After the Guangdong Naval Division led by Xu Tianzhang returned to defend the pass, the main fleet led by Rear Admiral Claude Mecheris, who had fled in defeat through the nose, quickly converged with the reinforcements and detachments behind.

After confirming the safety of the sea, Claude began to count the battle damage, and after a slight reorganization of the army, he decided to attack Longmen Pass again.

This attack must be more cautious and not give the enemy a chance to get closer.

He originally thought that as long as the fleet was lined up horizontally and formed a fire blockade of more than ten nautical miles, the enemy could only be defeated no matter what.

But the suicidal charge of the Guangdong Navy Division was really unexpected, and in Claude's view, it was just a test and an encounter, and the result of the test was much to Claude's delight - the enemy's observation system could not even detect his own ships!

But Claude really never thought that the enemy would do his best in the first blow, and at the cost of losing nearly two-thirds of the ships of the naval division, he would also rush forward in the face of his own firepower blockade, nor did he expect that Xu Tianzhang's sailors would really break through the defense line directly, and tear several holes in the long and deep naval defense line of his own side at the same time.

As a result, the fleet lost dozens of frigates, many capital battleships, heavy cruisers, and even the flagship of the "Queen Victoria" commanded by Brigadier General Wyster Charles.

At that time, the incident happened suddenly, and there were boarding battles at multiple points at the same time, and the last moment the Mekharis fleet was still immersed in the joy of defeating hundreds of ships of the Guangdong Naval Division, and the next moment the battle situation began to reverse, who knew that the paralyzing sacrifice of the Guangdong Naval Division was actually for a hand hidden behind his back and holding a sharp blade.

I've heard of survival with a broken arm, but I've never seen a broken head to survive, and this thorn under the foreshadowing at a great price is stabbing into the chest of the Mekeris fleet, causing the Mekeris fleet, which should have been completely victorious, to fall into a disadvantage, and finally suffer heavy losses.

Claude never imagined that in the twentieth century, when his main ships were all heavy battleships equipped with new large-caliber ultra-long-range main guns, and surrounded by dozens of light and heavy cruisers, there would be boarding battles, nor did he expect that the enemy's individual force could crush the Imperial Navy to such an extent in a boarding battle.

All sorts of unexpected factors finally caused the fleet to be severely damaged by the enemy's backward sail battleships and steam armored battleships.

But Claude, after merging the main fleet and the detachment of the Mecheris and counting the combat forces, came to one conclusion:

The Battle of the Piercing Ocean seemed to be a tactical victory for the Celestial Empire's Cosmopolitan Navy, which defeated and repelled the Imperial Navy, successfully held off the Mecheris fleet in front of the Dragon Gate Pass, but in fact, if you think about it, the Cosmopolitan Navy's Commander paid a heavy price for this tragic victory, and this price was almost devastating - the Hiroshi Sailor was almost completely wiped out and lost its combat power.

As for his own Mecheris fleet, although it was also a loss of troops, dozens of warships, including the two flagships "Queen Victoria" and "Pharaoh" and two heavy cruisers "Ergart" and "Munich", were destroyed and sunk.

However, the main forces of the fleet are still "Dibang Australia" (flagship), "Black Forest", and "Dibang Movor";

As well as the "Australiar" No. 2 and "Sugolan" No. 3 of Colonel Sion Firs (who was killed by Xu Tianzhang on the "Pharaoh"), and the main reinforcement forces of the detachment "Zhusheng", "Grand Duke" and "Imperial Castle", including the main reinforcements of the detachment "Zhusheng", "Grand Duke" and "Imperial Castle", which lost their commander Brigadier Charles (the flagship "Queen Victoria" was hit by the "Lingyuan" under the command of Shen Long, and Wyster was martyred).

In addition, the Mecheris fleet still has more than 10 light and heavy cruisers, destroyers and frigates, and its combat power is still very strong and can still fight a battle.

On the other hand, on the side of the Guangdong Naval Division, even the sail battleship "Longmen", the main flagship of Xu Tianzhang's naval division, has been damaged, and the "Weiguang", one of the three main steam battleships of the naval division, and the remaining ten or so giant sail battleships have also been sunk, and the soldiers on the ship are buried in the sea with the ships, and there are less than 100 ships left.

Although each had its own losses, the battle losses of the Mecheris fleet were insignificant compared to the tragic situation of the Guangdong Naval Division.

If you only look at the number of warships left on both sides, the difference is not large, and the remaining number of ships of the Guangdong Naval Division is even slightly better than the Mekeris fleet.

But the number of ships in the previous Guangdong Naval Division was twice that of the Mecheris fleet!

Therefore, although the number of remaining ships on both sides is almost the same, if they are really compared, the actual combat strength of the two armies is indeed very different, and the quality is not at all on the same order of magnitude.

Therefore, on the surface, the battle of Piercing the Nose was fought by Xu Tianzhang's sailors who repelled and severely damaged the Mecheris fleet, thus achieving a tactical victory.

However, the combat strength was still alive, which made the Guangdong Sailors pay huge casualties and attrition, and even shook its foundation, so that Xu Tianzhang's Sailors were directly crippled and paralyzed, and the Mekkelis fleet was actually not completely defeated.

It can even be said that it has achieved a strategic victory, and the huge attrition makes it impossible for the Broadwinter Marines to withstand the next round of attack by the Mecheris fleet, and the number of remaining warships is simply not enough to support the Broadwinter Marines to cover the charge again, and Claude himself will no longer give them a chance to fight in close combat.

Claude thought this through, so he immediately swung north again after the replenishment of the whole fleet was completed.

It seems that this time the Guangdong Navy Division does not have enough strength to go out of the pass to meet the battle, so it can only hold on to the pass and resist the enemy with artillery.

However, the "Dibang Australian", "Black Forest", "Dibang Movol", "Aussitus" No. 2, and "Sugolan" No. 3, which are Dreadnought-class "all-heavy artillery battleships" equipped with large-caliber long-range main guns, can shell Longmenguan at a distance from the observation range of the Longmenguan Fort observation system, and even beyond the range of the cannons.

Claude only needs to wait for these main ships to collapse the wall of the Longmenguan Fort, and then order the whole ship to march to take the pass.

"Report to the general, according to the measurements of the 'Black Shark' submarine, Longmen Pass has entered the firing range of the main guns of the 'Black Forest,' 'Sugolan' No. 3, and 'Grand Duke'!

"No, when all the naval guns are in place, they will be fired together, and this time I will take Longmen Pass with one round of attacks!"

Claude Mecheris had become much more cautious in this attack, and the last defeat had already deprived the fleet of Commodore West, two of the three commanders of the Mecheris fleet, and Colonel Sion.

He would not allow any further mistakes, and he could not afford to take responsibility if he was defeated again and his ships were destroyed......

Therefore, after all the heavy ships were in effective range, Claude gave the order to attack the storm.

After receiving the order, the turret commanders of the battleships immediately adjusted the shooting angles, firing angles, pitch angles, and target distances.

When everything was ready, the commander gave the order to reload the ammunition. After all the main gun turrets were loaded and all configurations were completed, Claude issued a unified order, and the commanders of each ship simultaneously transmitted the order to the fire control platform, so the first round of shelling was launched by the Mecheris fleet.

"Shoot ——!"

With a bang, more than a dozen giant guns with a caliber of more than 800 mm on the turret fired a giant armor-piercing projectile weighing seven tons at once.

If it weren't for the heavy battleship, just the recoil of this huge cannonball could have toppled a building!

A few seconds later, the moment more than a dozen giant cannonballs pressed against the walls of Longmen Pass, they were immediately crushed as soon as they touched the walls, and the sea cliffs outside the pass as the foundation were directly fractured and collapsed.

The cannonball pierced through the wall and crushed into the underground and sea of the pass, and then exploded, and the huge impact seemed to turn the entire coast over.

The sea water in the sea area in front of the pass was directly blown off by the cannonballs and surged over the wall of the pass, rising more than 100 zhang before falling, pouring into the Longmen Pass.

The powerful waves smashed and drowned countless guards who were a little far away from the wall and had not been blown into powder.

For a time, the sky collapsed inside and outside Longmen Pass, and the earth shook and the mountains shook.

The aftershocks of the landslide and tsunami caused by the shelling reached the city of Gwangju Prefecture!

At this time, Xu Tianzhang, who was far away in the naval camp deep in the city, suddenly heard this earth-shattering sound, and the ground was obviously shaking violently, and he was shocked and knew that something was wrong.

Immediately raised the knife and wanted to cross the horse and run to the front of the pass, but all the horses in the camp trembled and wailed, lying on the ground and urinating and flowing.

He had to give the order and lead the green battalion soldiers to go on foot, but as soon as he left the camp gate, the flood came from the sky, and he was busy using the internal force to withstand the impact of the huge force, so he stood firm.

When the water rushed into the city, the momentum dissipated slightly, and Xu Tianzhang, who was half submerged in the sea and wet, had time to look around.

I saw that in addition to the more than a dozen commanders with strong internal strength, the rest of the soldiers were all rushed around, and some people were even directly attacked by the waves and were directly knocked out.

"The military gate! The big thing is not good! The military gate!"

Xu Tianzhang, who was in a state of confusion, was awakened by the shouts of the comer, and hurriedly saw the comer.

It was Huang Qisheng, the deputy general he sent to guard the customs. I saw Huang Qisheng wading through the water and running towards him, and he didn't forget to bow and kneel in front of him, the water didn't reach his neck, Huang Qisheng exclaimed when he saw Xu Tianzhang:

"Junmen! The foreigners bombarded our Longmen Pass, and the western coastal wall and the sea cliffs below it all collapsed!

Even the ground was pierced by shells, and the tsunami of earthquakes caused by explosions and shelling caused by the explosion and artillery bombardment killed all the thousands of soldiers guarding the western side of our army! Only the last general relied on his strong skills and escaped by luck! The last general ......."

Before Huang Qisheng's words fell, another deafening explosion sounded in the southeast.

Xu Tianzhang, who was shocked to headache and tinnitus, was furious, gritted his teeth fiercely and said:

"I'm afraid that the east wall will not be protected now!

I pity the soldiers guarding the pass who sacrificed our army in vain! I never thought that the foreign cannon would have such power, not only far surpassing the Xuanwu cannon of our dynasty! I simply chased the golden dragon cannon of the Shenji Battalion! Huang Qisheng!"

"The last general!"

Huang Qisheng immediately clenched his fists when he heard this.

"Let you lead the green battalion to evacuate the people of Guangzhou, and the order is not allowed to carry too much gold and silver, and the people will flee north, don't be slow!"

"What about you?"

"As a feudal official, now that the South Seas are broken, I should stay in a fight to the death, die for the country, and personally lead the battalions of the sailors to fight the thieves!"

"In this way, the last general is willing to live and die with the military gate, but I wish to protect the military gate well, please let the military gate escape north!"

Xu Tianzhang saw that Huang Qisheng disobeyed him again, and angrily reprimanded:

"Er Zhen Pifu's bravery! Unbearable responsibility! Evacuating the people is the most important thing, how dare you disobey orders!?

What's more, the governor has his own soldiers with him, so why do you need your guard? You are young and your skills are extremely profound, you should have spared your life, if you insist on killing with the old man, I don't care about you.

After the order is given to the green camp, if you want to flee north, you will go, if you want to die in battle, you will return, anyway, the old man's sailor warship will not wait for you. ”

"Yes! The last will be back later!"

Huang Qisheng jumped up from the water and walked along the roof of the street to the barracks of the green camp in the city.

Xu Tianzhang let Huang Qisheng leave, and shouted:

"Where is Chen Liansheng!"

At this time, Chen Liansheng rushed out of the crowd surrounding Xu Tianzhang, and knelt on one knee in the water like Huang Qisheng did before:

"The last general!"

Xu Tianzhang looked at Chen Liansheng who was kneeling in the water, and then glanced at the soldiers around him who were soaked in seawater, and his face showed a decisive expression, and he resolutely said:

"Soldiers, the time has come to serve the country! The national disaster has come, if you do not stop the enemy here, and the thieves come ashore, they will slaughter our people and defile our wives and daughters!

Now is the time for me to wait for my husband to sacrifice his life for the country, my lords, I would like to go on the road with this governor!"

When all the soldiers heard this, they all regarded death as home, and their faces showed unyielding expressions, and shouted:

"We are all willing to fight to the death!"

"We are all willing to fight to the death, and we are willing to kill thieves together with the army!"

Xu Tianzhang shouted when he heard this:

"Okay, I'm a man! All the gentlemen are true heroes! There is a way to be generous, and righteousness is easy, and calmly go to death! Even if we are martyred, we will be ghosts!

Chen Liansheng, this governor orders you to lead your troops to the ports to check whether the ships are sound, and order the sailors of all battalions to be brave and board the ships for a bloody battle! Buy time for the people of Guangzhou! Gentlemen, prepare to fight with me!"

"Fight with the thieves!"

After Xu Tianzhang finished speaking, he looked at the soldiers who were excited and angry, sighed secretly, looked at the north again, and thought in his heart:

The defenders of the Longmen Pass Fort are afraid that they will all die in Nanyang today.

I'm afraid I won't be able to wait for Ji Yun and Shen Long to return, but I must at least delay General Ji for some time before the enemy lands.

A moment later.

Chen Liansheng sent someone to report that although the ports were shelled, there were still dozens of warships, so the soldiers of each battalion of the Longmen Guanshui Division bravely boarded their own ships to prepare for this last and most tragic battle.

However, just as Xu Tianzhang stepped on the ramp of the battleship "Lingyuan", a familiar shout came from the devastated remnants of the wall behind him.

This shout came from Shen Long, the pipe belt of the Ling Yuan ship, and Xu Tianzhang was immediately relieved when he heard this, and muttered:

"You've caught up with ......"

On the deck of the Lingyuan ship.

Ji Yun said respectfully to Xu Tianzhang:

"The last general will see the military gate. ”

Xu Tianzhang waved his hand:

"There's no need to be polite at this time, can General Ji get something here?"

Ji Yun nodded firmly and said:

"Fortunately, I didn't lose my life!"

After that, he took out a long picture scroll from his bosom and slowly unfolded the long scroll in his hand from left to right.

As the scroll unfolded, the patterns on the scroll gradually began to change.

The lines on it began to twist and turn, from a topographical map of the mountains surrounded by water on all sides, to a chart with rolling waves in the center and gravel along the upper coast.

After Ji Yun briefly summarized what he had seen and heard in the shallow edge cave, he pointed to the puzzled crowd on the side:

"This picture is called the Yin Erosion and Water Map, according to the instructions of the Taishi, the Xiyin real person will be a lifelong cultivation before sitting, and the true qi is sealed in a treasure, this picture is given by the Xiyin Zhenren, and the treasure that the Taishi said should refer to this thing. ”

Xu Tianzhang nodded, and then asked:

"Since it is an immortal artifact that seals the true qi of a real person's life, the power of the immortal law contained in it must be incomparably powerful, but how can we use this thing?"

"Xiyin real person left a last word, this picture should be urged with internal force, can become a water array, the end will guess that this water array should be like the Yin landscape Yin Yin cover like the immortal barrier.

On the way back, the last general also tried to instill the diagram with internal force, but even if the last general used up most of the internal force in his body, the diagram showed no movement except for a moment when it showed a trace of brilliance.

I think it should be that Ji Yun's internal strength is insufficient and he can't urge this immortal thing, so he asks the military gate to summon the soldiers who have cultivated in the camp to fight this map together, so as to form a formation. ”

"I see, then I will call all the soldiers in the camp. In addition to the thousands of soldiers who died in battle, there were still more than 4,000 sailors. More than 26,000 soldiers in the green battalion did not move!

Among them, there should be thousands of people who are skilled in internal strength, so I will give the order to choose...... No, it's broken!

I have sent Huang Qisheng to lead the green battalion soldiers to bravely prepare to protect the people to flee north, hurry! Shen Long, quickly go and recover Huang Qisheng!"

"The last will obey. ”

As soon as Shen Long responded, Ji Yun hurriedly said:

"I'll go, my Feng family exercises are better than body exercises, I'll go and go back!"

After saying that, he got up and walked away on the water.

Xu Tianzhang muttered suspiciously:

"Feng Jia?"

......

At this moment, the Mecheris fleet had also stopped its artillery fire, and the soldiers on the observation platforms of its ships observed that Longmen Pass was in ruins, and the coast was full of rubble and ruins.

Therefore, Claude expected that there were no survivors of the defenders of the Celestial Empire, and there were no warships at sea.

So he ordered the fleet not to waste shells, but to sail north at full speed with frigates and light cruisers in front and heavy dreadnought-class main ships behind, heading straight for Longmen Pass.

Finally, Ji Yun recalled Huang Qisheng and all the soldiers of the Green Battalion, and after a quick selection on the Ling Yuan ship, more than 6,000 people were selected in the Green Battalion and the Sailor Soldiers.

Therefore, everyone in groups quickly and vigorously instilled internal force into the Yin Erosion Water Diagram.

However, even though the number of people who have conveyed the internal force has reached 3,000, the diagram of the erosion and water cover is still untouched, which is no different from an ordinary picture scroll.

Huang Qisheng, the deputy general on the side, looked at it and became anxious, the enemy was close at hand. So he called more than a dozen admirals and soldiers:

"Brethren, let's come!"

"I'm with me too!" Ji Yun said.

"Ben Du is coming, too!"

Xu Tianzhang's personal soldiers are all lucky, their faces are as heavy as a mountain, all of them have two fingers of their left hand on the meridian acupoint of their right arm, and the palm of their right hand touches the Yin Eclipse Water Map, constantly instilling pure internal force.

After all the pro-soldiers had instilled it, the Yin Eclipse Covered Water Map finally flashed with a hint of blue-purple brilliance. Then the soldiers were exhausted, flushed and floating, and they collapsed to the ground, wheezing for breath.

Seeing this, Huang Qisheng, Xu Tianzhang and Ji Yun also stepped forward to instill the Yin Erosion Water Map with internal force.

Huang Qisheng and Xu Tianzhang also fell to the ground one after another, only Ji Yun was still transmitting internal force with a red face, and it lasted for a full quarter of an hour, Ji Yun finally lost his internal strength and collapsed backwards, and Shen Long hurriedly helped him up.

Finally, as Ji Yun's right hand left the eroded water map, the sea chart in the volume suddenly bloomed with blue-purple light, obviously it was daytime, and its brilliance still gave people the feeling of candlelight illuminating the heavens and the earth.

This blue-purple brilliance rises from the eroded water map, and spreads to the surroundings with the Lingyuan as the center, extending endlessly to the south when it encounters the sea, and stopping when it encounters the shore, leaving only a purple-blue line segment, which can really be described as a "coastline".

The brilliance spread south of the Piercing Ocean to the depths of the South China Sea, and eventually the blue-purple brilliance dimmed, and only the violet-blue coastline along the coast still shimmered.

The brilliance enveloped all the sea areas as far as the eye could see, forming an overwhelming and endless curtain of light.

The curtain of light began to gradually turn transparent.

As the light curtain tended to be stable and colorless, the chart in Ji Yun's hand no longer continued to emit brilliance.

Everyone was amazed and amazed when they saw this miracle.

Ji Yun felt a kind and gentle aura from the purple-blue brilliance, but he was sure if the light shield formed by this purple-blue brilliance was also harmless to others, and immediately said:

"The port here is too close to the overwatering array, and the military gate and all the soldiers are asked to retreat to the north of the coastline to avoid accidents. ”

Hearing this, everyone nodded and retreated to the ruins of Longmen Pass on the north bank. Ji Yun held this diagram independent of the Ling Yuan ship.

In the distance, two enemy light cruisers that were preparing to land at Longmen Pass and were the vanguard of the Mekeris fleet happened to sail into view at this moment.

When Ji Yun saw the enemy ship coming, he immediately felt hostile, and even though he wanted to draw his gun to shoot the enemy, but before Ji Yun could pull out the double-barreled shotgun on his waist, he suddenly found that the light cruiser of the imperial army seemed to be gradually sinking.

Ji Yun sensed that it was the water covering array that had an effect, so he tried to use the little remaining internal force in his body to urge the water covering the water map again, and as a result, the light curtain that had become transparent in the sea area in front of him flashed purple blue again.

I saw that the enemy ship was sinking even faster than just now, and the sergeants on it were also terrified, and they didn't know what was happening.

Ji Yun forcibly used the internal force to strengthen his eyesight, and finally saw clearly, it turned out that the enemy ship was not sinking, but was constantly corroded into molten iron from the bottom up, until the last steel plate on the deck of the ship was also turned into molten iron and slowly melted into the sea, and he saw that the feet of the imperial soldiers on the ship were about to touch the seawater.

"Ah——!!! what is this! Help, it's painful—"

The soldiers' bodies rattled when they touched the waters of the field, and the bones and flesh were corroded into pus before they could drip.

The Imperial soldiers on board the ship were terrified and shouted until half of their bodies were corroded, some screaming for help in fear, some dying in pain, and some staring blankly, waiting for death in endless despair

"Who can kill me!!!!!!!

Even though it had only been a few seconds since the corrosion had melted and completely dissolved in the sea, the experience of the corrupted Imperial soldiers on the ship dying in agony was as if they had been scorched for centuries.

Seeing this, Ji Yun suddenly realized, this water-covered array was really like the water yin cover in front of the shallow edge cave!

Ji Yun carefully looked at the sea chart on the eroded water map in his hand again, and found that the sea area in the upper part of the map was lit up with purple-blue spots of light compared to before.

Ji Yun suddenly became enlightened, the topmost coastal gravel in this painting is not the north bank of Longmen Pass, which has become a ruined wall?

The purple-blue spots lit up on this chart under the traction of his own internal force don't represent the sea area where the enemy ship is located?

There was also a red spot of light as thin as mosquito silk in this spot of light, and when the soldiers on the light cruiser and the ship were completely turned into rust and blood, this red spot of light disappeared completely.

A little further down or a little south in the chart there is a string of red spots of light that are the same as those in the spot, and some of the scattered spots have drifted to the top of the adjacent chart.

So he tried to continue to urge the water map, and found that every time a spot of light lit up in the chart, the red dot on it really gradually disappeared, and there was indeed a wonderful connection in it!

It seems that the movement of charts caused by internal forces can influence and manipulate the flooding array that covers a large area of the South China Sea?

If this is the case, Ji Yun suddenly thought of a possibility - if the entire picture of the eroded water covered by the sea is lit up with this purple-blue light spot...... What will happen?