Chapter 108: Wrongfully Accused

"That's really troublesome." I hesitated.

"What's wrong?" Zhenhong didn't know why I was worried.

"I plan to build a railway, but according to what you said, I'm afraid that railway bandits will appear when the time comes. What should I do? It's okay to arrange some people to protect the train, but I can't arrange people to protect the rails!"

"Are you planning to build the railway?" Zhenhong's expression of surprise was exaggerated. "We have what we need" boom. "oops!"

The battleship suddenly shook violently, and both Zhenhong and I fell from our seats. Boom, there was another loud noise, and the ship shook violently. Even a fool knew that we had been shot. As soon as I got up, I heard three consecutive roars. Our battleship seemed to have started to fight back. Outside the window, one of our standard-class battleships was firing back with heavy artillery. The rising water splashes on the sea showed that the enemy's artillery fire was not very accurate.

I quickly picked up the crystal communicator on the battleship. "Small battleships retreat, don't bring guests on board yet. All fast cruiser-level battleships and above lift anchor and enter battle order. The watchtower reports the enemy's situation."

The sailor in the watchtower reported on the intercom: "A large fleet was found in the northwest, a distance of 3,800, with three battleships, eight cruisers, and more than 300 small battleships. Several ship shadows were found underwater."

Fortunately, there are not many enemies. Picked up the crystal communicator again: "I am President Ziri, the entire fleet is attentive, concentrate your firepower to knock out the opponent's command ship, and attack whoever dares to fly the command flag."

"clear."

boom. The ship's main gun fired back first, and a row of shells accurately hit the largest battleship in the opponent's fleet. This guy has a command flag on his head just to be beaten. The remaining warships in our fleet opened fire one after another, and all the shells were concentrated on the head of that warship. No matter how powerful the battleship is, it can't withstand a fleet fighting together. What's more, the opponent's battleship can only be regarded as a medium-sized battleship, and the Shenwei Shenwu cannon on our battleship is famous for its super-heavy cannon. The battleship was blown to pieces without even a chance to sink.

The opponent was obviously blinded by our firepower. Not every fleet has the combat capability to destroy a ship in one round of shelling. In fact, I am more depressed than the place. This time the fleet is here to deliver goods, and it is accompanied by some medium-sized warships. The biggest ones are the battleship Alpine that I'm sitting on and the battleship next to it. If there are Eternal-class super battleships or Biling-class super battleships, these small boats are guaranteed to be one-gun.

The Seratis people on the coast were all frightened. They thought that the Temple of Light was attacking them again. They were so frightened that they wanted to run into the forest. Thanks to the dissuasion of the Tyrannosaurus Knight, they didn't really run away. After watching on the shore for a while, the Seratis themselves calmed down. Although the battle on the sea was fierce, they could see that our warships had overwhelming advantages in weapons and protection. The battle has been going on for so long. Our warships were hit a lot by bullets, but none of them suffered serious damage. The opponent's warships didn't take many hits, but the warships that managed to hit them every time lost their combat effectiveness.

I felt that I couldn't see clearly enough in the bridge, so I simply stood on the guardrail outside to direct the battle. Suddenly I discovered some huge black figures under the water approaching us. "Every ship should pay attention to the water."

My reminder immediately drew everyone's attention to the underwater situation. A medium-sized warship behind us broke out of the formation and rushed towards the black figures. Before the medium-sized battleship reached the black shadow, it turned and pointed its side at the black shadow. A row of white smoke rose from the side of the battleship, and a pile of gasoline barrel-like objects were thrown into the sea.

Boom. The entire sea surface was lifted up, and the huge water column flew more than thirty meters before starting to fall. Some fragments of wood and some lighter objects floated out from under the water. Little Japan's submarines are quite powerful, so the rising tide has indirectly led to the improvement of our guild's anti-submarine technology. This depth charge is very powerful. Not to mention wooden submarines, even the iron shells can't be expected to survive intact.

The naval battle ended in less than twenty minutes. From the beginning to the end, we had no idea who the other party was, and the reason for attacking us was even more inexplicable. This fleet did not fly a national flag, and we did not recognize the guild flag. So I don't know who he is. There are a lot of warships here, but their combat power is not strong. Compared with us, they are completely amateur level.

When I returned to the bridge, Zhenhong was asking about the damage. "What about our losses?"

Zhenhong looked at me and replied: "Not many warships were hit. The enemy came along the coastline. When we came out from behind the cliff, neither of us seemed to be well prepared. The accuracy of their shells was not very good, and most of them flew away." The nearest frigate Gale had two large holes in its side string at that time, but they have been blocked. The other warships that were hit had thicker armor, and the enemy's missiles were not armor-piercing, so there was basically no response. However, the torpedo of the Shrimp Two players were caught on the speedboat and reported to have been injured by shrapnel."

"Where are the enemies?"

"All the large warships were sunk, and ten small warships were lost. Most of them were scrapped."

"Have you captured any prisoners? Players are not allowed, but the NPC sailors should be able to get some information."

"This...!" Zhenhong looked a little embarrassed.

"What's wrong? Is there a problem?"

Zhenhong pointed to the sea: "The enemy's ship is not an ironclad ship at all."

"Ah?" I heard Zhenhong's words and noticed that there seemed to be a lot of wood fragments on the sea surface after the opponent's warship exploded. At first, I thought they were the cargo inside the opponent's ship!

"The enemy's warships are quite backward. They seem to be warships with a mixture of machine and sail. And except for those battleships, the other ships are all made of wood. The outer metal layer is covered with iron sheet, and the thickness is not as good as the armor on your body. . Our high-explosive artillery shells are specially designed to deal with forged steel plates and coastal bunkers. This kind of rotten wood will be blown away with one shot, so there will be no survivors."

"So it seems that the other party is not targeting us!"

"I'm not sure about this. But the other party obviously discovered us suddenly without any preparation. Otherwise they wouldn't have missed continuously as soon as they came up. Mainly because the peninsula next to us stretched out too long, and the warships came around from there. Not visible at all."

"It's really a ghost." I looked at the rotten wood floating on the sea and thought these people were really strange. Why did it appear so suddenly? It looks like they are transporting things along the coast, but they shouldn't fire upon seeing us!

I really can’t figure out why the other party started fighting when they saw us. Normally, this kind of thing shouldn’t happen. I had no choice but to forget it. If you can't figure it out, don't waste your energy. The fleet quickly transported all the people of the Seratis tribe onto the ship, then lifted anchor and left the coast and drove back towards China. This time the fleet is here to deliver goods, and now there are several free cargo ships just used to transport the people of the Seratis tribe.

After we were far away from the coast, Head of State Seratis and his son Huang Shi suddenly arrived on our flagship in a small boat. Ling and the others, who I had originally arranged to accompany them, also came with them. When Head of State Seratis saw me again, he was much more respectful than when he first boarded the ship. He very carefully explained the purpose of his visit to me. "President Ziri, I actually came here to ask about the fleet just now..."

"That fleet you mean? Don't worry about that. It's not the fleet of the Temple of Light. In fact, the naval power of the Temple of Light is not strong. Their main forces are concentrated on land, and they can't control the sea."

Seratis asked cautiously: "Then why did they attack our fleet?"

Ling also followed: "Yes, Master. What is the origin of that fleet? Why did it suddenly attack our fleet?"

Zhenhong said from the side: "The fleet fired immediately after seeing us. There was no inquiry at all. Generally speaking, unless it is a targeted attack on a specific fleet, this situation usually does not happen. But we really can't do it. It’s clear why they want to attack us. What’s even stranger is that the other side’s warships seem to have encountered us by chance. That fleet simply doesn’t have the power to fight us, and ambushes and patrols are unlikely.”

I didn't even plan to think about it anymore, but now that they asked me, I had to continue thinking about it. "Actually, I also find it strange. The opponent's reaction is like a small animal encountering a ferocious beast. It is said that they are attacking us, but it is more like self-defense."

"Self-defense?" Huang Shi asked curiously: "Have you often attacked them before?"

"No." Zhenhong answered directly.

"Then why are they defending themselves?"

I shook my head: "If I knew, I wouldn't worry. I just feel weird if I don't know. Ordinarily, there is no need for the other side to treat us like this. Most fleets will not attack unknown fleets. At least they will not open fire first. If this fleet It would be weird to attack us without knowing us.”

Head Seratis suddenly came up with a quite reasonable explanation. "Is it possible that the other party mistook us for someone else?"

Hongyue denied: "That is impossible. We fly the Chinese flag and our own guild flag. The fleets rely on the flag to identify each other. The other party will definitely pay attention to our flag. They will not mistake us for someone else." From the ground fleet. Unless...?"

Hongyue and I thought of a possibility at the same time. "Unless someone pretended to be our fleet and attacked them, and this imposter..." When it came to the imposter, everyone understood, and even Ling and the others shouted together: "Japanese?"

Ariana said: "The Japanese fleet used to pretend to be Chinese warships when we were in China's territorial waters. Later, when I was responsible for coordinating the reconstruction of Atlantis, Japanese camouflage ships often appeared near China's territorial waters. I heard that Japan People have a special dock for camouflaging ships, and they specialize in imitating our country’s ships.”

Zhenhong continued: "So the Japanese must have used camouflage ships to impersonate Chinese warships, and then attacked other countries' warships to cause trouble for us."

I said to Zhen Hong angrily: "Send a message to Essinger and ask them to use the Haotian Mirror and the Tower of Babel core to search the sea areas near us and be sure to find this camouflaged fleet. Let them do whatever they want to do to our country and us." The association's reputation will be greatly affected. By the way, let them send the main fleet over, I need to encircle and suppress this fleet."

Zhenhong did not rush to connect to the crystal communication machine but said to me: "The Tower of Babel has been repaired. How about letting it guide us directly?"

"Can."

After getting my confirmation, Zhenhong immediately started to activate the communication machine. Head of state Seratis next to her looked at our communication machine with some excitement. "President Ziri. Is this something from our guild?" President Seratis's performance has become more and more integrated into our guild. He has now begun to call it "our guild".

I patted the crystal communication machine and said: "This is not our direct research area, but the technology is in our hands. You can see the drawings when you arrive at Essinger. This thing is not considered high-end equipment in Essinger. When you After seeing Sky Essinger, you will know what cutting-edge technology is.”

"Isengard in the sky?" Head of State Seratis asked with gleaming eyes: "Have you always said that the main city of the earth guild is a city in the sky that can fly?"

Ling proudly said: "Isinger is divided into aerial Isinger and ground Isinger. The aerial Isinger is a flying aerial fortress, and the ground Isinger is still under construction for the time being."

Zhenhong suddenly interjected: "Isengard on the ground has been completed. The construction team of the Dark Temple arrived after you left, because the magic construction team of the Dark Temple is very powerful. The project speed is surprisingly fast. It was completed in a few days. .”

"What did you say? Magic Construction Team?" I keenly caught the question in Zhenhong's words.

Zhenhong smiled and said: "I knew you were interested. The construction workers sent by the Dark Temple this time are not just coolies, they are some very powerful mages. Their levitation and fusion skills are very good. It's powerful. Building a house is like stacking blocks. Thousands of tons of boulders were directly dragged up by their magic power and then fused with the rocks next to them using fusion spells. Finally, they used a strengthening brand to seal the interface and it was completed. That construction speed is faster than ours. Labor is more than a hundred times faster.”

"Has the construction team left?"

"Leave early." Zhenhong said with a smile: "Al Ni said you were a bottomless pit and didn't dare to let you see this team. She sent several of her personal guards over to watch the construction team. As soon as the work was completed, It’s like running away and disappearing.”

We were not the only ones on the bridge. The player who was operating the equipment next to us couldn't help but laugh. "The president is famous for his turf. Others don't dare to let the president see the good things they have."

When this little girl said this, the other players laughed even more exaggeratedly. Damn, I’m not scraping the ground just for your fun! If I don't shave. Can our guild have such good benefits?

Zhenhong smiled and suddenly regained her calm expression, said something to the crystal communicator and nodded. "President. The enemy has been found."

The Tower of Babel is a satellite system. Although it is a bit difficult to find people, it is not difficult to find a fleet on the sea. The entire sea surface is blue, and the fleet is a black dot on it, which is very easy to find. We are talking about the induced rays emitted by the Tower of Babel appearing at the bow of the ship. All battleships in our guild have a graduated ring on the bow deck. The function of this ring is the positioning plate during guidance. Whichever scale the red beam shines on will indicate which direction the target is on the battleship. Just turn the rudder against the scale.

The target we were looking for turned out to be right in front of us. A Di Na looked at the dial and said, "Are they driving towards us?"

Zhenhong shook his head: "Isengard said that the fleet seems to be heading back."

"Does that mean we're on our way?"

"Absolutely." Zhenhong nodded: "The Japanese fleet seems to have just attacked an American fleet. Now there are too many things and they are planning to return to unload."

"They even dare to attack American warships?" Ling was a little surprised.

Xiaochun said: "They are flying the Chinese flag anyway, and the Americans can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese elephants. When they see the flag, they think it is the Chinese fleet. They don't want to be responsible. They just run away after fighting. If you can get trophies, you can also provoke conflicts between China and the United States, so you can achieve multiple things with one stone."

Zhenhong smiled and said: "Xiao Chun is becoming more and more like a real person now. If I hadn't known that you were Zi Ri's magic pet, I might have regarded you as a player. You just called me American, Laomei, who taught you that? ?”

faint! After having their real bodies, they were exposed to too much knowledge that was not available in the game, and Xiaochun and the others began to behave less and less like familiars. There is really no way to get rid of this side effect!

Seeing that Xiao Chun couldn't explain it, I quickly said: "It's not just you, Lao Mei and Xiao Japan, who have been barking all day long. They have all learned to do it, and now they have all begun to follow it. But when it comes to what Xiao Chun said just now, It makes sense. Little Japan can not only reap benefits by doing this, but also draw us and the Americans into a trap. We can't take advantage of Little Japan." As I said this, I walked to the communicator and connected to Qidian City.

"President?" The face of Shura Ziyi appeared in the crystal mirror. She was obviously surprised to see me. "Didn't you go to South America? Why are you on a battleship?"

"Didn't I tell you to leave here? Don't you know?"

Shura Ziyi shook his head: "I don't know about this. What's the matter with you?"

"Immediately find a few people with a crystal communication machine and go to the Neptune Palace to find Long Lan (the game name of the Eagle Group's Prince Terry). I urgently need to talk to Long Lan now. Don't save money, use the teleportation array to get there."

"I know. I'll do it right away. Is there anything else?"

"No more. Just hurry up."

Shura Ziyi's character is vigorous and resolute. Less than ten minutes after the mission was handed over, the communication on the battleship came on. I quickly sat in front of the communication machine. When Terry saw me, he immediately said excitedly: "Is Shenlin really you? Damn it. Your guild has such a high-power communication radio and you didn't tell me. How stingy!"

I smiled awkwardly: "Hey, actually I have something important to ask you for help this time."

Terry laughed: "Let's talk about it first." Although Terry looked like a big man from Shandong. But after all, he is the crown prince of the Eagle Group, an authentic American, and a businessman among businessmen. He is not capable of such mindless behavior as promising others help.

"Actually, the matter is very simple, but the relationship is very important." I thought for a moment and then said: "Have you often heard about the Chinese fleet attacking your American ships recently?"

"Did you really do this?" Terry jumped up from his seat in the picture. "Shenlin, what do you mean by this? I haven't offended you, have I? Last time I sank my battleship, not counting the fact that I also robbed three ships of my cargo. What do you mean?"

"Calm down, calm down. If I did it. Can I talk to you?"

Although Terry is easily excited, he is not brainless. If you think about it carefully, you will understand what is going on. "Is it your hostile guild? Needless to say, you asked me to help deal with them this time. So we should get rid of them quickly, otherwise they will destroy the last bit of goodwill Americans have towards you Chinese. Gone."

"It's true that I'm asking you for help, but I'm not asking for help from the Chinese guild."

"If I don't fight against the Chinese guild, why should I fight against the American guild? Are you stupid?"

"Do you know about camouflage ships?" I just asked a small question to remind Terry.

Terry is really smart. It dawned on me right away. "Isn't that fleet a Chinese ship? Is it a fleet of another country flying your flag? You don't really want me to guess right, do you?"

"It's indeed accurate." I nodded: "The other party is a Japanese warship. In the past, they often pretended to be Chinese warships in Chinese waters. When our country's warships got closer, it was too late to find out that they were not Chinese ships. Many ships have been tricked by them like this. It sank. This time they are just repeating their old tricks. On the one hand, they robbed your ship, and on the other hand, they provoked a hostile melee between China and the United States so that they could take advantage."

". # ......8" Terry started to curse when he got excited, and the translation system automatically stopped for a while, and then started to translate when he started to speak the truth. "What do you think we are going to do? Last time they got three shipments of goods from me and we can't give them any advantage."

"Tell me first, have many guilds in your area been attacked?"

Terry nodded and said: "Almost all the guilds with ships have not run away. They specialize in gathering large groups of warships to attack small transport convoys. Every time they sink all the warships in one go and then drag the cargo ship away. These Japanese Luozi are like flies. Earth, it annoys you to death from time to time. We send the fleet to find them, but they run away. As soon as we leave, they come back."

I nodded: "Actually, this time I mainly want you to come forward and help me be the host."

"What are you hosting?"

"I need you to help me summon all the guilds that were attacked. Don't tell them that it was Japanese warships that attacked them. Just pretend that you don't know about it and just say that it was the Chinese who did it."

Terry was confused by me. "What? Are you sure you're right? Aren't you just putting the shit basin on your head?"

"I'm not mentally ill, so why should I harm myself?"

"Then why do you want me to say that you Chinese did it? Wouldn't it be better to tell them that the Japanese did it?"

"Of course it's not good." I explained: "If you tell them that the Chinese did it, those guilds will immediately side with you, and then it will be whatever you say. If you tell them that the Japanese did it, there must be some The guilds will not believe what you say. Then those guilds will definitely quarrel with you. How troublesome would that be?"

"But we can't admit that you did it just because of this!" Terry was very considerate of us.

"Listen to me first. You go and tell them that the Chinese fleet is too abominable, and then the guilds that have lost the warships will become furious. At this time, you can use their anger to lead them out to destroy them. Enemy. I now know the location of this Japanese camouflage fleet. You can immediately bring those guild warships to form a joint fleet to encircle and suppress them. I will be responsible for holding them back."

"Is this okay?"

"Of course it's not that simple. When you bring them here, they will definitely ask you how you know the location of this Chinese fleet. At this time, you have to perform a scene again. Just tell them that China's first guild, the Frost Rose Alliance Knowing the news that this guild attacked American friends, I decided to come forward on behalf of China to clean up the door. In this way, although those guilds think that the Chinese fleet attacked them, they will only hate that fleet and not the Chinese. After you arrive, we will be together Surround and destroy those battleships, and then we can easily prove that they are a Japanese camouflage fleet."

Terry suddenly slapped the table and laughed: "Haha, I know. After the encirclement and suppression is over, they will not hate you Chinese after they find out that it is the Japanese fleet. Instead, they will transfer their anger to the Japanese because they find out how cunning the Japanese are. This anger will be even greater than before. Shen Lin, you are really insidious! Is your method the content of that Chinese book Sun Tzu's Art of War? You Chinese seem to be particularly good at doing these things, and we Americans are not as good at this. You guys."