Three days passed in a flash, and in the blink of an eye, it was the day of the first expedition of the Royal Navy's North Sea Fleet.

Early in the morning, the thick morning fog has not completely dissipated, but the huge Port Arthur is already full of people and lively.

Now the entire North Sea Fleet is pouring out, and in the old nest Port Arthur, only a reserve corps that has just been formed remains.

This reserve regiment was formed by two royal fleets, in order to be responsible for guarding their own nests after the fleet went to sea, and providing replenishment of the royal navy's reserves.

You must know that naval operations are very easy to be damaged in battle, and there must be enough reserves to replenish them in order to maintain the integrity of the personnel and ensure the combat effectiveness of the Royal Fleet.

After a simple and solemn ceremony of sacrificing to the sea, the drums of war suddenly sounded, and a long line of large fleets, led by several pilot clippers, slowly sailed out of this huge military port.

Two Leopard cruisers were the vanguard, and the remaining four Leopard cruisers and nearly 100 large and small warships surrounded the transport ships of about 400 in the middle, lined up in a long-distance formation, and began to sail towards the Korean Peninsula in the east.

The fleet began to slowly accelerate, faster and faster, and finally maintained a suitable speed, and in a short time disappeared into the distance, leaving Port Arthur without a trace.

The first stop of the fleet was the port of Incheon on the Goguryeo Peninsula.

There was already the 2nd Division of the North Sea Fleet waiting, and they were also going to go out together.

Three days ago, Zhu Youxiao used the golden eagle to pass down a secret decree, asking the officers and men of the Second Division to prepare for today's expedition.

The reason why there are so many transport ships in the current Grand Fleet, in addition to transporting military supplies and officers and soldiers of the North Sea Fleet, is also filled with a large number of building materials and construction tools, and of course, the most are those craftsmen.

These craftsmen and a large number of building materials were prepared for the rapid construction of two naval bases in Vladivostok and northern Sakhalin, as well as two large cities.

Vladivostok is too far away from the northern part of Sakhalin Island, but it is not suitable to build Vladivostok, a super-large naval base, and it is necessary to build another large base on Sakhalin.

Vladivostok is now a desolate bay that is not inhabited by anyone, and there are only a few scattered small tribes of the Tunguska people nearby.

Only when the Grand Fleet arrives, it will be easy to occupy this super ice-free port.

Vladivostok is much larger than Port Arthur, the size of the harbor is about the same as Qingdao Port, and there is an outer port, just the outer port can catch up with Port Arthur.

After the Ming Empire occupied Goguryeo, its geographical location was no longer very critical and prominent, and it did not have the great military deterrent effect of Port Arthur.

In fact, it did not take long to send an army to the north of Goguryeo to reach Vladivostok and occupy this natural ice-free port.

It's just that now the various army corps of the Ming Empire have more important tasks, and they can only rely on the navy to act on their own.

If nothing else, the Ming Empire is about to add an excellent large naval base.

The trouble is Sakhalin and the Heilongjiang River basin to the west of Sakhalin, as well as the nearby Ussuri River basin.

In these places, there are countless barbarian tribes that live there, and those barbarians are extremely fierce and not so easy to clean up and control.

Now this season is the season when the Goguryeo Peninsula is calm and calm, and the sea is far away, and in late spring and early winter every year, the edge of the coastal sea is not big.

The real danger season is between mid-summer and late autumn, when typhoons, storms, and even tsunamis can occur.

The vast majority of pirates in this area have been cleaned up by the Royal North Sea Fleet.

Therefore, the Grand Fleet arrived at the port of Incheon with a smooth sail.

This Incheon Port, which has been renovated by a large number of people from the Northeast Branch of the Royal Building Brigade, is not much worse than the scale of Port Arthur, and looks very neat and orderly.

Today's Goguryeo Peninsula, where all the people live in the original Liaoxi Corridor, has completely eliminated most of the trajectories of the existence of the Goguryeo Dynasty.

Only in those big cities, seeing some classic buildings, can you reminisce about the past of the Goguryeo Dynasty and make people sigh.

Zhang Li, the division commander of the Second Division of the North Sea Fleet, had already led the 30,000 officers and men of the Second Division to wait for a long time.

Only about an hour later, the officers and men of the Second Division had all boarded the ship and been settled, and the seafaring necessities such as fresh water, vegetables and fruits had also been replenished, and the Grand Fleet continued to set sail.

This time, it took a lot more time to sail around the entire Goguryeo Peninsula.

After four days and five nights, the Grand Fleet sailed not far from the coastline and finally came to Vladivostok.

The current Vladivostok is simply a barren forest, overgrown with weeds.

After the landing, it took more than 100,000 people two days to open up a large area of land capable of building a large port and a large city.

Then, leaving behind a detachment of troops, 5,000 logistics officers, a few thousand craftsmen and most of the construction supplies, the Grand Fleet continued to set sail and proceeded directly towards the Tatar Strait.

Although it is possible to reach the southern part of Sakhalin relatively quickly, there is no suitable place for building a large port in this southern area.

Only in the middle of the northern tip of Sakhalin, where there are two adjacent, natural, almost enclosed coves, are suitable for the construction of naval bases and large cities. 52 Literature

This time, the journey was not much worse than bypassing the Goguryeo Peninsula.

It took more than three more days, and it was smooth sailing, and the Grand Fleet finally arrived in the sea area in front of its destination.

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The northernmost east of the Tatar Strait, in the middle of the northern part of Sakhalin.

Today's sea breeze is very small, and the sea surface is extraordinarily quiet, wave after wave of ripples, constantly rippling away, and gradually disappearing.

The early summer sun also looks extraordinarily warm, shining on people's bodies, warm, a little lazy.

The sky is very blue, there are white clouds drifting, the blue sky and white clouds, reflected in the sea water, clear and picturesque.

Faintly, a large area of land can be seen, which is the northern tip of Sakhalin Island.

At the northern tip of Sakhalin Island, opposite the western Nangharvei is the estuary of the Heilongjiang River.

Before the Ming Royal North Sea Fleet officially landed on Sakhalin Island, the scout brigade of the Marine Corps had already landed on a clipper and controlled the outer beach of this almost closed bay.

Now, on the outer beach in the middle of the northern tip of Sakhalin Island, there is the Ming Royal Golden Dragon Flag and the military flag of the Navy's North Sea Fleet.

Six Leopard cruisers, sporadically lined up, divided into two columns, left and right in a straight line, were vigilantly staring at the land ahead.

In front of the six Leopard cruiser columns were dozens of small clippers, the outpost scouts used for the early landing.

The six Leopard cruisers, which were too large to land directly at the shore, were located on both sides of the rear of the outpost ships, and were used entirely as a deterrent to the enemy and as a warning vessel.

This is the vanguard of the Royal Navy's North Sea Fleet, and it is on a mission to clear a beach and escort the landing force that follows.

And those huge transport fleets are belatedly in the rear, where the naked eye cannot see.

This time of year is the calmest time of the year in the Tatar Strait.

Under normal circumstances, the maximum wind and waves, generally not exceeding level five, are very advantageous for the landing force.

Later scientific research results showed that once the wind and waves on the sea surface exceeded level 6, the wooden sailing ship had the possibility of overturning on its side.

The landing force of the North Sea Fleet must seize the time to land during this time period and complete the delivery of all follow-up troops, as well as logistical combat materials, as quickly as possible.

Otherwise, once it is mid-to-late summer, violent storms and rains will follow, which will bring great danger to the landing, and even simple transportation of materials will become difficult.

"It's coming!"

Some of the soldiers pointed to the rear of their own fleet, and suddenly shouted loudly.

From everyone's voices, a little excitement can be clearly heard.

Following his line of sight, he could clearly see that a large number of ships were slowly appearing on the sea.

With the increasing number of ships, the entire sea surface was quickly occupied.

Because there is no wind on the sea, these hundreds of transport ships carry a lot of things, and the draft is very deep.

Therefore, the speed of these dense transport ships of all sizes that the soldiers saw was quite slow.

"Wow! It's spectacular! ”

Someone was muttering excitedly.

Indeed, this landing operation is different from the landing operation at Incheon Port more than a month ago.

Such a scene, not to mention seeing it with your own eyes, even thinking about it will make people very excited.

In this era, ordinary people don't want to say that they haven't seen such a large-scale landing battle, or they don't even dare to think about it.

Perhaps, only the Ming Empire of Zhu Youxiao can make such a huge hand, with nearly 90,000 soldiers and 30,000 logistics troops, as well as a large number of materials and more than 10,000 craftsmen.

Today's Western countries are simply unable to make such a big deal, at best, they can dispatch 20,000 or 30,000 people at a time, and they will reach the sky.

Although they have many warships and transports, their population is too small, and the Western countries now occupy too much territory, and the navy is too scattered, and so are the warships and transports.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for the countries of the Western Ocean today to dispatch such a large-scale landing fleet at one time.

Or rather, they do not have the concept of a large-scale landing operation at all now.

Don't look at those Western countries, they now occupy countless territories, but they are a large number of colonies that have taken a long time, deterred by warships and artillery, and even coaxed and deceived.