Chapter 176 Harvest and Influence

On this day in August, fear haunted the entire retreating fleet.

The warship on which the nobles were on was attacked by the Bloodsail pirates. The news spread to the entire fleet through the notification of the Griffin Knight.

Commodore Cook of Kul Tiras, who has rich experience in naval warfare, had originally decided to send the entire fleet back. But the messenger sent by Lothar insisted that Anduin and Duke could handle each other's fleet, and that the murloc army led by Naga had already rushed over.

When he hesitated, Cook decided to maintain three-quarters of the sails, and deliberately split the fleet into two. The Kul Tiras fleet with a certain combat effectiveness opened the way ahead, and the transport ships behind saw something wrong and had a chance to escape. .

Three hours later, a large blood sail appeared on the horizon.

That strange scarlet almost made the watchman subconsciously ring the alarm bell. In fact, one young lookout did just that. But Kur, who foresaw the danger, arranged double lookouts, and another more experienced lookout stopped the young man.

"Wait! Look at the flag above!"

After seeing clearly, all the watchmen were dumbfounded.

"Captain, I suggest that you must come and see this."

That's right, it is indeed the warship of the Bloodsail Pirates.

The Kul Tiran navy of the same lineage almost recognized those ships in ashes.

In order to maintain the flexible design of one square sail and three triangular sails under various wind conditions; the specially heightened side of the ship for boarding battles; the detachable wooden outer deck installed for shelling battles, everything is in the He clearly told the navy of Kul Tiras that this was indeed his old opponent.

However, the golden lion flag of the Stormwind Kingdom hanging on the main mast is showing to the world that this is already the property of the Stormwind Kingdom.

The Kul Tiras navy's eyes were burning.

Before becoming the Bloodsail Pirates, the leader of the Bloodsail Pirates—then Duke Falrewell, the warship he built with a lot of money was the best in Kul Tiras.

In terms of quality alone, it is even above Admiral Daelin Proudmoore's main fleet. The only difference is that the total number of ships taken away by the Duke of Farrewell is relatively small, only 12 large merchant ships and 24 warships. After transformation and upgrading, these 36 ships are definitely the main ships of the Bloodsail Pirates.

Now a total of 12 capital ships have been snatched by the Stormwind Kingdom. It's no wonder that the Kul Tirans are not envious. If they hadn't known that the Stormwind Kingdom was about to fall, they would have almost suspected that the Stormwind Kingdom would endanger their maritime dominance.

Not only that, the standard of those newly built small warships is also quite good.

In addition to the ships that the nobles took away, what was displayed in front of the Kul Tirans was a huge fleet consisting of 70 large and small warships.

If it wasn't for seeing the Naga and the murlocs escorting the Bloodsail pirates on the deck through the binoculars, maybe the Kul Tirans would be mad with jealousy.

Brigadier General Cook put down his binoculars and muttered to himself: "Damn it, if we didn't have more powerful greenskins to deal with, I would definitely suggest to the general to suppress the Stormwind Kingdom when I go back."

On the Poseidon, Van Cleef was lying on the porthole, staring at the strange fleet passing in the opposite direction from the south of the fleet. The distance between the two sides was so close that he could even see the desperate and frustrated expressions on the faces of those noble private soldiers.

That is by no means a happy performance of the rest of the life after the catastrophe.

If I had to use one word to describe them, it would be - Sangjiagou!

Excited blood pumped from Van Cleef's heart and ignited his whole body. He only felt that his body and soul were burning hot.

The nobles are finished!

Those arrogant nobles are finished!

The sound was so clear, so real, that Van Cleef could hardly contain himself.

No matter how Duke did it, next, when the rotten flesh is cut off, even if Stormwind City falls, the Kingdom of Stormwind will surely usher in a new life!

Before he knew it, Edwin VanCleef's heart was full of Duke's light. That was the fanaticism that made him sacrifice everything of himself, including his loyalty, his life, his soul, and even his beloved daughter, Vanessa.

It was late at night, and Van Cleef could not be calm for a long time.

Of course, he wasn't the only one who couldn't calm down.

King Ryan read the report three times, but after reading it, he was still speechless for a full minute.

This report is too shocking.

Not only him, but all the high-ranking nobles who are currently staying in Stormwind City are silent.

Among the nobles who evacuated, one-tenth of them were demons! When the Bloodsail pirates attacked, the demons revealed themselves and caused the largest death of nobles since the founding of the Kingdom of Stormwind.

Of the 387 nobles with titles, only 32 survived, and all of them were injured. There are 7 families that have been exterminated forever, and the remaining 13 families are also sparsely populated. And half of the surviving nobles are minors.

Most of them were severely frightened.

This is not a report fabricated by someone or a certain force. The testimonies of more than 800 survivors were almost unanimous. These survivors also included several extremely devout priests.

Not only them, but also the testimonies of the bloodsail pirate captives were similar.

Ryan closed his eyes in pain: "Should I tell the people that the lords they trust and regard as their leaders, the nobles of the Storm Kingdom who inherited Emperor Thoradin, one tenth of them are demons?"

Ryan's voice was not loud, but it clearly spread to every corner of the conference hall.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.

If this is done, the blow to morale will be too great.

At this time, Earl Caton, who was once an ally of the Brando family, raised his hand slightly and asked to speak: "Why can't we think better? At least we got twice as many ships. We have enough fishermen to serve as sailors. We can Evacuate citizens twice as fast."

Ryan trembled all over, and suddenly there seemed to be a little warmth in his chest: Yes, the loss of the people will be reduced.

but……

Earl Carton spoke again: "All the local lords died in this battle. I think we should first respect their opinions when announcing the results to the outside world. After all, they are the cornerstone of the kingdom."

Earl's words are simply sounds of nature.

The nobles who evacuated this time did account for the majority, but not every noble could evacuate. For example, those nobles who have important military positions in the kingdom.

His son turned into a demon and killed his family... How could such a shameful thing be announced? In fact, they thought about the reason early in the morning, but they just didn't dare to bring it up.

Now that Earl Carton gave them this step, they were so happy that they wanted to run up to kiss the Earl on the spot: Oh, it is true that they still have to rely on their own people at critical moments.

This is yesterday's guarantee