The distance between Black Iron City and Cloud Scale City is not too far, and Route 6 takes about two days. By sea, without the winding and rugged terrain on the 6th floor, it will be faster.

The Isthmus of Cork is located right on the halfway point between the two cities. When Able. As Aldrich's fleet sailed through the Isthmus of Cork, the lookout on the mast lookout saw very clearly the pass that Gordon had built on the narrowest part of the isthmus.

At this time, whether it is on the city wall or on the tower, there is no human figure. The pass, which had once housed the Freemans' most elite soldiers, was now undefended.

Hearing the report of his subordinates, the king of Haiwen couldn't help but show a contemptuous and smug smile: "Hmph, Gordon. Freeman was still too young. The levels he had worked so hard to build and strengthen were now a pile of broken stones that didn't serve any purpose in front of my fleet. Unless he can build a wall across the entire sea of steam, it will be impossible to stop my attack. ”

"It seems that when the little earl heard the news of our fleet's advance, he was immediately frightened and withdrew all the garrisons in the pass. Now that the entire southern part of the peninsula is our target for attack, I am afraid that the other side is having a headache, how to allocate a limited number of troops, but defend so many important places. ”

"If I were Gordon, I would take all the elite out of the army and form a mobile force. The other miscellaneous soldiers are responsible for reconnaissance and defense. After ascending to the 6th, try to let the miscellaneous troops hold us back, and then wait for the main force to come as far as possible. It's the best thing to do. ”

"But there is a premise, and that is the soldiers of the other side. Able to buy enough time. And I believe that with the combat effectiveness of those Freeman private troops, it is impossible to hold out in front of my Straits mercenary group for more than half a day. Alger didn't really agree with the King of Hyven.

His opinion of Gordon was even more disdainful: "A mage, no matter how smart he is, at most he has a unique vision for grand strategy." How to train troops. How to march and camp is still up to us knights. So I dare to conclude that those Freeman private armies that have been in army for less than a month. The fighting power is very weak, and it may be okay to deal with the natives, but it is impossible to win against the real army of the Feretton nobles. It's a pity. The veterans from the north under Gordon's command. There are only two hundred, which is too little, otherwise it might give me a little headache. ”

Alger shook his head regretfully, "I think if Gordon is cautious enough...... He was a mage, and the character trait 'cautious' was present in many mages. If he is cautious enough, he should immediately shrink his forces and stock up on supplies. Hold on to Seacliff Fort. You built the castle yourself, and now it's been fortified and rebuilt. I think you should know it. ”

The King of Haiwen looked a little solemn: "You mean, he will shrink into the Sea Cliff Castle and not come out?" That's a big problem. This time, in order to load as many soldiers and supplies as possible, I have removed all the ballistas on the battleship. With these resources at hand, it is indeed not easy to storm that castle. ”

In this era, even with all kinds of siege equipment, it is not easy to break through a castle with high morale and sufficient supplies and troops. Sometimes, a siege battle can last more than half a year. Historically, all kinds of famous and wise generals, large and small, often suffered losses in this kind of siege warfare.

Of course, if the besieging side has an advantage in terms of casters, they may be able to fly through the city by surprise.

However, neither Abel nor Alger seem to think that they have the advantage of being superior to Gordon. Freeman's mage. Even if Hensel and Greda hadn't mutinied, the odds of conquering Seacliff Forts wouldn't be much greater.

"Could it be that with the character of the other party, they will sit back and watch their territory be destroyed by us? His people were slaughtered by us? ”

Alger laughed, "It's just a group of natives of the peninsula, and in the eyes of the true Ferredonians, they are not citizens of the Empire at all. For a knight at the lowest level of the nobility like me, that's true. For the Earl, who had achieved so much at such a young age and had a great reputation, the lives of those natives were even less valuable. I've heard some gossip that the Earl of Hyperven came to this peninsula to be lord only because there was a magical fountain on the island that had not yet been revealed. ”

Seeing the other party's smile, Able always felt that there was a contempt in it. Isn't he a worthless native of the peninsula in the eyes of these Ferredonians? A surge of anger welled up in his heart: "Arrogant Ferredonian! Sooner or later, I will establish the Hyven Peninsula into a powerful kingdom that you dare not underestimate. I will appear before you nobles of the Empire as kings, and let you kneel and bow with the humility of all kind! ”

Ferreton established the country by force, the national strength is strong, and there is a tendency to export civilization and beliefs to the outside world, so it is not uncommon for Ferreton nobles like Alger to have chauvinistic feelings of a great power. But he was wrong about Gordon.

A large part of the reason for the discrimination of the Ferreton aristocracy against foreigners was based on their own sense of identity and pride in the country. As an outsider, Gordon does not have much sense of identity with the identity of "Ferreton", so naturally he will not discriminate against other foreigners because of the reason "I am a noble and cold Ferreton".

Alger didn't sense the anger in Aldrich's heart, and he continued: "If the other party just holds on, that's fine. Because even if it takes a lot of twists and turns, the victory will be ours in the end. But if this war turns from a war to a protracted war, and the time drags on for a long time, there will be many variables. Your good sons and daughters may be in the rear. And Gordon, it is also possible to invite other reinforcements. You must know that although the other party is alone in the south, not to mention anything else, there are many nobles in Changxia Province alone who want to befriend this mage. After all, his name is there. ”

Hearing Alger say this, the King of Hyven, who did not know much about the situation in Ferreton's internal affairs and the aristocratic circle, became even more anxious.

He decided. Whatever the means, the battle must be fought to end the battle.

But neither is Able. Aldrich. Or Alger, who had all the wrong predictions about Gordon's movements.

The other side did not shrink into the sea cliff fort, nor did it deploy defensive troops everywhere. The mage chose an even bolder idea: to take the initiative and intercept the fleet of the King of Hyperven at sea.

The menacing fleet of the King of Hyperven had just sailed through the Isthmus of Cork when it came to a new appearance. On the flagship "Poseidon Believer". The lookout used a telescope to see another fleet in the distance.

Today the weather is clear, cloudless and visibility is excellent. On a lookout post more than ten meters high. Up to 20 kilometers away, you can see a target on the surface of the sea. The fleet, which was still far away, seemed to form a line of defense, trying to intercept its own southward heading.

According to the statistics of the information that is constantly reported, the opponent's fleet has a total of thirteen ships. Four large warships of 1,000 tons. Eight small warships. There is also a huge ship of more than 2,000 tons.

Listening to the description, the largest ship should be the former Imperial Navy's first-class battleship Turbulence City.

"Hmph, that Gordon is quite bold, and he actually drove out all the warships captured from the Vulture Pirates. For Gordon's gang of miscellaneous sailors, being able to sail the ship to ten kilometers away was already a remarkable achievement. "The behavior of the King of Hyperven towards Gordon. First he sneered, and then a wave of ecstasy swelled up in his heart.

"I thought he was a cautious mage. Who knows, it's a goblin who robs ogres......" Alger laughed as well.

"Goblins robbing ogres" is a Ferreton colloquialism, often used to describe fools who don't take their own pain. In Gordon's more familiar language, it is "if you don't die, you won't die".

Originally, it was worried that it would become a protracted siege battle, but now, since the other party dares to take the initiative to attack, and it is still fighting on the sea, which the king of Hyperven is best at, then only a perfect victory can meet the ending of the story.

As a great pirate who once galloped the sea, Abel may have many flaws and shortcomings in other aspects, but when it comes to naval warfare, he still has absolute confidence.

The fleet he has built over the years has never suffered even in the face of the Frareton Imperial Navy, and when sailing on the steam sea, the major pirates have retreated one after another, how can they be afraid of Gordon's novices who have changed careers from fishermen and ordinary seafarers for less than a month?

The greatest loss of Abel fleet since it was formed was also caused by Gordon, but that was when it was anchored in the harbor, not a real battle.

"Pass the order down and get ready for battle." "Also, order the cabins below to get ready." After a while, after the battle, don't spare the whip and whip it those slaves! The harder those lowly animals row, the sooner our moment of victory will come. ”

In the era of sail battleships on earth, what the commanders of both sides had to do in naval warfare was to grab a T-shaped formation and destroy the enemy with superior firepower on the side side. And in the world of Telos, today's naval warfare is another form.

Aside from ordinary long-range weapons such as ballistas that are not highly effective, as well as magic weapons that are powerful but too high-end to be popularized, the way for the men at sea to solve the battle is similar to that of the 6 ground, and they all have to rely on white-knuckle hand-to-side battles to complete.

Therefore, after the start of a naval battle and the approach to a certain distance, the warship will often turn the sails to the oars as the main driving force, so as to obtain temporary high voyage and better small-range steering ability. In this way, it can be easier to board an enemy ship or sink an enemy ship by just ramming the bow of the ship.

And at this time, in the house that had been renamed "Rob. On the first-class battleship of the Antelo, Gordon also saw the enemy fleet that began to form an offensive formation and quickly approach him.

"One, two, three...... My lord, there are five second-class warships with a displacement of more than 1,000 tons, and a variety of other small fast warships......" A sailor watched with difficulty holding a telescope beside Gordon.

Judging from the Su zhì of the position of lookout alone, there is a big gap between Gordon's subordinates and the subordinates of the King of Hyven.

"Don't count, there are fifteen smaller warships." Gordon said.

Originally, because of the talent of the inheritor of blood, his eyesight was far stronger than that of ordinary humans, and after blessing the eye of a Peng Yu Angel, he could see the incoming enemy fleet clearly without a telescope.

Although he was a mage, Gordon didn't want to mix too much with military affairs. But now he doesn't even have a serious naval officer under his command, and the temporary cameo captains on each warship are all the people who have served as merchant captains in the past.

That's why he personally commanded this naval battle.

Although not in their own area of expertise. However, Gordon did not intend to rely on traditional naval warfare to defeat the enemy anyway. It is completely impossible to defeat the group of strong sailors of the King of Hywen with the sailors under his command who can drive warships.

He is ready to rely on spells to solve the problem and win this crucial naval battle. And this is his area of expertise as a mage.

After seizing the Vulture Pirates' ships, Gordon immediately pooled all his resources and manpower to transform them. Because he can feel it. As time goes on, the sea will become more and more dangerous. Perhaps by any time, the fleet of the King of Hyperven will have returned. It's time to attack yourself.

A few days ago, when Gordon heard Hernandez's report that all kinds of espionage activities in the territory suddenly became frequent, he immediately understood. His greatest enemy in the north. I'm afraid I'm ready to attack.

So he urged the craftsmen to work overtime and work all night to finally complete the transformation of all the pirate ships before the enemy fleet attacked.

Gordon knew that his navy was still a group of rookies, and whether it was white-knuckle combat or ship skills, it was far from being comparable to the veterans of the King of Hyperven who had served for an average of more than five years. So if the two fleets were to get into a close fight, Gordon would be defeated.

So. He simply gave up on making up for his weaknesses and instead focused on strengthening his strengths.

Gordon wields the expertise he has learned on Earth. Considerable improvements have been made to the rudimentary ballistas of the original pirate ship. Nowadays, the ballistas installed on various warships have improved a lot in terms of range, accuracy, and power. The combat effectiveness has increased by at least 50 percent.

Each thousand-ton battleship - by Imperial Navy standards, this is a second-class battleship, is armed with four ballistas. Heavy ballistas were arranged in the bow and stern. On both sides of the middle section of the hull, there were medium-sized ballistas.

And those light warships only had a heavy ballista in the bow.

Although the long-range firepower has been greatly increased, Gordon is well aware that his warships are still unable to wipe out the fleet of the King of Hyperven at a long distance. These ballistas can only weaken the enemy, but they cannot decide the outcome of the battle. In the end, he will inevitably be forced into a destructive broadside battle.

Therefore, Gordon's weight for victory is all on the hero who once captured these warships-the Ice Golem.

Although Rob. The Antello was the largest of the ships, but Gordon did not have any ballistas on it. The reason is very simple, firstly, it is to reserve space for equipping the magic crystal cannon in the future, which is a naval combat weapon, and secondly, Gordon has other uses for this battleship.

He cleared out all the space in the hull that had been wasted by the pirates, and was surprised to find that about seventy percent of the energy storage magic array that had been engraved on the lower deck was actually intact.

The material used to draw the spirit line of this energy storage magic array is Mithril. Craftsmen poured melted Mithril juice into the steel grooves embedded in the deck, and when it cooled, it formed a series of lines that conducted source energy. Although the pirates drooled over the precious metals embedded in the deck beneath their feet, no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't get Mithril out of them with knives, axes, chisels, and other means.

Thanks to the cutting-edge skills of Ferreton's craftsmen and alchemists, this magic circle has been built to last so long.

When Gordon realized this, he immediately used all the Mithril that he had intended to use to make the fifth Battle Ice Golem to repair the wear and tear of the entire magic array.

When the circle was repaired, he made some changes and added a sub-circle to it, which was used to convert the absorbed free source energy into cold arcane energy.

The next thing to do is to activate the circle.

Although this kind of energy storage array is very convenient, once activated, it can continuously absorb free source energy, but it also has many limitations. First of all, the painting of this circle requires a material that is very durable and has excellent conductivity to arcane energy. An ordinary circle may only need some monster blood or gem powder to draw it, but the energy storage circle cannot.

Mithril is generally chosen, but such a rare metal is too expensive. It would cost at least five thousand gold coins to make an energy storage circle of this size on this battleship.

The cost of the circle itself is not low. In addition, if you want to activate this circle, you also need to instantly input a certain level of arcane energy. Take Rob. Judging from the scale of this magic circle on the Antello, it requires at least the energy level of a ten-ring spell to activate.

The Ten Rings spell is a legendary spell.

Of course, in reality, it is not possible to find a legendary mage to activate the circle casually. However, the quality is not enough, and the quantity can be used to make up.

The energy level of the Ten Ring Spell is roughly equivalent to fifty Five Ring Spells.

Although it was impossible for Gordon to release fifty five-ring spells at once, he had a large but stable source of energy in the magic room under Sea Cliff Castle - Ice Energy Gem.

Gordon finally built a long-distance energy transmission route, and then activated the energy storage circle on the battleship. Immediately afterward, he turned the entire three-story and fourth-floor deck space into a world of ice.

He went to great lengths to create this environment on the battleship, just to make Rob . The Antelo, which became the sea base for the Ice Golem. (To be continued!)

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