People in the Middle Ages, draw cards to get promoted

Chapter 197 Poor Pirates

If you think of the territory of the Kingdom of Jerusalem as a triangle.

The port of Ayla is at the bottom of the triangle, at the spearhead of the Ayyubid territory.

On both sides of the coast, they are surrounded by the two territories of the Impaler Qasim, Aqaba and Dahab. After crossing a cliff and turning over a high slope, you can see the border fortress built by the Impaler in the distance.

Lothar rode a horse, and under the salute of more than a dozen Varangian guards guarding the city gate, slowly stepped into this port city filled with the smell of sea.

There are flat-roofed buildings with yellowish-white walls everywhere.

Churches and Zoroastrian temples are clearly separated, and they are distributed in an orderly manner according to the terrain and the divisions of Christians and Zoroastrians.

He carefully looked at the topography of the city, and couldn't help but sigh: "This place is really easy to attack and difficult to defend."

The same thing can be expressed in two opposite ways.

It can be said that Ella Port is surrounded, or it can be said that Ella Port is like a sharp blade, piercing the enemy's chest.

Divide the territory of the entire Ayyubid Kingdom into two from the south.

Therefore, the status of the bishopric of Alandele has become very important, and the two cities are obviously the horns of each other.

This is also one of the reasons why Zayn had to give up the idea of ​​sticking to Port Ella, trying to take back Alandelle while Lothar was away.

Lothar led people straight to Zayn Aladdin's mansion.

The situation in Ella Port is very tense. Except for Christians, everyone's face is tense. They don't know what kind of person Lothar, the new pagan lord, is.

But they had no intention of resisting.

Few people miss Zayn Aladdin's rule, and even the head of Saracen, who belongs to the same family, is full of disgust for this greedy man who scrapes the ground.

After they learned that Lothar was coming, they immediately chose to meet.

"Master Lothar, it's an honor to be summoned by you!"

A local leader spoke fluent Gaul and cried to Lothar about Zayn Aladdin's atrocities against them-heavily taxed, plundered, and reckless.

There is quite a sense of humor that "the world has been suffering for a long time", and today we welcome Lothar, the pagan "master of the king".

Although the Kingdom of Jerusalem's rule over the local area has never penetrated into the local area, it cannot be said that it has no effect at all.

For these local leaders, when the Port of Ella once belonged to the Kingdom of Jerusalem, it is obvious that they lived more prosperously.

After receiving the local leaders in Port Ella.

Lothar stepped on the soft carpet, thinking secretly, maybe it is not necessary to deal with these local leaders in Port Aila prematurely, or if they are smart enough, let them die.

For one thing, their strength was already languishing.

Secondly, Lothar has to consider whether if he gets rid of these local leaders, whether it will destroy Lothar's positioning of Ella Port as a commercial port that treats all people regardless of religion or race.

Furthermore, once their original business channels are disconnected, even though they have business talents like Coors under their command, it is not easy to connect them again.

Dressed coolly, the beautiful maid with wheat-colored skin stepped forward tremblingly, trying to help Lothar take off her coat.

Lothar smiled and politely declined in Kurdish.

Zayn Aladdin's mansion in Port Ella is no different than the mansion in Hebron that Lothar inherited from Leonard.

Blue and white carved wallpapers and tapestries are pasted on the walls, and white candles made of animal fat are inserted on the large gold-plated lampstands.

At the junction of the living room and the garden.

They are three pure white marble columns with a semicircular dome at the top, which are also carved with various hollow patterns, just like the window grilles of oriental wooden windows.

Further on, there was a bead curtain hanging down, which was gently pushed aside by two clever maids with blunt metal rods.

Lothar paused slightly: "If it's daytime, there must be plenty of light here."

Jeanna smiled and said, "This place is indeed much more magnificent than your castle in Chinon, and only the Port of Ella can support Zahn's extravagance."

Formally entered the mansion.

The floors of all the rooms are made of smooth marble, gold and silver utensils and other valuables that are easy to carry are completely absent, and they were all "looted" by Zayn Aladdin.

Although this originally belonged to him.

The wooden carved desk is filled with various books.

The velvet-covered round stool has a unique shape, and a large upholstered bed that resembles a modern sofa is placed around a small coffee table.

Lothar sat down on it, only to feel that the whole person was about to sink into the soft cushion.

"Hey, it's comfortable."

Banruo sat across from him, raised one leg slightly, took the book written in an unknown language on the desk, and read it silently.

Fringila happily patrolled the mansion back and forth, impatient to wash off the dust from her body here.

It's getting late.

on the vast sea.

The two galleys that lowered their sails and waited quietly, slowly raised their sails after the captain gave an order.

The wooden oars on both sides of the cabin on the second floor also began to wave in an orderly manner following the movements of the oarsman.

The two ships, like ghosts, slowly sailed towards the direction of Ella Port, but they were just like, no one knew, the real ghosts were waiting for them.

"Be careful to avoid hidden reefs, and be more vigilant, this road is not so easy to walk."

The captain shuttled among the sailors, came to the helm, and shouted loudly while steering the rudder: "Listen well, every time you kill a person, you will be rewarded with a silver coin. For the plunder, this time I will only draw Half of it, and the rest is yours."

He paused slightly, and shouted: "Thank you for your great captain's generosity!"

"Long live the captain!"

The pirates jumped up and down for joy.

None of them noticed that on the surface of the sea, a huge shadow, like a whale from the deep sea, was slowly swimming and sailing forward with them.

"It's getting foggy?"

The captain suddenly frowned.

In the narrow strait, at some point, a layer of mist quietly diffused—it was said to be a mist, but it could be seen at most tens of meters away, and everything a little further away became hazy.

next moment.

The pirates saw a scene that they will never forget.

I saw the friendly ship next to me, below, suddenly seemed to be torn apart by a giant sea beast. The whole ship trembled violently, then was disemboweled from the center and cut into countless pieces. It only took a moment.

The teeth-stinging loud noise and the sound of the planks cracking shocked every pirate's ears with a buzzing sound.

There are floating shipwrecks everywhere on the sea.

The friendly ship that was originally located beside them has been replaced by a galley sailing ship shining with faint green light.

black sails.

Decaying hulls of ships covered with growths of barnacles and other growths of shellfish.

There is also the giant skull flag flying on the top of the mast, hunting with the sea breeze.

Crazy, wanton laughter came from afar.

"Hahaha, Captain Hogg welcomes you to the Port of Ella, poor little ones, from now on, this is hell time."

Standing in front of the rudder with his arms crossed, Captain Hogg was wearing the captain's cap slanted. The decayed zombie sailors carried huge arrows and filled them into the bow of the ship, the giant ballista.

Captain Hogg had been with these two ships for a long time.

The reason why it is only now.

On the one hand, he had to make sure that the other party was not a serious businessman when he was doing "security" work for the first time.

On the other hand, Captain Hogg did not want the rest of the witnesses to see a ghost ship floating in the Red Sea-this would cause the already sluggish business in the port of Ella to suffer another serious blow.

"Is it a ghost ship?"

The faces of the pirates showed terrified expressions. For sailors who often drift at sea, no matter where they are in the world, it is inevitable that they have heard the horror legend of the ghost ship.

The pirate captain had already turned the rudder immediately, planning to turn the bow of the ship along the direction of the wind and escape.

But I saw the ghost ship on the opposite side, with a flexible posture that was completely inconsistent with that huge body, just going against the wind like this, only for a moment.

boom.

Ahead, at the bow of the ghost ship, there was a loud noise.

The ballista filled in the giant harpoon was directly nailed into the belly of the pirate ship.

The rope tied to the end of the crossbow began to shrink, causing the distance between the two ships to be drawn closer and closer.

The zombie sailors showed ferocious smiles one by one. They stood on the side of the ship carrying planks, sailor knives, and iron hooks.

A look of despair appeared on the face of the pirate captain: "Get ready to meet the enemy!"

"Be careful not to damage the ram on the opposite side, that's a good thing!"

Captain Hogg gave a warning.

He could tell at a glance that the ramming horn of the other party's pirate ship looked like a terrifying evil spirit haunting a narwhal full of fangs. This was absolutely rare and most suitable for the "Ocean Disaster" baby.

Immediately, he took the lead, as if riding the wind, jumped up, and the whole person glides to the opposite deck.

(End of this chapter)