After leaving Lao Xingtou's tailor's shop, Chen Feng returned to Yin's courtyard, and as soon as he arrived at the door, he saw that Shuang Yi was busy looking for him.

There was also a blood-covered magician beside him, and the fleet was attacked, and it was too late to repair, so he ran to report the news.

When Shuang Yi said goodbye to Beta last night, he marked them on the map where Chen Feng was located in Yunhai Town.

That's why the Messenger can find here.

After all, Chen Feng is the commander of the warship formation and the supreme commander of the Patrol Division, and if there is such a big accident, he must be informed, and the final solution must be decided by him.

"What's the matter?

Seeing that Shuang Yi was sweating profusely, Chen Feng hurriedly greeted him.

"Last night you asked me to stop the fleet of the Lord of Beta and let her sail the way she came, but on their way back, passing through the Somari Strait, they were ambushed, and several warships were scuttled, and more than 20,000 knights were lost. ”

The Monty Empire leads to the Snow Moon Empire, and if you want to take a shortcut, you must pass through the Somari moat, surrounded by mountains on both sides, and it is dark, it is difficult to detect the existence of traps, and it is a good place to set up an ambush.

The only pirate in this sea area is the white-bearded willow and white ape.

But his lair has been swept away by Chen Feng, and the remaining pirates are not enough to make waves.

"Find out who did it? This is too rampant, isn't it that even the fleet of the Monty Empire dares to sneak attack? No matter what? Hide this matter first, and don't tell the Empire for the time being. ”

The death of 20,000 knights is not a trivial matter, and if you don't understand it, I'm afraid it will be difficult to give a reasonable explanation to the nobles in the Monty court.

It was a critical moment, and the princes were opposed to spending huge sums of money to open up shipping routes.

If they are to be seized again, the plan for overseas trade will be ruined.

According to the knight who came to report the news, the gang were all wearing black masks, familiar with the nature of the water, when they came, there were no traps in the Somari Strait, and when they returned, they were ambushed, and the pirates took the opportunity to dive under the water and scuttle the warship. ”

"I see, the Beta City Lord is not injured, is he?"

"She was only slightly injured, led the team to break through, and is currently repairing on Whale Landing Island, waiting for your dispatch, and has not returned to the port of the Patrol Division. ”

"Then the hard messenger will run again and tell the city lord of Beta, hide this matter, don't let the Monty Empire know, the situation is urgent, don't delay, it's troublesome. ”

"Rest assured, I promise that your orders will be conveyed in a timely manner. ”

After the magician said goodbye to Chen Feng, he left with the shuttle door scroll.

"Let's go to Somari first and figure out the situation!"

Chen Feng pulled Shuangyi, took a destroyer, and went to the Somari Strait, in order not to be sneak attacked, the radar and thermal imaging were always on, but no abnormalities were found.

After last night's scuffle in the Somari Strait, there are all kinds of debris and the floating corpses of knights floating on the sea, as well as warships that have not sunk to the bottom.

These are all from the fleet of the Lord of Beta.

But strangely, there were no enemy corpses left at the scene, not even traces.

According to Shuang Yi and the messenger's statement, after the fleet was attacked, they immediately launched a counterattack against the pirates on the shore, and more than 100,000 rounds of feather arrows were fired, and it was impossible for the other party to have no casualties.

After retracting the destroyer, Chen Feng landed in search of useful clues.

"Chen Feng, look at it, there are blood stains here, last night's fierce battle, it should be blood, how can there be a smell? Could it be that these pirates are not normal people?"

Frost Yi crouched beside her, blood still stained on the branches.

"It seems that it should have been dead for a long time, and it may not be a simple pirate, but something more terrifying. ”

The surrounding flowers and trees were all damaged to varying degrees, but there was no trace of pirates, and after a fruitless search, Chen Feng planned to leave.

The destroyer passed through the strait and came to the port of Whale Fall Island.

The corpses of 20,000 knights sank into the Somari Strait, and the remaining knights, half seriously injured and half lightly wounded, all had scars of varying degrees on their bodies, and it was difficult to find soldiers who did not hang in the crowd.

"Wangjue, I am careless and despise the enemy, and I am willing to bear all the responsibility. "The lord of Beta was on crutches, her ankle was cut, it was already inflamed, and she couldn't walk.

Chen Feng supported Beta, returned to the main camp, and retreated from the guards at the door.

"Now is not the time to hold accountable, we must first find out who our opponent is? Frost Yi and I have just passed by the Somari Strait, and found a stinky pool of fresh blood on the shore, and we are sure that we have been dead for a long time, and it may not be a human who attacked the fleet, but a monster. ”

"I think it's weird, I think it's weird, those pirates can't kill them, they can still lurk underwater for a long time, and they don't have to surface to breathe.

But it was dark at night, and they were all wearing masks and black robes, and it was not clear whether they were humans or ghosts, and the only thing I knew for sure was that the pirates were thinner than the average person. ”

At the moment of the attack, Beta ordered the fleet to launch a counterattack towards the shore, using Makqin and Tiger in addition to the feathered arrows.

The large-scale fire suppression could not withstand even the most powerful pirates, but this time, they failed to kill a single enemy.

That's weird enough!

"In short, first place the wounded soldiers on Whale Fall Island, remember not to leak the news, the matter of piracy, I and Shuang Yi are responsible for the secret investigation. ”

Chen Feng wanted to hide from the nobles of the Monty Empire so that foreign trade would not be terminated.

This trip to Yunhai Town confirmed that maritime trade was indeed feasible, because gold and silver were cheap commodities in the Monti Empire, and they could be seen everywhere like the slag for building houses, and one or two taels of gold could not be exchanged for one or two taels of rice.

But in the Snow Moon Empire, the same amount of gold can be exchanged for 10,000 copper plates, and the price of a catty of rice is only worth fifteen copper plates.

Although the magical continent of Aezesia is vast, only the coastal plains have fertile land, and most of the territory in the middle is desert and glaciers, which cannot grow crops.

After the Hundred Tribes surrendered to Monty, the Empire was surrounded by 40 million civilians.

A few hundred acres of fertile land really can't feed so many people.

If you can successfully open a shipping route and use worthless gold and silver to buy food and other items from the Snow Moon Empire, you can solve the problem of food shortage.

This is also the reason why Chen Feng insisted on opening up the route, the Patrol Division could not be removed, otherwise it would be in vain to spend a huge amount of money on shipbuilding and suppressing pirates in the early stage.

But tens of thousands of knights suffered heavy casualties at every turn, the movement was too loud, and the place where the whale fell on the island was a big palm, there was no way to hide the secret.

"Chen Feng, just now Commander Greenland sent a private message, saying that the princes have learned about this and are forcing the palace to Emperor Leah, asking her to remove the Sea Patrol Division, and remove your title and punish you for serious crimes. ”

Shuang Yi hurriedly came and handed the opened envelope to Chen Feng.

The current situation is critical, above the court, the nobles are divided into two factions, one is the hereditary nobles, the princes are the majority, but they have no real power, and it is unanimously recommended to punish Chen Feng heavily.

The other faction is the new nobles promoted by the military merit system, these civilian-born generals, the titles are all exchanged for military merits, holding military power, Chen Feng is regarded as the god of war, and the princes will never be allowed to slander him.

He even sent troops to suppress it many times, causing turmoil in the royal city of Monty.