Chapter 171 Iron rope and boat

Author: Leaning on the railing and letting the wind blow

Chapter 171 Iron rope and boat

"Sir, their ships are coming!"

Ismon Island is small and mountainous. It is not as beautiful and rich as Tas Island at the northern end.

The Ismon family has lived here for generations, developing a small fleet of ships and occasionally collecting tolls from passing ships. There is very little area that can be cultivated on this island, so the population is not very large.

But this does not mean that the Ismond family is poor. This island is located in the middle of the waterway between Dorne, the royal territory and the Stormlands, so the tolls between them make the Ismond family live well enough.

There are not many standing armies on Ismon Island. There are less than a hundred garrison troops stationed in Greenstone City all year round. Their family has eleven sworn knights, five of whom are their own family members.

Due to the limited population, Ismon Island cannot quickly recruit a large number of troops during wartime. This is their limitation.

When Cole was flipping through the catalog about the Ismond family, he found that although they appeared on various occasions, they were all mentioned in passing, and there were obviously no well-known figures.

The knight leading the Ismond Navy is Sir Lomas Ismond, and his brother is Earl Elton Ismond.

They docked their fleet in the channel of Ismon Island.

Lomas watched the battleships slowly grow in size in the distant sea, nine, ten, and one arc-shaped sailing merchant ship. It seemed that the information was not wrong. There were no ships in Storm's End.

But thinking about their enemies, Lomas's heart was inevitably a little agitated. Such emotions had filled the entire island in the past few days.

The man who was sung by the troubadour as the "White Bird Knight" shattered the confidence of the rainforest people with several victories. He thought that the families and castles in the rainforest could slow down Cole's advance, but those castles

The defenders would either surrender in Kaicheng or be defeated in one fell swoop.

They were anxiously waiting for reinforcements, hoping that Cole could stay in the rainforest for a longer time, but he finally came. Although there were only a dozen ships, the white bird flag fluttered in the wind, as if it had already arrived.

They bring great pressure and fear.

Where are the Lannister? Man, why do you trust those lions?

They only have thirteen ships. Ismon Island is twice as large as them, with twenty-seven ships, eighteen battleships, and a 150-propelled main ship named "Green Turtle".

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He ordered people to blow the horns and prepared to lead the fleet to meet the enemy. They could not be allowed to go ashore. At the foot of the Red Mountain Mountains, the Rainforest people were also beaten up on land by double the enemy. The soldiers of the White Bird Knight

Well-trained and disciplined, Ismon does not have the confidence to defeat them on land, at least not with the current morale.

Then let’s see if this White Bird Knight is as magical as he is on the sea.

Lomas is nearly fifty years old. He has heard too many legends in his life. Prince Rhaegar and the usurper Robert were in the same era as him. He has personally experienced the disputes of that generation and understands the magic of these legends.

A warrior of his own skill is nothing more than a human being.

Their ship was getting closer and closer. When the warship was approaching 500 steps, arrows flew in the sky. Lomas was thinking to himself that their arrows were fired too early.

Not many of these arrows hit anyone. They poured out wave after wave of arrows, either on the surface of the ship or on the deck.

The fleet cities of Storm's End were lined up in a neat array, and Lomas was curious in his heart how this was done.

In sea battles, it is very difficult to maintain a certain formation. Combat skills often come from the commander's distribution of ships in various directions.

It wasn't until they were less than two hundred steps away that Lomas saw that the thirteen warships were connected by iron chains.

On the deck of the ship, he saw soldiers armed with spears and shields, forming a solid formation, and he even saw war horses among them.

On the battleship in the center, he saw a knight in silver armor under a white flag. He waved the flag, and then the archers on the deck began to release arrows.

Lomas shouted and fled.

With a distance of about two hundred steps, he had just ordered the ships to move forward at full speed. When he was about to take back the order, the distance between the two fleets was already less than fifty miles.

Coming, the thirteen ships seemed to form an island, rushing towards them.

The battleships on Ismon Island showed a sword-shaped formation. Each ship moved forward separately, preparing to surround the ships of Storm's End one by one. But now, they have formed a block. It is obvious that this style of play is

Has expired.

Bang!

He heard the sound of the keel's bow colliding with the hull. Before they could regain their footing from the shaking, the enemy's boarding bridge had been erected.

Three or four wide wooden bridges formed a wooden bridge to connect the two ships. When Lomas saw soldiers with swords rushing over, he quickly shouted: "Get in! Get in quickly!"

From time to time, people fell into the sea on the Banqiao, and there was also chaos on the deck.

Lomas held a one-handed ax and chopped down several Storm's End soldiers. Taking advantage of the gap where there were no enemies around, he glanced at the situation on the entire battlefield. He saw that several ships connected by iron chains had been hit and sunk.

The iron chain also blocked all their ships, and all the ships on the sea were gathered together.

He saw the enemy using their overly long spears to kill Ismon's soldiers across the ship. Ismon's soldiers could not break through the spearmen arrayed on the deck.

The Banqiao was basically built for them. After sending out the first wave of ship-jumping soldiers, they did not send any more people over. Instead, they used spears to guard the Banqiao.

Now the two armies were facing each other across the bridge, but because their weapons were too short, it was Ismon's men who suffered.

Lomas heard a horn sound from the enemy, and the spearmen instantly changed their formations. They opened a path, and a group of heavily armored soldiers quickly boarded the bridge and began to charge towards them.

He saw the knight in shining armor rushing at the front. He was holding two swords and wearing plate armor. He ran very fast and boarded the Green Turtle in an instant.

Behind him were five or six fully armored axemen, and four or five chainmail swordsmen,

They jumped into the ship and started killing. The soldiers who were at the forefront were instantly killed and fled. Many people jumped into the sea in panic.

These soldiers fought to create a space, and several of them were beaten to death by random blows. However, they had bought enough time for the spearmen behind them. The soldiers holding spears also jumped over the boat and leaned on each other to form a formation.

A stable and immobile fixed hedgehog array.

They lost, and these enemies turned the naval battle into a land battle.

Lomas looked at the silver knight getting closer and closer to him, and tightened his grip on the ax in his hand.
Chapter completed!