Bai Rilun knew that it was useless to say anything now, and all that could be done now was to mobilize the whole people and prepare for war. Forts have been built www.biquge.info and large ballistas have been installed in various important places along the Far Eastern coast. Now all the thunderbolts used by the Celestial Wolf Khanate have been reloaded with explosives invented by Richard, and they are much more powerful. The Urakan defense line increased again, and the two sides were ssabre-rattling across the defense line, and for a time the clouds of war on both sides of the defense line were thick.

There was a panic in the Celestial Wolf Khanate, and many of the troops fled into the old camp of Hongjila Mountain, and Baolig took the three-year-old Hubil and led a large group of noble families to take refuge in the old camp of the Golden Wolf Department of Hongjila Mountain, which was an arrangement made by Bai Rilun as a last resort.

At this time, the judgment of Greety and Richard was skewed, and Reason sensed that the Divine Dragon Empire would definitely come from the sea. And Bai Rilun felt that the Urakan defense line was the focus of the attack of the Shenlong Empire, and the two leaders-level figures had a heated debate about it, and finally under the adjustment of Uqimai, the force was divided into two. Richard and Uqimai guarded the sea frontier, and Bai Rilun personally visited the Urakan defense line to supervise the battle.

Richard's three sea-going ships were converted into warships after repairs, and although they couldn't compare with the Imperial Navy's SEAL-class battleships, they were better than nothing, at least the patrol warning was still fine. Due to the imminent arrival of the Great War, the experiments of assault guns and mortars, as well as the development of field guns, which were in the stage of attacking fortified positions, could only be temporarily suspended.

The waves rolled over the sea, and under the leadership of a Sea Dragon-class battleship, the Tenglong, thirty SEAL-class battleships and fifty transport ships lined up in formation to ride the wind and waves towards the Far East. A young rear admiral on the command platform of the Dragon is looking ahead with binoculars.

Liu Fanglie, the first batch of top students who graduated from the Imperial Naval Academy, was promoted to the commander of the First Northern Fleet of the Imperial Navy at the age of less than 30 and was awarded the rank of rear admiral. This is unique among the students of the same period.

Although he was born in Youzhou, a military child who is far away from the sea, he has a soft spot for the blue ocean. When he applied for the military academy, he applied for the naval academy despite his father's opposition and became the first naval officer in this cavalry family.

Perhaps it is precisely because of all kinds of obstacles that Liu Fanglie cherishes the opportunity he has won so hard. As a result, the results in each subject are among the best, and a perfect score record has been set so far that no one has broken so far. It is precisely because of this that Liu Fanglie was personally commended by the Emperor Yan Hui when he graduated, and when Yan Hui asked him which fleet he thought of, Liu Fanglie did not hesitate to choose the Northern Fleet, and his reason was: "I want to become a naval marshal." ”

This sentence made all the students enthusiastic, and Yan Hui's eyes lit up, and he rewarded Liu Fanglie with his sword. In this way, Liu Fanglie came to the Northern Fleet, starting from the vice admiral of the transport ship, step by step from the captain of the patrol boat, the captain of the patrol ship, and the captain of the main battleship until he became the commander of the First Fleet of the North.

Murong Feng, the marshal of the Navy and the chief of the Navy, once commented on Liu Fanglie.

"This general is like a horse, and he will succeed in every battle, and he is really a first-class handsome man in the navy."

This evaluation is not ordinarily high, Liu Fanglie can be favored by the emperor and the marshal of the navy, which shows that his ability is extremely outstanding. Murong Feng once strongly asked Yan Hui to send Liu Fanglie to Hongyi Prefecture, starting with the staff officer of the headquarters, and focusing on cultivating Liu Fanglie's strategic command ability. But because of this Perfume War, Liu Fanglie temporarily stayed in the Northern Fleet to participate in the war. It was also in this battle that the future second marshal of the Shenlong Empire's navy shined, and Liu Fanglie's name spread all over the world.

In fact, the main purpose of the Shenlong Empire in launching this war was to test the power of the new equipment of the Imperial Army, and at the same time, it was also to suppress the Heavenly Wolf Khanate in accordance with the established policy.

The Imperial Cabinet found that the present situation was very advantageous for the Empire, because it did not have to spend huge sums of money to station and maintain an army in the Far East, and the benefits from it were not significant. The empire does not have to worry about how to maintain stability in the Far East, and it does not need to be vigilant about the rebellion of the Rong tribe that may occur at any time, but only needs to find a reason to knock the Celestial Wolf Khanate from time to time, and gradually get what the empire wants.

For these reasons, the war plan formulated by the Imperial General Senate was not aimed at destroying the Celestial Wolf Khanate, but at maximizing its benefits. Therefore, the focus of the war was indeed on the Urakan Line, as Oriren had predicted, and the navy only played the role of blockade and coordination. But it was precisely because the front-line commander of the Imperial Navy was Liu Fanglie that this war, which was originally dominated by land battles, turned into an attack on the mainland of the Heavenly Wolf Khanate from the sea.

The topography of the Far East has a special aspect, with a wide Melinchu River bisecting the Far East in two. The two big cities in the Far East, the Great Khan City (Jingyuan) and the Wolf King City (Zhenyuan), are in Hebei and Henan respectively. Now Baizhilun is stationed in the Wolf King City to command the defense of the Urakan Line, and Richard is in charge of the defense of the Far Eastern coast in the Great Khan City.

After synthesizing all aspects of intelligence, Liu Fanglie found a good way to cut off the connection between Greeil and Richard in one fell swoop and divide the Far East into two. That is, after going upstream along the Meilinchu River and destroying the dozens of pontoon bridges built by Bai Rilun on the Meilinchu River, the First Fleet of the Northern Empire can easily control the entire Meilinchu River basin and attack the two big cities at will. After Liu Fanglie studied it carefully, he reported his battle plan to the Imperial General Senate. Originally, Liu Fanglie could wait until the General Senate approved the attack before starting the offensive as planned. But when he led the fleet to the coast of the Far East, he was discovered by three warships of the Sirius Khanate.

As the saying goes, the general will not be affected by the king's life abroad, and once the fighter misses it, the consequences are unimaginable. So Liu Fanglie seized this opportunity and led the fleet to surround the three warships of the Heavenly Wolf Khanate. Although these three ships were equipped with improved ballistas, they were simply vulnerable to the new naval guns of the Imperial Navy.

The naval guns of the Imperial Navy were replaced at the same time as the new types of artillery used by the army, and because Shen Zhi and Long Shengshi solved the difficulties in the metalworking process, all the types of artillery used by the Imperial Army and Navy were now changed to steel barrels, and the previous heavy bronze artillery was eliminated. Steel artillery can be said to be a qualitative leap in artillery equipment, in addition to reducing the weight of the artillery itself, the toughness and solidity of steel also give full play, which also means that compared with bronze guns, the new artillery is lighter, the caliber is larger, the power is more powerful, and the firing range is longer.

The ammunition equipped with the new artillery has also made great progress, from a single explosive shell to three types of explosive shells, armor-piercing shells and grenades, which can be bombed with different shells for different targets.

The First Fleet was the first to use armor-piercing shells in battles with the three ships of the Sirius Khanate. As the name suggests, an armor-piercing shell is a shell that can penetrate the target and explode inside the target. The First Fleet only used one salvo, and the three warships of the Celestial Wolf Khanate were reduced to debris floating on the sea, so they did not have time to convey the news of the Imperial Navy's attack to Richard in time.

After Liu Fanglie accurately judged the current situation, he sent five warships and ten transport ships to blockade Hailizi to contain Riccha, and personally led the remaining warships to quickly approach the mouth of the Meilinchu River. And in the early morning of the next day, a fierce attack was launched on the batteries at the mouth of the sea.

As the artillery batteries of the Celestial Wolf Khanate were destroyed one after another, the passage of the First Fleet into the Merlinchu River was opened, and Liu Fanglie's fleet smoothly went upriver along the Merinchu River, becoming the first imperial army to enter the territory of the Celestial Wolf Khanate.

On the bank of the Meilinchu River, fifty miles outside the Wolf King City, people on more than 30 pontoon bridges shouted horses. The troops and supplies mobilized by the Celestial Wolf Khanate are converging on the south bank through the pontoon bridge to the Wolf King City on the south bank. In three days, 100,000 Heavenly Wolf Riders and countless supplies had been transported to Wolf King City. Temporary warehouses of supplies were also piled up on both sides of the Merlinchu River in order to transport supplies to the other side as soon as possible. Just when the wolf riders passed the pontoon bridge in an orderly manner under the command of their respective captains, the wolf riders on the pontoon bridge closest to the mouth of the sea found dozens of huge warships in their sight.

"Sirius God, what is that, is it a warship? How could there be such a big warship? ”

"It's not good, it's the naval fleet of the Divine Dragon Empire, run wow!"

For a while, there was chaos on the pontoon, some ran to the south bank, and some turned around and ran back. For a while, the pontoon bridge was crowded, and many wolf riders and war horses were squeezed off the pontoon bridge and fell into the river.

"The fleet was arranged in a double column, and the warships on both sides bombarded both sides, first destroying the enemy's ballista positions and supplies, and then bombarding the enemy's living forces. The Zhenhai ship and the Zhenjiang ship were ordered to destroy the pontoon bridge with Ben Shuai. The whole army fires freely, regardless of ammunition consumption. ”

"The officers and men of the First Northern Fleet of the Imperial Navy, the opportunity to make contributions is right in front of us, let us use today's achievements to create a new glory for the Imperial Northern Fleet! Victory for the Empire! ”

With Liu Fanglie's order, the First Fleet immediately adjusted its formation. The name of the Meilinchu River is a river, but in terms of width, it is okay to call it a large river. The First Fleet set up a formation on the wide river, and the Tenglong led the Zhenhai and Zhenjiang ships to crash towards the pontoon bridge at high speed.

The SEAL-class battleships lined up suddenly turned into monsters that were constantly spewing smoke and fire, and shells accurately smashed into the crowds on both sides of the river, the material warehouses and the ballista positions. A huge roar drowned out all sounds, and as the smoke and flames rose, the Rongbu Celestial Wolf Riders gathered on both sides of the Merlin Chu River were shrouded in the shadow of death.

The bow gun of the Tenglong opened the record, and with a single shot, a pontoon bridge was blown in two, and the three battleships went on a rampage, and the pontoon bridge that was too close was not bombarded by naval guns at all, and was cut off by a huge steel angle of attack in a boom. The three battleships, including the Dragon, crisscrossed like three tigers jumping into a flock of sheep, and it didn't take long to cut off all the pontoons. The entire fleet moved slowly, firing cannonballs. At this time, a raging fire had already ignited on both sides of the Meilinchu River, and black smoke wrapped in a huge explosion went straight into the sky. From the beginning of the offensive to the present, not a single bolt fired by the ballista team of the Sirius Khanate has been able to fly to the head of the First Fleet.

After receiving the news, Bai Rilun in the wolf king city led the golden wolf to the river. But he could only reach a distance of five miles from the riverbank, and he could no longer go forward. Everywhere there were burns and explosions, everywhere there were blown up broken arms and stumps, everywhere there were dying wails. Before the Celestial Wolf Khanate and the Divine Dragon Empire officially started, they were stabbed by the Imperial Navy in the heartland.

"Navy! I want the Navy! I want a strong navy! Without a navy, the Sirius Khanate is a lamb to the slaughter. Without a navy, the Sirius Khanate is a person who has been choked by the neck, and no matter how much he struggles, it will be useless. Ordering everyone to leave the shore and stop salvaging supplies would only be a waste of death. Ordered to build a defensive line ten miles from the river bank to prevent the Imperial Navy from landing. Someone came, found a way to contact Richard, and ordered him to defend the north bank to protect the Great Khan City. ”

A group of golden wolf horsemen led the way, and they ran around the battlefield to the upper reaches of the river, crossed the Merlinchu River from Teller Bank, and went up to the north bank to find Richard to convey the order to pay homage.

At this time, on the Meilinchu River, the artillery fire of the First Fleet gradually thinned out, and all ships were looking for valuable targets to replenish their guns, and the banging gunfire continued to sound, and the wolf riders who were still struggling in the water sank to the bottom of the river with bloody holes all over their bodies. The First Fleet annihilated nearly 60,000 Celestial Wolf Cavalry in a single sortie, destroyed a large amount of supplies, and most importantly, cut off the connection between the north and south banks of the Celestial Wolf Khanate. (To be continued.) )