The Shadow Man's fleets in both directions discovered the Chosen fleet that suddenly rushed out of the cloud wall. They immediately reacted and turned around above the sea of clouds. From a distance, they looked like two ships. Dao Wanyue came over in this direction.
"They found us!" Six Shadows stared in that direction and reminded the others.
Kaka and other alchemists activated several alchemy circles on the deck at the same time. Several crystals were projected into the air and exploded with several dull sounds, forming a white mist that enveloped everyone's heads. superior.
At this moment, a few new green lights flashed in the distance. The shadow man's aerial ship chose to fire directly, but it was unbelievable that it was accurate at such a long distance. Everyone only watched those few magic flashes dragging for a long time. The wake flew over their heads.
The firelight fell from the clouds, close enough to illuminate the faces of everyone on the deck, but everyone had been accustomed to this scene in this air battle, and it didn't even make any waves in their hearts.
"They look very nervous!" A gleam flashed in Liuying's eyes, but his tone was actually more nervous, "But we only have more than ten ships, what are they nervous about?"
"Anyone will be nervous if they find an unidentified fleet appearing near their flagship, not to mention that we are still hostile." Fang Plover also looked in that direction and replied softly: "It's not a matter of more or less. .”
The spreading fog quickly obscured his sight, and also blocked the line of sight between the Shadow Man's fleet and them.
Fang Yu picked up the communication crystal and whispered the order to lower the altitude. In fact, before he gave the order, a group of experienced captains in the fleet made the same judgment.
At this time, there was a muffled thunder-like sound coming from outside the fog. It was the shadow man's fleet launching a salvo after two corrective shots. But because the distance was too far, the flickering green light still passed through either above their heads or under the bottom of the boat.
The shimmering green light illuminated the fog, and occasionally there were one or two explosions, the sound of a sailboat being hit. Six Shadows were looking at the flashes below with some worry, and asked, "Will we be surrounded by them?"
If we talk about Fang Plover's understanding of the battle above Kukai and her experience aboard the Seven Seas Traveler, she and Kaka are just Marine members in the fleet of Jefflite's red team. That’s all.
"They were too late."
After Fang Yu was silent for a moment, he only replied in the affirmative.
Six Shadows was slightly startled, and looked at him doubtfully, but did not get any answer, so he had to look back at his partner.
But Kaka just let go of his hand on the alchemy array, and then silently looked at the vast white mist outside the ship's side - his eyes seemed a little calm, and he did not answer.
The girl also looked in that direction, and saw that after the smoke dissipated, even the fleets themselves could no longer see each other. They could only vaguely see blurry outlines one after another, upright masts, and a shadow of sails.
At this moment, the only means of communication between ships is probably the frequent noise coming from the communication crystal.
Voices from other ships reporting damage came from the communication channel. Only three ships were hit by bullets, and none of them were fatally injured. The captains of each ship are already urgently arranging damage control to control the fire——
After listening to those voices, Liuying breathed a sigh of relief. He looked back at Fang Pliance, thinking that the other party's judgment didn't seem bad.
But Fang Yu didn't seem to want to make things easier for her. He frowned and said again: "Don't worry too early. They chose to fire directly at such a long distance. They probably found that they had no time to stop us. But they can't stop us, they But not necessarily the artillery fire."
Only then did Kaka raise his head and nodded slightly: "Yes, there will be at least six to seven rounds of salvos before we get out of their range. And we still have one round of smoke grenades, but on average one round Calculated with a five-minute interval between salvos, two rounds of smoke will not last that long.”
Kaka raised his head and looked at the others: "We will have at least one salvo, and we will be completely exposed to the opponent's artillery fire. Those are two fleets, no... it may even be a pincer attack from three directions. "
He pointed directly in front of the mist: "Don't forget that there is a shadow man's main fleet ahead of us. Although we are not within their range yet, we may not be within half an hour."
As the boy spoke, he took out his pocket watch, opened the cover and said, "In other words, in about twenty-five minutes we will be exposed to saturated firepower from the front and both flanks. As long as our luck is not too bad, If so, everyone here should still have two quarters of good time."
Six Shadows raised their eyebrows when they heard this: "...Wait a minute, what do you mean if luck is not too bad?"
But before she finished speaking, another green light suddenly flashed through the mist in the distance, causing everyone to look in that direction.
The green light seemed to penetrate the fog in an instant. The next moment everyone on the deck heard a loud noise. A beam of green light suddenly hit the side of the ship. Air waves swept across and lifted everyone off the deck. Got out.
Fang Yu reacted quickly. The moment the green light came into view, he realized something was wrong. He subconsciously shot out his flying claws and grabbed the pole of the cable next to the mast. But in an instant, he felt a spinning sensation. Come on, I seemed to fly out of the ship, and then hit something with a bang.
Then the opposite force pushed him out violently. He only felt that he was swaying as if hanging in mid-air, and the straight cable of the flying claws pulled him to prevent him from falling into the sea of clouds.
Fang Yu's mind was in a daze, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses. He realized that he had hit the side of the ship. Then he looked up and saw that the sailboat was already in flames.
He shook his head, hurriedly retracted the cable, and climbed onto the deck, only to see other people rolling around on the ground. Either he was standing up unsteadily from the deck, or he had already reacted and was putting out the fire.
Fang Yu jumped off the side of the ship and saw Kaka sitting aside. He put down the communication crystal in his hand and looked in this direction. The other party's dark eyes reflected the firelight, but he looked as calm as ever. He said calmly: "We were hit by a cannonball, but we were lucky. The shell penetrated the utility room and was only a thin line away from the magic cabin."
"Who told you that?"
"I just asked the first mate."
Fang Yu looked at this talented craftsman from the Jefflite Red Team in surprise. It has only been less than a minute since he was attacked. Normal people probably haven't reacted yet. This guy is not reliable at all, but he is terrifyingly calm.
He was silent for a moment and asked, "What are the manpower losses?"
"A few people were thrown out of the ship like you, captain, but they were not as lucky as you to catch anything." Kaka shook his head: "It's not clear yet that those people can be resurrected. They may fall into the Go outside the resurrection range of the icon on the ship.”
"As for another piece of bad news," Kaka added: "The shells caused us to lose two horizontal wing sails. Although the wing sails will not slow us down much, we may encounter some trouble in turning. .”
Fang Plover closed his mouth and frowned.
In fact, this is where the biggest trouble lies. Once the smoke dissipates and mobility is lost, hope is lost.
But he pursed his lips and didn't talk nonsense. He just silently picked up the communication crystal and ordered other ships to report back the damage caused by this salvo.
However, the news that came seemed to be good. In this round of salvos, only they were the most unlucky, being hit by a shell on the side, while the other ships were lucky enough to avoid the attack.
"But this is not the way to go," Kaka said again: "We failed to reach the location we expected, and the opponent's firepower far exceeded our expectations. At the moment we may not even be able to touch the edge of the 'wall' To say nothing of the flagship that is close to the Shadow Man..."
Fang Yu pondered for a moment, then immediately asked: "So how far are we from the Shadow Man's flagship?"
"Anyway, it must be more than twenty minutes, not to mention the other party can move."
"Then let them move," Fang Plover was silent for a moment, "but that was not our purpose in the first place."
Kaka looked at him with some surprise.
Fang Yu then picked up the communication crystal and said: "Notify all ships to change course to bearing 17."
"Position 17?" Hong Ye's surprised voice came from the communication crystal: "That's not the direction of the Shadow Man's flagship... There are several other Shadow Man escort fleets there, aren't we falling into a trap? "
"It doesn't matter, just let them do what I say."
Hongye's lips moved. Although this order sounded extremely weird, at this time, there were really not many choices left for them. She knew that no one on the other ships would question anything at this time.
This is also the case. Although the other captains raised slight doubts, everyone also understood that the situation on the battlefield was ever-changing. When the plan exceeded the prior expectations, only Fang Pulway, the proposer of the original plan, understood them. What should be done now.
In this situation where every second counts, instead of asking the other party to waste time explaining something, it is better to give the other party unconditional trust. Now that they have made a unanimous decision to come here, there is only one simple choice left.
That is to move forward courageously.
So after a moment of descent, the fleet immediately began to turn slowly under the cover of smoke.
The Shadowman's fleet followed up with two salvos, and soon the third and fourth salvos followed.
But this time, the goddess of luck seemed to be on their side. The third salvo missed the fleet, and the fourth salvo hit a sailboat behind the fleet, but it was still slightly injured and did not affect the rest of the fleet. Sailing.
Just before the fourth round of salvoes, the surrounding smoke had begun to dissipate, and the rain falling in the sky seemed to accelerate the degradation process of smoke substances to some extent, which was not good news for everyone.
However, Fang Yu did not hesitate too much and directly asked the fleet to release the second round of smoke bombs. His order made Kaka look at his pocket watch - since the second round of smoke bombs was released earlier, this meant that they were exposed. The time under the opponent's firepower will also be advanced accordingly.
"The Shadow Man's flagship is still right in front of us..."
"But it's not even close enough."
Before the smoke blocked everyone's sight again, Liuying reminded them with a trembling voice.
Although she was also an elite member of the Jefflite Red Team, she was still only a girl of sixteen or seventeen years old after all, not to mention that her personal power was too insignificant in the battle between Kukai.
The sound of roaring artillery fire once again overshadowed her words. The flickering fire proved that a sailboat was hit. The communication from the fleet channel was not optimistic. A ship was hit on the mast. If it could not be repaired in a short time, After repairing it, the opponent will obviously be able to temporarily withdraw from the combat sequence.
Fang Yu knew very well in his heart that it was almost impossible for damage control to repair the sailboat's mobility under such conditions. The opponent could only stay in that place, and once the smoke dissipated, death would come.
But he didn't have time to worry too much now. There were seventeen ships in this squadron. Even if one ship was lost, there would still be sixteen ships left. At this moment, the people left on the sailboat were only a statistical number on the battlefield.
He gently shook the crystal in his hand and ordered: "Continue to turn."
A low voice came from the other side: "The Gallia is temporarily out of formation."
Fang Plover nodded slightly to show his agreement.
With the sixth round of artillery fire, the squadron began to accelerate after completing its turn. The smoke on both wings was actually left behind them, and the entire fleet was once again exposed to the view of the Shadowman fleet.
Kaka closed the watch cover and looked up. The time was almost exactly as he expected. A huge shadow covered the sky. They and the fleet where the Shadow Man's flagship was located seemed to be passing by each other.
Behind them were the two squadrons on the left and right flanks of the Shadow Man that had been following closely. After the smoke in front separated to the left and right, there was a roaring artillery fire in the distance - that was the main battlefield of the Shadowman Fleet and the Chosen Fleet.
On the upper and lower wings of the main battlefield, there were several fleets on each side. The commander of the other side seemed to have finally discovered their unidentified 'intruder' approaching the flagship. The other side made a prompt decision and ordered the fleets at the back of the battlefield to move in this direction. Turned around.
Those are exactly what Momiji said before, the Kage’s escort fleet located in that direction——
"They saw us!"
In the communication channel, the captain of the Napele couldn't help but said in a deep voice.
Even this experienced old captain couldn't help but feel a little trembling in his voice at this moment. They were surrounded by enemies in front and behind, and no matter from which side they looked, they seemed to be heavily surrounded.
The next moment, the roaring sound of artillery fire overwhelmed all the sounds in the communication channel. They had lost the cover of smoke, and this round of artillery fire almost directly covered the entire fleet.
The glowing green explosion fire filled everyone's field of vision. Many sailboats on the periphery almost immediately caught fire and burned, and even shattered into pieces, torn into pieces by the violent force into wreckage above the sea.
Amid the thunderous roar, Fang Plover turned around and saw Hongye walking up from below the deck - the other party first looked at Kaka and Liuying on the side, but Hongye knew the latter.
After all, she is one of the core craftsmen trained by the Oak Knights. The guild will naturally analyze the potential competitors for her. As the direct target of the Knights, the Spear of the Silver Forest, the newcomer trained by the Jefflite Red Team is They are the focus of the Guild's care.
Among them was the young man in front of him. The guild rated him as the core talent of the next generation of the Jefflite Red Team. This rating was quite high, at least more than the two geniuses of Silver Forest Spear.
Hongye sighed slightly. Although the guild was now a thing of the past, the memories left behind at that time would not disappear. She looked at the girl with short white-blond hair next to Kaka again - she didn't know him, but she thought she should be his partner.
He wasn't a craftsman, so it was normal for her not to recognize him, but as Kaka's partner, he must be a newcomer of the same level.
Only then did she move her gaze away from the two of them and focus on Fang Plover again, and then took out her communication crystal: "Silver Wislan sent a communication, and the other party asked us, what do we want to do?"
Fang Yu looked at the girl who had fought through the siege from Traveler's Rest with him. At this moment, his eyes only reflected the flash of gunfire.
He was silent for a moment before opening his mouth.
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"What are they doing?"
The movements of the Shadowman fleet also attracted the attention of others.
Bai Xue was putting down the communication crystal in her hand, looking at the flash of light in the sea of clouds in the distance, and suddenly asked something unexpectedly.
There was silence all around, and only the noisy announcements coming from the communication crystal seemed to describe the one-sided situation on the air-sea battlefield.
In the previous battles, Silver Wislan was the main force that rushed to the front to attract the attention of the Shadowman fleet, and suffered the most artillery fire in the previous frontal charge.
In less than an hour of fighting, they had already lost nearly one-third of their sailboats. In Kukai's war history, this was also a tragic event. And even in the remaining two-thirds of the sailboats, almost everyone was injured.
Silver Vislan's main flagship was hit by seven artillery shells in the previous battle, and the hull was on fire. Not long ago, she had to distract the sailors on the ship to control the fire to avoid breaking the waves. The HMS Zuckerberg became the first flagship to be sunk due to fire and burning in this battle.
But less than ten minutes ago, everyone clearly felt that the firepower in front of the shadow man suddenly weakened a little. Although it was not obvious, everyone could still clearly feel it in the artillery attack that made them almost unable to breathe.
Then the observer noticed that at least two fleets on the shadow man's flanks were retreating and turning towards the rear of the fleet - it felt like a fleet suddenly appeared behind the shadow man.
Has any more support arrived?
But Bai Xue looked at the news that came from the Yuechen Fleet about a quarter of an hour ago. It was at least an hour before the other party could enter.
As for the main force of the military fleet from Hengfeng Port, or even the royal fleet from the kingdom of Grande, that is even more hopeless. The last time they received a notification from the direction of Hengfeng Port was about half a century ago. Hours ago, there has been no news since then.
Bai Xue and Guang Ran speculated that the opponent should not have passed through Yunzhi Port at this moment, and even if they could count on the main fleet from Hengfeng Port, it would take at least several hours to arrive at Rainbow Bay.
As for arriving at El Paxin, that is a matter of no return.
So which fleet will it be?
While Bai Xue was guessing, she suddenly saw her communications officer running hurriedly from under the command bridge and shouting to the top: "Madam, this is our own fleet!"
Bai Xue raised her eyebrows: "Please make it clearer."
"It's the squadron that Jeffreet's Redcoat Team detached. They went around from under the clouds into the southeastern cloud wall, and went around to the inside of the Shadow Man Fleet." The communications officer was out of breath. He said: "...To be precise, they took advantage of the opportunity of the Shadow Man's fleet to move southward under the pressure of our offensive, and appeared directly in that direction."
He raised the report in his hand: "They sent a message, telling us that they are now quite close to the Shadow Man's flagship, and the Shadow Man will definitely be distracted to stop them."
"The squadron that Jeffreet's redcoat team separated from?" Bai Xue was slightly startled, and then a look of surprise appeared on his face: "Isn't that the squadron that that guy was in? They actually went around behind the enemy. Already?"
But she reacted quickly, and a light flashed in her eyes.
She made a prompt decision and immediately lowered her head to look at the air and sea situation map spread out on the command platform, which roughly mapped the locations of the fleets on both sides at the moment.
Guang Ran on the side looked a little confused after hearing this: "Could it be that they want to take action against the Shadow Man's flagship and ask us to cooperate with them? But isn't this a bit too whimsical? Didn't we also discover the Shadow Man's ship early on? The flagship, but the battleships guarding the nearby area are obviously difficult to deal with. We tried several times but failed to get close to that direction..."
"How many ships do they have?" He couldn't help but ask: "The order we gave them was to stop the Shadowman fleet from supporting the ground. How could they go to that place?"
"No," Bai Xue shook her head resolutely: "I'm afraid that guy has exactly the opposite idea, Guang Ran."
The former was slightly startled and couldn't help but look over with doubt.
But Bai Xue had already picked up the communication crystal, paused for a moment, and then said: "Please pay attention to all fleets and pay attention to the movements of the Shadow Man fleet. The time is now 7:30. In five minutes, Silver Vislan's fleet will Launch a general attack."
She fell silent again, and after a moment, a soft voice sounded in the fleet channel: "Please cooperate with us."
"General attack?"
The fleet communication channel seemed to be silent for a moment, but soon, a response came from there. The first person to speak was from the fleet with the military:
"Okay, we understand."
Then came the voice from the Silver Forest Spear: "Bai Xue, we have also received information from there. I probably understand what you mean... We will try our best to cooperate with your actions next."
"This is Paradise Flowers. We will also cooperate with you from the flanks to launch the charge. Time is limited. I won't say much. I wish you all good luck."
At that moment, lines of ether communication were being transmitted to each other over the battlefield.
The thick wall erected by the Shadow Man's fleet on the frontal battlefield has not changed at all. There is only a slight flash of light inside, as if a small-scale battle is taking place.
But with the entire air and sea battlefield above the Elpaxin Plain at this moment as the background, looking up from the ground in mid-air, looking through the clouds, the fleets of multiple Chosen Ones that are currently surrounding the huge fleet of the Shadow Man are slowly turning. .
The situation on the battlefield seemed to be changing quietly, and on the ground, Zifeiyu was also looking back, looking at the silver-haired girl beside him with some surprise.
He hesitated for a moment before speaking: "The people of Silver Wislan seem to be preparing for a decisive battle with Shadowman's huge fleet. Isn't it too early? If they fail..."
"The commander of Silver Vislan is Bai Xue," Yugudola interrupted the other party lightly: "Although that lady is arrogant, she is actually quite cautious in her command. Besides, I am not familiar with commanding fleets in battle. I don’t have any attainments, and you can’t tell me why if you ask me.”
She shrugged lightly, and while sweeping the snow off her shoulders with her hands, she replied: "At this time, I usually choose to trust the professionals. In this regard, she is much better than me."
"As for us," the silver-haired girl looked at the snow-capped horizon in the distance, and replied, "we can just do our own thing. Since the people of Silver Vislan are preparing to launch a general attack, then we can almost do it." We have to cooperate with them, and they should contact us soon, but we can't keep them waiting too long."
She turned around and said to Zi Feiyu: "Go and inform the other guilds and the redeemed, and tell them that we are also preparing to launch a general attack."
When Yugudola said this, her tone paused slightly.
"Target……"
"Elpaxin."
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