The Navy sprang into action at once.
Once the landing sites of the Island Battleships were identified,
Navy Officers across the Sea Areas immediately drew up plans and predicted how the pirates would spread.
They prepared large forces to form a ring around the pirates, containing them and restricting the New World pirates' movements.
They hoped to keep the disaster from spreading.
The Navy put its plans into action immediately.
Alongside the Navy's own forces, the navies of the Affiliated Nations would cooperate.
That powerful fire support undoubtedly gave the Navy confidence.
It was a good idea, but it was doomed to fail.
Pirates moved unpredictably. By the time the Navy had assembled its forces, the pirates' range of activity had already spread too far to encircle.
A ring that large would be easy for pirates to slip through.
Stronger pirates could simply carve a bloody path out.
Once they realized this, Tsuru and Kong at Marineford began organizing the Navy to disrupt the pirates' movements.
They also sent out their strongest fighters to eliminate as many pirates as possible.
They knew it would not make much difference.
A hundred thousand pirates from the New World were enough to turn an entire Sea Area upside down.
When their intelligence network could not track every pirate, they were bound to end up playing cat and mouse.
These were not merely a dozen or so pirate crews.
There were hundreds of them. How could the Navy possibly keep up?
The Great Pirates were powerful, leaving the Navy at a disadvantage in combat strength. More troops would not change that.
Tsuru's brows knitted tightly. Faced with this situation, she could think of no way to break the deadlock.
She could not help sighing.
"What a mess."
The cat-and-mouse game would only waste vast