Not only ordinary pirates were amazed, but those captains were also surprised. Even Hook and Man Shan found it inconceivable. A complete pirate group has the following conditions, a captain, a deputy captain, and then the sailors on board. Sailors can be subdivided into fighters, logistics and maintenance personnel. Of course, the pirate group also needs a pirate ship, which is the basic element of a pirate group.
However, the number of talents, fighters, ships, and resources of the pirate group can be judged directly from the status of the captain, or to put it more intuitively, from the amount of reward offered by the captain.
Like an ordinary pirate group, the captain is basically only a fifth to sixth level ability user, and those who have just debuted are even novices with only the third or fourth level. And such a pirate group is usually not very big, they will have a small and medium-sized pirate ship with about ten to twenty people on it.
And like the Four Great Pirates, Needless to say, the Iron Scale is the specification of the Pope's Hall. Even people like Hook and Cinderella who sit on medium-sized ships have thirty or forty members of their crew. But for people of their level, the number of personnel is not a criterion for considering strength. When it comes to the pirate group of Cinderella's level, they pay more attention to the quality of the crew.
Taking Cinderella as an example, the ten-person personal guards are all at the level of ordinary pirate captains, even in the knight order, they are also soldiers at the level of lieutenants. Especially the skua Eureka, who was originally a bounty hunter, and his current combat power has almost broken through the seventh level, which is only one step away from the high level. Such a person is a figure everywhere in the Western Continent. From this, it can be seen that the overall combat power of the Water Demon can basically rival the Knights' fleet of about 20 ships.
And Manshan's Walrus is only slightly smaller than Iron Scale in terms of specifications, but Manshan's group has many affiliated ships, which can completely form a fleet of its own. Even among the pirate regiments at the next level, there were quite a few pirate regiments who directly took orders from Man Shan. If necessary, Manshan can completely stand alone against a complete fleet of Knights.
But the current situation is that on the other side of the Whisperer Strait are three fully established knight fleets, a truly large establishment with a total of more than 500 ships. Such a force, if it weren't for the existence of natural barriers such as the Whisperer and the Devil's Channel in Roaring Bay, it would have been wiped out by the Knights.
Even so, the geographical environment of the Whisperer Strait limits the firepower output of the Pope's Hall. However, only one ship's staffing can intercept a hundred times its own number of enemies on the other side of the strait, and the number of personnel is limited to less than a hundred. In other words, the quality of the members on the Destiny must be at least a few levels above that of the four major pirate groups!
Besides the captains of the four major pirate regiments, the next-level members have at least an average level of sixth rank. On this basis, raise a few levels, that is to say, the secondary combat power below zero is at least eighth level! And the eighth level is the level of strength of the legion commander and the legendary captain!
For Hook and Man Shan, they couldn't help but smile wryly after getting this inference. With many eighth-level core members as his core members, it's no wonder that Zero has the confidence to fight the Sea God Order, and it's no wonder that women like Cinderella will submit to him. Of course, now they do too.
But they didn't know that among Zero's secondary combat power, there were two rank nines!
It was still early in the morning, but the port of Sea House was very busy. There were originally hundreds of ships moored in the port, but now there are only a hundred or so pirate ships. While the members of the Destiny intercepted the Pope's fleet, they also bought precious time for the House of the Sea. Since yesterday, all the pirates on the Sea House have been mobilized. According to Zero's order, they will face the head of the knights who appeared from the devil's channel in two days.
This is no child's play. From the number of warships outside the Whisperer Strait, it can be estimated that this is the combined strength of the three legions. Then there are at least two legion commanders outflanking from the Devil's Channel, and with the Iron Scale serving as a guide, there are at least three high-level enemy combat forces that will appear on the Devil's Channel. With the addition of the Knights of the Round Table manipulated by the leader level, then the combat power is not as simple as one plus one.
Fortunately, the Destiny was intercepting the Whisperer Strait this time, otherwise the pirate forces on the Sea House would not be able to fight on two fronts at the same time. In order to face the enemy's high-level combat power, Sea Home is integrating resources. According to Zero's meaning, this is a battle of elites, and it simply cannot accommodate the participation of troops of the same level. Instead of dispersing the supplies, it is better to concentrate and meet the opponent.
So after selection, including three legendary captains including Cinderella, another hundred captains who are still worth seeing and their pirate group were selected as the main candidates for this battle. Everyone in the selected pirate group was naturally excited, after all, this was an epoch-making battle. Regardless of the ultimate success or failure, it will always be recorded in the history of the Western Continent.
Those who are not selected will give up their own materials, gather them at the dock, and then a group of people headed by Mr. X will classify and distribute them. These materials are mainly combat resources, including ammunition, firearms and other items. It can also be seen from the materials piled up on the pier that the gap between the rich and the poor among some pirate groups is really huge. High-quality military supplies, but these things are smuggled goods that flowed out of the Pope's Hall.
It can be seen that the interior of the sacred Pope's Hall may not be full of devout believers.
Among these strategic materials, the most valuable is a batch of CNOOC. Since CNOOC is seabed oil, Sea Home certainly does not have such resources, but these CNOOC are high-grade goods obtained from several colonial islands with oil mines. The purity of this batch of sea oil is very high, and the purity of sea oil is directly proportional to the burning time. With it, the pirates can build a flame interception zone in order to confine the enemy to a battlefield they set.
To this end, Hooke made a proposal.
After coming out of the devil's channel, there are relatively dense and complex islands in the sea area. If the enemy is introduced into that area and then used to create a fire belt to block it, it will be beneficial for the pirates to fight a beautiful ambush. But this suggestion was rejected by zero for two reasons. One is that although the complex island area is conducive to the concealment and ambush of the pirates, at the same time, a large amount of land also provides conditions for the Knights of the Round Table to take advantage of land warfare. The second point, and the most important point, is that if you are fighting with all your strength, you must resort to ambushes and other means to defeat the enemy. Then even if you win, it will give people a feeling of miserable victory.
However, this battle is a battle of great significance no matter from which point of view, Zero insists on adopting a tough stance of confronting the enemy head-on, and defeats the enemy from the front. This battle is not just a battle for the pirates to protect themselves, but also to make a gesture to all kinds of hostile or neutral camps in the Western Continent through this battle.
That is, the Vatican is not invincible, and the pirates are not as powerful as they used to be. Defeating the invading enemy with a tough stance undoubtedly slapped the Pope and Sauron in the face. Later, when confronting the Pope's Hall, if guerrilla ambushes and other means are adopted, then it is a strategy rather than a show of weakness.
After staying in Asgard for the past few years, especially after coming into contact with many nobles and high-level figures in the later period, Zero understood a truth very well. That is the same thing, but in a different order, it will bring people completely different feelings. Especially for those big people, it will directly affect their evaluation of you and decide whether to support or suppress.
Sauron's high-pressure policy has been implemented for more than ten years. Zero doesn't believe that there will be no people with two hearts under him, and confrontation is more about showing these people in order to win more allies. This is the ultimate meaning behind this battle. After Zero explained this, Hook, who was originally opposed, finally agreed to Zero's strategy.
Pirates, even the four legendary pirates. Even though they have superior combat power, they are not good at the special battlefield of politics. It can also be said that what they pursue is freedom and a life without constraints. Therefore, from a perspective, there must be no zero long-term view. What is important is not the name of the First World War, but the far-reaching impact that this war can have on the entire future situation.
Whoever can grasp the situation of future development will be the final winner. This is a game. If a chess player only sees the gains and losses in front of him, he has already lost the overall game.
But on the huge chessboard in the Western Continent, it is far from the time to decide the winner.
So the matter of confronting the enemy army commander head-on was finalized in this way, but the details still need to be discussed. These include how to grasp the correct time for the appearance of enemy warships, how to make good use of the batch of sea oil to make fire belts, and some tactical details at that time, etc. While Zero was closely discussing this matter, the members of Destiny headed by Franklin on the Whisperer Strait fell into a hard fight.
After clearing all obstacles, Colonel Mader changed his strategy today and concentrated a large number of knight mechas and officers above the lieutenant level in the fleet as the forward. For Mader, this is undoubtedly a big gamble, throwing the strongest combat power of one's own side into the breakthrough battle of the strait at one time. In case of failure, the fleet he led would only be left with ordinary soldiers with a large number of people but low combat power.
There was no doubt that Colonel Mader had made the right bet this time. Facing the huge firepower of the Knight Mecha Group and the assistance of a large number of lieutenant-level ability users, the Pope's Hall has formed a piercing force that is several levels stronger than yesterday. Although Franklin stubbornly used various traps, terrain, and ace group of high-level ability users. However, due to the huge disparity in numbers, the fleet of the Pope's Hall was advancing steadily in the strait.
In this process, it can be seen that ability users like Berrien who have the means of mass destruction have far more advantages in attacking the army than Feng Hesu who individually attack powerful ability users. It was also under Berrien's powerful firepower output that the fleet of the Pope's Hall did not break through the strait in one go. Facing the overwhelming number of enemies, Franklin had no choice but to adjust his plan.
With Berrien attracting and continuing to output, Su and others changed the target of attack to the commander of the opponent, and staged a scene where they killed the enemy general among thousands of troops, which can be called a war example. After disintegrating the command system of the opponent's fleet, the enemy's strength was continuously consumed through mobile warfare. In the end, faced with the snowballing losses, Mader had to stop the advance and use the bend in the strait as a base to establish a temporary advance base to prevent Franklin from taking the opportunity to recover the lost ground.
In the evening of this day, the Pope's fleet broke through the Whisperer Strait to the No. 3 area designated by Franklin. But for this, they also paid a high price. Among them, hundreds of knight armors were damaged, while officers above the lieutenant rank lost more than half, and ordinary soldiers suffered countless losses.
This battle was tragic. In order to prevent the fleet from breaking through, Destiny had almost used up 80% of its supplies. Most of the ordinary sailors were killed in battle. Although the ability users were not killed in battle, even the strong at Su's level suffered some minor injuries under the fierce enemy fire. As for Haiwei's level, they suffered moderate injuries. With one or two serious injuries, he will no longer be able to continue fighting tomorrow.
Berrien was almost miraculously unscathed. In order to protect his humanoid turret, Franklin did his best. Even the giant was bombarded with several pieces of flesh by a machine gun in order to cover Berrien, but Berrien just exhausted his energy and almost lost his strength.
But with the power of one ship, they stopped the enemy fleet for two days. After this battle, I am afraid that the entire Western Continent will know the names of each of them.
But now, Franklin still dare not relax. Another day, as long as I stop the other party for another day, I will complete the order with zero confession. That evening, a fleet of ships that came over from the House of the Sea were the pirates who were not selected to fight against the Devil's Channel. They were assigned to assist Franklin and his party. Even though these pirates had low average combat power, they still belonged to the new force, so some trivial work fell on them, and those who were capable got more rest time.
After witnessing the miracle of Franklin and others blocking the Pope's fleet for two days, the pirates acting as reinforcements were all in high spirits and worked harder. So all the new traps were placed on the river after Area 3 overnight, preparing for a deadly battle for tomorrow's arrival.
When the battle in the Whisperer Strait entered a fierce stage, in the Devil's Channel, the four warships finally arrived at the exit before dusk after going through bumps all the way, and anchored on an isolated island near the exit. As night fell, dense radiation clouds stretched across the sky, which was different from the old times. Even though it was night, there was still a faint red glow behind the radiation cloud, like a sea of fire behind the cloud.
Therefore, at night in the New Era, the sky is always dark red. This is a depressing tone, but unfortunately, no one can change this tone. Someone once said that if it weren't for the existence of the radiation cloud, everything on the earth would have been destroyed in the flames. This is not a lie, after all, on the day of the cataclysm, the planet's ozone layer has suffered devastating damage. The radiation cloud enveloped the planet like a second layer of protection, so that the deadly cosmic rays did not fall directly on the earth.
Otherwise, this planet would have become a death star long ago, and life would not be able to barely survive as it is now.
But even so, human beings or other lives are still working hard to create damage, pushing the planet into the abyss of death. Ironically, although this is against the wishes of the vast majority of living beings, the decision-making power is in the hands of a few people.
The pyramid-shaped power structure of the planet determines that the fate of mole crickets is only in the hands of the few people at the top of the pyramid.
This is the default rule of the world. Many people are dissatisfied, but no one can break it.
Looking up at the dark red sky, Habes remained silent for a long time. The black double-breasted robe fluttered in the wind, like a mass of ink that was too thick to melt. The black color enveloped Habes, and the light in the young leader's eyes seemed not as clear as before.
"I can see that the faith in your heart is not so firm." Carlomon's voice sounded behind him, and Habes smiled slightly and turned around.
The middle-aged man threw a wine bottle to Habes, but threw it back for the latter. Habes shook his head and said, "I don't drink."
"What's the fun in such a rigorous life?" Carlomon sat down on the ground, drinking wine and said, "There will be a war tomorrow, you have to learn to enjoy yourself in time."
"My joy is not based on alcohol." Habes said indifferently, and then looked into the depths of the Roaring Bay: "Captain Carlomon, didn't you notice it? Isn't this bay too calm?"
Caromon sipped his wine and said: "It's normal, that old guy Mader led people directly to the Whisperer Strait, it's no wonder the pirates didn't stop them. In this way, it's not normal for the bay to be calm." ?"
Habes frowned: "But I remember that Colonel Mader led three complete fleets. With such force, it should have entered the bay long ago. Why is the pirate's headquarters still so quiet?"
"If those legendary captains fought hard to intercept it, it's not surprising that Mader failed to pass through the strait for the time being. Let's not talk about Hook and Manshan, that Cinderella is already very difficult. What I am more concerned about is that Mader How much firepower is attracted to the pirates, it is best to attract them firmly in the strait, so that we can flank from behind and end this battle in one fell swoop."
Habes felt a little disapproving in his heart, and the overly calm Roaring Bay gave him a little uneasiness.
It's a gut feeling.
At this moment, Habes heard some strange sounds. It was the sound of bubbling sea water, and the sound came from the surface of the sea below the boat.