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Chapter 12 First Battle Victory and Continued Advancement

Fire protection is the most important thing for every wooden ship in the sailing era. When sailing at sea, every point of Mars poses a threat to the sailing ship is no less than the most violent storm.

Before the ship is launched, fire prevention work must be completed in the shipyard.

As pirates of Amba who have been active at sea for a long time, of course, they will not be unaware of the importance of fire prevention in ships. However, due to their proactive strategic advantage when facing Gondor, they gradually developed a sense of pride.

The main fireproof coating in Middle-earth continent is black tung oil produced by black tung trees. However, the hometown of the Amba Pirates, the Harad area of ​​the southern desert, did not produce such trees. After the Gondor Kingdom imposed a trade embargo on Harad, the pirates had been facing the problem of a shortage of black tung oil.

However, as the plundering activities on the coast of Gondor are becoming increasingly rampant, there are more and more Harads who join the promising glorious profession of pirates. Faced with the huge gap between supply and demand, the Harads' solution is to replace them with counterfeit and inferior products. Therefore, most of the newly launched pirate ships are inferior goods that have not been fire-proofed, or they are simply coated with a thin layer of black tung oil on the surface deck.

The black sailed pirate ship of the Amba Pirates is agile and fast, and specializes in attacking merchant ships without resistance. He never fights head-on with the Gondor Navy. Moreover, the pirates only eat cold food on the ship and never make fires, so most of the time, fire prevention is not a big problem.

However, when they were intercepted in the harbor and fought face to face, these new pirate ships that had not been fire-proofed will be in trouble.

After the sailor who was proficient in navigation explained to Jiang Hai why the pirate ship was like a dry pile of wood. After a moment of slightest tick, Jiang Hai immediately issued an order: open the sails and advance at the highest speed. After entering the range, the archer immediately attacked with a rocket.

The other Gondor generals naturally discovered the biggest flaws of the pirates, and they also ordered to advance to the port as fast as possible. However, the speed of these warships was far less than that of the Wind and were soon left behind.

If you have the opportunity to win the credit, Jiang Hai will never be polite.

After finally entering the range of the bow and arrow, Jiang Haiqiu had a war hammer, and waved it violently, shouting: "Archer, shoot!"

The Gondor militia archers lit the arrows in an orderly manner, and then shot arrows burning and covered with tinder oil at the nearest pirate ship.

Dodolodol...

Countless rockets were inserted into the shell and deck of the pirate ship, instantly turning it into a hedgehog. Under the scorching heat, the wood immediately made a crackling sound and then began to burn.

The pirates fled the ship quickly, and many people jumped into the water desperately. Some pirates kept putting out the fire with buckets, but these efforts were in vain. Many people instead caught fire and turned into a ball of crazy screaming fireballs, running around, spreading fear.

With the assists of warships that joined behind, pirate ships were ignited. The northwest wind became stronger and stronger, leading the fire on the pirate ship to the harbor, turning it into a sea of ​​fire.

After the rockets were used up, Jiang Hai ordered the archers to shoot at the pirates who fell into the water with ordinary arrows. The seamen also picked up the javelins and stabbed the pirates to death like a spear.

Jiang Hai took a heavy armor-breaking crossbow and shot an arrow at the sea. After a scream, the storm of water returned to calm, and a ball of red blood spread in the sea water - another pirate was buried at the bottom of the sea.

It was only ten o'clock in the morning that the fire was barely extinguished. The entire port had become a ruin, with corpses curled up like coke everywhere. The air was filled with the smell of inferior barbecue. There were floating corpses everywhere in the sea, dozens of pirate ships sank to the bottom of the sea, and broken wood garbage was floating everywhere on the sea.

"The battle is over."

"Your troops killed 487 enemies and gained 48 experience points."

“The progress of achieving the ‘Qualified Commander’ is 48/500.”

"Your troops sank 14 Black Sail-class pirate ships and gain experience value of 70."

“The progress of achieving the 'qualified captain' is 70/500.”

"The battle difficulty is evaluated to 52%, and you have won 1 Conquest Medal."

"You killed 9 enemies with your own hands. Get 9 experience points."

“The 'Charge ahead' progress was 12/500.”

"You helped the Gondor Navy win and gained the reputation of the Gondor camp 15."

"You have gained enough experience to level 2."

The Lord God seemed to have adjusted the scale of the battle in this mission world. There were 1,000 pirates in the port. You should know that in the second part of the original work of the Lord of the Rings, the army of powerful orcs attacking the Holy Helmet Valley was only more than 10,000.

Since the Wind rushed into the harbor first and launched a fire attack on the pirate ships, many burned pirates and burned pirate ships were counted on Jiang Haitou. His military achievements in this battle can be regarded as the number one.

Up to the second level, Jianghai obtained 5 strategic attributes.

With Li Xin's blessing, Jiang Hai didn't have to worry about resources for the time being, so he added all strategic attribute points to leadership.

The combat effectiveness score of the troops is equal to the leadership occupied. Jianghai now has a total of 15 leaders, commanding one team of Dor'anros with combat effectiveness 4, one team of Gondor militia archers with combat effectiveness 3, and there is still 8 left in leadership. He ordered the base space to produce another team of militia archers and one team of seamen without hesitation.

Fortunately, Jiang Hai was prepared for a long time and had already upgraded the two previous supply factories to level 6 and built a new level 6 supply factory. These three factories produce 18 o'clock supplies every day, which can fully meet the consumption of the troops and have surplus.

After capturing the harbor, the commander-in-chief Earl Ota ordered the army to take a break and immediately marched into the Geben Fort where the island pirates occupied. Since Jiang Hai, an outsider, won the first prize in the battle of the harbor, Earl Ota seemed a little unhappy, so he did not let him join the offensive force, but sent Jiang Hai and several other weakest generals to patrol offshore to prevent the pirates from escaping.

There are too many such things in the army to compete for merit, and the rivers and seas are not surprising. Anyway, Geben Fort is built on the seaside cliffs on the east coast. The terrain is surrounded by mountains, the roads are rugged, and the large troops cannot be deployed at all, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack. Although Earl Ota's army can win in the end, they will definitely not suffer less.

Jianghai commanded the seafarers to drive the Wind to the sea near Gebenburg. The weather was very good on the day, cloudless and the visibility was excellent. Jianghai climbed up the observation deck and looked up.
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