Of course, what Leicester said was not empty talk. The reason why the empire postponed the trial of Brown Darkwill for more than three months was simply because it would take such a long time for the general mobilization of war to be fully prepared.
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After reorganization, the Noxus Empire has thirteen large legions and can mobilize more than 800,000 troops at any time.
At present, the total number of active troops in the empire is 400,000, including more than 200,000 elite elite regiments, nearly 100,000 special forces, and more than 100,000 reserve regiments. This kind of military strength is enough to sweep the entire Runeterra, and it is also Lester's confidence.
location.
And now, as Lester's declaration of war spreads throughout Runeterra, the Noxus Empire has entered a state of all-out war.
From this moment on, the empire prohibits any form of banquets, dances and other extravagant and wasteful activities. After nine o'clock in the evening, the lights are turned off. Young people of appropriate age must participate in production activities or combat training organized by the military committee, and be ready to be drafted into the army at any time and go to the battlefield.
At the same time, cash crops were transformed into agricultural crops, salt, tobacco and alcohol, steel, cotton, sugar, medicines and coal became military controlled products, and civilian factories began to transform into military factories, increasing the punishment of social hazards and speculators.
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Everything in the empire is making way for war, and its purpose is to wipe out all evil spirits and defeat all enemies at once.
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sea of watchers,
On the route from Bilgewater Bay to Ionia Presidence, a large armed merchant ship flying the Noxian double-headed ax battle flag was sailing toward the northeast.
Facing the moist sea breeze, Drizzt held a tall wine glass comfortably and chatted with a young girl in a long skirt about various interesting rumors about the continent of Ionia with a relaxed expression, teasing the girl from time to time.
giggling,
Glancing at Drizzt who was chatting and laughing from a distance, Graves was sitting on the bench drinking alone.
"Hey brothers, do you feel a little lonely here?"
Suddenly, a bald middle-aged crew member moved another bench and sat next to Graves. He held a rum bottle in one hand and a wine glass in the other. He looked at Graves who was in a bad mood meaningfully.
Grafv glanced at the cooked guy, and scolded it without any anger.
"Who the hell are you? It's none of your business whether I'm lonely or not?"
The crew member was not angry. Instead, he patted Graves on the shoulder to comfort him, but Graves slapped him away.
"I understand, I really understand. What you need now is another man to have a drink with you, right? A real man will always encounter difficulties. This is the time when he needs alcohol and another real man the most.
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Come, I'll buy you a drink."
He didn't know that the fair-faced, beardless middle-aged man in front of him had any bad intentions towards him. Graves, who was depressed, glanced at the wine glass that had been drained to the end, and nodded.
"Pour it up."
"Okay, okay, come on, let's have a drink."
Clink glasses and drink it all in one gulp,
The delicate, sweet brown wine slid into the esophagus, and a fire seemed to rise in his lower abdomen. The fragrant and fragrant aroma of alcohol made Graves feel a lot more relaxed.
"Although I don't know you, your rum tastes pretty good."
The bald crew member proudly patted his exaggerated chest muscles and made a thumping sound.
"Of course, I brewed this wine myself, using a unique secret recipe, and it also has the effect of aphrodisiac. I rarely invite people to drink."
Graves smiled disdainfully.
"Aphrodisiac? Real men still need to drink aphrodisiac wine?"
"It seems you have little experience."
The bald crew member smiled and poured another glass for Graves.
"As a man, it is always easy to deplete your body. You have to make up for it when you need it. Don't regret it when you use it. By the way, my name is Avni Kayo. What's your name, brother?"
Nodding drunkenly, Graves reported his name.
"Malcolm Graves."
Cayo glanced at Graves' strong body calmly, and his smile became even brighter.
"How did the eldest brother think of going to Ionia?"
"Getting ready to do some small business."
"Haha, judging from the large-caliber nozzle that brother has, this business is not small. How can you get in if you don't have some ability?"
"That's true, no one can swallow my big squirt, just a bullet hole can fit a fist into it."
"That's because my brother has little experience. In my opinion, fists are really not a big deal..."
As they chatted, Graves and Caillot began to talk to each other, as if they were very close friends. Perhaps it was because of the secret rum that Graves had bought for nothing, but Graves didn't feel anything wrong.
"Hey, handsome card magician, this friend of yours seems a little dangerous."
Drizzt looked at the wealthy businessman's daughter who suddenly changed the topic to Graves, raised his eyebrows, but felt a shiver in his heart.
"Young lady, you are joking. What dangers can there be on the ship?"
After glancing around, the wealthy businessman's daughter lowered her voice and pretended to be intimate, approaching Drizzt's ear.
"The eldest brother's name is Cayo, and Cayo is a famously passionate man on the ship. Because the captain does not allow sheep to be raised on the ship, you know, most of the time the crew has to rely on the eldest brother to relieve their boredom and pour water into the vat.
I don’t know how many people were defeated in Li Yizuan.
I see that your friend has been drunk, and I am afraid that he will be helped back to the cabin by Brother Kayo, and it is not certain whether he will be able to come out normally by then."
After listening to what the wealthy merchant girl said, Drizzt looked at the girl with a strange expression.
"How do you know this stuff?"
The girl pursed her lips and smiled.
"Because I was the one who summoned Brother Kayo to the boat~ If it weren't for Brother Kayo, it would be my butt that would suffer. I follow my dad to run the boat, so I can't guard against thieves every day, right? But, if I can follow
I don’t mind what happens to this handsome guy like you~"
After talking for a while, Drizzt turned his head and looked in the direction of Graves, his face changed slightly,
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Sure enough, as the girl said, Graves drank too much and was being supported by Cayo towards the cabin.
Not caring what to say to the wealthy merchant girl with shining eyes, Drizzt stopped in front of Cayo and took Graves back from Cayo's arms.
"It seems that you really drank too much. My friend, I'd better not bother you."
Kayo glanced at Drizzt and smiled.
"It's all friends talking about foreign affairs. I'm here to help. Let's help Brother Graves back home."
Just when Drizzt was about to sternly refuse, the watchman's exclamation came from the observation deck.
"It's a ghost ship! There is a ghost ship three hundred meters away on the right rudder!"
"What!? How could there be a ghost ship on this route?"
After such an interruption, Cayo had no intention of doing anything, so he shrugged and left Graves and Drizzt.
After checking Graves' condition and confirming that Cayo had not drugged the wine, Drizzt breathed a sigh of relief and took Graves back to the cabin to settle down.
When Drizzt came out again, the tense crew had already pulled out the guns and swords from their waists, and the artilleryman was pulling the fuse into the gun barrel, looking tense.
"what happened?"
Drizzt found the girl. The girl's face was a little pale. She pointed at the dark gray mist coming from the northeast and said nothing, as if she was really frightened.
Drizzt frowned and looked at the looming gray hulk in the dark gray mist.
"Is it true that there are ghost ships in this world? Are ghost ships humans or ghosts?"
"I, I don't know either."
"Bang!"
The cannon fired, and a solid cannonball hit the bottom of the sea. However, it was not fired by an armed merchant ship, which really shocked everyone.
Drizzt looked at the crew members who were preparing to fight, and found that the expressions on their faces were even worse than those of the girls.
"Fire! Sink them! Don't let them get close!"
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The ship's six large-caliber smoothbore cannons turned right and sprayed out hot flames one after another, and the shells came out. Four of them hit the hollow, and the other two shells hit the bow of the ghost ship and exploded.
Remnants of wood, the other shot was deflected high and broke a mast without a sail.
Judging from the results, discounting the mast does not seem to be of any use.
"Bang!"
The ghost ship fired again, just one shot, which was enough to make everyone breathless, because this time the ghost ship's shell successfully hit the right-hand stern part of the armed merchant ship, and the hard ship plate was instantly smashed.
A big hole emerged, and sea water began to pour into the boat.
No one knows how many shots the ghost ship will take before it sinks. If the armed merchant ship is hit by two more shots, everyone will have to go to the sea to feed the fish.
"The right-hand gunner reloads gunpowder! Fayed! How many people do you take to repair the ship! Others! Load the muskets and prepare to design! Helmsman! The right-hand rudder is full! The left-hand gunner is ready to fire!"
There was always a bad feeling that if he stayed out of the matter, he would sink with the ship. Drizzt suddenly ran to the captain and said in a deep voice under the captain's impatient expression.
"I am Drizzt, the mercenary who killed the Overlord Octopus."
"Ah? It's you, that's great."
He was stunned for a moment and could not continue to command the crew. The captain was overjoyed.
"Do you have a way to deal with that ghost ship?"
"Not sure what it is yet, but I have an idea."
"You said, I will fully cooperate!"
"good."
Drizzt directly handed over a teleportation card to the captain with a serious tone.
"This is a magic playing card that can teleport items. You need to use a net to pile up several large barrels of gunpowder and press the teleportation card under the barrels to draw out a lead. It is best to burn it for ten seconds.
After you light the gunpowder fuse, I will directly teleport the gunpowder barrel and blow up the ghost ship. Since the ghost ship can be damaged by ship cannons, there is no reason why it will not be sunk by gunpowder."
Taking the teleportation card, the captain nodded vigorously.
"Leave it to me and I will take care of it."
After saying that, the captain invited two people to move the explosive barrels below the cabin, opened the cabin door, and saw Graves walking out with a slightly vain step carrying a double-barreled shotgun.
Without saying anything to Graves, the three of them ran straight into the cabin and looked around. The atmosphere of the battlefield made Graves lose his drunkenness immediately, and trotted to join Drizzt.
"what happened?"
"There are pirates? But aren't we on a pirate ship disguised as a merchant ship? Are you trying to get away with it?"
Drizzt pointed at the ghost ship that had once again disappeared into the mist.
"It's not a crime, it's a ghost ship...are you sober?"
"I woke up as soon as the artillery fire started here. How can I sleep well?"
The ghost ship once again appeared in everyone's eyes faster than the rolling fog,
This time, everyone including Graves saw the zombies on the ship wearing various rotten cloths. The zombies were holding short-handled firecrackers, long-barrel muskets and some rusty swords with tetanus virus in their hands.
The body was entangled with wriggling seaweed, and the head was green and pink as if it had been parasitized by barnacles and corals.
Zombie sailors look extremely weak. If you consider that the firearm in the zombie's hand is not a fire stick, the threat is not small at all.
"It's best to keep these monsters away from the ship."
"Mr. Drizzt! The captain has prepared according to your instructions! All we have to do is light the fuse!"
A man ran out of the cabin, it was the guy who had just gone to carry gunpowder with the captain.
Drizzt responded and whispered to Graves.
"I'm afraid they won't trust me, so you go with him to light the fire. I'm going to activate the teleportation card, and when you hear my whistle, I'll light the fuse."
"OK."
Graves didn't say any nonsense and ran directly down to the cabin with the crew.
"boom!"
The armed merchant ship couldn't turn in time, and the right-turn muzzle took a solid shot. The ship's cannon was directly broken into pieces. Then the ghost ship shells deflected by the ship's cannon directly beat the upper bodies of the two gunners into a ball of blood mist.
Only half of his body remained intact, and he fell onto the ship's deck with a thud.
The flying iron shavings from the ship's cannon hit an unknown number of people, severely damaging the morale of the armed merchant ships.
"We have hit at least five shells! Why hasn't the ghost ship sunk yet?"
"Is it true that the ghost ship cannot be sunk at all? How could our artillery shells be able to deal with that kind of monster?"
"Where's the captain? Where's the captain?"
"The captain is preparing explosives in the cabin, listen! We will survive and reach land safely!"
When Drizzt had to stand up to maintain morale, the wealthy merchant girl ran out of nowhere and stood with Drizzt.
"Everyone must believe in Mr. Drizzt! He is the heroic magician who defeated the Overlord Octopus in the battle to defend the Silver Serpent Pier! Another hero, Graves, is cooperating with Mr. Drizzt in the cabin! We will definitely defeat the ghost ship.
of!"
When morale was about to collapse, Drizzt and the girl's singing together gave the crew some confidence to fight again.
"Mr. Drizzt! What should we do?"
"Fight the enemy with the weapons in your hands! Leave the rest to me!"
Glancing at the girl gratefully, Drizzt held the teleportation card with one hand, brought the other hand to his mouth, blew a whistle, and immediately began to activate the teleportation card.
"If the magic fails, you will sink the ship directly!"
"Go away!"
In the cabin, one person had already run away. Graves kicked away another crew member who was blocking him, and lit the fuse of the explosive with a match under the captain's self-defeating look.
