Prince of Chaos

Chapter 402 The Marines Performing Martial Arts
Two sentences of one question and one answer on the military parade directly brought the ceremony of the establishment of the Zhili Navy to the climax.

There have been many military parades in Ming Dynasty before, but it has never been presented in such a short greeting as today.

Even if it is the grandest military parade in the capital, it has never happened.

However, the question and answer of these two sentences today undoubtedly added countless highlights to the Zhili Navy's army building and military parade this time.

After hearing the response of the soldiers to Zhu Changluo, all the people present felt a sense of pride spontaneously!

Originally they thought that Daming's army was the most powerful army, and it was expected that they would defeat all evil spirits.

But this time not only did they feel this way more strongly, they even wanted to be a part of it.I have forgotten that "soldier" is a profession chosen by the bottom of society.

Therefore, without thinking too much, these two greetings for the military parade must have been Zhu Changluo's idea.

The reason why Zhu Changluo asked Wu Weizhong and the others to add these few sentences to the training of the Zhili Navy.

One is to satisfy some unspoken evil tastes in my heart, and the other is to further enhance the morale of the Zhili Navy through this form, making it a unique Daming Navy!
Now, seeing the enthusiastic response of everyone present, Zhu Changluo felt that the expected effect he wanted had been achieved.

Zhu Changluo's confidence is also doubled at this moment!

After the standard greeting, Zhu Changluo motioned to Xiao Ruxun who was on the side.

After Xiao Ruxun waited for Zhu Changluo's permission, he walked up to the stage and said loudly, "Change the team! The martial arts show begins!"

With Xiao Ruxun's order, the warships on Tianjin Port hoisted their sails one after another, and then, according to the established order, began to spread out on the sea.

Seeing the mighty warship unfolding in an orderly manner on the sea, all the senior officials on the audience stage also watched this scene excitedly.

And this scene is destined to make them unforgettable for life.

After all, many people may not have seen such a martial arts performance at sea in their entire lives.

Just like Zhu Changluo can be regarded as the second generation.

However, it was the first time he saw such a big scene with his own eyes. It turned out that he only saw the tip of the iceberg of the naval exercise through the TV screen.

As the most important host and audience this time, Zhu Changluo's mentality is naturally extremely excited.

However, these years in a high position have also made him good at nourishing his energy, so no matter how excited he is, he can still look at everything in front of him calmly.

However, the unconcealable excitement in his eyes still reminded everyone from time to time that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would also be excited.

The warship was sailing on the sea, facing the sea breeze, and the Great Sun and Moon Dragon Flag hung on the warship fluttered in the wind, making a sound of hunting.

Wu Weizhong, standing in the front room of the warship, is the coach of this exercise.

Standing on the flagship, Wu Weizhong was extremely excited.

He never thought that one day he would be able to stand on the warship of the Daming Navy again.

Ever since he came to Jizhen from the southeast with Qi Shaobao, Wu Weizhong never dared to expect a chance to return to the sea to ride the wind and waves.

However, now all of this seems to be predestined, and he still came back.

Although things have changed over the years, but the surging emotion in his heart is still as exciting as before.

At this moment, Wu Weizhong truly discovered that his heart belonged to the ocean.

"Order the gunboat to move forward, and start shelling the enemy as soon as it reaches the predetermined waters!"

Wu Weizhong issued the first military order on his flagship.

Then, the herald on the flagship communicated the flagship's order to the designated gunboat through semaphore.

The gunboat that was ordered was the gunboat led by Qi Jin.

The goal of their exercise this time is to annihilate enemy ships on the water with long-range artillery.

And this enemy ship was played by the broken ships that Xiao Ruxun saw on his first trip to Tianjin Port.

Although those ships can no longer withstand any strong winds and waves, it is still possible to be pulled out of the harbor and used as a target for exercises.

Therefore, in the end, under Zhu Changluo's final decision, these broken ships were assigned this fate.

After Qi Jin got the flagship's order, he immediately sent an order to the gunboat where he was.

"Advance at full speed, notify the gunner to check the artillery situation, and the rangefinder measures the distance from the enemy ship."

Qi Jin's order is also in style.

Since he was young, he followed Qi Jiguang in all the battles in the north and south. Although he was still young at that time, no one in the southern army would underestimate him.

After all, he also has solid combat achievements, and he is also Qi Jiguang's son, so after Qi Jiguang got old, he was privately called a young marshal by the southern army.

However, the title of young marshal disappeared with the disbandment of the Southern Army in Ningxia Town.

Now his position is a gunboat captain of the Zhili Navy, or on behalf of him.

The reason why it was replaced was also to punish him for teaching Xiao Ruxun to swim.

However, these are not important in Qi Jin's eyes.

What he wants to do most now is to show His Highness the Crown Prince his ability.

"The cannon has been inspected and is in good condition, ready to fire at any time."

After the artilleryman finished the inspection, he immediately reported the situation of the artillery.

Qi Jin said: "Be ready at any time and wait for the general's order."

After a cup of tea, the rangers came to report.

"The distance of the enemy ship has been locked. The enemy ship is thirteen miles away from our ship."

The Daming Navy did not use nautical mile units, they used distance units on land.

After Qi Jin heard the ranger's report, he had an idea in his mind.

Currently, their ships are equipped with the longest-range artillery, with a range of [-] feet.The effective range is one thousand feet.

The effective range of a thousand feet is about six or seven miles.Now the enemy ship is thirteen miles away from our ship, so if we want to defeat the enemy and shoot down with one shot, we need to get closer to half the distance.

Qi Jin continued to order.

"Go forward and pull the enemy ship into range of our gunboat."

On the audience stage, Zhu Changluo, Li Chengliang and others all had binoculars at hand.

These binoculars were built by Zhu Changluo's orders, which are much better than those made by the 24th prison and the Ministry of War.

On these telescopes, Zhu Changluo also ingeniously asked the craftsmen to consult the Xishan Institute of Technology, oh no, it should be the Xishan Institute of Physics now.

Zhu Changluo asked them to consult the researchers of the Xishan Institute of Physics. They studied and worked while doing research. Finally, after countless adjustments, they finally overcame many difficulties and graduated the distance index on the lens of the telescope.

Therefore, as long as you look at it with your heart, you can roughly understand how far the target in front is from you through the scale in the telescope.

Li Chengliang picked up the binoculars at hand and looked at the ongoing exercise on the sea. When he saw the cross marks appearing in front of him, he instantly understood the meaning of these marks.

Li Chengliang looked at the scene in front of him excitedly. At this moment, in his eyes, the scale in front of him was more exciting than the exercise at sea.

"Your Highness, this is truly an artifact!"

Li Chengliang put down the binoculars in his hand and said this to Zhu Changluo.

After hearing Li Chengliang's words, Fang Shoushi, who hadn't used the binoculars to see the situation at sea, couldn't help but also took a look at the binoculars in his hand. He also wanted to see what Li Chengliang saw.

As a result, when he looked at it, he immediately noticed the difference in the telescope in his hand.

Originally, he thought that Li Chengliang was talking about the artifact on the naval gunboat, but he didn't expect that the artifact was in his hands.

Fang Shoushi is also an official who led the army. His sensitivity to this kind of telescope is no less than that of the veteran general Li Chengliang.

Therefore, at this moment, Fang Shoushi also affirmed Li Chengliang's words.

"A true artifact."

Zhu Changluo looked at the reactions of Li Chengliang and Fang Shoushi, Zhu Changluo smiled and said: "Xiao Daoer, there are more exciting things to come."

Zhu Changluo pretended to be aggressive, and it was also handy.

Such a powerful telescope has become a gossip in his mouth, and he has forgotten how much effort, manpower and material resources he spent in developing this telescope.

It can be seen that if this person pretends, he is really intoxicating.

While speaking, Qi Jin's gunboat finally came within effective range.

Qi Jin immediately ordered to turn the ship sideways and aim the artillery at the enemy ship.

In an instant, the artillery lined up in a row showed a hideous face on the side of the Qi Jin gunboat.

The dark muzzle protruded from the body of the ship, as if it would devour everything in front of it at any time.

Qi Jin ordered the messengers to convey the request for shelling to Wu Weizhong's flagship.

After Wu Weizhong received the news from Qi Jin, he ordered: "Reply to the gunboat, he can attack freely, it must be done with one blow!"

After receiving the order from the flagship, Qi Jin gave the order immediately.

"Prepare for bombardment!"

Under the adjustment of the artilleryman, the muzzle of the dark artillery was aimed at the enemy ship on the sea six or seven miles away.

Then, after reporting to Qi Jin after aiming, Qi Jin took a deep breath and ordered loudly: "Fire!"

boom boom boom --
The artillery on the Qijin gunboat fired instantly, and the tongue of flame at the mouth of the gun protruded more than one meter long. The strong recoil made the Qijin gunboat shake slightly.

Then before everyone could get used to it, the enemy ship six or seven miles away turned into a sea of ​​flames and was about to capsize.

Qi Jin then ordered, "Send the fast boat to make a surprise attack, and be sure to capture all the surviving personnel of the enemy ship."

Then one after another the assault boats braved the wind and waves and headed towards the burning enemy ship.

Of course, this is also one of the items of the exercise.It's just that many enemy ships will not have real people.It's just going through the motions and adding some practice subjects.

Zhu Changluo and others who were watching from the audience stand were shocked when they saw the scene in front of them through the binoculars.

Such a uniform sound of gunfire, such a spectacular and shocking artillery fire, and an enemy ship that burst into flames.

This shocked Li Chengliang, Fang Shoushi and other people who were present watching the Zhili navy's martial arts performance. It was the first time they had seen such a powerful artillery.

"Your Highness, where did you buy these cannons?"

Li Chengliang was the most excited. He is now the head of the Ministry of War.One of his responsibilities is to develop and imitate various advanced firearms.

Now, seeing such a powerful cannon appear, he immediately couldn't bear to ask what was in his heart.

Zhu Changluo said: "It's useless for me to tell you. This cannon was purchased from overseas. There are only a few of them. Now they will be sent to the Korean battlefield. If you want to study imitation, you can only wait."

Li Chengliang excitedly said: "I am willing to wait."

Zhu Changluo smiled, but did not speak.

He "borrowed" this cannon from Sun Siam.

When Sun Xian was borrowed these cannons, let alone how resentful his little eyes were.

But, for Daming, for the emperor.In the end, Sun Xian lent the artillery to Zhu Changluo with a clear sense of righteousness.

After all, Zhu Changluo also promised Sun Xian that he would help him buy some more powerful artillery afterwards.

Sun Xian was also very excited about this.Then, behind Emperor Wanli's back, he secretly borrowed ten long-range artillery pieces for the Zhili Navy.

It can be seen that Sun Xian spent a lot of money this time in order to please Zhu Changluo.

After all, these cannons were all bought with the money of Emperor Wanli, and he hasn't used it for the last time.If Emperor Wanli knew about this, he would definitely not be spared.

　Chapter 1 arrives! ! !

　　
　
(End of this chapter)