Chapter 168: Control of Merlin Bay (Please subscribe!)
Fresh ingredients often only require the simplest cooking methods.
For a wandering time traveler like Bruno, it is a very wonderful thing to have the taste of childhood hometown around him.
Therefore, a lucky chicken was quickly plucked and slaughtered by Bruno's orders, and then covered with a layer of mud to become a beggar's chicken.
The soldiers who completed their mission returned to the barracks to continue their training, while Bruno was happily gnawing on the juicy and fragrant roasted chicken.
The meat of this chicken tastes completely different from the quick-grown chickens in the previous life. The meat is firm and rich in gelatin, which can be called an excellent delicacy.
"You can recruit the serfs to build a large chicken farm. This will save them from knocking on the door all day long. It will be a change of pace and let the serfs relax for a while!"
Bruno tore off a piece of firm chicken leg meat and instructed Lister.
Liszt received the order and hurriedly ran out. After all... the beggar chicken of the Count was so delicious that it made people drool! Although the chicken in the basin that had become a dish did taste good, Bruno was a little absent-minded.
Judging from the time, Captain Jack should have succeeded, right?
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Merlin Bay, the northeastern waters of the Kingdom of Basel.
The sea breeze was howling, the white waves were chasing, and Captain Jack, wearing a tilted inverted triangle-shaped captain's hat on his head, was concentrating on watching the battle taking place not far away.
This is the last island in the entire Merlin Bay that is not controlled by the Coral Island Pirates, or the Idar people.
As a former captive of Idar, Captain Jack, who now leads the Coral Island Pirates, has many emotions.
If it weren't for the support of Lord Bruno, Count of Idar, he would probably have been just a small pirate leader under the great pirate Kelvin until now.
Every day, he flatters a bunch of short-sighted pirates who only know how to eat, drink, gamble and have sex, and discusses who has the prettiest girl, but...
Everything that happened in Idar Territory changed Captain Jack, who had no ambitions at all, and made him forget his previous low-level interests!
He, Captain Jack, is the man who wants to become the Pirate King!
He will control these pirate minions with unhealthy thoughts in their heads for Idar, and let them bathe in the glory of the great Idar Count Bruno Stuart! So...
Now Captain Jack has transformed himself into the leader of the Coral Island Pirates and a famous pirate in the northeastern waters of Basel! This is a position he had never imagined before!
In order to achieve Bruno's goal of unifying the waters northeast of Basel as soon as possible.
After Captain Jack reorganized the Coral Island Pirates, he took the lead in tearing up the non-aggression agreement signed between the pirates and launched a raid on other pirate groups entrenched in the northeastern waters of Basel! Pirates are not nobles, they don't have to pay attention to whether their behavior is in line with etiquette and trustworthiness! In fact, Captain Jack originally thought that although he was still a pirate in name, he had actually become a lackey of Idar.
Therefore, I am somewhat worried that this approach will damage the dignity of the young earl, but...
What Captain Jack didn't expect was that not all nobles cared about their dignity as nobles, and Lord Count Idar only cared about the results he wanted to see! So... this also made Captain Jack have no psychological burden for his own actions, and he just rushed forward.
If you say we will fight, we will fight, without any hesitation! Although the number of Coral Island Pirates is only over a hundred, with the support of the magic crystal bomb, Captain Jack has the courage to challenge all the other pirates alone.
The difference in weapons and equipment cannot be made up by the advantage in numbers alone. At least... for the pirates who are used to bullying the weak and fearing the strong, the powerful magic crystal bomb is enough to make the enemy terrified and almost flee.
With the support of the magic crystal bombs provided by Lord Idar, Captain Jack's offensive was almost unstoppable. Pirate groups were wiped out one after another, and the evil pirates were drowned in the deep sea.
If the prisoner looks pleasing to the eye, he will be spared or directly recruited into his own army. However, if there have been conflicts and contradictions with him before, Captain Jack will naturally not show any mercy.
There might be some people in the navy of the Kingdom of Basel who are dedicated to their country. Maybe they also regarded the pirates who harassed the coast countless times as enemies, but...
When their reports were set aside again and again, when their words were ignored again and again by the nobles who pretended to be deaf and dumb, even the most resolute soldiers would gradually become lazy. Moreover... the Basel Navy's salaries and food were always in arrears again and again...
So, when the boxes full of coins were transported to the port by pirate ships, they gradually became decadent and corrupt...
So much so that they turned a blind eye to the pirates' actions, because... a large part of the Basel Navy's military pay might have come from those pirates whom they once hated so much.
Therefore, when naval battles broke out in the territorial waters of the Kingdom of Basel, the nobles in power did not receive any valuable information at all.
therefore……
While the nobles of the Kingdom of Basel were feasting and carousing in their castles, they had no idea that in the ocean not far away from the Kingdom of Basel, a division of the ocean territory was proceeding in an orderly manner.
Even if they knew, they would probably just think it was another fight between pirates and would not care at all.
after all……
Compared to the vast ocean, the nobles of this era believed that the land beneath their feet was more important. Instead of spending a lot of money and manpower to explore the ocean, it would be more practical to buy more jewelry and clothes for their wives and themselves.
As for sea control...let it be, our interests will not be harmed anyway.
Just like that, amid the roar of bomb explosions, one island after another was occupied by Captain Jack. Those pirate gangs that were originally evenly matched with the Coral Island Pirates were all succumbed to the threat of the magic crystal bombs.
This also allowed the pirates under Captain Jack to finally break through the number of 300 and move towards the mark of 400.
With the final battle for the island coming to an end...
On August 25, 537 of the new calendar, without being noticed by any force, Lord Idar finally completed the control of the entire Merlin Bay through the Coral Island Pirates! This also ensured that the control of the sea in the northeastern waters of the Kingdom of Basel was firmly in the hands of the Idar people.
Perhaps the Basel nobles today do not care much about the ocean, but when these nobles finally realize the importance of the ocean, it may be too late.
Because... the construction of the three-masted warship has never stopped! Today's Idar Territory is no longer the noble territory that had to choose between the three-masted warship and the wonder a few months ago!
Thanks to "Ximino-san" for the reward of 1,500 points!
Thanks to "云中孤梦" for the reward of 1100 points!
Thanks to "I'm just a passerby" and "Xun Mozhu" for the reward of 100 points!
(End of this chapter)
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