I Am the Grandson of the Second Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Earning 100 Million Taels at the Beginn

Chapter 377 The World Naval War Begins!

The east is at war, and the west is not idle.

Since the arrival of the five legions, Qi Yuan started the plan he had studied in his heart for a long time.

In a huge conference room in Jerusalem, dozens of military officers sat in rows, holding small notebooks in their hands, looking at Qi Yuan, who was holding a baton in front of him, poking around on the map, recording important content.

"Because you are from different units, for the convenience of command, you will be temporarily reorganized as the Western Expeditionary Corps from today onwards."

"The legion I lead is the First Legion, and you are 12345..."

After waving his hand to make several legion commanders stand up and sit down, Qi Yuan picked up the baton and poked at the map behind him and preached:
"Since the war with the Roco Kingdom, Ottoman has also suffered heavy casualties."

"According to the information we have received, they have already retreated to Aleppo, where they have begun to establish a defensive line, intending to rely on supplies from the rear to block our attack."

"The British Duke has already started fighting. I believe that we will achieve great results in the near future, so we can't rest. We must show a beautiful victory to show our existence to the Supreme Emperor, to the Emperor, and to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"Brothers, we are on the verge of a fight. This kind of world-class war has been waged by the Mongols since ancient times. Among the Yanhuang race, only we, Ming, have the ability to launch a war of this level."

"We soldiers are born for war, and this is also an opportunity for us to make a name for ourselves."

"It is the biggest dream in the hearts of all our soldiers to expand the territory and enshrine the marquis. Now the opportunity is in front of us. Whether we can win it depends on our own efforts."

"So for this war, our brothers will not be reduced to supporting roles, we have to play our own splendor, we have to play our own prestige."

"We want the common people in the world to know that our Western Expeditionary Corps has a part in this great achievement!"

"Clap clap clap..."

There was warm applause, and all the generals blushed with excitement, as if they had already thought that they had made great contributions, returned home to be rewarded by the court by the people, and their relatives cheered enthusiastically.

Stretching out his hand to press down, Qi Yuan said with a serious expression: "No matter how beautiful the words are, it is better to go out and fight the enemy in person. Only by making achievements, only by making good achievements, can everyone remember us."

"Now I order!"

"Whoa!"

All the generals stood at attention and looked at Qi Yuan expectantly, waiting for his order.

"The Sixth Army is responsible for guarding Jerusalem, and sent some troops to assist the navy in protecting the canal."

"Master Commander..."

Hearing that his mission was only to protect the city, the head of the only garrison army, he was unwilling to fight for a chance.

"Old Xu's rear is the most important thing. The canal is related to our Ming Dynasty's plan to conquer the world in the future. As long as you defend Jerusalem and the canal, it will be a great achievement. If it is not for my life, I would like to trade with you." gone."

"Hahaha…"

There was an instant burst of friendly laughter in the room.

The head of the garrison army scratched his head. Although he was still a little unwilling, he also understood that compared to the other field troops, his army was much inferior in terms of equipment and combat capabilities. Qi Yuan's arrangement was actually to take care of him. face.

"It's the Commander!"

Raising his hand in salute, the commander of the garrison took over the task.

After arranging the rear defense mission, Qi Yuan looked at the other legion commander, "Lao An, your legion's weapons and equipment have not been updated yet, and it is a bit of a disadvantage to go to the front line. The task of protecting our logistics line is entrusted to you. This is an important errand, whether our brothers can defeat Osman in the front, it all depends on you."

The commander of the fifth army nodded, raised his hand and saluted, and accepted the task.

After the other party took the order, Qi Yuan thought for a while and said: "In a few days, there will be a batch of three bunnies transported, and I will send them all to you. In addition, I will give you half of the three bunnies from other legions. You use These Sanbengzi specially formed a fast-moving corps to be responsible for patrolling and security on the logistics line."

"After the war, it will all belong to me, right?"

Hearing that so many Sanbengzi had been assigned to him, the head of the Fifth Legion's eyes lit up.

Qi Yuan shook his head amusedly, "I'm just giving it to you, can you afford it? Each legion only has so much fuel to supply, and there is no fuel for those three beggars, and you still plan to let your subordinates pull it."

"Hahaha……"

There was another burst of laughter, and the leader of the Fifth Army scratched his head without caring about the laughter, and took over the task.

After arranging the task of guarding the city and logistics, Qi Yuan looked at the remaining three army commanders.

"The task of attacking the fortifications is left to our four brothers. Whether we can achieve a good record or not depends on whether our brothers work hard or not."

The three legion commanders stood neatly, raised their hands and thumped their chests, and said loudly: "If you don't destroy the enemy army, you will never turn back!"

Qi Yuan nodded and raised his hand in salute.

"Leave tomorrow to launch an attack on the Ottoman defense line."

It was only dawn on the second day, and the gates of the city of Jerusalem were opened.

The well-armed soldiers lined up neatly and advanced quickly under the leadership of the officer's flag.

The people of Jerusalem, who were still strengthening the defense line outside the city, looked at the endless marching team with complex expressions in their eyes.

The reason why their expressions are complicated is because they don't know whether to be grateful to these Ming troops, or hate and resent these Ming troops.

They were caught and separated from their families and worked hard every day to build fortifications for these Ming troops.

However, these Ming troops were very well disciplined, unlike their own troops who demanded from them, even used food or other means to humiliate women, let alone forced buying and selling to beat common people.

Because of this, their emotions towards the Ming army are very complicated.

Naturally, Qi Yuan didn't know about the complex emotions of the people in the Roko Kingdom, and even if he knew, he wasn't interested in it.

In the words of His Royal Highness, Qi Yuan is an extreme democrat. In his mind, except for Ming people, other races are really no different from animals.

If necessary, he would sacrifice all these alien races without hesitation, and he didn't feel any guilt or shame in his heart.

"Do you really want to do this? In the east, our homeland is already at war with the Timur Empire. At this time, our best choice is not to provoke Ottoman, but to help the local side and block Ottoman's rescue route."

On the swaying three-bounce car, Sa Xuer looked at Qi Yuan who was staring at the map, and expressed her thoughts.

"Block the rescue, how to block it?"

Qi Yuan glanced at him, and tapped the pencil on the map.

"Osman wants to support Timur. They have a lot of routes and methods. It is simply impossible for me to stop them with 6 or [-] people."

Sa Xu'er heard the words and said angrily: "So you chose to attack?"

Qi Yuan raised his eyelids, "Then what can you do? Haven't you heard that the best defense is offense?"

Sa Xuer snorted twice, and spread her hands, "Okay, you are a military commander, so it's up to you."

"But I want to explain to you in advance, if you lose the battle because of this, the Supreme Emperor, the Emperor, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will blame you, don't implicate me."

Qi Yuan chuckled, "Don't worry, I've fought battles for so many years, and I've never implicated anyone else."

After finishing speaking, he stopped talking to the other party, bowed his head and continued to study the military map in his hand.

"How do you deal with Constantinople? It's their important military production base. If you plan to launch an attack and destroy it, it will bring you unexpected benefits."

Qi Yuan nodded, "I don't need you to tell me about this, the navy has already sent someone there."

Tianlong Canal, a naval military base.

"stand at attention!"

Following the roar of the duty officer, hundreds of naval generals in the conference room stood at attention collectively and looked towards the door.

"Tap tap..."

There was a sound of footsteps approaching from far away, and soon a man in his 50s, who was not tall but had a particularly strong body, strode in with several generals.

"salute!"

All the officers raised their hands in salute, and greeted their supreme naval commander, Li Hu, Chief of the Ming Navy!
After more than ten years of development, the strength of the navy has grown from a hundred ships at the beginning to a huge number of 1800 ships of various types.

As the commander of the world's largest navy, Li Hu seldom sails out to sea, and spends most of his time in Weihaiwei handling naval work, or training a new batch of naval personnel for the Ming Navy.

Originally, this time the armored fleet came to support Qi Yuan, Zhu Zhangui planned to send an admiral to come.

As a result, after Li Hu found out, this guy was a stalker, crying and yelling to come by himself.

In the words of this old guy, since he returned to Daming and became the chief officer of the navy, he has never personally commanded a warship to fight a battle.

Now it is said that he is the head of the navy, but he is actually more like a civil servant.

Now that he is getting older, it has not been a few years since the Navy stipulates that he will retire at the age of 65. Before retiring, he wants to personally command the fleet to fight a battle and have a perfect curtain call.

Zhu Zhangui, who was impatient with this guy, finally agreed to his request and entrusted him with the task of launching a naval battle to the west.

They even changed the original plan to send only one armored fleet to mobilize 1/2 of the fleet of Ming Dynasty and send it to the west to destroy the western naval power and prepare for the next step of conquest.

After receiving the mission, Li Hule's snot bubbles came out, and he happily took the successor he picked, led the huge naval fleet, and brought the supplies and equipment for the Roko Kingdom and Qiyuan, as well as the reinforcements, to the west. .

After taking over the command of the entire western navy, Li Hu began to prepare for the war in the western ocean that he had planned for many years.

"sit!"

Pressing his hands to the saluting generals, Li Hu smiled and asked everyone to sit down, then looked at the generals with a smile and said: "Brothers, after more than ten years, the world ocean war we have been looking forward to has finally begun. "

Hearing this, the generals below showed smiles on their faces.

From the day they created the Navy, the Navy has planned to wage a war of the oceans against the world.

Over the past ten years, the various tactics they have been deducing every day have finally come in handy today.

"Okay, let's not talk nonsense, let me tell you about our next mission."

After chatting with his old brothers, Li Hu took a folder and began to read out the task.

The naval generals below also quickly took out their notebooks and prepared to record them.

"We have a total of three combat missions this time. They are to annihilate the naval forces of the Alliance of Allah, destroy Constantinople, an important industrial base of the other side, and escort Lord Zhenhai to the New World!"

"Now I order!"

"Hoohoo!"

All the admirals immediately got up and stood by.

"The first and second squadrons follow my armored fleet and are responsible for the first and second combat objectives!"

"Yes!"

The two squadron commanders immediately responded loudly.

"[-]rd, [-]th, [-]th Squadron, your goal is to go west along the Mediterranean Sea. Firstly, to deliver things to our ally, and secondly, to destroy all the ships that do not hang the flag of Ming Dynasty!"

"Yes!"

Three more squadron commanders responded loudly.

"Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Fleet, although you are not on a combat mission, it is equally difficult. You must protect Lord Zhenhai and escort him to the two continents he once discovered."

"Yes!"

"Okay, the above are the combat objectives of our army. As for how to fight, I believe I don't need to explain. In the past ten years, we have practiced more than once. I believe you all know it well."

"However, I would like to say something here. If I win the battle, I will personally ask His Highness for credit. If I lose, don't embarrass me. Jump into the sea and feed the sharks yourself!"

"Yes!"

All the officers roared loudly.

On the eighth day of October in the fourth year of Hongxi, the navy that had already arrived in the West and the Western Expeditionary Corps launched an attack at the same time.

The navy's most elite fleet led by Li Hu went directly northward from the canal to Cyprus Island, looking for the Allah Allah naval forces that might be stationed there to fight.

On land, Qi Yuan led 4 legions with more than 4 people, and marched towards Aleppo along the route of the Roko Kingdom's attack.

The two combat forces are like a pair of scissors, trying to completely cut off Ottoman's territory across the strait.

On October [-]th in the fourth year of Hongxi, the island of Cyprus was dozens of nautical miles away.

Li Hu saw the fleet hastily raising the sails in the distance, and the fleet was hurriedly heading out to sea, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

He has been a naval commander for so many years, and finally got the opportunity to personally command the fleet to fight.

It's also ridiculous to say that he is a majestic naval commander, but he has never commanded his fleet to fight, which is really speechless.

That is to say, he has taught many admirals, otherwise his subordinates would have doubted whether this chief admiral would know how to fight in the navy.

At three quarters in the morning, the distance between the two navies was fifteen nautical miles.

The ships of the Ming Dynasty Navy were fully mobilized, and the gun covers were lifted to prepare for battle, while the Allah Alliance Navy on the opposite side had just started to move.

At the end of the day, the Alliance of Allah's navy had just deployed, and the Daming Navy launched an attack under Li Hu's order.

Daming currently has 8 ironclad warships, except for the original Zhenyuan Dingyuan, the other 6 warships are all [-]-ton warships.

In terms of the caliber of the artillery, it has a larger caliber and a longer range than the battleship artillery of the Zhenyuan Dingyuan.

Following Li Hu's order, the six warships that seized the T prefix sent ear-splitting roars to the enemy. The thick shells rubbed against the air, roaring like a train, and smashed fiercely at the battleships of the Alliance of Allah.

(End of this chapter)