"So, the two fleets of them are all crowded to the Five Sisters?" asked Max. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Wood nodded apprehensively, subconsciously protecting his neck.

"Then Hop Island is occupied by them?" Admiral Max struggled to control his outstretched hand.

"No, Hops Island is still under our control. However, the pirates took advantage of the darkness to come ashore and kidnapped hundreds of people on the island, and the rest did not move. Wood replied.

"Is that not much of a loss?" Blair seemed relieved.

Wood turned to the Sea Knight and shook his head: "Hump Island is the location of the main shipyard, and they captured more than one hundred and forty ship carpenters on the island, as well as their families. Now in the entire empire, there are less than two hundred skilled carpenters with shipbuilding experience, and they have kidnapped more than half of them at one time!"

"Huh?" Blair slammed the cup to the ground, but fortunately it was made of tin, not as easily as glass.

"That's what happened to Hop Island," Admiral Max grabbed Wood and turned him back, "what happened to the Five Sisters? Aren't the First and Second Fleets there?"

In fact, the defensive strength of the waters near the Five Sisters is probably only matched by the forts on Tata Island.

In the waters near the Five Sisters, on the deck of the First Fleet's flagship, Count Caflin paced back and forth, looking worried.

For more than two years, his life has been extremely difficult.

First, his unassuming youngest son, Sean Cufflin, performed a completely undifficult errand mission for the Temple of the Storm, but he was tricked into a daze by someone, and the cooperation between the Empire and the then Island Lord Edward Hugh was almost ruined.

After going back, as a punishment, the kid was still locked up in the cubicle of the Storm God Temple, and if it weren't for Prime Minister Hall's several letters to reassure him, saying that "it will not affect the overall situation of the empire because of a little mistake that is not worth mentioning", Earl Caflin even suspected that his entire family would be dragged down by this kid.

Within a few months, his second daughter-in-law, the wife of the late Lieutenant General William Kaflin, heard that her husband needed to marry Miss Duchess Stewart to consolidate the family position, not only did not quickly give way, but also cried and cried to make the whole family unhappy.

I thought that I had done my part, and the marriage would be successfully completed, but on the day of the wedding, a group of pirates who ran out of nowhere not only snatched the bride, but also trampled his second son William, who had high hopes, to death!

The dignified commander of the First Fleet of the Empire, the most promising young admiral of the Imperial Navy, was trampled into a picture by a pirate! Who could believe it? It was like the painting on the floor in the main hall of the Storm Temple, and if it weren't for the fact that a naval soldier had found the First Fleet Commander's Ring from the red, white and white colors, Earl Caflin would not have believed that it was his son.

Although His Majesty the Emperor soon ordered him to temporarily act as commander of the First Fleet, everyone knew that this was only because the empire had expanded too rapidly over the years, and there were too few people that Carlyle IV could trust, so he had to act as a last resort.

What's more, in the past few months in office, the pirates didn't know if they had eaten the wrong thing, and they followed the First Fleet to harass them when they had nothing to do.

Probably because he knew that his days in the navy were short, ten days ago, Earl Cavlin could no longer suppress his anger when he saw the pirate ship with both the blood-colored staff flag and the silver fir wood insignia flag.

The ships swaggered in the direction of the Five Sisters, with Earl Cafflin in hot pursuit. But when he arrived near the Five Sisters, a sudden thick fog blocked his vision and calmed him down.

The island of Huma Island, which the First Fleet was originally responsible for defense, was home to the Imperial Royal Shipyards. Of course, ten years ago it was also an independent state known for its shipbuilding skills, and unlike Ollie's house, which was occupied by force, the king of Hus Island fell to the Brohn Empire on his own.

Thinking that the poorly defended island behind him was likely to be attacked, Count Cavlin broke out in a cold sweat.

However, the news brought by the sea pigeon quickly relieved him, and the Second Fleet under Vice Admiral Jefferson had learned that the Five Sisters were now under the protection of the First Fleet, and for the sake of the overall situation, the Second Fleet had now sailed to the area of Hop Island to assist in the defense.

Now it seems that as long as the powder magazine on the Five Sisters Harbor can be protected, the consequences of this impulse are not serious.

In Count Caufflin's heart, he even vaguely hoped that those pirates would hurry up and attack so that he could have some merit to speak of, and now the bottom soldiers of the fleet often have such words as "Lao Tzu is not as good as a son", which does not sound very comfortable to the person concerned.

On the third day of their stay at the Five Sisters, the sea pigeon once again brought information.

This time the information should have been transmitted with a lot of effort by the Imperial secret agents, and the feathers on the sea pigeons that sent the letter were a little messy, and the tail feathers were stained with a lot of bright red blood.

"Count, are we going to act?" asked his adjutant, Captain Warren, who had survived several deaths, staring at the note in Count Kaflin's hand.

In the accident on Silver Fir Island, Tim Warren, who was a lieutenant at the time, not only survived, but was also promoted by saving the lives of many nobles.

It stands to reason that his rank of captain is not enough to serve as the adjutant of the fleet commander, but the losses of the First Fleet on Silver Fir Island are too great, several senior officers are missing arms and legs, and Warren is the only one who can survive the attacks of the "Crimson Shadow" several times.

With such an experience, it is not surprising that Count Caflin named him to be transferred to the flagship.

"Yes, the secret newspaper says that the pirates will be attacking from the west in the early hours of tomorrow morning. Let all the ships be manned on the west side of the island!" said Earl Caflin.

Captain Warren hesitated: "If we all go to the west to set up defenses, it will be troublesome if there are pirates leaking from other directions!"

"That's true, but the fleet certainly won't be able to defend from every angle. Count Cavrin thought for a moment and said, "In this case, you were supposed to be the garrison officer of the island, right, you led the third squad, which is good at land combat, to the fort of the Five Sisters to assist in the defense, and if there is any situation on the island, immediately use alarm fireworks." ”

Captain Warren took the order, and Count Cavrin lined up the seven battleships of his fleet on the west side of the island, with the other auxiliary ships following behind the flanks, forming a complete defensive formation, waiting for the pirates to throw themselves into the net.