Xiang Ying is not joking, in the hearts of him and those international students, this warship costing 1.9 million taels is their life, even more important than their own life, they have been mentally prepared before departure, once they are besieged by the enemy's heavy troops, they will fight to the end.

If you can't break through in a bloody battle, then speed up to the deep sea area, and even if you are sunk in the end, you will sink in the deep sea, so that the enemy can't salvage it.

The things of the Chinese, even if they are blown up in the Atlantic trench, must not be left to the enemy!

Not to mention tiny Denmark, even if the Royal Navy stands in their way, these brave children can run headlong.

However, Xiang Ying is not a reckless person, he is fierce, but they have done many deductions before, and the situation is not as serious as they thought.

The fog itself increases the concealment of the warship, Denmark is not a European military power, and the navy is also weak, so the probability of encountering a warship in this weather is not high.

But the weather has little effect on the fishermen, and the poor fishermen will not stop going out to sea because of a heavy fog, and these fishermen are the most likely to leak the news.

On the one hand, fishermen may not be able to understand what this strange-looking ship is doing, and when the news is transmitted to the city, it is estimated that the Zhiyuan will have long been out of sight.

Even if the sand table is deduced to the worst level, so that the Danish Navy blocks a Zhiyuan that is upright and does not hang any national flag symbol, it can launch a surprise attack, which is just right for actual combat exercises. There's still a skull flag hidden in the captain's room, and then there will be another pirate ship in Europe.

As long as you can rush into the vast North Atlantic, with the current human navigation technology, it is really like looking for a needle in a haystack. As long as the family doesn't let them catch them alive, even if they kill a few Danish warships, the final result will be to die and refuse to admit it.

The worst-case scenario did not materialize, the fog provided very good protection for the Zhiyuan, and as for the fishermen who were fishing, they turned around in fright and ran away when they saw this ironclad monster that they had never seen before and the strange statue on the bow of the ship, thinking that some sea monster was coming.

Everyone was relieved at this point, and the fleet made its way out of the Skagerrak Strait, encountering only six merchant ships along the way, four of which were Hamburg ships.

All of the Zhiyuan's weapons systems were wrapped in tarpaulin, disguised as an ordinary steamship, and the merchant ships didn't care, and finally the Zhiyuan sailed north smoothly along the Norwegian coast in the direction of the Faroe Islands.

Bismarck and Prince Karl of Berlin finally received a telegram from Norway from the intelligence officer, and they let out a long sigh of relief as they saw the position of the fleet on the map as it crossed the Shetland Islands, Britain's northernmost island group.

"Great, if they can successfully break through the cover of the North Sea Defense Line, they will be safe, no matter how powerful the Royal Navy is, it will not be able to cover the entire Atlantic with one hand......" Carl rubbed his hands excitedly.

The adjutant read the information and pushed the model of the battleship on the map, and when Bismarck saw three more ships sailing from the north towards Cape Verde, he finally smiled.

"Six heroic warships, containing 40% of the naval combat power of Britain and France on the mainland, and 60% of the intelligence force, this is a heroic team, I will reward him!"

"Now, it's time for us to close the net......"

Early the next morning, King William I of Prussia issued a rare and strong announcement, in which he made it clear that the French and British interception of the Prussian fleet had made the Kingdom of Prussia intolerable, and that within 24 hours, the Prussian fleet must be released or all the consequences would be borne by itself.

Napoleon III was completely furious, and said that you could not be justified in intervening in the Spanish turmoil, and then the French side did not back down and directly exposed Prussia's despicable behavior of trying to interfere in Spain's internal affairs.

The French intelligence service has successively released several very important pieces of information, which actually contain various details of Prince Leop's landing in northwestern Spain and the organization of mercenaries.

The European media was in an uproar, the Spanish royal succession had been controlled by the Bourbon dynasty for more than 100 years, and Prussia had made it clear that it wanted to challenge the existing rules.

The countries of Europe quickly took sides and began to make different statements according to their respective interests. The Cape Verdean crisis has been going on for a whole week in a war of words.

When the conflict intensified to the worst, a shocking thing happened, and the original intelligence showed that Prince Leop, who was in the fleet, actually issued a statement in Berlin and called a press conference.

Now the French were dumbfounded, there was such a big omission in their own intelligence, and Leop was not on the fleet. At this time, the resentment in the hearts of the Prussian army and people became even greater, and there were even calls for war among the people.

"Napoleon III will not back down, I know him too well, his heart is full of anger, he will definitely be even more tough......" Bismarck gave an impassioned speech to the Prussian ministers at the luncheon, with the king, the crown prince and old Moltke in front of him.

"Anger! This is the fire of hell, he can make a man make a series of wrong moves, and now Napoleon III is the man sitting in the crater!"

"During the Austro-Prussian War, he thought that neutrality would be exchanged for land on the Rhine, but I refused, and he was angry......"

"In the War of the Spanish Succession, our initiative to participate in the war made him even more angry!"

"And our eastern ally Xiao Lotian has repeatedly challenged his dignity, which makes him even more intolerable!"

Bismarck sneered and said, "He's not going to back down, he's going to get an inch...... So we're going to be ready to show weakness now!"

Bismarck's analysis was not wrong at all, and the French navy found that Prince Leop was not on the ship, so they had to let the Prussian soldiers go.

But Napoleon III did not blush at all, and instead issued a tough message to Prussia.

"France will not tolerate the imposition of its own prince on the throne of Charles V by foreign powers, nor will it tolerate any country disrupting the balance of power in Europe, France will not sit idly by and sit idly by in this matter, and will not hesitate to take tough measures to fulfill our responsibilities if necessary. ”

It was almost a declaration of war, and the whole of Prussia was in an uproar, and at that moment the slogan of war was shouted throughout all the cities.

However, the Prussian side did not react aggressively, but chose to shut up, and only made a simple statement that it hoped that the two sides would start active negotiations by diplomatic means.

What's even more incredible is that the Emperor's anger has gradually decreased, and he has also negotiated as much as possible.

Only true statesmen could see the silence before the storm, and they knew that Prussia and France had begun to prepare for war.