1825 My New Daming

Chapter 119 The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Kingdom, All in One Action! (Available in the early hours of Friday morning, please order first!)

In the early morning of the ninth day of February, in the Seto Inland Sea, the waters east of Awaji Island.

The sky full of stars was reflected in the sea, and the moonlight was smashed by the V-shaped bow of the Lushun cruiser in the undulating waves. The hull of more than 5000 tons was ups and downs, and the lights on the ship also flickered.

Inside the bridge, Zhuge Weidao stood in the captain's command position holding on to the railing, looking out the window at the pitch-black sea, still full of energy.

Although Zhuge Weidao still hasn't thought about how to be a captain, his work attitude is still very good.When it was his turn to be on duty, he would definitely arrive at the bridge early and wait patiently for his deputy chief Chen Jian to get off work before taking over the command.Then he stood in the command position with the most upright posture, as if he was about to go into battle the next moment.Seeing his attitude, the navigator, signal officer, flag officer, steering officer, messenger, herald, herald, bridge observer, and combat staff on the bridge did not dare to make any noise. They were negligent, and they all cheered up, showing the attitude they had when the Minister of the Navy came to inspect, worked hard, and dealt with it carefully.

However, although Zhuge Weidao showed the "posture of a famous general", he did not take the initiative to issue any military orders.All his military orders were proposed by the chief staff officer, Captain Wang Wen, and he was only responsible for nodding and saying "very good".

Well, Zhuge Weidao's captain is really easy to be.

With his "self-taught" naval professional knowledge, if he and Wang Wen were to be replaced as chief staff officers, it would be a joke.But as a captain, it's not bad to deal with it!

Of course, Zhuge Weidao also knew his weight.So he didn't intend to keep messing with the surface fleet, but he had already made an agreement with Zhuge Weiyi, Shangshu of the Ministry of the Navy, Zhuge Weiyong, chief of naval staff, and Guan Tianpei, commander of HNA.When he has accumulated enough experience at sea, he will go to the HNA headquarters as the chief of staff. No one else knows about HNA, but of course he is an expert.So he arranged most of the men he brought out from Peshawar to go to HNA early in the morning, and HNA was his territory in the future.

Just when Zhuge Weidao was thinking about whether he wanted to "invent" the plane as soon as possible after arriving at the HNA headquarters, a flashing light suddenly appeared in front of him.He looked up, and it turned out that the "Yamato" sent by the Japanese shogunate navy to lead the 600th Task Force of the Daming Beiyang Fleet where Zhuge Weidao was located was lighting the lights—oh, this "Yamato" is not another timeline Instead of the "Yamato Hotel" on the ship, it is a wooden-hulled gunboat with a displacement of more than [-] tons.

Four fast boats with a speed of 24-28 knots sailed slowly behind a small wooden boat with a speed of only 10 knots, and the scene that the small wooden boat was called "Yamato" was a bit absurd no matter how you looked at it.But no matter how absurd, Zhuge Weidao could only endure it.Because the "task" of the tenth mission formation this time is actually to send him to Japan to marry the Tokugawa shogunate. This is a diplomatic mission, so the voyage route has to be arranged by the Japanese side.

"What did that Yamato say?"

Zhuge Weidao watched the lantern language for a while, but still didn't understand, so he asked directly.

"Reporting sir," the signal officer on the bridge immediately replied, "Yamato said that pirates have been active in the waters near Shikoku Island and Awaji Island recently, so let us be more careful."

Zhuge Weidao was stunned, "Pirate?"

The Chief Staff Officer Wang Wen immediately took up the topic and said, "Sir, after Japan's reformation and founding of the country, the pirates and pirates who had disappeared due to seclusion and isolation have made a comeback. There are Japanese pirates even around the Luzon Islands. Among them, the most famous ones are the Murakami Navy, the Goto Navy, the Kumano Navy, the Ito Navy, and so on. The Lord's Haitao Team Navy.

According to the investigation of the Naval Intelligence Bureau, behind these Japanese pirates are actually the shogunate and some powerful daimyos. Among them, the Murakami navy is behind the Choshu clan Mori, and the Goto navy is supported by some powerful clans in Kitakyushu. Kumano The navy is supported by the shogunate and the Kishu Tokugawa family, and the Ito navy is supported by the Satsuma Shimadzu family. "

"The Tokugawa shogunate and powerful clans support the pirates." Zhuge Weidao nodded lightly. He "forgot" about this matter, because it was not an important matter, so he never "remembered" it, but he could understand Japan. Why do people do what they do?
This is imitating the old wisdom of Queen Elizabeth I of the United Kingdom. When overseas trade and industrialization have stuck Daming's neck, it is indeed a robber country to engage in such crooked ways!

Thinking of this, Zhuge Weidao just smiled coldly: "Tell Yamato, if you encounter pirates, my formation will definitely eradicate them for Japan!"

"Yes, sir!"

Just when Zhuge Weidao asked his men to light the lights on the wood-hulled gunboat Yamato with a displacement of up to [-] tons, four boats with a displacement of [-] to [-] tons were parked on the sea south of the Naruto Strait. A pirate ship, no, more precisely a camouflaged assault ship!

In fact, the main force of Japan's maritime armed forces today is not at all the Japanese shogunate navy on the surface, such as the Four Heavenly Kings, the Yamato, and the Musashi (both are wooden shell gunboats of several hundred tons), or the King Kong Class (wooden-clad and iron-skinned cruiser built in Japan), what kind of Akagi ship, and Kaga ship (two protected cruisers that have been transferred without knowing how many hands), the name seems to be very powerful, and there are thirty or forty ships in total.But the actual combat power is not worth mentioning compared to the Ming Navy, and there is no need for the Beiyang Fleet, just the small tenth mission formation where Zhuge Weidao is located and a naval battle with them will be sure to win!

But the Japanese devils are not the Qing Dynasty that engaged in the Westernization Movement in history. They are not so disciplined. The decent navy can't beat the Ming Dynasty.

The former is still a bit casual, just build some kind of ship, load it with a few small cannons and a group of ronin who are so poor that they only have "one sword and one life" left, and they start working.

The latter is very powerful, they are all camouflaged warships specially built with the black money earned from doing pirates.The shell is made the same as a civilian ship, but an armored gun bay is installed under the deck. As long as the wooden boards are put away, the 6-inch rapid-fire cannon hidden in the gun bay can be pushed out to fire!

There are also liftable turrets hidden under the bow and stern decks. As long as the covered decks are opened, the turrets can be raised.In this way, one or two rapid-fire guns on the bow and stern of the ship can be used.

In addition, the boilers and steam engines used by this kind of camouflaged assault ship are also of high horsepower, which can make the speed of the camouflaged assault ship soar to more than [-] knots!

Not to mention merchant ships, such assault ships, even the second-best warships can get their way when they encounter them.

And this time Qiliang Shimadzu went all out to ignite the flames of war between Da Ming and Da Ying. Not only did he send the most elite Haitao team under his command, but he also took out four secretly built camouflage assault ships, For the size of Lushun class and Xinchang class, two large ships of four to five thousand tons and two small ships of less than one thousand tons were found.

Even in order to pretend to be more real, Qi Liang also had people modify the camouflaged assault ship, and installed a fake mast plate. If you look at it when the visibility is not high, it will still look like the real one!
"Master Xixiang, five unidentified ships are coming from north to south at a speed of ten knots. They will pass through the Naruto Strait in about half an hour!"

On the pitch-black bridge of the flagship of the four Japanese camouflaged assault ships, "Kirihidrome Maru", a staff officer of the Haitao Squad, who was dressed like an ordinary merchant ship crew, yelled loudly, looking very excited.

The one-eyed dragon Xixiang nodded his head heavily: "Yaoxi! It's finally here, let's light the lights! The rise and fall of the empire is here! Xixiang Jibingwei Longsheng is willing to join all the kings to serve the country with seven lives!"

"Hay!"

(End of this chapter)