king of the castle

Chapter 333

"Sure enough, just like the legends, these pirates are very powerful!" Looking at the sails that occupied a large area of ​​the sea, Roger also paid more attention to the enemy this time. 【】At this time, he secretly rejoiced that he had made sufficient preparations to defend against these pirates, otherwise he would really be unable to cope with so many enemies appearing at once.

Seeing the enemy getting closer, Roger suppressed his emotions and began to look for a large enough space to call the castle to the main world as the first line of defense against landing on the island.

The pirate ship sailed to the shore with the wind and waves. On the largest ship "Sea Dragon", many pirates gathered on the deck and quarreled loudly, bragging to each other about how brave they would be when they attacked Kent Town. Various cruel methods were used to deal with the defenders and residents of the town.

"It's just a small town, and it's nothing to fart in front of our Red Dragon Pirates!" A bearded man shouted, waving a machete, "After a while, everyone will go up to that town, kill all the people in it, and leave no one behind." !"

The other skinny man immediately objected loudly: "That's not okay, girls can't be killed! I've been floating in the sea for several months, and I haven't tasted a woman for a long time. This time I must have a good time!"

This guy's words got a lot of response from many people. Many pirates began to look forward to the tender women in the town, and expressed that they would have a good time after capturing Kent Town.

One-eyed stood behind the steering wheel of the Sea Dragon, looked coldly at the excited subordinates, and thought to himself: "A bunch of idiots, do you think all women are easy to deal with? Just like the one on the island, she is beautiful and coquettish. Who dares to use her brains?"

But even though he disapproved of his opponent's words in his heart, Cyclops absolutely didn't dare to speak out his true thoughts.The last time Blue Beard attacked Kent Town and returned in a disastrous defeat, he immediately asked the other leaders of the Red Dragon Pirates for help.Although the leaders don't have much contact with each other, they all belong to the same pirate group after all.Especially under the heavy pressure of that person, no one dared to sit by and watch the prestige of the Red Dragon Pirates be hit.

So after receiving the letter from Blue Beard, many leaders led their men to the sea near Kent Town, and One Eye was one of them.Cyclops is also the strongest of all the leaders, so he became the commander of this operation as a matter of course, and his Hailong also became the flagship of the fleet.

With so many pirates gathered to plunder a small town, no matter how rich the town is, there is not much oil and water for each leader.In fact, the pirates did not attack again for money, but to gain prestige.All the leaders have reached an agreement that not a single prisoner will be taken in this battle, and even the town must be set on fire, so that everyone will know what will happen if they dare to fight against the red dragon pirates.

The One-Eyed fleet was getting closer and closer to the coast, and One-Eyed shouted loudly to his men on the mast: "Start landing!"

When landing, you can't drive the boat directly to the shore, otherwise the big boat will run aground, or even sink because it hits an underwater reef.Therefore, when landing, we can only use the small boats put down from the big ship to transport people to the shore.

The pirate made a "received" gesture, and the signal flag was quickly raised.When the flagship gave the order, the big ships put up their sails and dropped anchor, and began to lower the landing boats.Although a little smaller ship can be closer to the coast, it can only stop when approaching to a certain extent, and put down the small boat to land like a big ship.

Many small boats were put on the sea, and the pirates scrambled to climb down from the side of the ship.With so many people coming to attack a small town, there is no suspense at all, so everyone is scrambling to be the first, for fear that if they go late, they will not get any benefits.

The small boats put down from the big ship were soon full of people, and the pirates shouted neat slogans and started paddling, and the small boats quickly moved towards the shore.One-eyed stared at this scene with an expression on his face, without any doubt that this battle would end with a complete victory for his side.

The boat moved very fast, and it was not long before it was only a few hundred paces from the shore.In just a short while, the first batch of pirates would be able to land smoothly and break through the town of Kent to plunder.This made Cyclops feel that the guy with the blue beard was so useless that he couldn't even take down a small town. It's a good thing he was the leader of the Red Dragon Pirates.

At this moment, Cyclops, who was a little proud in his heart, glanced at the small island that was very close to the shore, and immediately opened his mouth wide in surprise, unable to say anything for a while.

On the small island that should be inhabited by humans, there is actually a huge castle!

This change made Cyclops not believe his eyes at all.Not so long ago he had observed the island, and there was nothing on it but the shadows of the trees.One-eyed closed the only eye he could reach, then stared at the island, and found that it was not his own dizziness, and there was really an extra castle on the island.

"What... what's going on?!" One-eyed yelled in disbelief, but he couldn't save the fate of the pirates who had already boarded the boat.

After the boat approached the range of the ballista, Roger summoned the castle to the main material world.Of the ten ballistas built for him by the dwarves, four were left in Kent Town and the remaining six were all loaded into the castle warehouse by Roger. At this time, they were all placed on the tall walls of the castle.

Some heavy crossbowmen are busy adjusting the crossbow bed, doing the final preparations before launching, and then loading a giant crossbow arrow into the crossbow bed, and using the winch to tighten the bowstring of the crossbow bed.

At this time, the pirates on the small boat also discovered the sudden appearance of the castle, and they immediately yelled loudly, arguing whether to go to the island to find out, or go ashore directly to attack Kent Town.

Some young pirates of course hope to directly attack Kent Town, because there are money and women they want most; while those more mature pirates want to go to the island first, and the sudden appearance of the castle makes them uneasy. If you don't know what's going on, you won't be at ease even if you attack Kent Town.

However, the pirates hadn't reached a conclusion yet, and the ballista on the city wall had already begun to attack them.As the thick bowstring on the arm of the ballista trembled with a "boom", the arrows, which were only slightly shorter than the spear, shot straight out with a whistling sound.

Speaking of which, the quality of the weapons made by the dwarves is excellent. The strength of the crossbow bed is astonishing, and the accuracy is satisfactory enough.Roger clearly realized that the huge crossbow arrow shot out turned into a black shadow under the moonlight, and accurately hit a small boat rushing forward.

The small boat snapped in two from the middle as if suddenly hit by a sledgehammer.The shattered boards flew in the air, and two people were thrown out of the boat, and they flipped half a circle with their arms crossed, before falling heavily into the water.Under the attack of the ballista, in the blink of an eye, the small boat became a piece of broken wood floating on the water.

At the same time, the other five ballistas also started firing.Five giant crossbow bolts shot towards the target with screams, bringing fear and death to the pirates on the small boat.

The people operating the ballista are all heavy crossbowmen trained by the castle hub. There is a kind of magical tacit understanding between them, so that the heavy crossbowmen will not choose the same target when launching an attack.The targets of the six ballista attacks are not the same, which minimizes the waste of firepower.

The first strike of the crossbow bed all hit the target, and its five small boats turned into a pile of broken wood in an instant, and the remaining one just persisted for a while, and quickly sank under the water.Naturally, all the pirates on these small boats fell into the water. Except for some who were shot directly by the giant crossbow arrows and died on the spot, the others threw down their weapons and swam to the shore.

Six small boats were lost all at once, and the other pirates were naturally alert, and a few quick-witted guys had already shouted: "The ballista, watch out for the enemy's ballista!"

Hearing the warning from their accomplices, all the pirates on the boat panicked.The ballista is not very effective against large ships, but it is more than enough against small boats. If it is hit, it has no chance at all.These pirates also had rich combat experience, so they quickly spread out in small boats and accelerated towards the shore.

The small island where the castle is located is in an excellent location, just in the bay where the pirates landed.The pirates had no way of avoiding the attack range of the ballista, so they could only rush to the shore while the ballista was being wound up again.

However, the ballista built by the dwarves has its own special features, and the rewinding speed is much faster than the ordinary ballista.In addition, all the heavy crossbowmen trained by the castle hub were well-trained, and it didn't take long for the second strike to be launched.

The attack sank six more skiffs without any suspense, and then the heavy crossbowmen continued to rewind and fire again with almost robotic speed.The shooting speed of the ballista was astonishingly fast, sinking more than 20 small boats driving in the front in a short period of time.

Although there were as many as dozens of small boats headed to the shore, under the continuous shooting of the six ballistas, none of them could land smoothly.The not-so-wide waters from the big pirate ship to the shore became their cemetery.The wreckage of the wrecked boats was everywhere on the water, and many pirates were struggling in the water.

Seeing that none of the accomplices in front could go ashore safely, those laggard small boats all stopped charging and cruised fearfully on the sea far away from the island.However, the range of the ballista built by the dwarves was far beyond the pirates' estimation. Soon, several giant ballistas roared in, sending several small boats into the bottom of the sea.This time, the other pirates panicked even more, and hurriedly rowed the boat back for more distance. Naturally, no one would dare to charge forward.

It was no wonder that the pirates were timid. They had no power to fight back against the attack from the ballista in small boats. No one would be so stupid as to die in vain, so they naturally chose to hesitate.

The pirates on the skiff can choose to attack or defend, but those who fell into the sea have no choice.They instinctively swam towards the shore closer to them, but they didn't know that there were more powerful killers waiting for them ahead.