Chapter 80: Target Sky Island!
The performance of the three hot air balloons was quickly tested over three days.
The pirate army's training had also almost come to an end.
Aside from continuing to run increasingly long weighted marches in the mornings, they began building their own barracks as combat engineers in the afternoons—work that had previously been left to local craftsmen.
The craftsmen had merely laid the groundwork. The barracks Leo wanted were not classical fortresses, so the craftsmen did not even realize they were building barracks. They thought they were simply making a place for people to live.
In fact, even the pirate soldiers did not believe the place they were building was a barracks. There were no tall buildings or cannons, no stone walls. There was only digging, digging, digging... endless digging...
They felt as if they were digging three feet into the earth. The deep trenches even reached five meters down and were wide enough for William to walk through with ease.
Not only did such enormous trenches ruin farmland, they could easily dig straight through the island.
But Leo was not worried about that at all. Half of Jaya Island was up on Sky Island. Since Jaya Island had remained whole instead of scattering apart after being in the sky for so long, it probably had a great deal to do with that enormous vine.
But from another perspective, the thickness of all of Jaya Island was astonishing as well.
A trench merely five meters deep could not possibly damage Jaya Island in any way.
These were trenches. What they were learning was First World War trench warfare.
That was why Leo was not afraid of the Navy learning his tactics.
Even if someone learned his line-fire tactics, before trenches, however many men they lined