However, it will take some time to see the effect, unlike the fish in this sea, which are already breeding everywhere, and you can catch a lot of them with a single catch. This is not Ye Tianlong said nonsense, this era because human beings have not been able to make those steel boats, so it is actually very dangerous to enter the deep sea area to fish, most fishermen will only catch fish in shallow sea areas, and because the corrosiveness of sea water is much stronger than fresh water, so often catch fish for a few days, fishermen need to return home, and then after some maintenance of the boat and fishing nets before they can go out to fish again, these two days of fishing for three days of drying nets is the allusion to come, this is not to say that fishermen are lazy, If you do it for two days, you have to rest for three days, but the quality of the hardware such as fishing boats and fishing nets of the fishermen is not good, and the fish need to be well maintained after two days.

However, Ye Tianlong is now building a lot of steel large ocean-going fishing boats, and let Zhang Shun, Zhang Heng, and other naval generals lead them to find the places where the fish gather for large-scale fishing, and the fishing efficiency is much stronger than those fishermen in the past.

In addition to conventional meat such as sea fish, Ye Tianlong also asked clever hunters such as the two-headed snake Xie Zhen and the two-tailed scorpion Xie Bao to go into the mountains to catch tigers, leopards, jackals, wild boars, giant bears and other fierce beasts, and use their blood to make a large number of essence blood pills as food for the soldiers under his command to practice. In addition, in the hometown of those Jin people and the territory of Goryeo, Ye Tianlong also sent a lot of ginseng picking masters to find and collect a large number of wild ginseng, many of these wild ginseng have a hundred years or even more than a thousand years of spiritual ginseng, after using it as the main material to refine the elixir, even for a congenital master like Ye Tianlong, it is also of great benefit.

Relying on this large amount of elixir, the cultivation of the soldiers under Ye Tianlong's command has improved tremendously in this year, among them, those militiamen have at least bright energy cultivation, and the regular soldiers have at least dark energy cultivation, and even there are more than 20,000 chemical strength masters. The number of innate masters is a lot less, after all, it is a big hurdle from acquired to congenital, and some mediocre talents with poor qualifications may not be able to break through after decades of hard work, so the current innate masters under Ye Tianlong's command are only more than 800 people.

Ye Tianlong also practiced hard day and night in this year, so that his own cultivation broke through to the innate fourfold in one fell swoop, and the five people like Lin Chong, Shi Wengong, Lu Junyi, Sun An, and Yang Zhi have cultivated to the innate fivefold cultivation, which is even stronger than Ye Tianlong's strength. And more than a dozen people, such as Guan Sheng, Qin Ming, Hu Yanzhuo and Hua Rong, have also cultivated to the innate fourfold cultivation, that is, they are a little later than Lin Chong and they came into contact with the high-level martial arts taught by Li Rufeng, otherwise they would have cultivated to the innate fivefold now.

In addition to the huge progress in strength, the military factories in various parts of the Qinglong Empire this year have also created a large number of weapons and equipment under the supervision of Ye Tianlong, such as those militia units, most of them can now be equipped with a set of cloth iron armor, and the long-range weapons have also been replaced from the previous winch heavy crossbow to a large-caliber flintlock rifle, and some of the stronger ones are equipped with a set of full-body plate armor. As for the equipment such as cuirass and winch heavy crossbows that were eliminated, they were all equipped to the armies of client states such as Dali, Nananyi and Wa.

As for the most elite regular soldiers of the Blue Dragon Empire, the armor they were equipped with had all been replaced, and they were replaced with armor made of dark alloy material that Murong Jie and his subordinates, such as Tang Long, and several other experts had finally recovered.

These armors are harder than ordinary steel, and the average thickness of the armor of the cloth armor equipped by ordinary soldiers is about two millimeters, but it is enough to withstand the close range of fifteen millimeters from the flintlock rifles with a caliber of up to fifteen millimeters produced by the Blue Dragon Empire. As for the heavy full-body plate armor of those hoplites, the average thickness of their equipment has reached four millimeters, which is twice that of ordinary soldiers, and such heavy armor, even if it is bombarded with some small-caliber artillery, may not be able to break through the defense.

That is, because the strength and endurance of the soldiers have greatly increased after cultivating martial arts, otherwise, wearing such heavy armor, let alone fighting, I am afraid that just wearing and walking a few steps will be exhausted and out of breath.

In addition to these conventional equipment, Ye Tianlong also had people build hundreds of tanks, thousands of armored combat vehicles, thousands of various aircraft and dozens of ironclad ships, which greatly enhanced the combat power of the army, air force and navy of the Qinglong Empire.

The reason why he was able to create so many weapons and equipment in one year was actually thanks to the gold and silver dug up from the Japanese State, relying on these gold and silver, Ye Tianlong not only let those military factories controlled by the state operate at full capacity, but even many civilian workshops also received a large number of orders. I have been busy all year round, but I have also earned a lot of money that I could only earn in at least seven or eight years in the past.

And those former Song Dynasty officials saw that Ye Tianlong had spent money like water in this year and built a large number of various war equipment, and they all secretly scolded Ye Tianlong in their hearts for being a tyrant who was reckless and militaristic, and if the country was tossed like this, it would die sooner or later.

Ye Tianlong didn't know what those officials were thinking, in his opinion, his Blue Dragon Empire didn't look like it was going to die, but because he had done a lot of construction and built a large number of equipment in the past year, he had created a large number of jobs for people everywhere, so that even ordinary people had earned a lot of oil and water, and their living conditions were much better than before, and the entire Blue Dragon Empire had become vibrant, full of vitality from top to bottom.

And Ye Tianlong saw that the Qinglong Empire was already full of soldiers, so he started to continue to send troops to conquer, this time his target was the Indian region, according to the information he had collected in the past year, because of the large population of that place, many demons had wandered over, and then quickly conquered that area by strong force, and then based on the original caste system in that land, one by one claimed to be gods descended into the world, occupying the Brahmin class that originally belonged to those monks and nobles, Dozens of Kshatriya kings ruled over the land, and established a huge demon kingdom, and every year without having to do anything, a large number of his men washed and sent to their mouths for these demons to taste.

Because this demon country is the closest to the Blue Dragon Empire and its strength is also strong, Ye Tianlong took it as the primary target.

Shortly after the New Year, Ye Tianlong confirmed that the queen Li Rufeng was pregnant in the mouth of the imperial doctor, so he asked Li Rufeng to stay in the country, and helped him sit in the rear while raising the fetus, and he himself personally led 400,000 regular soldiers and 800,000 militia to expedition to the Indian Demon Kingdom.

Those demons entrenched in India were originally living very comfortably, but when they suddenly heard that the Blue Dragon Empire was going to send troops to fight them, they were all shocked, and only then did they understand what it means to shoot a gun and shoot a bird! I understood why the other companions had to go all the way to Europe, or to the bitter cold of Siberia, where there were not many humans. It's just that this is not far from the Blue Dragon Empire, but those companions in India, which has a large population, are reluctant to come. After they took up territory here, they were secretly proud, laughing at the other companions as fools in their hearts! But now it seems that the clown is me!

In order to fight against the upcoming Blue Dragon Empire, these demons hurriedly ordered the earth kings everywhere to start a large number of young and strong troops to form an army.

It's a pity that Ye Tianlong's troops have always been vigorous and resolute, and in less than half a month, the army of the Blue Dragon Empire has already arrived in India and began to land.

At this time, the native kings of India have just recruited a group of soldiers, and they have not had time to train at all!

But there was no way now, and at the urging of those demon masters, they could only be sent out in a hurry, preparing to block the landing of the enemy army.

Ye Tianlong stood at the bow of a battleship, and listened to Shi Qian's report that the Indian Demon Kingdom had only had time to hastily gather more than 500,000 cannon fodder who lacked training, and he couldn't help but be completely relieved, after all, according to the news he heard before, these demons thought that they had escaped here safely, so they all began to enjoy it with peace of mind, resulting in the real veterans of this demon country were only a hundred thousand, even if they added the newly recruited more than 500,000 recruits, the strength was only a little over 700,000, and they were inferior to their own side in terms of quantity. Not to mention in terms of quality, I'm afraid that most of the human soldiers inside don't even have the combat power of the Ming Jin Martial Artists, and the ones who really pose some threat to the army of the Blue Dragon Empire are just those hundreds of demon warriors.

With a loud sound like thunder, dozens of ironclad ships of the Qinglong Empire all opened fire, and these ironclad ships of the Qinglong Empire have already undergone several rounds of improvements, and they are not the kind of amateur warships that Zhou Jiale used fishing boats to change before.

Now the ironclad ships of the Blue Dragon Empire are all armored and firepower, and because they are specially designed as battleships, even if the armor is heavy, the speed is not slow.

Dozens of ironclad ships were divided into three classes, battleships, cruisers and destroyers. Among them, the battleship with the strongest size and firepower is 205 meters long and 38 meters wide, the main gun is 12 triple 300 mm caliber heavy guns, the longest effective range reaches 28 kilometers, the bow and stern each have two turrets, which are designed with a knapsack layout, and the secondary guns are 20 150 mm caliber naval guns, which are located on both sides of the hull, and finally there are 18 80 mm caliber and 30 40 mm caliber high-level dual-purpose guns. As for the average thickness of the armor of its hull, it also reached the level of a hundred millimeters. With such a powerful battleship, the Blue Dragon Empire has only built a total of three.

The cruiser, which was inferior to the battleship, was only 150 meters long and 29 meters wide, and its main guns were 12 triple 150 mm guns, which, like the battleships, were in a knapsack layout, with two turrets in the bow and stern, and 16 80 mm and 24 40 mm guns. The average thickness of the armor was sixty millimeters. Since they were much smaller and easier to build than battleships, the Blue Dragon Empire now had sixteen of these cruisers.

The smallest destroyer, on the other hand, was about 100 meters long and 20 meters wide, and its main guns were 12 triple-mounted 100-millimeter guns, with the same main gun layout as battleships and cruisers, with two turrets in the bow and stern. In addition, there were twenty high-level dual-purpose guns of 40 mm caliber. The average armor thickness was thirty-five millimeters. Its number was also the largest among the Blue Dragon Empire's navy, with as many as thirty-six ships.

In addition to these regular naval warships, this time the Qinglong Empire also brought a lot of transport ships used to transport troops and materials, these transport ships are large and small, the large size is comparable to a battleship, and the small one is smaller than a destroyer, but for self-defense, some guns are also installed on the hull, and when necessary, some of these transport ships with shallow body size and draft can also be driven into inland rivers and used as small gunboats.

However, the landing had not yet been completed, so it was the battleships at sea that were still at bay, and I saw that the battleships, cruisers, and destroyers lined up in several neat formations, and then the main and secondary guns turned to the enemy positions on the shore in unison, and then fired high-explosive shells several kilometers away.

As the shells landed, the violent explosions continued to occur on the enemy positions, and the entire team of enemy troops was wiped out in the blink of an eye by these high-explosive shells.

After more than an hour of bombardment, the army of the Blue Dragon Empire began to prepare for landing, first hundreds of speedboats, carrying tens of thousands of soldiers quickly approaching the shore, and a little later in them, there were some larger transport ships, carrying armored vehicles and tanks.

The enemy soldiers hiding in the trenches, hearing the sound of the artillery stopped, hurriedly poked their heads out of the trenches, and while slapping the dirt and gravel that had fallen on their bodies, they looked towards the sea, and suddenly saw a large number of enemy troops rapidly approaching the shore position.

The Indian soldiers hurriedly operated some of the surviving ballistas and catapults that had survived the bombardment and fired at the enemy.

Seeing that the enemy had not been killed by the artillery, and even dared to return fire, the machine gunners on the speedboat immediately controlled the heavy machine guns in the bow of the boat, and fired ferociously at the enemy soldiers who were rising.

After just over a minute of strafing, the enemy soldiers were all shot, leaving only a few mutilated corpses and completely destroyed ballistas and equipment.