Winter night, Port of Cossoaia.
Different from the past, the former center of the ship's net was shrouded in silence at this time, and the peninsula winding out to the sea had been in a tense atmosphere from a week ago. The Alliance of Five Ports refused the Governor's search, and the first port ships, except the Dawson family, began to converge on Costhoa.
The first port forces headed by the Guros family tried to prepare before the king's war order was issued.
A total of forty-seven ships, large and small, were moored at the dock of Kossoya Port, and the most dazzling among them were the four large ships of the First Port Family.
But preparing for battle these days has been unpleasant.
The trade law was promulgated, allied cities seceded one by one, and the five-port alliance's reputation plummeted.
Pirates who used to fear them became rampant during this time, looting ships in the first port with impunity. Ever since Guros gathered the ships controlled by the first port to Kossoa in preparation for the war, pirates have driven small boats to attack them every day at night.
Those pirates were very cunning. They only attacked the small boats that were close to the mouth of the sea, and would never provoke the big ships of the first port family.
In order to stabilize people's hearts, and to show that the Five-Port Alliance is still inviolable today, Patriarch Guros has ordered the ships to prepare. Once the pirates reappear tonight, they will fight immediately and pay the price with those guys who want to take a bite after hearing the blood.
The harbour looked the same as the days before, with ships quietly moored in the shadows.
As the sailors gradually lost their patience, the shadow of the pirate clipper appeared on the sea, and their indulgence whistled far away.
As the pirate ships approached, the sound of sharp arrows breaking through the air suddenly sounded.
In the darkness, a fire lit up at the port.
The Goros family's big ship "Lavelle" had been called out and docked closer to the sea in the evening. After the pirates approached tonight, the shooting tower on the Goros warship immediately flew out of the sky with iron arrows. It rained down on those pirate ships who dared to come and go to hell.
The frivolous whistling of the pirates came to an abrupt end, and they scolded loudly, wailing among the scolding.
In the darkness, the lighthouse of the port of Kossoya lit up, the light flickered, followed by the long whistle sound from the "Lavelle", which was sharp and harsh. The originally peaceful and peaceful port woke up and boiled in an instant, and the large and small ships that had been suffocated for several days lit up at the same time.
The sailors on the "Lavelle" shouted in unison, and the white sails were lifted up in an instant. The giant ship, like a beast awakened from a slumber, broke through the calm sea and rushed out of the port amid the noise.
Seeing the bad situation, the pirates turned the bow and quickly wanted to use the speed of the boat to leave quickly.
But the port of Kossoya was well-prepared for tonight's venting of anger. One by one, the warships left the port and sailed into the sea, opening the pocket-like encirclement, gradually wrapping the pirate ship inside.
The sailors who had been suffocated for several days shouted in unison, and cursed at the pirate ship that had never paid attention to it in the past.
"Sink them!"
Patriarch Guros stood on the ship building of "Ravel", looked coldly at the small boats flying on the sea, and ordered.
As the most powerful family in the Five-Port Alliance, the iconic warship "Ravel" of the Guros family is definitely one of the most powerful warships today. This is a three-masted multi-sail huge ship, the mast is composed of pine cores, and the diameter is up to one meter. There are three giant sails hanging on each mast, and a long row of giant oars on both sides of the hull. Even without the help of the wind, it can still wreak havoc on the sea.
The wind was strong tonight, the sails were bulging like shells, and the rowers shouted in unison. The Ravel left a long white mark on the sea. In a short period of time, the speed was amazing, and it gradually caught up with the swift. Famous pirate ship.
The distance is close, and the catapults loaded upstairs are ready to shoot.
With an order from Guros, the boulder replaced the iron arrow and smashed into the pirate ship in front of him with a whistling wind.
The sea water splashed high, the sound was amazing, and the unfortunate pirate ship was wiped and sunk into the sea. The horrified howls of pirates lingered in the air. The Guros family used the ship-borne trebuchet, which could be called a killer, and the other two large ships in the first port that came out together were not far behind.
For a time, it was like a meteor whistling and falling, and the boulders were raining.
In order to avoid the boulder, the pirate ship did not care about escaping along the familiar coastline, but blindly rushed forward. But the rest of the first port warships have gradually gathered.
Except for Madame Spiderman's ship guarding the port of Kossoya, the rest of the first port ships joined the siege against pirates. This is a massacre. What they want is to stand up and vent their anger, which is not uncommon at sea. matter.
The rest of the warships surrounded.
The warships that accompanied them were mostly single-deck galleys. They were not as big as the big ships in the first port, but they were definitely better than the pirates. After they came together, each ship was a sword. The ship rushed forward, and the sharp bow slammed into the pirate's ship. They wanted to sink these embarrassed pirates with the usual domineering of the Five-Port Alliance to vent their hatred.
The encirclement formed on the wide sea, the black waves rolled, and the icy water splashed and poured down like a torrential rain.
The first port sailors cried out in revenge for the abuse they had suffered in the previous night.
They thought they would see the trembling pleading of the enemy.
The bows of the ships are staggered, and the merchant ships of the first port are staggered and inserted into the pirate ships that are being forced. The sailors who were preparing for the day cheered and couldn't wait to get up from the deck, draw their knives, and want to jump into each other's boats and kill those hateful enemies.
However, more indulgent laughter rang out.
Their enemies were also laughing.
The pirates jumped out of the boat, paying no attention to the fact that their ship was tipped over and the water was submerging theirs. Under the astonished eyes of the sailors, they threw out the iron cables and hooked them on the warship in the first port.
Seeing the iron lock that was as sensitive as a snake after being thrown out, the more experienced old sailor's complexion changed instantly.
"Worthway Pirates!"
I don't know who screamed in fear first.
In an instant, this cry spread over the sea.
Guros on the "Lavelle" grabbed the torch of the deputy next to him. He stood on the bow and threw the torch down to illuminate the pirate ship that was overturned below: "What's going on!"
He growled in disbelief.
Although most of the merchant ships are also part-time pirates today, there are still some more thorough professional pirates on both sides of the Abyss Strait.
The best among them is the Volway pirates who are good at using iron hooks.
They are active in the central coast of Legrand and are recognized as the most feared pirates on the sea.
The pirates of Volway, these guys are a bunch of outlaws. Unlike other pirates who always go ashore and loot, they call themselves outlaws of the sea and hardly ever stay on the shore. They are one with the sea, and they drive their boats to wander on the sea, even in violent storms.
They are ghosts on the sea.
Every Walway pirate is the best sailor and the most ruthless butcher.
But for a long time, they had no conflict with the Five-Port Alliance, and the scope of activities of the two sides was no longer the same. How could they suddenly appear here and attack the port disguised as ordinary pirates for several days
"wrong!"
Gross woke up, and he shouted, causing all the ships to disperse at once. How could the pirates of Walway be so easily surrounded by them? !
"Withdraw! Withdraw!"
The sea breeze roared, and the sea water brought by the collision of the ships fell like cold rain. There was noise all around, and Guros's shout was drowned out by the noise, but he recovered and blew the flute as a signal forcefully, the flute was shrill, sharp and urgent.
But, it's too late.
One pirate after another emerged from the water, daggers gleaming in their mouths.
The boulders thrown by the main ship of the first port just couldn't let them die at the bottom of the sea! These guys just took the opportunity to dive into the water and swam all the way, and they cut through the board of the boat in the water. These insidious guys specialize in picking the smallest boats and getting them as fast as they can.
"Archery Archery!"
Gross ordered.
There was growing unease in his heart.
The fierce pirate threw out a chain of iron chains, and the chains passed through the air, with icy iron hooks at the ends. The first port warships that were staggered into the pirate ship pile like sharp knives were chained and locked together in an instant. Guros didn't want to care about the lives of the sailors on the ship at all, just urging the shooting stand to shoot arrows.
You have to get out of here quickly, or something more terrible will happen.
The sailors on the big ship have been stunned by this series of changes. They originally thought they were the hunters tonight, but the truth told them that they were just someone else's meal. At the urging, the crew hurriedly took down the trebuchets, put on longbows, and shot arrows from top to bottom.
As soon as the longbow was drawn, the Volway pirates who suddenly appeared here turned over in unison and plunged into the icy sea water again.
A loud bang like thunder.
Another dark red light lit up.
"Holy Lord!"
The sailors stared dumbfounded at the direction from which the sound came, and the longbow in someone's hand fell to the deck.
Holy Lord! what on earth is it!
On the sea, it was unknown when another ship appeared. As they exhausted their efforts to force the pirate ships together, the ships quietly surrounded them as well. If it had just left the port, the first port fleet would not have been afraid of these warships, but they had already been calculated by those damn pirates.
The loud noise came from the iron cannons mounted on the largest enemy ship.
The crude artillery has little attack power, but it is louder than it is, and it is used as a signal at this time.
Torches were lit on the warships that were sailing out of the darkness, and in the light of the fire, Guros saw the sail flags hoisted on the warships.
—It was a huge scarlet sail, and the iron roses were blooming on the dark red curtain.
Rose, rose!
"Royal Fleet!!"
Guros staggered and took two steps back. He propped himself on the cold railing, his whole body was cold.
"impossible!"
Messy thoughts filled the minds of him and all the members of the first port—
Why did the Walway pirates active on the central coast of Legrand appear here? Why did the battleship of the Holy Court arrive before the Royal Fleet appeared? The Royal Fleet has such a big target on the sea, why didn't the explorers of Cossoya report it
As if they knew their doubts.
The pirates emerged from the sea in front of the battleship with the Rose King's flag. They laughed loudly and tore off their shirts. Under the skull logo, which is often used as a pirate status symbol, it is also the rose pattern of the royal family.
These reckless pirates were sent by the king!
king-
He sent a group of outlaws!
Two men whose hair seemed to be burnt stood beside the cannons of the main ship of the Royal Fleet. They turned a deaf ear to the commotion at the moment. They just squatted in front of the cannons and muttered words.
Standing beside the two were the King's Admiralty and a pirate in a tattered coat and a black hat slanted over his head.
The royal fleet is approaching.
The warships in the first port were in a panic, trying to break free from the iron chains. But the smaller ships have been chiseled through the ship's plank, and the sea water is pouring in, and they are sinking rapidly, while the larger ships are connected with them by the iron cables, which are dragged and gradually tilted, with "Ravel" as the The big ship in the first port of the core was trapped in the middle, like a quagmire.
"Hey!"
In the wind, the black hat pirate standing on the main ship of the Royal Fleet shouted.
"Your Majesty asked me to convey a word—"
In his sound like a broken gong, the sailors on the royal warship appeared at the bow with a bucket of something they didn't know what it was.
The Governor raised his hand high and waved it down.
Sailors poured the viscous black liquid from buckets into seawater.
The pirates pulled on the ropes hanging from the ship and quickly climbed onto the royal ship. Standing in the boat, they shouted in unison with their leader:
"Is this fire big enough?"
The sound of the wind ripped their roars into pieces, and these desperadoes, who were also covered in blood, shouted over and over again, laughing loudly.
With laughter, the royal fleet quickly retreated.
The pirate captain and some sailors drew longbows with rockets on them. The rocket flew through the air and fell into the water.
Amidst wild laughter, the fire roared and roared.
The sea breeze was strong, and in a few blinks, the fire was already roaring like the end of a natural disaster. The red fire spread rapidly in the Black Sea, and in a blink of an eye, it became a lake of fire and a sea of purgatory. Black smoke fluttered upward, circling like a poisonous snake.
On the observation tower in the port of Cossoa, the poisonous spider lady in a black dress leaned against the window sill and looked at the looming fire from a distance.
"What a terrible majesty."
After a long time, the poisonous spider, known as the "scorpion", said bitterly.
Even she did not expect that the king would finally take this approach.
Is it enough for the fire that broke out after this millennium to burn down a five-port alliance
In the wind, the pirates conveyed the answer on behalf of the king who was far away in the Rose Palace, but whose will was shrouded in this sea area:
"-Far from enough."
The flames were raging, and the snow-white sails of the ambitious Guros family were curled in the fire.
On the royal battleship that was gradually going away, the flag of the Rose King hanging high was printed with bronze-like eternal splendor. Little by little the old ship was burnt to ashes in the flames. The "God Punishment" in the mouth of the Holy Court was finally driven by the Rose family.
In the winter of Xueluo, the first fire ignited in the southeast sea of Legrand.
Since then, there has been no more "uncrowned king of sea and commerce".
…
The Five-Hong Kong Alliance Resistance Movement is over.
The reason for the end is simple - the Five-Port Alliance no longer exists.
The southeastern nobles of Legrand are afraid that they will not be able to sleep well during this time.
They just slept, and woke up the next day to find that the royal battleship had been docked in various ports, including Cossoya, and the Rose King flag was hanging brightly in front of them.
Holy Lord! Can anyone tell them what the hell is going on? How did it turn upside down overnight
The nobles and the chambers of commerce who had withdrawn from the alliance watched in horror as the royal battleship swept away the remnants of the Five-Port Alliance all the way. In this cleanup, among the five first port families, the poisonous spider lady and the Dawson family remained.
But they honestly handed over the port they controlled.
Patriarch Dawson breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the royal-flagged ship in sight—he didn't make a mistake this time.
"What a cruel and terrible king."
He murmured the same sigh as Mrs. Poison Spider.
The young Patriarch Dawson thought of the previous meeting.
That time he set out to attend the parliament in person, in order to see with his own eyes the young king who had only heard all kinds of rumors before. In front of the guillotine where the sheriffs died, Patriarch Dawson finally made up his mind - that was a king with a heart as hard as steel, and he absolutely didn't care about throwing one more Dawson family on the guillotine.
Patriarch Dawson saw the king.
He knelt down on one knee and begged to exchange all the wealth of the family for a life.
"Did you make a mistake?"
To this day, Patriarch Dawson still clearly remembers the gentle, yet chilling voice of the king.
"As long as the Dawson family ceases to exist in this world, isn't your wealth also owned by me?"
"Tell me your worth, sir," said the king slowly. "It is worth more than the direct possession of the Dawson family wealth."
"I can convince someone for you."
He thought about it and answered.
…
Rose Palace.
"They are better than you said." The king read the letter from the southeast and praised, "If only the sailors of the royal fleet could be as good as them."
"That's because you gave them a chance to show, Your Majesty."
The Duke of Buckingham answered.
On that day, the Duke of Buckingham mentioned to the king the famous pirates of the Volway - they were indeed not well-reputed, but the merchant ships of this era were willing to do a little pirate business if they had the chance. The difference is that the Walway Pirates are more conscientious in the profession of "pirate".
To a certain extent, their reputation among the general population is better than that of the Five-Hong Kong Alliance.
Because the pirates of Volway don't kill ordinary people.
—Although this is purely because the commoners are too poor to be within the target range of such robbers at all.
The Duke of Buckingham asked the king if he could accept a pirate chief as one of his officials.
The king, who had listened to the Duke of Buckingham's recounting of the pirate deeds of Walway, replied:
"As long as he can destroy the five-port alliance warship and protect the port from damage, even a pirate is eligible to serve as a naval admiral."
The king knew how much the royal fleet was capable of.
Even if the Five-Port Alliance falls apart, the royal fleet will still have to pay a huge price to completely destroy these "uncrowned kings" who traverse the entire Abyss Strait all day long.
The pirates wandering in the rough seas got the letter of appointment from the king and set off down the coast.
At the same time, the Dawson family, who had been silent all the time, was instructed by the king to patrol the outer waterway of Cossoaia.
The ships sent by the Guros family to transport the holy relics were intercepted by them. Even if Guros waited for another two weeks, they would not be able to wait for reinforcements from the Holy Court.
When Guros gathered all the remaining ships in the first port and prepared to stalemate with the king until the Holy Court arrived, an invisible blockade had been quietly opened on the sea.
The last splendid night battle was conceived by the pirate chief.
The king didn't think he could outperform a seasoned admiral or a well-known pirate of Walway in this regard. He gave the governor of the navy enormous powers - the battle plan was decided by him and the pirate chief.
The king believed in the ability to escape the many pursued pirates of the Volway, and at the same time believed in the loyalty of the Admiral, who was one of the royalists.
In the case of inconvenient transportation and slow communication, if the king in the palace insists on reaching out and intervening in the battlefield far in the southeast, there will be no good results.
So the king did only one thing.
He sent two chemists to the Admiral and the Pirate Chief.
The cooperation between royal warships and pirates is unbelievable, and the king threw two mad scientists in...
Things get exciting.
The pirates of Walway have a terrible relationship with all ship merchants, and almost all chambers of commerce regard them as enemies. However, in this case, they were still happily at sea.
They are outlaws but also cunning and cunning.
The speed of the pirate ships was faster than that of the royal fleet. After they arrived near Kossoya, they did not act directly, but harassed the battleships of the Five Harbors Alliance while waiting for the arrival of the royal fleet.
One of the purposes of the harassment is to understand how the current strength of the first port is, and the other is to get in touch with Mrs. Poison Spider.
Mrs. Spider, who was rebelled by Patriarch Dawson, won the alert mission. It was she who concealed the news that the royal battleship had arrived in the nearby waters.
After getting in touch with Lady Venomous Spider, the pirates passed the information on to the Royal Fleet. The fleet was quietly approaching Kossoya. Before that, the pirates had been attacking at night in a very arrogant disguise. Finally, Guros, who was not disturbed by it, made a plan to attack.
Mrs. Spider managed to pass the plan to the pirates.
So the bastards also came up with a wonderful plan.
- The pirates pretended to be fleeing and led the first port fleet out of the port. Then they abandoned their pirate ship and used the chains that were used when the two ships collided in the landing battle to drag the first port fleet in place. It was a daring plan, and no one could do it except for the desperadoes who were very good at water.
Fortunately, they succeeded.
These reckless pirates proved to the king that they were strong enough to get away with it.
"God is a righteous judgment. He shoots darts and bestows retribution on sins... You said that the Holy Court knew that their fire of divine punishment was used by mortals. What would be the reaction?"
The king looked through the battle report, and he seemed to be very interested in the question.
"Probably similar to how people react when they find out that the new admiral is actually a pirate."
The Duke of Buckingham answered.
It's time for the king to meet his general.
A pirate general.