A sharp, long battle horn sounded.
Charles gave the order to fight without hesitation, and the clipper, which originally belonged to the pirates of Walway, broke out of the waves in the shortest time and rushed to the Qahtani ships that kept throwing corpses at the city behind.
Captain Hawkins, who usually hangs around, grabbed Charles who was going to the ship's building: "Write a letter to Your Majesty immediately!"
"I will command the battle!"
After he finished speaking, he pushed Charles back to the cabin, threw away the jug in his hand, and pulled out the dagger hanging from his waist with his backhand. He stepped on the side of the ship, which was swaying slightly in the night tide, and nimbly jumped off the ghost ship and jumped directly to a fast boat that rushed out of the ship's side.
With his feet on the deck of the Clipper, Captain Hawkins grabbed the mast and stabilized his body.
"Fire!"
His gong-like voice sounded in the dark night.
The pirate clippers of the Volway are like arrows from the string, leaving white marks on the sea, and quickly approaching the dead ships carrying the plague.
Under the orders of Captain Hawkins, two sailors from each clipper rushed to the bow.
After the battle with the Alliance of Five Ports, the two chemists further improved the formula of the "Ancient Flame". Captain Hawkins asked the ship designer in the Volway Pirates to use the "Ancient Flame" to determine the A special metal structure is installed on the bow, which looks like a dragon head with a long neck and a raised head, which seems to be a common bow metal ram. [1]
But in fact, it was a special nozzle made after trial and error.
The Volvo Pirate Clippers approached the Qahtani fleet, and the opposing fleet seemed to have completely ignored other things, and just wanted to race against time to throw the most corpses into the port city behind.
The sailors in the bow grab the metal pull-bolts, and the special device hidden in the royal fleet makes its first appearance in this situation.
The metal faucet opened with a "click" and "click", and the next moment, raging fire spewed out from the dragon-like nozzle. The Qahtani fleet that kept throwing corpses.
On the Qahtani fleet, the man who was commanding on the deck saw the raging flames engulfing himself and the ship before he realized what it was.
"You son of a bitch!"
"Go to hell!"
…
Without hesitation, the pirates of the Volway cursed, rowing their oars vigorously, and quickly surrounded the entire Qahtani fleet with their long tongues of flame.
Captain Hawkins stood on the deck.
Under his orders, the clipper quickly went straight to the main ship of the Qahtani fleet. Captain Hawkins bit the dagger across his mouth and reached for a coil of hemp rope that was piled up on the boat.
On the main ship of Qahtani, stood a tall and thin man in a black cloak.
The black cloak found the approaching pirate ship, and he turned his head and ordered the surrounding sailors, as if asking them to leave the rest alone and throw the corpses with all their might.
Captain Hawkins shook his hand, and the cable from his hand was like a sensitive and swift poisonous snake. It swept through the air like lightning and caught the man in the black cape standing at the bow.
The black cloak couldn't react in time, and it was too late when the surrounding subordinates realized that the accident was going to rush over and pull it.
As soon as Captain Hawkins exerted force, the black cloak fell from the big boat that was much higher than the Clippers, and fell into the water with a thud. Captain Hawkins bit the dagger, stepped on the side of the boat, and jumped directly into the water.
Tongues of flame roared out from the bow, wrapping the huge main ship in the raging flames. The people on the boat exclaimed and wanted to jump into the water from the boat to escape, but the fire floated on the water and was equally fierce and inextinguishable. They howled, the fire leaped, and fewer corpses were thrown in the air.
"Captain! Captain! Go!"
On the clipper, the pirates shouted towards the sea.
"The fire is coming!"
wow.
The water splashed on the sea, and the scar on his face was exposed by Captain Hawkins, whose face became more and more obvious by the fire. He stretched out his left hand and grabbed the plank on the side of the ship. The pirates hurriedly pulled him up.
Captain Hawkins' right hand clasped the black cloak's throat like an eagle claw. His dagger had no hilt on the guy's shoulder.
"Pooh."
Captain Hawkins threw the guy he captured into the cabin and spat out a mouthful of seawater.
The raging fire swept across the black sea, and the red flames and black smoke intertwined like a sinful ancient python swimming out of hell. Qahtani's fleet was gradually engulfed by the sea in the fire, and Charles wrote the letter quickly on the ghost ship. The witch with the crow on her shoulder lit a green spirit fire and threw the letter into the fire.
The wind howled, the pirates were fierce and fearless.
The last Qahtani ship sank, and the royal ships turned back.
The horn of battle has awakened the entire city of Kothsoa, and General Sheen arrived at this time with Iron Rose's cavalry. They came a little late, because General Sheehan took the soldiers to the gates of Kothsoya Castle for the first time.
The drawbridge of the castle was raised, and the gates slammed shut.
Kossoya, lock down the city.
It was not until the end of the naval battle that the Rose Cavalry finally arrived at the port. General Sheen gave an order, and they pulled up a long blockade. Immediately afterwards, the soldiers began to quickly investigate the bodies that had been thrown in.
General Sheehan's heart seemed to be sinking all the time.
The blockade line was pulled up, and the corpses were being lifted quickly and thrown into the sea, but the range of the trebuchets was too wide. It was dark at this time. How useful would their blockade line be
he does not know.
People in the blockade were crying and trying to rush out.
A businessman was very close to the blockade. He glanced at the gap blocked by the soldiers and rushed over, trying to escape the blockade.
In the darkness, a sword light slashed across.
The businessman's head flew high, and blood spurted out.
"Who dares to take half a step! I will kill anyone!"
A black-haired woman with an arc knife walked out of the darkness and stood in front of the blockade. The wind blew her black hair, and her green eyes were sharp.
The pirate ships have returned, and three ghost ships are docked at the port, but the rest of the fast ships have not entered the port.
Brave, fanatical pirates sat on deck.
Some people started to develop pustules on their arms, and some people started to feel their foreheads start to heat up. A one-eyed pirate with pustules on his arm staggered to his feet, stepped on the side of the ship, and was about to jump into the sea. The pirates on the same boat reached out and grabbed him.
"Are you fucking blind!"
The one-eyed pirate cursed.
"I go to the sea to take a bath, it's none of your business."
"Take a bloody bath!" The pirates on the same boat scolded loudly, and they dragged the guy back, "Your uncle owes Lao Tzu the wine money, do you want to blame it?"
Not far from them, on the sea, the ancient sacred fire had not yet finished burning, and the dark red fire shone on these scolding pirates. They parked the ship outside the harbour, laughing and cursing, as if death had not yet overtaken them.
Three ghost ships, one hell made the ship parked in a port not far from them, and Charles was on the ghost ship.
He grabbed the railing and watched the pirates standing or sitting in the firelight.
"Hi!"
Captain Hawkins was also standing on the bow, and he waved vigorously at the pier, but not with Charles.
Charles looked in the direction he greeted, and saw the dark-haired woman standing on the pier in the firelight, and he was slightly taken aback.
The sea breeze in December was as cold as a knife stabbed between the bones. In the wind, I didn't know which pirate ship was on, and someone started to sing with a loud voice:
"We are not afraid of death - would rather die in battle with the enemy,
Although, death is even more boring than rest.
Come on, let it be, we took the life of life,
If it falls - who cares whether it's death by sword or disease"[2]
Rough songs echoed over the wrath of Kothsoya's harbor, and unending fire shone on a sea that would be shrouded in death, and the pirates of Volway were like brothers.
They live and die together, as rebellious as the wind.
"...Let those creeping and crawling people fall in love with "aging"!
Let them stick to the sickbed and suffer for years;
Let them shake their paralyzed heads and breathe hard..."[3]
On the pier is the Mad Queen Eleanor who finally walked out of the Black Tower, on the ghost ship is the king's godfather Charles holding the railing, and standing with the pirates on the deck is the crazy Captain Hawkins...
Years later, old friends meet again in the very center of the whirlpool, and they face death as they did years ago.
…
Rose Palace.
The king caught the letter spat out from the green flame. This is the witch's secret method, and every use is a big burden on the witch herself, so unless there is an emergency, Charles will not use this method to contact him.
He unfolded the letter, and for the first time, Charles' neat handwriting appeared slightly scribbled, and the king quickly read it, his brows and eyes covered with ice.
Without hesitation, he started the contract to summon the devil.
Before he could start the contract, black mist had already swelled up in the room, and the devil took the lead to come out of the viscous darkness.
"The plague doctors have already rushed over."
The devil leaned over and saluted the king, who wisely did not provoke the king at this crucial moment.
"Your important subordinates are safe and sound."
The king heard the meaning of the words: "How many people did the pirates of Volway sacrifice? What about the iron cavalry?"
The devil was silent for a moment, then reported two numbers.
The king was expressionless, his anger suppressed in his calm.
The devil is a little helpless.
A lord of "greed and ill-gotten wealth" can only allow the devil to open a small gap without causing the suppression of the law, and he can only bring a small group of plague doctors to nip the spread of the Black Death in the bud. At these times, the devil is also running around the southeast coast non-stop.
If it weren't for the king's blockade, I am afraid that the plague could not be so effectively restrained.
However, the outbreak of the plague in Kothsoa was man-made, when the devil was taking the plague doctor to solve the epidemic in another village. After he noticed it, he immediately rushed over with the plague doctor.
But the speed of the artificial throwing infection was too amazing, and the trebuchet threw the corpse into every corner in the dark.
Due to human factors, a densely populated city like Kossoya can spread the plague much faster than a small village. When the devil arrived, the plague had completely broken out, and the team of plague doctors was lucky to be able to protect the king's important iron cavalry and the royal fleet.
"How?"
the king asked.
He did not forget that the devil had planned to wait until the plague broke out in Legrand before he could solve it. In this case, it means that there is a way to solve such a large-scale plague.
"One way," replied the devil, "by yourself - by yourself to open the gates of hell."
The king looked at him and realized that this was the real idea of the devil.
- He seems to wish the king's connection to hell was as strong as possible, perhaps because it would allow him to take the king to hell earlier.
"This matter has nothing to do with me. My dear majesty." The devil hurriedly distanced himself from the relationship, and he changed the subject, "but, are you sure you want to go in person? You know... The Holy Court is watching your every move. , in this way, you have no way out."
"The Holy Court?"
The king read these two words and sneered.
"All I know is that my soldiers are in the city of plague."
The devil let out a sarcastic laugh.
- The plan that hell had worked so hard to finally give up, was done by humans themselves.
Earth or hell, which is the breeding ground for sin
…
1432, December.
The Great Plague of Kothsoa.
General Rose Iron Cavalry Sheen ordered the city to be closed, the royal fleet was stationed outside the port, and the king went to the southeast in person.
The author has something to say: [1] Referring to the Byzantine warship settings, they installed special nozzles on fast ships such as Domonis, and then sprayed the liquid long guns of Greek fire to the enemy ships through the special nozzles [About Greece Fire has been explained in the previous chapter 41]. This device and spear have a huge role in close range defense. There are related introductions and full-color pictures on page 16 of "The Looting of Three Thousand Years: Pirate Legends in World History", if you are interested, you can take a look.
[2][3] Quoted from Byron Poems