Chapter 310: Port Earles
In order to gain the approval of pirates, it is obvious that it takes a long time to accumulate only through normal activities such as looting. However, the One Piece selection event is already close at hand, and the Iron Anchor Pirates have just joined the Shadow Island Council, so they have no more time to accumulate their prestige.
In this case, extraordinary things must be done. Yu Fei, who was thinking, found a map of the northern seas of Eslaze and began to observe it carefully. After all kinds of trade-offs, he finally decided what to do to make a name for himself as the Iron Anchor Pirates.
Summoning Yorick, who was looting merchant ships and gaining prestige among pirates, Yu Fei told him of his plan. Yorick, who learned about Yu Fei's plan, was stunned when he heard Yu Fei's plan. However, Yu Fei was his master at this time, and the power possessed by the Iron Anchor Pirates had become very powerful with the addition of the Night Elves, and Yorick expressed his approval of Yu Fei's plan.
Next, the more than eighty pirate ships of the Iron Anchor Pirates gathered on a desert island. The Iron Anchor Pirates themselves only have seventy-two ships, but in the past two days, although the Night Elf forces have not been dispatched, other human pirates have also captured some ships, making the strength of the pirates even greater.
The newly captured ships are naturally equipped with newly trained Night Elf troops. The ancient trees on Iron Anchor Island have been training Night Elf soldiers in a steady stream, and at least for a short time, the Iron Anchor Pirates only need to worry about the lack of ships and not enough personnel.
Speaking of which, the pirate group with more than eighty pirate ships is already considered the first echelon of pirates in the Shadow Island organization, and there are only three pirates with more than 100 ships, such as the War Pirates. It's a pity that the Iron Anchor Pirates don't have the strength to match their fame, so they gather here to prepare for a big thing.
When the thirty pirate ships equipped with human pirates and the fifty pirate ships full of Night Elves of the Iron Anchor Pirates have been assembled. Yu Fei finally announced the goal of the operation. Yu Fei's plan. It is a collection of all the strength of the Iron Anchor Pirates. Attack the port of Earls in the coastal power of the kingdom of Thebehi.
The kingdom of Thebehi was a very powerful kingdom at sea. Although on the continent of Eslazze, Thebehi can only be regarded as a medium strength among the kingdom class, but in terms of navy, the development of the Debehi kingdom can be said to be not far from the three major empires.
Of course, after all, it is only a kingdom, and compared to the Canaanite Empire, which also focuses on naval strength, the Kingdom of Thebehi is still relatively weak. However, the Canaanite Empire was south of Ezlaze, while the Kingdom of Thebehi was north of Ezlaze. In fact, there is no comparison.
Therefore, the kingdom of Thebehi is the most powerful force in the northern seas of Eslaze. For example, although the Holy Lion Empire also has some territories in the north that are bordered by the sea, but it is only a small area like Port Oberline, and it has not developed much navy in the north, so that the Kingdom of Thebehi has come to the fore.
The regular navy, naturally, is on the opposite side of the pirates. The most annoying thing for pirates to plunder merchant ships was to encounter the navy, especially the navy of the Kingdom of Thebehi.
Because when pirates are caught by the navies of human countries while plundering merchant ships, they will definitely be attacked. On the whole, the strength of the pirates is not much higher than that of the navies of human countries, but they are all organized by pirates and are relatively scattered. Therefore, when encountering the navies of human countries, they are often at a disadvantage.
The Kingdom of Thebehi, as the most powerful country in the sea north of Ezlaze, naturally has many old hatreds and hatreds with the pirates. Don't say anything else. Just because the Kingdom of Thebehi was one of the initiators and main forces of that pirate cleanup campaign decades ago, it was enough to make the pirates of the entire Shadow Isle organization hate.
If the Iron Anchor Pirates can successfully defeat the Kingdom of Dibihi. It will definitely greatly increase your reputation among pirates. If you really capture a port in the Kingdom of Thebehi, even if it is only a raid and cannot occupy it, it will definitely make all the pirates, including the three major pirates, look at the Iron Anchor Pirates.
The port of Earls chosen by Yu Fei is not the largest seaport in the Thebehi Kingdom, but it is also a relatively large port. Yu Fei chose Earls Seaport because of its geographical location and resources.
Let's start with the geographical location. The Harbour of Earls is located in a protruding corner of the Eslaze continental shelf. It is far away from the other seaports of the Thebehi kingdom and is in a relatively isolated position. If the Iron Anchor Pirates attack here, you don't have to worry about being dumpled by the Debehi Kingdom soon.
As for the resources produced by Earls Harbor, it was actually an important reason why Yu Fei chose to attack here. In terms of location on the mainland, Earls Harbor is relatively close to the Warcraft Mountain Range, which runs through the north and south of the continent. The Monster Mountains stretched to the northern part of the continent and stopped not far south of Earls Harbor.
Therefore, in this area, the production of magic cores is very abundant, and there are many magic crystal mines in the mountains that have been excavated by humans. And because of the complex terrain around them, the Demon Core and Demon Crystal Ore produced have to pay a great price to transport by land, which is extremely inconvenient.
The emergence of the Port of Earls is actually to solve the problem of resource transportation in this region. Although only a small part of the area where the magic core and crystal ore are produced in large quantities belong to the territory of the Kingdom of Thebehi, it is located just by the sea, and it is here that the Kingdom of Thebexi established the seaport of Earls.
In addition to the magic crystal ore mined by the country and the magic core obtained from the port of Earls, most of the other countries with interests in this region have also chosen to transport through the port of Earls. Although the Thebehi kingdom would take a portion of the taxes, they were still worth the cost of overland transportation.
What Yu Fei fancied was naturally the mountain of magic crystal ores and magic cores that often piled up on Earls Harbor. Although it is impossible to occupy Earls Harbor for a long time, this port has a large number of magic cores and magic crystal ores transported out of this port every day, and even if you loot it once, you can get a lot of energy.
Of course, such a lucrative raiding target could not have been left without pirates. When Earls Harbor was first established a hundred years ago, there were countless pirates waiting for the autumn wind to blow on the shipping route outside the harbor. However, under the escort and all-out attack of the navy of the Kingdom of Thebehi, the pirates who were still scattered at that time finally ended miserably.
It was precisely because of the feud here that the Debehi Kingdom would later participate in the extermination of pirates. Because the Crystal Ore and the Magic Core were of little use to the pirates, and could only be used for sale, and it was difficult to find buyers to buy them in large quantities, the pirates rarely moved around Earls Harbor because the profits were not proportional to the risks.
However, the hatred for Earls Harbor and the Kingdom of Thebexi is rooted in the hearts of most pirates. If the Iron Anchor Pirates can capture Earles Harbor, they will definitely be respected by most pirates in addition to the energy gains.
Even Yu Fei felt that if the Debehi Kingdom Navy stationed in Earls Harbor was completely wiped out, the winner of the Pirate King selection event would even be locked on the Iron Anchor Pirates. Of course, all this is still imagination, and what is now to be done is to carry out the plan to attack Port Earles.
After hearing Yu Fei's plan to attack Earls Harbor, the human pirates were in an uproar. As old pirates, they naturally did not know the situation in Earles Harbor, and while they admired Yu Fei for being so bold, they also felt a trace of absurdity.
In the current Iron Anchor Pirates, the leader of the group, Yorick, really has thirty pirate ships and corresponding pirates. Planck, the deputy head of the regiment, only joined later, but he led more than fifty pirate ships and a large number of powerful mysterious black-clad pirates.
As long as you are a slightly smarter pirate, you will be able to find out who is the real master of the Iron Anchor Pirates now. Of course, Yorick and Planck chose not to pick on them, and those clever pirates didn't come forward. However, since Yu Fei, the deputy head of the regiment, Planck, announced this plan, it proves that the head of the regiment, Yorick, naturally will not have any opinions.
However, there are still some pirates who feel that the Iron Anchor Pirates are not strong enough to do such a thing. These pirates were all late arrivals, and few of them had ever seen the strength of the Night Elves under the cover of black.
Regarding the situation that the deputy leader of the Iron Anchor Pirates has more say than the head of the group, they have their own opinions, that is, the head of the group and the deputy head of the group only see contradictions. In order to gain a higher status and greater benefit in the Iron Anchor Pirates, these self-righteous pirates chose to "take refuge" in Yorick and oppose Yu Fei's proposal.
However, Yu Fei was very impatient with these sesame-sized things. After Yorick announced that the human pirates only needed to fight in this operation, and the real main force was the part of the pirates led by the deputy commander Planck, those pirates who jumped like clowns were sunk to the bottom of the sea to feed the fish.
After gathering all the ships and personnel of the Iron Anchor Pirates, Yu Fei led the fleet in the direction of Earls Harbor. The human pirates who were warned bloodily and knew that they didn't need to be sent to death by themselves naturally obeyed the order.
In an area of sea that was still half a day's sea distance from Earles Harbor, the fleet of the Iron Anchor Pirates stopped. Although the strength of the Iron Anchor Pirates has increased a lot after the addition of the Night Elves, just going to directly attack a harbor where the fleet is stationed will inevitably cause a lot of unnecessary losses.
In order not to cause these losses, it is natural to use some stratagems. After giving Yorick's orders, the Iron Anchor Pirates' fleet split into several teams and began to implement Yu Fei's unclever but practical plan. (To be continued......)