While Alterencia in the Falco Empire was in disarray, Tang Jie was leading his fleet back south.

"My captain, we don't have much fresh water and food. Nia saluted Tang Jie on the bridge and reported bad news.

Tang Jie frowned and asked rhetorically, "How much is left?"

"There are less than five days left to use," Nia said. ”

Tang Jie smiled bitterly.

Leaving from Gainesburg, although Tang Jie's fleet plundered enough fresh water and food in this small port, when returning home, the fleet encountered a storm, and the hurricane blew the fleet off course, and it was not until three days of sailing that Tang Jie realized that something was wrong and readjusted the course.

But as a result, the journey was delayed for six days, and worst of all, the soldiers of the Magic Legion began to feel deeply homesick due to the boring voyage, which affected the sailors on board.

As soon as people's emotions are unstable, they want to drink a lot of water and eat a lot of food.

These were originally sturdy warriors, all of them were pot-bellied men, and after a few meals, the inventory of ships was obviously low. At first, Tang Jie and the captains of the ships didn't care, but by the time Tang Jie and the other captains came back to their senses, most of the fresh water and food had been consumed.

In desperation, Tang Jie had no choice but to reduce everyone's meals, but after reducing the meals, a more serious problem came, due to insufficient nutrition, diseases began to appear on the ship.

Sailors had bleeding gums, bruised skin, loose and even lost teeth, and the disease spread like a plague through the fleet, even the Magic Legions.

Panic began to appear in the fleet, and experienced sailors knew that this was terrible scurvy, a disease that sailors on the sea could hardly avoid.

In the eyes of the sailors, having this disease was almost embraced by death, and there was no cure.

But Tang Jie, who came from later generations, knew very well that this was scurvy, a disease that could only be contracted by a lack of vitamin C, and it was also the most threatening disease in navigation.

The long voyages meant that most of the ships carried fresh water and dry rations, and some of the larger ships had special breeding tanks for live animals to provide fresh meat for the sailors.

However, fruit was seldom carried on ships, because it was too perishable, and for this reason, scurvy was a very difficult disease to conquer in seafaring.

Tang Jie had never sailed so long and almost without rest before, sailing from Alcatraz Island to Otrentia, and then from Otrentia to Gainsburg, and back from Gainsburg, with several more detours in between.

The journey between them is more than 10,000 miles.

Faced with the disease in the fleet, Tang Jie quickly ordered to find the nearest land.

Fortunately, Tang Jie had defeated the main fleet of the Sila Empire's navy before, so he didn't have to worry that he would encounter enemy ships when he sailed along the coastal defense line of the Sila Empire, so he was not very far from the coastline.

If he deliberately stayed far away from the coastline in order to avoid enemy ships, then Tang Jie would be a big tragedy this time.

After sailing along the land for two days, Tang Jie did not find a village, let alone a city, so he had no choice but to drop off his boat near a sandy beach and send sailors to the shore in search of edible fruit.

Thankfully, not far from this sandy beach, there is a wild fruit grove.

Although Tang Jie didn't know the name of this black fruit with a hard shell, judging from its delicious and juicy flesh, the vitamin C content of this fruit must not be very low.

After loading a boatload of fruit, the sailors on board began to noticeably improve.

But soon, another drawback appeared, the taste of this fruit is quite sour, after eating not only does not quench thirst, but makes people want to drink water even more.

The fleet, which was already short of fresh water, became even more lacking in fresh water.

Sailing on the sea, you can go without food, but without fresh water, this fleet will not even last three days.

Tang Jie glanced at Nia: "In other words, we must find a place to replenish fresh water within eight days?"

Nia nodded helplessly, "That's right, my captain." ”

Tang Jie nodded: "You help me bring the map." ”

Nia turned to leave, and it wasn't long before she retrieved the charts from the cabin.

Tang Jie looked at the nautical chart, which also had the current location that Nia had guessed yesterday based on the course and measuring tools, and said, "Where are we now?"

Nia looked at the map and nodded at a location: "Probably around here." ”

Tang Jie pondered for a while and said, "The nearest city here, Taltitus, is less than three hundred nautical miles away, and it will probably be there at dawn tomorrow. You tell the captains to be ready for battle. ”

Nia asked, "My captain, are you going to attack Thalit?"

Tang Jie looked at Nia: "Do you think the admiral of this city will let me take so much fresh water and food smoothly?"

Nia said, "However, we may be able to pretend to be a caravan, or we can use the Black Dragon King to blackmail the city. ”

Tang Jie laughed: "Disguised as a caravan?, my dear, I never knew you were such an imaginative person." ”

Nia also smiled: "In your eyes, am I so rigid?"

Tang Jie smiled and stroked Nia's face: "It's absolutely not okay to pretend to be a caravan. Because this means that the Black Dragon King must be disconnected from the fleet, and our fleet must enter the port docks of the city to anchor, and once stopped, our ships will become live targets for the battery. ”

"Also, if you were the governor of this city, and suddenly there was a caravan to replenish such a large amount of fresh water and food, would you be suspicious? As long as they sent someone up to check it, they would find that this so-called merchant ship was actually a warship, and the number of cannons in the cabin was simply more than the soldiers at the dock! According to the regulations of the Maritime Trade Law, any merchant ship docked at the dock must be inspected by the local guards, and I believe you know this better than me, dear?" Tang Jie said with a smile.

Nia laughed, "Well, you always have a reason, but why don't you threaten them with the Black Dragon King? I believe that if they see the power of the Black Dragon King, it is impossible for them not to obediently serve fresh water and food, right? ”

Tang Jie smiled and said, "This seems to be a good idea, but it's actually a bad idea. ”

Nia was puzzled and asked, "Why?"

Tang Jie explained: "I believe you have already seen the power of the Black Dragon King, but look at the object of our threat. It's not the Pound Empire, it's not the Xigang Empire, it's not the natives of the Southern Continent. This is the Shira Empire, an ancient maritime power, and her proudest fleet was recently sunk by me, and you say, will her subjects not hate me?"

"The Black Dragon King can indeed raze this city to the ground in an instant, but then we won't be able to get fresh water and food, and if it's just bombardment other places, what if they delay? Or maybe they've poisoned fresh water or food, what if they?"

Tang Jie snorted: "Nia, you should remember that the most reliable thing in the world was not sent by others, but taken by yourself!"

Nia raised her head and looked at Tang Jie stupidly, and after a while, she smiled and said, "The way you spoke just now looks very much like my ......"

When Nia said this, she suddenly realized that she had lost her words, and the smile on her face immediately disappeared: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said such a thing. ”

Tang Jie knew that what Nia wanted to say was that he was very similar to her father Old Barr, he sighed secretly in his heart, didn't say anything, just gently stroked Nia's hair, and said, "Go and give orders, tomorrow I will have lunch in Chartelit." ”

At dawn the next day, Thalit welcomed a terrible guest.

Through the dense fog created by Fiona and other magicians, Tang Jie's fleet sailed to less than three nautical miles from the port of Thalit before attacking.

Such a close distance allowed every shell of this fleet to hit its target, and no turret in the world could withstand the simultaneous bombardment of hundreds of cannons.

What's more, in order to achieve the effect of blitzkrieg, Tang Jie destroyed the defense of Thalit in the shortest possible time and broke the city's determination to resist, he even wore the Seagod armor himself, holding the Seagod Trident and the Miracle Arrow, and went into battle in person.

Tang Jie is all in battle, and Fiona naturally can't watch from the side.

The white-robed magician was like a devil soaring in the sky, and the fireballs in his hands fell one after another towards the towers that were trying to fight back.

In such a three-dimensional attack, the Thatris quickly collapsed, and the harbor city was not a well-defended fortress in the first place.

Under the terrifying and terrifying attack power of Tang Jie's fleet, except for Mozambique and Otrentia, where the former Sky City was still there, no harbor city could defend for a day.

Poor Statlit's turrets collapsed one by one, and the ships full of ammunition were destroyed in the harbor before they could even leave the harbor, and they sank in the sea covered in smoke.

After completely destroying the city's turrets and coastal guards, Tang Jie's fleet swaggered aboard the city's land.

The local residents were terrified, they had never seen such a terrifying pirate!

In their opinion, such a fleet with great firepower seems to be comparable only to the invincible armada, which they are so proud of!

Such a fleet should be the fleet of a powerful empire, not the fleet of some pirates!

Pirates have such fleets, so what about these countries? All the seaside cities and seaports will become the backyards of these pirates to come and go at will!