Section 222 The First Ambergris War (22)
On the east coast of the Emerald Continent, with the failure of the High Elves counteroffensive campaign, even the Great Elf King Fenafin, who presided over the overall situation of the East Coast, has fallen, and the territory of this elven empire is facing an invasion of alien races.
On land, the fall of Oak Leaf City means that more than half of the territory north of the east coast has fallen into foreign hands, but as stated in the military conference held in Asturias in the fortress of Mochizuki City, the High Elves have found some effective ways to fight the invaders after painful sacrifices in the process of spontaneous resistance without the guidance of the elven court and the determination to burn the jade together.
Therefore, in the land offensive, the Saxons and Auroras found themselves in a quagmire again, and even Titania and Asturias felt a headache about the High Elves' current squad guerrilla tactics, and their progress was slow.
But on the sea, the fleets of Asturias and Titania were in a state of succession.
Further north on the east coast, Bright Moon Harbor is another good harbor for the elves, and a larger elven fleet has always been stationed here, which is an important defense force to guard the north coast of the High Elves.
And now she is like a poor woman who has been pushed to the ground and her skirt has been overturned.
Outside the harbor, dozens of Titanian warships are shelling in turn.
"Give me the order to wash this port with cannonballs. "The Asturians have crossed the southern front and entered the western front, and we are too slow compared to them, and the prince of Garon will not be satisfied." ”
Ma Bond was the commander in charge of commanding the Titanian fleet, and he and Rodney Reed were good at land warfare and naval warfare. It's Garon's two strong helpers.
However, there is no harmony between the two. Rodney Reed is commanding the Dragons in the attack. And Ma Bond commanded the fleet to go north, bombarding the elves' harbors along the coastline to demoralize them.
Two small ports had been knocked out before, but this Bright Moon Port had caused some trouble to Ma Bond, and the elven fleet stationed there had also fought a fierce battle with Ma Bond's fleet as heroically as the fleet of Moon City.
Despite their bravery, the Nature's Boat they were riding was destroyed by a large number of sailboats and steam warships.
But the losses inflicted on the Ma Bond fleet were not small, accounting for more than a third of the entire fleet. It was easier to destroy the East Coast Fleet, and that was because of the Asturian fleet together. And the hybrid warships of Asturias are better than those of Titania, and this time without helpers, it is of course much more difficult to fight alone.
This made Ma Bond furious, he and Rodney Reed both knew that this battle against the Emerald Continent was the best opportunity for Prince Garon to gain prestige and gain meritorious service, and if it went well, he would have the opportunity to challenge the position that was already hopeless, and this time he really couldn't afford to fail.
However, after knocking out the fleet of elves stationed here, it was much smoother, and the high elves were basically helpless through the sea shelling. However, a few elven high-level mages ventured to use their flying skills and flew over the Titanian fleet to attack.
These high-ranking mages destroyed several more sail ships. However, at the same time, it was also fiercely counterattacked by Ma Bond.
Two elven mages died under the siege of Titania's high-level pros who also took off after being blessed with flying magic, and the other two elven mages who attacked were too close, and during the chanting time to prepare for the high-level spells, a large number of muskets from the ambush fired continuously, exhausting the effect of his defensive spells, and he was beaten like a sieve and fell from the air.
The remaining two high-level elven mages retreated when they saw that the situation was not good, and then they took the other elven mages guarding the harbor to defend with combined spells, and as soon as the enemy fleet approached, they cast area attack spells to force the enemy to sail away.
After several days of entanglement, the Titanian fleet finally completely exhausted the magic of those elven mages, and was able to sail close to the harbor for unlimited artillery bombardment.
"Out, out, they're out again!" said the sentry at the lookout who was in charge of observing the movement in the harbor.
Malbond jumped to his feet, rushed out of the captain's command room, and looked over from the deck of Titania's flagship, the Sea King.
He couldn't even wait for someone to send him a single eye tube, and directly performed an eagle eye trick on himself.
However, when he saw the situation clearly, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he grinned: "These stupid elves, they are here to find us desperately. ”
The only thing he saw in Mabond was a lone ship of nature, mostly bowed elven archers and mages, and it seemed that the elves who still had the will to resist decided to go to sea and fight a tragic battle, rather than stay on the shore and watch the enemy slowly destroy their homes.
"Give it to me, kill them, no, just meet them with artillery fire, don't let these useless elves kill even one of our boats. He waved his shrugging hand.
However, the more they tried to kill the other party, the easier it was to leak arsenic, and the elven nature boat suddenly sped up, braving cannon fire at an astonishing speed, and actually rushed close to the fleet.
This made Ma Bangde's captains panic for a while, of course, not because they were worried that they would not be able to defeat the only remaining natural boat in Mingyue Harbor, but because of Ma Bangxie's order, they didn't want to be killed by the elves again.
It's easy to kill the elves, but if they are dragged together by the other party to be buried, even if it's okay to abandon the ship and escape, Ma Bond's anger is definitely not easy to bear.
The attention of the Titanian fleet was all focused on this seemingly tragic but stupid suicide attack of this natural boat.
As he watched his ship hunt the natural ship like a fish from the deck, he felt that something was wrong.
After the opponent rushed closer, he continued to use the excellent maneuverability of the Natureboat to move flexibly between many ships, but in addition to returning fire with bows and arrows, there was a lack of obvious magic attacks.
Ma Bond looked at it for a while and roughly understood why this natural boat had such extraordinary mobility, the natural boat could only use the direction of the wind or manpower, but the magicians on this natural boat did not cast spells to attack, including the two remaining high-level elven mages, they were all jointly casting wind magic. Artificially create the wind power needed for the Nature's boat!
This way the wind direction is always sufficient. And it is in line with the wind direction required for every big move of the natural boat. Therefore, it was able to suddenly accelerate before, and cause a huge miscalculation to the Titanians' shelling at a super fast speed, so as to rush past the initial artillery interception; when it approached, because there was only one such Ark of Nature, many warships were prone to accidentally injure friendly troops, so that the Titanians had to use musketeers to shoot.
But Nature's current thrilling evasion moves are based on the wind direction it creates with its magic, once the magicians run out of magic. The speed and agility of the Natureboat will be greatly reduced, and it will be doomed by then.
This is still inevitably the result of the eventual destruction, and it is because of this that Ma Bond faintly feels that something is wrong.
At this time, an emergency flag was called from a ship on the periphery, and the content of the flag was that a high-speed fleet was rushing towards its own army.
"Damn it, these elves have fallen for it!" Marbond scolded.
He snatched the monocular tube from the squire's hand, and under the dual effect of the eagle eye technique and the monocular tube, even if he was standing in a high place, and it was not like the sentry who issued the flag just now was on the periphery of the fleet, but in the inner area, he still saw the direction of the open sea. There were more than two elven fleets riding the wind and waves, rushing at an astonishing high speed.
If you let these elven fleets rush like this. They would plunge into the Titanians' fleet formation like two or three sharp knives and engage in an undesirable scuffle.
Even if he can win in that way, I am afraid that the losses caused will not be able to be explained to the prince of Garon and the country, and the prestige of the prince will become evidence of attacking him, and the empire will hand over an invincible armada to the prince of Garon and his men, and in the end only one or two percent will remain.
A large amount of sweat appeared on Ma Bond's head, and he shouted and ordered.
While ordering the ships not to care about the damage, the ships on the inside immediately sank the lone ship that acted as a decoy in Mingyue Harbor, and the battleships on the periphery collectively opened fire on the elven warships rushing in the direction of the open sea, making sure to give the enemy as much damage as possible before they rushed closer.
At the same time, he ordered the high-level professionals in each ship to concentrate on the flagship, accept the spell cast by the resident mage on the flagship, and after the flight, intercept and buffer the approach of the enemy fleet, and buy time for his own army to change formation.
It was only after this series of orders that he took a breath.
More than a dozen figures flew up from the flagship and flew towards the open sea, this interception task was definitely not easy, because the archery skills of the High Elves were not jealous.
The battleships in the inner core area desperately shelled the heroic decoy, the last ship of nature after the hard battle in Bright Moon Harbor.
Ma Bond was too proud of them, but they were entangled in Bright Moon Harbor for a little longer, giving the High Elves a chance.
The elves of Bright Moon Harbor dragged them to the death, and sent people to seek reinforcements, and the northern coastline of the High Elves may have to face the attack of the Kou Tao Fishmen before, so there is more than one excellent port, and there are more fleets stationed there.
After learning that Mingyue Harbor was fighting valiantly with the enemy, the other two elven fleets in the north immediately came to help, rather than sitting back and letting the enemy's warships pack up one by one, of course, it was better to find an opportunity to have a decisive battle, even if it was still a failure, at least it could cause greater losses to the enemy.
At this time, the elven fleet rushing from the direction of the open sea was the fleet from the other two ports, and the number was less than that of Mingyue Port, but the two fleets together were still slightly stronger than before Mingyue Port was undamaged, and they also cleverly let the magician cast a spell to create wind direction to speed up.
As for the last ship of nature in Mingyue Harbor, it came out with the determination to die, deliberately attracting attention, intending to attract attention with its own sacrifice and cover the friendly army.
After sinking the Natureboat in Bright Moon Harbor, the Titania's warships were also making an emergency turn one by one, and it was much easier to steer with steam-powered, but at this time, it was in trouble with full sail power, even if the Elven Natureboat had sunk, but the wind created by the previous magic still made the wind direction a little confused.
Ma Bond was naturally so angry that he scolded his mother again, but he had no choice but to hope that he could sink all the invading elven fleets with limited artillery bombardment.
Shells continued to fall near the natural boat that broke through the waves, swinging high columns of water.
The elves on the elven battleship clenched the bows and arrows in their hands, and in addition to spells in the sea battle, the elves could rely on the bows and arrows in their hands the most.
They looked at the enemy fleet clusters that were closing the distance with fearless eyes, and as long as they rushed into the enemy line, even if they were crushed to pieces, they would be killed by the enemy, so that they could no longer continue to invade their homeland in the north.
However, the unexpected struck.
When the cannonballs failed to hit due to the high speed of the Natureship, on the way of the elves, the sea suddenly surged, and a huge ship with ancient marks and dilapidated suddenly rose to the surface.
Yes, it was rising from the water, and the ship was surrounded by an illusory light mist, but the seaweed on the hull could be faintly seen growing everywhere, as if it had been sleeping at the bottom of the sea for many years.
As the hull of the ship surfaced, the pitch-black mast peeked out of the smoke, and the undead aura on it could no longer be concealed.
Dozens of thick, activated cables poked out of the smoke-soaked hull and greeted the first Natureboat like tentacles.
This sudden change is so strange that no one could have imagined that there would be such a mutation, including the benefit of Ma Bond.
Nature's boat manipulated the wind and tried to dodge, but this time it couldn't.
Artillery strikes don't have the ability to track enemies, and this is not the case with the activated cable that comes from the undead ship in front of you.
Although the target's emergency dodging dodges some of the cables, it is still caught by some of the cables, and immediately reels and wraps around like tentacles.
As a result, the High Elves' charge was greatly affected, and the Elves on the Nature's Boat hurriedly dealt with the activated cables.
But from the smoke, there are still tentacle cables sticking out, and new troubles are coming.
Something barely visible emerges from the smoke and floats towards the Ark of Nature.
It was a ghost, a spirit creature of undead creatures.
Physical attacks are less likely to hurt spirits and similar spirits, while magic is more likely to inflict massive damage on them, as well as vindictiveness, as spirits can barely be considered crude energy creatures.
If in normal times, the elves are not afraid of these spirits at all, because they have dual cultivation of demons and martial arts, but in this situation, these spirits are obviously used to contain the attack, delay their attack, and buy time for Ma Bond and them.
But even if they knew this, the elves were helpless.
And the fleet on Titania's side was happy, although it was not known when the ghost ship was following behind him, and why it was helping his side, but it was definitely a good thing. (To be continued.) )