Chapter 65: The Sentinel Battle (3)

"What a great weather for a naval battle!" On the bow of a delicate Dominic schooner, fleet commander Zivarin hung his pipe from the corner of his mouth, and looked lazily at the horizon in the distance—the gentle sea breeze, the warm sunshine, and the occasional splash, there was nothing more lazy and boring on the sea.

After Cosimo Otovic returned to Bright Star City, the entire Otovik family knew that they had been fooled - it may not be clear what the hell was done, but apparently some people did not want to see the Otovik family sit firmly in the position of consuls, deliberately provoke a war with the Kingdom of Turin, and blame them on their heads, because all the top wizards in Dominica know that the hungry devil Gratoni is a terrible weapon that the Otovik family has not been able to complete so far!

The Outovík family, who had been stabbed in the back, had not yet extricated themselves from this terrible conspiracy, and while trying to quell the doubts and accusations in the kingdom and unite the wizarding families who had begun to turn their hearts and minds, while trying to prepare to send another mission to explain to the Kingdom of Turin, tragedy happened again - the Kingdom of Turin unilaterally declared war on Bright Star City!

This is tantamount to adding fuel to the fire, which made many city-states that were still unstable scattered all of a sudden - if it is a war between Turin and Dominica, they naturally have no second way to go except to choose to unite as one, but now the people of Turin are very clearly targeting Bright Star City, and these city-states that have not yet recovered from the civil war are naturally unwilling to be substitutes for the dead and the birds.

In particular, those city-states close to the border between the two countries immediately declared neutrality, in case those Turin lords would take advantage of the fire to invade and plunder, and those Dominica city-states near the central and southern regions were even more ill-intentioned, and the Honan family, who had originally bowed to them, gathered a group of allies to form a joint fleet to confront the main fleet of Bright Star City in the inland sea.

The Otovik family, who had just won the civil war and the power of the kingdom, suddenly faced such a passive situation of internal and external troubles - many wizarding families were pressing forward in the country, and the declaration of war of the Kingdom of Turin was not far away, and the entire city-state seemed to have returned to the ancient dark ages, and the atmosphere of despair forced them to start preparing for war again.

Even the fleet commander Zivarin, who had been in charge of protecting the port and clearing the pirates, had to take on the patrol mission of the northern seas with his own ships and men, although this seemed to him to be completely useless - it had not been even a month since the Kingdom of Turin declared war, and no matter how angry they were, they should still be gathering troops, how could it have appeared so quickly?

"Oh my God, my honorable Lord Zivarin, you should take care of your crow's mouth. Apparently the captain of the fleet had enough of the captain's big mouth: "This is the easiest thing to fulfill on the sea, and you must not let the brethren encounter such a thing!"

"Rest assured, old fellow—we may have to be careful in the last month, but winter has just passed, and now the northerners are coming out of the house. Zivarin smiled disapprerovingly: "Now there is no enemy on this sea except pirates. ”

"Of course, I won't be afraid even if they appear, the knights of the Turin can reign supreme on land, but the sea will always belong to ancient Dominica. Zivarin smiled proudly, he was also born from the naval battle that humiliated all Dominicans thirty years ago: "If they really dare to come now, I will also let them see the wrath of Bright Star City!"

"I wish you to always be so energetic. The captain of the flagship could only smile, the commander can be so confident, it is also a good thing for the fleet.

But the two of them could not relax for long, and the lookout standing at the top of the mast suddenly blew the brass trumpet, and the sharp sound immediately made everyone's emotions tense, and they looked at each other with a little uneasiness.

"Enemy ships are coming, enemy ships are coming——!!!!"

"How is that possible?!" the startled Zivarin listened to the shouts of the lookout, and subconsciously rushed to the side of the left side to look at it. A dazzling golden-red flag loomed on the clear sea, and then in a quarter of an hour, those flags turned into more than a dozen huge ships leaping out of the horizon.

Flaming Goshawk Banner, yes, this is the fleet of the Turines, but how is it possible, how could they be ready so quickly?Zivarin's face immediately turned pale - could it be that all this was actually an insidious plan of the Turines, a trick to deceive themselves, and they had long planned to destroy Bright Star City?!

"Commander Zivarin, Zivarin. The captain of the flagship shouted: "We need your orders!"

Zivarin, who came out of a trance, immediately lifted his spirits: "Beat the war drums, let all the battleships raise their ramming angles, and move forward at full speed——!!!!"

........................ "All the warships, all the flagships, now it is us who have the upper hand - put down the ramming angle and go full speed!"

On the flagship of the expeditionary fleet, Lusen, who stood beside Sir Leonardo, waved his flag calmly and commanded - the blood of the Minest family made him unable to contain his impulses at all: "The enemy has only six ships, and we are almost twice as numerous as theirs, outflank them, outflank them!"

The grim-faced Sir Leonardo did not hesitate, but chose to believe his lieutenant, and with a wave of his big hand, the heavy horn sounded first from the flagship, followed by a series of melodious echoes echoing from afar—the expeditionary fleet saluted the Dominicans with the most direct trumpet!

The wind was extremely favorable for the expeditionary fleet, and the flaming goshawk flags that hunted in the sea breeze seemed to swoop down on the Dominica fleet like a bird of prey, but there was also the danger of a tailwind, and the fleets moving at full speed did not have time to change formation, and were completely lined up.

But the Dominica fleet can. Knowing the numerical inferiority, Zivarin immediately gathered all the battleships around the flagship, and the entire fleet seemed to turn into a whole, as if it was a shark smelling fish, and aimed its fangs at the center of the line of the expeditionary fleet - he was going to tear this group of bastards in half!

"The men of Bright Star City, the men of Dominica, it's time for you to show your might!" Zivarin, who climbed onto the bow of the flagship while roaring, pulled out his scimitar and waved it vigorously in excitement: "The puppies of Turin want to hang shame on our heads, do you agree, do you want to?!"

The answer was no doubt, and Zivarin, who was standing on the bow of the ship, pointed his scimitar forward: "Stretch out the oars and start the ship - don't worry, let's go full speed!!!"

"Roar ——!" Seeing the commander so confident, the morale-boosting sailors also roared hoarsely - the use of sea wheels in naval battles is almost a major feature of Dominica warships, this special device can use the winch on the battleship to pull the bottom of the "waterwheel" tools, with long oars so that they can achieve extremely fast speed in a short time even if the wind is headwind.

But at this time, Lu Sien did not panic at all, but showed a very proud and cruel smile and waved his hand gently. Zivarin, who was leading the fleet to prepare to "go straight ahead", suddenly widened his eyes - the fleet of the Turineites did not sail head-on, but sailed diagonally, and it flew into the air!

Under the command of Lusen, the entire expeditionary fleet and Dominica's warships were almost "passing by". In the next moment, something even more terrifying happened, a huge roar suddenly sounded in their ears, and fireballs dragging black smoke and dust flew into the air, and the gathered Dominica fleet was completely exposed to the fire of the expeditionary force.

The stunned sailor threw Zivarin, who was still standing on the bow of the ship, and roared hoarsely with his eyes closed.

"Enemy ships are attacking ——!!!!"