1216 in the continental calendar, 336 in the imperial calendar, January 6.

The sea area of Yekjar military port is sunny and sunny, and under the blue sky, an encounter on the sea is unfolding.

In the process of rapid advance on the surface of the sea, the clipper reconnaissance team of the first detachment of the combined fleet encountered three double-decker multi-sail warships of the Elven Empire!

Elven warships were the first to attack the Combined Fleet Clippers reconnaissance group with long-range heavy crossbows.

Half an hour later, the Clippers used their speed and agility to successfully dodge the Elven Ship's attack and move to its flank to see the aircraft counterattack.

"Pounce!"

"Pounce!"

Soon, the Clippers' crossbow bolts hit the side of an elven warship,

But it's just a hit.

Because the outer deck of the elven warship successfully resisted the attack, the combined fleet's wrist-thick crossbow arrows did not even penetrate the deck.

"It's the elf's thousand-year-old iron tree!"

The commander of the clipper group snatched the flag of the flag bearer and personally waved the flag of retreat.

The Iron Tree, a tree species abundant in the northern part of the former Imperial Territory, is known for its tenacity, and the people of the Crane Territory mostly use it to make longbows, and the longbows made from this tree make the Klan Territory longbowmen famous throughout the continent.

The Elven Iron Tree and the Klan Collar Iron Tree belong to the same tree species, among which the Millennium Iron Tree is the most precious.

Conceived by the elves and over countless years, this iron tree has a particularly defensive earth elemental power, allowing it to withstand most physical attacks while also preventing the erosion of magic.

Throughout the coast, the Elven Millennium Iron Tree is known and traded as a high-value trade item, but not many are actually traded on the market.

...

On the sea,

After the Combined Fleet Clippers took the initiative to retreat, the three elf warships also chose to retreat.

This encounter comes and goes quickly.

Three hours later, the time came to 12:10 p.m. on the 6th.

The Flying led the Combined Fleet in a single column formation and arrived in the waters near the spot where the advance clipper team had encountered the elven warship three hours earlier.

At half past twelve, the lookout on the Flying during the Combined Fleet parade spotted a huge group of warships in the southwest sea.

Five minutes later, the intelligence team confirmed that the group was an elven fleet.

Buck then ordered the warships to enter a state of combat readiness, and took the initiative to lead the Flying to the flank of the elven fleet, and the elven fleet also divided into small groups of warships at the same time and quickly headed for the south of the combined fleet.

Twenty minutes later, when the clock was close to one o'clock, all the giant warships of the second detachment of the combined fleet changed from a vertical formation to a horizontal formation, and the rest of the warships followed closely around the second detachment, and the entire combined fleet presented a wedge-shaped echelon formation.

The fleet of the Mage Towers followed behind.

Then Colonel Buck's order came: "All ships must attack in concert, both retreat and retreat together, and advance together." ”

Soon, the two sides chased each other in a huge circle on the wide sea.

An hour later, the two fleets gathered less than five hundred meters, and the giant battleships in the front row of the elven fleet first fired a row of dense crossbow arrows, while the combined fleet was already prepared, and the battleships in front quickly turned sharply to the north side of the sea and sailed to the right side of the elven fleet.

At this time, the Flying actually risked exposing itself to the range of the elven fleet's crossbow arrows!

Tens of seconds later,

The lookout on the Flying shouted: "Broadside, enemy ballista!"

"Magic shield ready!" Colonel Buck's lookout scope was full of crossbow arrows stabbing into the sun.

There was no need for Buck to remind them that the mages stationed on the Flying were already wielding a circle at the behest of their commander.

"Ding, ding, ding..."

Dense crossbow bolts are kept out of magic shields.

"Whoosh" But suddenly, a silver-white crossbow arrow pierced through the magic shield without hindrance.

The crossbow arrow, the thickness of an adult's arm, was nailed directly to the main mast of the Flying Flight, and the arrow was depicted with a dense circle emitting a white streamer.

"It's a demon-breaking arrow!" someone exclaimed.

"Be careful, there's magic attached to it!" a nearby mage stopped the soldier from approaching,

I saw that a layer of cold air visible to the naked eye on the mast attached to the crossbow arrow suddenly emitted to the surrounding area, and as the cold air spread, a layer of ice as thick as the palm of a hand quickly froze everything in the surrounding space.

In the blink of an eye, the chill spreads nearly two meters!

The soldiers on the lower deck only felt that they had just breathed a sigh of relief, and the temperature around them plummeted to unbearable levels.

Suddenly, a pitch-black staff struck the spreading ice, and the spreading cold air 'retracted' the arrow covered with the circle as if it had encountered a natural enemy.

"Be careful, the elves don't lack a mage!" the mage commander Rusco shouted to the surrounding naval warriors, and then shouted to the mages, "Watch for magic fluctuations on the surrounding sea, and be wary of any possible elven magic." ”

Colonel Buck was shocked into a cold sweat by the sudden burst of magic just now, but he quickly adjusted his mentality and commanded the warship to continue to sail rapidly towards the right flank of the elven fleet.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the Combined Fleet finally closed the distance with the Elven Fleet after losing a giant warship and three clippers, and in a burst of angry orders, the Combined Fleet, which had long been unable to resist, began to counterattack.

In an instant, the two sides fired a salvo of crossbow arrows and a brilliant symphony of magic, and at this moment, even the surrounding sea seemed to be boiling with the battle between the two sides!

After an hour of engagement, probably because the elven fleet had not experienced naval battles for a long time, the three main ships were hit by the magic of the mages of the combined fleet, and then withdrew from the battle, and Buck took the opportunity to order the powerful first detachment to march towards the elven left flank, while he himself led the second detachment of giant warships to continue the attack on the right flank.

And the intact mage fleet was arranged by Buck on the front of the elven fleet!

Buck actually wants to surround the entire elven fleet in one go!

At half past four in the afternoon, the observer on the Flying shouted: "The first detachment has successfully circled the left flank of the elven fleet!"

"Okay!" Buck was so excited that he immediately ordered the adjutant beside him, "Order the First Fleet, and in five minutes we will attack at the same time!"

But to Buck's surprise, the commander of the elven fleet was smarter and more decisive than he expected, and within five minutes, the elven fleet divided into two groups, retreating in the northwest and southwest directions respectively.

"Should we pursue it?" Buck asked the lieutenant next to him with a frown.

Captain Merlot said, "Colonel, Baron Pedy's order is to prevent the elves from landing from the military port of Yekjar. ”

"Haha!" said Buck, who had won the battle, "then go and ask the group of mages when they will be able to capture the port of Yekjar." ”

...

Five hours later, inside the port of the temporary station in the eastern part of the Elven Passy Fortress.

The Elven First General Thranduil summoned the fleet commander Nemerok, the representative of the merchant regime in the Iruk region Minnie Vatu Knight, the second general Rizzo Caro, and the mage commander Moiraka.

When everyone sat down, the anxious Moiraka couldn't help but pay attention to Nemeroko without waiting for his brother to speak, "Our warships are better than human ones, and we have a larger fleet cluster, why did you lose so easily?"

Although she said something reproachful, her tone of voice seemed calm, as if she were recounting the most ordinary and trivial matter.

Nemerok, a high male elf with a lifespan of more than five hundred years, was not angry when faced with Moiraka's duties, and when the eyes of the crowd looked at him, he explained: "The young elves have no experience in naval warfare, and most of them don't even know how to aim on the shaky seas, and I warned you not to expect too much from our fleet before the battle. ”

"But... Your Excellency Someroco, our battle plan needs the support of the fleet. Knight Minnie Vatu saluted respectfully, and she looked at Nemerok with a pair of dark eyes, "We must clear all the Imperial forces near the military port of Yekjar in the next three days. ”

"Trust me, we can do it, young knight. Thranduil replied in place of Nemeroko, his handsome face with confidence, "Actually, the distance between the military port of Yekjel and the Pasi woodland is less than twenty miles in a straight line, and the Phiput Mountains and the Phiput Strait block our way. ”

Moiraka continued in place of her brother: "Even if the Feld Mountains can shade the sky and the vast strait can separate the two civilizations, in terms of space, the distance between us and the Yekjar military port will never change. ”

She looked at Minnie Mouse Vatu proudly, "Such a short distance, it can be teleported by magic!"

The female knight was stunned when she heard this, and couldn't help but remind: "We have 50,000 people who need to log in to the Yekjar military port, and we also need to ensure a stable supply line in the future." ”

"Rest assured, we have enough casting materials. Thranduil said, "Besides, the fleet of the Misha Kingdom and the remaining fleet of Nix City will soon come to support, and victory will be ours sooner or later." ”

Knight Minnie's frowning brows stretched slightly, but he still couldn't help but say, "I'm worried that Fort Eluk won't last that long, and the Empire began to storm the castle two days ago!"

"That's your business!" Moiraka's cold voice rang out.

"Knight, the magical warriors of the Drake Mage Tower are not easy to deal with, and our pressure in the Yekjar Military Port is no less than yours. The second general of the Elven Kingdom, Lizo Caro, said: "The Mage Tower has been increasing troops to the Yekjar Military Port, and according to the information from the front, as of two o'clock this afternoon, the Mage Tower has invested nearly 12,000 magic warriors. ”

"If the Mage Tower really invested so many troops in the Yekjar Military Port, the Military Port would have changed hands long ago. The female knight said solemnly: "There should be a little more sincerity between us, Your Excellency General." ”

"That's because we're not only fighting the mages, we're negotiating with them at the same time. The smile on Thranduil's face looked a bit like a sneer, "Neither the Mage Tower nor we want to fight at the Yekjar Military Port, obviously, we have a common topic. ”

"Okay. The female knight frowned, and after a few seconds of silence, she could only nod helplessly, "So, tell me when Fort Elook will be able to wait for reinforcements!"

"It won't be long!"

"I need specific time, and our people need to know the answers. ”

"Number 12!" Thranduil said in an affirmative tone, "Before the 12th, our army will appear on time in the Fort Erruk area. With that, he looked at the fleet commander Nemerok, "When will the fleet of the Misha Kingdom and Nix City arrive?" The elven general apparently didn't want to discuss this with the female knight anymore.

"It will be tomorrow afternoon at the earliest. ”

"They're slow enough. Moiraka said dissatisfiedly: "The Imperial Combined Fleet has occupied the Mason Islands in the waters south of the Yekjar Military Port, and I am afraid that they will use this as a base to send a large army to garrison, so that we will become very passive in the later wars." ”

"Crewe will not garrison troops in the Mason Islands. Knight Minnie shook his head, "Even if Baron Pedi has the intention to garrison the army, the Imperial Military Department will definitely not agree, the human empire is more complicated than you think." ”

"For the absolute security of our supply lines, the Masson Islands cannot be kept in the hands of the Empire. Ignoring the female knight's words, he looked at the unrolled map, "War is full of accidents everywhere, and no one can imagine what the Empire intends to do in the next moment. ”

"Then follow the original battle plan. Thranduil concluded: "First take the sea control in the waters near the Yekjar Military Port, use the Yekjar Military Port as a base and supply point, and have a decisive battle with the Empire at El Luk Fort!"

"Now that the teleportation circle has been built," said Rizocaro, "I suggest that we immediately send more troops to the Yekjar Naval Harbor, after all, negotiations with the Mage Tower will also require a show of force to them. ”

"Good!" Thranduil agreed after thinking for a few seconds, and he looked at Rizzocaro: "You are going to command this war yourself, my request is simple... It is necessary to ensure the absolute security of the Yekjel military port, but there is no way to expand the scale of the war with the mage tower. ”

"Your request is not simple at all. ”

"I know you can do it well. ”(https:)

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