After thinking for a moment, Zhang Hongyi asked Ji Yun with a slightly eager face:

"How the four-way army is, and where it came from, can be reported in detail, and you can tell me in detail. ”

Ji Yun saw that Taishi Zhang, the first assistant university scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, who had always been immovable, was also worried at this moment, and hurriedly took out an envelope from his chest:

"Yes, Taishi, this is a secret letter brought by Hosaku, which contains detailed information from the Ziyi Kingdom Detective Report, and a few photos attached. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Hongyi hurriedly took it and directly tore open the envelope, took out the letter, clutched the letter paper with both hands, and his eyes turned back and forth from top to bottom.

"It's dangerous, I'm in danger! I'm afraid it's too late to make any preparations at this time! This time, I'm going to break my muscles and bones!"

Taishi Zhang patted and sighed, which surprised Ji Yun, and hurriedly said:

"Taishi, maybe there is still time, if the Yiren want to come to my Daming, it will take three or four months to go to India and Duyang, and even if they go north directly, it will take fifty or sixty days. Why don't you report to the emperor quickly, during this period, we will step up preparations for war and catch the foreigners off guard!"

Taishi Zhang's face was embarrassed, and he said abruptly:

"It's too late! When you say time, you're referring to the speed at which foreigners marched into the old steam warships of a decade ago.

As far as I know, the fleet of foreigners is now full of heavy cruisers equipped with new diesel-powered engines, and even the battleships operated by steam turbines are several orders higher than those of our ships.

The comprehensive firepower, armor, speed, and draft of its ships are far superior to the ships of our Ming Naval Division, and the ships want to invade our DPRK, and it only takes more than a month to invade our South China Sea, as I expected, I am afraid that the foreigners, this will already arrive in the waters of our court, and they are dormant somewhere at this time just waiting for the order!"

"Is there such a big gap between my naval division and the foreigner's naval division?" Ji Yun was very shocked when he heard this, and his face couldn't believe it.

In the past 10 years, foreigners have devoted all their efforts to studying electrical and so-called magic technology, and have made major breakthroughs in various fields, and there are countless strange and ingenious skills! For example, in recent years, foreigners have only heard of the names of the new internal combustion engines and improved steam turbines, and we do not know the reason, let alone their radio and magic technology.

As everyone knows, decades ago, the people of Yi were afraid of me, all because there were still two real people alive in our dynasty, and the immortal skills were extraordinary, unparalleled in the world.

And now that the two real people have died one after another, His Majesty and the ministers are still complacent, seeing that the foreigners will offend me in the next ten years, they still boast that they are in the upper state of the Heavenly Empire.

Although I have repeatedly sent people to try to bring a few kinds of foreign goods from the country, but the two countries have been separated for many years, and the lack of materials and information obtained only by stealing teachers and learning the arts, it is difficult to get a glimpse of its core mysteries, and it is really powerless to change the overall situation.

Nowadays, the warships of our naval division are all old-fashioned steam armored ships that have been retired by foreigners for decades, although they have also been improved and improved by capable craftsmen, they have not yet broken away from their original shackles, and there has been no major breakthrough, not to mention that there are still dozens of sail warships serving in the naval division.

A few months ago, I strongly admonished Your Majesty, taking advantage of the failure of the foreigners' magic army, to take the initiative to send troops, and to join the northern border to resist the enemy, if Your Majesty can listen to me at that time, it will be a good opportunity to prosper, and may be able to strike first.

However, the traitorous minister was in charge, shook his lips and puffed his tongue several times, and repeatedly offered slander to His Majesty, and His Majesty was deceived by it and obsessed with the majesty of the Celestial Empire, and did not accept my words.

Now, unless a real person is reborn, I am afraid that no matter what we do, it will be difficult to reverse the decline!

Zhang Hongyi sighed several times after speaking.

Ji Yun said in disbelief:

"Do real people really have such the power to change their lives against the sky? According to the words of the Taishi, the Yiren Empire now has more than a dozen real people, and the situation is so grim, then wouldn't our dynasty be doomed?"

Zhang Hongyi shook his head lightly and said:

"That's not it, for some reason, the real people who have always been Yiren are surprisingly weak compared to the real people of my dynasty.

According to my years of research and speculation, it is probably because the real people of Yiguo are all natural, awakened in their teens, and they are not as strong as the real people who have cultivated their internal strength for decades or even a hundred years. A slightly weaker real person, I'm afraid you can win against it. It's just a real person, this is by no means what I'm worried about, the real one to worry about is the imperial army that gathers foreigners' magic technology and electrical science as one, and the people of Yiguo say: War is the catalyst of science and technology. And the Yi people have been catalyzing for decades in order to attack our Celestial Empire!

When Ji Yun heard this, he felt powerless and sat down in his chair.

also sighed like Zhang Hongyi.

"Alas~"

Seeing this, Zhang Hongyi immediately stretched out his right hand and knocked Ji Yun hard with the index finger on the back of his hand:

"The young man sighs when he takes a break from school! The old man leaves these things to worry about himself, now is not the time to be sad and sad, there are still things for you to do!"

Ji Yun was stunned for a moment, and then immediately stood up:

"Master, please command!"

"You quickly go back to your prince and get his token. He is the governor of Zhili, you take the token to Jindi South Station, go to the Railway Division, find the conductor, and let him arrange it quickly to send you to Guangzhou!"

"I'm alone? Now, what are you going to Guangzhou for? I'll go on horseback, the train is too slow. My gold-backed BMW can travel thousands of miles a day"

"Come, come with your ears...... So ...... so."

"Yes, Ji Yun wrote it down. ”

After Ji Yun remembered Zhang Hongyi's advice, he walked straight out of the lobby, took a few steps in the courtyard, and jumped into the streets and alleys outside the mansion.

Seeing that Ji Yun had left, Zhang Hongyi muttered alone:

"Real ...... Hiss...... Real people, is there really no way to do anything else? Is the luck of the Celestial Empire really still pinned on real people this time...... I hope Ji Yun can succeed here. ”

After whispering, Zhang Hongyi put the crumpled letter paper that had been crumpled in his hand on the coffee table, but his eyes suddenly looked at the envelope, remembering what Ji Yun had just said, mentioning that there were a few photos in the envelope. I just read that the situation in the letter was too urgent, and I forgot about it in a hurry.

So he poured out the photographs in the envelope, and several photos were taken in detail of the warships of the Imperial Portsmore Naval Base, a distant view of the Imperial Edinburgh Shipyard, the Imperial Scientific Laboratory and other classified buildings, and several important figures of the Empire, such as Admiral John Edward.

Zhang Hongyi carefully arranged the photos in a row on the coffee table and looked at them one by one, and finally the corners of his wrinkled eyes suddenly opened, and his gaze was frozen in surprise on the body of a curly-haired girl with bright eyes and bright teeth in the photo.

The black-and-white photograph does not show the color of her eyes, and from the bottom of the photo is written the introduction and name of the girl: the holy daughter of the Yijiao Sect, suspected to be the real person of the empire - Apocalypse Tiffany Crowley.

Zhang Hongyi's eyes were full of doubts and looked at the photo, the girl's face in the photo was as clear as a mirror, and a look like a gray sword appeared, the girl's eyes were cold, her temperament was clear, and her face was beautiful.

In his eyes, there seems to be a sharp sword aura, such a posture and expression, Zhang Hongyi has observed for a long time, and always feels familiar.

Although the girl in the photo is rejected, her temperament gives him a sense of familiarity, is it not because of the influence of her immortal arts? I think it may be due to the similarity of her abilities to the two real people in the past......

Zhang Hongyi returned to the study, looking at the hanging on the wall of the bright yellow pear dragon head hanger, tattooed on behalf of the first-class civil official crane in the court clothes, he knew that tonight was destined to be sleepless, but even if he waited until dawn to know the emperor in the morning, when the court discussed a conclusion, and then conveyed the order to the coastal provinces and divisions, it would take at least ten days to go back and forth, and it was really difficult to predict what would happen in the sea during this period......

The forty-first year of the Qianxi Dynasty of the Celestial Empire, the twenty-first day of July of the Jiayin year (September 10, 1914 in the imperial calendar), the South China Sea, Longmen Pass, Chen

The feudal officials of the Celestial Empire, the Jiangnan Admiral, the Admiral of the Guangdong Naval Division, and Xu Tianzhang, who was wearing a military attache's first-grade unicorn official uniform, was standing on the wall of the Longmen Pass Fort worriedly at the moment, pacing left and right.

There were many armor soldiers on the wall, and the cannons in front of the sergeants were all ready with ammunition, and each cannon had been loaded with two rounds, and each Xuanwu cannon was loaded with six rounds.

Xu Tianzhang had been receiving letters of help from the kings of the subject countries of the South China Sea and the lords of the island countries a few days ago, and the Yiren Empire had come to the court! He had already played the imperial court, and he knew that the sea frontier, which had always been peaceful and stable, was about to change, and he was standing on the wall at the moment, and under the pretext that he had come to inspect the army and prepare for battle.

However, in order to avoid the envoys of various countries who kept asking for an audience, he also had the heart to respond to them, and wanted to lead the sailors to fight at sea, but the court documents were delayed, so he had to stay still.

At this time, Huang Qisheng, the deputy general of the water division, ran up from the stone ladder in the pass with a panicked face:

"Xu Junmen! The big thing is not good, our vassal country Luzon has been captured and occupied by the Yiren Empire, and the foreigner fleet has arrived at the Dongsha Islands in the South China Sea, and it is speculated that it will attack the mouth of the Zhujiang River in our country in the near future!"

Xu Tianzhang was shocked when he heard this, so soon, he didn't expect that even Luzon at his doorstep had been captured, he didn't know how Fujian, Zhejiang and the East China Sea coastal defense were at the moment, but he knew that the South China Sea was already in an emergency, and he couldn't continue to wait and see!

The general will not be subject to the orders of foreign monarchs, and it is better to send troops without authorization than to lose the pass and lose the land, rather than sit back and wait for death, it is better to get up and take advantage of it.

immediately ordered Huang Qisheng:

In addition, the general officer of the left wing of the naval division, Guan Qing, guarded the customs of Huizhou Prefecture, and sent people to the coastal provinces and provinces to send a coast guard, and ordered Gong Fan, the chief soldier of the right wing of the naval division, to guard Hainan Island, and this governor personally led the main force of the Guangdong Naval Division to go out of the mouth of the Zhu River and set up defenses along the coast to block the enemy! Vice General Huang, I order you to go to battle with me!"

"The last general obeys!"

Huang Qisheng saw that Xu Tianzhang had broken off the major event in just a few words, and he was much more calm and confident, and his steps were as solid as a rock again, so he walked down the stone ladder and prepared to deploy military affairs and send people to give orders.

Xu Tianzhang sent out the order, and his heart began to be firm, he had already decided to send troops, so he had no worries about the court, and then he had no hesitation in his heart, and immediately went to the battalions to supervise the whole army, but he only moved his feet to turn around, and he heard a loud noise from nowhere.

"Boom ——!!"

"Enemy attack!!"

Huang Qisheng, who had just gone down from the wall, ran up in a hurry at this moment and shouted:

"Military Gate! Oh no, the sound of artillery seems to be near! The foreigners must have arrived in front of the pass, it is no longer safe here, and the last general will cover the retreat of the military gate! Please go down the gate quickly!"

Xu Tianzhang reprimanded angrily when he heard this:

"Bastard, what a panic, Xu is just the vanguard of the Yi people, and quickly ordered all battalions of the sailor division to board the ship immediately and go out with me!"

"Yes!"

Huang Qisheng won the order and then went down the wall again......

On the other side, in the palace of the King of Luzon, Admiral John Edward, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Royal Navy, is sitting on the throne, and on either side of the throne are the princesses and princesses of the King of Luzon carefully holding fruit plates and holding pampas fans to serve the head of the foreign invaders.

Edward was listening to the report of one of the majors under the throne at this time:

"General, the Mekeris fleet has arrived in the enemy's South China Sea, and the No. 7 light cruiser conducting reconnaissance has arrived at the enemy's Longmenguan Battery, and found the enemy's guard tower on a sea cliff outside the Pass, and has not avoided being discovered, and the Captain No. 7 has decisively ordered the destruction of the guard tower, and now, Brigadier General Claude Mecheris has sent a telegram asking the general whether they will attack the Longmenguan Fort next. ”

John Edward laughed and said:

"Hahaha, what a bunch of fools, sure enough, they haven't fought for a long time, and these Australian navies have been enjoying their lives in Australia all day long, and they have become pig brains. They destroyed the watchtower, and the enemy could not see their whereabouts, but the sound of the cruiser's guns was afraid that it would reach the enemy's capital!

Isn't this that the fleet has not yet arrived, and the reconnaissance ship is in a hurry to remind us that we are coming. Secondly, without knowing how the Celestial Empire's radio communication technology was, Mecheris's fleet broke the order of radio silence, which was really stupid!

However, I don't think it matters, after all, the enemy is just a bunch of barbarians who can only practice martial arts and have not yet been civilized.

Let's let the Australian fleet try the strength of the Celestial Empire Navy first, and give the order to the Mekeris fleet to launch an attack on the Longmenguan Battery, and if they can take down the enemy before the main force of our Royal Navy arrives, I will give the Merkeris fleet the first credit!"

"Yes! ”

......

Back to the Celestial Empire

"Military gate, sentry cavalry detective, our army has destroyed one of the beacon towers on the sea cliff in front of the pass, and the rest of the beacon towers and watchtowers are not abnormal, and no enemy shadow has been found at present!"

Huang Qisheng, the vice admiral of the naval division, reported to Xu Tianzhang, who was standing on the bow of the leading flagship of the naval division.

"Command all ships to be on guard at any time, carefully investigate, order every three ships to be a guard, each guard to gather out of the customs, and after leaving the customs, disperse and deploy in sequence, but if there is an enemy situation, the whole army will immediately form a circle to suppress the enemy!"

After that, Xu Tianzhang took out a long telescope and looked at the sea that was quiet but hidden danger at this moment, and was always ready to fight.

The Longmenguan Fort is home to more than 260 ships, more than 28,000 sailors, and more than 26,000 green battalions. Xu Tianzhang's flagship "Longmen" is the largest first-class sail warship of the Guangdong Naval Division, this battleship serves as the flagship of the fleet, with three layers of gun decks, 100 guns on the left and right, and the ship is fully loaded with 2,000 soldiers and a displacement of 2,500-3,500 tons. Because the cost of each warship of this class is as high as 600,000 taels, there are less than ten ships in active service in the Guangdong Naval Division.

Although the sail warship cannot be used as the main force now, in the past few centuries, when the Ming Naval Division was invincible in the world, the people of the time had a cloud: the Yi ship is as short as my small cangship, so my Ming warship is pressed down by the wind, like a car running over a praying mantis, so the fighting ship strength is not in the fighting manpower.

This kind of first-class sail warship has a large type and high freeboard, and at that time it crushed ships from all over the world, and was suitable for close warfare such as ramming and boarding ships from a high position.

If the sergeant on board is close to the enemy, the sergeant on board throws a fireball equal to the bow of the ship, and if it hits, the fire will fire and the thief ship will burn, and if it misses, it will ripple on the surface of the sea, and it can also intimidate the enemy's heart, which is no different from being hit.

Three or four centuries ago, firearms began to be widely used, and some generals of the Celestial Empire said: Naval warfare is nothing but the victory of large ships over small ships, the victory of small guns over small guns, the victory of many ships over few ships, and the victory of many guns over few guns, which is enough to see the afterglow of its history.

As for the other ships of the naval division, except for a dozen or so nine-zhang long sail warships, most of them were new-type Celestial Empire steam armored battleships, and the naval guns generally used spiral rifling. The anchoring system, rudder control system, rotating armored turret system, reloading ammunition, pumping system, etc., are all enhanced with steam and Celestial Empire-unique formation spells.

Several steam armored battleships, such as the "Weiguang," "Tengfei," and "Lingyuan," have a displacement of 8,000 to 9,000 tons.

Calculated according to the Yiren value, its propulsion power can reach 6,000 to 8,000 horsepower, the central axis of the main deck and both sides of the hull are equipped with armored turrets of the Celestial Empire "Xuanwu" sequence, and can do 360 degrees of omnidirectional rotation......

At this time, after receiving the order of Xu Tianzhang, the commander of the naval division, the ships of the Guangdong Navy Division gathered out of the customs one by one, and it did not take long for all of them to sail out of the Longmen Pass Fort Pass.

At this point, Xu Tianzhang led all the ships and all the soldiers of the Guangdong Naval Division to go straight to the nose in front of the South China Sea.

As a result, the Holy Sun Empire and the Celestial Ming Empire are about to collide for the first time since the 20th century, and a great war seems to be about to break out......