After seeing the eagle leave with the orc army, Ning Yuan immediately rushed back to the naval base in Longgang and began to prepare a strategy for the conquest of the mermaids.

According to the information provided by Xie Yu, the swan scouts quickly found the islands inhabited by the merfolk clan.

The islands in the waters near the Liaodong Peninsula are basically occupied by mermaids, and the three largest islands are Changxing Island, Xizhong Island and Fengming Island.

These three islands are the locations of the White Shark Tribe, the Blue Shark Tribe, and the Black Shark Tribe, but now the Blue Shark Tribe and the Black Shark Tribe are gone, and all the mermaid tribes in the vicinity have been swallowed up by the White Shark Tribe.

Although the merfolk are amphibious races and can breathe freely in the sea, they still prefer to come to the shore when they are resting, so the land near the ocean on these three islands is full of their camps.

Because the merfolk have been in a state of isolation, their technological level is relatively backward, and most of the weapons used by the mermaid warriors are weapons made of the bones of sea creatures.

These bone weapons come in different styles, but their power should not be underestimated, so if Ning Yuan wants to capture these islands at the lowest cost, he can't give them too many opportunities to fight alone.

Originally, with the current strength of the Condor Army, they could easily capture the three islands, but Ning Yuan's purpose was not only to capture the islands, what he really wanted was the population of the mermaid clan.

Once the merfolk fled into the sea, the navy of the Condor Empire had no way to deal with them, so the biggest problem on this expedition was how to trap the merfolk on the island and prevent them from going to sea.

In order to overcome this problem, Ning Yuan and the generals of the navy held meetings every day, and whenever they thought of a way, they would go to Chrysanthemum Island to conduct actual combat exercises.

As a result, half a month has passed, and none of the methods can work.

In the end, in desperation, Ning Yuan had to adopt the advice provided by Xie Yu, first capture the island, and then send large warships to block the entire sea area.

The merfolk can breathe in the sea, but they can't stay underwater forever, and every once in a while, they have to surface for some fresh air.

The Condor Navy can use their ranged weapons to attack them while they are surfacing to breathe, and wipe them out.

As long as they don't give them a chance to go ashore and insist on chasing them in the sea, then when they can't hold on, they will actively choose to surrender.

When he heard Xie Yu's proposal, Ning Yuan couldn't help but look at him with admiration: Sure enough, he was the most ruthless among the same clan.

Although Xie Yu was suspected of communiqué personal vendetta, it was also human nature, after all, his tribe had just been destroyed by the other party, so Ning Yuan didn't have any intention of blaming him.

It's just that what Ning Yuan needs is the population of the mermaid clan, so he must control the scale of the killing, and if he can catch it alive, he should try not to shoot the other party.

As a result, Ning Yuan made some improvements to Xie Yu's methods, he dispersed Xie Yu's people to each magic energy warship, and transferred a large number of fishermen from the coastal and lakeside areas.

Ning Yuan's idea was very simple, that is, let the elven rangers intimidate each other by force first, try to shoot them as much as possible, and not kill them directly.

Then let the merfolk on the battleship surrender to them, and let the fishermen cast their nets to catch them.

After making a detailed plan, Ning Yuan personally led the warship cluster of the Condor Navy towards the island where the White Shark Tribe was located.

In order to succeed in the first battle, Ning Yuan brought all the magic energy warships and magic energy transport ships of the Condor Navy this time.

Fifty-seven searches for small magic warships, and forty-six searches for small magic energy transports.

Each magical warship has two hundred Condor navies on board, and is also equipped with small trebuchets and bed crossbows.

Each Magical Energy Transport was loaded with five hundred Condor Guards and five hundred Elven Rangers.

In addition, Ning Yuan also transferred 10,000 swan guerrillas from Condor City, and at the same time deployed 200,000 elven archers on the coastline of the Liaodong Peninsula.

He wants to make it impossible for these merfolk to find any landing sites, trap them in the ocean completely, and then when they can't hold on, they obediently choose to surrender.

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When the magical energy battleship of the Condor Navy sailed to the waters of Changxing Island, it was immediately discovered by the mermaids on the island.

Faced with these behemoths that could drive on the sea, the merfolk were stunned at first, and then under the command of some mermaid leaders, a large number of male mermaid warriors began to go to the sea one after another, and the female merfolk and children hid in the simple houses on the shore.

After the mermaid warriors entered the seawater, they immediately dived in, and after a while, Ning Yuan felt that the battleship under his feet began to vibrate slightly, and heard a continuous thump sound.

"No, the enemy wants to scuttle the ship."

Ning Yuan reacted quickly, and then immediately ordered all the battleships to move forward at full speed, he wanted to use the speed to get rid of those fish-man warriors at the bottom of the ship.

After receiving Ning Yuan's order, all the magic energy warships started at full speed.

It's a pity that Ning Yuan really underestimated the mermaid clan, only to see the mermaid warrior tightly grasp the bottom of the boat with two hands, and then use the other two hands to hold the bone weapon and attack the bottom of the boat hard.

Although the merfolk warriors did not know the Magic Battleship, they used to use this method often when hunting large whales and sharks in the sea, so they instinctively took the Divine Eagle Navy's Magic Battleship as their prey.

Ning Yuan had made all kinds of preparations before he came, but he didn't think that it would be the mermaid clan who would be the first to attack them.

He put himself in the position of the absolute powerhouse, and what he thought about the most was how to cause fewer kills and catch more of the merfolk population.

He never thought that the merfolk would be so strong, but when he saw their warship from afar, he rushed straight over.

The only thing that is fortunate is that the weapons used by the mermaids are really not very good, and the magic energy battleship is very strong, so in a short time, he doesn't have to worry about the magic energy battleship being scuttled by the other party.

After using the magic crystal to raise the speed of the ship to the maximum, the sound of thumping was still coming from the bottom of the boat, and Ning Yuan's method did not work.

Listening to the annoying knock sound, Ning Yuan immediately became angry, so he couldn't care about damaging the hull anymore, and directly ordered the magic energy transport ship to forcibly charge on the beach, while the other magic energy warships circled around the island, he didn't believe that these mermaid warriors could still hold the bottom of the ship all the time.

Originally, the Condor Navy's battle plan was to use the long-range fire on the magic energy warship to disperse the merfolk warriors on the beach, and then let the soldiers on the magic energy transport ship land in assault boats.

It's a pity that he still knows too little about the mermaids, so the entire beach-grabbing landing operation plan has been ruined.

However, Ning Yuan's strain was still very timely.

The mermaid warriors are hiding in the sea, although they have nothing to do with those big warships, but if the Condor Navy dares to release assault boats to force landing, then a large number of assault boats will definitely be directly overturned by them, and basically few can successfully land.

The troops that Ning Yuan used to land on the beach this time were the Condor Guard and the Elven Ranger.

Although the Condor Guards are relatively invincible on land, in the sea, with the armor on their bodies, as long as they fall into the sea, they are basically dead.

Without the enemy's active attack, they themselves sank directly to the bottom of the sea.

Although the Elven Ranger is much stronger than the Condor Guard, many of them are also landlubbers, so as long as they fall into the water, they are basically all in vain.

These two armies were temporarily requisitioned by Ning Yuan from other places, and they had not been trained in a targeted manner, so he knew that they had to be allowed to go ashore safely no matter what, otherwise the elite of these armies would probably die in the sea.

Therefore, in order to make the landing legion successfully land, Ning Yuan didn't care about the expensive magic energy transport ship, and directly ordered all the troop carriers to rush to the beach at full speed, and even the magic energy battleship he was riding on rushed over together.

Seeing these behemoths rushing directly towards them, the mermaid warriors on the beach immediately retreated.

Just as they were about to see what the little dots on those behemoths were, countless birdmen suddenly appeared in the sky, and those birdmen somehow drummed out fish bones one by one, and then let those fish bones pierce them.

In order to ensure that the landing corps could successfully go ashore, he directly asked the swanman guerrillas to launch a long-range attack on the mermaids on the shore.

As a dense rain of arrows fell from the sky, the merfolk on the shore were suddenly caught off guard.

With all kinds of wails, they fled to the inner island.

Under the cover of the Swan Guys, the Condor and the Elven Ranger disembarked the Magic Energy Transport Ship top-heavy.

Fortunately, there are no enemies on the beach now, otherwise in their current state, only two or three percent of their combat strength is left, and if they really fight with the enemy, I am afraid that there will be a lot of unnecessary casualties.

The seasickness, combined with the shock of the forced landing, made the fighters suffer, and they rested on the beach for about ten minutes before relieving themselves.

Looking at the severely damaged magic energy transport ships, and then at the soldiers who were safe and sound, Ning Yuan couldn't help but secretly feel lucky.

Fortunately, when he installed the seats, he had a seat belt on top of each seat, otherwise with the impact generated by the forced landing of the magic energy transport ship, it is estimated that many soldiers will be thrown out and killed alive.

Although the soldiers were safe and sound, the dozens of magic energy transport ships were basically scrapped and had to be returned to the factory for overhaul before they could continue to be used.

Thinking that he had been forced to look like this by a group of merfolk who were still in the barbaric era, a nameless fire suddenly surged out of Ning Yuan's heart.

Once both the Condor Guard and the Elven Ranger had recovered, he immediately had them form a battle formation and begin attacking the island.

The Condor Army is no match for the merfolk in the sea, but after they reach the land, the merfolk who are fully backward can only let them fish and meat.

Neither the four-armed, six-armed, or eight-armed mermaid warriors could break through the battle formation formed by the Condor Guards.

Although the merfolk warriors are born with scale armor, it is difficult for the Elven Ranger to hurt them if they don't want to take their lives.

But after the Condor Guard used the battle array to divide them, the Elven Ranger took advantage of their agility to turn the merfolk warriors around, and finally cut off all their arms.

All of a sudden, the entire island was covered in blood and severed arms, as well as a group of armless merfolk warriors lying on the ground wailing.

After seeing that the situation was not good, some alert merfolk warriors fled to the sea, but under the planned encirclement of the Condor Army, only a small number of merfolk managed to escape, and most of the merfolk were captured by the Condor Army.

After learning that Sha Qiang, the patriarch of the White Shark Clan, had not been caught, Ning Yuan immediately had those armless mermaid warriors individually suppressed and then tied the women and children to large wooden stakes one after another.

After doing all this, Ning Yuan had more than thirty mermaid warriors who had not had their arms cut off brought up.

After glancing at the merfolk warriors with angry faces, he pointed to the merfolk women and children tied to the stakes, and said:

"I'll let you go in a moment, and you go and inform those who are still in the sea, tell them to lay down their weapons and obediently go to the island and surrender.

When I saw that the women and children were willing to surrender on the island, I released his family and gave them food and shelter.

If anyone wants to resist to the end, then let him be ready to collect the body of his family.

Tell them, don't leave anything to chance, I'll only give them three days, and if after three days, there are still unclaimed women and children here, then I'll put them all to death at once.

Come on, let them go. ”

After speaking, Ning Yuan didn't care about the reaction of those mermaid warriors, and immediately ordered the Condor Guard to expel them from the camp.

Originally, Ning Yuan had never thought of being so radical, after all, he had come here to subdue these mermaids.

But when he learns that the bottoms of two of the Demonic Warships had been scuttled through and they had to be forced onto the beach, he knew he couldn't give up, or he would probably be trapped here.

Although the merfolk are poorly equipped, their combat ability in the ocean is too terrifying, and the Condor Navy has no way to deal with them.

The plans that Ning Yuan had made before were all based on the fact that the Magic Energy Battleship could safely travel in the ocean.

Now, under the attack of the mermaids, only half a day later, two magic energy warships were scuttled through the bottom of the ship, and all his previous plans were invalidated at once.

That's why Ning Yuan made this decision, he really didn't have any way to take these darlings of the sea.

Although the Condor Navy is also all carefully selected elites, no matter how they train, it is impossible to compare to the innate racial talent of the mermaid clan.

Don't look at the land, the mermaids are vulnerable, but in the ocean, they don't have any natural enemies, let alone a dozen ten, even if it is a dozen hundred, they occupy the absolute upper hand, no way, these are all innate abilities, and they can't be envied.

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