Section 2189 The Navy of the Western Empire

Cao's House of Commerce's experience in the Southern Empire was soon known by the headquarters of Cao's House of Trade, and they were very angry after knowing such a thing. What's going on now? We are here to help the people of the Southern Empire, why did we become their enemies? They all know that someone must be instigating this incident, and they basically know who that person is, but that person's status is really high, and it is impossible for us to find out this guy Yes, even if you get them out, it is impossible to solve this matter so simply. When most of the forces in an empire are hostile to a force, even if this force can't justify it How useful it is, because people don't believe you at all. Minde is also because he just took over the Cao's firm, so he still doesn't know how to deal with these things. The matter of knights is also very easy, just Min De's old master knows this guy's ability too well. He thought he could fool the emperor of the Southern Empire before, and the emperor of the Southern Empire might be able to coax you in turn. True or false? Who can say clearly about the matter, as it is now, many people inside the Cao's House of Commerce have said that they want to withdraw troops from the Western Empire and conclude a peace treaty with the Western Empire. In this case, let the Southern Empire deal with them by themselves That's it, if the people in the Southern Empire are not obedient, it will be easier to handle. We can unite the Western Empire and the Northern Empire, and maybe we can carve up the Southern Empire. . People from the Western Empire and the Northern Empire can do such a thing very well.

Although this proposal is very marketable within Cao's House, Li Cong himself is not an ordinary person. He will seek the opinions of other people, but this illness does not mean that he will definitely adopt their opinions. Boss, it is certain to absorb other people's opinions, but if you listen to others in everything, this boss must be a person who is not very competent, and Li Cong is like this now. He will never let himself become like this. The war with the Western Empire absolutely cannot be stopped, even if it encounters some difficulties now, it cannot be stopped. If it is not fought like that, what happens to the Southern Empire is secondary. The most important thing is how people from the Western Empire think of the people from Cao's House. The Western Empire still owes a large amount of debt to Cao's House of Commerce. If this is not fought, the Western Empire may start from these debts, and they will not say that they will not pay back. But they will definitely ask for some debt reduction, or interest reduction or something. The people from Cao’s Commercial Bank gave them money to earn this interest. If there is no such income, what is the game with the Western Empire? We are not philanthropists, we do not know how to produce silver, and it is impossible for us to put so much of our silver with you and let you use it hard for a while. In the end, we will get nothing, except Xi On the side of the empire, several other empires will also feel a little puzzled by the Cao family firm, and even start to despise the Cao family firm after this incident, thinking that they are just paper tigers.

At the beginning, Li Cong didn't take this matter as a matter, but later things evolved a little bit, and even the guards of Cao's House felt a little aggrieved to help the Southern Empire fight. And there is no progress yet. In fact, Li Cong understands that they have such an idea. In the past, no matter what kind of enemies they encountered, the people of Cao's House of Commerce could quickly kill them, but this time The second time it stopped here, Cao's firm used all the elite troops,

Now it's just a beachhead. Although they have brought so many navies, but because they are too far away from the capital of the Western Empire, there is still no way to bombard them. As long as the capital of the Western Empire is not damaged It is impossible to make the Western Empire surrender to people. Now the Western Empire seems to have seen the dawn of victory. In their eyes, the people of the Cavaliers Cao’s House of Commerce are like that. How are your other empires? How afraid of you, but we are not afraid of you, we defeated you once at the border, no matter how much we paid, we won anyway, and it is the same now, we will definitely get here Of course, the price paid will definitely be very huge, but this has nothing to do with us, everything can be solved, our empire will not bow to the people of the Cao family firm Yes, the attitude of the Western Empire is very tough. At first they all thought that the people from Cao’s House would retreat. After all, there was no chance of winning this war, but they were all wrong. With a plan to retreat, Li Cong replied.

Li Cong's answer is very simple, that is to attack. After the beachhead was calm for 13 hours, the whole thing was different from the original time. They are all ready. In front of them are two phalanxes of 13,500 people. They are the main army for this attack. Behind them is another phalanx. Li Cong is the main force of this attack. The strength is the four regiments of the 12th Division of the Marine Corps, which is the regiment where Shan Changhai is. Of course, Shan Changhai did not participate in the battle. This guy has already gone to another company to be the company commander, because he His body suffered certain destruction during this war. There was a problem with his whole body, either here or there. If it was on the earth, this person would definitely have no problem, but this is not the earth, so he can only be Obediently follow the orders from above, and go to a second-line army. Although the salary has been improved a lot, for a professional soldier like him, life is meaningless. At this moment, he can only I was lying on the boat waiting for the ship to transport the wounded to set sail, and I would be able to reach the place I was going after a year. That place was a very strange place to me, even though I knew it was a business for my own good. of. But I felt a little uncomfortable in my heart after all, my class fell down at this place, the knight himself very much hoped that he could take the rest of his brothers to avenge Xiao Jiang, thinking of that kid Xiao Jiang, they all felt uncomfortable, There is only this kid and a boy in the family, and the future will not be very good, I hope everyone can live well.

Through the people in the logistics department, they all learned that Xiaojiang's family is not what this kid said at all. His family is considered a good family, with two older sisters and one younger sister. It is not the kind of very poor family. At least my own family still has 20 acres of land, so it can be regarded as a family with a few hundred taels of silver. Such a family would not let their son join the army, but Xiao Jiang still came. He thinks that a man cannot live slowly at home. You should try it on the battlefield. Besides, their whole family is in the occupied area of ​​Cao's house, didn't the people of Cao's house say that. It's all because of their arrival that life is so good now. If you want to be the same every day and get the food every month, you need to come out and join the army of Cao's House Protecting this, his father and mother are just such a son, so they naturally disapprove of this matter, but they didn't expect that Xiao Jiang would leave a letter casually, and the rest is what they know It’s been like this, and it’s been more than two years since I left, and a lot of money and pennants were sent home during this time, but the family doesn’t want these things, the box is that Xiaojiang can return home quickly, it’s a pity What's worse is that this wish is not so easy to realize, and it may not be possible in a lifetime. Now Xiao Jiang has gone to that world over there. I hope his family can forgive this unfilial son.

The strength of these four regiments is not very large, but if they really want to fight, they can do a lot of things. Just like now, their majestic lineup has already made the people in charge of defense on the Western Empire dumbfounded. Well, it’s not that they haven’t seen an army before, but this is the first time they’ve seen an army like this, and their clothes are all uniform, but I don’t know how to do it, it seems that they are the good ones that no one else has, and we also wear them The boots, but the shiny ones of others, they look very energetic when they walk on the road. Looking at the postures of people holding the chain crossbow, they are all the same. Everyone walks as if they are one person. , Every strike is so powerful that the people on their side feel a little scared. Looking at the people on their side, the clothes on their bodies are crooked, and the weapons are also various, because their army's fighting power They are more powerful, and His Majesty the Emperor allows them to use their favorite weapons. Although this can maximize their combat effectiveness, there is another point that their appearance is very strange, and it is for this reason that they all I feel that my army is not as good as others, and the knights don't have such a thing. It's just their feeling, but sometimes they feel that they can do great things. Now, their feeling makes them lose a layer. Yes, the army of Cao's House of Business stopped about 8,000 meters away from them. These people quickly formed the battle order of Cao's House of Trade, that is, three columns, so that the serial crossbow of Cao's House of Trade would be the largest They also know that the people from Cao's House are going to attack, but what can they do with such a long distance? Unless they charged with cavalry, they are not fools. They all know that if the people of Cao's House complete the three rows, they will be looking for death in the past, that's for sure.

"All ready, fire." With the order of a commander, the hundreds of artillery lined up here began to speak. The loud sound temporarily deafened the ears of these artillerymen around them. They were already firing separately. Well, about a dozen cannons fired at the same time, and then the ones behind them. If hundreds of cannons fired at the same time, they probably don’t need their ears. It couldn't be slowed down, but they just adjusted it a little, and then started loading the next shell. The gunner quickly lifted the other shell, and the other guy quickly put the shell skin on it. Withdrew, and then another guy took the cannonball skin away, and the guy who held the cannonball first stuffed it in, and made a good move, and the person who fired over there immediately pulled the line. It takes about 20 seconds for the whole action to be completed. They can fire about 3 shells per minute, which is already a very good result. After this shell was fired, it exploded in the camp of the Western Empire in the distance. , The things they made to defend the Cao's business army were basically bombed out by shells, and all the things made of wood were blown up. They all thought that this thing could last for a while, who? Knowing that such a thing can't last even a minute in front of the shells, such a thing is simply rubbish, but it is such rubbish that took them such a long time to make this thing. Too much manpower and material resources were wasted. This war is already different from the previous ones. It is obviously useless to deal with other people's equipment to deal with the people of Cao's house.

"The enemy has already started to attack, and their strategic goal is to expand their landing area. At present, they can accommodate hundreds of thousands of people. Your task is to hold the current line of defense. You can't retreat at all. If the people from Cao's House had expanded their position, then there would not be so few people who landed. This is the mission of the army. I told the people in the navy not to kill them there, but to lean on them. No matter what, I have to show your existence. I know that none of you are the opponents of Cao's House, but the empire spent so much money to build you up. It's not for you to rest there when the war comes. The navy At the very least, we must put some pressure on the people of Cao’s House, at least not let the artillery on their warships cause any harm to our army. If so, then kill them for me, the empire does not need any waste at this time." Prince Ding looked at the army of Cao's House in front and said, he was completely disappointed with the performance of the Western Empire Navy, it was all too much. The thing about the captain is that the Taiwei guy said at the beginning that he wanted to expand the navy. Now the navy has been established, but looking at these guys in the navy, basically none of them are useful. All the warships of the merchant firm have come back. They didn’t have such a thing, and they didn’t even fight. It’s really embarrassing to say this. You can say that you can’t control it in the outer waters, but Now that we are in the inland river, if you still say that, won't your face be a little hot?

It can be said that Prince Ding’s words did not give them any face at all, and they all knew that they would not have any face with Prince Ding. In fact, they all have their own difficulties. We have added a lot of weapons, but what we added is the war crossbow. This thing was considered a good weapon in the past. Look at it. This is written in the past. Although some materials of Warcraft are used, the price is considered to be high. Yes, but the increase in combat effectiveness is still too slow, and it can be fired thousands of meters away, but what about the artillery of Cao's House? That is something that can hit tens of thousands of meters, or even tens of thousands of meters. We use this thing to fight against others? Are we their opponents? Besides, even if our war crossbows are lucky enough to hit them, if we want to take down the warships of Cao's House, at least dozens of war crossbows are needed to achieve that effect. Do we have that ability now? That's impossible. If you can hit one, it feels like you won the lottery. Everyone is very happy. I haven't hit it in the future. What about the artillery of the Cao's House, that thing fires The speed is very fast, and the shooting is very accurate. The most important thing is that if this thing is hit, basically their boats can’t last. Don’t think that they don’t know how to do research. Their wooden boats are basically shot. 50% of them will sink, and the remaining 50% can continue to fight, but the speed will be reduced by more than 30%. The speed is not very high. Now after reducing the speed It is the living target of Cao's House of Commerce, and there is no need to think about other things in the following wars, just look at how he was killed.

However, the navy of the Western Empire has not always been like this. They have already begun to innovate, just like putting war crossbows on ships. Now they are making a very large ship, which can even be loaded with A giant crossbow, such a thing as a giant crossbow is useless against a wooden boat. Even if the boat of Cao's House is hit, it can only sink, there is no other way. This has already been shown in the initial battle, but such a ship is very expensive, it is impossible to spend a little money, at least tens of millions of silver a ship, I don’t know such a thing How much money can the big empires have to build it? Such a thing is nothing to the people of Cao’s House. It seems that the combat effectiveness has been improved a lot, but this thing of yours also has no speed. Speed ​​​​on the sea. But something very important, let's talk about it. The range of this thing is not very far. There are also a lot of people who use it. If there are not enough people for some reason, this weapon of war will be almost like a waste. This is also a problem that needs to be solved for the Western Empire. After all, there are already quite a few sailors on this ship in normal times. If only there was such a thing again. So what should they do? The living environment of the personnel will be greatly squeezed, and there is also the problem of food for these people, which can no longer hold so many things now. If you continue to compete with people above, the environment above can only be said to be even worse. The people of Cao's House hope that they will build this thing on a large scale. At least your national strength will be wasted on this. Then you'll understand what's going on, but it's all over.

The admirals of the Western Empire received such treatment from Prince Ding, and their faces were not very good-looking, so today they decided to give the fleet of Cao's Commercial Bank a little bit of power, but this is so powerful How to give it to others? Fighting alone is no match for others, but what if you fight for quantity? It seems that it is not someone else's opponent. The new navy of the Western Empire has been established for a short time. Most of the ships are at sea. There are really not many on the inland river. This is because it is near the capital. There would be so many of them. If it weren't for the vicinity of the capital, there would never be so many of them. They didn't know how to deal with the navy of Cao's firm after thinking about it. Many people thought of I have done the previous method. It is enough to go out for a stroll. Anyway, it is enough to let Prince Ding see that we have already gone out. The rest of the things just come slowly. The gap between us and others is to write On the surface, let's fight them without looking at these gaps? It’s simply an act of courting death. We absolutely can’t do this kind of thing. Sometimes it’s like this. They have to understand these things before they can do it. Now they basically understand this, and we’ll talk about it later In the future, who knows that the boss of the navy will slap you as soon as you say this. You can fuck like this in the past, but now they have hit the capital. If you dare to do this If you do things, it is estimated that the navy may be abolished by the people of the court. Why do you want such a useless navy? To spend so much money every year, is it a fool to be an army man?

"Okay, don't tell me those useless words. You have to charge me forward today. No matter how much the loss is, you have to let the high-level of the empire see clearly the importance of the navy. If you don't As far as the navy is concerned, the army of Cao's House can land anywhere, which is a disaster for our empire. I hope you all understand that what you do today may not be of much use, but You should all know clearly that all of this has to be paid for the survival of the navy." The admiral of the navy looked at these people here and said, he has no choice but to put the old face damaged by Prince Ding at nowhere Well, as the admiral of the navy, he is very aware of the gap between his army and the army of the Cao's House, but now is not the time to talk about this matter, if you don't rush forward, the final result may be the Cao's House People coming up directly, but you are useless at all, and all of you were put down in the base. Another possibility is that the higher-ups directly feel that the navy does not need to exist, so they just withdraw you. It can save a lot of money for the empire. If all the money is spent on the army, some good results can be produced. At least it is much stronger than if it is all in the navy. I also feel very depressed. These people are usually afraid of death, but at this time the boss of the navy has already talked about it. If they don’t go out, they can use their toes in the future. The box has arrived, and if you go out, you can still fight hard, but if you don't go out. You can imagine your own fate, and there will be no good results.

The four regiments of Cao's Commercial Bank lined up neatly and slowly advancing. Their advancing speed may be a bit slow. It has been half an hour since the beginning, but they have advanced about 1,000 meters This kind of advancing speed can basically be described as a snail, but what they did was very calm. They didn't feel that their speed was too slow, even the people in the Western Empire on the opposite side felt it. Something was wrong with them, and at first they didn't know what was going on. But now they understand. It turned out that these people from Cao's House did not attack quickly, they wanted to fight steadily, just like now, they all stopped after walking tens of meters. Then the army behind will catch up quickly. Build some fortifications on this position. Things like barbed wire and super serial crossbows must be done. The people of the Western Empire understood all this, and their charge became even more powerful. But unfortunately, it is impossible for them to rush over other than throwing more corpses. The artillery positions of Cao's House also moved forward with the expansion of the occupied area in front. At this moment, even Prince Ding set up The command post at the front line has to run back, otherwise they might enter the shooting circle of Cao's House. At that time, if the artillerymen of Cao's House wanted to kill them, it would be very easy, Prince Ding Although he shouted that he would not retreat, but now he has no choice. His tent is so conspicuous that almost a dozen cannons are aimed at his tent. If it is taken away, where will the artillery faces of Cao's firm be put? Isn't this tormenting people?

About two minutes after Prince Ding left his tent, a shell hit the tent directly, and there were two generals and a dozen soldiers carrying things inside, all of them died there, Prince Ding I don't stop the soldiers who are pulling me away from time to time. It seems that I really shouldn't be so close to the front. This thing is really too powerful. If I was in there just now, although it is impossible to die Yes, but I will definitely explain it there. I am definitely not as good as I am now. Seeing my embarrassed appearance, Prince Ding ordered all 200,000 cavalry to press up. In addition, over a million The heavy infantry also followed up. Under such circumstances, the infantry's movement speed can be said to be very slow. Letting them go up is actually looking for death, but the loss of the cavalry is too great, and now the cavalry around the capital They have already been recruited. If they are all lost, in case the capital cannot be kept, His Majesty the Emperor will leave here without the protection of cavalry. At that time, I will be the most sinful person. I don’t want that At that time, he was missed by His Majesty the Emperor, and his seat was not so stable. If he was missed by the Emperor again, he would definitely have no good fruit to eat, so he just kept some kindling, this The most important thing to do at this time is to let the people of the navy rush over. As long as they pass by and put a certain amount of pressure on Cao's firm, they will not be able to attack with all their strength.

The navy received two orders from Prince Ding. In fact, an order came out from the palace at this time, and it was also for the navy to attack quickly. If they didn't move, the navy would definitely not be able to stay. It’s over, raising soldiers for a thousand days and using them for a short time, this time is the most critical time, the victory or defeat will be left behind, this does not need to be judged now, but a soldier does not even have the idea of ​​​​going out to meet the enemy, the empire So much money is spent just to let you live slowly while drinking a little wine? I'm afraid there is no such thing, and the empire is not such a fool, so what you have to do is to show up quickly to show your existence. The admiral of the navy immediately ordered his four squadrons to go out together. They combined in twos, All of them rushed towards the navy of Cao's House. Of course, using the word "rush" must be a bit inappropriate. Their speed can be said to be crawling. They also knew that in such a battle, if If you move forward at full speed, you should be able to achieve a lot of results, but they all know that whoever runs fast will be the first to die. Why don't everyone just walk slowly like this, and when the time comes, it will be true. If you start a fight and speed up, at that time there is a threat of death, maybe you will not be what you are now? Thinking of these things now, they also calmed down. The people who saw the navy finally came out, and Prince Ding, who had already been transferred, looked a little better, but when he saw their speed, he immediately scolded his mother again. Damn, even if he was traveling, It would be faster than you to catch up with such a boat, so why are you going out to fight? Don't embarrass me there.

In addition to Prince Ding who observed what happened here, all the eunuchs in the capital also saw it. Although the airships of Cao's House bombarded the walls of the capital vigorously without listening for a moment, the capital was really too big. And there are a lot of materials to prepare. If you finish blowing up here, I can fix it over there. Over time, Cao's airships won't come here to waste bullets. And it's been two days. They have already made the war crossbow into something that can shoot into the air. As long as the altitude of the airship is lower than 2,000 meters, these things will pose a threat to the airship. When dropping bombs at an altitude of 2,000 meters, the error is very severe. So Li Cong simply let the airships retreat first. If they continue to bomb here, it can also have a certain effect, but the effect will definitely not be too big. The most important thing is that it may make the airships Suffering a certain loss, this is something Li Cong didn't want to see. If the people of the Western Empire were to knock down their airship, I don't know how much the morale of the people of Cao's House would be hit. It is also a great encouragement to the people of the empire. Taking advantage of the opportunity when the airships are gone, the eunuchs on the walls of the capital came to the walls one by one. They all saw the situation not far away. Said that such a situation is also very helpless. In fact, they also hope to bring back good news to His Majesty the Emperor, but at this time, they can't make it up. If they really do that, it is estimated that the final The one that lost his head must be his own, and he would never do such a stupid thing. These damn navy are really useless.

Thousands of warships from the Western Empire rushed over in a swarm. Li Cong just glanced at them, and casually sent two squadrons to deal with them, because now the battle on land has reached the most critical time Now, so it is impossible for Li Cong to command these navies in the past, and these so-called navies Li Cong has never taken them seriously. I don’t know how long I’ve been thinking about the charge in front of me. None of these guys are of much use. Just two squadrons of about 120 ships can solve them. Assigned to this task The navy of the Cao's House is very happy, because of geographical reasons, it is impossible for them to attack the capital of the Western Empire. This is a bit different from what they thought before. When they came here before, they just In order to be able to kill the capital of the Western Empire, but they did not expect that there is no such thing now, they can only wait for the army to advance a little bit, which is an insult to the navy. If the navies are killed, they will be able to get to the shore and basically go up the city wall of the capital, and some large-caliber artillery can be shot in. They are also very happy to kill these navies. I hope this matter It can be done quickly. When they look at the washed ships in their eyes, they see their own military exploits. Those poor crossbows can't pose any threat to themselves at all. If they want to use that thing to fight We fight, I really don't know what's going on in your mind, but you come out knowing that you will fail, your courage is commendable.

The navy of the Western Empire was very scared at the beginning, and it became even more frightening when they saw the warships of the Cao's House of Commerce approaching them. Damn it, it turned out that it would be best if the people of the Cao's House of Commerce didn't care about them. Well, let’s take a walk in the past and let you see that our navy is not a waste, but now they really treat us as a dish. If such a thing happened before, I might be very upset. I am happy, after all, I have made others value me, but what about now? I am really upset in my heart. When these people value themselves, it is not good. If they have to value themselves at this time, you fucking look down on us, which is the best. Now why are you all thinking so highly of us? But it's nothing to say now, they all know what to do now, can they go back? Impossible, their port is already full of Prince Ding's personal guards, as long as they dare to go back, this matter will be fun, and it may make the people of Cao's firm laugh, that is The navy of the Western Empire did not die at the hands of the people of Cao's House of Commerce, but all of them died at the hands of their own people, so they all went out after thinking of this. They can still kill small fleets. Didn’t they kill 30 warships yesterday? They didn’t think that it was because the squadron of Cao’s House didn’t see the giant crossbow at the beginning. At that time, some of the giant crossbows were killed, and there were magic cannons on the city wall. They were there at that time, but do you still have them now? Because of the loss of the magic circle, the magic cannon dare not come out. If it comes out, it is estimated that it will be targeted by the airship of Cao's House immediately. If such a matter is not resolved, it is estimated that the magic cannon will not come out again. of.

Get in range! ! The observer on the first ship of Cao's Commercial Bank shouted loudly, the helmsman below immediately turned the whole ship into a 90-degree turn, there is no need to continue to rush up, you can attack here, the top The dozens of cannons in the area have all started intense aiming work. At a distance of more than 10,000 meters, it is impossible to hit them in the first round here, but you can also see where you hit to slowly calibrate, Generally speaking, the second round is similar to the third round, and the wooden boat moves very slowly, so it is very easy to kill them. Following the commander's order, several huge water jets are There was an explosion next to the Western Empire fleet, and their people were dumbfounded. Damn, this started? We are not ready yet, how come there is no routine?