After the glory of the "sea coachman" in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Kingdom of the Netherlands rose rapidly in Britain in the 18th century, and experienced several Anglo-Dutch naval supremacy wars.

In the end, it is located in Europe, and the merchant ship trade along the North Sea is frequent, and the coastal shipping in the North Atlantic Ocean is dotted with white sails, and the coastal shipping dominated by galleons is quite prosperous.

A group of 4 ships sailed in formation on the sea, two ironclad warships were guarding in front of one left and one right, the muzzles of the black hole pointed straight ahead, and the high fluttering Shuanglong flag made the sailing merchant ships dodge one after another.

The voyage went smoothly, and at about 3:00 p.m., the "Venerable Fubo" luxury cruise ship suddenly sounded a rapid alarm bell, and Richard, who was gossiping with several concubines in the cabin, frowned, stood up and walked out of the inner cabin.

Come outside

I happened to see the head of the secretariat, Zheng Yuan, rushing to report, so he asked coldly; "What happened?"

"Your Majesty;

The forward flagship "Tempest" raised the battle flag, which was reported through the flag;

At a position of 17 chains from the left front of our formation, a company of five two-masted sail warships appeared, ignoring our flag warnings, adjusting their course and heading towards us, intending to intercept our ship formation.

The enemy ships were obviously friends and foes, and the flagship "Tempest" signaled the "Fubo Venerable" and the "Diligent" to quickly break away from the formation and evacuate at high speed to the northeast to avoid being affected by the flames of battle. ”

"Has the other party identified himself?"

"No, the enemy fleet raised the Black Skull Pirate flag, which clearly shows that they don't want to reveal their identity."

"Well, inform the captain to speed up, and let these European turtles see what a high-speed cruise is?" Richard nodded in agreement.

After Director Zheng Yuan walked away quickly, Richard strode out and came to the covered bridge on the side of the ship to look out at the sea in the distance.

Under the clear sky, the sea conditions were very good, and his sharp eyes could see clearly, a row of a total of five two-masted sail warships surrounded in a semicircle, and the black skull flag fluttering at the top of the mast was unusually conspicuous.

The two ironclad cruisers, the "Storm" and the "Mountain Wind," met them on the left and right, and the battle alarm sounded urgently for a while, and the officers and men ran to their battle positions one after another and began to maneuver their artillery to meet the battle.

In European countries

So far, the mainstream is still the sail warship, especially Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Spain and other coastal countries, there are still a large number of sail warships.

This also includes the United Kingdom, the British Royal Navy has decommissioned more than 130 sail warships in recent years, and still retains a huge number of more than 460.

European sail warships are the mainstream, at most they are armored sail warships wrapped in iron sheets, just like the US "Constitution" through this move to enhance the ship's ability to resist strikes, and it is already a relatively advanced heavy armor ship.

Most sail warships still fire cast-iron cannonballs, making them almost impossible to defend against ironclads.

Richard's eyes looking at the sea revealed a hint of playfulness, during the North American War, there were more than 100 naval battles on the east coast of North America, large and small, which had proved the absolute crushing advantage of the steam ironclad ship over the sail warship.

It's a pity that due to the blockage of the news of the times, the third-rate navies of many small European countries have not yet realized the seriousness of this problem, just like these two-masted sail warships in front of them, which are no different from looking for death.

Richard's mysterious premonition was very effective, and with the pirate flag, the menacing enemy fleet could not pose a threat at all.

He could see that these battleships that were sent to the door were still breech-loading bronze cannons from the Napoleonic period, which was simply funny.

I didn't even have a steel hoop cannon, and I dared to challenge it?

As for where these battleships came from, there is no need to bother to guess now, and it will soon be known if the enemy ships are captured.

It's definitely not Britain, because the bronze cannons of the British Royal Fleet have all been eliminated, and the steel hoop cannons have been used for the last time, so they will not be embarrassed by this kind of old antiques from seventy or eighty years ago.

Most likely, it is a small country on the coast of Europe, including the nobility of the German Confederation.

This should be a deep resentment against the Tang Empire's emperor Richard for killing twenty-two European noble challengers, so he tried to retaliate.

The tall chimney of the "Venerable Fubo" spewed out thick black smoke, and the hull of the ship was obviously accelerating, and the sharp bow of the ship broke through the clear blue sea and sped faster and faster.

Richard stood steadily on the covered bridge, a smile on the corner of his mouth.

The biggest killer feature of the entire visiting formation is the astonishing speed of the "Fubo Venerable" up to 22 knots, which is beyond the reach of all ships in today's era, and can only follow behind the butt to eat dust.

"Hmph, it's really a small demon in the temple, and there are many shallow kings; According to my imperial decree, not a single enemy ship was allowed to let go, and all of them were sunk with a hard blow. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

The rumbling cannon in the distance had already kicked off the naval battle, and Richard didn't care about the performance of these little fleas, just press them to death with one finger.

However, based on the two twists and turns of the European visit, it can be seen that the current European royal family still has a strong wariness and hostility towards the integration of the Tang royal family from North America, and the road is long, and it is far from being able to eliminate the estrangement in one or two decades.

In the long run, it will take fifty or sixty years, or even one or two generations.

Richard did not expect a single visit to be successful, and most of the successive Russian tsars had been to London and Europe, and had many marriages with the German Confederation, which did not change the general hostility of Europe to Tsarist Russia.

When Queen Victoria was young, when the Russian Tsar Nicholas I and his wife visited London, the queen also had a relationship with the then equally young crown prince Alexander II, but unfortunately due to the identity of both parties, he eventually disappeared.

The huge cultural, religious and linguistic differences between the East and the West between the Tang Kingdom and the European kingdoms have made the relationship between the two sides always bumpy and difficult, and it is difficult to eliminate hostility and vigilance.

Take your time, you can't force it.

Richard sighed lightly, his goal was to promote Han culture, language and religious beliefs throughout North and Central America, and wherever the Tang people colonized, they would promote the influence of Chinese culture.

In the popular education and charity education of the Tang Empire, Chinese education has always been the core, and young students only learn Chinese in primary schools, and receive traditional ideological and cultural education.

Further study, English and French are only taught at intermediate schools.

Only expensive private schools, where the aristocracy gathered, taught bilingualism from elementary school.

Bilingualism generally refers to both the national language and English, and some aristocratic schools with high thresholds even teach French, Latin, German, Italian, and Spanish, but only a few elite educations.

European schools have a strong religious atmosphere, and theological education occupies almost half of the curriculum in primary, secondary, and even university courses, which is completely absent in the Tang Empire.

In the Tang Empire, the emphasis was on national language, mathematics and history in primary and secondary schools, and these three subjects accounted for almost 8 percent of the class time, and the rest were secondary subjects such as physical education and geography.

As a result, the focus of teaching in North America and Europe is very different.

"Wow...... Hit, awesome! ”

The Praetorian Guard officers and soldiers on the lower deck of the cruise ship erupted in cheers that interrupted Richard's thoughts and made him look up.

The "Fubo Venerable" has already soared at high speed on the sea, but it has always drawn a circle and has not fled far, monitoring the battlefield situation in real time from a distance.

The first to hit was the ironclad cruiser "Shanfeng", which rushed as it struck, and as it approached the distance of the third chain, its 230 mm guns hit a two-masted sail battleship in succession.

The huge force of the explosion shrouded the two-masted sail battleship in a ball of fire, the mast "clicked" and broken, and the white sail affected by the explosion caused a fire, and a large hole more than 5 meters long appeared on the hull.

The huge vibration made the sail lifters who climbed on the high place no longer able to hold it, and they fell into the sea like dumplings, and some of them smashed directly on the deck and splashed blood, obviously not alive.

One hit

Two minutes later, the main guns opened fire again, firing four shells that hit two shells and several secondary shells at the same time, directly breaking the waist of the two-masted schooner and causing all the officers and men of the enemy ship to jump into the sea in a panic.

Not to be outdone, the Tempest was also hit in the fifth salvo after the ironclad cruiser "Mountain Wind" was launched, and the huge fire generated by the explosion of the shells lit up the sea, and the shattered limbs, broken arms and broken ship planks flew high and then rained down.

Just 10 minutes

The 5 sail battleships that attacked with great momentum had sunk and been seriously injured, and the huge power of the steam ironclad battleships made the invading enemy stunned, and the remaining 3 sail battleships hurriedly began to put sails and turn, seeing that this posture was preparing to flee the battlefield.

He kicked him on the iron plate, and even the bones of his foot were broken.

But how could it be so easy for these three sail warships to escape?

The "Mountain Wind" and the "Tempest" took advantage of the advantages of the steam ironclad battleship in turning fast, speeding up, and firepower, and surrounded the enemy ship with a fierce bombardment, and the scene was simply a one-sided slaughter, which did not need to be repeated at all.

His Majesty's will has been given; Those who dared to offend the dragon's face were killed without mercy, and all of them were sunk.

Take a look at the time

From the official start to the end of the battle, it was more than 40 minutes, and before 50 minutes, the five menacing brigs flying the black skull flag had all been sunk, the raging fire shrouded the wreckage of the ship, and the nearby sea was full of floating corpses, wooden barrels, broken sail cables and hull wreckage, and some officers and men of the enemy ship who had fallen into the water were struggling in the sea.

It's really a slap in the face and doesn't stay overnight, everything is like a dream.

Many European merchant ships passing through here saw this scene and were so shocked that their mouths couldn't close their mouths...... That's too cruel, isn't it?

The sail fleet of 5 warships was wiped out like this, and there was not even a single bubble, what about the terrifying momentum that rushed up at the beginning?

That's it......

At this time

The Venerable Fubo had already gotten out of the state of spinning around the sea at high speed and slowed down, and the crew of the coal carrier "Diligent One" took a long hook rod and began to salvage the officers and men of the enemy ship who had fallen overboard.

Because the enemy ships were flying pirate flags, the harsh punishment of pirates in the countries of the European continent was hated by the countries of the European continent, and even if they were fished up, they would end up hanging, with few exceptions.

Therefore, the "Diligent One" did not catch a few coal carriers, and after saving about seven or eight people, it gave up, leaving those who were struggling with floating loads near the wreckage to fend for themselves.

All that needs to be done now is to interrogate the confession and find out what is sacred?

The confession was quickly asked, and it turned out that these warships were employed by the family of Gustav von Alvensleben, Count of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany, and the family of the Viscount Birmingham of England, and it was only the private act of the nobles, and not the Kingdom of Bavaria.

The reason is simple;

The two aristocratic families that Richard killed are extinct, and this is hatred higher than the mountains and deeper than the sea!

Because of the Christian faith, the European aristocracy generally practiced monogamy, and if it was difficult for the nobles to have an heir, the extinction of the heir was a high probability event.

It just so happened that the only heir of these two aristocratic families died in a duel, and the news simply collapsed after the news broke.

"Well, I already know, where did these hired sail warships come from?"

"Your Majesty, three of them are eliminated warships from the Kingdom of Denmark, two are from the small countries of the German Confederation, and the commander is Tim Prilinger, a retired Danish rear admiral, who himself has died under fire."

"Kingdom of Denmark?" There was a hint of cruelty on Richard's face.

He knew that it was not that simple, although the report was on the warships eliminated by the Kingdom of Denmark, but the decommissioning a few days ago was also decommissioning.

It seems that the Danish royal family Christian IX has a grudge against the Tang Empire for openly fighting on the side of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Austrian Empire, and always looks for opportunities to take revenge.

Think back to the night of the duel

Richard had a good chat with King George I of Greece and Duke Cumberland King of Hanover, especially since this George I was the second son of King Christian IX of Denmark, and his demeanor was respectful and left a good impression on Richard.

Now it seems that it is a blind eye.

Sure enough, there is no good stubble in the upper echelons of European royal families, and even a milky boy like George I has a lot of work and pretends to be decent.

Richard is not the master who swallows his anger, and he has made a note in his heart to King Christian IX of Denmark, and he will definitely ask for it back if he finds an opportunity.

"Okay, let's deal with those prisoners, we don't have time to waste on them, the ship formation continues to travel, and there is no need to publicize this matter for the time being." Richard casually waved his hand and made the final decision.

"The ministers obey."

Richard watched his ministers leave, walked to the railing and took a deep breath of the cool sea breeze, and looked in the direction of the mainland with a faint look in his eyes.

The emperor did not need any evidence to act, and Richard decided that the Kingdom of Denmark had waded into this troubled water, so Christian IX's suspicion could not be washed away.

Far away from the vast Atlantic, the Tang Empire's influence in Europe is not great, and it can't use swords and soldiers, so how to find the back account has to plan carefully to be safe.

"The European royal family is one" is not an empty phrase, if the Tang Empire rashly attacks the Kingdom of Denmark, it is easy to attract the disgust and boycott of European countries, but it will complicate the matter.

Let's see!

If Christian IX pretended to be stupid, Richard didn't mind giving him a taste of heartache.

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