Chapter 152: Eight Nautical Miles (I)

After two days of fearful sailing by Angel and others, the Eagle finally encountered its first trouble since the pirate attack.

"What kind of place is this?" Tang Jie stood at the bow of the ship, looking into the distance with a monocular, and in front of him was a black and oppressive land.

Standing next to him was the new Captain Pompeii, who put down his monoculars and said, "This is the county of Osiria of the Pound Empire, the most inhospitable southwestern frontier. ”

"Really...... "Tang Jie looked at this black and oppressive land, in front of him was a narrow bay that was so narrow that it could almost accommodate the travel of a sea boat, the cliffs on both sides of the bay were steep, and the ancient trees were winding, looking like a giant sitting on the shore in contemplation from a distance, giving people a huge sense of oppression.

Christina's long red hair hung down and hung over her ears, adding a touch of femininity to her heroic appearance, and she wore white gloves on her hands, and her fingers were as straight as guns, pointing to a nautical chart, and then scribbled along the location of the Moore Strait: " The first is the treacherous Moore Strait, the closest road to the Empire's inland lake, which takes us seven days to the port of Kunisque in County Konoda, and then turns to land via Kunisque, and only needs to walk 200 kilometers to reach our destination, Garcia, the imperial capital of the Pound Empire. ”

"Good choice, but what's the danger?" Tang Jie narrowed his eyes, his instinct telling him that this path looked tempting, but it was certainly not easy to follow.

Christina glanced up at Tang Jie and said, "Reefs and rapids!"

She stood up, pointed to the depths of the shadowy strait in the distance, and said, "There are countless reefs and rapids in here, and if we touch any of them, we may die here!"

Angel, who had been standing silently next to Christina, said, "If it's so dangerous, why do you still sign this road?"

Christina turned her head and was about to explain, when Captain Pompeii hurriedly said: "My Highness, the Moore Strait is less than eight nautical miles away, as long as you can cross it, you can enter the Pound Sea, this is the largest inland lake in the Pound Continent, it is completely capable of carrying such a huge warship as us, I don't think our enemies hiding in the shadows would not have thought that we would take this road at all, we will avoid all enemies!"

Tang Jie said with a smile on the side: "Yes, but I have found another most terrible enemy for myself, reefs and rapids! Let's talk about another way!"

Christina nodded, with a staff officer, she pointed to a huge land pattern protruding next to the Moore Strait, and said: "Since we don't take the Moore Strait, then we can only continue to travel north along the Osiria County of the Pound Continent, but we will bypass most of the coastline of the Pound Empire and ...... here."

Christina pointed to a seaport quite far from the Moore Strait on the map, and said: "Port Estamos, the most prosperous port on the northeast coastline of the Pound Empire, this is also the territory of Prince Kirk, it is safest for us to land here, but the port of Esdamos is a full eight hundred kilometers away from the imperial capital, and if we have no one to protect us during this journey, we will encounter all kinds of unpredictable dangers, and the attack from the land is much more terrible than on the sea......"

Tang Jie listened very quietly, and when he heard the last, he frowned secretly, as if he heard something on the sea, he turned his head and continued to observe the sea with a telescope.

His movements didn't attract the attention of the others, Angel sneered, and continued: "But what you didn't say just now was ......"

She used her snow-white finger to draw an arc on the map from the Moore Strait to the port of Estamos: "Such a large area is the sphere of influence of Prince Fernandez, they can attack us anywhere here!"

"We won't reach the port of Estamos at all, and we'll die at sea!" Angel said with a solemn face and a frown.

Although Tang Jie's miracle arrow is powerful, Angel and Christina both know very well that his weapon is an unconventional weapon, which can only inflict a devastating blow on one opponent at a time, but when the enemy's battleship sails cover the sky, the opponent only needs a salvo, and they will collectively fall into the sea to feed the fish.

Naval wars are often so cruel and helpless, it is not the strength of a person that determines the outcome of the war, nor is it just the strength of an army, it is first compared to the strength of the ship, in the case of the strength of the warships of the two sides is not much different, the human factor comes into play, and only in very rare cases will it cause the classic reversal of the war with the weak and the strong.

Like Tang Jie's previous Sisis naval battle and Alcatraz offensive and defensive battles, but in the first battle, Tang Jie relied on the carelessness of his opponent to catch them off guard, so this created such a classic battle, but if the two sides started to fight, the battleship under Tang Jie's feet would definitely be sunk in only one round, and there would be no chance of winning. And the second battle was more of a beach offensive and defensive battle, under the siege of more than thirty warships, the battleships of the Alcatraz pirates did not dare to go out during the day, they knew that as soon as they showed their heads, they would be buried by overwhelming artillery fire.

Even if they play at night, they will only leave with one blow, and they will never dare to leave the opponent with a chance to come back to their senses and beat them.

Moreover, the pirate ships that participated in the attack before were all four-masted large warships that Tang Jie had never seen before, the hull of this kind of battleship was nearly half larger than the three-masted hell, and the hull reached a terrifying forty meters long, not counting the height of the ship's mast, the hull was as high as six meters, and the height of the main mast reached a height of nearly twenty meters, which was simply a moving castle on the sea.

According to Christina, a four-masted battleship is far superior to a three-masted battleship in terms of its ability to resist artillery fire and artillery fire, and even when the spinnaker is full, the speed of a large four-masted battleship will surpass that of a three-masted battleship.

A three-masted battleship and a four-masted battleship, like a teenager fighting a giant, are not at all on the same level.

Therefore, if the other party sent a fleet composed of all four-masted warships, no matter how powerful Tang Jie was, it would be impossible to achieve a turnaround like the Battle of Sithis, because when the difference in strength was large to a certain extent, it would not be the morale of any strategy, and it would not even be something that could be recovered by an artifact.

Otherwise, wouldn't Athos, who was equipped with a Seagod Tira artifact suit, already dominate the world?

Angel said with a frown, she turned her head to look at Captain Pompey, her eyes fixed on him, "Are you sure to cross the Moore Channel?"

Captain Pompey, a man of medium stature with a bald head, stared at Angel in astonishment, and looked at Angel in astonishment: "I, no, no, my Highness, I can't cross the Moore Strait, I've never heard of anyone passing through here!"

Angel said angrily: "Then you were very enthusiastic to explain to me what this sea route is for? I thought you were sure to cross it!"

Pompey smiled bitterly: "My Highness, I'm just explaining to you, it doesn't mean that I can pass through!

Christina also took a deep breath and looked at Angel helplessly: "Your Highness, I just put all the options in front of you, as you will have the final decision here to make our choice." ”

Christina still has one more thing left unsaid: and your choices will determine our fate......

Angel saw the subtext in Christina's eyes, and she felt a huge pressure pressing down for a moment, making her breathe a little tense and rapid.

Which way to go?

When you choose the Moore Strait, you choose the reef rapids, you choose to fight against the terrible forces of nature, you choose to bypass the Moore Strait, you choose to face a large number of warships that may arrive, you choose to fight a powerful enemy hiding in the shadows.

How to choose?

Angel stared at the sheepskin map, she panted heavily, then turned her head to look at Tang Jie who was looking into the distance, and she said loudly: "Are you sure to go through?"

"Me?" Tang Jie looked at the sea with a telescope intently, without looking back, looking very rude, "No, I'm not sure......"

"Hell, I know!!" Angel clenched his fist hatefully, and glared at Tang Jie's back fiercely, "You're just like that!"

Tang Jie didn't seem to hear this, he suddenly put down his binoculars, then pointed to the black and oppressive sea, and said, "I said, if you don't make a decision quickly, we will be in trouble!"

"Well, what's the trouble?" Christina looked up, grim, and looked out to sea.

I saw that under the gloomy and low-hanging sky, a thick fog condensed on the black and oppressive sea in the distance, and a burst of fire suddenly flashed in this thick fog.

Christina's face changed suddenly, she pulled Princess Angel to her side, protected her with her body, and roared: "Shelling!!"