Chapter 547 is as steady as Mount Tai

"My lord, the chief of the guard Chen Russia wants to see you?".

"Chen Russia?" Ye Tao asked.

"The people of the Juxian Palace, now follow the county lord to do things." The guard hurriedly added.

"Oh good, let him in."

was taken all the way into the mansion by the guards, and Chen O felt that the reaction of Ye Tao's guards was really unusual. They were so calm that they didn't seem to be nervous at all. And the soldiers of the Sect Demon Regiment who came to Yuhang only bowed slightly when they saw Chen O, although they were responsible for the work of guarding and patrolling, but looking at their expressions, it was more like they were playing leisurely.

"Lord Qiqi Ye, the county lord ordered me to wait and raid the second prince's mansion. Now Concubine Lian and His Royal Highness the Prince are both in Ji Lian's mansion. How do you want us to hand it over? After meeting Ye Tao, Chen Ru bluntly explained his intentions.

"Oh? You're moving so fast. Ye Tao was amazed. Just after someone attacked the second prince's mansion, someone had already reported the news. But now the main forces are in the prince's mansion, and there are only a few people who are monitoring the second prince's mansion, and there is no chance to follow up to find out who launched the attack, and now, everything is clear.

Chen O ran back and forth again and sent the two to Ye Tao's residence, and at this time, he understood why Ye Tao was so fearless. Four huge airships quietly stopped above the courtyard. You know, it's a rainy night...... Chunnan is equipped with a lot of airships, but there are very few that can take off and fight at night and in rainy weather, and even those rely on the pilots' strong operating skills rather than the airship performance itself. But in Dongping, airships that can take off and fight on rainy days now account for at least forty percent of the total number of airships.

Directly loaded Chang Ling and Tan Weiya onto one of the airships, plus the attendants and guards who responded, it almost filled an airship. And the airship immediately flew away to the east. After the guard's explanation, Chen Russia learned that there was a fleet moored on the sea, and there were four specially designed and built airship carriers, each capable of carrying four such small airships. Basically, it's enough to bomb Yuhang once.

The fleet naturally came from Yazhou, because with long-range wireless telegraphy, the communication between Dongping and Yazhou was much easier. Although the distance was long and the telegraph had limited communication distance, and it actually had to go through two relays, it was countless times faster than the original need to send the message by fast ship. Originally, it took a month or two to carry out a round of communication, but now, the telegram exchange between the two sides, plus the decoding time, is only one day. Ye Tao's plan was directly sent to Asia, and Old Man Qi and the generals of the Navy Division made up a plan to give back, and this was done. For Dongping, the implementation of long-distance communication has really relieved many ministers who are worried that Yazhou's strength is swelling more and more, and it is a lonely bay that is easy to breed self-reliance. But for Chunnan, this is not good news. This kind of combat cooperation tonight is still a small test, and when the Chunnan is attacked in the future, the Yazhou side will have to be considered as an important force, and the radio will make it possible to command the operation. Of course, Chunnan doesn't need to know this, especially now that the relay communication station is on Chunnan's territory.

The fierce battle of this night was almost over for Ye Tao. Now that Chang Ling and Tan Weiya have been controlled, or in a very unexpected way, the previous agreement with the second prince has become insignificant. Ye Tao immediately sent someone to inform Liu Yong and Jin Ze, asking them to pay attention to the safety of their own people first when attacking His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, if the result of the battle is really not very important. However, it is difficult to say how much of a role such an instruction can play, Liu Yong and Jin Ze, as well as the soldiers and masters of the rivers and lakes under their command, are not just tasks for the sake of the task, especially those guys who have been in the guard camp for many years, they are all suffocated, they are the elite of the elite, the strong hands of the strong, but in fact, they have encountered fewer battles than ordinary soldiers. Especially Liu Yong, on this night, left an extremely deep impression on everyone in the prince's mansion. He single-handedly slaughtered from the periphery to the center. The two super masters under the command of the crown prince were quietly lurking, and when they suddenly attacked His Royal Highness the Second Prince, they attacked, and in an instant they attacked four palms in the air, and the two guys who had been lurking for a long time and thought they had a plan died before they landed. Then Liu Yong landed in the crowd of guards of His Royal Highness the Prince, shook off his clothes, held the knife in both hands, and spun in the crowd like a spinning top, raising patches of blood mist...... In less than an hour of confrontation, Liu Yong alone killed no less than 40 people. Subsequently, he and Kanazawa rounded, calmly withdrew, and did not reveal his identity from beginning to end. But whether Liu Yong is exposed or not, and what does it matter? The second prince was frightened, and the number one general under his command made it clear to him that if he and Liu Yong were right, it would probably ...... Able to stick to five to six moves, according to his observations, his level is estimated to be about the same as Kanazawa's.

What surprised the soldiers under His Royal Highness the Second Prince even more was the general standard of the guard battalion. The guards under Ye Tao have no mediocre hands, everyone knows this, but they didn't expect it to be so strong. Needless to say, what is even more frightening is the tacit understanding and trust between these people, as well as their peculiar combat methods that make full use of their advantages in all aspects...... According to Chunnan's standards, all of them have reached the level of divine weapons, and I am afraid that those senior generals who have one or two thousand elite soldiers under their hands may not be able to have one in their hands. What level Dongping has reached in the ordnance manufacturer is probably something that needs to be reconsidered. And after such a battle, the goal of standing in front of the second prince was fully achieved. Everyone understands it, don't look at it, after a night of hard fighting, His Royal Highness the Second Prince killed his brother, controlled Yuhang, imprisoned the ministers under the prince, and has de facto become the lord of Chunnan, but even if he concentrates the power in his hands, I am afraid he may not be able to keep Ye Tao. Ye Tao will certainly be besieged in the mansion, but if Liu Yong and Jin Ze really want to assassinate anyone, I am afraid that no one in the whole world will be able to stop them. Liu Yong's skills are not only the level of the world's number one master in the wind legend, but above other masters, almost incredible. Not to mention, the airships suspended above Ye Tao's mansion and the fleets off the coast of Yuhang are all showing off their might there.

Although the fleet sent by Yazhou is arranged around four airship carriers, it is an out-and-out powerful fleet. It includes 12 Tianwen-type warships that were launched last year, completed basic training at the beginning of the year, and were incorporated into active service. On new warships, ballistas are no longer the main weapons, but artillery is...... Each battleship had thirty-two guns, six ballistae and four divine arms. Although it could only fire on one side, this type of warship had completely broken the original rules of naval warfare. In addition, the speed of the Tianwen-type battleship is a cut faster than the original Huya ship, and once the war starts, it is almost impossible to solve it. The twelve Tianwen ships and four airship motherships also carried nearly 1,000 elite infantry sent by Yazhou...... This is almost a hybrid force that has always been built up and has strong combat power. With the degree of control that the second prince now has over Yu Hang and the surrounding forces, there is absolutely no possibility of leaving Ye Tao.

At least on the surface, Ye Tao did the second prince a great favor, but His Royal Highness the second prince failed to hand over Chang Ling and Tan Weiya to Ye Tao. The name Fuhutang also surfaced when His Royal Highness the Second Prince's subordinates encountered Ruan Xiaowu's subordinates by "accident" when they were tracking down the whereabouts of Chang Ling and Tan Weiya...... Chunnam's new lord was furious. This powerful secret agency, which was supposed to serve him, became a thorn in the side of the Lord of Chunnan because of poor information exchange and the deliberate design of Ye Tao and Chang Huaiyin. And this newly promoted Chunnan lord was embarrassed because he owed Ye Tao a favor.

Ye Tao didn't say or do anything on the surface, and he didn't look like he was in his arms, but he politely declined the invitation to participate in the enthronement ceremony. He stayed in Yuhang for another five days, and then left Yuhang with all the missions and Chang Huaiyin and his party. On this day, the fleet from Yicheng came to Yuhang. Six Huya ships escorted Ye Tao's flagship, the Tianjin. This in itself is not too powerful, but once it rendezvous with the fleet from Yazhou, it is a combat force that has always been formidable.

This is the first time that Ye Tao has boarded the Tianjin, which was specially designed and customized for him. It is also the most exotic ship that has been built using almost all the advanced technology to date. On the surface, the Tianjin looks like a standard three-masted schooner mixed with Eastern and Western shipbuilding styles, and a lot of armament has been sacrificed for comfort and command functions. There were only eight guns and two ballistas on the Tianjin. However, the Tianjin is equipped with a huge power-generating impeller at the stern, and four generators can provide the operation of the ship's lights and other equipment. There is even a wireless telegraph on board that can directly communicate with other wireless telegraph base stations within 2,000 miles. The Tianjin was not originally intended for naval warfare, but was more like a hybrid of a yacht and a professional command ship. However, it is also suitable for commanding naval battles, and a total of 22 communicators can be installed on it, which can transmit different light signals in various directions for coordinated command. If the distance is relatively far, you can also use the airship for relay command. Of the sixteen airships carried by the four airship carriers, one was a command airship.

The huge fleet traveled all the way north, escorting Ye Tao and his party back to Yicheng. Except for one of the ships of the Yazhou fleet that was transferred to Crescent Island to provide physical reference for the shipyard, the rest of the ships immediately went south and camped on an island less than two hundred miles off the coast of Chunnan in the middle of the route between Yicheng and Yazhou. This place, called Horned Whale Island, was originally occupied by a group of pirates. This pirate group has always been relatively obedient, so whether it is the Nanami Trading Company, many maritime merchants in Chunnan, or the sailors of Chunnan or Dongping, they have all let them go. This group of pirates is called pirates, but they only dare to rob smuggling ships. Sometimes when encountering a huge smuggling fleet, he will even send a message to the Chunnan Navy Division, making it look like a supernumerary anti-smuggling team. In normal times, it is estimated that this pirate group can continue to exist, but now, although Dongping is mediating negotiations with Chunnan, the preparations for war have not stopped at all, and the sailors are not very willing to this hidden danger exist. The pirate regiment on Horn Whale Island surrendered very wisely. On Horn Whale Island, the expansion of the port and the stockpiling of materials quickly began.

Ye Tao stayed in Yicheng for almost half a month, and at this time, Chang Ling and Tan Weiya were already in Danyang. Ye Tao doesn't have a good impression of Chang Ling, and he is not very interested in talking about Weiya's future situation, naturally, Ye Tao will not be afraid of Chang Ling's tricks on him. But being late for so many days, you can avoid seeing Tan Xiaopei's words and faces teaching her family, which is not a bad thing. And Ye Tao does have something to do in Yicheng. Yicheng's workshop is limited to a spatial pattern, and has now been adjusted to a specialized integrated organization for the R&D and production of precision machinery and optical products. Ye Tao, on the other hand, came to arrange the production and manufacturing of a series of highly professional tools, such as gun sights, optical sights for firearms, new wide-angle and wide-field battlefield observation scopes, and aviation cameras. Although these things already have a specific shooting plan in Ye's workshop in Yunzhou, they have not entered the actual production stage after all. In the workshop in Yicheng, many technicians are still in contact with these things for the first time, and Ye Tao has to determine the ideas, technical requirements, and manufacturing specifications of these things and teach them to craftsmen. I am afraid that no one in the world is better at this job than Ye Tao.

Originally, Ye Tao also wanted to go to Crescent Island once to see the manufacturing process of the new ship, but he didn't expect that he had just completed the manufacturing counseling work on the side of the workshop, and Crescent Island was already laying the keels of three new ships at the same time, and according to the calculation of Crescent Island, the fastest forty days can complete the initial manufacturing of the first new ship, this speed is incredible, and Ye Tao also thinks...... This should be less necessary to guide yourself, and it is unlikely that you will be able to do better.

Subsequently, Ye Tao inspected the manufacture of a new type of fire oil bomb and Mars bomb. Originally, the fire oil bomb Mars bomb still needed to be ignited before launching, but now, with the establishment of the preliminary chemical industry, the simple and safe fuse manufacturing is not too much of a problem. Although the cost of timing fuze is not low, it is not a very difficult thing for Yip's workshop. Ye Tao, after watching a series of demonstrations, issued a production task book for 60,000 collision ignition fuses and 20,000 delay fuzes.

Then there was the brick production base of Shijia in Liyang and the steel factory in Liyang, etc., and on the way to Danyang, Ye Tao inspected almost all the industries related to war preparation along the way. I even went to visit a couple of war-ready granaries by the way...... The grain reserves in Dongping are enough for two million troops to fight for two years. At the same time, it can also ensure the daily consumption of the people in Dongping, even if the food is not replenished at all, the supply to the people can be guaranteed for three months. This kind of preparation is really too sufficient. When Ye Tao arrived in Danyang and met Tan Xiaopei, Ye Tao's account was very simple: everything was ready.