Chapter 34 The South Seas Rise
Wanghai City, Baiyue County, Qinling Empire, is a seaport city located at the southernmost tip of the empire, with the vast South Ocean outside.
Although the southwest and west sides of the empire were bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, the coastal areas were deserted and there were no seaports due to the Lianyun Mountains. The Empire's maritime trade with the Western Continent and the Kunya Elf Empire all started from Wanggang City, and the wealth of Wanghai City can be seen from this, except that here is Jiangkou City, where Jiangnan County's trade with Dongying Kingdom developed.
The empire has two fleets, the Oriental Fleet and the Southern Ocean Fleet, each with thousands of large and small ships, and its strength is second to none in the Eastern Continent. The Oriental Fleet was stationed at Eguchi Castle, and this Nanyang Fleet was naturally stationed at Wanghai Castle and was responsible for defending the interests of the empire in the South Seas.
Today's Nanyang, the weather is very good, close to winter, the sea is also not prosperous, Wanghai harbor today no merchant ships arrived, so that the port tax officer is very surprised. In such a season, the sea is calm, and there are basically no strong winds and waves, which is most suitable for merchant ships.
There is a lighthouse ten miles outside the harbor where you can observe the sea hundreds of miles away, and a small squad of soldiers is stationed in normal times to watch and guard.
The strength of the Imperial Navy is that only the Kunya Elf Empire can compete in the entire South Seas. So they are usually on duty here and are also pretending, who dares to provoke the empire so unsightly!
The only powerful elven race is impossible, the empire and the elves have not been at war for hundreds of years.
What these little soldiers didn't know was that the empire had long been a horse to the Nanyang Fleet. Especially in the past twenty years, due to the pressure of the Northern Tiger Orc Kingdom, the empire has invested most of its military spending in the Northern Army, and the Nanyang Fleet can only add one new wolf tooth ship every year. The current Nanyang Fleet is already a foreign powerhouse and a middle cadre, and it is nothing to show for itself, and the scene is basically supported by 20 dragon tooth ships and the newly incorporated wolf tooth ships. The main force in the naval battle is still the warship of 30 years ago, although the successive commanders of the Nanyang Fleet have tried to repair and maintain it, but the age of the ship is too long, it is estimated that these Huya ships can not even withstand the wind and waves!
"Boss, why haven't you seen a single merchant ship today?" said a thin soldier to the squad leader. In the past, many merchant ships entered the port every day, but today it was almost noon, and another merchant ship came, and he was very puzzled.
"Damn, the hell knows what's going on! Anyway, no matter how many merchant ships come, I won't get a single gold coin, I'll take care of them!?" said the team leader lazily as he lay in the lighthouse lookout room basking in the midday sun.
"Yes, I'm just a little weird!" The thin soldier looked at the captain lying on the ground, thinking that it was not good to lie here and bask in the sun, so he was about to close the lookout window, and then his eyes involuntarily widened, "Boss, boss, something is wrong, look at it, what are those!" he looked at the captain in horror and said hurriedly.
"You kid are not finished!?Believe it or not, I'm going to drive you down to catch fish, don't chirp crookedly!" the team leader said disapprovingly.
"No, Boss, there are a lot of ships, not ours!" the skinny soldier noticed this time, the incoming ship did not look like the Empire had built a ship. The ships of the Empire had hard sails, and those in the distance had soft white sails.
"Hmm!, is it?" Hearing this, the team leader didn't dare to be careless, and got up and walked to the window to look into the distance. At a glance, there were no less than a thousand ships in the distance, the style was the style of the merchant ships of the Kunya Elf Empire that I had seen on weekdays, but the physique was much larger than the merchant ships, this was a battleship! Immediately, he shouted loudly in horror: "Hurry up the wolf smoke, hurry up the wolf smoke! It's the elven empire, it's the elven clan that has invaded, these are all warships! There is an enemy invasion, hurry up, wolf smoke!"
Directing the other soldiers to prepare for the wolf smoke, the team leader unlocked the bell hammer that was usually locked in the lighthouse lookout room, and slammed it into the huge bronze bell hanging in the center of the room. The lighthouse's lookout room is cleverly designed so that the sound of the bells can be transmitted back to the port through the special design of the lookout room.
"Bang Bang Bang ......" Huge alarm bells began to ring in the surrounding seas.
A group of guards hurriedly found stored firewood and horse manure, and black wolf smoke pillars rose straight into the sky from the small island where the lighthouse was located. A pile of wolf smoke rose, and the soldiers hurried to light a pile. In just ten minutes, more than a dozen piles of wolf smoke billowed up, dyeing the sky of the entire island black. This is the rule of the Imperial Alarm, like this, when a large-scale enemy invasion is discovered, try to light as much wolf smoke as possible, so that the rear knows the severity of the situation.
Handing over the bell to the skinny soldier, the squad leader leaned at the window and looked at the elven fleet in the distance, praying in his heart that the Nanyang Fleet would be ready as soon as possible.
Yu Junren is the commander of the Nanyang Fleet, and he was born in the Imperial Military Academy. Since he came to serve here, he has had nothing to do every day, except for his routine affairs, which is to shrink into his room every day to study military books. Although he was a disciple of the Holy Academy, his talent was not as good as those Holy Sons and Holy Daughters, and he really couldn't pass the Guò Holy Dao assessment, so his teacher asked him to leave the Holy Academy and enter the army to cultivate.
Of course, Yu Junren himself didn't think so, he felt that he was really overkill to serve as the commander of the Nanyang Fleet, and his genius lay not in the Holy Dao article, but in the way of the actual combat military formation. Therefore, he felt that he had never met a talent, and he was really not interested in fleet training, and he just continued to read military books every day to exercise his holy power.
He was looking at the book of soldiers in the study, and felt that his heart was full of pride, and when he was about to lay out the paper and study the ink to compose a poem, there were bells in the distance, and Yu Junren's poetry was suddenly extinguished. He was about to call someone to find out what had happened, when he saw a soldier hurrying in.
"My lord, the lighthouse alarm bell is ringing, the wolf smoke is rising, and a large fleet is coming to the harbor!" said the soldier, who had just heard the alarm bell, and then saw the wolf smoke billowing up, dyeing the sky of the lighthouse dark, and he suddenly felt bad in his heart, so he ran to report it.
"What, really?" Yu Junren's face also changed greatly, he had never been just talking on paper, how could he have experienced a real battle formation.
"My lord, the bell is coming from the direction of the lighthouse, and the sky is full of wolf smoke, I'm afraid that the scale of the incoming fleet is not small!"
"How good is this!" Yu Junren's face lost his usual composure, and the six gods were left without a master in a panic.
"My lord, are you hurrying up to gather the fleet and prepare to meet the enemy?!" the soldiers couldn't help but remind him.
"Yes, yes, hurry up and gather the fleet and go to sea to meet the enemy!" Hearing the reminder of his own soldiers, Yu Junren came back to his senses and tried to suppress the panic in his heart.
"Yes, sir!" the soldiers hurriedly ran out, ready to inform the battalion commanders.
Yu Junren only remembered what he should do at this time, hurriedly crouched on the table to write an urgent military information, and recruited a personal soldier to quickly send it to the county guard of Baiyue County, so he hurriedly changed into a military uniform and rushed to the port.
In the South Sea, if you look at the sky, you can see the shadows of white sails all over the sea, and it is estimated that there are more than 1,000 ships densely packed with them.
Most of these ships were huge Full Moon-class battleships, which could carry 1,000 sergeants, and the rest were morning class battleships, which could carry 200 sergeants, but they were very fast.
There was a huge ship in the fleet, ten times the size of the Full Moon-class battleship, which was the Sunny class warship of the Kunya Elven Empire. The Sun-class battleship can carry tens of thousands of sergeants, and can also be equipped with large equipment, and the entire ship is engraved with magic patterns, which can activate the defensive array, and the speed is not weaker than that of the morning-class battleship. There are only three such giant ships in the entire empire, one belongs to the imperial family, one belongs to the temple, and the one in front of you belongs to the military, and it is generally only sent as the flagship of the fleet when the large fleet goes into battle.
On the wide third deck of the Yanyang-class battleship, there were many elves wearing white officer uniforms standing at this time, and the first one was a middle-aged elf, he had a delicate beard, his hair was combed and shiny, and he was very aristocratic. His name is Hicks Amber Light, Prince of the Empire, royal family, and patriarch of the Amber Light family.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we have arrived at the sea outside Wanghaigang, and the lighthouse of the Qinling Empire in front of us has been warned, so there is no need to hide our tracks. Igna Yuechen has already led the fleet to meet it, well done, the lighthouse has been destroyed!" Hicks Amber Light did not look at the crowd behind him, but kept his eyes on the front of the fleet. The Sunny-class battleships were tall, and standing on the third deck, they could clearly see the situation in front of the fleet. Seeing a detachment of morning-star battleships quickly break away from the main fleet, rush to the island where the lighthouse is located, and destroy the lighthouse with the magic crystal cannon, he praised it from the bottom of his heart.
The magic crystal cannon is the research result of the imperial magicians for nearly ten years, and it has never been exposed, and this landing on the Eastern Continent is used as the biggest trump card.
"Presumably, the Qinling Empire will be surprised! Our fleet can already attack from a distance, and they are still jumping and ramming, and their combat effectiveness is simply worlds apart. Moreover, with the magic crystal cannon, the fortified city that the Qinling people relied on will also be vulnerable in front of us! The shame of the empire for thousands of years is finally going to be washed in blood this time! Haha!" The more Hicks Amber Light thought about it, the more excited he became, the shame of the elven race being driven out of the continent thousands of years ago would be washed away in his hands, and he really couldn't help but be excited.
"Isaiah Darkleaf, the people sent by your family should have already launched a rebellion against the half-elf by this time, right?" Hicks Amber Light turned to a middle-aged man who looked similar to Howard Darkleaf captured by Zhou Yi. This is Howard Darkleaf's eldest brother, this time he went to the Qinling Empire to plan a rebellion, attract the attention of the Qinling people, and provide a convenient strategy for the landing of the imperial army was planned by the Darkleaf family. The Great Mage of Riandell Morningwalker and his ten high-level mage disciples did not need the Elves to charge, so Isaiah Darkleaf won this rare opportunity for his younger brother to make meritorious contributions.
"Your Royal Highness, estimate the time, at this time, the army of the Half-Elf Clan has already inflicted heavy losses on the Ninth Legion of the Qinling people, and is attacking all parts of Vientiane County!" Duke Isaia Darkleaf made a rough estimate in his heart, and then said to Hicks with certainty.
"Well, Vientiane County is full of smoke, the Ninth Army has suffered heavy losses, and the situation in the southwest of the empire is erosive. The various legions in the south of the Qinling Empire should have been mobilized to suppress it, and our landing will be foolproof. Hicks Amber Light said with satisfaction.
The confident two had no idea that Howard Darkleaf and Leander Morningwalker, who they had high hopes for, had already been sent to the Qinling Imperial Capital, and the several southern legions they thought had been transferred had already received an urgent report from the Ninth Legion at this time.