Chapter 352: Blockade of the Sea Area

In the atmosphere of everyone praising Yorick, Yorick took the stage again and began to end the ceremony.

"Please be quiet!" The voice spread throughout the island with fighting spirit, and people soon quieted down and listened to Yorick's voice.

Yorick looked around and took a step forward to start the conclusion of the founding ceremony. "My fellow pirates! From today on, I will call you my people."

"More than forty years ago, we were attacked by the kingdoms along the coast and survived in fear."

"More than thirty years ago, we united together and established the Shadow Island Organization, so that pirates were no longer bullied by the army as easily as before."

"Over the past thirty years, our organization has continued to grow and control almost all the seas where Eslazer has merchant ships sailing."

"But this is not enough! We can't forget how the navies of those countries bullied us; even now, when we are working hard to make a living, we may be surrounded and suppressed by the navies who claim to be righteous at any time."

"From today on, we have become a more united entity. We have established our own country for pirates. From today on, we are no longer pirates, we are the army of the Shadow Kingdom, and we will return the humiliation we suffered in the past to those countries that now seem extremely weak!"

"Many people wonder why this founding ceremony divided the territories of each state, but did not clarify the territory of the entire kingdom."

"Now, I want to tell you here. Wherever my Shadow Kingdom warships reach, it is our territory! As long as our artillery fire can be vented, it will be our territory!"

After shouting the last sentence, Yorick turned around and left. But his last two powerful words echoed on the island for a long time, leaving all the pirates speechless for a long time, and then became excited.

It was not until Yorick had left the platform for a few minutes that the entire Shadow Island broke out of silence. The atmosphere on the island gradually became heated again. After a brief period of chaos, all the pirates on Shadow Island began to shout together - "Long live the Shadow Kingdom! Long live King Yorick!"

The voices were higher and higher, resounding throughout the sea.

The establishment of the Shadow Kingdom was not deliberately concealed. After some of the Chamber of Commerce personnel and human country spies who watched the ceremony returned, the news that the Shadow Island Organization that was rampant in the Eslaze Sea had become a kingdom quickly spread among the coastal countries.

For this news, the reaction of most countries was fear and worry. The existence of the Shadow Island Organization was a big threat to some coastal countries with weak naval power, making it impossible for their foreign trade fleets to sail smoothly, and even occasionally powerful pirate groups invaded the ports.

Now that the pirates have actually established a country, they don't want to fight directly at their doorsteps? Even those kingdoms with relatively strong naval power were a little scared.

In the past, these countries with strong naval power were ready to kill all pirates. Even large pirate groups could not resist the fleets of these countries.

But now the Shadow Island Organization has become the Shadow Kingdom. The pirate groups of the Shadow Island Organization have been reorganized into armies, and the strength has changed instantly.

After all, the Shadow Island Organization is a huge force that runs rampant in the northern part of Eslaze and the entire eastern sea area. If it is condensed into a force, it will be very terrifying in the sea. Apart from other things, after statistics, the newly established Shadow Kingdom can produce more than 15,000 ships that can be used for combat.

After removing those smaller or older ships, there are still more than 8,000 pirate ships that can be called warships. Even for those kingdoms with strong naval power, each country will not have more than 500 warships.

If the newly established Shadow Kingdom chooses to go to war with those countries that "bullied" them before, these countries really can't beat them in naval battles.

The worries of these countries are not groundless. With the purpose of weakening the human race, Yu Fei has ordered Yorick to find a reason to go to war with the human countries along the coast as soon as possible.

After a period of adjustment and allocation, the number of warships in the Shadow Kingdom was finally determined to be around 7,500. It's not that there are no more warships, but most of the bottom pirates have chosen a stable life, and only most of the personnel of those large and medium-sized pirate groups have been retained and transformed into the Kingdom Navy.

In addition to allocating about 300 warships to each of the eight states close to the coastal countries as a defense force, the kingdom can mobilize more than 5,000 warships.

These more than 5,000 warships are divided into ten fleets, and the strength of each fleet is comparable to the navies of the human countries with the strongest naval strength.

Except for the three fleets guarding the Shadow Island where the capital is located, the other seven of these ten fleets have been dispatched.

Originally, Yorick was going to start harassing the coast of Eslaze Continent with 5,000 warships according to Yu Fei's instructions. However, those pirates who were not controlled by Yu Fei did not know that the Sea Clan had actually reached a cooperation intention with Yu Fei, who was behind the Shadow Kingdom, so they all agreed that sufficient defense forces should be left for Shadow Island.

The first target of the Shadow Kingdom was the Kingdom of Thebes, which allowed the Anchor Pirates to become one of the four major pirate groups organized by the Shadow Island. At the beginning, it was by destroying the prosperous Ers Port in the Kingdom of Thebes that Yorick was promoted to the position of the fourth pirate king.

The Kingdom of Thebes is one of the countries with the strongest navy in the eastern waters of the Eslaze continent. In the past, they were also one of the countries most keen on fighting pirates. Among all the coastal countries in the eastern waters, their fleet is the most frequent, and they even often send the navy to escort passing caravans, making it difficult for pirates to bite.

Now, it is time for the pirates to take revenge. The Kingdom of Thebes originally had five fleets and more than 500 warships. In the battle of Ers Port, the Anchor Pirates sank and captured dozens of ships. Now the entire country has less than 500 warships.

The Shadow Kingdom sent two fleets to attack the Kingdom of Thebes, including the fleet of the Anchor Pirates. It didn't take much effort to clear out the two fleets of the Kingdom of Thebes, and the entire Thebes sea area was blocked by the Shadow Kingdom.

If the Kingdom of Thebes didn't have a large number of magic mines, the two pirate fleets would have wanted to capture and destroy every port of the Kingdom of Thebes.

After turning the Kingdom of Thebes into a coward, the Shadow Kingdom only left one fleet in the Thebes sea area for blockade. The other fleet, including the Anchor Pirates, was heading to other countries' sea areas or new expeditions.

The Shadow Kingdom sent out a total of seven fleets, and within half a month, it beat the three kingdoms with the strongest naval power in the eastern waters of Eslaze. Other maritime forces that were not as strong as these three countries were even more defeated.

In half a month, the Shadow Kingdom almost blocked all the ports of human countries in the eastern waters of Eslaze, and every route was forced to be interrupted. Merchant ships of each country could not leave the port, and everyone was anxious.

For merchants, every day the goods are stranded at the port will cause great losses. The chambers of commerce in these countries jointly put pressure on their countries, hoping that their countries can solve the problem. However, strength is a flaw, and no country can defeat the Shadow Kingdom at sea.

There is no way, this is a problem of focus. Although most coastal countries have navies, their concept of sea areas is just convenient for transportation. The long-standing tradition of Eslazer has made the focus of the development of the human country's army on land. Even if these coastal countries that have been "oppressed" by the Shadow Kingdom unite, their power at sea is still inferior to that of the Shadow Kingdom.

What's more, these countries are mostly neighboring countries. How can there be no conflicts of varying sizes? It is not easy to unite.

Just when the rulers and merchants of the coastal countries were frowning, the Shadow Kingdom sent them a message.

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There are three chapters left before this volume ends, and one more chapter will be added tomorrow.