All mothers hated war.

- Horace (founder and founder of Roman classicism)

Speaking of this, Roberts's expression was already inexplicably excited, and Kidd was also excited, as if it was not the Pirate King who was in command of the Raven at that time, but the two of them; However, Oscar didn't blame them for their gaffes in his heart, because Oscar himself was shocked by the counter-battle performance of the Pirate King and the Raven.

In fact, the imagination is also that the Raven is a super warship made of pure gold after all; If you consider the defense and hardness alone, even the battleships of the era of giant guns and big ships that Oscar is familiar with cannot be compared, not to mention the wooden battleships of this era, which is simply a collision between a bicycle and a tank, and there is no suspense about the outcome of the battle.

Of course, this success of the Pirate King is also something that no one can replicate; After all, the person who can take out a shipload of gold to build a golden battleship, Oscar has never heard of it in the two worlds since ancient times, and this pirate king is the number one. Oscar, though, is more curious; If this pirate king and the Raven are so famous, why have they never heard of it since they came to this world?

Although this question always haunts Oscar's mind, Oscar never asks the question; Because Oscar believes that Roberts' narrative will give him the answer he wants in the end. Roberts, whose face was flushed, drank a large glass of red wine again, and did not know whether he was drunk for the wine, or for the Pirate King and the Raven, and continued:

"This battle is almost the most disparity in strength between the two warring sides in history, and the results are also the most incredible; The pirate king Poseidon and his golden battleship Raven became the most sought-after figures in the entire Aegean Sea and even the entire Mediterranean. In order to take a look at the legendary golden battleship Raven, he even sailed from other seas to the Aegean Sea.

This pomp and circumstance lasted for nearly a decade before slowly coming to an end; During this decade, the maritime trade in the Aegean Sea grew like never before, and the Pirate King amassed a jaw-dropping fortune. The fleet under his command also swelled rapidly, and even reached the scale of more than 200 warships at one point!

You know, the warships under the Pirate King are not just any ship that can be counted as warships; At the very least, a double-column battleship-level battleship can be regarded as a battleship recognized by the Pirate King. The navy of the Kingdom of Macedonia was in a state of collapse after that naval battle; However, the weakness of the Macedonian navy did not affect their king Alexander and his equally legendary infantry.

In just ten years, the territory of the Kingdom of Macedonia expanded from the north of the original Greek peninsula to the outside world, from the original Greek peninsula. to the later Thracian region, then to the eastern Persian region across the straits, to the Nile Plain; In short, from the Aegean Sea to the end of the Eastern Mediterranean, everywhere you go is the territory of the Kingdom of Macedonia and King Alexander!

Of course, the Kingdom of Macedonia at this time was not this name, he had changed to a more domineering name - Alexander Empire! The supreme ruler of the empire, the emperor of the empire. Naturally, it is the former King of Alexander, and now Alexander the Great. After the matter on land was settled, the legendary emperor's eyes finally turned to the pirate king.

In that era, the two most legendary people were Alexander the Great and the Pirate King; Although one of the two was the emperor on the land, and the other was the king of the sea, this did not affect the confrontation between the two of them in the slightest. Alexander the Great, though, wasn't one of the stupid naval commanders under his command, and he had a better way to deal with the Pirate King.

The sea never belonged to Alexander's empire. Alexander the Emperor knew this; So, he came up with a way to use land against the sea. Merchant ships traveling to and from the Aegean Sea. It is nothing more than belonging to those countries bordering the Mediterranean; Now, with the exception of North Africa, the Apennine Peninsula, and Sicily, far from the Aegean Sea, there are no nearby merchant ships sailing to the sea.

Because of a ban by Alexander the Emperor, all merchants belonging to Alexander's empire were no longer allowed to sail by boat; This means that there will never be any one or more force in the entire Eastern Mediterranean that will provide the Pirate King with food and fresh water. The countries of North Africa and the Roman Republic of the Apennine agreed to the ban under the threat of war from Alexander the Great.

Three months after the ban was issued. It is no longer possible to see a merchant ship laden with cargo in the whole of the Aegean Sea; The Pirate King, who has lost a stable source of supplies, cannot solve the problem of eating and drinking for himself and his soldiers even if he has more warships and wealth. At this point, the Pirate King and his fleet began to go downhill helplessly.

The islands of Crete and Rhodes in the Aegean Sea had been secretly strengthened by Alexander the Great before he imposed the ban; Even the island of Cyprus, far from the Aegean Sea, was sent by Alexander the Great with a powerful army of considerable size. Moreover, the commanders and generals of these armies are not general; They were all later Diadochi. The ability is naturally extraordinary.

The desperate pirate king first attacked Rhodes with his own huge fleet, and the imperial fleet of Alexander near Rhodes Island had long since fled; The easily victorious Pirate King's army only gained an empty harbor in the harbor, and only a little further into the island of Rhodes was attacked by the elite army of Alexander's Empire.

Countless Macedonian phalanx infantry with neat steps and extra-long spears formed a huge Macedonian phalanx, with the cooperation of those powerful Macedonian royal cavalry and ironclad cavalry; Dealt a devastating blow to the landed Pirate King's army. In this battle, the Pirate King did not lose a single battleship, but he lost more than a third of his men!

As a result, the Pirate King's fleet was reduced by a third, and more than sixty warships were scuttled in the harbor of Rhodes by order of the Pirate King to prevent the troops of Alexander's empire from capturing them; The Pirate King didn't want to waste so many warships in vain, but he didn't have enough men to pilot them, so he had to give up in the end.

However, this is just the beginning; With the exception of the three heavily guarded islands, the entire coast of Alexander's empire was patrolled by cavalry. Once the Pirate King landed at any of the places with his fleet, he would soon be struck by a hastily assembled minimum of two thousand elite cavalry; The Pirate King does not have elite infantry under his command, how can it compare with cavalry?

After three attempted landings, the Pirate King completely abandoned this extremely unreliable method of survival; At this time, the Pirate King had less than a hundred warships under his command. To add insult to the Pirate King, there was not much food and fresh water available for the entire fleet; If there is no new way, then even the Pirate King will have only a dead end.

Faced with such a crisis, the Pirate King gathered all his men; A full 1,000 gold coins were then given to each of them, and the captains who followed the Pirate King were given 10,000 gold coins each! Lord, you may not know what these coins mean for an ordinary person; But I can tell you that at that time the Pirate King had more than a hundred captains and more than 20,000 men!

This means that the Pirate King has spent at least more than 25 million gold coins for this! Actually, I don't know what this money is enough for, because I have never seen so much money; However, I knew that this money was enough to buy all the city-states of the entire Greek Peninsula at that time, and even enough to buy the entire Apennine Peninsula at that time!

None of this is the key, the point is that after the Pirate King issued such a large sum of money, he announced the dissolution of the fleet; Then, despite the dissuasion of his subordinates, he left with his Raven and a thousand henchmen who were most loyal to him. It is said that the money that the Pirate King gave to his men at that time was not only a small part of his property; The rest of the wealth was taken away by the Pirate King on the Raven.

The pirates who were disbanded by the Pirate King did not hold a grudge against the Pirate King because of this, but were grateful to the Pirate King; Not only because the Pirate King gave them enough gold coins to live a good life for three lifetimes, but also because the pirates knew that Alexander the Great was a magnanimous man, and he just wanted to destroy the Pirate King, and he didn't care about these ordinary pirates; The Pirate King, it's about saving everyone.

This is exactly what happened, the first pirate captain to surrender to Alexander the Great with a battleship; After handing over his warship, he was generously forgiven by Alexander the Great, who even allowed him and the pirates on his ship to leave freely. As for the gold coins distributed to the pirates by the Pirate King, Alexander the Great didn't even ask.

After the first successful example, the remaining pirates surrendered to Alexander the Great one after another; Naturally, the Emperor accepted them one by one, and allowed them to leave freely after handing over their ships. If, of course, anyone would like to stay and serve the allegiance of Alexander's imperial navy; The emperor welcomed them with both hands, and gave them a knighthood and a generous reward!

With the surrender of the last trireme that once belonged to the Pirate King to Alexander the Great, the era that once belonged to the Pirate King and the Raven came to an end without a sound; However, the end of the Pirate King's legendary life does not mean that the legend of the Raven has also ended. Although the Emperor forbade anyone to talk about the Pirate King and the Raven, the legend of the Pirate King and the Raven was preserved by the pirates who were once loyal to the Pirate King; and from generation to generation among their descendants. (To be continued.) )