Chapter 29： church

After the battle in the city gate area, Paul led Schroeder and others to ride into Port Fulan.

He looked around and studied the small port town. In terms of building area, Fulan Port is more than twice as large as Huxin Town. Residents’ houses are well-arranged and taller and more beautiful than those in Huxin Town. Starting from the city gate, a curved avenue leads to the west. The dock area, and this avenue is paved with bricks and stones, which is better than the central avenue in Huxin Town, which is muddy when it rains.

It seems that although the town has been blackmailed by pirates for a long time, this town has not lost its vitality. It is no wonder that the Shark Gang has taken a fancy to this place and will not leave it.

As for why the lord's mansion is not located here, the threat of pirates is of course an important reason, but the more reason is that the lords in the northwest region often do not place their residences in bustling towns, and many lords' residences are lonely. There are no castles or manors around, not even a private house around.

In the memory of Paul's previous life, the European lords in the middle ages of the earth were generally the same.

Now is not the time to enjoy the scenery, he put away his thoughts. At this time, Cecil, the intelligence chief who came with the army, roughly estimated the number of captives and casualties of the pirates, and reported: "My lord, the pirates' vital forces are basically accounted for here. According to my guess, there are no more than Fifty people."

After a short discussion among the officers, two cannons and a company were left to guard the gate of the city, and the other troops spread out in the town in units of platoons to search for fish that slipped through the net, especially the pirate leader shark. During the interrogation, the cunning pirate leader encouraged the minions to go all out, but he slipped away quietly.

Schroeder suggested: "I think the dock area must be occupied immediately, and the sharks may escape quietly by boat from there."

Paul felt that it made sense, so he asked Schroeder to march quickly to the dock area with a company of troops to block the port.

Other officers also led their soldiers to search for the remnants of the pirates, while he himself and the intelligence chief Cecil led two platoons, including musketeers, to the church in the center of the town. The information shows that this is the temporary headquarters of the pirates. Paul hopes that the pirates can hide something there, such as glittering gold coins, or glittering gems. In various legends, pirates hoard treasures. Is it a hobby?

At this time, the residents of Fulan Port closed their homes tightly, for fear of being affected by the battle. The streets were quiet, only the sound of the army marching and the sound of horseshoes.

As the church gradually approached, the soldiers walking in the front suddenly made warning signs, and a row of soldiers behind immediately surrounded the earl and Cecil.

I saw that the door of the church was closed, and there were two corpses dressed as pirates lying on the door. It's really strange, they should be the first troops to reach this area, could it be that the pirates are fighting among themselves?

Soon, the door of the church was knocked open, and soldiers rushed into the hall, searching every corner carefully.

But they found nothing except the bodies of a few pirates.

"It seems that there is indeed internal strife, and another group of people ran away with valuable things."

Paul judged this, and prayed secretly in anxiety: "Lord of light, although I didn't respect your brothers on earth in my previous life, but this time you must bless Schroeder to stop them, and I will definitely give you three pillars afterwards. Jinxiang... oh no, it's donating three gold...silver coins to the church, forget it, or copper coins."

Reluctantly, he wandered around the church with two soldiers, hoping that the pirates would leave something behind.

After looking at several rooms in person, he came to a room on the second floor and glanced at it. There was nothing but a bed, a square table and an old wardrobe.

"Lord of light! Show me some miracles, otherwise you won't be able to get those three copper coins."

He said something as if complaining, and kicked at the wardrobe as if venting.

"what-"

A small but very clear exclamation sounded.

The eyes of the two soldiers and the earl widened.

"Who? Come out!"

One soldier yelled and kicked the closet hard, while another quickly pulled the count behind him. The dense footsteps sounded outside the room, and it was soldiers from other places who heard the sound and ran towards this room.

A crying voice came from the cabinet: "Stop kicking, I'll come out soon! Please spare your life, please spare your life!"

Then the door of the cabinet opened, and under the gaze of everyone, a middle-aged man in a white robe and a Mediterranean hairstyle got out.

He staggered a few steps, knelt down in front of Paul, hugged his thigh with snot and tears and said: "My lord, I am just a traveling priest, staying here for a few days Day, you are not with the pirates who live here. You must not kill a good person by mistake!" After speaking, he howled, and the sound was really sad for those who heard it, and tears for those who heard it.

"Get up!" Paul kicked the opponent away.

This is too exaggerated, he really can't bear the scene of a middle-aged greasy man kneeling in front of him and crying. But this Mediterranean vision is quite accurate, and he can recognize at a glance that he, a half-grown child, is the leader of this group of people.

The man didn't care about it, and just kept howling: "Father in heaven, your servant is about to go up to serve you!"

There is no way, it seems that my brother's domineering aura is really not covered, although I have tried my best to control it, but accidentally leaking a little bit is enough to make ordinary people unable to stand up. UU reading

The earl stretched out his right hand and pushed his hair back, raised his chin, and made a pose that he thought was very handsome, "I am the local lord, and I came here to destroy the pirates that have been harmed for a long time, and to protect the country and the people. , not to kill and set fire." Hehe, let's continue to be shrouded in brother's aura.

"Lord?" Father Mediterranean stopped crying all of a sudden, and raised his head to look carefully at the person in front of him. Ugh? I was patronizing and howling just now, but looking carefully, this person's current actions and temperament are indeed a bit like the stupid son of a landlord's family.

"Hmm!" He stood up, cleared his throat to hide his embarrassment, and adjusted his clothes.

Father Mediterranean said in a slow manner: "It turns out that he is the lord of this place. I don't know what the name of this young man is!" There was a hint of arrogance on his face, which reminded Paul of the royal commissioner whom he had tricked. Speaking of which, the buddy disappeared after the pirates attacked, and he didn't know where he went.

"Standing in front of you is the ruler of the northwest of the kingdom, the nemesis of pirates, the one who summoned thunder (firearms), the preacher of God's Gospel (papermaking), and the Earl of Ardaland—Paul Greiman." The name of the last **** liberator, but think about it or forget it.

The face of the Mediterranean priest immediately turned into a chrysanthemum, "It turned out to be an earl!"

With both hands clasped in front of his chest and fingers interlaced, looking at him is like seeing an angel descending from the mortal world, the trace of arrogance before has completely disappeared, as if it had never appeared before.

Paul looked the man who claimed to be a priest up and down, waved to the soldiers, and said, "Go out first, I want to talk to this priest alone."

Seeing that the soldiers hesitated, he patted the musket on his waist: "Don't worry, it's all right!"