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Eden was a new knight in the royal capital, with no fief and no title to inherit to his descendants, making him the lowest rank among the nobility. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info and even some big nobles think that jazz can't be considered a nobleman at all, at most it's just an honorary title. Therefore, he showed great enthusiasm for Tifeco's blockade order, relying on his early experience at sea, and the new king's preference for new people, and finally became the commander of a falconry-headed warship.

He thinks that his merit lies in judging the situation - this blockade of trade routes is a good opportunity, far from the comfortable mansion, it is naturally very difficult to drift on the ship for more than half a year, and the average nobleman is not willing to accept such a job, so he can barely get in, and if he does well, he can be named a real nobleman nine times out of ten.

And it is easy to do a good job, whether it is a merchant ship or a caravan, they are not their opponents, if the local lord sends knights to encircle and suppress, and the warships on the water are powerless. As long as he is not greedy, this task will be completed properly, and His Majesty Tifeko will be satisfied.

Of course, how satisfied His Majesty is depends on the coins and goods he surrenders. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but glance coldly at the jubilant rats on the boat opposite. Yesterday they had just intercepted a merchant ship flying the flag of Chishui City, and although the captain had repeatedly stated that he was going to Falling Dragon Ridge, they still happily engulfed the cargo and killed all the people on board, mainly furs and wine, as well as a jar of golden dragons. And these fools actually took the confiscated things as their own trophies, and divided them fifty-fifty according to the rules of the black street.

This made Eden can't help but sneer, the rats don't know at all, in addition to showing up and robbing, the rest is to calm the anger of the local lords, waiting for the traitor King Roland to finish, and these people's heads will naturally be sent to the lords who have suffered losses in trade to show His Majesty's apology. As for the seized supplies, they will undoubtedly be all filled into the treasury of the royal palace.

And it is ironic that they actually regarded this operation as a fat difference, and did not have the slightest awareness of the noose that was already hanging around their necks.

"My lord, there's movement ahead!" shouted the sailor at the lookout.

Eden walked to the bow of the boat and frowned, only to see a cloud of black smoke rising in the distance, as if something was burning in the river, and after a while, he faintly saw a gray streak approaching this way. It was undoubtedly a ship, but he didn't see the most striking sails.

"Isn't it a little fast?" said the deputy, staring for a moment.

Eden also discovered this, and even with the downstream, its speed was so astonishing that in less than half an hour it had gone from a point the size of a thumb to the size of a palm, and by the distance, it was much larger than an ordinary merchant ship.

Two other eagle-headed ships also spotted the target, and one of them had its side oars swinging rapidly, as if trying to get ahead of everyone else on the strange merchant ship.

"My lord, shall we follow?" asked the deputy.

Eden thought for a while, "Don't worry, let's take a look at the situation first." He noticed that the eagle-headed ship commanded by Baron Derrick behind him had not moved, and that the ship carrying the rats had already taken a broadside stance, one to the left and one to the right.

The incoming ship soon became clearly visible, and Eden's mouth gradually opened wide, and not only him, but there were already exclamations from the deck, and the sailors on the mast shouted, "Oh my God, chief, what is this!"

I saw that the hull of the other party was shining with metal, and unlike the sea boats, which only wrapped copper plates at the bottom, it was all the same color, even the strange iron tower above the hull! Its bow was like a shuttle, splitting the river in half head-on, and just looking at the white waves that were rising against the side of the ship, we knew how exaggerated the speed of this iron-hulled ship was.

A deep "buzzing ——————" sound rolled past everyone's ears, and the incoming ship not only did not slow down, but also slightly deflected course, and crashed straight into the first eagle-headed ship that was leaning in front!

Since the broadside battle required the target to be approached from the side, the eagle-headed ship had to go diagonally first, which was no problem against the slow merchant ship, but it was a big flaw in the face of the strange iron ship that broke the waves—before it could turn the bow back, the other party had already crashed headlong into the unsuspecting belly of the eagle-headed ship.

Everyone heard the clatter of broken wood, and the slender warship seemed to have been slammed with a giant palm, and the whole hull of the ship was tilted to one side, and the side near the water barely sank into the river. The surging water rushed onto the deck, and many people were thrown directly into the water under the violent impact.

"Gods!" the deputy's eyes widened, "it's coming for us!"

"Enemy attack!" shouted the sailor, "My lord, enemy attack!"

The men on deck were already in action, some setting up crossbows, others loading muskets with ammunition.

Seeing the tower and two-spear flag fluttering above the iron boat, Eden swallowed his saliva, gritted his teeth and ordered, "Let the oarsmen move Lao Tzu and move closer to the shore!" This was a flag that he had never seen before, but he already had a guess in his heart, only the prince in the West who was rumored to have a deal with the devil could create such a terrifying thing! Not only was it huge, but it was also faster than a narrow galleys, which was not something that a mortal could do!

"Aren't we going to run?" asked the deputy in a trembling voice.

"Run?" he scolded, "it's faster than we are, and where can you run? Only by clinging to the river bank can we prevent it from crashing into it, and we may have a chance to board the ship to get behind it! Damn, get my orders across!"

Pushing away the panicked lieutenant, Eden looked at the first to suffer at the eagle-headed ship, his hands and feet cold—he could imagine it even if he couldn't see what was going on inside the cabin. The bow of the iron ship was completely inserted into the belly of the warship, and even if it did not split in two, the long and narrow hull of the bent ship would not last long. The sailors who paddled were undoubtedly the most unlucky, and it was a good ending to be crushed by the iron heads, and the worst thing was that the people who were stuck in the cabin and could not move, and could only choke to death by the water poured into the river.

Crying, yelling, and screaming mingled like a pot of boiling water, and even though the boat was mostly full of rats, he felt the fear that had spread - the situation on both sides had been reversed, and the hunter had become prey.

With the impact of the current and the sudden deceleration of the iron ship, the bent eagle-headed ship finally broke off from the bow of the enemy ship, and quickly capsized, and the river poured in through the breach, and the waves were bloody. The second ship was desperately turning its bow to get away from the other side as quickly as possible, but the long cry of death sounded again, and the iron ship let out a deafening roar, dragging a long black smoke and began to accelerate towards the nearest ship. (To be continued.) )