Chapter 11: The Iron Boy

"Is it going to be amputated?" Xu Mo's face was a little solemn.

Dinah nodded silently, Xu Mo sighed, there are no antibiotics in this era, if you are injured and infected in battle, amputation is the only way to save your life, but it is a very cruel thing to let a fourteen-year-old boy bear the pain of amputation.

Xu Mo turned around and went out and came to the deck, the strong sunlight made him squint his eyes. It was sunset outside, but he had just emerged from the dim cabin, and his eyes were still not used to the bright light.

"Alfred, are you awake? It's great that you're okay! Hedram on the back deck saw Xu Mo who had just come out of the cabin at a glance.

"Your Excellency, where are we going?" Xu Mo asked with a smile.

"We're going to London now and sell the seized goods there!" Hedram replied with a smile, "Now that you're awake, I'm going to announce an appointment to you." Alfred S. K. Anderson, you will be promoted to the rank of second lieutenant and become the chief stormtrooper captain of the Vestelos! ”

As Hedlam's words fell, Xu Mo's soul mark came with a prompt message at the same time:

"Samsara 228, you won a naval battle as the second stormtrooper captain of the Swedish battleship Vestelos, and your achievements were recognized by the fleet admiral Hedlam, and your honor value increased by 5 points. Promoted to Chief Stormtrooper increases Honor by 3, for a total of 8 Honor. ”

"Hint: The position of Captain of the Fleet can equip a special item for the position of Captain of the Fleet, which is produced in many parts of the world and has a wonderful effect."

"Hint: For the first naval victory, the space will give you an additional 10 days of leisure time, and future naval victories will no longer increase the number of leisure days. After twenty days of leisure time, the reincarnation can exit the world on any land, and needs to be in a non-combat state, and when the leisure time is exhausted, they will be forced to exit the world. ”

"Chief Stormtroopers?" Xu Mo was taken aback, "What about Your Excellency Gerhardt?" ”

"Haha, you don't have to worry about Gerhardt, he's on the armed merchant ship behind, and he's now the captain of that ship." Hedram looked at Xu Mo with satisfaction, "Another purpose of our trip to London is to repair these two ships as soon as possible and go to sea again!" ”

"Lord Admiral, I remember that the location of our naval battle the day before yesterday should be near Denmark, why don't you return to Stockholm to repair the battleship?" Xu Mo asked curiously.

"Let me answer this question!" Manuel came from the foredeck, "According to the current monsoon and the latitude and longitude in which it is located, the route to London is a tailwind, and the return to Stockholm is a headwind. Although we were a little closer to Stockholm at the time of the naval battle, the voyage to London was much faster. ”

"Manuel is right, now both ships are damaged and need to be repaired as soon as possible. We are both Protestant countries with England, and our relations are very good, and we can also get asylum in London, and we can sell our seized goods in London. Hedram added with a smile, "Alfred, you, a knight on land, still need to learn a little more about seamanship in order to become a good knight at sea." ”

"Thank you for the reminder, Admiral!" Xu Mo immediately remembered something, turned to Manuel and said, "Your Excellency Manuel, you are the doctor on the ship, right?" ”

"Hehe, I'm not a doctor, but we don't have a regular doctor on the ship now, so I'll be in charge of medical care for the time being, but if I'm seriously injured, I'll have to hand it over to Pastor Dinah!" Manuel said helplessly, "Besides, you don't need to call me Your Excellency, I am a Portuguese, and I do not have a Swedish title of nobility or naval position!" ”

"Are you Portuguese?" Xu Mo asked a little surprised.

"Yes, the important cadres on our ship are basically not Swedes, Gerhardt is a German nobleman, Charles is a Frenchman, and our lovely admiral has taken them captive from various places." Manuel couldn't help but laugh.

"Hey, Manuel, you can't slander Admiral Ben, you got on board of your own volition." Hedram turned around and shrugged his shoulders helplessly at Xu Mo, "There's no way, Sweden's navy is too weak, and there aren't many professionals, so I can only recruit cadres from some port cities passing by!" ”

"I did volunteer to get on the ship, but I am a carpentry technician, and I just wanted to go to sea to earn some pension, but not only did I have to do my own job, but I was also used by the Admiral as a navigator and a medical worker!" Manuel grumbled with a smile.

"Mr. Manuel, it seems that you must have a lot of seafaring experience, otherwise you wouldn't know so much." Xu Mo complimented, "I want to ask you, the injury of little Blakeney ......"

Hearing Xu Mo's words, Manuel and Hedram gathered the smiles on their faces and glanced at each other. Manuel said with a heavy face: "There is nothing I can do, Pastor Dinah can only save his life temporarily, we must help him amputate his leg tonight, otherwise, he will definitely not be able to support London!" ”

After finishing the conversation with Hedlam, Xu Mo patrolled the deck. There were not many sailors on the deck in the evening, and the places where the naval battle had been shelled the other day had been repaired with spare timber, and even the mainmast had been patched several times. The broken places were repaired in good order, and it seems that Manuel had taught the sailors all his carpentry skills.

On the deck, Xu Mo saw Arhan again, but he didn't see Selena. Tall and valiant in the naval battle the previous day, Ahan had blocked the last shell fired by an armed merchant ship at the mainmast. Although the cannonball was picked up by Granhardt's sandbag to absorb most of its kinetic energy, it was still a cannonball, which shows how strong Ahan's defensive talent is.

On a battleship, anyone who is strong can be recognized and respected by the sailors, and so is Ahan, who now surrounds him with a few sailors, happily chatting with him.

On the contrary, there were no sailors around Xu Mo who came to greet him actively, because of the difference in status between the two sides. Although Ahan was powerful, he was only a sailor, equal to the others. Even before Xu Mo was promoted, he was an alternate non-commissioned officer, and after becoming the chief stormtrooper, he became a second lieutenant in the navy, and the sailors naturally did not dare to talk to Xu Mo casually.

During the conversation with the sailors, Xu Mo learned that Ahan had also been promoted by Hedram, from an ordinary sailor to a first-class sailor, and if he was promoted again, he would be in the same position as Xu Mo at the beginning, becoming an alternate non-commissioned officer.

After getting this information, Xu Mo, who was already in a bad mood, frowned even more. The status of the alternate non-commissioned officer is different from that of a sailor, the former is already an important cadre on the warship, and at that time, Xu Mo will not be able to let him "die a normal death" by some means.

Xu Mo clenched his fists, it seemed that the plan he had prepared for these two reincarnators had to be implemented in advance, even if he took a little risk. The loss of a first-class sailor is believed not to make Hedram lose trust in him, after all, in the naval battle a few days ago, his performance is not exaggerated to describe as turning the tide.

Night came quickly, and by this time, Xu Mo had already left the deck and came to the worship room. Now, in addition to Dinah and Little Blennick, Manuel is also here in the worship room, and he is in charge of operating on Little Blakeney. After all, Dinah is just a fake priest who can disguise rejuvenation as a miracle, but not a surgeon.

Blakeney's condition was even worse, his lips were pale, and his face turned from blue to gray. He didn't eat at noon or night, and he would have nausea and vomiting after eating. When Xu Mo first woke up, he could still support a conversation with Xu Mo, but now he didn't even have this physical strength, and he couldn't wake up in the hammock.

On this warship, the youngest Blakeney was the most likable to everyone, not only the cadres liked him, but even the sailors loved this little boss very much. However, Hedram and the others did not come to the worship room, one because the operation did not require so many people, and the other because the worship room could not stand, so they could only pray silently for the fourteen-year-old boy elsewhere on the ship.

"Your Excellency Anderson, help me carry him to the case, the hammock is shaking too much to operate." Manuel instructed Xu Mo, who volunteered to help.

"You ...... Do you want to do it? Ahem! Blakeney felt the shaking of his body and woke up, as if he had a premonition that something was about to happen, and his body stiffened.

"Lord Blakeney, did you say you were going to be a great admiral like Sir Drake?" Xu Mo said expressionlessly, "Hold on, only by living, can you realize your ideals." ”

"Bite it!" Manuel shoved a small wooden stick into Blakeney's mouth, "Alfred, hold him down!" ”

Seeing Xu Mo holding Blakeney down, Manuel picked up the handsaw and aimed it at Blakeney's arm.

"Crunch, squeak!" The handsaw cut through the arm bones with a terrifying sound, and Blakeney bit the stick desperately, involuntarily tensing his body, but he didn't cry, he pressed his Xu Mo hard, and he couldn't even feel his struggle. Blakeney didn't go limp until his left arm was completely sawn off, and the stick slipped out of his mouth and fell to the ground.

Dinah had her back to her, not daring to look at Blakeney's operation, until it was over, then she wiped her eyes, turned around and applied a special healing cream to the broken wound in her arm, and then carefully bandaged it.

Xu Mo and Manuel moved Blakeney to the hammock again, looking at Blakeney who was still conscious, a trace of admiration flashed in Xu Mo's eyes. Even after so many life-and-death trials in the mission world, he couldn't be sure if he would be able to stay awake under such severe pain, and Dinah often joked that he was an expert in coma.

This fourteen-year-old Swedish boy is even more tenacious than a reincarnation who has experienced many trials of life and death. Xu Mo admired from the bottom of his heart at this moment.

"Dangdang!" Just as a few people had just performed an amputation on Blakeney, the bronze bell on the warship sounded the alert for combat readiness.