Chapter 118: The Threat Arrives

Met was an experienced general, and he raised the defense of the main fortress to a new level in just one night. www.biquge.info With the current defense capability, let alone 10,000 enemy troops, don't even think about easily conquering this fortress even if it increases several times. With this in mind, Myrtis was relieved, and all he had to do was boost his morale and wait for reinforcements to arrive.

As he had estimated, early the next morning, the Palci army began a symbolic siege. Myrtis had already understood that the reason why this enemy army appeared under his nose unconsciously must have avoided the coastal sentinels and came across the desert for a long distance, obviously it was impossible to carry decent siege equipment at such a distance, so he understood that the enemy army could not attack the city with all its strength in the short term, otherwise it would be filled with the lives of soldiers. Therefore, the attack of the Palchi army was only a symbolic attack, just a bluff with a lot of thunder and a little rain. On the contrary, Palci's attack on the remaining strongholds of the fortress of Anmen was even more violent, as they could no longer fully rely on the original fortifications. This was not a bad thing for Myrtis, because the later the enemy attacked his main fort, the more likely he was to hold out until the day reinforcements arrived.

Over the course of four days, four of the six strongholds were captured, leaving only two of the strongest strongholds still resisting. But Martis was overjoyed to usher in the first turnaround - the Arubanian Paz Bay Fleet arrived on the battlefield!

The commander of the Arubanian fleet, Mapsur, was six years older than Myrtis, and the two usually had a very good relationship, but this time Mapsur did not rush to the aid as fast as he could, because he did not intend to rescue Myrtis in the first place.

As the oldest surviving admiral of the Arubanian Navy, Mapusur was well aware of the gap between his country and Palci. At this point he was more knowledgeable than Admiral Adlem, and after the Battle of the Narrow Sea he had already learned about the disparity in naval power between the two countries. He believed that with the fleet in his hands, it was already the limit to be able to maintain the sea supremacy of Pas Bay, and he did not want to regain the sea supremacy in the Narrow Sea. In order to ensure that he would not be defeated in the next naval battle with Palci, he has been working on the expansion and training of the fleet for several years, but unfortunately his greatest enemy is not Palci, but the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Zacio Urdas.

Due to the limited national strength of Arubania and the urgent need to replenish the military strength and generals of the army, the navy, which has not been hit by a major blow, certainly does not want to give priority to the construction funds, and as for the failure of the Narrow Sea Naval Battle, the limited naval funds were diverted to the reconstruction of the Narrow Sea Fleet instead of his fleet, and it was not until the Narrow Sea Fleet was completely destroyed that his fleet became the focus of construction. But it has to be said that the time when his fleet was taken seriously was too late, and the results in the only time were still too small to meet Mapusul's expectations.

Because of this, one of the things Mapsul has done most often in the past few years has been to insult the incompetent Chancellor of the Exchequer and the visionary Bilyuurdas, and Adelim has not been spared from his poison, but it does not do anything but comfort him. After receiving the news that the Anmen fortress had been attacked by an enemy fleet, Mapsur continued to curse while carefully analyzing the current situation. He came to a similar view to that of Myrtis: since the enemy army did not have small and medium-sized ships, the probability of a real threat to the fortress was low, and it was easier for his fleet to attack the enemy fleet. Therefore, he judged that the purpose of Palci's move was to lure his fleet to annihilate it, so as to achieve the goal of controlling the Bay of Pass.

It would be foolish to know that it was a trap and to step into it, so Mapsur decided to prepare the whole fleet for battle, but did not give the order to attack, and he did not change his mind until he received that the enemy had launched a surprise attack on the fortress of Anmen from land.

If the enemy forces were able to attack from land and it also worked, then the situation was completely different. Because once the Anmen fortress is lost, it will not be so easy to recapture it, and its strategic value will inevitably make all the troops near Arubania go to the rescue, and at this time, if their fleet arrives later than the land troops, it will inevitably fall into the charge of sitting idly by, so that even if the enemy army is defeated, it will not be good, not to mention the possibility of losing. Rather than this, it is better to risk the enemy - since the enemy fleet lacks the cover of small and medium-sized ships, it may be possible to win by virtue of the maneuverability of his own fleet. If he was able to defeat the formidable opponent of Palci at sea, not to mention his own success, he would be able to completely trap the enemy army attacking the fortress of Anmen by cutting off the enemy's retreat route at sea, so as to easily win the victory and rescue his friend Myrtis, so that Mapsur immediately dispatched his entire fleet towards the fortress of Anmen.

The arrival of friendly troops was of course a great encouragement to the holding Arubanian army, but it was a shock to the heart of the Palchi army, especially for Li Tianhao, who had a clear command of the fleet. Li Tianhao understood at a glance why the Arubanian fleet would attack and what tactics they would adopt, but unfortunately Li Tianhao was not a god, he had no way to conjure up small ships to cooperate with large ships, and in this situation, even if Elda personally commanded the situation, it was impossible to fundamentally change the situation. Li Tianhao is in a hurry now, and has no choice but to watch how Elda plays.

With Li Tianhao's thoughts, Elda only smiled bitterly in the face of this situation, but there was no better way to deal with it. The Palci fleet would have had the upper hand in a head-on clash between the huge ships and the large ships, but it was clear that the Arubanian fleet would not be stupid enough to fight as Palci wanted, and it was almost certain that the other side would take advantage of the ship's mobility to engage in guerrilla warfare with itself. The Arubanian fleet would have paid a heavy price for this method of warfare, and it might even be much larger than the Palchi army, but the loss of a small and medium-sized ship and the loss of a large ship or even a giant ship would have a completely different effect on the morale of both sides. The other party obviously took these factors into account, but unfortunately Elda did not have a better way to deal with it, and his only chance was to find the enemy's flagship and kill the commander who commanded the enemy's entire fleet, and then he had a chance to disintegrate the enemy fleet.

Even though Eldadang formed a forced assault formation to meet him, it didn't take long for him to realize that his actions were also in the other party's calculations! Because he saw that the Arubanian fleet was not a single combat situation, but was divided into ten small combat groups and acted separately! (To be continued.) )