The Young Master Is Fierce Chapter 1118: Hometown
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In the vast sea, hundreds of warships emerged from the sea level.
This is the expedition fleet from Frankie. The leader of this fleet is the famous Archduke Philip of Frankie.
A year ago, Count Pizarro occupied the Kingdom of Liu. Several of the warships returned to Frankie with the gold, silver and jewels snatched from the Kingdom of Liu, and also brought the news that the entire Armada was annihilated.
While Her Majesty the Queen was furious, she was completely dazzled by the looted gold, silver, jewels, silks and satins - it turns out that there are indeed extremely wealthy countries in the East!
Those survivors who came back said that Pizarro went further east and met a country called Xia, which was a thousand times richer than Liu!
At the same time, that country also has a navy, but their navy seems to have just been built. The ships are extremely advanced and the artillery fire is extremely fierce, but the quality of the soldiers seems not to be very good.
Count Pizarro became a prisoner, but he let the survivors know the Xia Kingdom's naval combat effectiveness.
After some thought, Her Majesty the Queen personally ordered the construction of an expedition fleet consisting of a hundred warships, and appointed Archduke Philip as the supreme commander of this fleet.
"Follow this route to the East!"
"Find the country called Xia Country!"
"Destroy their fleet, then land and destroy their army on land!"
"I want Xia Kingdom to become Frankie's colony!"
After more than a year of preparation, this expedition fleet was finally formed.
This is the most powerful fleet in Frankie's history, because they are all equipped with the latest steam power systems and once again improved artillery.
The maximum range of the new artillery has been increased from two hundred meters to three hundred meters. This is a huge improvement. In Archduke Philip's view, the enemy's artillery fire is obviously not as good as the range of his own naval guns.
Then this expedition is simply a gift from Her Majesty the Queen to her family.
Archduke Philippe stood on the bridge of the flagship Queen, and the warm sea breeze came towards him. He smelled the smell of the East - according to the navigation chart brought back by the remnants of Pizarro, the front was not far away, and it would take at most three days to sail. It is the Kingdom of Liu.
The Kingdom of Liu has fallen into the hands of Marquis Baer, and supplies must be carried out in the Kingdom of Liu. The fleet must stay for three days before heading eastward again.
Liu Country is a great place!
One of the treasures Marquis Barr sent back last time included women from the Liu Kingdom. Her Majesty the Queen rewarded two of them to himself. The taste of them made him go to heaven, which was not comparable to the Frankie women.
This time, I want to bring more women from the Liu Kingdom and the Xia Kingdom back. In Frankie, women from this eastern land are hot commodities. If calculated in terms of silver, a woman is worth a thousand taels of silver. !
Archduke Philip lit a cigar, and the swirling smoke was blown away by the sea breeze. He squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, as if he had already seen the glorious appearance of the legendary Eastern Kingdom of God.
"All of this is mine!"
"I will conquer that kingdom of God as a gift for Her Majesty the Queen's fiftieth birthday!"
Just when he was imagining endlessly, the speed of the fleet suddenly slowed down. He frowned slightly and saw his adjutant Bohr running over, "Your Excellency, the Grand Duke, an enemy ship has been spotted ahead!"
Enemy ship?
Why did an enemy ship appear before we even arrived at Liu Country?
Could it be that Barr, the bastard, failed to control Liuguo and made Liuguo stand up?
But what kind of powerful fleet can the small Liu Kingdom have?
Archduke Philip took another puff of his cigar and asked calmly: "How many battleships does the other party have?"
"Go back to Your Excellency, there are eighteen ships."
Only eighteen ships?
This is not enough for the expedition fleet.
"Destroy them!"
Boll accepted the order but did not leave. His expression was a little hesitant. Archduke Philip was unhappy, "What? Will the great expedition fleet be blocked from heading eastward by a mere eighteen warships?"
"Ah, no," Bol quickly bowed, "Your Excellency, the battleship opposite is... very big."
"How big is it?"
"There is, it is twice the size of our battleship."
The old face of Archduke Philip suddenly laughed, "So what? Send this Grand Duke's order to destroy them!"
"Subordinates take orders!"
After Bol retreated, Philip walked to the watchtower on the second deck, wanting to see what this Eastern battleship looked like.
At the same time, Zuomu's first fleet also discovered the enemy.
"Report...Commander Zuo, an enemy ship has been spotted three hundred miles ahead!"
Zuo Mu stood up and raised his telescope. In the telescope, a vast field of battleships appeared on the sea level.
There was thick smoke without sails, which made Zuo Mu frown slightly. This meant that the enemy ship had also been upgraded to a steam power system.
So in terms of the speed of the ship, I'm afraid it won't have much advantage.
The advantage of the First Fleet lies in the longer range of the naval guns. After being improved again, the maximum range of the muzzleloader guns has now reached 500 meters!
The current fleet is fundamentally different from the fleet commanded by Marshal Bai Yulian. After such a long period of training, the navy has already become familiar with the operation of naval guns and ships.
The transmission of orders has been much optimized than before. The flagship still transmits orders to other ships through semaphores, but the communication between the units of the ship is through internal loudspeakers - this is researched by the Daxia Scientific Research Institute The original name of the thing that came out was Qianli Er.
In the command room of each battleship, the captain of each ship can directly issue instructions to each unit through this loudspeaker, which is many times more efficient than using people in the past.
His Majesty's order to him is to fight as hard as possible. If he is defeated, he will run away - there is no shame in running and lead the enemy to the Far East Road to land. Daxia's navy can be used as an army to destroy the enemy on land. Such battle losses are smaller.
Of course Zuo Mu would not dare to disobey Fu Xiaoguan's will, but after the navy has trained for so long, everything on this battleship is as familiar to the soldiers as that **** He Sandao said, just like the girl from Cuihonglou .
What needs to be determined now is the range of the enemy's naval guns. According to the size of the enemy ship, its naval guns are obviously smaller than our own. If it has an advantage in range... Zuomu judged that this battle can be fought. of.
"The whole army obeys the order!"
"The first fleet is advancing in a linear manner, speed is halved, all units are in position...!"
As the flag signal was played, eighteen battleships lined up three hundred meters apart and sailed towards Archduke Philip's expedition fleet.
In terms of the length of the defense line, eighteen battleships are equivalent to one hundred enemy battleships. This means that on average, each battleship of the First Fleet will face nearly six enemy ships.
Can we win?
At the lower field military port, Fu Xiaoguan, Bai Yulian and others boarded the flagship Guanyun.
"With one against six, can the First Fleet win?" Bai Yulian asked worriedly.
"It doesn't matter, Zuo Mu is not He Sandao. If he is defeated, he will lure the enemy deeper."
He Sandao, who was by his side, was completely fine.