Chapter 827 26. Pandaren's Response
"These bastards!"
After seeing the semaphore of the Imperial Armada blocking the way ahead, General Valentine, the commander of the Black Ark Fleet, cursed fiercely:
"A group of bloody warmongers! How could it be so easy to arbitrarily designate this unknown sea as their territorial waters!"
Standing behind General Valentine, Chen Stormstout, a pandaren monk, was also a little angry. Of course, it wasn't because of the empire's arbitrariness. Old Chen was more worried about his niece Lili. He knew that Lili Li is on the southeast coastline of Pandaria, and it only takes another 30 minutes to get there, but now the road ahead is blocked by that fleet, and he can't go there at all.
"The bastards of the Empire have extended their hatred of the Darkblade to us, and they are persecuting us..."
There was a blood-red light in General Valentine's eyes, he turned his head and said to the herald behind him:
"Turn on the fleet communication radio, report the actions of the imperial fleet to the warships, and let the captains prepare for battle. The Black Ark is indeed not as powerful as the Armada, but this is not the reason for us to retreat! Facing the provocation of war, the federal people also Don’t be intimidated by it!”
"Flagship! Keep going! Ignore the damn warning!"
"etc!"
As soon as Old Chen grabbed Valentine's wrist, the pandaren monk asked in a deep voice:
"Does it have to go to war? Can't we talk about it? You are all human beings, and there is no deep hatred!"
"It's not a question of whether to talk or not! Mr. Chen!"
Valentine looked back at the pandaren monk, and the blood general said softly:
"You have witnessed all this. Now it's not that we don't want to talk, but that the empire doesn't give us a chance to talk. The only language that the warmongers on the opposite side can understand now is war...so we can only respond with war them."
"Think about your niece, Old Chen, she is now staying with the Great Chancellor's daughter, and there are several people with more sensitive identities by her side. The empire doesn't know this yet, but if they know... Do you think they will easily let us go to Pandaria? No! Those warmongers will do everything possible to capture them and use them as bargaining chips to blackmail us!"
General Valentine gritted his teeth and said:
"Let me tell you this, as long as any one of those children is injured by the imperials... then it is not a matter of one or two naval battles, do you understand? Our current war stance is actually to maintain the world Peace that comes not easy...While this may sound like crazy talk, trust me, I'm not lying."
Old Chen was silent. He is a traveler who roams the world. During his journey, he has also seen real wars, and he has also seen those high-ranking people lose their minds for various reasons. Frankly speaking, facing the present In this dire situation, a simple-minded monk like Old Chen didn't know what to do, but Valentine didn't force Old Chen to join the battle. Instead, he gave Old Chen another mission.
"We'll hold the attention of the Armada."
General Valentine looked vigilantly at the Armada in front of him slowly setting up the battle camp. He lowered his voice and said to Old Chen:
"While we are holding them back, I want you to go to the coast of Pandaria as quickly as possible to find your niece and other children. I don't need you to escort them back to the Federation. You only need to escort the "Scarlet Rose" Merchant ships leave the remaining mists of Pandaria, or protect them until the mists on the sea clear."
General Valentine looked around, then lowered his voice again:
"If nothing can be done...then leave that ship alone and just protect the children! This matter is related to the future of the Federation, can I trust you?"
There was a trace of worry in Lao Chen's eyes. He didn't mind taking risks, but this fleet seemed to be inferior to the armada opposite in terms of quantity and quality...
"Don't worry about us, Mr. Chen."
Valentine seemed to have seen Lao Chen's hesitation, a smile appeared on his indifferent face, and he said softly:
"All the soldiers of the Federation are not afraid of death...Because of death, stand on our side, that is just the beginning of a new journey, go, I will send the best soldiers to go with you, please protect the children! please!"
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"It's fighting! It's fighting!"
Yuna, the little ghost riding behind Arceus, screamed and rushed out of the world of death. There was no fear on the face of this little ghost, but it was full of a mood of watching the excitement. This guy is probably currently trapped in Pandali Of all the people on the sub-coast, the least worried about the future.
The fading mist on the sea outside the mainland blocked the gate of the elemental opening. Dornan's astral teleportation could not send everyone on the Blood Rose back to the Federation, but the dissipating mist could not stop it. The opening of the passage to the world of the dead, the previous letter of appeal for help was sent back to the federation by Yuna, and the little ghost also went to find the great lord and his wife along the way.
The blood mistress really wanted to rush over to protect her children immediately, but was dissuaded by the great lord, because there are some secrets buried in the continent of Pandaria, and it is not without its own guardians, such as Alleria Undead spirits of this rank, or undead spirits like the great lords rushing into that dusty continent can easily cause a series of problems.
After all, judging from the documents they have collected about Pandaria so far, there are indeed some powers beyond the ordinary on this continent.
Coupled with Vanessa's reasons, after the Grand Lord met with Speaker Van Cleef, he decided to let the federal military play its role first, and take a look at the capabilities of the federation's own army, and "rescue" the dark blade's surprise attack. As a last resort, Yuna's call for help was fruitless. Under Alleria's order, two teams of blood maids were added to the children's "guard team".
"Who's fighting with whom?"
Rolling up his trousers, standing on the reef on the coast, Anduin, who was imitating those sailors sticking fish with sticks, raised his head and looked at Yuna curiously. The latter pointed to the fog on the sea in the distance, and said to the others:
"The Federation's fleet and the Empire's fleet are fighting in the open sea. Those in the Empire will not allow the Federation's fleet to enter the coastline. Anyway, the fight is very lively!"
"This is bad."
Vanessa stood up worried, and she said to the children around her:
"The Black Ark Fleet is just a new fleet that has been formed for less than five years. It is definitely not the opponent of the Empire's Armada."
"But the fog has not completely dissipated, and astral teleportation still cannot be used..."
Dornan gritted his teeth, and looked at the pale mist on the open sea with dissatisfaction. If the astral teleportation could be used, they would have returned to the Federation territory long ago, and the Black Ark Fleet would not need to come To save them, there is absolutely no need to fight this battle with the Imperial Fleet.
"Don't blame yourself, ladies."
Seeing the tense and sad expressions on the faces of several children, Cordana, the eighth-level agent of the Dark Blade Intelligence Agency, the blood maid who accompanied Dornan, comforted in a low voice:
"The cause of this naval battle has nothing to do with you guys. Even if you are not here, the federal officials cannot allow the imperial fleet to occupy the coastline of this continent, which means that this continent will become the empire's future attack on the Eastern Continent. Therefore, as long as the top leaders of the Federation do not lose their minds, it is inevitable to send a fleet to bring this sea area into their sphere of influence in advance."
"So even without you, these two fleets will still fight in another place and at another time. There is no way to avoid it."
"Ms. Cordana is right at all!"
Taelia, who had been silent all this time, put her arms around the shoulders of Dornan and Vanessa. The resolute warrior girl said in a deep voice:
"What we can do now is to find a way to leave the coastline and return to the federal territory as soon as possible. Once the Imperial Fleet knows that we are here, they may immediately send other forces to carry out the landing battle. Vanessa and Dornan's Their identities determine that they will inevitably become the focus of the imperial fleet's attention, we must leave this coastline immediately... This place is too close to the naval battlefield!"
"Shh! There's a sound!"
Cordana made a gesture suddenly, and the moment she took out her weapon, the remaining blood maids jumped into the shadows one after another. The senior agent glanced back at the merchant ship Blood Rose that was stranded on the coastline. The ship crashed into the beach and ran aground in the dark, and Captain Anthony Iron Horn led the crew to survey the nearby terrain ten minutes ago.
"Warning! Something is coming!"
Strange screams came to Cordana's ears, and in her keen perception, another large group of running creatures were passing through the woods by the beach, and they seemed to be heading in the direction of this merchant ship s position.
Under Cordana's order, several children subconsciously drew out their weapons and put on a fighting stance. Even the little panda Lili grabbed a piece of bamboo that had just been broken and posed like a monk fighting. They all saw the wildly shaking woods not far away, as if thousands of troops were about to rush out of the woods.
The atmosphere froze to the extreme for a while, until a few seconds later, the first intruder came into everyone's eyes, and Anduin, who was holding the long sword and shield, widened his eyes, and he couldn't help but yelled. One sound:
"It's a monkey!"
Yes, it was a weird monkey with a gray mane all over its body, but it was more than twice as big as the monkeys in the Eastern Continent. Throwing guns, it seems that the crew members who followed Captain Anthony to the woods to investigate just now are probably in danger.
"No! It's not a monkey, it's a hozen!"
When the little panda Lili saw the weird monkey, she let out a desperate scream:
"Don't fight with them, they can think, hozen live in groups, run!"
The moment Lili finished speaking, a humanized evil smile flashed across the grinning and chattering big monkey's face, and behind him, a dense crowd of hozens holding weapons quickly appeared at the edge of the forest , and the number is still increasing crazily.
"Children back up! Sailors up!"
When Cordana saw the number of these hozens, she narrowed her eyes and shouted to the children around her and the sailors who were holding their weapons tightly:
"It looks like there are almost 200 monkeys! They are nothing worth mentioning! Ready to fight..."
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Accompanied by the sudden dispersal of the fog, in less than 2 days, the turbulence on the coastline of Pandaria has already alarmed the natives living on this continent.
The group of hozens chasing the children was just one of the many creatures on this land. While the children were fighting the hozens, in the elders' room of the Tianchanyuan, the largest military institution in the Emerald Forest, a few of them were very different from Old Chen. Similar, chubby, pandaren elders in all kinds of clothes are discussing urgent matters here.
Apparently, this group of chubby pandas also sensed that the storm was coming.
"Two more outsider fleets have appeared on the sea near the Emerald Forest. They are confronting each other. These outsiders are obviously very unfriendly."
Elder Yunpu of Tianchanyuan held a cup of fragrant tea and said in a deep voice while sipping the tea:
"We don't know why the fog dissipated, but now it seems that there are more important things waiting for us to do than thinking about it. Some scattered outsiders and pirates from the night after the fog dissipated They kept harassing our village near the sea, and although they were all driven away by the Xianglong knights of Qinglong Temple, it is foreseeable that they will not stop there."
"Don't worry, Elder Yunpu."
A female pandaren in leather armor snapped:
"All the monks in Qinglong Temple have already been dispatched. From Shuiyue Manor to Baimu Garden, from Podong Village to Mifeng Orchard, there are our patrols everywhere. It is impossible for those malicious outsiders to disturb the Jade Forest. Order! Of course, what I want to suggest to you is that the monks of Tianchanyuan seem to be dispatched too, the defenses of Shanglila Village and Linfeng Island have always been very loose!"
"Well, I'll think about it."
Elder Yunpu put down the teacup in his hand, he said helplessly:
"The high-ranking monks of Tianchanyuan went on a tour two months ago. Now I only have a group of recruits here. Do you want me to send the recruits out to resist those greedy foreigners? Those pirates are very vicious. Let them go because they are newbies, actually, I am thinking about another thing now..."
"boom"
As soon as the elder's words fell, a loud noise resounded in the sky outside the Tianchanyuan. The elders were startled and ran outside, only to see a shot down reconnaissance airship surrounded by flames thousands of meters away. , with black smoke staggering towards the coastline not far from Tianchanyuan.
On the farther sea, perhaps due to fierce naval battles, the pale mist is dissipating at a faster speed, and as the mist dissipates, it can be seen that two huge fleets are approaching from the Jade Forest. Not far away from the sea, shells were pouring madly towards the opponent, and in the splashing water, the brutal gunpowder smoke was like the fog before, even covering the entire sea surface.
The kind of offensive that would set the sea on fire made several elders pale. When had Pandaria, which had been at peace for ten thousand years, seen such a barbaric and crazy war?
"boom"
There was another loud bang, and the airship that fell on the edge of the coastline exploded, and the flames shot up into the sky for a while, and then black smoke rushed into the peaceful sky of the Emerald Forest.
"boom"
Elder Yunpu slammed his fist on the railing in front of him. The old monk became extremely angry. He turned his head and shouted to the disciple standing behind him:
"Go to the Shado-Pan Monastery immediately!"
"Please come here with the masters of the Shado-Pan faction and Master Zhu... These brutal outsiders are making too much noise!"