Reborn to Become A Queen: The Real Heiress's Comeback-Chapter 630: The Trump Card

Sato Shoji sneered, "What’s the use of killing those lowly people? If we’re to kill, let’s kill their Empress and their soldiers!"

Sato Shoji squinted his eyes as he heard the sound of seawater crashing against the warship. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

He took a sip of wine and sighed, "I hope nothing goes wrong again. Being able to escape safely from Dayu’s sea border now is a blessing!"

He still felt a vague unease in his heart.

Not only could they face punishment when returning to Dahe after their defeat, but he also felt that tonight’s escape was too smooth.

A Samurai protested, "In Dayu, there’s a saying, ’Do not chase the desperate.’ Their warships are far inferior to ours, they can’t catch up, and Dayu’s navy isn’t skilled at naval battles. Today, they were only prepared and had a manpower advantage. If they dare to chase us, we’ll sink their ships!"

Sato Shoji raised his hand to stop the Samurai’s arrogant and ignorant words, "Dayu has another saying, ’Hide the sky with one hand,’ I’m afraid they have something else waiting for us!"

The night’s escape went smoothly, and Sato Shoji watched as the sun slowly rose from the horizon. Moving forward, they would reach their sea border.

His tense body finally relaxed a bit, and he exhaled a breath of foul air into the sea breeze.

The Samurai rushed up and asked, "General, we have no drinkable water left, should we stop at Heartless Island to replenish?"

Sato Shoji cautioned, "Don’t stop, keep moving forward, we need to quickly get back to Dahe’s sea border!"

During the battle, the ship’s water leaked, and they hadn’t had water all night. The Samurai licked his cracked lips, "But everyone has no water to drink, and it might take us half a day to reach the next island."

Sato Shoji frowned and reprimanded coldly, "Endure it! Do you still want to return to Dahe safely?"

Seeing that the General was truly angry, the Samurai shut his mouth and relayed the General’s order for the warship to continue sailing.

Sato Shoji gazed into the distance and saw Dahe’s sea border; his eyes gradually brightened. They were about to return home.

The pirates on the ship shouted with excitement.

Suddenly, from the warship sailing alongside them, there came terrifying screams and sounds of fighting.

Sato Shoji looked over to see many of Dayu’s sailors unknowingly boarding the enemy ship’s deck, which was covered with the bodies of samurai.

"Enemy attack!" someone shouted.

Their ship came to a halt amidst the waves, and all the samurai watched their comrades perish, drawing their swords in horror. Sato Shoji instinctively drew his sword as well.

Before long, many navy sailors dressed in blue boarded from all sides of the ship. They were exceptionally skilled, and wherever they went, samurai fell one after another.

Sato Shoji, in terror, looked toward the sea. More of Dayu’s sailors were jumping into the sea from Heartless Island, advancing swiftly like a school of fish.

"Kill! Quickly kill them!" Sato Shoji shouted, waving his sword.

The samurai fought back with all their might, but they kept falling one by one.

With the sea breeze on his back, cold sweat began to break out, and Sato Shoji suddenly saw their pursuers from Dayu closing in from behind.

The men on the warship were extraordinary and bore a resolute demeanor.

He did not know the identity of the other party, but he saw a Golden Dragon emblazoned on the flag of their warship.

Only the Emperor of Dayu could sit on such a warship.

He now understood what he had been worrying about all along, Dayu indeed had another plan.

It turned out they were completely deceived; it wasn’t Zhan Lan’s ambition to be Empress. This was all part of a plot devised by the couple!

They had spent three years patiently crafting a grand scheme.

They not only planted several traitors as pawns to relay false information to Fujiwara Chaojiu but also orchestrated events to make them believe that Mu Yan had been assassinated. Taking advantage of the people’s and ministers’ dissatisfaction with Zhan Lan, they aimed to seize several of Dayu’s cities in one fell swoop and gradually erode all of Dayu.

Dayu’s Emperor Jian’an and the Empress had both come to Wu’an City!

They wanted to deliver a heavy blow to Dahe so they would never dare set foot in Dayu again!

With a loud bang,

The pirates’ warship was hit by cannon fire from Dayu’s warship.

The Samurai, who previously boasted that Dayu’s warships weren’t good, regretted it immensely and shouted, "General, our men can’t hold on anymore, you must escape!"

The General was being protected as they tried to escape in a small boat.

Suddenly, with a swoosh,

Three arrows whizzed past the Samurai’s ears. He widened his eyes in the direction the arrows came from, only to see Sato Shoji struck by all three arrows in the chest.

Sato Shoji spat blood as he looked toward the opposite ship, where the man on board was putting away his bow.

He finally got a clear look at the man’s face. The legend that Emperor Jian’an of Dayu could shoot three arrows with one bow was true!

He fell heavily into the sea, the bloody water staining the surface.

The Samurai shouted, "The General is dead! Revenge, kill them!"

Suddenly, his voice stopped abruptly, as Li Sui’s sword pierced through his heart.

As Li Sui drew out his sword, the Samurai’s blade slipped from his hand, his entire body crashing heavily onto the deck, blood splattering everywhere.

Mu Yan watched as the pirates’ warship was about to sink in the blaze, and the sailors leaping into the sea from the ship. In three years, Dayu’s navy had become something entirely different.

The friends around Lan’er were remarkably talented, and Li Sui had brought up a highly capable naval force.

These few hundred were the elite among the elite in Dayu’s navy.

As Huang Gun said, they were truly ’the white strips of the waves.’

As Li Sui boarded Emperor Jian’an’s warship, soaking wet, he respectfully saluted Mu Yan.

"Your Majesty, Li Sui reports mission accomplished, all military orders completed."

Mu Yan, known for rarely smiling, unexpectedly laughed heartily today, sincerely praising, "Good! Well done!"

Li Sui, three days prior, had disguised himself and his men as merchants to occupy the island through which the pirates were sure to return home.

Mu Yan’s lips curled; this was the plan he devised with Zhan Lan, deciding to let Li Sui pretend to be a merchant and land on Heartless Island, encircling the pirates from their rear.

The so-called merchants never went to Dahe, but directly killed the pirates on the island. Once they successfully landed, they became the most advantageous barrier to intercept the pirates from returning to Dahe.

In this battle, they lured the enemy deep, with Zhan Lan and Bai Chen stationed on the coast and naval base, while he and the Hidden Guard held the mid-path islands, and the closing force was led by Li Sui with aquatic-skilled and battle-savvy sailors.

First, they hid the truth with a facade, confusing the pirates, then invited them into the trap where they were captured in one swoop, and finally, they ambushed them from behind.

Of those pirates harassing Dayu’s islands, except for the two he intentionally let return to Dahe, none could leave Dayu alive!

Mu Yan stood on the deck heading back to Wu’an City, delighted by the sea breeze, not only because the battle was brilliantly fought but also because he would soon see Zhan Lan, whom he hadn’t seen for a month.

The sea surface rippled, and sunlight sparkled upon the waves, his eyes glistening with brilliance akin to stars in the night sky.

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