"The enemy is coming again? These bastards, how dare they ......"

Suddenly, he was awakened from the bed by the violent explosion and shock wave, and suddenly jumped up and grabbed the army next to the pillow. Knife, after the initial anger, Modo Blackwater immediately thought of who had the courage to pluck the feathers of this tiger's mouth, and it scolded viciously:

"Will Needham, it's this None again. Hairy monkeys! ”

Judging from the experience of the commander of the Great Goblin, including the navies of the great powers, there are indeed many forces in the New World that have the ability to cause the Dongning Massacre, but it was just a fight the night before, and the next day it dared to copy it as it was, and it was absolutely rare to dare to blatantly give people eye medicine.

You know, the confrontation between the two armies is exactly the characteristic of a certain guy, although Modo Blackwater has been defeated many times against him, but dealing with this pirate nobleman for a long time can be regarded as a good doctor, and it is easy to distinguish the habitual actions of old opponents. Repeating the same bad move twice, such a breath-holding and hateful lack of morality, probably except for Will Needham, an immortal little powerhouse, few brains in the entire new world can think of it.

"Raise the sails, raise anchor, the fleet is ready to attack!"

The goblin garrison fleet belonging to the Dongning Town Guard Mansion ran outside in a circle last night, and instead of meeting the attackers hiding in the dark, they got lost somehow, and when they returned to the sea during the day, the fleet was anchored in Dongning Harbor. A goblin awakened by an explosion. The sailors pushed the winch to retract the ship's anchor chains, and the huge sails gradually rose to the mast with the sound of a hey-yo-yo trumpet. His Excellency Marshal Todd Greenlake, who was supposed to command this fleet, had been missing since last night, and could only temporarily take over the command of the garrison fleet by a squadron commander.

"Inform the lighthouse, show the way for the fleet."

"Yes, Your Excellency."

Running all the way to the port, only to see the picture of the garrison fleet sailing out of the port, Modo Blackwater has nothing to do to stop the fleet from doing it, don't forget that it still has internal punishment on its back, and its hands are too long, no matter whether it wins or loses, it will not be able to eat and walk, it can only do some things to make up for the shortcomings.

At the end of the order, in the small room at the top of the lighthouse, a metal concave mirror that had been carefully polished by craftsmen was carefully flipped over by several goblin soldiers, and then the mirror was pointed in the direction of the dark sea.

This heavy silver-white metal mirror is made of copper-tin alloy, and because of the high tin content, the color is white, and a string of naphtha lamps are lit in front of the mirror, and the light is aggregated into a beam of light by the concave mirror and reflected to the open sea. A pillar of snow light from inside the city of Dongning. Shooting towards the surface of the sea, this is the first, followed by the second and third, and the number of pillars of light increases. As the intertwined pillars of light appeared one after another, illuminating the sea as bright as day, the pirate fleet that approached the shore to shell could no longer hide in the darkness, and the two columns of artillery bombardment in the distance were faintly visible.

Recognizing the silhouette of the pirate ironclad, Modo Blackwater said to the herald:

"Send a signal, build a fleet and assault the whole army, don't care about the formation."

In accordance with naval tradition. Tactics play a battle line bombardment, in this mode of warfare, the goblin generals, including Modo Blackwater, have never taken advantage of the slightest, the so-called wisdom is the experience of suffering losses, and the goblin navy is not the kind of dead brain that recognizes a path and does not repent, so it naturally has to change course. Since you can't defeat pirates with conventional tactics, why not use unconventional tactics?

Seeing that the goblins began to make moves, and their eyes took off the artillery mirror, Luo Zhengdao sneered and said:

"Order the ironclad detachment to meet the goblin fleet, and the other warships retreat to the open sea to standby."

Hearing this, Brando Scarlet was shocked and hurriedly dissuaded:

"Your Highness, we only have a total of eighteen ironclad ships, and our troops are insufficient!"

Luo Zhengdao is not the kind of rookie who has just entered the battlefield, and said with a smile:

"The goblin fleet doesn't even have an ironclad ship, we use an ironclad ship to fight a wooden ship, what are you afraid of?"

The cost factor that limits the development of ironclad ships is a long-standing problem, and the metal required to build a fully defensive ironclad is enough to arm a division of goblin soldiers, and if it were not for the confiscation of countless human assets, the huge military expenditure alone could have dragged them down. In line with the simple idea that the weapons that the enemy has, we must also have, the Second Goblin Empire has started to build no less than forty ironclad ships. However, these expensive weapons have always only been used by the main forces such as the Goblin Fleet, and the fleets of the local towns are not qualified to compete with the main fleet for the share of the new warships.

Modo Heishui took the responsibility for the failure and was punished by the military department and transferred to the training camp, it was impossible to take the ironclad ship to the camp located in the middle of the river to train recruits, and none of the more than 400 large and small warships under the jurisdiction of the Dongning Town Garrison Fleet were ironclad ships in the strict sense, and the most outstanding defensive performance was only a few old sail battleships with iron plates.

The decisive factor in naval warfare is the collision of hardware, and there will rarely be a case of land warfare in which less wins more, so the large ship, giant artillery and total tonnage are the life of the navy. Genzi, at this time, seeing that the strength of the goblin garrison fleet was so weak, he dared to fight back wildly. Seeing this, Luo Zhengdao was already overjoyed, would he care about the instinctive fear of his subordinates? Have you ever seen a tiger afraid of too many sheep? No matter how many enemy troops there are, it's just a matter of how big your appetite is and how much you can eat in one meal.

His fingers lightly tapped the hilt of the sword, and there were always some small movements in a state of contemplation, and then Luo Zhengdao said loudly:

"Order the fleet to attack from the right flank, and after we penetrate the array of the goblin fleet, we will completely crush them from the rear."

Tonight, the goblin warships sailing out of the port of Dongning still attacked in a horizontal formation according to the original formed units, and the garrison fleet, which had absolute superiority on paper, cautiously but firmly approached the pirate ironclad fleet, which was dozens of times less than itself. Seeing the black and oppressive goblin warships on the opposite side pushing all the way over, the eighteen ironclad ships separated from the team became more and more lonely, like a few duckweed on the water, which could be ruthlessly swallowed up by the stormy wind and waves at any time.

Brando Scarlet, who had been holding back and assuming specific command responsibilities, drew his sword and shouted loudly:

"Launch flares, and the fleet will begin to assault."

Anyone with a little common sense knows the answer to which is harder, wood or steel, and there is no need to scrutinize this matter. In less than an hourglass time, the battle between the pirate ironclad ships and the goblin fleet came to an end, and in the pitch-black sea, nearly half of the goblin warships had sunk or were sinking, and the rest were either fleeing or fighting the fire.

Encountering the high-speed, heavily defended, and powerful pirate ironclad ship head-on, it was almost like a steel knife cutting tofu, killing the goblin garrison fleet with only a numerical advantage, and the goblin temporary commander who had escaped by luck struggled to climb onto a small boat and fled to the coast not far away, behind it on its back. Jing is a myriad of flaming goblin warships. In this battle, the garrison fleet of Dongning Town Guard Mansion lost nearly seventy percent, fortunately, it was close to its own territory, and the proportion of goblin soldiers who abandoned the ship and escaped and swam ashore was relatively high

"Stupid Modo Modo Blackwater, I really shouldn't let this idiot lead the fleet out to sea again."

Although he watched a naval battle for free in Dongning, and helped clean up the mess, if the big goblin commander knew about the negative behavior of the military department higher-ups. Evaluation, presumably it must have a kind of grievance that Mao Laozi can be shot while lying down, or that he was inexplicably hit by an arrow in his knee. Needless to say, the cause and result of this naval defeat have nothing to do with Modo Heishui, it is limited to being a spectator near the battlefield, so that you can also eat the pot with it, which is indeed more wronged than the Dou family's goose!

The military department's anger is not unfounded, since the invincible Second Goblin Empire on the main continent set foot in the Taihai Sea, the ensuing clouds of defeat have entangled this militarism-based new empire like a resentful spirit, and the goblins have been unable to raise their heads in front of the world's audience.

Losing to a strong opponent at the level of a great power, the goblins will also be depressed and depressed for a while because of the defeat, so they can comfort themselves psychologically, and it is natural for a new navy to pay some tuition fees to its predecessors.

The situation is very different when they are repeatedly beaten away by a handful of human exiles and pirates, and those opponents who are not strong in their own right, but are extremely tenacious, even talk to goblins. The fig leaf of consolation was also torn off, not only to make it clear that the Goblin Navy was a clumsy expression of a flock of landlubbers, but also to belittle their previous glorious victories. So much so that a small number of strategic analysts openly belittle the Second Goblin Empire, for example, a researcher in the newspaper of the Elven Federation published an article claiming that most of the goblins' previous achievements were due to the poor performance of their opponents. Even exile chieftains such as Will Needham and Gauder Needham were able to defeat the goblins with ease, showing that the Second Goblin Empire's previously invincible reputation was outrageously powerful.

Of course, if Modo Heishui wants to say that he is completely wronged, this reason is not necessarily unassailable, who told it to appear at the moment when the top leaders of Dongning are missing or killed in battle!

According to the basic principle of the order of rank replacement of the goblin army, Modo, who was captured, only had the title of temporary supreme commander, and did not have time to make any tactical deployments, and even the garrison fleet was temporarily worked by another temporary worker, but this was enough to remind those who were thinking about who to blame for the defeat. In the midst of this kind of indefensible crisis, most of them will be hacked to death with tacit understanding, and qualified scapegoats are a scarce resource at any time!

Modo Blackwater is glad that its roots are deep enough, and after that. Taiwan is also hard enough, and when this tendency was discovered, there were already military bigwigs who stood up to defend it.