Seven Hundred and Four People Are Not as Good as Dogs

The War of the Roses begins.

Lieutenant General Lingus, who was a slave ship owner, designed an extremely majestic battle plan.

At the beginning of May, all 12 squadrons of the fleet were divided into five groups to advance to the five islands of Grand Bahama, Grand Abaco, Carter, San Salvador, and Mayaguana, and swept towards the Bahamas where pirates gathered like a tsunami. .

As the soldiers approached, the pirate empire that had lost Blackbeard fell into unprecedented despair.

At this moment, Pavlomy stepped forward, as did the former black prince Leonardo, and without hesitation, he handed over the fleet he had painstakingly revived to the only remaining Pirate King in the empire.

The disintegrated pirates regained their backbone at once, assembled 350 warships of various colors in just 7 days, and established a huge defense line centered on Nassau and surrounding half of the Bahamas Islands.

On May 17, the second battleship group led by Prundit encountered the enemy outside the atoll belt 70 kilometers north of Great Abaco Island.

Leonardo commanded a fleet composed of 3 big pirates and a dozen small pirates to launch a suicide attack on Plundit relying on heavy rain.

This battle allowed the world to see the return of the Black Prince.

The fearless Leonardo drove his flagship and collided with the flagship of the Prundit Chamber of Commerce from a double-team of more than a dozen warships. The second group lost command within an hour of the battle. Van Royle Prundy Te escaped by jumping into the sea.

The second group was thus defeated.

A total of 68 warships, most of them withdrew from the battlefield, and a total of 19 ships were intercepted on the battlefield. More than 400 people were killed in battle, more than 200 people were missing, and the remaining more than 1,000 people were collectively executed by crazy pirates in the atoll.

Immediately after May 18, the fourth and fifth fleet groups were attacked respectively. The fifth group transferred to Port-au-Prince after paying a small price, and the fourth group won its first big victory against the fleet.

This victory came as a matter of course, because the core force of the fourth group is the fleet directly under Drake, and the Valkyrie is commanded by Bell Judea, who has performed brilliantly in the Virgin Islands naval battle.

Bell continued his usual free and undisciplined combat style.

Seeing the pirates coming from a distance, his first order was to leave the coordination and mobilization of the affiliated Ninth and Tenth Fleets to the Katrinas, and his second order was to leave the command of the direct fleet to Pierce.

The third way...

There is no third order.

As soon as the two orders were passed, Bell personally drove the Valkyrie to the pirate fleet that didn't even have a fifth-level Galen.

However, despite the disparity in strength between the two sides, even though Bell fully utilized the dominant combat power of Valkyrie and the direct fleet, the battle was not won simply.

The pirates with Brigantine as the main group and a small number of Baggage ships showed no signs of losing their hands. The whole battle lasted intermittently for four days and three nights. By the time the remaining pirates receded in panic, the fourth group had completely exhausted their energy.

Sinking and capturing 57 ships, injuring 15 ships and sinking 6 ships, Bell felt that he should be worthy of the low commission given by the Americans, so he sent a ship to inform Lingos, and took his own group to Saint Dyna for repairs.

It was May 22. Bell, who was on the way back, didn't know that the third group that went deep into Carter Island encountered a crisis of extinction.

Pavlomy cast a wide net.

He released a lot of false news, making Lieutenant General Lingos believe that the pirates are concentrating all their strength, preparing to destroy the Long Island Fleet, the only representative of the United States in this war, and fundamentally end the war before the five major groups surrounded Nassau.

Legend has it that this hunting team included the four major fleets of the Black Barons and the remnants of the Blackbeards, with a fleet size of up to 170 ships.

Lieutenant General Lingus was frightened three times a day, while secretly regretting his majestic "grand strategy", while repeatedly sending out scouts, expanding the alert range to a meaningless 80 kilometers.

The first cluster, whose hardware strength is second only to Drake's, is far behind in terms of speed.

When the second, fourth, and fifth clusters abandoned their original plans one after another,

When the third group arrived at Carter Island, Lieutenant General Lingus was able to drive past Charleston, which was 200 kilometers away from Grand Bahama Island...

As a result, it was the third group that was really surrounded by the hunting team.

In the Battle of Carter Island, Pavlomy commanded the Black Baron Regiment and the original Blackbeard Regiment with a total of 173 ships in the triangular waters between Carter Island-San Salvador Island-Long Island (the Bahamas) against the third group led by Dukov. 7. A total of 62 ships of the Eighth Squadron achieved complete encirclement.

The admiral of the Dukov Chamber of Commerce, Il V. Dukov, the fourth son of the old Dukov, was killed in two days and nights of fighting, and only 4 ships belonging to the group broke through.

After the Battle of Abaco, the Crusade Fleet faced another major defeat.

Pavlomyu used an undisputed victory to destroy the super strategy of Lieutenant General Lingos, and at the same time destroy the prestige of Lieutenant General Lingos.

Led by Old Dukov, who had suffered the pain of losing his son, the Merchant Chamber of Commerce lodged a serious protest to the Land Command on West Palm Beach.

Letters of protest flew to Admiral Davis like snowflakes, each of which wanted to hold Lieutenant General Lingos' command accountable, and each of them wanted to use Lingos' blood to comfort the souls of thousands of dead souls.

On the other hand, Lieutenant General Lingos, the first group did not encounter any enemies on the way. Instead, they received news of Bell's victory, Plundit's defeat and Dukov Jr.'s death.

He keenly sensed the biggest crisis in his military career from these battle reports.

In order to save his political life, he ordered the group to abandon the original combat plan, and under the leadership of the USS Constitution diverted to Miami Beach for repairs. At the same time, he left the team on the flagship USS America and ran back non-stop under the escort of the USS Maryland and the USS Massachusetts. New York.

He found Washington directly, and before the accusations from West Palm Beach arrived, he pushed the responsibility for the defeat to Bell, who had given up fighting without authorization.

As always, the main stage of the war easily jumped out of the war itself.

In West Palm Beach, hundreds of people gathered around the land command to petition to have Lingus shot. In New York, Lingos's political allies spoke viciously to Bell, as if Nassau would surely die if the weary army went south as planned. Easy to get.

The boring farce lasted for more than a month, until the night of July 7th, Lorraine, who had visited the planetarium, was drinking tea with Henna, Carmen and Noya who were also absent from the war, and suddenly received a message from Count Conceicao who wanted to meet requirements.

...

Lorraine slowly adjusted the milk tea in front of him, adjusted it, raised his head to look at the embarrassed Earl, lowered his head before laughing, and continued to observe the wonderful combination of milk and tea.

Lorraine has been doing this for five minutes, far more than normal stirring needs.

The Earl knew that Lorraine was taking the opportunity to laugh at his weak position. As the executive chairman of the Baishang Association, he was going to speak for the Americans just because of the so-called deputy chief of staff title...

But... Could it really make him abdicate his responsibility?

If he wasn't prepared to perform the duties of deputy chief of staff, why would he accept this modest appointment?

The count secretly clenched his fists: "Little Drake?"

"Mr. Earl, when the Baishang Association was established, do you know why we profit-seeking guys insisted on asking you to be our executive director?"

"Uh... Dukov said last time, it was because you didn't trust each other at that time."

"We really didn't trust each other back then." Lorraine was noncommittal, "But to be honest, we don't trust much now. We cooperate, we form alliances, but we never expect to entrust our wealth and lives to each other. This is The friendship of merchants."

"And you are different."

"You are a truly noble person. Before contacting you, we investigated your past and found that you have betrayed the suzerain, friends, relatives and students in your life, but you have never betrayed your own conscience."

"You are an incredible person. You live with a special stubbornness that is difficult for us and even most people to understand, but you can live better and better, and the more you live, the more you are respected and admired."

"You convinced us that people's hearts are good, and we hope that the Baishang Association can also be good, so we chose you."

Conceicao was a little dazed: "Didn't you distrust each other at that time?"

"Like I said, we don't trust now either, but that doesn't stop us from working closely together."

Lorraine pushed away the cold tea, smiled and raised Erlang's legs.

"Mr. Earl, I know your reason for coming, and I don't care that Old Dukov lost the one he liked most among the twenty or so illegitimate sons. But unfortunately, I will not recall Bell for the sake of the unity of the Crusade Fleet."

"Lingoes is a fool. But his fault is not his incompetence, but his incompetence, but he knows nothing about his own incompetence."

"He doesn't have the ability to bring victory to the United States. Obviously, he doesn't have the ability to lead the fleet now. For such a useless waste, the Americans should put him in prison even to appease public anger."

"At least on this point, you and Mr. Admiral agree." Earl Conceicao said happily, "I also hope to hear about the candidate for the admiral after Lingos is released. Mr. Admiral thinks ask for your opinion."

"The successor of Lingus..." Lorraine thought for a while, "I remember that Mr. Admiral has a purebred Labrador whose name seems to be Abraham. In fact, it is very suitable, at least compared to the current American Anyone in the Navy would be a better fit."

Conceicao opened his mouth wide: "Let a dog be the admiral of 200 warships?! Little Drake, don't be arrogant!"

"No matter which god comes out to testify, my suggestion just now is sincere."

Lorraine raised her hand as an oath.

"Mr. Earl, there are Valkyrie, America and USS Constitution in your crusade fleet, in addition to five Tier 4 ships and more than 30 Tier 5 ships."

"And what about Pavlomy? After the death of the Pirate Kings, the Pirates of the Caribbean are no longer what they used to be. Now they are rare even at the traditional level 5. The so-called combined pirate fleet, Bag and Brigantine are the main forces." .”

"This battle has been unequal from the very beginning. As long as the admiral trusts his subordinates, he can win by fighting steadily. He doesn't need tactics or orders. But the Americans have proved that their soldiers can't even do this well."

"Since humans can't do it well, why not try to let dogs do it?"

"...Why didn't you do it?" Conceicao didn't realize that he just cursed.

Fortunately, Lorraine did not misunderstand.

He just smiled generously and explained patiently: "What the Americans want is to be led by them to win the war. It is most important to be led by them. Victory is not important, at least compared to the former, it is not important at all. "