The horn sounded, and the fleet set sail.
A group of warships lined up and left the pier, heading towards the pirate ship. The warships all used external turbines, and they continued to accelerate under the mixed kinetic energy of manpower and windmills. From the sky, it looks like an arrow piercing towards the pirate ship. Compared with the neat array of warships, the array of pirate ships can only be described as loose. It's just that no one will find it strange, after all, pirates have never been some disciplined guys, even if all their ships have the same pattern of flags.
Soon, the warship fleet rushed into the pirate ship, and then opened fire. Artillery, heavy artillery, and the machine guns of the paladin mechas, the powerful firepower overwhelmed the pirates. When the soldiers on the city wall saw this scene, everyone was happy. In their eyes, the loose pirate fleet is not an opponent of their own warships at all.
After a round of bombardment, the two pirate ships were sunk. Under the cover of their own firepower, the pirates on the sunken ship were able to jump onto their own ship and escape. Soon, the pirates retreated. Looking at a row of malicious sail shadows on the horizon, Signe gave the order to return to the team, so the team of warships did not continue to pursue, and returned to the harbor after a circle on the sea.
At noon, another group of pirate ships arrived. A total of twenty pirate ships formed a neat line that surprised Pacero's soldiers. Without saying a word, Signe swung his army forward again. It was the same warship that the team faced in the morning, but this time it was slightly different from the morning. After the two fleets met on the sea not far from Fasero, the pirate ships collectively lowered their sails, and then the two sides of the ship were opened to reveal a row of external turbines. It turned out that the ones going out this time were also hybrid ships.
In the case of human-operated external turbines, the pirate ships were divided into two teams with ten ships as a team, and they attacked the warships arranged in a triangular array like tiger sharks. This bombardment lasted for a long time, and the pirate fleet showed amazing resilience, and repeatedly used equipment such as external turbines to accelerate, thereby avoiding the firepower of warships.
It's just that the equipment between the two was far apart. An hour later, five pirate ships were sunk. Like wounded wolves, the pirates roared unwillingly, but they had no choice but to retreat. Amid bursts of cheers from the defenders of the city wall, the warship returned to sail. It was a battle, and the Fassian army only left one warship behind.
Just when the Knights thought that the pirates would not continue to attack for the time being, before three o'clock in the afternoon, this group of desperadoes came again. This time they no longer attacked head-on, but turned around to the direction of the channel of the Road of Destiny, intending to attack the left city of Facero in a detour. How could Signe send troops to intercept them immediately as they wished. But as soon as he sent a warship to intercept it, another group of pirate ships attacked from another direction. Signe was about to send another fleet, but Yafidi stopped him.
The temperamental commander of the legion said that he was here to assist in the defense, not to be a guest. Why is it that only Signe's 4th legion started the war. So the regiment commander pointed with his finger, and the warships belonging to the 11th Legion on the pier set sail to face the pirates attacking from the front.
This battle has been entangled for a long time, and the pirates changed their strategy. Instead of clinging to the Knights' fleet of warships, which were not much different from iron blocks, they fired a few shots and ran away. Seeing that the warships wanted to return to the voyage, they chased them back. After going back and forth several times, no one could do anything to anyone, but the ammunition of the Knights was depleted a lot. The battle lasted until dusk, and finally the ammunition on both sides was almost exhausted before they dispersed.
After the battle, Signe and Yafidi discovered that no pirate ship had been sunk this time, not even a single one. There was no way around this, the pirates fought side-by-side at the fringe of the warship's range of fire, refusing to face it to death. During the period, the two legion commanders both gave orders to pursue with all their strength, thinking of fighting fast. It's a pity that there is a large sea area between the two. When the knights made any movement, the pirates slipped faster than rabbits.
So a battle was fought, and the fleets on both sides basically suffered no losses.
The sun was setting, and in the binoculars, Chuo Chuo's sail shadow did not seem to dissipate. Signe put down the binoculars, thoughtful.
He had a long talk with Yafidi for two hours in the evening, and the next morning. At the port of Facelo, the building belonging to Signe started. The 4th Legion came out in full force, forming a huge fleet with hundreds of warships under its command, pointing at the pirate fleet like a long sword. The defenders on the city wall burst out waves of loud noises, celebrating the triumphant return of the legion commander in advance.
Signe's combat power is tyrannical, and he also has the ultimate killer weapon of the Knights of the Round Table. Adding hundreds of warships, there are more than 50 paladin mechs alone. With such a huge combat power on the unsafe sea, the soldiers really can't think of how the pirates can resist the power of the entire army. But Yafidi on the city wall didn't think so. When Signe proposed such a risky action last night, Yafidi opposed it with all his strength.
After all, according to their intelligence, there are now a dozen high-level pirates. Although Fasero has many guards, in terms of high-end combat power, he and Signe are actually the only ones. The two of them are a bit reluctant to defend Facero. If the enemy group of capable users attacks wildly regardless of the consequences, it is really unknown whether they can defend Facero. And Signe dispatched a whole legion to take the initiative to attack, which undoubtedly made Fasero's defense unprecedentedly weak.
As long as the pirates allocate half of their troops to entangle, and the other troops cooperate with more than three high-level attacks, Yafidi must be prepared to fight to the death.
Kesigne insisted on this, the reason is very simple. That's morale!
If Facero can't hold on, he can naturally delay the battle as much as possible. But if nothing is done, morale will quickly drop, which is not good for war. Both Legion Masters are well aware of what morale means in a war, especially a protracted one. What's more, Signe had other plans. He took the initiative to attack, firstly to boost the morale of the whole city, and secondly, it was a tentative attack, trying to get a feel for the pirates.
After all, it is now in the waters of Pacero, this is not the Whisperer Strait, nor the Roaring Gulf. There is a vast sea here, and this battlefield will optimize the mobility of the Knights' fleet to the greatest extent. As long as he doesn't directly face a large number of high-level conflicts with the enemy, Signe is sure to win this battle.
Sea battles have another advantage for Signe, that is, there are very few venues for the enemy's high-level powerhouses to play, which avoids the danger of concentrating high-level combat power on the opponent and defeating them in one fell swoop.
And now, Signe is doing the same. Under his command, every five warships are a combat unit. Each combat unit is arranged in a triangular array, and a total of 20 combat units form a larger triangular array headed by the commander Lou Jian. In this way, there are formations within the formation, which makes the entire fleet both rigorous and flexible, and can be quickly separated when necessary, so as to avoid damage to the opponent's high-level combat power.
Signe left full of confidence, but unexpectedly, the shadow of the sail on the horizon began to move before touching it. But instead of fighting, the pirates turned around and ran away. Signe had envisioned many possibilities, but he never thought of the possibility that the pirates would turn around and run away as soon as their shots were fired. But after he was stunned for a moment, he ordered the pursuit.
So Signe's fleet set out during the day and returned at sunset. As many warships go out, the same number will return. It was a good thing to lose one ship at the end, but the soldiers on the city wall soon discovered that these warships were too clean, as if they had never been stained by the flames of war. Then many people remembered that the sea seemed to be too calm today, and there was not a single cannon shot
Looking at the countless sails on the horizon, the hearts of all the soldiers couldn't help sinking.
After returning to Fasero, Signe returned to the command room without saying a word. A moment later, Yafidi entered. He glanced at Signe and asked lightly, "What's going on?"
"It's abnormal." Signe twirled the ring on his little finger, and said, "The pirates played hide-and-seek with me all day, and I chased them and ran away. As soon as I stopped, they assumed an attacking posture again." , But when we caught up, these bastards turned around and ran away again. I chased them for hundreds of nautical miles, but they were almost circling around."
"So it seems that they are planning to hold us back?" Yafidi sat down, tapped the table with his long and strong fingers and said, "They plan to drag us down until morale is low and supplies are scarce. When is the time for another general attack?"
"It is indeed possible." Signe shook his head and sighed, "If it was the former pirates, I wouldn't be afraid of them."
Yafidi was silent about it.
This is indeed a headache. Pirates were rampant in the past, but the Knights have never been afraid of them. In the final analysis, the lack of pirates at the level of high-level combat power is a key problem. At that time, only the four major captains could fight the legion commander, and the others had no choice but to run away. So there is trouble, but it is limited.
But this time it was different, a group of high-level ability users popped up from the pirates at some point. Because of the existence of this group, the Knights of the Whisperer Strait battle suffered a crushing defeat. Now that all the pirates are strong, the knights have been eaten to death in terms of high-level combat power. There were only 13 high-ranking knights, and two of them were killed in the Roaring Gulf, and Mamelo was missing.
As a result, there were only ten high-ranking knights left. Among these ten, Sauron must be in Rome. As for the other legion commanders, they also have their own missions. They are distributed near various important cities or resource distribution points in the western continent, and they cannot escape when they are free. It is very rare for Sauron to call Yafidi to support Signe. It is not so realistic for him to send another legion over.
Of course, apart from superficial strength, there are some unknown high-level people in the Pope's Hall. For example, the Big Three in the Inquisition, as well as retired high-level players like the Bloody Knight Lambert. It's just that the Inquisition will only be dispatched when crusade against heresy, and there are only five veterans like Lambonis at present.
These people are not only old, but it is still unknown whether their combat power can be maintained above the normal level. In addition, retired veterans are fully qualified to refuse recruitment according to the laws of the Pope's Hall. This is an affirmation of their outstanding contributions to the Pope's Hall. What's more, if these veterans were to be mobilized, Sauron might lose face.
The problem has returned to the original point, high-level combat power plays a decisive role in the war of the new era. In the past, the Knights used this advantage to shock the pirates, but now the situation has turned around, causing the two legion leaders of Signe to have a headache.
What Kesigne didn't know was that the hundreds of pirate ships hovering on the horizon were just pretending. Although the pirates who attacked Facero were flying the banner of the Sea Gods, they were not members of the real adapted Sea Gods. They are the pirates who have been wiped out. Now their task is not to capture Falseiro, but to use harassment and guerrilla tactics to try to hold back the attention of Pacero and even the Pope's Hall.
As for the main force of the Sea God Group, they quietly headed towards the Broken Bay. Their goal was naturally the fortress Kanon, which was located near the Eternal Mountains and guarded the blood-stained road!
Zero gave the pirates who pretended to attack Facero only one request, and that was to hold them back for three days. Three days later, all the pirates went to the outer island area and broke up into pieces, waiting for the sea god group to be recruited again.
And now, two days have passed!
Dawn came as usual on the third day, and just before dawn, Facero's defenders found that the pirates lined up in a long line and approached like a dark cloud from the horizon. On this day, Fasero sounded the highest standard alarm, Yafidi and his army were still in charge of defense, and Signe went into battle again, commanding his fleet to attack.
This time the pirates did not escape again, and Signe's warship array finally cut into the pirate fleet as he wished. Once in contact, the pirates' overstretched front was easily pierced by the knights. When Signe made a decisive decision to widen the gap, the pirate ship changed sides. The ships on the two wings retracted and gradually closed into a circle to envelop the Knights' fleet.
Under the nearly frenzied artillery fire of the pirates, another twenty or so pirate ships launched a suicide charge. This surprised Signe, and soon he found that the personnel on the charging ships had withdrawn at some point. The rudder on the ship should be fixed with tools, and then use the inertia to slide over. The head of the legion immediately ordered his own warships to intercept. Unexpectedly, under the artillery attack, the assault ship exploded immediately.
The explosion formed a fire cloud, which surprised Signe, because the fire cloud was really huge, and the fire cloud spanning 100 meters was not a product that can be produced by artillery fire. The only explanation was that there were high explosives hidden on the assault ship. !
A cloud of fire rose, and then a wave of fire rolled, spewing a rain of fire. At this time, the explosions had already sounded one after another. After receiving the order from the army commander, the warships on both wings intercepted the assault ships with artillery fire, and then detonated the assault ships that were like mobile explosive magazines. Large clouds of fire border each other, and the waves of fire collide and superimpose each other, forming a violent shock wave.
Many warships got too close and were swept in by the fire cloud. The lucky ones were just wiped off, while the unlucky ones were directly blown into two pieces. After the fire on the sea surface poured out, the pungent smell of gunpowder floated on the sea surface like this.
Signe's face couldn't get any worse. Although the pirates lost about twenty ships, about ten warships on his side were also affected by the explosion. Moreover, the personnel on the warship did not have time to evacuate, and for a while there were soldiers' corpses and the remains of mechas floating on the sea, all of which were like a slap in the face of Signe. What made him even more unacceptable was that after this wave of attacks, the pirates turned around and ran away, so fast that it was too late for Signe to pursue them.
A day passed, and the port at dusk ushered in the returning Knights fleet. The smoke rising from the sea witnessed the fierce battle. Although Signe still chased after him afterwards, just like yesterday, the pirates made up their minds to play guerrilla with him. After the two fleets chased each other for hundreds of nautical miles, Signe saw that it was getting dark, so he had to order to return to Facelo.
At dusk that day, the shadows of the sails on the horizon were still there, and every soldier on the city wall seemed to be holding a boulder in their hearts. But after the dawn of the fourth day, the soldiers discovered that the shadows of sails on the sea horizon had disappeared.
"There must be something we have overlooked." In the command room, Signe walked back and forth: "It is impossible for these guys to come here and shoot a few shots, launch another suicide charge and then leave. What is their purpose for doing this? ?”
"It's really puzzling." Yafidi's delicate brows were already knit together: "It's not a formal attack, but if it's a tentative attack, the cost would be too high."
"No, they came so ostentatiously, but they basically didn't launch a strong attack. It always feels like they are teasing us, or..." Signe suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and his face became extremely ugly: "Could it be They are trying to attract our attention, but the real purpose is not to attack Facelo?"
"This is impossible. Whether it is resources or distance, only Facero is worth attacking."
"That's not necessarily true." Signe walked to the plasma panel, on which was a map of the Western Continent. The legion commander swiped his hand across the map, and finally his fingertips landed on a point.
Yafidi shrank his pupils, stood up and said, "No way, their target is Kanon?"
Signe said in a deep voice: "It takes about three days to go from Phacero to Canon, and the pirate fleet has been entangled with us for three days? I feel strange these days. The enemy's fleet basically There are no capable people on the Internet, and the rumored group of capable people has not appeared. Now we can be sure that we have been tricked. This enemy army entangled with us in Phacero is just a cover, and their real purpose is to cover the main force Go to Canon."
"It's crazy, but there is no doubt. If Canon is captured, its value will be more than ten times that of Facero!" Signe hurriedly said: "I will report to Lord Sauron immediately, and you are responsible for informing Canon's Egg them, get them ready to fight."
Yafidi stood up and said "I see" succinctly, and then he didn't go down to contact the army of Canon. However, while they were busy, at this moment, a little sail shadow had quietly appeared on the sea area of the Broken Bay.