On the sea, a fleet of ships is marching rapidly, the battle flags fluttering on the ships in the fleet, this is the Imperial Nanyang Fleet stationed in the Gulf of Siam, the southernmost border of the southern part of the Empire.

Su Chen, the commander of the fleet, stood on the deck of the flagship, with an open mind, blowing the sea breeze on the South Sea.

The Imperial Nanyang Fleet has an embarrassing status, on the one side is the Ningwang Domain, on the other side is the Jingwang Domain, and Borneo, and there are countless feudal domains on Luzon Island, and the princes in each place have some of their own private fleets.

Although the Imperial Nanyang Fleet is nominally orthodox, it is far from absolute dominance over this sea.

Therefore, among the five major fleets of the empire, the Imperial Southern Ocean Fleet ranks second to last in terms of fleet strength, second only to the Western Fleet on the other side of the Indochina Peninsula, which is almost the same as the provincial fleet in Burma Province.

But even so, the strength of the Nanyang Fleet is far from being comparable to that of the Zhenhai Fleet in Borneo, and this time when the news rushed to help, the Nanyang Fleet only dispatched one-fifth of the strength of the entire fleet, and it was all a fast fleet of patrol ships.

But even if it is a cruiser, the cruiser of the Imperial Nanyang Fleet is by no means comparable to the cruiser below the ordinary vassal princes.

The Imperial Naval Division had been regularized and standardized a few years ago, and was collectively reorganized into the Navy.

The capital ship and the cruiser are all customized according to standardization, and they are all divided into three levels, of which the largest first-class cruiser in the cruiser, the third-class cruiser, not only retains the speed of the traditional cruiser, but also greatly improves the tonnage, almost compared with the first-class battleship in the capital ship, which is also called the battleship, there are 3,500 materials.

There were five such cruisers in the Reich's South Sea Fleet.

The boat under Su Chen's feet was one of them.

This time the task of rushing to help, Su Chen had a headache.

The Anwang Domain and the Ning Wangfan actually fought, which caught an imperial general like him off guard!

No one thought that such a thing would happen in the Celestial Empire, no matter what the reason for King Ning to do such a thing, the impact on the Celestial Empire would be extremely huge.

It has been four hundred years since the Celestial Empire was officially established, and since Wu Zong was established in Dinghai back then, this has never happened until now.

When it comes to the struggle between the two major feudal kings, once this kind of similar war really starts, it will implicate millions of armies, hundreds of millions of civilians, and both of these two major feudal states, which of them have the strength to not lose to the north of the Meng Yuan, and if the two fight, one will even lead to the complete collapse of the entire vassal system of the empire.

This kind of thing is no longer something that a frontier guard like him can solve, without further ado, almost as soon as he received the report, Su Chen and several other commanders of the fleet decided to quickly transmit the news to the top.

What's more, at this juncture when the emperor of the empire is fully armed, preparing to cross the Yangtze River and launch a full-scale northern expedition against Meng Yuan, Su Chen doesn't even need to use his brain to think about it, he can imagine the anger of the emperor after getting this news, which will undoubtedly have the same effect as the imperial northern expedition.

If the Emperor was still as wise as before, he should have stopped the Northern Expedition immediately, and would rather suffer heavy losses, otherwise, once the real Northern Expedition began, I am afraid that it would be another futile effort.

The emperor of the empire should hate King Ning, Su Chen didn't know.

But the emperor was angry and bled thousands of miles, and this incident, the consequences of which will definitely not be small.

Thinking of this, even Su Chen didn't want to come to this rescue operation, but he was helpless, the four commanders of the entire empire's Nanyang Fleet, only he Su Chen was idle now, and he couldn't hide. I can only hope that the flames of His Majesty's anger will not spread to me!

That's it, Su Chen didn't expect that once this news was learned by the Tianzhu Domain, how Her Royal Highness the young and vigorous Princess Regent would react.

This big war should be better if it can be stopped in time, if it can't be stopped, the consequences, hey, it's scary to think about.

Hey, I just hope to arrive in time to save the Tianzhu people!

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The sea in the southern part of the Gulf of Siam is already boiling, and the blood and artillery fire have turned the sea water into a boiling soup.

Hundreds of warships sank in the sea, and tens of thousands of lives disappeared in the scarlet waters. The sea was littered with broken masts, ship planks, and schools of fish heard the news and devoured the corpses floating everywhere on the sea.

The Tianzhu Fleet and the Zhenhai Fleet were engaged endlessly, and both sides were exhausted.

Although Li Zhe led the fleet to get rid of the main ships of the Zhenhai Fleet in one go, it was difficult to get rid of the tail of its cruising fleet, and the two sides were entangled, and they fought all the way north until it was dark before finally getting rid of contact temporarily, and now both sides suffered the same heavy losses.

"Report to the Governor, we only have twenty boats left,"

After the war, his subordinates counted their own situation and reported it to Li Zhelai.

"Twenty boats? And what about the rest of the ships? ”

Although Li Zhe knew that the result must be miserable, he still didn't dare to accept it after he really knew it, you must know that when the fleet set off from Mengzhou, there were sixty-nine of them!

"Maybe they were sunk, some escaped when it got dark, and now, we can't know for sure." The subordinate replied, "There is also the warship fleet led by Commander Shi who was ordered to divert the enemy's main force, and it has been lost since the afternoon. ”

Everyone fell into a long silence, Shi Minglun's fleet took the initiative to attack the enemy's main force because it attracted troops for the main fleet, and was surrounded by the enemy's main force of the cruising fleet, and the end was probably self-evident. This attack at sea was really tragic, it was really tragic.

When it came, less than a third of the original huge fleet was reduced in one day.

The vast majority of the Tianzhu people here have probably never thought of suffering such an encounter, and over the years, the Tianzhu people have never fought such a miserable battle, and they almost feel like the whole army is annihilated.

If it weren't for the fact that the rest of the people here are all the core figures of all families and races, it is really impossible to lose, with the blood of these Tianzhu people, and even have the heart to go back to the enemy to fight desperately again, the Tianzhu people can fail on the battlefield, but they have never fought this kind of battle, where would everyone think that they would be attacked in the inland sea of the empire, let alone that the attack would be the empire's fleet.

Everyone has a fire in their hearts.

King Ning never imagined that his attack not only did not achieve its goal, but made all the people here hate the same enemy, he completely offended all the people here this time, even the local princes in the fleet who were not very obedient to Li Zhe were really standing together with Li Zhe and his family at this moment.

"Well, you don't need to panic, now that we are safe, the enemy will not be able to attack us at night, and when it is dawn tomorrow, our reinforcements will come."

Li Zhe comforted the original son-in-law buddy.

Hmph, Zhenhai Fleet, King Ning, our hatred this time will not die, Li Zhe said to himself in his heart.