Sean soon returned to Sino City from the northwest, where he entertained Horns with a secret banquet.

When old friends meet, wine is indispensable. With the help of several important subordinates, Sean Heart gets Horns drunk.

Scheduling Horns to rest, Adrian Major handed several secret pieces of information to Sean, and Sean's face instantly turned ugly.

While Horns was waiting for a meeting with Sean on behalf of the crown prince, the political situation changed significantly. Former Imperial Admiral Moko was placed under house arrest, and most of his men defected to the Tulip Party under the leadership of the senior general, while the navy had been neutral.

The navy, which had changed its master, immediately headed south at the behest of the Holy City, and their goal was Poitou. It was also thanks to the Genoese history of close association with naval figures, and some people gave early warning.

The navy blockaded the port of Poitu and shelled the docks and industrial areas, and the sailors would have landed had it not been for the fact that the navy feared a garrison brigade of the Nationalists stationed in Vichy.

The losses of the Poitu people were not small, Sean's shipyard was bombarded into rubble by artillery, and the nearby industrial area also suffered heavy losses, with nearly 1,000 dead and wounded, and direct economic losses of at least 3 million.

Ironically, the navy's warships were built mainly in Poitou, which was a public humiliation for the Genoese.

The day after Sean learned of the bad news, he received an official letter from Genoa, and in the following days, many people asked Sean to fulfill his oath to defend Genoa.

This bad news directly contributed to Sean's alliance with the crown prince.

If Sean had no intention of acting as a helper for a crown prince, he was in fact in line with the Tulip Party's public philosophy, even though the Tulip Party said one thing and did another.

The bombardment of Poitu undoubtedly embroiled the Genoese in the civil war, and they had to choose a side before they had not helped each other and made a fortune.

Al-Quds, Salaman, furious, was in favor of the surrender and co-optation of the navy, but it was a joke that he was in the dark of instigating the navy to attack Poitou, and that he, as the provisional consul, knew nothing.

Although he also hated the cunning and selfishness of the Genoese, this kind of public pushing the Genoese into the position of the enemy was not what a mature politician should do.

Because he always considered the province of Genoese to be a weather vane, and as long as the Genoese did not openly oppose the Holy City, it would be his greatest victory. What's more, that Europa Tiger is a force to be reckoned with.

He was quietly told that his deputy, Fukes, was in charge, and Salamane had a premonition that his authority was being openly eroded. This incident also led to estrangement and suspicion between Salamane and Fuchs.

In the port of Poitou, naval warships still sail into the harbor from time to time to carry out artillery shelling.

A dozen men dressed in Poitou Chemical Co. overalls, hiding in a ruin, nervously fiddling with three cannons, including General Manager Hanlmer Bess, are roaring hard:

"Guys, we're going to give those Navy thugs a taste of the power and bang them right in the ass. Listen, as long as you hit a shot, I will reward you with a hundred gold louis, yellow cancan's gold coins, who doesn't like it?"

Standing next to him was Andrew Johnson, the general manager and chief engineer of Kang's Shipbuilding, whose shipyard was in ruins, and it was almost his life, so he also offered a reward:

"Guys, I'll add another hundred louis. ”

Although these workers were not artillerymen, they worked with artillery at the Poitu Chemical Company, and every gun that left the factory had to be tested by them, and they had fired much more guns than ordinary artillerymen.

This is a new type of artillery produced by the Poitou chemical company.

Thanks to the progress of new materials and the improvement of gunpowder, this steel breech-loading rifled gun, like the new rifles equipped by the National Army, uses fixed ammunition, and the primer, propellant and projectile are all packed in brass cartridges, and has made great progress in range, accuracy and rate of fire.

However, today is the first time that this new type of artillery has been used in actual combat, and it is to use a land attack gun as a shore artillery.

If it weren't for the northern part of the industrial zone, the Poitou chemical company would have been a target for the navy, just like the shipyard in front of it.

The workers found an excellent firing point, taking advantage of the peninsula jutting out of the sea along the shoreline of the harbor, and when the naval warship penetrated deep into the harbor and pointed its guns in the direction of the city of Poitou, they were right behind the side of the warship.

Johnson's eyes almost lit up as he watched those warships swaggering into the harbor, these warships under his personal auspices were his pride, but it was these warships that destroyed his shipyard.

"Ready...... Put!"

The huge bore pressure urges the projectile to rotate at high speed in the barrel, and the rifling ensures the stability of its flight.

It's a pity that the shell grazed the deck of a warship, on the deck.

Workers quickly adjust their sights according to the trajectory and landing point of the shells. Someone shouted:

"Quick, load!"

The second shell was quickly fired, this shell hit half a meter above the target's waterline, and compared to the solid shell, the huge kinetic energy of this shell with a fuse tore apart the iron armor and exploded inside the hull.

"Accurate!" Beth and Johnson cheered in unison.

The target shook violently on the surface of the water, a large hole causing the sea water to pour in, and a puff of smoke rose into the air.

The amateur artillerymen continued to do so, and the rear-loading shells allowed them to maintain a level of at least 10 rounds per minute, but this was not the highest rate of fire of the new gun.

The worker gunners were getting more and more accurate, and even had the opportunity to spend more time on aiming.

The three warships that had penetrated into the harbor bend were shot one after another before they could react, and some sailors cried and jumped into the water to escape. The few remaining ships immediately sailed away from this terrible harbor.

Even so, the three breech-loading rifled guns were repositioned by the workers and continued to bombard the warship from a long distance. And the other side can't reach itself because of the limited range of its own artillery.

"Well done, give me a hard beating of these bitches!" Bess was delighted, and he smirked at Johnson, "I'm going to build a bigger and more powerful cannon." ”

His short, fat fingers pointed at the shoreline, full of pride:

"I'm going to be here, here, there, install fixed shore guns, and all the scoundrels who dare to approach will roll as far as they want!"

"And who's going to pay?" Johnson asked.

Johnson struggled, as the ironclad he had built that he had made so proud of was just as vulnerable to the new guns.

Bess pointed to Byrne, Siyes and the others who came over, and said with a smile:

"Of course it's these decent people who pay for it. ”