The fleet headed south all the way.

The speed is a little slower.

It's not a problem with the iron-clad ship.

But the sailboat behind was slower.

If the ship speed of the ironclad ship is working together, it can reach a speed of fourteen knots per hour in a short period of time.

And in this era, the fastest sailing boats are just 7 to 10 kilograms.

Just this... there are also issues such as wind direction.

Sometimes when encountering factors such as bad wind direction or large waves, there are even only 4 or 5 sections.

Of course, fast speed is not really anything but the most important thing is stability.

The speed stability of the sailboat is really not high, and it’s okay on weekdays, but once it’s time to war, the experience will be even worse.

For ironclad ships, you just need to consider constantly adding coal.

In fact, even so, Zhang Jingyi was still very dissatisfied with the speed of the ironclad ship.

Because this thing is still too slow, it is like a snail in later generations.

How could I know that this is the fastest express ship today?

Along the way, I did not encounter any enemy ships.

Even though Liang Wenwu's tense heart finally let go.

Because, as he expected, the enemy would have discovered the Liaodong Navy if they sent some ships to patrol near this route.

But the result is obviously shocking.

Of course, if we analyze and judge, the biggest possibility is that after a series of attacks on the Ming coast, these Europa people obviously thought that the Ming Dynasty had no power to fight back. They just needed to assemble fleets and attack various ports along the Ming coast.

As for this important route, the Ming Dynasty's sea ships are not yet able to form fleets of above-scale scale for the time being, which is not enough to worry about the problems that will arise in the Ming Dynasty fleet.

This actually saved their lives.

Because even if there were enemy ships patrolling, Liang Wenwu could ensure that they could all be killed into the ocean.

After seventeen days.

The fleet that detoured Quanzhou... began to slowly enter the strait.

Although the hydrology of this strait has been investigated, the accuracy of the thousand households in Fujian and Guangdong is still unknown.

The fleet's target is the southern end of Ryukyu, located in the southern city of Rhelanzha.

This is a fort built by the Netherlands. It is said that it is the center of the Netherlands' rule of Ryukyu. Through huge military forts, a commercial area was established nearby, and a large number of lighthouses and turrets were established on the coast, as well as a large number of ports, stockpiling a large amount of food, as well as gunpowder transported from Europe, as the base for the entire joint fleet to enter the Ming Dynasty.

As long as you take this place, you can not only let Ryukyu say goodbye to the Netherlands completely.

The supply of the joint fleet was completely cut off.

In the command cabin, almost everyone was nervously in and out.

The communication between the ironclad ships and other ships, as well as the problems on the ships after these time-lapse navigation, need to be solved urgently.

The biggest problem now is that three boilers on the ironclad ship burned out.

In other words, after a long voyage, only seven boilers remained to work normally.

When Zhang Jing heard this news, she looked confused.

Can the boiler burn out?

But after thinking about it carefully, this ironclad ship is a test piece and there are still many technical problems to be solved.

Therefore, people recorded the reasons for the failure, and then solved it when they were dragged back to their home port in the future.

The most urgent task at the moment is to prepare for attacking next time.

In the city of Relanzha, the Jinyiwei had already sneaked in.

A large amount of news has been transmitted long ago.

Inside and outside the city, there were only more than 600 guards, but... with the arrival of the joint fleet, their soldiers increased to 2,200. In addition, there were about 1,500 mercenaries employed from Luzon, India, Sumatra, and Japan.

The fortress of Jelancha is extremely strong.

All of them are made of huge rocks, and at the port... more than seven warships are kept berthed at any time.

Once the movement is discovered, these warships may attack and intercept at any time.

There are also many soldiers in the battleships.

Therefore, the number of enemies is at least seven thousand.

Zhang Jingyi did not dare to be careless about this, but he still asked the fleet to continue moving towards the target.

Until dawn three days later...

As the mist slowly rose on the sea, when the dawn broke out...their goal... was about to be in front of them.

Their target is Luermen Port, and then Chichicheng City. These two places are the gateways of Relanzha.

The ironclad ship took the lead.

The huge noise of this ironclad ship alarmed countless seagulls.

Fortunately, the roar of the sea waves obscured the huge rumbling sound.

The ironclad ship slowly entered the bay along the waterway.

Immediately afterwards, almost everyone in the entire ironclad ship began to get busy.

Half an hour ago, all the staff were waiting for the game.

Even those who are on duty to rest will wake them up and let them prepare in advance.

Everyone had a full meal.

And Zhang Jingyi had already appeared on the deck with him.

In the cannon cabin, everyone began to open the baffle of the hull, and then pushed the heavy heavy cannon along the slide rail, and a cannon popped out of the hull.

The huge muzzle is dark and hideous.

Immediately afterwards, shells were sent to the gun positions everywhere through the slide rails in the ironclad ship.

Zhang Jingyi was wearing a scarlet cloak.

At this time he picked up the telescope.

In fact, the mist rises, and at such a distance, you can't see the land at all.

But... it's like warming up before the game, I always pretend to hold up the telescope and look at something, so that I can show my professionalism.

Of course... although it is a heavy mist.

It is actually very simple to identify the direction of the port.

Because of the lighthouse at the port, it was rising slowly at this time.

The light penetrated through the mist on the sea and clearly marked the location of the ironclad ship.

Zhang Jing said, "Let's attack, I'm in a hurry. I'm going to have supper in Chichi City."

"Here."

The military officers of the artillery team had already conducted distance measurements, and then... issued an order to activate the artillery.

One by one, the shells had been stuffed into the barrel.

At this time...the Netherlands at the port had noticed something strange on the sea.

For a moment, many fires began to appear in the port.

Obviously the defenders here are trying to do something.

It's funny to say.

This first shot was first shot from the turret on the land.

I could hear a roar vaguely.

And then... nothing happened.

The shells did not reach the position of the ironclad ship.

The iron ball of the shell fell directly into the cold sea water.

Zhang Jing was furious.

Liang Wenwu looked speechless.
Chapter completed!