Pine Cook, captain of the Second Fleet of the Falco Empire, first rank admiral, commanded 20,000 naval soldiers and more than 30 warships.

He never imagined that a famous warlord like him in the Falco Imperial Navy would be sent to the distant Sea of Nilsia to exterminate some damn pirate!

What made him most angry was that after Queen Camilla's order was given, she only gave him three days to let him go!

"Hell, I haven't even heard the name of those goddamn pirates! Besides, I've never been here in this damn Garcia Sea!" Cook put down his binoculars with a gloomy face, cursing resentfully in his heart.

In his more than 20 years of experience in naval warfare, he had never encountered such a situation in front of him.

Because a messenger who had crossed the ocean sent a fleet to a strange place to exterminate a group of pirates that he had never heard of, and without adequate supplies!

"Tila, the god of the sea...... I have brought out only a third of the warships, and the soldiers have brought less than a quarter, and even fewer supplies! I only carried enough gunpowder and shells for a medium-sized naval battle, all because of the rush of time!"

Cook was extremely depressed in his heart, he had never fought such an inexplicable naval battle!

"This damn woman, does she want to ruin the empire when Evangeline?she doesn't look in the mirror, does she deserve it!!" Cook slammed his fist into the wooden handrail of the Command Tower, his face extremely ugly.

The first mate on the side said cautiously: "My captain, our queen wants to use this to consume our strength......

Cook turned his head and said coldly: "Don't I know? But, who can stand the big hat of rescuing Princess Angel and saving the royal majesty? Didn't you hear Otrencia cry on the night Camilla slaughtered the cardinal?"

The first mate fought a cold war, Queen Camilla is extremely beautiful, almost every man who sees her can't help but think about it, but this woman is a well-known femme fatale, and her methods are jaw-dropping and chilling, and more importantly, this woman not only controls the army with one hand, but also holds the jade seal of His Majesty the Emperor with one hand!

As long as someone dares not to listen to her, she will immediately use both prongs and political and military pressure, even if it is an iron man, she has to give in!

The first mate smiled bitterly: "I hope these pirates can be obedient and obediently hand over Princess Angel." ”

As for whether these pirates would succumb, Cook didn't have any other thoughts, because in the entire sea world, there had never been a pirate who could compete head-on with the powerful imperial regular navy!

Even in the heyday of piracy, the pirate coalition led by the pirate king Hamilton was only fighting guerrilla warfare and harassing the long supply lines of the coalition army.

The only exception is the pirate king Athos, who led his fleet to challenge the whole world, and what was the result?

One by one, his men betrayed him in the face of the enemy's obscured ships, knowing that they would not be able to engage such a large regular navy and win.

Guerrilla sneak attack, wolf pack siege, hand-to-hand combat, this is the mainstream tactics of the pirate world, and it is definitely not a pirate's way of playing to open up a formation in front of it and carry out artillery battles.

Like Cook, pulling out a dozen large four-masted warships at a time to strangle the pirates entrenched on an island, this is absolutely foolproof, and, judging from the situation on the island in front of them, if this group of pirates wants to rush out and fight them hand-to-hand, they must rush out of the open beach mouth on the west side, and Cook can even see clearly that there is a huge hidden hole on the right side of the castle standing on the west beach, and the bow of a black battleship looms inside.

The first mate held a telescope on the side to look at the situation on Alcatraz Castle for a while, and when he saw the figures on the castle moving, he hesitated for a moment and said, "I wonder if the shelling of Williams and Captain James just now can make these pirates fall into line......

"Hmph, if these filthy pirates don't hand over Princess Angel, I'll bloody their place!" Cook said with a murderous face.

Before he had finished speaking, he suddenly heard the sailors on the watchtower shouting, "Captain, look!"

Cook was stunned, raised the monocular in his hand to take a look, and suddenly gasped!

I saw that the castle in front of him was stretched out from the head of the castle to the waist and belly of the castle, and the most terrifying thing was that on both sides of the beach on the west side of Alcatraz Island, there were actually an extremely incredible number of cannon muzzles sticking out of the lookouts on both sides like crab pincers!

"Hell, isn't that a watchtower?How could it be a turret!!How could these pirates have the strength to build such a terrible castle and turret!!Who the hell are they!?" Cook suddenly felt as if someone had poured a basin of ice water from head to toe, and it was cold to the bottom of his heart!

Cook yelled hysterically, "Let Williams and James come back to me quickly, come back quickly!" What are you still doing in a daze, all the fuck give me hurry up and play the flag!!"

The first mate on the side stiffened, and said in a bitter voice: "It's late, my captain, it's late!"

"Boom, boom, boom!!!"

Suddenly, a deafening blast erupted from the silent sea!

This burst of cannon sound was even more fierce than the cannon sound of the two battleships before, and in just an instant, Alcatraz Island was enveloped in smoke released from the cannon muzzle, and then hundreds of cannonballs roared out of the cannon chamber, like a dense steel rainstorm, fiercely rushing towards the two battleships on the sea!

Pity the naval soldiers on the decks of these two battleships before they could escape, they were immediately covered and drowned by artillery fire!

After a burst of artillery fire, the original two four-masted Cheetah-class battleships had become full of holes, and their originally fluttering and reserved battle flags had become shattered and covered with black dust.

The battleship on the left was the most miserable, it was hit directly by the cannonball, and the whole ship exploded violently, and the crew and hull instantly turned into a large fireball, followed by an even more violent explosion.

The battleship next to it was no better, its belly was hit by shells one after another, it was seriously flooded, the hull was slowly sinking, the most terrible thing was that the sails and the ship were full of flames, at a glance, the deck was full of sailors who were running and crying desperately, some of these sailors ignored the whirlpool formed by the sinking ship, jumped down from the ship like dumplings, and then were instantly swallowed by the whirlpool in the sea.

Cook jumped on the side of the command platform, he looked at the battleship that was slowly sinking with fire, waved his fist and shouted: "This is murder, this is shameful murder! How can this be a group of pirates! Camilla, you vicious woman, you are going to hell! If you want to harm me, you have the ability to let me come here!"

In Cook's opinion, this group of people entrenched on the island cannot be a group of pirates, it must be a powerful family force or a regular army, otherwise without strong strength and power, it is absolutely impossible to build such a powerful castle fortress in this ocean!

The only thing that can be explained is that this scene in front of him is a trap carefully designed by Camilla, and he jumps into it with black eyes!

It is said that General Cook also wronged Queen Camilla, and if Camilla was here, her eyes would also be staring out of her sockets.

General Cook suffered a loss and attacked rashly without knowing the situation of his opponent, but it was too late for him to regret it now, the hornet's nest had already been poked, so the next thing to wait for the hornets to swarm out of the hornet, right?

Cook brought out fourteen warships this time, and just one round of shelling just now, he lost two battleships, and thousands of experienced sailors, and his heart was so painful that his heart was bleeding!

These two battleships had at least more than 200,000 gold coins, but what made him feel the most heartache was not the loss of these two battleships, but the loss of the personnel on the battleships.

A good sailor and a good naval officer are far more precious than army soldiers and army officers.

A qualified army soldier can become a well-trained soldier with strong combat effectiveness after one year of training, but a sailor, without more than five years or even longer, they must not become an excellent and qualified naval soldier!

Officers are even more so!

The most important thing is that if the battleship is gone, it can be replaced immediately through the powerful manufacturing power of the state machine, but if the experienced and brave naval soldiers are gone, who will replace it?

Tang Jie's shelling just now was equivalent to knocking out nearly one-tenth of the strength of the Second Coastal Defense Fleet of the Falco Empire in an instant!

"My captain, what are we going to do?" the first mate yelled loudly in Cook's ear.

The soldiers on the deck also looked at Cook with their eyes, these Falco soldiers who had crossed the ocean thought that this would be a pleasant trip, after all, with a large regular fleet, killing a group of pirates entrenched on the island, wouldn't that be easy to capture?

What's more, these pirates have always liked to amass wealth, and presumably everyone will be able to make a small fortune when the time comes?

But now, these arrogant Falco Imperial Navy knows: they have kicked an iron plate!

If Cook had given the order to fight, with the strength of their fleet, although it would have been possible or possible to win in the end with a cannon battle of twelve warships and thousands of cannons, such a strong fortress on the opposite side would have frantically harvested a lot of life and flesh!

Can you afford such a loss?

Dead friends do not die poor, this is a universal truth.

But if you don't fight, fools will know that Cook will return to the Falco Empire in disgrace, and what will happen to him, even if these soldiers will be terribly ridiculed at that time, and they will not be able to raise their heads and be human beings from now on!

This is really a dilemma!

To fight, or not to fight?

This is a question worth considering!

=======================================================================

I had a fever today, and at night I had a fever of 38 to 39 degrees, and my brain was groggy, and I thought I was going to have influenza A......

My lady poured me medicine wildly, and then put herself on clothes, like a brown bear in winter, after sweating profusely, the cold improved significantly, and the brain was a little clearer and you could code words, and immediately came up to code a chapter first~~

The second change promised is tomorrow, I can't stand it, and I went to sleep......