Chapter 9: Christina Enneko
Seeing Hedram's rare embarrassment, Xu Mo turned around in surprise. Behind them, a pretty young woman was standing. The woman has long red hair, a slightly thin face, and is tall and wears a low-cut red dress. Under the high slit skirt, the brightly colored red stockings are exposed, and a pair of pencil legs wrapped around are round and slender, which is actually a rare and stunning beauty.
A hint of surprise flashed in Xu Mo's eyes, the bright and moving big eyes of the red-haired beauty, as well as her tall and slender figure, would undoubtedly leave an extremely deep impression on the man who saw her for the first time.
"Hi, Christina!" Hedram reluctantly raised his glass to the beauty, and at the same time glanced sideways at Gerhardt next to him. Coming out of the Imperial Prime Minister's office today, Hudlam and Gerhardt decided to select a good seaman from their respective warships to help Alfred, who was weak.
Hedlam chose Tie Lilie, a blonde young man with great knowledge of navigation and superb boat handling skills, as Xu Mo's first mate. Gerhardt, on the other hand, listened to Hedlam's advice and chose Christina, a red-haired beauty with superb swordsmanship, to be the stormtrooper captain of the Vasa.
Christina's full name is Christina Aeneco, an English and Spanish half-breed. In fact, Christina is not quite the same as most sailors who go to sea for money. This beautiful woman came from a wealthy family, and her father was a wealthy businessman in London.
Christina is a free-spirited child, hates to be restrained, and has an active personality, and was a fierce child king as a child. Despite her father's mismatch, Christina is very close to her grandfather, Frio, who is a navigator. She loved listening to her grandfather's stories about his adventures on the sea, especially the stories of naval battles.
Thanks to Christina's naturally lively personality, as well as the profound influence of her seafarer grandfather, she gradually began to learn combat and swordsmanship. And she and her grandfather Frio often went out to the tavern with many seamen, and she learned all kinds of gypsy dances from the dancers in the tavern. Among them, she is best known for flamenco from Andalusia, Spain.
In her interactions with seafarers and dancers, Christina skillfully combines light gypsy steps with superb swordsmanship. When she was invincible to the seamen's tavern on the streets of London, Christina finally set her sights on the vast sea.
At this time, Christina finally understood what she had been pursuing, learning swordsmanship was just to give herself the ability to protect herself, and sailing adventures were her true dreams. However, when the red-haired beauty asks her father for support, her father is stunned and sets up a marriage for her the next day, hoping to restrain Christina's crazy idea with a husband.
Although Christina's fiancΓ© is her childhood companion Mivar, the red-haired beauty does not like the cowardly Mivar at all. It was at this time that the warships of Hudlam and Gerhardt arrived in London. Christina, who met the two at the tavern, used her superb swordsmanship to convince the Swedish Admiral and his comrades to take her to sea, chasing the sailing dream that had accompanied her since childhood.
However, Hedram and Gerhardt soon discovered that they had made the wrong decision. After the cheerful and pungent nature of Christina adapted to the first days of seafaring life, the small battleship could no longer restrain her. Despite the naval regulations on the battleship, private fights were strictly forbidden, but the clever red-haired beauty had a way of teasing the male hormone-stimulated Viking sailors by volunteering to have a "friendly swordsmanship exchange" with her.
Of course, this situation did not last long, and the Viking sailors were finally defeated by repeated and painful experiences, and then they refused to ask for their own hardships despite how the red-haired beauties coerced and seduced them.
Then, the troubles for Hedram and Gerhardt begin, and the bored Christina finally finds them. Compared with the strict style of Gelhardt, Hedram found that Christina was more willing to use him as a sword pastime.
Hedram is an orthodox naval admiral, and he has really worked hard in swordsmanship, and of course he will not easily lose to Christina. If it is a life-and-death struggle, Hedram's victory rate is higher, after all, the life and death tests experienced by the Swedish Admiral are not comparable to Christina's.
However, in a simple competition of swordsmanship, Hedlam lost more and won less. The Swedish Admiral, who always maintains a gentlemanly demeanor, is really difficult to win against the light-footed Christina without keeping his hand. There is no grace to win, no face to lose, after a few times, Hedram completely recognized the reality, and could only transfer this red-haired beauty to Gerhardt's battleship, hide if she can, and come out of sight!
This time, seafarers were selected to help Xu Mo, and although Hedlam chose Christina, he did not let Gerhardt bring her here. Obviously, Gerhardt had called the red-haired beauty here to depress Hedram.
"Your Excellency the Admiral...... After seeing Hedlam, the corners of Christina's mouth turned upward, and a sweet smile appeared on Melon Seed's face.
Seeing that familiar light appeared in Christina's big eyes again, Hedram hurriedly interrupted her, "Ahem, Christina, don't you often ask us to tell you the story of the North Sea Struggle repeatedly?" The Admiral beside me is none other than the former you have always admired, Lord Alfred, the most courageous SA Captain on the Vestelos. β
Xu Mo, who was looking up to drink, suddenly felt a chill in his neck, and suddenly put down his wine glass with a blank face, and turned his head to look at the two companions next to him.
"That...... Alfred, let me introduce you, this is Miss Christina Aeneko, your future Stormtrooper Captain! The corners of Hedram's mouth twitched twice, and he said solemnly.
Female Stormtroopers? Xu Mo looked at Hedram and Gerhardt in confusion, and saw that their faces were very serious, not like they were joking, so he had to turn around and show a friendly smile to the red-haired beauty, "Hello, Miss Aeneko!" β
"Hello, Lord Alfred, you can just call me Christina!" The red-haired beauty flashed her big eyes, glanced at Xu Mo "shyly", carried the hem of her dress, and made a curtsy salute.
"Lord Gerhardt, are you sure she's a stormtrooper and not a cook?" Xu Mo took advantage of Christina to bow her head and salute, and asked Gelhardt beside her softly.
"Christina's duties are up to you, and of course, you can make her a ...... Cook! Gerhardt's eyelids jumped, and he quietly turned to the red-haired beauty and said, "Christina, I have something to tell you!" β
"Admiral, this Christina ......" Looking at the backs of the two, Xu Mo looked at Hedram suspiciously.
"Christina's father is a rich man, and he is very powerful in London......" Hedram smiled mysteriously at Xu Mo, and then stopped talking.
"Oh...... Thank you, Admiral! Xu Mo suddenly realized and said gratefully.
"You're welcome, Alfred! You're really welcome between us! Hedram laughed dryly.
This night in the era of sea power has always been remembered by the members of the old K regiment, because this is the first time that their old K regiment leader has been put on a solid table, and it is also by two comrades in the plot with deep feelings.
In fact, this can't be blamed for Xu Mo not seeing through the truth, Christina's beauty will largely make the man who sees her for the first time involuntarily ignore the spikes on the rose.
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Ten days later, the docks in Stockholm were crowded with people, and the Swedish Navy's most powerful warship, the Vasa, had been refurbished and was about to go to sea.
"Alfred, I didn't expect that old man in Uppsala to prepare a well-trained musket team for you!" Hedram looked at the elite musket team in blue uniforms and neatly lined up on the battleship, and shook his head with envy.
"Hehe, I don't know if they can adapt to life at sea!" Xu Mole laughed.
"Most people in Sweden are very water-based, and they will adapt to life at sea very quickly!" Hedram slapped Xu Mo's shoulder, "Originally, I was worried about whether you could subdue the Viking sailors on the Vasa as soon as possible, but with this well-equipped musket team as a law enforcement team, plus Christina, there should be no problem!" β
Xu Mo's eyes flashed, and he nodded with a smile. It is worthy of the North Sea Silver Eagle, the members of the old K regiment don't understand what this musket team does, and Hedram only glanced at it, and immediately understood one of the purposes of Xu Mo's use of the musket team.
When he was in Uppsala, Xu Mo understood that Gustav II would most likely hand over a warship to him. Whether the battleship is strong or not, the battleship itself is only one aspect, and the other depends on the seafarers.
A knowledgeable navigator like Tie Lilie is hard to find, and whether the new battleship can have a qualified first officer, Xu Mo can only do his best. However, there are more ordinary sailors on board, and these people may not need a lot of seafaring knowledge, but they must be kneaded together as soon as possible to give full play to the team combat effectiveness of the battleship.
Xu Mo's own plot identity has a high reputation in the Swedish Navy. However, he alone will definitely not be able to do it, if there is another well-equipped and well-trained musket team on the ship, then the combat discipline of the crew can be guaranteed, so that Xu Mo's orders can be thoroughly implemented, and the combat effectiveness of the new battleship can be brought into play more quickly.
"Hehe, I knew you'd see the Musketeers! But what about Christina? Xu Mo frowned, and a wave of uneasiness suddenly surged in his heart.
"Ahem, get on the boat, everyone is waiting for you!" Hedlam's eyes flashed, and he pushed Xu Mo onto the wooden bridge.
"Alright! See you at sea, Lord Hedlam! Xu Mo pinched the brim of his triangular hat and gave his old boss a military salute.
"Good luck, Alfred!" Hudram smiled back.