Chapter 1099
The Eagle Fleet Delivered to Our Doorstep
"What exactly happened?"
Talos roared, his eyes filled with a panic he himself was unaware of.
A soldier kept pressing buttons on the control panel, even trying to restart the system, but to no avail; the screen on the control panel remained black.
He was covered in sweat and stood up to report: "General! We have been attacked by an unknown source, and all the equipment on board has malfunctioned!"
Immediately afterward, another officer rushed in from outside, his face ashen: "General, all the wiring on our ship has been breached, and the core chip has been destroyed. It looks like we've been hit by a massive electromagnetic pulse attack, and this pulse is beyond the limits our ship can withstand!"
Taros stepped forward, grabbing the officer's collar with both hands: "Enough nonsense! I'm just asking you what to do now? Can we still retreat? As long as we can hold out until we leave the waters of the Dragonxia tribe!"
The officer looked dejected and shook his head vigorously: "General, we simply can't do it now. Let alone get the ships moving, we can't even contact the outside world."
"All the electronic equipment on the ship is disabled. Now we're just scrap metal floating on the sea!"
This fact made the arrogant Talos feel like the sky was falling. They had come to show off their power, and they had come as if they were gods descending to earth to save the Eastern Wilderness Tribe fleet.
But why has it turned out this way?
He recalled the fleet of the Eastern Wilderness Tribe floating on the sea, and his face turned deathly pale. He finally understood why the Eastern Wilderness Tribe's fleet had disappeared after entering the waters of the Dragon Summer Tribe.
"How could this be? What kind of weapon is it?"
He was distraught, and staggered, almost falling to the ground.
No one could answer him, because such a weapon was beyond the comprehension of these naval personnel; at least their Eagle Tribe did not possess such technology.
An eerie silence fell over the control room, but it was soon broken when a soldier rushed in.
"General, something terrible has happened!"
Talos turned his head, his eyes filled with despair: "What else is there?"
"The Dragonxia Tribe... their fleet has arrived!"
The soldiers pointed outside, their words becoming somewhat incoherent.
Talos's pupils suddenly contracted. He pushed through the crowd and went to the outer deck, where he saw the Type 055 destroyer and a large number of escort and patrol ships approaching.
Every ship bears the flag of the Longxia tribe.
The moment Taros saw the Longxia fleet, he even considered jumping into the sea. Now they couldn't move an inch, so how could they possibly fight the Longxia tribe's fleet?
This time, the defeat was even more frustrating than the last. At least last time, the war started, but this time it was over before it even began.
"What about missiles? Even if they can't be launched, can't we detonate them manually? I don't want to be a prisoner of the Dragonxia tribe!" Talos gritted his teeth and suddenly said these resolute words.
These words startled the surrounding naval officers and soldiers, and then fear spread.
Talos, as a three-star general of the Eagle Tribe, had his honors and wanted to commit suicide to preserve his reputation, but they didn't want to die.
Detonating the missile would mean they would all be buried with them.
A missile maintenance soldier came out, shook his head at Talos, and said, "General, this is simply impossible. The missile's guidance head has been destroyed, and the activation device is also destroyed."
"Now the missiles on the ships have all become scrap metal!"
Talos felt even more desperate. He shakily took out his pistol, pressed it against his temple, and slowly closed his eyes as he watched the approaching Dragon Summer fleet.
boom!
The pistol was fired, but Talos did not die.
Several officers suddenly rushed up, tackled him, and confiscated his pistol. Several soldiers ran over, holding a rope, and tied him up.
Talos's eyes widened as he struggled violently, shouting, "What are you doing? You're traitors! I order you to let me go! I have the right to commit suicide!"
He roared incessantly, struggling like a fish out of water, but the soldiers ignored him and even stuffed a smelly sock into his mouth.
"You committed suicide to serve your country, but what about us? The officers of the Longxia tribe might pin this on us."
"Moreover, someone needs to step forward and take responsibility for this failure. General, you will be facing a military court. If you commit suicide, we will be the ones facing the military court!"
Looking at the faces of the officers and soldiers around him, Talos was utterly desperate. After the incident, his soldiers only thought about shirking responsibility. What future could the Eagle Tribe possibly have?
Several officers quickly stepped forward and took control of the situation. Their first order was for all soldiers to lay down their weapons and line up.
"The tradition of the Longxia tribe is to be taken prisoner, so we don't need to worry about our lives at all. They might even treat us to good food and drink."
"We're all here to make money, and nobody wants to lose their life here, so please don't resist. Cooperate if you can, and cooperate even if you can't!"
The officers led the way in surrendering, waiting for the soldiers of the Longxia tribe to capture them.
On the Type 055 destroyer, Zhou Qinglei held binoculars and looked at the surrendered Eagle Tribe Navy, his heart filled with astonishment.
"They surrendered so easily? Weren't they all so smug? I thought they would put up a fight."
Another officer laughed, "You can tell they really want to live! Even their general is tied up."
Zhou Qinglei also burst into laughter. In the past, he would never have dared to imagine such a scene.
"No matter what they do, we don't need to pay attention to them. We should proceed according to the previous orders!"
The naval officers of the Eagle Tribe were extremely nervous as they watched the Dragon Xia fleet approach, but the Dragon Xia fleet completely ignored them.
They simply towed all of the Eagle Tribe's dozen or so ships to the vicinity of the Eastern Wilderness Tribe's fleet, and then left.
This operation left the Eagle Tribe officers completely bewildered. No one came to negotiate with them, nor did anyone tell them what to do; they simply surrounded them.
Like domesticated livestock.
Soon, the officers and soldiers began to panic. They had thought that tying up Talos and handing him over to the Dragon Xia fleet would be a great achievement.
After all, the capture of a three-star general alive is a major news story that will shock the world!
To their surprise, the Longxia fleet completely ignored them, even disdaining to deal with them, and didn't send anyone to communicate with them. The officers realized they had overplayed their hand; not only had they failed to curry favor with the Longxia tribe, but they had also offended their superiors.
So they hurriedly released Talos.
Spitting out the stinky sock from his mouth, Talos gagged twice: "Ugh... Whose stinky sock is this? Make him eat it! This is treason, do you know that?"
The officer stood by, apologizing repeatedly, looking extremely apprehensive, his forehead covered in cold sweat, fearing that Talos would have them shot.
Just then, shouts suddenly came from below the ship. They went to the edge of the deck and looked down, and found several kayaks with more than a dozen soldiers from the Eastern Wilderness tribe standing on them.
Talos coldly glanced at the surrounding officers and soldiers, and said in a deep voice, "Let them come up! As for you, we'll settle accounts after this is over!"
Soon, the officers and soldiers of the Eastern Wilderness Tribe came to the deck, but they looked quite unfriendly and chattered on and on.
Talos frowned deeply and asked the translator beside him, "What are they saying?"
The translator replied tremblingly, "General, they are saying we are the murderers who killed their admiral, and they want an explanation from us."
Talos was stunned for a moment, then roared, "Killed their marshal? Are you kidding me? The death of the Eastern Wilderness Navy marshal is also being blamed on me?"
"We arrived here without even starting a war..."
Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly remembered something: when they first arrived in this sea area, they had indeed launched a missile that destroyed the Eastern Wilderness Tribe's King Kong destroyer.
Could it be that the naval admiral of the Eastern Wilderness tribe died at that time?
Before he could get a clear answer, the soldiers of the Eastern Wilderness tribe became anxious because the translator had also translated Taros's words, which made them think that Taros was trying to shirk responsibility.
They were all hot-blooded soldiers, and since they were trapped here, they were like a powder keg that was about to explode.
A dozen or so soldiers from the Eastern Wilderness tribe, facing a navy of several times their size, showed no fear whatsoever and charged forward to fight. Even Talos was kicked twice in the chaos.
"Damn it! These barbaric Eastern Wilderness people dare to provoke us? All of you, attack! Even if you kill them, I guarantee you'll all be safe!"
The officers and soldiers were already on edge about the fact that they had just tied Talos up, and now that they heard Talos's words, they were all eager to show off.
In no time, more than a dozen naval officers and soldiers from the Eastern Wilderness tribe were captured and tied up tightly like seafood.
Taros was furious. They always looked down on the Eastern Wilderness Tribe, after all, the Eastern Wilderness Tribe was just a lackey and underling of the Eagle Tribe, and now they actually wanted to devour their master!
But the thought that he might have killed their admiral made him feel uneasy, since if things went wrong, it could escalate into a feud between the two countries.
Although the Longxia tribe's fleet trapped them, they did not harm a single person. However, when they arrived, they killed the people on a patrol ship, which was indeed a bit unreasonable.
He hadn't noticed it before, but now he realized that these soldiers from the Eastern Wilderness tribe all looked quite haggard, and some were even thin.
Talos was puzzled and frowned deeply. They looked like refugees. Had they not received any supplies?
What exactly does the Longxia tribe want to do?!
"What exactly happened to you during this time?"
Although the officers and soldiers of the Eastern Wilderness tribe were very dissatisfied, they still told them about their experience: the original supplies on the ships were almost exhausted, and the ships that were supposed to deliver supplies could not get through.
They were starving and living in constant fear, unable to sleep soundly for fear of being devoured in their sleep. As they talked, they felt so aggrieved that they almost cried.
Talos finally confirmed his suspicions: the Eastern Wilderness Tribe's fleet had been trapped for so long without any supplies, and the ship's resources were almost exhausted.
Even the supply ship sent by the Eastern Wilderness Tribe was directly seized.
"They just want to starve us to death!" The soldiers of the Eastern Wilderness tribe cried out, a heart-wrenching cry that brought tears to the eyes of all who heard it.
Taros's face turned pale: "The Dragon Summer Tribe won't treat us like this either, will they?"
The thought that they might go hungry later made Talos panic. He didn't want to experience hunger, which was worse than death.
"Send someone to contact the Longxia tribe and ask them to provide humanitarian aid!"
Taros quickly gave the order, while also remembering to unite the officers and soldiers of the Eastern Wilderness Tribe: "Now we are one. After you go there, you must also send people to protest to the Dragon Summer Tribe, understand?"
All their communication facilities are now paralyzed, so the only way to contact them is through the most primitive method: sending people to swim over.
The officers and soldiers of the Eastern Wilderness tribe also knew the seriousness of the situation. If they did not unite, they might starve to death in a few days, so they all nodded in agreement.
Soon, soldiers from the Eastern Wilderness Tribe and the Eagle Tribe arrived in front of the Dragon Summer Tribe's fleet in their kayaks.
"We demand to speak with your fleet commander!"
They waved their hands incessantly and shouted at the top of their lungs.
But the next moment, they saw the launchers on the ship, which were fully loaded with 24 small missiles that could be fired at the same time, suddenly aimed at them.
Only one clear and distinct word in Longxia language came from the ship: "Get out!"
The people sent by the Eastern Wilderness and Eagle tribes both understood the Dragon Xia language, and their faces turned green when they saw the transmitter aimed at them.
When I heard "get out," a huge sense of humiliation welled up inside me.
"Go away!"
They tried to mask their fear with roars, then quickly paddled away in their kayaks, thinking that if they didn't leave, they might be blasted to smithereens.
When Talos learned of the treatment they had received, he slammed his fist on the table in fury: "Damn it! What are they trying to do? Are they trying to start a world war?"
The officers and soldiers around them were all devastated, feeling as if they were going to die here. A sense of despondency spread throughout the fleet, and everyone looked sad.
Even Talos regretted coming when no one was around. Now he's trapped on the vast ocean and can't escape!
"It's all over! Everything's finished!" (End of Chapter)