Great Entrepreneur of the Universe

Chapter 320: Nanyang Overlord, a very stable start
Another month has passed by in a hurry, and 12 steel steam ships have been fully assembled, sailing on the vast ocean, not far from Manila, Luzon.

When Wang Shouliang looked at the sea view on the deck again, he quickly received a report that Nanyang Navy Admiral Zheng Jing, Beiyang Navy Interim Admiral Yao Xizhi and others wanted to land on the Sihai to meet the Saint.

This month, the Beiyang Fleet sailed from the Bohai Sea outside Dagu to Luzon Island and near Manila. It only had steel and steam warships that could sail day and night. There were more than a hundred wooden sail-armed merchant ships, cargo ships, and troop carriers belonging to the Beiyang fleet. etc.

It has long been left behind.

It was the same situation when they joined the Nanyang Fleet half a month ago. Only the steel steam battleships could keep up with this kind of shipping efficiency, and all the wooden sails were thrown away.

But it doesn't matter, there are a total of 12 steel steam battleships, the largest of which is the Sihai, which is equipped with a 305MM dual-mounted terrifying turret, and each shell weighs 390 kilograms.

One shot will destroy a football field, okay! !
Even in the Battle of the Ghost Bear in the early 20th century, the war fortress built by the Mao Xiong Czar outside Lushun, and the cement fortress with a thickness of one or two meters, could not withstand the 305MM bombs.

This fleet arrived in Manila, Luzon, to uphold justice for the Chinese and overseas Chinese and justice in the world.

This month, Wang Shouliang didn't just sit on the Sihai and never got off the ship. Just kidding, he carried various helicopters in his carry-on space, carried them to the deck and took off straight up and down. He passed by Ludong and flew to Quancheng to launch the new army for half a year. Military pay, check morale, and then come back.

The same can be said when passing through Jiangsu and Anhui.

I witnessed with my own eyes that Wang Shouliang, the King of Zhao, traveled thousands of miles every day, meeting groups of new troops from various provinces, distributing money, boosting morale, etc.

Wang Shouliang nodded, "Let's give Obai and Xuan Ye a little more shock later, so that they understand the meaning of coastal defense and naval warfare."

But all of them are Mauser 98 rifles, fast guns, equipped with one hundred rounds of ammunition. Officers starting from the general flag and hundred households can also be equipped with Browning M1906 repeating pistols.

After everyone paid homage and saluted, Zheng Jing handed over his hands and asked for instructions, "Your Highness, only the steel ships in our fleet arrived first. Do you want to dock for some time to rest?"

Regardless of Shi Lang, Liu Guoxuan or Wang Fuchen, they were all generals who commanded the army in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. With such combat effectiveness, they knew very well what kind of sweep this would be.

Then, everyone's sense of collapse became even greater.

From Zheng Chenggong to Zheng Jing, everyone had the idea of ​​attacking Luzon to make the decision for the Chinese, and they must have studied various plans.

They are all too aware of the horror of bitter and sour fried biscuits.

A moment later, Wang Shouliang met with Zheng Jing, Shi Lang, Liu Guoxuan, Yao Xizhi, Yao Yi, Wang Fuchen and other generals of the Northern and Southern Navy in the Sihai command tower.

Along the way south, not to mention the many evil-fighting eunuchs and palace maids on the Sihai, they had long been accustomed to this. Oboi, Xuan Ye and others had also become accustomed to it.

Wang Shouliang took a sip of tea and waved his hand, "No, just go straight to Manila Bay and blast their forts and cities to pieces. The marines from the major ships immediately came ashore to clean up."

"Wait for the arrival of other ships from the Northern and Southern Oceans before conveying the message to the Spaniards?"

Each general soldier can only command the strength of one thousand households.

As early as the thirty-first year of Wanli in 1603, Spanish executioners massacred more than 1662 overseas Chinese in Luzon. Then in the thirty-seventh year of Wanli and the twelfth year of Chongzhen, the last time was in 6, the first year of Kangxi, in June. The bloody massacre years ago.

"In the coastal offensive and defensive battle, we are in control. Commander Shi, Commander Liu, and Commander Wang. The finishing touches after landing in Manila will depend on your performance."

The intensity of this dimensionality reduction attack on the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia in the early Qing Dynasty was too exaggerated.

It is not difficult to find a place to dock for rest. Luzon, with a total area of ​​nearly 11 square kilometers, is an oval island from north to south, and Manila is also in the southern area.

Shi Lang, Liu Guoxuan and Wang Fuchen all knelt down to pay homage, "I will surely live up to His Highness's expectations!!"

The training lasted for almost half a year. Whether it was the Beiyang or Nanyang fleet, the learning content also included shooting and firing.

There are many thousands of kilometers of coastline to the north, including some coastal cities, indigenous fishermen's villages, and even excellent natural harbors.

All the Western forts and military fortresses were vulnerable to such heavy bombardment, and the number of marines carried by these large ships was not very large.

At this moment, Obai, Xiao Xuanye and others were no longer on the Sihai, but on the 5000-ton destroyer belonging to two naval admirals, Zheng Jing and Yao Xizhi.

Everyone paid homage again, then retreated and transferred to the ship.

When the command tower became empty, Akko and Zhu Yunqiao came together. Zhu Yunqiao said hello and greetings smoothly. She was not a talker, but a doer.

A few minutes later, Zhu Yunqiao smiled and said, "Your Highness, this time my father went south with the Beiyang Fleet and felt that he gained a lot."

"Last time, Sister Ake and I flew a helicopter north. During the practice, when we met my father, he also said that he wanted to try a big effort and change water transportation from the Grand Canal to sea transportation."

"It's not that river transportation is impossible, but since the late Ming Dynasty, the canal has been in disrepair and water transportation has been blocked. Even if the Qing government just entered the country and started to control the canal, it still has little effect until now."

"But maritime transportation, especially the grand expeditions of the Northern and Southern Ocean Fleets, have given water transportation a huge new idea... But he can't make the decision in this matter, and it is all at the discretion of His Highness."

"Inland water transport is almost an independent kingdom, handling huge amounts of money and food. Even if he is the governor of water transport, he cannot stop the internal group's bottom-up corruption group."

Wang Shouliang rubbed Concubine Zhu's conscience and sighed, "Water transportation is indeed a big problem. There were already mature shipping routes in the Song and Yuan Dynasties."

"Your father wants to change shipping, and I will strongly support it."

As expected of Zhu Guozhi, who dared to wield the tax collection sword against the Southern Zhili gentry group in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and defrauded more than 13,000 officials and scholars at one time.

Half a year after he took office as the Governor of Water Transport, he noticed the feats of the Northern and Southern Fleets going south, and that lit up his maritime thinking? This is a very practical person.

But as Zhu Yunqiao explained, inland water transport can support arterial transportation in the Ming and early Qing Dynasties for three to four hundred years. It has long been a huge independent kingdom from top to bottom.

In 1644, the first year of Shunzhi, the Qing government established the Governor of Water Transport, who was in charge of the huge water transport empire and controlled the inflow and outflow of massive amounts of money and grain. For decades, the canals including the Yellow River were in disrepair and the waterways were not smooth. It was a waste of money to spend money on it. …

It was embezzled and embezzled by the superiors and subordinates.

Wang Shouliang even remembered that the original trajectory continued until Kangxi settled the three feudal lords and supported the construction of the canal, Yellow River, Yangtze River and other waterways throughout the country. It took a full thirty years of support before inland water transportation was straightened out.

It supported the arterial transportation lines in the early and middle Qing Dynasty.

Then during the reign of Jiaqing, everything was in tatters again. Jiaqing was in power for 25 years, but the Yellow River broke its dikes 15 times. Those were major breaks, not minor repairs.

Then in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, river transportation was changed to sea transportation, which caused a lot of trouble for decades.

Why? What is not in line with the ancestral system, poor shipping technology, high risks, immature systems, etc., no matter how you talk about it, you can't avoid corruption. The inland water transport group has become a semi-independent kingdom. Corruption of silver. This is even more exaggerated than the Liao rates in the late Ming Dynasty.

Wang Shouliang thought for a while, "From the beginning of the founding of the country, our Zhao State has been defined as a maritime empire and inland shipping, whether it is the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, or the Yellow River, Huaihe River, Yangtze River and other river basins."

"The water control and repairs are indispensable. Repairing the waterways will help the prosperity of commerce and trade."

"But it is also necessary to shift the entire water transportation system to sea transportation."

"Next time, tell your father and ask him to vigorously innovate. It is inevitable that water transportation will be opened and sea transportation will be opened, and there will be no sea ban in Zhao. Don't worry, I will definitely not treat him badly."

Zhu Yunqiao is a man of action. After all, there are no outsiders in the command tower. They have been an old couple for more than half a year and already understand what kind of person Wang Shouliang is.

When A Ke was eloquent and eloquent, Wang Shouliang gently stroked A Ke's black hair and said, "You little greedy cat."

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A few hours later.

In Manila Bay, when 12 majestic steel ships entered the offshore waters, the entire harbor, including the docks, was in chaos.

This was only the 17th century, and there were not so many wooden sailing ships with a tonnage of several thousand tons. In the era when the Dutch were coachmen, a few hundred tons was no small thing.

The fortress fort built by Spain near the port quickly hoisted various flags.

Wang Shouliang didn't care at all. He had known for a long time that after the Chinese massacres happened one after another, there were basically no Chinese gathering in Manila at this stage. Everyone was not a fool. They had been massacred several times in just a few decades. Who could be stupid?

Therefore, Wang Shouliang personally controlled the 305MM main gun and fired several shots at the coastal defense fort.

The brilliant and terrifying big explosion directly detonated the entire Manila, and the power of destroying a football field with one shot was simply not something that the 17th century could stop.

He, the King of Zhao, fired the cannon himself! !
Other gunboats of the Northern and Southern Navy also unleashed their barrage of firepower, shells one after another, whether they were cotton gunpowder bombs or bitter-sour yellow devils.

In a short period of time, it enveloped the entire Port of Manila, targeting various Western merchant ships, the city of Manila, the Governor's Palace, etc.

The shelling continued for many rounds.

Wait for Sihai to wave the flag and stop the artillery battle.

Many people stood on the decks of the 12 large steel and steam ships and looked around. They were already in ruins. This kind of ruins looked like Manila had experienced several rounds of eight-magnitude earthquakes.

There are no intact buildings left.

All kinds of broken limbs of Westerners, including broken wooden boards and the like, covered the entire bay. Wang Shouliang once again issued an order for three marines to come ashore.

When one big ship after another approached the port, on the deck of the flagship of the Beiyang Navy, Yao Xizhi was smiling brightly and said to Ao Bai, "Ao Zhongtang, His Highness has always said that big ship cannons, big ship cannons, these are steel A new era of battleships.”

"I wonder what Ao Zhongtang thinks after witnessing this battle??"

Obai scratched his beard, with a shocked and messy look on his face, "A military fortress-level city wall, the city is over like this?!"

It had only been a few rounds of shelling, and all that could be seen were ruins, with almost no living people visible.

Aobai also knew that the Qing Dynasty was not good at naval warfare. As early as when Mao Wenlong was still alive, the general Mao who was stationed in Pi Island had caused so many troubles and temptations for the Qing Dynasty? ?

But that's just the ordinary-level Mao Wenlong Navy.

The Northeast not only has many coastal areas, but also huge rivers. The Shengjing generation had the Hun River, the Liao River, etc. If such a giant steel ship sailed past, a batch of big bombs would come.

Sheng Jing was immediately finished.

Ao Bai soon smiled uglier than crying, bowed and bowed to Yao Xizhi, "Admiral Yao, please tell His Highness King Zhao that Ao Bai is willing to lead the army to Yaksa to teach those stinking foreigners a lesson."

"At this stage, Ao Bai doesn't have much money. I wonder if we can hire the Beiyang Fleet to go to Japan? What if we can make a fortune in Japan?"

"Your Highness, we can buy as many bullets as we have. The foreign ghost guys can attack our Manchu ancestral land from the north, and we can also fight along the way."

Yao Xizhi laughed and said, "I will definitely spread this word for Ao Zhongtang. Since His Highness first proposed the Japanese country's golden mountains and silver sea, I estimate that as long as Ao Zhongtang spends money, our Beiyang Fleet can serve as a transport fleet, which will not be a big problem."

No matter what kind of person Yao Xizhi was originally, since he was appointed by King Zhao and promoted to the temporary admiral of the Beiyang Navy and the temporary commander of the Xuanwu Guards, he has been busy for more than half a year and studied for more than half a year. Now Yao Xizhi is really a master of giant ships and cannons. The most loyal crowd.

While the two were chatting and joking, a semaphore came out from the Sihai flagship again, and soon afterwards, evil eunuchs carrying orders came and rushed to the steel and steam ships in small boats.

An evil eunuch arrived at Yao Xizhi's car and quickly announced the order.

The battle between the hosts in Manila ended. Afterwards, when the huge wooden sailboats of the Northern and Southern Ocean fleets arrived, Liu Guoxuan was appointed governor of Luzon. He built Luzon City on the ruins of Manila and controlled the Nanyang waterways.

Liu Guoxuan, the governor of Luzon, will also be a frontier official in the future. Not only can he control and command a part of the Nanyang Fleet squadron, he can also command a guard and a new army of more than 5,000 people on land.

More than five thousand people may not seem like a lot, but they are all equipped with Mauser 98 rifles and officers equipped with Browning M1906 pistols.

As for those other than Liu Guoxuan, when the situation in Luzon Island stabilized, they returned to the division and headed north one after another.

Luzon Island is huge in area. After all, it is close to the area of ​​​​Jiangbei Province. It has a small population, but if you control it, you can continue to overlook the blockade of the Strait of Malacca.

The dominant player in the Western Pacific started off very solidly.

After delivering the order, while the evil eunuch was returning to the Sihai, several helicopters were already rising on the large deck of the Sihai, heading north.

Although the sailing speed of steel steam ships is not slow, it still takes more than a month to move north from here, non-stop day and night. How can helicopters fly non-stop to continuously replenish oil and gas as efficiently and quickly?
More than half a year has passed, and Long Er, A Ke, Zhu Yunqiao and Shen Wan have already learned how to fly a plane.

Looking at the helicopter flying away, Yao Xi said with emotion, "Your Highness is really a saint descended from heaven. He can travel thousands of miles in a day and take it easy. In the future, my rule over Zhao will be all over the world and will be countless times more stable and powerful than that of Yuan Ming and others."

Oboi, "..."

(End of this chapter)