The Navy Attacks
"Hey! Namur! How's the underwater trap coming along?" Ace arrived at the dock of Crescent Moon Island, which had undergone a complete transformation! The surrounding Crescent Moon Island were now filled with countless cannons, and some of the rock walls had even been hollowed out to house a large number of weapons!
"Phew! Finally done!" Namur surfaced, wiping the seawater from his head. As the strongest Fish-Man in the Whitebeard Pirates, his mission was to create numerous hidden reefs in the waters of Crescent Moon Island Bay! He gathered countless boulders and threw them into the water, using his teeth, hard enough to bite through steel, to carve them into cone shapes! In this way, even if the Navy's warships were extremely sturdy, these boulders would be more than enough to give them a run for their money!
"Hey? Ace! When did you get here? Is the deployment on those small isolated islands complete?" Namur pointed to several small isolated islands in the bay, each only a few dozen square meters in size. Their original plan was to install some cannons on those islands as the first line of defense! And Ace was in charge of this task!
"It should be finished by now! Teach Doc Q, one of Teach's men, volunteered, saying he wanted to give the Navy a surprise! And I'm also here to let you know that, according to our intelligence network, the Navy has already set off! We have to speed things up!" Ace squatted there, even he, who was usually incredibly carefree, felt a touch of seriousness in his heart at this moment! After all, this battle was no less significant than the Paramount War!
"Okay! Let's go, I've finished here. Let's see if the others need any help!" Namur leaped up from the sea and then headed off with Ace to another location!
Everyone was making frantic preparations, determined to deliver a heavy blow to the attacking World Government!
Between the vast sky and the sea, the fleet of the Marine HQ is cutting through the waves. For this mission, they have deployed a total of 50 warships!
One of the warships carried Pacifista, each resembling a Kuma, possessing astonishing destructive power but also incredibly expensive! Keep in mind, the cost of a single Pacifista is comparable to that of an ordinary warship! Twenty Pacifista —this represents more than half of the Marine HQ's resources!
Two other warships carried World Government agents! This large group of elite agents was led by two CP0 officers; they had undergone inhumane training since childhood, and each of them was a war machine!
As for the other 47 ships, each carried 500 elite soldiers and a Marine HQ Admiral! Originally, each Marine HQ ship could carry 1000 soldiers, but due to the heavy losses of elite troops during the Paramount War, and the fact that an ordinary soldier's role was less than that of a cannonball, the total naval force was as follows:
Leading figures: Garp, Sengoku, Tsuru!
Top-tier combatants: Marine HQ Admiral Kizaru, Marine HQ Admiral Fujitora, and two high-ranking World Government agents from CP0! (The author's setting is that CP0's strength is barely at the Admiral level.)
Advanced combat force: Admiral candidate Momousagi from the Marine HQ, and five elite Vice Admiral from the Marine HQ!
Medium combat strength: A large number of Marine Headquarters Vice Admiral and a large number of Marine Headquarters Rear Admiral!
Force strength: 20 Pacifista, 400 World Government elite agents, and 23,500 Marine HQ elites!
With such a massive force deployed, and only Fleet Admiral Akainu and a few ordinary Vice Admiral currently stationed at Marine HQ, it's clear just how determined the World Government is this time!
"Full speed ahead! Everyone take turns resting, we must be in top condition to face the Whitebeard Pirates!" Although Sengoku had stepped down from the front lines, his aura was still unmatched! The Mythical Zoan Buddha-Buddha Fruit granted him wisdom far exceeding that of ordinary people, and at this moment his mind was already pondering how to defeat the Whitebeard Pirates with minimal losses!
"Sengoku, are you worried about the upcoming war?" Tsuru walked up to him and asked.
"Yes! The losses we suffered in the Paramount War were undoubtedly enormous. The forces recruited by the World Military Draft were mostly newcomers, with very few elite soldiers! But the Whitebeard Pirates are different! I've heard that many pirates from the New World and some powerful newcomers have joined his crew. In addition, Whitebeard's strength has returned to its peak, and there's also the terrifyingly powerful Blackbeard in the crew! Alas! It will be very difficult to win this war!"
At this moment, Sengoku felt a deep sense of powerlessness. They had neither the advantage of terrain nor the support of the people. Could they really defeat the powerful Whitebeard Pirates with only a weak sense of justice in their hearts?
Please, this isn't a novel!
"Hahaha! Why worry so much? If we can win, we win; if we can't, we just go back! Wasting so many troops on a piece of trash, I really don't understand what those people are thinking!" Garp said leisurely, holding a bag of senbei. He had now retired to the second line, and as an old man with white hair and beard, his strength had declined a lot. It was normal that he couldn't beat others!
"Damn Garp! How can you say something like that?" Sengoku covered Garp's mouth, looked him around, and then took his hand away, also snatching the senbei from Garp's hand the instant he did so!
"My senbei! Sengoku, you bastard, give me back my senbei!"
"It's so noisy!"
Let's press the fast forward button and let time jump to the afternoon of this day.
"Soldiers, the Whitebeard Pirates' headquarters Crescent Moon Island, is not far ahead! Grab your weapons, and for justice, bring these wicked pirates to justice!" Only a seasoned veteran like Sengoku, who had been a Fleet Admiral for many years, could utter such a ridiculous statement. Although the content of his words was laughable, it still boosted the morale of the soldiers!
"Oh!"
"That's..." A pirate on the tower picked up his binoculars and looked at the long row of black dots.
"Navy! It's a Navy ship!" The pirate's eyes widened, and he hurriedly sounded the alarm! The next second, the piercing sound echoed throughout Crescent Moon Island!
"Gurararara! Have those bastards from the World Government arrived? You'd better let me have my fun!" Whitebeard laughed heartily. At this moment, he put on his old clothes and the pirate hat from his youth, with his long blond hair draped over his shoulders. Then, he picked up his Murakumogiri and strode towards the bay!
"Hahaha! After waiting for so long, those bastards have finally arrived! Men, let's go! Let's give our dear friend a grand welcome gift!" Teach laughed strangely, and then a very familiar voice rang in her mind!
"Ding-dong! The system is about to make a forced appearance! Mission issued: Defeat the World Government's army! Reward: Awakening the Tremor-Tremor Fruit ability! Mission item: Tremor-Tremor Fruit Awakening Trial Card x1! (24 hours)"
Teach: You seem like a sign-in system, right?
System: This dog of an author doesn't even sign in! I'm practically invisible! If I don't show up soon, the readers will forget about me!
Teach:...