Extraordinary Sailing

North of the Golden Sea.

Unnamed island, Hartrafah Harbour.

The waves lapped on the white sandy beach, and the tall coconut trees swayed gently in the breeze.

The battlefield in the north of the mainland has already started to snow, but here is still full of heat.

Hartrafa is a secret private port belonging to the East Lunzhi Company, and it didn't take long to discover and start construction.

It was activated urgently because of the special situation after the battle between Aiwen and the Cyrus fleet.

Although it is located within the Golden Sea, the core sphere of influence of Sirius on the east coast of the New World, the location here is very hidden.

The area of ​​the island with a good natural port is not small. Although most of it is uncultivated forest land with a complex ecosystem, it has sufficient fresh water. If managed carefully, it is enough to supply thousands of people to live here.

There are reefs all over its periphery, and only a narrow waterway connects to the lagoon outside the private harbor. If foreign enemies attack, no matter how many people and ships come, they can only enter and exit through the narrow and long waterways.

As long as a sufficient number of forts are built on both sides of the passage, this easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack portal can be firmly guarded.

The other side of the island is also densely covered with reefs.

Although due to time issues, the original detectors of the East Lunchi Company have not had time to explore clearly, but they believe that there must be more than one road leading to the Tasman Islands not far away under such complex hydrological conditions.

The Tasman Islands are composed of densely populated islands, reefs, and sandbars. Even if an entire fleet hides in, it will not be possible to find out in a short time.

Obviously, just looking at their initial selection of this place for the initial port construction, it is impossible to plan to use it for any good deeds.

However, it happened to be cheaper for Ivan and the others.

In order to avoid the eyes and ears of Sirius, they did not choose to return to "Fort Dirben" or any of the colonies belonging to Phalatis.

Turning on the "fog silver light" all the way is like a large cloud of white fog on the sea, quietly coming here from the buffer zone of the territorial waters of Sark and Tulip in the north.

It was successfully hidden.

In fact, although Cyrus has established a large number of naval bases, colonies, and bastions on the east and west lines.

With a full two hundred years, one step at a time, he defended his world hegemony with the Great Wall of the Sea.

But there is a key problem that cannot be ignored.

That is the population of Cyrus is too small!

Compared with the land, the population is thin, and it is impossible to rule the world's largest territory in every aspect.

Just like the royal power of ancient China did not go to the countryside, they only established a point-like limited rule with naval bases and cities, and there are a large number of vacuum areas beyond that that they have no time to take care of.

Also gave pirates and other factions room to thrive.

There have even been cases where pirates drove away the Cyrus people on a certain island to occupy the magpie's nest, and the Cyrus officials didn't bother to take care of it.

At this time, it was already the third day that the four warships had arrived here.

In the small but crude dry dock, the crew towed the two most damaged warships, the Horn of the Storm and the Xingdenburg, ashore for overhaul.

when! when! when!

nail! nail! nail!

The poop of the "Storm Point" was damaged again, and the carpenters on board the ship commanded the sailors to rush up and down, and they wanted to repair it as quickly as possible with the materials sent by East Lunzhi Company urgently. .

A small half of the side of the "Singdenburg" was directly torn by the powerful force of the self-explosion. Although it did not go below the waterline, the injury was more severe than that of the "Storm Horn".

Even after emergency repairs, water leaks continued while sailing.

On the way back to the voyage, there is a group of sailors at any time, who are responsible for using the human pump to pump water continuously for 24 hours, so that it insists on coming here.

In the carpenters' expectations.

The repair time for the "Storm Horn" should be a little faster, and it should take about half a month, and the "Singdenburg" may not be able to re-launch before the end of this "Silver War".

However, as the commander-in-chief, Ivan is not in a hurry.

Because when he just arrived at Hartrafa Port, he had already received the next order from Lieutenant General Gustav, the highest military officer of "Fort Dirben", more precisely, a "commendation order".

In the name of the highest military officer stationed in the New World, the lieutenant general has asked the Kingdom's military for credit for all officers and soldiers of the "Storm Horn" and "Endeavour", especially those individuals who have made outstanding contributions or sacrificed heroically.

In "Commendation Order".

Promote Ivan to Colonel (he has the command of a small fleet since then), promote Milan to Lieutenant Colonel (with outstanding achievements in turning the tide), promote Gary to Major (the rank of Captain can no longer match his ability and merit), and promote Boris to Lieutenant Colonel (The credit is already enough, this time I will give Ivan another face)

Others have been promoted.

It's just because the direct superior of Aiwen and the "Storm Horn" is the Navy Department, and it can only take effect after the order of the Department of the Army arrives.

But no matter from the perspective of Lieutenant General Gustav or Ivan, it is obviously impossible for the military to reject this order.

The "Commendation Order" was personally delivered by Major General Demond Brand, and it also meant coming to inspect the results in person.

After all, don't talk about the current "Silver War", it is such a long period of open and secret battles between the two countries.

This kind of result of "annihilating the opponent's fleet headed by a third-tier ship" is rare, let alone doing it quietly.

There are countless third-tier ships of Sirius in the entire New World, and each one is related to Sirius' dominance over this continent.

After losing this fleet, it is difficult for others to say, but the Deputy King of La Plata who sent them is absolutely going crazy!

But with the double cover of physical and spiritual aspects, no one can find out that it was actually the hands of Phalatis who did it quietly.

At the same time, the captured warships were temporarily placed under Aiwen's command, and they were allowed to withdraw from the battle order for temporary repairs. Major General Demond Brand also promised to find a way to replenish the lost soldiers for Aiwen as soon as possible after returning.

When he finally left, he only took away the flags of several ships, and he was going to show the "allies" the results of the battle and strive for benefits!

Tread Tread

After inspecting the work of the dock, Aiwen walked alone along the unrepaired loess path on the island to the currently planned residential area on the island.

At this time, the island is short of manpower, every ounce of manpower is precious, and everyone has their own work to do.

"Hey Yo Hey Yo"

Beside him, a row of bare-chested Cyrus soldiers strode past. They worked together to carry the trimmed tree trunks and went to the residential area to build temporary accommodation for the soldiers.

Now that they have temporarily withdrawn from the battle sequence, it means that they need to stay here for a while.

The Golden Sea is affected by mountains, ocean currents, and trade winds, and the climate varies from place to place.

But most of the area has a tropical maritime climate, which is not friendly to most soldiers who grew up in the high latitudes of the Old World.

Malaria, yellow fever, bloody dysentery, edema, colds, parasitic diseases and all kinds of weird diseases are hard to guard against.

If there is no stable residence to ensure a good rest, both the physical condition, combat effectiveness and immunity will decline rapidly, and you will be defeated by various diseases without fighting!

The only thing that makes people feel incredible is that there are no Phalatis soldiers guarding them at all, and they are not wearing any shackles or other things that restrict freedom.

Even these Cyrus people were full of enthusiasm and fighting spirit on their faces, as if they were not serving Phalatis, but building a palace for their king.

"Your Excellency, please rest assured that the soldiers' residences will be delivered on schedule!"

When passing by Aiwen, the captain officer in charge saluted him respectfully, and other soldiers carrying logs also paid attention to him.

Ai Wen nodded very naturally, watching them run away energetically.

Regarding this point, even the crew members on the ship who had long been accustomed to Aiwen's magical methods felt a little shuddered after learning the truth.

He became more and more in awe of his own captain.

Because, it's not that these Silius soldiers have turned from darkness to light, but that they all drank a unique potion. Aiwen made it from the mushrooms grown from Mallory and Moprati as raw materials—【Puppet Potion】.

This potion will not have any effect on intelligence, ability, and health status, but it has quietly implanted an order to be completely loyal to Aiwen in their hearts, and all other values ​​​​and concepts will also be adjusted based on this core.

The most important thing is that it is extremely concealable. There are no hyphae or abnormalities on the body. As long as you don't encounter a choice that conflicts with the core order, even the closest people will not be able to find it.

However, this kind of thing that can be called "evil" also has limitations. The effect of one dose of medicine can last up to one month, and the effect will gradually decrease over time, and even gradually develop drug resistance.

There is one more big flaw.

Even the potion level can only control ordinary people, and formal knights who have undergone the baptism of extraordinary transformation and are determined to be almost immune to this kind of thing.

It is absolutely impossible to use this kind of thing to easily harvest a large number of loyal men, control the command of the enemy's military, or be used by those in power to rule the people.

Based on the principle of waste utilization.

Since there were so many Silius prisoners, Major General Demond Brand didn't say how to deal with them before he left. Ivan simply made his own claim to turn these prisoners into members of the Hartrafa Port construction army.

Like those Anuma and Atryans whom Cyrus enslaved.

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