Chapter 498: North Sea Fleet

The icy cold wind mixed with snow particles rushed in the face, and the battleship tossed and undulated in the endless angry waves, like a dancing dancer taking skillful steps to avoid the fierce waves, and drew an arc on the rough sea to gallop into the distance. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The northern seas are terrible in winter, and the sea and sky are always gray and black blurry, and no one can distinguish the boundary between the sky and the sea. The waves of the sea are the most turbulent of the year, and the howling cold wind is also extremely cold and biting, and without good enough cold clothing, staying in the bow of the boat for a while may freeze the whole person......

Sambarwood stood on the slipway, not afraid of the howling cold wind, and the snow particles mixed in the wind, no matter how cold the wind was, no matter how icy the snow could not extinguish the heat in his heart. It's been more than ten years, when he was still a pirate and was coerced by Lorist to join the Norton family, he waited for more than ten years, and finally waited for his chance to show his talents.

Just a few days earlier, on that New Year's celebration, Sambarwood had been canonized as a Baron of the Realm, not as an incentive for his forthcoming battle against the Armada, but as a reward for more than a decade of dedication to leading the North Sea Fleet in maintaining the security of the northern seas and trade routes and shipping. Remembering the promise made when His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of the Northland came to see him off on the night he left Raging Bear City, Sambarwood clenched his fists even more. After destroying the Invincible Armada of the Commercial Alliance, he will be able to take the title one step further, and at that time, he will become the only viscount among all the Golden Knights in his family......

Armada ...... We're finally going to have a good fight to see who is truly invincible at sea...... Sambarwood muttered to himself, and his heart longed to fly to the island of Hilowas, where the eight mine-strike battleships of the Second Detachment of the North Sea Fleet were still stationed. After he returns, he will lead sixteen mine-strike warships to attack the southern seas in three days at the latest, and what awaits him will be the meritorious deeds and countless sunken enemy warships!

There are also the Golden Knights of the Tiger Rose, Fareia, and Jost, who have always looked down on themselves, saying that they were born as pirates, saying that they would only shoot the ass of His Royal Highness the Grand Duke, and send Genolio to His Highness's side as a squire disciple. But they didn't want to think about it, if Genorio was not excellent, would His Royal Highness the Grand Duke accept him as a disciple?

After I have eliminated the Invincible Fleet of the Commercial Alliance and been promoted to the rank of Viscount, see what kind of face you people still have to say that our North Sea Fleet will only mess around and do business, and only by honestly working hard can we be knighted by years of seniority. Ten years of sharpening a sword, and now when the time comes for the North Sea Fleet to unsheath this sharp sword, the Invincible Armada will be the first sword sacrifice. If you don't win, you will be shocked!

A large wave crashed up from the side, and the battleship shook violently. Sambarwood, however, took root under his feet and stood tall on the slipway. I looked up at the half-stretched sails on the three masts, which were blowing in a semicircle with the wind. This is already the limit of the sail, and Zhang Manfan's words are easy to overturn the whole ship because of the strong wind when driving in such an angry sea, and there is a lesson to be learned.

"Blow the trumpet!" Remind the other seven warships to be on alert, crossing this ocean and arriving at the island of Hilovas to-morrow, and I don't want any surprises!" yelled Sambarwood.

The sound of whimpering conches echoed in the gloomy ocean, and eight dark and faint lightning warships broke through the furious waves like arrows and galloped forward......

Sailfish Ridge on Hilois Island, one of the stations of the North Sea Fleet, is a cliff that sinks deep into the sea like a bent arm, protecting the clear water inside. Compared to the raging sea outside, the cove is calm.

Sambarwood jumped off the boat and strode towards a small bluestone castle on the slopes of Sailfish Ridge, the command center and administrative headquarters of the North Sea Fleet. Several soldiers standing guard were huddled to the side, shivering, and hurriedly saluted when they saw Sambawood. Sambarwood nodded in return, then strode up to the second floor, pushing open a heavy wooden door.

This is the duty office of the North Sea Fleet, and in the room there is a burning fireplace in the fireplace, and a tower-like man is sitting in front of the fireplace, roasting chicken wings and humming obscene tunes, and a large wooden barrel of ale beside him.

"It's strange, why did you come back so quickly this time, and you didn't stay with your beautiful wife and concubine for a while? Didn't you say that His Royal Highness the Grand Duke would canonize you as a territorial baron this time? I thought you would only come back in April and May......" The tower-like man is the commander of the second detachment of the North Sea Fleet, and he is also a pirate-born Toke, and he turned around and asked Sambawood, who was taking off his cloak, very curious.

"Haha, old man, we have work to do, it's still a big job!" Sambarwood smugly opened his mouth and laughed: "Oh, sorry, old man, I didn't hand over your leave slip, it seems that you have to wait until this big job is done before you can take leave to go to the gold rank." Because I think you're willing to postpone your promotion to the Gold Rank compared to the big job you're going to do this time, or you'll regret missing out on this big job for the rest of your life. ”

"Really?" Teucer shrugged indifferently: "Tell me, what kind of work is going to be done this time, I don't mind postponing promotion, anyway, my qualifications are not very good, and I can't guarantee 100% success." But are you sure you want to go out to sea in this weather?"

"Hehe, that's right, we're going to strike in this weather. This time, the target is here, the Golden Bay, the Invincible Armada!" Sambarwood stood in front of the wall with the map of the seas and slammed his fist on the map marked with the name of the Armada.

"What did you say?" The iron fork of the chicken wings that Teucer was holding in his hand fell into the fireplace, and he jumped up in surprise, "Your Highness allowed us to attack?"

Three years ago, the Norton family attacked several provinces of the former Krisson Empire occupied by the Business Alliance, while also destroying the Vesian Chamber of Commerce, one of the Big Seven. The Chikted Chamber of Commerce and the Petersen Chamber of Commerce severed their trade with the Norton family. Seriously speaking, the two chambers of commerce are still in arrears of four or five hundred thousand Kingford for the purchase of goods, and the North Sea Fleet has specially submitted an application, requesting to take the initiative to intercept and destroy the relevant convoys of the commercial alliance in the southern seas.

However, at that time, Lorist considered that the strategy of forcing the Commercial Alliance to sue for peace presided over by His Royal Highness might have a great chance of success, so he did not want to make a move to provoke the Commercial Alliance at that critical moment, or let the Commercial Alliance vent its anger on the Norton family, so he refused the North Sea Fleet's request to attack.

But what I didn't expect was that the Business Alliance was not ready to compromise with the Second Highness, but instead set up a trick to let the Storm Sword Saint come and hold the Second Highness and the elite realm nobles of the Antinac Kingdom hostage to Morente City, so as to achieve the goal of victory without a fight. As a result, Lorist and Tempest Juggernaut fought to defeat each other, and the Business Alliance and the Kingdom of Antinac began a bloody battle to the death.

At that time, the North Sea Fleet submitted several applications one after another, requesting to attack the southern seas. It's just that at that time, Lorist hid in Tibet just to find a secret place to heal his wounds, and the head of Hansk in the family territory initiated a family civil strife, and the entire family administrative system was in chaos. The application of the North Sea Fleet was like a stone in the sea, and there was no reply. Finally, Lorist recovered from his injuries and returned to the family territory to set things right, but all the Norton family forces returned to the Northland, so the top management of the North Sea Fleet also extinguished the idea of taking the initiative.

Now that Lorist has personally given the order to allow the North Sea Fleet to take the initiative, and the target is still the invincible armada, which they have always looked at, how can he not surprise Teucer: "Great, I'll go ring the bell immediately and let everyone come over." We should have given those sea monkeys a look!"

Both begging for life on the sea, the North Sea Fleet and the Invincible Fleet are not without intersection and contradictions. The division of the northern and southern seas does not have any recognized official documents and supporting documents, but is only a tacit and private agreement between the Norton family and the Chicke Chamber of Commerce, the overlord of the southern seas. According to the sad ocean at the junction of the northern sea and the southern sea, it belongs to the northern sea geographically, but for the invincible fleet in the Zangjin Bay, it is a vigilant ocean that must be patrolled, not only is piracy rampant, but it is too close to the Zangjin Bay to be controlled by others......

Many contradictions have slowly intensified over time, and the same is true of the North Sea Fleet and the Invincible Fleet. The Invincible Fleet has always been too high to the top, thinking that it is invincible in the world, if it were not for the high winds and dangerous waves in the northern seas, the famous cursed coastline, and the fact that they are also at odds with the Kingdom of Antinac, otherwise they would have controlled the entire northern sea long ago, how could they tolerate the North Sea Fleet to show off its might in front of them. Under such circumstances, they thought that the Northern Sea was given to the Norton family's fleet control, so how could they take the North Sea Fleet seriously.

The North Sea Fleet also regarded the Invincible Fleet as an artillery target in its eyes, just like the high-ranking fleet leaders such as Sambarwood and Tork, with the invincible long-range attack power of bronze artillery, coupled with the distinctive warship design and sturdy hull, as well as the ultra-high flexibility and fast mobility, Sambarwood and Tork have long since stopped putting the Invincible Fleet that relies on the broadboard jumper to fight on an equal footing. They ridiculed the Armada as just a bunch of sea monkeys jumping around, and that there was nothing more good than being outnumbered.

Therefore, when the detachment of the North Sea Fleet met the patrol fleet of the Invincible Fleet in the sad ocean, they all shouted and cursed, except that no one fired the first shot or fired the first arrow so as not to provoke a naval battle, all kinds of insulting actions and shouts became fierce again and again. Standing in line in front of each other to urinate, waving women's underwear at each other's boats, and so on, there are endless tricks.

The two large armed warships of the patrol fleet sent by the Invincible Armada last summer wanted to use the angle to ram a small fast patrol warship of the Norton family, although this small fast patrol warship used flexible mobility to avoid the past, but the patrol fleet's approach was already equivalent to a naked provocation and declaration of war, but Sambawood remembered that Lorist had just returned to the North to calm the chaos, and he forced this breath down.

The bell rang, and soon the large conference room of Bluestone Castle was crowded with men of five big and three rough, all of whom were captains and first mates of the North Sea Fleet. When Sambarwood announced Lorlist's order for the North Sea Fleet to take the initiative to destroy the Invincible Fleet, the whole conference room was thunderous, and the men of the North Sea Fleet rubbed their fists and were eager to set sail to attack the Invincible Fleet immediately.

"This time, Teucer and I set out first with twelve Thunderbolt warships, followed by eight large armed warships to supply us and receive prisoners. Each sortie is equipped with a 100-man stormtrooper at sea, which serves as a reserve to defend against enemy jumpers and to control captured ships.

The remaining four Lightning Strike ships are used as patrol fleets to prevent the enemy from sneaking up on Hilowas, don't be careful, although you are not the first wave of sortie ships, the second wave will be able to rotate you. It's January 10 of the new year, and there are still fifty days left until the rainy season, and we have time to strike, so we don't have to worry about not having your turn to build your ship.

The rest of the unnamed warships will all set off for Beihai City the day after tomorrow, rest assured, this is not to make you miss this battle, but to let your warships be strengthened and remodeled at the Oxhorn Bay shipyard, and installed with bronze guns. Although you don't have as many bronze guns on your ships as we do this time, you will still have enough long-range attack power.

Armageddon with Armada will be in April or May after the rainy season, and now it's just a little hard work for them, so you can make it to Armageddon in time, so there's no need to rush. Your Highness has prepared two hundred bronze artillery firing groups for us, and they are not used to firing artillery on ships, so you must cooperate with them in training and return as soon as possible, understand?"

The captains who had not called the name of the attack and were crying with sad faces all smiled and responded: "Understood, please rest assured......

Sambarwood scolded with a smile: "Now you are happy, don't envy us, you are also an artillery battleship, give me a little leisure, don't have any safety accidents." Otherwise, I will pick up your skins and hang on the masts to make sails...... Okay, those who go to modify should go back and get ready for the journey. The rest of us who are going to attack stay and discuss the target of our first sortie. ”

After waiting for more than half of the people in the conference room to be missing, Sambarwood stood in front of the sea map, clicked on the chart, and said, "The first target of our sortie this time is the patrol fleet of the sad ocean. Although it is winter, the Invincible Armada still maintains a patrol against the sad ocean once every half a month, and this time we will wipe out this patrol fleet, and we must not let a single person slip through the net!

The second destination is the port of Ernniba, the closest port city to the Golden Bay, only a day's and one night's voyage, and the starting port of the Golden Coastline. Further south is the long coastal strip of the Titagini Mountains, where it takes three days and four nights to reach the next port. Although the port of Erniba is located on the edge of the Cristo Hills and is part of the Mercantile League, it takes four or five days to reach the city of Moldant by land.

Therefore, the port of Erniba is the most important transit point for the commercial alliance, and all ships coming from the south stop here before heading to the Zangjin Bay. After destroying the patrol fleet of the Armada, we bypassed the bay of Zangjin and went straight to the port of Ernniba, which was bombarded into ruins and no longer served as a transit point. Then we'll blockade this sea, and all ships from the south will be our targets!"

"Lord Admiral, why don't we just rush into the Golden Bay and destroy the Invincible Armada?" Teucer asked, confused.

Sambarwood rolled his eyes: "Are you stupid? Rush into the Zangjin Bay and throw yourself into the net? Do you know how many ships the Invincible Armada has in the Zangjin Bay now? I don't want to think about how many rounds of bronze artillery on our warships can fire! We have to lure the Invincible Armada out of the Zangjin Bay, the sky is high and the sea is wide outside, the wind is high and the waves are fierce, that is the battlefield where we and the Invincible Armada are fighting, understand?"

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