Codex Pirates

Chapter 284 Initiative

The port of Kalmar City was already in chaos. As soon as they saw the people from the Navy Headquarters fighting with William's side, the crowd of onlookers fled away one after another, leaving this place to these fighters.

When the battle just started, Crowe had already dialed the phone bug and passed the news to the ships hovering near the dock. Several warships ready to go sailed to the dock one after another, encircling the naval warships parked on the shore.

As soon as the gunfire rang out, the navy on the shore couldn't help but look in the direction of the warship. No one noticed the gunshot under the cover of the gunfire.

In the next second, Lieutenant General Garp, who had knocked William down from mid-air before falling to the ground, tilted his head back involuntarily.

"There are snipers!" Lieutenant General Stoloberg's squinting eyes suddenly widened, and he shouted.

Edmond looked happy. He knew that Jesus Bu, who was ambushing nearby, had shot. After working with Jesus Bu for so long, William and his group knew very well that Jesus Bu's marksmanship was perfect.

It's just that the joy on Edmund's face quickly disappeared, and Karp slowly retracted his head. At this time, he could see that there was a deflated bullet in the middle of his brow, and it was caught by the bullet. Apart from the slight redness of the skin where the bullet hit, it didn't even break the skin!

The bullet fell off Garp's eyebrows, and he caught it with one hand, and then he laughed: "Good marksmanship, thanks to my domineering."

As soon as Garp finished speaking, he disappeared from the spot. On the roof of a small building in the distance, Jesus Bu, who was watching Garp with a sniper mirror, saw the target disappear suddenly. Garp, who was hundreds of meters away, rushed to less than ten meters in front of him in an instant.

boom!

Karp just punched, and the seven-story building where Jesus cloth was located collapsed as if it had been blasted by a large equivalent of explosives, with gravel flying and dust filling the air.

Jesus Bu rushed out of the dust with a confused face, stepped on the moon, and opened the distance from the small building. The sniper rifle in his hand had disappeared, but immediately after that, two revolvers appeared out of thin air with both hands. Come on, move your fingers, and fire at the small building below.

Jesus cloth only has two revolvers in his hands, but the firepower pouring out in an instant gives people the feeling of a hail of bullets.

Almost at the same time as Jesus shot, Lieutenant General Garp in a navy uniform rushed out amidst the dust and fog. He held one hand in front of his face to protect his eyes, and the other hand took a piece of it off with his bare hands. A cement block the size of a basketball, the bullet hit him, who was covered in arrogance, like a tickle. In the next second, he threw the cement block in his hand at Jesus cloth like a shot put.

When the cement block flew through the air, there was a piercing whistling sound. The sound was like a cannonball. Jesus cloth had only time to cross his arms to protect his chest before he was hit by the cement block. , the power doubled, and the arm that was directly hit by this blow was broken, vomited blood, and fell powerlessly from midair.

Garp wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue, but he heard muffled noises from the ground like an earthquake. As soon as Garp was puzzled, he saw the ground suddenly bulge, and then, a burst of high-pressure steam gushed out directly. Suddenly, white steam filled the surroundings, blocking Garp's sight and covering the falling figure of Jesus.

Garp ignored Jesus cloth, turned his head suddenly, and looked towards the direction of the pier, which was already shrouded in thick white steam.

At the pier, William half-kneeled on the ground, and his hands inserted into the ground turned into two streams of white steam that seemed to have substance. As his ability was activated, it radiated outwards from the pier area. In Kalmar City, streams of high-pressure steam kept flowing. Breaking through the surface, in a blink of an eye, a corner of the city will be turned into a "fog city" where you can't see your fingers.

William's voice became a little hoarse, and he said to Edmund, Crowe and others who were coughing non-stop beside him, "You guys go first."

Edmund gritted his teeth and said, "I'm not going, I'm going to die."

"I can't go. I will stay on my own initiative. At least you can go," William said through gritted teeth. Kill me, we must be the last laughers."

"Crow!" Seeing that Edmund wanted to say something, William called out to the calmer and smarter Crowe.

Crowe is really smart. He knows that unless the battle situation is at a stalemate and no one can hold back, the navy will not just kill William like this. Just like treating the little pirate, let William die quietly.

And as long as the navy does this, the people of the William Group have the hope of making a comeback.

So together with Selkirk, Crick and others, they pulled Edmond away and explained the reason as they walked.

In fact, William first broke the news in front of Louise because he wanted to lure the navy to fight in the East China Sea, because he knew at the time that once the war with Golden Lion Shiji was over, his side would definitely be exposed to the eyes of the world government and the navy.

If you wait for the Navy headquarters to investigate on their own after the fact, and when they don't know when they have collected enough evidence to approve the arrest, then the initiative to start the war will fall into the hands of the Navy. William's thinking is that it is better to take advantage of the changes in the world situation. Take the initiative to force the naval headquarters to attack, and let yourself control the time to start the war.

He has made full preparations for this, and is ready to use war to promote peace, and take advantage of the victory of this battle to seek the position of "Qiwuhai under the king".

On the one hand, to obtain a legal name for one's regime, and on the other hand, to be able to continue to develop relatively steadily after one's own power leaps out of the water.

But William didn't expect that the people in the Navy Headquarters seemed to have guessed that he wanted to take the seat of Shichibukai from the very beginning. The news from Ajin and the news from the mouse all proved that the Navy Headquarters intended to invite him to become Qiwuhai.

William had to admit that he was hesitant. He was a time traveler, and unlike the local aborigines, he could accept the rule of the world government and navy with peace of mind, but it did not mean that he was not afraid of the power of the behemoths of the world government and navy.

If he has to be an enemy, then William will not be afraid of fighting, but if he can avoid a head-to-head fight with the Navy Headquarters when he was still weak, he will directly achieve his goal and become Qi Wuhai. William is actually relieved tone.

Not only William, but most of the cadres under his command are like him, even more afraid of the power of the Navy Headquarters and the World Government. If it can be avoided, they don't want to go to war with the Navy Headquarters.

After all, even though William had killed Shiki the Golden Lion, he was not Edward the Whitebeard after all. He did not have the prestige and fame that even his enemies would praise, so that his subordinates would not pay attention to the Navy Headquarters.

The people under William who really might not take the government and the navy seriously are actually the students in the school who have received new education, but they haven't grown up yet.

The lesson of looking forward and looking backward is to give up the initiative and be caught off guard by the Navy headquarters.

It was not William's plan that the king met the king and confronted each other head-on from the very beginning.

The layout of the Navy Headquarters is actually not very clever. There are actually only two points that are worthy of praise in the Navy Headquarters. One is to see through William's purpose at a glance and hang him with Shichibukai's seat. The other is to understand that the two sides are going to war. The unequal cost, hold on to William's ideas.

The size of William Fang and the Navy Headquarters are completely unequal, and the consequences of failure are also different. Once the war starts, William and his group lose, it will be over, but even if the Navy Headquarters loses, it will not hurt the fundamentals. It makes William and his group not so easy to put all their eggs in one basket when faced with the goodwill cast by the headquarters.

In fact, William also hesitated. Many of the arrangements he made after the warships of the headquarters came to the East China Sea, including following the warships, not knowing the snipers, etc., seemed unsafe, but unfortunately he still did not make up his mind in the end.