"It's not a merchant ship, it's full of soldiers!"

I don't know who started shouting first, and all the pirate ships exploded for a while.

"How is that possible!"

The last viper-like man of the pirate ship frowned and looked in the direction of the big ship, the unique fog of the sea, which made him not see very clearly, but that did not mean that he was deaf.

He could clearly hear the panicked voices of his pirate men, and he could faintly see one pirate after another being killed and falling into the sea.

He was the leader of this group of pirates, and he had been in this business for many years, and after he killed the last boss, he took over as the leader of the place as a matter of course.

"Everyone retreat, come back!" Although he didn't know exactly what was going on, he could see that something was very wrong right now, his men were being killed one after another, and as the leader of these pirates, he couldn't let them die anymore, and if those pirates died, then he would only be the commander of the light pole.

"Retreat!"

"Run!"

For a while, the pirates were in a mess, desperate to get back on the pirate ship.

At this moment, the pirate ship trembled.

"It's!"

It didn't matter if the pirate leader looked behind him or not, he was stunned at this sight, and a cold sweat wet his back at once.

It was three small ships larger than his, and they had surrounded them tightly, and the pirate leader could clearly see that they were all armed soldiers, the worst of them wearing cotton armor, and some of them even wearing leather armor!

At this moment, a fear rose from the bottom of his heart, he finally knew what kind of stupid thing he was doing this time, what they were robbing was not a merchant ship at all, it was a troop carrier!

"Boom!"

There were several loud noises, this time from several other pirate ships, and the pirate leader did not need to look to know that those ships must have been surrounded.

At that time, the big ships must have been full of soldiers, and now their pirate ships are also surrounded by soldiers, and those pirates who are still on the ropes are the most miserable, they can't advance or retreat.

"Kill!"

A deafening voice rang out from the mouths of the soldiers, resounding throughout the sea......

……

Carl looked at the pirate leader who was kneeling in front of him with his hands tied upside down, and the large number of captured pirates behind him, speechless.

Originally, none of these pirates would have survived, but Carl considered that if he did fight, he would inevitably cause some casualties to his soldiers, so he did not hesitate to shout surrender and not kill.

And most of those pirates are not combative, and there is no morale at all, after all, they are all pirates, they are not regular troops, in the face of weaker guys than themselves, these pirates will never be merciful, but in the face of objects stronger than themselves, their bones will definitely be much softer than their swords, so after Carl shouted surrender and do not kill, the vast majority of pirates chose to surrender, especially when they saw the dense army.

At this moment, the pirate leader's heart was full of grievances, he was a pirate leader, and he was dominant, and all the merchant ships in this sea area had heard his name, but now he was planted like this, and he was looked at like a monkey.

"Lord Earl, what are we going to do with them?" Sylvia approached Carl and asked.

He made a neck wipe gesture at Carl, and the meaning was self-evident.

Carl was dumbfounded, this baron of his own is really warlike, he just killed several pirates by himself, if Carl hadn't made those pirates surrender, Sylvia would have to kill a few more.

Before Karl could say anything, the pirate leader over there felt a pang in his heart when he saw Sylvia's movements.

"You said you won't kill if you surrender!" The pirate leader snorted at his throat, as if he was afraid that the other party would not hear.

"I naturally mean what I say, don't worry, I won't kill you if I surrender and don't kill." Karl glanced at him and met Karl's eyes, the pirate leader was shocked, and Karl's eyes were very threatening.

"Lord Earl, why bother with these pirates?" Sylvia frowned.

"Forget the baron, it's not necessary, trustworthiness is the most basic human virtue, and they are useful to me." Karl waved his hand, he already had a plan in mind for how to arrange these pirates.

"Well, since you have an arrangement, then count me on for more." Sylvia nodded.

The pirate leader breathed a sigh of relief, listening to the other party's words, he was finally relieved, he finally didn't have to die.

No one will not be afraid of death, being a pirate licking life on the tip of a knife, but it does not mean that in the face of death, he can not change his life.

It was only after making sure that his life was saved that he noticed an important message from the conversation just now.

"Earl? God, he's a count? And the one next to him is actually a baron? The world is just crazy. ”

The pirate leader secretly said to himself, he is not a Wikipedian, he is a Dilman who has been a pirate, although there are not many Dilmans who have been pirates in these years, but it cannot be said that there is nothing, he naturally knows what an earl represents.

But the higher the identity of the other party, the more different his psychology is, he is really good at dying, he actually went to provoke such a big nobleman, this time his pirate team was destroyed, it was really self-inflicted.

"Okay two, come with me, and I'll explain it to you." Carl patted Sylvia and Kevin on the shoulder, then walked briskly into the cabin.

After the candle was re-lit, there was some light in the cabin again.

"What do you command, Lord Earl?" Sylvia and Kevin sat down and asked.

"Are you curious why I left these pirates alive?" Karl looked at his two subordinates and said with a smile.

Sylvia and Kevin looked at each other and nodded in unison, they really didn't know why they wanted to leave these guys' lives behind, there was no benefit in leaving their lives in the minds of the two of them, and they had to waste manpower to supervise them.

"How sure are you about this attack on Sibeck? Or how much faith do you have in our soldiers? Karl asked suddenly.

Sylvia and Kevin were stunned, they couldn't keep up with Carl's thinking for a while, and they didn't know why the Earl suddenly asked this question.

"Lord Count, our army is well numbered, and much stronger than those that only recruit peasants, and I am confident that we can take Sibek." It was Kevin who answered, and in fact he was not wrong, Karl scoffed at the act of conscripting peasants to fight as cannon fodder, so Dortmund never did this, at most they would recruit trained militiamen.

In this way, Dortmund's army is still very strong, at least in horizontal comparison, after all, those nobles are reluctant to spend money on training militia.

Sylvia also nodded, this is also his idea, he is the commander of the Hagrid Corps, he knows the combat effectiveness of the Hagrid Corps, and the combat effectiveness of the Thorn Corps is also very impressive, and he has personally trained the militia, and has been an instructor of those militias, although it is only a short period of time, but he also knows that those militias are much better than those peasants who will only run away when they go to the battlefield.

Carl nodded, it was all obvious.

"Dortmund has a relatively small population, although we worked hard to make money, and then spent this money on the army, which is why we have these soldiers, they are the guarantee of our Dodmund safety, and we are the backers to deter the enemy, I am very distressed to lose any of them......" Karl looked emotional.

"I am saddened by the thought that the arrows of the other side will fall on our soldiers during the siege." At this point, Karl's expression changed to pain.

Looking at the monarch whose expression changed, Kevin and Sylvia were stunned.

"The enemy's arrows will fall on our soldiers......"

Carl's words echoed in the minds of the two, and the next moment they opened their eyes suddenly, perhaps they already understood what Carl meant.

Carl smiled and watched the two of them suddenly realize their movements, and knew that his goal had been achieved.

"Lord Earl, you're really ......," Kevin said with a smile on his face, but he couldn't say anything about the rest of the story.

"Do you think I really want to spare them? The Lord will not allow me to do this, and if I do, those who die at their hands will sue me before the Lord. Karl glanced at him.

The three of them looked at each other, and then they all laughed, and Sylvia forgot about those pirates in a blink of an eye, because he knew that the end of those pirates was already doomed, and he didn't need to care about some guys who were already doomed.

If there are no accidents, those guys will not see God, and Satan will welcome them.

Karl touched his nose, wondering if he was too cruel, just a few words decided that more than a hundred people would become cannon fodder for the Dortmund army in the near future, they would not carry any weapons on their hands, they would not wear any armor on their bodies, even cotton armor, the coarse linen clothes on these people were all tattered guys, and they would become "scarecrows" who consumed the arrows of the Sibek defenders, and I only hoped that these guys would not wail too loudly by that time.

But this kind of thinking is fleeting, Carl is not a great good person, in fact, when he comes to this world, he kills a lot of people, after all, war is not ended by one or two sentences, mercy is not in charge of the army, this word is the eternal truth.