In October of the 17th year of the Blue Star Age, the "Journey" was officially put into service, and a month later, it quickly formed its combat effectiveness and undertook the arduous task of defending the sea of Guiguo. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Coincidentally, the "Journey" encountered three pirate ships on Troubled Reef Island in the sea area more than 100 miles away from the southern coastline of Guiguo.

At that time, three pirate ships were chasing a Katsura cargo ship, and the pirates were howling loudly on the ship while attacking and shooting with long-range spells, and a pirate monk flew over the cargo ship and casually cast spells to shoot the sailors on the cargo ship.

Just as the poor cargo ship was about to be caught up by a pirate ship, it happened to be spotted by the radar of the nearby "Journey". After some reconnaissance, the captain recognized it as a pirate from Reef Island, and immediately ordered an attack. The eight main guns on the battleship fired in unison, but five salvos were fired, and the rudimentary defensive array on the ship only resisted two rounds of cannonballs before collapsing instantly, and the next three accurate shots, the huge cannonballs tore apart the wooden hull like a decay, and the pirates were buried at the bottom of the sea in an instant without knowing what had happened.

The surviving pirate monks on the pirate ship soon discovered the "Journey" attacking them, and they rushed to the "Journey" with all their might, but they did not expect that as soon as they flew more than 1,000 meters away from the "Journey", they were violently attacked by several machine guns and were blown into slag. Only one pirate monk was killed by the cannon after he could unleash a spell attack, and the attack spell he fired did not do any damage to the Journey.

The "Journey" was a naval battle to exterminate pirates on the Reef Island, which immediately caused tremendous repercussions in the entire Guizhou country, especially in the coastal areas, and the people of Guizhou had always hated the pirates, but they were helpless, and this cutting-edge warship completely reversed the situation as soon as it was put into service. People were full of confidence in the Navy of the Republic and asked to sign up for the Navy. Many people are even more willing for the Kangnai government to demand that the navy immediately attack the reef islands in order to avenge the aggression of the pirates on the coastal areas over the years.

The beautiful first battle of the "Journey" made Modern and the entire high-level of Gui full of confidence in this kind of warship, and immediately increased the procurement of this kind of warship. Soon, in just half a year, two more "Journey" class warships joined the Republic Navy. At the same time, Modern built a first-class frigate, which has only half the displacement of the "Journey" class, and the weapons have also been reduced by more than half, but because of the relatively simple structure, the construction speed is extremely fast, and six ships have been launched in just a few months. These modern frigates together with the "Journey" class warships formed a combined fleet, which made a qualitative leap in the strength of the navy.

After the formation of a modern fleet, the Navy of the Republic has finally taken a solid step towards the sea. The Cornaic government began to form several oceanographic exploration teams, and under the cover of the fleet, began to explore the surrounding waters.

In the beginning, the work of the ocean exploration team was relatively smooth, and there were no problems in exploring the offshore area, and there were no attacks by pirates from the Troubled Reef Island. However, trouble soon followed.

In April of the 18th year of the Blue Star Era, the ocean exploration team responsible for exploring the southern seas was suddenly besieged by a group of pirates sixty kilometers north of Ranjiao Island. Dozens of pirate ships of various sizes launched a suicidal attack on the fleet with swarm tactics, while more than a hundred pirate monks quietly approached the detection fleet with ten stealthy sea beasts and launched a surprise attack.

After a hard battle, a "Journey" class battleship, two frigates, and the officers and men on board killed most of the ordinary pirate ships, seven or eight sea beasts, and dozens of pirate monks, and were finally outnumbered and destroyed by the pirates. The other ineffective ocean exploration teams were also annihilated by the pirates, with hundreds of crew members all killed by the pirates' butcher's knives, and only one monk survived.

When the news reached Guiguo, the whole country was shocked, and people did not expect that the pirates of Ranjiao Island would really dare to brazenly attack the navy of the Republic.

However, just before people could calm down, just over a week later, there were several incidents of pirates attacking fishing boats and killing fishermen in the southern waters of Guiguo. The most serious thing is that on May 12, the 18th year of the Blue Star Age, a pirate fleet composed almost entirely of pirate monks suddenly slaughtered Mashan Town, Nanyun County, in the southernmost part of the Gui Kingdom, slaughtering the entire town's residents overnight and razing the entire town to the ground.

The massacre in the town of Mashan immediately shocked the entire republic!

Although this barbaric act of pirates on the reef island also appeared in the past when the Gui people ruled the Gui Kingdom, after the establishment of the Republic, a large number of modern communication equipment were popularized throughout the country, and the news of what happened in one place quickly spread throughout the country, and the sensational effect was far greater than in the past. This series of pirate attacks soon angered the people of Gui, who angrily took to the streets and launched demonstrations, demanding that the government take immediate action to eliminate the pirates on the island and protect the security of Gui.

At this moment, the greatest pressure was naturally on the Kangnai government, and the people's petition was secondary, and the greatest pressure actually came from the opposition party, and the Gui and the four ethnic groups actually joined hands in a rare way, taking advantage of the naval fiasco to make a big fuss, pointing out the impropriety of the Kangnai government, and demanding that the government step down immediately if it did not take action. The head of state, Gui Gongcheng, even threatened to veto the various bills of the Kangnai government unless they immediately heeded the will of the people and immediately approved military action against the islands.

These cultivators, who had never been exposed to the modern administrative system, quickly learned how to use the rules to fight against the rule of the Blue Star Autonomous Order.

Naturally, the Kangnai government did not ignore these matters, and they soon sent several regiments to the southern part of Guiguo, raised their vigilance and defense in the coastal direction, and held several military exercises to assume a posture of readiness to take military action against the reef islands. Even so, the people of Gui and the opposition insisted that the government immediately send troops to eliminate the pirates on the islands.

While the whole country of Gui was clamoring about how to use troops against the Ranjiao Island, an extremely secret meeting was being held on a midsummer night in a heavily guarded and murderous tent on one of the islands in the Troubled Reef Island.

In the tent, I don't know how long there was silence, a dark figure sitting on the main table suddenly smiled and said: "Hehe! I didn't expect you two to really have the courage to come here! Aren't you afraid that this king will take the opportunity to wipe you all out in order to avenge the revenge of the past?!"