Vol 2 Chapter 876: Tragedy of the Rangers

?The Woking Church has not been able to know the situation of the Rangers for the time being, but considering the previous encounters with the Church of Dawn, the senior management has silently crossed the Rangers. From the perspective of a chess player, their The layout is still a step late.
But for the chess pieces underneath, such as the remnants of the Rangers and Priest Kidd, this is a different situation.
The Wanderer fleet wasted a lot of time in the panic. Most of those who were struggling in the water were mercenaries with poor water quality. They basically sacrificed themselves to the sea with full of despair.
No way, their large group commander, the second group commander, and a special group composed of four wizards, the think tank of the battle group, were all hit by the bombardment before the corpses sank into the sea, disappearing without a trace, and the entire battle group was headless.
This is not the worst. The worst is that a large number of sharks are attracted, playing with their prey like hunting under the water, biting their thighs, leading them across the sea quickly, leaving a dark red Of blood.
Charles succeeded in gaining command of a battleship. When he boarded the battleship, the deck was full of soldiers with low morale. They were all a bit overestimated by the use of throwing helmets and disarming. These people were really numb. I didn't bother to move, even if my comrade-in-arms was bitten by a shark, they would not respond at all.
"Pick up your guns, it!" Charles kicked several people who were sitting on the ground one by one: "Listen to my orders! Line up!"
It is easy for a soulless person to obey authority, and the first soldier to stand up is soon full of people.
A few fast-reacting soldiers quickly removed boxes of muskets from the warehouse. These unopened muskets smelled of grease. They were well-made, but meaningless, because their enemies could beat them out of range. they.
But these weapons can at least help their comrades relieve pain.
"Raise the gun!" Charles wielded the command knife, his eyes red: "Don't close your eyes, look at your comrades-in-arms, and send them one last time!"
The sharks on the sea below have begun to attack lifeboats in droves. This powerful marine creature that is a specialty of the far south is three meters in length, and the larger one can grow to more than five meters. It will not actively attack humans on weekdays. , But recently the coastal areas in the far south have been polluted by chaos, and their foraging difficulty has increased exponentially.
These hungry sharks are in groups of three to five, and a single charge can overturn a lifeboat and eat up the survivors inside.
"Fire!" Charles swung the command knife vigorously. The violent gunfire also awakened the other surviving ships. They began to consciously stop the sharks, and arranged in a ring to protect the lifeboats in the middle, and finally the group of sharks Driven away.
In the end, it took Charles three hours to reorganize the entire Wanderers group. Besides him, four or five team leaders survived.
In three hours, seven of the fifteen warships that were damaged were sunk due to their injuries.
The members of these boats are relatively lucky. They have enough time to take off their spare armor and weapons. Even those who have not boarded the lifeboat have picked up a few pieces of wood and jumped into the sea and followed the waves. .
Thirty-five battleships, 3,000 well-trained soldiers, and nearly 4,000 people including sailors and officers of each ship.
Now there are only 14 warships, dozens of lifeboats, and debris all over the sea area left on the sea. This is all the belongings left by the Wanderer's regiment.
Charles estimated that the number of survivors in the entire Wanderer regiment would not exceed 1,000, almost all supplies were lost, and more than half of the warships could not sail at full speed.
What makes people even more daunting is that in order to get a chance to survive, more than one survivor faced each other in the previous chaos. In fact, the artillery captain who was on the same ship with Charles successfully survived and has now acquired a ship. Command of battleships.
There are also many ships that refuse to rescue those who fall into the water in the chaos, and those who fall into the water are all drowned. The only reason why the Wanderer group does not fall apart is that most people do not know where they are going and what they are going to do. After all, this is the sea, not the land.
At this time, Charles was meeting with a few surviving captains. They gathered on a battleship that was intact, and then all the surviving captains were meeting together.
Fourteen ships, nineteen captains, five mercenary leaders.
"Take us home. We won't accept the hire this time. We can't fight this battle!" A musketeer captain took the lead and said, "The big deal, we refund the money!"
This was an idiot who came in by nepotism. Charles knew it from the time he entered the Rangers' band, but he didn't expect the other party to be such an idiot.
"We don't have enough supplies to return to the Far South. We don't have enough food or fresh water." A mercenary leader in charge of logistics rolled his eyes: "If you want to go back, I can assign you a lifeboat. You can row back by yourself."
Now no one will give him face, because his backer in the Rangers has already sunk the corpse into the sea with the fire.
The captain of the Musketeer obviously understood his situation and closed his mouth tightly without saying a word.
"Say something meaningful, gentlemen, that warship came from the direction of Godrem City~EbookFREE.me~ The direction of departure is also there, and our destination is Godrem City." The captain knocked on the table: "Then where should we go next? Should we still venture to the city of Godrem as planned, or do he think otherwise?"
"I don't agree to take risks. That warship has enough power to wipe us out. We may have been spared because of insufficient ammunition. The next time we encounter it, we will not be so lucky." Another captain shook his head and objected. Opinion: "We have to go to another city. That city may have fallen into the hands of the Serris."
"No, our supplies are insufficient. Several ships were hit in the material compartment before, and a few ships just threw away some of the supplies just to save more people." The mercenary in charge of logistics shook his head: "Ours The food lasts for three days at most. I don’t know how far Goethem city is, but I know it’s the closest city to us.

"He is right. Our current speed is only one-third of the previous speed. Many ships need repairs, and a storm can ruin us all." A captain raised an objection: "I agree to the original plan Go to the city of Godrem."
"I agree, but I have an account to settle with Charles before then." The artillery captain drew out his scimitar, and the people rushed over.