"Boom!" On the coastline of Mirage Kingdom, which is far away from Beiyuan City, in a small, dilapidated-looking fishing village, a cannonball suddenly fell and blew off the roofs of several houses.
On the sea in the distance, a Tang Dynasty Weigang-class cruiser was teasing the entire village with one of its main guns.
The goblins who were frightened by the shells and fled in panic looked at the battleships on the sea angrily, yelling and cursing, but they did not dare to take a step towards the beach.
The order issued by His Majesty the King of the Tang Dynasty to the Commander of the Tang Navy is to attack any mirage target within the attack range, including coastlines, ports, ships, forts and even unlucky people walking on the beach.
In short, if you meet gods, kill gods; if you meet Buddhas, kill Buddhas!
Therefore, in addition to leaving a few destroyers and cruisers to blockade Beiyuan City, Bernard's main fleet, except for the No. 1 battleship Dongwan, returned to the water for repairs, and the other two battleships were sailed to the sea outside Mirage.
The government and the public of Mirage Kingdom, which had never seen anything like this happen, were greatly shocked. Because Da Nanwan, the largest port in the southern part of Mirage Kingdom, was smashed to pieces.
When the battleship attacked the port, the hit accuracy of the artillery was not so important. It hit a fixed target, and the effective hit area was so large, so Bernard's fleet easily completed their mission.
The Cyric muzzle-loading cannon on the Great South Bay Fort, which has hardly been renovated since 100 years ago, is still a 100mm caliber...
When it was purchased that year, it was considered a huge cannon, and it also had a wooden steering gear, which was considered a very advanced weaponry.
It's a pity that they are from a hundred years ago. Guess what kind of threat a solid bullet fired from a 100 mm caliber muzzleloader can pose to armor with a thickness of more than 200 mm?
In fact, there’s no need to guess, these artillery pieces don’t even have the basic range! Datang’s two destroyers fired a few salvos with their 150mm main guns, and the Great Nanwan Fort became history.
Then the main fleet of the Tang Kingdom entered the harbor, and the main guns on the two battleships began to pour their shells.
That was a 305 mm caliber high-explosive bomb! That was a total of 16 main guns roaring at the same time! That was a spectacular sight that the old men and women of the Mirage Kingdom had never seen in their sixty years of life!
The local officials who stayed in the city were so frightened that they could not even speak. When they saw a chimney that was still smoking just now being blown into the sky by a shell, they realized that their country was fighting something.
fight against such enemies.
The cries of children and the screams of despair seemed so small and helpless in front of the devastating explosions of shells.
Violence can never buy forgiveness, so repaying evil with kindness is just a beautiful wish, and killing to stop killing is the most effective method!
If you don't slit the enemy's throat, drain the blood, and chop him into pieces on a chopping block, the remaining enemies will never learn the word awe.
"Those who kill us humans must be punished!" Silently reciting this slogan shouted by the King of the Tang Dynasty when he issued the order, the loaders once again controlled the machinery and let the chain roll up to load a huge dark green cannonball.
into the barrel of the gun.
After all the procedures were completed, there was a brief silence. Then another round of salvo started, and the dense shells just crossed a long enough distance and landed in the city of Great South Bay.…
The fishing boats docked in the port were sieved by the 150mm-caliber secondary guns, and only the sailboat's mast was left standing on the sea.
The highly tilted bow of a coal ship was being submerged little by little due to water ingress. The scattered cinders dyed the surrounding seawater like ink.
Bernard did not find the Mirage's main fleet in the Great South Bay port. He only sank 3 destroyers and a cruiser that tried to escape.
The main fleet of the Mirage Kingdom went north to avoid the war after suffering heavy losses. What remained here was basically a symbolic fleet, which was actually very small in scale and could even be said to be dispensable.
When sinking the remaining warships, some people even saw that there were still damages on these warships that had not had time to be repaired, which were obviously left over from the previous naval battle.
On the one hand, the Mirage Kingdom did not have time to repair these damages. On the other hand, they also knew that if these injured warships were sent northward, they might capsize and sink midway, so they left them behind and tried their luck to see if they could survive.
Facts have proved that the Mirage Navy's luck seemed to have run out when it damaged the East Bay No. 1 battleship. All four battleships were sunk in the port and could not even struggle in front of the battleship.
If the cruisers and destroyers had torpedoes and other powerful weapons at this time, then Bernard would naturally not dare to let the fleet directly enter the harbor for a close-range gunfight.
Unfortunately, the only few torpedoes in the world today are still in submarines testing their performance near Long Island. Therefore, the cruisers and destroyers in this world have no possibility of counterattacking the battleships.
In the Great South Bay, the officials of the Mirage Kingdom spread the news that they were being attacked, and then the senior officials of the Mirage Kingdom all knew that their "hometown" had been attacked.
This is absolutely a shame and a huge humiliation for an island country, and it is also definitely a fatal situation.
For a time, notices were received from all over the country to mobilize troops. Unfortunately, these temporarily recruited mobilization troops may not even have a decent rifle.
There are no battleships and no giant cannons. We can't let these soldiers hold Cyric 1 bolt-action rifles and swim to fight enemy battleships with bayonets, right?
Therefore, while recruiting a large number of troops, the court of the Mirage Kingdom immediately began to discuss the matter of peace.
At the beginning, because of the harsh conditions of the Tang State, the entire Mirage Kingdom was unwilling to bring up the matter of peace proposal.
But as the war situation continues to worsen, things like peace talks have become less unmentionable.
…
In the distant Great China Empire, inside the imperial city, Great China Emperor Zhao Kai was watching a group of ministers arguing over something.
The relationship between the Dahua Empire and the Tang State was very tense, which is something everyone knows. For this reason, the Dahua Empire also temporarily recruited some troops to fill the border with Qi State.
Even at the most critical moment when the Qi State was struggling, the senior officials of the Dahua Empire seriously discussed the battle plan to attack the Tang State.
It's a pity that King Jiang Xian of Qi died suddenly, and the situation collapsed so quickly that the Great China Empire quickly lost the opportunity to send troops.
As the Tang army brought out a variety of new weapons and equipment on the battlefield, the generals of the Great China Empire became increasingly less optimistic about the war against the Tang Dynasty, so the declaration of war against the Tang Dynasty was delayed again and again, and it became what it is today.
This look...
The situation is a bit like when the Tang Dynasty destroyed Zheng, a group of ministers complained every day about insufficient preparations and insufficient military strength, which made Zhao Kai quite irritable.
He wanted to use the army to attack the Tang Dynasty, but he was worried that his insistence on going his own way would lead to defeat, so he once again fell into this endless debate with his officials.
But soon, Cyric's advisors sent good news, which was confirmed by the ambassadors of the Ice Empire and other countries.
The Tang State is ready to sell aircraft technology that makes the Great China Empire extremely fearful, and it is also willing to sell battleship technology!
This immediately made the military of the Dahua Empire salivate. They hoped that Zhao Kai would spend money to buy these technologies so that they could catch up with the gap as soon as possible and have a powerful air force like the Tang Army.
Compared with slow-moving airships, this seems to be the ultimate solution for aerial weapons and equipment - even though it is lagging behind, it really points to the right direction of development!
"One hundred million! That's one hundred million! We don't have that many gold coins at all!" Wang Yucai, the Minister of Household Affairs, stood on Zhao Kai's side with a grimace. He really couldn't afford that much money this time.
But he is not as poor as he appears. With the continuous development of industrialization, countries in this world are obviously much richer than before.
More or less various countries have begun to issue banknotes, but they are not as strong as those issued by the Datang Group. During the transaction, everyone can't help but use the banknotes issued by the Datang Group. This currency has not seen the smoke.
In the war, Datang Group seemed to be sure of victory.
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter! I can use some of the Tang Dynasty banknotes that I have accumulated before, or I can use ore to pay for it... It's all OK! It's all OK!" Feng Kezhi accompanied him with a smile. After all, he was asking for money from the Ministry of Household Affairs.
"Tell me, how much did you spend on buying tanks and cannons from Cyric and building your own factory to produce machine guns and cars?" Zhao Kai slapped the table and said angrily: "What's the result? You spent so much money.
, but when it comes time to fight, you still say you can’t beat me! What use do I need from you? What use do I need from you!”
Zhou Qiang, the Minister of Etiquette, who was standing among the ministers on the other side, also felt pain in his heart: "Can it be less...the whole 100 million gold coins..."
"You think it's too expensive, but Cyric's envoys have already boarded the ship!" Chen Jing, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, is on the side of the military this time, because if the aircraft technology can be held in hand, the Ministry of Industry's
Various production technologies will definitely be improved again.
Chen Jing, the minister, was naturally willing to do this kind of thing of spending money from the military to gain political achievements for the Ministry of Industry.
In fact, after a series of cooperation with Tang State, Shangshu Chen Jing increasingly felt that Datang Group's technology was unfathomable. Now he has completely changed his attitude and does not support launching a war against Tang State at all.
But if he doesn't support it, there are still people who support it. At least Emperor Zhao Kai is a militant. If the ministers hadn't stopped him, the Great China Empire would have declared war on the Tang State a few months ago.
"If your Majesty wants to launch a war against the Tang Dynasty, the technology of this aircraft will have to be purchased." Shen Chuan, Minister of the Ministry of War, took a step forward and explained: "If you don't do this, won't all our millions of troops be destroyed?" Attacked by enemies in heaven?"
