Duke Bofu, who was just not the Minister of Foreign Affairs, stood at the intersection with blazing eyes, watching the black convoy in the distance gradually disappear into the distant horizon under the guidance of more than ten golden falcon flags, "This woman has finally sent away!"

Bo Fu walked on a waiting carriage next to him, took a deep breath of cold air, sat on the thick sofa of the carriage with a sigh of relief, and rubbed his aching temples with his fingers, it was really a headache for more than ten days, for him, who was just not the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Falcon Empire's princess's trip to ask for guilt was no less than a war, and the result was also unexpected, even the Minister of Foreign Affairs Bo Fu himself did not expect the situation to change suddenly, and the countries of Obaro, who had been watching coldly, suddenly collectively stood on the side of the Falcon Empire, and signed a genuine military alliance with the Gang Africa, which made Foreign Minister Bo Fu's mouth smile crooked,

The Gangfei Empire finally had a chance to breathe, and the court attributed this achievement to the result of the efforts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the prestige of Foreign Minister Bofu also rose, and he was praised by the outside world as a person who saved the country!

Years of diplomatic experience made him feel that the situation was not good, killing people has always been the most inferior behavior, not to mention raising the butcher's knife to the four thousand officers and soldiers who have contributed to the empire, if it were not for the 1.112 incident launched by the Ninth Army, the power of Gangfei is still in the hands of the ministers, not so complete The empire is in the hands of the emperor,

The important ministers in the court, cheering because the Falcon Empire had no excuse to start a war for the time being, but they turned a deaf ear to the fact that the Falcon Empire's army had already penetrated a hundred miles into the empire.

Is everybody unaware? Or is everybody deliberately avoiding the question?

Since the events of 1.12, the upper echelons of the Gang Fei Empire have been in a state of vacillation, aware of the Falcon Empire's ambitions for the South. On the other hand, in order to avoid the Falcon Empire's war, he brazenly ordered the secret execution of more than 4,000 people of the Ninth Legion, and also in order to win over the Central European and Barro countries, the Gangfei Empire signed a series of jumps, almost taking the lost northern regions as a reward. directly packed and lost to the Central European and Barrow countries, which is even more "traitorous" than Robin Sark, who was scolded by thousands of people at the beginning

"If Mercaya's Ninth Legion had known that this was the end, would they have started that incident!" Baufort's gaze was a little gloomy. He's not a radical, he's not an old-fashioned conservative,

But he also knows that he can't appease the hearts of the army and the people at home, and he can only flatter and curry favor outside, such a country has no future, and His Majesty the Emperor is certainly a natural king seed, and he will eventually become a spineless mediocre talent, the chief minister of the empire, Marcos. may be a good hand at conspiracies, but he does not have the outstanding vision and strong courage of a real chief minister of the empire.

At the beginning, Rubin Sark dared to blatantly adopt the strategy of exchanging land for peace, even if he was scolded as a traitor by the whole empire. Even if only a few people saw him off in the end, Rubin Sark's heart never changed,

In fact, it turns out that Robin Sark's decision was correct.

His previous arrangement at least bought Gangfei a rare and precious time, if it weren't for his strategy. After the Iraqis invaded Gangfei, the army of the Falcon Empire will also take the opportunity to go south.

Under the attack of the two empires, even in the heyday of the Gangfei Empire, it will be crushed by wars from two directions, in comparison, Marcos, who is also now in the first place of the important ministers, is too far behind Rubinsark, who was able to withstand the ferocious attack of the Falcon Empire's army and ensure that the empire's Kyoto is not lost, while Marcos simply lost the century-old foundation of the empire, and in the face of pressure from the Falcon Empire, Rubin Sack chose a decisive strategy to give up some areas that do not have much value, and then let the Falcon Empire's focus has always been in the direction of Gaul

And Marcos, in the face of the pressure of the Falcon, chose to sacrifice the four thousand lives of the Ninth Army to cover up the truth of the 1.12 incident, to cover up the shame of the entire empire, completely ignoring how many soldiers would be disappointed in the empire because of this, and how much the generals of the southern army group of the empire complained about this matter, on Marcos. I only saw the cunning of a small person, and I couldn't see the courage and courage of a chief minister of the empire at all!

The carriage had just arrived at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Congo

The adjutant was already waiting there, and when he saw the minister's carriage driving into the gate in the distance, the adjutant hurriedly walked down the steps, his face was anxious, and it seemed that there was something important, and the creaking carriage stopped in front of the steps, and the adjutant pulled the carriage away,

"What's the matter?" Bo Fu stepped down from the carriage and asked in a low voice, "My lord, just now, His Majesty the Emperor sent a message, there is something important, please go and discuss it immediately!!" The adjutant took out a copy of the document and handed it to Bo Fu,

"Something important? is it from the Falcon Empire?"

Bo Fu frowned slightly, came violently, and went back with his tail between his legs, this is not the style of the Falcon Empire, although this time the entire Central European Baro is on the side just now, even if the Falcon Empire Emperor who is now in the Putao region, he must weigh the weight of it! But who is the Falcon Emperor? The invincible commander who swept through the northern part of O'Barro in a few years, the king who controlled thousands of miles of northern seas, dared to go to war with the powerful Gangfei Empire for the sake of an inconsequential general, such a person does not look like a person who knows what to fear.

"It's not the Falcon Empire, it's the generals of the Southern Army, they are blocking the door of His Majesty's residence, shouting slogans demanding the restoration of the honor of the Ninth Legion! The Praetorian Guard has been dispatched, and it is still in a stalemate" The adjutant looked left and right, and whispered, "I also heard that Duke Andia has returned with troops from the north, and there were more than 200,000 troops before, and now there are less than 50,000 left, and His Majesty is also thinking about how to punish Duke Andia!" ......

At the exit of the Gibraltar Maritime Corridor, the bright sun shone on the sea, the clouds in early spring, there was no wind most of the time, the visibility on the sea was very high, and after four consecutive days of sailing, the Falcon Empire's First Fleet finally passed through the Gibraltar Strait aisle, and the real meaning was to eat the inland sea.

The mast of the Dragon-class battleship was unabashedly hung with a large golden falcon flag fluttering in the wind, and the Imperial Navy Commander Dustrunkai was wearing a black straight Imperial Navy uniform, standing on the forward deck of the Dragon-class battleship, raising the gem-inlaid lookout goggles in his hand, looking at the villages on both sides of the sea channel in the distance, in front of the fleet, there was a famous reef belt, and each ship sent a guide, in fact, during the union of the Strand Sea Kingdom, many sailors who followed the ships of the Strand Sea Kingdom in the inland sea area were cadets of the Imperial Admiralty。

Now piloting the fleet is a young naval officer named Baika,

The young pilot, who had been in a fleet of Strand for two months, had never been on land, and though he was not sure how familiar he was with the inland sea, at least it was only the Gibro promenade, and he had already crossed it eight times, even with his eyes closed

He was briefing Dustrunkai about the ports and geography of the Inland Sea region when he suddenly pointed ahead and shouted

"Your Excellency. The rumba I mentioned earlier, it was a small island, but it was the first land site to come out of Gibro Sea, where it was once a large pirate stronghold. At its peak, there were less than 2,000 pirates on the island, and if the empire could occupy Lomba, it would be equivalent to holding the gates of Gibraltar in its hands

"Bring the charts"

Dustrenkai waved his hand to the adjutant behind him. The adjutant took out the chart from his satchel, which was the battle plan that His Majesty Falcon had personally deployed before setting off, and Stromket separated the chart from side to side with both hands. Eyes fall on the island designated as Rumba, but the location of Rumba is very important, if Gibro is a long and crooked road, then this Rumba Island is a knot at the end of the long road! A small dot appeared in the blue sea waves in front of him, through the lookout goggles in his hand, his vision was clearer and faintly could see the general outline of the island, from a large point of view, Rumba Island is indeed a very large and perfect excellent deep-water harbor bay, dozens of ships of different sizes floating in the direction of the port, the top mast is scattered with cross skull flags, and there are destroyed equipment and facilities everywhere. Littered with discarded clothes and miscellaneous items, the pirates didn't know that just a short distance away, a fleet of heavily armed to the teeth was rushing towards the island

"The fleet pauses, order the fifth and seventh fleets to attack, and before sunset, take the island in front!"

Dustrenkai raised his head and ordered decisively to the adjutant behind him, the battle flag was transmitted by the chess player standing high on the mast, the imperial battleship group began to slow down, and the two detachments that received the order to attack raised their full sails, and the heavy bow of the ship was heavily inserted into the wave in front, like two huge smooth ribbon fish rushing out of the waves,

"The distance ahead is 346 meters, the height is fourteen, and the watchtower on the right side!"

The rangefinder reported the number, and the two squadrons, a total of four dragon-class and twelve dragon-tooth battleships, began to disperse, and a huge V-shaped water mark was created on the sea

"First adjustment, target 312 meters, height eleven, wind southeast"

The rangefinder reported the number again, and the Thor artillery bombarder adjusted Thor's state for the last time, the muzzle of the gun moved slowly, and the battleship began to slowly approach the natural coastline in the north of the harbor, and the heavy anchor fell into the water, fixing the side chord of the entire battleship, and Thor was all aimed at Rumba Island,

"When!when!when!"

There was a rapid sound of bells in the direction of the harbor, and countless people rushed to the harbor at once, some of the bows and arrows drawn by the people, and the oval throwing stones began to fly towards the sea, crackling, and the throwing stones fell into the sea, stirring up a huge column of water, and a sampan full of soldiers was swayed from side to side by the impact of the water column

"Order the fleet, fire back!"

Dustrunkai made a gesture to the flag-bearer in the height of the period with one hand and a gesture with the other hand to "fire" the same order, and at the same time shouted from the mouths of countless people

"Rumble... Rumble ......"

On the sea surface Thor roared, white smoke billowed out, the sea was boiling, the dragon tooth battleships lined up in a row fired first, and the side side of the ship suddenly seemed to release the white gunpowder smoke of the bead cylinder, with the fire not spraying, the huge reaction force caused by the continuous shooting, even the hull of the dragon-class battleship was pushed a few meters on the sea surface, boom, almost instantly, the dense and huge explosion directly involved the distant port, and the fierce fire and explosion first covered the other party's battleship docked in the port, and the people on Rumba Island obviously did not expect to be hit by the destruction of the river at such a long distance

Their battleship had only begun to draw its sails when the alarm bell had just sounded. And most of the docks were wooden structures, and the Thor cannonballs were poured directly from the side of their planks almost effortlessly, booming, huge explosions mixed with fire burst out from the battleship's body, illuminating half of the sky, and a wooden sail battleship was turning its bow, and was hit by several Thor hulls, only to see that the location where it was hit was blown apart and turned into powder. The battleship was overwhelmed and broke into two sections, and the huge gas 'wave' rolled up by the explosion shocked all the people and items on the deck into the air, and then fell on the water like raindrops.

The pirates were completely stunned, the cargo of their ships was scattered everywhere by the shock, torn to pieces by the incoming fire, and people could be seen blown into the air and then landed far away. In the face of violent explosions. The vast majority of the pirates were at a loss as they ran through the blast of air, slamming into the ground and rolling over as they slammed into the debris. The buildings in the harbor were shattered and collapsed, and there were constant fires and explosions in front of them, and the smell of blood was mixed with the air waves in the face, "Hell. What the hell is going on?"

A grumpy pirate leader was shirtless, wearing only a pair of flaxen-colored breeches, and a curved scimitar in his right hand. With a sharp iron hook pressed from the wrist of his left hand, he crawled out of a pile of waste earth and rocks in a rage, he was based on Rumba Island, known as one of the four great pirates of the Inland Sea.

A Thor bullet fired from the bow main gun of the Dragon-class battleship landed behind him, and the "boom" exploded like a huge elliptical under his feet, and he was swept into the air by the air wave on the spot. flew out more than ten meters before tumbling down, slammed heavily on the soft mound, and then was covered by rocks, only to pick up a life, and the subordinates behind him were not so lucky, more than a dozen people were swept into the explosion of fire, turned into flying ash in the explosion

The ears of the steel hand Amu who crawled out of the rubble only rumbled, and he couldn't hear anything clearly,

But the people running around in front of him have clearly told him that the port has been attacked, and the pirate port of Barron is not only pirates, in fact, this is one of the largest smuggling transaction points for materials from the inland sea and materials from the open sea, there are about 3,000 pirates on it, and there are more than 100 smugglers, so the defense of the island of Rumba is very perfect.

But in front of the strong ships and artillery of the Imperial ships, the watchtowers and trebuchets were useless, four hundred meters away, the fleet's artillery fire completely destroyed the twenty watchtowers on the periphery of the island, the trebuchets placed on the cliff wall at the entrance to the port, after throwing a catapult, was bombarded into the sky by Thor, one after another, as if in hell rushed to the sky, the port was already covered with blood, the road was full of rubble debris, "order all ships to suspend shelling"

Dustrunkai put down the scope in his hand, the fleet expedition was limited, although this time he also brought a large number of supply ships, but there was really no need to waste too much on a small island where pirates were entrenched, he needed this island as a support point for attacking the southern seaports of Gangfei, not completely ruined

"Fleet assault infantry launched!"

The small sampan hanging on the side of the squadron battleship was lowered, and the first wave of infantry dispatched about a thousand people, all of them were melee infantry in heavy armor, and their weapons were also very naval spikes, meteor hammers and leaf-shaped shields, and the commander in charge was Elvis, the leader of the third squadron of the Imperial Navy Assault Infantry,

He graduated from the Imperial Admiralty last year, served as a squadron leader in the Central Army Army, participated in the war to destroy the Nord and the war against the northwest, and has considerable land command ability.

There are 1,200 marines under his command, of which two-thirds have combat experience, and all the helmets of the Imperial Marine Assault Infantry are pure blue helmets.

Driven by the rippled waves, the small sampan washed directly onto the beach near the harbor with almost no obstacles.

The sharp bow of the boat was inserted into the sand, and the huge reaction force made the soldiers above stagger, but fortunately, the marine assault soldiers were specially trained, and they tried their best to lower their bodies one by one before the hull collided with the sand, and pressed the weight of their bodies all on the hull. "The commanding heights of the crossbowmen, the others pay attention to the direction of the port!"

Commander Elvis quickly jumped down and shouted loudly to the others, in front of the beach is a small mound, the road leading to the direction of the port is in the direction of the mound, the imperial crossbowmen quickly grabbed their infantry crossbows from the small sampan, ran towards the mound, just climbed to the mound, they saw a bunch of people rushing out of the direction of the port, with strong figures, wearing all kinds of helmets on their heads, and the weapons in their hands were also varied, these people raised their weapons high, the cold light flashed, and they rushed towards the beach with a shout, "Shoot!" The crossbow bow string is like the scythe of death, and the crossbowman does not hesitate to pull the crossbow in his hand, and the arrows are like locusts flying (to be continued......)