Chapter 1086

"No rush, wait a little longer."

He Lingchuan poured himself a cup of hot tea and drank it slowly in ten sips.

Just as everyone was looking forward to it, He Lingchuan put down his teacup and finally nodded: "Weigh anchor, the whole army sets out!"

This massive fleet extinguished its lights and moved toward the land under the cover of darkness and thick fog.

After sailing ten li, the fleet split into thirty large ships heading toward Luting Beach, preparing to support the Bailong tribe refugees, while the rest accelerated toward Storm Bay! If there had been a second choice, He Lingchuan wouldn't have wanted to land at Storm Bay. That was right under the enemy's nose.

But limited by the terrain of this peninsula, the fleet couldn't find a better landing point. The only bay that could accommodate so many sea ships landing at the same time was Storm Bay; other places were rugged with reefs, and even small boats were hard to navigate.

So the first difficulty of this operation was the Yangshan guard team's beachhead landing.

The enemy wasn't blind; even with the cover of thick fog, with so many ships and such a big commotion, how could they reduce casualties while landing? He Lingchuan had already noticed that Wulu didn't think the enemy had any maritime reinforcements, or even if they came, they wouldn't be of any large scale; after all, the nearest large port, Blade Port, didn't have enough cargo ships of his own, and calculating it, there were no stronger armed forces nearby.

Leading troops in battle, one couldn't consider such unreliable, low-probability events.

Therefore, the Ya Nation people mainly deployed troops in front of Luting Beach, effectively cutting off the possibility of Lu Qingbin and the Bailong people rushing over to seize the ships.

Although there were less than seventeen hundred men, the Bailong warriors' combat power erupted in a desperate situation was very strong; Wulu wanted to suppress them, so he had to be fully focused, and the defense of Storm Bay was inevitably empty, leaving only five hundred people to guard the ships.

Five hundred people, actually not few. If Lu Qingbin and Wanqi Tong sent small teams to sneak over to steal the ships, they would first have to pass the hurdle of five hundred guards.

Wulu's troop allocation was very reasonable.

Wulu had found a good position for himself; although not on the highest mountain peak, he could overlook most of Storm Bay and the entire Luting Beach.

The latest battle situation at Luting Beach would be transmitted to him in real-time.

Although the Bailong people were famous for being good at fighting, the tenacity they showed this time still exceeded his expectations.

Ten hours; these Bailong people, who were like stray dogs, actually persisted for ten full hours on Luting Beach, where the terrain was unfavorable!

This kind of hopeless battle was the most capable of dragging down an army; why hadn't the Bailong people's will been broken yet?

He had also considered whether the situation of being trapped beasts had instead aroused the Bailong people's fighting spirit? Therefore, he specifically ordered the Ya Nation army to pretend to open a gap, or rather a flaw, wanting to let the Bailong people take advantage of the situation to break out.

If there was a way to live, they wouldn't have to fight like trapped beasts, and they wouldn't necessarily be working together.

However, the Bailong people didn't fall for it!

Was it because of the elite Does Bailie troops led by Lu Qingbin? This thought only flashed for a second before being dismissed by Wulu. He hadn't dealt with the level of Does Bailie's army head-on, but the Ya Nation people all knew.

If he subdued the Bailong people today, Lu Qingbin and his few hundred subordinates from Does Bailie would just be an extra bonus.

After all, the Lu family didn't have many people who could fight; Wulu would just be clearing an obstacle for the western front of the Ya Nation, which was also a merit.

Soon, the front line sent back a report:

According to the captives, the young clan leader Wanqi Tong and Lu Qingbin had been encouraging everyone, saying that reinforcements from the west would arrive soon! Reinforcements? Wulu curled his lips, but didn't laugh out loud.

Does Bailie had already arranged ships at Storm Bay to support the Bailong people, so what was strange about having another backup plan? Even if there were reinforcements, how long would they take to arrive, and how many people? He thought for a moment, then raised his hand to summon the golden eagle, letting it expand its patrol range to carefully check for abnormalities in the surrounding sea area. Now that fog had risen at sea, visibility was poor, but this golden eagle had the ability of fiery eyes and golden pupils; although it couldn't see through the mist completely, its visibility was several times greater than that of an ordinary person.

An ordinary person's visibility in such thick fog might only be ten zhang, while it could reach thirty-five or thirty-six zhang.

However, before Wulu could assign it a task, new intelligence arrived: Bailong people were seizing ships at Storm Bay again!

Why say "again"? Previously, Wanqi Tong had sent people to sneak to Storm Bay to seize ships twice, and both were frustrated.

Now Wanqi Tong was seriously injured, yet the Bailong people wouldn't give up and wanted to try again? Wulu hadn't taken it to heart and casually wanted to let the guards on the shore execute the incoming enemies.

Who knew the next sentence from the messenger would be: "Three large ships have been sailed away! Ah, four!"

Wulu was taken aback and ran to the cliff to look down, but a wave of milky white thick fog happened to surge toward the shore, covering everything in Storm Bay.

The army's Yuan power could see through celestial phenomena caused by supernatural arts, but for natural phenomena like fog rising at sea, Yuan power was of no use.

So Wulu had to take out a long tube telescope and place it in front of his eyes.

This long tube mirror not only had observation and magnification functions but could also see through thick fog, illusions, miasma, etc.; it was a good item for marching and fighting, which Wulu had accidentally obtained from a certain battle.

With the help of this magic tool, he could see three large ships in the bay had already left the shore, and the fourth was also turning its bow and sailing out.

How was this done?!

The five hundred guards he left at Storm Bay hadn't been attacked, because he could see these guards running on the shallows holding torches.

There was only a long-abandoned wharf here; most large ships had a deep draft and couldn't dock, so they could only stop in the bay. For safety's sake, he even left people on every large ship to guard them, so as not to be touched and sailed away by the Does Bailie people.

Were the guards on the ships all dead? He adjusted the mirror tube and magnified his vision, finding that the four ships fleeing not only had people at the bow and stern but also a kind of strange creature.

They looked like giant pythons or giant sea eels, but had shoulders and four hands, pitch black, with a few having white stripes, and their body size was even larger than humans.

What kind of ghost things were these?

Looking at the living people busy on the ships, they were indeed Bailong people in appearance, and several even wore the iconic loose braids.

The Bailong people of Storm Bay snuck over and, with the help of these monsters, finally succeeded in stealing the ships?

Then the "reinforcements" Lu Qingbin spoke of were these monsters?

Under his gaze, two more large ships were stolen. This time he finally saw clearly how the other side acted—

The snake-men didn't come from the land wharf but poked their heads directly from the seawater, climbing up the deck along the hull.

Their way of moving was like a snake, truly interpreting what it meant to "slither," and the angle of the hull didn't pose an obstacle to them at all.

On each snake-man, there were also three or four humans hanging.

It seemed these monsters also had astonishing strength.

They slipped onto the ships from the blind spots of the wharf and ship guards, quickly launched an attack, and seized control of the ships in the first instance.

(End of chapter)