy, almost everything; The art is high and bold, who dares to be strong .......
Huxi's shovel, modern equipment; It is also a military shovel and an engineer shovel; It is also a life-saving shovel and a multi-functional shovel; Steel body aluminum handle, foldable and easy to carry; Saw axes and pickaxes are really good .......
The hammer of Huxi is both soft and hard; The hard hammer is heavy, and the soft hammer is smart; The hard hammer is traditional, and the soft hammer is a new species; Hard hammer hundred brave, injured shin and broken bones; Soft hammer chain ball, meat and vegetarian are not .......
Huxi's card, high-tech gods; It looks like a shield, but it's actually a chainsaw; Armor is guarded, and chainsaws are attacked; High rotation and sharp teeth, the blocker dies immediately; If you dare to resist, you will see the ...... of Hades.
Huxi soft whip, soft and hard two stools; The body is integrated, very high-tech; The silver serpent flies, and the thunder and lightning roar; But the battle is parallel, and both near and far are attacked; The whip swept away, and the smoke flew and the ashes ......were extinguished.
Huxi dagger should be used as soon as possible; That is, there is no neglect, and there is no lightheartedness; Profit is manifested in form, and merit is hidden in the way; It is also hidden, and can make four rings; The thief destroys the evil, and it is ...... the curtain.
Huxi Stick, Apologetic Baguette; He is also a conductor and a marching band; is also martial arts, sticks and sticks; Art is the music, and the martial arts are electric batons; A high-pressure blow, who does not bend the knee .......
Huxi grasps crutches, compound crutches and grasps; T-shaped crutches with a hook on the head; Fighting self-defense, sneak attack guard; Special police equipment, plugging people's eyes; It is impossible to prevent it, and it is ...... panic.
The axe of Huxi, the axe of fire; Water and fire disasters, disaster elimination and harm; Chopping and chopping, smashing and intercepting; punish the evil and rescue the enemy, and move forward with an axe; An axe is multi-purpose, and both the military and the civilian .......
Huxi makes a move, leading science and technology; Plug in the power supply, you can kill the double bull; If you are close, you will fight, and if you are far away, you will be thrown; Male and female mandarin ducks, double mace and double flying; Twisted and rounded, dazzling .......
Huxi's fork, the fire flying fork; Open like the wind, steal like nails; The tiger is fierce; Flying Disc Picking; The gunpowder is pushed back, as *; The law is strong, and the lion and tiger are not .......
Huxi dances with swords, combining rigidity and softness; stirring clouds and hanging fog, swallowing and puffing freely; Fluttering brisk, vigorous and graceful; Flying phoenix and dragon, supreme and noble; People and gods are worshipped, and gods are like immortals, and they are .......
Huxi practice lance, body style is more plastic; Split the cover and intercept it, and provoke the cloud belt; Look at the hands and look away, and make the strength thick; Wild beavers wear flowers, thousands of troops; Sweeping thousands of armies, I am the only .......
Huxi halberd, noble etiquette; The whole body is dragon, and the mouth is full of horns; The body is close to the claw, and the belly is against the tail swing; The halberd does not dance flowers, and the green dragon explores the depression; The weather is myriad, highlighting the ...... etiquette.
Huxi cloud hook, medical and military dual-use; Offering a trick out of the row, dark and vicious; Frog Insect Hippogriff, Vottupo; or as a medical device, hooking and ticking; Death to save lives, a thought .......
Hu Xi waved the boring, saw the sword and saw the gun; Rough and heroic, the earth shakes the mountains; crescent moon saw wings, goose-tailed golden bull; Blocking Nazara, the blades are intertwined; Exploring the captives, the majestic wind is carrying the long .......
Huxi's daily drills, one is to show off his skills, the second is to recruit apprentices, the third is to mix familiar faces, the fourth is advertising technology, the fifth is a model knight, the sixth is a propaganda police, the seventh is to create myths, the eighth is a promotional pyramid scheme, the ninth is to meet friends in martial arts, and the tenth is to want to be perfect. Now, every day, except for heavy rain, every other day, Huxi starts practicing on time, which is very regular. In this way, those who know the east but do not know the west have come to know and know; Those who have heard the high skills of Western art have come to see and see; Those who want to enter Harvard to seek the West are also waiting to be expressed; If the ghost wants to do sabotage, he has also come to step on it; If you want to learn the style of a knight, you can learn and learn while squatting. Due to Huxi's perseverance, the crowd is no longer limited to the people of the island, but also to the people from the surrounding countries and regions. There was a surge of people with yellow badges, green badges, and gray badges.
It's a good thing that everyone is popular. However, don't loosen the string of class struggle, the black widow reported to Hu Xi, when they condescendingly protected and observed Hu Xi's martial arts, they found that a few people seemed to be here to watch the arts, but they really had other intentions, swaying east and west, and tried to blend into our queen's palace many times, but to no avail. Judging by their words and deeds, they don't seem to be good. They do not stay in hotels on the island, they come back every day to rest on the big ships on the island. According to the inspection of the little monsters, in recent days, more and more ships have gathered around the big ships of those people, and there are often people walking around our Queen's Palace in groups with those people.
At this point, let's talk about pirates in the Mediterranean. At that time, sea vessels generally sailed along the coast to ensure that the ships could always see the land. They do this because they don't have a compass and charts. And the only thing the pirate had to do was hide in the headland, wait for the merchant ship to take the bait, and then rob. In the Mediterranean, there are two kinds of pirates, Catholic pirates and Islamic pirates.
In the Mediterranean, piracy was also encouraged in Catholic countries, with bases in Malta, in France, and in northern Europe. Until later generations, these groups of pirates still existed, but in a completely different nature. Catholic pirates often sail the coasts of North Africa or the eastern Mediterranean, and they are often found in the most heavily trafficked seas, where merchant ships and their convoys are their best prey. The strategy of Catholic pirates to capture prey was very different from that of Islamic pirates, who preferred to use firearms and throwing objects than North African pirates. They would break the mast rope on the opposing ship and wait until the enemy ship was completely paralyzed before boarding. Sometimes a random fire would be fired on the decks of enemy ships to repel their resistance. In protracted warfare, Catholic pirates will use their height advantage to throw brimstone at enemy ships first*.
In the case of Catholic pirates, Muslims were treated very poorly when they treated their captives, but Catholics were often doomed as well. The pirates, after plundering the Catholics of all their valuables, often threw him into a small boat and left him to fend for himself. The captured Muslims were enslaved, some worked for them, some worked for pirates on the island, and many were sold into the international slave market. Others were kept in slave prisons, where they worked in various heavy jobs during the day in quarries or construction sites, and had to return to prison at night. They were all dressed in Arabic attire and had shackles on one foot. But they can ransom themselves by doing business like slaves in North Africa, and some can return home to raise money themselves.
Islamic pirates in the Mediterranean mainly came from North Africa and Western Asia, and as early as BC, sailing ships were built in the Muslim fiefdoms on the north coast of Africa to attack ships in the Mediterranean. Islamic pirates in North Africa persecuted captured Christians to row boats for them, a practice that lasted for more than a decade. Among them, Algiers pirates generally plundered ships between Sicily and Gibraltar; The Tripoli pirates often harassed ships in eastern Sicily; Tunisian pirates, on the other hand, operated largely in the central and eastern parts of the Mediterranean. There are areas of overlap in the "hunting" areas of these three pirate forces.
The tactics of the Islamic pirates of North Africa were to intimidate and then sabotage when the pirate ships approached the enemy ships, throwing them, stone projectiles, ramming, etc. Then the sailors on board jumped out of the shed and rushed to the enemy ship to fight. Due to the deterrent impact of North African pirate ships, there are basically no ships but fierce battles with North African pirates. Although many ships also had weapons, they often surrendered easily because the crews were panicked.
When a merchant ship is about to encounter a pirate ship, some of the passengers on board are happy and some are worried. Rich people do everything they can to hide what they are worth, and some even swallow gold coins or precious stones in their stomachs. In order to pay less ransom after being caught, the nobles did not hesitate to change clothes with their servants. Pirates have a good way of dealing with them. With a little torture on them, you can find out where the valuable things are hidden. Those who swallowed the property vomited it as soon as they drank the emetic. As for the simple trick of changing clothes with a servant, you can look at their fingers, and the thin skin and tender flesh are naturally nobles, and the hands are calloused by servants. Pirates did not treat women as an additional abuse, as women who were intact and normal rather than crying and panicking fetched fetched fetched a higher price.
Those captured by Islamic pirates were eventually taken to North African countries, where they were faced with a long life as slaves or waiting for ransom. First of all, they had to endure the insults to their personality at the time of the slave auction, and they opened their mouths like buying and selling cattle and horses to let people check their teeth, and let people pinch and touch to see if their muscles were strong. When the dignitaries selected the best captives, they sent the rest to the slave market for auction or were put in a slave prison. In fact, not all slaves died of exhaustion in quarries or construction sites; Slaves could earn a small sum of money and rest on the Sabbath, which was better than Islamic slaves living in Britain at the time. In North Africa, there were even some brave slaves who borrowed money to open taverns in prisons, and in the end they could earn enough money to redeem themselves. But because they are Catholic, they still have to do a lot of work.
For slaves captured by Islamic pirates, there was also a path to freedom, which was to convert to Islam. In principle, this allowed them to gain equal social status with the jailers. In Catholic doctrine, conversion leads to suffering in the afterlife. But this did not serve as a deterrent in the slightest, and many slaves chose to convert in order to escape the current suffering. Catholic sailors could even be at odds with these two statuses: they could be sailors of Islamic corsair ships or they could serve European merchant ships. The apostate in North Africa, who were more Catholic apostates than Islamic pirates, became a problem group, and "they could do all the things that were promiscuous."
At that time, the secret of the pirate ship's extraordinary success was its incredible speed, "sometimes the slaves on the sailing ship would row ten, twelve, or even twenty hours in one go." If a slave was tired (as happened from time to time), he would be whipped to death and then mercilessly thrown into the sea. "As a result, almost all of the pirates' prey is spared. But if the wind is not in their favour, they resort to an old ruse – flying false flags. This worked well in the Mediterranean, and it later proved to be effective all over the world. At that time, the ships of Catholic and Muslim countries were very similar, and it was difficult to distinguish the authenticity of the two ships if they were not close to each other. In order to completely cover themselves, pirate ships often fly flags indiscriminately and make people fooled; It will also have the renegade opponent's crew stand on the deck to make it easier to deceive the other party.
Therefore, to put it in detail, Huxi now has to face not only Catholic pirates, but also Muslim pirates, a long way to go, a dilemma, front and back, Alexander.
Tonight the moon is bright and the stars are sparse, the wind is calm, and the time is not to be lost, and the Catholic pirates are ready to do it. These thieves came from the Gustas den in France in the northwestern Mediterranean, and they were led by an old pirate of the Mediterranean, Captain Cheval, more than 200 people, all of whom were sea rats, experienced, skilled, flexible, vicious, and vicious. Now these men are being led by the experienced and persistent Captain Cheval to the summit of Olympus.
Huxi's policy of sitting together was very effective, and when these people quietly gathered at Olympus from all over the place during the day, some of them had already discovered that they did not have badges, and they had reported to the nearest police station, because if the matter was true, these reporters would be rewarded with small red flowers afterwards; If you turn a blind eye, you may be held accountable for neglecting your obligation to protect your home and defend the country, and you will be erased one or two small red flowers.
The information reported by the police stations to the command center of the island was displayed on a large sand table and expressed dynamically, and it was obvious that more than 200 unknown people had gathered in Olympus from all directions, and along the road between Olympus and the port of Limassol in the southern suburbs of Limassobe, about 10 kilometers, these people were also covered with some horses and vehicles.
Hu Xi said that it was obvious that more than 200 people were going to ransack the main lighthouse on the summit of Olympus tonight, and its main purpose was to rob, so even the people and vehicles that would pick up them along the way were arranged one by one. It's easy for us to annihilate this gang of bandits, but I want to learn from Sister Dongdong, I also want to capture them alive, and torture them well, as the saying goes, people don't offend me, I'm not human, you and I have no grievances in the past, and there is no enmity today, since we are committed, we can only welcome you with a shotgun, and I must make you regret that you hit my muzzle.
Now, the main lighthouse at the summit of Olympus is also ready to be killed, this main lighthouse is actually a castle, is a building complex, in addition to the main building lighthouse, there are barracks, canteens, bathrooms, computer rooms, warehouses, playgrounds, cisterns, conference halls, etc., and these buildings are all surrounded by a 6-meter-high and 4-meter-thick wall. The 4-meter-thick wall is not solid, it is hollow, and the cavity is the room. The roof of the room is flat and can run horses. The perimeter of this castle is similar to a "round house", on the roof of the round house, there is a circle of 1 meter high barbed wire fence on the inside and outside, and now, these barbed wire fences have been ordered by Huxi, according to the requirements of a targeted inspection, has been confirmed to be correct, the index is up to standard.
The formation of the round house is all because of the credit of the cement invented by Wang Mumu, otherwise, not to mention anything else, the flat roof that can bear the load, this era will not be able to build in any way. In Europe, there are many splendid and magnificent architectural complexes, such as Notre Dame Cathedral, such as the Winter Palace in Moscow, such as the Grand Palace of Constantinople, although the style is different, but they all have the same spire to the sky, or "onion head" cover roof, how to look good, in fact, it is impossible not to build like this, that era, to build a flat roof? No way! Want to try? Idiot! It all depends on the accumulation of stones, arches, eggshells, material mechanics and structural mechanics, all because of the material, it is really difficult to be "flat"!
These pirates from the French coast had already reconnoitred the topography and the appearance of the houses, and they thought that the flat roof of this thick wall was probably laid flat with logs, and they did not know why the people of the Cypriots had built it in this way, but they never thought that it could run horses and stand on it, and it was as solid as flat ground. In order to "welcome" this group of uninvited guests, Olympus has already made several sets of plans this time.
In the dead of night, in the silence of the world, more than 200 pirates, seeing that the people on the side of the lighthouse of Olympus were unaware of their actions, the joy was beyond words. Think about it, I have already done the proof, and the people who stepped on the point said that it was full of children, the average age would not exceed eighteen years old, and there were more women than men, almost 3 to 1, and the total number was only forty or fifty. Therefore, these pirates are not worried at all that they will not be able to take this complex, but are worried about how big the pearl of the night is on the lighthouse above? How much does it weigh? Can we move it? However, after thinking about it, I think it should be possible, otherwise, how would these children get the Night Pearl to such a high lighthouse?
Now, it is normal for the pirates who came to rob to see that the gate here is closed, and the door must be closed in the middle of the night. Look at the door, it's thick, so don't alarm it. Anyway, those of us weren't used to coming in and out of the gate. Like fighting at sea, like jumping off the shed at sea, more than two hundred, one look, one gesture, one, two, three! Whoosh, flicked the hook on the barbed wire, hooked firmly, one by one, one by one, flew onto the flat roof of the round house.
The pirates went up to the flat top, and they were quite cautious, lest the more than 200 of us come up together, and you can't bear the flat top and collapse! However, this matter was also planned in advance, we crossed the barbed wire fence and pulled the hook rope and did not let go, and then pulled the hook rope to try the legs, collapsed, I have a lifeline, I am not afraid; No, better, I'll throw the hook over the second barbed wire fence with a rope.
Seeing that the entire lighthouse community was quiet, trying to stabilize the flat roof under his feet, the pirate head Captain Cheval waved his hand, so the more than 200 pirates who had all crossed the second barbed wire fence and went to the flat top had to act in unison and cross the second barbed wire fence.
Seeing that all the class people were caught, the stationmaster of the lighthouse station on the main lighthouse gave an order, open Myrah! Suddenly, the silent lighthouse community boiled, and all the house lights, street lights, headlights, small lights, searchlights, and stage lights lit up together! The fixed lamp illuminates the land as if it were day, and the lamp that can be shaken and rotated will cover the panicked pirates on the flat top, just like you walk into the kitchen of the senior apartment in the middle of the night, and as soon as the electric light is turned on, a large group of frightened cockroaches will suddenly scurry!