Copper Sea, which is as strong as a bear, carries a sledgehammer on his shoulders and stands on the deck with his head held high.

The oncoming sea breeze brushed the cracks in the bronze armor and let out a thin whimper.

The man's eyes stared ahead. The outline of the hometown is getting closer and closer, and the long, wide coastline is becoming clearer, with large dense forests behind it, and pale green salt ponds beyond it.

Tonghai looked behind him.

He took with him a total of three ships and two hundred and seventy-five warriors.

Some of the companions, like themselves, were ordinary citizens persecuted by slave traders; Some were slaves who were willing to fight after being emancipated; There were also farmers, artisans, and adventurers who wanted to overthrow the slave traders.

Now everyone stands together and launches the final charge.

"Brothers."

Tonghai's voice was strong: "You all know that I have a grudge against the slave traders. My wife, Mehya, a hard-working and honest island woman, was taken by slave traders in my coppersmith's shop and forcibly marked as slaves. ”

"I came back from the sea and found the damn merchant. He told me that Maihaya had been sold to someone else and didn't know where. ”

"He gave me a sum of money and said that I should choose a slave girl to be his wife, saying that it was just a misunderstanding."

Tonghai said coldly: "This is the slave traders, in their eyes, everyone has a price. Every human being is a slave and an animal. ”

"As long as these humanoid monsters are still in the city and in control of the city, there will be a new Mehya who will suffer!"

"Brothers, listen to me."

The tall coppersmith roared in the wind: "Perhaps one day we will lose our courage and strength, and we will not be able to lift our hammers and swords to fight back against our enemies." They are so numerous, thousands of slaves are gathering, and more slaves are being taken by them and stand in our way. ”

"But I don't think it's today!"

"Today, we fought bloodily! Fight for all people, all slaves, all husbands and wives, all fathers and children, for all courage and freedom! ”

"If the gods think it's wrong, let the gods punish me! I am willing to bear all the wrath of the gods! I will be the first to die before you. ”

"Now! Brothers, I beg you, come with me, and we will go together to smash slavery! Slaughter those bastards! ”

"Kill them!"

Everyone raised their arms and shouted.

Three galleys broke into the pier that had not yet been built.

When the slaves who were carrying wood and stone saw the pirates attacking, they were so frightened that they reported it.

The slave dealer in the back scolded: "Bastard, what to run!" Pick up your arms for me, hurry up, you brainless pigs. ”

"If anyone can cut off the head of the pirate head in front of me, I'll set him free!"

Some of the slaves stopped and hurriedly ran behind to pick up spears and shields.

Tong Hai was dressed in copper armor, and the sledgehammer in his hand was dragged to the ground, leading the way.

He picked up his hammer and smashed a rushing slave away, shouting at the slaves in front of him, "You don't have to fight! ”

"We are here to free the slaves!"

"We are the Northern Temple Army!"

"You're free!"

"Leave! This is the battlefield, cherish your lives! ”

The slaves cowered visibly.

They still brandished their weapons, and it looked like they were fighting, but they were all crushed by a single touch, seizing the opportunity to scatter and flee. Only a few slaves and elite guards hired by the merchants were left behind to fight against the men led by the copper sea.

In the face of the menacing Northern Temple Army, the merchants who were fighting separately did not really want to fight to the death. Seeing that the situation was not good, they also mounted their horses one by one and retreated quickly.

The cowardice and cowardice of the enemy made Tonghai even more angry.

is such a group of people, who can do evil in Yancheng!

"Brothers, come with me, enter Yancheng, and kill the slave traders!"

Tonghai shouted.

A few slaves mustered up the courage to run to him. They led the camels and horses and handed the reins.

The slaves stammered and stroked.

"Ride...... Ride ......"

"Hurry ......"

Tonghai stepped on a strong horse and raised the hammer in his hand: "Brothers, take your weapons and follow me!" ”

"Follow the leader!"

"Rush!"

"Rush into town!"

"Kill the slave traders!"

The Northern Temple Army won the first battle, and their morale was high.

They ran all the way and soon came to the outside of Yancheng.

The walls are neither strong nor tall, most of them were built dozens or even hundreds of years ago, and are now in disrepair and dilapidated. Under the city walls, there were quite a few slaves armed with spears, about a hundred people.

As soon as the Templars arrived, the slaves immediately gathered together nervously. They raised their shields and raised their spears outwards to form a simple hedgehog defensive formation, without the slightest posture of coming out to meet them.

Tonghai laughed: "Blow the trumpet." Let the brothers in the city get moving! ”

The warriors of the Temple Army behind them took out the horns one by one, and the low and desolate horns sounded one after another.

The city also sounded the trumpet in response.

Then a fire was lit inside the gate, and the fire soon became so great that it spread all the way up the city walls.

The slave soldiers blocking the door scattered in all directions in fright, and the formation suddenly collapsed, and soon turned into an irrepressible rout under the bows and spears of the temple army.

Copper Sea galloped and rushed into the city with a sledgehammer in hand, smashing a fleeing slave trader to pieces in the head.

The temple troops behind followed suit.

Yancheng became chaotic, and shouts of killing came and went. Rebellious slaves, artisans, and peasants began to light fires everywhere, making the slave traders feel that the enemy was everywhere.

When Tonghai arrived at the council hall, the building was already empty.

The emptiness and weakness of the city made it hard for him to believe.

In the face of several naval attacks by the Temple Army, the citizens' council of Yancheng was so slow to react. They did not fortify the walls, nor did they train and reorganize the soldiers, but only piled up the number of slaves, thinking that this would be useful.

Tonghai remembered the words of the old mayor Shang Li.

"This battle will end with our unconditional victory."

"Yancheng seems to have a lot of people, but the slave traders are not one heart."

"The most important thing for a slave trader was to keep as many slaves and property as possible. For things with high profits, businessmen are very united, and sometimes they can do without their lives. ”

"They have been plotting for many years to seize the city and make the slave trade legal, and getting rid of me, the mayor, is just one of them."

"They will not defend the city and give their possessions, which will not allow them to gain benefits, but will weaken themselves and become prey for other merchants."

"For businessmen, other businessmen are the most terrible enemies. So they will save their strength and property and quickly leave ......"

For this day, Shangli has been arranged for more than ten years.

Create a threat at sea and gather slaves with fighting spirit and desire to fight. Blockading the coast, trying to destroy ports and docks, seeking foreign aid, creating all kinds of contradictions within the city, finding and cultivating internal ......

Each step is methodical, like the repeated forging of the iron embryo until it finally turns into a sharp and flexible iron sword.

Shang Li is like a patient hunter, pushing his prey into his intended corner step by step, and then pulling the rope to let them fall into the trap as they escape.

"I can't die."

Before leaving, the old man looked into the distance: "I want to see the city that once made a lighthouse and get back on track." ”

"Go, copper sea, go to the other side of the sea."

"You are the hero of this era, and the liberator of the slaves, and you will leave your own legend and history, which you deserve and an honor that belongs to you."

There was no joy in the sea of copper.

He just said, "I'm not a hero, I'm just a husband with a hammer." ”

Tonghai had many of the same dreams.

In the dream, he wielded a hammer in the coppersmith's shop, smashed copper embryos and copper skins into various shapes, made copper kettles and copper pots, and made copper helmets and copper armor.

The sun was shining brightly outside, and the stones on the ground were white.

Tonghai sweated and thrashed, panting heavily.

Mehya wiped his sweat with a towel and handed him sweet cold water.

She would sing him island folk songs, how the colorful birds on the island danced, and how the fish jumped out of the water.

Then she said, I'm going to give you a baby, a brave and smart child.

He will be smarter than you, prettier than me, and he will go to every island with the blessings of the gods. Then he would come home and tell us stories along the way......

Tonghai wakes up laughing every time he arrives, and then goes in a daze in the dark.

……

Now, Tonghai stands in the center of the parliament.

There was no one around.

He freed all the slaves in the city, but did not find his own Mehya.

A tall blue figure approached.

Tonghai knows him.

Yancheng commander Yanger. He is an unfathomable transcendent warrior with powers unimaginable to ordinary people, and has lived for hundreds of years.

"Are you here to kill me?" Tonghai clenched the hammer in his hand.

Salt Ger shook his head.

The other party was silent for a moment, and handed him a clay pot.

"I just thought, maybe you need to have some drinks. Warrior, you look sad. ”

Tonghai took the flask and drank it all.

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