Chapter 1222: Blockade of Zulukou (Part 1)

Otto gave Doppler a few words of verbal reprimand and stopped pursuing Doppler's private military action this morning.

After reprimanding Doppler and letting Doppler return to the team, Otto began to feel deeply regretful for the missed fighter plane just now.

If Otto had seized the moment when the Combined Fleet's formation was in chaos and used his troops to cover it up when Doppler was making a big fuss about the Combined Fleet's formation, then the final outcome of the Anga Lake water battle might have been decided. We'll find out today.

It's a pity that Doppler's charge was Doppler's impromptu idea.

Both Su Cheng and Otto were caught off guard by Doppler's sudden attack.

The combined fleet was busy integrating its formation at that time.

At that time, the Royal Fleet was also busy integrating its formation.

After seeing that Doppler had led the three battleships to break into the Combined Fleet's military formation and make a big fuss, Otto also realized that now was the best time to launch a general attack on the Combined Fleet.

However, attacking something like this is not something you can attack just because you want to.

If you start attacking haphazardly before the formation is integrated, it will only have the opposite effect.

While Otto was waiting to complete his formation and prepare to launch a general attack, Doppler had already begun to retreat.

The combined fleet also began to reorganize its chaotic formation.

Otto felt extremely sorry for this.

She sighed: It would be better if their royal fleet could arrange its formation faster, or if the combined fleet could reorganize its formation slower.

It was a pity, but Otto quickly adjusted his mentality.

Get ready to start the real battle today.

However, at this moment, he suddenly heard shocking news from the scout:

Their rear, the East Lake entrance of Anga Lake, was blocked by the Britannia army.

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Britannia Empire, Anga Lake, Zlukou (East Lake Mouth)——

There is a "black snake" lying on the Zlu mouth of Anga Lake.

A black "giant snake" cut off the Zlu mouth of Anga Lake.

If viewed from a distance, this long black thing connecting the north and south of Zilukou really looks like a giant black snake.

But if you look closer, you can see its true appearance - a thick and long iron chain.

Standing in the west of Zilukou and looking from west to east, you can see that the river gradually becomes narrower from top to bottom.

The narrowest point of the river is only more than 600 meters between the north and the south. The river is fast, but the terrain on both sides is quite flat.

This place is one of the only two exits of Anga Lake - Zlukou.

This iron chain connecting the north and south of Zlukou is twice as thick as an adult's arm.

Coldly across the fast-flowing Zilu Pass.

That dark appearance really looked like a domineering giant python lying in Zlukou.

No boats are allowed to enter the Zilu mouth along the river.

No boats within the lake are allowed to leave Anga Lake.

On the north bank of Zlukou, flags are flying.

The flag of the Knights of Michael flutters in the wind.

Deng Jiaer's army, with a strength of 15,000, was stationed on the north bank of Zilukou.

After setting up camp on the north bank of Zlukou, Deng Jiaer and Gary performed their duties.

Deng Jiaer was responsible for commanding the soldiers to block Zilukou with iron chains.

Gary was responsible for showing off his specialty - building field fortifications.

In order to cope with possible surprise attacks by the Franks, their camp was surrounded by various fortifications, forming a thick iron barrel.

Raymond and Deng Jiaer were good at commanding cavalry, and Samuel was good at commanding infantry.

Gary is not as good at commanding a certain army as his colleagues.

But he was good at something quite rare - building field fortifications.

A set of fortifications that would take Raymond and Samuel 10 days to repair could be completed by Gary in only 5 days.

The two men performed their respective duties. When Deng Jiaer led the troops to pull up the iron chain at Zlukou, Gary also happened to complete the construction of the camp's defenses.

Relying on the fortifications built by Gary,

Even if the incoming enemy force was twice as many as theirs, Deng Jiaer and the others were not afraid at all.

In the camp's main formation, Deng Jiaer and Gary were playing chess to pass the time.

The combination of Deng Jiaer and Gary is quite joyful from a visual point of view.

Deng Jiaer is the shortest among the knights of the Michael Knights - only 1.53 meters.

And Gary is the tallest among the knights of the Michael Knights - a full 1.98 meters.

The shortest person and the tallest person - the two of them stay together, just from the visual point of view, it is quite joyful.

Although Gary is tall in stature, his personality is the opposite of his tall stature.

Gary is the mildest and most low-key character among the commanders of the Knights of Michael - this is recognized by everyone in the Knights.

Deng Jiaer has been with the Michael Knights for 5 years.

In the past five years, Deng Jiaer has never seen Gary quarrel with anyone.

I have never seen Gary have a bad relationship with anyone.

Including Deng Jiaer himself, he also liked the gentle Gary.

After all, everyone likes to be with someone they feel comfortable with.

The friendship between Deng Jiaer and Gary has always been very good.

When we are free and busy, we still play chess together like now.

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"Um……"

Gary scratched his hair while staring at the chessboard in front of him.

On the small "battlefield" between him and Deng Jiaer, his troops were badly defeated by Deng Jiaer.

Although Gary had tried his best to reorganize the broken troops, he still could not stop the situation of defeat.

Gary racked his brains to think of strategies, but he could not think of any good way to defeat the enemy. After a bitter smile, he raised his hands and surrendered:

"I lost, Deng Jiaer."

After Gary surrendered, Deng Jiaer seemed to be relieved and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Deng Jiaer, your chess skills are really strong."

Gary praised sincerely.

"I have played so many military chess games with you, and I have hardly won you a few times."

"Gary, you are too kind." Deng Jiaer smiled modestly, "Your chess skills are not bad either. I almost lost several times."

Speaking of this, Deng Jiaer seemed to remember something and paused.

Then he sighed and said in a half-joking tone:

"Oh, it turns out that chess and card games are only fun when played with people of similar level."

"It's too painful to play with such masters."

"The first time I played chess with the captain, I was beaten to tears by the captain."

"That was the first time I felt what an overwhelming difference in strength was..."

After saying that, Deng Jiaer shuddered several times as if he remembered something that he couldn't bear to look back on.

"Captain..." Gary recalled, "The captain's chess skills are indeed very strong. I remember that no one can beat the captain in chess."

"Not just seem, but no one can beat the captain in chess. But there is one person who can tie with the captain."

"Ah, I know this person." Gary recalled, "The person who tied with the captain, I remember it seems to be the Holy Xilan Empire's... Bernard?"

"El Bernard." Deng Jiaer reminded.

"Yes, yes, yes! It's this El Bernard."

"I was shocked when I heard the news." Deng Jiaer said with a wry smile, "I didn't expect that there would be someone in this world who could draw with the captain."