"The main force of the enemy army has been defeated, so let's quickly destroy all the remaining enemy ships." The sailors with high morale shouted.

"No, let's stop attacking and start turning!" Elda ordered, and then added, "Call Baian, Misheva, and Cornillus here at once!" Be quick! ”

All three of them were pirate leaders who had been co-opted by Elda, and when they heard the news, they immediately rushed to the flagship, each with a look of victory and confusion about stopping the attack.

"Do you know why I called you here?"

"I don't know." The three of them replied in unison.

"Let me explain, then. Now that the main forces of the Arubanian fleet have retreated, only small ships remain, and most of their soldiers have already gone ashore, so their combat effectiveness is limited, and the tide will recede in two hours, and then all these small ships will run aground, so we don't have to actively attack them to capture these ships at all. Bai An, I want you to take a small fleet to stop them from escaping, hold them back for two hours, and we will win the battle here. ”

"Understand, leave it to me, Captain." Bai An replied confidently.

Elda nodded, and continued to Misheva and Corngil, "Now that the Yaki fleet is approaching, but we haven't regrouped yet, and the previous decoy force can't hold on for long, so I want you two to bring two small fleets to stop their movements and buy time for our operations." Be aware that they have a strong bow and arrow army, which will cause you huge casualties and damage, but both of you are born and died in the Sindra Sea, and you are well versed in harassment tactics. I don't ask for much, buy me half an hour. I'll take out the Yaki fleet. Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to remind you. Although this operation is extremely dangerous, what does it mean if our fleet destroys two fleets of two countries in one day? ”

"Meaning the whole Narrow Sea is ours!" Congille replied loudly.

"Not exactly! And the whole of Path Bay will also be our world! Let's go! There is such a big gamble in life, what is there to regret! Misheva shouted.

"Very well, you guys go." Elda smiled. The reason why Elda held this meeting after defeating the Arubania fleet was because if this group of pirates had known about his crazy plan early on, they would have smeared oil on the soles of their feet and slipped away, but they would have worked hard to protect the treasure, so Elda had given that order before, but he had successfully defeated the Arubanian fleet in just one hour. This remarkable victory was enough to boost the confidence of the pirates, and when he came up with a bolder plan, they would want more profits.

Mahler, who had just defeated Elda's decoy force, was almost immediately attacked by two pirate leaders. The rockets of the Cretan archers were both distant and accurate, and soon shot the ships led by Misheva and Kongill like hedgehogs. However, both of them were veterans of attack tactics, and they were already prepared to deal with rockets, so despite the numerous arrows, the damage to the hull was limited, except for the great loss of power after the sails of some ships were ignited, and the two of them quickly used the agility and speed of the ships to cut within range of their own bows. They then retaliated against the Yaqui fleet, and they deliberately moved back and forth through the Yaqui fleet array, forcing the Cretan archers to hesitate and mitigate their own casualties. Even so, they had to endure the agreed half-hour until Elda's main force re-entered the battlefield. The two of them had already lost sixty percent of their ships, nearly half of them were killed, and Misheva himself was seriously wounded.

Elda's main force is much smaller than it was before the war. However, after reorganizing the formation, Elda formed a dense formation of the remaining ships and stormed towards the Yaki fleet. The first step was still led by four outer steamers. His formation would undoubtedly be a target for intensive attacks by Cretan archers, but Elda's ideas were different. He used the sheer size of the outer ship as a shield for the other ships, thus gaining this precious distance for subsequent fleet attacks.

Mahler quickly realized his intentions and immediately ordered the fleet to disperse - as he got closer, he felt even more the enormity of the outer steamers, and that none of the ships of the other side would be able to withstand it if they used the ramming tactic. Mahler's reaction was not unpleasant, but things were not as simple as he thought, firstly, the ships of Misherva and Cornchill had made a mess of the formation of the Yaqui fleet, and the ships were not fast enough to disperse, and secondly, Elda did not intend to use ramming tactics at all, because it was impossible to completely destroy the opponent's array with only four capital ships, and the rest of the ships did not have a significant advantage over the Yaqui warships, and these ships had also suffered considerable damage during the previous battle with the Arubanian fleet. He used the most traditional broadside battles, using the advantage of morale and strength to destroy the Yaqui fleet, so that the advantage of Cretan archers was non-existent.

The four outer ships that were shot all over the hull by dense rockets rushed into the Yaki fleet array like four fiery giants, and those ships that were unfortunate enough to stand in front of it were smashed to pieces, and due to the fire of the sails, the outer ships could no longer move forward with the help of the wind, and could only use manpower to propel the giant ship forward, so the impact force was much smaller than when it fought against the Arubanian fleet before. Even so, its astonishing destructive power amazed the Arqui fleet, and Mahler began to wonder how many ships and lives it would take to sink the four ships, and he felt only the cold sweat on his back soak through his clothes.

What made him even more unacceptable was that he soon got a piece of news that shocked him, the other party's operation was not an ambush attack, but the behavior after having annihilated the main force of the Arubanian fleet! Mahler couldn't believe his ears, and only a little more than two hours had passed, and the Arubanian fleet had been defeated, and it was a battle that had to be completed by his fleet alone!

At this time, Elda's fleet had already started a broadside battle, and although their numbers were small, the number of people on each ship was no less than that of the Yaki warship, and the morale of the soldiers was strong, and they overwhelmed the Yaki fleet in close combat. The four outer ships had three times as many sailors as the Yaki battleship, and once the broadside battle began, Elda put all the sailors in the bilge responsible for pushing the outer ships into battle, so the soldiers on the Yaki battleship could not resist it at all. Miseva and Congille led the remnants of their troops into the broadside battle, and the resentment that had been shot out of breath was now reduced to a physical sword, and the pirate warriors shouted frantically and rushed towards the Yaki sailors, leaving corpses and blood-red decks in their wake.

The fierce battle lasted for three hours, Mahler's Yaqui fleet finally began to be unable to resist, he lost more than seventy percent of the warships, although Elda's fleet losses were not smaller than him, but in the absolute number of ships Mahler was already at a disadvantage, and the gap in morale was even greater, Mahler's heart began to calculate when to leave the battlefield, he did not want to repeat the tragedy of Ramediel, as long as this life was kept, there would be a chance for revenge in the future.

"Your Excellency, the enemy ship is approaching! Starboard direction! A soldier shouted almost wailing.

Mahler hurriedly looked only to realize that at the moment of his own hesitation, the enemy's flagship was rapidly approaching.

"Archer, release the arrow!" Mahler knew in his heart that this was a futile operation, because the enemy ship, whose masts had been burned out, did not lose power, and it was attacking its position in a direction that it could not avoid. Mahler drew his saber and shouted, "All ready to take on the broadside!" ”

The violent collision between the two ships announced the beginning of the broadside battle, and a man leaped from the opposing ship, unbeknownst to Mahler as Elda, the commander of the enemy fleet. I saw Elda swing the Path scimitar in her hand and cut down the Yaki soldiers in front of her like chopping vegetables, and killed herself directly at the bridge position. Mahler only felt trembling all over, and the experience of the military commander told him that the strength of the other party was not at all what he could compete with, and at this time experience became Mahler's greatest constraint, because he had never seen anyone in his life who could be so agile and swift on the hull of a ship.

"Enemy general! Take your life! Elda's brief proclamation was accompanied by a fierce knife like the scorching sun, and Mahler struggled to parry the opponent's slash, and after only ten moves, he felt powerless, and the opponent's strength, speed, skill, and confidence were all above him, and Mahler shouted: "Surround him!" What are you all doing! ”

In fact, it's not that the soldiers don't want to protect the safety of the commander, but they can't. Elda concentrated all his remaining forces into battle, and in addition to the commandos covering behind him, he also threw the few crossbowmen into this final battle. Although the rate of fire of the crossbow archers is slow, the accuracy and power of the shot are incomparable to the bow and arrow, and any threatening target will be pierced by the crossbow arrow in an instant.

After another seven or eight moves, Mahler had already shown his defeat, and at this time there was still no soldier who could come forward to protect him, and in a panic, Mahler suddenly felt that his left arm was cold, and half of his left arm was already flying in the air. Mahler's heart tightened, and his hand slowed down for half a minute, Elda's scimitar had already cut off half of his head, and Mahler's body fell to the ground. (To be continued.) )