Chapter 348 – The Fleet Has Arrived
Chapter 348 – The Fleet Has Arrived
Female Knight Leia was led home by her parents, leaving only the King’s family in the sitting room to talk to each other.
However, it couldn’t be called a complete family yet.
“What a pity that my sister is fighting in the south at this time now. Father, how is the situation in the south?”
After Irene sighed, she couldn’t help but worry about Catherine.
“Don’t worry,” Rodney comforted her with a smile, “The Kingdom’s army will definitely be able to defeat the rebels, and by then your sister will be able to return.”
The king didn’t go into detail about the specific situation, and Irene didn’t pursue it, she had learned from the discussion of the situation in the south by the people from the Council of State and the army when she was in the Northwest Bay that the kingdom’s army and the rebels were in a stalemate, and that neither one of them was able to do anything to stop the other at the moment.
Rodney asked, “By the way, Erin, what kind of person is that Count Paul Greiman?”
After Catherine led her troops south, intelligence about Irene’s presence in the Northwest Bay was regularly submitted to the king for a copy, and even though Rodney had already gotten a rough idea from the intelligence, he still wanted to hear his youngest daughter’s own description.
“Paul …… uh …… Earl Graiman the man, how do you say?”
Erin cocked her head in thought.
“He’s a pretty boring person in his everyday life. The Count is not as keen on socializing, banquets, or knight tournaments as other nobles, and spends his days either gawking at a bunch of charts or writing and drawing in his office, which is quite a bit of a solitary scholar, but he dabbles in a very varied and wide range of knowledge, and is not specialized in one side but often has amazing insights.”
“He also has many interesting and useful inventions; paper, porcelain, these have become popular in Jingyao, haven’t they? There’s also canned goods, which I understand are already being supplied in large quantities to the kingdom’s armies, and a mirror that can see tiny creatures, and ……”
She was going to say muskets and cannons at the end, but remembering Paul’s three orders not to initiate discussions about new weapons in front of other people, Irene stopped her mouth.
“Oh? So he’s a talented man.” The king commented as he stroked his beard.
He then asked, “What was that war that happened in the Northwest Gulf last year?”
Erin beamed, “It’s all because of that guy named Kent, who used to do wrong based on the trust of the previous generation of Northwest Dukes, and the lords of the Northwest dared not speak out against him. Before the war broke out he had sent someone to blackmail Alda, I was at the battlefield when the messenger came over, you guys are not seeing how arrogant that messenger was.”
“Then the Duke of the Northwest inexplicably died, died in a strange manner, the title was also passed on to Earl Kent, a foreigner, against the norm, how to look at it is like there is a conspiracy, the Duke’s own brother came out to reveal that it was Earl Kent who used sorcery to murder the Duke, and then the war broke out.”
Is that so? The king nodded his head, what his youngest daughter had said was similar to what he had learned through the royal commissioner.
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After his audience with the king, Hansel rode a fast horse to the west coast the next day with his paperwork, and two days later encountered the kingdom’s army on the march – the army commanded by his brother Harrison who had gone to exterminate the pirates.
Hansel relayed to his elder brother the plan to combine forces and the king’s order to move as close as possible to Kiel Harbor when choosing a place to station himself upon arrival in the war zone. Harrison agreed, he was a more pragmatic man and would naturally welcome an extra helping hand. Moreover, this was the first time he was entrusted to stand alone, and there was a little bit of lack of confidence in his heart.
Although the two brothers had not seen each other for a long time, but the military situation is urgent, after having a meal together, Hansel left Harrison and went ahead to Kiel Harbor.
After arriving at the port city, Hansel first visited the local city hall and presented the king’s order to discuss the matter of letting the Northwest Fleet into the harbor. He then arranged for a number of men to go to the various coastal towns and squat, according to the initial plan, the fleet would leave within 4 days of his departure from Lakewood, if nothing happened in the middle of the journey, they should have arrived in this area of the sea at this time and wandering around the coastline. The fleet would often send men ashore to buy supplies and leave messages to make it easier for Hansel to find them. Although they declared themselves to be an industrious fleet from the Northwest Gulf, due to their refusal to allow port officials to board and inspect their ships, no port dared to allow them to anchor until they received clear instructions from Jingyao. Two days later, a carrier pigeon sent word that the squatters had connected with the fleet, and they had headed for Kiel Harbor.
In the evening of January 25th, 1992 of the Holy Calendar, the Kiel Harbor of the Kingdom of Aldo welcomed a fleet of 12 ships flying the red flying dragon flag. Due to the rumors of pirates, there were very few ships coming in and out of Kiel Harbor, so the sudden appearance of such a large fleet of ships attracted many people to watch.
The first to enter the harbor is 6 oar sailing ships, then 6 full wind sailing ships, since the Northwest Gulf rise of maritime trade, the residents of the southern ports of the new ships without oarsmen are no longer strange.
People from the two sides of the ships sticking out of those black metal tubes feel the slightest sense of murder, although they do not know what it is, but intuition tells them that these ships are not afraid to transport goods.
Arda, for the first time, projected her power beyond the Northwest Gulf.
Hansel stood on the dock, waving a handkerchief to the fleet, and behind him stood his older brother, Harrison, and the mayor of Kiel Harbor.
Harrison: “Is this the fleet of the Northwest Bay? What strange ships.”
Mayor: “I’ve seen merchant ships like this a few times over the year, but these are warships, aren’t they? What are those dark pipes?”
Listening to their murmurs, a sense of superiority inexplicably rises inside Hansel’s heart: haha, haven’t seen it before, that thing is called a cannon, and a single shot can smash a bunch of big living people into pieces.
“Hey! Baron Abbott!” At the berth closest to him, an Aldar admiral walked across the skip to the dock and waved to Hansel.
“Commander Tirbitz!” Hansel stepped forward to shake his hand, “Were you assigned to command the fleet this time?”
“Haha, out of the three fleets my fleet is the one that can move the most ships, so I was given command of this operation.”
“Here, let me introduce you, this is my elder brother ……”
After the people on both sides got to know each other, Tirbits asked the most concerned question, “Lord Harrison, what is the situation of the pirates now?”
Harrison replied, “We have arranged scouting manpower on the roads in and out of West Harbor, and recent indications show that they don’t seem to be as active as they were before, hunkering down in the city and not knowing what they’re doing.”
Tirpitz thought in his heart that Hansel’s brother was really cautious, if it was anyone else his age, he would have been unable to hold back and start attacking the city.
“Lord Harrison, I did bring you a generous gift.”
“Oh?”
“We just came across a pirate ship at sea and caught a bunch of tongues, maybe we can get something out of them.”
Harrison was overjoyed, “That’s great, let’s organize an interrogation right away!”
(End of chapter)