Chapter Ninety-Three: Fish, Creepy Wriggling
The blue sea stretches as far as the eye can see, the sea surface in autumn shakes a faint layer of steam, and in the middle of summer, the seabirds with fat brains stay in the stone caves on the cliff wall, comfortably touching their bellies.
A flock of albatross fluttered sporadically on the surface of the sea, preying, and suddenly, as if encountering something dangerous, flew into the sky in a panic, and turned away from the shore without looking back.
In the loud sound of the rushing water, three Cavila-class battleships, dragging rolling silver belts in the endless sea, quickly advanced in the wind and waves.
At the top of the battleship lookout were three flags, the eagle flag of the Roussevian Empire at the top, the flag of the North Sea Fleet below, and the provincial flag of the Gallic province at the bottom.
On the side of the flagship, Goethe and Lolo were looking anxiously over the coast, and before the extermination operation began, they had visited the Governor of Gaul with a letter from Yare, seconding him to the North Sea Fleet.
The Gallic province was second only to the Apennines, where the imperial capital was located, and not only had the largest industrial region, the largest grain-producing plain, the densest population of high-quality people, but also the North Sea Fleet, which held the Celtic Strait, the North Sea, and the Baltic Sea outlets, and the Northern Army (now aid) to contain the Frankish kingdom.
It can be said that it is the foundation of the king's hegemony, the strength is strong, and it is faintly ranked first in the major provinces, and several generations of emperors have plans to split Gaul, but unfortunately because of the existence of the Frankish kingdom, it is difficult to start. After the fall of the Iron Curtain of the Cold War, the Franks joined the Alliance of Order, and since then, the military pressure in the north of the empire has been greatly reduced, but the Gallic theater has been preserved after the outbreak of the Plague.
Demonic disasters are frequent, and various places are tired of coping with them, and Alonidan allows the provinces to adapt to deal with monsters on the fly.
Therefore, before the extermination operation began, Yalei wrote a letter to Goethe and Lolo to send to the Governor of Gaul, Andman, to borrow a battleship to deal with the monsters in the sea that might arrive.
Due to the proximity of the two jurisdictions, there was a lot of correspondence in normal times, and the black-haired knight still owed him a lot of money, so the Governor of Andeman immediately dispatched the three battleships he could to support the Celtic provinces.
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Highland Kingdom, Inverness region.
This is the eastern part of the Highland Kingdom, with a port to the North Sea, between the Celtic Highlands and the Aberdeen Plains in the north, it has another name, the Inverness Fishing Grounds.
Unlike most of the frontiers of the Highlands, Inverness is a land of abundance, with the North Sea fishing grounds bringing a variety of fish to the kingdom and the ports connecting to the Baltic states bringing prosperity to the region. It can be said that before the trade with Rossevia, it was the largest trade transit point in the Highland Kingdom and one of the lifeblood of the Kingdom's economy.
Since the beginning of the extermination operation, the border guards have been reorganized, not only adding a 3,000-strong Lune bombardment battalion, but also coordinating the stationing of a 50-strong flying carpet air force. In order to prevent the dispersion of the forces, the local commander concentrated most of the living forces in the most prosperous port in the Inverness area, and then released the entire border guard patrol and scouts in small teams every day to monitor the movement of the plague.
And it was the moment when Calf tore the earth apart and rushed into the sky with a closed space, a large number of sea monsters surfaced on the originally calm sea, and their bodies were originally fish covered with knots and tentacles, and they poured onto the shore one after another.
Broken flags fluttered in the sun, the fiery summer breeze cut through the empty streets, and the pest control and emergency evacuation announcements overlapped crookedly, fluttering with the air currents.
The auxiliaries and sheriffs are organizing the mess of fishermen and residents out of the war zone with their necks thick like roosters and shrill whistles.
The cacophony of sound combined with the roar that lay ahead, but it was still suppressed by the creepy creep in the air, and instead of a hoarse roar coming from the guard tower near the harbor, it was the orderly evacuation of the crowd.
Perhaps it was the shouts of the auxiliaries and the sheriff that played a role, or perhaps it was the backs of the border guards who did not retreat to bring them a little comfort, and although the people retreated in panic, they did not cause a tragic stampede.
"Block! Block!"
Elberta grabbed his dagger and ran to the front line with his soldiers, bursts of obscuring bone spurs in his face, raining down on these well-armored guards.
After arriving at the port, the 100-strong guard detachment that had been cleared here for the extermination operation received an order to be stationed in situ and temporarily incorporated into the border guards.
It's the same everywhere, they are the army of the kingdom, and they must not lose the face of the imperial soldiers!
"Follow me!"
Alberta led the men over the mound-like piles of corpses, and rushed towards the beach with a tower shield, where the various fish that grew the legs and tentacles were stacked and crowded into the interior of the town like a tidal wave.
"Long live the Emperor!"
The warriors chanted slogans, ignited their fighting spirit, and burned like torches, striding forward shoulder to shoulder, and the tower shields were assembled into a copper wall in front of them, and slammed into the front line of the monsters.
Bang bangββ!
The monsters crashed into the tower shield one after another, setting off waves of flesh and blood. The body structure of these monsters that climbed up from the ocean was very soft, and the wriggling speed was very fast, and they were almost shattered when they hit the steel tower shield. But they don't know what it means to be afraid, and no matter how many dead or injured they are, there is always a steady stream of monsters in the sea.
"Burst Arrow! Burst Arrow!"
In the improvised trenches, the commander stared at the crumbling line ahead, roaring and waving his arms.
Whooshββ!
There was a hum in the air, and rockets streaked across the sky, raining down like drops, covering the beaches and the waters offshore.
Boom Boom Boom ββ!
Bursts of bloody rain suddenly broke out in the wriggling fish, and the broken limbs mixed with internal organs and fragments were swept into the sky by the shock wave, and then scattered in a sparse manner.
"Good!
The commander looked at the blooming sparks, and a smile of hatred appeared on his face.
"Sir, sir!"
It was a rune warrior who climbed over the fortifications and jumped into the trenches, crying out with a sad face: "Sir, the brethren on the Eastern Front are no longer good! There are sharks and deep-sea octopuses there, and they can't be stopped at all." β
"What! big octopus?"
The commander pulled the other party in front of him, and after he nodded vigorously to be sure, he gritted his teeth violently: "This time it's dead...... This is Lao Tzu's hometown, even if he dies, he can't let the monster break through the defense line. β
As he spoke, he pulled out the Moonfire Sword at his waist and charged forward with all his might, while shouting: "The bombardment battalion supports the Eastern Front, and the rest of the people are with Lao Tzu, and they will block this group of beasts in the sea if they die!"
In the sound of the terrible trumpet, the whole army of the border guards attacked, and these regiments, which were mostly composed of locals, may not have much morale, but they were still quite bloody and brave in fighting defensive battles, especially those to protect their hometowns.
"Ice Arrow!"
The monsters surging on the beach continued to rush forward in the bombardment, and then in a row of cold arrows rained down, the cold arrows tempered by Rune's spell pierced through the fragile bodies of the monsters, and the attached freezing gas instantly activated, freezing them in place, and sticking together one by one.
Under the baptism of large arrows, huge icebergs gradually rose on the western line of the beach, and a large number of disgusting and hideous fish were frozen inside, effectively diverting the attack of the monsters.
"Keep the formation!
Alberta reminded his subordinates loudly that the short sword in his hand stabbed forward like a viper, and after it sank into the body of a monster, the fighting spirit in the sword exploded, blowing it to pieces.
Whooshββ!
The sword wind swept out, and after crashing into a piece of monster corpses, his knees weakened, and he almost fell to his knees, and his bones were numb and empty for a while.
Alberta breathed heavily, letting the air flow into his chest, and at the same time, he looked to both sides, and found that the soldiers next to him were also short of breath and trembling hands and feet.
Everyone's physical strength is at its limit...... Without reinforcements, I'm going to be as glorious as Ordas.
As he thought, he gritted his teeth and stabbed his dagger in half, slicing a small octopus in half.
Boom ββ!
A pillar of white light landed behind the monster tide, and the shockwave was like a huge metal cover, shattering the impact in the area covered, clearing a large clearing.
"Look! It's the fleet! It's Rosevia's North Sea Fleet!"
"Reinforcements!
"We're saved! The harbor is guarded! The harbor is guarded!"
The border guards who were fighting near the beach immediately shouted excitedly, and the morale that had been suppressed to the limit suddenly exploded, and in an instant there was a tendency to counterattack.
The rolling and infinitely powerful ocean roared in the air under the three steel giants, rushing against the eight-sided sides of the ship, but it could not shake the 10,000-ton giant ship in the slightest.
Above the battleship like a steel fortress, rows of cold gun barrels adjusted their angles and aimed at the sea in front of the battle line, and the muzzles of the guns suddenly lit up with white flames.
Boom Boom Boom ββ!
Suddenly, the battleship's high guns burst out one after another white pillars of light, breaking through the seawater, and the pillars of light went straight to the bottom of the sea, blasting the already messy sea surface into a pot of boiling water.
After the shelling, a large number of blackened corpses of monsters slowly floated to the surface, some large and some small, the smallest was a swordfish, and the largest was not a whale, but a deep jellyfish with a diameter of twenty yards.
But in front of the Iron Giant and the Mana Light Cannon, they ended up in no difference, scorched by the high concentration of the Mana Light Cannon, or torn apart by the aftermath.
"Caught up, it really appeared in Beihai!"
On the bow of the flagship, Lolo and Goethe happily bumped punches and smiled in unison. (To be continued.) )