Iron Powder and Spellcaster

"Do you know this person?" Cage softened his attitude, but still held the navy scimitar tightly.

"It can't be considered acquaintance... This man was originally a pirate captain. He wanted to rob our ship, but we finally captured him. As for how he got on your navy's ship, I don't know."

"In order to attack as quickly as possible, the consul allowed us to requisition all serious criminals." Cage put the navy scimitar back into the scabbard: "This man is lucky. Being a pirate is a capital crime. It is better to paddle on the ship than to go to the gallows. ?”

Good Luck Gold no longer looks as high-spirited as he used to when he was crossing the inland sea. Half of his teeth were knocked out by Layton, the flesh on his cheeks was dented, and his lips were split into bloody grooves. There were only bones left in the shoulders and arms, and the whole person looked like it had been boiled dry.

Winters felt a little sorry for him and said to Cage: "Get him some water."

Cage glanced at Gold, whistled at the sailors watching the excitement on the high platform, and a water bag was thrown down from above.

The latter, who was crying uncontrollably, saw the water bag and could no longer feel sad for himself. He rushed out to grab the water bag and protected it on his chest, then wiped his tears and eagerly pulled out the stopper and poured it down.

Winters said nothing more and turned to leave with Cage.

What else is there to say? In Winters' view, Gold's fate was his own fault, and he should have had the consciousness to go to the gallows when he became a pirate. He did the same to himself. When he put on his black clothes and put the spring gun into the holster, he had already thought about it: If he was hanged for this matter, he would never cry out.

He will not sympathize with Gold, but he also has no hobby of beating up drowned dogs, and he will not feel that he has become a saint just because he gave Gold a bag of water.

Originally, Winters thought that the matter was over like this, but he didn't expect that someone on the stern of the ship had already noticed the unexpected situation here.

On the high platform in the middle of the deck, several people wearing naval officer uniforms walked over from the stern of the ship. The sailors made way for these people.

The leader wore a loose-cut navy uniform, a dark blue coat, a white shirt and breeches. The collar, cuffs and placket are all decorated with gold lace. On a dirty ship, this officer was impressively clean.

Even the most dim-witted person can now tell that the captain is coming.

Unlike army officers, naval officers do not wear military boots, but Captain Speyer still makes a "dong-dong" sound when he walks.

Several officers with untrimmed tricorn hats followed him. Winters speculated that these people must be the adjutants on the Golden Lion, because midshipman Cage never wore a tricorn hat.

Seeing Captain Speyer approaching, Cage immediately stood up straight and saluted, while Winters just nodded.

"Mr. Bastier, please tell me what happened here?" Spier's voice was slightly hoarse, but when he spoke, the entire Golden Lion instantly fell silent.

"Yes, sir. A rower stopped this Army gentleman."

Captain Speyer looked away from the water bag in Gold's hand. He already knew what was happening here.

The captain of the Golden Lion pointed at Gold and ordered: "Give him ten lashes when the thirteenth bell rings. Mr. Delang, please do it."

"Yes, sir."

Cage shook his head slightly and signaled Winters with his eyes not to ask for mercy.

After dealing with this episode, Spier turned around and left. The adjutant jumped down with several sailors, opened the iron lock, and took Gold away.

After Captain Speyer walked away, Cage said to Winters: "Just giving him ten lashes is already taking care of your face. If it were another oarsman, cutting off an arm would be considered a light punishment."

"This...I didn't want to plead for him." Winters realized that he had been misunderstood, and said in a fit of laughter and tears: "How could I, a small army warrant officer, be so arrogant as to take care of things on the ship. Besides, neither I nor that person Friendship, but enmity.”

Cage chuckled: "That's lucky for him, he got an arm back."

After delivering the chart to Captain Speyer, Cage and Winters left the Golden Lion.

Before leaving, Winters carefully observed the stern of the Golden Lion. The Golden Lion did not have a separate cabin specially designated for officers in the ship's building. Speyer's "single room" was just a small space temporarily separated by thin wooden boards at the stern of the ship.

Several iron hooks were screwed to the pillars, making it look like a place to hang a hammock. A few wooden sticks propped up a board on which a map was pressed with a slide rule and an inkwell. This was the captain's desk. There were no chairs, just a small wooden bucket turned upside down.

Next to the desk is a cannon, and Speyer lives next to the tail gun of the Golden Lion. It seems that this is the captain's room only when not in contact with the enemy. Once it encounters the enemy, it will become a gun emplacement.

"Does Captain Tangtang live in such a simple place? It doesn't look as good as ours." When he got on the boat and returned to the Glory, Winters couldn't help but ask Cage.

Cage sighed and said helplessly: "There is no way, the space of the galley is limited. This kind of ship was originally supposed to board the ship for fighting during the day and disembark to rest at night. It cannot leave the port too far, let alone long-distance expeditions. Alas, it is really There are no other ships, otherwise we wouldn’t have sent out all these offshore ships.”

Everyone is saying that the Federation's shameful sneak attack severely damaged the Veneta Navy, but most people do not understand the extent of the losses of the Veneta Navy. On the contrary, the Veneta Navy quickly formed such a large revenge fleet, which made many people, including Winters, feel that "the navy did not seem to have been damaged."

It was not until this moment that Winters truly realized the extent of the Navy's losses. The navy was just holding on. They even incorporated offshore ships into the fleet for cross-sea expeditions. The sailors and officers on the galleys had to endure the harsh living environment.

"It seems that the Tanirian's punch really hit the vital point..."

Cage, however, did not want to show weakness in front of the Army. He cheered up and said cheerfully: "It's okay, the people on the ship are still there. The ship is gone, just build it again. If the old one doesn't go, and the new one doesn't come, it's just time to build a new ship."

Winters nodded, but this revenge expedition was dimmer in his mind.

——Cut——

Not only on the coast of the Seine Sea, but even if you look at the entire world, there are very few ports that can provide supplies for a fleet as large as the Veneta Revenge Fleet.

There are approximately 400 small towns with a population of about 1,000 in the Republic of Veneta, and 58 medium-sized cities with a population of about 5,000. But there are only nine towns with more than 10,000 people, all of which are important and famous cities with a long history. Counting the residents on the outskirts of the city, there are about 70,000 people in Aquamarine City, making it one of the most prosperous cities on the continent.

The forty-three large ships and more than twenty small ships in this fleet carry more than 20,000 sailors, soldiers and officers, which is equivalent to an entire city floating on the sea at the same time.

Only a few large ports like Hailan Port and Golden Port can dock so many ships at the same time. Most harbors had fewer inhabitants than the fleet, and they could only provide limited supplies of fresh water and food.

Lighthouse Harbor cannot accommodate so many people at the same time, and its pier is not large enough.

It would take two days for everyone to disembark at the lighthouse port, and it would take the same amount of time to get back on the ship.

In the navy's original plan, only twelve galley warships with poor self-sustainability and difficult conditions could dock for a day's rest.

Because the supplies carried by the galleons, warships and requisitioned merchant ships were enough to sail continuously at sea for more than a month, these ships were anchored outside the harbor and could not go ashore.

But just as Winters and Cage returned to the Glory in a small boat, Admiral Nareshaw, who was in charge of commanding the entire fleet, suddenly discovered that no one at the Navy headquarters had consulted the Army's opinion when formulating this plan.

Sailors can endure the crowded and harsh environment on the ship for a long time, but the more than 5,000 army soldiers of the Third Army may not be able to endure it. What's more, many of them are suffering from seasickness. Seeing that the navy people can go ashore but they can't, they will inevitably feel resentful.

"That's what happened, Your Excellency Serbetti." Admiral Naresho found the man with the highest rank in the Third Army and truthfully explained to him the actual situation of the fleet.

"Just call me by my name, Mr. Naresio." Antonio smiled politely.

The admiral, whose temples were already speckled with cold stars, leaned slightly and said anxiously to Antonio: "Please believe me, I have no intention of treating you differently. It is really a last resort. There are a few old-fashioned galleys." The warship doesn't even have a cargo hold, and the sailors only have food and drink they carry with them, and they have to go ashore to replenish it. If any army officers want to go ashore to rest, I can send you a boat to take them there. I will stay on the ship myself, and as long as there is a gentleman from the army, I will not go ashore. I won’t get off the ship, and the navy on other warships will also stay on the ship. Is this okay?”

Veneta's navy and army have always been tit-for-tat, and the admiral had been mentally prepared, waiting to be sprayed with saliva. But he was surprised to find that the Army Major General opposite actually abandoned the Army's arrogant style and became reasonable.

Antonio reached out and held Admiral Naresio's arm, and said sincerely: "Your Excellency Naresio, you don't have to worry too much. In the current war, we should be united and patient. Since the actual demand is such, you don't have to think about the army. What do you think? My opinion is the opinion of the Third Army. I have no opinion on it, and neither will the Third Army."

Admiral Naresio held Antonio's hand in surprise and nodded his approval.

However, Antonio suddenly changed the subject and said, "I have a small proposal."

The corners of the admiral's originally smiling mouth drooped, and he thought to himself: It turns out that you are waiting for me here. It is indeed a mistake to expect the Army to forgive others.

Antonio seemed not to notice the change in Narexiao's mood, and seriously stated his proposal: "Veneta has a dual army and navy. You must know this best. The army has one chain of command, and the navy has one." Set up a chain of command. The result is that now, the navy treats the army as cargo on the ship, and the army treats the navy as a transport ship."

"Then what?" Narexiao said calmly.

"But my soldiers can join gangs on the ship, and your sailors can also go ashore. We should establish a wartime joint command and combine the two chains of command into one, so as to maximize our combat power. The military cannot Political differences should be mixed up, and we must do our best to win for Veneta. Tanilia has hundreds of islands, large and small, with a combined population of hundreds of thousands. It is definitely not the tower of ashes that the Parliament imagined that could collapse at a blow. If If we act independently, we will give the federation an opportunity to take advantage of."

"Then what?" Nareshaw was unmoved and asked coldly: "Establish a joint command, which can command both my ships and your corps. Does your army have the final say on this joint command, or does it have the final say? Our navy has the final say?”

"The purpose of establishing a joint command is to resolve the differences between the army and the navy. It makes no sense if we continue to argue." Antonio paused and said sincerely: "As long as you agree, I can follow your orders. It's up to you. Serve as Commander-in-Chief of the Joint Command!”

…

Naresio's adjutant had been waiting outside Antonio's cabin. When he saw the admiral coming out, he hurriedly asked: "The Army people didn't speak rudely to you, right? You...why do you have to compromise like this?"

Naresho paced back to his cabin without saying a word.

The adjutant who had followed Naresio for many years followed behind. He became angrier as he thought about it, and complained in a low voice: "You shouldn't be so polite. The barbarians in the army are not willing to accept softness, so what if they are not allowed to disembark? I will come later... …”

Nareshaw waved his hand to signal the other party to stop, and his adjutant shut his mouth knowingly.

The admiral slowly sat on the chair, holding his knees, took off his hat, and said with some emotion: "You are wrong, and so am I... There are still gentlemen in the army."

——Cut——

After the Revenge Fleet arrived at Beacon Harbor, the herald from the Glorious read a joint letter drafted by the two generals to everyone in the fleet, both army and navy.

The letter mainly said three things:

First, the current status of the fleet and the lack of berths in the lighthouse port were clarified to all sailors, and it was announced that only twelve galley warships would dock for supplies, and all other ships would be anchored at the anchorage outside the port. At the same time, it was announced that when arriving at any port that is not large enough to carry the fleet, priority will still be given to galley warships for supplies without further notice.

This is the Navy's original plan.

Secondly, the two generals thanked all Army and Navy officers and men for their tenacity and tenacity, many of whom endured terrible living conditions and still performed their duties. Although large ships cannot dock, small boats can be used to transport supplies and personnel in small quantities. The two generals decided to draw lots from each ship and select twelve people to go ashore for a day's rest as a reward. The lottery ceremony will also be held when arriving at other ports in the future without further notice.

This is the method provided by Antonio. The Army Major General said this: "Hope must give people hope. Only with hope can people persevere."

However, neither of these two incidents was as shocking as the third incident to the officer class.

Admiral Naresho and Major General Serb Army announced the establishment of a joint command council. Command of both the fleet and III Corps has been transferred to the Joint Command Council. All military operations against the Taniriya Federation will be the responsibility of the Joint Command Council from now on.

The committee has a total of three voting members, one each for Naresio and Antonio. The two generals have sent messengers back to the Veneta Military Council, and the third member will be designated by the Thirteenth Group.

The army officers and navy officers were stunned by the news: What, just become a family like this?

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