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Eden is a newly promoted knight in the royal capital. He has no fief, and the title cannot be inherited to his children. He is the lowest level of the nobility. Even some great nobles believe that a knight is not a noble at all, at most it is just an honorary title. Therefore, he showed great enthusiasm for Tifeko's blockade order. Relying on his experience of drifting at sea in his early years, and the new king prefers to use new people, he finally became the commander of an eagle-headed warship.
He believes that his advantage lies in the fact that the blockade of the trade route is a good opportunity to judge the situation. Staying away from the comfortable mansion and drifting on the boat for more than half a year is naturally very hard, and the general nobles are not willing to accept such a job, so he can barely rank among the Come in, if you do well, nine out of ten you can be named a true noble.
And it is very easy to do it well. Neither the merchant ships nor the caravans are their opponents. If the local lords send knights to encircle and suppress them, they can do nothing with the warships on the water. As long as he is not greedy, this task will be properly completed, making His Majesty Tifeko satisfied.
Of course, how satisfied your Majesty is depends on the coins and goods you hand in. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but glance coldly at the cheerful mice on the opposite boat. Yesterday, they stopped a merchant ship with the flag of Chishui City. Although the captain repeatedly said that he planned to go to the Dragon Mountain, they still happily engulfed the cargo and killed all the people on board. The seized items were mainly. It's fur and wine, and a jar of golden dragons. And these idiots actually regarded the confiscated things as their own trophies, and divided them into fifty-fifty according to the rules of the black street.
This made Eden sneer. The mice didn't even know that their role was to quell the anger of the local lord and wait for the end of the traitor Roland. The heads of these people are naturally It will be sent to the lords who have suffered losses in trade as a sign of His Majesty's apology. As for the seized materials, all of them will undoubtedly be charged into the treasury of the palace.
And they still regarded this operation as a fat man, and they didn't notice the noose that was already hanging around their necks, which was extremely ironic.
"Sir, there is movement ahead!" the sailor in the lookout position shouted.
Iden walked to the bow, frowned, and saw a cloud of black smoke rising in the distance, as if something was burning on the river, and after a while, he saw a faint gray approaching here. . It was a ship, no doubt, but he did not see the most striking sail.
"Is it a bit fast?" The deputy stared for a moment and said.
Eden has also discovered this, even if it is downstream, its forward speed is too amazing. In less than half a quarter of an hour, it has changed from a thumb-sized point to a palm-sized point, and according to the distance, its forward speed is too amazing. The volume is much larger than that of ordinary merchant ships.
Two other eagle-headed ships also found their target, and the side oars of one of them swayed quickly, as if trying to get on board this strange merchant ship before everyone else.
"Sir, are we going to follow?" the deputy asked.
Iden pondered for a while, "Don't worry, let's see the situation first." He noticed that the eagle-headed ship commanded by Baron Derrick behind him did not move, and the warship carrying the mouse was already on the left and right. Posing a pick-up attitude.
The incoming ship soon became clear, and Eden gradually opened his mouth. It wasn't just him, there were exclamations on the deck, and the sailors on the mast shouted, "My God, boss, what the hell is this? !"
I saw that the hull of the other party actually had a metallic luster, and it was not like a sea ship that only wrapped copper plates at the bottom. It was all the same color, even the strange iron tower above the hull! Its bow is like a shuttle, and it splits the river in half. Just by looking at the white waves rising against the side of the ship, you can see how exaggerated the speed of this iron-hulled ship is.
A thick sound of "hum" rolled over everyone's ears. Not only did the incoming ship not slow down, but it also slightly deflected its course and rammed into the first eagle-headed ship obliquely ahead!
Since the side-to-side battle needs to approach the target from the side, the eagle-headed ship has to run diagonally first. This step is not a problem for the slow merchant ships, but it becomes a big flaw in the face of the strange iron ship coming from the breaking waves. The bow was turned back, and the other party had already rammed into the unsuspecting abdomen of the eagle-headed ship.
Everyone heard the cracking sound of the wood breaking, and the slender warship seemed to be slapped violently by a giant palm. The turbulent water waves rushed to the deck, and many people were thrown directly into the water under the violent impact.
"God!" The deputy's eyes widened, "It's coming for us!"
"Enemy attack!" shouted the sailor. "My lord, enemy attack!"
The people on the deck have already moved, some have set up crossbows, and some are loading muskets with ammunition.
Seeing the towering double-gun flag flying above the iron ship, Eden swallowed and ordered, "Let the oarsmen move for Lao Tzu and move closer to the shore!" This is a flag that has never been seen before, but He already had a guess in his heart that only the prince in the Western Region who was rumored to have a deal with the devil could create such a terrifying thing! Not only is it huge in size, but it is faster than a long and narrow galley, which is not something mortals can do!
"Aren't we running?" the deputy asked in a trembling voice.
"Run?" he snapped, "it's faster than us, where can you run to? Only by sticking to the river bank can we prevent it from crashing, and we might even board the ship to fight around its back. This is my chance! Damn it, go and deliver my order!"
Pushing away the panicked deputy, Eden looked at the eagle-headed ship that suffered first, his hands and feet were cold, even if he couldn't see the scene in the cabin, he could imagine it. The bow of the iron ship was completely inserted into the belly of the warship, and even if it was not divided into two, the long, bent hull would not last long. Those sailors who paddled were undoubtedly the most unlucky fellows. Being crushed by iron heads was a good ending. The worst thing was that those who were stuck in the cabin and couldn't move could only be choked to death by the river water that was poured into them.
Cries, scoldings, and screams were mixed together, like a pot of boiling water. Although most of the boats were filled with rats, the spread of fear still made him feel that the situation on both sides had been reversed, and the hunter had become the prey. .
With the impact of the current and the sudden deceleration of the iron ship, the bent eagle-headed ship finally fell off the enemy's bow and overturned quickly. The second warship was desperately turning its bow, trying to get away from the other party as soon as possible, but the long cry of death sounded again, the iron ship made a deafening roar, dragging a long black smoke and began to accelerate, toward the nearest to it. The boat jumped. (.)