On the deck of the Flying Zealander.
“LoK VaH Koor (Clear Sky)!”
“LoK VaH Koor (Clear Sky)!”
"LoK Va..."
"Your Majesty, why are you screaming on the deck so early in the morning?" Amy walked out of the cabin wiping her sleepy eyes, "Everyone was woken up, and a team ran out with knives. There’s an enemy attack!”
"Just doing an experiment. I thought I had a contract with the Dragon Clan, and maybe I could use the Dragon Clan's magic... but it still didn't work."
"It wouldn't work in the first place. Your Majesty, you can't use the Spear of Longinus yourself, you can only make it ineffective..."
"But what's going on with these continuous cloudy days!" Ella hugged her head and wailed. "Not only can't we observe the stars, but the sextant is useless. Where are we now? There's no way to determine the latitude and longitude!"
"Longitude and latitude, etc. I have never seen this kind of line on the ground. It is most likely to be a lie like the sea chart." Amy rubbed her eyes and yawned, "Make sure on a cloudy day Why don't you just ask your staff about the direction? They have so much sailing experience, they must have a way to deal with it, right?"
"Estrad? Estrad!" Ella saw a staff officer on the deck and shouted, "Come here. When you were in Ragnar's army, you went out to sea to rob, what happened to the cloudy weather? Did it?"
Estrada's image is not much different from that of ordinary pirates, except that he is much bigger. As a testament to his honor, he has a scar on his right arm that stretches from his wrist to his elbow.
"Cloudy? There is a kind of broken stone in Norway. Through it, you can see the sun through the clouds. I should have brought another one here."
Estrade dug around on his body and finally pulled out a dirty stone. He wiped it hard with his clothes and made it more transparent. Then he handed the stone in the direction of Ella:
"This is the Sun Stone. King of Sweden, do you want to try it?"
Ella took the stone and looked at it carefully:
"how to use?"
"Just put it on your eyes and look up to the sky. But it's not very obvious. You have to focus more. If you have good eyesight, you can see it."
Ella looked up at the sky with the sun stone according to Yalmar's method, and sure enough she could see the faint outline of the sun.
"If the weather gets worse, you won't be able to see it. It's useless. I still have it here. If you like it, King of Sweden, I'll give this to you."
"Thanks."
Ella stuffed the sunstone casually into her clothes, and then stretched out.
"Forget it, let's just use the compass."
"King of Sweden!"
A voice came from the lookout. The sailor above waved the Eye of Hermes and shouted to the bottom
"Lübeck's merchant ship was discovered again!"
"How big is it?" Ella asked upwards, "How far is it from us?"
"You can only see the top of the mast with the Eye of Hermes! You can't see it at all without the Eye of Hermes!"
Although it is only a mast, there is no doubt that apart from the flying Zealander, the only merchant ship from Lübeck is sailing on this ocean.
"Encountered the Lübeck merchant ship on the sea? Activate combat plan No. 2!"
Ella's order was quickly passed down, and the sailors and oarsmen began to take action. But they did not speed up the boat. On the contrary, the sailors furled the sails some and slowed down the speed.
The sailors on the observation deck kept feeding the content in the distance towards the deck:
"I can't see the mast. It's too slow. I need to speed up... Okay, I can see it. No, the mast has become bigger. You can also tilt the boat more... Okay... Okay... Okay... That's about the same speed as position!"
With the cooperation of the rowers and sailors, the flying Zealander changed its course at a subtle speed and began to circle towards Lübeck's fleet from the flank.
——With the assistance of the staff department, Ella was able to set up a much larger number and more detailed preparation plans.
There are five preparatory plans this time: Plan No. 1 is about landing operations on the island, to deal with the situation that the Lübeck merchant ship has arrived at Atlantis; and Plan No. 2 is prepared for the current situation.
"It's easy to defeat Lübeck's fleet, but if the ship is accidentally sunk, my cargo will be gone. If Lübeck's ships are found on the sea, I hope that the other party can attack us instead of us taking the initiative. Come attack."
At the staff meeting, Ella pitched the idea.
"From the opponent's perspective, they must have thought that we fell into their scheme and lost the mast. I want to use the trick. As long as I can lure the opponent to jump on our deck, the battle can be easily solved. But I only have this preliminary idea. , is it feasible? If so, what should I do? I hope you can help me improve the plan."
Amy, Dust, and the three pirates who had just been transferred to the staff: Estrad, Hjalmar, and Ulf, were all shocked by Ella's words.
"As the first topic, this beginning is too shocking." Estrada, who was originally Ragnar's subordinate, expressed his inner shock in words, "Our future work will be to keep this kind of whimsical Are the ideas turned into reality?”
"But if you think about it carefully, this plan does have some feasibility." said the former centurion Ulf, who was praised by Ella for his flexible thinking. "As long as we make sure that our mast is in a retracted state when we meet Lubeck's merchant ship, They could easily have thought we were shipwrecked."
"In that case, how about setting up another white flag and arranging soldiers to call for help from Lübeck's fleet?" Hjalmar, who originally belonged to the Guards, added the plan, "If that doesn't work, we can also pretend to tie up the King of Sweden and use Lure the opponent to come over by pretending to surrender."
"No, it definitely won't work, right?" Amy couldn't help complaining, "Without a mast, we can't move forward. Lubeck's fleet is now in front of us. How can we think that we have no mast in Lubeck? Under the circumstances, catch up with Lübeck’s merchant ship?”
"In that case, how about running to the front of Lübeck before the merchant ships in Lübeck find us?" Dast also commented on the side, "As long as we are in front of them, we can retract the mast and wait for their rescue."
"How do we determine the position of the Lübeck fleet? After determining it, how do we run in front of them without their knowledge?" Amy continued to complain, "And they have been driving forward and suddenly saw our ship , do you think that we are 'waiting for rescue without mast'? No matter what, it is too unrealistic!"
"No... Lubeck might really be fooled." Ella's eyes flashed with excitement, "Their navigation surveying technology is far inferior to ours! When they see a ship with a broken mast appearing in front of them, the first person to doubt it is probably themselves. We went in the wrong direction and went in circles on the sea!”
Ella's originally unrealistic idea gradually took shape among everyone else's equally unrealistic ideas, and only the final step was left -
"I have a way to bypass the other side without them knowing." Estrade finally expressed his opinion, "The King of Sweden's Eye of Hermes can see things very far away. , In other words, when we discovered the ship on the other side, the other side had not discovered us yet. I have long been thinking about how to use this advantage beyond visual range."
(End of chapter)
