Tales of the Reincarnated Lord

Chapter 296 Surrender

"Turn the rudder twenty-six, lower the sail..."

"Yes, turn the rudder twenty-six and lower the sail!" The old Cod at the helm responded loudly, turning the rudder wheel hard, and the bow slowly turned to the left. On the mast, several agile sailors skilfully rolled up the full sail in half...

The sea was drizzling, and the horizon of the Haneabad Islands finally appeared on the distant sea level. Schumacher took a long sigh of relief and ordered the helmsman to adjust the direction, leading the fleet towards Nubit Harbor in the cold rain Hurried away.

It is 6:15 in the morning, and it seems that the sun will not be out today. I only hope that the drizzle will stop when I arrive at Nubit Harbor, otherwise it will take another day to unload the goods. This is not to worry about whether the slippery springboards on and off the ship on a rainy day will cause trouble for the unloaded slaves, but most of the goods and commodities transported on the ship are not waterproofed, so they cannot be unloaded on rainy days.

Rain water dripped continuously on the gray-black animal skin poncho, and Schumacher looked up at the sky, estimating that he should arrive at Nubit Harbor at noon. Schumacher, who has spent most of his life at sea, estimates that this is very accurate based on his experience. Looking back at the fleet under his command, Schumacher couldn't help but feel a trace of pride. This is the northern fleet of the Chickard Chamber of Commerce and the strongest fleet in the northern waters. I can become the leader of this fleet in my lifetime, it is worth it in this life.

It takes 22 to 26 days to travel from the Golden Bay to Xia Siya Kingdom, because the islands where Xia Siya Kingdom is located are more southward. The Chickard Chamber of Commerce once studied that if you don't see the land on a sea-going ship, sailors and seamen will become irritable in fifteen days, and they will become desperate and cruel in about twenty days, and they will be extremely prone to accidents. It is very simple to kill people when they say nothing.

Therefore, the northern fleet of the Chickard Chamber of Commerce first went to the Shaisya Kingdom to complete the spice trade. It is for this reason that the sailors and crew of the newly sailing fleet are more patient and obey orders, and easier to control. Although the sea route to the Kingdom of Xia is far enough to reach before the situation becomes worse, the rest of the Kingdom of Xia for ten days can calm the anxiety of sailors and seamen, and then to Hanea Bada Islands. Ten days to ensure that the fleet is safe and sound.

It takes more than 20 days to travel from the Kingdom of Haneabadah to the Golden Bay, but it takes only more than 10 days to sail from the archipelago to the coast of the Asian continent. The next more than 10 days will be along the mainland coastline to the Golden Bay. Traveling, coupled with the fleet of sailors and seafarers spending two months at sea, homesickness will not cause trouble. This is a very clever and practical thing that the Chickerd Chamber of Commerce as the overlord of the sea has explored. It's just a little trick for the sea fleet.

This time, there are 67 ships in the Chikede Northern Fleet arriving in Haneabata. Before the departure, the Chikked Chamber of Commerce specially assigned 22 large ocean-going merchant ships to join them. The reason was a letter in the room of the fleet leader Schumacher.

The glass war with the Trimble Kingdom left the Chickde Chamber of Commerce badly injured. Although an armed group formed by their sailors and seamen did not suffer a major loss, the high-end combat power of the Chamber of Commerce lost two great swordsmen. , Seven golden swordsmen, this almost put the Chamber of Commerce on fire. Fortunately, Thurleyham, the eldest master of the Chamber of Commerce, made a brilliant plan to reverse the unfavorable situation of the commercial alliance army. He won the trust of the commander of the alliance army and the president of the double-headed dragon chamber of commerce, Cumberlet, and he advocated after the war. The Principality of Urubaha was transferred to the Chikked Chamber of Commerce as a territory, but the Chikked Chamber of Commerce was not a waste of work.

However, although the Chickard Chamber of Commerce has obtained the Ulu Baha Principality as the Chamber of Commerce territory, it is facing a very serious situation. As we all know, the Ulu Baha Principality is a poor country and a mountainous country. The biggest difficulty is that the arable land is not enough to produce food. It is simply not enough to fill the belly of the people, so the Grand Duke of Urubaha formed two mercenaries in the hope of eating people, one is to earn some gold, the other is to reduce the burden of food.

As for the citizens of the Principality, the former Grand Duke of Urubaha didn’t care at all in order to feed his stomach and go to the sea as pirates. He was not interested in receiving taxes from these poor citizens of the Principality. Time might as well find more employers for the two mercenary regiments under him. That is the big business of money.

Now the two mercenary regiments of the Ulu Baha Principality have become the biggest burden of the Chamber of Commerce after the defection. The Crimson Legion and the Tricolor Sword Legion are small in size, with only 24,000 people, but the two legions have nearly 50,000 people plus. There are almost 200,000 relatives in their family members, almost a quarter of the total population of the Principality. In the past, Grand Duke Ulu Baha didn't care about the families of these legionaries. In his eyes, these legionaries were cannon fodder for him. The salary that allowed them to survive was a great kindness.

Now it’s the Chickard Chamber of Commerce. They don’t want the soldiers of these two regiments to be as unloyal as they did to the former Grand Duke of Urubaha. Not only do they want to reorganize these two regiments into regular regiments, they also need the loyalty of these soldiers. . Therefore, it is not only necessary to clean up military discipline, but also to take care of the families of these soldiers. It's just the glass war that caused the food prices of the business alliance to rise so fast that they were tumbling. Especially after the war, the attitudes of various countries towards business alliances changed from being close to being precautionary, cutting off most of the trade routes, such as grain and iron ore, which were included in the embargoed materials, as a result, the commercial alliance’s food prices were delayed. decline.

Ulu Baha Principality, what the Chikked Chamber of Commerce now needs most is food. With food, the Chikked Chamber of Commerce can gather the hearts of the unscrupulous mountain people, like those developed by the young master Serreham The plan can be implemented to change the situation of poverty in the Ulu Baha Mountains. As long as two or three years, the chamber of commerce can be self-sufficient, and even a lot of income will be paid in.

But the problem is that the Chikerd Chamber of Commerce is now unable to buy grain from all over the country with money. What it can buy is high-priced grain, even if the Chikerd Chamber of Commerce is wealthy, it can't stand it. The reason why more than 20 large ocean-going merchant ships were transferred to the northern fleet is to buy one million Pu'er grain from the Kingdom of Haneaba. (One Pu'er is equal to one hundred jin, the unit of quantity of Gaelintia, which evolved from a sack woven from Pu'er hemp in one hundred jin.)

The letter placed in the room of Schumacher, the commander of the Northern Fleet, was handwritten by the chairman of the Chiked Chamber of Commerce to King Luther III of the Kingdom of Haneabada. The letter requested Luther III to agree to sell food to the Chikkad Chamber of Commerce in view of the friendship between the Chikkad Chamber of Commerce and the Kingdom of Hanea Bada. No way, such a large number of food transactions must be approved by Luther III. For this reason, the Chickard Chamber of Commerce also specially prepared a large number of precious gifts to be dedicated to Luther III.

The fleet sailed slowly along the waterway leading to the port of Nubit. Standing on the slipway, Schumacher looked at the several islands shrouded in mist and rain not far away. He wondered why he didn’t see the slaves working on the islands at this time. Could it be that the slave owners and nobles showed kindness to fear that the slaves would be here? Chill and sickness in this weather, so don't let them come out to work? After thinking about it, Schumacher laughed at himself involuntarily. Whatever he did, the slave did not do his job or not...

The decks of merchant ships were crowded with sailors and sailors. Compared with the Kingdom of Chaisia, these sailors and sailors who wandered at sea preferred to come to this slavery kingdom. Among other things, the quality of the women in the brothel, the Kingdom of Hanea Bada is many times better than the Kingdom of Xiaisiya. The women in the Xia Siya Kingdom who waited at the docks were mostly the families of fishermen and farmers, all of them tanned black and smelled of fish and soil.

And the women in the brothel in Haneabada Kingdom are all female slaves from all over the Gailintia continent. Not to mention the cheap price, and the large number of people, enough for the sailors and crew of the fleet to be drunk on them. Days and nights, minus the tiredness and boredom caused by their long voyages.

When passing by Lokyu Island, Schumacher finally saw the slave. It was a family of three, standing in front of a dilapidated stone house on the island, watching the fleet passing by with expressionless expression...

"Strange, how did the slave owners allow the slave family to live together?" Kuchud, the first-level sword master on the slipway, murmured.

The Chickerd Chamber of Commerce originally had five great swordsmen enshrined, but one was killed when intercepting the Flying Fish of the Dawn in Lorist, and two more were lost in the glass war. One was to protect President Chickerd from He was killed when he was assassinated, and the other was deceived by the former Grand Duke of Ulu Baha and was beheaded and killed unsuspectingly. Now there are only this first-level great swordsman Kuchud and the second-level great swordsman Udi who is heading to the territory of the Urubah Chamber of Commerce.

The Great Swordsman of Kuchud was able to sit in the northern fleet because the Chikkad Chamber of Commerce attaches great importance to this trip to the Kingdom of Haneabadah to buy food, and does not want any surprises. This is why the southern armed fleet is specially The Great Sword Master Kuchud was transferred to the northern fleet.

"Hehe, the Great Sword Master does not know that the Kingdom of Haneabadah also allows slaves to form families and live together." Old Cod, who was at the helm, smiled: "Like those old female slaves, those big nobles They will also allow the slaves given to them to be their wives. But they are the rest of the game. There are also female slaves who are pregnant by them, so they can find a slave to be a cheap dad. They can still play when they want to play. To play, that cheap father has to stand guard outside for them..."

"Haha, it seems that it is quite comfortable to be a nobleman in the Kingdom of Hanea Bada. It is really easy to live freely by raising a group of slaves and getting a manor. All the slaves are in their own hands. What they want ..." The Great Sword Master Kuchud also laughed.

Schumacher shook his head disapprovingly. They all replaced themselves as slave owners and nobles, and didn't want them to become slaves, how humiliating and unfortunate that day was. However, as the leader of the northern fleet of the Chickard Chamber of Commerce, Schumacher cared about whether he could complete his mission and reach a food deal with the Kingdom of Haneaba, rather than sympathize with the humble slaves.

After falling feathers to the front is Golden Shark Island and Duck Island. The Nubit Harbor in the far front can already be seen. It may be due to cold rain. Not many people are seen on the dock, and there are several boat stops along the coast. Both sides of the trestle bridge are empty, not as if they were full of boats and boats in the past.

"What's the matter, this Nubit Harbor is so deserted, what happened?" Old Cod at the helm was stunned.

"Isn't it okay to have so many vacancies?" Schumacher rolled his eyes: "Didn't you get the news before sailing, all the slaves and nobles of the Kingdom of Hanea Bada joined forces to attack Silovas in the Kingdom of Antinac The island is the realm of the earl that is hostile to our chamber of commerce. There are no ships and few people here. It is likely that they have benefited and sent out again."

This reason is very good and powerful, and no one can refute it.

However, the closer to Nubit Harbor, the more sailors and crew squeezed onto the deck, and everyone eagerly wanted to disembark early and have fun.

"Huh? Why did those slave aristocrats have a leisurely mind to build a hill next to the dock? Is that a pyramid? Why do you use it?" The old Cod at the helm felt very curious. Should it be a pyramid? What do those slave aristocrats want to do when they build such a huge hill-like pyramid on the dock?

As the distance got closer, Kuchud's Great Swordmaster who was watching the pyramid suddenly gasped, and then his whole body shivered.

"What's the matter?" Schumacher asked.

"Well, that's a human head...all, it's all, yes, it's a human, a human head, a human head, a pile of gold, a pyramid..." The Great Sword Master Kuqiud finally finished shivering.

"What are you talking about?" Schumacher leaped to the right and looked up, only to feel that a stream of cold water was pouring from his head. The whole person suddenly became cold, as if he had fallen into an ice hole...

The fleet is only a hundred meters away from the pier of Nubit Harbor and is still approaching. And the thirty-meter-high pyramid built on the beach on the right side of the pier is imprinted. Pyramids are not rare. There are many pyramid-shaped buildings in the ruins excavated on the Gailint Asia continent, but most of them are mausoleums. But the pyramid built next to the Nubit Harbor Pier is made up of individual human heads from top to bottom...

These human heads have obviously been treated with embalming, and the pale faces still have expressions of despair, pain and madness before death. This is the case of a human head, and hundreds of thousands of human heads are like this. Pyramids built with these human heads The visual shock is so strong, especially the transparent gum vine juice is poured between the heads of these people. It looks like a large pyramid-shaped crystal with countless heads...

All the sailors and crew members on the deck of the entire fleet were silent. They only felt that their hands and feet were cold and unwilling to do so. An unspeakable fear emerged from their hearts, their teeth were trembling, their hands and feet were trembling, and the whole person was trembling...

Many brave and fierce sailors in the fleet have seen the deaths of hundreds of people, some of them crawled out of the dead, but facing this huge pyramid of human heads, no one can maintain their courage. They stared at the pyramid of human heads blankly, forgetting their responsibilities, what to do and what to do...

More than a dozen sea-going ships collided due to the daze and mistakes of the controller, and the entire fleet was entangled together.

Schumacher came back to his senses, and was about to order the fleet to reorganize the ranks, but he heard a whining horn echoing above Nubit Harbor.

Countless well-equipped soldiers rushed to the pier, waiting in line. Among them, countless crossbows were pushed to the front, and huge crossbow arrows shining with cold light were aimed at the fleet for launch.

The expressions of the Great Swordsman Schumacher and Kuchud changed drastically, and horns sounded from the Golden Shark Island and Duck Island on both sides, and long queues of soldiers and rows of strangely shaped vehicles appeared on the islands. Then there was the sound of horns from the rear of the fleet, and seven or eight large sea ships blocked the sea passage for the fleet to enter the port. The northern fleet of the Chickard Chamber of Commerce has become a turtle in the urn, and it is impossible to escape with its wings.

Lorist took two great swordsmen, Ingerek and Seuss, onto the pier, facing the chaos of the fleet, and the spring thunder said: "Abandon your weapons for your life, disembark and surrender!"

All the Norton family soldiers roared in unison: "Abandon your weapon and spare your life, disembark and surrender! Discard your weapon and spare your life, disembark and surrender!..."

The Northern Fleet responded silently...

Lorist waved his hand ~www.readwn.com~ The horn sounded again.

The thunderbolt catapults in the front row at Golden Shark Island and Duck Island threw the first batch of burning fire bombs into the shipless waters behind the fleet. Over a distance of more than 400 meters, nearly a hundred fire bombs hit the water. There was a water wave several meters high.

Schumacher's face was pale: "What to do?"

The Great Sword Master Kuchud gritted his teeth: "No way, at least there is a Great Sword Master on the dock, who is very murderous. I, I'm afraid it's not his opponent..."

Schumacher turned his head and looked at the sailor crew on the deck. No one dared to look at him. In front of the huge pyramid of human heads, almost everyone lost the courage to resist. Now they are trapped and surrounded. There is only a dead end to resistance.

Schumacher lowered his head sullily and issued his last command as the leader of the fleet: "Sail, fly the white flag, dock, we surrender..."

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To be continued.)