Pirates: Your Emperor is Back!

During this defensive operation around Alabasta, Dalton actually had one thing that he didn't understand.

Alabasta's territory is simply too vast.

Not counting sea areas, in terms of land area alone, Alabasta is more than ten times the size of the Drum Kingdom.

Although it is very difficult to defend a country with such a terrain, if you really want to break out a "war" with it, it will actually be quite difficult for the attacker in the war.

Because there shouldn't be any force on this sea that has such a large-scale military force to attack such a "long" coastline in all aspects.

Therefore, if you want to attack Alabasta from the outside, you must have the so-called "main attack direction."

At the same time, from a strategic perspective, the choice of this proactive direction also has many "inevitable" elements.

As mentioned before, Alabasta's territory is too vast.

Unless the Alabasta side completely gives up resistance, it will be impossible to break into this country in a short time.

Therefore, the party attacking Alabasta must be prepared to fight on other countries' territory for a long time.

In this way, whether it is "supply lines", "acclimatization", "special terrain" and other elements, all must be taken into consideration by the attacker in the plan.

This is not a problem that can be solved by simply being "strong".

Dalton once heard his old king tell a story about his youth.

There was once a king who led an army to attack the Snow Kingdom on a winter island. That army swept through many countries in the South China Sea and became almost synonymous with invincibility.

But in the end, most of the people in that army froze to death on that winter island!

This is one of the many differences between "war" and "battle".

For a country with a vast territory, unless it is facing the danger of national subjugation, it is difficult to threaten inland cities. At most, war will break out in coastal cities.

In this case, why not move residents from coastal cities to inland cities?

Therefore, in Dalton's view, Rowan seemed to have no reason to rashly arrange for residents across Alabasta to take refuge under the sea.

Although the "undersea bubble shelters" built with the help of the fishmen are indeed a unique and wonderful idea in the sea, Dalton still feels that there is no need to waste time and money.

After all, the economic losses caused by the "national evacuation" will be difficult for civilians to make up for in months or even years.

But Dalton’s idea is not to “refute” Ryan Rowan.

After all, he was the one who had witnessed Ryan Rowan's affairs with his own eyes, so Dalton just wondered in his heart why Rowan did these things.

Dalton thought so.

If he asked Rowan face to face, he would probably answer his doubts with a smile.

But it was a pity that time was running out. As soon as Dalton came to Alabasta, he received a notice from the Alabasta King's Army: Ryan Rowan wanted them to stay here.

So what can be done?

Dalton smiled helplessly, and then began to arrange the defense work in earnest.

Time will give him the answer.

If time doesn't give, then Ryan Rowan does after the fact.

…

It turns out that Dalton's idea does make sense.

Because that is the most "normal" way of thinking about war.

But one thing Dalton didn't expect was that neither he nor the old king who told him the story of Winter Island, or the army in the old king's story, were all "normal" people after all.

On this sea, in addition to those "normal people" who can use "normal thinking" to figure out their actions, there is also a group of people -

They are "abnormal".

Or to be more precise, they are "abnormal" existences in this sea.

Such a person cannot use normal people's thinking to figure it out, because it is wrong from the fundamental starting point, so how can the result of the inference be correct?

So does Ryan Rowan.

The same goes for [Hundred Beasts] Kaido.

…

"island!"

"Flying!"

"There is an island flying towards us in the sky!"

When Dalton heard these exclamations from the lookouts beside him, he already understood why Ryan Rowan would go to such trouble to arrange such a large-scale evacuation of the entire population.

Because the so-called "Four Emperors" represent the most incomprehensible "anomalies" in this sea!

Dalton took out the telescope from his waist and looked up.

Through the dual blessing of telescopes and animal devil fruit users, Dalton saw more things than a lookout.

It was a strange island with a horn-shaped skull-shaped hill, and many figures could be vaguely seen on it.

Dalton's ears twitched. The Animal Devil Fruit also gave him extremely sharp hearing.

He vaguely heard many noisy sounds coming from the strange island, as if there were many people on it.

And among those noises, there were also a lot of sounds of metal friction.

weapon?

Yes, it should be a weapon.

The person who came here is not kind...

Dalton frowned and immediately arranged for someone to report the abnormality here to Rowan. At the same time, he picked up the telescope in his hand and continued to observe.

Suddenly, Dalton noticed a burly figure sitting cross-legged on the frontmost bulge of the island.

He has black hair shawl, a pair of long horns like dragon's horns, a beard as long as a dragon's beard on his mouth, and a dragon scale tattoo on his left arm.

The upper body was naked, and there was an X-shaped scar on the right abdomen.

It was an iconic look without a doubt.

That person is none other than one of the Four Emperors, [Hundred Beasts] Kaido!

At this moment, Kaido was holding his wine gourd with the word "天" printed on it, looking up and drinking.

As he drank, he covered his eyes, tears spewing out from between his fingers.

"Ugh!"

This frightened Fourth Emperor was crying bitterly at this moment!

"JOKER...JOKER!"

Kaido cried very wantonly, not caring about his image at all.

In other words, no one dares to make irresponsible remarks about Kaido's indecent image.

"JOKER, there is only one reason for your defeat, and that is that you are too weak!"

Kaido muttered to himself loudly, not shying away from his sadness.

"Let me avenge you!"

Suddenly, Kaido's eyes widened and he looked straight in the direction of Alabasta.

This scene made Dalton's heart, which had been prepared for a long time, tremble.

It was a sense of fear brought about by the absolute disparity in strength, which made people feel like falling into an ice cave!

Is he looking at me?

No, that's not right.

Dalton soon noticed something strange.

Kaido's gloomy eyes were not looking at him, but at him - Dalton's back.

What's behind me?

Dalton also looked back.

I saw a figure slowly standing up in the desert.

——

What a “huge” figure!

That's a gravel giant!