Alien Arms Empire

Chapter 658 Chapter 658 Dahua’s Court Controversy

“Boom!” On the coastline of Mirage Kingdom, which is far away from Beiyuan City, in a small, dilapidated fishing village, a cannonball suddenly fell and blew off the roofs of several houses.

On the distant sea, a Tang Dynasty's 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 Tang Navy Commander 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, when you meet gods, kill gods, and when 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 battleship No. 1 of Dongwan, returned to the water for repairs, and the other two battleships were sent to the sea outside Mirage.

  The government and the public in the Mirage Kingdom, which had never seen anything like this happen, were greatly shocked. Because Da Nanwan, the largest port in the southern part of the Mirage Kingdom, was smashed to pieces.

 When a battleship attacks a port, the accuracy of the artillery becomes less important. The target was a fixed target, and the effective hit zone 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 purchased that year, it was considered a giant cannon, and it also had a wooden steering gear. It was considered a very advanced weapon and equipment.

 It’s a pity that they are from a hundred years ago. Guess what kind of threat a solid bullet fired from a 100mm caliber muzzleloader can pose to armor over 200mm thick?

 Actually, there’s no need to guess, these artillery pieces don’t even have the basic range! Datang's two destroyers fired several salvos with their 150mm main guns, and the Great Nanwan Fort became history.

Then the main fleet of the Tang Dynasty entered the harbor, and the main guns on the two battleships began to pour their shells.

 That is a 305mm caliber high-explosive bomb! That's 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 lifted into the sky by a cannonball, they realized that their country was fighting something. Fighting 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 then chop him into pieces on a chopping block, the remaining enemies will never learn a word called reverence.

"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, let the chain roll up, and loaded a huge dark green cannonball into the barrel of the gun.

 After all the procedures are completed, there is a short silence. Immediately afterwards, another new salvo started, and the dense shells covered a long enough distance and landed in the city of Great South Bay.

  The fishing boats docked in the port were sieved by the 150-mm-caliber secondary guns, and only the masts of the sailing ships were 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.

While sinking these 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 last naval battle.

On the one hand, Mirage did not have time to repair these damages. On the other hand, it 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 No. 1 East Bay battleship. All four battleships were sunk in the port, and they could not even struggle in front of the battleship.

If the cruisers and destroyers had big killers like torpedoes at this time, then Bernard would naturally not dare to let the fleet directly enter the harbor for a close-range artillery battle.

It is a pity that the only few torpedoes in the world today are still in submarines testing their performance near Long Island, so 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 sent out the news that they were attacked, and then the senior leaders 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, all places were notified of the mobilization of troops. Unfortunately, these temporarily recruited mobilization troops may not even have a decent rifle.     There are no battleships and no big guns. We can't let these soldiers hold Cyric Type 1 bolt-action rifles and swim to fight enemy warships with bayonets, right?

 So, 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 whole country was unwilling to bring up the matter of peace proposal.

 But as the war situation continues to worsen, the matter of negotiating peace becomes less unmentionable.

 …

In the distant Dahua Empire, within the imperial city, Dahua Emperor Zhao Kai was watching a group of ministers arguing over something.

 The relationship between the Dahua Empire and the Tang State is very tense, which is something everyone knows. For this reason, the Dahua Empire also temporarily recruited some troops to fill the border with Qi.

Even at the most critical moment when Qi was struggling, the top brass of the Dahua Empire seriously discussed the battle plan to attack Tang.

It is 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 state, so the declaration of war against the Tang state was delayed again and again, and it has become 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 really lead to defeat, so he once again fell into this endless debate with his officials.

But soon, Cyric's advisers sent good news, which was confirmed by the ambassadors of the Ice Empire and other countries.

Tang 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 pay for 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 to slow-moving airships, this seems to be the ultimate solution for air weapons and equipment—even if 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 bitter face. He really couldn't come up with that much money this time.

 It’s just that 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 smoke. In the war, Datang Group seems to be sure of victory.

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter! You can use some of the Tang Dynasty banknotes that you have accumulated before, or you can use ores to pay for it... It's all okay! It's all okay!" Feng Kezhi kept smiling. 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? So much money was spent. , but when it comes time to fight, you still say you can’t win! What do I need from you?”

Zhou Qiang, the Minister of Rites, who was standing among the ministers on the other side, also felt pain in his body: "Can you save a little...the whole 100 million gold coins..."

"You think it's too expensive, but Cyric's envoys have already boarded the ship!" Chen Jing, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, is on the side of the military this time, because if aircraft technology can be held in hand, the Ministry of Industry's Various production technologies will definitely be improved again.

Chen Jing, the minister, is naturally willing to do this kind of thing of spending the military's money 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 the technology of Datang Group was unfathomable. He has now completely changed his attitude and does not support war against Tang State at all.

 But he doesn’t support it, but there are still people who do. At least Emperor Zhao Kai is a war-fighter. 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?"

 (End of this chapter)