Mythical Three Kingdoms

”Sakara, can you do it or not?” The number of people Gan Ning could truly rely on right now was fewer than ten, and Sakara Saixi counted as the best captain under his command, so Gan Ning relied on him quite heavily.

”I’ve already done my best. Although I’ve studied the relevant stuff, I was trained as a Marines captain in the end. Those things I can only say I’ve come into contact with. Being able to do it to this extent, I’ve already done my best.” Sakara said rather helplessly.

”Boss, are we really going to accept this battle challenge?” Novica frowned. This was a decisive battle against all the other Pirate Crews on the Indian Ocean aside from their own. The strength ratio between the two sides was roughly two to one, but from this it could also be seen just how fast Gan Ning’s Bell Pirate Group had swelled in this recent period.

To be honest, if Gan Ning really had the intention of becoming One Piece, he could soften up now, advance step by step, and spend two or three years to become One Piece with almost no difficulty. Unfortunately, Gan Ning didn’t have that kind of time; the things those pirates were pinning their hopes on were basically bullshit to him.

Without that The United States-level time to waste, the moment Gan Ning received the battle challenge, he instantly knew that although there were contradictions all over on his side, the other side had likewise been forced by him into a position where they had no choice but to expose their weaknesses.

A pirate union? What a joke. If they didn’t unite, fine; the moment they did, they’d be just as riddled with internal contradictions.

More importantly, the original command advantage each large Pirate Crew had when fighting independently vanished the moment all the pirates united.

Bandits are bandits, thieves are thieves. No matter how you dress them up, you can’t change their trash nature. That so-called union is nothing more than Rabble huddling together for warmth, a way to hope their own side suffers fewer losses. Unfortunately, if everyone thinks like that, who’s going to go all out?

Since both sides in this battle were riddled with internal contradictions and their General’s Orders were inconsistent, what was there for Gan Ning to fear? As for the strength ratio being two to one, heh, what’s so special about that? Gan Ning had fought battles far more outrageous than this.

”This is our fastest chance to integrate all the pirates of the Indian Ocean.” Sakara said solemnly. ”You should understand that Boss’s goal isn’t to be a pirate. If the scattered pirates of the Indian Ocean can be integrated and twisted into a single rope, we’ll likewise have the power to threaten nations.”

”It’s just that among our opponents are three large Pirate Crews, each one no weaker than Galava. Their strength is simply too strong. If we use ambush tactics, we might still be able to defeat them, but in a frontal Battle, their strength is about twice ours.” Novica said, looking somewhat depressed.

”If we didn’t have so many problems internally and our command was unified, I’d also think this is the best opportunity. But right now, we’ve got too many internal issues, to the extent that we haven’t even cleared out all the moles.” Seeing the others looking at him, Novica explained rather helplessly.

”None of that is the problem. I don’t have that much time.” Gan Ning said casually. The win rate for this Battle was less than fifty percent, but so what? The biggest problem with pirates lay in their extremely poor discipline. Their fighting might be wild, but their discipline was terrible, and what an excellent army needs is discipline!

Seeing that Gan Ning had made up his mind, his subordinates had nothing more to say. They were diehards who had in this period yielded to the Halo of Gan Ning’s repeated victories, so once Gan Ning made a decision, they would absolutely carry it out with all their strength.

”How’s the selection of Elite Troops among the pirates going?” Gan Ning asked, looking at Sakara.

”We’ve already selected an Elite Troops unit of about three thousand men. Their strength is no worse than the Marines elites I saw back when I was in the Marines, and their experience is even richer.” Sakara nodded in response. ”It’s just that pulling the backbones out of the Pirate Crew has cost us quite a bit of overall strength.”

”It’s fine. Arm those three thousand men to the teeth.” Gan Ning said calmly. In his view, it didn’t matter how many of the other pirates were lost. Anyway, as long as they won this battle, they’d have as many pirates as they wanted. So no matter how many died, there was no need to care; the victor owns everything.

In the eighth year of Vasu Deva I, a large-scale pirate war broke out in the Kushan Western Sea. From then on, the first One Piece of the Indian Ocean was born, integrating all the pirates of the Indian Ocean, and a Pirate Crew capable of destroying small and medium-sized nations was born!

”Legion Attack!” Standing at the bow, Gan Ning unleashed a dim blue Legion Talent, layers upon layers of Legion Defense-type formations fully unfolding. He looked coldly at the pirate ships lined up in a straight line opposite them and sneered as he spoke.

On the other side, Radiance of faith also appeared, and their own layered, multicolored Legion Defense formations unfolded one after another. Hundreds of warships of various sizes rammed into each other head-on under the Legion Attack of the other side.

”Crack!” With the sound of ships splintering, the Bell Pirate Crew led by Gan Ning used Cloud Qi to accelerate and savagely rammed into the enemy warships at the instant the two great fleets closed. Quite a few pirates standing on deck were directly flung off by such a ferocious attack method.

”Charge for Laozi!” Gan Ning laughed loudly as he ordered his flagship forward. For this war he had brought out all the supplies he had plundered up to now: fire arrows, Kerosene, Crossbow Mechanisms. The instant the two sides collided, Gan Ning’s side immediately launched an all-out counterattack.

The savage, powerful assault tore open the enemy line almost in an instant. Countless Fast Boats were lowered from the Large Boat under Gan Ning’s command, and masses of Bell Pirates leapt toward the enemy’s Large Boats under their respective captains’ lead.

The Pirate Confederation’s main force acted as if it hadn’t seen the Central Government battle line locked in combat with Gan Ning, merely having the warships on both flanks spiral inward to encircle Gan Ning’s army.

”Ignore the two wings, victory or defeat is decided here and now. Launch the Fire Ships, drive straight into the center, close in and slaughter them in melee! Target: central flagship!” Gan Ning roared as he ordered his Marines legion to unleash a collective Legion Attack, releasing the Fire Ships. With both sides already tangled together, such wide-area attacks would easily spill onto his own ships—but that meant nothing to Gan Ning!

Gan Ning’s orders were swiftly executed, though this method was close to killing a thousand enemies at the cost of eight hundred of your own. When flames erupted along the Pirate Confederation’s central line, Gan Ning’s side likewise couldn’t avoid having ships caught in it, but in the end they forced open the center by sheer brutal thrust.

”Sakara, you command the army and block the flanks for me. I’m going to smash their main command!” Completely ignoring the blazing heat of the flames beside him, Gan Ning locked his gaze on those three warships withdrawing to the rear. Exactly as he’d expected, the three large Pirate Crews’ leaders trusted no one else, so their command ships were clustered together—and now was the time to wipe them out in one stroke!

”Charge!” After handing over command to Sakara, Gan Ning immediately led three thousand carefully selected Elite Troops, along with six warships already prepared—each comparable to a Sixth Generation Ship—and with the flagship as the core, directly activated the technique taught to him by Mengg Kambu!

In that instant, all the Cloud Qi of Gan Ning’s flagship and the six warships comparable to Sixth Generation Ships—along with all the Heaven and Earth Essence consumed back when the ships were being Nurtured—were fully roused. In the next heartbeat, those seven warships shot forward like arrows loosed from the string, forcibly punching through the pirates’ central line.

They tore open the pirates’ central line by brute force, and all seven warships suffered grievous damage. At such extreme speed there was no way to evade frontal obstruction; the result of ramming straight through was that the Bell Pirate Group’s only seven top-tier warships were all left battered.

Yet none of that mattered. What mattered was that, from the very moment of the charge, Gan Ning had never planned on keeping those seven ships. In his eyes, these seven were expendable; if lost, then lost.

Thus, after punching through the Pirate Confederation’s central line, Gan Ning laughed wildly and fully detonated the Cloud Qi of all seven warships. Their already outrageous speed turned even more frenzied; at this terrifying velocity, the flagship weighing dozens of tons and the six Sixth Generation Ships had their forward hulls actually lifted clear of the sea!

”Go die for Laozi!” The warship weighing dozens of tons, in the instant before the enemy could even begin to dodge, directly mounted itself atop the bow of the opposing flagship.

In the next moment, Gan Ning’s ram tore through the enemy hull as easily as piercing paper, then the entire prow of his ship smashed into theirs. As both vessels shattered, Gan Ning’s flagship even carried the enemy ship backward, tumbling nearly a hundred meters.

In the instant of collision, the berserk, titanic force slammed so much seawater that it was pounded to pulp; tons of water were swept up and brutally turned into mist.

By the time Gan Ning’s seven warships finally came to a halt, any vessels that had collided were all more than half-destroyed. Even Gan Ning’s specially reinforced flagship had lost its entire forward section to the impact, while of the three big Pirate Crews’ bosses on the other side, two now had fates unknown.

”Submit—or die!” Gan Ning’s Great Sword rested on the neck of the one remaining pirate leader, his gaze ice-cold. The man who, before Gan Ning’s arrival, was the strongest pirate on the Indian Ocean, hailed as a king without a crown, now lay beneath Gan Ning’s blade.

”I will not submit!” The man glared at Gan Ning, shouting in fury.

”Oh? Then go die.” Gan Ning casually swung his blade; under the other’s horrified gaze, the head spun away through the air. Just an Inner Qi Manifestation nobody—Gan Ning wanted obedient subordinates, and had no need to flaunt magnanimity.

”Kill anyone who refuses to submit. From now on, the Indian Ocean belongs to us alone!” Gan Ning reached out, grabbed a sail lying to the side, slung it over his shoulder, and spoke with a cold smile.

With the thunderous roar of the Pirate Confederation’s three flagships sinking, their defeat was already sealed. From this moment, there was only one pirate force on the Indian Ocean—the Bell Pirates, whose leader was called the Bell King!

At this point, any further discontent was meaningless, any further schemes without value; the faction riven by internal strife before could no longer afford to have problems.

The King’s Way flows vast as water, the hegemon’s way blazes resplendent. He who builds his enterprise upon the path of Wang Ba—such a man does not die, such an enterprise does not fall, and the crown settles upon his own brow.