"Set sail"

Edwinna was in good spirits and headed for the Twelve Islands.

This time he came back after the annexation of Crete.

It took a month to receive a letter of accountability from Shehir, but the island is now in his own hands.

Shehir also didn't want to spend any more money on the treasury to send out a navy, and the former ruler of Crete was captured by Bran, and there was only one count left on the island.

Crete was so chaotic that it was occupied by the Trois-Rivières.

Later, Edvena, at the cost of the Sword of the Purple Chamber, sent people to Athens on the Greek Peninsula, gave the sword to Shehir, and exchanged it for the power to rule the Great Three Rivers region, and also received the title of the owner of the Twelve Islands and the Lower Seven Islands.

In fact, there are more than 12 islands in the 12 archipelagos, and there are hundreds of small islands interspersed among them.

However, there are 36 inhabitable islands, 12 of which have a land area of 200 to 1,000 square kilometers, which varies greatly in size.

Therefore, it is referred to as the Twelve Islands.

Among them, it can be divided into the upper five islands and the lower seven islands.

At this time, the Twelve Islands were fought by the local nobles and the Knights Hospitaller, and with the active support of other nobles in the Aegean Sea.

Two of the five islands were recaptured, but the other ten islands were all hoisted with the Lionheart flag of the Holy City.

The two islands that were recaptured were covered by the ten islands, and sooner or later they will be lost again.

The island's navy called for help, and Edvenna received a distress letter.

Before setting out for the expedition, his subordinates advised him not to move lightly.

"Your Highness, King Lionheart brought 10,000 navies to the Twelve Islands, and now even if we are added, we will not be able to change the disadvantage, it is better to develop steadily and manage the Three Rivers well."

"You saw it with your own eyes? The most important thing in this world is rumors, how long has the lion been on the throne?

When his father, King Leper, was in charge of defending the territory with an army, he did not develop much of a navy.

When I was a hostage in Junbao, I heard a lot of things, the Holy City Kingdom, the army and navy ratio was four to one,

Unless they go out with the strength of the whole country, it will never be possible to send more than 10,000 navies.

I came back and swallowed Cree directly, don't you also say that there will be chaos?

Now Shehir not only recognizes my dominion, but also entrusts me with the task of expelling the Holy City and Bluebeard from the enemy army into the waters of the Greek peninsula.

There is no such thing as a sure thing in the world, and if you see a rough idea, you have to bet big!

Even if Lionheart mobilizes the power of the whole country, what about it?

Can't we beat it and can't go?

Our army can even take the opportunity to absorb the navy of these two islands, and now that so many Purple Room Lords are standing by and watching, it is our chance to exalt the three rivers. ”

Annexation of Crete and establishment of the Iron Bear. These two things made Edwin Na have no challenger in Three Rivers, and the order is instantaneous.

Edvina still personally led the team, dispatching twenty ships and two thousand navies to relieve the danger of the two islands.

The nobles and the Knights Hospitaller on the two islands have no capital to escape, and if they lose this battle, they will all have to become pirates.

Edvenna's arrival gave the island a sigh of relief and boosted morale.

But the rest of thousands of people who entered the Twelve Islands was also known to Bluebeard, a female pirate.

There are still nearly 3,000 troops on the island, and if all the men are counted as soldiers, they can be several times more, and more than 70 ships can be pulled.

Bluebeard calculated the strength of the enemy and the enemy, and called all his subordinates to discuss whether to defend or retreat.

Yes, retirement.

"The enemy can be in the battle of Tongxia, with one enemy and three Sanhe sailors, and there are so many people here, if they go all out, even if we win, we will not have the strength to absorb it, and if we lose, it is more likely to give back all the island land we have taken." A Paladin Navy Knight.

The first two groups of troops sent by King Lionheart won the battle to capture the island.

But the Knights Hospitaller were more than three times larger than the number of the island's navy.

Even with the record of one for two, the number of Holy City soldiers left on the Ten Islands now is less than 4,000.

Therefore, although Lionheart did not participate in the war, he still had to send his men with civilian merchant ships, hang the Lionheart battle flag, and pretend that Lionheart was there to deter the enemy.

It's not that Lionheart doesn't want to occupy all of these islands at once, but the Holy City is surrounded by enemies on all sides.

There are Abbasids to the east, Ottoman to the north, Byzantium to the northwest, desert nomadic tribes to the south, and Sinai Peninsula to the southwest, where the pagans are dominant.

The Holy City must maintain a sufficient number of troops to defend against the enemy at all times.

In the middle and late period of the reign of the partial leper king, in order to reduce military spending, only the army and navy were controlled in the situation where there was more than enough land to defend.

After two casualties, the navy was unable to keep up.

At this time, the Abbasids began to harass the borders of the Holy City with small forces.

Unlike the other Light Lords, they lost their lands and were all taken by the Monarch of the Faith.

As soon as the Holy City lost its territory, the people were about to be converted, circumcised, and subjugated by the pagans.

From top to bottom, the people of the Holy City have an obsession with every inch of land and do not dare to abandon it.

So what about the Twelve Islands?

How many people in the Holy City can live on it?

If the border issue is not resolved, at least 20,000 people will have to change their faith this winter.

Lionheart did go on a campaign, but it was to the frontier to oversee the battle against the Abbasids.

But he also paid attention to the war on the island, and he asked the military governor to go to the border waters to take control.

Act as an intermediary between yourself and Bluebeard.

Lionheart gave an order, "Defend the island and deceive the enemy." ”

As long as he can drag on for a month, he will be able to completely free his hands, both to repel the Abbasids and to hold the Twelve Islands firmly.

At this time, Bluebeard, who discusses the war on the island, does not have the final say, and she must discuss it with the other generals.

Thanks to Lionheart's instructions, the crowd decided to hold on.

And it is judged that after the enemy hears the prestige of the Lionheart, he will choose to take back the upper five islands, and dare not easily attack the lower seven islands where Bluebeard and the Lionheart King are located.

So after Bluebeard entered the Twelve Islands in Edvenna, he sent another 900 men to support the Upper Three Islands.

But Edwin didn't move.

For seven days, he consumed food on the island, and only sent small forces to hang around the other islands.

As for Bluebeard, they only sent people to chase after them, and once the people of Mikawa retreated, they would retreat.

The food on the island can last for a month, and seeing that the Holy City coalition forces are not moving, the nobles expressed their peace of mind and continued to say that they would wait for a while longer, so that more nobles would come to help them, and then counterattack.

But Edwin felt that something was wrong, and after he had all the information he knew at the moment, he decided not to take back the upper five islands, and wanted to take one of the seven islands first.

His answer to the island navy was.

"I don't know how many enemies there are right now, I don't know if King Lionheart is coming,

The enemy was clearly on the defensive, and if they really had so many troops, why did they just send troops to harass and not subdue the last two islands?

More than 10,000 navies are fed and clothed every day, and they will soon be able to eat a lake.

When you retreated to the two islands, you also collected all the food of the other ten islands, and the Greeks who were originally on the islands numbered tens of thousands.

These people also have to eat, so why should the Holy City wait for us to gather more people, and they will have a lot of food to eat, so that we can come to the decisive battle?

So the situation can be simpler, I assume that Lionheart did not come, after all, a king, and just ascended the throne, it is the most stable to go to the sea without going far.

Bluebeard himself is a pirate and is not qualified to command so many regular navies, and there must be other Holy Land Knights who share his power.

So I guess they have to do what they do with the instructions from the Holy City.

These days, I have sent people to the islands to operate, and Bluebeard only drives and does not fight, which is obviously weird.

If we wait a little longer, we may be in for a catastrophe.

We should strike first, but we don't hit Mishima.

Of the 12 archipelagos, the area of the Upper Five Islands is only a quarter of that of the Lower Seven Islands.

Won the battle of the upper island, the profit is limited, and the lower seven islands are the core of the archipelago. ”

These words moved everyone, but the nobles on the island were still afraid of King Lionheart, so Edvenna volunteered to send only 400 troops to support his 2,000 men.

Led by the island's experienced sailors, he took advantage of the night to follow the currents south.

The next night, a small island near Shimoshichishima.

At this time, both the enemy and the enemy noticed the movement.

Edvenna stormed the island, and the battle ended quickly, as he had twenty times the enemy's strength on the island.

The gap in numbers was too large, even if it had the advantage of defending the island, the Sanhe side used a battle loss ratio of four to one, losing fifty people, and won the smallest one of the seven lower islands.

After going to the island, the number of people was counted, and Edwin was surprised, since there were only more than 200 people guarding the island.

Now you have three islands and nine islands for the enemy.

Where are Lionheart's 10,000 allies?

Edwinna's outlying islands took the lead in the matter of the seven islands.

After hitting the island, Edwin waited for two days, and his mood was solemn.

To be honest, he was also afraid that the Lionheart King would really kill him, but in the past two days, only a few bluebearded pirates have appeared, and nothing else has happened.

Edwina quickly informed his allies on Kamijima to counterattack together.

But the nobles of the upper two islands felt that it was still safe to go up, and they would defend one island when they laid down the island, and if the people of the three rivers wanted to fight, they would contain them on it.

Edvenna, who received the reply, scolded the fool, and spread out the map, with the bear and a group of cronies standing beside him.

He gestured with his finger excitedly, "I'm now sure that not only did King Lionheart not come, but their reinforcements were also fake, and maybe they kept withdrawing." ”

"Why?" Big Bear Road.

"When I sent ships out to investigate, they returned with the same number of ships, even if they found them.

I sent three, and they returned the salute three, and sent four, and they sent four ships in the same way, in order to intimidate us into withdrawing.

They're lying to us.

I don't know how many of them there were, but judging from the fact that more than two hundred people were put on the island, the enemy's nine islands combined would not exceed six thousand.

A part of the navy was also divided into the upper three islands, and the strength of the lower six islands was at most more than 4,000 troops, and probably less.

We have more than 2,000 troops, and the number of troops is two to one, but we only have one island, and they have to divide the defense of six!"

Speaking of this, there is a knight who said, "In this way, the enemy has three possibilities, the division of forces, the division of forces, and the concentration of forces." ”

The concentration of forces means that Bluebeard is on the lower six islands, and some of the islands are hollow like the one he has just conquered, and he concentrates his superior forces on the other large islands.

If the deduction is corrected by Edwin, then it will be played right now.

"We can't delay any longer, who knows when the Lionheart King will appear, we'll pick one to fight!"

"That's going to hit somewhere."

Edwin compared a large island, "Just choose this, do it!"

He's like a gambler who wins once and wants to win a second time.

But this time, as soon as his forces left the island, they were immediately discovered by Bluebeard's fleet, and the two sides fought on the sea, each with damage.

Three days later, Bluebeard sent a Navy clipper directly to keep an eye on the island.

As soon as Edwin was about to move, the troops defending the six islands lit the signal and supported each other.

Stubbornly resisted the plan of the Mikawa people to seize the island.

Another ten days passed.

At this time, it had been nearly twenty days since Edvenna came to the Twelve Islands.

To the east of Bluebeard, good news came from Cyprus Island, Lionheart had defeated the Abbasid border soldiers and captured an "emir", ready to send reinforcements again.

The emir was the great nobleman among the Abbasids, equivalent to a duke.

When Bluebeard received the letter, he encouraged the soldiers to hold out for a few more days.

After a long time of attacking, Edvenna's face became more and more ugly.

Obviously, Bluebeard is cheating, but his own troops are not enough to fight.

Facing the calm voice of his subordinates' advice, Edwin took out the Star Shattering Sword.

Holding high this thousand-person behead, the Lord of the Three Rivers, who has not yet reached the age of seventeen, said proudly, "If Lao Tzu loses, the Aegean Sea will be my graveyard!" The whole army obeyed my command, left not a single one, abandoned this island, and returned to the upper two islands. ”

Two days later, Edvena reappeared before the Knights Hospitaller and the island nobles.

He did not disarm and spoke directly to the nobles of the island.

But what he got was, "Win in stability." ”

Two hours later, when it was time to eat, Edvenna turned around and detained the officers during the meal, forcing them to surrender their right to consent.

He personally went to the island and addressed the soldiers, "Do you know, soldiers of the Holy Land, who are destroying your family on the Seven Islands, bullying your children and relatives who have not escaped, and if you wait until the Lionheart King really comes, you will end up like the Judas in the future, homeless. ”

The Judites are a very special people, distributed in the bright and Orthodox world, but they are despised and stigmatized because of historical and religious factors.

The Judites were also good at managing money, so there were many shops and businesses.

They were known as the Judites of Fortune and were distributed in large cities such as Venice, Rome, and Castle Jun.

Bran also continued to develop guns, and the source of funds he needed was to make deals with the wealthy Judits and borrow their funds.

The wealthy Judites are a relatively decent class, but in the event of war, they are also prone to lose everything.

For example, after Chaisubara, he drove away the Judits who confiscated the wealth of Rome, killing and wounding more than 7,000 people.

The Judits were regarded as outcasts, and the soldiers on the island felt the same way.

If the Twelve Islands were lost, would they go to King's Castle or Athens to work as coolies?

Edwin analyzed the situation clearly, and said that these middle and lower officers were mobilized to prepare for a decisive battle.

After he returned to capture the island, he let the soldiers eat and drink happily all night, and then went south for a decisive battle.

Of the islands he lost, only a hundred men were released.

After a few days of leaving, Bluebeard was not recaptured, but Edwin did not stop either, like a tiger out of the gate, heading straight for the six islands.

Bluebeard resisted again on the sea route, but this time the people of Trois-Rivières and the Greeks were determined to die.

There is no turning back.

After hours of fighting on the sea, the Quds Navy fell into decline.

The Trois-Rivières and his Iron Bear once again showed their fear.

Especially the big bear, as long as the enemy enters the sailor battle with his warship, there is only a dead end if he does not surrender.

In this battle, Edvena made a decisive decision immediately, dared to fight, and directly played an advantage before King Lionheart came.

Bluebeard sees the fleet collapse and wants to retreat to the island.

She has been blocking the attack of the Mikawa people, and she has been fighting on the sea, just to prevent the enemy from seeing through her reality.

The defense of the six islands was fragile.

She couldn't let them go, because there were still native Greeks on the island, and they had to be watched.

As soon as Bluebeard retreated, Edwin knew that the Holy City was over!

The six islands were hollow, and he even grabbed the horn and blew the battle for a long time.

Whoever comes, who dies!

At this time, even if you retreat to the island, you will be broken and landed on the island by this group of crazy Sanhe people.

Bluebeard is forced to let everyone take the opportunity.

But Edwin insisted on leaving Bluebeard behind.

Keep chasing.

Bluebeard was eventually overtaken by the Mikawa Navy and besieged.

At this time, like Timur that day, she was looked at from a distance by Bran (Edvenna) in the posture of a victor.

"Catch it alive."

Edwin got the telescope from the deck, and he was so surprised.

He even said to Big Bear, "The ancestor of our family Billund (Haman. Billund), at my age, I didn't have a proud record of participating in the Battle of Ten Thousand Men (Battle of Tongxia) and killing thousands of enemies (Battle of the Twelve Islands), right?"

"No, His Highness is simply a heavenly martial artist, comparable to Hadrian the Great!" A cronie knight patted the horse.

Hadrian was one of the Five Wise Emperors of Rome, who built the Great Wall in the north to prevent the Scottish barbarians from invading England.

There were six battles in which fewer won more, and he was nicknamed "Emperor Zhi".

Edwin snorted, but in his heart he accepted the sycophant.

He picked up the binoculars again and looked at Bluebeard, but then pulled them out, for he had no intention of seeing a surprising sight.

He put it down and picked it up again, and he saw a man riding on a sea beast.

Quickly approaching in his direction, or rather his hull into the path of this man and beast.

How can a man ride a sea beast?

Especially here is the Aegean Sea, which is calm and calm, not as outrageous as the fjord, and large sea beasts can often appear.

But the vision of the eye made everyone see it real, and everyone's attention was focused.

It wasn't until we got closer that Edwin could see clearly.

Not dolphins, not whales, this dragon!

The body is blue, the speed is amazing, when the tail is swinged, it pounces several meters ahead, and the body is huge, not inferior to a whale.

The man riding on the dragon said, "Why did you just bump into it?"

The blue dragon had just recovered from the wound, and it was used to detect the qi sense of the obstruction in front of it, but it had not yet recovered.

When it came out of the water with all its might, it came into contact with the Mikawa fleet.

The dragon has a kind of dragon that is fearless.

See the mountains across the mountains, see the sea into the sea.

Thereupon......

The blue dragon flew up directly, but the swing was too small, and with a bang, it rushed to the deck, and this ship happened to be Bluebeard's ship.

It is only 100 meters away from Edvenna.

All the sailors were dumbfounded, and the face of this huge creature was fully revealed at this time.

His face was similar to that of a whale, but with a few more tentacles, and his body was originally dark blue, but when he jumped out of the water and entered the deck, he was immediately turned golden blue by the sun.

After the blue dragon landed on the deck, it suddenly stopped moving, lazily roasting the sun.

The man on the back of the blue dragon jumped down and glanced at Bluebeard, who was being chased.

Then he turned his eyes to the surroundings, and saw that the soldiers were Greek decorations, so he said in Greek, "Bask in the sun, and go away at once." ”

One of his men tried to release the arrow, but was stopped by Edwinna, who brought the hull of the ship closer, and then connected to the bridge to get on the blue dragon ship to see clearly.

Edwin is confident that with the big bear, no one can hurt himself.

But when he and Big Bear boarded the boat under the protection of sailors.

The man's eyes fell on the bear.

The man had a yellowish complexion, was about thirty years old, had a pale complexion, was of ordinary stature, and had a goatee.

Big Bear also looked at the man, and felt that he could easily take down the strange man.

Edwin wanted to lean forward and look at the blue dragon, but no man stopped him.

"Stand back, or I'll hurt you."

The man didn't know how to use the phrase Greek for a while, so he used his native Persian.

No one on the ship understood Persian, and Bluebeard and his men on the deck took advantage of the chaos to escape, and the deck was in chaos.

A sailor ran in the direction of the blue dragon, and the big bear threw a punch forward.

In the second form of Black Fire, he used it more refined than before, and his speed and power were stronger.

The heat came out of the big bear's ear holes, and this scene was felt by the man.

"Burning Life Force Punch?"

The seaman was knocked down with a punch, and the big bear punched the seaman into the sea, turning it into food for fish and shrimp on the bottom of the sea.

Then the big bear's anger rose rapidly, and he saw this strange man riding the back of the dragon as an enemy.

"Don't take his cannon punch!", Bluebeard also ducked behind the blue dragon at this time.

Since the blue dragon can come up, she will definitely be able to go down, and she wants to take the opportunity to escape.

"Let's run away!" Bluebeard said again.

The man was indifferent, when he saw this punch, the martial artist's interest was aroused, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, he held an iron rod at his waist, and faced it directly.

When the man clenched the iron rod and pulled it out, the big bear was shocked.

Not only did he not see how to pull it out, but even when the man just moved, the bear felt that he had touched an iron wall, and there was no chance to attack.

Domineering?

Men too, stronger than him.

Such a terrible enemy cooled down the big bear black fire madness, but it was still difficult to clench his fists.

"I'm Quke. Billund (who are you)?"

The man didn't answer, he had been to too many places, and some had too many nicknames.

For example, when he went to live in the land of the Vikings in Northern Europe, the Vikings there gave themselves nicknames.

Dawn Excalibur!