The weather was nice tonight, the wind was calm, and a large fleet sailed on the calm seas.

Arguably the largest maritime force ever built on the planet, the fleet consists of 15 large flat-topped ships that can take off and land four-winged dragons, 7 capital ships equipped with giant magic cannons, 21 ocean-bound fast warships, 67 small fast warships, and countless transport fleets.

Mark Andrew sat in the lookout of a capital battleship, and as usual, he looked at the lights of the armada under his command at night like stars in the sky, and a sense of pride arose.

It was the Thirteen-Nation Alliance's nationwide fleet built over the course of more than 20 years, and its goal was to go west and conquer the fabled rich continent of milk and honey in the west.

According to Draenor II, the founder of this fleet, this is the "fleet of annihilation".

Today is the 25th day of the fleet's simulated ocean-going training in the offshore waters, and they will return to the port of Santiago, which is the fleet's home port in five days.

The thought of seeing his family in five days left filled Andrew with the same anticipation as the rest of the crew.

The day before he went to sea, Andrew received a letter from home saying that his daughter-in-law had given birth in five or six days, and now he just didn't know if it was his grandson or granddaughter who was waiting for him at the port.

A bell rang, and it was the signal for the midnight change of the fleet.

Andrew took out the bottle hidden in the lookout as soon as the bell fell, and the whole fleet knew that their commander was on duty in place of the lookout at night, in order to secretly drink some of the spirits he had brought with him at night when he left work.

Sailors and officers did not treat the low-alcohol liquor that was drunk as water.

At this moment, a figure with wings spread flew to the lookout, and as soon as he landed, Andrew handed over a glass of wine in distress.

If you want to say who Andrew admires the most in the fleet, the demon in front of him, who is only two-thirds of his height, is one of them.

The climate of the ice sea in the far north is extremely harsh, and the demon named Bergmir Novotini in front of him is one of the demons who came to this continent through the forbidden area of life in the ice sea.

Novotini, who had not had time to salute, smiled bitterly and accepted the wine handed by Andrew, but he could not slack off in his work, he took the wine glass and said: "Report to the commander, the fleet has slowed down as originally planned, and the final round of replenishment will be carried out at dawn tomorrow." ”

Andrew asked his lieutenant, "Is the broken boat out of trouble?"

Novotini replied: "The condenser seawater pump on that ship had failed, and the seawater to cool the steam was not available, so it slowed down. ”

"It returned to normal after changing to the spare seawater pump on the transport ship and returned to the formation half an hour ago. ”

Andrew nodded with satisfaction, although it has been more than twenty years since the appearance of the steam engine, the reliability problem of the entire system has not been solved, and the fleet can only rely on bringing more spare parts to deal with it, depending on whether they arrive at their destination first or run out of spare parts first.

Novotini continued to report: "There was something wrong with the maximum range shooting training of the magic guide cannon this evening, a magic guide cannon because of the failure of the firing system, the firing power of one shell exceeded the safe value, the shell flew too far and we could not observe the landing point, and the magic guide cannon also needed to replace some parts because of overload. ”

If Charles had been here, he would have grabbed Novotini by the neck and shouted, "Your cannonball landed right on Lao Tzu's head!"

Fortunately, Charles's soul was back in the body at that time, otherwise it would have been blown up by the cannonball.

Andrew didn't know what kind of presence his fleet had hit, so he took a sip of his wine and sighed, "If they are willing to provide guidance from the sky, we can make an out-of-sight attack." ”

Those four-winged dragons are all arrogant masters, let them be the main force, let them do the work of reconnaissance and guidance, don't think about it, they feel that this kind of work is too embarrassing.

Even those four-winged dragons were not interested in this training, only a dozen unlucky people who won the lottery came up to mean it.

Novotini also agreed with Andrew, but although they demons can fly, they are only good at flying short distances, and the distance and altitude at sea are not enough at all.

Andrew and Novotini only had two drinks before stopping, and if they were drunk, they would have to go to court-martial.

After hiding the bottle, Andrew stood up and looked at the fleets of lights flickering around him, feeling in a good mood and stretching comfortably.

Standing behind him, Novotini flexibly flashed outside, Andrew is more than three meters tall, and he plus the double horns on the top of his head is a little more than two meters, the difference in physique is there, and it is not fun to take a punch.

After moving his muscles for a while, Andrew asked, "Novotini, will you continue to work in the Navy when you return home?"

Novatini returned to the lookout, and he replied: "Yes, I will be the first Minister of the Navy when I return." ”

Andrew said: "That's soon, after this training, the fleet will be repaired and overhauled for more than half a year, and at the end of the year, you will be able to embark on the journey to the west, and you don't have to risk going back through the ice sea." ”

Novotini just smiled in response, thinking that when the fleet arrives in the East next year, his sister should be ready to take care of it.

Andrew's heart suddenly moved, and he asked, "Where are we now?"

Novotini had looked at the charts in the command room before coming up, and he replied, "Our current position is the Pearl Sea. ”

Andrew stood by the lookout, looked at the slow-moving fleet and said, "The sea here is shallow, there are many pearl mussels on the bottom of the sea, and there are also many reefs, so it is called the Pearl Sea." ”

"I sensed that something was going to happen just now, so you go down and give an order, so that the big ships should pay attention and not hit the reef or run aground. ”

Immediately after receiving the order, Novotini flew off the lookout and went to the command room to deliver the order.

In less than two minutes, the order was heard throughout the fleet by the word of lights.

It's just that the feeling of uneasiness did not disappear in Andrew's heart, but grew stronger and stronger.

"Boom !!"

Right before Andrew's eyes, there was a violent explosion at the bottom of a large flat-topped boat.

Andrew was shocked in his heart, the boiler of that ship exploded?!

He still remembers that more than 20 years ago, when the steam engine was first loaded on the ship, he had seen several ships explode like this, most of the reason was that the captain violated the regulations and burned seawater, and as a result, the scale in the boiler blocked the steam line and caused the explosion.

"Boom !!"

"Boom !!"

Before Andrew could come to his senses, another explosion was heard.

The scene in front of him made Andrew's eyes suddenly split, as the pearl of the shipbuilding industry of the Thirteen Nations Alliance, the 15 large flat-topped ships all exploded violently at the same time in two breaths.

Just as Andrew was about to jump off the lookout and head back to the command room, a violent jolt came from under his feet, knocking him to the ground.

When he got up, he found that the main battleship under his feet had stopped, and it was still slightly tilted.

At this moment, without Andrew's order, the sound of battle sirens accompanied by explosions resounded over the fleet.

A female voice suddenly sounded in the sky: "Let me see more of your frightened looks!"

Andrew looked up at the sky, only to see a group of strange points of light in the air swooping down on the four-winged dragons that had just flown up.

The dots of light were massive, flying objects, and the magic cannonballs they unleashed sent the four-winged dragons to the ground in an instant.

There weren't many of those things flying in the sky, but they were extremely agile, fast, and acted in groups, and the four-winged dragons were quickly brought down one by one by their concentrated firepower.

Andrew calmed down, and he picked up the binoculars on the lookout and looked for the enemy in the night.

At this moment, he saw a purple-white point of light flying towards him in the direction of the open sea, and the point of light was getting bigger and bigger in the telescope......