At the army near the horizon, they could hear both the sounds of cannons and the shouts of soldiers. They ordered the forces to halt.
Mewku Mewku called ten fleet commanders to gather on her ship and said, "We will divide our forces into two paths. One will encircle behind that ice sheet and annihilate the enemy's main army. The other will head straight to Rigel City 2 and capture it at all costs!"
Raspberry Pie's face was tense since she looked through the telescope and saw the large ice sheet trapping all the ships. If her group lost now, the billion-dollar investment would suffer enormously.
The players' items from the battle in Sirius City were all in this campaign. If none were dropped, fine, but if half were dropped, they would lose tens of millions.
Raspberry Pie quickly volunteered, "Leader, I will take my subordinates to support Sagittarius as well!"
"Just as Kin-chan predicted," Mewku Mewku thought to herself, trying to keep her expression normal and replied, "Then please do." She then turned to her close assistant and said, "Follow Raspberry Pie and help her."
Raspberry Pie was very concerned. She brought her maximum force of twenty-five thousand men from the romance Sakura guild. If too many forces followed her, she would have to hold off the enemy while splitting her forces to aid the mixed forces, which would stretch them thin. But when she heard that Mewku Mewku only sent five thousand to follow her and kept seventy thousand to head straight to Rigel City 2, she immediately made up her mind.
The position of a branch guild leader compared to the outcome of this battle was worth the risk.
Given the current situation, Raspberry Pie firmly believed that if she did not lead her army to attack the mixed forces from behind with superior numbers, the mixed forces still had the chance to win!
Mewku Mewku watched Raspberry Pie leave with varied thoughts.
Everyone returned to their positions.
One part circled around Rigel City 2 to the left, closer to Sagittarius's frontline.
The other part, led by Mewku Mewku, headed straight to Rigel City 2.
During this time, Shamshir could only wail, but when he saw the fleet approaching from his right flank, his eyes sparkled!
Shamshir knew that there was a mole in that fleet. As soon as Raspberry Pie arrived, the situation would turn to their advantage, so he shouted,
'Hold them off! Reinforcements are coming!!'
But it was not that easy..."
Boom!!
The rear formation of the Raspberry Pie fleet stopped moving, while the front formation turned and attacked the pursuing five thousand ships of the Mewku Mewku fleet.
The five thousand ships could no longer move forward because the rear formation of the Raspberry Pie fleet halted, forcing them to stop as well.
Twenty-five thousand against five thousand, it wouldn't take long for the battle to be over. Then, Raspberry Pie would land on the icy shores at the left flank of Sagittarius. This time they would attack from both sides, ensuring that Sagittarius would lose formation.
Boom boom! Raspberry Pie gathered their composure and ordered an attack on the five thousand ships with magical cannons.
But...
After only a few shots from the magical cannons sank a few Mewku Mewku Edo ships, Raspberry Pie's disaster struck.
The Edo side didn't panic at all because Miss Mewku Mewku had sent her trusted people to command the five thousand ships. Of course, she knew beforehand that Raspberry Pie would betray them, but that wasn't the main point.
The main point was... Raspberry Pie forgot something.
Under the sea, in the area of the clash between Sagittarius and Shamshir, there were no submarines.
But that didn't mean Sagittarius didn't bring any!
Raspberry Pie fired at the sides of the Edo fleet, and Sagittarius's submarines chased and fired at the rear of the circling Raspberry Pie fleet!
Boom!!
Suddenly, ships were sinking with only the sound of explosions, and Raspberry Pie thought of submarines, their faces turning pale, unsure of what to do next, they could only shout,
"Protect the rear!!"
How could it be defended, the opponent was underwater, it couldn't be seen.
Mewku Mewku was a bit worried after sending five thousand troops into danger, but now she was relieved. She turned to the AI assistant and said, "Command, circle around the right wing, attack the rear!"
Her navy had the city of Rigel as an intermediary point. They, along with the battle between Sagittarius and Shamshir, Raspberry Pie was circling to the left, while she headed straight towards Rigel to avoid clashing with the submarine battle attacking Raspberry Pie. She had to take a wide detour, going past Rigel to the right.
This would take some time to aid Sagittarius.
Boommmmmmmm!!!
Do you think that huge cannon is only used to freeze the sea surface?
Since it can shoot ice, it can also shoot water, fire, and other magical elements. Moreover, a cannon of this size naturally has a longer firing range than the magic cannons mounted on warships.
The azure warrior army (Sky Armor Warriors) charged towards the battle line of Shamshir.
Of course, Shamshir had to fire cannons, shoot arrows, shoot everything to reduce the enemy's strength.
But Sagittarius wouldn't just sit and take it.
One shot from that cannon and a warship sank instantly!
Which side has a harder time shooting? It must be said that Shamshir has a much harder time, because their target is "moving," but for Sagittarius, every ship is anchored in place by the ice, sitting ducks that they can't miss.
Everything happened very fast
In the real world, in the capsule machine, Shamshir was sweating profusely, so much that it could cause a short circuit. But in the game world, there was no function for sweating from extreme stress.
Raspberry Pie was trapped, with no one to help. It was up to the mercenaries and allies from the Solomon Islands to hold back and defeat Sagittarius' heavily armored army.
Shamshir decided, "Players with long-range attack professions, gather at the frontline ship. Players with melee professions, line up on the ice, and defend the front line of the ship!"
He would use the ship as a building, letting players with long-range skills shoot from a height, while tank players prepared to hold the line against the enemy forces. They had to hold the line at all costs!
Sagittarius walked on the ice surface and stopped in front of his fleet. Seeing the preparations of Shamshir, he nodded and praised, "In this critical situation, you still managed to find the most advantageous way. The opposing forces number over five hundred thousand, even though half of the players are ranged attackers, another hundred thousand can fight in close combat, which is about equal to us. This will hold them off."
As usual, Mina just smiled without saying anything. Anyway, her artificial intelligence already knew what her master had prepared.
The cannon that created the ice surface in the middle of the sea was used to shoot the artillery shells to destroy the enemy fleet so that their soldiers could close in. Once they got close, what would happen next, her master had another strategy. Before Mewku Mewku, who circled around Rigel Island, would come to help them.
Crash!!!
Sagittarius took a telescope out of his dimensional pocket, looked through it, and nodded in appreciation of the Gundam's power. Then he said, "If their side had a renowned strategist, the war would be more exciting... The rear of Shamshir is too open. They've used all their forces to counter the azure warrior." Then he handed the telescope to Mina to look through.
What is the difference between a submarine and a diving golem...
The golem has hands!
The hands of the golem in this battle have been very useful, from pulling the ropes to maneuver the Sagittarius warship fleet to salvaging underwater mines.
The golem catapulted from the ocean floor to climb onto the ice surface without much difficulty, of course, surfacing at the wide-open rear of the Shamshir.
If it just surfaced, it wouldn't be that alarming... But it brought the mines with it!
Throw them like crazy!
In a mansion on the east coast of Australia, a portly man was sitting on a large sofa, holding his temples, muttering, "I shouldn't have entrusted those two to lead the army!" He then looked up at the TV again, watching the live broadcast of the few defeating the many.
If it were him, seeing the ground turn to ice, he would order the main forces to break the ice at the rear to allow the ships to set sail or do whatever it takes to split the army.
That is because Sagittarius's goal was to trap the half-million army in place.
To counteract this, the army should not be gathered in one place.
When stationary, they would be slaughtered just like this.
The group in the Solomon Islands had real strategists, but they refused to show themselves.
Why? Because they invested heavily to surround them with three times the forces, any strategist would see that there's no need to inspect personally, they would surely win.
But he underestimated Sagittarius too much. "This Thai person is clever and well-prepared..." Then the portly man started to suspect, "It's too well-prepared, or could it be!" Sagittarius sensed their presence.
But after pondering for a moment, the portly man shook his head, 'Impossible.' Then he laughed, realizing the only reason Sagittarius could prepare so well was because "That Shamshir is bad at acting and surely got found out!"
So Sagittarius had to devise this multi-layered plan.
The portly man shook his head in frustration, "Both are Thai, but their abilities are worlds apart. So what if you're good at games? So what if you can take down a whole party alone? Achieving dominance isn't just built on force, it requires brains!... Sigh, trusting a kid to build a house."
He muttered before turning off the TV and going to find something to eat to add more cholesterol to ease his stress a bit.
The portly man could already guess: with golems disrupting the rear, Mewku Mewku advancing on the right flank, being squeezed from three directions, forcing players to flee northeast, once they sailed away...
By then, the submarines surrounding Raspberry Pie would have finished crushing and would turn to sink the deserting soldiers ship by ship.
It would turn into a killing field by default. This investment is now a complete bust.