Chapter 343 Forked Lightning
The warships outside the prison pirate fleet have received the order from the flagship through flag signals, and quickly put all the magic mines on board into the sea. The entire fleet has stopped moving forward and is ready to rely on the mine array to defend.
However, although the fleet is full of mines, the pirates do not feel safe at all. As time goes by, the sea tribe forces are gradually surrounding them. Now even the pirates on the deck can see the countless approaching vicious sea tribes around.
When there is no real enemy coming, but the lookouts issue warnings, the pirates do not feel how serious the situation is. However, when their own eyes see the large number of sea tribes that are rolling in the sea water, almost all the pirates are stunned.
This is more than half a month. I haven't encountered sea tribes. How big a wave is coming? The number of sea tribes attacking is a bit too high. The pirates of the prison pirates have always been proud of themselves and the strength of the pirate group.
Whether in terms of individual strength or team division of labor, the Warden Pirates, which have a large number of alien races, are much stronger than ordinary pirate groups. Just like in terms of lookouts, the Warden Pirates, which have elves as lookouts, can often find the enemy one step ahead of other pirates.
But this sense of pride was shattered when facing the Endless Sea Clan. Like the leader Thresh, the pirates of the Warden Pirates can see that such a number of enemies are simply not something they can resist. For a moment, the faces of the pirates turned ugly.
Fortunately, Thresh's order had been conveyed at this time, and relying on the discipline cultivated over a long period of time, the pirates of the Warden Pirates did not fall into a panic. The outer ships laid mines, and the inner warships used small boats to transport the magic mines loaded on their ships to the outer warships.
At the same time, the pirate magicians in the fleet have also followed orders and maintained liquid perspective in almost all places in the sea area where the fleet is located to prevent the sea clan from attacking from below the fleet.
Looking at the sea tribe troops approaching, Thresh decided to stay on the mast of the flagship to command. But before that, he had to confirm whether the communication magician in the fleet had contacted for support.
Looking down, Thresh just saw the elf lookout who was sent away from the lookout by him to inform the communication magician to request support hurriedly running to the deck from the back of the flagship. Seeing that the elf lookout looked bad, Thresh's heart tightened and he shouted.
"Long ears, come up to me quickly." This "I" was not because Thresh was dissatisfied with the elf lookout, but because he always called himself that. The elf lookout was used to it, and climbed up the mast and came to Thresh's side.
According to Thresh's personality, he would definitely ask about the situation from the top with a loud voice. But he saw that the elf lookout looked ugly, and it was estimated that there was no good news. Because he was worried that if he got a bad news in public, it would definitely affect morale, so he let the elf lookout go up to the lookout to ask questions.
"Long ears, what did Lowry say?" Thresh asked in a low voice. Lowry was the magician in the fleet who specialized in magic communication.
The Elf Lookout adjusted his mood and answered Thresh in a heavy voice. "Boss, Lowry has successfully contacted other fleets." He smiled bitterly.
Before Thresh could ask urgently, the Elf Lookout told him the bad news. "But even the fleet closest to us needs two hours to reach us. And there is only one, and the fleet closest to us even has a five-hour voyage."
Thresh accepted the unfortunate news calmly, but his heart was cold. Two hours? Thresh even felt that in front of the sea people who seemed to have tens of thousands, the Prison Pirates could hardly hold out for even an hour. Moreover, even if they held out for two hours, he didn't think the support of a pirate fleet would change anything.
Looking at the situation of the sea people, even if three or four pirate fleets gathered together, as long as they paid a certain price, the sea people could swallow them up in one bite.
We underestimated the sea tribe too much. This time, the Prison Pirates may not be able to escape. Thresh already had such an understanding in his heart. Then, a trace of cruelty appeared on his rough face. Humph, damn sea tribe, you want to eat my Prison Pirates, even if you die, I will bite off a piece of meat from you!
Seeing no hope of survival and escape, Thresh has made up his mind to kill as many sea tribes as he can. He believes that the Shadow Island Organization will avenge him.
Unfortunately, Thresh did not know that the disaster he encountered was brought to him by his pirate companions in the Shadow Island Organization. If it were not for some small actions of Yorick, there would not be only one pirate fleet within a two-hour sailing distance around the Prison Pirates.
The time of attack chosen by the sea tribe was the best time for Yorick to notify them through Yu Fei. Otherwise, if there were several other pirate fleets in the waters near the Prison Pirates, the attack would be more than the loss, although the sea tribe could destroy these fleets with all their strength.
Yu Fei wanted to control the Shadow Island Organization, not destroy it. If the pirates and the sea tribes really started a large-scale fight, it would be bad for both Yu Fei and Tang Yijia. A Shadow Island Organization that suffered too much loss would not be able to achieve Yu Fei's goal of containing the Eastern Human Nations.
Just when Thresh, the leader of the Prison Pirates, was determined to fight to the death with the Sea Clan and kill as many enemies as possible, Tang Yijia looked at the pirates on a coral bed held by four Naga thugs in the distance, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth as she watched the pirates frantically arranging defense measures.
She suddenly stood up from the coral bed and looked at the mine array between the Prison Pirates and the Sea Clan. Slowly raising her right hand, Tang Yijia shouted softly, and then a twisting ball of electric light appeared out of thin air, radiating from in front of the coral bed.
"Forked lightning!" The electric light looked like a small ball in front of the coral bed. But as it flew towards the mine array, it gradually expanded and dispersed, turning into countless golden electric snakes that spread out more and more. Almost in the blink of an eye, the scattered electric snakes spread all over the sea where the mine array was located.
"Bang, bang, bang-" "Boom-" "Crash!" After the electric snake bombarded the sea where the mine array was located, the magic mines placed there by the pirates were instantly triggered by the powerful lightning and exploded directly. Thousands of magic mines were detonated at the same time, blasting huge water columns on the sea surface, and even triggered a small tsunami.
The small tsunami caused by the detonation of the mine array was nothing to the sea people who had been ordered to retreat a distance to avoid the electric current. But for the Prison Pirates, the tsunami caused by the mines they laid themselves brought them a lot of trouble.
Fortunately, as one of the four major pirate groups organized by Shadow Island, the pirates of the Prison Pirates are experienced seamen, and they tried their best to ensure that none of the outer ships were overturned in this small tsunami.
However, the magic mine array that the pirates relied on to hold off the sea people was destroyed in Tang Yijia's forked lightning. Almost all the magic mines facing Tang Yijia were destroyed, all of which were detonated by the electric snakes; although the mines in other directions were not detonated, many of them were dispersed by the sudden small tsunami.
Now, the Prison Warden Pirates can be said to have been opened up by the sea tribe. The sea tribe troops can march straight into the sea area where the mines were cleared by Tang Yijia's forked lightning. And just as the pirates thought, the sea tribe began to attack in the waves caused by the aftermath of the tsunami.
Without the protection of the magic mine array, the pirates can only rely on the artillery and crossbows on the ship. Magic depth charges can only play the greatest role when dealing with the sea tribe attacking from below, otherwise they can only be thrown out as grenades.