Chapter 04 Umbar Pirates and Swan Knights
Just as Jiang Hai was about to spend one night in the woods, and when he was planning to make plans at dawn, he suddenly heard a sound of roars coming from the lookout on the beach.
The short horn sound immediately broke the tranquility of the town late at night. The torches shone and crowded. After a while, all the militias in the town gathered together. It seemed that this was not the first time they encountered this situation.
In the calm sea, in the darkness, the shadows of sailboats appeared, breaking through the layers of thick fog and heading towards the shore at a rapid speed.
"Amba Pirates, Amba Pirates are here!"
This time, Jiang Hai heard the shouts from the town clearly. He was glad that he could understand the language of these Middle-earth natives, and his heart was also shocked.
The Pirates of Amba are the human minions of the demon king Zoro. They have been plaguing cities on the southern coast of the Gondor Kingdom for many years, burning, killing, looting and doing all kinds of evil. In the third part of the movie, the Pirates of Amba were supposed to cooperate with Zoro's orc army from the southern port to attack the white city of Minas Tiris, but were defeated by the undead army led by Aragon, and even the ships were stolen.
Although the fate of these pirates was tragic, their strength was absolutely not weak. It was because of the continuous harassment of the pirates of Amba that it was difficult for major cities along the coast of Gondor to withdraw reinforcements to support the capital. Therefore, the battle of the White City, where the human coalition forces defended the capital, was so difficult.
Since there are pirates in Anba in this town, Jiang Hai probably knows where he is.
This is definitely a coastal area south of the Gondor Kingdom.
Although the camp is Gondor and he should help urban militias resist pirate attacks, Jiang Hai's current personal combat power and army combat power can be ignored, so he wisely chose to hide and wait and see what happened.
Soon, dozens of pirates rushed to the beach in wooden boats. These cruel and bloodthirsty pirates who worship darkness were easy to do the job of killing and looting, which could be described as if they were like the wind. As soon as they got ashore, they quickly divided into small groups of troops, left the empty beach, rushed into the town, setting fire to create chaos, and looting everywhere.
The Gondor militia scout on the watchtower was shot to death by bows and arrows before the pirates landed. The militia gathered in a hurry did not expect that the pirates would act so quickly and seemed extremely passive, so they could only divide their troops to intercept them everywhere. In addition, the pirates set fires everywhere, driving all the town residents out of the house, crying and screaming one after another, and the scene became even more chaotic.
The Amba pirates used scimitars and compound bows that the desert people of Harad were good at, which were much stronger than the poorly equipped Gondor militia. In addition, they had the advantage of combat skills, so although the Gondor militia was large in number, they were always at a disadvantage and were quickly defeated.
Half of the town was burning. Men, women, elderly people, and children were screaming, crying, and running, and then they were chopped over by the grim pirate Anba and turned into a cold corpse.
Even though he knew that he was just a passerby in this world, he still made Jiang Hai's mood fall to the bottom after witnessing the barbaric massacre. He had just arrived in the battle space from the peaceful real world and was not used to bleeding and death.
The pirates defeated the town's defensive forces and were looting in all directions. Jianghai suddenly heard a series of low horn sounds from the north. In the dark night not far away, a long dragon made of torches was moving towards the town quickly!
"The reinforcements are coming, and the knights of His Highness Prince Dorianros are here!" A Gondor militia, who was seriously injured in the abdomen and had an intestine flowing out of his body, heard the sound of the horn, smiled with relief, and finally closed his eyes.
The earth began to rumble and shake, which was the roar caused by countless horse hooves and human legs crossing the earth.
A knight in well-dressed full-body armor, holding a rifle and a zither shield, appeared first at the end of the town avenue. His tall mount was also covered with well-protected steel armor. The helmets of man and horse were decorated with a pair of wings that spread their wings to fly. His cloak and shield were both blue of the sea, with a white swan painted on it.
"Swan Knight!" Jiang Hai's heart was so excited that he jumped all over. Unexpectedly, on the first day of coming to the Lord of the Rings, he could see the most elite knight in the Kingdom of Gondor.
These knights came from the coastal city of Dorianros in the southern part of the Gondor Kingdom. They were the strongest troops that ruled Prince Dorianros here. They were superb combat skills, well-equipped, and had elves, and could be comparable to the Yongquan Guard who guarded the national treasure of Gondor White Tree. They were the strongest warriors in Gondor! Because they came from Dorianros, who was symbolized by swans, these warriors were called Swan Knights.
In the Battle of the White City in the third part of the Lord of the Rings novel, Prince Inlahir of Dor'anros personally led hundreds of swan knights to help White City. Unfortunately, it was not shown in the movie, making it impossible to see the style of these strongest knights of Gondor.
Since the Swan Knight has appeared, Jiang Hai is sure that he is near the city of Dor'anros in the south of the Gondor Kingdom. However, here is far from the Rohan Kingdom where the main plot takes place. It seems that it will take some trouble to complete the main task.
On the left and right of the Swan Knight are two flag bearers, the white tree flag of Gondor and the swan flag of Dor'anros fluttering in the night wind. Behind are fifty Gondor cavalry, one hundred Gondor infantry, and one hundred Gondor archers. They are all equipped with exquisite half-body armor. At first glance, the flames shine a large piece of silver. This momentum alone is enough to make the enemy tremble.
"Cavals, assault the beach, control all the boats, and no pirate can let go! Others, attack, kill all these despicable rats!"
With the horn of the charge, the Swan Knights led reinforcements to launch an attack. These disciplined and well-equipped professional soldiers were naturally like cutting melons and vegetables when dealing with the Anba pirates.
The pirates were quickly repelled. Because the ships were taken away, they could not retreat from the sea, so they had to scatter around the town.
The Swan Knight ordered his subordinates to pursue the fleeing enemies in all directions, and he rode his war horses and searched along the road.
Jiang Hai suddenly saw a black shadow climbing up a stone house along the street. This was an Amba pirate, much taller than an ordinary pirate, and seemed to be the pirate leader of this robbery.
He lowered his body, lay on the roof, holding a scimitar in his hand, staring at the swan knight who was slowly advancing along the road without knowing it.
"Gudong." Jiang Hai swallowed, took three deep breaths to soothe the heart that made the manic beating. He was preparing to take an adventure.
If you don’t fight and seize this rare opportunity, with Jiang Hai’s current strength, you will not be able to complete the main task of capturing Aisinger.
Chapter completed!