Chapter VII Ports
Amalienborg Royal Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The lavishly decorated room is lit by an elaborate stove that warms the room.
Next to the fire was a sumptuous bed, covered with soft velvet cushions and layers of curtains adorned with golden tassels, and a dignified old woman in a long dress was feeding him medicine.
And next to the bed stood a middle-aged man in a simple dress, who was looking at the old man on the bed with a sad face, his eyes sad.
On the other side of the bed, a group of ministers of different heights, short, fat and thin were reporting something.
"Report to Your Majesty, it has now been discovered that 37 villages have been attacked, almost all of them have been slaughtered, and as long as the lucky few have survived, we have taken them in. ”
"Report to Your Majesty, a few islands are fine, the most serious ones are the ports, Hittshals, Frederick have been breached, and now some of them are still heading north, and the next one may be Skahn. ”
"Our navy has sent some ships to support, but our ability is too limited to help them defend against the enemy, so we can only find a way to save some survivors. ”
"There are a lot of werewolf tribes here this time, and our army is now overstretched, and it is already the limit to be able to resist them, and it is already the limit to protect the city, and there is no ability to destroy them at all. ”
"Protecting the city? Nicely said, they didn't attack the city at all, they went to the north, they attacked the port! You don't go to the support, you huddle in the city, like words?"
"How can we support? How can we support? Although those wolf shepherds can't attack the city, they are all strong, and they are all good at field warfare.
"You are just cowardly, we have so many armies, are you afraid of such a few wolf herders?"
"How many of them? Do you know how many of them there are? Thousands! And the same number of wolves! They're going to be gone anyway, so why let our soldiers die in vain now?"
......
Hearing that the more they talked, the more unspeakable they became, making the whole room look like a noisy market, the middle-aged man impatiently interrupted them: "Enough!
The ministers and officials withdrew from the room, and the king on the bed coughed even more.
"Alas, what an eventful season...... "The feeble voice of the aged king came from the curtain.
The middle-aged man hurriedly knelt down on one knee: "Father, don't worry, I will immediately lead the troops to the battle! Go and expel those wolf herders! Eliminate them! Avenge the innocent and tragic deaths!"
"No, don't go!Ahem, stay at home for me!" Lying on the bed, the sick king stopped him.
"Why, father, those scoundrels are now slaughtering our people!" said the prince, full of grief and indignation.
"We are not opponents, don't go, ahem, they will go, they will go, we have to be patient, we have to be more patient......" the king repeated weakly.
"But, but......" The prince hammered down to the ground, "If only Katina were still there, otherwise he wouldn't be ...... now"
"No, Katina is the sword of mercy, the sword of nobility. Ahem, it shouldn't be used for hatred, it shouldn't be used for revenge, it shouldn't be used for killing. Moreover, with your current strength, you can't control it. The old king looked lovingly at his beloved son in front of him and admonished.
"Then, then watch them slaughter, watch them commit those evil deeds?" His Royal Highness was still indignant.
"Well, forget it, go and invite Monsieur Andersen, and His Excellency Patriarch Luther......" commanded the old king, his words full of weariness.
Skagen is a port town located in the northernmost part of Denmark, backed by a mountain cliff and facing the sea, where most people make a living by fishing and sailing, it is not a strategic location, it is not an important trading port, and the people here have always lived a peaceful and peaceful life.
And on this day, the calm was shattered.
On the high city wall, people saw the wolves that came all over the mountains, and behind the wolves, the savage and ferocious wolf herders.
Over the centuries, the walls have been constantly repaired and reinforced, and instead of waiting for the pirates it originally wanted to defend, it is about to face the bite of the wolves.
The wolves did not attack immediately, but gathered one after another under the city walls, more and more, more and more secretively, and then one by one the big trees were cut down and tents were erected.
On the walls of Skagen, there was chaos, and the bell was constantly ringing, summoning all those who were armed with weapons.
Some fled in boats, but many more went up to the walls to stop the villains outside the walls who wanted to invade and destroy their homes.
Obviously, there are no powerful martial arts masters among them, most of them are just ordinary people.
In the evening, the wolf herders attacked, or rather, it was not an attack, but a small temptation, a small trick.
Only a dozen people left their tent, rode the giant wolf unhurriedly to the city wall, randomly swept away the sparse arrows that flew over, jumped one by one, and then stepped on the city wall to borrow a force, and these dozen people went up to the city wall, which was not very tall.
They didn't use weapons, they just looked at the fishermen who rushed up with a roar. Ignore the harpoons, short knives, wooden shields in their hands. With his big hands open, he easily tore off the necks of the fishermen, hung the heads with the spine on his waist, and waited until his waist was full, and then he stopped, and looked at the poor fellows who were running in all directions, yelling, or slumping to the ground, and dreckage and urine, before jumping off the city wall one by one, and slowly returning to his camp, causing a small cheer in the camp.
All the people on the city wall were shattered by this cruel truth, and their original courage and fighting spirit were swept away, leaving only endless fear.
"Let's run, we have a boat, let's all run. ”
"We can't stop them, there are so many of them, and they are so strong. ”
"Our walls are so low that they can jump up and we can't stop them. ”
"They haven't attacked yet, we still have time, let's run. ”
"They're the hunters, we're the prey! they're just playing with us and teasing us, if you can't beat us, run." ”
"I don't care, I still have a wife and children at home, I can't die, I can't die, I want to take my wife and children away. ”
"What about our army, what about our navy? Why didn't they come, why didn't they come to save us?"
......
Everyone was terrified, everyone wanted to run away.
"Then run, and gather all the boats, and the women and children go first, and the men go last! There are certainly not enough boats on our side, and all the planks and barrels in the house are gathered and tied to the boat!
And at the same time, the wolves all over the mountains began to charge, like a giant black romance, over the mountains, over the city walls, over the town, over the harbor, and over all the crowds that were about to flee in panic.