Water Margin people

"Noisy!"

Ruan Xiaoqi frowned and said that the sound of the horn was chaotic and made him a little annoyed.

"Don't worry, Marshal, just look at us!"

When several generals heard that their commander was upset, they immediately volunteered to share his worries.

"It's up to you."

Ruan Xiaoqi nodded.

The two ships immediately accelerated out of the formation, their target being the two lighthouses outside the port.

"They're coming towards us!"

The guards on the lighthouse shouted in horror. Only then did they see clearly what was coming. It was a ship made entirely of metal, a ship they had never imagined.

"Get ready to meet the enemy!"

One of the defenders shouted.

The rest of the soldiers were holding bows and crossbows, ready to fight at any time.

"madness."

On the ship, the general of Qi sneered.

"Boom boom boom!"

As the roar sounded, the cannons on the ships spewed out fire snakes.

The two lighthouses outside the harbor were suddenly covered in flying stones, and the two lighthouses collapsed in front of the incredulous gazes of the sailors in the harbor.

"How can it be!"

The sailors' faces were pale. The lighthouse was built with huge stones, how could it collapse like this?

But this is the reality. The lighthouse fell down and the huge steel ship rushed into the port and began bombarding.

The ships in the port had no time to react and were sunk before they could even raise their sails.

"Help!"

"Run!"

"The sea god is here to claim my life!"

The sailors were so frightened that they jumped into the water and swam towards safety.

The peaceful port turned into chaos.

The Qi ships did not approach, but patrolled the port. Any ship that wanted to leave would be their target for sinking.

"Who is it? Who is it!"

The city lord roared in pain as he looked at the devastated port. The Port of Tangier was his hard work, and now it had become like this, he suffered a huge loss.

"These...are impossible!"

"How come I met them?"

"It's over, it's over!"

Some old captains turned pale when they saw the ironclad ship patrolling the harbor; they recognized it.

"you know?"

The city lord looked at the old captains and asked, these were the most experienced captains in the Mediterranean. It was these people who brought the news of the outbreak of the Black Death. He closed the port in time, which saved the Port of Tangier.

Although the suspension of trade in the past few months has caused him considerable losses, in the long run, it is much better than those ports that were completely destroyed.

"These are...are...Qi's ironclad ships!"

An old captain said.

"This is impossible! How could Qi's ironclad ships get here? There's no way the Red Sea canal can be built so quickly!"

The city lord immediately spoke up and said that he knew about the Qi navy, but he had never seen an ironclad ship, and it was impossible to transport such a large ship from the shore.

"Could it be... that they... came around?"

A captain said with a strange look on his face.

They had long known that the Red Sea and the Mediterranean were not connected, which meant that maritime trade had to go through a land route.

Over the past few hundred years, many people have suggested looking for other roads to the south, but all of them have failed. Even if you travel thousands of miles to the south, you can't find any roads.

"Come around!"

The other captains looked extremely solemn. The road they had been trying to find for hundreds of years was actually found by Qi State, and it was even accessible. This was simply incredible. "There are more than two ships. Look, there are ironclad ships outside the port!"

Someone pointed outside Hong Kong and Kowloon and said.

Everyone looked over and saw that it was indeed a dark mass.

"It looks like this port is free of the Black Death!"

Ruan Xiaoqi looked at the port in front of him with a telescope. The port was not big, but there were many people on the shore. These people gathered together with terrified looks on their faces, but he did not see any dead bodies, which meant that the Black Death had not yet spread.

A huge ship slowly sailed into the port.

"Whoever is in charge, come out and say something!"

Ruan Xiaoqi shouted on the boat with a loud speaker, and an interpreter shouted in the language of the Red Sea.

"I...I am the city lord!"

The city lord immediately brought his men to the port and replied.

"You have a great port. The Black Death is spreading everywhere, but you don't have any here!"

Ruan Xiaoqi looked at the city lord and asked.

"Your Excellency, after we received the news, we closed the port and prevented foreign ships from entering, so the Black Death did not spread."

The city lord spoke.

"You guys are really smart. You saved me a lot of trouble!"

Ruan Xiaoqi smiled and led his men ashore.

"Take out all your nautical charts and explain them to me clearly. If I'm satisfied, you'll be fine. If I'm not satisfied, you'll all be fed to sharks!"

Ruan Xiaoqi looked at those people and said.

The city lord immediately sent someone to fetch the nautical chart. The port makes money by shipping, and the nautical chart is the most basic.

Looking at the pile of nautical charts in front of him, Ruan Xiaoqi was very satisfied. Although he couldn't understand the words, he could still understand the general idea of ​​the map.

"Yes, this is the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea!"

Ruan Xiaoqi looked at the map and said with a smile, it was clearly marked on the map that the Mediterranean Sea was very large, almost an inland sea, and the only connection to the outside world was the strait in front of them.

"This place is life-threatening. Whoever defends it will be able to control the Mediterranean!"

Zhang Shun looked at the map and said, there is probably no strait in the world more deadly than this strait.

The translator quickly translated the city names on the map.

"Rome is here! Venice is here! The port of Alexandria is here! It looks like we'll have to go for some time."

Ruan Xiaoqi said while looking at the map.

"What about here? What about further north?"

Li Jun pointed to the area to the north on the map and asked.

"That's the glacier, the endless glacier!"

The city lord looked at the place Li Jun pointed to. That was the place where you continued north along the sea and met England and continued north.

"Glacier? It is indeed a glacier! Haha, that's right!"

Li Jun laughed. If there were glaciers in the north, then it was the same as what he had thought. The north and south poles of the ocean were blocked by glaciers, preventing the seawater from flowing away. What about that thing? Could it be the towering mountains? The ocean was a pond between the mountains and the glaciers?

"How's the situation in Venice?"

Ruan Xiaoqi looked at the city lord and asked.

"I received news a few days ago that the French army entered Venice, and the Doge of Venice led the country to surrender and convert to the Imperial Religion."

"The Pope was furious. In the name of God, he summoned all kingdoms to join forces to destroy Qi. The Pope's order also reached the Holy Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire!"

The city lord replied.

"You guys are going too?"

Ruan Xiaoqi looked at the city lord and asked.

"Of course I don't dare to go there. The Black Death is too terrible. Whoever goes there will die!"

"But I heard that Qi has a way to cure the Black Death, but I don't know if it's true or not!"

"Many kingdoms have no plans to send troops. The Black Death is too severe and everyone has suffered heavy losses!"

Everyone immediately expressed that they had no intention of sending troops to fight against Qi. In fact, they did so. They hid in Tangier Port, far away from the Mediterranean Sea, because they did not want to be involved in the dispute. (End of this chapter)