Xu Qingyuan led his subordinates down on this calm sea.

On the surface of the sea, the blue waves ripple, like fish scales, constantly shining and reflecting the sun, and the huge hull of the ship splits the waves and thorns, like the depths of the sea. The tall chimney on the hull of the ship emitted billowing smoke.

Unlike the sea ships of this era, Xu Qingyuan's vanguard fleet was all steam-powered ships. This was obtained from the Governor's Mansion after Xu Qingyuan became the commander of the vanguard army.

When Xu Qingyuan first saw these steam warships, he deeply liked this new power.

In his opinion, this is the future, this is the Armada of the future.

A person who does not understand naval warfare cannot understand the heartfelt joy of a naval commander when he encounters such a warship.

If the previous attack on the Ning Dynasty by the Grand Governor made him feel a little too arrogant, after seeing this kind of steam warship, he no longer had such thoughts.

The Tianzhu Army even designed such a terrible warship, so what are they afraid of? After all, this era is still an era of the law of the jungle, and Tianzhu, who has strength, should have the confidence to dominate this era.

The Grand Governor has such a weapon of great destruction, and he has not yet invaded Manraka, which is already merciful enough, but as a result, they even dare to attack their own envoys and give their own reasons for war - this, there is no way, it can only be said that King Ning is too bad luck and has provoked the wrong person.

Now that the Metropolitan Governor is brazenly invading Manraka with the army of the navy and army, it is the rightful power of the strong.

Yes, that's the logic.

The Tianzhu Naval Division, which has two weapons of great destruction, steam warships and rifled guns, is an invincible sword of the Tianzhu Army. With such power, it is incomprehensible not to invade the outside world.

Previously, Tianzhu had been pointing the direction of expansion to the west, and what was so attractive about the poor and remote areas of Yanzhou was that they needed to exhaust their own manpower and material resources for long-term development, so how could they directly go east and occupy a rich place like Manraka.

Those aristocratic bigwigs in Tianzhu officialdom may never dare to have such thoughts.

But these generals of the military, who have risen from the bottom, have no such scruples.

The Age of Discovery is the era of the jungle, and if you have strength, you should enjoy everything.

This is the logic of Xu Qingyuan and his military generals.

In the eyes of sailor generals like Xu Qingyuan, the combination of these two big killing weapons is simply invincible.

In fact, although the Tianzhu Naval Division was fully equipped with artillery, it did not allow the Tianzhu Naval Division to occupy an absolute advantage in the confrontation with the Ningwang Naval Division, and although the range and super accuracy of rifled guns in naval combat were extremely terrifying, they were not enough to make the battleship tactics with a large number of artillery in this era fall into absolute disadvantage.

This is also the reason why when the enemy attacked the envoy in the South Seas, the envoy fleet also had rifled guns, but it could only give the enemy great damage, but could not completely defeat the enemy.

But if this terrible artillery is transferred to the steam warship, then your own sailors will be reborn on the battlefield in no time.

The superior maneuverability of the steam warship on the battlefield is unparalleled, which is an advantage that the traditional sail warship cannot match, and with such a warship, its fleet has the ability to launch artillery strikes outside the range of the enemy's artillery, and uses the characteristics of the new guns to hit the enemy farther and more accurately

Think about it, your own warships shell out of the enemy's range to strike at the enemy, and once the enemy chases and closes the distance, your own side quickly throws away, chases and fights, and controls the enemy forever, just like walking a dog, destroying the enemy bit by bit.

This is simply an unsolvable tactic. In this era, no enemy can crack it, as long as you don't run out of coal.

This kind of battle makes people desperate when they think about it, and Xu Qingyuan can't help but mourn for his enemies in advance.

Therefore, Xu Qingyuan got the news of the arrival of the enemy's large fleet, but he had no intention of retreating.

Although, the enemy has hundreds of warships, and his own side has only fifteen warships.

On the surface, this war looks like a huge disparity between the enemy and us, but in fact, it is indeed a disparity between the enemy and us, but in Xu Qingyuan's view, it is not that the enemy is outnumbered, but on the contrary, his own side is really strong.

The rear officials behind this who do not understand naval warfare cannot see it.

Now Xu Qingyuan is only worried that the enemy is not fast enough and not concentrated enough, so that he has no chance of annihilation in a battle, think about it, it is more than a hundred warships!

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Ahead, on the sea dozens of miles away from Xu Qingyuan's fleet, King Ning's Dinghai fleet was moving in the opposite direction, and the commander of the fleet was Cheng Kexun, the general under King Ning.

If you do the math, you should be about to take the enemy! Cheng Kesheng was thinking.

He almost poured the Dinghai Fleet out of the nest this time, but in fact, it was also a helpless move.

The attack of the Tianzhu army was too fast, so that the top and bottom of the Ning Wang Domain were a little unresponsive.

By the time everyone finally reacted, the Tianzhu army had already occupied a large port, and nearly two-thirds of the entire strait was under the shadow of the enemy's army.

His attack was already the last hope of His Royal Highness King Ning, and the only requirement was that he should resist and resist the attack of the Tianzhu army, and at least block the enemy's front in half of the strait, giving the rear up and down time to prepare. Otherwise, this fast attack of the Tianzhu Army will really have to be cleared.

It's a surprise to be caught off guard.

It is Cheng Kesheng, as the general under His Royal Highness and the governor of the navy, who has never relaxed his surveillance of Tianzhu, and he did not expect that the situation of this war would be so one-sided, it is simply invincible.

"Have you sent someone to the Zhenhai Fleet to ask? Does the Tianzhu Army have a new type of artillery? ”

Cheng Kexian asked.

The officer below hurriedly put his legs together and replied:

"Back to the governor, yes, the people of Gu Zhenhai Fleet said that in the battle of Nanyang, the Tianzhu Army was indeed equipped with a new type of artillery. The firing range of the artillery is extremely long, and it can be shelled before the range of our army, and the power of the artillery is also extremely terrifying, as far as the present point of view, the planks of our warships are all pierced by one shot, and there are no exceptions, once the enemy's artillery bombardment is at the heart of our warships, there is no escape. ”

The officer still seems to have some lingering palpitations, such a terrible artillery, fortunately, in the original battle in Nanyang, the Zhenhai Fleet was outnumbered by the crowd, or besieged the enemy's civilian ships with warships, otherwise if the fleet of the Tianzhu envoys at the beginning was full of warships, the Zhenhai Fleet itself would probably be crushed! Where is it possible to make such a fuss.

That's the case, the Zhenhai Fleet also suffered heavy losses in that battle, and finally had to give up the pursuit.

The horror of Tianzhu's sailor can be seen from this.

At the beginning, the Zhenhai Fleet only attacked the envoys, but now their Dinghai Fleet is about to compete with the enemy's real sailors.

What will be the next battle situation, these people below have no bottom.

"Humph!"

Seeing the thoughts of the people below, Cheng Ke was dissatisfied and snorted coldly.

It seems that the combat power of the Ning Wang Domain has indeed declined greatly over the years, even the generals and schools around him are like this. With such morale, how can you fight?

To those hungry wolves and tigers of the Heavenly Zhu Army!

Thinking about it this way, Cheng Kexun was also a little embarrassed.