Realm of Power

In the silent sea, my ears are filled with the sound of waves crashing over me. The waves of undercurrents surging in the darkness retreat with repeated impacts. The densely packed wooden barrels floating in the port also follow the waves. Rolling into the sea in front of the port, on the sea in the distance, there are bright lights and super Passing the scene of two hundred large merchant ships crowded together, the lights on the upper and lower floors seemed to cover the sea with a layer of golden color. Some of the wooden barrels that first drifted over with the backflow entered this bright area. In the dark night, you can still vaguely hear the sound of wooden barrels hitting the bottom of the hull.

"Sir, send the signal, we may be discovered at any time!"

The officer next to him had a slightly trembling voice and asked for instructions from Pu Luo, whose whole body was stiff. He was too close and the barrels hit the other side's hull. The other side would definitely take a look. Once he found so many barrels flowing backward from the port, Come, maybe first It's a sweeping fire strike. Under the God of Thunder, there may not even be a single person alive here. Everyone's nerves are tense to the extreme, and some people are even ready to run away. "Wait a minute. , wait until the barrel passes before getting closer.”

Sweat was flowing on Pu Luo's cheeks. He was scared to death in his heart and his legs were trembling. But thinking that his son's life and death depended on this moment, he took a big breath and everyone's eyes looked at the distance like a giant beast on the sea. The huge fleet, generally looking at Puluo, in such a short few minutes, it feels like A full hundred years later, they were fortunate that the imperial fleet on the sea did not come out for inspection. In the middle of the night, most people were fast asleep. Because it was the safe area of ​​the port, the mast lookout post was There were no lookouts. It was a beautiful and peaceful night. The smooth sailing ahead made everyone relax their vigilance.

Moreover, the backflow speed on the sea surface is very fast. It can cover a distance of several meters in one second. Even if it is hundreds of meters, it only takes more than ten seconds.

"Okay, let's send the signal." Prolo's face was ferocious, and the sound coming from his nose seemed to have been exhausted. A Biang officer lit a torch towards the cliff of the port. He lifted it up and turned it in a circle. A red dot also lit up on the cliff. He also turned it in a circle.

"Okay, let's withdraw." Pro raised his hand and shouted to the sweating Biang soldiers behind him.

As the signal was sent, one mile upstream of the port, ten clippers loaded with kerosene floated down the current like ghosts in the night. The triangular sails on them were fully opened, and the sharp bows at the front split the water waves. , in the dark night is like the sound of a sharp knife splitting cloth, here is A concave bay in the upper reaches of Melbourne Harbor, it used to be a small wharf for fishermen. Generally, people who are not from Melbourne will not pay attention to this place. Not to mention, the Sunrise Chamber of Commerce is just a chamber of commerce. Even the Military Intelligence Department Even the Sunrise Chamber of Commerce doesn’t know the information that they don’t know much about.

This is the advantage of local operations, weather, location, and people, two of which are the easiest to obtain in local operations. Brandt stayed in Melbourne Port for three years. His biggest hobby is fishing, and he always starts from here. Hiring a fishing boat to go out to sea is very clear about the direction of the ocean currents in this sea area.

In the dark night, Brandt had arrived here from the Xineng Palace on the cliff and was sitting in person. At this moment, he was holding the side of the ship with his hands, staring at the ten clippers moving away with the ocean current, and couldn't help but clasping his fingers together. ,, on the black and silent sea beside him, a fleet of twenty large merchant ships was sailing. Silent like wolves in the darkness, there are nervous-looking sailors and soldiers in heavy armor. The sound of sea water hitting the side of the ship makes people's nerves more nervous. The hull of the ship fluctuates with the waves, and the fluctuations are even more disturbing. Each of these twenty merchant ships carries 300 people, which is a total of 6,000 people.

From now on, everyone on the deck has raised their heads and looked neatly into the distance.

The black line emerging under the hazy moonlight is the Port of Merle below, less than a mile away. The moonlight above makes the sea surface seem to be sprinkled with a layer of silver powder. The water is awe-inspiring and beautiful in calmness. Revealing boundless murderous intent, the ten clippers loaded with kerosene were like ten huge arrow clusters leaving the bowstring, swooping towards the prey below.

"Can it be successful?"

In the tense atmosphere, there are various voices in Weiwei

Brandt stood at the bow of the ship, facing the fierce sea breeze, but his heart was complicated. Before being appointed this time, in the palace of the royal capital, King Lucifer VI of Biang personally summoned him, and in the sunshine Under the bright light, the forty-six-year-old Lucifer VI stood in front of the window sill, wearing a long black dress. Not to mention his medium height, thick-boned physique, and sleepy eyes, he seemed to be just an insignificant person. A middle-aged man with remarkable characteristics,

Lucifer VI's eyes were dull and sharp. He turned around from the window sill and looked at Brandt who looked nervous. He smiled and said, "Don't be so nervous. I'm recruiting you this time. I just listen to what they say. You have a way." Can we defeat this Sunrise Chamber of Commerce?”

"That was just a drunken gaffe of my subordinate. In fact, to defeat this imperial fleet, I was just guessing." Sweat broke out on Brandt's forehead. Although he had entered the ranks of generals, his level was not the same. It’s not that high. The chance to meet the king is only once or twice a year. Basically, it’s at the annual meeting or the annual banquet, watching the king toast from a distance.

"Are you guessing? This also shows that you do have a solution. Let's talk about it." Lucofa calmly made a gesture to him to sit down and speak. A sharp look flashed in his eyes. He had become King of Biang for fourteen years. Years ago, he has always been known for his stable governance. He is the only monarch among the kings of the Kingdom of Biang. A man who advocates recuperation, he has only launched three wars in fourteen years, and all of them were on the defensive side. Some people say that the bravery and blood of the Biang people have been lost in his hands, but as a general, Bran But Te knew how great the helmsman of the Biang Kingdom was.

How difficult it is to reverse the military customs of the Biang people. The total population of the Biang Kingdom is just over one million, and the standing military strength reached nearly three hundred thousand before this monarch came to power, which is almost four or five. For the Kingdom of Biang, which is not very wealthy, raising one soldier has always been the biggest reason why it is struggling to breathe. Military expenses account for It would be good if the remaining 20% ​​of the country's financial resources can maintain administrative operations. It is not that the monarchs of the Kingdom of Biang have not seen this, but because they uphold the martial style, they are unable to curb this The situation is such that the military strength is increasing instead of decreasing. If this continues, the Kingdom of Biang will be crushed by its own military strength.

But after the monarch came to power, the first thing he did was to disarmament, from 300,000 to 150,000 standing troops. Although it initially aroused strong opposition from all aspects, some radicals even tried to assassinate the monarch. The traitor of the Biang people, but more than ten years have passed, the benefits of disarmament have become obvious, the country's financial resources have increased, and the people's burden has also increased. When the pressure was reduced, coupled with the monarch's policy of rarely launching foreign wars and recuperating, the whole Kingdom of Biang benefited. Even generals like Brandt only participated in one war in more than ten years. , the rest of the time is spent practicing swordsmanship, fishing, and bragging to pass the time. "If the other party's goal is really Melbourne, maybe you can give it a try." Brandt was already riding a tiger and could only bite the bullet and said. He said that he had been in Port Melbourne for three years and knew that Port Melbourne had a backflow, which was the current season. After midnight at night, after listening to his so-called whims After the plan, Lucifer VI's face was silent for more than ten seconds. "Your Majesty, this plan is just an idea, it can also be said to be a joke. Please Don’t take it seriously, and if you want to light so many boats, we can’t do it.” Brandt’s face turned red with embarrassment. This was what he said when he was drunk. He just felt happy at the time, and he didn’t expect to be punished for it. His Majesty the King summoned "What if we can find something to light the fire?" Lucifer VI's slightly hoarse voice made the air in the room freeze for a moment.

"Your Majesty, this is really..." Brent's straight body trembled slightly as he sat on the sofa. He heard a rather adventurous breath from the king's tone. This was simply too risky. He felt his scalp They're all numb

"Although I know it's dangerous, I still want to give it a try."

Lucifer VI's eyes flashed for a moment, he stood up, looked at the Barrow Map of Central Europe hanging behind him, and said in a solemn voice, "Although I, Bion, am nothing compared to the empire, I can't be bullied by others." Character, decades ago, Biang was once as powerful as the Kingdom of Rila. We Biang people were originally descendants of the seventh legion of the Fiya Dynasty that collapsed. During the Ya Dynasty, we were already in charge of the entire Central European Barrow. Later, although the dynasty collapsed and various forces rose, we still adhered to the martial style of our ancestors. In the following hundreds of years, we used the indestructible five-meter spear. The Biang infantry formation once covered most of Central Europe with its power. At its peak, the Biang Kingdom had a military strength of 400,000."

The voice of Lucifer VI paused, "If it weren't for two hundred years ago, a prairie cavalry from the east rushed into Barrow in Central Europe, using the arrow rain of long bows and fast horses, in one fell swoop, I, Bion, was proud of me. The 100,000-and-a-half-meter long spear army killed corpses all over the field, and Bion would not let him Due to the excessive loss of strength, they fell from the position of overlord and have not recovered for two hundred years, and that group of grassland people from the east are now the Huns. "We once had hundreds of years of glory, although we have fallen. , but monarchs of all ages have never forgotten it.”

"This time the Sunrise Chamber of Commerce came along the coast, and all the Barrow countries in Central Europe were looking at this. If we, the Kingdom of Biang, could stand up at this time, when the entire Central Europe Barrow army was in darkness, we would fight against this rampant A head-on blow to the enemy is equivalent to laying a solid step towards returning to the original glory. The countries have agreed that they can block this sunrise. Chamber of Commerce, who is recognized by everyone as the leader of Central European Barrow. ""I, Bion, have been waiting for two hundred years. For such an opportunity, even if it is a risk, I can only give it a try." King Lucofa's words seemed to still be in Brandt's mind. Echoing, in the downstream direction, there was an extremely heavy and dense explosion, like thunder in summer, and the sea in the downstream port was filled with flames.

"Success!"

"We succeeded!" cheers came from all around, huge firelights rose into the sky, and the hull of the ship was vaguely visible. Some black spots were also shattered and flew up in the dense explosion as if they were hit by a storm, "rumbling" like rising into the sky. The huge wave, the objects and people on it, were like a huge burning object thrown into the air

"Isn't this a bit much?"

Everyone was cheering. Only Brandt's face changed, and his body shivered uncontrollably. His pupils stained red by the fire were full of sluggishness. Lucifer VI just said that these kerosene can be used. It ignited the hull, but it didn't say it had an explosion effect. The original goal was to repel the Sunrise Chamber of Commerce, but now it has been destroyed.

In fact, these explosions were caused by the Thor ammunition on the Sunrise Merchant Ship. Hundreds of kerosene barrels were ignited, and the ten clippers were like ten giant torpedoes that slammed into the dense fleet, causing violent explosions. Sweeping the flank of the fleet in at once

Under the fierce sea wind, burning flames rose into the sky, the fire filled the air, and then there was a series of explosions

What was blown up to the sky were the iconic mermaid bow collision angle, the mast of the ship's hull, and the ship's deck like rain falling on it. The Sunrise Chamber of Commerce's fleet was all merchant ships, and they were completely incomparable to warships in terms of sturdiness. It can withstand such an explosion, and the concentrated burst of fire is like a rough sea,

The flaming hull broke into two parts in the explosion. When the stern of the ship rose to a faster vertical position, the falling heavy object slammed down like a weight, splashing countless water splashes, and then completely A battleship plunged deeply into the sea water. The firelight made everyone's eyes red. The roaring sea wind hit everyone's face, and they could even feel the heat.

One can imagine what a tragic scene it would be on the Imperial fleet downstream. The burning sea surface was littered with hulls, and a large number of people were struggling on the water. In the chaos, countless hulls turned in panic and violently collided with each other. At the same time, a squeezing sound was heard, sawdust flew everywhere, the sailors on the deck above rolled, and fuel was everywhere on the sea, making the entire sea look like a huge sea of ​​fire.

Originally, Brandt wanted to use his fleet to take advantage of the chaos to attack, but when he saw such a scene, he was too frightened to move. If he rushed down at this time, he was afraid that he would be directly involved in the fire, faintly , Brat felt that something big was going to happen this time. If he just repelled the Sunrise Chamber of Commerce, he might not be able to do anything, but if tens of thousands of people were burned to death in Port Melbourne, how could the empire endure it? I can't bear this matter!