"Are you sure there are only five sea ships?"

Gervais had returned to the castle at this moment, and in front of him were the guards who came back to report.

"Go back to my lord, I'm sure there are only five sea ships. According to the speed of the sea ships, we can reach the coast in half an hour. Lord Laurie will ask me to come back and report to you right away!"

"Very good! Since these bastards who are not afraid of death have set their sights on the Storm Leader, let them know what it means to be kicked on the iron plate!"

It was once again confirmed that the pirates only had five ships, and Gervais became excited.

The sea ships in this world are not big, and each ship can carry only about fifty or sixty people. Therefore, Gervais can infer the number of people on the other side from the number of these sea ships.

For Gervais, pirates with two to three hundred people are completely contemptuous. Now that these pirates come to the door, not only can Gervais solve his worries for this southern expedition, but more importantly, he

These ships can also be captured.

Although I don’t know what the sea of ​​this world looks like, Gervais does not covet this huge natural treasure house. Originally, Gervais could only look at the sea and sigh because of the lack of sea ships, but now he is dozing off.

Someone came to deliver pillows to make Gervais unhappy.

"Ik! Odd! Let everyone bring their weapons and equipment, we are ready to fight!"

Gervais no longer hesitated. The pirates were about to land ashore. Gervais was afraid that his ship would run away, so he ordered the two of them.

"Yes! Sir!"

Icke and Audry took the order and immediately retreated.

A few minutes later, Gervais stood in the vestibule wearing full body armor and riding a unicorn. In front of him were hundreds of fully armed soldiers, including slave soldiers.

This time, Gervais can be said to have gathered all his troops. Even the guards in the castle have been removed, leaving only two guards on duty in the space courtyard and the castle gate.

"Sir! All personnel have been assembled!"

"Very good, let's go now!"

Gervais nodded and took the lead in riding the unicorn towards the castle gate. Ik and other personal guards all rode horses and followed behind Gervais holding the flag of the Storm God. Those ordinary people without horses

The guards and slave soldiers were all arranged on the carriage.

Because the pirates were about to land, the only way for these soldiers to drive in carriages was to quickly reach the seaside, and at the same time, they could save their strength.

…

On the cliff not far from the seaside mountain village, Laurie was staring intently at the ship slowly approaching the coast in the distance. At this moment, he could already see the pirate flag on the huge hull with his naked eyes.

But a few minutes later, the behavior of these pirate ships was a bit strange. These pirate ships stopped when they were still seven or eight hundred meters away from the coast, and then there was no movement.

"Strange, why is there no movement when the pirate ship is parked there?"

Such an abnormal thing made Laurie, a veteran, feel a little weird. Logically speaking, pirates should attack land as quickly as possible. After stopping the ship, they would immediately send people ashore to start looting.

But the five pirate ships parked just offshore for more than ten minutes, but not a single pirate got off the ship, as if they were discovered there.

"Captain, could it be that the pirates discovered us?"

A guard next to Laurie scratched his head and whispered.

"How is it possible? We can vaguely see the scene on the ship from here, and they can't see it more clearly than us. And we are hiding behind the trees here, so they are even less likely to notice!"

Laurie replied angrily to the guard that he and his group had deliberately concealed themselves, and Laurie was confident that the pirates would not be able to spot them.

"Even if the pirates discover that there is an ambush, they have two choices, either to leave directly or to launch an attack immediately. Can they still stop there and wait for him to come ashore after we leave?"

"Then captain, what should we do now?"

The guard obviously had a good relationship with Laurie and was not afraid of Laurie's tone, so he asked again.

"What else can I do? I'll wait for the adults to decide. I should be here in more than an hour!"

…

Laurie's prediction was very accurate. It took Gervais more than an hour to quickly arrive at the seaside mountain village. When they were still more than a mile away from the coast, Gervais and others met the guards waiting here.

"How is the situation? How many pirates are there?"

When he saw the guards responding, he looked towards the seaside mountain village in the distance. Gervais did not find any smoke, which meant that the seaside mountain village had not been set on fire by the pirates. He was slightly relieved.

Although all the serfs went to Binhai Town to celebrate the Harvest Festival today, if the pirates set the seaside mountain village on fire, it would still be a loss.

"Sir, the pirates haven't landed yet! They just parked the pirate ship seven to eight hundred meters away from the coast!"

"What? You haven't landed yet?"

Gervais was shocked and confused. It took the guards more than an hour and a half to return to the castle to report, and it took him more than two hours to come from the castle. In total, there were three days from the discovery of the pirate ship to the time Gervais arrived at the beach.

It's been more than an hour and a half, but the pirates haven't landed yet, which makes Gervais not surprised.

"Where is Laurie? Take me there quickly!"

Gervais also had doubts in his heart, so he immediately asked the soldier to lead the way to the beach to have a look.

Soon, Gervais followed the guard to a cliff on the seaside. There were scattered bushes in front of it. Laurie and others hid behind the bushes and looked towards the sea.

"Sir, you are here!"

When Laurie saw Gervais coming, he immediately saluted respectfully and greeted him.

"Well, Laurie, what's going on? Why haven't the pirates landed yet?"

Laurie was helpless after hearing Gervais's words. He turned around and pointed at the ship on the beach and said to Gervais.

"Sir, those pirate ships stopped there more than an hour ago, but no boats were put down, and the pirates could only be seen moving around on the ship!"

At this moment, Gervais also saw five pirate ships in the distance. These pirate ships were all of the same style, no doubt like the wooden sailing ships of the Middle Ages in the past, with oval hulls and multiple masts.

Gervais's eyesight was much better than that of Laurie and others. He could clearly see dozens of people walking around on the deck of the pirate ship. However, these people did not hold weapons. Instead, they looked comfortable. They did not look like them at all.

It looked like he was going ashore to rob, more like he was just anchoring outside Gervais's territory to bask in the sun.

"What the hell, what's the point of parking the boat at the gate of my territory without fighting?"

Seeing this scene, Gervais couldn't help but curse. The pirates doing this made him feel itchy. He took a fancy to the five ships at the first sight, but the pirates stopped seven or eight hundred meters away, but he couldn't run over and seize them.

Boat.

"Are we going to use the four or five small sampans on the beach to go to the sea to seize the boats?"

Gervais turned his attention to the canoe parked on the beach. The canoe was used by the serfs in the mountain villages on the seaside to catch lobsters and sea fish. Each boat could only carry four or five people at most. In other words, if Gervais

If Si really wants to take the initiative, he can only take more than twenty people there at a time.

"No, there are two to three hundred pirates. It is estimated that we will be shot by the pirates with bows and arrows before we get close!"

Gervais immediately rejected his idea. He was not worried about his own safety. The worst he could do was jump into the sea and run back, but his soldiers were ordinary people and the casualties would definitely be considerable.

Gervais was suddenly in an embarrassing situation.

…

While Gervais was drooling over the five pirate ships on the beach, Abby, who was out of breath, finally ran back to Coastal Town.

Binhai Town is still very lively at the moment, but it is a pity that Storm Territory is still too poor. If it is other territories, there will be acrobatic troupes coming to perform at the harvest festival to make money, but even if there is no acrobatic troupe, many and well-fed serfs will start to sit around.

Singing and dancing began in the square.

"Where is the lord? Have you seen the lord?"

Abi was extremely embarrassed. He was wearing a tattered linen gown that made many serfs look at him in surprise. However, Abi ignored these people's gazes and just kept scanning the town, trying to find guards or lords.

figure.
Chapter completed!