Under Marco's leadership, the remnants of the Whitebeard Pirates joined the war between the Blackbeard Pirates and the Uchiha Alliance. As soon as they clashed, they inflicted considerable losses on the Blackbeard Pirates. Though the Whitebeard remnants had suffered grievous losses, the pirates who remained were the elite among elites, so dealing with a rabble that had only recently joined the Blackbeard Pirates was effortless for them.
However, once Blackbeard had gained a foothold, he swiftly directed his subordinates and began turning the tide.
Blackbeard held an enormous advantage in numbers and low-level combat power, precisely what the Uchiha Alliance lacked most. As the battle dragged on, Blackbeard finally recovered the situation and gradually forced back the three fleets.
After nearly ten hours of naval warfare and terrible losses, the Uchiha Alliance and the Whitebeard remnants were finally forced to withdraw from the battlefield. More than half of the Germa army's elite soldiers had been lost, the Dressrosa army had suffered casualties of up to one-third, and the Whitebeard Pirates had fared even worse.
Blackbeard's grand fleet had also suffered severe losses. Its entire right wing had been destroyed, and the wreckage of pirate ships floated across the sea for dozens of miles. Blackbeard had only preserved his core forces, abandoning all the ordinary pirates and shrinking his defensive line 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 let up!" Blackbeard was thoroughly irritated.
Over the past two days, after he had made a ruthless, almost mutually destructive sacrifice of the three fleets, he had finally driven those people back. Yet although they had retreated, they refused to call off their troops. They continued trailing behind at a distance, launching small-scale surprise attacks from time