Chapter 664: Harbor Defense

Magellan was originally the commander of the First Fleet under the jurisdiction of the Imperial East Sea Fleet, and once commanded the First Fleet in a fierce battle with the Far East Fleet in the East China Sea. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, during the Battle of Crocodile Bay, due to the commander of the East China Sea Fleet, Heather, the enemy rashly advanced, the fleet fell into a heavy encirclement and was almost completely annihilated.

It was also thanks to Magellan who desperately led a dozen warships to break out of the encirclement, preserving the last face of the Imperial Navy, and finally being trapped on an isolated island.

During that time, he held on to his last dignity as an Imperial soldier and resisted to the death, but the Far East Fleet adopted a lock-and-not attack strategy.

They were trapped on that island for a month, just when Lin Ye was leading the Rose Army to fight a bloody battle with the Central Legion.

Eventually, Magellan, upon learning of the defeat of the Central Army, and the fact that his men had contracted an infectious disease that had to be treated, finally laid down his arms and surrendered.

After all, they can fight against nature, they can find fresh water and food on the islands, and they can live a difficult life, but they can't overcome the disease.

Magellan, who surrendered, has been restricting him from going out of the city in Rose City, and when Wendy got the news of going north, she also took many people, including Magellan, to the north, and was finally crowned as the new empress of the empire.

Because at that time, Lin Ye had already listened to the merchants who had returned from the sea, and there were already a large number of warships in preparation in the Bay Gorge area of the Sin Sea.

Lin Ye smelled the smell of gunsmoke, and in the shortest possible time, he used the participation of the Imperial Navy to form a temporary fleet with the Rose Navy and the Far East Navy.

This fleet was led by Magellan and quickly went to Seagull Harbor to set up defenses, and it was obvious that the only target for this fleet to land was Seagull Harbor, which was the shortest route to the royal capital, including the Blue Frost Kingdom in the north, the Dermok Federation in the south, the Holy City of the Church of Light in the west, and the Bay Gorge region in the east.

It is definitely not a coincidence that these four sides attacked the empire at the same time, but it was rehearsed in advance, they did not have the patience to slowly fight a war of attrition on the periphery, and they wanted to tear apart the flesh and blood of the empire in the most direct and efficient way, and directly attack the heart of the empire, which would lead to the complete rout of the empire.

At this time, the news of the northern front had not yet reached Seagull Harbor, and Magellan was looking at the sea from a distance in the harbor, and seagulls were skimming the water.

There was still black smoke on the surface of the sea, and there were warships that had been bombarded in two by the magic cannons floating, and there were broken planks and barrels nearby.

There were sailors who went to the sea in small boats to salvage those who had fallen overboard, and most of them were sailors from the local fleet, and these sailors had long been weakened.

The shadow of the fleet slowly retreated, they waited for a new attack, as for the loss of a few ships, it was a matter of no importance to them, after all, they had built an unprecedented fleet of three hundred warships, this scale was extremely large.

Even the Imperial East China Sea Fleet, which has always been known for its toughness, originally had only a hundred warships, three times that of the East China Sea Fleet!

Now, after the reorganization of the Imperial fleet, there are only twenty warships in the east and west, plus thirty ships in the Far East Fleet and twenty ships in the Rose Fleet.

This is only a mere seventy warships, and there is no way to compare with the combined fleet in terms of numbers, so it can only be passively defended in Seagull Harbor.

"Damn, it's been a month since this happened, our garrison alone can't fight against them, the entire Seagull Harbor has been battered, it's not okay to go on like this, we have to find a way to turn the situation around, what do these guys want to do. ”

Su Ke, a cutting-edge officer of the Far East Fleet, saw the chaos around him, clenched his fists, and the green tendons on his arms bulged, obviously furious.

After all, they have been one-sided and passively beaten for the past month, and there is no way to launch an effective counterattack against the combined fleet.

This is really embarrassing, but there is no way to do it, they are already on the disadvantaged side, and they can only rely on the port defense.

Once you leave the port and fight in the open sea, not only will you fall into a roundabout situation, but even the port may be attacked by the combined fleet.

It would be extremely bad if it did happen, because fighting in the sea was no more mobile than on land, and the room for maneuver was too low.

Moreover, compared to the effect of the combined attack of warships, which is often greater than the effect of one plus one in sight, it is difficult for one ship to parry the shelling of two or even three warships at the same time, which the Imperial fleet has no choice at all, and it will do its best to defend Seagull Harbor and prevent the combined fleet from successfully landing.

"This is also something that can't be helped, the current situation is that we have no other choice than defense, has the loss report come out?"

Magellan asked Asik, who came over, and several of them were the main leaders of this temporary navy, but all of them did not look good.

Obviously, they are all on fire, but they can only watch the Combined Fleet advance and retreat freely, and this day is really too much.

"This time 24 people were killed, 46 were seriously wounded, and more than 200 houses were damaged, while we sank 2 enemy ships and captured 42 people. ”

Asik pointed to the wreckage of the warship on the sea, and the sailors who had just returned to port, and brought the freshly salvaged sailors ashore.

The captives were all imprisoned and interrogated by the magistrate, but the captives passed by Magellan with a vicious face.

They spoke to Magellan that he didn't understand, and seemed to recognize Magellan as the commander of the Imperial fleet, and had the posture of rushing over.

"You give me a little honesty, I don't know what you're talking about, and this hair hasn't been washed for a long time, so it's better to say that you're pirates than sailors? ”

The sheriff escorted the captives, who did not understand the language of the Gulfths, and sent to the port to seek the help of the merchants who had crossed the Gulfs.

"Although these people lack unified command and dispatch, their individual combat ability is very strong, and all of them are very strong, plus the language barrier, it is difficult to get reliable information from their mouths, to win this war is really far away, just defense will exhaust all energy. ”

Although Asik was very unwilling, he had to admit that he was now facing a bad situation, and the situation was developing in a direction that was not in their favor.

"Did you come from the Gulf and Gorge region of the Sea of Sin? I've heard of it, where the terrain is complicated, the people are fierce, the different islands have different languages, and in history they have occasionally come to the mainland to do trade, but they have never openly sent a fleet to invade, and it is not easy to win over such a fleet, and it takes a great cohesion to bring them together, right?

Magellan looked worriedly at the sea, and dark clouds were quickly converging, and a storm was inevitable.