Just as Midi was making various calculations in her mind, a voice rang in the ears of the young commander.

"Mr. Midi, it's been a long time!"

The owner of the voice, wearing a pair of ridiculous-looking small round glasses, with two mustaches hanging down his mouth, and his hair sloppy like a bird's nest, was none other than Norton, the master of alchemy.

Although he is now the second best skill talent in the Falcon Regiment after Alice the Witch of the Mist, Norton is still the same raunchy old appearance as before, wearing an extremely delicate alchemy robe, which has long been burned by the smoke and fire at this moment, and he can't even see the color, looking sloppy.

However, when Midi saw Norton, he was always as calm as him, and his eyes suddenly lit up: "Master Norton, why did you come here so quickly?"

You must know that the battle of the Sea King Festival has only been a week now, although Midi sent the situation back on the west coast with high-energy magic communication in the first place, but it is obviously impossible to say that he can rush from Belmar to the west coast by sea within a week.

The only explanation is that Norton was on the road before the war began.

"It was Miss Fina and Miss Alice who decided, and according to those two, the idea you mentioned in your correspondence was very interesting, so they wanted it to come to fruition as soon as possible, and here I am!" Norton said this, his eyes flashed with excitement, and he couldn't help but rub his hands, "Mr. Midi, although I don't know exactly what the interesting idea is, please let me be involved!"

Thinking of the two lovers who had been separated for a long time, the corners of Midi's mouth couldn't help but bend a happy arc towards the elbow.

If there's anyone who knows himself better than himself, it's probably the red-haired girl and the dark-haired woman, right?

Thinking like this, Midi patted Norton on the shoulder lightly, and then laughed: "Actually, I must admit that the Empire's attack is stronger than expected, Master Norton, you came at the right time, and we will be very busy in the future!"

Without much excess, Midi only asked Norton a little about Fina and Alice, and then immediately called an emergency meeting.

The attendees of this meeting, in addition to the senior cadres of the Falcon Regiment such as Norton, Dixon, and Kelvin, were the newly recruited team after Midi came to the West Coast-

Wells of the Flying Sail family was responsible for the construction and command of the new navy.

Randall of the Lionheart Dojo, although he doesn't know anything about war, is an instructor for all the disciples of the dojo.

Tanius and Xena, on the Arad continent, the only contact between these two dragons is only Midi, who is naturally the most reliable ally.

Not only that, due to the lack of daggers in the Delos Empire, which not only launched a fierce attack on Faroe Bay, but also adopted various high-pressure policies, many maritime families and dojos have also fallen to the relatively milder Belmar Kingdom. Therefore, in this meeting hall, the head of the Feifan family, the host of the Red Lotus Dojo, and many powerful leaders also came to the dojo.

Even the young qigong master Liu Feng of the Void Motherland sat in the lower position with a gloomy face.

His mentor Mintai died at the hands of Wiseman Newton, the "Hand of Nightmares", and there was no room for maneuver between the Void Ancestor and the Empire, and Midi took this opportunity to pull him in by the way. Under the onslaught of the Empire, it is always good to have an extra ally.

Glancing at the crowded hall, Midi cleared his throat and spoke: "Since the battle of the Sea King Festival, everyone is very clear about the current situation on the west coast, the empire is extremely sharp, even I have to admit that it is not wise to confront it from the front, especially in the ground war, Belmar lacks sufficient troops, and with these disciples and masters in the dojo alone, it cannot be compared with the regular army of the empire, so I decided to enter the second phase of deployment in advance." ”

The second stage?

Many of the participants were not soldiers, although they defected to the Midi and Falcon group, but they had no chance to contact any military secrets in normal times, so suddenly such a "second stage" came, and those peripheral family masters and dojo hosts naturally looked at each other.

Midi paused, and then said, "We will withdraw from Faroe Bay, shrink all our forces to the island, and fight a defensive battle. ”

Withdrawal from Faroe Bay.

As soon as these words came out, the whole council hall fell silent, and then, many people finally began to express their opinions, and persuaded Midi not to make such a decision, and in an instant, after the initial shock, there was a noise of gossip.

After all, most of the minds present were in Faroe Bay, and even their relatives were in Faroe Bay, so how could they easily give up because of Midi's words?

However, they forgot one thing, this was not the Faroe Bay Council, but the battle hall of the Falcon Regiment.

They have long since lost their voice, and they are just ordinary civilians living under the protection of Belmar's armed forces.

And the reason why Midi would gather everyone to come to the meeting was just to show the friendly side of the Falcon group, how could they really fight the empire for their benefit?

In the face of the iron-hearted Midi, although many people were extremely dissatisfied with this order, in the end, they had no choice but to accept it.

After all, the Empire's commander-in-chief in Faroe Bay was the notorious "Nightmare Hand" Wiseman Newton. If you choose to avatar that madman, you can't tell if the other party is in a bad mood and sends yourself to the laboratory, in contrast, Midi is strict, but at least he is a person who can communicate.

However, although the order was carried out, it was not without people who could not figure it out.

"Shouldn't we have lasted at least two more weeks?" Wells asked after the meeting, a little puzzled.

As a member of the Falcon Regiment that has been recognized, this handsome young man naturally knows the timetable planned by the Dao Dao.

That timetable was specially made by Midi based on the experience of the previous life, with those precious memories from the appearance of the rift to the manifestation of Sky City.

If this can be carried out strictly, theoretically, the moment Sky City appears, the Hayabusa will have a chance to occupy all the entrances and monopolize the opportunity to go to higher levels for up to a week.

But now, Midi, who has always been tough and good at winning more with less, chose to back down so easily, which not only puzzled Wells, but even Kelvin, Dixon and others were a little puzzled.

"Although we lack enough elite troops on the ground battlefield, we have the advantage at sea, right? Why don't you try to try a combined battle on land and sea?" Kelvin also put forward his own opinion, and it was much more perfect than Wells's, obviously, this demon scholar has also been paying attention to the battle situation, and has formed his own ideas.

Dixon also interjected: "With the range of the guns of the ironclad battleships, it is enough to cover most of the city of Faroe Bay, and those keel battleships are not attacked at all, so we can completely support the battle on the ground while confronting the Imperial Navy." ”

Midi just shook her head.

From the point of view of the performance of a single battleship, ironclad battleships are indeed much stronger than keel battleships, however, when the number of dragonbone battleships in the empire really increases, this advantage will be reversed in an instant.

In the previous life, there was such a sentence -

A keel warship is no match for a five-masted galleon, but a hundred keels can sweep across the oceans.

Although Midi can still rely on the range of ironclad battleships and the Mithril Demon Breaker Cannon, when the Empire's fleet reaches a certain number, those dragon bone warships will form a magical array. At that time, its range will be directly doubled several times, and in Midi's memory, it will be at least more than two kilometers, and even Fina's magic bullet can't be compared!

Not only that, but at that time, the power of the magic spawned by a large group of dragon bone warships was also terrifyingly great.

In the previous life, before and after the opening of Sky City, relying on the power of the dragon bone warship, the Delos Empire could be said to dominate the entire sea area, and even called itself the "Invincible Armada".

But of course, this so-called invincible armada also has a nemesis, otherwise, the Delos Empire in the previous life would have unified the entire Arad continent long ago.

And that nemesis is in the hands of Midi at the moment.

"Time is on the side of the Empire, the more keel battleships, the more passive we become, and using ironclad battleships to support the inferior ground battlefield is just dragging ourselves into the quagmire, and there is no point in it. Midi glanced at his subordinates and explained methodically, "Since it is a war, it is natural to decisively abandon these unnecessary things, exchange space for time, and do what needs to be done most." ”

Abandoning Faroe Bay, cowering on islands in the South China Sea, and clinging to the cracks on deep rock islands, what is the best thing to do in such a passive defensive battle?

Wells didn't know what to do, Dixon didn't know what to do, and even Kelvin didn't have an answer.

As for the two dragonmen, they don't care about any of this at all, the inhabitants of Sky City have a simple way of thinking, they will only ally with the victors, and that's it.

Only Norton, as if he had guessed something, looked more and more impatient.

"The royal road of war is naturally to win by strength, and come up with something that can directly suppress the superior forces of the empire and the keel battleship, and the victory will be ours. Midi said lightly, "And to do this, there is only one thing that should be done now - research and development!"

As he spoke, he took out a gray stone that seemed to be unbound by gravity and could fly at any moment, and placed it in Master Norton's hand.

"Sora Akashi!" the two dragonmen immediately recognized.

Midi said calmly, "With this, we can build a new kind of armed vehicle, called the 'Airship'. ”