Chapter 17 The Siege of Constantineer (1)
After escaping from the Adriatic Sea, the fleet of the Qiqiu Empire was docked in a safer port halfway.
In this naval battle, the Navy General of the Seven Hills Empire, Olus was killed in battle, burned, sunk and captured ships totaling nearly 50%. Such a fatal blow, it was already a great miracle that this fleet alone could maintain its organization. The remaining confidence of the soldiers was entirely from the "Apollo messenger" who suddenly appeared on the battlefield to rescue them from the sea of fire.
But on the first night after the fleet stopped, Ella took Amy and the pirates and sneaked away quietly in the night.
"Your Majesty, we'll just leave like this, isn't it okay?" Amy asked.
"How could this group of pirates stay? This group of pirates will clash with the navy of the Qiqiu Empire at any time, and staying in the army, it is too dangerous if someone recognizes me."
"But if I leave like this, I feel that the morale of these soldiers will suddenly fall to the bottom... Otherwise, my Majesty will leave first, and I will stay alone, and send them back to Constantinier safely before rendezvousing with His Majesty?"
Ella looked at Amy with a strange expression: "Amy, when did you care so much about the army of the Qiqiu Empire? Ah...you shouldn't be reluctant to leave, right?"
Hearing Ella's question, Amy grabbed the hem of clothes shyly and smiled "Hey hey": "They all called me 'Goddess', 'Goddess', it sounded so comfortable."
"Don't think too much. If you don't leave, you will be seen through Amy, right?"
"Hey? Your Majesty, I think I'm acting like Apollo's messenger..."
As the maid who was with Ella, Amy had never been praised so much before, and now she is inevitably a little fluttering.
Ella tried hard to wake her up: "How is it like it! First of all, Amy, you are now maid dress? maid dress!"
When Amy went to Sweden with Ella, her clothes were very expensive. But most of her clothes were left on Nagilfa. She and Ella stayed in Delphi for more than a month, and the clothes she wore had long been dirty. The clothes she now bought in Delphi City were extremely simple maid outfits.
"Yes, so the soldiers sometimes called me the Victory Maid, and another soldier said that he would set me up a Victory Maid in the future..."
"What is the image of a Victory Maid!" Ella complained loudly, "Apollo's guardian will definitely use bows and arrows! Amy, do you use bows?"
"I can't use bows, but I can use fire. It's not a problem to install a sun god, right?"
"It should have been about the same. But Amy, our last name is Scipio, and there will be another problem..."
"Hey?" Amy obviously hadn't heard of this. "Does Scipio have any connection with Apollo's escort?"
"There is no connection at all. But from the opposite direction, it can also be said to be... Amy, do you know that Apollo is the patron saint of which famous family in the Seven Hills Empire?"
"The guardian of the family? In other words, most of the people in this family are protected by Apollo? Isn't this possible?" Amy shook her head and said, "Apollo's guardian is as rare as Artemis's guardian, and the guardian is at least at the level of the spirit. If Apollo is the guardian of which family, isn't the bloodline of this family stronger than the Scipio family?"
"Is it stronger than the Scipio family? Maybe... Delphi's Apollo Temple has just been revived. If someone comes to know the situation of Apollo, we will be exposed soon."
Ella turned her gaze to the sea ahead. The wind blew and the sea surface sparkled; the wind stopped, and the rippling waves gathered into a full moon. On the sea for thousands of years, the moon and waves circulated like this.
"I won't mention this in advance. I have another reason to leave." Ella said, "Even if we stay here, the navy of the Qiqiu Empire can no longer continue to fight. But the navy is the most critical to deal with the Island Republic. For the sake of the next battle, I must immediately find a strong enough navy to assist us."
After the fleet was on the shore of Azov, Ella simply dealt with the pirates who came to greet him, and then hurried towards the dungeon.
Ella is anxious to meet Andrea who is imprisoned in Azov.
In the previous naval battle in Azov, Andrea fell into the siege of Ella and was not allowed to surrender with the navy of the Republic of Liguria. It was precisely because of this action that the naval strength of the Republic of Liguria had not been reduced. As long as Andrea was willing to assist Azov, Ella would order the naval soldiers in prison and return the captured warships, and immediately form a first-class navy in Azov.
Last time, Ella used food to persuade Andrea to surrender but failed, but increased his determination to never surrender. This time, Ella asked the pirates to prepare extremely generous gifts. She walked into the dungeon, opened the prison door herself, untied the rope on Andrea's body with her own hands, and then helped Andrea sit on a wooden chair herself. She stood by herself and said very seriously:
"General Andrea, I want you and your soldiers to fight for me. As long as you promise me, you and all your soldiers will be free."
But Andrea closed his eyes and said nothing.
"It doesn't matter if you don't want to be loyal to me. I can treat you as mercenaries," said Ella. "The commission is calculated at twice the market price, and after the matter is completed, you can still be free."
Andrea still closed her eyes tightly, her mouth seemed to be sewn, and she didn't move at all.
"It's useless, this old guy hasn't spoken for months." Another man's voice came from one end of the dungeon. "When talking about hiring, do you want to think about me? Although I'm not a navy, if you need an escort, it's still a good deal to hire me."
Amy looked in the direction where the sound came and saw a burly man with a gloomy face sitting behind the prison door. The beard wrapped around half of his face was black and hard, like a brush.
"Who are you? Why are you locked up here?" Amy asked. "If you commit an unforgivable felonious crime, your Majesty will not hire you!"
"Felony? What is a felony? Homicide? Or frame-up? I am just doing my job for my previous employer, and my employer only issued a commission for his country. As long as it involves national interests, nothing is considered a felony."
The man answered Amy's question with a calm face.
"My name is Osol, the second-ranked archer in Britain. He was sent here by his employer to provoke the war between Liguria and Khasa Khanate. But his luck was not good, and he was carried in the hands of a girl."
Chapter completed!