Chapter Seventy-One: The Dilemma of the Orc Fleet

"The 'Horn of the Jungle' attacked the right side of the orc right flank group, and the 'Edelweiss Ears' and 'Oak Whiskers' at the tail of the fleet attacked the left side of the orc right flank group and drove them to the middle, and the formation of the right wing bridge of the orcs was a little sparse by us, telling them to move closer to the middle, and I saw that our hit rate was decreasing."

Elizabeth also picked up the telescope given by Gangzi and observed the battle in front of her: "My lord, we have already caused a lot of damage to the orc right flank ship group, and now the orc center ship group is outflanking us, is it according to the original plan to turn around and break away?" ”

"No, the orc fleet is moving more slowly than we are in, tell the ships to continue attacking, go! Send someone to water and fertilizer the Treant Throwers, keep an eye on their health, and tell them that 'the battle against the Orcs has just begun, and if you are not prepared to be replaced too soon, slow down your throwing and hit it accurately'. ”

Gangzi noticed that the orc ships were getting closer, and the hit rate of the treeman thrower was decreasing, and it was obvious that the treeman thrower, who was enjoying the pleasure of revenge, was too excited, and the speed of throwing the cannonball was imperceptibly increasing, and the speed and angle required for the cannonball were greatly off.

After discovering the problem of the tree people, the elven sailors began to water and fertilize them to relieve their fatigue, and the gun commander was responsible for communicating with the tree throwers, "The attack on the orc kingdom has just begun, if it is not like premature retirement and lose the opportunity to level the orc palace, it is better to attack according to the standard of training, if you are not feeling well, you must stop the attack and report back to me." ”

The emotions of the Treant Throwers were brought under control, and the shelling of the elven fleet returned to order.

Watch the orc ships rush up in waves, sinking in the sea in waves, and the elven warships mechanically complete the throwing again and again, slaughtering the lives of the orcs. Elizabeth, who experienced war for the first time, couldn't help but show pity: "I heard that in the last attack on the orc fleet, you killed all the orcs, including those who surrendered?" This time, are you still not accepting surrender for the sake of the tree people? ”

Gangzi looked at the battlefield and said, "Tree people tend to be plants. It's hard to have too many mood swings, and now that the treemen are so violent when they see the orcs, it is conceivable that the orcs' actions have caused the treemen to record this hatred in their souls, and it is being passed down from generation to generation with the special reproduction of the treemen, don't you see that those newly sprouted treemen are also dancing their teeth and claws when they hear the word 'orcs'? These two races have become mortal enemies, and after our elven kingdom accepts the tree race, it can only oppose the orc kingdom until one side knocks the other side down. ”

Gangzi looked at Elizabeth thoughtfully, and said, "However, the main purpose of destroying the orc fleet last time was to delay the time for the orc kingdom to attack the elven kingdom from the sea again. So that we can build up the current navy, this war, the elven navy will completely establish its own sea superiority, and control the sea power of the orc kingdom, the orc kingdom will never threaten the elven kingdom from the sea, so this time I am not ready to kill all the orcs, if they surrender, we can accept it, but their life and death will be judged by the world tree. I think that the World Tree, which has communicated with the origin, should make the right decision for the future of the elves and treants. ”

Elizabeth said in surprise, "Do you think the World Tree will give up revenge on the orcs?" ”

"You can think this way because of your kind heart. I don't know what the World Tree will choose, I'm just an outsider, I can fight for the elves and guarantee the victory of the elven kingdom, but I don't ask other race questions. In fact, the World Tree is the right choice. Kill the captives and carry the war to the end, and the elves can step on the orcs and rise; If you don't kill them, leave room for reconciliation between the orc kingdom and the elven kingdom, and the war will end soon. There will be a lot less life. ”

After being Gangzi's retinue for so long, Elizabeth knew that Gangzi had never asked about the affairs of the Elven Kingdom, and all his energy was devoted to preventing the construction of warships and the training of the navy. Even the Elven King's proposal to ask Gangzi to join the Elven Council was politely refused.

Gangzi's behavior was praised by the elves as indifferent to fame and fortune, but ......

The people who are really powerful at playing with power are manipulating behind their backs, instead of joining the warband shirtless, and Brother is now holding the title of "World Tree Creator" and has the allegiance of the Treant clan; Among the next crown princes of the Elven Kingdom are the subordinates of the elder brother (Baknar); The third Admiral of the Elven Navy is also a subordinate of Brother (Christol); The future Grand Magus of the Elven Kingdom will have a place in his brother's future harem.

What else is there to pursue? Do you really want to dominate the Emerald World and bring the orcs mm, dwarves mm, minotaur mm, and undead mm to the same? Think about goosebumps all over your body, or elf mm cute.

While Elizabeth wasn't paying attention, Gangzi wiped the saliva from the corners of his mouth and turned his attention to the battlefield. Depend on! The orcs actually got so close, and the orc ships in front and behind also began to outflank in an arc, and my brother pretended to be a little too much this time.

"Turn, turn to the left full rudder, the fleet turned, saw the orcs boarding the ship, told the treants to throw their hands and turn the focus of the attack to them, brother...... Admiral Ben didn't want an orc to suddenly jump out of his head. ”

"The archers are starting to shoot freely, and the shield walls erected by the orcs are few intact, so use your bow and arrows to teach them a good lesson."

"All ships should pay attention to protecting each other."

Gangzi issued orders in a row in an emergency, the equipment of the hard sail called the battleship to maneuver very fast, the helmsman on the "Corner of the Jungle" slammed the rudder to the left, the sailman had adjusted the wind side of the sail, the battleship tilted to make a large angle of turn, and the waves set off pushed the orc ships that intended to come up to the outside.

Under the leadership of the flagship "Jungle Horn", the elven fleet completed the U-turn and sailed southwest to attack while breaking away from the orc ships when they were about to be surrounded, and soon distanced themselves from the orc fleet with their speed.

This time, Gangzi didn't dare to have any more distractions, and after calculating the distance and the speed of the ships on both sides, in the appropriate position, the elven fleet collectively turned left and aimed its port side at the forward group of orc ships.

"The ships report on the consumption of shells and the physical condition of the treant throwers."

One by one, the data was passed to Gangzi's hands through the flags, and the three battery tree man throwers on the "Jungle Corner" were also in good shape. After calculating the consumption of shells, Gangzi ordered the elven fleet to turn left and enter the course of the attack on the orc's left flank group.

According to the original attack route, the elven fleet killed a round trip. The ships on the outer edge of the orc fleet suffered heavy losses, but none of them approached within a hundred meters of the elven warships. Seeing the elven fleet march south after sweeping its left flank, the orc fleet commander immediately gathered his ships, rescued the orcs who had fallen overboard, and counted the lost supplies and personnel.

Looking at the state of the orc soldiers, it is impossible for the orc fleet to move again without a day's rest. But what if you can continue sailing? The elven warships are all long-distance non-stop firing shells, and the slow orc ships have not yet been close to the other party by virtue of their speed, the other party only fought one round trip, and the orc fleet was full of wounded soldiers, and a few more trips, these 70,000 orcs are really not enough for them to fight.

"Elves are too obscene. He can only fire cannons from a long distance, and he doesn't have the courage that a warrior should have," the orc commander scolded angrily after hearing the losses suffered by the fleet, but he had to find a way out of the orc fleet as soon as possible, and he realized that the last orc fleet may not have encountered some storm, and all of them were wiped out by the elves, which is really a terrible and true speculation! I can't follow in the footsteps of an orc fleet, here are 70,000 orc warriors, if they lose all of them without any results. It is difficult for the orc kingdom to come up with an army of this size, and the orc's victory over such a scale of annihilation is a great damage to the prestige of the orc army, and the kingdom maintained by the orc king by force is likely to rebel and fall apart.

"Inform the fleet to retreat, our warships are too far behind the elven warships. Continuing to move forward will only destroy this fleet, we must go back alive, report everything here to the orc king, and come up with a countermeasure against the elven warship as soon as possible. ”

The orc commander, realizing the huge gap between the two fleets, ordered the orc fleet to retreat. The Grand Fleet collectively turned to abandon the orc warriors who were begging in the water, and the orc ships that had been rescuing them immediately set sail and evacuated north with the large force after receiving the order to retreat. Leaving behind a large number of wounded orcs who fell into the sea or on half-sunken rafts.

After hearing that the orc fleet was retreating and realizing that his opponent should be a smart guy, Gangzi immediately ordered the elven warship, which was still making supplies, to immediately sail and chase after him.

"Kristol took the brig of the Treant to stop them in the direction of the orc fleet's retreat, the orcs retreated with far more ships left than we had anticipated, so you must lead the first fleet of sloops to block the orc's retreat. The three-masted elven treemen moved together, and we drove behind the orc fleet, the supply groups following; Report to the Elven King that the Orc Fleet has been defeated by us, and our Elven Navy Fleet is pursuing, but our Treant Thrower is very tired, and asks him to find a way to reserve the trained Treant Thrower onto the ship, and we will attack all the way to the Orc King City. ”

Upon receiving the order, Kristol immediately drove in with ten brigs of elven treants at great speed, catching up with the orc fleet and overtaking them from their western flank.

Gangzi led three three-masted elven treemen warships to catch up with the orc fleet from the rear, sailing in a zigzag route, aiming all the firepower of his three batteries at the buttocks of the orc fleet.

The falling barrage formed a line of death, any orc ships caught up by this line would be immediately depressed, fear had spread in the orc fleet, the orcs in the rear desperately rowed to get away from the pursuit of death, the gap in the orc fleet narrowed rapidly, and the panicked orc ships kept colliding.

The shadow of the elven warship appeared on all sides of the orc fleet, and the powerful attack from the rear and the west caused the retreat order of the orc fleet to collapse.

"Order the rear ship group and the left wing ship group to attack the elven warships, and the other ships to maintain formation and retreat towards the orc sea."

The speed of the elven warship is too fast, especially since such a large ship can be driven without oars, "The witchcraft of the orcs is not so magical!" The commander of the orc fleet realized that if he ran like this, the entire orc fleet would be annihilated by the elves, and the elven warships that were attacking him from the side were obviously going to outflank their own way, and now the retreat route of the orc fleet was only harassed by elven archer warships, and if they were blocked by this fleet with strong attack power from a distance, the orc fleet would be too dangerous.

In response to the outflanking and pursuit of the elven fleet, the commander of the orc fleet decisively cut off the tail, and the orc ships in the rear and left flank launched a charge against the elven warship under the order.

"The fleet has changed to a circular annihilation array to surround them! Eat them! In our rear is a group of supply ships, and we can't let these orc ships threaten them. The orc fleet still has a long way to go to return to the orc kingdom, and they can't run away. ”

Gangzi gave the order and explained it, so that Elizabeth knew the train of thought for each of her orders. The Bucknar family has a strong seafaring and adventurous spirit, and after Bucknar and Christol, Elizabeth also showed her talent as a navigator by Gangzi's side.

"Looking at the movements of the orc fleet, Christol's fleet is estimated to be entangled and attacked by them, but we can't inform them now." Elizabeth voiced her concerns.

"He should have made the right choice." After Gangzi finished speaking, he continued to command the fleet to besiege the thirty ships behind the broken orc fleet. That's right, three three-masted elven treemen warships surrounded and killed thirty orc ships, and Gangzi commanded the fleet to carry out a circular attack, constantly circling in circles. The orc ships in the circle want to attack the elven warships that change direction at all times. However, they found that there were always their own ships blocking their way, and in the end they turned more and more crowded, and they could not move.

On the Eye of the Storm, in the face of the rushing orc ships, Christol ordered the fleet to speed up to avoid being entangled by it. "Your Excellency's order to us is to block the retreat of the orc fleet, and these small groups of orc ships can be handed over to the second fleet of slooped elf galleys."

Kristol knew that his task was not to let the orc fleet retreat calmly and recuperate, block their way of retreat, and constantly put pressure on them, so that the orc fleet was always in the tension of being attacked. Leaving the orcs with no hope of survival, the orc fleet will break out of their commander's grasp, question their commands, and collapse.

The Brig Treant fleet slanted towards dodging the blockade of the orc's left-wing ship group and speeding forward. The second fleet of the sloops and elf galleys that had been arranged by Gangzi a long time ago took over the attack on the orc fleet to divide this part of the abandoned troops, and the shield array of the orc ships in the woods had been smashed to the ground, and it was not difficult for the elf warships to cooperate with each other by using the performance of the ships.

When Christol felt the way forward for the orc fleet with the brig elven treeman battleship, Gangzi had also completed the siege of the orc ship and caught up with the orc fleet again.

At this time, the orc fleet was blocked in front of the road and pursued soldiers in the back. On the west side of the landing, there is an endless primeval forest, and on the east side, there is an endless and dangerous deep sea.

Can't fight, can't escape, can't dodge, what's worse is that the orcs abandoned a lot of supplies in order to escape. The already inadequate orc fleet is truly in a desperate situation.

Surrender? The commander of the orc fleet also had this idea when his subordinates were becoming more and more difficult to control, but the Treant Clan has become a member of the Elven Kingdom, as an orc who has a deep hatred for the Treant race, if he surrenders, he will definitely not be able to avoid the retaliation of the Treant Race, digging a pit and burying it alive as their own fertilizer, which is the most common way for the Treant to treat their enemies.

As the orc commander pondered the way out of the orc fleet, night fell again.

Visibility is getting lower and lower, and the elves' attacks stop. The orc fleet finally got a little respite and regrouped, corresponding to last night's revelry, the orcs tonight felt so sad, a large amount of supplies were lost, and the food distributed by the orc soldiers was not enough to stuff their teeth. After a day of fleeing, sweat and sea soaked their clothes, and the sea breeze at night was biting, some orcs could not bear the cold and started a fire on the raft, but before they could take off their clothes, they were fired by a flurry of bows and arrows.

The elven warships had approached the orc ships in the night, attacking every target they found, but the orc warships did not have the courage to sail into the darkness to find the ghostly elven warships.

The constant screams stirred the heartstrings of every orc, and the daytime battle made them have no intention of fighting the elves with Ben, and any impact they made on the elven warship would be futile. They were exhausted by the time they rushed close to the elven warship with deadly shells, rowing through the fragile ships, enduring huge losses, but the elven battleships only needed a slight turn to pull them apart again.

Bloodthirsty orcs yearn for the fiercest battles, and sometimes an army will explode with greater combat effectiveness after suffering heavy losses, stimulated by blood donations. But today is not the battle that the orcs want, this is not a battle at all, everything today is like the previous tribe hunting wild sheep, and he is on the side of the hunt.

There is no food left, there are elf warships on all sides, and when the elves continue to attack at dawn, the orc fleet will be destroyed, and there is only one way to stay here, and there may be a possibility of survival if you escape at night.

An orc ship broke away from the fleet and headed west into the darkness, and then more and more orcs rowed their ships toward the western land, where there was a little hope of survival, despite the dangerous forest. (To be continued......)

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