Underwater undercurrents are even better. With the size of a naval warship, it will not be sunk by the undercurrent. At most, the ship will be trapped in place. But the reef is very scary. Once it hits the reef, it is very easy to cause the ship to be destroyed and people to die.
"If we go in hastily, are not familiar with the waterways, and have to be prepared for sudden attacks by pirates, and also need to worry about whether there are any reefs in the water under our feet, then we will already be at a disadvantage by three points before the battle has even started. It will be like letting those pirates do it. Occupying the geographical advantage, the gain outweighs the loss for us.”
"On the contrary, if the pirates get the news that we are here to destroy them, those pirates will spontaneously gather together, and may even take the initiative to rush outside the island group to fight us. If this is the case, those pirates will They gave up their biggest advantage and played into our own hands."
Zhu Biao nodded repeatedly after hearing this. Indeed, instead of risking running aground on the rocks and entering the island group, it would be better to attract the pirates out.
"The truth is correct," Zhu Biao agreed with Tang Ding, "but when those pirates see us coming, will they come out obediently?"
"This..." Tang Ding was immediately speechless when asked. Yes, will the pirates come out of the islands when they see the navy coming? If they just hide inside and don't come out, won't this method be in vain?
Tang Ding couldn't answer Zhu Biao's question, so he had to look at Han Du as if asking for help.
Han Du smiled and said: "Don't worry, Your Highness, I am 90% sure that when the pirates get the news, they will come out in full force."
"Those pirates don't even pay attention to this coastal kingdom. If we approach the pirate sea and provoke them. How can they, who are used to being arrogant, endure such provocations? Besides, the number of ships those pirates have combined is... There are more people than us, how come they are hiding in the islands?"
Those people are pirates. What kind of pirates are they? Pirates are all the scum of human beings, robbers, bandits, thieves, murderers, butchers... What they have in common are extremely vicious, perverse temperaments, and cruel and irritable people. As for calm thinking and careful analysis, they have never been associated with pirates.
Therefore, according to Han Du's estimation, as long as the pirates know that the navy is coming to attack them. There is almost no doubt that the pirates will take the initiative to fight back.
Next, as the naval fleet got closer and closer to the pirate sea, the frequency of the navy's discovery of pirate ships became more and more intensive. However, from beginning to end, Handu never ordered an attack on these pirate ships, let alone pursued them.
It was not until they reached the edge of the Pirate Sea that Handu ordered to stop advancing. Letting the fleet wander back and forth on the edge means that it has no intention of entering the sea of pirates.
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Pirate sea!
There are many islands here and they are relatively dense. With so many pirates here, they cannot occupy all the islands. In fact, these pirates have not carefully explored all the islands.
It is precisely because of this that many pirates have their own secret places to hide their belongings.
The news that the Kingdom's navy was coming to attack spread throughout the pirate sea in a short period of time. Countless pirates heard the news and took action. Those small and medium-sized pirate groups were no match for the Kingdom's navy. At this time, they could only rely on the more powerful pirates. The real master of the pirate sea, the famous pirate group.
A quiet sea area, surrounded by six almost similar large islands, surrounding the entire sea area. The six islands left six wide waterways on the sea.
The pirates are scheming with each other, not only the small pirate groups below, but also the largest pirate groups in the Sea of Pirates. After all, who doesn’t want to swallow up all the other pirate groups and become the real pirate king and king of the sea?
Therefore, in the absence of mutual trust, this sea area has become an excellent place for the leaders of major pirate groups to meet. After all, there are six waterways here. As long as a pirate group occupies one waterway, they can retreat calmly even if something unexpected happens. And no matter who wants to eat other pirates, it becomes even less impossible because of the barrier of the island.
Therefore, this place became the place where the leaders of the big pirate group discussed matters. Of course, it has not happened for many years that the major pirate groups occupy a waterway and come to discuss important matters like now.
There is a huge sea ship in the middle of the water, but this sea ship has no mast and no sails, making it difficult to sail at all. But it is excellent as a temporary place to stay in this water area.
Five speedboats sailed out from various waterways, and standing on them were the leaders of the five major pirate groups in the Sea of Pirates. No one came near the ship and climbed onto the ship through flying hooks.
Five stools had been prepared on the deck of the big ship for the five big pirate leaders to sit on.
The five people got on the boat and each found their own seats and sat down. The five of them were each accompanied by two fierce pirates. No one had more, but no one had less.
As soon as the five people sat down, a pirate leader said with a smile: "You all know why we are gathered here, right? A group of reckless sailors came from outside. It seems they want to attack us. . I don’t know which kingdom sent them, but they are really not afraid of me throwing them into the sea to feed the fish.”
The relationship between the five people is not harmonious, and some even have hatred towards each other.
As soon as this person finished speaking, some people couldn't bear to see him and sneered: "Dauntless and Storm have not spoken, so how can you speak? Or do you think that your strength has expanded and you can do it on your own?" Destroy those Kingdom Navy? If that's the case, then I don't think we need to continue talking here. We just need to see you go out and destroy those Kingdom Navy on the Fearless."
Although the Dauntless is one of the five major pirate groups, judging from what I just said, there are differences even among the five major pirate groups. At least it can be seen that the Fearless is definitely not the strongest among the five pirate groups. However, the mentioned Storm is actually possible. Even if the Storm is not the strongest, it certainly has enough strength and weight.
The leader of the fearless pirate group turned blue and white in anger at this man's words, and cursed angrily: "Black Pearl, don't say such things. Are you able to wipe out those Kingdom Navy? If you can do it, I will obey you from now on."
Of course, the Black Pearl was not sure of destroying the Kingdom Navy outside, otherwise he wouldn't be sitting here.
Pirates are all robbing by nature. If they are sure to deal with the kingdom's navy alone, no one will give up such a great opportunity to others. It is precisely because they have no way to deal with it that they gather to discuss alliance matters.
Another point is that almost all people will not use their real names once they become pirates. This is true even for the leaders of the five major pirate groups. Therefore, they all refer to each other by code names. Which pirate group they belong to is called by the name of the pirate group.
The Black Pearl turned a deaf ear to the words of the Fearless. His strength was slightly worse than that of the Fearless. Among the five major pirate groups, the Black Pearl is almost the weakest. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been bullied by the Fearless at every turn, so that I could only take advantage of him through words and express my resentment.
Faced with the provocation from the Fearless, he did not dare to accept it.
The Dauntless looked at the Black Pearl fiercely, leaning forward like a lion preparing to hunt, as if he would rush up and fight the Black Pearl if he changed places.
Seeing that the two of them were about to get into a fight, the Saint Venezia raised his hand and said: "Okay, the reason why we are here today is not to watch the tit-for-tat confrontation between you two. We are here to discuss the Kingdom Navy outside. If you have any grudges, , it’s up to you to solve it as you wish today.”
"Okay, Black Pearl, we will settle our grudges later." The Fearless sat back immediately.
When the Black Pearl saw the Dauntless's expression, he cursed angrily in his heart. Unexpectedly, he just thought that the Dauntless didn't dare to be presumptuous here, so he wanted to retaliate against him with a few angry words. But he didn't expect that the evil spirit didn't come out, but instead angered the Fearless. Although he was not afraid of the Fearless, he had to take the Fearless's warning to heart.
The Black Pearl is preparing to leave here as soon as the matter is discussed. There is no need to do so in the future, and it is best not to meet the Dauntless. Unless he can get more pirate ships in a short period of time and further increase his strength.
Seeing that the two people had stopped, the Saint Venezia looked up at the other two people and said, "Storm, Warrior and Rose, you guys must gather the people outside and talk about what's going on first, right?"
The two looked at each other, and the Storm said, "Then let me do the talking."
After a pause, he continued: "Everyone knows that the Kingdom's navy is coming from outside, but what I want to tell you is that until now, we still don't know which kingdom the navy outside belongs to."
The us that the Storm is talking about must be referring to him and the Courage and the Rose.
From this point, it can be seen that the Storm and the Warrior and the Rose are not only powerful, otherwise the Saint Venezia would speak to them with a hint of respect. And their sources of information must be broader than those of the other three.
"Isn't it Horumos, or the navy of Dhofar?"
The Storm shook his head bluntly, "What I can tell you is, it's not their navy."
As he spoke, he added, "The warships of the navy outside are completely different from those of previous kingdoms, not to mention they have battle flags, which I have never seen before."
Why is this foreign navy so strange? The three people who heard this for the first time frowned.
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