"You have killed so many people and burned their shipyards and fleets. You have to swallow your anger. Otherwise, you can go to negotiate and I will take the fleet north." Carl understood what Hong Tao meant, and knew how difficult it would be to settle this matter, and he couldn't think of any solution.

"If you said this a few days earlier, I would definitely agree. Now I have done all the hard work. You only find easy things. My own son is not treated so well. Why do you? This is a bit difficult, but I can still use you? Don't worry first. Go back and discuss with Jiang Zhuyi and William, then listen to the other party's meaning, and then decide what to do. At worst, it's just a war. If I can blow up here, I can blow up London and Paris. Tell Henry and Louis that if they want to die, I will not be stingy with the strength to dig a hole." You can worry, but you can't worry about Carl. You must give him strong support. No matter how hard it is, this bull must be blown out first, and it must be very real.

"Okay, I'll try it." Carl felt that it was indeed impossible to say Hong Tao. After all, Hong Tao's force is here. The negotiations are not based on who can say it, but who can do it. With hard power, you can be unreasonable. Besides, he is not standing on the opposite side of Europe. He is just an intermediary. Hong Tao is not afraid, so what are he afraid of?

"By the way, I heard that you arrested Jiang Zhuyi's younger brother. He is the Navy Minister of Flanders Hanseatics. Is this really the case?" The gossip man will never forget to inquire about gossip news wherever he goes, whenever he encounters anything. Just as the serious matter was a little bit serious, Carl's gossip heart became alive again.

"He is just the Navy Minister of the Principal of Saxony. Just give him directly to Jiang Zhuyi. By the way, look at him and don't let him do anything too outrageous. This child's mind is full of hatred, and I don't know where it comes from. You said how long has the affairs of his father and brother been, and it wasn't that I killed him on purpose. If it were you, would you hate me for so many years?" Whenever he mentioned Jiang Renjie, Hong Tao went all out of the lawsuit, which was one of the reasons why he was unwilling to have a heart-to-heart relationship with anyone. The more he was concerned, the more trouble he had. It was really useless to encounter such things that could not be killed or driven.

"I've almost resented you for the rest of my life if you haven't killed my father and brother! There are not many benefits that others can remember you." Carl certainly wouldn't follow Hong Tao, because Hong Tao doesn't follow others' words, which is called self-inflicting.

"Get back to your boat quickly! By the way, don't leave first, I'll let you see something good!" Hong Tao was not in the mood to play with Carl, but he was unwilling to let him leave with a smile. He had to make him cry, and he had to be depressed if he didn't cry, so that he would be in a happy mood.

When the flag bearer on the flagship issued a command with the signal flag, some smoke slowly rose from the castle. After a while, the smoke became heavier and heavier, blown by the west wind, like a black dragon flying eastward.

"You burned the castle!" Carl understood.

"That's right, the thief's nest cannot be kept. If you cut the grass, you have to get rid of the roots! They left a lot of whale oil, and I can't take it away. Don't waste it, move it all into the castle and tar it." Seeing that there was already a flame coming out of the window at the lower level of the castle, Hong Tao was very pleased. The fire was no longer helpful. When these grandsons burned the Old Summer Palace, they probably laughed as happily as themselves. This time it was not because their son cheated on their father, but because the European ancestors in the thirteenth century were paying off their debts for their descendants, so they had to cheat on their ancestors.

"I beat my son to death and burned his castle. How could I advise me not to take revenge? Why didn't Jiang Renjie kill you with one shot? He is also a waste!" Carl regretted that he had just agreed to be this guy. This matter was obviously not easy to do. Unfortunately, I wanted to renege with Hong Tao, the price was very, very expensive, so I could only get off the boat and leave with a curse.

Hong Tao also left with the fleet, and while walking, he also looked back at the black smoke pillar in the east. Now he even saved the charts. He could use the smoke pillar as a marker and could see it more than ten kilometers away. The prisoners locked in the shipyard also stared at the smoke pillar, but their eyes were more despair.

Being captured is not the worst. Losing a house is a big trouble. Even if they are all released now, where can they live? They can only go to other lords' houses to be serfs, or simply go to church territory. The problem is that the aliens with guns are driving them on board now, so why do they have to board? Some people who understand already have a vague answer in their hearts.

On the seventh day after the attack on Behenopzom Castle, a cavalry team of four or five hundred people drove over from the east. At this time, the flames of the castle had been extinguished and the castle disappeared. All you can see on the high ground was some walls and a lot of rubble. The entire castle was burned down, and groups of crows regarded this place as a picnic resort. Even as the army got closer, they were reluctant to leave, and howled desperately trying to drive away the uninvited guests.

The leading knight was still relatively cautious. He did not continue to lead the team forward, but sent out several light cavalry to investigate. The information he received was that the shipyard was also burned down, and nothing was left in the port except a few wrecks, and no one could be found.

"You two take people to the north and east to find them. I go to the south and I must find someone who knows what happened here, otherwise we will not be able to explain to the regiment commander after we go back." Standing in front of the collapsed pit in the middle of the yard, looking at the entrance that was obviously dug, the leading knight looked gloomy. He couldn't think of what would destroy the entire wall and collapse an underground cave. Now he needs a witness to determine who the enemy is.

"Sir, there seems to be a sound below." At this time, two soldiers patrolling the entrance discovered an abnormality.

"Drop the horse and send someone in to take a look!" The leading knight lifted the burqa on his body, turned over and dismounted, and walked quickly towards the entrance. When he dismounted, he exposed a white robe with a red cross printed inside, which was the emblem of the Knights Templar.

More than one person was found from the underground cave, more than a dozen of them were wounded, and some had blood in their ears and nostrils. They were all stunned by the sound of explosion, and the collapsed top of the cave did not hit them. Hong Tao's Indian soldiers did not dare to stay in this crumbling and dark cave for too long. They searched it out and took out the obviously alive people and ignored them. No one wanted to be buried here alive, so these people became fish that missed the net.

"They are devils and heretics! The church must be notified as soon as possible." After asking more than a dozen survivors, the Knight Templar probably outlined a scene in his mind. He had never heard of this war pattern, especially when the Nassau family musketeers talked about how the other party used 200 people to slaughter thousands of cavalrymen, his back felt cold. If his team met the alien army, they might rush forward directly, and the result would not be different.

The first one to know the news was not the church, but the reinforcements that followed. Some came from France, some came from Germany, and the farthest ones were fleets crossing the sea from England and those who traveled from Bostonia. Among these people were captains, sailors, and knights who fought for many years. Everyone walked from the castle to the bay exit, and under the guidance of the survivors, the entire battle was basically restored.

Then he returned to the ruins of the castle and buried the fallen people who dug out of the underground caves one by one. Finally, with a sense of grief and a lot of suspicion, he walked on the road he had always been. Behenopzom Castle was captured for several days, nearly thirty nobles of all sizes were captured, more than 5,000 defenders were buried alive, and more than 3,000 civilians were abducted, along with their pace, spreading to all parts of Europe.

Hong Tao had no idea that there were survivors, and he didn't think of filling the underground cave with whale oil and burning it again. It would be too inhumane to do that. Hong Tao didn't expect this war to be hidden. Even if he burned all the people in the castle to death, wouldn't he survive in the naval battle? Those captured dukes and earls killed them?

It doesn’t matter whether you know or not. What’s important is whether you can make them afraid! When fighting, you have to be afraid of the enemy and make them dare not have any unreasonable thoughts in a short period of time. If you can have it in the future, then fight again. Wars in the world are usually at this pace.

Now Hong Tao is fighting against the bad weather in the North Sea with eight warships, and he has no time to think about other things. The further north, the lower the temperature will be. Not only do you have to overcome the waves, but you also have to pay attention to the floating ice. What makes Hong Tao even more worried is the structural problems of the warship itself. Steel keels are stronger and lighter than wooden keels, but their thermal expansion and contraction coefficients are much larger than wood.

Once the keel is deformed significantly, the bottom of the ship will inevitably leak. Hongtao has been fighting these leaks these days. He has to send a special person to check more than a dozen times every day. Once it is found that the leakage is too serious, he will immediately turn around and return. Otherwise, these seven Virginia-class warships will have to be buried under the cold North Sea.

The climate in the thirteenth century seemed to be colder than later generations. When they arrived in the northern part of the Jutland Peninsula, the buckets on the deck began to freeze, and a large group of Indian sailors surrounded the buckets all day long. They had not seen ice. There was also ice floating on the north side of Prince Edward Island, but watching the water turned into ice at such a close distance, they believed that this was also a miracle of the Sun God and they had to worship it.

To be continued.
Chapter completed!