Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 209 Chapter 209

A beautiful carriage, escorted by a group of cavalry, hurried into the urban area of ​​Nanshui Port, and then stopped in front of the gate of the city hall.

The consul, tax officer and others who had been waiting here for a long time, saw the man getting out of the carriage, and immediately saluted respectfully: "Master Marquis! You are finally back!"

"How's the situation?" Marquis Augustin Leibert, with a tired face, walked into the gate first and asked without looking back.

His voice echoed in the empty corridor, accompanied by the sound of a dense group of people's leather boots hitting the marble floor.

The mayor who answered him had a relaxed expression, and said the sudden good news: "Yesterday... two enemy warships in the open sea suddenly left."

"My lord Earl is really a man who conquers the world. As soon as you came back, those enemies ran away by themselves!" Next to him, the tax officer hurriedly flattered him and said congratulatoryly.

"Leaving?" The earl paused, and the expression on his face became serious.But he still didn't continue to say anything, and walked forward again.

Helping Lord Earl open the door of his office, the mayor bent slightly: "Yes, they left, after bombarding our port and paralyzing our dock, they left."

The count hung the cloak on the hanger, and asked in a very dissatisfied tone: "They rushed into the port?"

He really didn't expect that his old nest, Nanshui Port, would suffer such a serious loss.He didn't expect that on his way back, the enemy's warship broke into Nanshui Port.

Under normal circumstances, naval warships will not easily break into the port and make waves.Because it will face the harassment of shore artillery forts, it may suffer unnecessary losses.

Unless the advantage is very obvious, or if you really want to destroy the port and land, you will choose to attack the port regardless of loss.

Who would have thought that the other party was so bold that he entered the port and caused huge losses to his Nanshui port.

The mayor's face was a little embarrassed, and he didn't expect that the other party would smash his port pier before leaving, so he said depressedly: "Yes, our fort can't stop their attack at all, the other party rushed in swaggeringly, opened fire After about 20 shots, I left in a rampage again."

Raibert didn't mean to blame, he also knew that these things today were all troubles caused by his own greed.

So he walked back behind his desk, and just asked casually, "Is the pier seriously damaged?"

"It's not particularly serious. It's just that the shipwreck is troublesome and needs to be cleaned up." The mayor immediately replied, "I've sent someone to deal with it."

"How many days will it take to repair it?" Rappert asked eagerly, because before he came back, he had already understood the loss of Nanshui Port. Every day, what he lost was real money.

What's even more frightening is that once his factory shuts down, the state machinery will run slowly, and His Majesty's longing for foreign expansion will be put on hold indefinitely, which is even more unbearable for him!

Many merchant fleets heading south from Nanshui Port lost their money, and countless metals and gold coins sank into the bottom of the sea, which became his loss.

Such losses are countless, and have greatly exceeded his estimation-this cannot be measured in gold coins at all.

The mayor's face became more embarrassing, and he stammered and replied: "About seven or eight days, maybe ten days..."

"Do you know why these two warships left?" Marquis Leibert was silent for a few seconds, and finally stopped worrying about the damage to the port, but then asked again.

Everyone shook their heads, and the mayor had to explain again: "I don't know, there is no way to confirm, the other party didn't intend to communicate with us, but just sent that note."

"..." Lei Bait remained silent, obviously angry.

So the mayor quickly introduced some good news: "In order to defend the port, we have mobilized 1000 soldiers from the surrounding area, but the other side seems to have no intention of landing."

"Two warships, how many people can there be on board? They probably won't be able to land, but we can't bear to block the port." Leipper snorted coldly, dismissing the mayor's explanation.

He thought for a few more seconds, and then continued to ask a question that embarrassed everyone: "By the way, how many ships have we lost these days?"

"Master Marquis, according to our rough statistics, there are about 270 merchant ships and transport ships of various sizes, as well as armed merchant ships..." the mayor had no choice but to continue to answer.

Rappert was taken aback, stared at the mayor, and exclaimed, "So many?"

"It's not easy to say." The mayor replied in a low voice.

"What do you mean?" Rappert asked fiercely as he was about to go berserk.

The mayor quickly explained: "We can only roughly calculate the number of ships that should have returned these days. As a result, none of these ships that should have returned, so we can only speculate that they should have been sunk."

"..." Rapper's chest heaved and he didn't know what to say.

The mayor considered his words and continued: "However, it is possible that some fleets did not return on time for some reason, or they returned to other ports..."

Glancing at Lei Bait, he closed his mouth tactfully.

Lei Bote's face was gloomy, and he asked as if he was going to eat people: "That is to say, in less than a month, we lost almost one-third of the sea ships, lost the command of the sea, and were attacked. Sunk more than a dozen battleships?"

The mayor answered simply this time, because the 12 warships were sunk, but it had nothing to do with him: "Yes, my lord, according to the news from Osa Port, they did send 12 warships to the south. Nanshui supported us...but the other party destroyed the fleet."

"12 warships... plus the 2 warships we left in Nanshui... it really makes people hate it." Leibert thought that he only owed the Datang Group [-] gold coins, and felt his teeth itch. .

The big deal is to pay back 12 gold coins by myself, even including the interest, isn't that all right?As for playing so big?

Just as he was thinking about whether he should find someone to settle the money, give Datang Group a face, and send 20 gold coins over, an officer bit the bullet and said, "Master Marquis."

"Huh?" He looked at the officer whose arm was still wrapped in bandages, waiting for him to continue.

The officer timidly handed out a piece of paper that recorded the problem, and reported: "Here is another report, which says..."

"Just say it! What is it?" Marquis Leibert didn't mean to reach out to take it, and asked impatiently.

"On the northern coast of the port, some fishermen saw black smoke on the sea level..." The officer carefully mentioned a direction, as if hoping that Lord Marquis could think of the follow-up questions by himself.

Augustine Leibert was no idiot. After hearing this report, he immediately grasped the point of this sentence: "North?"

"Yes, the north." The officer was obviously relieved, nodded and repeated.

"Osa...damn it!" Sure enough, Augustin Leibert realized that something was wrong.He stood up straight suddenly, as if he had been electrocuted.

In the next second, he immediately pointed to the door and ordered loudly: "Quick! Quick! Send someone to Osa! Hurry up! Send the news as quickly as possible! Remind the navy in Osa port! Tell them to leave quickly !"

He didn't want the fleet deployed by Osa to be blocked by two enemy ships, and then wiped out in the harbor!
That's one of the few mobile sea forces that can be directly mobilized on the long coastline of the Yangmu Kingdom!
If this fleet is sunk by the enemy, then such a long coastline, including Nanshui Port, will basically be naked and streaking.

Therefore, he must let this fleet leave the port of Osa immediately, hide, and invest in naval battles when it is more worthy of investment, so as to reverse the situation of the war.

Before the mayor could react, he asked with a puzzled look: "Leave Osa? Leave Osa, where are you going?"

Lord Marquis couldn't help roaring. He patted the table and shouted loudly: "Go around in a big circle! Go around to the open sea, and then come down here!"

"My lord, my lord... calm down!" The mayor cautiously persuaded, "In this way, will His Majesty become suspicious...the fleet over there is used to threaten..."

In his view, without the permission of His Majesty the King, directly transferring the warship back to defend the South River and abandoning Osa completely, this is simply a private use of public weapons, and it is an intolerable wrong decision.

But Lord Marquis has completely ignored the feelings of His Majesty the King, because he has had enough of the passive feeling that the information is not smooth and he is completely unable to mobilize the troops to respond.

So, he continued to yell: "What a threat! If we let them go further north, it will be even slower for us to contact them! If we can't keep up with the speed of message transmission, and if we can't respond in time, it will be even more dangerous! Hurry up! Do as I say!"

If the Osa fleet is finished, he hardly needs to explain to His Majesty the King—look at those factories that have stopped production and waited for materials and raw materials. He has now made the entire kingdom lose the ability to expand abroad.

Without recovering such ability, he, the marquis, would definitely not be able to hold a stable position. He would rather let the king suspect himself than make His Majesty the emperor feel that he is incompetent!

The mayor finally came to his senses, and promised inside: "Yes! Yes! I understand, my lord. I, I will send someone to deliver the order!"

Sitting slumped on his own seat, the Marquis Leibert closed his eyes tiredly, leaned back on the chair back, and muttered in a low voice: "Son, son... It's time to rely on you... Please, don't Let me down!"

(End of this chapter)