In the twenty-eighth year of the Heavenly Sage, on the seventh day of August. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

On the sea east of Haiping County, a fleet marching in a straight formation, hoisted its sails, followed the wind and waves, and headed eastward at a high speed of 10 knots on average.

The sea breeze was blowing, and the man standing on the highest deck platform of the flagship, holding a brass telescope in his hand, looked at the vast sea, looked at the nine behemoths behind him, and the "Tianhong" at his feet, and the billowing black smoke coming out of the chimney at the top, and couldn't help but sigh: "It only took seventeen years to build such a fleet, and the world's scientific and technological level is actually not low." ”

Zhou Ming thought to himself, if he didn't go to Wenyuan Academy to study, not go to the world, and don't go to the imperial capital to pretend to be forced, but put all his time and energy for nearly ten years on the climbing and lighting of the science and technology tree, the fleet under his feet would not only expand tenfold in size, but also be equipped with [steam engines].

Because, in this world, the development of science and technology, there are too many advantages: a unified and peaceful environment, a freely moving population, thousands of years of civilization and accumulated inventions, countless skilled craftsmen passed down the exquisite skills, and under the imperial examination system, a large base of high-quality talents, plus incomparably rich natural resources...... On the premise that there is no shortage of any elements, to ignite the spark of industrial civilization in this era is almost a matter of piercing several layers of window paper.

And in this world, it only took Zhou Ming more than ten years to achieve the scientific and technological achievements that the copy of "Lords' Strife" took thirty years to accumulate.

Even, Zhou Ming had a hunch: if he put most of his energy on planting science and technology trees in the later period, in fifty years, it was entirely possible for him to make the world enter the era of steam and semi-electrification, and ironclad warships, rapid-fire machine guns, diesel locomotives, wireless telegraphy and even radio stations could be developed and invented...... As long as Zhou Ming has enough scientific research talents and scientists in his hands, according to the research direction and principle model he provides, these scientific and technological products will be realized quickly.

But in this way, the things that Zhou Ming spent a lot of time doing before seemed to be redundant and a pure waste of time.

In fact, the things that Zhou Ming did were actually of great value, such as covering the ten states of the Great Zhou Dynasty, establishing nearly 2,000 outlets, and using the carrier pigeon system, the Zihua Bookstore that published the same article in the "Zihua Anthology" within a month and a half was like a bug in this era.

As long as Zihua Shuwu is not regarded as a thorn in the side of the supreme ruler and does not want to pull it out quickly, all the efforts he has made before and the fame he has accumulated so hard will still be useful, and it will not be in vain!

However, the current Zihua Book House is still only engaged in content products related to literature, and has not yet involved other things, once Zhou Ming launches the second phase of the "Zihua Book House Project", the shock and backlash caused by the intellectual circle and the ruling class may be beyond his imagination.

But this time has not yet come, and now Zhou Ming's main goal and energy is still on the immigration colonization of Penglai Immortal Island.

Also, sweep away a few stones that stand in the way of the colonization plan, and take the initiative to seek death!

……

Qizhou Island, a sharp corner at the southernmost point.

A small port, which covers an area of less than 500 acres even with a half-moon bay, was besieged by a dense army.

On the sea outside the port, hundreds of warships of different sizes have set up a three-layer blockade.

On the land north of the port, the camp tents are continuous, the flags are densely packed, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians operate siege weapons and keep attacking, shouting and killing day and night The sound of killing is shaking the sky, there is a kind of high momentum that will not break through this port and will not give up.

The garrison in the harbor fort was no more than 800 men.

"These Gaoji sticks have been besieged for two months, how can the siege momentum still be so fierce? Such a small piece of land is really worth tens of thousands of deaths?"

At the head of the fortress city, Tian Zhiqing, the guard in charge of the guard of Weihai Port, was a young man in his twenties, at this time he frowned, it was difficult to understand, the heads of these Gaoji sticks were all stuffed with stones, just thinking about hitting hard, not breaking bones, and never looking back?

"Commander, there is not much ammunition left in the fort, and the brothers have also killed and wounded more than fifty people, according to this situation, the brothers can hold out for three days at most, if the reinforcements are not enough......" One of his company commanders said worriedly.

"Reinforcements will definitely arrive, the carrier pigeon has sent the news the day before yesterday, the support fleet has departed, these two days, reinforcements will definitely arrive!"

"Boat, big ship! Reinforcements, our reinforcements have arrived!"

As soon as Tian Zhiqing's reassuring words were finished, the soldiers who were standing on the lookout platform and observing with binoculars suddenly cried out excitedly.

"Good!"

Everyone cheered up.

……

On the sea.

In the center of the fleet of the Gao Jiguo Naval Division, on the deck of a flagship with a tall flag and a length of ten zhang, an elegant middle-aged general in his forties, wearing a three-mountain hat and a white robe, pressed his saber in his hand, staring at the port in front of him with burning eyes, and the confidence in his heart became more and more sufficient.

It's been two months since the siege, and this castle should be able to be breached in a few days, because this castle has been getting weaker and weaker recently, and the terrifying thick tubular weapon that can kill dozens of people with one cannon has not erupted for many days. And the defenders of the castle also used that kind of thin tubular weapon a lot less frequently.

The reason for this, on the one hand, is that the amount of black powder is not much, and on the other hand, those tubular weapons are used too many times, and there will be an explosion accident, and it is necessary to reduce the amount of black powder before daring to use it with confidence.

This, in turn, reduces the lethality of that weapon......

Middle-aged generals, why do you know so much?

Because he is a famous general of Gaoji, Yuanhao Suwen, he was born in a family of famous generals of Gaoji, at the age of sixteen he began to lead the troops to fight, at the age of twenty, he led the army of 100,000 alone, and once defeated the army of 300,000 Zhou in five battles, and retreated for 100 miles, at the age of twenty-two, he became the generalissimo of Gaoji's soldiers and horses, leading 200,000 troops, and the fourth invasion of the Great Zhou army for half a year, and it could not be held for a long time.

If it weren't for Su Lie, the god of war of the Great Zhou Dynasty, who besieged the capital of Gaoji and forced the king of Gaoji to surrender, otherwise he would not have ended up living incognito in the mountains for 24 years and living in shame every day.

It was only recently that the new king was invited out of the mountains.

It's just that he didn't expect that as soon as he came out of the mountain, he received such a seemingly easy, but actually extremely difficult task.

Especially those weapons that have never been seen before and are terrifying, Yuan Hao Suwen was so shocked when he saw them for the first time that he almost wanted to go into hiding and escape from this unrecognizable world, which made him feel that it was not the world of the original world at all.

However, the psychological quality of the famous generals is still far beyond the average mediocre people, and seeing the garrison in the port, there are only a few hundred people, Yuan Hao Suwen quickly adjusted his mentality, turned his brain with all his might, and in the process of fighting, he constantly studied this army and came up with a countermeasure.

After paying the price of tens of thousands of dead and wounded, Yuanhao Suwen finally found the most effective way to deal with it, which was to "encircle the wall and exhaust it", and when this army ran out of ammunition, it would be annihilated in one fell swoop!

In addition, Yuan Hao Suwen tried every means to kill two soldiers in the fort, and after seizing the kind of tubular weapon on their corpses, as well as some gunpowder and bullets, Yuan Hao Suwen, who immediately led people to study the killing principle of this weapon, was in great ecstasy, because this kind of weapon is not very complicated, as long as he knows the formula of this black powder, similar to a weapon, Gao Jiguo can also manufacture and produce it.

As long as the quality of the tubular weapons produced is similar to the weapons used by these defenders, Gao Ji can conquer all nations!

At that time, even the powerful Great Zhou will also die in Gaoji, and the Great Gaoji Kingdom will occupy all the territories and become the first great country in the universe!

He Yuan Hao Suwen will also be ashamed of the snow, step on the horse Zhou Guozhongzhou, and ascend to the throne of God King Dragon!

Of course, the premise of everything is to capture the port castle in front and destroy it...... No, try to capture the defenders inside the fort alive and torture them for the recipe for the black powder!

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Great Gaoji Kingdom is the largest country in this world! In this world, there is no city that we cannot conquer, and there is no land that we cannot conquer! Our ancestor Jizi ruled this world, and as his descendants, we can also rule this world!"

Yuan Hao Suwen stood on the bow of the ship and cheered up, and the soldiers on the deck who heard his encouraging words were all full of excitement and enthusiasm, and they raised their arms and cheered together.

"Long live Gao Ji, Gao Ji is invincible!"

was infected, and the soldiers on the hundreds of ships next to him also cheered.

The shouts of joy were so loud that they overshadowed the waves and scattered the fish, like thunder, and the world was invincible.

"Boom!"

"Boom! boom!"

"Boom, boom, boom!"

A rumbling sound suddenly sounded, instantly suppressing the cheers.

Yuan Hao Suwen, who was still immersed in the cheers, was suddenly startled, and then heard the violent explosion of "Bang Bang Bang!"

"What's going on?"

Holding on to the railing, Yuan Hao Suwen, who finally stood firmly, turned his head to look back, and spurted out a mouthful of blood!

What did he see?

Ten giant warships like hills!

The smallest one was more than twice the size of the flagship he was riding.

These warships, lined up in a horizontal formation, met the enemy on the side, making a loud noise and spewing out rows of fire.

After looking closely, after a piece of white smoke cleared, he actually saw that dozens of tubular weapons with huge calibers were installed on each huge ship, and they kept bombarding, and their own ships were either burned or shattered, the flames soared into the sky, and in the thick smoke billowed out, his own soldiers wailed and kept falling into the water.

However, it is not possible to fight back, because most of the weapons used by your own ships are bed crossbow bows and arrows, and the range is too close, less than one-tenth of the opponent's tubular weapons.

At this time, the battlefield scene was like a hungry wolf pounced on the sheep, hanging, beating, slaughtering, and fleeing in a hurry.

"Withdraw!"

Yuan Hao Suwen vomited blood and gave an order, ran into the cabin, and beat the oarscopians desperately with a whip, telling them to hurry up and exert themselves!

……

"The commander of the enemy army, fix on that big ship, catch up with it, sink it!"

Zhou Ming, who was holding a telescope and observing the enemy situation on the sea, gave the order to pursue after seeing the fleeing ship.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The Tianhong, which had a steam power bonus, quickly caught up with the big ship, and the artillery only carried out two rounds of bombardment, and the big ship leaked and slowly sank.

After sinking the ship, the soldiers on board also caught a special prisoner, because this captive could speak business, so Zhou Ming asked the soldiers to fish him up and asked him what his name was, and the other party looked like a fart, saying that he was noble, and he had to know Zhou Ming's name first.

Zhou Ming reported his name.

"It turned out to be Mr. Zihua, the famous Mr. Jiuyang! I am Yuanhao Suwen, I didn't expect to meet Mr. Zihua here, fortunately! Fortunately!" he said enthusiastically.

"You're Yuanhao Suwen?"

Zhou Ming talked with him for a while, and suddenly remembered what General Su Lie had said to him: "A famous general in the world, he can be in the top three, he is brave and tenacious, and he is a strong enemy of the Great Zhou", saying that this person is indomitable, tenacious and resolute, and he can't kill him, and he will become a disaster in the future of the Great Zhou.

After thinking about it, Zhou Ming stopped being polite and said to him: "Mr. Su Wen, you are a hero, heroes should have a hero's way to die, I have a kind of execution method called 'cannon execution' here, when executing, put people in the muzzle of the cannon, instantly exploded, shattered bones, without pain, just take care of your vigorous life......"

"Tian Zihua, when I was famous all over the world, you were still stinking and not dry! You dare to kill me? You deserve to kill me? Let me go, let me go......

"Boom!"

A loud bang put an end to the noise of the world's famous general.