In the East China Sea, a huge fleet was sailing at full speed, and the soft sails of the entire fleet were full of the wind, bulging and swelling, and running forward with the warships at high speed.

Shen Yourong stood at the bow of the ship, enjoying the vast scenery in front of him, quite complacent, he has lived a very nourishing life in the past year, everywhere the fleet goes, it is really invincible, often he doesn't need to do anything, just swing the ship to the other party's port, and everything is solved.

Just like this time, he had just returned from Indochina, Guangnan and Champa had a conflict, and he was quite dissatisfied with the demarcation of some borders, so a few stunned young people in the army sent troops to attack, without taking into account the dissuasion of the Ministry of Rites officials, and as a result, in a fit of anger, the Ministry of Rites officials asked Shen Yourong for help.

After receiving the request for help, Shen Yourong was not ambiguous, and directly took all the battleships and cruisers to Feifu Port, and bombarded Feifu Port directly, directly bombarding Feifu Port into ruins, and then sent troops to occupy Feifu Port, carried out a plunder, and robbed the finances.

Not only made up for the cost of sending troops, but also let these southeastern vassal countries see the power of the Ming fleet, Guangnan is the highest degree of firearms among these countries, and it is also the most able to experience the horror of the Ming fleet.

There is no way to do it if you don't give in, the terrain of Quang Nam is long and narrow, most of them are located by the sea, and the cities are also located near the coastline, which are basically within the range of the fleet's shelling, and they can't bear it at all.

At this moment, the entire Quang Nam country saw the military strength of the Ming Dynasty, and the entire government and the opposition were silent, and it was Shen Yourong who took advantage of this power to force Ruan Fu Yuan to hand over the generals who sent troops without authorization at that time, followed by the condemnation of the entire Quang Nam country, and by this trend, Ruan Fu Yuan took advantage of the situation to arrest those radicals, and by the way, the country was cleaned up.

At the beginning, these radicals were kept in order to deal with the invasion of Annan in the north, but now under the coordination of the Ming Dynasty, the Zheng lord of Annan himself sought to usurp the throne, and he was unable to go south at all, not to mention that with the Ming Dynasty, they did not dare to go south at all, so it was useless for these radicals to stay, just take this opportunity to clean up.

For these, Shen Yourong has also heard of it, but he doesn't care, what he really cares about is the authority of the Ming Dynasty in this region, whether anyone doesn't listen to what he says, and now these people have jumped out, just so that these subject countries can see the strength of the Ming Dynasty and kill the chickens and monkeys.

After finishing all this over there, Shen Yourong returned with the fleet, inspecting the military ports along the road, and returning to the main base in Tianjin, not only to replenish ammunition, but also to do the maintenance of the battleship, which has been floating overseas for a whole year, and the bottom of the ship has long been overgrown with various parasites, and the speed has been reduced a little.

At this time, he had just come out of the port of the Ryukyus, where the waters were good and deep enough, and the harbor was large enough to avoid great storms and waves, making it an excellent port. The entire fleet was speeding at the top speed of the battleship, eight knots, and behind it was the vanishing island of Ryukyu.

At this moment, a white line of water not only extended from behind the fleet, but in its direction, it was the lookout who came towards the fleet and landed on the last cruiser that was the first to notice and sound the alarm.

However, before the sailors could react and become alert, the alarm came into contact again, and it turned out to be their own ship. If you look closely, you can see that three cannons are placed in the stern of the chasing ship, and under the weight of the cannons, the bow of the ship is raised high, and the sharp bow is like scissors, cleaving the waves and sailing rapidly.

This is the unique clipper ship of Daming today, other countries do not, and even under Zhu Youxiao's strict secrecy, only the Portuguese who have a brief glance in Macao have the impression that they know that Daming has a new type of warship, which is very good-looking.

Like the cavalry on land, on the soft sail of this small clipping ship, there is also a vermilion order character, and the huge order character is waving in the wind, hunting and fluttering in the sky, which is very eye-catching.

Without a glance, just seeing this order, the lookout confirmed the identity of the other party, the herald ship under the general staff of the Metropolitan Governor's Office. In this era, the transmission of military orders is a very important and serious matter, after all, there is no phone at this time, and a phone call can inform the other party.

Under the General Staff Headquarters, there is such a team, which is specially responsible for the transmission of various military orders, and the staff departments of various army-level units are connected to each other, and they all have such a configuration. Although the cost is quite large, it is worth it for the sake of the speed and secrecy of military orders.

And this is also the origin of that ban, those who block the transmission of military orders are regarded as treason, and wherever the flag goes, it is unimpeded.

Soon, with the arrival of the herald ship, the entire fleet stopped, and on the flagship, Shen Yourong saw the young herald staff officer.

"General Shen, the military order of the General Staff." Seeing the fleet general, the staff officer took the lead in saluting.

"Okay." Shen Yourong also returned a military salute, which is a rule in the army, regardless of the position, as long as it is an officer, after saluting, they must return the salute to each other, especially between departments. This ritual is also the general trend after the abolition of the one-knee kneeling ceremony and the implementation of the hand salute at the beginning.

In Zhu Youxiao's army, there are places where there is a great deal of emphasis on upper and lower ranks, but sometimes they are very equal, and this etiquette is one of them.

After receiving the military order, Shen Yourong first took out the code book, looked at the fire paint seal, and after verifying the truth, he opened the letter, and after opening the envelope, he looked at the four corners of the letter paper, and after having the corresponding marking, he put his mind down and looked at it carefully. These are all necessary measures, and no one can guarantee whether the staff officers who come to deliver orders have ulterior motives, hence this codebook system.

Around each major general, a code book will be replaced from time to time, and the orders transmitted everywhere will be sealed with a riddle in the fire paint, which needs to be matched with the code book, and in the letter, there are similar measures, so the transmission of a military order is quite troublesome.

"Bombardment of Nagasaki?!" Shen Yourong slowly read out, and his face suddenly became solemn. With the long time of rampant on the sea, he has learned a little about the countries around the Ming Dynasty, except for the South China Sea occupied by Westerners, the entire surrounding area, which is really worth paying attention to, is just a Japan.

Although Annam and other countries are coastal, but the country is small and weak, and there is no decent navy, only Japan, under the command of the shogun in power, there are some objective fleet ships, there is a fight, to be honest, although the Ming fleet is a big pirate smooth sail, with the number can also force the Portuguese in Macao.

But he has never really done it with the navies of other countries, even when he absorbed Zheng Zhilong, he didn't do it himself, but relied on the other party's sincerity and infighting.

In the end, he really didn't know what the combat power of the Ming fleet was.

"Maybe this is an opportunity." Shen Yourong was a little interested in the secret road.

There were some other words on the letterhead, but he didn't care, but handed them over to the chief of staff who heard the news, and he was in charge of them, and he was only in charge of the war.

"Passing on the general's order, the fleet turned, and the whole went east." He commanded loudly, and soon, a staff officer turned his words into a flag and passed it on to the other ships.

Woooooo

The low whimpering sound of the horn was transmitted far away in the sea, and the staff officers who heard the sound raised their binoculars and looked at the high place of the flagship, where several colorful flags were constantly changing, this is the flag language.

The captains who had received the order then ordered the first mate to turn the bow of the ship and head east, over there, in the Sea of Japan. The sea breeze was fierce, the flag was waved, and dozens of warships dragged out dozens of white waterlines, like great white sharks, and pounced on Nagasaki.

Kyushu Island, Nagasaki.

This port was the only port in Japan to the outside world, and from the third year of the Apocalypse, that is, in 1623 AD, the Tokugawa shogunate began to implement a policy of seclusion, which did not allow Japanese merchants to trade at sea, but only in Nagasaki, and the same was true for foreign merchants.

In the following time, Spain failed to compete and withdrew from Japan, Britain failed to compete and also launched Japan, Portugal liked to spread Catholicism, and finally it was banned by the Tokugawa shogunate, and finally only the Dutch and Chinese who believed in Protestantism remained in Nagasaki.

Although it was only the beginning at this time, it can be seen from the population of the various countries where it lives, and the three races that occupy the local power are the Dutch, the Portuguese, and the Ming.

In the early morning of this day, the sun rises and the streets of Nagasaki gradually come alive, and the Japanese vendors who have started to do business in the streets and alleys get up and assume their stalls and start a busy week.

Due to the large number of merchants from various countries, they have long formed their own areas of solitary residence, among which the merchants of the Ming Dynasty have their own separate areas. At this time, several businessmen are eating breakfast, and the Chinese like to talk while eating, and this moment is no exception, they are eating a fragrant breakfast while talking about the recent war.

That's right, it was a war, and the newly appointed shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu, launched a war against the Satsuma Domain, sending troops from Nagasaki and attacking the Satsuma Domain. Previously, the Satsuma clan had suffered a lot of losses in the war with the Three Kings of the East China Sea, and at this time it had not recovered at all.

The loss of property was still a trivial matter, but the key was the loss of population and samurai, which greatly damaged the vitality of the Satsuma Domain, so in the face of Tokugawa Iemitsu's attack, it was defeated one after another, and soon lost the territory of Osumi Ichikoku, retreated to the rear, narrowed the scope of defense, and resisted one after another.

This war has been going on for seven or eight days, and the whole island of Kyushu knows about it, and although some of the other feudal states have not participated in it, and they do not have the strength to participate, they will spread some news, and it will soon reach Nagasaki, and it will also reach these people who live here and do business here.

The people of the Ming Dynasty were especially fond of talking about politics, so they quickly argued with each other.