Chapter 312: Settling in Shadow Island

In order to take control of Shadow Island, the strength of the Anchor Pirates must be strengthened. In a short period of time, Yorick's ability alone is not enough to develop the Anchor Pirates to the strength of the three major pirate groups in Shadow Island. If you want to control Shadow Island, the Night Elves have to contribute.

Among the Night Elves, only the archer troops and air units such as the Hippogryph Knights and Raptor Druids can play a relatively large role in naval battles. Therefore, in the sub-base established on Anchor Island, only these types of troops are trained in large quantities.

Because of the sufficient energy, in just a few days, the five ships under the command of the forged deputy commander "Ganck" by Yu Fei were equipped with enough night elves. However, the buildings for training troops such as the War Ancient Tree on Anchor Island are still training troops continuously.

In this way, problems arise. The Anchor Pirates have limited ships. Even if the original pirates are concentrated on the remaining seven ships, there are only five ships left to carry the night elves. The current situation is that there are too many crew members but not enough ships - the opposite of ordinary pirate groups.

Ahem, the so-called way of heaven is to take away the surplus and make up for the deficiency. Since other pirate groups have too many ships but not enough people, then they can complement each other. After learning from Yorick that ordinary pirate groups are like the original Anchor Pirates, they are all saturated with ships and insufficient personnel, Yu Fei made the decision to rob the pirates.

The sea area where the Anchor Pirates are rampant is relatively remote and close to the Far North Sea. It is precisely because of this that the Anchor Pirates, a not-so-big pirate group, can run rampant in this sea area. And outside this area near the Far North Sea, there will be many more merchant ships coming and going, and naturally there will be more pirates.

Yorick is a local snake, so he naturally knows the nest of nearby pirate groups. With the support of the night elves, Yorick, who is full of confidence, directly led the twelve ships of the Anchor Pirates to pounce on the camp of a pirate group.

This pirate group that Yorick set as the first target was even weaker than the original Anchor Pirates, with only ten pirate ships. Previously, the Anchor Pirates were beaten to a pulp by only thirty or forty night elf air units. Now with five ships of night elves, this small pirate group naturally had no power to resist.

About half a magic hour later, twenty pirate ships of different sizes sailed out of the camp of this pirate group. Two ships of this pirate group were destroyed by the powerful attack of the night elves in the battle, and at the same time, as the "chicken" to kill the chicken to scare the monkey, the Anchor Pirates got the remaining eight ships intact.

In addition to contributing eight ships, Yorick also absorbed some pirates from this small pirate group that was destroyed by the Anchor Pirates. After these pirates were disrupted and integrated, the pirates under Yorick just occupied the position of ten ships. In other words, there are five empty ships for the night elves to control.

The next few days were almost a replica of the treatment of the small pirate group. Four pirate groups were swallowed up or destroyed by Yorick. Although there were some larger pirate groups than the Anchor Pirates among these four pirate groups, the Anchor Pirates swallowed these four pirate groups almost without any damage under the help of the night elves.

The Anchor Pirates now have a total of 72 ships. Twenty-five of them are controlled by human pirates, and the original old crew members of the Anchor Pirates have been dispersed to these 25 ships as managers of various sizes.

As for the remaining 47 ships, they were all assigned to Yu Fei by Yorick. In a few days, the pirates in the Anchor Pirates also noticed something wrong. After all, no leader would let the deputy leader have more power than himself.

However, after seeing that the ships led by Deputy Captain Gangplank were always the key to the Anchor Pirates' victory over the enemy, the pirates gradually came to an understanding. In response to the occasional respect and actions that Captain Yorick showed to Vice Captain Gangplank, the pirates, who were all smart, understood.

In the current Anchor Pirates, the real boss is probably this Vice Captain Gangplank. But the pirates don't understand why Vice Captain Gangplank controls such a huge force, and still let Yorick be the leader of the pirate group?

Pirates are respected by the strong, just like the five pirate groups conquered by the Anchor Pirates. Most of the pirates chose to surrender to the Anchor Pirates that defeated them or destroyed them. This shows that the pirates are more willing to work under the strong.

Yu Fei himself also considered letting Gangplank be the leader of the Anchor Pirates. But when he thought that this Elf King clone would definitely not be able to stay in the ocean for a long time, Yu Fei finally gave up the idea of ​​being the emperor of the land and then the emperor of the sea.

If Yu Fei's plan and the actions of the Night Elves were exposed, the pressure faced by the Anchor Pirates would be much greater. Apart from other things, among the three major pirate groups in Shadow Island, only Thresh's Prison Pirates would have no opinion on aliens.

The speed of acquiring ships was very fast, and Yu Fei gritted his teeth and built many more war ancient trees and other military training buildings, and the training speed of night elves was not slow. After another day of rest and equipping the idle ships with enough elves, the Anchor Pirates marched towards the location of Shadow Island under Yu Fei's command.

More than 70 ships, this is already considered a large pirate group, and naturally qualified to go to Shadow Island.

In addition to being the name of the pirate alliance organization in the northern and eastern waters of Eslaze, Shadow Island is also the name of an island. This island is considered a landmark of the Shadow Island organization, and every recognized pirate group has a base on Shadow Island.

Now, after a short and rapid expansion of strength, the Anchor Pirates also have the qualifications to enter Shadow Island.

In the regulations of the Shadow Island organization, mutual annexation between pirate groups is allowed, but large-scale massacres of hostile pirates are not allowed, because this will deplete the vitality of the pirate camp. When a pirate group has fifty pirate ships and more than two thousand pirates through development or annexation, it is eligible to set up a base on Shadow Island and join the Shadow Island Council.

The current Anchor Pirates naturally meet this standard. After entering the waters near Shadow Island, Yorick anchored most of the ships on the outer archipelago according to the rules of Shadow Island, and only brought three ships into the port of the main island of Shadow Island.

Yu Fei finally decided to push Yorick to the front. Gangplank's identity is only for temporary use. If he doesn't show up often after joining the Shadow Island Council, something will definitely happen. Anyway, Yorick is completely under his control, so let him be the representative of the Night Elves in Shadow Island, although other pirates don't know Yorick's identity as a representative.

The Shadow Island Organization has existed for decades, and various mechanisms have gradually improved. The scale of the Anchor Pirates has reached the standard for joining the Shadow Island Council, so there are no unexpected situations, and it has successfully become one of the core pirate groups of the Shadow Island Organization.

Regarding the establishment of a base on Shadow Island and visiting other pirate groups stationed on Shadow Island, Yu Fei let Yorick handle all the trivial matters. The pirates left on Shadow Island are also human pirates, and Yu Fei did not leave the Night Elves stationed.

What he values ​​is not to settle in Shadow Island, but to become the "master" of Shadow Island. However, it is not a simple thing to become the master of Shadow Island. In addition to being strong enough, you have to go through a certain procedure.

This procedure is the Pirate King selection event held every ten years. This event is open to all pirate groups in the northern and eastern waters of Eslaze. After a series of evaluations and competitions, a new Pirate King will be born. This Pirate King will become the Speaker of the Shadow Island Council.

For example, the War Pirates, Widow Pirates and Warden Pirates were the winners of the Pirate King selection events thirty years ago, twenty years ago and ten years ago respectively. Their leaders are now the first, second and third speakers of the Shadow Island Council, respectively, and control most of the power of the Shadow Island organization.

It should be stated here that pirates who have previously won the title of Pirate King are naturally not allowed to participate in the new Pirate King selection event. Otherwise, there will be no day for the new pirate group to come to the fore. Yu Fei's short-term goal for the Anchor Pirates is to win the title of Pirate King in this round of the Pirate King selection event.

The criteria for the Pirate King selection are relatively complicated. Although the final candidate will be determined in an uncertain competitive manner, the previous performance of the pirate groups participating in the event will also be included in the selection criteria. The "achievements" of pirates are naturally the results of robbery.

The latest issue, that is, the fourth issue of the Pirate King selection event, is only two months away. In these two months, Yu Fei plans to rely on the night elves on dozens of pirate ships to make the Anchor Pirates famous. There are many pirate groups with more than 50 pirate ships. The Anchor Pirates are only new in the Shadow Island Council and must do something shocking.

Robbing merchant ships is the main business of pirates, and they naturally cannot let it go. After absorbing members of several conquered pirate groups, the strength of the human pirates in the Anchor Pirates has also greatly increased. This part of the pirates alone is enough to rob some sea caravans that they dared not touch before.

But to do something that the entire Shadow Island organization recognizes and even respects, it is far from enough to just rob merchant ships. After sending Yorick to lead the human pirates in the pirate group to rob merchant ships to increase their merits, Yu Fei began to think about what he should do to make the Anchor Pirates famous and have a greater say in the Shadow Island organization.