Seven years of China, July.

Under the leadership of the newly built thousand-ton flagship "Qinhuang", a fleet of seventeen ships set sail from Yangang.

With the gentle sea breeze, the whole fleet slowly sailed out, and the flagship had to hang only three mainmasts in order to maintain its formation.

It is a very beautiful boat, with a tall hull, attractive curves, a bottom and a waterline, and a layer of iron.

This has not been a problem since the mills got bigger and bigger, and some of the previous ships were outfitted.

The Qinhuang is not only loaded with more areas, but also thicker, purely because the cost is too expensive!

A thousand-ton, five-masted giant ship consumed more than 800 high-quality hardwoods, almost all of which were obtained from the deep mountains of Ryukyu Ebony and Maolin Prefectures.

The century-old navy is embodied in this, in the era when ironclad ships were not developed, both Britain and France planted trees, so that after a hundred years, their own navy can still have high-quality wood to build ships.

If it weren't for the ironclad support, that number might have increased.

Therefore, the name of "Emperor Qin" is well deserved, and the navy regards this ship as a baby bump, and it is comfortable to look at it at ordinary times.

Li Jian, a senior soldier in the navy, was assigned to the "Qin Huang" and became an artillery team leader in the ship's gun department.

He was promoted quickly, thanks to his secondary school education and the fact that he worked hard, he learned everything faster.

In one of the exercises, he was appreciated by the Shangguan for his excellent ranging and knowledge of artillery.

He was sent to the "Qin Huang" because the ship was large, and the gun department became extremely complicated, and Shangguan intended to train him to see if he could train an excellent gun captain.

This is also Li Jian's favorite department, there are many departments on the ship, and the gun department belongs to the real combat department, and he, the gun leader, can be in charge of six guns.

The entire "Qinhuang" has 36 20-pound breech guns, 24 75-pound breech-loading guns, and 1 40-pound main gun in the bow and stern.

If the cannon is too strong and the opponent is too weak, it can at least be doubled.

Li Jian stayed in the No. 9 gun room, looking at the sea in the distance through the gun window, and the artillery of their group was checking whether the ropes and gunpowder were damp.

I have been in the navy for so long, and I haven't caught any fart battles, and when I attacked the Osumi Islands, I howled from afar.

Now that he was going to attack Manraka, his face was calm, and what he longed for was a close fight. In the case of symmetrical force, the tactics and wisdom of the two sides competed, and instead of firing a round of artillery, the enemy was completely defeated.

His brother Li Yong has also been promoted, and is now the commander of the 29th Battalion of the Army, and the letter sent either describes the wonderful battle, or envies the leisurely of the navy.

The angry Li Jian didn't have a temper at all, so he could only practice his skills hard while longing for a powerful enemy.

Two days later, the fleet arrived in Luzon (Manila), a place full of rudimentary sheds, apparently immigrants from Southern Jiangxi, who had not yet finished quarantine.

There are already several large chimneys in the northern part of the city, which are red brick factories and cement factories. There are also sugar factories invested by the Huaxia Sugar Company, wood factories invested by the Development Company, and the textile company originally planned to invest in a textile factory, but it was stopped by the state government, which did not allow other places to also engage in processing with supplied materials.

The abundant influx of people also prospered the trade here. These migrants do not have much spending power at the moment, and the government is spending a lot of money to resettle them.

Li Jian looked at the situation in the port boredly, and when he saw these immigrants, he couldn't help but think of the time when he was in the quarantine area.

For a few years, the refugees of the Ming Kingdom, who were thin and dying at the beginning, are now sitting on the largest fleet and expanding the territory for the country.

He sighed, sat down in a chair next to him, and flipped through "How Steel is Made."

The journey at sea was lonely, and he read all the books he could read, and he had read a lot of books bought from the coast of the Ming Kingdom.

But his favorite is "How Steel is Made".

After asking for instructions, the group members got off the boat and went to have fun.

Li Jian didn't want to go down, he continued to read Jin Bao's story, and when he was tired of reading, he continued to study the management system of the gun department and the naval operation mode to see if he could adjust it.

At present, the Huaxia Navy uses battle line tactics, and the core of this tactic is that the ships line up in a line, use naval guns to attack, and never play backward tactics such as jumping gangs.

This was also the mainstream of Western navies in the eighteenth century, but the way was very large, because there were many combinations of battle lines.

Li Jian placed the wooden blocks representing the ship, and constantly measured them with compasses and rulers.

The biggest puzzle he has encountered at present is how to perfectly exert the power of the ship's guns!

This requires a study of the formation, as well as a thorough understanding of the performance of the cannons, the type of ship, and the location of the gun windows.

Li Jian thought hard for a while, and then felt that his head was big.

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The next day, still making plans, the fleet set sail again after resting and resupplying.

The sailors in the same group were all like heavenly beings, looking at the scratch paper he had written.

They didn't dare to make a noise, they only dared to gather behind the group leader and poke their heads out to look. I couldn't understand it, but I was shocked.

Usually, Li Jian will also tell them stories, so the relationship within the group is very harmonious.

Seeing that fine sweat broke out on Li Jian's forehead, and his writing hand was getting slower and slower, they also became anxious.

I don't know how long later, a hurried battle bell rang.

As if a conditioned reflex, everyone instantly dispersed and ran to their respective cannons.

Li Jian also threw down his pen, took out the telescope and observed.

"This is the territory of the three island countries, it seems that it is a big tribe, there is no interest, just wait for a round of artillery!" Li Jian was quite speechless.

Mishima is really a big tribe, to be precise, there are many tribes on it.

Larger tribes benefited from maritime trade, forming a small city-state.

The terrain of the entire three islands is also a long and narrow island, but there is also a lot of gold on it, and there is a large gold mine.

Peng-Peng-Peng, as the command to open the cannon was conveyed, after the running group next door finished firing, Li Jian and their running group immediately fired the cannon.

The smoke in the cabin dissipates immediately after a while, due to the unique ventilation design of the cabin, which can produce a smoking effect when there is wind outside.

Sure enough, after a round of artillery fire, the captain ordered a ceasefire.

Through the cannon window, it can be seen that the army brothers are charging bravely, and hundreds of indigenous soldiers who want to resist are instantly crumbling under the attack of rows of guns.

"I Have a Catalogue of Ghosts and Gods"

As a boundary monument was disembarked, a bright red star spike flag was also raised over the port city of Mishima.

"It's boring!" Li Jian sighed faintly.

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Three days after the capture of the port city of Mishima, the fleet arrived in Masaek.

This place is later known as Singapore, and the name Singapore has existed since ancient times.

During the Yuan Dynasty, a prince of the Three Buddhas established the "Sangha Buluo Kingdom" here, which was translated as "Singapore Laguo" by the Han merchants who came to trade here, which means "lion castle" according to the Sanskrit meaning, and is now called "Shanma Xi".

Together with the islands of Longya and Bintan on the other side, it is the territory of Manraka.

With such a large fleet, even if you want to get through the tricks, it will attract the attention of the garrison of Tangmaxi.

The Huaxia army was not polite, the cannon window was opened, and it was a bombardment aimed at the city of Xiangmaxi, which did not even have a wall.

The garrison above was still confused, but the Manraka sailors in the tank reacted very quickly, and they hurriedly hoisted their sails and left the port.

Then in the direction of the royal city............ Open up!

Nonsense! When they saw the "Qin Huang", their souls had already been scared away, and this ship didn't seem to be made by man!

Li Jian in the gun cabin had just been excited for a while, but before he warmed up, he saw this small fleet, busy running for his life!

"Lao Tzu just wants to fight a naval battle happily, why is it so difficult!"

Li Jian almost burst into tears, how lonely it is to be invincible!

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