Chapter 186 The Terrifying "Ice Hammer"

After hearing this, the ministers immediately complimented the king and queen again, but this time they also brought the crown prince with them.

They all remembered that it was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who proposed this free plan to fight pirates, and now it has indeed begun to bear fruit.

Joseph took the report from the Marquis of Castries with great interest and read it. He soon discovered that it was an American named Charles who got the information about the pirates from Algiers, which enabled him to successfully complete the ambush.

When he saw Charles mentioned that his information might come from a former Tunisian Pasha named Younis, he couldn't help but narrow his eyes.

A former Tunisian "crown prince" still has great influence in Tunisia. If this is true, perhaps his North African plan will have to be changed.

Before, he had always planned to follow the historical trend, first attack the pirate stronghold on the north bank of Algiers, and then start to eliminate pirates throughout Algiers. Another identity of the Barbary pirates is the navy of North African countries, which is intertwined with their dignitaries. Once the pirates are eliminated, it is basically equivalent to turning the entire country upside down.

But now it seems that Tunisia has a better handle!

After the cabinet meeting, Joseph immediately found the Marquis of Castries and asked him to send a message to the joint fleet to summon the American named Charles to Paris.

Although the Minister of the Navy was a little surprised, he still agreed immediately.

Then Joseph found Fouché and asked him to speed up the construction of the intelligence network in Algiers and Tunisia.

…

In the central Pacific, two medium-sized sailing ships with the words "Twin Trading Company" printed on their hulls were sailing on the sea seemingly casually.

The cargo on the ship had been unloaded in the Far East long ago, but nothing was bought, so the hull was very light, resulting in a very fast speed.

After the two ships sailed straight west for a week, they turned south for more than ten nautical miles and turned east again with full sails.

If you look at their navigation records for more than a month, you can find that they are constantly wandering in the nearby waters, as if searching for something.

On the armed merchant ship "Temper", Captain Fraut drew a few strokes on the nautical chart and looked at his first mate: "If we can't find it 100 nautical miles south, we can only go to Batavia for supplies and then return to Europe."

At this moment, the lookout shouted excitedly from the communication tube beside him: "Land! It's land! 25 nautical miles east southeast!"

Fraut hurriedly checked the nautical chart carefully and confirmed that there was no island discovered at the location mentioned by the lookout. He immediately picked up the telescope excitedly and ran to the bow deck in a few steps.

Sure enough, not long after, a dark gray island with mottled green blocks appeared in his telescope.

He was excited. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was right. There really is an island here!

In the following period of time, Fraut led the crew to find a suitable shelter, built a forward base on the island, and planted the iris flag representing the King of France.

Five days later, they found the first group of aborigines on the island. After some difficult communication with hand gestures, they hired nearly a hundred aborigines at the price of one glass ball per person per month and began to dig the brittle rocks that could be seen everywhere on the island.

The captain of the "Long Organ" watched the crew and the aborigines move the rocks into the cabin and asked Fraut: "Are you sure that this is the kind of stone the prince wants?"

The latter nodded: "There is only this island in this sea area, no mistake."

"Okay then. But at least we have discovered a new territory, there should be a lot of bonuses."

"I hope so." Fraut looked at the sea in the distance, "But the location of this island was pointed out by the prince, we just came to confirm it. Oh, he even knows the name of the island, what is it called?"

"It seems to be 'Nauru'."

"Yes, it is Nauru. What a strange name."

As more Nauru aborigines heard the news and rushed to dig stones, it took only more than ten days for hundreds of aborigines to fill the cargo holds of two armed merchant ships with a displacement of nearly 500 tons.

Froud left more than a dozen sailors to guard the station and ordered the two ships to raise the sails and return to Europe.

…

The hot July arrived.

In France, in a small village 30 leagues north of Berry.

Gaizka leaned against the roof, took a piece of wood from his wife standing below, moved it to the last hole with difficulty, gestured, found a nail and nailed it hard.

The entire roof was covered with "patches" in all directions. Just buying these boards cost Gaizka 1 livre 7 sous.

Gaizka looked at the chicken coop not far away, which had collapsed for the most part, which reminded him of the terrible disaster three days ago.

It was still a clear sky at that time. He and Blanche from the same village were "taking care" of the newly bought water pump in the parish. Suddenly, he felt something hit his shoulder hard, and he grimaced in pain. He turned his head and found a large bruise on his shoulder.

He thought it was done by a naughty kid in the village, and immediately looked around angrily. Before he saw any kid, he saw Blanche screaming and falling to the ground with his head in his hands.

"What happened to you?" Gazka hurried forward to help him up, and was surprised to see a bloody wound on his forehead, and in the mud next to him, there was a fist-sized "glass ball" with blood on it.

Gazka picked up the "glass ball" and a chill immediately penetrated into his palm. He then realized that it was actually an ice ball.

Then, the sound of heavy objects hitting the ground began to be heard nearby.

Blanche, who was half-reclining, suddenly pointed to the sky and shouted in surprise: "The sky! Hide quickly, this thing fell from the sky!"

Fortunately, a wooden shed had been built on the pump, and the two hurriedly got in.

Soon, the "puff" sounds around began to merge, and the wooden shed above their heads made a terrifying "bang bang" sound, as if there was a devil outside trying to kill them with a hammer.

The terrifying "hammer" hit for nearly 40 minutes before gradually stopping. Gazka saw that even the thick wooden boards on the top of the wooden shed were cracked.

He suddenly remembered something, pushed open the door of the wooden shed, and immediately froze in place.

The lush wheat field had now turned into a flat land, and the wheat that was almost mature was smashed into pieces by countless fist-sized hailstones, mixed with ice and muddy water.

Nearly half of the trees in the distance were hanging with broken branches and leaves, as if they had been ravaged by a mad giant. On the ground, one could even see the bodies of the beasts that had been crushed and lying in a pool of blood.

“No, no, God bless you…” Gazka murmured in a trembling voice, ignoring the ice balls on the ground, and stumbled all the way back to his home.

“Annette! Are you okay?!”

The next moment, he saw his wife, whose face was covered in blood, holding two children, walking out of the house with a terrified look on her face.