[The sea surface of the East China Sea, the sea area near the secret realm]

A crimson moon shone brightly on the sky, and the moon seemed to be tumbling with a red sacrificial fire, emitting an ominous light of reddish. There are hardly any stars in the sky, and there is not a trace of clouds, which is rare in the stormy waters of the East China Sea.

Because the light was so dim, the sea that looked faintly blue during the day had now turned completely black, and in the black, there was a trace of astonishing Korean red blood.

It was a testament to the fact that dozens of meters deep below was still a lot of killing and fighting.

The national prestige of the Southern Empire, in this place, at this time, showed the extreme beyond the level of national equipment, twenty-four huge "golden ships" with a height of more than ten zhang were lined up on the sea, all of them dropped anchor to face the entrance and exit of the secret realm of the East China Sea not far away, and gathered around them 240 slightly shorter, body length is also dozens of zhang, and the height is also three zhang high, and then the periphery is thousands of civilian fishing boats that have been forcibly requisitioned to perform various miscellaneous chores. Before the invention of steam-powered ships and naval guns by the Anglo Empire a few years later, no force in the world dared to compete with such a huge imperial navy, and in the era of sail warships and broadside warfare, such a force was as incomprehensible on the sea as the puppet sect on land.

At this time, there were no clouds and fog on the sea, but the wind suddenly rose, and the long wind blew up hundreds of flags on the golden ship, revealing all kinds of sea and land beasts drawn on the flags, and also revealing the de facto hegemony of the Southern Empire in this sea area. At midnight when it should have been silent, there was still a lot of noise in this sea area, countless ship bosses rowed their own small boats no more than a few feet high, approached to the position of the big ship a stone's throw away, and loudly reported all kinds of information, the crew behind them, under the lights, could only see half of their faces, but the darkness could not hide their painful and numb faces, obviously they did too much work but only got a small pay, but the problem was that the orders of the officers and soldiers could not be disobeyed, even if there was no pay, they had to work.

Life at sea is not easy. The Southern Empire's mighty navy did not give the inhabitants of the coast any glory, but only almost infinite oppression.

In such a busy and noisy night, a huge bag of water suddenly bulged out on the sea between the golden ship and the entrance and exit of the secret realm without warning.

"What's going on?" was the first to see the strange fishermen screaming, and then the screams were passed on by different people in waves, and then turned into an "enemy attack-" alarm, and the sailors on the golden ship hurriedly dragged the heavy anchor up, and they were accompanied only by gongs, war drums, and the sudden blowing of military trumpets.

The golden warship started with a clatter, the result of a multitude of oars sticking out from both sides of the water, and the sails on the mast were all tightened by the headwind, like a rolled carpet. The formation of the golden ship slowly adjusted from a straight line to a concave arc, enveloping the slowly cracking black water, and the shining corners emitted a sword-like reflection in the moonlight.

The oil on the arrows ignited, and clusters of sharp arrows were fired, as if many magic apprentices were firing fireballs, but such an attack could not do any damage to the "monster" behind the water bag.

The 352-meter-long slender and rounded nuclear strategic submarine slowly floated up from the water, as if the demon king of the deep sea hell was poking his head out. The black composite steel armor showed a hideous black-orange-red reflection under the light of the fire oil, and the sound of the sword hitting the iron armor pierced the heart of every warrior.

That's not a creature.

Under the crimson moonlight, everyone could see clearly that the things that floated up did not have the structure of a creature at all, no mouth, no head, no face, and the armor on the body reflected the moonlight, neither the lustrous pearl like the conch shellfish, nor the hazy flesh reflection like the shark monster, nor the astigmatism of the Xixi Point Store on the underwater wurm scale armor, but a cold, hard, terrifying metal reflection.

It is impossible for a creature in this world to be an elder with a pair of metal armor, metal, which is the patent of humans.

The golden ship hesitated, because it was impossible for a wooden warship with iron ramming angles to break through the steel defense, but the problem was that at this time, no one knew why objects made of metal could still float on the water, you know, the warships made by the Southern Empire would never sink a single piece of wood even if they were dismantled into wooden sticks, and the materials they built for their ships were special woods that could have been floated on the water, light and hard.

No one in this world has really understood how buoyancy is calculated.

The water bag was completely broken, and the black submarine showed an almost complete posture on the sea surface, which also exuded the tranquility and horror of the final naval warfare weapon of the otherworldly civilization. Beneath the surface of the water, multiple self-locking homing torpedoes loaded with high-explosive shells have been pressurized in eight torpedo tubes, and at the same time, they can instantly blow up eight golden ships into pieces, and the armament of submarines is not limited to this.

"I'm really not used to a close-range naval battle of 50 meters. Yinchen sat in the main control room, unwilling to move his ass at all, full of uncle's style, and his generosity and gentleness when facing the mermaid girl. A black and red light came out of his body, apparently adjusting the submarine's ancillary equipment.

The small deck floated with a black glow, and several rapid-fire cannons protruded from the black light, with a range of 100 meters, an armor-piercing thickness of 45 mm (homogeneous R-type steel plates), and were equipped with targeted low-explosive white phosphorus incendiary armor-piercing shells, with a rate of fire of 6,000 rounds per minute, enough to turn any ship in front of him into a flaming coffin. The cannons automatically dispersed their aiming, and crimson aiming rays locked onto each ship.

This is a deterrent, in fact, Silver Dust is more counting on torpedoes in naval battles than on this small cannon that is almost a single weapon of the Society, and he is only doing this to let the officers and masters on those ships understand that the official rank and military flag of the empire are not yet a threat to him.

"Turn on the searchlights and see what kind of ship it is. Silver Dust looked at the dim patch on the screen, a little dissatisfied. Immediately afterward, a white light came from the sea, as if daylight had fallen. The high-powered searchlight frightened most of the soldiers and sailors into kneeling directly on the deck, kowtowing and saying "Poseidon spares his life!"

A drone flew up and flew straight towards the flagship, and the officers and soldiers shouted for a while, only to see the black flying spider-like iron monster drop an envelope wrapped in butter paper, and then turn around and go without looking back.

Tanhai City is too guarded by Zhang Chengcheng, that is, the plenipotentiary commander of the first division of the Imperial Navy here, is wearing a black armor dedicated to naval warfare sitting in the position of the commander, looking through the window edge in the attic, staring closely at the movement of the "black sea beast", and naturally saw the whole process of the "black flying spider" throwing down the letter.

"Bring it in!" he said coldly, watching as the soldier tore open the envelope and took out the letter and placed it on the table. The moment his gaze moved to the letter, the nervousness, solemnity and vigilance in his eyes were half gone.

What unfolded in front of him was the prayer post of the Hanlin Academy's lectures.

He stretched out his hand reservedly, picked up the letter of worship, and knew that the letter of worship could not be faked the moment he got it. He read this post carefully, only to feel that most of the hanging heart was put down, so he pretended to wave his hand calmly: "The whole team is anchored, what should I do, this ship lowers the rope, prepares fragrant tea, welcomes!"

【Golden Ship Yuanwei, Reception Tea Room at the top of the attic】

"The subordinate Zhang Cheng or Fail, he is ashamed to lead the sea exploration city Taishou, and the sea exploration division Admiral, here I see Lord Zhenwang, Lord Hanlin. In the wisps of fragrant tea smoke rising from the curls, Zhang Chengcheng got up and saluted Zhao Lingyu and Yinchen respectively, and then slowly sat back in his position. The Southern Empire emphasizes literature over military force, and the status of the warriors is humble, Zhang Taishougui is the commander, who is the commander of the first army, but he only has the poor rank of the third grade, and when he sees Yinchen, he can only worship the young regardless of his age, as for Zhao Lingyun, he is a prince, almost equivalent to a zero product or a super one-product, and Zhang Chengcheng, who abides by the feudal hierarchy, naturally does not dare to slack off - he can't really be killed if he despises the prince. In these years, it is the exclusive prerogative of civil officials to not be able to punish doctors, and military generals should not be counted on.

"No courtesy, no courtesy!" The so-called stretching out his hand and not hitting the smiling man, Yinchen looked at this old man who was almost fifty years old to salute himself, and subconsciously felt a little uncomfortable, so he gently persuaded him, he was kind by nature, and he was never willing to make himself a cold existence until others did not threaten himself and his beliefs, as for the matter of aiming the golden ship with a cannon at the beginning? At that time, he thought that the imperial court regarded his submarine as a sea monster, and the other party pointed the collision angle of the giant ship at him, could he not resist?

Yinchen's attitude will definitely be regarded by the people in the room as his tolerance and generosity towards the "lower officials", without a shelf, it may not be without majesty many times, but it will reflect his majesty even more. Those who know him know that he has always been lenient and considerate of his subordinates, even the forbidden army sent by the imperial court has taken care of him, and those who don't know him think that he is graceful and magnificent, not angry and self-assured.

Zhang Chengcheng was naturally comfortable in his heart, so his face became more and more respectful, and Zhao Lingyun on the side, as if he had discussed it with Yinchen, Yinchen sang with a red face, and he sang with a white face.

Zhao Lingyun was sitting on the upper peak of the silver dust at this time, and the young little prince sat there, which immediately made the atmosphere in the tearoom a little more solemn, and he probably deliberately exuded a decisive momentum of killing, which shocked the civil and military officials who sat with him.

He didn't actually discuss anything with Yinchen, his majesty and indifference at this time was just because of Zhang Cheng's or failing. Zhang Chengcheng and Zhao Lingyun are hostile, a military general from the back party, and he has done nothing to help the abuse, so Zhao Lingyu naturally can't put on a good face in front of him, and of course he won't make any excessive requests, after all, there is no conflict of interest between Zhang Chengcheng and Zhao Lingyun at this time.

"The imperial court sent you this time, obviously something terrible happened, otherwise it would not be so exciting, but this king is in the secret realm, except for picking up a room of divine power maps, basically nothing has been seen, nothing has been encountered, so - according to the imperial law, you are a general who belongs to the regular army, you should tell this king the truth of the matter, so that this king can say a few good words for you in front of the emperor in the future. Zhao Lingyun said coldly with a straight face, sure enough, at this time, he is more suitable for cold faces than Yinchen. When Yinchen lowered his face, he was either killing or preparing to kill.

He said with a cold face, but Zhang Chengcheng listened with a smile, half of his smile was flattery, half of it was from the heart, not for anything else, just because as soon as the real king opened his mouth, he set the tone of his troops, "not overstepping his authority and private tune", but "sending troops by order", so that no matter whether this matter succeeds or fails, he will not take much responsibility, and it is almost a profitable transaction with only merit and no fault. Zhang Chengcheng and Failure knew that a military general like him was most afraid of such a civilian superior, the so-called civil official's mouth, reversing life and death, changing black and white, the sky can be said to be the earth, and the sea can be said to be a volcano, and in the court of the Southern Empire, the common routine of civil officials who came up from below was to reprimand you for "overbearing" and "privately leading troops to act" without saying a word, and first button up the hat of the major crime of treason, and then allow you to wear the crime and make meritorious service. The soldiers below don't know how much military pay the imperial court has allocated - those lowly seeds are strong men caught from the fields, not recruits recruited at the recruitment office.

But this true king, really worthy of being the great savior of the generals of the Southern Empire, the old true king is gone, and the little true king is vacant again, and he opens his mouth to block the doorways of the civil officials, and there is the words of the true king Chrysostom as a guarantee, who dares to say that his success or failure is "private action"? Aren't you afraid to make trouble with the emperor and punish you for the crime of bewitching the people with evil words, and the punishment of exile for thousands of miles?

Therefore, the attitude of the real king is that no matter how bad it is, Zhang Chengcheng and Failure also plan to serve him well, which is much better than the troublesome role of the incandescent peony venerable king's son.

"Your Royal Highness, Lord Hanlin, the lower officials were ordered to raise the division this time, in order to exterminate the demonized octopus in the East China Sea, according to the information sent back by a princess in the imperial court, there are humanoid octopuses and large octopuses in the East China Sea, endangering the East China Sea, endangering the coastal city-states, and the imperial court sent sailors to exterminate them. As a former civil official, although he was in a passive defensive position in front of his superiors, he really had to be bullied and concealed, and even in the case of the northern military peak about to cross the border, he supported the troops and did not listen to the dispatch, which was definitely enough for the court to drink a pot, after all, the southern country has been defeated like a mountain in recent years, and the mainland generals have been suspected and suppressed by civilian officials for a long time, and there is a great deal to do with exploitation and humiliation？