It wasn't just the ordinary pirates who were surprised, including the captains, even Hook and Brute Mountain found it incredible. A full pirate regiment has the following qualifications: a captain, a co-captain, and then the ship's sailors. Sailors can be subdivided into soldiers, logistics and maintenance personnel. Of course, the pirate group naturally needs a pirate ship, which is an essential element of a pirate group.

However, the number of pirate talents, warriors, ships, and resources can be directly judged from the status of the captain, or intuitively, from the amount of the captain's bounty.

Like an ordinary pirate group, the captain is basically only a fifth- to sixth-order ability, and even a novice who has just debuted is only a third- or fourth-order. Such pirate groups are usually not very large, they will have a small and medium-sized pirate ship, with about ten to twenty people on it.

And like the Four Pirates, the Iron Scale is needless to say, it is the specification of the Pope's Hall ship. It was people like Hook and Cinderella who owned medium-sized ships, and there were thirty or forty people in the seats. But for a person of their level, the number of personnel is not a criterion for measuring strength. When it comes to Cinderella's pirate group, they pay more attention to the quality of the crew.

In the case of Cinderella, the ten-man personal guard is the rank of an ordinary pirate captain, and even in the Knights, they are warriors at the rank of captain. Especially that Skua Eureka, who was born as a bounty hunter, and his current combat power has almost broken through the seventh order, which is only one step away from the high level. Such a person is a character wherever he is thrown in the Western Continent, which shows that the overall combat power of the Water Demon can basically match the fleet of knights with about twenty ships.

The Walrus of Manshan is only slightly smaller than the Iron Scale in size, but the group of Manshan has a number of affiliated ships, and it is completely possible to form a fleet of its own. Even among the second-level pirate groups, there are many pirate groups that are directly under the orders of the Barbarian Mountain. If necessary, the Brute Mountain could stand alone against a fully formed fleet of knights.

But the current situation is that on the other side of the Whisperer Strait is a full fleet of three fully formed Knights, a truly large formation of more than five hundred ships in total. Such a force, if it weren't for the existence of a natural barrier such as the Whisperers and the Devil's Passage in Roaring Bay, would have cleared the Knights.

Even so, the geography of the Whisperers Channel limits the firepower output of the Papal Chamber. The number of a hundred times its own number of enemies can be intercepted on the other side of the strait with the personnel of a single ship, and the number of personnel is limited to a hundred. In other words, the quality of the members on the Destiny must be at least a few levels above the four pirate groups!

In addition to the captains, the members of the four major pirate groups have at least an average of six orders. On this basis, it has increased by a few levels, that is to say, the secondary combat power below zero is also the eighth order, and the eighth order is the strength of the legion captain and the legendary captain!

For Hook and Manshan, they couldn't help but smile bitterly after getting this inference. With multiple Eighth-Order as his core members, it's no wonder that he has zero confidence to fight the Seagod Order, and it's no wonder that a woman like Cinderella will also surrender to him. Of course, now they are the same.

But they didn't know that in the zero secondary combat power, there were two ninth-order!

It's still early in the morning, but the harbor of the Sea House is very busy. The harbor was once filled with hundreds of ships, but now there are only about a hundred pirate ships. While the members of the Destiny intercepted the Papal Hall fleet, they also bought very valuable time for the Sea House. Since yesterday, all the pirates on the Sea House have been mobilized. According to Zero's orders, they will face the Knights Captains who have emerged from the Devil's Passage in two days.

This is no child's play, and the number of warships outside the Whisperer's Channel can probably be estimated to be the combined strength of the three legions. Then there are at least two legion commanders who have outflanked from the Devil's Passage, plus the Iron Scale that will serve as a guide, and the enemy's high-level combat power that will appear on the Devil's Passage is also more than three. Coupled with the Knights of the Round Table manipulated by the regimental commander level, then the combat power is not as simple as one plus one.

Fortunately, the Destiny intercepted it on the other side of the Whisperer's Strait this time, otherwise the pirate forces on the Sea House would not have been able to fight on two fronts at the same time. In order to meet the enemy's high-level combat power, the Sea House is integrating resources. According to the meaning of zero, this is an elite battle, and it cannot accommodate the participation of troops of the level of miscellaneous fish at all. Rather than scattering the supplies, it is better to concentrate and meet the other side.

So after selection, including three legendary captains such as Cinderella, another hundred more acceptable captains and their pirate group were selected as the main candidates for this battle. The selected pirate group was naturally excited, after all, this was an epoch-making battle. Whether it succeeds or fails, it will forever be recorded in the history of the Western Continent.

Those who were not selected gave up their own materials and gathered them at the wharf to be classified and distributed by a group of people led by Mr. X. These materials are mainly combat resources, including ammunition, firearms and other materials. From the piles of supplies piled up on the docks, it can also be seen that the gap between the rich and the poor is really very large, some of the pirate groups can't even donate a musket, and some of them bring out of the cargo boxes of high-quality military supplies, which are smuggled goods from the interior of the Pope's Chamber.

It can be seen that the holy papal hall may not be full of devout believers.

Among these strategic supplies, the most valuable is a batch of offshore oil. CNOOC is the oil of the seabed, and of course the sea family does not have these resources, but these offshore oil is high-end goods obtained from several colonial islands with oil mines. The purity of this batch of offshore oil is very high, and the purity of offshore oil is directly proportional to the time it takes to burn. With it, pirates can construct a flaming interception zone in order to confine the enemy to a battlefield they set up for haode.

To that end, Hook made a suggestion.

After coming out of the Devil's Passage, there are dense and complex islands scattered in the waters. If the enemy were to be brought into that area and blockaded with a fire belt made of sea oil, it would be good for the pirates to fight a nice ambush. But this suggestion was rejected by zero for two reasons. One is that although the complex island area is conducive to concealment and ambush on the pirate's side, at the same time, the large amount of land also provides the Knights of the Round Table with the conditions to play to the advantage of land warfare. The second and most important point is that if you have to use ambushes and other means to defeat the enemy army in full force. Then even if you win, it will give you a feeling of a miserable victory.

However, this battle was a significant battle from every point of view, and Zero insisted on adopting a tough stance of facing the enemy head-on, and defeated the enemy from the front. This battle is not only a battle for the pirates to protect themselves, but also to make a gesture to the various positions of the western continent, both openly and secretly, hostile or neutral.

That is, the Papal Hall is not invincible, and the pirate Liliang is not what it used to be. Defeating the invading enemy army with a tough stance undoubtedly slapped the Pope's Hall and Sauron in the face. After that, if you confront the Pope's Hall, if you use guerrilla ambushes and other means, then it is a strategy rather than a sign of weakness.

In the past few years in Asgard, especially after coming into contact with many nobles and high-ranking figures in the later period, Zero understands a truth. That is, the same thing, in a different order, will bring people a completely different feeling. Especially for those big names, it has a direct impact on their evaluation of you and the decision of whether to fund or suppress.

It has been more than a decade since Sauron's high-pressure policy was implemented. Zero doesn't believe that there will be no two-minded people under him, and the head-on confrontation is more about showing these people in order to win more allies. This is the ultimate meaning behind this battle, and when Zero explains this, Hook, who was originally opposed, finally agrees with Zero's strategy.

Pirates, even the legendary Four Pirates. Even though they have superior combat power, they are not good at the special battlefield of politics. It can also be said that all they seek is freedom, a life without constraints. Therefore, from the perspective of vision, there is certainly no zero to see the long term. What is not about the name of the First World War, but about the far-reaching impact that this war will have on the whole situation in the future.

Whoever is able to grasp the situation of future developments will be the winner of zuihou. This is a game, and if the chess player only sees the gains and losses in front of him, he has already lost the big picture.

And on the huge chessboard of the Western Continent, it is far from the time when the winner is decided.

So the matter of confronting the enemy corps commander head-on was thus finalized, but the details still need to be discussed. These include how to grasp the correct time for the appearance of enemy ships, how to make good use of that batch of offshore oil to make fire belts, and some tactical details at that time. While the matter was being discussed closely on the Zero side, the members of the Destiny led by Franklin on the other side of the Whisperers Strait were locked in a bitter battle.

After clearing all the obstacles, today Colonel Mader changed his strategy and concentrated a large number of knight mechs and officers above the rank of lieutenant in the fleet as the vanguard. For Madel, this is undoubtedly a big gamble, putting the strongest combat power of the whole side into the breakthrough battle of the strait at one time. In case of defeat, then the fleet he led would be only ordinary soldiers with large numbers but low combat effectiveness.

There was no doubt that Colonel Mader was right this time. In the face of the huge firepower of the Knight Mecha Group, as well as the assistance of a large number of captain-level capable people, the Pope's Hall has formed a chisel penetration force that is more than several levels stronger than yesterday. Despite Franklin's tenacious use of traps, terrain, and a group of high-level abilities that can be called aces. However, because of the huge disparity in numbers, the fleet of the Papal Hall advanced in the strait.

In this process, it can be seen that a person like Berrion who has the ability to kill a person with a means of mass destruction is far more advantageous in the fight against the army than a person with a strong ability to strike individually, such as Kaede and Su. It was also under Berrien's powerful firepower output that the fleet of the Pope's Hall did not break through the strait in one go. Faced with an overwhelming numerical superiority of the enemy, Franklin had no choice but to adjust his plan.

Under the situation that Berrien attracted and continued to output, Su and the others changed the target of attack to the commander of the other party, and staged a drama of killing the enemy general in the midst of thousands of troops, which can be called a war example. After disintegrating the command system of the opposing fleet, it continued to consume the enemy's liliang through movement warfare. At Zuihou, faced with the snowballing of losses, Madr had to halt his advance and establish a temporary forward base based on the bend in the strait that had been laid, so as to prevent Franklin from taking advantage of the opportunity to regain lost ground.

At dusk of that day, the Papal Hall fleet broke through to Franklin's Area 3 in the Whisperer's Strait. But for this, they also paid a lot of price. Among them was the loss of hundreds of knights' armor, while most of the officers above the rank of lieutenant and rank were damaged, and countless ordinary soldiers.

The battle was fierce, and in order to prevent the fleet's breakthrough, the Destiny side had almost used up eighty percent of its supplies. Most of the ordinary crew members were killed in battle, and although the capable ones were killed at the end, the strong people of Liansu's level were also slightly injured under the fierce fire of the enemy, and as for Haiwei's level, they were moderately injured and seriously injured in one or two places, and they would not be able to continue the battle tomorrow.

Berrien, on the other hand, was miraculously unscathed, and Franklin did everything in his power to protect his humanoid turret. Even the giant bombarded several pieces of flesh with a shuttle of machine guns in order to cover for Berrien, but Berrion only used up his energy and almost lost his strength.

But with the strength of one ship, the enemy fleet was held back for two days. After this battle, I am afraid that the people of the entire Western Continent will know the name of each of them.

Only now, Franklin still does not dare to relax. There is another day, as long as you stop the other party for one more day, you will complete the order that you have to confess. That evening, a convoy of ships from the Sea House was the pirates who had not been selected to fight the Devil's Passage, and they had been assigned to assist Franklin and his party. Although these pirates have low average combat power, they are also a new force, so some of the trivial work falls to them, and those who are capable of it are given more time to rest.

After witnessing the miracle of Franklin and the others holding back the Papal Hall fleet for two days, the pirates who served as reinforcements were all in high spirits and worked harder. So new traps were planted overnight on the river behind Area 3, ready for tomorrow's arrival.

As the battle in the Whisperers Strait heats up, the four ships in the Devil's Passage have finally reached the exit before dusk, anchored on an isolated island near the exit. As night fell, dense radiation clouds spread across the sky, and then different from the old times. Even though it was night, there was a faint red glow behind the radiation clouds, like a sea of fire behind the clouds.

Therefore, at night in the new era, the sky is always dark red. It's a depressing hue, and unfortunately, no one can change it. It was once said that if it weren't for the existence of radiation clouds, everything on the earth would have been in ruins in the flames. This is not a lie, after all, on the day of the cataclysm, the planet's ozone layer had already suffered devastating damage. Radiation clouds enveloped the planet like a second layer of protection, so that the deadly cosmic rays did not fall directly on the earth.

Otherwise, this planet would have become a death star long ago, and life would not have survived as it does now.

But even so, humans and other life are still trying to wreak havoc and push the planet towards the abyss of death. Ironically, although this is against the wishes of the vast majority of living beings, the decision is in the hands of a few.

The pyramid-shaped power structure of the planet determines that the fate of the mole cricket beings is in the hands of only a few people at the top of the pyramid.

This is Shijie's default rule, and there are many people who are dissatisfied, but no one can break it.

Looking up at the dark red sky, Habeth was silent for a long time. The black double-breasted robe danced in the wind, like a thick ink that could not be dissolved. Ink enveloped Habeth, and the light in the eyes of the young regiment leader did not seem to be as clear as before.

"I can see that the faith in your heart is not so strong. Carlomon's voice sounded behind him, and Habbes smiled and turned away.

The middle-aged man threw a wine bottle to Habeth, but threw it back for the latter, and Habes shook his head and said, "I don't drink." ”

"What's the fun of such a rigorous life?" said Carlomon, sitting on the ground and drinking his wine, "to-morrow is a war, and you must learn to have fun in time." ”

"My joy is not based on alcohol. Habeth said lightly, and looked into the depths of the roaring bay: "Captain Caromon, don't you notice?

Caromon grunted and said, "It's normal, that old fellow of Madr is leading people directly to the Whisperer Strait, and it's no wonder those pirates don't intercept them." Isn't it normal for the bay to be calm in this way?"

Habeth frowned: "But I remember that Colonel Madr led three fully formed fleets. With such force, it should have been fought into the bay a long time ago, why is the headquarters of the pirates so quiet?"

"If those legendary captains had fought hard to intercept it, it would not be surprising that Madar had not been able to cross the strait for the time being. Not to mention Hook and Manshan, even that Cinderella is already very tricky. I'm more concerned about how much firepower Mader has attracted to the pirates, and it's better to keep them all firmly in the strait, so that we can finish the battle in one fell swoop. ”

Habbes was a little unimpressed, and the overly calm roaring bay brought him a hint of unease.

It's a gut feeling.

At this moment, Habis heard something strange. It was the sound of bubbles coming out of the sea, and the sound came from the surface of the sea below the boat.