Since ancient times, one country to attack another country requires long-term and careful preparation, before setting off, we must send a sacrificial message, sacrifice to heaven and earth, and inform the enemy and us in an extremely solemn form of using troops to go out on the expedition.

However, Fang Chen is different, since the 21st century, the military theory education he has received is of a purely utilitarian nature, surpassing this era.

King Ning's idea that Tianzhu would make a big splash before the war and how much momentum he made was pure speculation and was very wrong. Li Zhe did not think that he had the need and obligation to inform his war partners before the war.

So when King Ning and the ministers of the Great Song Dynasty were waiting to fight with Tianzhu first, the war had already begun in a way that they could not understand.

"Shameless, shameless! It's a sneak attack, it's a pure sneak attack! ”

Banda Aceh, the first city at the top of the Manraka Strait, was set on fire by the flames of war almost without warning, and the governor of Banda Aceh, a subordinate of King Ning, paced back and forth in the governor's palace, raging with rage.

As the first line in the face of Tianzhu, the governor was not unprepared, in fact, when the pigeon letter from Dinghai came ten days ago, the governor began to prepare.

But no one would have thought that the Tianzhu Army Navy would come so quickly that it was simply caught off guard.

Almost in the blink of an eye, he defeated the sailors of the port, surrounded the port, and quickly made the governor change his mind and want to run, but he didn't succeed.

As a result, he is now trapped in a lonely city, what should he do?

Opposite him stood the prefect of Banda Aceh and the commander of the local garrison of the naval division, who had just returned from defeat at sea.

When the prefect heard the bad news, he carefully pursed his lips and said:

"It shouldn't be like this, it shouldn't be like this. It is winter now, the monsoon current is not in the right direction, which is not good for the army, and the Tianzhu army should not start a war at this time. ”

When the governor heard this, he stopped, and said:

"I also know that this is the case, and I also know that it shouldn't, but Tianzhu's army is just stopping outside my port, why don't you tell me why."

The commander of the sailor, who had been silent just now, raised his head cautiously,

"Maybe I know why."

"Oh?"

When the governor heard this, his eyes swept over his subordinate, and saw that he had obviously just come down from the battlefield, and the dignified commander of the sailor actually had a hole in his body, although he was not seriously injured, but looking at the nervous and sad look on this person's face, he knew that what he had experienced just now must have been a fiasco.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for a dignified army commander to be like this in any case.

Although the governor thought that most of his men would be defeated when they encountered the Tianzhu people, he did not expect to be defeated to this extent.

Now that he hears him, he even knows why, isn't it?

The Governor nodded, motioning for the guy to explain.

The Commander of the Sailors paused, his face still showing the same panic

"I saw the warships of the Tianzhu people, which were very different from our ordinary warships, and they all felt like monsters, and those warships didn't even have sails on them! Without sails, do you want it? So my men were defeated by a bunch of monsters that didn't even need the wind at all.

So, that's it, this group of monster ships doesn't even need a monsoon to act. Billowing black smoke billowed from their tops, galloping across the sea, and we couldn't fight them. ”

Speaking of this, the commander of the sailor couldn't help but think of the situation when he led his subordinates to fight the enemy, the enemy's kind of steamship, of course, the ship here is not the steam ironclad ship, the ironclad ship is an important hole card in Li Zhe's hand, this time against Manraka, Li Zhe has not planned to release it.

The naval division of the Weiyuan Army fighting against the Banda Aceh Naval Division was not large, only about fifteen ships, but when fighting the enemy, it showed combat effectiveness far beyond the scale.

With steam power, the Weiyuan Army Naval Division easily rushed into the enemy's battle formation, relying on the advantage of mobility to shuttle back and forth in the enemy formation, cutting through the formation of the Banda Aceh Naval Division.

The Banda Aceh Naval Division was almost completely ineffective and was divided and surrounded by the Weiyuan Army Naval Division.

The new artillery and shells of the Weiyuan Army's naval division became the finale of this vanguard water war, and the super penetration and accuracy of the rifled guns, coupled with the new white phosphorus incendiary bombs for naval warfare newly launched by the Gun Factory of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, almost became the nemesis of these old bloated and slow-moving sail wooden warships.

At every moment, a large flame ignited, and in the end, the ships of the Banda Aceh Naval Division became huge torches burning on the sea, and the sky-high fire burned almost through the Andaman Sea, and the defenders on the harbor could be seen from a distance. The burning men who ran and screamed everywhere on the decks of the huge fireships jumped from time to time from under the side of the warships several feet high.

The sailors screaming and waiting for death in the sea of fire have become a nightmare for countless people in the port.

So after the naval battle, the harbor defenders surrendered almost obediently after the slightest resistance, and they did not want to let that terrible artillery fall on their heads.

The commander of the vanguard army of the Weiyuan Army, the commander of the naval division of the Weiyuan Army, General Xu Qingyuan, stepped on this land with riding boots,

"Banda Aceh!"

His eyes shone with a light full of ambition and desire, and the city of Banda Aceh fell into the hands of the crusading army in just three hours, which shows that this undeclared war formulated by the Metropolitan Governor was completely appropriate.

Otherwise, where would the crusading army set foot on the land of Manraka so easily, although Banda Aceh is small, it is an unusually solid foundation in the eyes of the crusading army.

The first battle of this expedition.

This battle was completed by Xu Qingyuan so beautifully, and he would definitely be smeared with a full stroke in the post-war merit book, so that he didn't worry that his name would not be able to enter the eyes of the governor, and it was not in vain that Xu Qingyuan took great pains to win the position of the commander of the vanguard of this army.

Behind Xu Qingyuan's vanguard army, a dense fleet of fish-like ships appeared on the sea outside the port of Banda Aceh, and most of the flotilla was loaded with materials and personnel for the subsequent expansion of the port and the construction of forts.

It has been hundreds of years, and this is the first time that the Tianzhu army has set foot on the land of Manraka.

But as long as the Weiyuan Army is allowed to set foot on this land, it will not go again.

For hundreds of years, the Weiyuan Army has been fighting in the east and west, and it is far away!

No matter where they go, the soldiers of the Weiyuan Army will remember their oath, and the place where the flag of the Weiyuan Army is located is the land of the empire!