Honglou, I became Jia Lian?Fortunately, there is a system!

Chapter 164 The Fleet Departs, The Great War Is About To Begin! (Ask for a monthly pass!)
The so-called Nanyang Fleet is actually composed of Jia's fleet as the backbone, plus some ships seconded from several inland water divisions in the south of the Yangtze River.

In Jia Lian's plan, the biggest role of this Nanyang Fleet is actually only used as a transport ship.

Although I don't want to admit it, Daqing's sea-going ship technology and artillery technology are indeed far behind those of Western countries at this time!

At this time, the folks in Daqing had very close contacts with merchants from Western countries. As Jia Lian, it was not difficult to send people to find out information about Western countries.

西洋诸国这个时期的主流战舰普遍排水量都已经达到了1200吨左右，长达60多米，布置着双层甚至三层火炮，可以装载60多门12磅、24磅乃至36磅火炮。

A heavy artillery that fires 36-pound projectiles is almost the upper limit of projectiles fired by all artillery in this era.

If this kind of data is almost the same as Jia Lian's previous life in the 17th century, then the following is a completely different direction for the belief in the extraordinary system of knights in Western countries.

The original inheritance of the extraordinary system of Knights of Faith comes from the famous Knights Templar!

As for where the practice method of the Knights Templar came from, it is impossible to test. It is generally said that it was passed down by their God, Yahweh.

The practice of these Templar knights at the first level is similar to that of Daqing Martial Arts. They all need to hone their physical bodies all year round until the various indicators of their bodies reach the limits of the human body.

However, in order to advance to the second level, one needs to practice hard and hone one's spiritual will, in order to withstand the mysterious power of faith bestowed by the Heavenly Father.

This is also the origin of the rumors of countless ascetic monks in Western history. There are even many knights of faith who have not been able to exercise their bodies and have not completed their first-order knight practice.

After receiving the power of faith, the second-level knights of faith use their respective genres of knight secrets to refine the power of faith as their own "battle spirit", and use it to attach weapons or themselves to strengthen their combat capabilities.

The second-level and high-ranking knights of faith have already been able to use tricks such as "fighting qi slash", but they cannot last for a long time due to consumption.

There is also a second-order faith in chivalry, although the will is as solid as a rock, but it has not undergone extraordinary transformation after all, and it is impossible to finely control the energy of "fighting energy".

At the second-level stage, moves like "Battle Qi Slash" are not outstanding except for the secret tactics of the very few top knight schools, and they consume a lot of energy. However, the visual effect is extremely stunning, which is very suitable for pretending.

But when the knights of faith advance to the third rank, their spiritual will will also undergo an extraordinary transformation similar to that of Daqing warriors condensing martial arts will. Reality has also been greatly increased.

It is almost due to the difference of liquefying water vapor into water, which also allows the third-level faith knight to have various extraordinary abilities similar to martial arts masters, which are completely different from ordinary people.

Not only is the most basic battle qi cut powerfully increased, but cutting steel and cutting iron has become a regular combat move for faith knights of their level, and even such a cool ability as "fighting qi transforming into wings" can be easily used.

A few hundred years back in time, the third-order Templars and priests who can turn their wings into fighting spirits play the role of "angels" of the Holy See!
The Knights of Faith were originally the military support that belonged exclusively to the Holy See, but later, due to various changes, they spread to the major forces in the Western Continent.

After that, it went through many evolutions, and it took hundreds of years to develop into what it is today.

In today's western countries, those who can become third-level knights of faith come from noble families without exception. As for ordinary civilians and free people, second-level knights of faith are their limit.

Because advancing to the third-tier faith knight requires massive power of faith as support, and the prerequisite for obtaining a lot of power of faith is that you have a territory!
You have to support a large number of people who believe in you...

Western nobles first used secret methods and various precious materials to forge their own family coat of arms and symbols-sacred objects, and then forced the citizens to pray every day or even every meal. In addition to pointing to the God of the Holy See, the prayers also There are specific alternatives referring to local noble families.

The role of the coats of arms and sacred objects of each noble family is to collect and transform the power of faith that points to their own family.

The West has even derived an extremely complicated knowledge-noble article study!
Doing so will naturally and inevitably cause the Holy See to share some of the power of faith, but who will make the Holy See the strongest.

Being able to force the Holy See to recognize the existence of the knight system of faith in various countries was already the result of more than ten years of repeated see-saw between the rare united front of the major European powers and the Holy See.

In addition, Western artillery technology also began to advance by leaps and bounds at that time, because at that time, the most cost-effective solution to contain the high-level combat power of the Holy See was a heavy artillery weighing more than 24 pounds!

Today, the probability of the birth of a third-tier knight of faith basically depends on the size and richness of the nobles' respective territories, as well as the quality of the people they support.

It's just that Jia Lian vaguely feels that with the rise of the Western capitalist class, this situation is probably changing quietly!
Presumably, those big factory owners and big capitalists who have tried their best to gather a large number of workers will definitely not let go of the opportunity to get their hands on this extraordinary power!

I'm afraid there will be a new reshuffle between the western aristocrats and capitalists, and I don't know if Jia Lian, the fun in it, will have a chance to see it with his own eyes...

In addition, it is said that the Holy See also has a core first-order body training technique, which can train the human body into a "battery" that is more suitable for storing the power of faith, thus becoming a remote extraordinary system similar to a mage--" Priest"!
Compared with the knight of faith, the priest is better at using spiritual spells, light and auxiliary spells, and can be called an all-rounder.

Although compared to the knights of faith, priests are much weaker physically and have various shortcomings, but they are an important pillar for the Holy See to maintain its status.

In particular, the signature healing spells of the priests are the capital that the Holy See has always stood firm and dominant in front of the major western kingdoms!

And this seems to be the exclusive ability of the special sacred weapon "God" of the Holy See. Even the strongest empire in the Western countries, the "Stone of the British Empire" cast by the knight king of the ancestor - Arthur "In the Sword" is also incomparable.

Of course, Knight King Arthur's Sword in the Stone also has its own unique bonus ability. As for the specific attributes, we need to continue to inquire.

The extraordinary "holy artifacts" of Western countries are different, and the abilities of faith discrimination in their respective systems are also different.

As for the relevant information about the existing fourth-tier legendary powerhouses in the West, Jia Sidao did not inquire about them. He only knows that there is a recent record in Western history, that is, the Knight King-Arthur, who should be a very clear legendary powerhouse. .

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In addition, there have been incidents of collisions between firearms such as guns and extraordinary powers such as knights of faith in the West. The result is that high-precision self-generating flintlock muskets like Peruvian guns are quite lethal to knights of faith who are still in the first-level forging practice. .

Basically, two or three shots in the middle can deal with these most basic knights of faith, but facing the second-order knights of faith who have initially embraced the extraordinary, this kind of single-shot musket with a range of only 200 meters is not so effective.

For the second-order belief knights who have already condensed "fighting energy" and can attach this unreasonable extraordinary power to the surface of the body to protect themselves from bullet attacks and increase their own speed, it is only a matter of firing a musket, as long as it is not in a very short period of time. If you get hundreds of shots in a row, it's not a big problem!
Ordinary people can only use cannons to deal with this kind of existence that has completely stepped into the extraordinary!
Small guns such as 6-pounders and 12-pounders are enough to kill them as long as they hit.

As for the knights of faith who have advanced to the third rank, the only way ordinary people can threaten them is the 24-pounder and the 36-pounder.

There is also a dramatic episode here, that is, compared to the rear-loading rifled guns that have just appeared and are more accurate, the smoothbore guns with larger deviations are more threatening to the third-tier knights.

Because of this level of faith knights, their spiritual will has already undergone extraordinary transformation, and they generally have an extraordinary sense similar to intuition. The big knights are often able to sense and evade the shells fired by opponents aiming at them.

On the contrary, the smoothbore gunners, who don't even know where they are aiming, pose a greater threat to the third-level knights of faith!
It is said that the third-tier knights of the group of sea coachmen lost a game to the Kingdom of England in such a muddled way...

Maybe it's because these big knights who rely too much on the power of faith may only be more sensitive to the gaze of fellow humans.

Their so-called spiritual will that has undergone extraordinary transformation should still be different from the true meaning of martial arts of Daqing warriors.

At least the whim abilities of the innate masters of Martial Arts, which seek from within, all come from the laws of heaven and earth in the dark, and they will never be helpless when dealing with attacks such as smoothbore artillery.

"Then how much innate master-level power do the people around Nanyang, including Tianzhu, England, Portugal, Netherlands, France, and Castile have?
Is there any legendary powerhouse? "

"General, there should be more than 15 masters in these five Western countries around Nanyang who are equivalent to the level of innate masters. As for the legendary masters, they have not been detected yet.

The subordinates have heard that those barbarians have also fought against each other in the western mainland for years, and I am afraid that they may not be willing to put such an important power of the legendary strong in Nanyang, thousands of miles away. "

"Well... there is some truth, but be prepared, let Chang Gong and Dahei go with the Nanyang Fleet this time!

In my first overseas conquest in Daqing, I can only win but not lose! "

"Yes!"

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At Tianjin Port, there are thousands of sails, and the Daqing Nanyang Fleet, headed by nearly [-] large ships about [-] feet long, is ready to go.

In a place far away where the waves keep rising and falling, groups of huge black and white dolphins leap out of the sea alternately, and then hit heavily, splashing water.

"Hey ah~"

From time to time, there was the melodious sound of whales, and this was the [-] orca team that would be in charge of escort missions.

The artillery of the Daqing fleet is indeed inferior to that of Western countries, and even inferior to some large pirate forces that have been rampant in the ocean all year round.

Without these "ancient allies of the human race", those in the Nanyang Fleet who knew something about Western countries would really be a little scared.

Now, looking at the sea monsters that move about three to four feet in the distance, the people on the fleet and on the shore all feel a sense of security.

Now the killer whale team is led by the adult Xing Xing. This half-sized killer whale discovered by Jia Eryuanshen in the early years has grown into a 16-meter-long behemoth under the continuous feeding and training of Jia's family!

Under the careful guidance of a water attribute congenital master in the [Jia Lian Legion], Xing Xing's current martial arts realm is already equivalent to that of an acquired peak martial artist.

However, it can be said that this acquired warrior is almost unprecedented, and there may not be someone who will come later. It can be said that the scorpion is the only one!
[Blue Dragon Jade] I came back to visit it some time ago, and this "little guy" can no longer describe his naive energy in two words, the huge ocean of inner energy in his body is at least twenty times that of a peak Houtian warrior of the same level above!
Jia Lian is already looking forward to what kind of surprises Xing Xing, the orca, will have when he breaks through the third-tier innate master, or even the legendary realm, in the future.

The Nanyang Fleet, the [-] elite troops drawn from the Jiangnan Camp and the Yunnan-Guizhou Frontier Army, which are good at fighting in the mountains and forests, have already boarded their ships.

Finally, the fleet sailed slowly away from the coast amidst the shouts of long live from the mountains on the shore of Tianjin Port, and accelerated to the south under the escort of the killer whale team.

On the main ship, Liu Changgong was sitting aside, listening to the strategic layout and tactical discussions of the fleet generals like an outsider.

The chief general of the Nanyang Fleet this time is Fenyang Bo Xie Yun, who was born in the noble line of the founding of the country. He is a rare person who knows military affairs in the family of the founding line of generals.

Niu Jizong from Zhen Guogong's mansion needed to sit in the Jiangnan camp, so the choice of the leader of the expedition to Nanyang naturally fell on Xie Xie.

The banner of the Daqing Nanyang Fleet's expedition this time was to retaliate against the Luzon Four Massacres created by the Castiles and to take back the rule of the Nanyang Islands including Luzon.

Therefore, this time the Nanyang Fleet is pointing directly at Manila on the west coast of Luzon Island, because the Governor's Palace of the Castiles in Nanyang is in Manila!

It has been operated by the Castiles for many years, and a huge cluster of castles and forts have already been established, which is the most difficult bone in this era!
Moreover, the nearby Manila Bay is one of the best ports among the surrounding large islands, where most of the Castilian warships in the Far East are docked.

Occupying Manila Bay and destroying the Governor's Mansion of the Castiles is equivalent to cutting off all the tentacles of the Castiles in Southeast Asia!
　This month's monthly ticket seems to have been cut in half, is it because I didn't ask for a ticket, huh~
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