The open sea of the Putau island chain,

With the sound of rushing water, a whole row of dense masts appeared in the northeast direction of the sea, and the white sails reflected the brilliance of the sun, emitting a dazzling white light, and after a while, countless large warships showed a white line to push forward

The sea breeze brought up by the battleship blew the huge Falcon Navy flag on the mast to hunt, and a huge wave rolled head-on, the towering bow of the Dragon-class battleship was heavy with a peerless domineering spirit, and suddenly split the calm sea water, and the white waves rolled forward, and the wide side of the battleship was like a razor, and the ripples from the place where the battleship crossed, colliding with each other on the sea surface in circles, broke or merged into a larger circle,

"Your Majesty, it's windy outside, let's go inside and rest" Dustrunkai, the Falcon Empire's naval minister, walked up from behind the deck and said with a respectful expression, "How far is it from Putao here?" The fat man asked without replying, "Judging from the chart, our current location is already the area of the Putao Inland Sea" Dustrunkai replied, "I have sent three speedboats to confirm, and I should get the news soon!" "Oh, so fast! No" The fat man turned around a little stunned and said. It's not that it was expected that it would take ten to fifteen days to get from the southwest region to the Putao area, but now it's only the eighth day, which is nearly half the estimated time" "Ten to fifteen days means that there is no chart to guide us" Dustrengke lowered his head and said, "But now, not only do we have the guidance of the charts, but the sea has caught up with the undercurrent of the sea in winter, which happens to flow from the north to the south! Therefore, the speed of the fleet is also much faster than normal, but when it returns, it will also be affected, and the speed of the fleet will be slowed down a lot!" ”

"Looks like you're more familiar with the ocean than I am!"

The fat man turned around from the bow of the ship in front. He smiled a little, straightened his wet clothes with his hands, and said, "How is the situation of the Duke of Putao? I don't want to be in the middle of the turbulent sea in the past few days, and our nominal bitter lord will hang up first, and this time we will send troops, but in the name of punishing the murderer for it, we can rest assured!" Dustrenkai replied with an affirmative expression, "I went to visit the battleship of Lorai once yesterday, and the knife wound has healed, although I can't walk on the ground yet, but there should be no problem with life!." It's just ......" Dustrenkay's strange-looking voice paused,

"Just what?" the fat man asked in a deep voice as he took his look in his eyes

"Actually, it's nothing, my subordinates just think that this Duke of Putao is also ruthless enough" Dustrengkai hurriedly said, "I inserted such a deep knife in my ribs, and almost killed myself, what hatred does this take, if it weren't for the fact that we have military doctors who specialize in treating sword wounds, and there is no best medicine, I am afraid that this bold duke will really die in the empire." And knowing that we agreed to send troops to the general setter, even if we might die on the road, we must follow our fleet south, such a guy. Once he gains power, he will definitely not be a simple guy, and if we help him in this way, we may even lead him to start a new war with Gangfei. Is it worth it?"

"You're trying to say that we may be able to raise tigers!"

The fat man smiled at the corner of his mouth, and patted the Imperial Admiralty on the shoulder with his hand, "You're right. This Duke of Putao is indeed a bit ruthless, but isn't that exactly what we value? Whether this guy will be a tiger or not, I don't know, but I am sure that if he really wants to become a tiger, the unlucky one will also be Gangfeiren! Gangfeiren will have no extra energy to worry about our southwest region! Even the guy Salonn can vaguely see this! Of course, there is another important reason for actually sending troops to Putao, which is my personal secret, so I didn't tell you, Princess Robesturit, Colleen, who is now in the Duchy of Putao" "What, Princess Tulit is in Putau! What's going on! It's not that the princess has returned to the province and has never returned" Dustrenke's eyes widened and he couldn't believe it. The year before last, Turit Colin said that he was going to return to China, and I didn't ask at the time, I only sent a fleet to accompany me, I thought it could be foolproof, but I didn't expect that more than a year later, there was no news, as if the world had evaporated," At that time, I asked the Admiralty to expand to O'Baro and explore the route between the two continents, in fact, I hoped to find the clues of Turit Colin, which was also one of the reasons, but unfortunately, knowing that the Normans of Turit Colin were slaughtered by the expeditionary force, this line was broken, and I expanded to the northwest and hit the southwest, and I did not have the idea of searching.

The corner of the fat man's mouth smiled bitterly, "But until the occupation of the southwest, I didn't get any relevant news, but Salon's envoy to Gangfei, but it was unexpectedly obtained, the mother country of the Burrows family of Turit Colin is the Principality of Putao, which is currently under the full surveillance of the Gangfei Empire,

A sadness flashed on the fat man's face, his eyes flickered, and he held his head high and said in a deep voice, "And the important Burrows family is the top priority of being monitored by the Gangfei people, Turit Colin was suddenly detained as soon as he returned to China, and the fleet that went with the team was also intercepted and sunk by the Gangfei Navy! Thousands of sailors have not survived."

"Damn Gangfei, if I had known this, I should not have made a truce with Gangfei! If Your Majesty allowed it, I would immediately lead the fleet to bombard Gangfei Kyoto" Dustrenkai thought of the thousands of sailors of the empire who had died in the sea, and gritted his teeth and said, "If you can't bear it, you will make a big plan!" At present, the main target of the empire is still the Gauls!" The fat man shook his head, took a deep breath and said, "Fortunately, the Burrows family is all over the Central European Barro, and the Gangfei people only dare to adopt a general house arrest strategy, hoping to gradually cut off the possibility of Duke Putau getting support." Otherwise, I will definitely use a million inhuman blood to bury Turit Colin" The fat man snorted heavily, turned his head, and looked at his fleet commander "At present, we first need to open a gap in Putao to provide a docking point for the fleet, you found the Duke of Putao yesterday, how did he answer?" "The Duke of Putao has proposed a suitable location" Dustrenkai nodded" He said that Putao is a small country, but it has more than a dozen outer islands of all sizes, known as the Putao Island Chain, of which Huacheng Island, where his greatest enemy, King Raphael, is located, is undoubtedly the largest in these island chains, and Huacheng has complete port and fleet facilities. It is said that there is also a very valuable gold mine on the island, and the annual harvest is not small, so the Gangfei people have specially stationed a detachment on Huacheng Island to protect and transport these gold ......"

"Gold Mine!" The fat man's eyes lit up unexpectedly, he really didn't expect that the small Putao Principality still had such a valuable mine, so it was no wonder that Gang Fei had been eyeing the Putao Principality, "It's just that the subordinates think" Dustronik glanced at the fat man, gritted his teeth and said, "This Jianyi." It's more like he wants to use our hands to directly eliminate his biggest threat" "It's just mutual use! No one is a fool, according to the current relationship between the two sides, this Duke of Putao should not have the possibility of deceiving us, because even if we kill this Rafael County King, Gangfei people can find a new replacement, and Duke Putao will not be so stupid!"

The corner of the fat man's mouth sneered, "Give the order to the fleet, and march for the purpose of Huacheng Island! Now tear a hole in this island chain."

The calm sea surface has much smaller waves, which is a harbinger of approaching the mainland.

In the afternoon, under the pale winter sun, the Falcon fleet reached the northern sea of Huacheng Island, and the huge fleet was anchored in the sea less than three nautical miles from the island's coastline. Like an eagle, it stared at the huge island in front of it.

If you look at it from the perspective of the Falcon Navy, which is accustomed to seeing large ports, Huacheng Island cannot be regarded as a city inhabited by a county king at all, at most it can only be regarded as a relatively prosperous small city, which is indeed as Duke Putao said. This small city has a complete naval facility, and although it is small, it has all kinds of organs. The port, the dock, the repair shop, the lumber mill, the extension of the port, and the sea are decorated with white stones similar to the white marble stones on the island, which are also very pleasing to the eye from a distance.

There were some fishing boats and a few small sail speedboats flying non-naval flags docked inside the harbor, and when I saw the murderous fleet group appearing on the sea, the harbor sounded the alarm bell, and the harbor mountain was in chaos, and on the mountain behind the harbor, in a four-sided square castle, "What happened to the harbor?"

The young Raphaelshire king, listening to the emergency bell from the port, ran to the highest watchtower of the castle in confusion, his appearance was very different from his cousin Duke Putao, the Duke of Putao was slender and looked capable and spirited, and this young county king was two meters tall, burly, at first glance, he belonged to the figure of a fierce general, at a very young age, Raphael County was known as the most outstanding warrior of the Putao Principality, and would definitely become the pillar of the auxiliary principality in the future. "Your Royal Highness, there is a huge fleet of unknown people in the harbor!" a guard ran up the castle wall with an ugly face like a dead man, shouting "The other side has sent a message in flag, demanding that we surrender unconditionally, otherwise, a full-scale attack will be launched in an hour!"

"Surrender, what are you kidding, this is the city of flowers!" the arrogant prince was obviously choked by the surrender demand, his eyes fiercely looked at the glittering family coat of arms hanging on the white walls, and said loudly, "Sue them, no one can force me to leave here, this is my land, if you have the ability, come and take it, and immediately go to someone to ask for Admiral Alange, who is just not in the navy." I would like to ask for the support of the Congo-Africa naval fleet."

In another room on the island, the commander of the fifth detachment of the Seventh Fleet of the Gangfei Empire, Alange, looked at the group of battleships lined up on the sea, his fingers gently rotated the bronze-based nautical instrument, his gaze gradually condensed into a thin line, he had a pair of light blue charming eyes, a thick short flaxen hair, white gloves on his noble hands, a neat navy uniform on his body, cuffs and collar depicted with golden silk edges, and a golden tassel embroidered on the badge on his shoulder

How could the Falcon Fleet appear in this position, although it has not encountered the Falcon Fleet head-on, but the fall of the core of the northern seas, Cassiri, has made all the Gang Fei Admirals remember this terrible fleet with the black Falcon Flag as the naval flag,

After visual inspection, Alange can be sure that the number of warships on the other side is more than fifty, which is not something that a small fleet with transportation greater than actual combat can provoke, but he heard that in the original Kassiri, the Falcon fleet directly used long-range weapons to wipe out the entire port area, "Lord Commander, the steward of the Raphaelshire King asks to see!" The servant's voice sounded outside the door,

"Let him in!" Aranger replied to the door without looking back, he wanted to refuse, but the thought of the huge amount of effort the empire spent on Raphael's puppet finally made him resist the urge to refuse,

"Your Excellency, Commander. Your Royal Highness the King of the County has something urgent, please come over!" the old butler, who was a little thin, pushed open the door and said to Alange with an anxious expression

"If it's about the sea fleet, I'm not going!" Alange turned around, looked at the old butler who stayed there with a little apologetic eyes, and said in a condensed voice, "It's not that I'm willing to help, I only have 7 small warships, and the others are all transport ships, so I can't help it,

"Does the commander mean that the empire has abandoned Huacheng?"

King Raphael's voice came from the doorway with a thick anger. The indignant county king walked in, looking at Alange with bloodshot eyes, "I just want to ask, I serve the empire loyally, and even the gold mines on the island are not dedicated to the empire, where is the empire when I need it!"

"Actually, I'll order the fleet to leave soon," Alange said with a stern expression as he looked at the Raphaeljun King with anger on his face, "This is a matter that belongs to the Putau people, who knows how you provoked the Falcon Navy in the north." I can't let the Imperial Navy get involved without a clear order from the Imperial Admiralty!"

On the surface of the sea, the fat man looked at the sky with some impatience, he needed the complete facilities of the port. That's why he asked the island to surrender, but the other party didn't react in the slightest, which undoubtedly made the fat man feel a wave of anger in his heart, "Order the fleet, first crush the area on the right side of the harbor for me!" The fat man ordered Dustrunkai behind him. He must sue the other party, this kind of self-defeating behavior is simply self-defeating. "Wow" battleship swings huge waves. The twenty dragon tooth warships of the Falcon Imperial Navy have been lined up, and the side chords are neatly aligned on the right side of the port of Huacheng Island, which is a beach, on which are built watchtowers to monitor the sea and several small trebuchets, through the lookout glasses in their hands, the admirals of the Imperial Navy can see that the Putao soldiers are holding ancient spears in their hands, and the armor on their bodies is very simple and worn, and these soldiers don't know what is about to happen, and they are looking nervously at this side on the watchtower, "The target is 300 meters, the height is seventeen, ready to shoot!" The fleet gunners have begun to refine the number of shots, the fleet seems to be neatly deflected, and the muzzles of the Thor Black Hole Hole slowly raised, aiming at the batteries in these areas, "My lord, what do you think these warships are doing?" A Putao soldier asked an officer next to him with a pale face, "Your Highness strictly ordered defense, why are you asking so much, is it difficult, these warships can still run to the shore to show off their might!" The officer wore a curly brimmed hat peculiar to the Putao Army, and also carried a spear made of fine iron in his hand, with obvious disdain in his tone for the unknown fleet that was slow to attack on the sea, and at this time, he suddenly heard a rumbling muffled thunder coming from the sea, and white smoke sprayed out from the side of the battleship on the sea, and for a while, the entire distant sea surface was filled with white smoke "What's the matter?"

At the moment when the officer was stunned, a fierce heat swept around him, and the white lines from the sea fleet whistling down, filling the sky, fell on the beach on his left and right, rising waves of smoke. A violent whistling sound crossed his head, a white line crossed the sky, and slammed into the walls of the island fortress "Boom" The violent explosion sounded like muffled thunder, and countless fires erupted from the side of the battleship on the sea surface flashed on the sea surface in an instant, "Huhuhu!" The Thor bullets rained down, and the people of Putao who faced the naval salvo for the first time were completely stunned, everything was undulating and flashing in front of their eyes, the fire exploded, the smoke billowed out, the limbs of people flew apart like pieces of paper, the seemingly solid fortress was torn apart, and countless rubble fell

The sand on the beach was blown up as if the wind was blowing, and the soldiers who were still lining up on the beach were frightened by the dense and powerful artillery fire, and some jumped up in panic. Ran around and got blown to pieces. On the contrary, the soldiers who stayed calmly in their bunkers were fine, unless they were directly hit by the shell, the soft sand absorbed most of the energy of the shell explosion, and the radius of damage was greatly reduced.

But. It was different for the watchtower behind the beach, where there was no beach to absorb the energy of the cannonball explosion, and the Thor cannonball fell there and exploded, and when it exploded, it was a large piece of dirt and flew into the air. Large swaths of trees were blown off by the barricade and smashed down one after another, and they were instantly blown beyond recognition by the volley explosion. The shelling first strafed the edge of the harbor, and then extended to the middle, and one after another houses and facilities were hit, rubble flew sideways, and some of the wall fragments collapsed from the middle, and some were directly lifted off the roof of the houses, and the beautiful houses became a terrible ruin in an instant. Even King Raphael, who was standing on the castle in the distance, was stunned by the destruction of the port, and the flickering white light stimulated his pale pupils

"It's Thor!" I don't know when, the commander of the Congo detachment, Alange, stood by his side, "They used this to destroy the northern hub of Kasili, and more than 40,000 people died because of it!" (to be continued......)