Upon hearing this, Hans's expression changed drastically: "Are you kidding me? That's an entire legion, and we only have these few people. Do you want us all wiped out?"
"No, I must report to the commander that the Central Plains people, led by the Xie family, possess cannons with a range of 2,000 meters, giving them a 25% advantage over us with a range of 1,500 meters!"
Hans felt that Makino didn't care about his compatriots at all, and he couldn't let him get away with it. Hans turned to leave the palace, but Makino had already raised a musket and pulled the trigger, shooting Hans through the head.
As soon as the gunshot rang out, the pirates outside rushed in, thinking there was an assassin.
Upon seeing the first mate lying in a pool of blood, the pirates raised their guns, hesitating whether to aim them at Makino.
Makino sheathed his weapon and told them, "Hans is terrified by a mere few hundred men and still wants to back down. He's a deserter!"
“If any of you try to desert, I will report it to the commander, and Captain Scott will not let you off the hook.”
"If you delay the commander's great cause any further, you'll all be in deep trouble!"
Upon hearing this, the pirates lowered their guns and dragged Hans's body away. Clearly, a first mate was less important than a single word from Makino.
Hans's body was taken out, and his men rushed over, incredulously snatching the body away: "First Mate!"
The pirates relayed the information to them.
Hans's men were immediately incredulous as they told the pirates, "First mate Hans personally experienced the battlefield; he saw the enemy's cannon! It was definitely not some ordinary homemade cannon!"
"It's even more advanced than ours!"
"Commander Makino killed the captain clearly to cover up military secrets."
"We need to report to the captain!"
Hans's men immediately left the city, and Makino's men did not stop them. The pirate group was originally composed of individual mercenary camps, each with its own independent authority. They could cooperate with Makino's actions, but they wouldn't abandon their own judgment and completely follow him. They also had the right to retreat if necessary.
Hans's death has raised questions among many mercenary camps. Makino sent messengers to reassure the various camps and instruct them to continue guarding the capital.
Hans's men sailed to find Scott, who was still hesitant about whether to continue the attack. The commander had given him only seven days.
He learned that Makino had executed Hans.
Scott said, "Makino did the right thing. Hans was afraid of being beaten and that this would shake the morale of the army."
"Make arrangements to bring out our Com cannon!"
The Com cannon is a top-class artillery piece with a range of 1,500 meters, reaching a maximum of 1,900 meters. It is a reloading cannon. It can fire eight shots per minute.
Com cannons were deployed, and warships reappeared near Delta Scatter Island.
Xie Ji learned that the pirate ship had returned. He ordered five Changhong cannons to be brought out. These cannons fired three shots per minute, with a range of two thousand meters and a maximum range of two thousand three hundred meters.
When the iron ships appeared, Xie Ji ordered the cannons to be fired.
The cannons immediately blasted the ship's hull, leaving several holes, but the ship was very sturdy.
Scott immediately pressed his advantage.
A steel ship and a Com cannon fired eight shots in quick succession, instantly destroying the Changhong cannon's platform. The artillerymen guarding the Changhong cannon were wiped out in an instant!
Three of the five gates of the Changhong were destroyed, and a hundred men died. Xie Ji was heartbroken for his elite troops. The big man looked at the iron ship far away and cursed, wiping away tears: "Damn it, Hai Kou, if you have the guts, fight me on land."
"What kind of skill is it to just stay at sea!"
"My soldiers! I've let you down!"
Xie Bing's morale was low. Now only two Changhong cannons remained. Once they fired, they would surely be spotted by the iron ships and then destroyed by the enemy's super cannons.
Without the Changhong cannon, they really couldn't stop the iron ships from entering the port.
Another captain suggested that Xie Ji let them in to fight.
Xie Ji immediately cursed at the captain: "Damn it, how can that be the same! Letting them in is the same as us losing."
"Their firearms are also more advanced than ours. We won't be able to win with firearms, and we'll even lose our base."
"If we lose Houdao, we will both have to atone with our lives!!"
Upon hearing this, everyone fell silent. They were all dejected. If the Delta was lost, they would only have Deer Canal left, and even that might not last long.
At that time, the Northern Region will suffer the same fate as the Shi Kingdom and Yue Kingdom, with its people ravaged by pirates.
After the Northern Region comes the Central Alliance, the State of Lu, and the State of Huayin, followed by their homeland, the Southern Region, and the new Tianjing.
Xie's soldiers, who were previously immersed in the joy of winning the battle against the powerful Northern Hu Xiongnu, began to question their existence.
Seeing his soldiers growing panic, confusion, and helplessness, Xie Ji clenched his fist and shouted, "Bring another ship! We'll use the same trick again and take down the second iron ship! We'll sink as many as we can!"
Seeing the general's do-or-die spirit, Xie Bing and his men were also somewhat spurred on with renewed fighting spirit.
As one of the large treasure ships charged toward the second iron ship, Scott, watching from the third ship, broke out in a cold sweat. The second iron ship had just fired its eighth cannon and was still reloading when it saw the fire ship choosing this opening to ram them.
The pirates on the ship were so frightened that they jumped into the sea without even having time to load their cannons.
Boom!!! — The sound was so loud that the sky seemed to shake and the sea was churning, with waves reaching five meters high.
More than a hundred pirates were stunned by the shockwave of the explosion and drowned in the sea. The other pirates were either swept into the fire or sank to the bottom of the ship.
Of the three iron ships, only one remained. Scott's force of six thousand was reduced to four thousand in an instant.
Scott stared at the iron ship five kilometers away, his face covered in cold sweat, his pupils shrinking repeatedly. Clearly, he was feeling the fear of death in the face of this suicidal fighting style.
He trembled. He was terrified of the group of Central Plains people before him!
Such a brutal and domineering fighting style almost destroyed both of his large ships.
This is unprecedented in the last ten years. And today, two of his three ships have been lost in the delta.
They were defeated by a group of people from the Central Plains!
Scott could no longer afford further losses, and he immediately ordered a retreat: "Withdraw from the Delta!"
First mate Raff couldn't help but remind him, "But Commander Makino captured Shiguofu with only three thousand men, while you have six thousand men and can't even take down a small delta."
"If this gets back to the commander, it will probably be detrimental to our future position in the Shenyas Legion."
Scott calmed down as he thought of Makino, though his hands were trembling slightly, he had to weigh things carefully.
“Muye is also of Central Plains descent. He is a cunning man. He must have missed some information for me, leaving me to face such a crazy enemy.”
"The people of Shiguo and Yueguo are definitely different from the Central Plains people in the Delta! We've encountered elite forces, they're completely different!"
Scott tried to persuade his captain, and Ralph finally obeyed his orders to retreat from the Delta. He also sent a small boat to inform the captain.
We can't take Delta for now!
When news of Scott's withdrawal from Delta reached Makino's ears.
Makino held this Imperial Pirate in utter contempt. If he continued his attack, even if he destroyed the last ship, Delta could be taken.
If his assessment was correct, the Sheriffs in Delta Force were already incapable of resistance. Now was the perfect opportunity to press their advantage, but Scott, fearing further defeat, retreated.
Muye himself couldn't immediately mobilize two ships to the delta, as it would take a day and expend manpower. By then, the Shi Kingdom's capital would be empty and would be seized back by the Central Plains people.
Thinking of this, Makino said regretfully, "What a great opportunity wasted, and even I can't make up for it. I can only watch it slip away."
delta.
When Xie Ji heard that the remaining ship had retreated, he knelt on the ground, unsure whether to feel joy or sorrow, and couldn't help but cry out, "Damn it, they're finally gone. If the fighting had continued, we wouldn't have been able to fight back at all!"
Xie Bing and his men wept with joy and embraced each other.
"Those pirates finally escaped!"
"I can finally go back to my mother alive and reunite with her."
"May Heaven bless the Xie family!"
However, at that very moment, far out at sea…
Makino sent a letter to the commander. Scott had just left the open sea when he heard the muffled sound of a bugle call from the ocean.
Scott immediately stood on the deck and raised his binoculars, discovering that the main fleet had arrived. Ten ships in total. Each ship carried two thousand men, and each was larger and more imposing than Scott's, like a moving mountain on the sea. Every Com cannon on board was particularly conspicuous.
Scott was overjoyed: "The commander himself has come!"
The commander of the Divine Legion, Arsen, Marius, Joseph. He had 19,000 men, 2,000 of whom were killed in action, leaving only 17,000.
Ten super fleets, ten supercom cannons, with a range of 2,500 meters.
Scott's confidence, which had been shattered by the Shears, suddenly soared!
Soon after, news came from New Tianjing that Xie's army, led by Xie Ji, had sunk two iron ships in the Delta.
The people of New Tianjing held the statue in the streets, and men, women, and children alike clapped and cheered. Some even sang folk songs to praise Xie Ji's bravery in the Delta.
That day, the entire new Tianjing, and even the southern Central Plains, were greatly encouraged!
The Southern Border Defense Army thought they could finally breathe a sigh of relief, and even Shi Yang of the Shi State Prefecture couldn't help but feel happy upon hearing the news.
Xie Guang, inside the cave, envied Xie Ji's current strength, which was now completely beyond his reach.
Just as the whole country was celebrating, that very night, the sound of cannons roared from the delta along the border of Vietnam and in the capital of Tak. The flames of war burned across half the sky, and even the deep, unfathomable sea seemed to shimmer.
Mu Ye deliberately dragged Shi Yang to the top of the city wall. Shi Yang watched helplessly as the shadows of countless trees could not conceal the ravages of war and the destruction caused by artillery fire.
Watching the entire Delta being covered by Com cannons, firing continuously for a moment.
Shi Yang couldn't help but kneel down, his eyes already stunned by the overwhelming super cannons of the alien race.
Seeing that he was so frightened by the overwhelming power of the Shenyas Legion that his legs went weak, Makino laughed out loud: "This is the real Shenyas Legion! A maritime nation that, although currently a pirate, will soon make the West, and even the entire East, aware of the power of the Shenyas Legion!"
"Even Di Xi and An Luo dare not underestimate Shen Yas anymore! They will bow down before Shen Yas!"
Shi Yang was horrified to discover that they were using the Central Plains to demonstrate their power to foreign tribes!
Has the overseas world become so powerful?! How can the people of the Central Plains possibly defeat them then?
Originally, it was thought that the firearms of the Northern Hu and Xiongnu and the cannons of Xin Tianjing were already very powerful. No one expected that there was an existence in the outside world that was even more powerful than Xin Tianjing.
In an instant, Shi Yang felt his confidence in New Tianjing had been shattered.
The following day, the Golden Palace was deathly silent.
The ministers were filled with fear and trepidation, waiting anxiously for the emperor on the dragon throne to speak.
Si Xitong was eerily silent today.
Xie Lanzhi sat on the throne on the right and announced, "The Delta is lost."
His words were like a pebble sinking to the bottom of a lake. The atmosphere in the entire Golden Palace was terribly somber.
Si Xitong gripped the dragon head on the armrest: "Do any other matters require your attention?"