The horn sounded, and the fleet set sail.

A group of warships lined up and drove out of the dock and headed for the pirate ship. All warships use external engines, which are constantly accelerating under the mixed kinetic energy of the human-powered windmills. From the sky, it looks like an arrow piercing the pirate ship. Compared to the neatness of the array of warships, the array of corsair ships can only be described as loose. It's just that no one would be surprised, after all, pirates have never been disciplined guys, even if their ships are all flagged with the same pattern.

Soon, the fleet of warships rushed into the pirate ships, and then opened fire. Artillery, heavy artillery, and the machine guns of the paladin mecha were so powerful that the pirates were overwhelmed. When the soldiers on the city wall saw this, their faces were overjoyed. In their eyes, the loose pirate fleet is no match for the warships of the other side.

After a round of bombardment, two pirate ships were sunk. Under the cover of the firepower of the ship, the pirates on the sunken ship were able to jump on the ship and escape. Soon, the pirates retreated. Looking at the ill-intentioned sails on the horizon, Sine gave the order to return, so the warships did not continue the pursuit, and circled the sea and returned to the harbor.

By noon, another convoy of pirate ships had arrived, and a total of twenty pirate ships had cleared the neat queue that surprised the Facero soldiers. Sine didn't say a word, and waved his army again. It was also the warship that faced the team in the morning, but this time it was slightly different from the morning. After the two fleets met in the sea not far from Fasero, the pirate ship lowered its sails en masse, and then the sides of the ship opened, revealing a row of outer engines, which turned out to be the same hybrid ship that had gone out this time.

With the outer engines manned by man, the pirate ships were divided into two teams with ten ships in a group, and attacked like a swimming tiger shark around the warships lined up in a triangular array. The bombardment lasted for a long time, and the pirate fleet showed remarkable resilience and repeatedly used equipment such as external engines to accelerate and evade the warship's firepower.

It's just that the equipment between the two is very different, and after an hour, five pirate ships were sunk. Like wounded wolves, the pirates roared unwillingly, but they still had to retreat. Amid the cheers of the defenders of the city walls, the warship sailed back. Yes, the Franco-Serbian side dropped only one warship.

Just when the Knights thought that the pirates would not continue to attack for the time being, before three o'clock in the afternoon, the group of outlaws came again. This time, instead of attacking head-on, they made a detour in the direction of the Path of Destiny Channel, intending to attack the city on the left side of Facero in a roundabout way. How could Sine have sent troops to intercept them right now, as they wished? But as soon as he sent warships to intercept him, another group of pirate ships attacked from another direction. Sine was about to send another fleet, but Jafidi stopped him.

The temperamental commander of the regiment said that he was here to assist in the defense, not to be a guest, why only the 4th Legion of Sine started the war. So the commander of the regiment pointed out his hand, and the warships belonging to the 11th regiment on the dock set sail to meet the pirates attacking from the front.

The war dragged on for a long time, and the pirates changed their strategy. No longer biting the Knights' fleet of warships that were not much different from iron, but ran away with a few shots, watching the warships want to sail back and chase them back. After going back and forth several times, no one could help anyone, but the ammunition on the part of the knights was lost a lot. The battle lasted until dusk, when the ammunition on both sides was almost exhausted before it dispersed.

After this battle, Sine and Jafidi found that they had not sunk the pirate ship this time, not even one. There was no way around it, and the pirates were fighting on the edge of the warship's firepower, refusing to fight to the death. During this time, both army commanders gave the order to pursue with all their might, thinking of fighting as fast as possible. Unfortunately, there was a large sea area between the two, and when they saw the movement of the knights, the pirates slipped faster than rabbits.

So a battle was fought, and the flotillas on both sides were basically lost.

The sun is twilight, and in the telescope, the shadow of the sail does not mean to disperse. Sine put down his binoculars and thought for thought.

In the evening he had a long conversation with Yafidi for two hours, and the next morning. In the port of Facero, the building belonging to Sine was launched. The 4th Legion poured out of its nest, forming a huge fleet with hundreds of warships under its command, and pointed at the pirate fleet like a long sword. The defenders on the city walls erupted in waves of loud noises, celebrating the triumphant return of the legion commander in advance.

Sine is powerful in battle, and he has the great weapon of the Knight of the Round Table. Coupled with a hundred warships, there are more than 50 paladin mechs alone, and with such a huge combat power and no danger on the sea, the soldiers really can't think of how the pirates can resist the liliang of the entire legion. But Jafidi on the city wall did not think so, and when Sine proposed such a risky move last night, Jafidi had strongly opposed it.

After all, in their intelligence, there are now a dozen high-ranking pirates. Although there are many defenders of Facero, in terms of high-end combat power, there are actually only him and Sine. The two of them were a little reluctant to defend Facero alone, and if the enemy's capable group attacked recklessly, it was unknown whether they would be able to defend Facero. And Sine dispatched an entire army to take the initiative to attack, which undoubtedly made Faresero's defense unprecedentedly weak.

As long as the pirates divide half of their forces to entangle, and the other forces cooperate with more than three high-level attackers, Yafidi must be ready to fight to the death.

But Sine insisted on doing so for a simple reason. That's morale!

If the Facero side can't hold out, it can naturally delay the battle as much as possible. But if nothing is done, morale will soon drop, which is not good for war. Both corps commanders were well aware of what morale meant in a war, especially in a protracted war. What's more, Sine had other plans, he took the initiative to attack, one was to boost the morale of the whole city, and the other was a tentative attack, wanting to touch the bottom of the pirates.

After all, it's in the waters of Fatero, and it's not the Whisperers Strait, nor the Roaring Bay. There is a vast sea area here, and this battlefield will allow the Order's fleet to optimize its maneuverability to the maximum. As long as he does not directly face a large number of high-level conflicts with the enemy, Sine is sure to fight this battle well.

Naval battles have another advantage over Sine, that is, there are very few places for the enemy's high-level powerhouses to play, which avoids the danger of concentrating high-level combat power for the opponent to be defeated in one fell swoop.

And now, Sine is doing the same. Under his command, every five warships were a combat unit. Each combat unit was arranged in a triangular array, and a total of 20 combat units formed a larger triangular formation headed by the regimental commander Lou Ship. In this way, the entire fleet is both tight and flexible, and can be quickly separated when necessary, so as to avoid the destruction of the opponent's high-level combat power.

Signe walked away confidently, but before he could make contact, the shadow of the sail on the horizon began to move. But instead of fighting, the pirates turned around and ran. Sine had foreseen many possibilities, but he did not expect the possibility of the pirate turning around and running away with a single shot. However, after he was stunned for a moment, he ordered the pursuit.

So Signe's fleet set out during the day and returned at sunset. As many warships went out, the same number returned. It was a good thing that a ship was lost, but the soldiers on the city walls soon discovered that the ships were too clean, so clean that they seemed to have been stained by the flames of war. Then many people remembered that the sea seemed to be too calm today, and they couldn't hear a single cannon.

Looking at the countless sail shadows on the horizon, all the soldiers' hearts couldn't help but sink.

Upon returning to Facero, Sine returned to the command room without saying a word. A moment later, Jafidi came in. He glanced at Sine and asked lightly, "What's the matter?"

"It's abnormal. Sine turned the nameless ring on his tail finger and said, "Today the pirates played hide and seek with me for a day, and I chased them and ran." As soon as I stopped, they attacked again, but when we caught up, the bastards turned around and ran again. I chased them for hundreds of nautical miles, but I almost circled the neighborhood. ”

"So, they're planning to hold us back?" said Yafidi as he sat down and tapped the table with his long, powerful fingers, "They plan to drag us across until morale is low and supplies are scarce before another general attack?"

"It's a possibility. Signe shook his head and sighed, "If it were the pirates of the past, I would not have feared them. ”

Yafidi was silent.

This is indeed a headache, pirates used to be rampant, but the Knights have never been afraid of them. At the end of the day, the lack of pirates at the level of high-tier power is a key issue. At that time, only the four captains could give go of the captain, and the others could only escape. So there are troubles, but they are limited.

But this time it was different, the pirates didn't know when a group of high-level abilities suddenly popped up. Because of the existence of this group, the Knights of the First War in the Whisperers Strait were defeated. Now that the pirate powerhouse has exhausted, he has eaten the Knights in the area of high-level combat power. The Order had only 13 high-ranking men, and two were killed in the Battle of Roaring Bay, including Mamilo.

As a result, there were only ten high-ranking knights left, and among these ten people, Sauron must be in charge of the city of Rome. As for the other legion commanders, they also have their own tasks, and they are scattered near various important cities or resource distribution points in the Western Continent, and they have no time to escape. It is already very rare for Sauron to be able to bring in Jafidi to support Sine. It would not be so realistic for him to send one more legion over.

Of course, in addition to the liliang on the surface, there are some unknown high-level people in the papal hall. For example, the Big Three in the Inquisition, and the retired high-ranking like the Blood Knight Lambonis. It's just that the Inquisition will only be dispatched when crusading against heretics, and there are only five veteran powerhouses like Lambonis.

Not only are these people old, but it is still unknown whether their combat strength can be maintained above normal levels. In addition, retired veterans are fully entitled to refuse call-up according to the laws of the Papal Chamber, which is an affirmation of their outstanding contribution to the Papal Chamber. What's more, if these veterans have to be mobilized, I'm afraid that Zoro will not be able to hang on face.

The problem is back to the beginning, high-level combat power has a decisive role in the war of the new era. In the past, the Knights used this advantage to shock the pirates, but now the situation has turned around, giving the two Legion Captains a headache.

But what Sine didn't know was that the hundreds of pirate ships that were now hovering the horizon were just for show. Although the pirates who attacked Facero were flying the banner of the Poseidon Order, they were not members of the actual adapted Poseidon Order. They are pirates who have been brushed down by bits and pieces, and now their mission is not to capture Fachillo, but to use harassment and guerrilla tactics to try to drag the attention of Fasselo and even the Papal Chamber.

As for the main force of the Seagod Order, they quietly headed towards the Fractured Bay, and their target was naturally the fortress Canon, which was located near the Eternal Mountain Range and guarded the bloodstained path!

Zero gave the pirates who feinted to attack Facero with only one request, and that was to hold them back for three days. Three days later, all the pirates went to the outer islands, broken into pieces, and waited for the Poseidon to be called up again.

And now, two days have passed!

The dawn of the third day continued as usual, and as soon as it was daybreak, Farcelo's defenders found the pirates coming in a long formation like a dark cloud from the other side of the horizon. On this day, Facero sounded the highest alarm, Yafidi and his legions were still in charge of the defense, and Sine was once again in battle, commanding his fleet to attack.

This time the pirates did not flee again, and the array of warships of Sine finally cut into the pirate fleet as they wished. Upon contact, the pirate's excessively long line was easily chiseled through by the Knights. When Sine decided to widen the gap, the pirate ship changed sides. The ships on both wings retracted, gradually closing into a circle to envelop the Order's fleet.

In the midst of the pirate's almost frenzied fire, two dozen more pirate ships launched a suicidal charge. This surprised Sine, who soon discovered that the men on the charging ships had not known when they had been withdrawn. The rudder of the ship should be fixed with a tool, and then used inertia to slide over. The commander of the regiment immediately ordered the warship to intercept it, but under the artillery attack, the assault ship exploded immediately.

The explosion created a cloud of fire, which surprised Sine, because this cloud of fire was so huge, the cloud of fire that stretched for hundreds of meters was not the product of artillery fire, and the only explanation was that there was a high explosive hidden in the assault ship!

The cloud of fire rose, and then the waves of fire rolled and spilled a rain of fire. At this time, the explosions had already sounded one after another, and after receiving the order of the corps commander, the warships on both wings intercepted the assault boats with artillery fire, so they detonated the assault boats that looked like mobile explosives depots one after another. Large fire clouds bordered each other, and the fire waves collided and superimposed on each other, forming a violent shock wave.

Many warships were swept into the fire clouds when they got too close, and the lucky ones were just brushed off, and the unlucky ones were directly blown in two. When the fire on the surface of the sea poured out, the pungent smell of gunpowder wafted on the surface of the sea.

Sine's face was as bad as it could be, and although the pirates had lost more than twenty ships, he also had more than a dozen warships affected by the explosion. Moreover, the personnel on the warship did not have time to evacuate, and for a time there were corpses of soldiers and wreckage of mecha floating on the sea, which were like a slap in the face of Sine. What made him even more unacceptable was that after this wave of attacks, the pirates turned around and fled, so fast that it was too late for Sine to pursue.

A day passed, and the port of dusk welcomed the returning fleet of knights. The wolf smoke rising from the surface of the sea witnessed the fierceness of the battle, and although Signe pursued him afterwards, the pirate made up his mind to play guerrilla with him, just like yesterday. After the two fleets had chased each other for hundreds of nautical miles, Sine saw that it was already dark and had to give the order to return to Farcelo.

At dusk that day, the shadow of the sails on the horizon was still there, and the soldiers on the city wall looked as if they were pressing a boulder in their hearts. But when dawn came on the fourth day, the soldiers found that the sails on the horizon had disappeared.

"There must be something we ignored. In the command room, Sine walked back and forth: "These guys can't just come over and fire a few shots, launch another suicidal charge, and then leave. What are they doing this for?"

"It's really puzzling. Yafidi's delicate brows were already wrinkled together: "It's not a formal attack, if it's a tentative attack, the cost is inevitably too great." ”

"No, they came so aggressively, but they basically didn't make a tough attack. It always feels like they're teasing us, or is it just that," a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in Sine's mind, and his face became extremely difficult to look at: "Could it be that they are trying to attract our attention, but the real purpose is not to attack Facelo?"

"It's impossible, both in terms of resources and distance, only Facero is worth attacking. ”

"Not necessarily. "Sine walked over to the plasma plate, which was a map of the western continent. The Legion's hand swiped across the map, Zuihou's finger landing on a point.

Yafidi's pupils shrank, and he stood up and said, "No, their target is Canon?"

Sine said in a deep voice: "It will take about three days to travel from Facero to Canon, and the pirate fleet has been entangled with us for three days? Now it's certain that we've been tricked. This enemy force entangled with us in Facero is only a front, and their real purpose is to cover the main force on its way to Canon. ”

"It's crazy, but there's no doubt about it. If Canon is captured, it will be worth more than ten times as much as Fatero!" Signe hurriedly said, "I will report to Lord Sauron at once, and you will be responsible for informing the Egges of Canon and preparing them for battle. ”

Jafidi stood up, said succinctly, "I see," and went down to contact the Kanon army. However, just as they were busy, at this time, a little sail shadow had quietly appeared in the waters of the Fractured Bay.