Chapter 314: Pursuit or Lure

After discussing the feasibility of the strategy with Yorick, Yu Fei began to implement the plan to attack Earls Harbor. The first step of the plan still required the efforts of human pirates. Considering that the newly joined pirates did not recognize the pirate group high enough and might not be able to implement the plan perfectly, Yorick personally followed Yu Fei's instructions.

Captain Mandel is the supreme commander of a warship belonging to the Seventh Fleet of the Kingdom of Thebeshi. On this day, as usual, he and two other warships escorted a fleet of the Chamber of Commerce towards a seaport in the east.

Half lying on the lounge chair in the captain's cabin, Captain Mandel gently shook the cup in his hand, and then drank the wine in the cup. Such a life is really pleasant! As he closed his eyes and savored the taste of the wine, Captain Mandel sighed in his heart.

The Seventh Fleet is the fleet of the Kingdom of Thebeshi stationed in the Port of Ers. It is responsible for guarding the security of the Port of Ers and escorting some maritime caravans without armed ships for a fee. Because pirates have suffered in this area for more than a hundred years, and for pirates, the oil and water in Earls Harbor is not as big as other prosperous seaports, so the pressure on the Seventh Fleet is very small.

Captain Mandel, who was sipping his wine, walked out of the captain's cabin and came to the deck. Looking at the other two warships escorting the caravan, Captain Mandel felt unhappy in his heart.

Really, isn't it just a merchant ship transporting some low-level magic cores and low-quality magic crystals? Why send three warships to escort it? There is no piracy activity in this area, and no pirates will confront the regular navy of the Kingdom of Thebexi because of these supplies that are of little use to them.

In fact, just let me, Mandel, escort me with a warship. After glancing at this small caravan again, Captain Mandel came to a conclusion in his mind.

No wonder Captain Mandel thought so. The Seventh Fleet is paid to escort merchant ships, and half of the remuneration paid by the merchant ships will be allocated to the warships performing the mission. Of course, what three ships can get is different from what one ship can get for the same remuneration, which is why Captain Mandel complained that the superiors of the fleet would not allow him to have one ship to perform escort missions.

However, Captain Mandel soon stopped complaining that there were too many warships escorting the caravan. Instead, he felt that the fleet's superiors should send more warships to perform escort tasks. Because, in Captain Mandel's sight, a dozen ships appeared in the distance.

When these ships were far away, Captain Mandel didn't pay attention, thinking they were other merchant ships or something like that. But when the dozen or so ships gradually approached Captain Mandel's fleet, and he could clearly see the skull pirate flags common to all worlds hanging on those ships, Captain Mandel panicked.

What's going on? ! How come there are pirates in this sea area? Even Captain Mandel, who was very proud of his status as the Kingdom's navy, felt his hands and feet were cold at this time.

Although they carry the name of a regular navy, these three warships are indeed stronger than ordinary pirates. They can barely manage one against two or even one against three. However, the pirates who appeared now had fourteen ships, eleven more than them.

With a gap of nearly five times, the three warships chose to escape at the same time without even communicating with each other. As for the merchant ships they were escorting, they were too slow to take them with them, so they had to ask for their own blessings.

However, although the three warships chose to escape, the pirate ships did not give up the pursuit. Two of the fourteen pirate ships were divided into managing or plundering the merchant ships, while the other pirate ships were chasing the three warships.

Captain Mandel, who looked back and saw this scene, couldn't help but curse. Are these pirates crazy? They actually came to pursue the kingdom’s regular navy! Why are you chasing us if you don't rob those merchant ships that we abandoned?

Although they felt aggrieved, both Captain Mandel and the captains of the other two warships knew that their three warships would never be able to defeat the pursuing enemy, so they still chose to continue escaping.

However, after seeing those pirate ships chasing after them, Captain Mandel had a sneer on his face and silently returned to the captain's cabin from the deck.

As the temporary commander of the three warships escorting the caravan this time, Captain Mandel was issued a magical communication device as usual. If this group of pirates did not choose to pursue them, Captain Mandel was not prepared to use this communication device to notify friendly forces in the port to come for reinforcements.

Because pirates have always acted vigorously and resolutely, by the time the reinforcements arrived, the caravan would have been robbed and the pirates would have disappeared without a trace. However, since these reckless pirates chose to pursue them, they must pay the price.

Captain Mandel, who returned to the captain's cabin, activated the magic communication device and informed the superiors of the Seventh Fleet in Earls Port about what had just happened and the current situation that twelve pirate ships were chasing them.

This magical communication device was only a one-way communication, and Captain Mandel did not receive a response from the port. However, he is confident that the Seventh Fleet, which has not been provoked by pirates for a long time, will definitely take drastic measures to respond. At that time, looking at the pirate ship still following behind him, Captain Mandel let out a few sinister laughs.

The pirate ship following the three escaping warships was unaware of Captain Mandel's actions and followed the three warships unhurriedly. As time passed, Captain Mandel also discovered something was wrong.

What on earth do these pirates want to do? When the warship speeds up, they speed up too. When the warship slows down, they slow down too. They just hang there, neither too close nor too far away. They don't speed up to attack nor give up. Don't these pirates know that Earls Harbor is not far from here?

But soon, Captain Mandel put this question behind his mind, because in his heart these crazy pirates have been sentenced to death - the reinforcements of the fleet have arrived.

Looking at the eight warships coming from a distance, the tension on Captain Mandel's face disappeared immediately. The combat effectiveness of the regular navy is much stronger than that of ordinary pirates. The eight warships coming to help plus the three on his side can easily destroy the twelve pirate ships that have been chasing him.

However, according to the character of his boss, he should send out twenty warships at a time to deal with these pirates with overwhelming strength, so as to warn other pirates, right? Why only eight warships were sent? Captain Mandel was a little confused.

However, thinking that the existing warships were enough to destroy the pursuing pirates, Captain Mandel did not think more and turned the bow to meet the pursuing pirates.

While the pirates have not yet discovered the fleet's reinforcements due to the problem of sight, he must first entangle these bold pirates. Otherwise, when they see the eight warships, they will definitely run away. In this case, won't they be able to avenge being chased so far? Captain Mandel thought so in his heart.

Very cooperative, those pirate ships actually started to fight with Captain Mandel and his men. Although the scale was three to twelve, the slingshots and giant crossbows flew together, and the arrows and flags danced together. For a while, they fought vividly.

Captain Mandel was a little nervous at the beginning of the battle. After all, the number of the opponent was temporarily four times his own. Unexpectedly, after the battle started, Captain Mandel found that the strength of these pirates who were brave enough to pursue the regular navy was not very strong.

I haha~~ The twelve pirate ships only slightly suppressed our three warships. When the eight friendly warships behind caught up, it would only take a few minutes to defeat you. Although he was temporarily at a disadvantage, Captain Mandel felt very comfortable, as if he had seen the scene when the pirates on the opposite side were eliminated.

However, the more he fought, the more Captain Mandel felt something was wrong. When he fought with the twelve pirate ships for a quarter of a magic, and the three warships were already scarred, Captain Mandel realized what was wrong.

Where are our reinforcements? ! Those eight warships were obviously not far from here, why haven't they joined the battlefield after fighting for so long? Captain Mandel, who was full of doubts and uneasiness, temporarily handed over the task of commanding the battle to the first mate, and hurried to the stern to observe the situation of the reinforcements.

The scene that Captain Mandel saw during this observation made him collapse. The eight navy warships that were originally thought to be the saviors were now only two, and these two ships also looked like they were about to sink.

As for the other six ships, you can tell from the six whirlpools gradually disappearing on the sea that they have sunk. The culprits of all this are the ten ships whose hulls were all painted black and appeared here at some unknown time.

The last scene that caught Captain Mandel's eyes was the situation where the remaining two reinforcement warships turned around and fled, but were directly shot and exploded by the rain of arrows pouring out from the black ships with huge energy. Then, he fainted and knew nothing.

Captain Mandel was lucky. He did not suffer the humiliation of being captured by pirates when he was awake after fainting - because he had his eyes on these three warships, Yu Fei chose to capture these three warships that had lost the courage to resist.

The twelve pirate ships were all human pirates from the Anchor Pirates, who did the seemingly stupid things before according to Yu Fei's plan. After seeing that the regular navy of the Kingdom of Thebes, which they thought was powerful, had no power to resist under the attack of those mysterious black pirates, the unruly pirates also obeyed all of Yu Fei's orders.

After successfully destroying eight warships in Earls Harbor and capturing three of them, the human pirates followed Yu Fei's orders and sent several pirate ships to transport the previously obtained supplies back to Anchor Island. The other human pirates followed the ten dark ships and headed towards Earls Harbor.