# Sea Calendar 1477
Sea Calendar 1477.
The war had already lasted for three years.
Ever since the operation led by Hades and the Pluto Pirates began, the battle situation for the Allied Forces took a sharp turn for the worse.
The World Government gave up the idea of transporting supplies to the Front Line.
The defeat of the Allied Forces had become a foregone conclusion.
This was even more true for the Allied Forces who had lost their supply lines.
Every day, a large number of Allied Forces members died in battle.
Why didn't the Front Line Allied Forces evacuate?
Because they were simply unable to do so.
The number of warships was too small, and there were too many abandoned warships.
At this time, there was also no place for them to be repaired.
Moreover, there was Titan, that sneaky one who liked to steal warships.
Seeing the awkward position the Allied Forces were in, the Strongmen of the Rocks Pirates made destroying the Allied Forces' warships their primary target during the war.
Fifty thousand Military were gathered at the Front Line, but the number of warships was less than fifty.
Even if all the Marine warships were counted as large warships, squeezing two thousand people onto one ship, the Allied Forces could only take back at most 100,000 people.
This didn't even count the number who might die in battle during the pursuit by the Rocks Pirates.
The World Government's troop transport was originally done in batches; attempting to transfer everyone at once was impossible.
Furthermore, the current number of warships was so scarce and was constantly being destroyed.
How could the Allied Forces choose?
Give up the remaining 400,000 Military?
This was absolutely something that could not be done.
Once exposed, it would cause a fatal blow to the prestige of both the Marines and the World Government.
Even if 400,000 people died in battle, abandoning 400,000 people was absolutely not allowed.
In essence, it was the same, yet completely different.
If they didn't give up, they would need to fight to the end.
At the same time, if they wanted to evacuate, how would the spots be distributed?
The Army had a larger number, and the Marines certainly didn't want their own losses to be too great.
Warships were assets belonging to the Marines.
This would lead to bickering and could even cause the Allied Forces' internal split directly, especially at this critical juncture.
In fact, quarrels had already occurred during this period.
Both sides were unable to compromise.
Nor could they give up their own soldiers.
The final and only decision was to fight to the death and wait for the World Government's reinforcements.
The World Government needed a large number of ships and was constantly collecting and requisitioning ships.
They needed enough ships that could take the Front Line Allied Forces evacuate.
The quality of these ships also couldn't be poor; they were very valuable and capable of navigating the ever-changing harsh environment of the New World.
This was a simple matter, yet very difficult.
Taking hundreds of ships to the Front Line required enough manpower to sail them, and also needed to make enough space for the Front Line Allied Forces.
It also required enough strength to guard them.
Even though the World Government dispatched the third Army General, who was also the strongest among the Army Generals, "White Ghost," along with the CP0 Director-General, the operation still failed.
It was very difficult to resist such powerful combatants; no Pirate was willing to do this.
But merely destroying ships, this was much easier.
The warship artillery, facing the World Government's massive Fleet, was simply one shot, one hit.
The Pirate Fleet maintained distance, and a few rounds of artillery destroyed more than half of the fleet.
"White Ghost" was a Paramecia-type Ghost-Ghost Fruit Ability User, capable of creating various kinds of ghosts: explosive, emotional, negative, simply developed to the extreme.
He was the strongest among the Army Generals.
Those with Admiral-level combat power were Strongmen.
With his ability, he could easily intercept this massive number of artillery.
The Ghost-Ghost Fruit ability, whether on the Battlefield or in battle, was very eerie.
But in front of Titan and Charlotte Linlin, he encountered his nemesis.
The Rocks Pirates formed a siege around the Allied Forces.
If the Allied Forces truly decided to evacuate, the pirate strength in the Rear Area absolutely could not stop them.
The number of powerful combatants of the Rocks Pirates in the Rear Area was also increasing, preparing to cut off the Allied Forces' retreat path.
Charlotte Linlin was among them.
This operation was targeted.
The World Government making such a big move was impossible to conceal.
This was also a rare joint operation between Titan and Charlotte Linlin since that operation.
No matter how strong the Ghost-Ghost Fruit ability was, in the eyes of Charlotte Linlin and Titan, it was nothing more than food.
Charlotte Linlin's ability had a higher level, easily restraining and suppressing White Ghost's ability.
Titan's devouring power even completely devoured White Ghost's techniques.
As a Strongman who primarily relied on Devil Fruit abilities.
When his Devil Fruit ability was suppressed and restricted, his combat power would be severely weakened.
The CP0 Director-General's strength was unknown; he might not have the ability for large-scale defense.
After White Ghost's ability was unable to function, this mission was declared a failure.
Titan also didn't have a major battle with them; his only mission was to destroy or directly devour these ships, not allowing the World Government's reinforcements to succeed.
"The World Government will give up."
Having destroyed the World Government's reinforcement operation, Hades was very confident that the World Government would definitely give up.
Wishful thinking.
Wanting to take away the only remaining Allied Forces? How could the Rocks Pirates allow that?
"These guys from the Front Line Allied Forces are starving, yet they're still so tough, able to persist until now."
Shifting his gaze to the Front Line, Hades also had to admire the Allied Forces' willpower.
The vast majority of soldiers were starving.
Supplies were scarce, ammunition had been almost used up, and now they could only engage in direct combat and fight to the death with the Pirates.
According to intelligence, the Allied Forces were currently barely surviving by relying on Sea King Meat captured from The Sea.
There was a lot of Sea King Meat, but it was also unable to satisfy the needs of hundreds of thousands of people.
"Soon, they're almost at their limit."
Deep inside, Hades felt some expectation.
No matter how desperately the Allied Forces resisted, every day, over ten thousand would become casualties.
A desperate situation could stimulate potential.
But one accident would become the trigger for the collapse.
This key point was Rocks D.
Xebec.
The Allied Forces, who had completely fallen into a disadvantage, gave up on the low-level soldiers, letting them be slaughtered by the Rocks Pirates' Regular Cadres, and focused their important forces on dealing with the Rocks Pirates' main forces.
As long as the high-end forces didn't fall, the war could still be maintained.
Of course, the premise was that the high-end forces didn't fall.
How much longer could the Allied Forces persist?
Once an accident occurred, it would inevitably be a complete collapse of the entire Front Line.
With this collapse, there would no longer be a chance to stabilize the battle line.
Even if the World Government dispatched powerful forces to directly reinforce the Battlefield, it couldn't change the fact that the Allied Forces had been defeated.
One must know that Rocks D.
Xebec had never revealed his true strength, the fearsome ability named the Dark-Dark Fruit.
He believed that Rocks' patience had long reached its limit.
As these young Pirates grew, to deter them, he would also reveal it.
(end of chapter)