With doubts, Lin Ziran took the emergency report from the navy, and after reading it, Lin Ziran's brows furrowed, and then handed the report to Duan Hongxiao.

After reading it, Duan Hongxiao, head of the Navy Military Command Department, said with anger on his face: "These island country barbarians are too deceitful!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the faces of the other army and navy generals in the conference room also changed, what the hell is going on?

Soon, they knew what was going on, and then they were all angry, and some people were already shouting that the barbarians of the island country had invaded our sea frontier, and they must fight back and kill them.

Quping Naval Base urgently reported that the Third Cruiser Fleet, a subsidiary of the First Fleet, was carrying out a blockade mission in the coastal waters of Gaoqing Prefecture when it encountered a naval fleet of the Krull Kingdom.

It's nothing to meet the naval fleet of the Krull Kingdom, this Krull Kingdom, as the first naval power, has many overseas colonies and military bases, and the scale of the Krull Kingdom's maritime trade is extremely large, so in order to escort and safeguard overseas interests, their navy is very large, and they run all over the world.

The naval strategic planning slogan of the Krull Kingdom Navy fifteen years ago can clearly demonstrate the naval strength of the contemporary Krull Kingdom:

A ball exists, a ball hits!

Therefore, even if it is in the eastern waters of the Great Heng Empire, it is not surprising to encounter the warships of the Krull Kingdom Navy!

However, this naval fleet of the Krull Kingdom is close to the coastal waters belonging to the Great Heng Empire.

According to the law promulgated during the Daheng Ji Dynasty, the territorial waters of the Daheng people are 50 kilometers away from the coastline, but other countries basically do not recognize it.

Blue Star is because the continents are separated from each other and connected by straits, shipping has been relatively active since ancient times, and the planning of territorial waters of various countries is also different, some are ten kilometers, some are twenty kilometers, some are thirty, some are fifty or even one hundred kilometers.

This changed about twenty years ago, when the Kingdom of Krull defeated the Valia Empire at sea and officially became the first naval power, thus taking the lead in organizing the countries to negotiate and define the territorial waters, limiting the range of 20 kilometers from the coastline to the territorial waters of each country.

However, Daheng was in the midst of civil strife at that time, and the Ji royal family was too busy to take care of themselves, so they didn't have the heart to participate in these international affairs, so they didn't participate and sign relevant agreements.

Other countries don't care, after all, there are only two coastlines of the Daheng Empire, the eastern coastline and the western coastline, and there are no other countries outside the coastline, and some scattered islands also belong to the Daheng Empire itself, even if the territorial sea is said to be a hundred or even hundreds of kilometers, it is impossible to have any direct conflict with other countries in the territorial sea.

And the difference in the perception of the scope of this territorial sea directly led to the conflict between the fleets of the two sides.

According to the report of the third cruiser upon its return, the naval fleet of the Krull Kingdom sailed into the territorial waters within a fifty-kilometer radius of the Great Heng Empire while sailing, and they were refused to go to expel them.

The fleet of the Kingdom of Krull on the other side replied that the route they sailed was still forty kilometers away from the coastline of Daheng, and that this place belonged to the high seas, and they had the right to sail.

And they said that they had been sailing on this fixed route for almost twenty years, and no one had ever said it was not.

Now you Daheng people suddenly ran out and said that this is Daheng's territorial waters, this is nonsense.

However, in the past, the empire was in civil strife, and the Ji royal family, including the Ji royal family, didn't bother to deal with any territorial waters, anyway, the other fleets only passed, and they didn't come to land, so they often turned a blind eye.

But now it's different, now that the new dynasty has been established, when the navy of the new dynasty patrols, it patrols according to a range of 50 kilometers.

After being rejected by the other side and the other fleet continued to sail in the territorial waters of the Empire, in order to maintain the security of the territorial waters of the Empire, the commander of the Third Cruiser Fleet, Ren Zhongping Shaoqing, resolutely ordered a warning artillery bombardment when his side only had three cruisers, while the other side had two large armored ships and four cruisers!

And in order to increase deterrence, it is still directly used for live ammunition.

Even if his own strength is weak, Ren Zhongping Shaoqing believes that it is necessary to show the bravery of the Daheng soldiers, and must not allow the opponent's warships to enter the imperial territorial sea route.

Let the other party know the seriousness of the matter by shooting warning with live ammunition, and then obediently get out.

This also reflects the tradition of Daheng people, that is, to be as cowardly as a dog internally and as fierce as a tiger externally.

According to the consistent tradition of Daheng people in foreign affairs, it is already very good for the other party to shoot a warning shot in the event of such a thing.

What's that, after all, the gap in the naval strength of the two sides is too big, and if you pull out the Imperial Admiralty, it is estimated that you can't do the detachment of the Krull Kingdom Navy in front of you.

Therefore, at that time, Ren Zhongping would give the navy fleet of the Krull Kingdom a little face, and only give a warning shot, if it was for other countries with slightly weaker strength, Ren Zhongping would most likely directly order the fleet to rush up and fight.

But there were mistakes, and the gunners on the old armor-belt-protected cruiser of the Nandan, the flagship of the third cruiser, directly hit a cutting-edge 10,000-ton armored ship of the opposite Krull fleet, and left a shallow crater in the armor belt of the battleship, and by the way, it also frightened the sailors of the navy of the Krull Kingdom by the way!

You must know that at that time, the distance was a full two thousand meters, and even with the use of cutting-edge rear-loading rifled guns, with the assistance of the sextant rangefinder, it was very difficult to accurately hit the enemy ship in motion at this distance.

Well, after the incident, Ren Zhongping Shaoqing personally investigated, and the gun commander who was responsible for warning shooting had all kinds of assurances, saying that he was obviously aiming at the sea near the flagship on the opposite side, and the ghost knew why he would hit, and finally the gunnery officer gave the answer: it was the blank sea surface for aiming at that time, but the ship was a little bumpy when the cannon was fired, and the fire control of the ship's guns was not good in the past few years, and the dispersion would be very large, so this was missed.

However, no matter why, the shell actually fell on the warship of the navy of the Krull Kingdom, and then the admiral of the Krull Navy went crazy.

Not to mention the last twenty years, in the next fifty years, there has never been a navy of that country that dares to fire at the fleet of their Krull Kingdom on the high seas for no reason!

This is not a state of war, and the Krull Kingdom has not gone to the door of the Great Heng people to engage in any naval and artillery diplomacy, they have just seen it on a routine cruise, and they are just going to the Southern Continent.

To put it bluntly, they only passed by, and they didn't have any malicious intent!

And they also consider themselves to be passing on the internationally recognized high seas!

But he was inexplicably beaten by the Daheng people!