novelraw #222 - Section 222
#222 - Section 222
He nodded to Nicole again, turned into a trickle, and headed for Black Shark Fortress.
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A new day.
In the early morning, the vanguard of the Naga Expeditionary Force took the lead and began to build a blockade line between Black Shark Fortress and the second defense line to prevent Shark from supporting the main battlefield.
At the same time, the main force also started to move, beginning to suppress Black Shark Fortress, forming a siege.
This time, Dole did not take the initiative to attack, relying on the fortress to conduct defensive warfare.
He received Shark's promise that as long as he held on, the second defense line would definitely support Black Shark Fortress, attacking from both the front and rear to lift the enemy's siege.
If it were in the past, Dole would definitely think Shark was bragging.
But now, with the support of the Green Vine Empire behind him, with weapons and equipment that he couldn't fully understand, he would just wait for the other party to come and support him.
Of course, Dole was unwilling to sit back and enjoy the fruits of victory. In fact, he was also accumulating energy. If the Naga revealed any flaws, he would seize the opportunity to prove his ability.
After his last conversation with Roger, Dole also roughly guessed the Empire's expectations.
What they wanted was an obedient vassal, but if this vassal performed well enough, it could also have a certain degree of autonomy.
Ambition and ability, this is where Dole had a greater advantage than Shark.
This one was just a fourth prince born to an ordinary concubine, originally an unimportant existence. He had grown step by step through his own efforts and eventually gained far more prestige than Shark.
"So this time, I will make a greater contribution to prove myself." Shark looked at the endless stream of Naga troops appearing at the fortress, clenched his fists, and revealed a confident smile.
Outside the imperial flag, the Naga raised another blood-colored flag.
Fear appeared in the eyes of the soldiers in the fortress and the ordinary people who were necessary to maintain the fortress. The Naga army was inspired to the highest morale.
The desire for wildness and slaughter stimulated their bloodshot eyes.
This flag represented the slaughter of the city, and also represented that the Holy Maiden had decided to take the city in one fell swoop.
Before, the Naga had advanced all the way, although cold-blooded and cruel, they had not slaughtered any cities, but hoped to incorporate the Sea Country's territory into their ruling area.
The Naga were originally the weaker side, and they needed both population and resources.
Especially for defeated generals and nobles, in the era of enfeoffment, they would usually not be completely exterminated, and there was a chance to redeem important figures during the ceasefire.
This was also for... what if they lost one day?
Just like the ancient Eastern saying that punishments did not apply to high officials, nobles also had unspoken rules.
People like Cromwell who would commit suicide because of defeat were rare, and it was no wonder Shark was shocked.
But now victory and seizing the landing point were more important, and Nicole had also made up her mind to raise the blood-colored flag of slaughter.
The ranged firepower of both sides began to probe each other.
Dole looked at the colorful seawater, walked to the highest tower of the fortress, amplified his voice with magic, and said to all the soldiers and civilians in the city:
"Everyone, I, Fourth Prince Dole, will coexist and die with Black Shark Fortress."
He cut his finger with his sword, and the blood spread in the seawater, and then ordered people to blow up the teleportation array in the city.
This way, all the important officials, including him, could no longer escape.
The Naga raised the flag of slaughter but did not carry out space blockade, hoping that the leaders of the fortress, such as Dole, would abandon the city and flee.
As a result, Dole put on a posture of fighting to the death instead.
"Very good, I want to see what kind of courage the mermaid can show."
Nicole was not surprised either. Slaughtering the city was a psychological tactic. Since it was a tactic, it failed. Anyway, they had an absolute advantage in strength.
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The blockade line established by the Naga Expeditionary Force.
This time, the Naga were not careless. They conducted the most trusted reconnaissance and tentative attacks, and knew how solid Shark had built the second defense line with the help of the Empire.
With Shark's return, the soldiers he lost in the last battle were replenished, and even the strength reached a new peak.
But the Naga didn't want to attack here in the first place. What Nicole wanted now was not territory, but a landing point.
So after confirming that the difficulty of attacking the second defense line was no lower than that of Black Shark Fortress, Nicole decisively gave up attacking this side, and blocked the battlefield to prevent Shark from supporting the main battlefield.
The response of the second defense line was to contain and consume the Naga's strength, constantly trying to break through and posing as if they would do anything to support the main battlefield.
So here, the second defense line was attacking the blockade line established by the Naga's vanguard, but at the same time, small elite troops of the Sea Country were constantly looking for loopholes in the blockade line to attract the attention of the Naga's main force with breakout operations.
With such a combination of punches, the Empire's vanguard could still cope at the beginning, but as time went on, Shark's side created more and more breakout teams, and they became a little overwhelmed.
"Where did the enemy get so many detachments? Don't they only have 60,000 people?" The commander of the blockade line was called Nickel Blue Coral, the son of Vice Marshal Cami of the Expeditionary Force.
He was also the young general who confronted Nicole to avenge Cromwell that day.
He hated Shark to the bone. This time, he took the initiative to issue a military order to nail Shark's army in place to block Shark's army.
"The enemy is now using biochemical fish swarms to consume us. They use five-person reconnaissance teams to command the fish swarms and attack from multiple points, but if we don't care, they will immediately have real breakout reinforcements advancing to the main battlefield."
His subordinate reported the variant of Shark's army's tactics at this time.
Biochemical fish swarms have no command, they need command, but in fact, the command of just one person can exert considerable combat power.
After testing that the combat power of Nickel's unit was not very terrible, Margaret immediately ordered the breakout troops to break into smaller units, leading the biochemical fish swarms to constantly plug the holes along the enemy's blockade line.
If you block, the Sea Country only has a few people. If they run over, the other party will run away, and you will be bombarded by a wave of fish swarms.
If you don't block, a force will soon gather on the Sea Country's side to break through your blockade line.
So Nickel felt like he was playing a whack-a-mole game, but there were more and more moles, and it was difficult to distinguish between real and fake, making his defense line full of loopholes.
"Report to the general, we have detected the location of several enemy coral reefs."
A Naga scout came in to report.
"Bomb them flat! I don't believe that the enemy's annoying bugs can really produce endlessly!"
Nickel immediately perked up.
Swordfish submarine groups, with five ships as a formation, quickly dispersed to the locations detected by the Naga reconnaissance, and then used hydromelons torpedoes that were replaced with 20,000-ton hydrangeas to directly flatten ten small coral base settlements.
The light of the fission weapon, the instantly vaporized air bubbles, the surging waves, the coral and fragments were squeezed into fragments to the limit...
An explosion that swept across several square kilometers at a time and occurred in more than a dozen locations simultaneously appeared on the real battlefield for the first time.
Small summary of this round of rewards
This reward started on the 19th and ended today on the 30th with the anniversary celebration.
Rewards 16700, blades 399, a total of 10 chapters owed
From the 19th to now, 40 chapters have been added on the basis of 4K per day.
So, a little smug~
In addition, if there are props or blades in the backpack, you can throw them again, there should be another wave of outbreaks tonight
Also, I heard someone say that there will be more updates for typos, is this learned from Youmeng?
Should I try it too? It feels dangerous and charming...
Chapter 199 The relationship between sisters is closer
Second defense line, headquarters.
Margaret looked at the enemy's submarine formation appearing on the magic sandbox, and before she could react, the light of her troop deployment point disappeared.
Along with several magic observation posts on the front line, they disappeared together!
"Where is my base? Where are my so many bases? Did the enemy steal them like this?"
She instantly felt bad, angrily asking what the enemy had done.
The damage of the fission bomb explosion includes light, heat, strong electromagnetic waves, and extremely disordered and irregular electromagnetic waves, which also have a strong interference effect on the transmission of magic power.
Therefore, in the places where those explosions occurred, the reconnaissance posts in the core directly failed, and even the ones farther away had no effect. Ten large-scale intelligence black holes appeared on the sandbox.
Such a huge and amazing change naturally caused panic among other people in the headquarters.
Originally, they had the upper hand, relying on the endless biochemical fish swarms to harass the enemy crazily.
Waiting for the Naga's partial army to be exhausted, and then looking for an opportunity to encircle and annihilate them.
The Sea Country is fighting on its own territory, while the Naga are on a long expedition, so eliminating the enemy's strength is always the most effective way to get closer to victory.
From the beginning, the strategy agreed upon by Margaret and the others was not to break through and support Black Shark Fortress, but to annihilate the partial army led by Nickel on the blockade line.
As a result, their layout was well unfolded, and the enemy was overwhelmed by the biochemical fish swarms that broke into smaller units...
Until just now, ten coral settlements for nearby production were erased from the map, which completely exceeded the expectations of Shark's unit.
In everyone's impression, the base coral is still quite hard.
After all, what really piles up the coral body is not the coral polyps, but the inorganic skeleton they secrete, which must be more resistant than ordinary living things.
The skeleton of the base coral was also modified by Lydia, which is equivalent to man-made enchanted armor, with a defensive power equivalent to the walls of a fortress.
But even with such defensive power, the base coral still can't withstand powerful legendary magic, or bombs that instantly release the energy of matter itself.
However, such a huge explosion of hydrangeas could not be concealed.
The sentry guards farther away, the mage's eyes, and the Sea Country troops patrolling nearby sent the scene of the explosion at the ten bases back to the headquarters.
The scene of the underwater mushroom cloud rising shocked everyone.
As the disordered electromagnetic waves gradually subsided and magic could work normally, the mermaids did not dare to directly enter the explosion area, and sent people to photograph the scene of the explosion from the sea surface:
The direct pulverization and evaporation of the core, the seabed torn within a few kilometers, the angry sea was gradually calming down, and the melted high-temperature area was quickly cooled by the sea water, leaving a strangely colored scar on the seabed.
In the explosion area, there was still strong radiation damage, which was not suitable for any life activities in a short time, and it was estimated that this residual damage could last for several years.
Shark and his staff were frightened by this weapon. They frantically ordered the troops who were pretending to break through and harass the front line to shrink back, and at the same time, everyone became alert and searched for the Swordfish submarine formation with all their strength to prevent them from approaching the second defense line.
Although the torpedoes used by the enemy were terrifying, they were not invincible. The existence of range and detonation time, coupled with the fact that there were more powerful defensive magic here, still had countermeasures.
This round was because the Sea Country did not expect the enemy to have this weapon, so they neglected the defense. The base coral on the front line also did not build a shield that could prevent this level of attack in order to save energy.
The main building of the second defense line is definitely not afraid of this kind of explosion.
If skirmish lines were deployed, this weapon could not cover the entire battlefield, and the actual killing effect would be greatly reduced.
At the same time, magic also has sufficient means to protect the real core buildings of the second defense line.
What the Sea Country is worried about now is how many of these weapons the enemy has in their hands, and the maximum equivalent.
Shark's troops are rapidly shrinking. They need more information.
Margaret saw that their command was not in chaos, so she did not interfere, got up and said to Roger with a serious expression:
"Come out, we need to talk!"
Little Joey subconsciously distanced herself from Roger to show that she didn't know anything and was not angered by the low-pressure little devil.
The two went outside, the little devil cast a soundproof magic, and said angrily: "Frankenstein sold this equipment to the Naga, does the Night Watch know?"
"Know." Roger didn't intend to lie and admitted frankly.
"Why didn't you stop her? Or notify me in advance? Are you having fun seeing our plan being interfered with?" Margaret questioned angrily.
"This is a necessary observation. The direct lethality of a new weapon is one aspect, and the deterrent effect on the enemy must also be considered."
Roger paused, "From now on, the deterrent effect is not amazing. Everyone is used to weapons of mass destruction and can quickly calmly deal with this explosion."
"So, I am also an observation object?" Margaret gritted her teeth and said, "I am your partner, your comrade-in-arms, would it have been a loss to tell me in advance and take precautions to prevent those bases from being lost..."
"Necessary losses are necessary. Our real goal is not to help the Sea Country win, but to complete the Empire's strategic deployment."
"So... you think you are right?"
"Of course, who told you that your acting skills are too bad?"
"You are really reasonable!"
Margaret took a deep breath and stomped on Roger's foot.