Naruto Online: Hyuga Branch Family? Let's go all out!

Chapter 329 Night Raid - Two Victories at Lailong

The army can die, since they are all the armies of the republics anyway.

Marines can die too, since they can always be recruited again.

But the backbone of the navy cannot die!

These people are the backbone of the navy; with them, the navy can be rebuilt at any time.

But what if they're gone?

Then the East China Sea would be gone!

It's important to know that the backbone of the navy here all come from the East China Sea; they are the base commanders, deputy base commanders, and training officers of various branches!

With these people dead, the navy basically has no one who understands the local maritime conditions and culture, which is equivalent to the navy's grassroots control over the entire East China Sea being wiped out!

Although the navy can send reinforcements, how long will it take to familiarize themselves with the situation? And how long will it take to restore combat effectiveness?

It will take at least two years for the East China Sea to recover!

Even if all these naval backbone members survive today, it will still take the East China Sea Navy at least a year to recover its strength!

How many pirates will emerge in the East China Sea in this year?

Who knows!

However, the title of "weakest East China Sea" will definitely change.

These thoughts flashed through Cyborg's mind, and he didn't have time to think about anything deeper, after all, he had a powerful opponent in front of him!

"Drag!" Cyborg roared, "I never expected you to be so despicable! Having joined the Revolutionary Army, you don't even have the courage for direct combat anymore?"

His roar was both to demoralize the enemy and to rouse his own soldiers.

As for how many people this kind of weather can wake up, let's leave it to fate!

Hearing his voice, Dorrag's lips curled up, then he shook his head.

He stopped being competitive ten years ago. As for whether the morale of his soldiers will be affected?

The kind of morale that can be easily broken is definitely a morale that is not solid to begin with. Every soldier in the revolutionary army knows who they are fighting for!

This kind of ideological consensus cannot be destroyed by a single, casual remark!

They sneaked into each barracks and threw a grenade inside.

If there is resistance, slit the throat with a knife.

There's nothing you can do in areas where the enemy has fully awakened; you can only take them out with a gun.

Before long, sporadic gunshots began to ring out in waves.

The World Government, on the other hand, has suffered a terrible disaster!

The army was already in complete chaos. Their military system was already chaotic, and after the enemy broke into their camp, it was completely destroyed. Soldiers couldn't find their generals, and generals couldn't find their soldiers!

Moreover, due to fear of mutiny or being shot in the back by their subordinates, the army soldiers do not keep their guns with them. They have to get dressed before going out and then go to the next room to get their guns!

It's not hopeless up to this point, since there's still a possibility of resistance. But once you get the gun, true despair will come.

It's windy and rainy today, and the weather is humid.

Then, the gunpowder wouldn't light because it was damp!

The gunpowder guns used by the army were simply turned into fire sticks!

You're not getting enough to eat or wear. You work all day, and then the officers deduct your rations and pay at night.

I finally fell asleep, but then the enemy raided our camp. I tried to pick up my gun to fight back, but I couldn't hit anything!

How can you fight against an opponent with a knife, a gun, or even a hand cannon with your bare hands?

"Surrender and you won't be killed! Surrender and you won't be killed!" Seeing that some soldiers' will was on the verge of collapse, someone immediately shouted.

"We are also from Donghai, and people from Donghai don't fight each other!" Some soldiers even shouted in their native dialect.

They were soldiers who had been captured by the revolutionary army before, totaling more than 26,000. Now they had all joined the revolutionary army. They were now using their native language to recruit local marines, and the effect was surprisingly good.

Some soldiers even knew each other. Once they identified each other and explained their situation, surrendering became a natural thing to do!

Some soldiers on the army side surrendered, while others, knowing they couldn't win after the war started, simply ran away.

These men had frequently participated in bandit suppression back in the Kingdom's army. After experiencing multiple blows such as the withholding of military rations, military pay, military merits, and the hopelessness of promotion, these soldiers had long since become indifferent. Promotion and wealth were not their concern, but death in battle was a common occurrence.

Therefore, they had long since developed the instinct to run away when things went wrong.

This instinct enabled them to survive numerous bandit suppression wars, and over time, they actually became elite soldiers in the army!

They were naturally chosen during the Steelbone selection process, and on the battlefield, they once again displayed their old instincts: to run away.

Their escape immediately caused serious trouble for the East China Sea Navy.

The East China Sea Navy still has combat capability, or rather, it is the most combat-capable part of this force.

Most of them had been on the battlefield and had fought hand-to-hand with pirates. There was nowhere to run in battles on the high seas; it was a true fight to the death.

Therefore, the navy has a strong fighting spirit and will not easily surrender.

But now, the naval soldiers, who had barely managed to assemble their formation, were completely dumbfounded as they watched thousands of army soldiers charging towards them.

"Don't charge! Don't charge! Whoever charges, we'll shoot!" a naval captain shouted. "Get out from both sides!"

However, nobody paid any attention to him. No one could hit him with their guns. Even though the navy was well-maintained, their firepower was still inferior to that of the revolutionary army behind them.

Since we're going to face gunfire anyway, we might as well face the navy. We're all colleagues, I don't believe you'll shoot me!

and!

Army soldiers are also very jealous of Navy soldiers!

Why are our salaries so low, and why are they often deducted from our pay? Why are your salaries so high?

Why is it that we eat coarse food and vegetables while you have big fish and meat dishes every meal, and you can also drink red wine and cola?

You might not think of me when things are going well, but I'll definitely think of you when things go wrong!

The barely organized naval formation was overwhelmed by the massive number of routed army soldiers, leaving them with no choice but to flee.

For every person who runs, someone else turns back. These days, some people fight with guns, but most of the time they rely on muscle, fists, and swords!

Then he was hit by dozens or even hundreds of guns and riddled with bullets.

Anyone without Armament Haki is dreaming if they think they can withstand firearms head-on.

Even those with Armament Haki generally wouldn't dare to directly confront firearms, because the power of bullets is not low and requires a large amount of Armament Haki to fight back. Most people would exhaust their Armament Haki after withstanding just a few bullets.

There are very few people on the entire ocean who can stand at the top of the sea and treat bullets as nothing.

"It's collapsing, it's collapsing!" The army staff officer who came with Steel Bone to suppress the bandits found a few colleagues in the chaos and barely formed a spike to avoid being swept away by the chaos.

But soon this small team attracted the attention of the Revolutionary Army's elite. Mori, the former commander of the Western Army, the main force in digging the tunnel, and the user of the Push-Push Fruit, led a team of elites to surround them.

"You, surrender and you will not be killed! We will treat prisoners of war well!" Mori shouted.

The staff officers looked at each other, and after a moment, they all lowered their weapons.

We're all decent people, with plenty of good days ahead of us, so there's no need for us to fight like these ragtag soldiers.

Even if we are captured, our families will ransom us.

"Tsk tsk!" Mori shook his head. What the consultant said during the lecture was really right.

The World Government's army is just a bunch of old warlords.

These armies are fine when they have an advantage, but they collapse when they face an disadvantage.

After all, the superiors and subordinates were not of one mind, the officers were not of one mind, military pay and rations were cut, and the beatings and enslavement of soldiers were commonplace in such troops.

These armies have serious internal problems, so how can they fight against external forces?

But for some reason, Morrie blushed again. It was truly embarrassing that the revolutionary army had been chased around by such an army in the past.

Perhaps, Dragon is truly incapable?

Fortunately, we now have consultants!

"Copper-Bone Marshal, let's go!"

"Let's go, we have over 300,000 soldiers, we can make a comeback!" The backbone of the navy had been taken away by Smogra, and now the ones who found Steelbone in the chaos were a few mid-to-high-ranking army officers.

Steel Bone shook his head. These people were too weak; they had no idea that he had already locked onto them with a powerful burst of Conqueror's Haki.

The two were exchanging powerful blows; the longer he held on, the more people would escape.

But if he leaves, wouldn't Dorrag be able to crush the remaining soldiers without restraint?

But soon, accompanied by several muffled thuds, ships docked at the shore and those adrift at sea also experienced massive explosions.

Steel Bones' eyes widened in horror: "What is that?!"

Several army staff officers looked at each other in bewilderment. They thought the reason they could escape was because there were boats on the beach!

But now that the ship has been blown up, how can we escape?

Actually, there were soldiers left on board, and those who reacted quickly had already escaped in their boats, so not all the boats were destroyed.

The Buster Call fleet suffered minimal losses, with only two ships destroyed and eight managing to escape.

But the army generals were too far away to see what was happening at sea. They could only see explosions and raging fires, but they had no idea how much damage was done!

"We've been defeated!" Steelbone watched helplessly as the eyes of several generals went from having a glimmer of light to completely darkening.

He sighed, looking completely bewildered. To this day, he still had no idea where these revolutionary soldiers had come from.

Moreover, the battle was fought in a chaotic and confusing manner, completely unlike anything he was familiar with.

He was already familiar with the fair and square way of fighting between two armies, and this way of directly attacking the enemy camp and causing the enemy's entire army to collapse was completely evil in his eyes.

How could this unorthodox method actually win?

Tap, tap, tap!

The gunfire grew closer until Steelbone could clearly see the revolutionary army's appearance.

Then his gaze sharpened.

More than half a month into the war, this was the first time he had seen the revolutionary army so closely.

Contrary to his expectations of the tattered revolutionary army, the soldiers before him wore beautiful, tight-fitting indigo uniforms, and the rifles they carried were not the type he recognized, though they looked very advanced.

This discovery gave him a jolt.

This means that the revolutionary army has moved away from the past scattered and disorganized combat model and has become more large-scale and regularized.

The rifles they carried either indicated that they had the support of a powerful force or that their own industrial capabilities had greatly improved.

Neither of these scenarios is good news for world governments.

"Commander-in-Chief Steel Bones?" One of the revolutionary soldiers saw them and immediately waved to stop, then approached the group with a torch.

When they were about five or six meters away, the soldier suddenly cried out in alarm. The remaining soldiers immediately surrounded them, holding their guns horizontally in front of them and aiming them at them.

Steelbone, completely unfazed by the spear before him, asked with some curiosity, "You actually know me?"

He's just a revolutionary soldier, how could he know me?

You should know that, let alone his soldiers, even many generals and staff officers might not recognize Dorrag.

There's no other reason than the World Government is too strict. They're guarding Dragon's photos like the plague, and no one knows why.

Could the soldiers be brainwashed and turn against us if they see a picture of Dorag?

"We all know you!" the soldier said. "We saw your picture before the battle, and I'm a soldier from the Kingdom of Fred. I even stood guard for you a few days ago!"

"Huh?" Steelbone was taken aback and immediately looked at the soldier. He hadn't looked closely before, but now that he looked closely, it seemed that he really was a familiar face.

"You're a soldier of the Kingdom of Fred, so why are you wearing Revolutionary Army uniforms now?" Steelbone asked.

"Have you forgotten?" the soldier said. "A few days ago, we all boarded the troop transport ship, saying we were going to go ashore, but the ship was sunk. Later, the revolutionary army rescued us, and I joined the revolutionary army!"

"You're a soldier of Fred, how could you join the Revolutionary Army?" Steel Bones chuckled angrily. "This is a betrayal of the Fred Kingdom!"

The soldier shrugged: "So what if I've been betrayed? Apart from being born in Fred, I've never felt any love from Fred. Instead, I was oppressed by landlords in the countryside, by nobles in the city, and by officers in the army. Why should I be loyal to such a country?"

Steelbone was speechless.

He knew the quality of these kingdom soldiers. At least the navy soldiers had a sense of justice and faith. What did the kingdom soldiers believe in?

How can I help you with anything if you can't even pay me enough?

"Are you going to resist?" the soldier asked.

Cyborg asked blankly, "What if I resist, and what if I don't?"

"The commander said your strength is extremely formidable. If you resist, it could cause heavy casualties, so there's no need to try to persuade you to surrender; just kill you!"

"Heh!" Cyborg chuckled again. "Do you even know who I am?"

"Aren't you the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Steel Bones?" the soldier asked.

"Do you even know that I'm still your Revolutionary Army leader's former superior?" Cyborg said irritably. "If you kill me, how will you explain it to your Revolutionary Army leader?"

"I don't need to explain myself to him!" The soldier shook his head. "There are no relatives, no brothers on the battlefield, let alone your former superior!"

Moreover, we learn the ideas, words, laws, and articles of the advisors. The leader of the Doraga is only responsible for military command and cannot manage the specific soldiers.

Steelbone fell silent.

He had originally wanted to show off his personal charm before Dragon arrived, but the little soldier didn't fall for it, and even bringing up Dragon didn't work.

"When did the world become like this?" Cyborg suddenly felt that the whole world was somewhat unfamiliar. Not only had the way of fighting changed, but even the feelings between people seemed to have changed.

"Commander-in-Chief, what about us?" Several soldiers looked at Steelbone. They definitely looked down on the few soldiers surrounding them, and they weren't afraid even if more soldiers were closing in.

While some of these individuals were appointed as generals through connections, many more were genuinely capable.

With the addition of a steel skeleton, they could even break through Dorrag's path.

Steelbone remained silent; he didn't know why he had stopped there.

To buy time for his subordinates?

It's been delayed for quite a while now.

See Dorrag? What good would it do?

If I ask him how I lost, is he going to explain it to me?

Moreover, he could sense that Dragon had no intention of coming to see him.

He stood there without moving; if Dorrag wanted to see him, he would have come long ago.

"Forget it!" Cyborg sighed dejectedly. "Let's leave!"

The army units also breathed a sigh of relief; it's best to avoid fighting if possible.

If they really fight to the bitter end, some of them will definitely die.

If you can avoid dying, you definitely shouldn't.

The revolutionary soldiers watched Steelbone leave, and instead of stopping him, they made way for him.

There was another order: if Steelbone wanted to leave, he must not be stopped.

This definitely has nothing to do with the superior-subordinate relationship between Cyborg and Dragon; it's mainly because Cyborg is too strong, and there's no need for him to make unnecessary sacrifices.

The results are already significant!

The night's battle ended quickly.

In the early hours of the following day, both Dragon and Steelbone, who had fled back to Clover Island overnight, were calculating the results of the battle.

"Our army mobilized a total of 30,000 soldiers, killing 5700 enemy soldiers on the spot and capturing 42,000. Another 14,000 either escaped or fell into the water, and 2,000 fled into the Kingdom of Goa, but we will capture them all soon!" Eastern Army Commander Berobetti reported with a look of delight. "As for the navy, our army sank 2 naval vessels of the Demon Order, 1.4 medium-sized vessels, 28 small vessels, and 1 transport ship!"

"As for our army, the casualties are less than 1500!"

"This is a resounding victory!"

Dragon nodded: "This was indeed a great victory, and an unprecedented one at that, even in the future, hmm."

Considering the quality of the enemy soldiers, Dragon dared not say there would be no one like them in the future.

Maybe we can capture even more later!

"Wounded soldiers should receive timely medical treatment, whether they are enemy or friendly!" Dragon said calmly. "As for captured soldiers, arrange public trials and grievance campaigns to convert them into our troops as quickly as possible!"

"Yes!" Belo Betty nodded; they were already very familiar with this procedure.

At this point, Belo Betty had to admire Ning Yuan for inventing these two methods; the results were truly remarkable!

Soldiers who were filled with hatred for the Revolutionary Army in the morning will cry and shout to join the Revolutionary Army after going through a series of procedures. Moreover, their revolutionary will is stronger than that of many original Revolutionary Army soldiers. The effect is even more powerful than the fruits of their own encouragement.

Now she has to acknowledge one of Ning Yuan's words.

The revolutionary army of the new era has no need to boast about its achievements.

While they were beaming with joy, the World Government was grieving as if they had lost their parents.

"In this battle, our army suffered losses totaling over 5 men, with only 44 successfully returning. Forty-four ships were lost, and another eight were severely damaged and require return to the shipyard for repairs!"

Steelbone let out a long sigh.

6.2 people logged in, and 4000 people returned.

How exactly was this battle fought?

Am I getting old?

"This..." The army staff officer looked at the battle report, his face showing hesitation, and asked, "How should we report this to the World Government?"

"How are you going to report? Report the truth!" Cyborg said impatiently, "I'm not a sore loser!"

"But the Five Elders might punish you!" the staff officer said.

"Punish me if you want, replace me as soon as possible. I didn't want to fight anyway!" Seeing that the soldiers who were on guard duty for him just a few days ago had become revolutionaries, Steelbone's mentality was really about to explode.

When it comes to suppressing bandits, the revolutionary army is practically fighting them. Can't you kingdom officers treat your soldiers a little better?

Why are they still withholding military pay when they're about to die?!

Am I fighting for myself? No, I'm fighting for you!

There's a real sense that you can't possibly accomplish anything with such a worm.

On September 7, 1520 of the Sea Calendar, the World Government forces landed at the Goa Kingdom's Ryuji Port, but were ambushed by the Revolutionary Army who dug tunnels to flank them. The government forces were thrown into chaos, their morale collapsed, and they suffered heavy losses.

Historically known as the "Two Victories of Lailong".

At this point, the commander of the government forces realized the serious lack of combat effectiveness among the World Government's soldiers and suggested that the army be reorganized, the operation period extended, and the tactics of warfare changed.

But he realized the problem, while the Five Elders did not.

They believe this defeat was just an accident, and that the government forces still have 38 troops, giving them a numerical advantage.

As for the quality of the soldiers, that's completely irrelevant.

Of course, the World Government isn't doing nothing to prevent such an accident from happening again.

They will purchase firearms and cannons that are not afraid of wind and rain and will not fail to fire due to moisture in the gunpowder.

Yes, 20,000 firearms and 200 cannons!

(End of this chapter)