On the first day of the fourth month of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the land and navy of the Tiance Army gathered on Liuqiu Island, and had a fierce naval battle with the Wusheng Army that had been entrenched on the island for nearly three years. Under the command of Guo Chongtao, the naval warships were heavily damaged, and Qian personally commanded the naval fleet that came to help, forcing 11 warships to land, with a crew of more than 1,500 people, and sinking 15 ships. And a small number of these people were blown to the mainland by the southeast monsoon and were immediately captured, most of them actually drifted south along the monsoon to the vast South Seas, became pirates, and were later exterminated by the Nanyang Fleet of the Tiance Army, but this was already three years later, at that time, the Western Fleet of the Tiance Army had been established and assisted the army troops to attack the legendary Peacock Dynasty, although the body poison at that time was not called the Peacock Dynasty.

However, at this time, Guo Chongtao and Chen Yu began to confidently and boldly transport army troops and a large number of weapons and equipment and logistical baggage from Shantou Port after expelling and severely damaging Qian's naval fleet. Moreover, on the second day of the fourth month of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, after the second batch of reinforcements arrived with the ship, the landing force had reached the size of 20,000 people, and then Chen Yu began to leave the mouth of the Tamsui River and began to march south along the western coastline of Liuqiu.

In fact, there is a big difference between the distribution of the population of Liuqiu Island at this time and the population of Taiwan in later generations, in addition to the local indigenous Gaoshan ethnic minorities, the people from the mainland basically choose to settle on the west coast near the strait, and basically follow several confluences in the island to choose to form a settlement near the estuary, from the historical records of the Three Kingdoms era It is recorded that Sun Wu sent a large-scale fleet to Liuqiu for the first time, in fact, there are many people from the mainland, but they are basically distributed in three regions. Phoenix City in the south, Chichilou at the mouth of the Muddy Water River, the largest river in central Taiwan, and a gathering place for the Gaoshan tribe near Yushan Mountain in the center. In fact, Phoenix City and Chijilou are both new-style castles built by integrating the original people after Qian came to Liuqiu, and even the names were taken by Qian himself. However, none of this was important to Chen Yu, and after a brief discussion with Guo Chongtao, he decided to divide the troops into two routes after the arrival of the third batch of elite troops of more than 10,000 people, one of which was led by himself to attack the Chichilou in the middle by land from the mouth of the Tamsui River, and to attract all the attention of the Qian army. The marines were free to take the landing ship and quickly move south along the coastline under the cover of the Navy's Fuxing-class warships, preparing to go straight ahead of Phoenix City and Chichilou, so as to prevent the main force of the Qian army from going north to Chichilou and give Chen Yu enough time to take this key area in the central region. As a matter of fact, this new-style landing operation method is also a new-style combat method put forward by the navy in accordance with the idea of landing on the island brought by Li Xuanqing from later generations. Using the control of naval warships over sea supremacy, the Marine Corps and the Army units are led to land at multiple points, distract the attention and strength of the other side, and create a local encirclement to isolate the forces deployed by the opposing side on the front line, so as to constantly create opportunities to encircle and annihilate the opponent's troops. In order to create this kind of opportunity, Chen Yu transferred himself to the army that was the famous First Battalion of the Army, that is, the unit known as the tactical all-round force in the establishment sequence of the Tiance Army, which can skillfully use all kinds of active weapons and can exert stable combat power under the known battlefield conditions. In other words, the first battalion can ensure that no matter what happens or what environment it is in, it can exert its full combat power. This makes the 1st Battalion, the 2nd Battalion, and the 3rd Battalion, together with the Modao Battalion, the Heavy Cavalry Battalion, and the Battalion directly under the Guards Battalion of the Central Garrison Force, known as the six main combat teams of the Tiance Army, and have become the benchmark for the pursuit and progress of other units.

After Yang Tiancheng was transferred to the Central Committee to become the chief of operations of the Tiance Army, the first battalion has been used as the main force of Chen Yu's corps, and this time, in order to adapt to naval warfare and landing operations, he was directly transferred to Liuqiu to become the first stop of Chen Yu's test of new tactics.

Therefore, after the first battalion of more than 30,000 people arrived, Chen Yu immediately separated from the marines, and he quickly left the mouth of the Tamsui River with the first battalion and rushed south. Guo Chongtao led a huge fleet to the south from the sea, except for the Izumo-class battleship as the flagship, the other ships were ordered to attack Phoenix City by the Izumo as the first ship of the attack, on the one hand, it consumed the combat power of the Qian Army, and on the other hand, it was to cause damage to the other party as much as possible before the ground troops arrived in Phoenix, break through the city defense of Phoenix, and prepare for the next step to capture Phoenix.

After separating from the Izukai, the Izumo took the Liusofuxing-class battleship to cover the 39 troop carriers to arrive in the North Harbor area between Chijilou and Phoenix, where they relied on the gunfire cover of the battleships and ground resistance to establish a circular position, the main energy was to prevent the main force of the Qian army in Phoenix from rushing to the aid of Chichilou, and the task of cutting off the way for the Qian army to flee south of Chichilou. The large-scale landing of more than 30 troop carriers of the Marine Corps naturally could not hide the eyes of the Qian Army, but Guo Chongtao did not have any hidden meaning at this time, and the seven warships were cruising along the coastline in a row, just waiting for the other side to come to help, and the Marine Corps, under the leadership of the chief general Chen Mingzheng, chose to quickly land successfully in an area that was not suitable for landing in the Beigang area, relying on the method of combining small boat connections and a small number of landing ships rushing to the beach. And because the Marines didn't have much heavy weaponry, they were very fast, and they had already pulled most of their troops ashore almost as soon as the Sea Out of Sea appeared above sea level near Phoenix.

After the mission was over, most of the troop carriers quickly set off in the direction of Shantou Port to carry out the task of transporting troops and baggage. When Li Xuanqing vigorously developed maritime trade, the ocean positioning system from later generations began to spread rapidly throughout the empire, whether it was the positioning method used by Zheng He in the Western era of the later generations such as the ocean-drawn star map and water compass currently used by the military, or the method of sextant plus water compass positioning used by the people to be inherited to the previous generation, all made the imperial navigation technology of this era advance by leaps and bounds, at least in the era when the ocean trade began, the merchants of the Tang Empire would not have had accidents because of getting lost at sea. However, after the navy was systematically reequipped with ironclad warships, Li Xuanqing began to organize manpower to prepare for the development of navigation and positioning methods in the later era of great exploration, that is, the longitude and latitude positioning method. Although it has not been promoted at present, it is basically almost completed in theory, and it is waiting to enter the experimental stage to verify.

Although the large fleet had already returned, the Izumo and the several transports that had been left behind to accompany the warships as supplies were ready to meet the enemy as soon as possible. However, what was different from what was expected was that it was not the main force of the Qian Army in Phoenix City that chose to take the initiative to attack, but the more than 10,000 Qian troops who came from the Chijilou. In fact, there are only more than 20,000 troops stationed on the side of Chijilou. After Qian led his troops to cross the sea, the number of troops actually decreased a lot over the years, and the total number of sailors was only more than 80,000 people, and these troops even had to participate in the agricultural work when they were busy with farming, otherwise according to the current number of people who begged for help, they would not be able to support such a huge army. Although Chen Mingzheng was puzzled by the choice of the Qian army of Chijilou to take the initiative to attack, he still notified the cruising fleet as soon as possible.

Although Guo Chongtao didn't understand why the enemy on the side of Chijilou chose to take the initiative to attack, while the main force on the side of Phoenix City did not make much movement, he still sent three Fuxing-class ships to immediately approach the coast as soon as possible, and began to cover the marines to start blocking the opponent by anchoring. The 15,000-strong Marine Corps was equipped with less than 50 mortar detachments, so it relied on naval artillery support most of the time. Fortunately, the opponent only had about 10,000 people, so after the Qian army entered the range of the Tiance warship guns, the three Fuxing-class nine guns began to spit shells non-stop, setting off explosions in the Qian army's formation, and countless Qian soldiers were killed in the sudden artillery fire, and the entire formation was completely disrupted. Because it is a ship-based artillery, it is not on the same level as the army's field artillery in terms of the power of the shells or the range of the naval guns. It can be said that the current shipborne artillery of the Tiance Army Navy is the most advanced technology and the strongest power of the Tiance Army's artillery. The 75mm guns of the Fuxing-class equipment already have a 25-caliber barrel, which is much longer than the army's firing range of more than a dozen times the caliber of the army, and the naval guns of the Izumo-class equipment have begun to carve four complete rifling lines to ensure that the shells can obtain a more stable and accurate impact point.

Therefore, although the Marine Corps is far from the elite of the army in terms of combat strength, and it is not the same level as the ace in the army of the first battalion, it relies on the advantage of artillery fire and the new rifles in their hands, and they are fighting well on the Beigang side, if it were not for the fact that both Guo Chongtao and Chen Mingzheng focused on the direction of Phoenix City in the south, I am afraid that they would be able to launch a counter-charge at this moment.

However, although Chen Mingzheng did not wait for the large army to come to the money, but the Qian army of Chijilou divided the troops to attack Beigang, but the first battalion helped Chen Yu's first battalion a lot, the first battalion arrived at Chichilou in the afternoon of the same day, although the marching speed of the first battalion was not as terrifying as the third battalion, almost comparable to the cavalry troops, but the all-round combat style of the first battalion determined that the speed of the forced march was much faster than that of ordinary troops. Without waiting for the reaction of the defenders of the Qian army in the city, Chen Yu directly pulled out five cannons and bombarded the city tower, and at the same time, the demoman began to move forward immediately, and after the artillery cleared a path, he began to swim towards the wall of the Red Embedded Tower. Although the whole city wall is not long, it is basically built by the original base that is unique to the local Liuqiu, although the money does not have the epoch-making building material of cement, but it still has its own unique method of building the city in ancient times, so although the red inlay building is simple, but after the turbid water stream flows through the city, the red inlay building relies on the turbid water stream as a moat, and the difficulty of capturing is not ordinarily large, especially the first battalion only brought five cannons here, and the firepower is seriously insufficient.

Chen Yu, who had not thought of attacking the city with all his might just after arriving, immediately began to order the first battalion to go all out after receiving the report from Xuanyingwei's side that the defenders of Chijilou would divide half of their troops to attack the marines who landed in Beigang. In an instant, the 30,000-strong army began to line up in formation, and each army quickly dispatched more than 100 demomen to organize the blasting while the other party was bombarded and in chaos, and the main force of the army in the rear immediately began to send people to cut wood on the spot to build a bamboo raft pontoon bridge. Fortunately, the Liuqiu area belongs to the tropical monsoon climate, and the abundant rain makes this large island almost under the occupation of primeval forests everywhere, so the blaster almost chose the blasting point to prepare to place the blasting canister, and the logging brigade of 3,000 people here has already cut down hundreds of large trees, and then pushed them directly into the muddy water stream with the help of this method, relying on this method to fill nearly a thousand giant trees again and then relying on this method to build a road.

"Boom" a loud bang sounded at the root of the city wall of the Red Embedded Building, and at the same time, a huge smoke cloud rose into the air, accompanied by a shocking loud noise, this smoke cloud directly put half of the city wall into the air, and the entire northeast corner of the Red Embedded Building was blown up, and after the Red Embedded Building was blown up, countless soldiers of the first battalion began to quickly wade across the river along the road that had just been paved into the city and began street fighting.

For the street fighting, Chen Yu himself did not even enter the city, and the all-round combat mode of the first battalion allowed him to have the upper hand in the street fighting, and there was almost no unfavorable situation. Therefore, Chen Yu took part of the logistics staff to start repairing the road just now, and then built part of the raft to transport the cannons that had ceased fire across the muddy water stream. Chen Yu had no intention of stationing on the spot, so after more than half an hour, he waited until the first battalion had swept away the defenders in the city, and left more than 1,000 troops to guard the treasury and guard the defenders in the city. To be honest, the fact that the Qian side did not move according to the plan made Chen Yu's new tactics and multi-point landing methods seem a little useless, but fortunately, after taking the Chichilou, Qian was only left with the last stronghold in Phoenix, and the Battle of the Ryukyus also achieved the basic expected result.

However, at this time, whether it was Chen Yu who was smooth or Guo Chongtao, who was covering the Qian army that had already defeated the attack of Chijilou, he did not expect that he had come to seek an opponent who needed to be guarded against in addition to Qian, and this enemy appeared decisively in front of the Marine Corps later, and almost suffered a big loss under Chen Mingzheng's surprise, if it wasn't for the timely arrival of the first battalion, and using the combat method that he can be familiar with and good at regardless of any terrain, I am afraid that the Tiance Army will really suffer a big loss.