Warlock Royal Family

()..om Although the past 500 years, the Republic of Venice is famous for its prosperous trade and loose faith.

But in fact the most precious treasure of the Republic of Venice is not the treasury under the temple, nor is it the city of Venice, the second largest city in Europe with a population of nearly 10 after Paris.

The greatest thing about this great republic, the foundation of its prosperous trade and free faith, is its navy.

In the [-]th and [-]th centuries, the Venetian navy was once an overwhelming force in the Mediterranean Sea. A republic based on small islands of a few hundred square kilometers was the overlord of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of sea area.

Up to now, although Spain and Portugal relied on the benefits of new sea routes, and the Ottoman Empire relied on its own huge territory to build a larger fleet than the Venetian Navy, the Venetian Navy is still a force that cannot be underestimated in the Mediterranean.

But tonight, facing the Austrian army led by the little Goriti, the performance of the Venetian navy is not worthy of its past honor.

At the beginning, the sailors mobilized by the speaker were defeated by the Aramis mercenaries who had been ambushing for a long time, and suffered heavy losses.

This is of course because the speaker lacks combat experience, has no control over the troops, and underestimates the danger of the situation, paralyzing that the battle will be limited to the governor's mansion.

I didn't realize that the entire island of Venice had become a battlefield, and they were still marching in a long snake formation like in peacetime.

And a large number of Venetian naval officers did not point out this point in time. This is of course because land warfare is not their profession, and it is also because of the fear of pointing out the mistakes of their superiors under the management of the bureaucratic system for many years.

After being defeated, more than 1000 people were lost, and it took a lot of time for the remaining people to return to the establishment.

To make matters worse, the speaker is well connected.The group of men he mobilized who dared to fight can be regarded as the essence of the Venetian navy.

After losing these elites, the remaining naval officers became more timid and slow to respond to sudden changes.

The island of Venice is full of interlaced natural water networks and artificial canals. The Venetian navy naturally has very accurate hydrological data for its base camp.

However, the situation was unclear at the beginning, and it could not be determined that the Austrians were leading the attack.

Although most naval officers demanded to attack the enemies outside, some officers representing the interests of the Goriti family firmly opposed going to war.

This allowed Ladislaus to concentrate limited forces to wipe out the weaker city defense army.

However, the people Little Goriti arranged in the navy were not his people in essence.But the people of the Goriti consul.

I thought it was an opportunity to launch a cleansing in the Republic, but as the battle became more and more intense, it became more and more obvious that this was not an internal struggle in the Republic of Venice.

Moreover, more and more sailors who were defeated returned to the ship one after another.

Those officers who opposed the attack also wavered, and no longer firmly opposed the attack on the Austrians who were sweeping around the city.

Although in the city, it was night again.The navy's trebuchets and revolving crossbows are definitely useless, but even if the Venetian navy loses 1000 people, there are still close to [-] sailors who spend the night around the naval port, and this is not counting the manpower that can be mobilized on merchant ships.

The Austrian army only has more than 1000 people, and it is divided into various regions. Even if the Venetian navy mobilizes 1000 people to fight.You can also use convenient water transportation to come and go freely and gather quickly.

Even with a strong man of Sazastan's level in charge, a hundred Austrians cannot fight against a thousand Venetians relying on warships.

In this water city, the navy with both mobility and striking power is the biggest obstacle for Ladislaus to realize his ambitions, although the little Goriti is very confident that his father's cronies can control the fleet in the military port.

Ladislaus would not have pinned his hopes on the promises of little Goriti.

In order to ensure that the Venetian navy, which was the most threatening, could not hinder his plan, he made a two-handed arrangement.

Buy a few for profit.Don't think about such boring things as countries and nations at all, but the captain who lives for Yin Tale is one of the plans to find a way to block the channel with sunken ships.

It's just that things are not going well.

"You bastard, you charged me five thousand talers, and now you're telling me you can't keep them in there?" The distraught voice was Sherlock's son-in-law, who had obviously screwed things up.

Sherlock's hand was on his waist, his soft sword was about to be unsheathed at any moment.

"The Venetian military port has fully considered the emergency arrangements once the main channel is blocked from the beginning of the design. As long as there are trackers on the side channel, even giant sails and boats can sail out of the anchorage." The captain looked at Xia. The dozen or so Aramis mercenaries led by Locke felt very nervous. Although he had dozens of people under him, once they started to fight.Definitely not a match for these guys. "You can't blame me. What you said at the beginning was to block the channel so that your owner's opponent's ship could not leave the port overnight. How could I have imagined that your owner is actually the warlock royal family. I just thought it was to block the channel used by merchant ships. , Delaying the departure date of the merchant ship, it is not easy for me to sink the ship on the main channel."

This guy thought Sherlock was a spy for Barbary pirates.Delaying the departure date of important merchant ships created opportunities for pirates to rob, but I didn't expect such a bold guess to be conservative. The goal of the chubby merchant in front of him was actually the Republic of Venice itself.

Seeing the viciousness of the other party, the captain has not dared to tell the real situation, not just the issue of the alternate channel.

The main channel of the Port of Venice has always been reserved for warships. His ship did not dare to approach at all. The place where his ship sank did not block the entire channel. As long as the captain is experienced and careful enough, he can still sail out of the main channel.

The anger in Sherlock's heart is even stronger. He has the most part in this drama, and he has done well so far. But if this key issue fails, then Ladislaus' plan will still fall short.

The error tolerance rate of this plan is too low.

But what should we do with the current situation? Although the main channel is temporarily blocked, the Venetian's backup plan can still be implemented.

In the end, Sherlock had no choice but to take the captain's men with him. Even so, there were less than 50 people in total, ready to attack the trackers around the alternate channel and delay the Venetian's reaction time.

It was the area with the densest concentration of Venetian sailors, and it would be very dangerous to bring all the Aramis mercenary regiments with them. Today, such an attack by dozens of people is tantamount to suicide.

Sherlock is just doing his best.

However, when he rushed to the edge of the alternate channel, he found that he didn't need to commit suicide.

The entire Venice naval camp was in chaos, and countless people on observation posts were yelling at the police.

"The Spaniards are the overseas fleet of the Spaniards." After receiving the warning, the Venetian navy commander quickly rushed to the commanding heights of the military port to observe the situation.

On the well-designed high platform, he saw a large number of enemy ships in the southern sea.

At a glance, there are more than ten capital ships, three to four of which are the latest Galen sailing ships, and there are many auxiliary sails and oars behind the dots of navigation lights.

Looking at the world today, only Spain and Portugal can assemble such a huge fleet.

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