One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

The two reached the bow of the ship, and Akainu, who had been silent until now, suddenly turned to Rorschach and asked, "Has your G5 split into several independent fleets?"

Luo Xia paused for a moment, then nodded.

"Yes, with the rapid expansion of the New World's manpower, the G5's strength has also increased accordingly. The current total strength has exceeded 30,000. With so many people, the army's structure has become very bloated. Sometimes when battles occur in the surrounding seas, there is no systematic and timely deployment, and they always rush to support in a rush. This not only wastes a lot of manpower, but also fails to solve the problem in a timely manner. Therefore, in the days after the end of the Marineford War, I held a meeting with Enel and the others and reorganized the G5's army."

As he spoke, Rorschach gave Akainu a general overview of the current situation of G5.

He has now initially divided the G5 branch into four legion-level fleets.

They are respectively:

The First Fleet, the Kirin Fleet, was led by Commander Rorschach and his adjutant Hibari.

The Second Thunder Dragon Fleet, led by Commander Enel and his adjutant Palmer.

The Third Heart Fleet, led by Commander-in-Chief Luo and his adjutant Bepo.

The Fourth Blade Fleet, led by Commander Smoker and his adjutant Drake.

Rorschach himself served as commander of the First Fleet and commander-in-chief of the G5 branch.

The above four fleets each have a maximum of 10,000 personnel, and currently have a strength of approximately 5,000.

In addition to the standard configuration of ten large warships and several medium and small patrol vessels for each fleet, ten additional Pacifistas are also provided.

Meanwhile, Rorschach also sent more pacifist orders to Egg Point Island.

His expectation is that each warship in every fleet will have five Pacifistas to provide fire support on the battlefield.

The investment in pacifists alone would require hundreds of billions of Berries, a massive military expenditure that would make even the Navy Headquarters' scalp tingle.

Fortunately, Rorschach's G5 fleet was self-sufficient and did not ask the headquarters for a single penny. Otherwise, Rorschach would not have been able to build four fleets, and he would probably have been criticized to no end as soon as he mentioned the idea to Sengoku.

Of course, Rorschach's ambitions don't stop there.

He was also spying on the ongoing Seraphim research on Egg Point Island, hoping to equip each of G5's fleets with a few Seraphim in the future.

This will be his powerful trump card in sweeping away the pirate forces in the New World.

Fortunately, everyone in headquarters knew that he was about to be promoted to Admiral.

Otherwise, if Luo Xia, a mere G5 branch base commander, were to brazenly allow a small branch to build a fleet larger than the Navy Headquarters' directly subordinate forces, he would definitely be accused of plotting a rebellion and handed over to the Dark Horse Naval Crime Investigation Bureau for investigation.

Even a lieutenant general, or a candidate for general, with tens of thousands of troops under his command and a large number of powerful generals, is absolutely not allowed to be in such a situation.

But the situation is different for naval admirals.

An admiral is a governor-general in the navy, on par with a marshal, and can command up to ten vice admirals.

Meanwhile, Rorschach's G5 branch hasn't even produced a single lieutenant general yet.

But it will be soon.

Rorschach estimated that once the global conscription officially began, the G5 generals who had made great contributions in the Marineford War would likely receive a significant promotion in rank.

In fact, Rorschach also left a vacancy for the formation of the Fifth Fleet in G5.

He also had a suitable candidate in mind for the position of commander of the Fifth Fleet, but it was not the right time yet. Everything would have to wait until the world conscription ended and the candidate obtained the appropriate rank.

He had just finished introducing things to Akainu when the Third Fleet's flagship beneath him, along with nine large warships on either side, began a massive, sweeping bombardment of Jam Island ahead.

The booming sound of artillery fire, like thunder in the sky, echoed across the vast Totland Sea, startling countless seagulls into flight.

The massive tremor terrified the sea monsters lurking beneath the surface, sending them fleeing far away.

In the blink of an eye, before the eyes of Rorschach, Akainu, and Aokiji, Jam Island, which was surrounded by ten warships in a fan shape, was engulfed in a raging sea of ​​fire.

Heavy, black shells, like a torrential downpour, shot out from the dark muzzles of the cannons, splattering onto the town in front of them and mercilessly destroying everything in sight.

In Nur Town, the thousands of pirates, led by the three of them including the cannon, dispersed to various buildings throughout the town, preparing to ambush and kill the navy after they landed on the island and stormed into the town. Before they could even see a shadow of the marines, they were blasted into the sky by the overwhelming cannon fire.

Amidst the wailing screams of agony, buildings exploded and burned under the bombardment of artillery shells.

One by one, the pirates were blasted to pieces by the rising flames, leaving no trace of their bodies.

Even the pirate leaders, the three strongest of Bertland, could only barely cover their bodies with Armament Haki amidst the overwhelming barrage of fire, constantly dodging and being bombarded by the dense firepower.

After the ten rounds of artillery fire instructed by Luo ended, the entire Jam Island was riddled with holes, the town was shattered, and raging flames soared into the sky, dyeing the entire sky red and reflecting the sea outside the island in a crimson light.

Only then did Luo issue his second instruction.

"First echelon, listen to my command! Attack with me and annihilate the enemy completely, leaving no survivors!"

"Yes, Major General!"

Chapter 702 What does it mean to win without bloodshed?

"Waaaaah..."

As the resounding bugle call rang out from Bepo's horn, one after another, agile elite soldiers, wielding various cold and hot weapons, leaped from ten warships like rain, shouting battle cries like a tsunami. Led by their captains, they charged toward Nur Town with ferocious momentum.

"Uncle Sakazuki, Uncle Kuzan, shall we go take a look together?"

As Luo Xia watched as Luo waved his hand and opened the surgical space, leading three hundred elite warriors, including Bepo, directly out of the warship and into the island, he smiled and looked at Akainu and Aokiji, extending an invitation to the two of them.

"Ah."

An unexpected look of interest appeared on Akainu's face. With a light step, his tall figure flew towards the island using Moonwalk.

'As expected, Uncle Sakazuki gets really interested in anything related to war. He truly is a complete warmonger. I wonder if he'll regret becoming Fleet Admiral after he's successfully made it and sealed away in Mary Geoise.'

With that thought in mind, Rorschach followed closely behind Akainu, rushing into Nur Town along with Aokiji.

When the three arrived in Nur Town, they saw the pirates being utterly helpless, surrounded and attacked by Law's Heart Fleet.

Luo's combat tactics clearly adopted the method that minimized casualties.

Led by individual rocket launchers, flintlock rifles, and a small number of automatic Gatling guns produced on Egg Point Island, a second wave of assault-style strafing and bombardment was launched against the pirates who had survived the artillery fire in Nur Town.

These pirates, already badly injured by the artillery fire, had no chance to resist the oncoming barrage of firepower. They were riddled with bullets and fell to the ground in terror and pain.

When only Bertrand the Cannon, Warren Dean the Hadouken King, and O'Connell the Vulture remained on the field, the first wave of marines who had run out of ammunition immediately stopped.

Immediately afterwards, rows of marines armed with special weapons emerged from the surrounding military formation and began a second wave of fire at the three panting men.

The so-called special firearms refer to the ammunition they fire, which is not conventional gunpowder, but rather Seastone bullets, Seastone nets, and spider web bullets specially made for ability users.

There are also flamethrowers from Egg Point Island, and seawater jets that are simple and crude to make, but extremely effective against ability users.

This sprayer, which closely resembles the pesticide spraying device Rorschach saw in his previous life, can spray seawater from its muzzle onto the ability users, causing them to lose their strength upon contact with the seawater.

The marines in charge of these seawater jets were the largest men in the unit.

Dozens of burly men, each three or four meters tall, carrying enormous 3x3x3 water tanks filled with seawater on their backs, unleashed a barrage of sprays at two of the three great pirates, Bertrand the Cannon and O'Connell the Vulture, drenching them completely as if they were putting out a fire.

With a bounty of 300 million Berries, Berland is a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit user who can simulate cannons he has touched with his own body. Before he could even use his ability, he was knocked to the ground by the barrage of seawater. He was weak all over and coughed repeatedly from the large amount of seawater. He frantically struggled in the seawater in a panic.

Meanwhile, O'Connell, the user of the Zoan-type Bird-Bird Fruit in Vulture form, successfully transformed into a giant vulture with a wingspan of seven or eight meters under the cover of the Hadouken King Warrendian. He was flapping his wings, trying to escape from this hellish place with the other two.

Warrendian is not a superhuman; he is a martial artist from the Longarm Tribe. His hands are thick and long, and with a flick of his wrist, he can actually pound the invisible air into tangible air bombs.

It was these air cannonballs that kept exploding, scattering and blocking the seawater spraying from the surrounding area, allowing the vultures to fly into the air.

"Let's go! Warren! These damn navy guys are too tough to handle. We don't need to fight them to the death here!"

O'Connell flapped his wings, and surprisingly, countless black feathers shot out from beneath them towards the surrounding marines.

The feathers shot out at extremely high speed, like countless tiny black arrows, whistling sharply in mid-air as they burst forth and scattered.

Faced with the black feathers shooting towards them, the marines standing in the front row did not panic, and Law did not make a move.

Bepo, however, hopped out like a rolling white ball. While in mid-air, his round body suddenly shuddered, shooting out dense, wind-like white bear fur.

Those stiff bear hairs, like steel needles, precisely intercepted all the black feathers shot out by O'Connell under the lock of Observation Haki. After a series of crackling impacts, they shattered into clumps of black and white fluff, which scattered and fell to the ground.

O'Connell, flapping his wings in mid-air, was both surprised and furious. He stopped attacking and instead extended his hook-like claws to grab Warrendian's shoulder, intending to take him away.

As for Bertrand, who had already been swallowed by the sea and was choking and whose eyes were rolling back in his head, he no longer intended to save him.

O'Connell never expected that simply choosing a small island with few naval troops as a base to plunder the surrounding islands and towns would lead to such a troublesome naval attack.

The enemy's firepower was so fierce that O'Connell almost thought he had encountered a Buster Call fleet from the Navy.

The overwhelming saturation bombardment nearly overturned the entire island.

It's a pity that the group of people he just assembled from the new world, who wanted to enjoy their prison break life, were completely wiped out before they even officially began.

"Damn Navy! You'll remember this! I, Vulture O'Connell, will never let you get away with this! When I return, I will wipe out all of you bastards!"

O'Connell grabbed Warrendian and flew into the air, opening his beak to utter a loser's declaration.

Just as Bepo was about to use Moonwalk to give chase, he noticed that O'Connell, the vulture who had taken to the sky and was preparing to escape Jam Island, suddenly froze, as if he had been frozen in the sky by some invisible force.

“O’Connell, hurry up! What are you dawdling for?” Warren Dion shouted anxiously as he grabbed his shoulder.

However, O'Connell remained frozen in place, his dark eyes wide with fear, staring intently at the figure standing out like a crane among chickens behind the group of marines below.

"What are you doing?" Warrendian felt the bird claws gripping his shoulders trembling.

He looked up at O'Connell, whose eyes were filled with fear, and followed his gaze downwards in confusion. Then, his tall, strong body suddenly shuddered, and he let out a scream from deep in his throat, as if he had seen a ghost.

"Lan... Lieutenant General Lan Lin!"

They couldn't help but feel fear.

Not to mention the familiar silver-haired, blue-eyed boy below, who caused immense damage and trauma to their minds and bodies during that year in Infinite Hell.

These past few days, the battle reports from the war at the Navy Headquarters have shaken and stirred the entire New World.

This seemingly young naval youth, in front of us, single-handedly slaughtered tens of thousands of pirates and dozens of powerful figures with bounties exceeding one hundred million during that war.

He even killed Whitebeard!

That's a white beard, you know.

That incredibly powerful man, back when O'Connell and his crew were adventuring in the New World, they only had a chance encounter with him, and the moment they met him, their fighting spirit crumbled, and they bowed their heads to him in a daze.

However, this powerful figure, as strong as a demon, died at the hands of this young naval soldier.

Doesn't this mean that this boy is more terrifying than ghosts and gods?

At that moment, just like when they encountered Whitebeard, O'Connell and Warrendian, in Rorschach's view, instantly lost their fighting spirit and collapsed from mid-air, crashing to the ground.

"No...don't kill me, I'm willing to go back, I'm willing to go back to Impel Down, lock me up in Infinite Hell! Please don't kill me, I'm willing to be locked up in Infinite Hell for the rest of my life, I'll never come out again."

The two of them wept bitterly and prostrated themselves on the ground, repeatedly kowtowing and begging for mercy.