Chapter 257: Preparing for Battle
There is nothing worse in this world than stirring up people's spring dreams, Tang Jie is very angry, and the consequences are very serious!
When Tang Jie rushed to the top of the city angrily, the walls of the castle were already full of people, including local Sithian pirates, people from the Clumbel family, dark-skinned people from the Southern Continent, and people from Falco, who were nervous and curious looking at the sea from the natural height of the castle, as if they wanted to see who the person who had suddenly invaded them was.
When Tang Jie saw this scene, he was like herding sheep, and he was suddenly furious: "What are you doing? Are you watching the show? Bastard, I'm all scattered, what should I do!"
Tang Jie waved his arms, roared like thunder, and yelled at Bill and the others on the city wall: "Bill, how do you manage people? Why don't you set up a stall here? Look at what has become of this place!"
Bill was scolded by Tang Jie's head and face, and immediately turned his face to his subordinates with a hideous face, kicked the ass of a sailor in front of him, and scolded viciously: "Do you hear me? Get out of here, Pike, what the fuck are you doing running to the top of the city wall, go back to me, stick to your post!"
Christina on the city wall and Nia beside Tang Jie saw that Tang Jie did not name and scolded the two of them, but no matter what they said, they were in charge of the military management of Alcatraz Island, and Tang Jie's words were equivalent to slapping the two of them in the face: Look at the bastards you trained!
Nia's face couldn't hold back, this blonde and blue-eyed female pirate had a frosty face, her eyes were terrifying, and she glared at these pirates and the people of the Southern Continent viciously: "Do you want to have dinner here?
Christina blushed even more, she was originally a regular soldier, she was the most proud and conceited on weekdays, she was so ashamed and angry to be slapped in public like this, this red-haired Valkyrie was not ambiguous at all in training people in the Falco Guard, and she often held a horsewhip in her hand, and at this time, she waved the whip and whipped it at the Falco Guards soldiers who were constantly retreating in horror.
These soldiers are not afraid of the sky and the earth on Alcatraz Island one by one, they are afraid of Tang Jie, Angel and Christina, especially Christina's horsewhip, these men who can't hold it on weekdays will have cramps in their stomachs.
As soon as the two sturdy women were suppressed, the people piled up on the city wall were suddenly scattered.
After Nia and Christina drove the people back to their respective posts, they glanced at each other and smiled wryly at each other.
Only the two of them knew: it would be so hard to train these lawless creatures into well-trained Iron Warriors!
The two of them could not be blamed, the pirates were notoriously unscrupulous, they roamed the sea, and no one could restrain them except the captain, let alone discipline.
These people who are accustomed to being wild and casual will be extremely difficult to manage once they are to be militarized.
Tang Jie's face was very unkind at this time, looking at these people who were running around, his eyes were gloomy, and the people next to him were beating drums in their hearts, and they didn't know what Tang Jie was going to say and do next.
Tang Jie glared at Nia and Christina with vicious eyes, although he didn't say a word, it made the two women's heads low, and they were secretly ruthless in their hearts: A bunch of dogs, look at how I teach you a lesson when I turn around.
Looking out from the castle, there were suddenly more than a dozen warships on the endless blue sea, more than a dozen warships were far away on the sea level, and the other two warships were very close to Alcatraz, and they were all parallel to the castle of Alcatraz.
Tang Jie stretched out his hand to the person next to him, and someone immediately handed him a telescope.
Tang Jie looked through the monoculars and saw that these were two four-masted Cheetah-class battleships that were slightly smaller than the four-masted Lion-King class battleships, and the number of guns of this kind of battleship was ninety-nine, compared with the hundreds of powerful artillery attacks of the four-masted Lion-class battleships, this kind of battleship was more in pursuit of the flexibility and speed of naval artillery battles.
On this four-masted Cheetah-class battleship hung the battle flag of the Falco Imperial Navy with a red eagle on a white background and the Falco Imperial flag with a yellow eagle on a red background, and both battleships were crossed by the hull, and the cannons were all pushed out of the cabin, and the muzzles of the guns were fiercely aimed at them.
Tang Jie could even see through the monoculars the Falco Navy on the deck, wearing blue and white naval uniforms, busy in a nervous and orderly manner.
"Hell!" Tang Jie turned his head and stared at Angel, "Why did they come to beat us?"
As he spoke, Tang Jie handed the monoculars in his hand to Angel, Angel took it, looked at it carefully, she frowned, and said, "This is the Second Naval Fleet of Falck, and the captain of the fleet is Cook." How did this guy get here?"
Simon boldly interjected a sentence next to him: "My lord, hurry up and give an order, do you want to fight or make peace with them? Just now there were two test firings, and there will be a salvo soon, if you don't hurry up, you will ......."
Before he finished speaking, he saw a sudden puff of smoke from the two warships hovering over the sea!
Tang Jie was suddenly shocked, threw Angel down under him, and shouted: "Shelling! Dodge!!"
"Boom, boom, boom!!"
The sudden bombardment caught the people of Alcatraz a little off guard, and the cannons of the four-masted Cheetah-class battleship roared one after another, from the bow to the stern, these cannons continued to roar in a rhythmic and regular manner, and then retreated in turn because of the recoil, and then under the impetus of the sailors, the hideous muzzle once again exposed the gun bay.
The pirates of Alcatraz were stunned, and if they had changed to before, this continuous shelling would have been enough to make this group of pirates suffer heavy losses!
Thankfully, the pirates of Alcatraz now have a sturdy castle!
The two Dwarven craftsmen, Hawke and Barnes, did put a lot of effort into building the castle, and Darius, who was responsible for transporting the stones, did not cut corners, and actually transported the best and finest stones.
This round of artillery fire looked extremely powerful, and the Alcatraz Island shook a few times, but except for a few extremely unlucky guys who were directly hit by the body and blown up in pieces, almost everyone else was undamaged.
After Tang Jie waited for the first round of artillery fire to pass, he got up and stretched out his head to look under the city wall, but saw that there were only rows of small pits on the city wall, and some of the city wall battlements were blown off by shells, and several pirates sat next to them with their heads bleeding, staring at the battleships on the sea.
Tang Jie spat on the ground viciously, and turned his head to look at Angel who got up from the ground.
Before Angel could speak, he heard Simon shout, "Look, they're hanging the flag!"
Tang Jie's face turned pale and asked, "What does the flag say?"
Bill reacted very quickly, raised the monocular in his hand, and quickly translated the flag language: "Hand over Princess Angel and spare your lives......"
Tang Jie's face was so gloomy that the temperature around him dropped by a few degrees, he turned his head and stared at Angel tightly with his two eyes.
Angel is very smart, she immediately knew that Tang Jie was taking into account her feelings, this was asking her attitude, her face was very ugly, and she said coldly: "Just let it go!"
Tang Jie suddenly had a hideous smile on his face, and he turned his head to Bill and Simon, who were waiting for his order, and said, "What are you looking forward to? They have cannons, don't we have them?"
Bill was overjoyed and shouted at the pirates on the left and right, "Bastards, do you hear me......?" Uh, ahem, Your Highness Angel and Your Excellency Christina, you know, I'm not talking about distinguished guests like you!"
Bill was quick to talk for a while, and brought Angel and Christina in, but before he could finish his words of reparation, he saw that the pirates on the city wall who were already holding their stomachs shouted loudly: "Cheer up, take out the gunpowder, take out the cannonballs, push out our cannons, and beat these Falco bitches in the ass!!"
Angel and Christina glanced at each other and smiled wryly, and Christina asked tentatively in a whisper, "My Highness, why did General Cook attack Alcatraz Island inexplicably, and why did he use the banner of saving you?"
Angel looked at the sea wisely, she pondered for a while, and said slowly: "There are many people who know that I am on Alcatraz Island, but there are not many people who know how to take advantage of this. ”
Christina is also an extremely smart person, Angel is a little bit, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she said: "It was the people of the Pound Empire who instigated Queen Camilla to send troops?"
After speaking, she frowned again and said: "Why would Queen Camilla do this kind of thankless thing? Although she is not good at military strategy, she is definitely not a fool and a fool!"
The corners of Angel's mouth curled, smiled, and said, "Didn't you always know that Cook and Queen Camilla were rivals?"
Christina sighed, suddenly realized, and gestured to cut off the head: "Borrow a knife to kill?"
Angel looked at Tang Jie's back and nodded, her lips pursed hard, this was the performance when she was lost in thought.
For Angel, she can guess the reason why Queen Camilla sent Cook here, firstly, she can use Tang Jie's hand to weaken Cook's strength and eliminate dissidents, and secondly, even if Cook's strength is not weakened, she can get herself back, turn herself into a fish on the board, and fulfill Camilla's vicious wishes.
Angel pondered, and Christina on the side also frowned and muttered to herself: "But, isn't Cook a person from His Majesty the Emperor, why would he obey orders like this?"
This unintentional self-talk suddenly shocked Angel, her eyes widened, and she lost her voice: "Is His Majesty Father no longer good?"
Christina was taken aback: "What, O god Raphael, if this is the case, then Your Highness, if you go back to Oleencenia, won't you be sent to death?"
The reason why Angel dared to go back was because she still had a little favor from her father, Garcis, and relying on this, Camilla would not poison her in public, but if Garcis was gone, then Camilla would be really unscrupulous, and going back by herself would definitely be as Christina said: Throw yourself into the net!
Thankfully, though, I still have him......
Angel looked at Tang Jie, and a tenderness unconsciously rose in his heart.
With his support, I guess I won't be in any great danger, right?
Angel and Christina were talking to each other, and the castle was already busy, with a large number of black slaves pushing the gunpowder and cannonballs stored in the caves through walk-behind carts from the spiral slopes of the city walls to the positions of the batteries, while Bill stood at the head of the city, waving flags at the two watchtowers on the beach on the west side of Alcatraz Island to prepare them for battle.
The newly built Alcatraz Castle ushered in its first battle in the world, and almost all the pirates of Alcatraz were silently praying, praying that Tira, the god of the sea, would continue to pamper them, hoping that this castle, which had cost them a lot of effort, would be able to deal a severe blow to those who came to attack!
Not only these pirates, but also the black slaves in the southern continent looked at the cannons in the city with extremely enthusiastic eyes, and it was they who built this castle one stone after another, and they also placed these cannons one by one with their own hands!
This castle is like their child, and now it's time for their child to raise their eyebrows!
"Battery No. 1 is ready!"
"Battery No. 2 is ready!"
"Number 3 ......"
"Number Four ......"
......
"Battery 218 is ready!"
This series of reports only took a moment's effort, and to the ears of others, these sonorous and powerful voices were like a surging wave, converging the same idea: fight!
At the same time, Bill turned his head and said loudly to Tang Jie: "Captain, Tower No. 1 is ready, Tower No. 2 is also ready!"
Bill's eyes were full of frenzy and excitement: "Give the order, Captain!"
Tang Jie's face was grim, his gaze was as firm as a steel nail piercing a man, and he said in a voice with the voice of gold and stone: "Pass my order and launch the cannon!"
Bill and Nia turned their heads at the same time and shouted at the walls on both sides, "Open the cannon bay and roll out the cannon!"
The shirtless pirates shouted in unison, the muscles of the sailors who were responsible for controlling the castle mechanism bulged up, flowing beads of sweat with strength and beauty, their bodies were pressed into a bow, and more than two dozen sailors were pushing a huge wheel, only to hear a click of the machine, and a cannon port was suddenly slowly opened on the castle wall.
The pirates and black slaves who were waiting in front of the fort immediately pushed the thousand-pound cannon out of the fort, and suddenly dense cannons appeared on the originally smooth wall!
When the cannons placed in the head and waist of the castle showed their hideous muzzles at the same time, a castle on the sea that was originally harmless to humans and animals suddenly turned into a terrifying super fortress!
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4,000 words update~ I was supposed to change it this afternoon, but unfortunately, Tang Tang caught a cold, and I endured the discomfort to finish this chapter~ My lady is from the health system, and told me that there were thousands of cases of influenza A outbreak in Suzhou today, which scared me half to death, and my soul was not possessed~~~
Children's shoes, you must pay attention to your body, wear a mask when you go out, and getting a flu is definitely not a joke~