"It's kind of weird."
On the deck of the warship, Richard said softly. He is a lieutenant colonel, and he has been dealing with pirates for a long time. Pirates do have some tricky characters, and some guys like to play dirty. But at this moment, on the extremely important battlefield of the Whisperer Strait, Richard didn't think those guys could be so quiet that there was no movement at all.
As the vanguard of the fleet, Richard led five warships fully loaded with power armor into the strait. But along the way, there was no interception. Seeing that the waterway of the strait had already traveled nearly halfway, Richard felt more and more heavy in his heart.
Because the strait is quiet.
Only the sound of wind and water sounded, which was extremely abnormal. There are few collaborators among pirates, they are all loners. Even if they are forced to cooperate due to the situation, it is nothing more than uniting and acting together. But when it comes time to fight, it's still the big ones. These guys lack management, scheduling, and no tactics at all. Only relying on the special geographical environment of the Western Continent, coupled with the fact that the Pope's Hall has not been strong enough to attack them, has allowed these guys to live arrogantly until now.
But now, the tranquility of the strait can only indicate two possibilities. First, the pirates have all evacuated. But this is impossible, the only way they can go in and out of the Roaring Bay is the Whisperer Strait. As for the Devil's Channel, it is not something that ordinary ships can cross. So the second possibility remains, that a leader finally appeared among the pirates, and thus changed from a mess to a disciplined army
It sounds absurd, but Richard will not deny this possibility, the reason is because of the Poseidon Order held at the Sea House yesterday. The Sea God Order is a big event for both the pirates and the Holy Seal Knights. The former is self-evident, while the latter knows that whenever the Sea God Order ends, a supernova-like pirate captain will be born.
Deborah and Cinderella are precedents.
And taking advantage of the sea god's decree, when pirates gather, the Pope's hall will launch this general attack, which is a matter of taking advantage of the trend. If it goes well, the Pope's Hall will never suffer from future troubles, and there will be no armed forces that can resist the will of the Pope's Hall.
Richard has also heard of the Poseidon Order as a weird tradition among pirates. He even occasionally mentioned to a few of his colleagues that if someone can defeat all the captains with the Sea God Token, then a king will be born among the pirates.
King of Pirates
Of course, basically everyone who hears this kind of speculation will laugh it off.
Because that's simply hard to do.
The worst thing for every pirate captain is a fifth-level ability user, and a fifth-level ability user can already serve as a captain in the knight order. Although no detailed statistics have been made, there are eight hundred active pirate ships if not one thousand. In other words, there are at least 500 captain-level ability users among the pirates, and the legendary four pirates even have the terrifying strength to challenge the leader-level figures.
So the Poseidon Order could theoretically produce a king who surpassed all pirates, but to defeat hundreds of captains and three captains, it was fantastic to think about it.
But now, facing the quiet strait, this idea repeatedly appeared in Richard's mind. The scattered pirates have become organized!
"Report the situation to Colonel Mader, and at the same time tell all the lieutenants to be careful and tell them to bring their armored troops. Wake me up, we must always guard against pirate attacks!" Richard yelled.
Just behind this vanguard, a dozen warships followed. The warships were separated by some distance, so Richard's order was transmitted through the short-wave walkie-talkie and the standard-bearer. And outside the strait, there is a long queue of five or six hundred warships!
In the middle and rear part of this long dragon is Colonel Mader's car, which is also the brain of the entire fleet. After receiving Richard's report, Mader also found a set of orders to go down. One of them is to suspend the entry of subsequent warships, and let the forward team speed up and quickly build a defensive network to ensure the safe passage of the subsequent fleet.
Just when the fleet in the strait responded to Mader's order, it was on a high ground at a bend in the first half of the strait. A group of grass moved on the high ground, and a pair of eyes in the grass stared closely at the captain below, and whispered: "The enemy is about to arrive at the preset location, and the enemy ship is slowing down at the entrance of the strait. Speed up. It is estimated that in 10 minutes, you will pass the cordon."
"Understood, continue to monitor." Franklin's voice sounded in everyone's headsets: "The blasting team is ready, and when the enemy ship passes the cordon, it will act according to the plan."
"Let's give the Pope's Hall an experience of a lifetime!"
If Richard could hear what Franklin said, then he would definitely not let the vanguard fleet speed up like now. Before he knew it, he distanced himself from the dozen or so warships behind him. After driving through a sharp bend, a huge boulder suddenly appeared on the river ahead blocking the road. Although the boulder could not block the entire river, the boulder with a diameter of more than ten meters was obviously not an obstacle that the warship could bypass.
"Is it finally here?" Richard yelled: "Heavy gunners are ready, blast me away from that damned rock. The other armored units are ready to fight, and the pirates should be lying in ambush somewhere nearby."
"yes!"
There were messy footsteps on the forward captain's deck, and the sound of power armor hydraulics running. A frame of paladin-type armor stepped onto the deck. The only advantage of this bulky first-generation armor is to act as a mobile turret. Each paladin armor was uniformly replaced with a terrifying rotary cannon, and two ammunition boxes were carried on the back to support them for continuous shooting.
On the five vanguard ships, there are as many as a hundred paladin armors alone, and they are evenly distributed on the vanguard ships, located around the warship. The dense distribution of points will allow warships to form a full range of firepower strikes when they are attacked, and multiple firepower networks can be formed between warships. Paladin armor is very insufficient in terms of flexibility and mobility, but it has a strong advantage in firepower.
In addition to the paladin armor, the Gryphon Rider also took to the deck. Although these lightweight second-generation armors are not good at firepower, they can cruise at low altitudes and act as scouts. They are armed only with light machine guns, but capable of firing guided missiles, they also make for excellent air combat power when needed.
Under Richard's order, more than a dozen Griffin Knights took off and prepared to conduct reconnaissance above the strait. At this moment, the members of the Destiny heard Franklin's order: "Demolition team, move!"
The next moment, a total of six cliffs in the Whisperer Strait suddenly exploded at the same time. The flames of the explosion came and went, and the cliff was directly blown to pieces, so large chunks of rocks poured down and slid down the slope to the channel of the strait. Splashing stones even fell from the top of the warship. Before the two unlucky Griffin Knights could react, they were hit by the flying stones and turned into fireballs in the air.
"Fire! Fire! Blow up falling stones."
Due to this change, the paladin armor on the vanguard warship finally played the role of their mobile turret. Hundreds of power armors fired wildly at the sky, and the tongues of the machine guns flickered. Lines of fire pierced the sky, forming a powerful firepower net, and smashed the boulders that fell from the sky to pieces!
However, this burst of explosions was caused by the bombs that the members of the Destiny had buried at the three corners of the strait early in the morning. The channel of the Whisperer Strait has many curves, and Franklin divides the seven curves into zones 1-7. Large-equivalent explosives have been buried on the curves of each section. When necessary, the blasting team can detonate the explosives to create a cliff slide, so that a large amount of gravel slides down to form a gravel barrier between the sections. Block the obstacles!
The vanguard fleet of the Pope's Hall is currently blocked in No. 3 area, while the next dozen or so warships are trapped in No. 2 and No. 1 areas respectively. Because the firepower of the dozen or so warships behind was far less than that of the vanguard, two of them had already been sunk by falling rocks in this explosion. All the soldiers on board were killed or injured, and the rest were forced to jump off the ship and flee to the shore.
"The team of capable users is dispatched, and the goal is to destroy the opponent's power armor unit in Area 3. This force is too powerful to allow them to exist, or they will tear apart our blockade. The other people come with me, the goal is Destroy all the ordinary warships in Areas 1 and 2 to give the enemy a blow." Franklin continued to issue orders through the headset, and finally said: "Feng, you can work now."
"Great, I'm almost suffocated!"
When the explosion occurred in the Whisperer Strait, Mader grabbed the binoculars on the adjutant's chest on the bow deck and looked towards the strait. Suddenly, in the binoculars, flames and black smoke from the explosion appeared in the direction of the strait. Then, the fleet in the strait was attacked, and the news that there were obstacles in the river came back one by one. Mader clenched his fists and said, "Damn pirates, have you finally appeared?"
"Let the backup fleet sail in immediately, make sure to remove obstacles in the shortest possible time, move closer to the vanguard fleet, and gather all our strength to break through the interception of the pirates in one fell swoop!" Mader shouted.
After receiving his order, the five warships at the entrance of the strait began to advance. However, a warship in front just sailed into the entrance, and a captain in charge of the ship suddenly felt a strong light above his head. Looking up, a group of dazzling brilliance is falling straight down. The captain could barely see clearly, in that group of light, there actually appeared a shining diamond arm!
Then, the group of strong light has fallen on the deck of the warship. The strong light exploded with an unimaginable violent impact, and bursts of force fields with a taste of destruction continued to spread on the deck, so the deck cracked and the steel nails shattered. The warship screamed, but it was torn in two by the strong light!
And finally there's the explosion.
The berserk energy force field pushes horizontally in a circular shape, generating bursts of terrifying shock waves. The captain was directly blown away by the shock wave, and the captain barely used his fifth-level defense to protect himself. But as soon as the defense force on his body was hit by the shock wave, it was immediately shattered, so the captain threw away blood spurting wildly. He fell into the water during a brief coma, and woke up again after being stirred up by the sea water.
Looking forward again, a cloud of dust and smoke lay across. In the smoke, from time to time, there are dissociated fine fragments of electric fire. The fragments of the warship and the corpses of the soldiers kept floating out of the smoke, the captain opened his mouth wide, he couldn't believe that a warship was destroyed like this.
Gradually, the thick smoke on the river dissipated. However, the rear half of the warship was slanted in the water, and two paladin armors and countless soldiers were sliding down helplessly from the sloping deck. And on the fence at the stern of the warship, a figure turned its back to the captain. What can be seen clearly is that it is a man, but his hands are shining like diamonds in the sky.
Feng smiled and looked at the panic-stricken enemy soldiers on the warship behind, lightly shook his fist like holding a rock and said, "Sorry, you guys just stop here."
After all, a pair of diamond arms lit up, overflowing with dazzling eyes from the inside out. Feng retracted his fist and blasted out, a dazzling beam of light was immediately released from his fist, and the beam of light was full of strong energy. The light beam pierced straight through the bow of the warship, followed by the sound of the warship being torn apart. Then, in the eyes of the captain who fell into the water, the second giant ship disappeared in the strong light of the explosion again.
Feng's job is to block the enemy's entry into the strait as much as possible, so as to cut off the opportunity to provide reinforcements for the warships trapped in the strait. After destroying several giant ships in one breath, Feng felt a palpitation. A few uncontrollable jerks made him feel empty. He knew that this was a sign that the energy was almost exhausted, but in return, five warships turned into a dozen huge pieces of wreckage.
The wreckage clogged the entrance to the strait, and it would take time, even if the enemy were to remove it. And this period of time is enough for Franklin and others to do a lot of things. The diamond-like hands of God are gradually disappearing. To be honest, the power of the Hand of God is greater, but it is not suitable to be used as a weapon for confrontation between the strong. It is more like a cannon exclusive to Feng. Although the cannon is powerful, it is better at attacking cities and land. As for the battle between the strong, Feng prefers to use his own frost to solve the delicate ones.
But when it comes to cannons, in fact, as early as Zero expected that the Pope Hall would respond to the Poseidon Order he initiated this time, and let everyone go to the Whisperer Strait to prepare for the attack. Feng suggested to directly use the energy main cannon on the Destiny, judging from the record that this particle beam cannon destroyed half of Asmo in one blow. As long as the Destiny is placed at the entrance of the strait, even if a fleet comes to the Pope's Hall like now, it will only be a matter of firing a cannonball.
It's a pity that Zero seems to have other uses for the main energy gun of the Destiny, so it is not in favor of prematurely exposing the existence of the Destiny.
"Otherwise, maybe everyone wouldn't have to be so busy now." Feng returned to the high ground at the entrance of the strait and sat leaning against an old tree. Frost is on his hand, if the enemy fleet comes to attack again, Frost will have to be used. Judging from his current energy recovery speed, at least he won't be able to use the Hand of God until tomorrow. "The pirates must be nearby. The Griffin Knight team is on alert. Let's get out of their hiding place!" Richard shouted anxiously, and directed the paladins to clear the roadblock.
The Griffin Riders who received the order ascended into the air, but at this moment, a petite figure swept out from the edge of the rock cliff on the left, intersecting with the Griffin Riders in mid-air. Suddenly, there was more black light in the sky. And the other end of the light is pointing to the figure that landed on the right bank. Richard saw that it was a girl under twenty years old.
She looks cute, but there is no expression on her face. But she was holding a black silk thread in her hand, and she flicked the thread lightly, and the black silk thread entangled around the Griffin Knight immediately resonated and vibrated. While the vibrating black silk thread flickered again and again, the Frame Griffin Knight was cut into several parts in this way, and then exploded into balls of fireball.
Richard looked at the fireball exploding in the sky speechlessly, and then roared: "Damn, it's a capable person! Attack! Attack!" But his eyes fell on this petite girl, but he couldn't control it. Find a matching character in your pirate profile.
Yeliu launched the Death Sonata, destroying more than a dozen Griffin Knights of the opponent in one fell swoop. On the deck of the warship ahead, several paladins turned their muzzles, and the rotary machine guns made a strong roar. In the long flames that sprang out, powerful bullets blasted towards her one after another. Even a big man with amazing defensive power like Franklin is unwilling to face the frontal attack of this terrible weapon, not to mention that Ye Liu is not an ability user who is good at defensive power.
The naturally stupid girl leaned over and rushed, her speed was almost comparable to Zero. Even though she was not able to break the sound barrier, she was not able to keep up with the backward locking system of the first generation of mechas. . So the bullets of the paladin's mecha fell into the air, and a few chains of bullets blasted the ground on the right bank into dust and smoke, but they couldn't hit Zhong Yeliu.
Yeliu's figure accelerated, her toes touched the ground, and she slid forward ten meters each time, but she used her ability to "sprint". Under the effect of galloping, her speed was unfathomably fast, and she had already run around the current warship in a blink of an eye. And around the warship, streaks of black light appeared at some point. These black energy threads wrapped the entire ship in it like a spider web, and Ye Liubu stopped after lowering these energy threads. Then flicked one of the silk threads with a finger, and immediately another death sonata appeared, cutting a warship of Nuo Da into pieces!
Some of the paladins that happened to be wrapped in silk thread were cut by the thread before they could escape, and exploded together with the warship. As a result, dozens of paladins on the ship fell into the water, and more soldiers and several lieutenants were either killed by the blast, or fell into the water along with the fragments of the warship. For a while, the water surface of the river rolled endlessly. Many paladin armors were soaked in sea water, and the engines immediately flooded and exploded, but after a while, this section of the river was already engulfed in flames.
Richard watched as his temples thumped all the time, while shouts and gunshots erupted from the bend behind the vanguard. The lieutenant colonel knew that there was also a fight over there, but the more so, the more the forward team could not stop here. Otherwise, when the battle at the corner is over and the pirates rush forward, his side will be even more dangerous.
"Get rid of obstacles!" Richard yelled.