king of ros

Chapter 449
The Baltic Sea has always been a busy sea. The various nations traveling on this sea sometimes act as merchants and sometimes pirates, but their actions have promoted the prosperity of this sea area and made the trade more and more prosperous. .

Prosperous trade will undoubtedly lead to wars. For hundreds of years, kings and chiefs have been fighting for trade nodes and profit shares. Overlords continue to appear, but quickly disappear. Overlords are easy to change, but struggles will never change.

Now, another round of strife has descended on the ocean, and this time it has been provoked by people with greater ambitions.

"Long live, we are victorious!"

The armed crew members bathed in blood cheered, their feet were covered with blood and death, it can be seen that they had just experienced a fierce boarding battle.

"Peel off all the valuables from the corpse! Then throw these things into the sea, hurry up, move quickly, and then come a few people to operate the boat!"

Prolev, wearing a round helmet, yelled at everyone, but no one complained about his behavior, because Prolev killed everyone in front of them before, and he was full in this fierce and short boarding battle. Solved three people.

According to the captain's order, everyone stripped the corpses, and those who threw the corpses threw the corpses, and the captives were tied up and driven aside, waiting for the next disposal.

"It's a good omen to win the first battle. Tell our grand duke the news."

Prolev, who returned to the Kirk boat by boarding, grabbed a rag and wiped the blood from his helmet, then threw the thing to his Bulgar mate, whose face was full of excitement, he was the first Experienced a naval battle for the first time.

In the ocean behind it, another longship was burning and falling into the sea, and small boats belonging to the Ross fleet were recovering survivors and then tying them up.

As for the other longships, some were badly damaged and sunk, others were captured and became part of Ross' fleet.

As Rostislav's few trusted captains, Prolev commanded fifteen longships at the same time, and it was this small fleet he led that overwhelmingly wiped out the pirates with five longships.

With the help of the very rough flag system of the Ross Fleet, the news was quickly reported to Rostislav, and the Grand Duke of Kyiv was not so excited. This is not a victory worth celebrating.

Moreover, Rostislav is in a very bad state now. The Grand Duke of Kyiv never thought that he would be seasick!
However, for the sake of his own authority, Rostislav pretended that he had nothing to do in front of everyone, but he vomited in private.

Rostislav was in a real fleet of hundreds of ships, all bearing the banners of Rurik's Trident and St. George's Dragon Slaying.

In addition to the sailors who operated the ships, the cabins of each ship were filled with soldiers.

But compared to those sailors who moved freely, these soldiers either huddled there drowsily, or vomited from time to time.

Fortunately, those who do not have these two conditions just look at the sky in a daze, not knowing how to pass the time at all.

Some soldiers were even more unlucky, huddled with their horses, and had to endure the stench of livestock while battling seasickness.

Rostislav walked out of the cabin. He was on an extremely large Kirk ship, which was a full circle larger than ordinary Kirk ships. This was Rostislav's flagship, the largest ship of Ross, the Vladimir.

There are four scorpion crossbows placed in front of the ship, which can wipe out all enemies in front, and a real ballista at the rear, the stones and arrows projected are enough to penetrate everything.

Countless ships surround the Vladimir like stars and moons. The Kirk ships are closer. Their sides are higher, and the periphery is full of long ships. They all have Rurik tridents on their masts. and St. George's course banner.

"Roman, how long until we reach Gotland?"

Walking to the side of the fleet commander who was studying the chart, Rostislav looked at the sea and asked.

"It's coming soon, my Grand Duke. It is estimated that we will be able to reach that island in a week at most. Those Gotlanders will be very exciting when they see our expressions."

Roman put down the chart and came to his monarch. The fisherman's son walked on the sea like walking on the ground, and his steps were very steady.

"Yeah, their fleets are now landing on us on those trade routes in the south. They certainly didn't expect that our goal is Gotland."

Roman's tone was full of promises, and Rostislav smiled because that was his idea.

Rostislav knew before that that Ivangorod had been under surveillance. God knows how many eyes were watching the city, waiting for Rostislav's actions.

That's why he never announced the departure time of the fleet. Instead, he chose a surprise announcement to let the fleet leave the port when everyone didn't expect it, so that he didn't know where Rostislav wanted to go.

According to the thinking inertia of those people, they must think that the Ross Fleet must be to clean up the Gotland Fleet that blocked trade.

The Gotlanders are eager for this. They and the assembled allied fleet are much stronger than Ross's newcomers in naval battles. They can definitely defeat the Ross people.

This is actually what Rostislav is most worried about. He is very clear about the strength of the opponent's fleet. There are still too many new recruits. If they really let them fight with the old sea dogs, the outcome is hard to say.

So he chose to attack the enemy's weakness. Instead of engaging in naval battles that he was not good at, why didn't he land directly in Gotland? They also took the northern route that few people took, which those guys must have never thought of.

And the fact is indeed the case. In the month since the Ross fleet set off, apart from annihilating some pirates who existed in Gotland as a warning, they have not encountered any enemies on the way.

"But we have to hurry forward. The commander of the Gotland Fleet cannot be a fool. When we find out that we have not come, we will definitely realize the problem. If they catch up, our transfer will be meaningless .”

Rostislav is still very serious about this. If the Gotland fleet catches up with them, it will not be very fun. It is best to reach Gotland as soon as possible. Only in this way is it safe.

"Yes, I will urge the crew to move forward."

Roman is also an old sailor, so of course he understands what Rostislav means.

Now is not the time to celebrate in advance. Go to Gotland as soon as possible and land on that island to make people feel at ease.

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(End of this chapter)