Where they are discussing, Zhang Qiang's side already knows, but he doesn't care, the new naval division warship has entered the final assembly stage, he can go to see where he has time, of course, not all, but the nearest Jinling shipyard, he didn't run in Hangzhou.

Two of the forty-eight new warships are in the process of making final inspections and will soon be able to go to sea, and after a day or two of weapons installation and adjustment, they will be ready to go to sea for testing, as will the other seagoing ships.

The gap is only a week, and finally after the end of this month, the new 48 ships, 36 780-ton warships, and 12 clipper frigates will all enter service.

These 48 ships Zhang Qiang is ready to be deployed to the Third Fleet, mainly in the direction of Treasure Island, from where to go to Manila can also block the route from Japan to other places, with these 48 new warships, it is more advantageous than thousands of warships, plus other warships to make up for it, the sailors' range of activities will be expanded, and the patrol range will also be expanded, making the sea area safer.

The ships of the Third Fleet will be transferred to the Fifth Fleet, the First Fleet, to replenish the ships that were previously lost by the two fleets.

The third prince of the defense area of the First Fleet has become arrogant again since he bought more than 300 warships of the Huaxia Kingdom's sailors again, because all the ships of the First Fleet are only 400, and they are already about to catch up with the ships of the First Fleet.

With these naval ships, the Hongtian Cannon immediately went to find trouble with the Great Shimizu Division, which had basically suffered heavy losses, was blocked in the port and did not dare to come out, and the villages and ports along the coast were bombarded by the re-enlarged naval fleet of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and the third prince was considered to have a heart, and led the naval fleet to the Japanese island, shelling the coastal towns of Japan, so that the Japanese did not dare to gather ships and troops on the coast anymore, and indirectly helped Kong Youxing to control the Chinese island.

Japan was now blockaded on the island, unable to do anything, almost reverted to its primitive state, lacking food and clothing, and could only obtain food and other supplies through trade with Goguryeo in Hokkaido, which can be said to be extremely pitiful.

In other words, in the northeast coastal direction, there is basically no threat to the Huaxia Kingdom.

The only big threat is the third prince.

However, Zhang Qiang knew that the strength of the third prince was not enough to confront the Huaxia Kingdom.

To confront, the garrison of the Huaxia Kingdom on their land, as well as the sailors of the First Fleet, cleaned him up every second.

Don't look at the First Fleet's sailors who were gradually weakened because of the sale of ships, but the first fleet left behind are all big ships, or new ships, and the age of the equipment is only seven years old, even if it doesn't look like much old from the outside, compared to their speed, the operability is much better, they only get ships that are less than eleven years old, and a few new ones are only old ships that are more than seven years old.

What's more, there are 100 ships of the Yangtze River Naval Division Garrison that can help, nearly 600 ships of the Second Fleet that can help, and 600 ships of the Third Fleet.

There are more than 500 ships in the Fourth Fleet and 380 ships in the Fifth Fleet plus 36 new ships.

If these more than 2,000 ships were to bomb the islands of the Ryukyu Kingdom that surrounded him, his Ryukyu Kingdom would immediately become a ruin.

Now he has to worry about the Spanish side, and after Zheng Zhi told him, he sent someone to find out.

After Kim Ki mobilized the MI in Manila to conduct a thorough investigation, he found that the Spaniards had become more and more excessive.

Zheng Zhi is now busy using his main energy to save the Han people in this place, he has been in contact with Hong Shiming and Hong Hongxiu many times, and has carried out a lot of commercial trade with the two people, and funded two people to gain a firm foothold in Borneo, the two people now have 8,000 people, and the other has an armed force of 5,000 people, the strength of the eldest prince is not large, but 50 ships, more than 10,000 Han people, but the second prince has a large population, because when he left, he took away 20,000 or 30,000 Japanese people, 20,000 or 30,000 Han people.

As the Kingdom of China handed over Japanese captives and civilians to him, his strength expanded.

The fleet sent to occupy Gegong Island had already occupied the area, and without much resistance, Zheng Keshuang came again to send a group of men and soldiers, this time with 50,000 new soldiers and horses, which made his manpower more sufficient.

And Zheng Keshuang was surprised to see that he had so many ships, Zheng Zhi had to explain, and sent Zheng Keshuang away in Zheng Keshuang's vigilant and puzzled eyes, and Zheng Zhi immediately started a counterattack war against the Spaniards.

About 30,000 new soldiers and horses, 12,000 Japanese soldiers, 10,000 Han soldiers and horses, and 8,000 Nanyang native soldiers landed on Luzon Island and began to sweep away the natives above it and help the Han people relieve the siege.

About three hundred warships went to the outskirts of Manila in search of the Spanish fleet for a decisive battle.

There were no more than 70 boats left at home, and 20 boats on Koh Kong Island, mainly to set up camps.

Unfortunately, they ran into a combined fleet of Siam, Dugger, British, and Dutch from Siam.

Fifteen 600-ton Fu ships converted from old armed merchant ships, and five 600-ton warships, were stunned when they encountered the vanguard ships of the huge fleet, and immediately turned around and ran towards Kogong Island.

The actions of this fleet were seen by Du Ge, who was standing at the bow of the ship, and he said to Ike beside him, "Isn't that the Zheng family's fleet?" ”

Ike gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, I won't let them go this time, I'll let our fleet clean them up." Du Ge smiled and didn't speak.

The Englishman Tame did not speak, and the Dutch dealt with their own affairs, and it was inconvenient for them to interject.

The king of Siam, Zheng Xin, also came, but not on this boat.

Under the command of the banner, the thirty ships of the Dutch quickly separated from the fleet and quickly headed towards the fleeing Zheng fleet.

The two sides chased for two hours at sea, and the huge Zheng family fleet on Koh Kong Island was finally caught up by Dutch armed merchant ships and warships that were born to fight in battle.

The two sides opened fire on each other two miles apart.

The shells flew around, but they didn't make a difference, because it was too far away, and it was a little too difficult to hit the enemy a thousand meters away on a rough sea, and it was a little too difficult in the era of sail warships, unless you had luck or experienced gunners and sailors, as well as helmsmen, and captains in command, and the wind direction had to cooperate, and now it was obvious that they were not dominant, and the conditions could not be met.

Ike gave the order for the high-altitude lookout to convey the order, "Don't open fire, get closer, and shoot at the enemy at a distance of 300 meters." Isn't a distance of more than three hundred meters a waste of shells? ”

Du Ge said with a smile: "The Huaxia Navy Division generally engages the enemy at 350 to 380 meters, and their cannons can hit the enemy directly at a distance of nearly 400 meters, with a hit rate of 30 to 40 percent, so let your people be careful." ”

Ike said angrily: "I know, last time our fleet was caught off guard by the Zheng family's fleet at which distance, if it weren't for our luck, we hit their thousand-ton battleship at a distance of five hundred meters at the beginning, maybe we were wiped out by the enemy without even winning the battle, and finally only escaped back, and I was seriously injured, don't think about repairing it in three months, and it is not as strong as before, I must find this revenge." ”

(End of chapter)