"Your Highness! We did our best. Yin Wanov's voice was extremely heavy.

"I know, you've worked hard." The emperor completely turned his face, and Anastasia abandoned her status as a princess, and now she is the Holy Maiden of the Ice and Snow God Cult. She looked at the tired master craftsman and knew that he and the boatmen had done their best.

In the distance, the burning port of Osterding could not extinguish the fire that had ignited the city, even in the cold winter winds.

On the dock, there are many figures, and the golden glow shines from time to time under the firelight. This is the Imperial Royal Janissary unabashedly announcing their identities to the Ice Cultists.

The Ice Cultists who didn't have time to board the ship all fell under the butcher's knives of the Praetorian Guards.

The only thing Yin Wanov and the others could do was to tow away the boats that were still floating on the water, one by one, like sugar gourds.

However, due to the extreme load on the tugboats' engines, the entire fleet sailed extremely slowly.

5 knots!

The speed of an old-time sailing warship!

This makes the movement of the fleet look like a snail.

Watch the fleet slowly departing the harbor, the lights of each ship swaying on the sea at night. One of the guards on the shore leaned over and asked his chief.

"Your Excellency General, is it appropriate for us to let those Ice and Snow Cultists go like this?"

The scar-faced Praetorian Guard general grinned and showed a cruel smile: "Wouldn't it save even the effort of digging a pit to bury the corpses by burying those Ice and Snow Cultists who were behind the times to the bottom of the sea?" How to annihilate them is the job of the Imperial Navy. ”

"Understood."

The Praetorian Guards are like wolves, never in a hurry to kill their prey on the spot.

They have enough patience, such as chasing a wounded prey for three days and three nights......

As long as you win!

Over there, the fleet of the Ice and Snow Cultists stretched for more than a dozen nautical miles. From a distance, the ship's lights look like blinking eyes.

In the night wind, the saint's eyes were bloodshot, and she didn't feel sleepy at all.

Natasha persuaded, "Your Highness, let's rest for a while." Unless the Emperor dispatches extraordinary warships, there is no possibility of night battles in this era. We are certain that two days ago the extraordinary battleship Aurora was still on the other side of the empire thousands of miles away. In such a short time, she couldn't make it in time. ”

Boris, who was bandaging his wounds, sighed: "It's not a problem tonight, it's tomorrow morning." If the Emperor had sent warships to intercept us a long time ago. We had little to do to fight back. ”

Yin Wanov smiled bitterly: "We only have the [Vatutin] with combat effectiveness. ”

Originally, there would not be too many warships in an intermittent port like Austerdine Harbor, and the few destroyers that were there were bombs dropped by the emperor's secret guards last night.

The explosion shattered four of the five old destroyers in half and sank them in the harbor. The only one left was also immobile, and could only be pulled behind the tugboat, acting as a mobile battery.

The saintess said calmly: "When the time comes, first untie the [Vatutin] and try your best to annihilate the enemy army." It sinks, and the other ships still can't escape, and only by winning the war can we have a glimmer of life. ”

"Yes!" Yin vanov bowed.

The saint sighed: "Alas! If I had taken the ship of Lord Destini to fight, and had survived, I would not have known what expression I would have to use to face this terrible friend. ”

If she didn't care about the Ice and Snow Believers and ran away on the Vatujing, there would obviously not be so many problems.

There are not so many ifs in the world.

After all, when faced with a life-and-death decision, it is extremely difficult for the superior to make any decision.

Since the Holy Maiden chose to take away the believers who were loyal to the goddess of ice and snow, it was time for her to pay the bill.

This is the era without radar!

The world's technology line doesn't necessarily point to radar talent.

On the premise of removing extraordinary power, seeking the enemy is to rely on the naked eye.

Fifteen minutes later, the lookout's screams shook the ship.

"Multiple columns of smoke found in the northeast!"

When the diesel turbine units of the old warship were activated, not only did the black smoke rise into the sky, but the key was that for the Ice and Snow Cultists, these columns of smoke containing high temperatures were as dazzling as the rising sun in their extraordinary vision.

The arrival of a large number of ships in this kind of imperial frontier area is very unreasonable in itself, and the only explanation is that the Bill Empire ships have been waiting on this waterway for a long time.

Coming out of the port, to the north is the ice floe area, at this point in February, it is difficult to move an inch without an icebreaker, and the saint has brought so many burdens. To the south is the reef area.

The Imperial Navy counted the Holy Maiden and her followers to death.

The appearance of the Imperial Navy was simply the last straw that crushed the hearts of the Ice and Snow Goddess cultists.

"Nope! Does the Ice and Snow Goddess really ignore us? ”

"O goddess! Why not punish the rebel who tore up the sacred covenant! ”

"Oh my God! Will the Vatujing save us? ”

At this moment, the believers who rushed to heaven and earth received a light signal from the flagship - the Holy Maiden is with you, and I will attack with the flagship to defeat heresy.

Well, that's what happened, the signal was full of momentum!

But when tens of thousands of people watched the huge and lonely flagship increase its horsepower and meet the twenty columns of smoke from the sky alone, many people burst into tears.

How could an ordinary light cruiser, whose performance was not necessarily very outstanding, be able to beat an entire imperial fleet?

This kind of simple math problem, everyone can do the math.

"Holy Maiden...... The Holy Maiden wants to give us a glimmer of life with her own life! ”

They howled!

They shouted!

They pray!

But no matter how much they struggled and how hoarsely they called the name of the goddess they revered, they received no response from the divine realm.

When the damned royal guards attacked them, the mocking words once again flooded the hearts of the Ice and Snow Protector Knights.

"Your goddess is falling!"

"The weak garbage god is not worthy to lead the great Bill Empire!"

In the face of the cruel humiliation, the knights had no reason to refute it. The Cult of the Ice and Snow Goddess has been in decline for centuries.

In this world where the gods are flurry, there will be a lack of believers if the gods are not revealed.

No mortals will be brought into the kingdom of God, and believers will be less motivated, and their donations will decrease.

If it weren't for the Ice and Snow Goddess being the state religion of the Bill Empire, it might have been even worse. It was in this environment that it was difficult to recruit new believers that fewer and fewer nobles in the empire worshipped the goddess of ice and snow, which in turn led to a decrease in the number of Guardian Knights every year.

In the case that the Twin Goddess Cult of the Rite Empire next door has dozens of local knights and four major battle knights, it is pitiful that the Ice and Snow Goddess only has such an integrated knight order.

And now, when these mortal Ice and Snow Cultists are facing a desperate situation, what is more terrible than physical death is the collapse of faith.

When people's hearts are scattered, it is difficult to bring them.

Cough! Or should I say, after this battle, if there are still living believers in the goddess of ice and snow......

"Uhhh

Watching the steel giant ship leap out of the crowd and rush towards the increasingly inventible shadows on the distant horizon, the believers' emotions began to collapse.

On the other side, on the Imperial Expeditionary Fleet, Vice Admiral Grigorovich saw the prominent Vatutin through the vision of an extraordinary sea eagle, and he couldn't help but grunt in dissatisfaction.

"How does the intelligence officer work, that princess who doesn't know how to lift still has a brand new cruiser in his hand?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a mysterious man behind him wearing a golden half-mask covering the upper half of his face sneered: "Is one more ordinary warship a problem for Your Excellency?" ”

"Praise the Emperor!" The lieutenant general smiled and turned his head: "The four ships [Yinzmail], [Borodino], [Kimborn] and [Navarin] have made a sheep attack posture, pretending to bypass the [Vatutin] to attack the civilian ships behind them, and see the reaction of the Holy Maiden." ”

"Yes!"

The division of the Imperial Navy made Anastasia's heart feel like falling into an ice hell.

But there's nothing she can do about it!

If she were to get entangled in those sheep-attacked ships, she would lose less than 1% of her chances of victory.

With a trembling voice, Her Highness ordered: "Attack other ships along the way, but our goal is only one, the enemy flagship [Peter the Great]!" ”

It was a battleship named after his father's imperial name.

She couldn't afford to lose, but the admirals on the other side couldn't afford to lose either. Once the Peter the Great sinks, even if they wipe out the Ice and Snow Goddess cultists, they will still have to go to the gallows en masse when they turn around.

Vice Admiral Grigorovich saw the Vatutin speeding towards him and immediately realized the decision made by the Holy Maiden.

"What a spirit! Your Highness the Princess! If you are not an enemy that Your Majesty must destroy, I admire you for your courage alone. He smiled, laughed merrily, and at the same time gave the command for shelling.

"Boom, boom!"

The sound of artillery resounded through the sky and rang out from the ships of both sides at the same time.

I don't know how many shells were fired across the sky and towards the opposing ships.

From a forty-meter-high lookout, lookouts can see enemy ships 22 kilometers away through binoculars.

For artillery of this era, the firing range of 10 km is already the limit.

Whether this kind of mutual firing from a distance of 10 kilometers can hit or not actually depends more on metaphysics.

When a cannonball landed within 500 meters of the ship, stirring up columns of water that rushed to the sky, the Lady of Anastasia was somewhat surprised to find that she did not seem to be too frightened by the outcome of her imminent death on the battlefield.

That feeling is as if after going through many tribulations, after the weak and illusory hope in my heart for the ice and snow goddess is officially shattered, my desperate heart has become more vivid.

"If disillusionment is my only ending, then I choose ...... Accept it. In her heart, the eldest princess said to herself.

But at the moment, she can't fall yet.

She has long lived not only for herself, but behind her, there are tens of thousands of believers who rely on and rely on her, which is the source of her strength.

Her gaze was firm!