"Now that it's already started, let's keep fighting!"

Emperor Yang said indifferently. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Well, from this moment on, the Ming Dynasty and the Ottoman Empire officially entered a state of war, as for the next thing, there is no need for His Majesty the Emperor to worry about it, he has a general staff that has been effectively running for more than ten years, and a powerful army that has not tasted defeat for more than ten years, countless generals and soldiers will go all out for his will, how can His Majesty the Emperor personally worry about it.

He wasn't in a hurry anyway.

The Ming conquest of the Ottoman Empire would be Javanese, or it could also be said to be purge-style, as Brigade Commander Xie, who was doing this work at this time, said......

Morality?

Let's finish this wave first.

Therefore, this war is not destined to be too fast, because every time the Ming army takes a step forward, it will step on countless corpses and bones, and create countless killings, until everything on the land under their feet will forever submit to the Ming Empire. They will kill a lot of people, they will burn a lot of villages, they will destroy a lot of cities, and for the first time the ancient peoples from the East will play the role of destroyers, and this time they will throw away everything they once thought was a virtue, like all the barbarians who have tried to destroy them again and again, and then carry a bloody butcher's knife like a devil......

Anyway, it's not a big deal.

Nothing has to be a first time, good people have been doing it for so long, it's not bad to learn to be a bad guy!

Emperor Yang looked at the sky very indifferently.

Today's sunlight is a little too strong, standing on the deck that has been baked for a long time, you can even feel the temperature under your feet, the steel plate painted white next to it exudes a scorching heat, and the two huge black cannon barrels reflect the dazzling sunlight, but a three-flowered cat is still indifferently strolling on the cannon barrel, not taking His Majesty the Emperor who is close at hand in the slightest.

"Your Majesty, it's too hot outside, why don't we go into the cabin and have a look?"

Next to him, Xu Shou said cautiously.

"It's nice here!"

Emperor Yang stood there with a look of relief as he walked with his cane, like an old landlord who admired the rice barns full of rice during the harvest season.

At his feet is a brand-new giant battleship, the white-painted superstructure extends backwards on the teak deck, unlike other Ming warships, this giant ship has completely lost its sails, although it still has two masts in the front and rear, but it is no longer designed to hang sails, in fact, no matter how the two masts hang the sails, they cannot drive a giant ship nearly thirty zhang long, with a full load displacement of up to 10,000 tons according to the Ming symbol......

Well, this is his ironclad.

Originally, he expected that the two Dingyuan-class ironclad ships would be completed in at least five years, but it was obvious that he underestimated the industrial strength of the Ming Dynasty at this time, and the Changguo Naval Shipyard, which was responsible for the construction, only took a little more than three years to build the first one for him, as for the second one, it was only because the dock construction was a little late, so it started two months late, and it took almost a month to complete, in the words of the shipyard manager, it was mainly the first time to build, so the experience was still relatively lacking, and the second batch was estimated to be about the same for two and a half years at most.

And in Yang Feng's plans, he will build at least twenty-four such warships.

Even in his plan, the construction of the next generation of battleships will be carried out within twenty years, and he is ready to simply go directly to the steam turbine, but the development of this thing has just started, and he is not ready to provide additional help, all of which will be handed over to the scientists trained by Daming himself, so it is not very certain whether it can be built within twenty years, anyway, there is no pressure, after all, even this one is one hundred and fifty years advanced.

Of course, these two ships are definitely different from the original historical Dingyuan and Zhenyuan.

Although they also have the same name.

The full load displacement is 10,000 tons, that is, 6,000 tons of the European standard, two horizontal reciprocating steam engines, six kerosene mixed boilers, the maximum power is 7,600 horsepower under normal circumstances, the fastest speed is 17 nautical miles, and the endurance is as high as 5,000 nautical miles when it is ten knots. The main reason is the kerosene mixed boiler, which is now the standard configuration of the Ming warship, and the simple coal-fired boiler has been disdained by the generals, in fact, they are now strongly demanding the development of a special oil-fired boiler.

Anyway, Imperial Oil is pumping this thing like pumping water in Brunei, so why do you have to burn coal if you have oil?

As for the protection, it is also steel-faced wrought iron.

The waterline armor is seven inches thick, that is, two hundred and twenty-four millimeters, and the armor of the artillery shield and the command tower is six inches, that is, one hundred and ninety-two millimeters, which is far weaker than the Beiyang version of Dingzhen, but there are no shells that can penetrate them in this era, not to mention the European smoothbore guns and those twenty-four pound rifled guns purchased from the Ming Dynasty, even if the Ming Dynasty's own five-inch guns, and even the seven-inch cannons of the Longyamen are difficult to penetrate.

In fact, such protection is already wasteful, and in this day and age it can be said to be completely indestructible.

And its firepower is also weaker than the Beiyang version of Dingzhen.

The gun layout of this giant battleship is similar to theirs, except that the bow has become a twin five-inch gun, and on the ear stands on both sides, there is also a twin five-inch gun, and the stern is also a twin five-inch gun, which means that the main weapon of this battleship is a total of eight five-inch guns.

Cannon cannon.

There is no closed turret.

That thing is too heavy, it spins too slowly, and hundreds of tons of behemoths, including cannons, want to turn at will, it is not an easy thing, and it is completely unnecessary, this battleship will have no opponents at sea, they are invincible enough even if they are not equipped with artillery and just rely on ramming, in fact, it is indeed equipped with underwater angles of attack.

Of course, it also does not have a complex bomb feeding mechanism.

That is still too high-end for the current technical level of Daming, especially the design of the internal structure, which is still a huge test for the designers at this time, so there is only a simple cannonball lifting device, after all, the cannonball has to weigh hundreds of pounds, and it is difficult for manpower to carry it at will.

In addition to these eight main guns, there are also twelve four-inch secondary guns, which are mounted on six small ear stands on both sides, which are also gun guns, and then there are eight rapid-fire guns, and there are also four new machine guns, which are actually ten-barreled Gatlings, which, like rapid-fire guns, are mainly used to wash decks, bully ordinary boats, and deal with targets that are not worth dealing with with naval guns. In fact, this thing is also very useful for wooden sail ships, because the distance of the latter is only a few hundred meters, and at such a distance the armor-piercing shells of rapid-fire guns are enough to penetrate the planks of most warships, and then use the furious fire to clean the sailors in the cabin.

In other words, even the smallest guns on the Dingyuan-class battleships were fatal to the wooden sail battleships of Europe.

"This is the majesty of the Empire!"

Yang Feng said with emotion.

Now the only thing that prevents him from conquering Europe is the distance, which can wait for the completion of the Suez Canal, which was originally dug for ten years in history, and this time he also developed a lot of construction machinery for the canal, which is estimated to be no more than ten years at most, and at that time his fleet was basically completed, and the railway should almost be repaired to Central Asia, and the land and water went straight to Europe.

"Your Majesty, can you sail the boat?"

Xu Shou asked.

"Set sail, go out and let our people see!"

Yang Feng said.

“！”

Xu Shou hurriedly shouted.

In front of him, two huge chimneys painted yellow immediately emitted billowing smoke, and the steam with a high temperature of more than 300 degrees pushed the latest steam engine, driving the two huge propellers to slowly begin to accelerate, and soon the black bow of this 10,000-ton giant ship ploughed the waves, with two golden dragons embedded on the left and right, respectively, towards the empty Hangzhou Bay.

Immediately after the sound of countless firecrackers and fireworks on the shore, and the cheers of tens of thousands of people, the first ironclad battleship of the Ming Navy carried their Emperor Majesty and began to inspect all parts of the coast.

At the same time, a tugboat on the sea ahead, dragging a huge second-class sail battleship, approached head-on.

The main guns on the Dingyuan rotated, together with the right ear platform, a total of six five-inch guns and six four-inch guns pointed at the second class battleship at the same time, when the two battleships were less than two miles apart, the main guns of the Dingyuan suddenly spewed flames, in the loud noise that shook the sea, the right ear guns and the stern main guns fired at a very fast speed, and then the opposite second-class battleship was drowned by the explosion of fire, when the fire dissipated, only a pile of burning wood was left on the sea.

At the same time, like a horn of victory, the whistle on the Dingyuan made a loud sound, and continued to accelerate with the majesty of the overlord of the sea.

The four cruisers waiting in the distance and the Daming royal yacht immediately moved forward, and after joining it, they formed a formation, and went straight north to the mouth of the Yangtze River, and then this formation will continue to go north along the Daming coastline, and then dock at Haizhou, Qingdao, Weihai, Dengzhou, Lushun, Qinhuangdao and finally to Dagukou, showing the strength of the empire to all the people along the way, and escorting His Majesty the Emperor to Beijing. The Dingwon would continue south with the four cruisers, and after joining the Zhenwon, it would show the majesty of the Ming Empire along the coast and in various subject countries, and even sail all the way to the distant city of Zhenmu, and their first stop in the south would be Incheon, then to Busan, and then stop at Nagasaki by the way......

"What is the state of Wa like now?"

Yang Feng asked suddenly.

"Your Majesty, the melee of the Wa Kingdom is about to come to an end, they now have three emperors, the Shimazu family has established one, they occupy the southern part of the Wa Kingdom, including Osaka, the Tokugawa family has also set up one, they occupy Nagoya and Edo and other places, and the Date family in the north also has one, they occupy all parts of the northern Wa Kingdom, and the three families all say that they are orthodox, but they have stopped fighting, and they have no strength to fight again."

Lu You, the commander of the Jinyi Guard Intelligence Division beside him, said.

"Uh, so messy?"

Yang Feng said speechlessly. (To be continued.) )