Chapter 296: Surrender

"Twenty-six rudder, lower half sail ......"

"Yes, turn the rudder twenty-six, the lower half of the sail!" replied the old Kod at the helm loudly, turning the rudder with great force, and the bow of the ship slowly turned to the left. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 On the info mast, several nimble sailors skillfully rolled up half of the fully loaded sails......

With a drizzle on the sea, and the horizon of the Hanea Bada Islands finally appeared on the distant sea level, Schumacher breathed a sigh of relief, ordered the helmsman to adjust his direction, and led the fleet in the icy rain towards the port of Nubit.

It's a quarter past six in the morning, and it looks like the sun won't be out today, and I just hope that the drizzle will stop when we reach the port of Nubit, otherwise we will have to delay a day before we can unload the cargo. This is not a matter of worrying about whether the springboard for getting on and off the ship will slip on a rainy day or not, it will cause trouble for the unloading slaves, but most of the goods and commodities transported on the ship are not waterproof packaging, so it is impossible to unload on a rainy day.

The gray-black poncho dripping from the poncho, Schumacher looked up at the sky and estimated that it should be noon when he arrived at the port of Nubit. Schumacher, who has spent most of his life at sea, is very accurate based on his experience. Looking back at the fleet he commanded, Schumacher couldn't help but feel a hint of pride in his heart. This is the northern fleet of the Chikde Chamber of Commerce, and the most powerful fleet in the northern seas. I can become the commander of this fleet in my lifetime, and this life is worth it.

It takes 22 to 26 days to get from the Golden Bay to the Kingdom of Shaisia, as the archipelago where the Kingdom of Shayya is located is more southern. The Chikde Chamber of Commerce once studied that if there was no land in sight on a ship, it would be easy for sailors and seafarers to become irritable for fifteen days, and at about twenty days they would become desperate and murderous, and it was extremely easy to get into trouble. Often if you don't agree with each other, you will be beaten and bloody, and it is very simple to kill someone.

Therefore, it is because of this that the northern fleet of the Chikde Chamber of Commerce went to the Shaisia Kingdom first to complete the spice trade, and the sailors and crews of the fleet that had just gone to sea were more patient and obedient to orders, and it was easier to control. The sea route to the kingdom of Shayia is long enough to reach before the situation gets bad, and then a ten-day rest in the Shayja kingdom will calm the restless mood of the sailors and seamen, and a ten-day trip to the Hanea Bada Islands will ensure the safety of the fleet.

It also takes more than 20 days from the kingdom of Haneyabada to the Tibetan Golden Bay, but it is only about ten days to sail from the archipelago to the coast of the Gelinthia continent, and the next ten days are all along the mainland coastline to the Tibetan Golden Bay.

The northern fleet of Chikde, which arrived in the Hanea Bada Islands, consisted of sixty-seven seagoing vessels. Before leaving, the Chicked Chamber of Commerce specially allocated twenty-two large ocean-going merchant ships to join them, and the reason was a letter in the room of Schumacher, the commander of the fleet.

The glass war with the Trimber Kingdom also hurt the vitality of the Chikde Chamber of Commerce, although they formed an armed regiment of sailors and seamen without major losses, but the high-end combat power of the Chamber of Commerce lost two first-class great swordsmen and seven golden swordsmen, which almost roasted the Chamber of Commerce on fire. Fortunately, the eldest young master of the Chamber of Commerce, Seliham, came up with a clever plan to reverse the unfavorable situation of the business alliance army, and won the trust of the commander of the alliance army and the president of the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce, Cumberlet, and after the war, he strongly advocated the transfer of the Principality of Ulubaha to the Chikde Chamber of Commerce as a territory, and finally did not let the Chikde Chamber of Commerce be busy in vain.

However, although the Chikde Chamber of Commerce has obtained the Principality of Ulubaha as the territory of the Chamber of Commerce, it is facing a very serious situation, as we all know, the Principality of Ulubaha is a poor country and a mountainous country, and the biggest difficulty is that the cultivated land is insufficient to produce enough food to fill the belly of the people, so the Grand Duke of Ulubaha formed two mercenary corps in the hope of eating and people, one is to earn some gold coins, and the other is to reduce the burden of food.

As for the people of the principality, in order to eat enough to go to the sea to become a pirate and go up the mountain to become a bandit, the former Grand Duke of Ulubaha didn't care at all, anyway, he was not interested in receiving taxes from these poor clanging people of the principality, and it was better to find an employer for the two mercenary groups under his command at that time, that would be a big business to get money.

Now the two mercenary regiments of the Principality of Ulubaha have become the biggest burden on the Chamber of Commerce after their defection, the establishment of the Scarlet Red Regiment and the Tricolor Sword Legion are small, only 24,000 people, but the nearly 50,000 people of the two legions plus their families and relatives are almost 200,000, almost a quarter of the total population of the principality. In the past, the Grand Duke of Ulubaha could not care about the families of these legionnaires, in his eyes these legionnaires were cannon fodder to earn money for him, and it was a great favor to let them have a living salary.

Now that the Chikrid Chamber of Commerce is in charge, they don't want the soldiers of these two legions to be as disloyal as they were to the former Grand Duke of Ulubaha, and they need not only to reorganize these two legions into regular legions, but also to have their loyalty. Therefore, it is necessary not only to rectify military discipline, but also to take care of the families of these soldiers. It's just that the glass war has caused the food prices of the business alliance to rise rapidly, like a flip. In particular, after the war, the attitude of various countries towards commercial alliances changed from proximity to prevention, cutting off most of the trade routes, such as grain and iron ore, which were even included in the embargo, and as a result, the food prices of commercial alliances could not be lowered for a long time.

The Principality of Ulubaha, the current Chikde Chamber of Commerce Territory needs food the most, with food, the Chikde Chamber of Commerce can win the hearts of those rebellious mountain people, like the development plans formulated by the eldest young master Seliham can be implemented, change the situation of poverty in the Urubaha Mountains, as long as two or three years, the Chamber of Commerce territory can be self-sufficient, and even a lot of income will come in.

But the problem is that the Chikde Chamber of Commerce can't buy food from all over the country with money now, and all that can be bought is high-priced grain, even if the Chikde Chamber of Commerce can't stand it no matter how rich it is. The reason why more than 20 large ocean-going merchant ships were transferred to the northern fleet was to buy 1 million Pu'er grain from the kingdom of Haneyabada. (One pu'er is equal to one hundred catties, a unit of Gelinthia quantity, which evolved from a sack woven from pu'er hemp in one hundred catties.) ）

The letter in the room of Schumacher, the commander of the Northern Fleet, was written by the president of the Chicke Chamber of Commerce to King Luther III of the Kingdom of Haneabada. The letter asked Luther III to agree to sell grain to the Chiked Chamber of Commerce, taking into account the friendship that had always maintained good relations with the Kingdom of Haneyabada. There was no way, such a large amount of grain trading had to be approved by Luther III, and for this reason, the Chicked Chamber of Commerce specially prepared a large number of precious gifts to be presented to Luther III.

The flotilla sailed along the slow mantle of the waterway to the port of Nubit. Standing on the slipway, Schumacher looked at the several islands shrouded in smoke and rain not far away, and wondered why he didn't see the slaves working on the islands at this time, could it be that those slave owners and nobles were kind, and they were afraid that those slaves would catch a cold and get sick in such weather, so they didn't let them come out to work? After thinking about it, Schumacher couldn't help but laugh at himself, what do you care about so much, whether the slaves do their jobs or not is their own business......

The decks of merchant ships were crowded with sailors and seafarers, who preferred to come to the kingdom of slavery rather than the kingdom of Shaisia. Not to mention anything else, just because of the quality of the women in the brothel, the Kingdom of Haneyabada is many times better than the Kingdom of Shaisia. Most of the women who picked up customers at the docks in the Shayiya Kingdom were the families of fishermen and farmers, all of them tanned, and they still smelled of fish and earth.

The women in the brothels in the kingdom of Haneyabada were all slave girls from all over the continent of Galintya, not to mention the cheapness, and the number of them was large, enough for the sailors and crews of the fleet to get drunk and sleep on them for days and nights, minus the fatigue and boredom of their long voyages.

When passing through the island of Luoyu, Schumacher finally saw the slaves, a family of three, standing in front of a dilapidated stone house on the island, watching the fleet pass by with a blank face......

"It's strange, how did those slave owners allow slave families to live together?" muttered Kuchud, a first-class great swordsman on the slipway.

The Chikde Chamber of Commerce originally had five great swordsmen to worship, but one was killed when it intercepted Lorlist's Dawn's Exocet, and two more were lost in the Glass War, one was killed while protecting President Chikde from assassination, and the other was decapitated and killed unsuspectingly after being deceived by the former Grand Duke of Ulubaha. Now the only things left are this first-level great sword master Kuchud and the second-level great sword master Udi who went to the territory of the Ulubaha Chamber of Commerce to sit down.

The reason why the Kuchud Great Sword Master was able to sit in the Northern Fleet was because the Chikd Chamber of Commerce valued this trip to the Haneabada Kingdom to buy food, and did not want any accidents, so it specially transferred the Kuchud Great Sword Master of the Southern Armed Fleet to the Northern Fleet.

"Hehe, the Great Swordsman doesn't know that this Haneyabada Kingdom also allows slaves to start a family and live together. Old Kod, who was at the helm, laughed: "Like those old and decrepit female slaves, those great nobles will also allow their slaves to be wives." But it's all the rest of their play. There are also some female slaves who are too big to play with them, so they just find a slave to be a cheap daddy, and they can play when they want to, and the cheap father has to stand guard outside for them......"

"Haha, it seems that it is still very comfortable to be a nobleman in the Kingdom of Haneyabada, and it is really easy to raise a group of slaves and make a manor, and all the life and death of slaves are in their own hands, what do you want...... Kuchud Grand Swordsman also laughed.

Schumacher shook his head disapprovingly, they all substituted themselves as slave owners and aristocrats, and they didn't want to think about how humiliating and unfortunate they would be if they became slaves. However, as the commander of the northern fleet of the Chikde Chamber of Commerce, Schumacher was concerned about whether he could fulfill his mission and make a grain deal with the kingdom of Haneyabada, rather than sympathizing with the lowly slaves.

After the fall to the front is the Golden Shark Island and Duck Island, far in front of the Nubit Harbor can already be seen, it may be the cold rain, there are not a few people on the pier, and the two trestle bridges along the coast are empty, there is no past full of large and small sea boats lively look.

"What's the matter, this port of Nubit is so deserted, what's going on?" Old Cod at the helm was stunned for a moment.

"Isn't it good to have so many vacancies?" Schumacher rolled his eyes: "Didn't you get the news before you set sail, all the slave nobles of the Haneyabada Kingdom united and sent troops to attack the island of Hilovas in the Kingdom of Antinac, which is the territory of some count who is hostile to our Chamber of Commerce, and now there are no ships and few people here, it is likely that they have taken advantage of it and sent out again." ”

This reason is good and powerful, and no one can argue with it.

But the closer you get to Nubit Harbour and the more sailors crowd up the deck, everyone is anxious to get off the ship early and have fun.

"Huh, how can those slave nobles have the leisure to build a hill next to the dock? Is that a pyramid? What is it for?" Old Cod at the helm was curious, should it be a pyramid?

As the distance got closer and closer, the Kuchud Great Swordsman, who was looking at the pyramid, suddenly gasped, and then the whole person trembled.

"What's wrong?" asked Schumacher.

"Well, that's a human head...... All, all, yes, it's a man, a head, a head, a gold, a pyramid ......" the Great Swordsman of Kuchud finally finished his sentence tremblingly.

"What did you say?" Schumacher threw himself to the right, looked up, and felt a stream of cold water poured down his head, and the whole person suddenly became cold, as if he had fallen into an ice hole......

The fleet was only a hundred meters away from the dock in Nubit Harbor, and it was still approaching. And the pyramid built on the beach on the right side of the pier with a height of more than 30 meters came into view, pyramids are not rare, and there are many pyramid-shaped buildings among the ruins excavated on the Gelinthia continent, but most of them are mausoleums. But the pyramid built next to the dock of Nubit Harbor is made up of human heads from top to bottom......

These heads have obviously been embalmed, and there are still expressions of despair, pain and madness on their pale faces, such as one head, hundreds of thousands of human heads, and the visual shock of the pyramid built with these heads is so strong, especially the transparent glue vine juice between these heads, which looks like a large pyramid-shaped crystal with countless human heads......

All the sailors and crew members on the deck of the entire fleet were silent, they only felt that their hands and feet were cold and did not obey the call, and an indescribable fear came out of their hearts, their teeth were trembling, their hands and feet were trembling, and their whole people were trembling......

Many of the brave sailors and sailors of the fleet have seen hundreds of deaths, some of them crawling out of the pile of dead people, but in the face of this huge pyramid of human heads, no one can still maintain the courage, they stared blankly at this pyramid of human heads, forgetting their duties, what to do and what to do......

More than a dozen ships collided due to the daze and mistakes of the controller, and the entire fleet became entangled.

Schumacher came to his senses and was about to give the order for the fleet to regroup, when he heard a whining horn echoing over the port of Nubit.

Countless well-equipped soldiers poured into the docks, lined up, and countless crossbows were pushed to the front, and huge crossbow arrows glittering with cold light were aimed at the fleet and ready to be fired.

Schumacher and Kuchud's faces changed dramatically, followed by the sound of horns on Golden Shark Island and Duck Island on both sides, and a long queue of soldiers and rows of strangely shaped vehicles appeared on the islands. Then there was the sound of horns in the rear of the flotilla, and seven or eight large sea-going ships blocked the sea passage of the flotilla into the harbor. The northern fleet of the Chikde Chamber of Commerce has become a turtle in an urn, and it is impossible to escape.

Lorist took the two great swordsmen of Ingrek and Hughes to the dock, and faced the chaotic fleet: "Abandon your weapons and spare your life, get off the ship and surrender!"

All the Norton soldiers roared in unison: "Abandon your weapons, get off the ship and surrender......!"

The Northern Fleet coped silently......

Lorist waved his hand, and the horn sounded again.

The Thunderbolt catapults in the front row of Golden Shark Island and Duck Island threw the first batch of burning firebombs into the boatless waters behind the fleet, spanning a distance of more than 400 meters, and nearly 100 firebombs smashed into the water, hitting waves several meters high.

Schumacher's face turned pale: "What to do?"

Kuchud Great Swordsman clenched his teeth: "No way, at least one of the great swordsmen on the dock is a great swordsman, and his murderous aura is very heavy, I, I'm afraid it's not his opponent......"

Schumacher turned his head to look at the sailors on deck, no one dared to look at him, almost all of them had lost the courage to resist in front of the huge pyramid of human heads, and now they were surrounded by traps, and resistance was a dead end.

Schumacher hung his head in amazement and issued his last order as the commander of the fleet: "Sail down, hoist the white flag, dock, we surrender......"

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(To be continued.) )