Chapter 20: Ambush
Five or six keelboats sailed down the east coast from north to south, heading towards the port of the fishing village, and judging by the flags hoisted by the ships in front, there was no doubt that they were indeed the merchant ships of the Iron Islands.
Damn, how did it come so quickly.
Lynn cursed.
I remembered the letter sent by the squire.
He narrowed his eyes and looked closely at the fleet in the distant sea, and sure enough, he saw a large ship flying a different flag from the Iron Islands at the end of the fleet.
A soldier of the patrol, trotting from his defensive position, saluted and reported: "My lord, Harry Kane has led the company to ambush the fishing boat at the dock, and the workers carrying fresh water are carrying water to the dock. ”
As part of the plan, Lynn sent away the patrol soldiers.
However, an ominous premonition surged in his heart, and he pointed to the shadow of the ship on the sea at the far end, and said to Hu De, the leader of the guards: "If you take a closer look, can you distinguish the flag of another sailing ship behind the Tiemin merchant ship?"
"My lord, my subordinates have noticed it a long time ago," said Hood hurriedly, "it is the coat of arms of the widow's Flint family, whose coat of arms is a white spray scattered on a blue background, and a pair of blue eyes on a yellow background on the top. ”
Why did the people of the Flint family get mixed up with the Iron People?
The family was also a vassal of the Northern Kingdoms, and was rarely seen in Game of Thrones, the only time being when the widow Countess Moonlight's son, Robin Flinty, died in a bloody wedding.
Lynn looked closely for a moment, and found that the Fitling family's ship was not completely close to the Ironman merchant ship, but whether it had deliberately distanced itself.
It doesn't look like it's escorting, it's more like surveillance or pursuit.
Soon, Lynn's suspicions were confirmed.
Five merchant ships from the Iron Islands slowly approached the shore and sailed into the wharf of the fishing village port.
The Fitling family's ship, on the other hand, was still hovering over the sea, and it seemed that it had no intention of entering the port.
The fishing boats that had arrived at the dock at the port dock in advance were slowly leaving as planned.
According to the plan, they would take advantage of the situation to bypass the merchant ships and outflank them in depth behind them.
Lynn couldn't help but hold her breath.
Everything is going according to plan.
Gradually, the first merchant ships began to drop their anchors, and dock steadily at the dock with their cables.
However, when we got here, things took a turn for the worse.
The ironman sailors did not treat the boat as cautiously as expected, and stayed on the boat, waiting for the workers of the fishing village to bring fresh water.
Lynn saw that as soon as the iron-clad merchant ship had just landed, the sailors on board ran out of the wilderness as if they were fleeing from the wilderness.
On the first ship, the number one hundred and ten people did not work hard, and crowded the entire front of the dock.
"What's going on?"
Lynn glared at the group of ironmen sailors who had disembarked in a panic, as if there was a demon waiting on their ship, and they were afraid to avoid it.
Not only that, but what surprised him even more was that the four ships in the rear were just as panicked.
Because they couldn't get to the shore in time, the sailors on board even abandoned their small boats and rowed across the sea to prepare to go ashore.
Seeing this, the ironman sailors in front began to walk from the crowded dock towards the shore, making way for the sailors who were about to land behind.
And in front of them are obstacles and traps laid by the craftsmen of the fishing village port.
Things turned out unexpectedly, and Lynn felt her palms wet, but she had to send her fingers.
If you let all those people go ashore, the plan will get out of hand.
Even if the trap was ineffective, a voice roared from the bottom of his heart.
Hood anxiously asked, "My lord, what should I do, do you want to let them go to the dock?"
Lynn wiped his face, forced himself to calm down, shook his head and shouted: "Absolutely not, blow the trumpet, launch an attack in advance!"
Hood's hand gripping the hilt of the sword at his waist was also a little slippery, he secretly wiped the sweat on his clothes, and when he heard Lynn's command, he hurriedly shouted: "Trumpeter, let the people of the dock attack!"
"Blow the trumpet!"
Dockside,
The soldier dog, disguised as a fisherman, repeatedly said the same thing: "Relax, take a deep breath." ”
However, I did it countless times, but I still couldn't stop my heart from beating faster.
It's true that he is a systematic soldier, but in his world, he is just an ordinary member of the Cavalry Regiment loyal to the lord.
As long as you are human, you will feel fear in the face of war.
The enemy's footsteps were getting closer and closer, and when almost all the men from the first Ironman merchant ship were counted, the landing dinghy on the second ship was ready to dock.
The number of the enemy was close to the number of the cavalry regiment lying in ambush on the shore, and the number of each side at the dock at this moment was about eighty or ninety men.
When the two sides began to get closer and closer, almost at the same time, each felt the killing intent in each other's eyes.
The dog felt his legs tremble.
Woo——!
A whimpering trombone sounded.
From the rear of the fortress of the fishing village harbor came the sound of the order to attack.
The spirit of the dog was shocked, and his legs immediately stopped trembling, and his body was filled with endless courage in an instant.
Dogdan's eyes widened angrily, and he pulled out a long knife from the fishing net behind him, and yelled at the people of the Xiaocai group dressed as fishermen behind him: "Attack!
"Demacia!"
The Iron Folk were an aggressive maritime people with unrivalled naval superiority and a dark tradition of plundering the interior of the East and South, which gave them notoriety that continues to this day.
Iron women can fight like men, plunder on longships, and even captain their own ships.
However, no matter how fierce he is, in the face of an imminent attack and killing, it is inevitable that he will be in a hurry.
The moment the cavalry lifted their disguise and showed their fangs.
The first round of bloody killings was announced.
The long wooden dock floor, after stepping on the hundred people in an instant, all the people on it seemed to feel trembling.
The sailors closest to the shore habitually carried their weapons with them, and before they could draw their sailors' knives, the spears and broadswords of the Horsemen had already slashed at their terrified faces.
The infantry holding the spears of the cavalry shouted,
"Thorn!"
The iron-clad sailors who were crowded in front fell down in an instant.
Immediately afterwards, the infantry holding a broadsword behind the spearmen of the cavalry regiment did not hesitate to step on the corpse of the fallen iron people, charging furiously towards the iron people, and the iron people in the back row barely drew their weapons.
"Kill!"
The iron people on the dock were attacked, and there were sailors preparing to go ashore behind them, and there was no way to retreat.
The people in the middle were forced to jump into the water.
However, the iron people who fell into the water became the best target for the archers of the Xiaocai Regiment in the back row who could not contact the battlefield for the first time.
The iron people on the second and third boats further behind finally realized that their men had been attacked.
Some of the sailors who were about to row the dinghy towards the shore hurriedly returned to the big boat.
The ironmen who entered the water on the fourth and fifth ships also began to abandon climbing the ropes and ladders, and ran towards the ballistas on the side of the ship.
Their ships are equipped with long-range crossbow arrows,
Repelling the sudden appearance of ambushers blocking the docks with crossbow arrows is the only option in their hearts.
As for the terrible thing on the ship that was the biggest threat to them, and it also forced them to jump ship in a hurry.
It doesn't matter, there are no more people on the dock, and getting on the boat is better than soaking in the sea.
Groups of ironmen and sailors climbed back into the sailboat wet, glaring at the soldiers of the Cavalry Regiment on the docks, vowing to make them and the people of the fishing village behind them pay the price.