Above the Pirate King

Chapter 859 Deadlock
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The breeze blows, bringing up the sky full of yellow sand!
At this time, outside Albana, the capital of Alabasta, about 50 people wearing turbans, robes, dark skin, and fierce faces galloped towards Albana with billowing smoke and dust!

That's right!

These are the rebels!
Due to the haste of the uprising, the number of the rebel army at this time is almost one-third less than that of the uprising a few months later in the original book!

But because of the ammunition sent by Arthur, in terms of combat power, they are a bit higher than those in the original book!
And the reason why they appear here is because of Kosha's order!
Before Kosha realized that he had fallen into a conspiracy, he immediately summoned all the rebels.

Then, after a brief discussion with Kyle, Farafola and a series of high-level rebels, they settled on tactics and decided to go straight to Huanglong!

Over the past few years, Cobra's popularity in Alabasta has dropped to near freezing point due to rumors.

If it wasn't for the actions of Cobra in the past few decades, which were still remembered in the minds of some old people in Alabasta, there is no doubt that Cobra must have become the existence that everyone in Alabasta shouts and beats!

And because of this, in recent years, Cobra's control over other cities in Alabasta has declined to varying degrees!
Under such circumstances, Kosha and a group of high-level rebels felt that as long as Albana was captured, Cobra could completely lose control of Alabasta!

At that time, even if Cobra is lucky enough to escape from Albana and want to reorganize his army, it will not be easy to counterattack the rebel army!

Furthermore, although they are in a hasty uprising, the Alabasta side has just received the news.

So this time is undoubtedly the best time to attack Alba. If you delay for a while, and wait for Alabasta and Cobra to fully react, then Alba is likely to be armed to the teeth!
At that time, it would not be easy to attack Alba again!

After comprehensive consideration, they decided to go straight to Huanglong, break through Albana first, and then slowly conquer other places in Alabasta!

"Hurry up, hurry up! Cobra can be killed soon!" Kosha ran, forgetting the slightly mottled city wall not far away, his eyes full of impatience!

"Boss, we're almost here. Do you want to stop and take a rest? The brothers have already run all the way and are very tired. If you attack the city at this time, the effect may be unsatisfactory!" At this time, Kebi suggested. .

In order to take advantage of Alabasta's lack of reaction, they broke through Albana. They marched in a hurry all the way, and everyone spent a lot of energy because of this!

If you have to attack the city at this time, there will definitely be a lot of casualties, and the results may not be good!

"Okay, everyone stop and take a break!" Kosha turned his head to look at the people around him, then nodded and said in a deep voice.

Although he was eager to kill Cobra and save Alabasta, he didn't want the brothers around him to suffer too many casualties, so he listened to Kebi's advice!

quickly!

The people of the rebel army slowly stopped their rapid march, stationed in place and rested!

However, they are not too relaxed!

Fearing that Alabasta would attack them when they were tired, the rebel army not only sent out a lot of scout soldiers, but also let others take turns to rest, some on guard and some resting!
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the other side!
While the rebel army was resting, a gorgeously dressed middle-aged man from Alba, surrounded by a group of people, came to the city wall!
He used the binoculars in his hand to carefully look at the rebel army who had stopped to rest not far away, and he showed a sad expression on his face!
That's right!

He is Cobra!

And part of the reason why he showed sadness was because in the past few decades, he worked hard to manage Alabasta, but he ended up like this!

Part of the reason is that his people didn't believe him, but believed in rumors, which made him a little hard to accept!

"Perhaps... I'm really not suitable to be a king!" Cobra couldn't help but have such a thought in his mind!
Immediately, another figure appeared in his mind!
His cheap brother, Arthur!
Compared with St. Maarten ruled by Arthur when we first met, Alabasta did not know how many times better than St. Maarten. Except for the strong, whether it is in terms of military or population, as the super power of the great waterway As a big country, Alabasta can be said to crush St. Martin!
But now?

In less than 20 years, the positions of the two sides have undergone a shocking reversal!
Alabasta is still the original Alabasta, but Saint Martin is no longer the original Saint Martin!
Now St. Maarten has grown into a behemoth that rules the entire West Sea, has hundreds of millions of people, and even the world government is unwilling to conflict with it!
With such a huge change, even a naturally optimistic person like him would inevitably feel a little depressed!
Coupled with the current rebellion, a somewhat absurd idea appeared in his mind-it would be great if Arthur was allowed to rule Alabasta!

Thinking about it, he felt that he was a little too ridiculous.

Just kidding, if the West Sea is not ruled, how could Arthur come to rule Alabasta?

Shaking his head and getting rid of this absurd idea, Cobra returned to reality!
The main and most important question for him right now is, how to deal with these rebels in front of him?
To be honest, although Cobra is kind, he is not the kind of special saint who can't bear to kill people when he sees them. As long as they are enemies, he can still kill them.

But the problem is, these people in front of him are not enemies in his eyes!
But his people!

Facing the people, the kindness in his heart made him very embarrassed!
It wasn't long before he got the news, so he didn't have time to summon a standing army far away, but Albana was the capital after all, and there were quite a few guards in it, so he also gathered a full [-] soldiers in a hurry!
It also includes several elite troops from Alabasta!

Taken out alone, these people are undoubtedly stronger than the rebel army in terms of combat effectiveness!

But after all, there are a full 50 people in the rebel army!
In the case of five times the difference, once the two sides fight, no matter what the result is, there will definitely be tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of casualties in the process!
His own people had hundreds of thousands of casualties, just thinking about it was a little hard for him to accept!
How to do?
Cobra was extremely troubled.

Because of this, the situation at the scene froze so strangely for a while!

Cobra struggled because he couldn't decide what to do with the rebel army, and the rebel army had to stop to rest because of the exhaustion brought by the long march!

And this stalemate lasted until the rebels rested, and then there was no change!

(End of this chapter)