"Are you sure there are only five seagoing vessels?"

Gervais had now returned to the castle, and in front of him were the guards who had returned from the horses to report their returns.

"Go back to your lordship, make sure there are only five sea boats, and according to the speed of the sea ships, there will be half an hour to reach the coast, and Lord Laurie will let me come back and report to you immediately!"

"Excellent! Since these unafraid of death have put their minds on Stormbell, let them know what it means to kick to the iron plate! ”

Reaffirming that the pirates had only five ships, Gervais became excited.

The sea ships in this world are not very large, and the cargo and personnel that each ship can carry are basically about fifty or sixty people, so from the number of these sea ships, Gervais can guess the number of the other party.

Two or three hundred pirates are completely indifferent to Gervais, and now this group of pirates has taken the initiative to send them to the door, which will not only allow Gervais to solve his worries about this southern expedition, but more importantly, he can also capture these ships.

Although I don't know what the sea in this world is like, Gervais doesn't have a lot of coveting this huge natural treasure house, originally just because of the lack of sea ships Gervais can only look at the ocean and sigh, but now someone comes to deliver a pillow when he dozes off, how to make Gervais unhappy.

"Ike! Audrey! Let everyone bring their weapons and equipment, and we are ready to go into battle! ”

Gervais no longer hesitated, the pirate was about to land, and Gervais was afraid that his ship would run away, so he ordered Ikodri and the two.

"Yes! My lord! ”

Ike and Audri took the order and immediately retreated.

A few minutes later, Gervais stood in the vestibule in full armor and riding a unicorn, and in front of him were hundreds of heavily armed soldiers, including slave soldiers.

This time, Gervais can be said to have gathered all his troops, and even the guards in the castle have been withdrawn, leaving only two guards on duty in the space courtyard and the castle gate.

"My lord! All personnel have been assembled! ”

"Very well, let's go!"

Gervais nodded, and rode the unicorn towards the castle gate, while Ike and the other guards all rode horses and followed Gervais with the banner of the Storm God in their hands, and the ordinary guards and slave soldiers who did not have horses were all arranged in the carriage.

Because the pirates were about to land, the only way for these soldiers to travel in a wagon was to get to the beach quickly, while also conserving their strength.

……

On the cliffs not far from the seaside mountain village, Laurie was now staring intently at the ship slowly moving towards the shore in the distance, and he could already see the pirate flag on the huge hull with his naked eye.

However, a few minutes later, the behavior of these pirate ships was a little strange, these pirate ships stopped when they were still seven or eight hundred meters from the coast, and then there was no movement.

"Strange, why is there no movement from the pirate ship parked there?"

Such an unusual thing made Laurie, a veteran, feel a little strange, it stands to reason that the pirates should attack the land as quickly as possible, and immediately send people to land and start plundering after stopping the ship.

However, the five pirate ships stopped directly and generously offshore, but none of the pirates got off the ship, as if they were discovered there.

"Captain, could it be that the pirates have discovered us?"

One of the guards beside Laurie scratched his head and whispered.

"How is it possible, we can only vaguely see the scene on the ship here, they can't see it better than us, and we are all hiding behind the bushes here, and they are even more unlikely to find out!"

Laurie replied to the guard angrily, saying that he had deliberately concealed his figures, and Laurie was confident that the pirates would not be able to detect them.

"Even if the pirates find out that there is an ambush, then there are two options, either to leave directly, or to attack immediately, can they still stop there and wait for us to leave him and then go ashore?"

"Captain, what do we do now?"

The guard, who was obviously on good terms with Laurie, and was not afraid of Laurie's tone, asked again.

"What else can I do, wait for the adults to decide, and the adults should be able to arrive in more than an hour!"

……

Laurie's prediction was very accurate, and it took Gervais almost an hour to arrive at the seaside mountain village in a hurry, and when he was still more than a mile away from the coast, Gervais and the others met the guards waiting here to meet them.

"How's it going, how many pirates are there?"

Seeing the guards who answered and looking in the direction of the seaside mountain village in the distance, Gervais did not find smoke, which showed that the seaside mountain village was not burned by the pirates, so he was slightly relieved.

Although all the serfs had gone to Marina Town for the harvest festival today, it would have been a loss if the pirates had set fire to the seaside mountain village.

"My lord, the pirates haven't landed yet! They just parked the pirate ship seven or eight hundred meters off the coast! ”

"What? Not on shore yet? ”

Gervais was taken aback, a little confused, it took more than an hour and a half for the guards to return to the castle to report, and it took more than two hours for him to come from the castle, so that from the discovery of the pirate ship to the arrival of Gervais at the beach, there were more than three and a half hours in total, but the pirates had not yet landed, how did this make Gervais not strange.

"Where's Laurie, take me there!"

Gervais also had doubts in his heart, so he immediately asked the soldier to lead the way to the seaside to have a look.

Soon, Gervais followed the guard to a cliff by the sea, where there were scattered small bushes in front of it, and Laurie and the others hid behind the bushes and looked into the sea.

"Your Excellency, you're here!"

When Laurie saw Gervais coming, he immediately saluted respectfully.

"Well, Laurie, what the hell is going on, why haven't the pirates come ashore yet?"

Hearing Gervais's words, Laurie was also helpless, and turned to point to the ship on the beach and said to Gervais.

"My lord, those pirate ships stopped there more than an hour ago, but there are no small boats to put down, only pirates can be seen constantly moving around the ship!"

Gervais also saw five pirate ships in the distance at this moment, these pirate ships were all exactly the same style, no doubt like the sail wooden ships of the previous life and medievals, with an oval hull and multiple masts.

Gervais's eyesight was much better than that of Laurie and the others, and he could see dozens of people walking around on the deck of the pirate ship, but these people did not hold weapons, but looked comfortable, not at all like they were going to go ashore to rob, more like they were just anchoring outside Gervais's territory to bask in the sun.

"What the hell, you don't fight like this, what do you mean by parking the boat at the gate of my territory!"

Seeing this scene, Gervais couldn't help but scold, the pirate did this to make his heart itch, he saw the five ships at first sight, but the pirate stopped seven or eight hundred meters away, but he couldn't run over to grab the ship.

"Do you want to use those four or five small sampans on the beach to run to the sea to get the boat?"

Gervais set his sights on the canoe parked by the sea, which was used by the serfs of the seaside mountain villages to catch lobsters and sea fish, and each boat could only carry a maximum of four or five people, which meant that if Gervais really wanted to take the initiative, he could only take more than twenty people with him at a time.

"No, there are two or three hundred pirates, and it is estimated that we will be shot with bows and arrows by pirates before we get close!"

Gervais immediately denied his idea, he was not worried about his own safety, it was a big deal to jump into the sea and run back, but these soldiers of his own were ordinary people, and the casualties would definitely not be small at that time.

For a moment, Gervais was in an awkward position.

……

While Gervais was salivating over the five pirate ships on the beach, Abiy, who was already out of breath, finally ran back to Marina Town.

At this moment, the coastal town is still very lively, but unfortunately the storm collar is still too poor, if it is any other territory, the harvest festival will have an acrobatic troupe to perform to make money, but even if there is no acrobatic troupe, many and well-fed serfs have begun to sit around the square and sing and dance.

"What about the lord? Have you ever seen your lordship? ”

Abi was extremely embarrassed, and many serfs looked at him in surprise in a tattered linen robe, but Abi didn't pay attention to the eyes of these people, just kept scanning the town, trying to find the figure of the guard or the lord.

But Abi found nothing, and when he found that there was not a single guard on the street, Abi began to cry out anxiously, shouting as he ran towards the town square.