Chapter 313 Earls Harbor
If you want to gain the recognition of the pirates, it obviously takes a long time to accumulate by just relying on ordinary activities such as robbery. However, the Pirate King selection event is just around the corner, and the Anchor Pirates have just joined the Shadow Island Council and have no more time to accumulate their own reputation.
In this case, extraordinary things must be done. Thinking, Yu Fei found a map of the northern waters of Eslaze and began to observe it carefully. After various considerations, he finally decided what to do to make the Anchor Pirates famous.
Summoning Yorick, who was robbing merchant ships everywhere to accumulate reputation among pirates, Yu Fei told him his plan. Yorick, who learned of the plan, was stunned when he heard Yu Fei's plan. However, Yu Fei was his master at this time, and the power of the Anchor Pirates became very powerful with the addition of the Night Elves, so Yorick expressed his approval of Yu Fei's plan.
Next, the more than 80 pirate ships of the Anchor Pirates gathered on a deserted island. The Anchor Pirates only have 72 ships, but although the night elf troops have not been dispatched in the past two days, other human pirates have also captured some ships, making the pirate group's strength even greater.
The newly captured ships are naturally equipped with newly trained night elf troops. The ancient trees on the Anchor Island have been training night elf soldiers continuously. At least in the short term, the Anchor Pirates only need to consider the problem of insufficient ships and do not have to worry about insufficient personnel.
Speaking of which, the pirate group with more than 80 pirate ships is already a first-tier pirate group in the Shadow Island organization. There are only three pirate groups with more than 100 ships, such as the War Pirates. It's a pity that the Anchor Pirates do not have the strength to match their reputation, so they gathered here to prepare for a big thing.
When the Anchor Pirates' 30 pirate ships equipped with human pirates and more than 50 pirate ships full of night elves were assembled, Yu Fei finally announced the goal of this operation. Yu Fei's plan is to gather all the forces of the Anchor Pirates to attack the Ers Port of the coastal power Kingdom of Thebes.
The Kingdom of Thebes is a kingdom with very strong maritime power. Although Thebes is only a medium-level kingdom in the kingdom class on the Eslaze continent, the development of the Kingdom of Thebes can be said to be not far from the three major empires in terms of navy.
Of course, after all, it is just a kingdom. Compared with the Canaan Empire, which also focuses on naval power, the Kingdom of Thebes is still relatively weak. However, the Canaan Empire is in the south of Eslaze, while the Kingdom of Thebes is in the north of Eslaze, which is actually incomparable.
Therefore, the Kingdom of Thebes is the strongest force in the northern waters of Eslaze. For example, although the Holy Lion Empire also has some territories in the north that are close to the sea, it is only a small area like Port Oberlein, and it has not developed much navy in the north, which makes the Kingdom of Thebes stand out.
The regular navy is naturally on the opposite side of the pirates. When pirates are robbing merchant ships, what they hate most is encountering the navy, especially the navy of the Kingdom of Thebes.
Because generally when pirates are discovered by the navy of human countries while robbing merchant ships, they will definitely be attacked. The overall strength of pirates is not much worse than that of the navy of human countries, but they are all organized in pirate groups and are relatively scattered. Therefore, when encountering the navy of human countries, they are often at a disadvantage.
As the country with the strongest maritime power in the northern waters of Eslazer, the Kingdom of Thebes naturally has many old grudges with pirates. Apart from anything else, just because the Kingdom of Thebes was one of the initiators and main forces of the pirate suppression campaign decades ago, it is enough to make the pirates of the entire Shadow Island organization hate it.
If the Anchor Pirates can successfully attack the Kingdom of Thebes, it will definitely greatly improve its reputation among pirates. If they really capture a port in the Kingdom of Thebes, even if they only rob and fail to occupy it, it will definitely make all pirates, including the three major pirate groups, look at the Anchor Pirates with new eyes.
The Ers Port that Yu Fei chose is not the largest seaport in the Kingdom of Thebes, but it is also a relatively large port. Yu Fei chose the Ers Port because of its geographical location and the resources it produces.
Let's talk about the geographical location first. The Ers Port is located at a protruding corner of the Eslaze continental shelf. It is far away from other seaports in the Kingdom of Thebes and is in a relatively isolated position. If the Anchor Pirates attack here, there is no need to worry that they will be quickly surrounded by the Kingdom of Thebes.
As for the resources produced by the Ers Port, they are actually the important reason why Yu Fei chose to attack here. From the location on the continent, the Ers Port is relatively close to the Magic Beast Mountains that run through the north and south of the continent. The Magic Beast Mountains extend to the north of the continent and stop not far south of the Ers Port.
Therefore, in this area, the production of magic cores is very rich, and there are also many magic crystal mines excavated by humans in the mountains. And because of the complex terrain around it, it costs a lot to transport the magic cores and magic crystal mines produced by land, which is extremely inconvenient.
The emergence of Earls Harbor was actually to solve the problem of resource transportation in this area. Although only a small part of this area, which produced a large number of magic cores and magic crystals, belonged to the Thebes Kingdom, it happened to be located near the sea, so the Thebes Kingdom established Earls Harbor here.
In addition to the magic crystal ore and magic cores mined in their own countries, which are transported from the Ers Seaport, most of the other countries with profitable output in this area also choose to transport through the Ers Seaport. Although the Kingdom of Thebes will collect some taxes, these taxes are still worthwhile compared to the cost of land transportation.
What Yu Fei is looking at is naturally the magic crystal ore and magic cores that are often piled up in the Ers Seaport. Although it is impossible to occupy the Ers Seaport for a long time, a large number of magic cores and magic crystal ore are transported out of this port every day, and even if Yu Fei robs it once, he can get a lot of energy.
Of course, such a lucrative plundering target cannot be untargeted by pirates. When the Ers Seaport was first established a hundred years ago, there were countless pirate groups waiting on the route outside the seaport to take advantage of it. However, under the escort and full-scale attack of the Thebes Navy, the pirates, who were still a mess at the time, ended up in a miserable end.
It was precisely because of the enmity here that the Thebes Kingdom participated in the operation to eliminate pirates later. Because magic crystals and magic cores are of little use to pirates, they can only be sold and it is difficult to find buyers who can purchase these two things in large quantities. Therefore, the pirates rarely moved around Earls Port because the profits were not proportional to the risks.
However, the hatred for Earls Port and the Kingdom of Thebes is rooted in the hearts of most pirates. If the Anchor Pirates can capture Earls Port, in addition to the energy gains, they will definitely be respected by most pirates.
Yu Fei even felt that if the Thebes Kingdom Navy stationed in Earls Port was completely destroyed, the winner of the Pirate King selection event would even be locked on the Anchor Pirates. Of course, all this is still imagination. What needs to be done now is to implement the plan to attack Earls Port.
After hearing Yu Fei's plan to attack Earls Port, the human pirates were in an uproar. As old pirates, they naturally knew the situation in Earls Port. While they admired Yu Fei's boldness, they also felt a little absurd.
In the current Anchor Pirates, the captain Yorick actually controls thirty pirate ships and corresponding pirates. Deputy Captain Gangplank only joined later, but he led more than 50 pirate ships and a large number of powerful mysterious black pirates.
Any pirate who is a little smart can find out who is the real boss of the Anchor Pirates. Of course, Yorick and Gangplank chose not to make it clear, and those smart pirates would not show up. But since Yu Fei, Deputy Captain Gangplank, announced this plan, it proves that Captain Yorick would naturally have no objection.
However, there are still some pirates who think that the strength of the Anchor Pirates is not enough to do such a thing and raised objections. These pirates are guys who joined later, and few have seen the strength of the night elves covered in black clothes.
Regarding the situation in the Anchor Pirates where the deputy captain has more say than the captain, they have their own views, that is, the captain and the deputy captain are in conflict. In order to gain a higher status and greater benefits in the Anchor Pirates, these self-righteous pirates chose to "join" Yorick and opposed Yu Fei's proposal.
However, Yu Fei was very impatient with these sesame-sized things. After Yorick announced that the human pirates only needed to help out in this operation, and the real main force was the pirates led by Vice Captain Gangplank, those pirates who jumped like clowns were sunk to the bottom of the sea to feed the fish.
After that, Yu Fei gathered all the ships and personnel of the Anchor Pirates and led the fleet to the direction of Earls Port. After receiving the bloody warning and knowing that they did not need to die, the human pirates naturally obeyed the order.
In a sea area half a day's journey away from Earls Port, the fleet of the Anchor Pirates stopped. Although the strength of the Anchor Pirates has increased a lot after the joining of the Night Elves, it is inevitable that a lot of unnecessary losses will be caused by directly attacking a seaport where a fleet is stationed.
In order to avoid these losses, some strategies are naturally needed. After instructing Yorick, the fleet of the Anchor Pirates was divided into several teams and began to implement Yu Fei's not brilliant but very practical plan.