While it is important to strengthen hard power, the means of managing soft power must also keep up, and walking on one leg is destined not to go far.

The first squadron of the Xingchen Sea Privateer Company, the name feels full of slots as soon as you hear it, in essence, it is nothing more than another privateer fleet that is subscribed by a group of investors to subscribe for the company's shares and entrusted to Luo Zhengdao for operation. Although someone is the identity of the company's major shareholder, this fleet does not belong to Luo Zhengdao personally, according to the unwritten rules of piracy, the spoils of war are shared by everyone, as long as you do participate in the war, then you have the right to share a share of the fruits of victory, this feint attack on Xiangjiang, the privateer fleet under the name of the company also participated, and it will definitely be a profit afterwards.

To be honest, Luo Zhengdao doesn't think much of the overall success of this rookie fleet, and he doesn't expect their combat power, but for the sake of long-term interests, it is more cost-effective to bring this oil bottle out early to mix experience, and in the future, it is bound to expand the military strength, and the source of skilled sailors has to count on this public offering limited company.

The battle plan has entered the specific implementation stage, and the actions of all parties cannot be hidden from the eyes of others. The Goblin Navy encountered the privateer fleet in the Qipantuo Sea, about 150 nautical miles off the coast of Xiangjiang, and the 113 large and small warships of this goblin detachment fought a bloody battle with the 89 pirate warships under the command of Luo Zhengdao.

Don't just look at the numbers on paper and think how much advantage the goblin fleet can take advantage of, the goblin detachment that undertakes reconnaissance missions is mainly fast warships such as cruisers, and at best it is the eyes and ears of the big fleet. In terms of the quality of the ships, it is simply impossible to compete head-on with the privateer fleet with four cutting-edge ironclad ships as the core, more than 30 battleships as the backbone, and ten seaplane carriers.

After a short exchange of fire that lasted less than an hour, the goblin fleet, which had no chance of victory, was beaten to the point that it lost its armor, and more than fifty scarred goblin warships fled, and the remaining goblin warships were either sunk and burned or lost their ability to sail and were captured by the jumping gang, and the pirates won a hearty victory.

Luo Zhengdao, who had just become a winner, didn't look very happy, he looked at the distant scenery from the bridge veranda of the Golden Ship, with a melancholy look like a literary and artistic youth, and said indifferently:

"These green-skinned noses are so smart! As soon as we got close to the main continent, they pounced. ”

Hearing this, Brando Scarlet was keenly aware of certain messages, and said tentatively:

"Your Highness, are you going to give up your plan to feint on Xiangjiang?"

Hearing this, Luo Zhengdao suddenly laughed, and said playfully:

"You can't give up, you have to play a full set of acting, and if you don't fire a shot, you will move the battlefield, the goblins will perceive that this is a feint, and we can only confuse each other if we act realistically."

Although the operation of attacking Xiangjiang is a strong performance, it is just a play for goblins to watch, and by the way, it is equivalent to a military exercise for those who have just joined the Xingchen Sea Private Raid Company. However, for the pirate gunners who were unfamiliar with their skills, how to ensure that the flying cannonballs did not hit the heads of the merchant group became a troubling technical difficulty.

Very innocently used as a target by the pirate fleet, after receiving the clear hint that this operation was a feint, the Xiangjiang Merchant Group did not dare to make any small moves, lest Luo Zhengdao find fault and knock a bamboo pole again. Seeing the roar of the cannons on the pirate warships outside the harbor shaking the heavens and the earth, they could only honestly huddle behind the defensive line composed of large and small forts, and they could not see the pirates bombarding the beach wasteland indiscriminately, putting on a deaf turtle formation, and they would not come out if they were killed.

Luo Zhengdao is a drunkard who does not mean to drink, he is interested in what kind of strategy the goblins will take to his actions, while admiring the ugly artillery drills of the rookies, while saying to the fleet commander Brando Scarlet:

"Where's the Goblin Fleet?"

"According to the report sent back by the reconnaissance plane, we are still two hundred nautical miles away."

Hearing the sound and nodding, Luo Zhengdao waved his hand and said:

"Well, everyone can retreat."

The news that the pirate fleet had retreated calmly for most of the day before the goblins arrived, and the whereabouts of the goblins were a mystery to the devastating Modo Blackwater, a defeated goblin commander who had secretly been dubbed an incompetent by his colleagues. The more knowledgeable goblin generals know that the successive defeats of the goblin navy are, fundamentally speaking, a drawback caused by the low quality of personnel, and it cannot be explained by reprimanding a certain commander for his mistakes in commanding the battle. However, in the Second Goblin Empire, there are too many masters who don't understand naval issues but want to follow blindly.

Modo Blackwater, who has almost become a street rat, hopes to defeat one day, preferably by killing Will Needham to clear his name, this time he rushed to Xiangjiang with a desire to prepare to face his old enemy, and was suddenly told that the target is unknown.

"Send out a reconnaissance fleet, can pirates get into the sea?"

Hearing Modo Blackwater's angry order, his subordinates could only obey, and a goblin staff officer said:

"Yes, Your Excellency, Commander. And what to do with the main fleet? ”

The Great Goblin Fleet is a mobile force to defend the main continent, and the fleets belonging to those local town guards are even more unbearable, and the greatest value of their existence is to delay a little more time before being annihilated by the enemy, and the Grand Fleet is a fire brigade ready to fight fires at any time, so it is neither realistic nor reasonable to stay in the waters of Xiangjiang for a long time.

Modo Blackwater touched a handful of short hair on the mandibin steel brush and said:

"Order the anchor to be repaired, and notify the merchant group to jointly send supplies to the labor army."

"Yes, Your Excellency, Commander."

The Xiangjiang merchant group unites this kind of dog's leg is a fat sheep left for the master to harvest wantonly, just like the bald eagle in the old world as soon as it spends money, it will think of the foot basin chicken at the first time, this thing can't be broken at all, this is fate!

"Here we are, Your Highness. The dark shadow in front is the Funayama Islands. ”

In the faint morning mist, he could vaguely see the rolling shadows of the island in the distance through the large artillery mirror, Luo Zhengdao nodded with satisfaction and said:

"Very well, time is in our favor, how many warships are there in the goblin garrison?"

"The goblin warships stationed nearby have all been sent to train by the town guards, and now only the infantry of the new annex is left to guard the camp."

The boatswain's answer was crisp and neat, but there was inevitably some sarcasm in his tone, Luo Zhengdao didn't say anything, he didn't complain that others looked down on him, he was really angry with his own family!

The New Annexation is the official name of the Second Goblin Empire's retained traitorous army, and these guys who rely on selling their people in exchange for a happy life have not lost their freedom but cannot be trusted by their new masters. In order to prevent these new annexes from rebelling, the goblins did not allow them to be equipped with more powerful weapons, and could only use civilian weapons such as wooden guns, sticks, and bamboo spears, and their main daily work was to suppress human slave rebellions and hunt down human displaced people who had taken refuge in complex terrain such as deep mountains and swamps. These scum and human pirates will not be considered negotiable, and surrender is a dead end, which may be the reason why the goblins are relieved to stay at the beach!

Luo Zhengdao squinted his eyes and looked at the island looming in the thin mist, and said:

"Start bombing!"

Anyway, there are no human civilians on these islands, and those new annexed troops are scum who are not sorry to die in the eyes of any human being, Luo Zhengdao has no psychological pressure at all on the indiscriminate bombing orders he issued, and if they can't be blown up, they are lucky, and they deserve to die.

"Day—"

"Boom Boom Boom Boom ......"

No matter in which world, the air cavalry is an aristocratic army that advocates individual heroism, local tyrants such as the Second Goblin Empire, extravagance such as the Elven Federation, usually the largest establishment is only the size of the brigade, it's not that the powers don't like the super powerful air cavalry, it's really this class of troops that can burn money too much, and I really can't afford it!

Raising a tiger in a zoo in the Old World, on average, eats fifteen kilograms of fresh beef a day, and none of the flying monsters that can be used as mounts are vegetarians, and the amount of food can be roughly compared to this, which is definitely not low. Even in the coastal areas close to the port and where the catch is cheap and easy to obtain, the number of air cavalry that can be fed for a long time is not too large, and a squadron of goblins left behind on the Funayama Islands exchanged fire with ten times the number of pirate fighters, and after just twenty minutes, their air power completely disappeared from the sight of the defenders. The next episode shifts to the ground attack phase, where indiscriminate pirate warplanes turn the Funayama Islands into a slaughterhouse of blood and fire.

"Surrender! We are going to surrender! ”

But anyone with a little backbone will not be a traitor, and if you have to expect a group of soft bones who eat inside and outside to hold their positions and fight to the last soldier, it is better to look up at the sky, whether you can drop a meteorite in time and smash all the enemy to death is more realistic.

"Your Highness, what to do with these captives?"

Zola Hegel quietly asked Luo Zhengdao for advice, and the latter, as always, was tough and ruthless:

"Zola, do you think there is too much coolie? All pull to work, and those who don't obey will be hanged, do you need me to teach you this? ”

Hearing this, the boatswain had a bottom in his heart, and immediately he smiled and said:

"No problem, leave it to me!"

The Funayama Islands are located in an extremely delicate geographical location, just between Wake Reef and the main mainland, and naturally this place has also become a rallying point and supply depot for the Goblin Fleet's previous attacks on Wake Reef. This time, a shot was fired outside the port of Xiangjiang, and the pirate fleet that played with the hidden turned around and pulled out this eye-catching nail, which can be regarded as a big loophole. If it weren't for Modo Heishui's eagerness to go south to deal with Luo Zhengdao, the Dongning Town Guard, who was wide open, began to worry about his own safety, and transferred the garrison fleet in the name of training, and the goblin fleet stationed on the Chuanshan Islands was enough for pirates to gnaw on for a few days, and now Luo Zhengdao was tantamount to picking up a bargain for nothing.