Codex Pirates

Chapter 256 is a punch

In the captain's room, William took back the decoded and translated letter from the last cadre.

The people in the room had different expressions and different thoughts, Tony was the first to say: "That's the Golden Lion Shiki, who was once as famous as the Pirate King Roger, even if he is old, it may not be those of us who don't even know the great route." Juniors who have never been there can be enemies."

"Then Harden's suffering was for nothing? The people on board died for nothing?" Edmund said dissatisfied.

"Of course I don't mean that," Tony frowned. "We can endure the humiliation and bear the burden as we did when we dealt with Barbarossa the Redbeard, agreeing to join the Golden Lion Shiji's banner, and then we can seize his inheritance if we find an opportunity."

Dampier shook his head when he heard the words, and before Edmund refuted again, he had already expressed his opinion: "The current situation is different from when you faced Barbarossa. Crowe has already said in the letter that Jin Lion Shiji looks down on the Donghai people. The reason why he still wants to recruit Harden and even William is because he wants to smoothly receive the forces under our control, such as the shipyard, the Four Seas Trading Company, the Flash Gold Bank, etc. He does not want these places to cause turmoil , before coming, he was still worried about the lack of manpower, so he specially found some old troops to go to the island, in order to better control the forces in the East China Sea. You took refuge in the past, which was exactly what he wanted, and he immediately had the name and the opportunity to take over smoothly. Everything, William may still have some status in front of Shiji at that time, but most of them will be emptied, and our group, under the pick and choose of the Golden Lion Shiji, the rest can only be dismissed."

Edmund heard the words, and sneered at Tony: "It is estimated that if you really surrender to the past, you can only be dismissed."

Edmund dislikes Tony very much. Although he is also a high-level person from Hongye Village, he has never gotten along well with Tony. The most important thing is that he has recently received some rumors about the gathering of cadres from Hongye Village organized by Tony. He thinks that Tony She is purely clever, but in reality she is beyond foolish.

"You!" Tony was humiliated in public, causing his complexion to change slightly.

William, who had been silent all this time, raised his hand and pressed down, so Tony stopped arguing with Edmund, and everyone else looked at William and remained silent.

"Golden Lion Shiji hijacked one of our ships without making a sound, killed so many of us, and finally wanted to take away our hard-earned business. If he continues to swallow his anger, he will only treat us as mud Yes, you can flatten and round it at will," William glanced at the cadres in front of him one by one, "If this continues, our bargaining chips will become less and less, and the success of resistance will become less and less. If they go further in the future, we will have to Take a step back, and finally retreat again and again until there is no way to retreat, so the actual situation before us is that although the East China Sea is big, we have no way to retreat.”

Everyone fell silent, even those who had opposed the war with the Golden Lion Shiji before, such as Tony, bowed their heads and pondered at this moment.

William was not angry with Tony. In fact, the cadres under him were already quite harmonious because of his prestige and strength.

As William once said to Koshiro, it is just luck to find a group of people with similar temperaments as companions, and it is the means to bring together a group of people with different personalities.

The backgrounds and personalities of the various cadres under him are different, and they are not robots, so it is impossible for them to react the same when they encounter things.

"So what we are discussing now is not whether we should fight or not," William tapped his index finger on the table lightly, making a beeping sound, which attracted everyone's attention again, "but how we should fight!"

Sherlock, who had been silent all this time, picked up Crowe's letter from William's desk and read it: "Crowe said that there are actually many people at the Golden Lion Shiji, including the original subordinates, plus the recent ones. Some of the old ministries that have converged, and besides Melville, there are many floating islands that also have manpower distributed, plus all kinds of beasts that may be encountered, we also need enough manpower if we want to go to war."

"Also, where are we going to fight? On the ground or at sea? Or..." Dampier continued, pointing to the direction of the top of his head halfway through the conversation, "Fight in the sky?"

"Of course we will fight at their place. If we fight here, the situation we have worked hard for several years will be in ruins," William said. "We have hot air balloons and airships, and we are not afraid of fighting in the sky."

"In that case, there will be a lot of hot air balloons and airships." Sherlock pushed his glasses, "I don't know when the golden lion Shiji will appear, and how long it will give us to prepare. The factory has to work overtime. Race against time."

"I'm going to publish a campaign mobilization in the newspaper. What the Golden Lion Shiji wants to destroy is the entire East China Sea. People in the East China Sea have the right to know about this, and they should also contribute to defending their hometown," William said.

No one mentioned that Shiji, the golden lion, gave up destroying the East China Sea under Crowe's persuasion, and wanted to rule the East China Sea instead.

Aramis twitched his lips: "Do you want to do public opinion work with the Fifth Commercial Affairs Office?"

William nodded: "Yeah, at least let the people of the East China Sea know who is risking their lives for this sea area."

"Will this affect too much? It will attract the attention of the World Government or the Navy Headquarters?" Sherlock asked, pressing his temple.

"So we not only have to prepare for the fight against the Golden Lion Shiji, but also prepare for the worst possible fight with the people from the Navy Headquarters." Those who can really threaten the dominance of the world government and the navy headquarters and shake their fundamental forces are all on the great route, so they can't mobilize too much force to come to the weakest sea area of ​​the East China Sea, but they won't be too weak. We have Fight, and we must fight, we can never fail to attract the attention of the World Government and the Navy Headquarters, this is called fighting with one punch, so as not to avoid a hundred punches!"

"The East China Sea is the weakest sea area in the eyes of the world. If there is no such a fight, people like Jinshi Shiji will emerge in endlessly in the future. Moreover, for now, we still have no attitude and attitude to threaten the dominance of the world government." Fighting such a battle will also make the World Government and the Navy Headquarters realize that it is easier to recruit us than to encircle and suppress us." William said.

Of course, William still has some thoughts to say, that is, in the worst situation, the people of the World Government and the Navy Headquarters are all in a daze. The forces that came to the East China Sea to capture and encircle William, and if William couldn't beat them, could only start a guerrilla war in another world in the East China Sea. Changes, the people of the world government and navy could not insist on quitting.

This is also the reason why William specifically ordered to make speeches in newspapers. To fight guerrilla warfare, there must be a mass base.