Chapter 45 Choice
"Alexandria?" Tie Lilie was not very surprised when he heard Xu Mo's answer, but simply nodded.
As the first mate of the Vasa, Xu Mo should have notified him of the next route and combat targets before leaving. However, due to the complex composition of the personnel on the warship, and the supply ports that are staying are also foreign ports. In order to avoid the miscellaneous people and leaking news, Tie Lilie automatically asked Xu Mo to announce the combat waters to the officers after leaving the ship.
"Yes, during this period, we used Tripoli to fight in the waters near Italy many times, and each time we encountered more and more powerful pursuit fleets. As long as the naval admirals of those Catholic countries were not fools, they should be able to infer that we were in Tripoli. It was time to change places!" Xu Mo said with a sneer.
"You should have notified the Caster Road Chamber of Commerce!" Tielli said with a smile, "I remember you and them have an agreement to explore the ruins!"
"Haha, yes! Raphael has been waiting for us in Alexandria. Now we are going to return the help of the Portuguese boy!" Xu Mo smiled inadvertently, "Although the young men on the boat have received good care in Tripoli, being able to stay on land for a little longer will also be beneficial to them. Just treat it as a tour of scenic ruins!"
Tie Lili nodded without objecting. Compared to the tense and life-and-death naval battle, exploring the remains is indeed more like a journey for the Viking sailors who are not afraid of heaven and earth.
"BOSS, are we really going to do that pyramid ruins mission?" Serna's voice came from the team channel. Even though this little woman has been a reincarnation for so long, her nature is still difficult to change. As long as she hears something related to money, the business teacher's professional habits will develop, and she will keep thinking about it without asking if she understands it.
"Well, after hunting so many merchant ships and privateing gold coins, we have accumulated about 50,000. The main and side missions of the Swedish government have been completed." Xu Mo said cautiously, "And after staying in the Mediterranean for so long, although I have obtained some clues from the Temple of the Gods, I have not really encountered them. I have to try other ways!"
It turned out that the period when the Vasa was in Tripoli was smooth. The local indigenous people, whether Arabs or Berbers, all believed in Islam and had an instinctive repulsion for merchant ships in Catholic countries.
However, the Caster Road Chamber of Commerce is an exception. Raphael's rescue of the Moriscos in the northern Spanish highlands allowed the Caster Road Chamber of Commerce to win the friendship of local Muslims. The Vasa, which hangs the Caster Road Chamber of Commerce's flag, was treated friendly in Tripoli.
When Vasa launched a Mediterranean strategy and repeatedly sunk the merchant ships of the Holy Roman Empire and other Catholic countries, this kind of friendship became support. Local Muslims treated Viking sailors with the greatest enthusiasm, and the repair and supplement of Vasa was the most priority of the dock.
The Muslim natives treat the crew members who consume in local taverns as real brothers, and are even reluctant to accept gold coins, providing them with drinks and services for free.
Even when Vasa first arrived here, someone began to provide them with information about the temple that could not be obtained. The people who started the riots at that time were an Arab minority, as well as some local pirates, who snatched the flagship of the Ottoman Second Naval Fleet, the Chachar.
The Ottoman's Second Naval Fleet also belongs to Heiding. As the flagship, the Chachar is a heavy battleship and a new giant Arab galley. For Tripoli, this is a considerable scandal, so it was covered up by the local Governor's Office. If the Vasa did not obtain the friendship of the local indigenous people, it would be impossible to find out the detailed insider information.
In fact, it was a helpless move for the Muslims in Tripoli to pin their hopes on the Vasa. Because at this time, their hero, Barbarossa Heiding, was not in Tripoli. The Ottoman Emperor Suleiman I was seriously ill, and Heiding and his First Navy fleet were recalled to Constantinople.
According to the tips from a few Muslim merchants, the warship Chachar has now defected to the Spanish government. This has made Muslims in Tripoli even more ashamed of it, hoping that Vasa can help them breathe a sigh of relief at sea. The questions raised by Xu Mo and others were extremely detailed and full of words.
Judging from the information currently obtained, several of the pirates who started the riots had extremely strong combat power. It can be said that the reason why they were able to succeed was that these people played a key role. They are 100% reincarnators, and they are also reincarnators above the second level. With so many reincarnators teams above the second level, it is very likely that they are the group of the Temple of Gods.
Xu Mo led the Vasa to wander around the waters near Italy for so long, and hoped that the other party would come to fight the Vasa under the pressure of the Spanish government. Some time ago, the Vasa was strong and the morale of the sailors reached its peak. If they could not defeat the temple in artillery battle in this state, they would probably have no chance in the future.
In the eyes of outsiders, the Vasa always uses shelling to solve the opponent when encountering an enemy, and not conducting a boarding battle is a strategic arrangement for quick battle. In fact, in addition to avoiding being surrounded by the pursued naval fleet, Xu Mo has caused major casualties in personnel. The most important reason is to worry about the terrible melee ability of the reincarnation in the Temple of the Gods.
However, the continuous victory over the past two months has caused the sailors to increase their confidence, and they have also become tired and slack. One after another, they have been exhausted, and three times have declined. Although the Golden Elephant added a group of Viking sailors to them in the later period, the crazy hunting during this period also consumed the energy of the Vasa and the crew.
In fact, Xu Mo was also confused. Logically speaking, after the Temple of the Gods surrendered to Spain, it was impossible for them to be popular and drink with the doubtful Spanish. I am afraid that the Spanish government will put them great pressure and it is very likely that they will treat them as cannon fodder to fight the Vasa.
In fact, the reality is indeed the case. During the days when the Vasa was raging in the Mediterranean, life in the temple was not easy. The Spanish governor of Serbia severely demanded that they go out to sea to meet the enemy, and sent several small sailboats to follow them, obviously for supply but for surveillance.
However, the reincarnation forces of the Temple of the Temple played a key role at this time. Through the Y-space reincarnation team distributed in the ports of the north coast of the Mediterranean, the Temple of the Temple of the Temple of the Temple of the Temple of the Casino was always rushed to the waters of the accident with other naval fleets later when they heard the battle report of the Vasa, and artificially avoided the direct battle with the Vasa.
In fact, this cannot be blamed on the Temple of the Gods. They did not know that the old K regiment was on the Vasa and only regarded them as the plot warship. Xu Mo disguised himself too well and had almost no flaws. During the age of sea power, the core members of the Temple of the Gods were increasingly feeling the great power of the navigators of this era. They did not have the confidence to fight a Swedish navy admiral who was called "sea tyrants".
Even the trenches buried their hatred in their hearts and no longer proposed a duel with the Vasa. Perhaps only when the Temple of the Gods successfully resolved the old K regiment, they would try to challenge such a powerful plot battleship without any worries.
Odin's two strategies were basically half destroyed after Vasa gave up docking at the northern coast of the Mediterranean. At that time, Odin believed the false information provided by Frango and believed that Vasa was coming to the Mediterranean to explore treasures in the Mediterranean to support Gustav II's land offensive. Therefore, the Temple of the Gods sent a message to the collaborative team, asking them to spread news about treasures in major ports in Catholic countries, and guided many teams of reincarnation and pirates to attack Vasa.
However, because Vasa chose Tripoli as a supply port and received support from local indigenous peoples, it also won great reputation in previous naval battles, which indirectly dispelled the bad ideas of some treasure snoopers. The blacksmith must be strong himself. It is true that the Reincarnator team and the pirates are driven by interests, but there is more than one treasure rumor, so there is no need to challenge Vasa and the "Sea Tyrant".
However, the Vasa was only the secondary goal of the Temple of the Gods. Although this part of Odin's strategy did not work, their main strategy was a huge success. Under Odin's instruction, the Y Space Reincarnator team launched a war against the X Space Reincarnator team.
In fact, the team of X Space's Big Round Table members basically understood from the competitive space mission that the Mediterranean would be the battle zone between the old K Group and the Temple of the Gods, so these people cleverly chose to avoid it. However, among them, there was a team of Big Round Table Reincarnators who did not choose to avoid it. This was because they felt the existential crisis and were forced to join the Scorpion Group of the Sea Power Age.
The Temple of Gods, which cast a large net, finally obtained some information from the old K team from the defeated X-space Reincarnation Team and the information conveyed by the Scorpion Group around the bush. Among them, there is a video of the Azeroth battle that was modified by Xu Mo and Ruer.
After watching this battle video, most of the core members of the Temple of Gods breathed a sigh of relief. It was obvious that the opponent's strategy was indeed very strong, but the strength of the team members was basically limited to the first level, and even the regiment elder K was only in the second level.
Even if there is a breakthrough in the subsequent world, it is under the control of the Temple of the Gods. The two teams face each other head-on battle, and the Temple of the Gods has a 100% winning rate, and the old K team has no chance at all.
Then, the old K Group has been strangely unmoved until now, putting the Temple of Gods in a very embarrassing situation. Because they betrayed their initial country, Ottoman, the main mission has been defaulted to failure by two major spaces.
Since the Temple of the Gods gave up the Y space and they lost a lot of resource reserves, the Y space will no longer give them preferential treatment from their top teams. As for the X space, it is naturally even more impossible to give the Temple of the Gods. Therefore, the punishment for the failure of the main mission is not an irrelevant trivial matter for the Temple of the Gods.
At present, there are three mission directions left in front of the Temple of the Gods, and their destiny will depend on the choice of the regiment commander Odin...
Chapter completed!