"Great, General! Who are those people? "Heijiro, the head of one of the Tosa Naval Army, hesitantly asked the leader of the Tosa Naval Army, the young and promising Rokubei.

Rokubei, who was carefully inspecting the tall hull of the Royal Knight not far away, immediately frowned, and glanced coldly at Heijiro, who had just asked a question, with a hint of anger, and was about to open his mouth to scold him, but stopped suddenly. He sighed instead, and explained to this subordinate who worked weekdays with some interest: "These people, these are the reinforcements found by Yoshida Masato, the general of the main family some time ago, and it is said that they defeated the powerful daimyo of the Shimazu family and the Maori family in Kyushu!" ”

"Well, no wonder they have such tall ships." Heijiro glanced enviously at the largest Royal Knight, "Even their two smallest cargo ships are much larger than our flagship." ”

"That's right, and just looking at the workmanship of this ship, it's definitely not ordinary." Liubei nodded slowly, but muttered in his heart: But no matter how big the ship is, the most important thing is the sailors on the ship! At first glance, those people are the elite of the elite, but the number of them is a little smaller.

Glancing at the uneven sailors on his ship, the six guards couldn't help but sigh heavily. Yingzhou is an island country, and ships and crews are easy to obtain, but an elite navy is not so easy to train.

Since Rokubei took over as the leader of the Tosa Naval Army, he has been working hard to train this naval army, but he has never been able to meet the requirements of the main family.

No way. Before the official counterattack on the Tokugawa house, the existence of the naval army was obviously to be kept secret. But once you have to keep it as confidential as possible. Naturally, the navy will not be able to carry out activities such as exterminating pirates in an open and honest manner. And those who haven't really seen blood, no matter how to train. There's no way to be elite.

For example, even now, although they have not yet encountered the enemy's patrol ships, the sailors on the Royal Knight are still meticulously carrying out various preparations. As far as the eye of the six guards could see, not a single sailor was lazy!

On the other hand, their own crew members are slipping away one by one, no matter how much they scold them, these old fritters always have a way to be lazy, and the six guards can even smell a smell of wine from a few sailors!

It's not presentable!

The six guards cursed secretly, looking at the tall and mighty Royal Knight. casually took out a small wine jug from his arms and began to borrow wine to drown his sorrows, and Heijiro next to him drooled with envy. For them who are fighting at sea, being able to warm up with a bottle of spirits can definitely greatly increase the chances of saving their lives.

Well, this wine is good! I heard that it is the wine of the dwarves? When I go back, I'll go to the blue-skinned lamp god and buy a few pots.

Drinking the liquor that was said to be produced by the dwarves, Rokubei nodded contentedly.

Not far away, Roger, who was standing on the bow of the Royal Knight, saw that the leader of the Tosa Navy was actually drinking leisurely, and suddenly felt that he had found the wrong person to work with.

On the same day, he signed a covenant with Yoshida Masashige. Yoshida Masashige hurried back to Shikoku. However, by the time the Tosa Navy came to the inner castle of Kyushu, it was already a month later.

There is no way, not only Roger's side needs to mobilize troops, but Changzong and my department also need to gather hidden troops. The Tosa Navy was able to rush to Kyushu in a month's time, which was actually quite fast.

However, it was only to attack a Kumano naval army that had been weakened a lot, and Roger's side did not need to be dispatched by the whole army. He just brought two thousand sea elementals and ice elementals each, as well as two thousand hurricane elemental troops. and a thousand Heavenly Thunder Elemental troops, as well as a hundred-man Phantom Archer Troop. The total number is only an elite force in the early 7,000s.

For the purpose of hiding his strength and beware of this so-called ally, Roger did not bring the Fire Phoenix troops, and now the heroes on the ship, in addition to Roger himself, are only two elemental heroes, Kerr and Wendy. But with the Elemental Legion, which was on seven separate ships, Roger was confident that he would defeat the Kumano Navy, even without the support of the Tosa Navy.

After all, although the ironclad ship army established by the former pirate daimyo Nine Ghost Yoshitaka was not directly ordered to disband by the old turtle of the Tokugawa family, the current Nine Ghost Family Governor Nine Ghost Moritaka still took the initiative to reduce his troops.

Although the Nine Ghost Shoulong was a reduction in the Navy with an attitude of removing the chaff and preserving the essence, in the previous war, the Navy of the Nine Ghost Family had already suffered a lot of damage, so the current Kumano Navy only had 5,000 people, ten ironclad ships and dozens of Ataka ships left.

This kind of strength is actually enough to deal with the average pirate, but it is not enough to deal with the coalition formed by Roger and the Tosa Water Army. After all, Roger's fleet aside, the Tosa Navy has sixty large and small ships, but the wooden ships of the Tosa Navy can't compete against the ironclad ships of the Nine Ghost Family.

In the covenant signed by Roger and Yoshida Masashige, this is divided. The ironclad ships of the Nine Ghost Family will be dealt with by Roger's fleet, and the dozens of Ataku ships will be dealt with by the Tosa Naval Army.

The people of Changzong and my family all felt that they had taken advantage of their own family, but they didn't know that Roger's target was originally these ironclad ships. Compared to Alice's large sea ships that can carry thousands of soldiers, the ironclad ships of the Nine Ghost Family are just small boats, but with the three small magic cannons loaded on the ships and the layer of iron covering the hull, these ironclad ships are invincible on Yingzhou Island.

However, in Roger and Alice's plan, when attacking Edo Castle, these ironclad ships will serve as cannon fodder to attract as much attention as possible for the rest of the army. I believe that these ironclad ships that the Nine Ghost Family relied on to become famous should be enough to complete this work.

"You can already see the Kumano Water Army's water village." Melia, who was temporarily acting as an observer on the observation deck, shouted loudly, and Roger nodded suddenly, and then used the certificate of heroism to send a message to Yoshida Masashige in the Tosa Water Army.

Compared with Roger, who hid a hand, Changzong's family is elite this time. However, those generals of the Changzong family, Roger is not interested in but knows them. So he could only convey the message to Masashige Yoshida.

Yoshida Masashige who received the information was still a little skeptical, although he knew that Roger and they had defeated the Shimazu family and the Maori family successively. But for Roger's strength, the people of Changzong and my family still underestimated a lot.

Some eagerly rushed out of the cabin. Yoshida Masashige was about to ask Roger on the Royal Knight again, when Rokubei, who had already put away the flask, rushed over and asked a little strangely, "General Yoshida!" Do you have any instructions? ”

"Our allies have sent me a message that they have seen the Toba no Yan of the Nine Ghost Family, so I just want to check with him." Yoshida Masashige replied very naturally, after all, he was not the leader of the navy, and he didn't know if he was really about to arrive at the Toba Valley, so he just wanted to confirm with Roger again.

However, the six guards were stunned when they heard this, and then raised their hands to cover their foreheads. I looked into the distance.

Compared to the super eyesight of the elves, the six guards who are from Yingzhou are naturally far behind, but with experience, he is still sure that the looming shadow in the distance should be land!

"All of them! Get ready for battle! Rokubei suddenly shouted, and while shouting, he also kicked Heijiro, who was unknown next to him: "Why don't you go and raise the pirate flag yet!" We're about to arrive at our predetermined location! ”

"Yes!" The usual training had an immediate effect, and Heijiro responded loudly, rolling and rushing towards the mast.

Although the characteristics of Roger's ship are quite distinct, the Tosa Navy still wants to hide his identity for the time being. So it was the pirate flag that was chosen to be raised.

God knows if Yingzhou has such a large pirate fleet.

Yoshida Masashige frowned a little and grabbed the six guards who were constantly shouting, and asked very seriously, "Are you sure you are about to arrive at the Toba Valley?" ”

"Nope! I'm not sure! Rokubei shook his head, and glanced at the Royal Knight, which was also nervously preparing for battle, "But my years of sailing experience tell me. It's almost there. Normally we had to move forward until we did see land, and we couldn't be sure we had reached where we were. The other side of the ship looks like a pretty good lookout. So let's prepare for it, samurai adults. ”

In fact, more than his own sailing experience, Rokubei trusted the judgment of his allies, who had not had much contact. After all, at first glance, the other party is a fleet with long-distance sailing ability, and the Rokubei, who can only shout in the offshore position, is naturally very convinced of the opponent's ability.

And I heard the answer of the six soldiers. Yoshida Masashige frowned and let go of his hand. Although the stronger the ally, the better, but Yoshida Masashige, who vaguely guessed a little bit of the master's thoughts, was still a little worried that the other party would turn his face, so he came to the bow of the ship and looked into the distance.

Lower-level samurai units can only play a role in broadside battles, so it doesn't matter if they are called later, so Yoshida Masashige wants to see for himself if the fleet is really close to Toba no Kazu.

Standing at the bow of the ship and waiting for a few minutes, Yoshida Masashige faintly saw that the shadow of land had indeed appeared in the distance with the help of Eagle Eye, and then began to gather his subordinates. However, from time to time, he would glance at his "allies", and his heart was somewhat uneasy.

"Please note that the Kumano Navy seems to have spotted us as well and has begun to assemble ships."

At this time, he received another message from Roger. Looking into the distance, he saw some shadows in the distance, and the uneasiness in Yoshida's heart became even more serious, and he began to guess how much chance he had of winning against the fleet of his own navy and his "allies".

As a result, he was very relieved, relying on the strength of the ship, the Tosa Navy should be able to defeat Roger's fleet. So Yoshida Masashige quickly calmed down and began to mobilize troops.

The Kumano Suijun fished out of the Toba Fortress and sailed in a line towards Tosa Suijun and Roger's fleet. The six guards hurriedly commanded the fleet to adjust the course, but suddenly noticed that Roger's fleet did not change direction, but rushed straight towards the enemy.

“…… Are they fools? Planning to hit it hard at the start? Rokubei suddenly felt a little speechless, and he felt that his worship of the other party had been seriously hurt.

Roger is certainly not a fool. In fact, when Melia discovered the Toba Barrier, he had already ordered Kerr to dive into the sea with the Water Elemental Legion and swim to the Toba Barrier before the fleet.

In order to keep up with the speed of the Tosa Navy, the fleet led by the Royal Knight did not sail at full speed, but pretended to be slower, always keeping pace with some medium-sized ships in the middle of the Tosa Navy.

At this moment, after the ice elementals had already surrounded the Kumano naval forces in the sea, Roger ordered the fleet to sail with full sails. Of course, the magic arrays on the ship that reduce weight and accelerate were not activated, and the wind was not strong today, so the speed was only half of what it was when it was really at full speed.

Seeing that the seven big ships were so violently swinging and pressing over, the leader of the Kumano Navy suddenly felt that he had been seriously despised and immediately ordered the ironclad ships to be dispatched.

The ironclad ships that were under the protection of the Ataka ship immediately emerged from the fleet, and the ironclad ships that were swinging out in a row pointed the three small magic cannons on the bow of the ship at Roger's seven large ships, ready to wait for the other party to enter the best firing range, so as to teach them a profound lesson.

"Ke'er, it's time to do it!" Roger said very lightly, and Kerr, who was floating in the sea with the ice elements, suddenly opened his eyes and led the water elemental army to the surface.

The ice elemental troops that came out of the sea immediately launched an ice bomb attack on the fleet of the Kumano Navy Army, and under the covering blow of 2,000 ice bombs, the fleet of the Kumano Navy Army was suddenly frozen on the sea, even the ironclad ships.

The first choice for naval warfare is fire attack, and the reason why ironclad ships can crisscross Yingzhou is because under the protection of iron sheets, fire attack is completely useless for these ironclad ships! However, it is estimated that none of the ships of Yingzhou will be able to guard against the ice attack now, right?

It was in the battle with the Fangjin Naval Army that Roger noticed that the ice elementals' ice offensive had such an effective effect on the ships, so he decided on today's 'Ice Ship Operation'.

Now it seems that the effect is exceptionally good!

Seeing that all the Kumano sailors were frozen, the sea elements emerged out of the sea, and then began to forcibly board the ship, and started a fierce battle with the sailors of the Kumano sailors. The sailors of the Kumano Navy are indeed elite, and in such a situation of extremely low morale, they can still fight with the sea elements who board the ship.

"Yoshida! You're not going to get on yet! Otherwise, the Kumano Naval Army will be surrounded by us! While directing the fleet to adjust the direction, Roger, who was in a very good mood, directly cast his qi magic with a bad taste, and transmitted his voice to the flagship of the Tosa Navy Army. It's just that the voice is a little louder, and even the people of the Kumano Water Army can hear it clearly.

Glancing at Roger's fleet lightly, Masashige Yoshida reluctantly concealed the fear in his eyes, and then kicked the frozen Rokubei next to him very hard, and shouted: "Don't rush up yet!" Otherwise, the Kumano Water Army will really be taken down by them all. ”

The Rokubei began to command the fleet and began to charge the enemy ships. Since he had adjusted the direction of the fleet from the beginning, he didn't have to adjust the course like Roger's fleet to avoid the range of the magic cannon on the Kumano Navy's ironclad ships, and he only needed to charge at the side of the Kumano Navy.

However, while nervously commanding and dispatching, the six guards also took the time to look at the Royal Knight not far away with very strange eyes. He knew that today's battle would definitely go down in the history of Yingzhou: the ironclad ship of the Nine Ghost Family that used to crisscross Yingzhou was almost completely defeated in the hands of Roger, and this news would definitely shock the entire Yingzhou.

Moreover, after today, all the Yingzhou naval forces will have a headache on how to prevent such an ice tactic, at least now the six guards will have a headache. (To be continued.) )