Chapter 307 Drooling
"Are you sure there are only five ships?"
Gervis had returned to the castle by now, and in front of him was the guard who had returned on horseback to report.
"Your Excellency, it is confirmed that there are only five ships. According to the speed of the ships, they will reach the coast in half an hour. Lord Laurie asked me to come back and report to you immediately!"
"Very good! Since these fearless bastards have set their sights on Storm Territory, let's let them know what it means to hit a wall!"
After confirming again that the pirates only had five ships, Gervis became excited.
The ships in this world are not very big. Each ship can only carry about fifty or sixty people in terms of cargo and personnel. Therefore, Gervis can infer the number of the enemy from the number of these ships.
To Gervis, pirates of two or three hundred people were nothing to him. Now that this group of pirates had come to his door, not only could Gervis get rid of his worries for this southern expedition, but more importantly, he could also seize these ships.
Although he didn't know what the ocean in this world looked like, Gervis had no doubts about this huge natural treasure trove. Originally, Gervis could only sigh in despair due to the lack of ships, but now someone came to give him a pillow while he was dozing off. How could Gervis not be happy?
"Ike! Ode! Have everyone get their weapons and equipment ready. We are ready to go into battle!"
Gervis no longer hesitated. The pirates were about to land. Gervis was afraid that his ship would run away, so he gave orders to Ikodri and the other man.
"Yes! Sir!"
Ike and Audrey took the order and retreated immediately.
A few minutes later, Gervis, wearing full body armor and riding a unicorn, stood in the vestibule. In front of him were hundreds of fully armed soldiers, including slave soldiers.
This time, Gervis had gathered all his forces, and even the guards in the castle had been withdrawn, leaving only two guards on duty in the space courtyard and the castle gate respectively.
"Sir! All personnel have been assembled!"
"Very good, let's go now!"
Gervis nodded and rode his unicorn towards the castle gate first, while Ik and other personal guards rode on horses, holding the flag of the God of Storm and followed behind Gervis. The ordinary guards and slave soldiers who had no horses were all arranged on the carriages.
Because the pirates were about to land, the only way for these soldiers to reach the beach quickly and preserve their strength was to let them ride in carriages.
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On a cliff not far from the seaside village, Laurie was staring intently at the ship slowly approaching the coast in the distance. At this moment, he could see the pirate flag on the huge ship with his naked eyes.
However, a few minutes later, the behavior of these pirate ships was a bit strange. They stopped when they were seven or eight hundred meters away from the coast, and then there was no movement.
"Strange, why is this pirate ship just parked there without any movement?"
Such abnormal things made the old soldier Laurie feel a little strange. Logically speaking, when pirates attacked the land, they should do it as quickly as possible. After stopping the ship, they should immediately send people to land and start looting.
But the five pirate ships just stayed near the coast for more than ten minutes, but no pirate got off the ship, as if they were discovered there.
"Captain, could it be that the pirates have discovered us?"
A guard next to Laurie scratched his head and spoke in a low voice.
"How is that possible? Only from here can we vaguely see the scene on the ship. It is impossible for them to see it more clearly than us. Besides, we are hiding behind the bushes over here, so it is even more impossible for them to find us!"
Laurie replied to the guard unhappily that his men had deliberately concealed their bodies and he was confident that the pirates would not be able to discover them.
"Even if the pirates discovered an ambush, they would have two choices: either leave directly or launch an attack immediately. Can they just stay there and wait for us to leave before coming ashore?"
"Captain, what should we do now?"
The guard obviously had a good relationship with Laurie and was not afraid of Laurie's tone, so he asked another question.
"What else can we do? We have to wait for the adults to make the decision. They should be here in about an hour!"
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Laurie's prediction was very accurate. It took Gervis just over an hour to reach the seaside village. When they were more than a mile away from the coast, Gervis and his companions met the guards who were waiting for them.
"What's the situation? How many pirates are there?"
After seeing the guards who came to pick him up, and looking towards the distant mountain village by the sea, Gervis did not find any smoke, which meant that the mountain village by the sea was not burned and destroyed by the pirates. He breathed a sigh of relief.
Although all the serfs went to Binhai Town to celebrate the Harvest Festival today, it would still be a loss if the pirates set fire to the seaside village.
"Sir, the pirates haven't come ashore yet! They just parked the pirate ship about 700 to 800 meters from the coast!"
"What? Not on shore yet?"
Gervis was shocked and confused. It took more than an hour and a half for the guards to return to the castle to report, and it took him more than two hours to rush from the castle. So, from the time he discovered the pirate ship to the time Gervis arrived at the beach, it was more than three and a half hours in total. But the pirates had not even come ashore yet. How could Gervis not be surprised?
"Where is Laurie? Take me to see him!"
Gervis also had doubts in his mind, so he immediately asked the soldier to lead the way to the beach to take a look.
Soon, Gervis followed the guard to a cliff by the sea. There were scattered bushes in front of them. Laurie and others hid behind the bushes and looked at the sea.
"Sir, you are here!"
When Laurie saw Gervais coming, he immediately bowed and greeted him respectfully.
"Well, Laurie, what's going on? Why haven't the pirates come ashore yet?"
Hearing Gervis' words, Laurie was helpless. He turned around and pointed to the boat on the beach and said to Gervis.
"Sir, those pirate ships stopped there more than an hour ago, but there were no small boats lowered. All we could see were the pirates moving around on the ship!"
At this moment, Gervis also saw five pirate ships in the distance. These pirate ships were of exactly the same style, no doubt the same as the medieval sailing wooden ships in his previous life, with an oval hull and multiple masts.
Gervis' eyesight was much better than Laurie and the others. He could see clearly that there were dozens of people moving around on the deck of the pirate ship. However, these people were not holding weapons. Instead, they looked relaxed. They did not look like they were going ashore to rob. It was more like they were just anchoring outside Gervis' territory to bask in the sun.
"What the hell, you're not going to fight me, so what's the point of parking the boat at the gate of my territory?"
Gervis couldn't help but curse when he saw this scene. The pirates' behavior made him itchy. He took a fancy to the five ships at first sight, but the pirates were parked seven or eight hundred meters away, so he couldn't run over to seize the ships.
"Do we have to use the four or five small sampans on the beach to go to the sea and seize the ship?"
Gervis then set his sights on the canoes parked on the beach. Those small boats were used by the serfs in the coastal mountain villages to catch lobsters and sea fish. Each boat could only carry four or five people at most, which meant that if Gervis really wanted to take the initiative to attack, he could only take more than 20 people with him at a time.
"No, there are two or three hundred pirates. We will probably be shot with arrows by them before we even get close!"
Gervis immediately rejected his idea. He was not worried about his own safety. At worst he could jump into the sea and run back. However, his soldiers were ordinary people, and there would definitely be a lot of casualties.
For a moment, Gervis was in an awkward situation.
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While Gervis was drooling over the five pirate ships on the seashore, Abby, who was already out of breath, finally ran back to the seaside town.
At this moment, Binhai Town is still very lively. Unfortunately, Storm Territory is still too poor. If it were other territories, there would be acrobatic troupes coming to perform and make money during the Harvest Festival. However, even without the acrobatic troupe, many well-fed serfs began to sit in the square and sing and dance.
"Where is the lord? Have you seen the lord?"
Abi looked extremely disheveled, and many serfs looked at him in surprise at his tattered linen gown. However, Abi ignored their gazes and just kept scanning the town, trying to find the guards or the lord.
But Abby found nothing. He discovered that there was not a single guard on the street. Abby began to shout anxiously and ran towards the town square.
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(End of this chapter)
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