In the eighth year of the Apocalypse, June 16, it was sunny.

Jiaozhou Bay, Qingdao Port, three quarters of the hour.

"It's coming!"

"Your Majesty and the Royal North Sea Fleet have arrived!"

"Wow! This scale is enough to catch up with our Royal Guards East China Sea Fleet! ”……

At this time, on the huge bluestone wharf, a dense crowd of officers and men of the East China Sea Fleet had gathered, and everyone stretched their necks and looked at the sea.

Suddenly, as several pilot ships slowly sailed into the harbor, followed by milky white warships and transport ships, slowly showing their figures, the soldiers suddenly burst into earth-shattering cheers!

Everyone has been looking forward to this day for a long time.

It can be said that since His Majesty the Emperor's secret order to send troops was sent to the hands of the fleet commander Zhong Jixiang and the new chief of staff Wu Xilin, as the military order was conveyed, the soldiers were thinking about it and waiting for this day to come.

His Majesty the Emperor has arrived, which means that the Ming Empire's attack on the Southern Ming Puppet Dynasty will slowly begin.

And the Royal Guard East China Sea Fleet, which has been formed for half a year, can finally officially go out of the house and start its own pace across the seas.

God knows how much effort and sweat the soldiers have put in for the arrival of this day, in addition to the training of bandits from time to time, the daily work of the soldiers is to train and retrain.

You must know that this half-year-long recruit training is unprecedented among the various legions of the Ming Empire.

If it were the Army, I don't know how many battles it fought.

Although the training in the navy is not quite the same as that in the army, the training of recruits in the past six months has almost made the officers and men anxious.

The Grand Fleet brought by His Majesty the Emperor consisted of thirty Leopard cruisers, two hundred Daifuku No. 1 ships, and one hundred Daifuku No. 2 Daifuku ships.

That is to say, the military port of Jiaozhou Bay is extremely large, and if it were Port Arthur, it would never be able to stop all the ships of the two Royal Navy fleets.

Although these Daifuku ships are also very large, the No. 1 Daifuku ship is about nine zhang long, and the No. 2 Daifuku ship is about eight zhang long, but compared to those Leopard cruisers, it is not enough to see.

These greatly improved Daifuku ships are as tall as a building, with the No. 1 Daifuku ship accommodating 200 people and the No. 2 Daifuku ship accommodating 150 people.

These Daifuku boats, with a wide bottom, open bow and a towering tail, have a draft of about 3.5 meters, and each Daifuku ship is equipped with six Kamui General cannons, one at the bow and one at the stern, and two on each side.

These Daifuku boats have three layers of wooden buildings on board, which are guarded by thatched bamboo, erected like a wall, and have two sides of improved soft and hard sails.

There are four floors, the lower layer is filled with ballast stones, the third floor is for fresh water tanks, and the second floor is where the soldiers lived.

The top floor is a terrace, which needs to be climbed up from the escalator on the third floor, and the two sides are fenced with board wings, and people lean on it to fight, and the muskets and artillery are all overlooked, which is really a sharp weapon for naval warfare.

Of course, now that there are Leopard cruisers, these Daifuku ships are basically used as transport ships and will not be used as capital warships.

Although they were equipped with improved hard and soft sails, they were much faster than before, but they still lagged far behind the Leopard cruisers.

The speed and combat effectiveness of these Daifuku ships, after extensive refits, were about the same as those Westerner Galen ships.

However, because it was armed with a new type of Kamui General Cannon, it had to overwhelm those three-masted and four-masted Galen ships in terms of firepower.

After all, these Shenwei general cannons have a longer range and greater lethality than those Westerners' cannons, long cannons, heavy artillery, etc.

Today's Western-style warships are all fired with solid bullets, chain bombs, shotguns, etc., and have not developed practical flowering bombs. Dancing God eBook

Their cannons are measured by the solid shells fired, for example, the red-coated cannon that seriously injured the boar skin with one shot is a twelve-pound cannon, and one cannonball weighs twelve-pound.

The Leopard cruiser is different, although it does not look as tall as the Daifuku ship, but it has a displacement of 3,000 tons, and its head alone is more than twice the size of these Daifuku ships No. 1 and No. 2.

Just from the comparison of the size of the ship, in this era, it is estimated that only the Zheng He treasure ship can crush today's Leopard cruisers.

The largest Galen ships in the West now have a displacement of only about 1,500 tons, which is far from catching up with the current size of the Leopard cruisers.

Each Leopard cruiser can carry more than 1,000 sailors, while the previous Daifuku ship, which has not been improved, only carries about 100 people, and the two cannot be compared at all.

Half an hour later, the Grand Fleet, which had come all the way from the north, began to enter the berths one by one.

Zhu Youxiao also came to the Shandong Peninsula for the first time in this era, and he had just walked out of the royal shipbuilding, and looked at the huge Qingdao Port with great interest.

The first thing that catches your eye is the bluestone wharf everywhere, on the edge of the trestle of the big wharf, one after another big warships and Daifuku ships are being carried by a famous naval officer and slowly moored.

The milky white battleship is full of white warships, and the blue water and blue sky complement each other, and the scene is incomparably huge, which makes people can't help but have a strong sense of shock.

Indeed, only Zhu Youxiao's Ming Empire, in this era, can make such a big move.

You must know that thirty years ago, when the Spanish Armada and the Royal Fleet of England started the Armageddon, all the ships on both sides did not add up to as much as the current Qingdao Port, so large and neat.

It was one of the biggest naval battles in history.

The soldiers on both sides of the war were only tens of thousands of people, and they had already made a super sea battle that was popular among the people.

When such a huge fleet suddenly appeared in Yuegang, Fujian, three or five days later, you can imagine what a huge shock it would cause!

Just thinking about it, it makes people very excited, and even Zhu Youxiao's current state of mind is a little unfazed, and he can't help but look forward to it.

In the bustle of this big harbor, unconsciously, another half an hour passed, all the ships had been berthed, and the soldiers had come to the edge of the big dock to gather the whole team.

"See my emperor!"

"Daming Wansheng!"

"Ten thousand years of the Ming Dynasty!" ……

As soon as the soldiers finished lining up and reorganizing the army, they paid homage to Zhu Youxiao, who had just come to the big pier, and saluted together!

The shout shook the sky, startling all the seabirds flying around, and above the sky, the chirping did not stop.

"The Qing family is flat!" ……

Zhu Youxiao held a +3 super tweeter in his hand, comforted the soldiers and asked everyone to get up.

Subsequently, groups of officers and men of the North Sea Fleet, led by a famous officer of the East China Sea Fleet, dispersed separately and made various final preparations for the expedition that was about to start at three o'clock in the afternoon.

Long-distance voyage is not so simple, all kinds of food and fresh water must be prepared, especially the large vats used to grow bean sprouts, soybeans, mung beans, etc., also have to be carried on the ship, and all kinds of vegetables and fruits that will rot not so quickly must also be prepared.

When sailing at sea, what I am most afraid of is sepsis, and it is impossible for Zhu Youxiao, who came from later generations, not to know.

From the very beginning of the formation of the two Royal Navy fleets, he stressed the need for this.

The logistics department of the two fleets is required to make sure that the soldiers eat fruits and vegetables regularly and quantitatively, so that the terrible sepsis is far away from the officers and men of the Royal Navy.