To be sure, this was no ordinary merchant ship, for the large ship had an astonishing three chimneys and a huge size, and there were a large number of small-caliber guns installed on the side of the ship, and through the binoculars, the officers on the other ships observed that the ship was all uniformly dressed soldiers!

Soon, the ship sent a small boat carrying seven or eight soldiers to the 501 ship, and after boarding the ship, the soldiers of the 501 ship found that these people were all Germans, because their uniforms were exactly the same as those German officers in the Nanyang Military Academy, and in the strange eyes of the soldiers, Qin Kai welcomed these people into the command room very happily!

The German took out an official document and exchanged it with a document held by Qin Kai, and then introduced himself: "General Qin, I am Colonel Frederick of the Far East Fleet of the German Navy, and I am entrusted by the German Admiralty to assist the Admiral in your actions!" ”

Frederick ...... This is the surname of the ancient Aryan family, and it can be seen that this is a serious soldier, Qin Kai nodded, and said sternly: "Colonel Frederick, I hope to cooperate with you sincerely on this trip, this cooperation relationship is related to the interests of the German Empire in the Far East, I guess I don't need to emphasize this point again!" ”

"General Qin, there is no doubt about this!" Colonel Frederick glanced at the Chinese officer in front of him and replied loudly.

Qin Kai smiled slightly and glanced at Colonel Frederick, "That's good, let's take a look at the plan!" First of all, there are two points, the first point, if this trip is not necessary, there is no need to hang the German flag, and the next day, the planned time, please be absolutely punctual! ”

"General Qin, you can be completely sure of this, I promise you this in the name of the family!"

Qin Kai glanced at Lu Han who looked strange next to him, and smiled, "Colonel Frederick, this route is piloted by me, and after a long time, you will need to act alone on one of the routes, no problem!" ”

Frederick almost disdained to answer Qin Kai's very simple request, but he nodded in the affirmative.

"Very well, let's get started!" Qin Kai took out a chart and spread it on the table......

The fleet anchored at Keelung Harbor for a long time, and then continued all the way south, the world map of this era is not new, even the most remote Australia has long been occupied by British sheep, and British sheep wool has given birth to the huge British textile industry crazy expansion.

Chen Mo, the commander of the "Chaowu" ship, also returned from overseas in his early years, and naturally knew that there were countless islands and continents under Taiwan, China.

However, the huge fleet sailed through this silent sea, which made his heart surging with passion, since the last naval battle, he was sure that he had finally found the place where his dream was placed, and on this way, it was a good time to train the troops, and when the battleship started, the training of the soldiers on the "super force" ship did not stop.

You know, these more than 30 kilograms of 150mm shells can not be moved casually, even a strong soldier is impossible to operate continuously, but for how to quickly complete the loading, he has worked out a set of methods, two gunners, a controller, plus 5 loaders to form a gun crew on the battleship, and the corresponding cannon has two gun crews, taking turns to shoot!

This ensures that the artillery continues to attack the enemy at a rate of 4-5 rounds per minute, and each time you complete the task of firing 25 shells, you need to change to a new firing group, and the free time is just right to cool the artillery with water cooling, so as to maintain the fastest rate of fire of the artillery!

And these experiences were recorded and sent to Qin Kai's side, and after the practical promotion of the pipe belts of each ship, good results were achieved, and the operation level of the officers and men of each ship was effectively improved, which made Chen Mo now quite famous for training.

Compared with Chen Mo, Lu Zhiyuan, the pipe band of the "Chengqing", is a standard unrestrained officer, he was born in Qin Kai's student soldiers, graduated from the driving class in the back hall of Mawei, and has a strong interest in the sea......

After two days and two nights of sailing, the fleet has been heading south, and finally in the morning light of the third day, a large area of land appeared in front of the huge fleet and at the end of the field of vision. ,

To be honest, the living conditions of this 501 ship are really bad, due to the 6 heavy guns, the living space of the sailors is more and more cramped, the officer, soldier rest room is at the front of the cabin, crowded, and the bow of the cabin is an integral large grid, each large grid to accommodate 40-50 soldiers to rest, so except for sleeping, almost nothing can be done inside!

The standard staffing of the 501 ship is 310 people, and it is indeed not easy to squeeze out such a number of people, Qin Kai also thought about finding a small room. However, every available space of the entire battleship came in handy, so he could only share the lounge in the command room with Lu Han and the others, this cramped living space reminded Qin Kai of the housing conditions of the pigeon cage in the big city introduced by the books he saw in the later market, but the conditions were ten times better than the current environment!

What made him even more upset was that Lu Han turned out to be a snoring king, so Qin Kai was forced to develop the habit of going to bed early and getting up early, but the bigger reason for this is that it is thanks to the light brain, this has been more than half a year, he has also repaired twice, and the biological energy accumulated by a lot of exercise has no special effect, except for the repair of some parts, there is not much change.

And thinking of the energy spent on ballistic calculations in the last naval battle still made him firm in the concept of exercising all the time, after all, such a dangerous moment, he couldn't predict when it would appear.

In the morning light, Qin Kai had already heard the news from the lookout, he ran to the command room, and after carefully drawing on the chart, he confirmed the location of the fleet, because it should be near Bacla City in the Philippines, and the land of the Philippines in the distance is clearly visible...... Qin Kai smashed his mouth, and started dreaming of yellow sorghum, and he didn't think about the only two tonnage warships in his hand!

The fleet continued to cruise south along the coastline under the command of Lin Yunshan, and in the afternoon, the lookout post found a city in the distance, which was one of the earliest landing sites of the Spaniards in the early years, Bacla, and in later generations, a 100-year-old Bacla Yang Church here is famous, but Qin Kai is estimated to be completely uninterested in visiting this old house.

Such a large fleet of up to ten ships came along the coastline, obviously a little bit of movement, and when it was still far away from the port, two steamships flying the red and yellow Spanish flag had already appeared in the distance, slowly approaching with black smoke!

Obviously, the other party doesn't know the flag fluttering on the 501 ship, because it is the five-star red flag that Mawei Shipping Company has been hoisting, but for this mighty ironclad battleship, the other party obviously knows how powerful, this era is ...... The ironclad is the embodiment of the strongest maritime force!

After approaching, unexpectedly, the other party did not ask anything, but simply waved the flag and signaled the fleet to follow into the port, obviously, Qin Kai smiled slightly, this Spaniard is also a smart person, they realize that for such an amazing fleet, it is a stupid act to show force or intimidation!

After approaching the port, Qin Kai soon discovered that although Bacla was the earliest Spanish colony, the business environment here was not ideal, and after a few shopkeepers of the shipping company went ashore with a guide to find a trader, they gave up the idea of looking for trading partners here.

The local Spanish officials soon came to the door, and after seeing the huge and thick barrels of the 501 ship, several Spanish soldiers armed with breech rifles were much more deferential, and they knew better than many people about the meaning of this maritime power in this once empire on which the sun never set.

The leader was a Spanish ensign, Qin Kai didn't embarrass them, after showing a document that the Spaniards couldn't understand at all, he asked a guide to follow the ensign to go through the formalities, and politely sent some small gifts, and the soldiers went down happily, and kept saying "Mi to the tower to die...... Mi to the tower to die".

Qin Kai couldn't speak Spanish, but this simple conversation could be explained to him with just his brain, and he also said "Mi to Ta Die" to say goodbye to the Spaniards lamely.

Lu Han saw a few Spanish soldiers walking away, and asked curiously: "Gale Wind, you don't even understand the words of this Spaniard!" What is this rice, what does Shenma mean? ”

"Gengtang, I only know a sentence or two, is this too much? Mi to Ta to die?! That's what I mean by I love you! Qin Kai said with a laugh, and Lu Han rolled his eyes when he heard it! ,

Before leaving Bacla, Qin Kai found Major Frederick again to discuss, and then the huge fleet quickly left the port and went straight to the scheduled next destination-Olongapo and Subic Bay.

The two-day voyage was very fast, and when the long fleet sailed into Subic Bay, Qin Kai could be regarded as seeing with his own eyes the best military port in the South China Sea and even the South Pacific.

At this time, the Spaniards had discovered the strategic importance of this port, and the Spanish fleet was stationed in Subic Bay and Negros Island, but in this era, the era of Spanish galleons had long passed, and in the face of emerging European powers, Spain had long lost the prestige of its early years and became one of the second-rate countries in Europe.

However, when this huge fleet sailed into Subic Bay, it still attracted the attention of the Spanish Far East Fleet stationed here, and a fast cruiser slowly approached the leading 501 ironclad after giving the signal to negotiate, and after a lengthy boarding question, the Spanish fast cruiser led the fleet into the harbor.

Qin Kai stood in the bridge, holding a telescope to drive this large expanse of incomparably open deep-water harbor, and said with a smile to Lu Han, who was also looking around, "Cousin Geng, this is a treasure land!" ”

Lu Han pursed his lips, looked around and said, "Gale Wind, there's nothing special here!" Why do you have to travel all the way here? It's too far away from our ponytail! ”

Qin Kai looked at this guy with great disdain, he really didn't have good eyesight, but it was no wonder that Lu Han, after all, there were still only a handful of enemies in the Qing Kingdom, and relying on the huge coastline, he could attack from any point, and there was no need to open up overseas ports at all, but this was still an era of the jungle, and after a few years, it would be difficult to change!

"Gengtang, we have to look farther, maybe in a few years, more than ten years later, we can come here to recuperate and vacation, wouldn't it be a good trip!"

Lu Han launched a BS gaze, this Qin Liefeng, when is it, he is still thinking about Youzai, but listening to Qin Kai say that this is very important, he still carefully observed the Spanish warships that appeared in the port from time to time! Then he ran to the chart in the middle of the command room and drew it.

After berthing at the port, the treasurers of the shipping company hurriedly got off the ship and began to be busy exploring, the most important thing in this business is the news, and as one of the important cities in the Philippines, Manila is also close to Subic Bay, undoubtedly to establish a commodity distribution point here, is a very good choice.

In the evening, the shopkeeper Li who was in charge of the maritime trade in the Philippine direction had already come to Qin Kai to report, Olongapo, where Subic Bay is located, has a very developed business and is a good transit point for goods, and there are many local overseas Chinese businessmen, and there are two overseas Chinese merchants who come to the door to do business today.

Hearing this, Qin Kai was still a little surprised, he didn't expect that the Chinese businessmen were still stubborn survivors in this land! In his time and space, the Philippines, an extremely anti-Chinese country, from the beginning of the rule of the Spaniards in the 17th century to the more than 300 years when the world entered the era of civilization, there were more than ten collective massacres against the Chinese.

Especially in the early 20th century, starting from the earliest Spaniards and later Americans, they all regarded the dispersal and persecution of overseas Chinese as a national policy.

From the 17th century to the early 19th century, the collective persecution and even massacre of the Chinese became the norm for the Spaniards and natives who ruled the area, and there was a horrific mass murder almost every twenty or thirty years, and the number of victims reached a terrible figure of 50,000!

What is even more disgusting is that the natives of these islands have an incomprehensible hostile attitude towards the Chinese who brought prosperity to them, which definitely belongs to what was written in later textbooks - extremely narrow nationalism! Thinking of this, thinking of these Chinese compatriots living in such a miserable environment, Qin Kai immediately made a decision.