Sakazuki was still looking through the books.
Zephyr and Morris, who had been looking at the sand table for a while, were getting impatient.
They exchanged glances.
Finally, Morris yielded and looked at Sakazuki:
"Sakazuki."
"Isn't this frontline too deep..."
The previous strategic layout was an oval. Although Charlotte Linlin and Kaido were the main directions of confrontation, it was not as deep into the enemy's territory as it was now...
This kind of deep penetration strategy could indeed catch the enemy off guard and bring great pressure.
However, Shanks the Red-Haired and Hale Nock on both sides were not decorative.
The main combat power of the Navy was at the front, which put immense pressure on the flanks.
If Hale Nock and Shanks the Red-Haired attacked and cut across without regard, the flank defense line would collapse directly...
Would Sakazuki make such a low-level mistake... No...
That meant there was still some hidden plan, but the two of them couldn't figure out how to relieve the pressure on the flanks...
Sakazuki put down the book in his hand:
"No, it's just right..."
"The parallel situation of the Four Emperors disperses the forces too much."
"Concentrating on one point is relatively better."
"As for how to gather them together..."
"We are still missing a catalyst..."
When he mentioned the catalyst, Sakazuki's expression was somewhat inexplicable, as if he was thinking about something...
Zephyr and Morris were a bit confused, and their doubts did not decrease, but rather increased. However, they did not continue to ask.
Sakazuki had his own considerations, and it was better not to interfere too much...
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The two continued to look at the sand table. After a while.
Sakazuki also finished reading the books he had in hand: 138 Reading Network
"The content of the books is very good."
"But it still needs to be refined."
"I'll leave this book here. I'll have Carol sort out the opinions and send them back later."
"And make some modifications."
Morris frowned slightly:
"This..."
"Don't we need to watch it ourselves."
Sakazuki smiled:
"I don't trust anyone else, so it's up to you two."
"Besides, the war has just begun, and the Navy is not yet at a point where academy instructors need to appear."
Zephyr also frowned tightly:
"But we are soldiers, Sakazuki..."
Sakazuki pondered:
"But the importance of these few books is far greater than you two imagine."
"No one knows the outcome before the war ends."
"After these books are revised and distributed completely, you two can join the battle, how about it."
Sakazuki was also a little helpless. The casualties in this war would be very heavy.
Even now, several vice admirals had already sacrificed their lives. This was just the beginning, and there would be more later.
Except for admirals and above, no one could guarantee their safety. Zephyr and Morris had both retired and had been teaching students in the rear for nearly thirty years.
A decline in strength was inevitable. At most, they were elite vice admirals. Many young and elite vice admirals in the Navy now would die on the battlefield.
There was really no need to involve the two of them. The impact on the war situation was minimal, and the chance of death was very high...
The Navy had not reached that point where they needed the two of them to go to the battlefield...
Zephyr's brow was still furrowed, and he wanted to say something more, but Morris pulled him. Morris then said:
"Then it's settled, Sakazuki."
"Then we two will leave first."
He dragged Zephyr out of the Marshal's office.
Sakazuki shook his head and said nothing...
For soldiers, not participating in such a war would inevitably make them unwilling.
As for how long they could hold them back, that remained to be seen...
If they insisted on going... he would not continue to stop them.
On the stairs leading out of the fortress.
Zephyr and Morris walked down the stairs.
Morris looked relaxed, while Zephyr was confused:
"Why did you pull me out."
"Ask again."
Morris sighed lightly:
"You know Sakazuki's personality, don't you."
"Even if you were to break the sky, he wouldn't let the two of us go."
"But since a promise has been made."
"Then quickly complete the task he assigned, and he won't continue to stop us."
"After all, who would hold back someone who wants to die."
"Hahahaha."
Zephyr shook his head:
"You guy..."
But he was also a little silent. The intensity of the war far exceeded their imagination.
Just before coming, the battle reports they had inquired about made the two of them restless. Many of the students who returned to the school to visit them every year...
Many of them had already died in battle, and this was just the beginning...
How could they stay peacefully in the rear, enjoying a peaceful life:
"In the end... I'm not reconciled..."
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New World, Floating Fleet.
Sot manipulated several uprooted mountains and flew them into the air, heading backward.
The large fleet he had led earlier surrounded the island like escort ships, floating around.
Sot looked at the mountains and sighed, increasing his power output, and flew backward rapidly.
Ain walked over and put the cloak she had taken off when Sot was fighting back on him:
"What's wrong, you look dejected."
Sot gave a wry smile:
"Ah—"
"It's nothing, I hope Marshal Sakazuki won't blame me."
Sakazuki's order was to take away the residents who were willing to leave, and then bury remote-controlled explosive rocks on all the islands, and send them to heaven when the pirate reinforcements arrived...
The number of buried explosives was such that the islands would disappear...
To eliminate the residents along with the pirates...
Sot found it hard to do, so he wanted to ask headquarters again.
The reply from Carol was to execute the order...
After much deliberation, he came up with a compromise: he uprooted the mountains on the island, and then drove all the residents who refused to leave onto them, and took them away directly.
At the same time, in the deep pits left by the uprooted mountains, and in the former pirate gathering places, remote-controlled explosive rocks were buried.
The deep pits could attract the pirates' attention to a great extent, and they did not damage the original buildings on the island. When the pirate reinforcements arrived, they would still choose their previous strongholds to station.
He had only taken away those residents, and the pirates wouldn't care...
Ain didn't know how to comfort him, as she had very little contact with Sakazuki:
"This..."
"Marshal Sakazuki probably won't blame you, right."
"The mission is completed, as long as we wait for those pirates to fall into the trap."
"And the disappearing mountains will make the pirates even more confused. Perhaps the effect after detonation will be even better."
Sot smiled and said softly:
"Yes."