Chapter 629: The Crisis of the First Fleet

When Jian Chen was on the deck of the flagship of the First Fleet because of Moryl's reminder, in the Elasia Imperial fleet, which was regarded as a meal on the plate by the First Fleet, a tense atmosphere was constantly spreading.

Because this Imperial fleet has realized that their enemy has appeared near it and is about to attack.

However, the reason why they are aware of this is not because they have already realized the military operation of the First Fleet.

The relatively advanced tactics of the First Fleet of the Alliance have made the Imperial Navy fleet with dozens of warships unable to succeed in the whereabouts of the current First Fleet, nor the ongoing attack operations of the current First Fleet, but this Imperial Navy still correctly judged the dangerous environment it is currently in through some signs.

Because they were mentally prepared.

Because this is simply a bait operation.

This Imperial Navy fleet is just a huge decoy used by the emperor to lure out the enemy's fleet.

At the head of this fleet was Marshall, the veteran of the Imperial Navy.

Marshall can climb to his current position, not because of how outstanding his ability is, the Imperial Navy has been very erosive over the years, even after Catherine's vigorous rectification a few years ago, there is still not much improvement, because in the Navy, there are too many generals like Marshall who use the Imperial Navy for their own benefit.

Catherine did remove many admirals at the beginning, but she couldn't let the navy have a comprehensive change, you know, although these generals are unbearable, but they have been in the navy for many years, and they still have some influence, so for the sake of stabilizing the morale of the army, some generals with less bad deeds are still retained, and Marshall, in this case, because of his seniority in the navy, and his relatively low-key style of doing things, he had to continue to stay in the navy and slowly climbed to a high position- Although his command and combat skills are a bit unsatisfactory, he knows how to judge the situation and seize the situation, and he plans to get himself out of the navy, which is really too unpromising.

This time, it is reasonable that Marshall can be the commander-in-chief of the combined fleet of the Imperial Navy, and the illusion he created for himself made Kendall mistakenly think that he was a senior admiral, so he was very unlucky to be sent out to preside over this mission to lure the enemy, which made Marshall feel like he had lifted a stone and hit himself in the foot.

With Marshall's thoughts, of course he didn't want to go to sea with the fleet, he had already heard too much about the alliance fleet from the familiar Rigner pirates, and he did not secretly fan the flames when the admirals collectively wrote to avoid the war.

However, after all, the Imperial Navy is also a part of the emperor's **, whether to go to war or not, in the final analysis, is not something that can be decided by a group of admirals, and the real decision is still the powerful imperial regent Kendall.

Now that Kendall is bent on fighting, the Navy has no other way to think of it than to fight.

Marshall was then appointed by Kendall as commander-in-chief of the Combined Naval Fleet.

When he received that order, Marshall regretted it in his heart, if he had known that Catherine, who had high hopes for the navy, would step down so early, and those who really had the ability would defect from the navy, even if he was killed, he would not have let himself be so eye-catching in the past few years, and he knew exactly how many catties and taels he had.

But the order has come down, Marshall knows that he can't go to war, the last time the navy couldn't avoid the war, it was already the regent who was furious, and now the regent is still angry, and the war of the emperor in the Titalia region is so unsmooth, if he dares to kidnap the regent's tiger whiskers at such a time, it is definitely a matter of playing a lantern in the toilet - looking for death ().

So he had to bite the bullet and go to sea with the fleet.

He was in constant fear every day, paying attention to everything around the fleet, for fear that he would not know when the enemy would be killed, so that when some of the scouts were unable to report their whereabouts to the fleet in accordance with the much shorter, but more intensive schedule he had set, he was immediately keenly aware that the alliance fleet had finally come to the door.

To tell the truth, Marshall really didn't have much confidence in the battle plan formulated by the above, just as he firmly believed that the Imperial Navy was definitely not the opponent of the Rigner pirates at sea, and he also firmly believed that the alliance fleet that could make the Rigner pirates fear three points was definitely not something that the current Imperial Navy could resist, although he didn't really want to grow others to destroy his prestige, but after hearing that the Bracada naval fleet was also defeated in the hands of the alliance fleet, he firmly believed that his idea was right, Using the navy as a bait, if one is not good, this bait will be swallowed by the alliance fleet and there will not even be a bone left, if such a situation occurs, even if the emperor finally wins, his life may not be able to be saved on the battlefield.

So as soon as the situation seemed a little unpleasant, Marshall immediately ordered the fleet to turn around and turn to the planned ambush location, and also sent more scouts with magical letter teleportation arrays to investigate in the direction of the scouts who had lost contact.

Then, he finally succeeded in spotting the cluster of enemy flying forces that were rushing towards his fleet.

When he learned that the enemy had nearly 10,000 troops, and that there were hundreds of dragons among them, Marshall finally understood why the Bracada navy had been defeated.

"Those bastards of the Union Army, how many battleships do they have? It was able to get so many flying troops out to sea."

Marshall, who didn't know the existence of the mobile magic portal, cursed in a low voice the enemy's exaggerated and astonishing scale in his imagination, and at the same time secretly compared the strength of the other party's display with the strength of the emperor's ambush force in his heart.

Then he personally passed a letter that had already been prepared into a rather delicate magical letter teleportation array, and ordered the flying troops in the fleet to take off and prepare to meet the enemy.

He planned to divide his flying units into several waves in order to delay the enemy's attack and confuse the enemy's line of sight, and in order to save his life, he finally managed to use the correct tactical arrangement, even though he knew that this tactic would cause extremely heavy losses to the flying units in his fleet.

Because he knew that as long as he could survive this battle until the reinforcements arrived and saved his life, he would win, and as for how much the navy would pay for it, how many lives it would take, and how many warships it would lose, he didn't really mind it.

"It seems that I have been working hard for many years, and it has not been in vain"

He thought this with some smugness in his heart, and began to fantasize about what a reward he would receive from the Regent of the Empire when this war ended smoothly - the Emperor had run into walls everywhere, and the Regent had been criticized a lot for this, and some people even secretly began to say that they would welcome the former Empress Catherine back to power, so the Regent really needed a victory to consolidate his authority and prove his ability.

And if at this time, if you can defeat the alliance fleet at sea that made the Bracada Mage Kingdom suffer a big loss not long ago, it will of course be of great significance to the regent, and it can also reflect to a certain extent from the side that the emperor ** is actually strong - after all, the Bracada army has been very beautiful recently, because they have achieved the brilliant results that the emperor wanted but failed to achieve in Titalia.

Marshall's letter was soon sent to the famous griffin knight Adric.

Adric is the commander of the attack force of the emperor's ** lure battle plan, the original war at sea is not really about this senior general of the empire, he has always only fought on land, naval battles are quite unfamiliar to him, but the regent has an order, at this time is leading several griffin legions stationed on the eastern border of the empire, Adric has to obey.

According to the plan of the regent Kendall, for this battle, Adric gathered a total of 20,000 griffons from the eastern defenders and the garrisons in the nearby area, as the main force of this ambush of the enemy at sea, in addition, Kendall also gave him the right to mobilize all the angel warriors in the eastern border defenders, which is a strong combat force of more than 1,000 people, and now, this force has been assembled and is ready to go out at any time.

After receiving Marshall's letter, Adric immediately ordered action, and the Imperial ** flight unit, which had long been on standby, began to operate with astonishing efficiency.

Adric wasn't familiar with the battle at sea, but this battle didn't require him to stay at sea for a long time, so he was confident, because this battle, by its very nature, was just a long-distance operation using a magic portal as a means of transportation.

Adric now has two magic scrolls that Kendall handed over to him that can open a one-way portal, which are used for the round trip that Adric's army needs for this mission, for this battle, Kendal has made a lot of money, you know, for the Erathia Empire, which is not very strong in magic, it is not easy to make this kind of grandmaster-level water magic scroll, in fact, these two magic scrolls were made by an amazing water magic master in the empire hundreds of years ago, and now the empire, Since there is no water magic master in the country, they don't have the ability to make this kind of top-level magic scroll at all, so these scrolls, one less one, is definitely precious.

For the regent's loser practice of easily using this precious magic scroll in order to deal with the enemy at sea who cannot effectively threaten the security of the empire for the time being, Adric is actually quite disagreeable and disagrees, he prefers to keep these two scrolls just in case of emergency, after all, the current situation of the empire is not optimistic, internal chaos is gradually emerging, external strong enemies are around, who knows when there will be any sudden events that require long-distance mobilization of troops?

But he certainly had no way to oppose the regent's decision.

"If Her Majesty Catherine were here, she would never have made such a rash plan of action."

Privately, Adric said this to his close subordinates, like many emperors, because of his disappointment with the state of the empire after Kendall's rule, he began to miss the former imperial empress Catherine.

Using the magic scroll that Adric took out, a priest of the Emperor ** activated a one-way magic portal that had been prepared for a long time, and a huge aqua blue one-way portal formed by water-based magic elements appeared in a stone arch made of various magic materials.

Then under the leadership of Adric, 20,000 griffons and more than 1,000 angel warriors began to prepare to leave from the garrison on the eastern border of the empire, and they will use the portal to reach a pre-set exit on the southern coast of the empire in an orderly and extremely fast manner, and then use their flight ability non-stop to rush to the battlefield at sea, completely annihilating the enemy flying force that has been brought out of the imperial naval fleet, if possible, They will also assist the Imperial Navy fleet in locating the enemy's fleet in the future, destroying and attempting to capture the enemy's strange new warships that can sail the seas without sails and carry dragons to the sea, in the hope of destroying the enemy's living forces in this area in one fell swoop.

At this time, the First Fleet's flying force group did not realize that they were walking into the enemy's trap step by step, and the commander of the First Fleet, Sylvia, did not realize that after the Imperial Navy avoided the war for such a period of time, she would unexpectedly use herself as a bait to attack because of a plan of Kendall, she noticed that the enemy's fleet was too close to the coastline, but she mistakenly took this anomaly as a sign of the enemy's cowardice, She believed that the enemy wanted to use the large number of garrisons along the coastline to deter and defend himself.

After analyzing the distribution of the enemy's forces in the coastal areas of that area, and showing that the enemy's large number was mostly ground forces, Sylvia did not think that the enemy's flying units, which were not very numerous on the shore, could provide the enemy's fleet with such a powerful escort force, at least in the face of the First Fleet, which had a large number of flying forces of the Marine Corps, and this level of assistance could not make her give up the idea of attacking the enemy.

But she never expected that the enemy used similar tactics to the original alliance army when they ambushed the Rigner pirate combined fleet in the Crescent Moon Strait, and this time the enemy's actions were more secretive and the scale was more amazing, because the black dragons of the alliance army were only lurking on the coastline, and the number was not very large, while the griffin and angel warriors of the emperor ** used a one-way portal to directly attack the sea from the eastern border of the empire, and the strength reached 20,000 griffins and more than 1,000 angel warriors.

She was confident, but she did not know that due to her misjudgment, the First Fleet was in the midst of its greatest crisis since its founding.

Chen Jian, who was immersed in a series of plans for the follow-up of the alliance, did not realize his impromptu decision at this time, and was unfortunately said by Moriel to put himself in danger again, and also affected the First Fleet and those councillors, he even keenly grasped this great opportunity to let the councillors see with their own eyes how the soldiers of the alliance navy fought closely and cooperatively at sea, and he planned to be after the battle, Take the councillors to the battlefield to see the results of the First Fleet, and begin to further refine and refine in their minds the set of rhetoric they have prepared according to the current situation, so as to increase its persuasiveness, so that after returning to MiG City, they can better use these rhetoric to change the inherent ideas of certain racial councillors, so that they can have a deeper understanding of the concept of the alliance, and let them understand how beneficial and harmless a good thing a united and strong racial alliance is for all races. Let them understand what a glorious future this alliance, which will soon be renamed the Empire, will bring to the races and to them personally.

Like Sylvia, Jian Chen is also full of confidence at this time.

Morrill also didn't realize that the danger was approaching Jian Chen, approaching herself, and approaching the First Fleet, Morrill was in a pretty good mood at this time, because through her reminder, Jian Chen effortlessly noticed the potential crises and weaknesses of the alliance, and was willing to make some important changes to the alliance according to her vision, the two of them really cooperated very tacitly, and trusted each other, she liked this feeling very much.

And Chen Jian's agreement to her proposal means that she will soon officially become Chen Jian's wife, she doesn't care much about the title of the second queen of the empire, but she is of course very happy to be able to really have a name with this man.

Looking at Jian Chen, who was falling into deep thought, Moriel's heart was full of tenderness and secret, and the smile on her face was naturally more gentle, and the extremely feminine posture she inadvertently revealed made the parliamentarians of all ethnic groups who were used to seeing her indifferent and iron-blooded side not far away secretly admire Chen Jian.

The sun was still shining on the sea, but the shadow of the crisis had invisibly shrouded the sky over the First Fleet, and no one could have foreseen that perhaps in the near future, the two-way portal on the flagship of the First Fleet would soon become an escape door for some important figures in the Alliance.

(Qingming, sweeping the tomb, socializing, busy, working hard all night, still only 5,000 words)