rise of empire total war

Chapter 23 Prelude to the Storm
To be honest, if he had not drawn the Kingdom of Denmark and obtained the Viking longship, Richard would have delayed the construction of the roads and built the port in advance.

However, now that he has powerful Danish sailors, the scarcity of naval strength has been suppressed all of a sudden. The war against Bassa Island also successfully captured several pirate warships, which made Richard's pursuit of the navy Reduced a lot.

The four pirate warships captured by Sigurd belonged to the most common galley warships. This kind of warship basically relied on wind power to propel the ship to sail on the sea, and once there was no wind, the pirates on board could only let them Paddle together.

The on-board weapons on the ship are also equal to none. In the battle, the pirates first drive the warship to hit the enemy ship with the ram angle of the bow, and then put the wooden plank between the two ships, shouting and rushing to the deck of the enemy ship, using their own Weapons fight.

Richard is going to use these four warships to let Volkoma recruit local sailors when he goes to Port Bell for trade, and let them inject a batch of fresh blood into the Imperial Navy to replace the Vikings who "find another way out" people.

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Picol was born in an ordinary fisherman's family in Port Bell. His father was a sailor in the Navy of the Kingdom of Ravana, but he was wounded in a war and retired. He returned to his hometown and bought a fishing boat with his savings. From then on, he made a living by fishing.

Picol, who has lived by the sea since childhood, is therefore good at water skills. At the same time, inspired by the stories of his father's military career, he longs to become a sailor on a warship that rides the wind and waves. However, he has no chance and can only watch it when he goes to sea with his father. Sitting on the Kingdom's warship, imagining that he is one of them.

But today, Picol, who was preparing to go to sea with his father at home, was suddenly dragged by his Fa Xiaoqiang and ran to the port. When he was puzzled, Fa Xiao told him happily: "The earl from Cuban Island defeated We have captured the Moore pirates, captured their warships, and now we are going to recruit sailors in Port Bell!"

The name Picol of Count of Kuban Island has been heard a little bit. A month ago, there was news in the royal capital of Ravana that the king canonized his grandson as Count of Kuban Island. For this reason, the civilians of Bell Port had some discussions. After several days of discussion, everyone was speculating whether the new count would die in a foreign land due to the crazy revenge of the Moorish pirates.

However, what I didn't expect was that the young earl was able to defeat the Moore pirates in just one month and captured their warship?This is really eye-popping.

Arriving at the port where the Earl of Cuban Island recruited troops, the place was already full of people, and the three floors inside and outside the three floors could be said to be impenetrable. Seeing that, Picole and his followers couldn't help retreating.

Not only the people who came to sign up, but Walcoma, who set up the conscription point, was also taken aback by the enthusiasm of the local civilians for enlisting. After some understanding, he finally understood why so many people were willing to join the army.

There is no other reason, nothing more than the worship of the navy and the temptation of money.

After the war with the Moorish pirates, the status of the navy in the coastal cities has been infinitely improved, and every young man has infinite admiration for the Kingdom Navy that defends their homeland. Attracting the children of these poor families.

Volkomar was a little funny. These people didn't understand the nature of the Cuban Island Navy and the Kingdom Navy at all. The former only obeyed the orders of Richard, the Earl of Cuban Island, or was ordered to join the Royal Navy's combat order during the war.The latter belongs directly to His Majesty the King. Although the number is small, they are the mainstay of the Royal Navy.

After figuring it out, in order to avoid the mutiny of the sailors due to the difference between imagination and reality in the future, Volkoma asked his subordinates to explain the difference between the two. Most of the people's enthusiasm was instantly wiped out.

Not much nonsense, in the end, Walcomt still recruited more than 200 sailors. These more than 200 sailors were selected from young people with good water skills from low-level families, and some of them were even descendants of veterans. They will be sent to Kuban Island with the ship, where they will be assigned to four pirate ships in groups after initial military training.

On the other side, Richard on Cuban Island led his entourage to walk in the flat land, watching farmers and pirate slaves plant cabbage seeds.

That's right, cabbage seeds.

While looking at the grain business in Nuremberg, Richard suddenly discovered that this new system building actually sells seeds of various grains. Of course, it is limited to vegetables owned in the Middle Ages, such as spinach, radish, cabbage, etc., and among them Among them, radishes and cabbage are suitable for planting in winter.

So Richard traded 200 dinars for radish and cabbage seeds to fill all the flat land.

Before the construction of the mine is completed, the more than 50 pirate slaves have to work hard here under the supervision of soldiers, but don't think about escaping, because the crossbow-bearing militiamen equipped with crossbow bolts are on guard in the distance, ready to go. Ready to shoot.

Time passed slowly with the growth of radish and cabbage. In a blink of an eye, winter quietly left, and spring, when everything was revived, came while the farmers were waiting.

Along with spring came news of the Moorish pirates from the Shimmering Sea.

As they said in late autumn last year, most of the Moorish pirates responded to the assembly order and attacked Kuban Island. Their warships are mighty and boundless, just like locusts passing through every island The port was looted.

The mighty Moorish pirates almost made the entire Shining Sea tremble. Every force is speculating on how the targeted Ravana kingdom will respond. They were no match for the Ravana army, but they were still able to corrupt the coastal areas of the Ravana kingdom.

Facing the invasion of Moorish pirates, Cuban Island, which is isolated overseas, bears the brunt. No one believes that the young earl who has just been entrusted can survive the pirate frenzy, even King Harlaus himself does not believe it.

Regardless of what the outside world thinks, as the protagonist, Richard is ready for the war. He has gathered all the troops under his command, whether it is the two hundred sailors from Port Bell who have just served, or the The Royal Guards of Winster who have followed until now, or the Holy Roman Empire army and the Danish Kingdom army given by the system.

When all the soldiers were assembled, Richard realized that he had already possessed a force not weaker than that of the Moore Pirates!

(End of this chapter)