king of the castle

Chapter 325 Burning Pirates

"My lord, the pirates are calling. 【】" The captain of the Queen Mary, Robert, saw the pirate fleet getting closer and couldn't help becoming frightened. He approached Roger and said in a late stage: "We... shall we go further? Go upstream?"

"Are you scared?" Roger said without turning his head, "Don't worry, I'm on board to make sure you're all right!"

Roger's confident attitude also reassured the others on board. Robert was right when he thought about it, even the lord was not afraid. Why did he worry about it? If it was really dangerous, why would the lord stay here? ?Is my life more precious than a noble lord?

Roger's attitude reassured the other people on board, and they all returned to their respective posts to be busy.The pirate fleet has also approached the pier, gradually slowing down and preparing to dock.

It is not easy for a large ship to dock, especially when there is no one on the dock.To dock on the pier, the pirate ship first slows down and approaches the pier, and then slowly docks at a very slow speed.

Although the pirates had a large number of ships, so many ships were originally under the command of a dozen or so leaders, and there was no chance of sailing together at all.There was no major problem in sailing on the wide sea before, but now they are all gathered on the relatively narrow Tula River, and the entire formation is already a bit chaotic.In addition, these ships vary in size, it is easy for small ships to slow down flexibly, and it is difficult for large ships to stop when they are clumsy. Therefore, when the one-eyed flagship issued the order "big ships dock first", the chaotic fleet became even more chaotic. There was a ball.

The small boat in front quickly slowed down, but the big boat behind it rushed straight up, and the boats of different sizes were mixed together, and many of the crowded boats couldn't move at all.Some of the smaller pirate ships were even crushed by the larger ships, and the pirates on board had to jump into the water to escape.

"These idiots!" Seeing this scene, the one-eyed man jumped into a rage, and shouted to the first mate beside him, "Quickly, order all the ships to disperse, and let the biggest ship dock first!"

It's no wonder that Cyclops is so angry. He wholeheartedly thought that this landing operation was a "raid". The most important thing in a raid is to move quickly and occupy the pier before the enemy reacts.However, so many boats are now in a mess on the river not far from the pier, which completely violates the original intention of Cyclops. If the fleet delays here for one minute, the other party will have one more minute to react. This is definitely not Cyclops' hope. Things that happened.

However, it is simple to start an order with one eye, but it is very difficult to execute it.Many pirate ships have been damaged by the collision and it is difficult to continue sailing, and several ships have even been tightly entangled. How can they break free for a while?The one-eyed pier was in front of him but he couldn't go ashore, and he was so angry that he cursed his subordinates as idiots, who couldn't even do such a small thing well.

Roger was well aware of what happened to the pirate fleet, and had ordered the Queen Mary to lift anchor and move downstream as early as when the pirate ship was in a mess.Although Robert was a little uneasy about this, he felt that the lord would not make fun of his own life, so he quickly gave orders to the sailors.

The Queen Mary was going down the river at a very fast speed, and it didn't take long for it to be only half a mile away from the pier, and it was even closer to the nearest pirate ship. Roger could even clearly see that the pirates on board were busy running Running to and fro, trying hard to steer their boat away from the other boats.

Thinking that this distance was just right, Roger ordered loudly to the captain behind him: "Robert, just keep this distance and let the boat drive back and forth between the two banks."

It was in Robert's mind whether he could continue to move forward, and he quickly lowered the mainsail to the sailors, while he turned the steering wheel sharply to let the Queen Mary slant towards the opposite bank first.

The pirates naturally also discovered the Queen Mary, but they were all focused on attacking Kent Town at this time. Everyone wanted to get out of the current chaos as soon as possible, and let the Hailong and other large ships dock as soon as possible. So no pirates wanted to attack Queen Mary at all.

When the pirates came to this merchant ship, they definitely didn't know the situation in Kent Town, so they accidentally broke into a place so close to the pier.With so many ships here, I don't have to worry about any threat from a mere merchant ship.

But neither the pirates nor the sailors on the Queen Mary noticed. When the Queen Mary was sailing slowly between the two banks of the Tula River, huge wooden barrels appeared on the water behind the ship with a sound, followed by The current drifted slowly toward the huddled pirate ship.

It didn't take long for more than a dozen wooden barrels floating on the water, getting closer and closer to the pirate ship.Now that the time was almost up, Roger summoned four ballistas from the castle warehouse and placed them on the deck of the Queen Mary.Appearing with the ballista bed were a dozen heavy crossbowmen who were busy preparing for the launch.

Everyone else on the Queen Mary was stunned by this sudden scene. After a while, Robert murmured to himself: "Great Supreme God, this must be the power of magic!"

There is such an advantage in the world of Torenzo. When people deal with matters that they cannot understand, they either attribute such phenomena to miracles or regard them as magic. Roger saved a lot of tongue in explaining.

Someone on the pirate ship soon discovered the ballista on the Queen Mary, and when they yelled and warned their accomplices, the ballista had already started shooting.

Several pirates hid instinctively, but the giant crossbow arrows did not shoot at the pirate ships at all, but accurately hit the wooden barrels floating on the water.The wooden barrel was immediately shattered into pieces after being shot by the giant crossbow, and the fire dragon blood inside immediately gushed out and covered a large area of ​​water.

More than a dozen large wooden barrels were all shot through quickly, and the fire dragon blood contained in them almost covered the entire surface of the Tula River, and drifted towards the huddled fleet of pirates along with the water flow.But the pirates were all trying to get out of the current chaotic situation, and no one noticed the changes on the water.Even the few pirates who discovered the Queen Mary focused all their attention on the crossbow bed on it, and never thought that the real threat was actually on the water.

Seeing that the faint red layer on the water surface had spread to the bottom of the pirate fleet, Roger couldn't help but muttered to himself, "Hey! It's almost there, buddy, set fire to the pirates!"

As soon as Roger finished speaking, several magic apprentices appeared behind him.Under Roger's order, the magic apprentice chanted a spell at the same time, and at the same time released the flame arrow magic to the surface of the water.

As soon as the flaming arrow touched the water, the fire dragon's blood immediately burned blazingly.The flames instantly spread to the entire surface of the water, and at the same time rushed towards the pirate fleet at an extremely fast speed.