Chapter 679: Back to Sea
The shouts of killing mingled with panicked wails, but they were all drowned out by the roar of thunder, and lightning tore through the night sky. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
At the moment when it fell, the thunder light was refracted on the bright sword, and through the sword light reflected the eyes of anger and fear.
Blood splattered in the air, and the falling raindrops settled on the ground, converging into a torrent and rushing towards the drain.
In the darkness, I don't know how many people fell to the ground in the crowd, and before they could get up, there were footsteps on their backs.
I heard the sound of bones being trampled and broken, screaming one after another, and life slowly withered.
The only thing they wanted was that someone would give them a stab in the back, so that at least it wouldn't be so painful.
"Doesn't it mean that the empire is empty and can be easily defeated? How many people are there? ”
"No, I can't stay here any longer, I'm going to run back to the ship, and I'm the bravest warrior when I get back to the ship. ”
"Everyone, go over there, hurry up and get on the boat, they can't do anything about us, hurry up and come over and pull me." ”
The soldiers, who had come all the way to this land in the darkness, fled back to the ship before they could gain a foothold here.
With trampling on each other, unable to see the scene clearly, and the battle spirit collapsed, they simply had no way to organize an effective counterattack.
They were driven into the sea, jumped down, and swam towards the warship, which was familiar territory.
The massacre, which lasted almost unilaterally, continued until nearly dawn, and the dense mass of warships drifted adrift at sea, and the already devastated harbor was torn apart after a night of turmoil, and the square collapsed in large areas, and buildings collapsed one after another.
The corpses of the soldiers were piled up in a mess on the rubble, vultures were foraging nearby, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood, which was shockingly desolate.
The soldiers standing on the deck watched in silence, they did not suffer much in the explosion, only about a hundred dead and wounded.
This was nothing small for their size of more than 20,000 men, but last night's fighting continued all night.
Under the dual effect of the storm and the surprise attack, they suffered heavy losses, and a large number of excellent sailors died in the battle.
"Damn, those bastards made up the movement last night, did they want to take advantage of our frightening to launch a surprise attack?
Maude saw the mess on the harbor, where most of the corpses were soldiers from the Bay Gorge who had come all the way here.
Originally, they were dreaming of making a fortune, but they didn't expect that they had just arrived at the port, and they hadn't seen the wealth they wanted to plunder.
But he has already lost his life in a foreign land, which makes Maude especially angry, he gritted his teeth and asked for war, he must pay for it with blood!
"Now is not the time to be impulsive, we have not yet figured out how many men they are waiting for us, and it must be admitted that we are warriors at sea, but when we get to the ground we lose our superiority, and if they are equal to ours, it will be difficult for us to shake them. ”
Haigl shook his head to block Maude's proposal, he was also saddened by such a loss, but it was imperative to get the information out.
Last night's battle fully exposed their shortcomings, their preparation was too inadequate, and they were hit by a blow to the head!
"But where did the Empire get so many soldiers? they have four fronts, and the civil war has consumed a lot of military strength, and the impact of last night is not like that of a group of improvised armed peasants, they are all well-trained elites!"
Maud was furious, and the losses were too heavy for them to bear.
"The best strategy for us now is to stay put, wait until we gather enough intelligence before choosing what to do next, if we act blindly, I'm afraid we will suffer a major setback, now two months have passed, and the empire can still organize troops to fight back, it's incredible. ”
Haigl looked at the map in his hand, if it were a normal situation, the four fronts of the empire should have been broken a long time ago.
Once you fall into that situation, let alone organize an army to defend the eastern front, even the king is in danger, and there is something wrong with this.
"Don't move, Haigel, if you don't die as a soldier of your Bolton family, of course you don't feel distressed, in the end, you are just an outsider who joined halfway, not from our Bay Gorges, it is impossible to be of the same mind as us, so you better keep your mouth shut, it is not your turn to speak here!"
Maud sneered at Haigl, saying that if the war went well, they could maintain a semblance of harmony, but once they lost, contradictions would inevitably arise.
"That's enough! Is it just a small setback and about to start infighting? Since the enemy is able to launch an effective counterattack, it means that they have more power than that, and the port was deliberately released to us to lure us to land, and then to inflict heavy damage on us in one go. ”
"Now we have lost more than three thousand men in the port, these are all experienced sailors, and I am worried now that they will make a fuss from the sea, because it is very likely that the rumors about the Far Eastern Fleet are true, and they have not been seen for so long!"
As the commander of the Combined Fleet, Pasong reprimanded these two men, although he usually did not talk much, but his words were extremely weighty and final.
"Far Eastern Fleet, but even if they were as powerful as they were rumored, they couldn't shake our fleet of 300 warships, so what did they want to ......do?"
"If you want to defeat an invincible enemy, since you can't fight it head-on, start with their weaknesses, we have already lost the port landing battle, and if there is any weakness on the sea, it is only our lifeline. ”
Pasong looked back into the distance, and the outline of the island emerged, which was where Crescent Island, their logistical supply base, was located.
"Are they actually fighting the idea of Crescent Island? Oh no, there seems to be an accident over there!"
Haigel turned his head suddenly, and at this time, there was already a rumbling cannon sound from Crescent Island in the distance, and gunpowder smoke rose into the air!