Lord Moyu was forced to open

At night, the last 105 warships of the Europa Combined Fleet stopped around an uninhabited island.

Gary Hall and others went to the island one after another, some to replenish fresh water, some to make fire and get food.

Everyone was exhausted after the desperate escape during the day, and now they just wanted to eat something and take a rest.

On the coast of the island, bonfires were lit and bacon and other foods carried for grilling fish were roasted on the grill.

No one was willing to talk, only the sound of chewing food could be heard from time to time.

Gary Hall did the same. He took a bite of the bacon in his hand, chewed it a few times, and swallowed it with a frown.

Obviously, the taste of this bacon is not very good. In order to preserve it for a longer time, a large amount of salt is added to it. It feels like eating salt when you take a bite, so the taste is naturally not good.

The correct way to do it is to cut it into slices and boil it into soup, use the soup to dilute the salty taste and enjoy it with bread.

But now they don’t even have bread, so this is the only way they can eat.

"Deputy Commander, can we return to Europa?"

At the side, the captain of another fleet suddenly asked.

Gary Hall was silent for a moment, then nodded heavily: "I will definitely be able to go back!"

Although the others seemed not to care about this, in fact, they all pricked up their ears early on.

After hearing Gary Hall's answer, everyone showed a look of relief.

At this time, the person who asked the question just now asked again: "Deputy Commander, why are those Song people different from what we say at home? They are so much stronger than us, their ships are bigger and stronger than ours.

Their artillery is more powerful than ours. We are not here to spread the glory of the Lord, but to die."

In response, Gary Hall sighed, his eyes a little dazed.

Yeah, how did things turn out like this?

They were clearly here to invade.

How come two-thirds of the fleet was destroyed before they even landed on the island? This was completely different from what they had imagined before they came.

These damn intelligence guys!
Gary Hall clenched his fists and said coldly: "When I return home, I will kill those who are involved in intelligence activities.

If it weren’t for the false information they brought back, saying that the Song State was not strong!
How could we end up like this?
And those damned upper class nobles, their greedy eyes only see the benefits, but fail to see themselves clearly!"

Everyone suddenly realized, have we all been deceived by those damn intelligence and upper-class nobles?
Come to think of it, it is true, otherwise how could he end up like this?
Everyone fell silent again. Gary Hall didn't say anything more and continued to eat.

What they didn't know was that at this moment, there were some people secretly working on the bottom of the ship that they had parked on the sea.

One after another, small boats approached their warships under the cover of night and made some small moves.

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Silent all night.

Yesterday's battle really exhausted everyone, and most of them slept soundly.

However, just when everyone was sleeping soundly, a burst of panicked shouting woke everyone up from their sleep!
"Oh no! Oh no! Deputy Commander Gary Hall! There's a leak! There's a leak! There's a leak!"

Gary Hall was so frightened by the shout that he jumped out of bed and quickly ran to the door. At this moment, a French naval soldier was standing at the door of his room with a sad face. It was obvious that he was the one who had just shouted.

Gary Hall grabbed him by the collar and asked, "What on earth did you mean by that? What's the leak? Where is it?"

The soldier said with a sad face: "Deputy Commander Hall, when we got up this morning, we found that many ships were missing!

Some ships were gradually sinking, but many people were so soundly asleep last night that no one noticed.

Just now after we woke up everyone, we found that there were only 85 ships left in the fleet. The cabins of seven or eight ships were already full of water and were still sinking. They could not be saved at all!" "What?! Damn it! Why is it leaking?

Are all the people on the sunken ship dead? They were all drowned and no one noticed! ? "

Gary Hall was shocked and angry. He put on his clothes and quickly went to the deck.

When he arrived on the deck, a ship next to him was completely declared hopeless and sank to the bottom of the sea. The people on this ship did not sink with the ship because they were awakened in time. They were all taken to the ship under Hall and the others' feet. For a moment, the entire deck was crowded with people.

Gary Hall's face darkened when he saw this, and he immediately shouted, "Can anyone tell me what happened? Why did the fleet lose so many people just because we took a nap?!"

After a lot of discussion, Gary Hall finally learned from everyone that the reason these ships sank was because of a big hole in the bottom of the ship for unknown reasons, and the hull was slowly filled with water while everyone was sleeping. He then remained silent helplessly.

The fact that there was a hole in the bottom of the ship was strange enough, but what was even more strange was that on these sunken ships, even the night patrollers were all fast asleep last night and no one noticed anything unusual.

If someone hadn't noticed something was wrong and woke them up this morning, they would probably have been like the other silent ships, never knowing what had happened until they died.

After listening to his story, Gary Hall's face immediately became serious and he glanced at everyone present.

Then he said coldly: "Didn't anyone notice what happened last night?"

Everyone shook their heads.

Gary Hall's face became even gloomier. He came to the side of the ship, looked at the remaining few ships that were sinking, and immediately gave the order:
"Let those people on those boats transfer to the nearest boat."

In addition, several third-level battleships were sent to patrol around the island.

These things can't have happened suddenly, someone must be behind this!

In addition, all ships will be inspected to see if there are any other problems. "

Following Gary Hall's order, the fleet immediately adjusted.

The crews were quickly transferred, the sunken ships were abandoned, and the ships were inspected to see if they had been tampered with.

The three third-class battleships from the small country had no choice but to accept the patrol mission and go out to sea to inspect the surrounding situation. After everyone finished checking the fleet and confirmed that there were no other problems with the remaining ships, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Gary Hall asked someone to do another count and found that there were 105 ships in the fleet yesterday, but now there are only 77 left!

In just one night they lost twenty-eight ships.

This is undoubtedly a heavy loss.

What frightened everyone even more was the loss of twenty-eight ships!
Who did this?
Originally, everyone was going to leave here early this morning.

The fresh water was replenished yesterday.

But because of these things, time has been delayed until noon.

Everyone felt heavy in their hearts, but Gary Hall looked at everyone with eyes full of suspicion and confusion.

Obviously, everyone here is our own people!
But if they were not our own people, then who did these things?
Gary Hall just felt like his head was about to explode.

After the patrol boat returned and confirmed that there was no one else around, they immediately gave the order to prepare to set off.

No matter what, it’s a good idea to leave here as soon as possible!

Everyone hurried back to prepare.

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(End of this chapter)