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Dealing with Tian Wei is a matter for the future. Now Wang Huaxi wants to discuss the matter of Dengzhou to defend against the enemy, but Tian Wei, the naval commander, is indispensable.

"The Huangcheng Guards were attacked by pirates. What will General Tian Shen think?"

"This..." Tian Wei hesitated, "After the general gathered his troops, he led the navy to support."

Wang Huaxi frowned deeper and said: "Don't you know the enemy situation reported back by the Huangcheng Guards? The pirates are powerful and the Huangcheng Guards are in danger of falling? I'm afraid the day lilies will be cold by the time you get there!"

"The general will be frightened." Tian Wei finally realized something and said, "I hope everything will follow Futai's command!"

Wang Huaxi thought for a while, discussed with Li Chenggong, and then said: "The enemy situation on the Huangcheng Guard side is unclear, and your navy is not prepared for war, so it is better not to take the risk."

"But the Changdao Guard cannot afford to lose anything - if the enemy captures the Huangcheng Guard, they are likely to take advantage of the situation to attack the Changdao Guard. At that time, you will lead the navy to assist. It is best to form an internal and external pincer attack with the Changdao Guard officers and defeat the intruders in one fell swoop. The pirates!"

Tian Wei clasped his fists, "The last general takes orders!"

After deciding on the imperial strategy, Wang Huaxi still frowned.

In fact, the best way at this time is for the navy to dispatch directly to annihilate the invading pirates and recapture the Huangcheng Guards.

But the current state of the Dengzhou Navy made him really unsure of sending it out.

As the governor of Denglai, although he has the responsibility of guarding the territory, the temporary loss of the Huangcheng Guards is nothing. As long as they can be recovered later, at most they will be reprimanded by the court.

However, if something happens to the Dengzhou Navy and the city of Dengzhou is put in danger or even captured by pirates, then he will be guilty of a serious crime.

After Wang Huaxi assigned tasks to the Dengzhou Navy, he personally urged Tian Wei to gather troops and go to Changdao Guard, and then returned to Dengzhou Fucheng to inspect the city's armaments...
Most of the day passed in a flash, and it was evening.

Wang Huaxi was sitting on the north city gate tower, handling military affairs while waiting for news from the Changdao Guard.

Then I heard exclamations coming from outside.

"Oh my God, there are so many big ships!"

"There are a few small boats ahead, they seem to be the boats of the Dengzhou Navy!"

"Could it be that General Tian Shen was defeated?"

"···"

Wang Huaxi quickly came out and looked towards the sea.

Dengzhou Prefecture is located on the seashore, and the north gate tower is only more than a mile away from the port. Therefore, standing on the gate tower, you can overlook the sea.

Wang Huaxi is in his forties and his eyesight is not bad.

On the sea surface of the port, three Dengzhou Navy ships were seen fleeing towards the port in panic.

There were more than a dozen large-scale ships following on the sea for a mile or two behind. Although the distance was still far away, Wang Huaxi still judged based on experience that the smallest one among those large-scale ships might have three thousand materials!
This scene made his hands and feet tremble.

There is only one thought left in my mind: It’s over!

The Dengzhou Navy is definitely doomed!

Even the capital city of Dengzhou might be captured by pirates!

After regaining consciousness, Wang Huaxi quickly issued an order.

"Hurry up and let the harbor fort fire to prevent the enemy warships from approaching!"

In fact, there was no need for Wang Huaxi to give an order. Several forts in the port were ready to fire. They would fire as soon as the enemy ships came within range of the cannons.

As an important coastal defense town, Dengzhou not only has three guards to defend it, but also has nine forts built around the port!

Each fort has a Tianwei cannon (the Hongyi cannon imitated by Xiong Mingyuan, Taizu of Chu), with a range of up to three miles!
Therefore, in the minds of almost everyone in Dengzhou, the capital of Dengzhou is impregnable.

However, the next battle completely changed these people's minds.

I saw those dozen large ships stopped more than three miles away from the coast, and then ship-borne artillery fired like thunderbolts, one after another!

The shells flew over a distance of three or four miles and hit each fort!
Not only are these shells accurate, they also explode again after falling! (Da Chu has not yet blossomed.)
It should be noted that the forts in Dachu are all open-air and are not like the artillery fortresses of later modern times.

Therefore, when some explosive shells fell on the fort, they directly blew up the Chu army above.

At the same time, several warships emitted billowing black smoke and suddenly accelerated towards the port! On the north city gate, Wang Huaxi and Li Chenggong saw this scene and their mouths opened in shock.

"How can the enemy warships still speed up? How can they emit black smoke? Also, why can their shells explode?"

Wang Huaxi asked three questions in a row.

Li Chenggong couldn't answer any of them and could only say: "Futai, no matter what, we must not let these pirate warships approach the port, let alone let them land!"

"You are right, immediately send troops to support the forts and let them do their best to prevent the pirates from landing!"

The reactions of Wang Huaxi and Li Chenggong were not unpleasant and decisive enough, but they were still not enough in front of the expeditionary force's armored ships.

The first seven armored ships stopped when they were only a mile or two away from the dock, and then directly fired their guns to bombard the capital city of Dengzhou!
Dengzhou Fucheng was bombarded by warships for the first time. From the generals to the soldiers, they were blinded again, and then there was a panic.

In this case, let alone supporting forts, it would be good to be able to defend the city wall.

Subsequently, the fifteen warships of the expeditionary force were divided into two formations (seven in the front and eight in the back), and alternately bombarded the northern wall of Dengzhou Fucheng and the coastal forts, constantly approaching the port.

Most of the forts were silenced. Occasionally, two or three forts launched a bombardment, and the probability of hitting the expeditionary warship was very small.

Even if a battleship is hit by a cannonball, it will only leave a small crater on the hull of the steel plate.

As the expeditionary warships got closer and closer to the port, Wang Huaxi and Li Chenggong finally noticed the strangeness of these warships.

"General Li, are these battleships made of iron?"

Li Chenggong also looked like he had seen a ghost and said, "It looks like it might be covered with a layer of fine iron!"

As for the black smoke rising from the battleship, they also saw it clearly - it was not that the battleship was on fire, but that there was a big smoke on the battleship, and the black smoke came from inside.

This made the two people even more confused and even fearful of these battleships.

Even if the governor and generals were like this, it is needless to say how panicked the ordinary Chu soldiers were.

At this moment, the morale of the Chu army in Dengzhou Prefecture was extremely low.

In the end, I almost watched the Chu army land at the port terminal.

In fact, under the suppression of hundreds of naval guns, even if the Chu army in Fucheng wanted to take advantage of the expeditionary force's landing, it would be difficult to do so - because when the artillery fire was the fiercest, it was difficult for them to even raise their heads. The fact that some soldiers still stayed on the city wall was the result of Li Chenggong's skillful leadership.

On that day, the Damei Expeditionary Army captured Penglai, the capital of Dachudeng Prefecture.

General Li Chenggong died in battle, and Denglai governor Wang Huaxi committed suicide but was captured.

A few days later.

Also in the Jiaodong Peninsula, Laizhou Prefecture, which is relatively close to the sea, governs Ye County, Jiaozhou, Huangxian, and Fushan, as well as coastal guards such as Weihaiwei, Jinghaiwei, Dasongwei, Aoshanwei, Fushanwei, and Lingshanwei. into the hands of the expeditionary force.

At this point, except for a few cities close to the interior, the expeditionary force almost controlled the entire Jiaodong Peninsula.

After the news came out, the whole Shandong was shocked!
Without waiting for the Shandong Governor's Yamen of Jinan Prefecture to come up with countermeasures, in just two or three days, several inland cities such as Changyi, Gaomi, Pingdu, Laiyang, and Zhaoyuan also fell one after another!
After receiving this news, the governor's office of Shandong did not dare to suppress the news anymore, and immediately dispatched fast horses to report the news to Xiangjing and ask for assistance.

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Xiangjing.

In the Xian Mountain Immortal Palace, Emperor Jiahua of Da Chu was practicing on the ninth floor of the Babel Tower after three days of burning incense and bathing.

According to the immortal method he has recently practiced, he must practice it in the pagoda for thirty-nine and twenty-seven days before he can complete his full work.

During this period, no one was allowed to disturb except the eunuch who brought two special meals a day.

Today is the twelfth day for Emperor Jiahua to practice this immortal method, and he has not even reached half of the deadline.

Originally, in order to avoid disturbing Emperor Jiahua's cultivation of immortality, the Babel Tower and even the entire Xianshan Immortal Palace were quite quiet.

As a result, on this day, a group of ministers came outside the Immortal Palace and started making a noise!

The leaders were the cabinet ministers Gao Sheng and Xu Wei, followed by the ministers of the Ministry of War and some censors. As for the first and second assistants, they were nowhere to be seen.

"No one is allowed to enter the important land of Immortal Palace without His Majesty's order!" The general of the Forbidden Army stopped the group and shouted coldly.

Goldman Sachs looked solemn and shouted: "We have urgent military information to report to Your Majesty. Get out of the way quickly. If military affairs are delayed, you cannot bear the responsibility!" (End of Chapter)