Mythical Three Kingdoms

[I don’t know what’s going on, ever since my sister got married, I’ve been feeling somewhat uneasy. Is something wrong somewhere? Hmm, I really need to take some time to adjust.]

While Ma Chao was fighting Pang De, he became distracted, and Pang De seized the opportunity to counterattack, nearly killing him.

Speaking of Pang De, although no one guided him, he has consistently solidified his foundation. After discovering a path suitable for himself, he quickly pursued his predecessors, not letting Ma Chao, Sunx Ce, and others leave him behind. This is likely one of the benefits of martial arts in its early stages.

On Sunx Ce’s side, Zhou Tai was hurriedly helping the fainted Lyu Bu to his feet. Meanwhile, Kasani and his group had already dashed madly to the Malacca Water Fort, intending to lead their army to eliminate Lyu Bu. Now they realized the state of their own water fort.

At that time, Gan Ning led the navy, clashing closely with the Kushan Navy. Both sides instinctively used certain techniques to forcibly entangle their adversary’s warships together, turning the naval battle into a soldier’s quality confrontation, as Zhou Yu described.

This battle was not particularly favorable for Gan Ning. Although the pirates’ quality is not inferior to the navy, sometimes even surpasses it, the navy’s organizational power and cooperation are impeccable, which gives them a stark advantage over the pirates.

If it were a one-on-one confrontation, these pirates who had participated in skirmishes across the Indian Ocean in terms of experience and quality were not inferior to the Kushan Navy. However, when it came to numbers, the pirates’ organizational disadvantage became apparent.

Fortunately, pirates have always relied on personal valor, and after Gan Ning advanced the truly elite, well-trained five thousand pirates, leaving a portion as a reserve force, he personally went to the battlefield, leading his pirates with his individual bravery.

This is why even after Ma Xinde and Vakas coordinated the first and second line of defense to lock down Gan Ning’s warships, they still couldn’t suppress Gan Ning’s pirate legion.

On any ancient melee weapon battlefield, when the quality gap between the two sides is not significant, the morale gap alone is enough to create a chasm-sized gap between them.

As the Pirate King, Gan Ning took the lead, displaying immense leadership, leading his pirates to counter the navy, pulling out a counterattack line with himself at the forefront. Due to his formidable martial force and the pirates’ personal combat quality, when Ma Xinde led his troops over, they inversely suppressed the enemy.

However, this situation did not last long. Gan Ning’s pirates, after all, could only boast of temporary blood qi bravery. Lochte, being an exceptionally skilled naval commander, upon realizing the frontline navy couldn’t block Gan Ning’s attack while being suppressed on both sides, ordered the fleet, originally prepared, to flank from both sides.

Gan Ning’s preparatory forces, Sakara and Novica, immediately enacted battlefield interception to prevent the Kushan Navy from encircling the pirates.

This battlefield interception, however, made Lochte clearly understand the weaknesses of Gan Ning’s Pirate Group. The opposition is strong, but not every position is strong. In terms of average quality, the navy has a considerable advantage.

”Deploy the commander-in-chief’s guard army to attack the enemy’s left flank and make battlefield interception against their ship captain, then concentrate forces to eliminate their central guard fleet,” Lochte quickly made a decision to swiftly secure victory and reduce losses; the best option was to impose an overwhelming force swiftly!

Following Lochte’s command, Qiu Lique’s guard army set sail towards the fleet commanded by Novica. At the same time, the lookouts from both the Kushan Navy and Gan Ning’s Pirate Group spotted the formidable fleet charging from the north.

Seeing the uninhibited advance, it was evident that they were related to the battle. Given the current tremendously exaggerated confrontation, if it were a normal passage or a typical navy, they would merely watch from afar or wait until the fight ends, then consider any opportunistic actions.

Therefore, rushing out at this time generally means reinforcements, and wouldn’t Lochte know if he had reinforcements?

Certainly not! So Lochte immediately categorized Zhou Yu’s charging navy as an enemy. If he made a mistake, he thought to resolve the situation by annihilating the opposition.

After all, some matters done without acknowledgment—so long as there’s no evidence—if one’s backing and cards are strong enough, nothing significant would happen. As for those lost due to such matters, they could always find ways to conceal the situation, and since Kushan’s backing is strong, Lochte decisively targeted Zhou Yu as an attackable opponent.

As for Gan Ning, although the lookout notified him of the current situation, he wasn’t concerned at all. He came here to fight the Kushan Navy, and regardless of whether they handled the decks or fought, among these eighty-nine thousand pirates, most were destined to die. The survivors would be the real navy seeds.

In this situation, even if the Kushan Navy has reinforcements, there’s nothing to fear. With a year of learning various naval battle techniques, Gan Ning assures that if he can’t win, he’ll lead a retreat, making it difficult for Kushan to find any effective means against him.

”Battle!” At this moment, Gan Ning no longer concealed his intentions, immediately revealing his Legion Talent, bestowing reinforcement upon the elite pirates behind him. The pirates, although somewhat fatigued from the ongoing slaughter, rapidly recovered their stamina as Gan Ning’s Legion Talent activated.

”He is indeed Gan Xingba.” Zhou Yu remarked calmly, ”Judging by this situation, they seem inclined to charge mindlessly, but this gives us a greater advantage. If it truly comes down to naval battle techniques, we can’t definitively say we’d win.”

”Listen to my command. Jiangh Qin and Ling Cao, follow me to attack in the northwest direction! Li Yan and Dong Xi, lead the navy to assist Gan Ning.” Before entering the main formation of the Kushan Navy, Zhou Yu glanced briefly at their layout, which was quite well arranged. However, as the frontline slaughter began, some fleet connections became a bit disjointed.

”Governor-General, if we do this and fail, we’ll have no retreat.” Li Yan said solemnly, observing Zhou Yu. Although his naval battle skills aren’t great, he could see how high the opponent’s naval battle techniques were. If the opposition didn’t engage in this skill-based duel, given the current Kushan naval battle quality, crushing them would be effortless.

”Don’t worry. They’ll choose to duel in skill terms,” Zhou Yu replied with a cold smile. Regardless of their techniques, they’ll eat my dumb halo, and I just don’t believe they can react most efficiently!”