Under the blue sky, the waves are rolling.

Captain Zheng He, as usual, walked out of the bridge in the early morning and stood on the bow deck looking at the sea and sky.

Originally, this was a beautiful picture, but for Zheng He, who had been at sea for two weeks, no matter how beautiful the picture scroll was, it became boring.

Zheng He did not look at the seascape, but at the English task force under his command.

That is, the main fleet of the Purple Dragon Federation specially used to 'blockade' the Ilibby Peninsula.

The actual strength of this fleet is not strong, even Zheng He's flagship is a eliminated steam ironclad, and it is also the only steam ironclad ship in the fleet with an all-steel skeleton.

The remaining dozen or so warships were all steam ships converted from sail warships, still with wooden hulls, but with the addition of steam engines.

In addition to relying on sail power, it can also rely on steam power.

However, due to the average quality of the steam engine, these modified sail steam warships often only use steam power when there is no wind power and combat.

The Purple Dragon Federation has a history of navigation for hundreds of years, and has been the seafaring hegemon of the known world, with many island colonies, so it has accumulated many sail battleships before the first industrial revolution.

The Purple Dragon Federation doesn't have any decent opponents in the ocean, so in order to save costs, there are not many steam ironclad ships, most of them are experimental technical reserve warships, which are built in order to climb the technology tree.

Therefore, the most in the Purple Dragon Federation is this kind of modified sail warship with a steam engine.

They are the foundation of the Purple Dragon Federation's maintenance of maritime hegemony.

As for the steam ironclad, it exists more as a deterrent force.

There were no warships at all in the Ilibby Peninsula, and naturally, the English task force led by Zheng He belonged to the lowest-grade ocean-going fleet, and except for the flagship, all of them were converted sail warships.

Many sail warships are hundreds of years old......

Of course, no matter how old these warships were, they were more than enough to deal with the Great Han Empire, which did not have a navy.

It is precisely because this fleet is not valued that Zheng He can become the commander of this fleet.

Otherwise, the commander of a fleet would not have been able to be held by a man of middle aristocratic origin.

The Purple Dragon Federation is a typical sea power country, and the gold content of naval officers is often higher than that of the army.

Therefore, Zheng He cherished this opportunity very much, and being able to take charge of a fleet alone was already worthy of his bragging for a lifetime in the middle aristocratic class!

Of course, every day Zheng He would wake up and go to the deck to take a look at his fleet and satisfy his vanity.

Today, as usual, Zheng He got up and washed up and went to the deck to tour the ships for ten minutes, and then went back to breakfast, but as soon as Zheng He stepped on the splint, there were terrified shouts from the surrounding crew and sailors.

Just as Zheng He wanted to ask, several tentacles thicker than his waist rose from the sea!

The roaring water fell from the sky, watering Zheng He's carefully maintained fleet commander's clothes.

But at this time, Zheng He couldn't care about these anymore, he was stupid!

How can there be such thick octopus tentacles in the world?

Do you mean I haven't woken up yet?

Just when Zheng He's eyes were dazed, the tentacles fell and smashed on the deck, and one of the tentacles just covered Zheng He's body, smashing Zheng He's head directly into his chest, and the whole person turned into oval-shaped meat sauce......

The commander of the English task force was killed in the first moment......

Of course, whether the commander of the fleet was killed or not, it didn't mean much to this naval battle, and when the steam-ironclad ship, which was the flagship, was dragged into the sea by a giant squid, the entire English task force was completely in disarray!

One giant squid after another rushed out of the sea, tied up the Federation ships fiercely, and then dragged them directly into the water!

The spiral nest formed by the rapid sinking of the ship quickly swept the Federation sailors who jumped into the sea, and none of them survived!

In just half an hour, the entire English task force was dragged to the bottom of the sea by giant squid......

Wang Ziming, who used the legion link to direct this scene, saw that there was no more Federation ship on the sea, and gave those giant squid an order to eat, so he withdrew the spiritual power of the legion link.

"This giant squid is as I expected, incredibly useful, and as easy to deal with the Federation fleet as an adult beating a baby.

The next step is to take advantage of the fact that the Commonwealth people on the island of England have not reacted and drag all their ships to the bottom of the sea!

Well, especially the outgoing ones!

To form a tide of fear among the Federalists, ships will be dragged to the bottom of the sea as soon as they leave port!

In this way, the ships of civilian use will be forced to stay in the harbor, and when I land my army on the island of England, they will not be escaped. ”

Wang Ziming did it when he thought of it.

The sea is home to giant squid, and they rely on the ports of the island of England as the core, constantly attacking the federal ships going to sea, and deliberately sending a few small civilian ships back to the port to spread the terrifying news.

The disappearance of the English task force made it difficult for the island of England to come up with a new fleet, and only a few spare warships could be used.

When the English Island military sent these warships out to clear the so-called 'sea monsters', they were naturally wiped out......

It's just that a plan is a plan after all, and after the real battle started, Wang Ziming found that the number of giant squid he owned was too small to blockade the entire island of England, so there were still many ships that fled back to the mainland of the Federation.

As the news came back, the Supreme Council of the Federation, which was organizing the siege of the rebels in the royal fiefdom, easily dispatched an expeditionary fleet composed of hundreds of warships!

Among them are twelve steam ironclads!

The heritage of the Purple Dragon Federation is fully revealed!

The Supreme Council of the Purple Dragon Federation will never allow itself to lose its sea dominance, especially against the Han Empire!

If you can't beat Wang Ziming on land, forget it, if you lose again on the ocean, the Purple Dragon Federation will face a threat from the mainland!

What's more, the island of England has been heavily developed by the Purple Dragon Federation, and there are a large number of military factories on it, once it is occupied by the Han Empire, the military industrial strength of the Han Empire can step on the shoulders of the Purple Dragon Federation and jump to a level!

Now the Han Empire could only manufacture rifle ammunition and imitation five-bead rifles.

Artillery and water-cooled heavy machine guns could not be imitated, and even if there were captured prototypes, there was no way to ......

The remaining arsenal in the city of Reece is too backward.

But the military factories on the island of England are built to the standards of the post-tech explosion, and can produce all the active federal equipment such as grenades, water-cooled heavy machine guns, and even heavy artillery!

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