Chapter 345: the fleet has arrived

The female knight Liya was taken home by her parents, and only the king's family was left in the living room to exchange their hearts.

However, it cannot yet be called a complete family.

"What a pity, my sister is actually fighting in the south at this time. Father, how is the situation in the south?"

After Irene sighed, she couldn't help worrying about Catherine.

"Don't worry," Rodney comforted her with a smile, "The kingdom's army will definitely be able to defeat the rebels, and then your sister will be able to come back."

As for the specific situation, the king did not go into details, and Irene did not pursue it further. When she was in the Northwest Bay, she learned from the discussion of the situation in the south by people from the Government Affairs Council and the army that the Kingdom's army and the rebels were in a stalemate. Who is currently in a stalemate? Can't help anyone.

Rodney asked: "By the way, Irene, what kind of person is that Earl Paul Greiman?"

After Catherine led the troops to the south, information about Irene's presence in the Northwest Gulf was also regularly submitted to the king. Although Rodney had already learned a general idea from the information, he still wanted to hear his daughter's own description.

"Paul...uh... Earl Greyman, what's wrong?"

Erin tilted her head and thought about it.

"He is quite boring in his daily life. The earl is not as keen on socializing, banquets or knightly competitions as other nobles. He is either staring at a bunch of charts or writing and drawing in the office. It is quite a bit The taste of a lonely scholar, but the knowledge he dabbles in is very diverse and wide, and he is not specialized in one aspect but often has amazing insights."

"He also has many interesting and practical inventions, such as paper and porcelain, have these become popular in Jingyao, right? There are also cans, as far as I know, they have begun to be supplied to the kingdom's army in large quantities, and there is also a mirror that can see microorganisms, Also welcome..."

She ended up thinking about muskets and cannon, but remembering Paul's repeated orders not to initiate discussions about new weapons in front of other people, Irene stopped talking.

"Oh? So he is quite talented." The king stroked his beard and commented.

He asked again: "What happened to the war in the Northwest Gulf last year?"

Irene pouted: "It's all because of that guy named Kent. He used to rely on the trust of the previous generation of Northwest Dukes to commit crimes. The lords of the Northwest dared not speak out against him. Before the war broke out, he sent people to blackmail him. After Arda, I was on the battlefield when the envoy came, but you haven't seen how arrogant that envoy is."

"Later, the Duke of Northwest passed away inexplicably, and his death was very strange. The title was unconventionally passed on to the Earl of Kent, a man with a foreign surname. No matter how you look at it, it seems that there is a conspiracy. The Duke's own brother came out to expose that the Earl of Kent used Witchcraft murdered the duke, and war broke out."

is that so? The king nodded, and his daughter's was about the same as he had learned through the royal commissioner.

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After Hansel had an audience with the king, he rode a fast horse to the west coast with the documents the next day, and two days later encountered the marching royal army—an army commanded by his brother Harrison to destroy the pirates.

Hansel relayed to his elder brother the plan of joining forces and the king's order, asking him to stay as close as possible to the port of Kiel when he arrived at the war zone and chose a place to station. Harrison agreed. He is a more pragmatic person and naturally welcomes more assistance. And this is the first time he has been assigned to stand alone, so he feels a little unconfident in his heart.

Although the two brothers hadn't seen each other for a long time, the military situation was urgent. After having a meal together, Hansel bid farewell to Harrison and headed for the port of Kiel first.

After arriving in this port city, Hansel first visited the local city hall and showed the king's order to discuss the matter of allowing the Northwest Fleet to enter the port. Then he arranged a lot of people to stay in various cities along the coast. According to the original plan, the fleet would depart within 4 hours after he left Huxin Town. If there were no accidents on the way, they should have arrived in this area by this time and were on the coastline. wander around. The fleet will often send people ashore to buy supplies and leave messages so that Hansel can find them. Although they declared that they were the Qinwang Fleet from the Northwest Gulf, no port dared to let them berth before receiving clear instructions from Jingyao because they refused to board the ship for inspection by port officials.

Two days later, the news came from the carrier pigeon, and they connected with the squatting personnel and the fleet, and they had already headed for the port of Kiel.

On the evening of January 25, 1992 in the holy calendar, a fleet of 12 ships flying the flag of the red flying dragon was welcomed in the port of Kiel in the Kingdom of Aldo. Due to the rumors of pirates, there were very few ships entering and leaving the port of Kiel. The sudden appearance of a fleet composed of so many ships attracted many people to watch.

The first to enter the port were 6 galleys, and then 6 full-sail ships. Since the rise of maritime trade in the Northwest Gulf, residents of major southern ports are no longer unfamiliar with this new type of boat that does not require oarsmen.

The black metal pipes protruding from the sides of the ships felt a bit chilling. Although they didn't know what they were, their intuition told them that these ships were probably not here to transport goods.

Arda, for the first time projected her power beyond the Northwest Gulf.

Hansel stood on the pier, waving a handkerchief to the fleet. Behind him stood his brother Harrison and the mayor of Kiel.

Harrison: "Is this the fleet in the Northwest Gulf? What a strange ship."

The mayor: "I've seen such merchant ships a few times this year, but are these warships? What are those dark pipes?"

Hearing their discussions, Hansel felt an inexplicable sense of superiority in his heart: Haha, haven’t you seen it before? That thing is called a cannon, and it can smash a group of living people into pieces.

"Hey! Baron Abbott!" At the berth closest to him, an Admiral of Arda walked across the gangway to the pier ~www.readwn.com~ and waved to Hansel.

"Lieutenant Colonel Tirpitz!" Hansel stepped forward to shake his hand, "Are you sent to command the fleet this time?"

"Haha, among the three fleets, my fleet can move the most ships, so let me be the commander of this operation."

"Come on, let me introduce you, this is my brother..."

After the people on both sides got to know each other, Tirpitz asked the most concerned question: "Mr. Harrison, what is the current situation of the pirates?"

Harrison replied: "We have deployed investigators on the way in and out of Westport. Recent signs show that they seem to be less active than before. They are huddled in the city and don't know what they are doing."

Tirpitz thought to himself that Hansel's elder brother was really cautious enough. Others at his age would have been unable to hold back and started attacking the city long ago.

"Your Excellency Harrison, I have brought you a generous gift."

"Oh?"

"We just encountered a pirate ship at sea and caught a bunch of tongues. Maybe we can get something out of their mouths."

Harrison was overjoyed, "This is great, let's organize an interrogation immediately!"

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