PS: In order to thank everyone for their support last week, there are three more chapters today!

The next day, the Third Fleet sent twelve warships that Bai Qi had auctioned off.

The commander of the fleet who escorted the fleet told Bai Qi that yesterday's auction had sold a huge sum of more than 600,000 gold coins, which was almost equivalent to the tax revenue of Leoni City for five or six years.

According to the military merit law of Leoni City, half of the more than 600,000 gold coins will be used to reward the soldiers who have made meritorious contributions in the war, Bai Qi obtained the establishment of miraculous feats in the battle of attacking Blackwater City, and the senators thought that he should receive 4% of the reward, that is, more than 12,000 gold coins, plus the four warships entrusted by Bai Qi for auction sold more than 3,300 gold coins, plus the 15,000 gold coins paid by Bai Qi on the spot, a total of more than 30,300 gold coins, and the total price of the twelve warships he auctioned yesterday was more than 25,000 gold coins, that is, Not only did he not need to pay the other party's money, but the other party sent him a huge sum of five thousand gold coins.

Although Bai Qi had expected this result, he was still overjoyed, and casually threw a bag of gold coins to the officer who was escorting the warship.

Seeing off the officers who had sent the ship, Bai Qi ordered Duncan to take over the ship and return to the humble barracks inside the east gate of Monroe.

Bai Qi found Ushtu and told him that he was willing to use the fleet he had just arrived as collateral, and asked him to help find two more great warriors from among the mountain barbarian mercenaries, and he was willing to hire them at a high price.

Ushtu told him that since the mountain barbarians were basically landlubbers, there were very few mountain barbarians who could adapt to life on a ship and water warfare, and he was the only one in the world. There is no semicolon.

This news undoubtedly disappointed Bai Qi very much.

Knowing that it would be difficult to recruit great warriors, Bai Qi began to appoint the captains of the twelve warframes. Officers and sailors.

He made the Redsails, the best of the four Grace ships, his flagship, and renamed it the Dawn. He appointed Duncan as his first mate, and selected seven of the strongest warriors from the Chosen Warriors recruited to serve as his personal guards.

He appointed the Messiah as the captain of the Blade, assigned him all the Aaronic Chosen Warriors he had brought with him, and assigned him two Scout Clippers, allowing him to appoint the captains of the two Scout Clippers himself, and could choose from among the Chosen Warriors he recruited to join his command.

After the Aaron family left the city of Yasuo, they have been maintaining the family through water trade for many years, so the Messiah himself is a master of water warfare, and some of his men are good at handling ships.

Loyalty to the Messiah. Bai Qi was not worried, if he wanted to obtain land and let the family regain its noble status, he could only help Bai Qi establish meritorious deeds and obtain the status of the first consul of Blackwater City.

After obtaining Bai Qi's permission, Messiah changed the name of the Blade to "Aaron"

Bai Qi appointed Ushtu as the captain of the Blackfish, and although Ushtu claimed to be the only mountain barbarian proficient in water warfare, he had only been escorted with ships as a mercenary before, and had never been a captain. So Bai Qi appointed Gundor as the first mate of the Blackfish, and sent Bode and Lenka to assist him under Gander.

Ustu also followed the example of the Messiah in changing the name of the Blackfish to the "Hill".

The last of the Divine Grace battleship, the Winged Serpent, Bai Qi handed over to Rounda and appointed him as the captain. He also appointed quinine as his first mate.

Roundup named the Divine Grace Battleship the Warrior.

Bai Qi selected six people who had served as captains from the recruited Chosen Warriors, appointed them as captains of the remaining six reconnaissance clippers, and assigned the remaining Chosen Warriors to the reconnaissance clippers as first mates.

After some tweaking. Bai Qi assigned ten Divine Chosen Warriors to each Divine Grace Battleship as the main force of the entire fleet. He also planned to assign two Chosen Warriors to each Scout Clipper, due to the insufficient number of Chosen Warriors. Three of them were missing first mates, but he was confident that he would be able to recruit them soon.

After making these arrangements, Bai Qi asked Duncan to go to the Third Fleet to find Admiral Hall to see if he could dig up another batch of elite sailors, and he himself planned to visit the Archon himself, he needed a large number of elite sailors to fill his fleet.

Just when Bai Qi arranged for the captains to immediately start training, and he was going to the temple to ask for a meeting with the archon, Messiah and Quinine found him one after another.

The Messiah told him that the Aaron family had a good group of sailors and warriors, whom he had summoned to the city of Leoni, and that these warriors would be willing to serve him if he agreed.

After a little consideration, Bai Qi agreed to his request, and very simply agreed to assign these Aaron sailors and warriors to his warship.

Quinine's goal of meeting with Bai Qi was similar to that of the Messiah, and he brought with him a message from General Sark that the Byron family was willing to support his four powerful and well-versed Chosen Warriors in water warfare, as well as elite sailors and sailors who could arm two warships.

Of course, General Sark did not want his son to risk hunting down Captain Saxon, but he also knew that he could not persuade Rounder to return, so he could only send more men to protect his son.

With the support of the Aaronic family and the Byron family, there was not much shortage of sailors under Bai Qi, and he simply suppressed the plan to meet the consul for the time being, and stayed in the port to wait for Duncan's news.

However, Duncan brought back bad news for him, and General Hall politely refused his request, for the simple reason that in the next war, General Hall still counted on his young men to do something for him, and he could not spare more manpower to give him more.

Although this bad news was unexpected, it was also reasonable, and Bai Qi could only go to the consul for help.

Before leaving, he gave Duncan a large sum of money and asked him to go to the slave market to buy a batch of the strongest oarsmen.

In order to prevent attacks from the tigers, Bai Qi simply drove his Divine Grace Battleship from the waterway to the port of Leoni, and after landing at the port, he took Adrian Barrian and his seven Chosen Warriors and walked towards the temple in a majestic manner.

On an assault warship in the port, the tiger looked at Bai Qi from a distance who was swaggering through the city with a group of subordinates, his eyes were like knives, and his face was full of haze.

The archon listened to Bai Qi's request and nodded without hesitation to agree to his request.

That night, more than seventy fine sailors from the Aaronic family, four chosen warriors from the Byron family, and more than fifty excellent sailors arrived at the port of Monroetown.

Bai Qi handed these people over to the Messiah and Rounda to arrange for himself, and although Rounda was a little unhappy that the teacher was accepting the help of the Byron family, he knew that every ounce of strength was precious to the teacher now, so he didn't complain about anything.

The next day, the consul drew more than a hundred sailors from the First and Second fleets to the town of Monroe, and Bai Qi assigned these sailors to his own and Ushtu's fleets.

The next night, Duncan brought back nearly two hundred strong oarsmen, and Bai Qi scattered his skilled oars and distributed them to each boat with the new oarsmen, and he announced that if the fleet returned triumphantly, he would not only erase all the oarsmen's slave marks, but also give them the status of the first citizens of Blackwater.

As for his sailors participating in the war, he promised that as long as he returned from victory, as long as he was willing to join Blackwater City, he would not only get citizenship, but also thirty acres of land.

This promise immediately made the sailors imposing.

It is difficult for modern people to understand the persistent pursuit of land by human beings in this era.

Bai Qi's encouragement made everyone devote themselves to training with the greatest enthusiasm.

On the third day, according to the Messiah's suggestion, Bai Qi used the remaining gold coins in his hand to go to the Divine Grace Weapon Shop in Leoni City to buy a batch of special heavy crossbows for warships, this kind of crossbow is a low-level divine charity equipment, its bowstring is made of the tendons of a special water beast in the Sara River, even after being damp, it will not become soft, and the bow arm has also been treated by divine magic, not only has greater elasticity, but also will not lose its elasticity due to moisture.

However, the price of this kind of Divine Grace Heavy Crossbow is not cheap, and it costs ten gold coins each, which is almost equal to the price of a set of low-level Divine Grace equipment.

The Messiah's advice to Bai Qi was that they had four almost indestructible, swift and nimble Divine Grace warships, which could completely take a rampage and knock over the rudimentary ships of the Troll Clan, and then have ordinary sailors shoot the troll sailors with heavy crossbows, and there was no need to engage in hand-to-hand combat with troll warriors whose strength and agility were far superior to those of human soldiers.

Bai Qi thought so, and bought all the remaining gold coins in his hand for this heavy crossbow and matching crossbow arrows.

After some rectification, Bai Qi led the fleet into the Suoluo River and began to train his troops.

In the past three days, more than a dozen Divine Chosen Warriors who came from other places have defected to him, and Bai Qi has replenished the remaining Divine Chosen Warriors to four Divine Grace Battleships on average, after all, these four Divine Grace Battleships are the main combat power in the future. (To be continued......)