Warcraft Eternal Tree.

Chapter 314 Pursuit or Temptation
After discussing the feasibility of the strategy with Yorick, Yu Fei began to implement the plan to attack Earls Harbor.The first step of the plan still requires the efforts of human pirates. Considering that the newly joined pirates do not have a high degree of recognition of the pirate group, and may not be able to implement the plan perfectly, Yorick personally dispatched according to Yu Fei's order.

Captain Mandel is the supreme commander of a warship belonging to the Seventh Fleet of Thebesia Kingdom.On this day, as usual, he was escorting a convoy of the Chamber of Commerce to a harbor in the east with two other warships.

Half lying on the deck chair in the captain's cabin, Captain Mandel gently shook the cup in his hand, and then drank the fine wine in the cup.Such a life is really pleasant!Tasting the wine with his eyes closed, Captain Mandel sighed in his heart.

The Seventh Fleet is the fleet of the Kingdom of Thebesia stationed in Earls Harbor. It is responsible for guarding the safety of Earls Harbor and escorting some unarmed sea caravans for a fee.For the past 100 years or so, the pirates have been exhausted in this sea area, and for the pirates, Earls Harbor is not as rich in oil and water as other prosperous seaports, so the pressure on the Seventh Fleet is very small.

After tasting the wine, Captain Mandel walked out of the captain's cabin and came to the deck.Looking at the other two warships escorting the caravan together, Captain Mandel felt uncomfortable.

Really, isn't it just a merchant ship that transports some low-level magic cores and low-quality magic crystals? Why send three warships to escort them.There is no pirate activity in this area at all, and there will be no pirates who will confront my regular navy of the Kingdom of Dibexi because of these materials that are of little use to them.

In fact, it is enough for me to escort Mandel with a warship.Glancing at this small caravan again, Captain Mandel came to a conclusion in his mind.

No wonder Captain Mandel thought so.The Seventh Fleet is paid to escort merchant ships, and half of the remuneration paid by the caravan will be allocated to the warships performing the mission.For the same remuneration, three ships and one ship can get different, that's why Captain Mandel complained that the fleet's superiors didn't allow him to use one ship to perform the escort mission.

However, Captain Mandel soon stopped complaining that there were too many warships escorting the caravan. Instead, he felt that the superiors of the fleet should send more warships to perform escort missions.Because, in the sight of Captain Mandel, more than a dozen ships appeared in the distance.

When these ships were in the distance, Captain Mandel didn't pay attention to them, thinking they were other merchant ships or something.But when the dozen or so ships gradually approached Captain Mandel's fleet, and the skeleton pirate flags common to all worlds hung on those ships, Captain Mandel panicked.

What's the situation? !How could there be pirates in this sea area?Even Captain Mandel, who was very proud of his Royal Navy status, had cold hands and feet at this time.

Although they bear the name of a regular navy, the strength of these three warships is indeed stronger than that of ordinary pirates, and they can barely do it with one against two or even one against three.However, the pirates that appear now have a total of fourteen ships, eleven more than them.

With a gap of nearly five times, without even communicating with each other, the three warships chose to flee at the same time.As for the merchant ships they escorted, they were too slow to take them with them, so they could only ask for luck.

However, although the three warships chose to escape, the pirate ships did not give up their pursuit.Two of the fourteen pirate ships were assigned to manage or plunder those merchant ships, while the other pirate ships were chasing after the three warships.

Captain Mandel, who looked back at this scene, couldn't help cursing.Are these pirates crazy?They actually came to pursue the kingdom's regular navy!Let those merchant ships that were abandoned by us not be snatched, why come after us!
Although feeling aggrieved, both Captain Mandel and the captains of the other two warships knew that their mere three warships would definitely not be able to defeat the pursuing enemy, so they chose to continue to run away sullenly.

However, seeing those pirate ships chasing after him, Captain Mandel showed a sneer on his face, and silently returned to the captain's cabin from the deck.

As the temporary chief of the three warships escorting the caravan this time, Captain Mandel was issued a magic communication device as usual.If the group of pirates did not choose to pursue, Captain Mandel was not going to use this communication device to notify the friendly forces at the port to come for help.

Because the pirates have always been resolute, by the time the reinforcements arrived, the caravan would have been looted, and the pirates would have disappeared without a trace.But since these lifeless pirates chose to pursue, they must pay the price.

Captain Mandel, who returned to the captain's room, activated the magic communication device and notified the superiors of the Seventh Fleet in Port Earls of what had just happened and the current situation that twelve pirate ships were chasing them.

This magic communication device is only a one-way communication, and Captain Mandel has not received a response from the port.However, he is very confident that the Seventh Fleet, which has not been provoked by pirates for a long time, will definitely have drastic countermeasures.When the time comes. Looking at the pirate ship still trailing behind, Captain Mandel let out a few sinister smiles.

The pirate ship following the three fleeing warships did not know what Captain Mandel was doing, so they followed the three warships at a leisurely pace.Over time, Captain Mandel also discovered something was wrong.

What are these pirates up to?When the warship speeds up, they also speed up, and when the warship slows down, they also slow down, just hanging not too close or far away, rushing up to attack without speeding up, and not giving up.Don't these pirates know that Earls Harbor is not very far from here?

Soon, though, Captain Mandel put the question behind him, for in his mind the amusing pirates had been condemned to death—reinforcement from the fleet had arrived.

Looking at the eight warships approaching in the distance, the nervousness on Captain Mandel's face disappeared immediately.The combat power of the regular navy is much stronger than that of ordinary pirates. The eight warships that came to aid and the three ships on my side can already easily destroy the twelve pirate ships that have been chasing him.

However, according to the character of his boss, he should dispatch twenty warships at once to deal with these pirates with overwhelming strength, so as to warn other pirates, right?Why only eight warships were sent?Captain Mandel had some doubts in his heart.

However, thinking that the existing warships were enough to destroy the pursuing pirates, Captain Mandel didn't think about it any more, and turned the bow of the ship to meet the pursuing pirates.

Taking advantage of the fact that the pirates haven't found the reinforcements of the fleet because of sight problems, I have to entangle these bold pirates first.Otherwise, when they saw the eight warships, they would definitely run away. If so, wouldn't they be able to avenge themselves for being chased so far?Captain Mandel thought so in his heart.

Very cooperatively, those pirate ships actually started to fight Captain Mandel and the others.Although it was a scale of three to twelve, the throwing stones and the giant crossbow flew together, and the arrows danced with the semaphore, and for a while it was surprisingly impressive.

Captain Mandel was still a little apprehensive at the beginning of the battle, after all, the number of opponents was temporarily four times that of his own.Unexpectedly, after the battle started, Captain Mandel discovered that the pirates who were bold enough to pursue the regular navy were not very strong.

Hehe~~ Twelve pirate ships only slightly suppressed our three warships, and when the eight friendly warships behind catch up, won't it be a matter of minutes to defeat you?Although he was temporarily at a disadvantage, Captain Mandel felt very comfortable in his heart, as if he had seen the scene when the pirates on the opposite side were wiped out.

However, the more he hit it, the more something was wrong with Captain Mandel.Captain Mandel realized what was wrong when the twelve pirate ships fought against the twelve pirate ships for a quarter of their spells, and the three warships were already heavily scarred.

Where are our reinforcements? !The eight warships are obviously not far from here, why haven't we joined the battlefield after fighting for so long?Captain Mandel, who was full of doubts and uneasiness in his heart, temporarily handed over the heavy responsibility of commanding the battle to the first officer, while he hurried to the stern to observe the situation of the reinforcements.

This observation, what Captain Mandel saw made his whole body collapse.Of the eight naval warships originally thought to be the saviors, there were only two left at this time, and these two ships looked like they were about to sink.

As for the other six ships, just look at the six eddies on the sea surface that are gradually disappearing, and you will know that they have already sunk.The chief culprit of all this was the ten ships whose hulls were all painted black and appeared here at some unknown time.

The last scene that caught Captain Mandel's eyes was the situation where the remaining two reinforcement warships turned around and fled, but were directly shot and exploded by the rain of arrows pouring from the pitch-black ship with huge energy.Then, he passed out and didn't know anything.

Captain Mandel was lucky, he didn't suffer the shame of being captured by pirates when he was sober - because he took a fancy to these three warships, Yu Fei chose to capture these three warships that had lost the courage to resist .

Those twelve pirate ships were all human pirates from the Iron Anchor Pirates, and they did the seemingly stupid behaviors according to Yu Fei's plan.And after seeing that the regular navy of Thebesia Kingdom, which in their eyes is powerful in fighting power, has no power to resist under the attack of those mysterious black-clothed pirates, the rebellious pirates also obeyed all of Yu Fei's orders.

After successfully killing the eight warships in Port Earls and capturing three of them, the human pirates followed Yu Fei's order to send out several pirate ships to transport the supplies they had obtained back to Iron Anchor Island. .The other human pirates followed the ten dark ships towards Earls Harbor.

(End of this chapter)