"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!" Black Sail opened fire without declaring war. A rain of energy beams tore a huge breach in the Gold Coin Pirate Gang's outer defenses-and shattered Golden Dagger's last shred of hope.
"Why... how did this happen..." Golden Dagger stared at the three great pirate gangs slowly closing in, his face pale.
He could not understand how a perfectly good scheme to pit one enemy against another had somehow turned into a disaster of his own making.
What exactly had gone wrong?
"Boss, we need to think of something! Our fleet probably can't hold out much longer!"
His men scrambled in panic to redeploy their defenses, but attacks from three directions at once still stretched the base's defensive forces to their limits, leaving them on the verge of collapse.
By now, the number of attacking warships had rapidly surged past two thousand, and nearly half of them were elite vessels.
Although they had made some preparations for battle, the Gold Coin Pirate Gang had never been known for its fighting strength. Under these circumstances, they did not even have time to summon the experts they usually courted, leaving them completely on the defensive.
Golden Dagger was panicking too! Still, he had weathered plenty of storms, and he soon forced himself to calm down.
"Immediately redeploy the eastern fleet to reinforce the other three fronts! Send out every mecha pilot and buy as much time as possible! Tell everyone that reinforcements will be here soon. Hold out until then, and everyone gets a generous reward! Triple the compensation for casualties!"
Golden Dagger understood that they were now at an absolute disadvantage. Anyone with eyes could see that the Gold Coin Pirate Gang was doomed this time, so his first priority was to steady his men's morale.
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