Katakuri is rather pessimistic about the future of their BIG MOM Pirates. MAMA was tricked by the navy and fell into a coma after being attacked by herself. Although there is no danger of life, the BIG MOM Pirates have lost an emperor-level fighter and have been completely passive.
If they had to face only the people from the Marine Headquarters led by Kuzan, Katakuri would have been confident that he could win the war by relying on the human wave tactics and the strength of their cadres. However, the sudden joining of the new navy completely tilted the balance of war towards the Marine Headquarters.
After just a brief fight, Katakuri clearly realized how powerful Mihawk was. With the combined efforts of these people, they could hold Kuzan back and Mihawk back for a short time, but if these people joined forces, they would probably all die here.
The Big Mom Pirates do have a large number of people, but in a war of this level, the number of people is no longer the only factor that matters. The top combat power is the key factor that determines the direction of the war.
Katakuri has been in the BIG MOM Pirates for so many years, and he is very familiar with the strength of his pirate group's cadres and subordinates. If they brothers are defeated, no one will be able to stop the strong ones of Kuzan and Mihawk's level.
not to mention.
Katakuri stood in front of Mihawk and Kuzan, and ordered his brothers to take MAMA and leave first. While being on guard against the enemy, Katakuri also turned his head slightly to look at the slender warship outside the battlefield.
His observation Haki could sense that there was a person with extremely powerful aura on that warship, who was guarding the ship and not joining the battlefield.
Katakuri guessed that the strong man who stayed on the warship should be Tsugakuni Yoshiichi's most capable subordinate, the former vice admiral of the navy - Yixiao.
Since all these people are here, then Yuichiro Tsugikoku should also be on the boat.
Yoriichi Tsugakuni's aura is unique, as if it can merge with the heaven and earth. Katakuri's observation Haki cannot sense Yoriichi Tsugakuni's aura.
But Katakuri guessed that as the leader of the new navy, Yoriichi Tsugakuni should not miss such a war.
The opponent hasn't made a move yet, probably because the battle situation is under his control!
Katakuri thought of many things in his mind, and the decision to retreat was made after careful consideration. If he didn't leave now, once the other members of the New Navy took action one after another, his brothers might not be able to escape!
At this time, Daifuku and Owen obviously realized that the situation of the battle had changed uncontrollably. After hearing Katakuri's order, the two hesitated for a moment and immediately escorted BIG MOM to escape.
Just before leaving, he shouted to Katakuri and Cracker, "You two must catch up!"
Seeing that the other party was actually planning to escape, Kuzan had no intention of letting him go. His feet suddenly turned into a ball of ice mist, and he soared into the sky, intending to chase Dafu, Owen and others.
However, as soon as he moved, Katakuri, who had been on high alert, immediately took action.
"Your opponent is me!"
Katakuri's right hand turned into a white sticky ball, and his fist quickly expanded into the shape of a mace. Then he swung it towards the sky, and his arm quickly extended and stretched, shooting directly towards Kuzan.
Chop and slice the rice cake!
While Katakuri was attacking with his fists to intercept Kuzan, Cracker tightened the sword in his hand, kicked the ground with his feet, and rushed directly towards Mihawk who was not far away. At the same time as Cracker attacked, the two biscuit men he summoned also quickly attacked Mihawk from both sides.
"Hmm?" Kuzan, who was high in the sky, sensed Katakuri's attack, murmured softly, and his body suddenly stopped in the air. An ice sword quickly condensed in his hand to block in front of him.
"clang!!!"
After a crisp sound, Katakuri's fist slammed Kuzan's body into the ice. His strength successfully suppressed Kuzan in mid-air.
"boom!!!!"
Katakuri's fist carried Kuzan's body rapidly down from the air, smashing him directly into the ice. After a loud bang, the ice field shook and shattered, and Kuzan's figure was also buried by the raised ice crystals.
After Katakuri's attack, the arm that had turned into a sticky ball slowly flowed and retracted, and soon returned to its original shape. However, before he could check the effect of his attack, a powerful domineering aura suddenly burst out from the ice field not far away.
"What?!" Katakuri was stunned and turned his head quickly, just in time to see Mihawk suddenly swung out two slashes under the attack of the cracker, instantly cutting through the two biscuit soldiers who were besieging him.
Seeing this scene, Katakuri's pupils shrank suddenly, and he hurriedly warned Cracker who was attacking Mihawk: "Stop it, Cracker! Run! Run quickly!"
However, Katakuri's reminder was a little late after all. After Mihawk killed the biscuit soldier with two consecutive sword strikes, his figure quickly flashed past Cracker's side. In just a moment of passing, a long knife wound was left on Cracker's chest.
However, Cracker himself seemed to have no consciousness. After crossing paths with Mihawk, he rushed forward for more than ten steps before he felt the heaviness on his feet. A strong sense of weakness and dizziness entered Cracker's brain.
"puff--"
Blood spurted from his chest, and Cracker's hand, which was tightly gripping the long knife, loosened at this moment. Then his feet went soft, and he fell to the ice with a thud. Blood kept flowing out of the wound, and soon formed a small pool of blood.
Mihawk held his sword with both hands, maintaining his stance. After Cracker fell to the ground, Mihawk slowly lowered his stance and slightly closed his eyes.
"A righteous pirate is still a pirate after all."
"Spend the rest of your life in Impel Down."
Cracker was defeated by the serious Mihawk in a single blow. Seeing his brother lying in a pool of blood, Katakuri's pupils suddenly shrank, his eyes instantly filled with bloodshot, and he roared in anger:
"You bastard, I'm going to kill you!!!"
The powerful domineering aura formed a strong airflow with Katakuri as the center, spreading rapidly in all directions and instantly covering the entire battlefield.
Whether in the navy or the pirates, there are some weak people who were directly shocked and lost consciousness under this powerful domineering aura.
However, Katakuri's domineering Haki had no way of affecting the opponent he was actually facing.
"There are flaws"
Just when Katakuri was about to attack Mihawk to avenge his brother, a slightly cold voice sounded from behind Katakuri.
Before he could even turn around, Katakuri suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck, and a slender arm wrapped around his neck from behind.
The ice spread rapidly on Katakuri's body. He felt a sense of sluggishness in his mind, and he became drowsy and completely unconscious in an instant.
Time capsule!
Kuzan's semi-elemental figure appeared behind Katakuri, and instantly froze his opponent the moment the opponent was distracted.
Katakuri's Haki was indeed very strong, but he lost his composure after seeing his brother lying in a pool of blood, and ultimately revealed a fatal flaw in the face of a powerful enemy like Kuzan. Katakuri's tall body was frozen into an ice man.
Kuzan's figure fell back from the air, his eyes swept over Cracker lying on the ice, and with a slight movement of his fingers, thick frost quickly completely covered Cracker's body.
After defeating Cracker and Katakuri one after another, Mihawk and Kuzan turned their heads and looked towards the distant horizon. At this moment, Prometheus, carrying BIG MOM's huge body, had already flown a thousand meters away and was about to disappear from their sight.
Seeing that the pursuit was hopeless, Mihawk calmly put away his knife and walked towards the warship in the distance.
The battle between the Marine Headquarters and the pirates is still going on, but Mihawk has no intention of continuing to attack. He is only interested in powerful opponents, and he really has no interest in facing small fry.
"Thank you very much this time."
"Is Sakaski in your hands?"
"What are you going to do?"
Kuzan suddenly stopped Mihawk, who was about to leave, and asked. Mihawk stopped and tilted his head slightly. "He is in our hands, no doubt."
"Yuichirō didn't mean to kill him."
"Just don't worry."
Mihawk said, no longer paying attention to Kuzan, and left the battlefield without stopping.
The members of the Big Mom Pirates received the order to retreat one after another. However, without their backbone, they could not retreat in an orderly manner like the army.
The retreat quickly turned into a rout, and then further evolved into a one-sided chase.
After Katakuri and Cracker were defeated one after another, the war continued for several hours. Although the high-end combat power of the navy achieved an overwhelming victory, the number of navy personnel was still too small compared to the 100,000 pirates.
Even if we pursue the victory, the casualties are still considerable.
The New Navy did not continue to participate in the subsequent war between the Navy and the BIG MOM Pirates. Their main purpose was simply to ensure the victory of the Navy. After the situation was under control, Mihawk and others returned to the ship one after another.
Watching the final outcome of this war from a distance.
The live broadcast to the people of the world has never been shut down. After witnessing the strength of the new navy, ordinary people immediately saw the terrifying power of the navy headquarters.
Under the relentless pursuit of the headquarters, the BIG MOM Pirates suffered heavy casualties. The ice field was littered with the corpses of pirates, and the entire battlefield was filled with murderous aura. Even through the visuals, the people could intuitively feel the cruelty of the battlefield.
The bright sunshine poured down from the sky, dispelling some of the chill from the ice field.
The headquarters navy who retreated to the harbor cheered loudly, celebrating the victory of the war and celebrating that they had once again survived the brutal battlefield.
When they return to headquarters, most of them will get further opportunities.
While sailors are accompanied by death, they also have honor, power, and wealth.
The number of pirates who fled in panic was quite large, as many as 40,000 to 50,000, and the Big Mom Pirates lost nearly half of their personnel. Although the navy won this battle, the Big Mom Pirates still retained a strong fighting force.
The war with the BIG MOM Pirates is far from over.
The ice that froze the port of Cocoa Island took nearly a week to melt on a large scale, and the navigation channel was restored to normal.
After a week of rest and recuperation, the navy has completely taken root in Cocoa Island. Under the control of the navy, Cocoa Island has also strengthened the defenses of its coastline during this period.
The Big Mom Pirates obviously have no intention of giving up.
On the afternoon of the day the battle of Cocoa Island ended, Big Mom woke up from her coma. After learning about the losses in the battle and that several of her children had died in the battlefield, Big Mom became furious and attacked the navy's branch on Liquor Island that night, killing thousands of navy soldiers.
During the time when the frozen port of Cocoa Island could not be restored, several other branches of the navy were attacked one after another by Big Mom and her pirates.
Kuzan was too busy to rush to the battlefield immediately, and not enough of his subordinates could resist BIG MOM. Kuzan had no choice but to order all the navy to be transferred back to Cocoa Island and shrink the area controlled by the navy.
In order to deal with possible attacks from pirates, Kuzan also increased the number of patrol teams.
The situation came to a stalemate.
The navy did not advance rashly. They lay in wait, quietly waiting for the arrival of the reinforcements led by Kizaru.
After the battle on Cocoa Island, those people from the New Navy disappeared from the sight of both the Navy and the pirates.
No one knows what the new navy is planning.
Faced with the new navy whose purpose is unknown, the headquarters navy remained relatively calm. Judging from that battle, the new navy should not be their enemy.
As for the BIG MOM Pirates, they were obviously cautious. After taking back the five islands, they did not act rashly.
They are not afraid of dragging on with the navy at all. The longer it takes, the more beneficial it will be for them.
The navy launched an all-out war this time, and it can be said that it has used all the forces it can mobilize, drawing elite troops from all over the world to fight this war. If it cannot be resolved in a short period of time, the navy's fundamentals will be shaken.
During the period of war with the BIG MOM Pirates, the Four Seas and the first half of the Grand Line were not peaceful. Not only were pirates rampant, but the revolutionary army on the Four Seas was also developing at a very rapid pace.
The Revolutionary Army was often mentioned in the major news stories published in the daily newspapers. What annoyed the World Government and the Navy was that the Morgans newspapers not only reported a lot about the Revolutionary Army, but also all of them were positive.
Newspapers portrayed Long's revolutionary army as heroes who saved the people.
At the same time, some things about the new navy and Yuichiro Tsugakuni also occupied a lot of space in the newspaper. The editor of the newspaper didn't know where he got some "secrets" that happened within the navy at that time, so he opened a special column to serialize the history of Yuichiro Tsugakuni around the various events he had done since he joined the navy.
All kinds of legendary secrets were attributed to Yuichiro Tsugikuni.
Tsugikoku Yoriichi was also described by the media as a legendary hero who fought against a dragon. As for who the dragon was,
Navy? World Government? Pirates? Celestial Dragons in the Holy Land?
The people naturally have their own judgment.
The "biography" about Tsugakuni Yuichiro was widely discussed and discussed by people around the world. The impact of that live broadcast was amplified, and Tsugakuni Yuichiro's personal reputation reached a terrifying level.
This afternoon.
The mighty naval fleet, led by Kizaru, arrived at Cocoa Island and joined Kuzan's troops.
At the same time, a red stream of light also fell into a sea area in the distant sea of Wan Guo.
The warship rocked gently with the rise and fall of the waves.
"despair"
A streak of light fell from the sky, and with a slight sound from the deck, a figure stood on the deck of the Dawn warship.
"Finally I'm back."
Ji Guoyuan placed his hand lightly on the long sword at his waist, his face looking exhausted.
"Let's start finishing up!"
He turned around and looked at Wanguo in the distance with a satisfied smile on his face. At this time, Yixiao and others on the deck also noticed that Tsugakuin Yoshiichi had returned to the ship, and they gathered around Tsugakuin Yoshiichi one after another.
(End of this chapter)
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