Around Fang Mountain, the white sails filled the valley like clouds, and as the time gradually approached noon, the shouting and killing in the valley gradually subsided. The four floating warships that the unknown fleet successfully forced landed, the surviving marines and sailors, nearly 2,000 people, did not surrender, and the wreckage was all burned, as much as possible to prevent Qin Shouzhuo from finding evidence of who attacked him from the wreckage, and could only pin the pot of this incident on the heads of the air thieves.

The second leader of the air thief group who was captured during the previous suppression of bandits, in the later chaos, was actually mended by the spies hidden in the captives, and by the way, it also caused a large-scale riot in the captive camp, taking advantage of the opportunity that the attention of the Babiya mercenary group was attracted by the fleet battle outside, and almost let them succeed. Fortunately, the 8th Squadron, which was in charge of guarding the prisoners, made a quick decision and sent two squads to rush into the prisoner pile and kill all the prisoners who gathered and ran around, while shouting "squat down with your head in your hands" to quickly stop the riot from spreading.

Most of the leaders of the riots identified after the fact did not know the people around them, and they were supposed to be outsiders. Thinking of the riots and the second leader of the cottage who was assassinated for the first time, the purpose of these spies is already coming out.

Stranded the Baron Babia on the shallows, Qin Shouzhuo ordered the General Staff to coordinate the various departments to clean up the battlefield, and took Princess Sally to board the Count of Brittany, the flagship of the Imperial Southern Fleet. This is an almost 30-year-old ship, with a length of more than 50 meters, a width of 25 meters, a displacement of 2,000 tons, and a maximum take-off weight of 2,400 tons. She has 4 masts, and during her long service career, she has participated in more than 40 battles, large and small, and has been tragically sunk twice, but both have been repaired and returned to the Imperial Army battle sequence. Without entering the air duct, the maximum speed has reached 11 knots, leaving traces of her battles from the desert in the northwest to the dense forests in the southeast.

In the world of Elis, due to the lack of long-range artillery technology of magic cannons, everyone is still using the most rudimentary direct aim shooting, and the attack effect is closely related to the personal quality of the gun commander. It can be said that every skilled gun commander is the most important crew member of a battleship. And in the case of its own movement, you have to use a simple crosshair sight to control the magic cannon and accurately hit an enemy ship moving at high speed hundreds or even thousands of meters away.

To make matters worse, due to the size, the Magic Crystal Burning Furnace must be centrally arranged in the bottom compartment, and a long mana delivery pipeline needs to be arranged to charge the magic cannon in the gun bay. The magic power transmission pipe is difficult to make, poor quality and dangerous, and the all-through cannon bay can't fit a few charge points, so the number of magic cannons is naturally greatly limited. Therefore, simply increasing the number of guns to increase the probability of hitting will not work.

It is also for this reason that although the maximum range of the magic cannon is very long, the effective range is not so exaggerated, and the two small reconnaissance ships are firing at each other more than a thousand meters apart, as long as they are willing, it is not strange that they will be unscathed until they are in the wilderness.

The magic cannon has a powerful attack, but as long as the distance is a little farther, it is not easy to hit the target. The attack distance of the magic cannon is extremely long, but because the fire control is too backward, a certain hit rate is used as the bottom line to determine the effective killing distance. The recognized record for the farthest hit of a medium-sized magic cannon is 3,200 meters, and the effective killing distance is generally around 800 meters. Beyond 800 meters, the power of the magic cannon is still good, but the hit basically depends on the face.

The extreme imbalance between attack and defense, coupled with the lack of fire control technology, has led to the fact that the air ships of the humans in the world of Elis are basically miniaturized, and they pay attention to air combat by relying on flexible and mobile small boats to carry medium-sized magic cannons with enough power. With a standard displacement of only 2,000 tons, the Count of Brittany is already the first-class warship among human flying ships. This factor is also one of the reasons why when the Baron of Babia was established, an old engineer approached Qin Shouclumsy and knelt down to beg not to waste materials.

"Clumsy!"

As soon as he got on the main deck of the Count of Brittany, Qin Shouzhuo felt a gust of fragrant wind blowing on his face, and there was a warm human body in his arms. Her Royal Highness, who has always been calm, would actually make such an astonishing move, and an old man dressed as an officer who followed behind couldn't help but glance at the young man who had just boarded his ship.

In the past two years, the experience of working and living together has made Qin Shouzhuo and Sophia form a deep bond. The short separation was not enough, but when they met again, they found that their lovers were not only caught in a bloody battle, but also lost more than half of their fleet, and their own ship was also full of smoke (the pot of the bow motor), and the calmness before departure had already fed the dogs, and the feelings couldn't help but explode as soon as they met.

Just a hug can still show that Sophia's nature is as gentle as water, if Princess Sally ...... I don't think that's going to happen.

"Sophia," his right hand was gently placed on Sophia's back, it was naturally a very cool thing to have a girl throw herself into her arms, but in front of everyone, Qin Shouzhuo only felt embarrassed. Sophia, who reacted, let out a soft "ah", covered her hot face with her right hand, and quickly disappeared into the cabin.

"Oh~, that's good, when did you kid get so close to Sophia!" Princess Sally laughed and smashed a fist on Qin Shouzhuo's back, Qin Shouzhuo only felt that the air in his lungs was about to be smashed out, and coughed twice involuntarily, worthy of the most light and heavy princess.

Although the punch that hit Qin Shouzhuo was in the name of ridiculing the relationship between Qin Shouzhuo and Sophia, it was difficult to say that he was not retaliating against Qin Shouzhuo for not letting her participate in the battle by deception in the previous battle. After the punch, this princess, who was too free and easy by nature, waved her hand to exempt the imperial soldiers from the big gifts, and jumped into the cabin to find Sophia.

rubbing his chest without grace, he saluted with General García Shelley, the commander-in-chief of the reinforcements, and then came to the officer's dining room at the stern of the ship. Here, Qin Shouzhuo saw Sophia who ran away early, at this time she was with Princess Sally, her cheeks were slightly red, and when she saw Qin Shouzhuo coming in, she didn't know where to put her hand.

"General Garcia, thanks to you this time, if you hadn't arrived in time, I'm afraid my flagship would have been sunk. "One thing to say, in this first fleet battle, Qin Shouzhuo still has lingering palpitations, not only was a large number of armed merchant ships sunk, and the personnel were seriously damaged, if it wasn't for the other party being scared away by reinforcements, there was even the possibility of being completely annihilated. However, he was also puzzled by the actions of the Imperial Army: "This side of Fangshan is not a patrol route for the Imperial Fleet, and the patrol is generally only composed of two or three flying ships, and it is not a mere patrol mission, not only did the vice admiral personally lead the team, but also brought out half of the capital ships in the Southern Fleet, which is really flattering." ”

"Your Excellency has won the prize," General García Shelley behaved very reservedly, after all, he was the commander of the Imperial Fleet in the South, and he still had basic discipline and pride, but he was just an alternate colt, even if it was the princess herself, he would not let him kneel and lick, and this action was not his intention: "Your Excellency Baron would like to thank Her Royal Highness the Third Princess this time, the military order that the general would have received was just a routine patrol, and indeed he would not normally use more than 5 ships, and he would rarely bring capital ships." What's more, if you don't have a military order, you dare to move the army casually, it's a long life. ”

General García Shelley had an indifferent expression, and he didn't seem to care about Qin Shouchuang's life or death. In fact, it is also the case, General García Shelley is an active lieutenant general of the Lawrence Imperial Airship Force, that is from an ordinary officer step by step to the current position, is really experienced, experienced in a hundred battles, although not a famous general who has won a hundred battles, but also the number one person in the Southern Fleet.

The Shelley family is also a marquis, although there is no territory, and most of the strength is in the air fleet, lacking influence in the political arena and locality, and General Garcia is not a core member of the Shelley family, but it is more than enough to look down on Qin Shouzhuo, the new baron. Originally, during a routine patrol operation, General Garcia was going to arrange an adjutant to lead the team on a trip, but he was too lazy to follow the boat, and he was caught by the third princess. I thought it would be a big deal to admit it and give Her Royal Highness the princess some "sincerity", but I didn't want Her Royal Highness the princess to need troops, and Garcia, who was caught by the handle, was forced to start the Grand Fleet and came to an emergency mobilization.

Anyway, with the royal family in charge, he is not afraid of trouble from the Military Command Department when he activates the Grand Fleet, but General Garcia himself is already annoyed. A few days ago, several adjutants under him found him with full of "sincerity", wanting to change his position, fight the main force, and also sent two cute girls with thousands of cute girls. I had planned to leave this routine patrol to one of my adjutants, so that I could care about the lives of the young girls who were wandering in a foreign land, but I was forced to come to this ghost place.

At the beginning, it was said that it was to suppress bandits, but General Garcia did not have any resistance, after all, in peacetime, it is not easy for soldiers to make military merits, and this kind of thing is about to become welfare. And with Her Royal Highness the princess following, as long as she behaves better and is more "sincere" to the princess, let Her Royal Highness the princess help to go to the imperial capital to say good things, and you can move even if you can't say anything about your position.

As a result, when I got to the place, I found out that the situation was wrong, this bandit...... It seems to have been killed. How many captures can be looted, how many captives can be sold into slavery, the whole fleet is pointing to loot in the cottages. As a result, this time I didn't grab the money, not to mention, and I didn't catch the military merits, so I got a little white face. If it weren't for the fact that Her Royal Highness the Princess was in the fleet, General Garcia would have ordered the mercenaries below to be exterminated as bandits!

General Garcia was angry, and Qin Shouchuang's hot face was attached to his cold buttocks, and the atmosphere was awkward for a while.