Chapter 173 4.33 Fire on the Sea

At 4 o'clock in the morning, Loki and Katya had climbed to the nearest mountain to the sea in Hanshui Village.

Nothing good has happened in the valley recently.

First, it was the lord of Blood Pigeon Town, "Hummel Blood Pigeon", who caused the war. He abandoned the half-expanded salt field and loaded the whole family on a longboat and ran away!

Before leaving, the old guy had come to Loki. After an indignant speech that "the Blood Pigeon family swears to never be a betrayer", he walked out of Hanshui Village with his head held high and left Scandinavia on a longboat the next day.

It is said that his destination is to the wealthy Frank Duchy opposite England.

Secondly, just yesterday, Duke Bernard suddenly appeared in the village. Although Loki had already deduced that the old guy had betrayed O'Sullivan. But when he saw the 500 fully armed Viking shield axemen behind him, Loki immediately understood his intention.

He came to clean up the English reinforcements that were about to land, and "by the way" to clean up himself.

As a "newcomer" who had just joined Bakambusi's team, he urgently needed to make some achievements to prove that he was useful to the lord.

After entering Hanshui Village, he immediately exercised the lord's rights to reorganize the army and forced the Viking hunters in Hanshui Village to serve as soldiers. Under the surveillance of 500 shield axemen, Loki did not dare to directly tear his face with him, although he might not lose at this time with the excellent God's Chosen in Hanshui Village. But there are still a large number of women, children, especially pregnant women, stranded in his village.

In this special war, they could not be taken into the "Sunken City" for refuge. Because the Satyrs on the other side of the Baltic Sea still need to take those hungry Viking pirates into this underwater city.

For these bandits whose homes have been destroyed, God knows what terrible things they will do to the women and children of Hanshui Village.

So in desperation, the women and children in the village can only stay in the village and survive the disaster with Loki.

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In recent days, he would climb to the top of this seaside mountain every morning and look at the southern sea.

Because this is the only way for the O'Sullivan family to send reinforcements.

Three months ago, he had entered the Conqueror's Fortress and saw the "Sabertooth Mercenaries" under the O'Sullivan family. That was a terrible army. The Slavic rebels who had not undergone any combat training could not resist the impact of those professional mercenaries at all.

He understood this truth, and the English and Slavic coalition forces on the opposite side must also understand it. If he were an Englishman, he would definitely take advantage of the information gap that O'Sullivan did not know that he was participating in the war and solve this group of strong ground soldiers on the sea. Because the thin Viking longboat only has the function of transporting troops, this thing will break at a touch and does not have any ability to wage war on the sea.

According to the attempt of a minister, Loki knew that he should send a raven to Ivar O'Sullivan and tell him that the English were most likely waiting for him on the sponge.

But he did not do so.

If he warned the Viking king, Ivar's merchant character would not send even one reinforcement to the valley.

Loki would be completely isolated and helpless.

If he did not warn, he could still hope that the reinforcements of the O'Sullivan family might break through the English and successfully land in Hanshui Village.

As long as they could climb onto the dock, 500 saber-toothed mercenaries would be enough to sweep Bernard's 800 shield-axemen.

Four days later, as the rising sun dispelled the morning fog, a series of Viking longships finally appeared on the sea not far away. Pulling out the telescope, Loki saw at least dozens of longships sailing out of the sea fog.

With his hands clasped together, he silently prayed in his heart that these ships could land peacefully.

However, today was not Loki's lucky day.

After just three minutes, more than a dozen huge shuttle-shaped ships with metal rams on the bow suddenly appeared in the sea fog on the other side.

Loki had seen this kind of ship in the harbor of Yorkshire. At that time, he thought that this kind of fat ship with a hull like a rugby ball looked neither beautiful nor practical.

But at this time, these ships suddenly appeared on the flank of the Viking longship, like a heavy hammer, instantly smashing the thin Viking longship in half!

Loki on the top of the mountain held the telescope tightly, and a layer of fine sweat beads involuntarily ooze out of his forehead. As a marine civilization, the ships of the English Isles may not be as light and swift as the Viking longships, but their heavy size perfectly inherits the ship design of the Athenian city-state a thousand years ago.

Thousands of years ago, Athens, as a marine civilization, relied on naval battles to defeat Xerxes, who was in his prime. The father of the Athenian navy, "Themistocles", relied on heavy iron ships equipped with rams to rampage on the sea! He smashed Xerxes' equally huge but not strong wooden ship hard, causing a large number of Persian soldiers to die in the sea.

At this time, the English were undoubtedly implementing the same tactical design.

On land, the organized Viking shield-axe soldiers swept everything, but it had to be admitted that their naval capabilities were as fragile as a baby. What was happening in front of him now was like a group of ducks crossing the river suddenly appearing in front of a group of crocodiles.

The Viking soldiers driving the longboats had no room to resist at all.

Smashing the longship was just the beginning of the English offensive. When a large number of Viking warriors fell into the sea, the English ship suddenly opened the steel sampan on the side and threw barrels of black crude oil into the sea. Dozens of barrels of fuel oil floated on the sea, and quickly dyed the sea into a terrifying black color.

When the Viking soldiers who fell into the sea floated up to breathe, they would inevitably be stuck with black crude oil on their heads and faces. They reached out to wipe it, but the water-insoluble fuel oil could not be wiped off at all, and would only stick heavily to their hair and eyelids, causing them to fall into longer suffocation.

With a long sigh, Loki put away the telescope and called Katya beside him to follow him to climb down the tree canopy.

They had already lost this battle.

However, before he climbed down from the top of the tree, two loud dragon roars suddenly sounded in the sky. He looked back in surprise and saw two colorful dragons rising from the emerald green peaks. They glided in the air above the black fuel, spewing flames and setting it on fire!

All the crude oil on the sea surface was ignited!

The blue sea surface under the sunlight suddenly turned into a burning sea of ​​fire!

The shuttle-shaped English ships and Viking longships were all caught in the flames, but the shuttle-shaped ram ship, whose base and side were all made of steel, was obviously more resistant to burning. After the fuel floating on the sea surface heated the hull, it would be immediately cooled by the seawater under the hull.

On the other hand, the pure wooden Viking longship of the O'Sullivan family had completely melted into the raging fire on the sea surface!

Although it was thousands of meters away, the shrill wails of the Viking pirates on the sea were still clearly transmitted to Loki's ears. The sea beneath his feet was already a hell. Loki pulled the stunned Katya down from the treetop.

He had already received all the information he needed, and subsequent observations were no longer meaningful. War is very fair to everyone. As a robber, when you wield your butcher knife, you must be prepared to be killed.

Loki knew clearly that this would be the only army sent by the Viking King to the river valley. After the destruction of this army, he would use the remaining troops to defend the Conqueror's Fortress.

There will be no more reinforcements from the O'Sullivan family from the sea!

In the three eastern provinces of Scandinavia, the Dragon's Breath Plateau and the Frost Ridge have fallen. Duke Bernard, the lord of the river valley, has rebelled, and Hummel, the old fox, has run away.

At this time in the river valley, Loki was surrounded by enemies and isolated.

What's more terrible is that Sartre has not returned yet! He doesn't even have a troop of professional soldiers in his hands!

He sighed deeply, knowing that fate had once again pushed him to the edge of the cliff. However, this time, the enemy he faced was much more dangerous than the last time. He was like being sandwiched between three giants: England, Slav and Bernard.

And his power was the weakest.

That's all. Blaming others will not help the battle.

Give up the fantasy and prepare for the battle!