Large numbers of warships sailed out of the harbor and headed for the mouth of the Anduin River, where they would search for the small decoy fleets that had been sent out before on the vast sea, and then deal a fatal blow to the enemy who followed them.

Ta Dun's face was a little blue, although his physique was strong, but it didn't mean that he wouldn't get seasick, and at this time he was leaning tightly against a section of the ship's side, retching out a few times from time to time. As an Assassin, Lynn had a good ability to adapt to her environment, but she wasn't in great shape. And the most suitable of the three to take a boat is Hu Bin, who was a Terran ocean-going warship for three days when he was a novice mission, and this little wind and waves in the offshore sea did not make him change at all.

Because the subordinates of the three were not suitable for naval warfare, they were left in the White City by Hu Bin and entrusted to Boromir to take care of, and only brought Lorraine to come, and with some of his treatment, Ta Dun and Lin are now not seasick and unable to get out of bed.

"Hey, rookies, do you know how to swim?" General Quentin put down the thick fishing rod in his hand and watched with interest as Hu Bin and the three of them stood on the boat and shook with the waves.

"No, what's wrong?" Ta Dun looked at him with a dead expression.

"Then it is necessary for me to train you again, so that you will not be killed by the enemy in battle, but drowned in the sea." General Quentin rubbed his hands together and said excitedly, and the trio, including Hu Bin, who couldn't swim, all felt a smell of yīnmou.

"Help~, Gollum~, help!" The tower shield was tightly tied by several sailors and hung from General Quentin's thick fishing rod like an oversized earthworm. With a flick of the fishing rod from General Quentin, the tower shield crossed a graceful arc and fell into the sea, and half a minute later, the tower shield was salvaged from the water.

"Poof, you guys are murder!" As soon as the tower shield hit the deck, it spat out a mouthful of seawater, and then hissed and stirred it up with all its might.

"I'm here to help you master your swimming skills." General Quentin said shamelessly, flexing the muscles in his chest.

"Then why do you put me like this, don't you need hands and feet to swim, don't the two of them just need to tie a rope around their waists." The tower shield arched its body. Hu Bin and Lin in the distance are also learning swimming skills, but they are obviously much more reliable than Ta Dun's method.

"That's because your foundation is too poor, and you have to use a quick way to train specially." Quentin said without blushing and heartbeat, and with another wave of his hand, the tower shield let out another scream and fell into the water.

"General, there seem to be sharks around here, doesn't it matter?" The adjutant walked over and asked in a whisper.

"I know. It's just that I haven't eaten shark fin for a long time, and it's not easy to find such a good bait. The general, with his back to the adjutant, took a sip of saliva and shouted: "Boy, fight hard and use your perseverance to conquer the sea." ”

"Help!" I don't know what kind of force drove it, and the tower shield actually surfaced with the shaking of his body. You can also shout for help.

General Quentin's brow furrowed, and he looked at Ta Dun's performance in surprise, and then pulled the rod hard, and Ta Dun was dragged into the water again.

General Quentin's special training is still effective, Lin and Hu Bin have mastered the primary swimming skills after half a day, although Hu Bin can use spells that can move in the water, but the skills are not overwhelming. Since you can learn swimming skills, you can't miss this opportunity.

Under the training (transfer) of General Quentin himself, Ta Dun finally attracted a shark roaming nearby. And the tower shield actually broke out at the critical moment, he broke the ropes on his hands, and then swam back to the warship quickly. The tower shield, who had been pulled onto the deck by the lieutenant, looked back at the shark and saw that it had a steel fork stuck in it, and General Quentin was pulling it back with a rope tied to the back of the steel fork.

"We're going to have shark stew tonight, boy, and it's good. I'll give you half of that shark's fin. When General Quentin saw that the shark was exhausted, he tied the rope to a stake on one side and waited for the surrounding warships to come forward and catch it. He walked over and patted Ta Dun on the shoulder, who only then noticed that he had won the approval of General Quentin and mastered advanced swimming skills, and he didn't know if the experience was lucky or unlucky.

Hu Bin and the three of them spent the first day after setting sail to the fullest. However, at ten o'clock in the morning of the next day, a mournful jǐng bell rang in the fleet.

"What's wrong?" Hu Bin rolled out of his hammock and hurried onto the deck, then saw General Quentin staring into the distance with his eyes shining.

"Rookie. Go back to the cabin and tie yourself up strongly, the storm is coming! Quentin left the three behind him with a side face with the corners of their mouths turned up, and there was dangerous excitement in their eyes.

Without saying a word, Ta Dun and Lin fled back to the cabin, while Hu Bin remained on deck.

"Why are you ......" General Quentin found that Hu Bin did not heed his admonition and went back to the cabin, and was about to open his mouth to scold, but found that Hu Bin's body was covered with a visible blue light, shining under the night sky, and his feet were like nailed to the deck, not affected by the undulations of the hull in the slightest.

"The power of the wind, boy, you have the right to stand here, but remember, obey my commands, remember, absolute obedience."

Hu Bin smiled slightly, neither promised nor refused.

Quentin didn't care, he saw the adjutant running towards here, and shouted his own order: "Order the whole fleet to move closer to the flagship, keep the two levels apart to form a conical formation, raise the full sails, and accelerate in the direction of seven." ”

"General, this direction is heading towards the storm, can we get around it?" The adjutant said with some change.

"Lao Tzu doesn't have time to delay here, the little cubs of the bait fleet are still waiting for us to answer and carry out the order!" Quentin only then showed the courage of an admiral.

The light of the morning star in the distance had dimmed, but the sky was still pitch black, and large dark clouds shrouded the sea, and the originally calm sea surface also rippled.

"Haha, Lao Tzu likes to take a bath in the storm the most, put away the second sail, and we will rush in directly." Admiral Quentin spread his hands and shouted in a slightly frantic voice, while the other sailors, hearing the admiral's order, quickly completed their work, and then were infected by the general's madness, and fearlessly looked at the sea not far away that was tumbling and boiling in lightning and thunder.

……

"There's a whirlpool at eight o'clock ahead!" The lookout on the mast shouted with all his might.

"Left full rudder!" General Quentin shouted in a calm voice.

"Left full rudder!" The order was passed down one after another.

It had only been twenty minutes since the fleet had entered this rainstorm area, but Hu Bin felt that he had already walked a few times on the line of life and death. He clung to the net pocket beside him and tried to immobilize his body. Although the lightweight technique has given him a lot more control over his body, the weight loss can easily be lifted out in the process of the sudden rise and fall of the hull.

"Ahh One of the sailors fell to the deck with a stroke of his foot, then broke through the guardrail on the side of the ship and fell off the deck in a jolt, in which he was essentially sentenced to death.

Not far away, a warship seemed to have something wrong with its rudder, and its hull suddenly turned sideways, undulating under the influence of the waves.

"Sink it!" General Quentin shouted loudly, only to find the two sailors next to the ballista in a daze.

"Didn't you hear my commands?" Quentin slapped the ballista man to the deck. Then he raised the gun mount, took a slight aim, and fired the cannon. The cannon flew past the deck of the ship, taking the life of a sailor.

General Quentin gritted his teeth and glared at the loader menacingly, and the sailor immediately handed over a cannonball. When the other warships saw the flagship's move, they opened fire on the warship, accompanied by a cracking sound. The battered warship snapped in half and sank in the blink of an eye.

General Quentin breathed a sigh of relief, the out-of-control warship almost collided with the other ships, and if the other ships dodged in a hurry, the formation of the fleet would probably become more and more chaotic.

"You've been dismissed, you're not allowed to come out of the confinement room, and I'll get back to land when this operation is over." General Quentin lifted the back of the previous gunner and walked towards the adjutant, then beckoned to Hu Bin and said, "From now on." Forget your unreliable position as a military supervisor, this ballista is yours, do a good job. ”

Hu Bin rushed to the ballista in the bow of the ship in a few strides, firmly grasped the hideous war machine with his hands, and then began to stare at the loader.

The "Ding Ding Ding ......" bell rang urgently, and Hu Bin raised his head to look past the baffle of the ballista, and then saw a cliff-like wave coming towards the fleet.

"The right rudder is full, and the bow of the ship is facing the direction of the great waves. Fast! "Without General Quentin's order, the helmsman has already spun the rudder to the right like crazy, and the speed of the huge waves is so fast that if the bow is not aligned in time, the warship may be overturned.

The Great Wave finally began to make contact with the fleet, and in the blink of an eye raised the flagship. Hu Bin felt a huge force coming from the deck under his feet, if it weren't for the fact that he had been clinging to the fixation on the ballista. Maybe this will push him into the air.

"Damn, the angle of the bow hasn't been fully adjusted yet!" The helmsman let out a cry of despair, just as one of the warships in front of him was swept across the hull by a huge wave and then overturned. Lost in the waves.

"Lower the mainsail!" Seeing that the deflection of the bow of the ship tended to gradually increase, General Quentin appeared next to the helmsman at some point, and took the rudder with him and pulled it vigorously to the right.

But this still could not prevent the hull from slowly deflecting, but fortunately, God favored, just when the hull was about to be uncontrollable, the warship finally reached the end of the huge wave, and after the bow of the ship was raised high on the surface of the water for a period of time under the action of the huge waves, it plunged into the water, and then rose up under the action of buoyancy, raising a splash.

Hu Bin spat out the seawater in his mouth, and quickly touched his face with his right hand, and the ecstasy brought by escaping death made him giggle.

"Heheheha!" Perhaps driven by Hu Bin, the loader next to him also laughed, and finally the sailors of the whole ship laughed one after another.

Seeing the glow of the rising sun not far away, General Quentin breathed a sigh of relief, and they finally broke out of the rainstorm area.

……

"We have lost a total of twenty warships, another five are badly damaged, and 1,257 sailors are missing." The adjutant handed over the report of the losses through the rainstorm zone, and the ships in the rear were well prepared due to the opening of the way by the warships in front, but the entire fleet still lost nearly a fifth of its warships and sailors, and it was not a good sign that it had lost so much strength before the start of the battle.

"Isn't it just the loss of some manpower, it is the fate of our navy to die in the sea, there is nothing to be sad about, don't forget what we are going to do this time. I don't want to see you with a bitter face to kill pirates with me. That would be laughed at by the pirates, remember, kill me for my dead brother's exploits. ”

Hu Bin couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw General Quentin yelling at the others, without any pressure on sinking his own warship with his own hands. Although Hu Bin thinks he can be ruthless. But he couldn't be as decisive as General Quentin.

Tadun and Rin ran out of the cabin, still complaining about the bruises they had had had made in the room, not knowing that they had dodged under the Grim Reaper's series of moves, and it had to be said that ignorance was also a blessing.

After the two found Hu Bin, they were surprised to find that he was actually fiddling with the ballista on the bow of the ship with the help of a sailor. But Hu Bin had only been outside for a while before he could fiddle with it, and both of them knew that something must have happened during the time they were away from deck.

Hu Bin didn't care what the two of them were thinking, he was familiar with the ballista under the explanation of the loader, although Hu Bin had played with the speed shè city defense crossbow installed on the wall of his city before, but the kind of self-loading small crossbow and this large ballista were not the same thing at all.

Gondor's warships are second to none in the Lord of the Rings world, and the ballistas on their old rivals, the Pirates of Ambar, who only have small crossbows, the ballistas on the warships are a great weapon of destruction. This shipborne ballista is not only amazing. The power should not be underestimated, and it can directly deal damage to the hull of enemy ships, which can be said to have a great advantage in the battle against pirates whose main means of attack is to engage in broadside combat.

However, the disadvantages of the ballista are also quite numerous, and the cost of these war-like machines is simply outrageous, and the Kingdom of Gondor has not known how many years it took to make up these ballistas, and for various reasons, the shipborne ballistae that are scrapped every year are a huge loss. In addition, due to the shaking of ships at sea. The jīng degree of these ballistae is not high, and only a fairly experienced crossbowman can use the ballista he is familiar with to exert the effect of a land shè shot, but this problem has not been solved due to the scrap rate of the ballista.

In addition, the ship-borne ballista also has a series of defects such as slow loading, susceptibility to seawater corrosion, and insufficient ammunition, but this cannot hide Hu Bin's love for it, after all, a man should like to play artillery.

Ta Dun watched enviously as Hu Bin scrubbed and debugged the ballista. The flagship is a bit larger than the other warships, so this ballista is also specially made, not only with some flaps, but also with a special loader to assist in reloading. Thanks to this gunner-turned-loader on other warships, Hu Bin was able to quickly familiarize himself with the ballista.

In the blink of an eye, it was noon, and the fleet had arrived at the designated sea area, but the decoy fleet did not arrive here with the main pirate force as promised, and a bad feeling rose in the hearts of all the navies, and the adjutant repeatedly suggested that General Quentin send some warships to investigate, but they were all blocked back by the general's words of "believe them".

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the decoy fleet still did not appear, and even Hu Bin was a little unable to sit still, and the whole army was wondering if there was a traitor who leaked the plan, but except for a few high-ranking officials on the flagship, the commanders of the other ships only got the plan after setting sail, and it was impossible for anyone to leak it.

"They were just late, and the storm may have affected their itinerary as well, and if they had taken a detour, they would have been about three hours late, that is, around three o'clock." General Quentin's steady voice calmed everyone's anxious emotions, and they only then remembered that the previous storm cloud was drifting from the direction they were going, and their own fleet had directly passed through the storm, but the decoy troops were not necessarily, after all, their task was not to hurry, but to smoothly bring the enemy's main force over.

"It's still early, how about we have a few drinks?" General Quentin said suddenly.

"Please take this battle seriously, General!" The adjutant instantly entered the butler mode.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, as General Quentin expected, the figure of the decoy fleet appeared on the horizon, and as they moved in the direction of the predetermined location, a large number of pirate ships followed their ass and burrowed into the ambush circle of the kingdom's navy.

"It's time to close the net, wait for the signal of the bait troops, and then the whole army rushes up for me, I don't want any fish to slip through the net, the standard-bearer added this sentence to me." Quentin fidgeted and walked around with the hilt of the knife at his waist, while the adjutant kept an eye on the old man after giving the order to the standard-bearer, lest he have an impulse to make the flagship rush to the front.

The decoy in the distance slowed down and fired an arrow when it reached its designated position, and the pirate fleet, although it sensed that something was wrong, pounced on the decoy force with the help of the boats, and soon their vanguard began to exchange fire with the decoy fleet.

Quentin had to wait patiently for the encirclement to be completely closed, although he wanted to immediately support the decoy fleet, but in order for this operation to be successful, this sacrifice was necessary.

Fortunately, the detachment responsible for cutting off the pirates' retreat moved very quickly, and the signal they sent out meant that the plan of action was mostly successful, and the rest depended on the performance of the admirals.

"Little ones, rush with me." Quentin couldn't wait to draw his cutlass and rush into the crowd of pirates on the other side.