Chapter 819: From the Storm
On the global nautical map of the world, you can always see two parallel lines, on both sides of the laterite continent, dividing two linear areas marked as windless zones.
However, that is just a map, and when you actually sail to the surface of the sea, you can't see the boundaries of this area.
Windless belts have always been the subject of research by meteorologists and geologists all over the world, but so far, no one knows how they are formed, and the magic of it lies in the fact that there is no wind, then there is absolutely no wind!
If a navigator encounters a storm while sailing on the sea, and suddenly becomes calm and sunny while battling the storm, then do not doubt that you are not experiencing abnormal weather, but being blown into the windless zone!
Because many ships in this world still retain the tradition of sailing, so when suddenly entering the windless zone, the ship will lose power in an instant, at this time for the people on board, it is quite dangerous, because the loss of maneuverability, it means that it is impossible to dodge when encountering danger, and in the windless zone, it is the nest of large sea kings, and if you are not careful, you may die in the mouth of the sea kings.
Every year, a large number of ships have accidents and lose their traces in the windless zone, so for the people of this world, the windless zone has always been a relatively dangerous existence.
However, it does not mean that the windless zone is completely impossible to travel, in fact, there are often many pirates who challenge the great route, after finding that their ability is not enough to deal with the great route, they often try to break through the windless zone and get out of the great route, these pirates, most of them failed, buried at the bottom of the sea, but there are also a small number of lucky people, who can escape back, the legends and horrors of the great route in the four seas are often brought out by these pirates who successfully escaped.
Nowadays, the only thing that can pass safely in the windless zone is the navy's warships, after using Begajank's research, the navy's warships are inlaid with sea floor stones, which can be protected from the nuisance of sea kings in the windless zone.
Naval scientist Begabank is a very important person for the Navy and the world government, and they have even created a naval science unit based on Begajank's research and invention, and many experimental weapons are limited to the naval science unit for verification, and then gradually promoted to the entire navy.
It can be said that if the navy and the world government are given a little more time, the combat power of the navy may be strong enough to truly end the era of pirates......
Since we say if, it means that there are always twists and surprises......
At this moment, at the junction of the West Sea and the windless zone, a naval fleet of twelve ships was swimming on the surface of the sea.
This naval fleet, although it uses the navy's standard warships, but in fact, the logo pattern on their sails is different from the navy's, the navy's flag is a flying seagull-like pattern, but the flag of this fleet has an extra sword passing through the seagull pattern!
This is the exclusive symbol of the Naval Scientific Unit, the meaning of which is self-evident, it means that the Naval Scientific Unit, will become the sword of the Navy!
Although the naval science unit nominally belongs to the branch of the navy, in fact they only obey the orders of the world government, and the fleet of this naval science unit is on the orders of the five old stars to protect the underwater secret research institute here!
It's been a week since Dr. Begabank was secretly transferred here, and the Naval Science Corps didn't know why the World Government had transferred him here, but they didn't ask much.
The same patrol fleet, there are six in total, each fleet has twelve warships, these seventy-two warships rotate into two shifts, day and night with the location of the institute as the center, cruising non-stop within a radius of a hundred nautical miles, and the orders they get are only patrols and vigilance, all ships that break in without permission do not need to ask for any reason, directly sink them!
This is a very unreasonable order, but it also protects the location of the institute from being discovered.
At present, this fleet is one of the routine patrols, and on these twelve warships, there are not only a large number of elite naval soldiers equipped with new weapons, larger and more powerful naval guns, but also three pacifists on each warship to deal with special situations.
At this time, on the flagship of the fleet, a rear admiral was holding a telescope and looking at the sea in front of him, and their position was currently in the windless zone, but not far ahead, it was the range of the great route, so the sun was shining on the warship's side, but on the other side of the sea, it was a storm of black pressure at the moment.
It was a storm, and how big it was, is unknown.
"Try to avoid it and drive along the edge of the windless zone!" The rear admiral commanded.
The order to sail was soon reached by all the warships, and the fleet began to slowly begin to turn, making a great arc, ready to leave by grazing the edge of the windless belt.
However, just as the soldiers on the warship were looking at the storm in the distance from the side of the ship, all of a sudden, the three pacifists standing on the deck of the ship made a beeping sound, and the three pacifists immediately turned to the right in unison and also looked at the storm in the distance.
"What's wrong?" When the rear admiral saw this scene, he was stunned.
"Intruder!" One of the pacifists suddenly said this.
The major general was shocked, he knew that the detection function of the pacifist was much more powerful than that he could see with a telescope, since the pacifist said that there was an intruder, it was absolutely right!
So he shouted that the whole ship was on alert, and at the same time raised his binoculars again, and stared at the sea where the storm was.
It didn't take long for a large number of black shadows to suddenly appear in the originally dark fog on the sea in front of them!
The Rear Admiral suddenly understood that it was a ship passing through the storm, and it seemed that there were quite a lot of them!
But...... What about more? The rear admiral smiled coldly, so many ships, it is nothing more than some unlucky large pirate group, it is estimated that they have encountered a storm and are headless and brainless in the direction of the windless belt.
However, no matter who the other party is, just kill them, and the order he received is to wipe out all the ships and people that intrude into this sea, whether it is a pirate ship or a merchant ship, he can only blame themselves for their bad luck.
"The fleet is arranged longitudinally, all artillery fire is ready!" The Major General gave the order.
Thus, the twelve warships quickly moved into a line, and the running positions of the right side of the ships were opened one after another, and hundreds of chic-looking cannons pointed at the sea in the distance.
All the sailors were expressionless, they had sunk many ships like this these days, and they had long been somewhat numb to this impending attack.
However, they were still looking forward to it, and they didn't know what kind of expressions those ships that had weathered the storm would have when they suddenly saw that this naval fleet had already aimed their guns at them for the rest of their lives.
The major general who led the team also thought so, but for some reason, he always felt that something was wrong......
The dark shadows in the storm fog were becoming clearer, proving that the ships were about to pass through the storm.
However, at this moment, a ray of light suddenly appeared out of the fog of the storm and came straight to the side of the naval fleet.
I don't know what the light of the thing flew so fast, in the blink of an eye, it had already landed on the sea near the naval fleet, and then with a bang, a huge splash of water hundreds of meters high exploded on the sea surface!
The rear admiral and the entire fleet of naval soldiers were taken aback, but before they could understand what kind of attack they had just made, one ship after another appeared in front of them on the sea in the distance.
These ships, although they appear to be of different sizes, all of them have a very special pattern printed on them.
Moreover, the ship at the head is also a ship that looks special, because the bow of the ship is actually a divine dragon, and the sinuous dragon body spreads back along the side of the ship, and at the stern is a dragon tail.
As soon as he saw the flagship, as well as the patterns on all the ships, the rear admiral suddenly buzzed with a loud bang in his head, and he was stunned in an instant!
"Leather ...... Revolutionary!!!??? ”
He subconsciously screamed, but because he was so excited, his voice felt as if it had been torn apart, and it was extremely unpleasant.
Not only him, but the other naval soldiers and naval officers on the warship were all stunned, as the biggest enemy of the world government and navy, they naturally knew who the revolutionary army was, but ...... Why did the Revolutionary Army suddenly appear here!?
And...... One, two, three, eighty or ninety, there are as many as 40 ships of the revolutionary army, and I have never seen the revolutionary army dispatch so many troops at one time!
It can be said that this time, the naval science unit was completely caught off guard, so that in the few minutes after the appearance of the revolutionary army's fleet, the navy was not able to open fire at the first time......
And at this moment, on the flagship at the head, Ian is talking to Dorag.
"Uncle Dorag, your Devil Fruit ability is really useful!" Ian smiled and glanced back at the storm behind him, and said, "The navy's patrol fleet, I'm afraid they still think that we are in a storm, but how do they know that this is simply a cover for the sudden approach?" ”
Dorag smiled and didn't speak, he was a dragon fruit ability, calling for wind and rain or something, it was a pediatric for him at all, with the help of a storm, a surprise attack on the naval fleet, which had also been planned for a long time.
Behind them, Ace and Sabo were also laughing, Ace stepped forward, patted Ian's shoulder and said, "However, your attack just now was off, if you can hit a warship, this raid will be even more perfect!" ”
"Don't worry, I've adjusted the angle this time!" Ian stretched out his hand, picked up an iron cannonball from a cannonball frame on the deck next to him, and shook it with his hand, and then a violent electric current suddenly burst out of his entire arm, and with a slash of his hand, he threw the cannonball directly forward!
At the moment when the cannonball came out of his hand, there was a bang, and a strong sonic boom appeared again, blowing the hair and hats of everyone on the ship high, and the cannonball that Ian threw out turned into an orange light again, shooting straight ahead.
The strong air flow directly split the sea surface along the way, just like Ian said, this time his super electromagnetic cannon was finally adjusted, and a warship was directly hit by his cannonball!
Like a firework, this behemoth-like warship was blown up and disintegrated in an instant, and then disappeared in the terrified eyes of countless naval soldiers!
The bigger and more powerful super electromagnetic cannon is so domineering!
Ian's super electromagnetic cannon was like a horn for attack, and at the same time that the warship was blown to pieces, all the ships on the side of the revolutionary army also burst out in unison, and countless shells flew away from the ships and bombarded towards the naval fleet opposite.
The operation to rescue Begabank officially began...... 8)