Chapter 144 144 Avoidance of private conversation

"We split up and prepare to attack them," Burrich said quietly. "We don't want our fleet to encounter any resistance when it enters the port, so act quickly. Fitz, you follow the team attacking the red ship, wait for the battleship Luresh to land, and let the people on board know our decision. With the Red Ship out of the way, we'll need all of our warriors to join us in encircling the Outislanders. I hope to find a way to let Duke Kelva know about our actions, but he should know soon. OK, let's get started. " Cave and Fox Gloves negotiated and dispatched for a while, but in a very short time, I found myself riding behind Fox Gloves' team.Although I wear a sword, I still miss the ax that I used to swing freely in the summer.The actual situation is not always as clean and tidy as the plan.Long before we reached the beach, we came face-to-face with the Outislanders in the ruins of the city.They were returning to the ship with a group of captives handcuffed together.Immediately we went on the offensive, and some of the robbers fought, while others fled from our horses, leaving their captives behind.Our troops dispersed quickly through the smoldering buildings and wrecked streets of Kit Yee Bay, with some troops staying behind to untie the captives and assist them as best they could.At this point, Fox Gloves cursed the delay of the operation, because fleeing robbers would notify their fleet guards, so she quickly dispersed her troops leaving only a few soldiers to help the attacked residents.The stench of dead bodies and the rain on the charred wood reminded me of what I had seen in Forge so vividly that it almost frightened me.The city was littered with dead bodies, much more than we expected, and I sensed a wolf prowling the ruins, and took some comfort from it.

Fox Mitten cursed us surprisingly harshly, then organized the men around her into a wedge.As we charged towards the red boat we saw one of the boats sailing into low tide, but had to let it go, but still had time to stop the second boat from leaving.We annihilated the enemies on board with astonishing speed.There were not many people left on board, but a few oarsmen, and we killed them before they even had time to kill the captives lying bound on the deck.We suspected that the fleeing ship was also carrying prisoners, so I speculated in my mind that we might not be able to get the Rurigis or other ships to drive the evading ship back to shore as originally planned.

The red ship sailed away with the hostages, but where?Heading for a ghost ship that only I can see?Even the thought of the white ship made me tremble, and my head began to feel the pressure of a sudden illness.Maybe they wanted to drown the hostages or smelt them, whatever the inevitable consequences.I can't think about it right now, but I'll mention it to Chade.The three red ships that remained on the beach each had a squadron of soldiers, and were fighting as hard as Burrich had expected.One too-impatient archer fired a torch arrow and burned one of the red ships, but we took over the others intact.

We received all the enemy ships when the battleship Lu Ruishi docked, and I also took advantage of this time to look up at Jieyi Bay, but I didn't see the white ship, maybe it was just a fog.The battleship Resolute arrived right after the battleship Lu Ruishi, followed by a small group of fishing boats and even a few merchant ships.Most of the ships had to berth at the shallow water docks, but the crews on the ships went ashore quickly. The crews on the battleships waited on the shore for the captain to explain the situation, but those on the fishing boats and merchant ships rushed straight past us and were besieged castle.

Their advance was quickly stopped by the trained crew of the battleship.Even though we were not a well-organized team, when we came to the outer wall of the castle, everyone had a cooperative attitude.The captives we rescued, weakened from lack of food and water, soon became obliged to share with us details of the battle at the outer wall.In the afternoon, we were positioned to surround the group of enemies who were besieging the castle, but Burrich still had a lot of trouble convincing everyone that at least a battleship full of people was on the sea to keep watch. And his defensive measures took effect the next morning, only because when the other two red ships appeared cruising at the northern end of the bay, the battleship Luris immediately met them, but they slipped away easily, which really surprised us. dissatisfied.Raiders were known to find a defenseless village to raid deep along the coast, so even though we had little chance of catching the slipping red boats, a few fishing boats were still chasing them.

We waited two days and started feeling bored and restless.The weather started to turn bad again, the hard bread tasted moldy and unpalatable, and the dried fish was damp.In order to make us happy, the Duke of Kelva raised the stag flag of the six principalities alongside his own swallowtail flag, and thanked us by flying the flag, but he also chose the same strategy as us to wait.We had the Outislanders surrounded, and they made no attempt to break through our lines, nor approach the castle any further.Both the enemy and us are waiting quietly. "You don't heed warnings, you never do," Burrich told me softly.

In this hour of night, we are together for the first time since arriving here.He sat on a log and stretched his injured leg forward while I huddled in front of the campfire trying to warm my hands.We sat watching the smoky campfire outside the makeshift tent built for the queen, Burrich who had wanted her to stay in one of the undestroyed buildings in the town of Jet Bay, but she refused, insisting on staying with her warriors instead. and her guards, who came and went between her makeshift quarters and the campfire, were so familiar that Burrich frowned, but quite sure of her loyalty. "Your father is like that too," he said suddenly, as two of Kettricken's guards came out of her tent to change shifts with those outside.

"Don't listen to the warning?" I asked in surprise. Burrich shook his head. "Just don't listen. His soldiers are always walking around him from time to time, and I always wonder how he, who has no privacy, has the opportunity to let a child like you come into this world." I must have looked shocked, because Burrich blushed suddenly. "I'm sorry, I'm tired, and my legs...are hurting too, so I just blurted it out without thinking." I smiled unexpectedly. "It's okay." Anyway, that's the truth.When he found Nighteyes, I was afraid he was going to banish me again, so even if it was an embarrassing joke, I'd love it. "You just said warning?" I asked humbly.

He sighed. "As you say, we are like this, and it says so. Sometimes they don't give you a choice at all, and they are directly related to you." There was a dog barking somewhere in the dark, but it wasn't quite a dog, and Burrich stared at me again. "I have absolutely no control over it," I admit. I can't control you either.Why does one party have to control the other? "It doesn't shy away from private conversations either," I added. "Other personal matters as well," Burrich said dryly, sounding like a cliché. "I thought you never used...it." I can't even say the word "Wisdom" aloud here.