People of insight from Western countries also wanted to imitate the products of science, but they soon despaired, because the knowledge involved in these products was completely beyond their imagination, and it was not something that the workers of those handicraft workshops could produce. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After all, the grace of the Lord is not something that can be obtained indiscriminately, black powder guns and cannons are related to the survival of Western countries, so they will naturally help with all their might, but if even daily necessities need the grace of the Lord, it will be a bit too much, and it must be punished by the Holy See, because greed is also a kind of original sin.

In the face of the birth of the Science Gate of the Great Li Dynasty, the reactions of different classes in the West are also different, ordinary people only know that the department stores of the Science Gate are exquisite, fortunately, these goods are expensive, and the quantity is limited, and they do not encroach on the market of their handicraft workshops, most of the priests, nobles, The knights, including the kings, only knew that they blindly pursued the novelties of the Science Gate, competing to buy them at high prices, and even vigorously taxed the merchants and common people for this purpose, and only a very small number of sober people like Aristarchus knew that as the Science Gate became stronger and stronger, the power gap between the Western countries and the Great Li Dynasty would become wider and wider.

Prior to this, there were cultivators in the Great Li Dynasty, and the Western countries had the grace of the Lord, and they barely maintained a balance, and the forces in the Western regions could not act arbitrarily after entering the East, and in the same way, the cultivators of the Great Li Dynasty could not go to all parts of the Western Ocean to be majestic.

However, the Science Gate is different, they don't pursue spiritual power at all, what kind of merit power is practiced, and their soldiers are armed with all kinds of unbelievable weapons, and their combat effectiveness is even close to that of a third-level paladin. You must know that the Great Li Dynasty is a large country with a population of hundreds of millions, and if every common person of the Great Li Dynasty is armed with the weapons of the Science Gate - my lord, then all the Western regions will be swallowed up by the yellow tide from the east!

Aristarch realized this, so he took the initiative to ask the Holy See to come to the East to preside over the teaching affairs of various places in Nanyang, in fact, his real purpose was to monitor the development of Mr. Houlong and the Science Gate, and see if there was any opportunity.

Now, Aristarch finally waited for the opportunity, and after cooperating with the Venezuelan country, he established a powerful fleet, and even took advantage of the rainy night to sneak attack the Wuqing fleet, preparing to deal a heavy blow to the Science Gate.

Aristarchus had already planned that attacking the Uqing fleet was only the first step, and then he would land in Kyoto Bay, bombard the camp of the Science Gate Marines, and then take the country of Enur under the glory of the lord. After that, taking advantage of the gap in the sea power of Science Gate, he coerced the slave country to attack Yizhou Island, and heard that the island was the territory of Mr. Houlong and his wife, and after vigorous development in recent years, there were extremely important factories such as military factories, shipyards, and machinery factories.

After capturing Yizhou Island, he captured Mr. Houlong's wife alive, took her as a hostage, and forced Mr. Houlong to provide advanced scientific knowledge and factories to Western countries。

Aristarch tried his best, and even said that he moved the Pope to send several of the most knowledgeable bachelors to help him study and build ironclad ships together, just to fight today!

Boom, boom, lightning struck the Wuqing fleet one after another, and more and more equipment exposed to the outside of the hull was destroyed -- radar, observation and sighting equipment, communication antennas, and even two open-air machine guns were also destroyed by lightning.

This Western spell is different from the cultivators of the Great Li Dynasty, and it does not need to use spiritual power, so Wu Qing actually didn't notice that this continuous lightning was actually deliberately done by someone, he could only secretly sigh that he was unlucky, and ordered the engineers to immediately organize emergency repairs.

On the sea on the back side of Tanegashima, Aristarch put down the cross in his hand and stopped casting spells, he did not need spiritual power to seek the Lord's grace, but it also required the power of faith of believers.

And on Tanegashim, there are only a group of people from the West who believe in the Lord, even if the craftsmen from the country of Vedory are converted to the Lord under the half-temptation and half-coercion of Aristarchus, but the power of faith is still not much, even with the assistance of a group of priests and scholars, it is already his limit to be able to summon this burst of lightning.

Aristarch wiped the water droplets from his face, and he asked Charlie in a deep voice, "Did the ironclad ship of the Affiliate Kingdom come to join us?"

Charlie's face was full of anger and he shook his head: "No, there are no ships to join us, not even a sampan! Damn, I said earlier that those yellow-skinned monkeys are unreliable! They must be too afraid of the ironclad ships of the Science Gate and retreated!"

Aristarch shook his head: "No. Charlie, you're wrong. Judging from my dealings with Taro Yamamoto and Soji Miyamoto, the hatred of the Kokoku and the eagerness to be liberated are real, otherwise they would not have taken a great risk to help us steal confidential information from the Kokoto. Maybe for some reason, they delayed their trip, after all, they were operating under the noses of the Science Gate Marines, and it was not convenient for them to act. ”

Charlie said, "Then what should we do? Do you want to wait for the arrival of the Venezuelan fleet before launching an attack?"

Aristarch looked in the direction of the Dark Green Fleet, where the lightning he summoned was becoming scarce, and he shook his head: "No, we can't wait any longer. If the Dark Green Fleet leaves this sea area and repairs the equipment damaged by lightning, then our hard-won advantage will be lost. Commander Charlie, I order, dragon slaying operation, execute it immediately!"

Charlie saluted, his face full of hideousness: "Dear Father Aristarch, look, I will definitely sink the ironclad ship of Science Gate to the bottom of the sea to feed the fish!"

Aristarchus crossed Charlie: "Go, my child, the light of the Lord shines on you." A faint burst of holy light flashed from Charlie's body, this is a sacred shield, as long as Charlie is not directly hit by the cannonball, ordinary shrapnel can't hurt him at all.

Charlie rushed back to the bridge and issued a series of orders, and the Western ironclad ship, which had already been on fire and pressurized, began to spit out large puffs of smoke with Mars, and the ship began to accelerate, turned out from behind Tanegashima, and rushed towards the Uqing fleet.

Wu Qing stood in the command room, feeling the telescope restlessly, staring at the heavy rain curtain, but even if there were searchlights passing by from time to time, Wu Qing still couldn't see anything, and the rain was getting heavier and heavier.

However, Wu Qing from the grassland has an intuition, when he was in the Hu tribe, he had experienced countless wars, and this kind of tempering made him have an intuitive reflection of danger like a wild wolf on the grassland--there is danger! On the dark sea, there is an unknown danger approaching him!

Wu Qing's mind raced to think, in this endless sea, who was the enemy of the ironclad fleet of the Science Gate?

Yes, although the country is now subjugated at the feet of Mr. Houlong, and even their Emperor Sakura has become the wife specified by Mr. Houlong, the subjects of the country are not convinced! After all, the country has been a country for a long time, and it has its own traditional culture, ethnicity, and language, and the emperor of the eternal line is a kind of belief of the common people.

It is inevitable that the slave country will resist, and it is abnormal if there is no resistance.

It's just that the country of Envira has always been stared at by Wuqing, and any resistance force will be killed as soon as it shows its head. Does the Venezuelan state have the ability to ambush the ironclad fleet at sea?

If it wasn't for the country of Enu, then could it be a demon beast? This is very likely! There are not only dragons in this sea, but also many powerful demon beasts, such as the big octopus and the sea snake, but the supernatural powers among them are not particularly powerful.

Or is it another cultivator who is secretly peeking at the Science Gate, and now he suddenly strikes a blow?

The more Wu Qing thought about it, the more worried he became, and asked sharply, "Has the radar been repaired?"

A non-commissioned officer reported: "Not yet, the engineer said it would take at least another hour." ”

Wu Qingyi frowned: "Tell the engineer, I'll give him 20 minutes at most! After 20 minutes, I want to see the radar working normally!"

At this moment, Wu Qing suddenly saw that in the distant rain curtain, a few flashes of light suddenly lit up, and then there was a muffled thunderous sound -- it was thunder and lightning? No! It was the sound of cannons!

Just on the flank of the Science Gate ironclad fleet, a mysterious fleet suddenly opened fire, and if it weren't for the flames from the muzzles that revealed their position, Wu Qing wouldn't even know that he had been attacked!

Wu Qing tightly grabbed the railing next to him and shouted, "There is an enemy attack!"

It's too late, boom, boom, one by one the metal flowers exploded in the Wuqing fleet, the landing point of the shells was extremely accurate, the flagship company where the Wuqing was hit three times, and other ironclad ships and civilian ships were also hit, even if they didn't hit directly, they were close to missing, and they exploded a high column of water next to the ship!

Wu Qing's head was scratched by a glass shard, and the blood suddenly flowed half of his face, and the medical soldiers next to him rushed up and bandaged Wu Qing urgently, and Wu Qing pushed him away: "Go and save the seriously wounded!" He took out a handkerchief, covered his forehead, and yelled: "Report the loss of the fleet immediately!"

At this time, the flames of the muzzles of the guns were lit up again in the distance, and another batch of shells whistled in, blowing up the smoke billowing from the dark green fleet.

Wu Qing roared: "Damn! The enemy has radar! Either there is a spell to help! Otherwise, in this vast rainy night, it is impossible to shoot so accurately!"

The gunner asked anxiously, "Sir, should we fight back?"

Wu Qing gritted his teeth and said: "Our sighting equipment was damaged in the lightning just now, without the observation and sighting equipment, relying only on manual ranging, in such a rainy night, we can't hit the enemy at all, we can only waste ammunition! What about the engineer?! Order him to repair the radar in the shortest possible time!"

In fact, there is no need for Wu Qing to urge, the engineer also knows that the once invincible ironclad fleet has encountered life and death tonight, if he can't repair the radar in the shortest possible time, it will really become a live target floating on the sea, and he suddenly seems to be crazy, ignoring the shrapnel flying around him, desperately repairing the radar.

Wu Qing watched the enemy's shells continue to fly, and more and more ships were shot, he gritted his teeth and shouted: "Order all the civilian ships to turn around immediately and return to Kyoto Bay -- wait, damn it, we can't go back to Kyoto Bay! We secretly went to the New World this time, but we were ambushed and intercepted by an enemy who did not know the details on the way, and it was obvious that the traitors revealed our whereabouts in advance! And this traitor, except for the dog thieves of the Slave Country, there is no one else!"

We must not be able to go back! Perhaps, even the marines stationed in Kyoto Bay are in danger!

So, back to Yizhou Island?

No! Yizhou Island is too far away, and if you don't wait for your fleet to sail to Yizhou Island, you will be killed by the enemy! Because the speed of the civilian ships is too slow, in order to cover them, the ironclad ships will not be able to give full play to their speed advantage.

Wu Qing was in a hurry, he knew that he needed to make a decision immediately, and every minute of delay would result in a heavy number of casualties in the fleet!

Wu Qing stared at the enemy who was constantly shelling in the distance, and in his own fleet, a civilian ship was on fire, although the crew braved the rain of bullets and put down the survival boat to evacuate the passengers, but there were still many civilians who could not stand the smoke and flames, and jumped directly from the deck of the ship. Although the people are wearing life jackets, if they are not salvaged out of the water in time, they will soon die due to the loss of body temperature in this cold rainy night!

Wu Qing slammed his fist on the deck and shouted: "Order all the ironclad ships to move at high speed in the direction of the enemy ships! The other civilian ships, except for one that was left to rescue the people who fell into the water, continue to sail towards the new continent!"

Wu Qing made a desperate bet to attract the enemy's artillery fire with the ironclad ship in exchange for the chance to escape the civilian ship, his move was actually a last resort, you know, if the ironclad ship was completely destroyed by the enemy, the clumsy civilian ship would soon be caught up by the enemy, and then sunk into the sea one by one.

However, this is what Wu Qing has no way to do, he can only bet, bet that the ironclad ship of the Science Gate has the power to fight the enemy!

Braving the rain of bullets from unknown enemies, the ironclad fleet of Science Gate began to turn, the boiler pressure rose to its maximum, and the huge propellers rotated at high speed, pushing the huge ship towards the enemy, like an iron knight who was going forward.

In the Western fleet, Charlie was checking the water curtain technique shown to him by a priest, on it, it was the dynamics of the dark green fleet, but it turned out that Aristarch used divine magic, espionage and other means, although he copied armor, artillery, boilers, propellers, etc., but he could not copy the radar, because the chip in the radar could not be made even by the master - although the master was omnipotent, just as the lord could not make a boulder that he could not move by himself, the lord also did not respond to the request of his servants in the mortal world.

Therefore, Charlie can only rely on the water curtain technique now and also reconnoiter the movements of the Uqing fleet, but the water curtain technique is enough to help him hit the Uqing fleet one after another on a rainy night.

This kind of feeling that the enemy can only be beaten and can't fight back is really cool!

Charlie was shouting an order, ordering the fleet to re-aim and shoot according to the new coordinates, when he suddenly saw the dark green fleet turn around and speed towards him.

Charlie was stunned: "What does the commander of the Science Gate Ironclad Fleet want to do? Haha, does he want to fight face-to-face like a knight duel?"

Charlie was born in a knight's family, before the black powder guns were passed from the Great Li Dynasty, his father often took him to participate in various knight finals, but after the guns appeared, it became the most stupid thing to sprint face to face with cavalry, because before the knights rushed in front of each other, a farmer could take a musket and kill the knight's father with one shot.

But now, the knight's blood in Charlie's bones is boiling again, and in his opinion, hiding in the distance and constantly shelling is like a child hiding and throwing stones, which is not what a knight should do. At this time, Charlie saw that Wu Qing led the fleet towards him, and he was in the middle of it, and he shouted repeatedly: "Rush up! Rush up! Put our guns under the nose of the commander of the ironclad ship of Science Gate!"

An adjutant next to him reminded: "Your Excellency Charlie, the fleet of Science Gate has not returned fire for a long time, and it is obvious that Father Alistarch's lightning just now damaged their sighting equipment. Rather than rushing up and confronting them, we should distance ourselves from them and still use our long-range artillery attack to take out the fleet of Science Gate. ”

Charlie glared at the adjutant: "What, are you scared? Don't you dare to confront the fleet of the Science Gate? You must know that our artillery is more powerful than the Science Gate, and our armor is thicker than that of the Science Gate, and we will definitely be able to defeat the fleet of the Science Gate head-on, instead of being like a coward, hiding from the side and firing cannons!"

The adjutant's face turned red: "Your Excellency Charlie, I just remind you that there is no need to cause unnecessary sacrifices. This fleet was built by Father Aristarch with great effort, and after eliminating the fleet of the Science Gate, we still need to rely on the fleet to blockade Yizhou Island and attack the reinforcement fleet of the Science Gate. ”

Charlie snorted coldly: "You don't need to tell me these big truths. We must defeat the ironclad fleet of Science Gate in the shortest possible time, because the civilian ships of Science Gate are on the run. In my opinion, the reason why the warships of Science Gate are doing their best to cover the civilian ships shows that the actions of the civilian ships hide a great secret. Don't forget, we still don't know why Science Gate suddenly organized such an expedition, you know, no one knows what kind of world exists on the other side of this route. But since the commander of the Science Gate ironclad fleet, Wu Qing, chose to sacrifice himself to protect the civilian ships, it means that this secret is not trivial! I, the fleet commander Charlie, think that even if we pay a certain price, we must destroy the battleships of the Science Gate as soon as possible, capture the civilian ships, and force the secret to be asked!"