The Royal Navy of the Ming Empire is a fleet with a long history, which can be traced back to the fleet that followed the Three Treasure Eunuchs to the South Seas.

When the Ming Empire continued to open up new colonies, it acquired countless wealth and land. All sorts of problems followed.

For example, piracy, such as the rebellion of the natives of the colonies, such as the rebellion of the governor or the immigrants, such as the raids and attacks of other countries, etc. These things had a huge impact on the benefits obtained by the Ming Empire.

In order to deal with these troublesome things that had never been touched before, the first global war developed to a high level. At the time of the tide. The Ming Empire was determined to assemble a powerful fleet to safeguard the interests of its overseas colonies. Since that time, the brand-new Daming Royal Navy has embarked on the glorious path of the Blue Water Navy.

This time come to the Western Mediterranean blockade fever. Naya Bay was the Italian local fleet stationed at the military port of Taranto. The Mediterranean fleet of the Ming Empire, far away in Alexandria and Gibraltar, did not come at all. The largest naval warships of the Kingdom of Sardinia were only two Brack-class destroyers from France, with a displacement of just over 1,000 tons. The other warships were small gunboats, patrol boats, torpedo boats, and two small submarines. Such strength is far from the need for the Mediterranean Fleet to leave the port.

The Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty never looked at the navy of the Kingdom of Sardinia. They sent a fleet led by the heavy cruiser Yancheng and four destroyers, Yangjiang, Shaoguan, Quzhou, and Haining, to blockade the heat. Naya Bay, and provide fire support for the army.

Yan Haiyang, an outstanding naval officer from a naval family. The ancestors can even be traced back to the fleet that followed the Three Treasure Eunuchs to the South Seas hundreds of years ago.

Ten years ago, he graduated from the Imperial Naval Academy with honors and received the Golden Spike Saber awarded by His Majesty the Emperor himself. It took only ten years to go from first mate of a destroyer to a major combat staff officer of the Mediterranean Fleet. This is definitely a rocket-like ascent in the highly seniorized Royal Navy.

A few months earlier, the Italian local fleet had come under fire within the navy for its poor performance in cooperating with the Viceroy of Milan to lead a mercenary group to clear the mob of resistance. In the end, from the commander to the staff officers, they were all transferred to the Pacific Ocean to guard the islands.

As a highly regarded young naval officer, Yan Haiyang was transferred from the Mediterranean Fleet to the chief of staff of the Italian local fleet, and at the same time concurrently served as the captain of the fleet's flagship, the old heavy cruiser Yancheng.

In his early thirties, he served as the captain of a heavy cruiser in the highly hierarchical Royal Navy, in addition to his own outstanding ability, the Yan family's strong connections in the navy also played a great role. After all, promotion in peacetime is too difficult.

"Sir." The young communications staff officer walked into the bridge with a telegram "The army sent a telegram saying that there were artillery positions of the Sardinian army in the town of Varazze, and asked our fleet to destroy them by artillery bombardment. ”

"Are there any specific coordinates?" Major Yan Haiyang, who was wearing a snow-white handsome naval academy uniform, put down the high-powered telescope in his hand, stretched out his white-gloved hand to take the telegram and ask aloud.

"Nope." The communications staff officer replied: "Let's just say that the artillery position is set up in the town of Varazze. ”

"Oh." Casually putting the message on the navigation table, Yan Haiyang frowned slightly and thought about it. After all, he is still young, although he has already achieved the position of chief of staff of the fleet and captain of a heavy cruiser, but there are still two words in front of him. The rank is still only major. This war is an excellent opportunity for him, as long as it can be successfully completed, it will become a natural thing to remove the word agent and add a star to his shoulder. He took this war very seriously.

"Got it, order the fleet to fire at the town of Varazze." After a moment of silence, Yan Haiyang ordered the fleet to launch an artillery bombardment on the opposite shore.

The cruiser Yancheng is an old ship that has been in service for more than fifteen years. In this era of rapid development of science and technology, this sea giant with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons, three twin and two 200 mm caliber main guns, and six twin 105 mm caliber secondary guns is still full of power!

With a loud mechanical sound, the heavy turret on the Salt City began to slowly turn towards the town of Varazze in the distance. After calibrating the design elements, a school projectile flew out amid a huge roar and dazzling firelight.

Nearly ten seconds later, a huge mushroom of smoke suddenly rose from the town of Varazze near the coast in the distance. In the huge column of gunsmoke, all kinds of debris scattered everywhere can be faintly seen.

The rangefinder room on the Yancheng was quickly revised with a new shooting element and sent to several destroyers. The destroyer's 155-mm guns could also cover the town of Varazze.

When everything was ready, the low-speed and slow-moving ships pulled out an artillery line and began to launch a devastating shelling of the town of Varazze at a slow rate of fire of two minutes!

It is devastating indeed. How could this town, with only a hundred households, withstand such a brutal heavy artillery bombardment? The 75-mm guns set up in front of the town's church were quickly destroyed, and most of the artillerymen were killed along with them. The townspeople began to flee, and the morale of the garrison began to plummet. The heavy artillery of this era is the greatest deterrent weapon.

"Good." Looking at the huge pillars of gunpowder rising in the town of Varazze in the distance, Yan Haiyang nodded with satisfaction.

After coming to the Italian local fleet, in order to reorganize the already extremely scattered fleet, the young Yan Haiyang quickly formulated a special training schedule of "Moon, Moon, Fire, Water, Wood, Jinjin".

With this kind of rigorous training that was enough to make the sailors crazy, it soon gave a new look to the originally lax Italian local fleet. Now they at least won't appear in the heat. The kind of shells that Naya encountered when he was fighting almost landed on his own heads.

Judging from the results of today's shelling, Yan Haiyang's rigorous training was undoubtedly successful

"Not bad." Standing in the truck, Zhang Cheng held a military telescope and observed the town of Varazze in the distance, which was shrouded in smoke and flames. Surprised and puzzled, he turned his head to look at Du Feng, who was also holding a telescope on the side, and said suspiciously, "This is really because we were in the heat last time. The Yancheng with Naya's support? ”

"Tsk." Du Feng put down the binoculars and smacked his lips in response, "I know this." After the last time, we reported the artillery support, and the navy attached great importance to it, and all the original commanders were transferred to the Pacific Ocean to guard the islands. The newcomers are all elites of the Young Zhuang faction, and now it seems to be working very well. ”

"Hmm." Zhang Cheng nodded, raised his hand to the hill not far away, and said in a deep voice, "Those Sardinias have fled." The power of the heavy artillery is really powerful! ”

"Good!" Du Feng slapped hard, "It's a good fight!" They're scared away, and we can go after them! ”

"Send a telegram to the Navy telling them that they can stop shelling. Also, tell the artillerymen to stop working on their positions, put the artillery back on, we are going to attack. ”

On a hill in the distance, hundreds of Sardinian soldiers in dark blue shirts and red trousers were scurrying into the distance. This is obviously not a trick to lure the enemy, this is really scared away. The power of heavy shells will never be understood by those who have not seen it with their own eyes. The terrifying power of devastating the world bloomed around him, and the feeling was enough to make people collapse.

The shelling from the sea stopped. As soon as Zhang Cheng's field guns had built up their artillery positions, they were ordered to hang up the trailer again. Two companies of troops were gathered and prepared to launch an attack on the town in the distance.

"Wait a minute." Zhang Cheng stopped the troops who were preparing to attack, "It's too far away, get on the truck." Also, I went with the guard company. ”

From Zhang Cheng's location, it is also two kilometers away from the town of Varazze, to say the least. Running over the infantry consumes time and wastes physical strength. Getting on a truck will save you time and keep the soldiers fighting, and maybe catch the Sardinian's tail and grab some of the live. Zhang Cheng was now desperate to know the information of the Sardinians.

As for Zhang Cheng's guard company, all of them were composed of retired veterans recruited by Liu Kuaizui. Of the more than 100 people in the company, two-thirds were equipped with Chicago typewriters, and the others were all Winchester M1897s. Fighting in the middle of a town, it's a big killer.

"You are the head of the regiment, and you can't take the danger lightly." Du Feng frowned and dissuaded.

Zhang Cheng hooked the corners of his mouth and looked at Du Feng with a chuckle, "It's true that I'm the regiment commander, but I'm also a soldier." ”

Dozens of trucks were crammed with hundreds of soldiers, and they moved quickly into the already ruined town of Varazze.

Ruined houses, rubble everywhere, huge pits left behind by shelling. The debris that had been ignited was still burning and emitting black smoke. The corpses of the fallen were prostrate everywhere in various strange shapes, and the stumps and severed arms were everywhere. The weeping wounded desperately stretched out their hands to try to get help. Among these were soldiers of the Sardinians, but many more were ordinary residents of the area.

This is war.

Zhang Cheng slowly lowered his eyelids. It was all his order, but he wouldn't apologize. That's how brutal war is. In the history of modern time and space, the colonizers of various countries who flaunted their might on the land of China have done more brutal and outrageous things!

"Go check on the wounded!" After getting out of the car, Zhang Cheng shouted loudly, "Look for those who are still saved, mainly officers." We need to get intelligence from their mouths! ”

After the truck drove to a stop outside the town, hundreds of mercenaries, clutching their weapons, began to pour into the town in squads and platoons to search.

Zhang Cheng recruited a large number of retired soldiers, all of whom had undergone at least several years of rigorous training. Although most of them are also first-time combatants, they are much better than the real rookies.

Zhang Cheng stuck his helmet on his head, hunched over and picked up a Thompson submachine gun, and led his guards to follow behind the large army. There was no body armor in this era, Zhang Cheng didn't want to fall in this place, and he still had a lot of things to do.

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