Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Old Boatman
Keane got up early the next day, and the rest of the fleet was on standby in the harbor, and Keane arrived at just the right time, neither early nor too late.
According to the order, all the naval soldiers were already on standby, waiting for their commander to arrive, and then set off directly on the ship, and after the first six fleets went out, only Keane's fleet remained, they were the standby fleet, so the departure time was later than the other fleets, and there was no goal, just responsible for support.
"Young man, you're the head of the Seventh Fleet?" An old man dressed in a boatman's suit approached Keane and said.
"Yes." Keane nodded.
"Let me tell you, although the warships of the Navy are not always used by one of you, I want everyone to treat each warship with kindness, not as a tool, they are your companions, and they are also alive." The old shipwright said, looking at the warship.
"Yes, they are partners, our most trusted partners." Keane nodded.
"That's good, people don't know how to cherish warships nowadays, but those pirates will cherish their ships, and I hope to see a warship with life in my lifetime." The old boatman sighed.
"Can you give birth to a warship of ship elves, there will be one later." Keane laughed.
"You know the ship elves, too?" The old boatman looked at Keane in surprise.
"I've heard that it is said that only those who cherish their ship very much will give birth to the ship spirit, and the ship spirit is the embodiment of the ship and the companion of the people on board." Keane laughed.
Keane suddenly remembered Merry, who was watching One Piece at that time, and he was in tears when he burned Merry.
"It's good that you know, it seems that you are also a person who cherishes ships very much, but it's a pity that you are a navy." The old boatman said with a lonely expression.
"Yes, it's a pity that I'm a navy, but if I have the opportunity, I want to build a warship of my own, so I'll ask you to help me in the future." Keane said to the old boatman.
As a navy, unless it is at the level of vice admiral, there will be no warship of its own, and in addition to the special situation of the navy, it is almost impossible to take the road under the sea if you want to go to the new world from the first half, you can only go from the Red Earth Continent, and then change to a warship there, this is such a back and forth, which may lead to your own warship being used by others.
Moreover, the Navy has frequent personnel changes, and few people really treat a warship, invest in the warship, and regard the warship as a partner.
In the hundreds of years since the establishment of the Navy, almost no warship in the Navy has ever given birth to ship elves.
"I'm old, I will hand over my craft to my disciple in the future, and he will replace me, but unfortunately I haven't seen a warship with a ship spirit yet." The old boatman took out a bottle of wine and took a big sip.
"There will be a chance to see that the Navy does not cherish its own ships, but the nature of its work is different." Keane shook his head.
"You seem to know a lot about this, hahaha, if you want to build a warship of your own, as long as I'm alive, I'll definitely help you build it, but you're still just one, well, major?" The old shipwright looked at Keane's rank with some surprise.
"Don't look at me as a major, my strength is very strong, you just wait, I will find you to build a warship of my own when the time comes." Keane laughed.
"Major Keane, we can go." A major in charge of logistics came up to Keane and saluted.
"Okay, I'll do it now." Keane nodded to him.
"Old man, I'll go first, and I'll invite you to drink when I come back from my mission." Keane laughed.
"Go, young man, I'll live and wait for you to come to me." The old boatman laughed.
When Keane was far away, the old boatman looked at Keane's back and smiled and took a sip of wine, "What an interesting young man, I hope to see you come to me one day." ”
Keane led the Seventh Fleet to attack, but the soldiers on the ship were a little resistant to Keane, because Keane was just a major, and he was still an outsider, so why could he become the commander of the Seventh Fleet.
Almost every soldier was upset and even secretly reported the incident to their commander, who was eventually intercepted and warned.
Keane also knew that he was not able to convince the soldiers, and he also felt that it didn't matter, and he didn't need to explain.
Out of the fortress of Nabaron, in the warship conference room, Keane took out a map and the routes of the other six fleets, and then began to arrange to follow the fleet according to the information he knew.
"Major Keane, I don't think we need to follow the first, second, and third fleets, their fleet has a rear admiral in charge, and there is no problem with the safety factor, only the strength of the fourth, fifth, and sixth fleets is slightly worse, and our focus should be on them." Colonel Barlow, who assisted him, said.
"Well, it makes sense, but you should also know that when we went to sea this time, the opponents of the six fleets were actually very strong, and we also sent that fleet to deal with them according to their strength, and the targets of the fourth, fifth, and sixth fleets were actually pirates with a bounty of more than 10 million, like Rear Admiral Jamie, who was in charge of an area with a bounty of more than 60 million Baileys." Keene Road.
"Major Keane, where do we need support now?" Colonel Harlan asked.
"It's very simple, we need to be in the middle of them, and once we know that there is a call for help, we will go to the support, so we need to be in the middle of them to make sure that we get there in the shortest possible time after receiving their help signal." Keane pointed to a location on the map.
This position is right in the middle of the six fleets, and if something happens, then they can also go to support at the first time.
"Here, Mantara Island, this island is now home to pirates." Harlan said, looking in the direction Keane was pointing.
"I know, we'll just head to this island." Keane nodded.
"But we are a support force, and if we fight other pirates, it will be difficult for us to go to support if the other fleets ask for help." Harlan looked at Keane.
"It's very simple, we are also a navy, the enemy is in front of us, all we need to do is defeat it, the Seventh Fleet is also a combat force, besides, you think that with the strength of our Seventh Fleet, you can't take down the pirates on this island?" Keane looked at Harlan Dao.
"This ......," Harlan hesitated.
It was Ballo, who was beside Harun, pulling his coat and giving him a vague look.
"No problem, let's head to Mantara Island." Harlan finally nodded.