"Chongtao, hasn't your navy already built new warships this year? Why haven't you been in the water yet? Didn't I see that the Dalian shipyard had been launched before I came, and the dock was empty. "In the southwestern waters of the Samhan Peninsula, the six Izuku-class battleships cut through the waves, pulling out a long white track on the blue sea, and dozens of iron-hedgehogs behind the Izumo-class gathered together, this is the expeditionary fleet led by Chen Fan and Guo Chongtao set off from Changkou to Tamna Island to encircle and suppress the last remnants of Zhu Youqi and his last Xuanwu army. Zhu Youqi, who escaped from the peninsula, took with him not only the Praetorian Guards in Bianzhou, but also the naval forces that Zheng Fan had painstakingly assembled for three years. Although there is no way to compare with the ironclad battleship under Chen Fan's feet, but without Li Xuanqing misappropriating the ironclad battleships of later generations, Zheng Fan relied on the original shipbuilding technology to copy the Tiance-class battleship, the master of the hardwood sailing ships built and used by the Tang Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty sailor warships, which is almost equivalent to the treasure ship class of Zheng He in the Ming Dynasty in the later Ming Dynasty.

However, at this time, Chen Fan did not have the slightest worry, no matter how great the strength of the naval division established by Zheng Fan was, it was impossible to be the opponent of these ironclad battleships under his feet, and the Beiyang Fleet was dispatched by the whole army this time, not only the main battleship Izumo-class was all dispatched, but the twelve troop carriers under his command were full of more than 6,000 marines to follow behind his own commander, and almost all the large ocean-going freighters of the Xu family in Tianjin Port were leased, so that more than 30,000 marines planned to go all out to defeat all the remnants of Zhu Youqi in one fell swoop.

Chen Fan's words made Guo Chongtao a little crying and laughing, it can't be said that your army is fighting on three sides, this year the Ministry of Defense has seriously compressed the navy's funds, resulting in its own new warship plan being cut from twelve to two, and because of the priority to supply new artillery casting to take care of the emerging steel, it has been delayed from the beginning of the year to the present before the launch of sea trials. However, he didn't dare to say these words in front of Chen Fan, the person in front of him was the top commander of the Tiance Army, and he was able to sit firmly in the position of the commander of the group army at a young age, and he would definitely be one of the top generals of the General Staff in the future, so he thought about it and directly changed the topic: "I think that the marshal will escort most of the prisoners back to the west on this expedition to Sanhan, is it to dilute the number of local residents in the peninsula?" ”

"You kid can say that it is not bad, although the Sanhan region can be divided into three parts, Silla Baekje plus Goryeo in the north, but fundamentally they are the same ancestor, this time we defeated and conquered, after being included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, these three will definitely merge themselves consciously or unconsciously, and become a whole. We are not even fully included in the vast expanse of the Northeast under the effective rule of the Empire, let alone here. Chen Fan was a little surprised that Guo Chongtao could think of this, but Chen Fan was very optimistic about him, he had been engaged in the construction of the navy all these years, and the navy of the Tiance Army was built from scratch, and it was basically condensed by his hard work from childhood to adulthood. And at this moment, the general was able to think that the events after the war showed that he already had the vision and height of being a commander, so he explained to him in detail: "We are doing this to weaken the power of the local tribes on the peninsula and buy time for us to integrate and digest them." "The situation in the northeast is still similar, Chen Fan immediately asked Liu Baoliang and Hou Yong's corps to return to the northeast after going to sea, just to deter and attack the Yan people, Li Xuanqing's Songjiang Province to the north and east has no border, that is to say, where the Tiance army fights is the border of Songjiang Province. The cavalry corps of Hou Yong and Liu Baoliang were basically stationed in the Northeast all the year round, driving out a few tribes in the Northeast such as the Yan Ya step by step, or driving them down the mountain from the deep mountains and old forests to the National Guard for Sinicization, and became a valuable population for the construction of the Northeast.

The two talked and laughed, talking about other things on the peninsula while admiring the beautiful sea landscape. Chen Fan is still the first time to go to sea, so he has all kinds of curiosity about the sea, and constantly consults Guo Chongtao about marine knowledge and the mode of naval warfare, and Guo Chongtao has also explored a complete set of knowledge over the years, so Chen Fan's questions are answered all the questions, including the battle mode of the ironclad battleship under his feet.

On the 15th day of July in the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the expeditionary fleet arrived at Tamna Island and met the Daliang Navy Division on the sea, and a fierce naval battle broke out again in the waters of the peninsula after a hundred years. However, this time is completely different from the last Baijiangkou water battle, this time it is a naval battle within the Chinese nation, and both sides of the war have come up with naval warships that surpass this era, whether it is the Tiance-class battleship of the Daliang Navy Division or the ironclad battleship of the Tang Beiyang Fleet, it is beyond the reach of other contemporaneous countries and nations. The naval battle between the two sides in the waters northwest of Tamna Island became a classic example of the Tiance Army and Navy, which was later recorded.

Chen Fan did not interfere in Guo Chongtao's command work, and the six Izumo-class battleships suddenly accelerated after discovering the enemy's situation, and the original sailors and gunners on the deck of the battleship immediately returned to their respective places, and in less than a few minutes, the three naval guns immediately began to slowly turn the muzzles of the guns and began to prepare for aiming, through the method of using the internal copper pipe as the original communication channel, Guo Chongtao immediately issued an order, and the six Izumo-class began to turn to the northeast, and at this time, all the Izumo-class guns began to turn sideways, so that the entire fleet concentrated all eighteen guns to one side.

At this time, the faint voice of the lookout hand on the high mast also began to come: "The distance between the two ships is five miles, the wind direction is southwest, and the wind level is four." "The grading of wind power is actually not an invention of later generations, but in the Tang Dynasty Li Chunfeng was the first to start, he was the first to divide wind power into ten levels, Li Xuanqing combined this classification after the establishment of the navy to bring over the twelve standards of later generations, and after such a long period of precipitation, the navy prepared more before the start of the battle.

The maximum firing range of the Izumo-class naval guns is five miles, that is, 2,500 meters, but in general, the Izumo-class battleships will shorten the distance to less than two thousand meters to ensure greater artillery accuracy, so Guo Chongtao immediately began to command the Izumo to continue to cut into the inner corner diagonally after hearing clearly, shortening the distance between the other fleet and the opposing fleet, because the other party is downwind, so the distance between the two fleets is rapidly shortening, and the naval gunners below are already preparing when the warship begins to turn at the foot of the warship, When the distance on the lookout's side continues to shrink to two thousand meters, the cannon is immediately fired. After the Izumo opened fire, the other ships began to fire one after another. Since the communication method is still on the flag and the horn, it is too difficult to achieve a uniform shelling, but fortunately, the first three rounds of shelling are basically test firing, measuring distances and errors. But after three rounds, the flag officer on the top of the Izumo began to command and wave the flag and blow the horn, and the long and rapid trumpeter made all the Izumo battleships start to keep an eye on the flagship, and all the guns began to slowly point to the girder sailors rushing to a large wooden battleship at the front after the horns were connected.

"Boom, boom, boom" The sound of three dull cannons being ejected came from above the Izumo, and the entire battleship was violently pushed half a meter away by the pressure of these three shells, and from Chen Fan's point of view, he saw three fiery red cannonballs streak across the sky and disappeared in a flash, and then the wooden battleship of the beam sailor who rushed up in the distance suddenly sounded around the sky, and three huge waves began to explode around the battleship. Before Chen Fan could speak, the other ships also opened fire at the same moment, only to see that all around the battleship were suddenly surrounded by huge waves.

None of the eighteen shells in the first round hit the target, Chen Fan didn't have time to sigh, but the other people around him didn't have the slightest strange face, the accurate hit rate of the sea shelling was very low, and it was basically impossible to hit the first round unless there was luck against the sky.

"Commander, let's watch the battle with peace of mind." The artillery bombardment was basically commanded and coordinated by a special artillery commander, and the captain of the Izumo-class battleship was also present, so Guo Chongtao pulled Chen Fan aside as a spectator, and explained to the latter various techniques of naval warfare by the way. Because ironclad battleships and artillery appeared for the first time, the naval tactics of the Tiance Army, except for those taught by Li Xuanqing, were basically explored by Guo Chongtao, the first generation of naval people, and the others who did not participate in it did not know how these iron guys under their feet moved during the war.

However, while the two were talking, the results of the naval battle in the distance suddenly came, but Chen Fan and Guo Chongtao were stunned for a moment, because the battleship of the Great Liang Naval Division besieged by eighteen guns was still safe and sound after two rounds of artillery shelling, but another battleship appeared behind him at some point, and he rushed forward without dying, but was hit by a cannonball from the gunners on the warship, and a loud bang came, and the wooden battleship had no defense ability against the flowering bombs of this era. A fierce explosion occurred directly in the bow of the ship, and a large hole was blown out of the entire bow, and the boiling sea water poured into the hole in an instant, not giving any time or opportunity at all, and the battleship sank less than a few dozen feet behind the first battleship before.

This kind of close-range explosion made this battleship that had been fluttering in the wind and rain but luck was against the sky, everyone on the battleship that was not hit by the other party felt a biting chill in an instant, this war could not be fought at all, they were downwind and could not get close to the other party, and their own battleship only needed to be hit by the other party One cannonball was directly blown to pieces, so dozens of battleships in the rear can be exchanged for a few cannons from the other side?

However, the Tiance Army's side obviously will not give everyone in the Liang Naval Division time to think, after the first battle results appeared, those inspired gunners suddenly began to scream harder, the firing speed of the guns of each ship was significantly accelerated, the frequency of artillery bombardment accelerated, and the probability of hitting was naturally strengthened, especially when the other warships of the Great Liang Naval Division rushed up, this advantage was even more obvious. Originally, he wanted to destroy the first battleship of the opponent's rise and then disband the formation to concentrate fire, but after all the opponents approached, the artillery commander of the Izumo immediately ordered the flag to issue an order for each ship to choose its own target and shell, and a sea massacre officially began.

The first to achieve results was the Izumo next to the Izumo, the Izumi rushed up after the Izumo sent out their respective command flags to fire, directly pulled the original artillery battle line apart, with the bow of the enemy against the enemy, the three guns just formed a 45-degree declination angle with the local battleship and then fired directly, originally this method was more difficult, but sometimes naval battles still need luck, after the three guns were discharged, almost all the gunners of the Dehai did not pay attention to the follow-up development, Instead, he turned around and sent the shells piled up behind him into the barrel and then adjusted the firing distance and angle to fire again, but the lookout on the mast clearly recorded that after the three shells swept through the sky rapidly, two of them concentrated one of the other party's warships at the same time, and in an instant, it was almost impossible to distinguish each other's two explosions converged together and exploded, among the warring team of the Liang Sailor, a battleship was directly shattered by these two shells, and countless planks were swept into the sky by a huge wave of air, and many even fell directly on other warships, The battleship disappeared directly into the water after the explosion ended, and the blood stained the sea red, leaving only piles of broken wood floating with the waves.

"Well played." Chen Fan and Guo Chongtao praised the Going to Sea for achieving another victory so quickly, but the Liang Sailors on the opposite side obviously began to be confused after suffering the bad news that two battleships were sunk one after another, and some of the peripheral warships even began to gradually break away from the queue and go towards the distance, while more soldiers on the warships began to feel a sincere fear, this kind of battle that can only be passively beaten is the most likely to cause mutiny. Many times the fighters are not afraid of death, but afraid of this style of fighting without any ability to fight back.

"Lao Luo, order the Going to Sea to go up with the Going to Sea, and see if you can recruit them, they are all the people of Huaxia who can not kill them, and the other ships will go forward a thousand meters to supervise." Although Guo Chongtao was very satisfied with his fleet, he still gave the order after a little hesitation, and this order also made Chen Fan praise it. The ironclad battleship is a sharp weapon for the empire to conquer the open sea, but it is not a weapon to slaughter its own people.

Guo Chongtao's order soon came out from the Izumo, and the Izumi immediately stepped forward with the Izumo, and the flag on the Izumi kept waving, and even several soldiers with loud voices began to stand on the deck and shout, asking the other side to immediately raise the white flag and withdraw from the team to surrender to themselves, and in the name of the Tang Empire, they promised not to blame them for the past. At this time, the other warships had also stopped shelling and carried out the order of the Izumo, closing the distance and supervising the reaction of the Liang Naval Division, although the muzzle of the black hole hole accompanied the warship to swing up and down under the ups and downs of the waves, but it still made the officers and men of the other side's Liang Naval Division feel creepy. The unexpected choice of the Tiance army to surrender also caused a split in the Daliang Naval Division, and some of the core people were loyal to Zhu Youqi, but ordinary soldiers were unwilling to fight a decisive battle with this insoluble ironclad ship, so after the battleship escaped, the soldiers and generals of more than a dozen battleships led the team to erect the white flag after a fierce argument, and retreated to the side according to the flag order of the Go to Sea, but the last five battleships chose to continue the confrontation. Seeing this, Guo Chongtao immediately ordered the four warships except for the Going to Sea and the Going Ocean to immediately open fire, and the rumbling artillery fire filled the entire sea, which could be regarded as seeing off the last old fleet.

Half an hour later, the Izumo returned to the center of the expeditionary fleet and began to command all units to immediately log on to Tamna Island, 30,000 marines under the command of Chen Mingzheng landed on the island like a withered and decaying and had a fierce battle with Zhu Youqi's Praetorian Guards who came to resist, relying on the cover of naval guns, the marines quickly gained a foothold on the island and launched a counterattack, the battle lasted until the end of the night, Zhu Youqi committed suicide with a knife after learning that the front line was all defeated, his family was captured by the marines who arrived later, and the entire naval battle of Tamna Island came to an end. Tamna Island was then handed over to the Navy as a military base, and later became the most important supply base for the Beiyang Fleet between the southern part of the peninsula and Japan.