In the early morning of the third day after the Orus fleet took over, ships from the direction of Azov appeared in the sight of the sailors.

Seeing the outline of the ship that appeared faintly on the horizon, the commander of the reconnaissance team hurriedly asked the soldiers to climb the watchtower to see how many enemy ships had arrived.

The soldier who climbed to the observation deck squinted his eyes and looked at it for a long time, then hesitated and shouted downwards: "Sir, it seems..."

The commander was a little anxious, and before the soldier could finish his words, he asked, "How many ships are there? Is it a front-line force of hundreds of people? Or a main fleet of tens of thousands?"

"I looked at only one," replied the soldier, "and it seemed like a merchant ship."

"Merchant ship? From Azo City captured by pirates? Impossible! Must follow other ships!"

The commander signaled the ships on both wings to spread outwards to confirm whether there were any enemy ships coming from left and right. After a while, the left and right wings came back and reported that they did not find other enemy ships. There was only one ship in front of them, and it was indeed a merchant ship.

The commander looked at it suspiciously for a while, and finally the troops dispersed and let the merchant ship drive over.

At noon that day, the second merchant ship drove from the direction of Azov. The commander conducted a reconnaissance as before, but found that there was only one so lonely ship coming.

The commander couldn't sit still, so he let the fleet surround him and stopped the merchant ship.

"Where did you come from?" the soldiers shouted to the sailors on the merchant ship.

The people on the boat responded from afar: "Sir, we are merchants from the Republic of Liguria and are now returning from Azov."

"As soon as the city of Azo was captured by pirates? How did you come out?" the soldier asked.

"Sir, those pirates opened their sea route yesterday. As long as you pay some sea trip, you can leave by boat. We were the first to run out, and there are many ships behind."

The commander frowned: "Lie! Your ship is so dripping, it must be full of cargo. How could it be that it was just released by a pirate?"

The people on the ship responded hurriedly: "Sir, we are telling the truth! The group of pirates did not move our goods after entering the city. The mercenaries wanted to hand over all their armor and weapons to them for trophy. Ordinary people had to pay the sea fee when they left the city. That's all. We are just ordinary merchants, who have just escaped from the threat of war and pirates. Because it was delayed for a lot of time, many of the goods had deteriorated and lost a lot. Please give us some convenience and let us go..."

The commander looked up and down the ship again - except for cargo, this kind of ship could only carry fifty people, and there were no weapons on the ship. Even if they were put over, it would not have any impact.

So the commander waved his hand to release the merchant ship.

This situation lasted until the fifth day. Olus, who noticed that the situation was not right, came to the scene by boat and ordered the team commander to report the situation to him personally. After asking about the relevant details, he picked up the commander.

Olus' roar came from the deck: "Five days! There were nearly twenty ships coming from Azov! Even if each ship had fifty people, there were nearly a thousand people! You just let them go?"

"But, there were no weapons on those ships, and there were indeed merchants from the Republic of Liguria..."

"Azov has been captured by pirates! Not to mention merchants, what's so strange about pirates coming over on the warships of the Ligurian Republic? Don't you get on the ship to check it out?"

"But they came here in scattered ways, unlike the army!" The commander said in panic. "And it wasn't that the ships passed through the Black Sea Strait and did not stop at the port of Constantineer, right? Even if they were really pirates pretending to be, there would be no hostility..."

Olus almost threw the commander into the sea. Of course he knew that this group of pirates did not target the Qiqiu Empire, but the Island Republic. The group of merchants in the Island Republic were very skillful. If not, how could they offer a high price to recycle the counterfeit coins in his hands?

But Olus urgently needed to take the counterfeit currency in his hand, and secondly he had coveted the throne of the Scipio family for a long time. Three years ago, he had already planned to seize the throne after discovering Su's intention to murder Ella in Antilia. However, he was struggling with the lack of evidence and the Imperial Guards were on Su's side, so he did not expose Su's lies. For his plan, he urgently needed to enhance his prestige in the country, so he must fight this group of pirates.

"The pirates in the Pirate Kingdom killed our Barcelona! Have you forgotten this shame?" He pretended to be yelling at the commander, "Don't worry if they are targeting us or not, what do you want to do. Even if they want to pay their birthday, we can't let them succeed! Do you understand?"

The commander was pressed on the side of the ship by Olus, and more than half of his body leaned out of the fence, as if he would fall off the ship at any time. He was frightened and answered repeatedly: "I understand, understand, general, I understand. Even if it is a merchant ship, I will go up and check it out..."

"General!" a soldier shouted on the lookout, "A ship appeared over there! It was very big! It was outrageous!"

"It's time to come!" Olus threw the commander on the deck of the King of Suit, and ordered all the ships around him: "Enter the surroundings and force them to stop!"

Meanwhile, on the "Flying Zealander", Ella was proudly showing off her "genius" plan to Amy.

"A ship has fifty people, lasting ten days, passing twenty people every day, which may be too exaggerated. But if a ship has two hundred people, lasting twenty days, it will be less than three ships a day, which is completely within the normal range! Fifty people become three hundred people. In fact, just empty the goods and stuff them into the cargo box with people..."

"Your Majesty, won't your heart hurt? I see those who were forced into the cargo box, which seems to be about to cry! And your Majesty's plan will definitely have problems..."

"There is no problem. As long as they pass through the Black Sea Strait, they can come out of the cargo box. There is no big problem..."

Before Ella finished speaking, a pirate hurriedly ran into the cabin, and as soon as he entered the door, he shouted, "King of Sweden! No! The fleet of the Qiqiu Empire is surrounding us!"

"Gu..." Ella scared the crowbar on her hand and fell directly to the ground: "How could it be? How could my perfect solution be discovered?"

"I have reminded you almost a hundred times before. Your Majesty, your plan will definitely not work!"

Amy shouted unbearably.

"There is no choice, use the preparatory plan!" Ella shouted, "Go and invite Hezekiah!"
Chapter completed!