022. Seven Sea Pirates
The peninsula followed the lord of Timur with a new oath of allegiance.
It comes like a wind, and when it retreats, it collapses.
Hutuchi's vanguard was almost wiped out or taken prisoner.
Gramiyan, after retreating from the battlefield, was ostensibly an ally with the Black Sea Butcher, but in fact he withdrew his own military strength.
Coupled with the defection of the peninsula lords who were originally loyal to them, the wounded soldiers needed to be taken care of, and the military strength that Hutuchi could mobilize was reduced to less than 10,000.
And Timur was close to thirty thousand.
It is not enough to have many enemies and few enemies, let alone at the moment.
After Hu Tuxia retreated to his safe position, he asked people to arrest a few foreign grassland women, and after venting for a while, they sacrificed these women to the sky, and then retreated.
Timur did not chase either, and if he went deeper, the supplies would not be able to keep up.
She wants to take advantage of the fact that the Purple Room is still unable to accept the spoils, take part of her first, and at the same time woo the Peninsula Lord.
Dragons do not inhabit any kind of creature, and after the battle of the Dragon and Tiger Society, there were more than 6,000 tribesmen who came to cast for Tianwen Khan Sucai (actually her).
Half of it was assigned to her subordinates, and half was given to the Four Tiger Generals and their subordinates.
The strength has increased slightly
But she understands that the long-term war and destruction far exceed everything, and governance is still needed to build the country.
She was in one of the largest lords' palaces on the peninsula, and issued recruitment papers, enlistments, craftsmen, blacksmiths, healers, samurai, and all kinds of literacy people......
She welcomes people who can help him govern the tribe.
She called this order, modeled after the Oriental saying, the "Seeking Talent Order".
The steppe people are not like the Bright or Orthodox lords, and the bloodline is above all else.
Even if she is a slave, as long as she can do something, she can use it.
Bran had heard the name of the steppe dragon so many times, and he was so close at the moment, he really had the idea of going north to see him, but after thinking about it again, he decided to go south first.
After all, it has been almost a year since he left the territory of the peninsula.
The six people, except for Bran, all had enough supplies, and then there were two ways to return home.
Ichisu let Bran choose, "Your Highness, one of us will take the merchant fleet of the Black Sea, and then go south, but the caravan will stop along the road to do business, and the time will be very long, and the other one will be much simpler, find pirates and take their ships." ”
Bran was born in the sea country, and the peninsula city has also been in business for a long time, and the so-called pirates are divided into many ways.
Some are also merchants, but when the official does not recognize them, they are pirates, and they are merchants.
After asking a few more questions, Bran knew that the pirates he was going to get on the ship were mainly trade smugglers.
"Are these pirates reliable?"
"I'm also not sure, I used my teenage connections to ask a slave owner, and he can help us get the line together, but I have to change the boat in the middle, and I can't go straight."
"Why turn?" Bran was puzzled.
"He said that the pirates also divided the route, and the Black Sea went down, and there were Bluebeard, Blackbeard, and other pirates, and we had to buy the 'sea paperwork', which was the pirate's pass, before we could be released.
"Will there be any changes in the middle?"
"Probably not, pirates also have to be reputable, unless they really encounter a very urgent situation."
"How long does it take to take a regular merchant ship?"
"In three months, I found one, and seven days later, I docked at the port, and then this ship bought goods and sold them south along the road."
"What about the pirates?"
"Twenty days."
"Okay, if you look for pirates, you can spend as much as you want, as long as it's fast and safe."
Bran said this clearly, you want as much as you want, take all the gold, but don't be surprised.
Ichisu naturally understood, and it was immediately a contact.
A day later, Ichisu was on hand with Blandau, and had already contacted the ship.
So the seven men left the town at night and were led to an uninhabited port on the Black Sea.
The smuggler asked people to take down the goods, and at the same time took the money bags of Bran and the others.
It was then treated as cargo and hid in one of the ships.
For a few days, everyone except Bran was shaken back to death, but Bran's current physique was not at ease with this kind of wave, and when the storm hit, he also ate calmly.
Ten days later, their ship headed south to the Aegean port.
This is the territory of Ashklai.
The pirates traded with the soldiers of the port, they only bought water and food, and traded goods that did not enter the customs and pay taxes.
The first bow in the East China Sea!
Bran looked at the military flag on the shore of the harbor, he was now considered a lord of Ashklay.
Because the giants have already captured Venice, northern Italy, and Florence have all been lost.
If the manor is still there, then the giant must also pay taxes.
Half a day later, the ship continued to move.
As soon as the Aegean Sea is crossed, it is the sea off the coast of Italy, so it seems that twenty days is not used.
But this time, just after a day of travel, a strong wind blew, and the ship deviated from the course and strayed into the territory of other pirates.
This entry was immediately discovered, and a large fleet of clippers, but with sharp corners and triangular sails, approached.
"It's Bluebeard's boat!"
The crew members tensed their nerves, although they were also called pirates, but they were all petty fights, specializing in smuggling, Bluebeard and this kind of thing, even the regular army dared to rob it.
At the moment, their numbers are obviously inferior to their equipment.
After being surrounded, Agatha was nervous, and Bran told them to calm down, leading Ichisu to the deck and standing behind the sailors.
The pirates were able to speak Greek, and Bran could speak well, and now Bran was able to communicate with them completely.
During this time, Bran was calm and composed, and they looked at it and guessed that Bran was a nobleman, so his attitude towards him was quite kind.
"Which pirate is that?"
The captain's captain saw Bran leaning over and replied, "Garon the Bluebeard's men, the most famous pirate group in the Mediterranean right now. “
Just a pirate, Bran can't look down on it in his heart.
He had recently heard that the pirates had been bounty by Ashklay, and that the portraits of the seven main armed pirates had been advertised everywhere.
This Bluebeard is second in the bounty.
Bran saw the captain's frightened look and said, "What will happen to us if we are breached?"
"Maybe they will be treated as slaves, imprisoned, and waiting for ransom."
Does this mean that the road back to China has been delayed again?
Bran added, "If you win this leader, you can move your ships at full speed, can you go?"
"If you win against these pirates, you can take their heads to receive a reward, pass directly from the territory of Ashclay, and you can reach Venice in five days at the earliest."
"Okay, you bring him up, and I'll do the rest."
After Bran said confidently, the captain of the sailors looked at Bran with the mask, "Do you ..... know how much Bluebeard was rewarded, her men." ”
"Just listen to me, tell the captain, we surrender, let them come up to receive it, don't let them have a chance to release cold arrows, the others have me."
The captain of the sailors conveyed Bran's words to the captain, who did not want to surrender to the pirates, and if the ship was taken away, the effort would be wasted.
Since Bran was so confident, he had to try this method and let the pirates come up.
Three clippers, surrounding themselves, there were probably more than forty people.
The number of people is nearly twice as large.
And the members of the Bluebeard Pirates who led the team are also pirates who can be called famous, and the captain, a halfway monk, has no temper.
Seeing the captain's direct surrender, Bluebeard laughed, and some people even said, "It's all the leaders of Garon, even Ashuclay dares to rob them, who is not afraid of us, but how can the bounty of the bounty be the second of the seven sea thieves, it should be higher than Blackbeard."
Bluebeard's pirates came up to grab the ship, and Bran waited for them to come up for more than half of the time, and when even the leader came up, he stepped forward.
"Huh?"
The leader of the pirates, who had come to rob the ship, said to Brando, "Take the mask off." ”
The sword flashed, and the leader fell without even drawing his sword clearly!
"Cut off your hand, jump down, and I'll let you go."
Bran said this, and he didn't believe that they would really do it, so he directly raised his sword and fell.
He didn't use the seven-star sword, but the matching sword of Ichisu.
So after slashing a few people, the sword was blunt.
The pirates are more of a sea pulling battle, and this kind of land killing momentum makes them dumbfounded.
None of the pirates who were the last to board survived.
The pirates who did not get on the ship immediately fled for help.
"Just now you told me that you could run to the territory of Ashclay, and now it's your turn to make a move."
Bran tossed the head of a pirate over.
When the captain came back to his senses, he shouted, "Change course and go full speed!"
"You killed Bluebeard's men!" The captain of the sailors was incredulous, "One of the Seven Sea Pirates!"
Bran stood on the deck, looking out at the blue ocean, and didn't move all night.