Water Margin people

The believers knelt down devoutly, this time facing the sea, kneeling towards the approaching steel monsters.

"so many people?"

Ruan Xiaoqi was also surprised when he saw the densely packed believers on the coast. He did not expect there were so many believers.

"Uncle Seven!"

Ruan Li waved at Ruan Xiaoqi excitedly.

"This guy!"

Ruan Xiaoqi looked at Ruan Li speechlessly. He was actually only a few years older than Ruan Li, but according to seniority, he was really Ruan Li's uncle.

"marshal!"

Ruan Li immediately changed his words, this was in front of a large army, so they had to address each other by their positions.

Venice is a port city, and its port size can be said to be the largest in the entire West. But now this port is like a small pond, and only a small part of the giant steel ships scattered across the sea can come in.

"What kind of lousy port is this? It's so narrow?"

Ruan Xiaoqi was very dissatisfied. In his opinion, this place was not suitable for the fleet to be stationed. His naval fleet should be in a huge port and a wide sea.

"Marshal, this is the port for those merchants, we'll change it later!"

Ruan Li said with a smile.

"No, this place won't work, I'd better go outside the bay!"

Ruan Xiaoqi shook his head and rejected it. This place is suitable for stationing the military headquarters during wartime.

"General, there is the Po River over there. Smaller ships can enter inland."

Ruan Li pointed in a direction and said.

"Well, let's talk about it later, get ashore!"

Ruan Xiaoqi immediately gave the order.

The soldiers lined up to go ashore, and the believers on the coast worshipped the Qi army crazily.

Xin Qiji looked at all this with envy on his face.

"These Westerners are so stupid. Why do they only worship the seven generals and not us?"

Xin Qiji spoke.

"Isn't it what these weaklings should do to admire the strong?"

Lu You said with a smile.

"You are just using intimidation to scare people. They will not really submit to you!"

Richard I spoke unconvinced.

"Beat? If you stand over there again, I'll scare you with two shots. If you survive, I'll let you go!"

Xin Qiji looked at Richard I and said.

Richard I wanted to speak, but he didn't dare to. If he was hit by a few cannons, he would probably be reduced to ashes.

"Humph, you still refuse to admit defeat, what a loser!"

Xin Qiji looked at Richard I coldly.

"I'm……"

Richard I wanted to speak more, but Xin Qiji interrupted him.

"Shut his mouth. You want to say you are a noble? I can't humiliate you, right? You are a nobody. You dare to call yourself a noble from such a small country? I am ashamed for you!"

Xin Qiji looked at Richard I and said.

Richard I, with his mouth gagged, kept whimpering, but his mouth was blocked by rags and stones, so he couldn't utter a word.

Richard I was still very unconvinced in his heart. He was called the Lionheart and was famous for his tactics and strategies. He could be said to be a military genius.

He always thought that this Crusade was a battle to make his name. After all, Conrad III and Louis VII were already old, and Philip I and Philip II were not as good as him. As long as he became famous this time, England would rise and become one of the great powers in the West. But ideals are full and reality is very skinny. He encountered the army of Qi, a country that did not follow the moral code of war. Qi was ahead of the lower countries in all aspects. No matter how much they resisted, it was just like an ant trying to shake a tree.

"Yue Fei, how is my artillery cover? Isn't it good?"

Ruan Xiaoqi said while looking at Yue Fei with a smile.

"Not bad, your aim is very good, you must have been training for a long time!"

Yue Fei smiled and said that he had only telegraphed the location and distance, but the naval ships were able to bomb it with such accuracy, which required considerable proficiency in artillery performance.

"Haha, being at sea is also very boring. Just fire a few shots when you have nothing to do. You will get used to it after a while!"

Ruan Xiaoqi said with a smile.

"What should we do with this battlefield? If we want to clean it up, I still have tens of thousands of prisoners here!"

Ruan Xiaoqi spoke.

"Tens of thousands of prisoners?"

Yue Fei looked at Ruan Xiaoqi in surprise.

"Didn't we encounter the Byzantine navy when we entered the bay? We took care of them along the way. We sank those broken ships and took the people as prisoners!"

Ruan Xiaoqi spoke.

"That's great, we need to clean up this place, otherwise the Black Death will come again!"

Yue Fei said immediately.

Ruan Xiaoqi immediately reported that the prisoner ship had approached the shore. Tens of thousands of prisoners were very well behaved. They hung their heads, gathered together and walked with the crowd, like a group of lambs to be slaughtered.

"These are... the Byzantines!"

The Doge of Venice recognized the captives. Although they had no flags, their clothing was clearly in Byzantine style.

"It can't be the Byzantine navy! These uniforms are from the navy! This... I'm afraid there are more than 50,000 people?"

Rice said in shock that all those tens of thousands of prisoners were dressed in naval uniforms.

"So these are the Byzantine navy? It's not that they didn't come, they were defeated! They were completely wiped out!"

Everyone was so shocked that they dared not speak. Their all-out battle in the West was easily resolved by Qi. They even felt that Qi did not really make any move at all.

Baldwin IV felt even more depressed. Byzantium was defeated, and all Western forces were defeated.

"Byzantines!"

Richard I looked at the captives in disbelief. Wasn't this the Byzantine navy that they had been waiting for? It turned out that it was not that they had not waited for it, but that it had been defeated.

"So... the Vikings were also destroyed!"

Richard I's mind started to work rapidly. If this was the case, the result was not unacceptable. This time the Vikings had sent out their best troops.

The Vikings lived in the bitterly cold north, where the environment was harsh. This resulted in the Viking population being small and unable to withstand too many casualties. If the main force was wiped out, the so-called Viking country would be destroyed, and they in England would not have to worry about the Vikings for a long time.

"If you want to live, clean up that place, throw the bodies into the shell crater, and bury them!"

A Qi general spoke to the captives and said that things were actually very simple, the pits were already there and the soil had been blasted loose.

The captives looked at the tragic battlefield in the distance and had no idea what was happening. They had just seen the Qi ships bombarding for a long time, and they had personally experienced the horror of the ship's anti-aircraft guns.

"General, we have some tools here!"

The Doge of Venice stepped forward with a flattering look on his face and said that since we were cleaning up the battlefield, hoes, shovels and the like would be indispensable.

The prisoners went to the battlefield with tools in their hands. They did not dare to have any thoughts because the anti-ship guns were aiming at them at sea and they would be reduced to ashes with one shot.

"Take some people to check it out, and bring back any valuable prisoners."

Yue Fei ordered the soldiers around him, saying that although many enemies were killed this time, there would always be some who survived no matter how much bombing there was, so they could capture some prisoners and squeeze out the last bit of value. (End of this chapter)