At this moment, Warring States was a little dumbfounded.
On the other side, Whitebeard was also a little dumbfounded.
It has been more than an hour since the war started, but what is the result?
On the sea, more than thirty affiliated pirate groups have been killed. Except for the captains or powerful cadres who are still struggling to support themselves, most of the others are lying on the ground. On the ice, life or death is unknown.
On the inner bay side, the pirates were still blocked on the ice and were unable to break through the defense line and enter the square.
If you can't rush up to the square here, how can you go to the execution platform to save people?
The most important thing is that until now...
Except for freezing the sea at the beginning, the three generals have not taken action so far.
Even the two general candidates, Peach Rabbit and Tea Dolphin, didn't take action, let alone Garp.
Only tens of thousands of marines, plus more than a dozen lieutenant generals, were able to block the crazy offensive of the Whitebeard Pirates. It was a fool's errand.
To say why this happens, the reason is...
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An hour ago.
On the outer sea and on the ice in the inner bay, the battle started almost at the same time.
No matter who looks at it, the navy's first line of defense located in the square will definitely not be able to stop the Whitebeard Pirates. After all, it only has 10,000 sailors and ten lieutenant generals.
The situation is the same in the outer sea. How can hundreds of sailors stop the pirates with more than 8,000 people?
Not to mention, there are more than thirty captains and hundreds of officers among them.
Along with these captains and cadres, they may be weaker than the captains of the divisions directly under the Whitebeard Pirates, but they are not much weaker.
Therefore, the failure of the navy is obvious.
At least, that's what 99% of people speculate.
However...
Reality slapped everyone hard.
The eleven steel battleships frozen on the ice first used their main guns to continuously bombard the pirate army. After they got closer, their secondary guns also joined in.
Even when the two sides were about to come into contact, the anti-aircraft cannons on the warship were leveled and fired.
This firepower was simply ridiculously strong, causing hundreds of casualties to the pirates.
Of course, hundreds of people were nothing compared to a scale of more than 8,000 people. In the end, the pirates still rushed in front of the sixteen branch sailors, with only 200 meters left.
As a result, four hundred sailors raised their guns and fired.
This made the pirates look disdainful.
Musket?
Just use it to deal with pirates from all over the world.
Let alone the new world, this thing is the first half of the Grand Line, and no pirates in the park will be afraid of it.
However, when hundreds of bullets hit at the next moment, the pirates at the front suddenly froze and then fell down.
Before anyone else could react, the second wave of shooting started again!
But this time, not only the people in front fell down, but also several people in the charging formation behind them fell down.
What's more important is that those people are not ordinary pirates, but several cadres, and they are Devil Fruit users!
Only then did the captains notice that there were dozens of people on the bows of the warships, holding a very strange gun and sniping at them.
That's right, that's the sniper team commanded by Usopp. The guns in their hands are different from other marines. They are all sniper rifles.
At this moment, their mission is to specifically snipe and kill the ability users in the pirate team.
As soon as you find any pirate using Devil Fruit abilities, kill him immediately!
Therefore, with the heavy firepower of the warship and the light firepower of the navy, the last two hundred meters directly became the death zone for the pirates.
After suffering more than a thousand casualties, they finally passed and were strangled with the marines of the four squadrons.
Therefore, even though they suffered horrific casualties, they still rushed forward. 6,000 people versus 400 people. The advantage was still on the side of the navy?
Basically every pirate thinks so.
But the current situation still slapped them hard.
There are obviously only 400 of these sailors, but each one of them is as strong as a monster. Beating these pirates will be relaxing and enjoyable.
Only the cadres in each pirate group can fight them back and forth, and some powerful ones can deal with 2 or 3 sailors at the same time.
As for the captain, initially, the pirates did have some numerical advantage.
After all, there are more than thirty pirate groups, with almost 200 officers alone, not to mention more than thirty captains.
Don't forget, these thirty or so pirate groups are not ordinary pirate groups, but all famous pirate groups in the New World, and their strength is naturally not weak.
However, as ordinary pirates were dealt with like wheat, more and more sailors were freed up to join the battle against officers and captains, and the situation soon changed.
In particular, Ace, Sophia, and several members of the original CP9 all killed a captain each, which also forced other captains to come to support and deal with their powerful navy.
As a result, a vicious circle has been formed, and the balance is constantly tilting towards the Sixteenth Branch.
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On the ice in the outer sea, the battle is raging.
The Inner Bay side has also entered a period of intense heat.
It has to be said that the combat effectiveness of the directly-affiliated squads is still one level higher than that of the affiliated pirate groups, especially the top-ranked squads.
But here, the navy they need to face is also much stronger in terms of numbers and strength than on the battlefield outside the sea.
However, they don't care much about the number of ordinary sailors.
As soon as they made contact, the pirates suppressed the navy.
After all, as I said before, in terms of grassroots combat power, the individual strength of pirates is far stronger than that of the navy.
But soon, with the addition of an army, the situation immediately began to change.
Lucci, Kaku, and Gabra, with 200 marines, divided into three groups and entered the battlefield.
Especially Lu Qi, as soon as he entered the battlefield, before everyone could react, he directly knocked away Izo, the captain of the 16th division, with a kick.
"Captain Izo!"
"Damn navy, come together and kill him!"
Seeing this, the members of Division 16 shouted one by one and charged towards Lu Qi.
However, the dozen or so people who rushed over at first were all knocked down by Lu Qi in an instant, which made the people behind him startled and confused, and instinctively stopped in their tracks.
At this time, Lu Qi suddenly felt something and stepped aside.
The next moment, just as Lu Qi was avoiding it, something black hit him hard.
boom...
In an instant, a big hole was made in the ground, and gravel and dust were flying.
After a while, others also understood what was falling from the sky.
That was caused by Marco covering his right foot with his weapon color and kicking it down from the air.
"Captain Marco!"
"Izo was a little injured, but he is fine. Leave him to me and you can move on!"
"Yes, Captain Marco!"
The surrounding pirates responded, then shouted and charged towards the naval defense line.
Marco looked at the man in front of him.
No impression, no impression at all. Who is this guy?
"Marco the Phoenix?"
"You're lucky to be on Lieutenant General Sean's no-kill list!"
Lu Qi said lightly, then shouted "Shaving", and then quickly rushed towards Marco.
At the same time, on the left side of the defense, Kaku faced Couliel, who was leading the attack of the 10th Division.
On the right side of the defense, Gabra faced Harta from the 12th Division.
Although they didn't get rid of the captain quickly like Lu Qi did, they all had the upper hand without exception and beat the opponent back steadily. I believe they can win it soon.
Of course, when the Whitebeard Pirates saw this scene, they would not let it go.
Next to the 10th Division, the 7th Division, Rakyue immediately rushed to Kuliel and joined forces with him to fight against Kaku.
The fishman Namur of Division 8 also rushed to Halta to deal with Gabra together.
As for the other division captains, except for Jozi, who was still guarding Whitebeard, the others also fought with a certain lieutenant general of the headquarters.
The battle front for a while...
Deadlocked!
But this stalemate will definitely not last long.
Because whether it's Kaku's side or Gabra's side, their opponents are already in a weak situation.
As for Lu Qi...
In less than ten minutes, Marco had been completely suppressed!
What was in front of Marco at this moment was not Lu Qi in his normal state, nor Lu Qi in his human-animal form, but...
Lu Qi in the awakened state.
Compared to the human-leopard form, it has a slender figure, and its shoulders are wrapped with black flame clouds.