Chapter 860, Ocean Road
In September 2513 of the Imperial Calendar, Arabian Sea, Shark Fjord, the famous port of the Britannia Knights' Road Expeditionary Force, Kofa Port.
This port is the starting point of the famous Red Flame Crusade, and it is also the beginning of everything. Countless bloody knightly wars ended after the Red Flame Crusade and eliminated King Arabi (also known as Sudan). Jafar still did not stop. The Litanians united the Imperials, the Estalians, and the Tyrells, and fought for three or four hundred years before they completely wiped out any one who tried to inherit the title of Jafar and all the people of Jafar. remnant forces.
The ocean-going fleet stopped here temporarily to replenish supplies, and then continued to Ulthuan.
"Welcome to watch Soul of the Ocean 3 brought to you by Enterprise and Ryan, video process guide commentary, well, then yesterday, we set off from Fort Marien and arranged all the remaining things. Next, We are going to continue to Ulthuan." Knight King Ryan stood on the famous Kofa Wharf and muttered to himself: "But we need to stop at Kofa Wharf to resupply first."
"??? God damn yesterday, we set off from Marienburg in August, and it's already September, you still say yesterday?" The expedition knight who came down from the deck, Julius, Ryan's brother-in-law, had a black line on his face. Looking at Ryan, he said, "Your Majesty, I think there is something wrong with your concept of time."
"One day in the Qin calendar is one year in the human world." Ryan said with a smile that people could not understand.
"Qin Li?" Fulgen also came down from the iron-clad ship, and the head of the Ashes Legion was still so elegant: "What place is that?"
"It's an invisible but tangible country." Ryan smiled. He noticed that Suria and Olika had disembarked from the iron-clad ship, so he took the initiative to stop the topic: "Okay, let's not talk about this , we won’t stay here for too long, everyone can take a walk and have a look around, and then we are ready to continue the voyage.”
Araby, which is full of exotic customs, is a place rich in various spices, perfumes, coffee, cocoa, tapestries, shawls, honey, glycerin, and ivory products. It used to be a unified country, but with the Jafar's death split again, which has already been said before, so I won't repeat it here.
To this day, the empire and the Bretons occupy the most important and richest areas in northern Araby, and the remaining dozen or so Arabi sultans or Araby emirs (dukes) form a loose city-state, content to The state of autonomy, because as long as there is any thought of unification, the army of the old world will let them understand the truth that Araby cannot be unified.
Ryan landed here and met the three great mentors of the Britannia Knights Expeditionary Army. The three great mentors led a large group of knights stationed here in Britannia to meet the king, Ryan said softly Soothes and motivates them.
In addition, there is a group of knights Ryan must also meet, that is what Ryan requested before, many families among the domestic knight nobles have not cultivated qualified knights for four generations, after Ryan promulgated the king's decree, many The knight family was forced to send many young knight apprentices, or send a group of useless people to report to the king.
To put it bluntly, in Ryan's view, this group of people who participated in the war as cannon fodder thought they ran too fast, coupled with a lot of aristocratic habits, and they were not easy to control.
So Ryan directly sent this group of people to the Araby Expeditionary Army for the expeditionary forces here.
In fact, it is to die, try to send these wastes here, and the survival of the fittest will select the best and eliminate a small number of talents and elites. Ryan knows that Brittania, like all countries, will also face the problem of land annexation , even if the freedmen managed to become independent, the nobles would slowly annex their wealth and land back again.
Is there a solution to this problem? In fact, there is no solution. Apart from the death of a group of people for a fixed period of time, the history of mankind is a constant cycle.
But at least in this world, the contradiction of land annexation is covered up by more terrifying external pressure and various threats. Endless wars make it difficult for the population of knights and nobles to grow explosively. What Ryan has to do is to pick out the waste among the knight grandfathers and clean them in a planned way to ease the contradictions. Whether it is serfs or nobles, the first priority is to defend the country, chaos invasion, green skin invasion, beastman and The Skaven invasion was not a matter of changing masters at all.
How could this group of pampered knights and nobles bear the hardships of coming to a desert like Araby? When they saw the king came to see themselves, they all came up to complain with tears in their eyes, especially those children of the big nobles. Suria has been complaining, saying that there are too many wars, the training is too hard, the environment is too bad, the food is not used to it, and the accommodation is not good. Can I go back to Britannia.
"Sweat more in normal times, bleed less in wartime, and work hard and plainly is the spirit of chivalry." Ryan shook hands with the noble knights with a smile, and then Ryan and Suria went to the knight barracks and looked at the meals of the knights.
Inside the cauldron is potatoes stewed beef stewed carrots.
"How long will it take to stew?" Ryan flipped the stew in the pot with a large spoon.
"It will take more than three hours to stew." Morgan Mingyan, the mentor of the Mingyan Knights, said beside him.
"This is a hard dish." Ryan nodded, and the King of Knights took back the spoon.
"Your Majesty, the skeletons in the depths of the desert are fighting against the greenskins from the south of the Badlands at the location of the Golden Oath City." Master Morgan said to Ryan: "Both sides have invested amazing troops, and the war has come to an end." It went on for several months."
"Well, you didn't participate, did you?" Ryan frowned.
"No, we strictly follow your orders." Senior Mentor Morgan said respectfully: "We did not participate."
"Very well, if it wasn't for the greenskins and the Tomb King who took the initiative to fight, we shouldn't take the initiative to attack, let the skeletons and green bastards in the tomb fight." Ryan thought for a while, and said slowly: "There , The people I send need to be tempered by war."
"We understand that these thin-skinned and tender-skinned guys really need the wind and sand in the desert to experience it." Master Morgan smiled: "Thanks to Your Majesty for sending us a lot of recruits, Your Majesty, I am interested to see the Foreign Legion Is it?"
"good."
Next, Ryan and others inspected Britannia's famous foreign legion on the Kofa Wharf. The predecessor of this army was the Imperials, Estalians, The foreign army composed of Lears and even Arabians was formed under the order of Jules the Righteous, the knight king at that time. At that time, there were about one or two thousand people. The combat effectiveness was very strong, but the salary was relatively high. Many people chose to join, maintaining a scale of more than 3,000 people in three battle groups.
This army can be dispatched directly by Ryan, but Ryan is currently not interested in transferring the foreign legion back to the country, so let's stay in Arabi to fight.
It took two days for the fleet to Ulthuan to resupply at Kofa's Wharf before continuing on its way to the ocean.
In addition to Teclis' high-precision phoenix giant ship, there are four ships visiting Ulthuan, namely Fulgrim's flagship ironclad ship "Holy Sophia", and golden mage Karim's flagship "Burning Scimitar". , Ryan's flagship ironclad "Enterprise" and the previous flagship "Landuin".
After the army returned to the ironclad ship, the ocean voyage continued.
Ryan could occasionally hear the voices of the troops complaining, saying that they had only rested for two days after finally landing, and then boarded the ship again. After hearing this, the king just smiled and did not respond.
During ocean voyages, the accommodation of the army is indeed a huge problem. Ordinary soldiers have to squeeze into the "military cabin", which is a room for dozens of people, sleeping on iron beds on the upper and lower floors. It is indeed uncomfortable to rest. Monsieur Chevalier and the officers were going to share a triple room, and only high-ranking officers like Bertrand and Davout, the two commanders-in-chief of the Old Guard, could have a single room.
The king's bedroom of the Enterprise is located in the rear part of the entire ironclad ship. It is a small suite covering an area of about 80 square meters. It has a separate bathroom, kitchen, dining room and a separate bedroom. It is relatively narrow, but It is already considered the highest level of enjoyment on a battleship.
According to the usual practice, Ryan returned to his king's suite after inspecting the situation on board the Enterprise and the meals of the soldiers.
The king pushed open the door of the room. Olika and Suria were sitting on the sofa and chatting. Seeing Ryan's return, Suria seemed very interested: "Honey, are you back? What's the matter?"
"It's nothing." Ryan hung his cloak on the hanger with a look of salty fish, and then fell down on the sofa: "Why can't time fast forward, I really want to go to Ulthuan tomorrow."
"Ryan, you also have to be patient. If Ursuan is so easy to get to, why do we have to spend so much effort?" Suria was wearing a full set of Britannia feathers today. The upper half is a slightly transparent white wrought flower shirt, and the slender and beautiful long legs are wrapped in black transparent velvet pantyhose. When the female knight sees her husband coming back, she is about to fall on herself, and she stretches out her hands with a reddish face. She caught him in her arms and let him lean comfortably on her black silk thigh. The female knight was actually a little tired of long ocean voyages. Fortunately, Ryan stayed with her all the time: "Your Majesty Teclis didn't say, it is expected It will take more than half a month."
"Master~ Let me help you relax." Olika is sitting on the other side, and the dark elf is wearing a cattail violet Xinrui wide-shouldered gentle dress with pink and white suspender back seam stockings, waist-length The dark black hair is full of magic, and the dark elf maid is sitting on the side with a smile, her amber eyes are full of excitement, the dark elf maid's coquettish temperament and Surya's graceful and dignified temperament complement each other , she gently rubbed Ryan's shoulders: "Going to Ulthuan is not that easy, master, in addition to the long voyage, you need the guidance of a high elf navigator to reach Lothern."
"It's so troublesome~" Ryan saw that it was not convenient for Olika to rub his shoulders, so he sat up, and he directly hugged the dark elf and put it on his lap, hugging Olika face to face like a pillow , buried her head in Olika's broad chest: "I have nothing to do, I really want to sleep in Ursuan."
Olika in Ryan's arms is just like a little taro ball, which is adorable.
"Master, can you rest as you please!" Olika did not struggle at all, but obediently kicked off her black strappy high-heeled shoes and retracted into Ryan's arms, and said delicately: "Master, haven't you figured it out yet?" , what should I do? How to deal with the relationship with the high elves?"
"We'll talk about that later." Ryan hugged his soft and fragrant pillow, and smiled at Suria: "Suria, how are you doing? Do you regret coming? Life at sea is boring, right?"
"Where you are, it's an interesting place." Surya looked at Olika who was acting like a baby in Ryan's arms with a bit of sourness. Follow me, what, you want to throw me down?"
"How dare you, you are my wife." Ryan couldn't stop laughing. He looked at the narrow environment in the ironclad suite. The living room was big enough to put a table, a sofa, and two wardrobes. It was just a few steps away, knight. Wang also put his arms around the shoulders of the female knight: "This is very good."
"What's the matter? Really, you don't want the dwarves to make you an extra bedroom!" Surya said with some displeasure, the Queen of Knights was indeed a little displeased about this matter.
To put it simply, since the king's suite only has one bedroom, recently the female knight was forced to play chess with Orika and Ryan...in the bedroom at night.
"A battleship is a battleship after all, the main purpose is to fight, not to be used as a hotel!" Ryan was still quibbling, the King of Knights hugged Olika, let her lean against him, and then put his arms around the dark elf's waist , stretched out his hand and gently kneaded Olika's delicate and small white silk jade feet, the king said casually: "It's the high elves, the Phoenix giant ship of Teclis and the flagship of the Arabian wizard, the Burning Scimitar. The inside is made like a palace, ah, I really want a fleet like the high elves."
"Then the master might as well get a black ark!" Olika limply rubbed Ryan, and the dark elf blushed: "I know how to perform sacrificial rituals, first sacrifice the souls and flesh and blood of 50,000 slaves, Again……"
"Olika! Ryan is the king of knights, how could he do such a thing!" Su Liya quickly interrupted Olika: "We already have ironclad ships now."
"That's right, the ironclad ship is enough to deal with our cousins." Seeing that Ryan didn't speak, and knowing that the master didn't agree with her proposal, Olika said with a little regret: "At least it's enough for now, master, madam, look at Tiger. Reese's giant phoenix ship was actually refitted from the giant star dragon ship, and if there wasn't the supreme wizard sitting in charge, the giant phoenix ship would definitely not be able to beat your dwarf ironclad ship."
"Huh? Didn't I hear that the high-precision star dragon fleet is the most powerful navy in the world?" Su Liya became interested, and the female knight asked casually: "Why does it feel like Olika..."
"The high-spirited star dragon fleet is indeed more powerful than our Druqi's navy, but the premise is that there must be dragons!" Orika shook her head mockingly, and the dark elves obviously dismissed the so-called navy of the high elves: "The high elves are still How many dragons are left? In the battle when I was captured, I was captured only by relying on the escort of the two blazing sun dragons and turning the tide of the battle at a critical moment, otherwise I would have already sent those guys to the sea Feed the fish."
Ryan and Suria both wanted to ask Olika's origin again, but the dark elf didn't say anything anymore, just closed his eyes and smiled, and leaned against Ryan's arms and said nothing: "Master, madam, if the opportunity is right, I will I told you."
"Okay!" Ryan smiled maliciously: "Madam, there is still some time before dinner, how about the three of us..."
Su Liya's face was flushed immediately, and she subconsciously wanted to refuse, but thinking of the experience during this period, the female knight felt that there was no point in refusing, and when she was in trouble, there was a knock on the door of the suite.
"Your Majesty! His Excellency Fogan, His Excellency Pirazzo, His Excellency Julius, His Excellency Felix, Master Jin and others have already boarded the ship. He said he has something to ask for you." Davout, the commander of the Old Guards, said at the door.
"Okay, tell him to wait a moment, I'll come right after I pack up." Ryan said loudly.
"yes!"
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