Chapter 31: The Pirate Leader who dares to think and do (Please give me a monthly ticket for the second update)

The King of Pirates of Barbary. The Sultan in central North Africa lived thirty-five years, but had nearly twenty-five years of life with blood from the knife. With a command, he could pull up tens of thousands of troops, thousands of warships, and the King of Pirates of the entire Mediterranean. He also served as the Marshal of the Ottoman Empire. The man named Heiding by Suleiman, had a sharp vision and a thin face blown by the sea breeze. He was in a very bad mood now.

The originally tried and tried temptation, ambush, and raid tactics lost their effect. This is indeed one of the reasons why Heileding was angry, but not the main reason. Heileding still had some expectations for this failure - the other party's purpose was not to fight with them or clear out pirates, but to transport troops to the holy land. Therefore, it is understandable that they ignore a team of pirate ships. What made Heiling unacceptable was the captain on the return ship who lured the enemy, and the excessive exaggeration of the enemy's armed forces.

"The other party is really too powerful. There are only three warships chasing us, but their attacks are like raindrops. The huge steel javelins with flames were shot out by them with crossbows. That scene was much more terrifying than the most terrifying storm. We escaped faster, so we avoided it. But another ship was hit by them and sank without any suspense. That scene was really terrifying..."

Very annoying, the fearful voice, the obscene appearance, and the exaggerated description... Everything was very annoying. So Heiding pulled out his scimitar without hesitation - it was as fast and accurate as lightning. With the action of huge force and the sharp blade, he cut off the head of the subordinate pirate captain directly - the body stood upright for a few seconds before slowly falling down. Arterial blood spilled several pirates around him in the face.

"Allah hates cowards." Heiding said coldly: "Everyone, don't believe what the guy said. It's nothing but nonsense that a coward wants to escape responsibility. It's worthless! We have fought with Norman pirates and plundered the Norman merchant fleet before this. What's the result? Yes, I must admit that the Normans are different from other Franks. They are more brave and good at fighting. They rarely surrender. Their warships are better than ordinary Franks - but we are the ones who win in the end! The hard work of the investment is consistent with the compensation we get - the wealth we plundered on the Normans is several times more than other merchants!"

Hearing such remarks from Heiding, the eyes of several other pirate leaders became eager. Indeed, the Norman merchants and the Norman pirates. They did deal with these characters. Although they were very powerful, as long as they gathered enough people, they could defeat the other side - they were not invincible.

"Boss Heiding, what you said makes sense-but as far as I know, this Norman fleet transported not supplies, but those fully armed crusaders-even if we can defeat them, the rewards we receive may not be as good as those of our losses and ships, right?" asked a pirate leader.

"Good question!" At this moment, those who gathered around Heiding to listen to his speech were all the pirate leaders with more than a dozen ships and hundreds of younger brothers. Naturally, they could not kill them with one knife like they did when they dealt with the little captain before. Heiding shouted like this, and then lowered his voice. At the same time, he pretended to be mysterious and asked the pirate leader to approach him, and then whispered: "Everyone thinks, if we kidnapped the emperor of the Norman Empire, how much benefits will we get?"

Hearing such a bold statement as Heiding, a bunch of pirate leaders were frightened by his arrogance. Most of them were stunned - these people knew how powerful the Norman Empire was - or better than the princes and kings on land. Because those kings who acted only had to close their territory and survived by their own manor production.

Although they can obtain some second-hand information from past merchants or unreliable spies, this information is often exaggerated, distorted, and unconvincing. Therefore, they have a vague concept of what the Norman Empire itself is, and a judgment that "is most likely the strongest country in the continent, right? Perhaps it is better than the Greeks?". However, there is no accurate, detailed and reliable understanding.

Although these pirate leaders are much lower in status than those kings - even as recognized, the leader in this industry, Heiding, who possesses the title of Sultan, is regarded as a vassal, a robber, rather than a monarch of an independent country in most of the time.

However, these pirates had a more intuitive understanding of the Norman Empire. These perceptions came from the Norman merchants, pirates, and the "invincible" Norman offshore fleet recognized by the Norman pirates. With repeated battles with Norman sea forces and failures, the originally powerful Barbary pirates were defeated and declined. A large number of small pirate groups were wiped out. Countless Barbary men were killed, and their bodies were transported to the coast of North Africa to be placed in Jingguan. The heads were removed from bones, tied into strings, and then hung on the newly made cross...

In front of the Norman Navy, whose equipment and tactics were much stronger than them, the Barbary Pirates, who had always been arrogant, were beaten to cry and cry for their parents. Their power was greatly weakened. With the repeated victory of the Norman Empire, in the minds of the Barbary Pirates, this empire gradually replaced the Romans and the Italians, and became their number one enemy - and the kind that was invincible.

"Then, that's the emperor of the Norman Empire... Boss Heileding!" An emotional pirate leader widened his eyes and waved his arms: "It's the emperor of the most powerful navy and the most powerful Norman Empire! We can't beat him!"

"Don't look down on yourself too much!" Heiding shouted: "Do you think I was unprepared and just made such a bloody move? No! Before that, I had done the intelligence work, and the other party had only two hundred ships and two or three thousand men. And now we have gathered nearly five hundred ships, a total of more than 30,000 heroes! It may not be impossible to fight!"

"Even if Boss Heilding said that, our brothers fought desperately and defeated them in a big battle. So what is our interests? That Norman Emperor?" another pirate leader asked, "Such a big meat ticket is hot."

"Indeed, indeed. If only we Barbarians do this, the risk is indeed very great." Heiledin laughed: "Everyone is afraid that it is difficult to deal with the Norman Emperor after kidnapping the Norman Emperor, right? In fact, we don't need to bargain with the Norman Empire - I have already negotiated a business with the Egyptian Sultan Saladin - we sold the Norman Emperor to Saladin. In this way, the Norman Empire will not blame us. And Saladin can defeat the Crusaders more easily and defend the holy land. We are also working hard for Allah and making contributions to the holy war. With this, we will definitely go to heaven after we die!"

Hearing Heiding said this, the pirate leaders exclaimed, but they didn't know when Heiding, who had always eaten Turkish barbecue, came to Saladin's thigh again. Many pirate leaders thought carefully and found that what Heiding said was true. Although this matter sounds dangerous, it is not irresponsible and unimaginable - what kind of life are pirates? Isn't it just that the knife is bleeding from the knife every day and the fire is passing by? Boss Hai pointed out to everyone a way to become famous and make money, and everyone naturally yearns for it.

"How much is the boss of Heiding - Sultan of Saladin to spend to bribe the brothers and work hard?" The pirate leaders discussed for a while, and then one of the representatives asked their most concerned questions.

"Your brother will answer this question." Seeing that he had already moved these pirate leaders, Heiledin turned his face and said this to the person next to him who had not spoken, and then announced to the pirate leaders loudly: "This is the messenger of Saladin Sultan, General Zhaohair Suikili!"

Just now, the pirate leaders were surprised. Why was there another person next to Heileding? After listening to his introduction, I realized that this person was actually the messenger of Saladin. However, after looking closely, I felt something was wrong. This person did not seem to be an Arab. Looking at his face, his long brown hair and slightly blue eyes, he looked more like a Frank...

"Dear warriors who fought for Allah! I am here to bring the promise of the great Saladin! There is no one in the whole world who keeps his promises more than my master Saladin. His promise is absolutely effective! Listen to you! In this action, the Sultan is willing to pay you 100,000 dinar gold coins! If you can successfully kill that pagan devil and the Norman Emperor, then the Sultan is willing to pay 500,000! If you can bring him to Egypt alive, the Sultan will generously open all the five great vaults in Damascus, and give half of the gold stored in these vaults as a reward to all warriors!!!"

The messenger shouted like this, and took out a contract from his arms, finger prints and signed - this is no more than the one Egilmon deceived Pugachev - this is true!
Chapter completed!