Chapter 1595: Chapter 1595: King of the New Era
The Minzhou Overseas Three Sects are actually forces that exist between the Cultivation World and the Secular World.
The famous sects usually occupy resource-rich renowned mountains and rivers, and no longer need to plunder resources in this way.
They are even less interested in worldly money and possessions.
The Minzhou Overseas Three Sects are second-rate in the Cultivation World but top-tier in the Secular World.
Using their advantages, they live a lawless life in the Secular World.
Their greatest fear is not the Cultivation World, but the Secular World.
The Cultivation World doesn’t like ddling in others’ affairs, and they haven’t touched the interests of the Cultivation World, so no major sects would waste ti attacking them.
But it’s different in the Secular World. They commit cris at sea, plundering coastal civilians, robbing passing rchant ships, and smuggling between the East and West, all of which are capital cris in the Secular World.
It’s just that the Secular World is not very peaceful now, and their naval strength is weak, so they cannot afford to deal with them.
Now suddenly, with over a hundred unknown warships advancing, Yama and others are more flustered than anyone else.
Ding Mu is ruthless in character. He jumped out of the boat and looked around in the air. Seeing that there were only about a hundred approaching ships, he laughed heartily, “Are the officials out of their minds? Sending a hundred warships, and thinking to destroy the thousand-warship fleet of my Overseas Three Sects?”
Yama and Su Quan followed him out, standing in the air and observing carefully.
Ding Mu asked, “Boss Yan, what’s your word, do we fight or flee?”
Yama’s lips moved slightly, obviously taking the question as disrespectful.
The ssengers he sent were all devoured, how could he easily let them go?
“Fight!”
Yama grunted.
Su Quan echoed, “Then let’s have a fight!”
Ding Mu laughed heartily, “Good, since my two big brothers have decided, let us battle the governnt forces. Our Pirate Sect will lead the charge, with the two big brothers leading your fleets to flank them, ensuring none escape.”
With a thousand warships against a hundred, there was no need to consider tactics, Ding Mu thought.
Yama and Su Quan nodded, returned to their command ships, and imdiately altered formations on the outskirts of Jade Island.
Changing from attacking Jade Island to targeting the unknown fleet ahead.
The pirates howled, altering the sails on their ships, surrounding the opposing fleet from three directions.
Their sails were not ordinary sails, having been refined by Artifact Refining Sect experts with a Gathering Wind Formation.
Inserting Spirit Stones into the masts triggered the Gathering Wind Formation to manipulate Wind Elent Force.
This thod of navigation is a basic operation in this world; larger ships have a big Cyclone Formation, while smaller ones have a small Gathering Wind Formation.
However, ordinary families can’t afford this, and even small rchant ships seldom use it.
A single Spirit Stone could be exchanged for ten Gold Coins, enough to feed an average family for a year.
Pirates plundering have to invest a capital.
In battle, they disregard the cost.
Bags of Spirit Stones were brought up, placed in the masts’ grooves, imdiately illuminating the black pirate ship sails.
A thousand warships’ sails hoist high into the wind, advancing swiftly towards surrounding Chu Feng and his n.
Chu Feng watched intently, summoning the commander of this expedition, the newly established Five Navies from the land-based Five Armies in South Yangtze Prefecture.
The first nad the Central Naval Command, mainly responsible for the safety of South Yangtze Prefecture, with additional four routes to be established after shipbuilding.
The central naval force leader is Lei Baiyuan.
This young lad, although a collateral mber of the Lei Family, has risen to prominence within the new forces of South Yangtze Prefecture.
After quelling the Southern Capital City rebellion, he was promoted to leader of the Collaborative Defense Army, then after the Snake Island Rebellion, promoted to Vanguard Army Provisional Commander, and earned rit in the Huai River Battle.
Upon the establishnt of the Five Navies, the Capital Commandant is his role.
Ji Wanrong intentionally promotes new military forces to restrain old military powers on land, to balance South Yangtze Prefecture’s military strength.
Accompanying Lei Baiyuan’s promotion, those early participants of the Southern Capital Academy’s Collaborative Defense Camp have now beco the backbone of the armies.
Lei Baiyuan picked up a communication device specially crafted by the Yin Yang Sect’s Artifact Refining Division, resembling a walkie-talkie shaped tallic box.
However, it’s powered by Spirit Stones, inscribed with Sound Transmission Runes.
The runes can combine and transform, akin to building blocks, toggling up and down.
By adjusting the runes, different frequencies can be tuned for communicating with different individuals.
It’s similar to the outside world’s walkie-talkies, but more cost-effective, stable in signal, and able to transform signals, greatly loved by soldiers and officers.
This invention caught Ji Wanyu’s eye, planning to persuade Lin Shanshan to collaborate, to develop the civilian market together.
The only drawback is due to the small size of the sound transmission array, it’s limited to a tal box, thus the transmission distance is short.
Tests show it can only transmit up to three thousand kiloters.
Currently, the Artifact Refining Division is working on modifications, with so daring plans to launch satellites into the Celestial Realms.
However, the Celestial Realms’ Fierce Wind in this world is trendously powerful, incomparable to the outside world.
This plan has not yet been realized.
After Lei Baiyuan gave the order, the fleet swiftly split into three routes.
Twenty warships on each flank to contend with the encircling pirate warships, and sixty warships facing the Pirate Sect head-on.
Ding Mu of the Pirate Sect had already underestimated the fleet in front of him. Now seeing them split into three, he couldn’t help but laugh out loud on his command ship, “Children of the officials, thinking to split forces against the enemy with such few numbers? Your commander is undoubtedly too dim-witted!”
He personally blew the horn made from a cow horn, ordering three hundred warships to advance with full force, only waiting to fire on the enemy once within range.
When the distance between them was over twenty thousand ters, the pirates’ cannons all rose simultaneously.
This latest type of adjustable-angle cannon was ordered at great expense by the pirates, crafted by craftsn from the Western World.
Throughout the Eastern Continent, such items were unheard of.
Ding Mu coldly stared at the sixty warships ahead, as if they were ready for the taking.
He cried out loudly, “Victory!”
All the pirates aboard the Pirate Sect’s warships, caught in excitent, waved their swords and shouted, “Victory!”
“Victory!”
“Victory!”
“…”
The roars reached the heavens, like a pack of savage beasts.
Before the echoes faded, a deep rumbling from the distant warships echoed, rumbling like an avalanche, sending shockwaves rippling in all directions.
Beams of light shot skyward, as if tiny, radiant suns traced arcs through the sky, converging upon them in unison.
The pirates stood dumbfounded, staring at these blinding white lights, not yet comprehending what was happening, when a monuntal boom rang in their ears.
The explosion was imnse, like thunder erupting.
The eardrums of many were instantly shattered, followed by a massive shockwave, wrapped in fiery heat, reducing them to ash, dissipating one by one.
The pirate warships, weighing hundreds of tons, erupted in the trendous explosion, bursting apart like snowflakes soaring skyward, then fell mixed with seawater onto the sea surface with clatter.
Chu Feng, standing on the opposing lookout tower, laughed heartily, “Little brats, welco to the new era. The king of this sea area shall belong to , Chu Feng, from now on!”
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