Chapter 1165: A Twist and Turn Naval Battle
"Check to see if there are any enemies nearby!"
Gan Ning, slightly tired, led the remnants of his defeated army to an island. Although he had used the statues of gods and Buddhas to notify the main force to come and rescue him, he had a hunch that he had stepped into a trap set by the enemy this time.
But I don't know how the undead monitored their routes. This voyage and looting was completely a spur-of-the-moment decision, and it is impossible for someone to betray him.
Then the problem would be even more fatal, that is, the undead had a way to monitor the coastal waters, which would be a big trouble for him.
The surprise attacks that he was so proud of had completely lost their effectiveness, and as a result, most of his advantages had been wiped out.
"Report, Governor, there is a group of unknown creatures on the island. The information transmitted by the vibration can confirm that the other party is some kind of large non-human creature."
"Large non-human creatures? Take me to see them. You guys rest where you are and be alert to the coast!" Gan Ning was quite puzzled. The island was not big, so how could such large creatures survive on it?
"Human! Stop!"
But as Gan Ning approached, a wooden arrow pierced his feet.
"I have no ill intentions. The undead are coming, and I think we can cooperate!" Gan Ning said in a deep voice. The other party was very cautious. It seemed that the previous shock reconnaissance had made the other party alert.
"Undead? Are they coming here?" A tall centaur walked out of the darkness.
"Yes, this entire sea area is under the enemy's control. Although we have defeated their vanguard, I'm afraid that a large force will approach later!" Gan Ning narrowed his eyes and tried hard to win the Centaur's trust.
In the previous naval battle, his men suffered heavy losses. If he could get help from these centaurs, the subsequent battles would be easier.
"I have already asked for help from the empire behind me. Reinforcements will arrive soon. We just need to hold on until that moment!"
Gan Ning tried hard to imitate the counselors in his memory, trying to use words to get the centaurs to join.
"We can help you, but after we win, you have to give us a ship and let us leave!" The tall Centaur was silent for a while, and finally chose to compromise.
They had no boat and could not leave the sea area. Like Gan Ning, they were attacked by the undead army. They finally managed to escape the enemy's pursuit and were stranded on this island.
What's worse is that as a small neutral force, they have no one to rely on.
"no problem!"
Gan Ning was overjoyed, he could feel the explosive power in the tall centaur's body and estimated that he must be at least a man who had cultivated internal energy to the highest level. This kind of help was very important to him at the moment.
"I have very few warriors, only 300 of them, but they are all elite Centaurs!" The Centaur said in a deep voice, "Using your description, they should be called elite guards!"
"I still have more than 4,000 people here, but almost all of them have double talents. We can work together to fight against the undead!" Gan Ning nodded. In this way, the Centaurs might be able to be used as a cavalry.
Cavalry at the level of the Royal Guards might be able to produce some special effects.
A few days later.
"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!"
Just after Gan Ning and the Centaurs merged into one, the roaring naval guns and scattered catapults began to fire.
"Set up group defense and counterattack with naval guns!" Gan Ning felt a little pain in his liver. The densely packed undead ships on the sea made him feel heartbroken.
Fortunately, these undead ships are still at the level of catapults. If they were at the level of the Kushans, he would have to consider where he should lie dead today.
"Open all the side guns and wait for the ship to get close to bomb!"
Gan Ning was already prepared to lose all his ships, so he didn't want to be stingy at this time and just bombarded them as much as he could.
All kinds of weapons containing the essence of heaven and earth were overloaded, and Gan Ning's fleet achieved a suppressive effect with its absolute numerical disadvantage for a while, and dozens of undead ships were smashed and sunk in an instant.
"General, the high fever has caused damage to the ship's guns!"
After the heavy bombardment, the gunners had already begun to give Gan Ning feedback.
"Use sea water to force cool it down and continue attacking!" Gan Ning didn't say a single word.
It will definitely break down faster due to thermal expansion and contraction, but being able to fire one more round is a victory.
"A trapped beast will still fight. I really want to study these big ships carefully!" Mondex, the commander of the Undead, was full of emotion. The technology tree of the Undead was all evil and the main focus was on idealism.
The Undead Ship, which combines the undead and the ship, can actually sail in the sea, making many conventional technologies unsuitable for the Undead Fleet.
Therefore, they mostly just stick to their old ways. If they can't come up with a solution themselves, they'll just steal it from others. As long as the undead are combined with high-quality ships, their combat effectiveness will be further improved.
"Open the undead sky curtain, ring the natural disaster bone bell, and prepare for the landing battle!" Mondexmosuo gave the order casually with the skull in his hand.
He used to be the naval governor of the Human Empire. Now he has become an undead. He is unwilling to deal with the original Human Empire, so he is thrown out to deal with enemies from other continents. The world is really wonderful.
Following Mondex's order, the undead aura reserves on each undead ship were mobilized, and then turned into a thick green fog that covered the sky and swept towards the island.
The vegetation eroded by the green fog began to wither slowly. When Gan Ning saw the big tree in front of him begin to decay, he realized what this thing was.
“Trouble!”
Gan Ning activated his legion talent. The legion talent that restores physical strength can also provide a little vitality, at least enough to resist the erosion of the Undead Sky Curtain.
“Bang!”
To make matters worse, under Gan Ning's command, the artillery position, which was infinitely heat-barriered and cold-shrunk, exploded directly.
"After the turret explodes, get off the boat and land immediately, switch to crossbows and arrows, and then attack when you get close!"
Gan Ning had a headache. It was easy to defeat those miscellaneous soldiers with bows and crossbows, but the problem was that the miscellaneous soldiers of the Undead Empire were undead. They could move freely even if pierced by thousands of arrows. They would only die if their heads were shot out directly, leaving the undead fire nowhere to go.
It would be effective only if it was accompanied by a strike of will, but unfortunately the soldiers under his command were far from that level.
This resulted in a significant reduction in the lethality of bows and crossbows, while the strength of stone throwing was much higher. Although they also prepared some rolling stones and battering rams, they were still unable to consume them.
"All soldiers go ashore and prepare to blow up the ship!"
Gan Ning was also decisive. When the undead fleet was getting very close, he simply mobilized the cloud gas stored in the cabin and directly used the self-destruct array to detonate the ships while taking away several approaching undead ships.
"Woo~"
As the undead began to land, a horn sounded from another direction, followed by a fleet that began to emerge near the horizon.
"This flag?" Gan Ning frowned. "It's his fucking Kushan fleet!"
Gan Ning's face turned pale. Instead of waiting for support, he actually waited for another enemy. What should he do?
He has caused a lot of damage in Kushan and has long been on Kushan's kill list.
However, the roar of Kushan's naval guns falling on the undead side made Gan Ning feel a little better. At least before Kushan discovered that he was Gan Ning, there was still a possibility of cooperation between the two sides. The most important thing was to join forces to attack a wave of undead first.
"General, we have discovered that the undead are fighting with humans ahead. Please give us your instructions," Alalu reported to Moncomb.
"Strike the undead. We are here to assist our allies. Since we have encountered the undead, they are our enemies!"
Meng Kangbu looked calm. He had a large fleet and was able to fight even if he met Zhou Yu.
The Undead Navy was not a problem for him at all, so after Vessudeva gave the task, he came here directly.
It was said that they were assisting their allies, but in fact they had reached an agreement with the orcs, and on their return journey they could bring a group of elite orcs back to Kushan.
The troubles faced by their Kushan army were even greater than those faced by the navy, so they needed to strengthen the army as much as possible.
Vesudeva I's superb diplomatic skills allowed them to obtain a large number of barbarian cannon fodder from Rome, and they used their wealthy family background to exchange for a large number of elite orcs from America.
However, this was not enough. The pressure brought to Kushan by the Han Empire was too great, and they had to fight for every bit of strength.
This time, the purpose is to cooperate with the elves and humans to see if we can get something else to increase our strength.
"Damn it!" Mondesk suddenly threw the skull in his hand, and a strong murderous intent appeared on his stiff face.
The arrival of Montcombe directly disrupted his plans. The undead were indeed extremely powerful on land, but in naval battles they were not even as good as the steam fleet he led when he was alive.
Now that we are blocked near this island, if we don’t run away, everything will be over.
"Mundesk, go meet with the Kushan commander and tell them we want to talk to them!" Arthas' voice sounded in Mondesk's ears.
Soon the Kushan naval guns fell silent. Gan Ning's face looked grim, and he had a bad feeling.
"Retreat, retreat to the center of the island and avoid them first!" Gan Ning directly abandoned the island shore where he had the advantage and chose to go directly to the principle shore. His sixth sense was frantically warning him that the Kushans and the Undead might negotiate.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and as for the Kushans and the undead, the biggest enemy now is undoubtedly the Han Dynasty.
Just as Gan Ning thought, after Mondesk found Moncomb, Moncomb was indeed tempted. He wanted to have the best of both worlds. After all, to them, the power of the Undead Empire was a sharp dagger.
"General, another fleet is approaching!" The old soldier in charge of reconnaissance frowned. "It's very large, not inferior to the Kushan fleet in front of us."
"You're here!" Gan Ning was delighted. On this ocean, the only fleet that could compete with the Kushan fleet was naturally the Han fleet. In this way, their lives were saved.
"Fire!"
After receiving Gan Ning's message, Zheng He led his fleet to the rescue without any delay. However, as soon as he arrived at the designated location, he saw the Kushan fleet.
Without any hesitation, Zheng He directly ordered his gunners to aim and fire.
Unlike Gan Ning's second-rate soldiers, Zheng He's gunners were all regular Shesheng Battalion soldiers. They aimed and locked onto targets smoothly and began shelling the Kushan warships and the Undead ships.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
With a series of muffled sounds, Zheng He's gunners quickly completed the reloading and then launched a second round of attacks on the Kushan navy that had not reacted in time.
As one of the overlords of the sea, Zheng He used a self-circulating system to bombard the enemy directly from fifty miles away.
After Meng Kangbu reacted, he immediately set up a self-circulating defense and ordered his troops to turn around and run. Being able to fight Zhou Yu did not mean that he could win against such a pervert.
Now, except for Cecilion who can suppress Zhou Yu and Zheng He, the best thing to do when encountering others is to run away, because they are not opponents of the same level.
Even though he can play the self-loop, his level is just limited to being able to play. If a real fight breaks out, no one knows how much Zhou Yu and Zheng He will suffer, but his army will definitely be wiped out.
"If you don't want to die, run!"
After saying something to Mondesk, Meng Kangbu ran away without looking back .
Mondesk hesitated for a moment, and then was hit by a sun falling from the sky.
The secret naval warfare technique supported by the self-circulating system, the Light of the Falling Sun, almost evaporated the sea water in the area where the entire Undead Fleet was located by several meters.
With just a ray of light from the setting sun, seven or eight out of ten of the Undead fleet were destroyed, leaving only a group of Undead that had just landed and were wandering around.
"The spirits of our ancestors are protecting us!"
The Centaur Chief roared, and a strange halo emanated from his body, blessing all the Centaurs.
The Centaurs charged into the group of undead like heavy cavalry with earth-shaking steps, scattering them in all directions.
"Kill!" Gan Ning laughed and led his troops to charge out, attacking directly at the remnants of the defeated army.
After seeing the setting sun, he knew who was coming and he was going to give the fallen dog a beating.
Realizing that the game was over, Mondesk calmly jumped into the sea and quickly sank to the bottom. However, Gan Ning did not intend to let him go. When he saw the other party flying down from the Kushan fleet, he knew that this person must be the Undead Commander, so he had already locked the other party's position firmly with his breath.
Seeing the other party jumping into the sea to escape, Gan Ning dived into the sea, swung the iron chain in his hand across the river, and the sickle tied with the iron chain pierced into Mondsk's body.
Caught off guard by Gan Ning's sneak attack, Mondesk had no strength to fight back and was pulled back by Gan Ning.
"Hahahaha, I caught you!" Gan Ning laughed and tied Mondesk up like a dumpling with chains and dragged him to the shore.
Although the internal energy leaving the body was not weak, it was still far from enough for Gan Ning who had broken through the realm. He was captured in just one encounter.
"Pirate King, we will meet again!"
Mondesk recognized Gan Ning. Few people used this strange weapon, and the most famous one was naturally Gan Ning who roamed the Pacific Ocean.
Then Mondesk's head tilted and his body lost control instantly.
When Gan Ning checked, Mondesk's soul had disappeared.
"Let him get away?" Gan Ning was a little annoyed. He was not a divine cultivator, and he really didn't have time to stop him.
