Chapter 41: Kingdoms and Pirates
Kingdom of Gran, Dulaiden Sea.
The waves are undulating like sand dunes and surging like giant beasts.
The sky was overcast and dark, and the wind whipped the howling waves like whips.
The Revenge flies from the waves! Fly away from the waves!
Rumble!
The ship slammed into the sea, its hull shaking violently.
The soldiers of the Nation of Stars on the ship also had difficulty standing under this kind of turbulence, and many of them rolled from the ship into the surging waves.
The fleet of the Land of Stars was reduced by more than a dozen men before it could hit the enemy's warship.
In the sea area in front of the fleet, more than a dozen ships surrounded by it could not escape from this terrible storm.
The sea is always so rough and changeable in the summer, which is one of the reasons why the Kingdom of Gran has been reluctant to attack.
Of course, the more reason is that the opponent is too strong!
The sailors who had just wanted to chase a smuggling ship were locked by the giant ship rocking in the middle of the sea.
Even in this kind of storm, the sails of the big ship refused to be lowered, and with the help of the stormy waves, it quickly crossed the waves and hills formed by the waves, and quickly approached the fleet here.
Obviously, everyone was stuck in the quagmire and couldn't move, but the terrifying guy behind him was like a drunk, like a devil, laughing wildly and striding towards the waves.
"Damn madman!" John, the second son of the Duke of Abbaton's family, was angry and frightened at this time, "Get out of here quickly!" Hurry up and row! Paddle hard! ”
At the shouts of Viscount John, the slaves on the left and right sides of the ship rowed their oars vigorously.
Everyone knew that it was impossible to get out of the storm with the oars, and they could only pray that the storm would come very quickly, and that it would leave quickly.
The ships of the Kingdom of Glan still rely mainly on oars, and if this kind of ship is not compared with the ships of the Kingdom of Stars, it is not backward.
Viscount John looked anxiously at these rowers, supervised them, and saw that whoever did not row hard would be severely punished for such sinners.
After paying a little attention to the shipwright on the ship, when Viscount John looked back behind him because he was nervous, he found that the big ship was no longer visible.
Fell into the sea?
Viscount John looked at the still tumbling sea in disbelief, at this time there was no wave seven or eight meters high, and in just two or three minutes, it seemed that the darkness and the wind had stopped for most of the time.
The storm, which lasted less than ten minutes, seemed like half a lifetime to everyone, and Viscount John saw his side of the ship being overturned by the waves, and also saw that the merchant ship that had lured him was pressed directly into the raging sea by the huge waves.
When did that big ship, that revenge sink?
Viscount John watched hard, but did not see the big ship behind him.
I defeated the Vengeance, and the wizards and barbarians of the Vengeance?
Viscount John was in ecstasy!
Although a few ships sank on his side and dozens of people died, maybe hundreds, it didn't matter.
"Me! John Abbaton! Defeated the ships of the Kingdom of Stars! The glory of the Abbaton family, immortal, the ancestors of the Abbaton family, bless me John! Abbaton! ”
Viscount John stood at the stern of the boat and sang excitedly about his prestige.
"From now on, I will be the legend of the Kingdom of Gran and the Church of Dawn!"
Just as Viscount John was reveling in his dreamy future life, the soldiers on board discovered something terrifying.
"Side! There they are! They're coming! ”
A group of people didn't know where it was, or which side it was.
Soon everyone looked left and right, and they realized the same horror.
The massive Revenge, propelled by the storm, broke through the waves, and the barbarians on board roared excitedly as if they had gone mad.
The tempest changed the direction of the Revenge, trying to get him closer to the depths of the ocean.
The Revenge used its sails and rudders, as well as a group of barbarians to paddle the oars with inexhaustible strength, and rounded around the fleet of the Kingdom of Gran, and also approached the seaside of the Kingdom of Grant.
The sailors on the Revenge didn't think about making a long detour, but it didn't matter anymore, and a group of men with knives and axes smiled at the men in the calm sea.
The fleet of the Kingdom of Gelian was still in the undulating waves, which were less than a meter high and were as safe as chickens compared to the kind of waves that the Vengeance had just experienced.
The Revenge is five stories high, 14 meters high, 8.5 meters wide, and 42 meters long, and its sheer size and weight make it safer than the rest of the boats in storms.
At the same time, after approaching the "big ship" of the Kingdom of Gran, this huge ship was like a hen approached by a wild boar, and its whole vision was blocked.
Under extreme fear, the sailors and rowing slaves of the Kingdom of Gran, who had just finished a chase, could not raise the slightest resistance at this time.
They saw it with their own eyes, they experienced the fury of the sea, and when the giant ship that conquered the sea approached, everyone felt from the bottom of their hearts that the enemy in front of them could not be defeated.
The few remaining sailors of the Kingdom of Gran have been defeated again, and this time the whole ship has been captured alive!
The two sides did not face each other, but both experienced a sea trial with great losses.
The news was soon spread by the merchants to the docks, and then to the ears of the nobles and the royal family.
The Kingdom of Gran had already suffered heavy losses, and the maritime army had been crippled not long after the declaration of war on the Kingdom of Stars, and the thousands of soldiers killed and wounded were enough to make the nobles everywhere refuse to send troops again.
After all, every time it is a total annihilation, not a simple defeat.
Nobles with soldiers would not bury their men in this way, and unless the royal family took out their own army to fight, they did not want to gain the rest of the people.
The nobles of the Kingdom of Glan don't want to fight, and when they are not at war with the Kingdom of Stars, they can make a lot of money every year.
Whether it's trading with the Kingdom of Stars or getting output from the newly captured Wave Kingdom, you can make a lot of money.
Now it is difficult to do business after the war, especially the follow-up revenge of the Kingdom of Stars, which makes a group of nobles afraid.
However, when the port nobles had heated discussions for many days, and they all thought that the royal family had to retreat and compromise, the king gave the order to conquer the kingdom of stars from the land and attack the kingdom of Durela!
"The king must have been brain-controlled by a wizard! His brain must have been eaten by worms! ”
"It's a wizard! It must be a sorcerer who is bewitching our king! ”
"The king is controlled by evil witchcraft!"
No matter how others objected, the king of the kingdom of Gran soon sent people to build wooden boats, and he wanted to transport a large number of soldiers to the kingdom of Deco on the other side, and then fight the people of the country of stars on land!
The Kingdom of Gran has a royal cavalry regiment composed of elite knights, and this cavalry of 800 people can be matched with thousands of archers, infantry, peasant soldiers, etc., and can form an army of tens of thousands of people.
Summer was supposed to be a busy time in the fields, and this country controlled by the Church was going to fight to the death with the Land of Stars.
The people of the Kingdom of Glen will surely hate the Land of the Stars.
But the Land of Stars doesn't care.
Not only did it not care, but under the remote command of the great prophet Lawrence, the port of Enr soon sent several fleets to plunder the coastal cities of the Kingdom of Gran, plundering a large number of people and livestock.
The pirates can capture people much faster than the Kingdom Lords can recruit troops! (End of chapter)