Under Marco's leadership, Whitebeard's remnants joined the war between the Blackbeard Pirates and the Uchiha Alliance. As soon as they engaged, they inflicted considerable losses on the Blackbeard Pirates. Although Whitebeard's remnants had suffered devastating losses, the Pirates who remained were all elites among elites. Dealing with the motley crew that had only recently joined the Blackbeard Pirates was practically effortless for them.
However, once Blackbeard had stabilized his footing, he swiftly directed his subordinates and began turning the tide.
Blackbeard held an overwhelming advantage in numbers and low-level combat strength, precisely what the Uchiha Alliance lacked most. As the battle dragged on, Blackbeard finally managed to reclaim the advantage, gradually forcing back the three fleets.
After nearly ten hours of naval combat and a grievous price paid, the Uchiha Alliance and Whitebeard's remnants were finally forced to withdraw from the battlefield. More than half of Germa's elite soldiers had been lost, while the Dressrosa Army had suffered casualties amounting to one-third of its forces. The Whitebeard Pirates had suffered even more terribly.
Blackbeard's great fleet had also taken heavy losses. The entire right wing had been destroyed, and the wreckage of Pirate ships drifted across the sea for dozens of miles. Blackbeard had preserved only his core forces, abandoning all the ordinary Pirates and pulling back his lines until the overall situation stabilized.
"Chief, they're still following far behind us!" Lafitte said after receiving the latest report.
"Those bastards just won't quit!" Blackbeard was thoroughly irritated.
Over the past two days, after his three fleets had fought a nearly mutually destructive battle, cutting off an arm to save the body, he had finally driven those people back. Yet although they had retreated, they refused to withdraw their forces. They continued trailing behind from afar, launching small-scale surprise attacks from