424 The Battle Begins
Ten days later.
New world, all nations.
Ten Thousand Kingdoms is not an island, but an entire sea area.
In this sea area, Cake Island is the main body, together with the general name of 34 surrounding islands.
And this sea area is the home base of the BIGMOM pirates.
Originally, except for Cake Island where BIGMOM is located, each of the remaining 34 islands was governed by a minister. If one did not consider its pirate nature, this complete management system could even be regarded as a kingdom.
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In fact, except for the red-haired pirates, the other three four emperors have basically formed their own kingdom-like existence.
However, now, except for a few ministers from all countries, all the other ministers have left all countries with BIGMOM and joined forces with Kaido to prepare to attack the navy headquarters.
And it is less than 30 nautical miles away from Cake Island.
A huge fleet appeared here. The strange thing is that even though it has penetrated deep into the waters of all nations, no one has discovered the existence of this fleet.
Normally, this is indeed impossible.
However, the existence of Violet made all this possible.
Whenever a ship is found approaching the visual range along the way, the fleet will avoid it under Violet's guidance.
In the end, the entire fleet was able to arrive here quietly without anyone noticing.
"General, we have confirmed Charlotte Owen, Charlotte Dafu, and Charlotte Bassands on Cake Island."
"I got it, keep monitoring!"
Li Yan nodded, then took out his mobile phone and wrote three words on it.
【Already in place!】
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At the same time, the Navy Headquarters.
More than three hundred warships, large and small, are already arrayed on the sea.
This is already all the warships that the headquarters can mobilize, excluding the necessary remaining troops in various places.
And just a few kilometers away, a larger fleet was gradually approaching.
Different from the navy which has almost all standard warships, the fleet opposite has a variety of ships of various shapes and sizes, just like a hodgepodge.
However, two ships among them are very eye-catching, they are the main ships of the BIGMOM Pirates and the Kaido Pirates.
"Marshal, we have entered the shooting range!"
"Start attacking!"
"yes!"
The next moment, more than thirty warships at the front of the naval camp opened fire.
The reason why only more than thirty warships opened fire was because the Warring States Period had only purchased warships from Li Yan before, which were made of Adam's wood and equipped with rifled cannons.
As for other standard warships, they are only equipped with old-fashioned front-loading smoothbore cannons, with a maximum range of less than one kilometer.
To be honest, Akainu was a little nostalgic for Aokiji at this time. If this guy was here and froze the sea surface, all the pirate ships on the opposite side would be living targets.
However, since I have left, there is no point in thinking about it now.
At this moment, Li Yan's message also came from Akainu's cell phone.
【Already in place!】
【action!】
He raised the corners of his mouth slightly, said these two words quickly, and then continued to direct.
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Three kilometers away.
United Pirate Fleet.
Boom boom boom boom...
Wave after wave of artillery shells, spanning a distance of three kilometers, hit quickly.
Although most of the cannonballs were intercepted in the air, after all, there were only a limited number of pirates who could intercept the cannonballs safely, so many of them still hit the fleet hard.
Fortunately, the distance is still far and the hit rate is not very high.
After three waves of bombardment, only one pirate ship was directly hit, and two pirate ships were damaged due to near-missiles.
"Didn't you see the East China Sea Fleet?"
"Yes mom, the East China Sea Fleet is not here!"
Standing at the bow of the ship, Charlotte Lingling glared at Katakuri.
East China Sea Fleet...
Nowadays, pirates have a nightmare that once they encounter it, they can never escape it.
There is even a saying that has been spread among the pirate community.
Once you encounter the East China Sea Fleet, surrender directly, there is no escape!
Therefore, the news that the East China Sea Fleet arrived ten days ago and defeated thirty pirate groups in one fell swoop made them attach great importance to it and made many plans to eliminate this biggest threat as soon as possible.
But now...
Are you telling me that the East China Sea Fleet is not here?
Where did that go?
"Mom, there must be something wrong here. We'd better be careful."
Katakuri said worriedly.
At this moment, he always had a bad premonition.
On the other side, on Kaido's ship, Yan Catastrophe was also reporting the situation to Kaido.
He has personally experienced the power of the East China Sea Fleet.
Moreover, the East China Sea Fleet at that time was only a previous generation of warships, not today's ironclads.
Therefore, today's East China Sea Fleet makes him very afraid.
As for Kaido, he was also severely beaten by the East China Sea Fleet. He was bombarded with armor-piercing bombs for half an hour on Corona Island, and finally escaped with serious injuries.
However, he was the only one at that time, now...
He wasn't worried at all.
Didn’t I tell you that you didn’t see it?
Since I didn't see it, that means that even if the East China Sea Fleet was ambushing it, it would be at least twenty or thirty kilometers away, right?
Even if you fight out now, you won't be able to hit yourself, right?
And when they got close enough to attack, the pirates were already fighting with their own troops.
Do you still dare to shoot me?
Therefore, Kaido did not panic at all.
Despite Kaido's appearance on the surface, in fact, this guy has the city in his heart, but he is not stupid at all.
It's interesting to say that most of the powerful people in the pirate world, who appear to be unsmart or unreliable on the surface, are often the shrewdest people.
So is Cap.
This is the case with Kizaru.
The same goes for Kaido!
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ten minutes later.
After paying the price of dozens of pirate ships, the two sides finally got close enough to fight.
Not only those warships purchased from the East China Sea, but all warships were participating in the bombardment at this moment.
For a moment, shells were flying all over the sky, and explosions continued everywhere, making it very lively.
At the same time, those who could walk on the moon and had the ability to fly also jumped out of the fleets of both sides and started fighting in the air.
What I have to say is that the combat navy in the air took advantage of everything.
After all, pirates have not popularized the Sixth Naval Style, and not many people know it. They mainly rely on those with the ability to fly Devil Fruit.
As for the navy, as long as they are major general or above, they can basically perform the six-style moon step, and below the major general, even among school-level officers, there are quite a few who can perform the moon step.
Therefore, there is a big gap in the number of pirates' aerial combat power compared to that of the navy.
Although on such a high-end battlefield, school-level officers are basically cannon fodder, but it is also very fun to set up a sniper rifle in the air on moon steps and play support sniping, isn't it?
Therefore, the strong ones fought in close quarters at the front, while the weak ones, who were good at moonwalking, carried sniper rifles and kept shooting at the back to interfere.
With such a combination, the pirates' aerial combat power immediately fell into a disadvantage.
It's not like no one has thought about rushing over and directly engaging in these blackmails.
But the problem is...
They were hiding behind, and there were machine gun towers on the warships below to cover them, so it was really hard to get close.
There were even a few pirates who did this and were immediately beaten into a hornet's nest.
However, as the distance between the fleets of both sides gets closer and closer, this advantage of the navy is gradually being consumed.
Finally, a fierce boarding battle...
Chapter completed!