Chapter 229 The break of Kizaru and Zefa
The Navy Headquarters' retreat order is wise.
The Dragon Hunter Pirates who dispatched two naval generals to pursue Ian showed that the world government and the navy attached great importance to Ian. They originally thought that the navy could force the Four Emperors to prevent them from disrupting the situation. But the fact is indeed the case. If there was no Ace, the Whitebeard Pirates would have any concerns this time and would not be dispatched.
However, what they didn't expect was that at this point in time, Fire Fist Ace joined the Whitebeard Pirates!
Whitebeard attaches great importance to Ace, the adopted son. After Ace, who had just joined, Whitebeard decided to stand up for his son without hesitation.
Before Kizaru and Zefa led the navy to Salamis Island, the Navy headquarters also received news that the Whitebeard Pirates were dispatched. At that time, he was hesitating, thinking about whether to withdraw Kizaru and Zefa.
However, the turn of the circle was that due to the secret intervention of Doflamingo, the Hundred Beasts Pirates also appeared and collided with the Whitebeard Pirates, and the two sides confronted each other in the outer sea.
After learning about this situation, the Navy acquiesced to Kizaru and Zefa continue to operate, hoping to fight a time difference and take this opportunity to arrest the Dragon Hunter Pirates and Yian.
However, everyone underestimated the Dragon Hunter Pirates. In the battle, Fujito dragged Zefa, and Yian also broke out with all his strength. Not only was he not completely crushed by Kizaru, but he also used the Hailou stone bullet to accidentally hurt Kizaru!
At this point, there were already two naval generals in the hands of Aokiji who were injured by Yian...
Injury does not mean defeat. In fact, Yian does not have the ability to completely defeat the navy now, but the battle is like this. The final result of a little accident will often be different. Yian used his combat wisdom to gain a little advantage in the battle between Kizaru, so the balance of victory naturally tilted towards them.
Since the scene was only seen through the report of an intern reporter, the Navy Headquarters did not know the exact condition of Kizaru. Although they also knew that even if a navy general was injured, it would be difficult to kill, the problem was that the Whitebeard Pirates had withdrawn from the confrontation with the Hundred Beast Pirates and were about to approach Salamis Island.
Salamis Island is under the protection of Whitebeard. Due to the Navy's actions of capturing the Dragon Hunter Pirates, the island is now seriously damaged. In this case, no one dares to guarantee whether the angry Whitebeard will attack the injured Kizaru. If Whitebeard is cruel and kills a Navy general directly, the whole world will be shocked!
The consequences are too serious. The plan to capture the Dragon Hunter Pirates when the time difference is no longer feasible. Yian and the others have held on and persisted. Then the only one who takes a step back is the Navy.
As the Navy headquarters issued the retreat order, the navy on the island began to retreat to the port in an orderly manner. The guards of the Principal of Salamis chased them all the way, but rationally did not chase them too hard.
The retreating naval soldiers naturally saw the members of the Dragon Hunter Pirates at the port. However, although they gritted their teeth, they could do nothing. Many people saw the battle between Ian and Kizaru in the air before, which made the naval soldiers fear the Dragon Hunter Pirates, and knew that they were not ordinary pirates. Now, under the order of retreat, they did not dare to rashly attack the Dragon Hunter Pirates, which caused trouble.
Watching the naval soldiers retreat, Yian also reminded the members of the Dragon Hunter Pirates not to attack them.
After a big battle like this, the Dragon Hunter Pirates were actually quite injured. The Navy soldiers had an absolute advantage in number. Although the Dragon Hunter Pirates were not weak in combat, they were still injured. The shield in Salding's hand had been smashed by the navy's mortars. He at least blocked dozens of mortar shells for his companions in the Pirates. He was gasping for his breath and covered in scars.
The same is true for Doroni and the others. Anyway, almost all the people who can fight in the entire Pirate Group are injured at this time. In this case, even if Yian does not explain, they will not take the initiative to provoke the navy.
However, the navy retreated to the port still encountered trouble. This trouble was Fire Fist Ace!
Yian had previously told Ace to ask him to steal a warship back, but Ace was naturally not a word, but how could the Navy allow him to easily take away the ship?
After Ace jumped onto a warship, he was fighting with the naval soldiers who were rushing in like a tide. He had come to help Yian alone, so he didn't know that Whitebeard was coming soon. He kept guarding the warship, thinking that this was the hope of Yian and his pirate group escaping and must be kept.
This led to Ace seeing Yian fighting with Kizaru. Although he wanted to help Yian, he finally saw that Yian was in a difficult situation to distinguish with Kizaru, so he chose to protect the ship.
When the navy began to retreat, more naval soldiers rushed in. Ace didn't know what was going on, so he could only grit his teeth and open fire with all his energy and beat the navy hard.
The injured Kizaru was supported by Zhan Taomaru and saw this scene when he retreated to the port.
"Fire Fist Ace..." Kizaru naturally knew Ace's name. Seeing the naval soldiers being bombarded by him with large balls of flames from the ship, Kizaru wanted to take action himself.
However, at this moment, he saw the figure of the Whitebeard Pirates fleet on the sea.
In the sky, a big bird with flames was also burning all over, dragging three flames of tail feathers flying towards here. Kizaru knew that it was the immortal bird Marco...
It was too late. If you didn't sail again, the navy's warship would be blocked in the port by the Whitebeard Pirates. So Kizaru thought about it and issued an order to give up the warship to the navy soldiers.
If he had retreated like this, the Navy could withdraw from the port in time, but at this time, Zefa found that his two students were missing!
"Where is Ein and Binz!?" Zefa anxiously asked his pirate guerrilla members.
When Zefa learned that Ain and Binz were actually brought to the warship by the Fire Fist Ace, a woman dressed in a strange maid from the Dragon Hunter Pirates, he immediately stopped doing it!
At this moment, he was going to lead the pirate guerrillas to rush to the warship where Ace was, hoping to grab his students back.
This seemed unreasonable to Kizaru. Not long after the pirate guerrillas were established at this time, although Ain and Binz were Zefa's left and right hands, in terms of military rank, they were only two captains at most. For the sake of the two captains, Zefa actually wanted all the navy to delay here and be surrounded by the Whitebeard Pirates!?
Not only that, the faint pain from the wound reminded Kizaru again of the situation where he was injured by the Hailou stone bullet left by Zefa. For a moment, he felt like new and old hatreds surged up together.
"Teacher Zefa, if you still want to continue fighting with Fire Fist Ace, I won't stop you!" Kizaru said to Zefa with a cold face: "But I will take the rest of the naval soldiers first!"
"Polsalino! You..." Zefa was so angry that he smoked his orifices. He never expected that Kizaru would jump out at this time and say such a ruthless word.
The conflict between Zefa and Kizaru has been around for a long time. Although both of them still maintain basic harmony on the surface, at this moment, it finally broke out!
"That's my student!" Zefa shouted at Kizaru: "I brought them here, so I'll take them away too!"
"Then teacher, what do you mean is that for the sake of the two of them, you have to leave all the naval soldiers here and be beaten by the Whitebeard Pirates!" Kizaru quarreled with Zefa without hesitation: "Your students are also Navy members. Even if they fall into the hands of the Dragon Hunter Pirates, as long as they send a note, the Dragon Hunter Pirates may not be able to do anything to them. They are just two people. Which one is more embarrassing than having so many naval soldiers captured by the Whitebeard Pirates!?"
"Is this just a question of embarrassment or not?" Zefa shouted: "Is the face of the Navy more important than the life of my student?"
The two quarrels made the naval soldiers around them silent and dared not say anything.
Zefa and Kizaru stared for a while before Zefa finally spoke: "Polsalino, I never like you as a student. You are too elusive. Since you want to leave, then leave!"
Zefa took a step back and said, "My people and I have always been advancing and retreating together!"
He heard what he said in the ears of the pirate guerrillas. He felt an unprecedented mood and shouted, "Go forward and retreat together!"
When Kizaru saw this scene, he was not infected at all. Instead, he shook his head in his heart. Kizaru's philosophy has always been different from Zefa. He would only choose to look at the problem as a bystander and then put himself in the most favorable side, so he could not understand Zefa's character and thoughts.
"Since that's the case, I wish you good luck with Teacher Zefa!" said Kizaru.
Because Ace snatched away a warship, he finally took away the naval soldiers of six warships. Zefa and the pirate guerrilla soldiers of his three warships stayed and continued to attack the warship guarded by Ace, wanting to attack and find Ain and Binz.
Ace, this idiot, didn't think too much about it when he brought Binz back, but he just thought that Binz was so interesting. He wanted to catch Binz and take it back to show it to Whitebeard, and show it off. If possible, he even wanted this ninja to join the Whitebeard Pirates.
It was like the feeling of his son acting cute to his father. Ace himself didn't notice this. This was human nature. At this moment, Ace had completely accepted the fact that Whitebeard became his father and tried every means to help Whitebeard.
Chapter completed!