Chapter 30 Night Boat

From morning to noon, from noon to evening, Egil kept looking around with a monocular lens, but never found a pirate ship that was blind. It seemed that the other party would not appear for the time being.

"If our route is correct, your Majesty. You will be able to reach Cyprus in another two days. It is about two days later than the expected time. In addition, Marshal Carter also sent a message that his fleet, the French and Germans, would also arrive within five days. By that time, all the troops of the entire Christ world can be gathered on the islands of Cyprus." At this moment, the spy leader Nemulis, next to Egil, said.

"Yeah." Egil nodded, raised his hand to retract the telescope, then turned around and asked, "Where is Basil II, Eastern Rome?"

"Because of the alliance between the two countries, we also provided some help to the Greek army on the island of Cyprus. However, the other side did not seem to appreciate it. There were also many Greek nobles who blamed us, believing that our country had occupied their territory."

"Tsk... a arrogant guy." Egil snorted coldly, as he thought. Attacking, occupying, and even governing the entire Cyprus island was not a difficult thing for him. What was really difficult was the legal principles and principles for this matter. In order to be the leader of the Wei Zhengguang Crusader, the Norman Empire had to gain the upper hand at the moral level. For the occupation of Cyprus Island, Egil used "this is the advance base for the crusaders" as an excuse. He also used Cyprus Island as a function of advance base to facilitate the crusaders and even Greek troops of other countries. However, the effect did not seem to be as good as Egil imagined.

"It seems that if we hadn't been more people than them and were well prepared, then they would have to attack and take Cyprus away." After that, Nemulis added this sentence - however, this sentence summoned Egil's dissatisfaction.

"You just need to report to me what happened. Analyzing the information is my business." Egil pointed Nemulis very seriously.

"I know I'm wrong." Nemulis's face was still calm, but his movements were very fast. He immediately fell to the ground and bowed to Egil.

"Just know the mistake." Egil nodded: "Get up, you have to work hard in the future." After saying this, Egil walked towards the gate. Next to Nemulis, Sonia snorted lightly, then turned around and followed Egil, which made Nemulis, who was already very embarrassed, even more angry.

"Your Majesty will delete it after teaching you a lesson - why should that damn woman step on my head?!" Nemulis thought so with great dissatisfaction.

At this moment, Egil had no intention of caring about the intrigue between his subordinates - or rather, this was exactly what he was happy to see.

"Sonya, you seem to be very dissatisfied with Nemulis." As he walked towards his room, Egil said to Sonya as he walked.

"I just belong to the same person-"

"—Okay, no need to say anything more. I don't care about any holidays between you, but I don't want to worry about it, but I don't want to see you delayed your work due to personal reasons. Do you know?"

"Yes, master." Sonia nodded. Then the two sides did not say anything and came to Egil's room - occupying one-tenth of the space of the ship, and the renovation was more magnificent than the cabin. The decoration was almost no different from Egil's bedroom in Krakow. It was like moving there directly. Apart from a little shaking, and the windows on both sides were sealed, there was nothing different.

At this moment, Artoria, who was bored and bored, turned around and saw that it was Egil, and then she smiled and said, "It's true that you can't do anything on the sea. Can't you ride a boat along the coastline of Asia Minor? In that case, you can raid the coastal port of Ottoman Turkey and have some fun..."

"This is not OK. Hani..." Hearing Artoria burning, killing and looting pirates, saying that it was "trying some fun for a little bit of fun." Egil cried. He walked over and gently hugged Artoria's waist: "Our original opponent is only Saladin. If you do this, you may not provoke Suleiman. And if you take a detour like that, you will be too slow and will waste time."

"What..." Artoria was even more dissatisfied with Egil: "If Suleiman was not an idiot, then he would take this opportunity to continue attacking Asia Minor and attack the Greeks. Instead of fighting south with the huge forces of the Crusaders - the king would not provoke a strong enemy for the losses of several small coastal ports. Besides, if the other party really wanted to fight, then they would have a thousand reasons that they didn't want to understand. If they really didn't want to fight, they would also find the opposite reason before. It's not that we can burn several ports and fishing villages at any time and kill a few civilians to guide them."

After Artoria said something, Egil could only smile bitterly - the longer she was around Egil, the greater the influence Artoria was. Although her political talent was basically formed, there was still a lot of room for improvement in military affairs, and her ability to reverse black and white increased a lot. When it comes to this, killing a few people and burning a few villages, it was said lightly. It seemed that it was nothing big.

"Okay, okay." Egil raised his hand to surrender and told the truth: "The reason for doing this is because of time. I want to save time - although burning, killing, looting along the coastline is very satisfying, and it can also stimulate morale and inspire people. But after all, it can only be considered by the way. It is not very important and optional."

"What - you are only over twenty-one years old now. There is some time that can be wasted." Artoria said dissatisfiedly: "Forget it, let's play chess with me for a while."

"Of course." Egil nodded, sat opposite Artoria and Zhibai. He then explained: "It would be fine if you don't have any problems. But this time it is indeed a fight every second - we must enter the holy land before the other countries of the Crusaders arrive and gain leadership of this Crusaders."

Sure enough, when it comes to politics and diplomatic matters, Artoria became confused. While making a move, she asked confusedly: "What? Does anyone dare to compete with you for the position of the leader? France? Holy Rome? They have that courage?"

"If there is a Roman Catholic Church, it will be almost done," Egil replied.

"The Holy See... Are there any conflicts between us and the Holy See?" Artoria asked a question in a silly and naive manner, leaving Egil speechless.

"Forget it, you can just leave that kind of thing to deal with. I just need to have enough pagans to cut it." However, Artoria didn't expect Egil to explain it to her - or she thought it was too troublesome. Or she couldn't understand even if it was explained. So she continued to focus on playing chess.

"Say the pagan words... maybe." Egil was relieved to hear Artoria say this. He explained to a political idiot the current situation, the conflict between the Norman Empire and the Holy See, the conflict between several other countries, and why Egil had to speed up. This was a lot of work. It would be exhausting to do it: "Sonia, rub my shoulders for me."

"Yes, master." So Sonia, who had been standing behind Egil, put her hands behind Egil and began to gently knead her.

"Well, that's it..." Egil squinted his eyes very comfortably - Sonia, who is very knowledgeable about human body structure, can not only kill people.

"What did you say? Maybe?" Artoria raised her head and looked at Sonia. Until now Artoria has not figured out whether the killer who suddenly appeared next to Egil some time ago was a man or a woman... So, she had a default attitude towards Sonia's existence. And the other two girls who followed the army, Maria and Joan of Arc, were not so lucky. Most of the time, they could only stay bored in other slightly worse cabins. Egil would sometimes sneak over to see them. But most of the time they could only accompany Artoria.

"It's a pagan pirate," said Egil. "If I'm not wrong, then maybe some pagan pirates will attack our fleet tonight. And there are quite a few."

"Is that true?!" Artoria seemed very excited when she heard Egil say this: "There are a lot of people? Can there be five hundred people? If there are too few, it will not be enough for me to cut."

"It's more than you think." Egil moved the chess piece and said, "General." It made Artoria's smile disappear: "I've seen so many ships and dared to move, but at least I have to gather thousands of people."

"This step doesn't count - start over!"

"A good woman must be willing to accept the loss!"

"I am willing to accept the loss and have no contact with a good woman..."
Chapter completed!