...121, the collision of the same flags. Under the dark and dark sky, the thick clouds slowly rolled and moved with the wind, and the gray dark clouds opened and closed. It was as low as if it was reaching out.

Looking up from the sea, the dim and blurred sun slowly rose under the cover of clouds, and the distant coast showed a blue and black green hull. The dark green waves surging with the help of the wind, repeatedly slapped the reefs on the shore, splashing water several feet high.

A shadowy white sail gradually revealed its shape on the sea level, facing the hazy sun that had just risen. It was like millions of war horses galloping together, driving towards the east in a mighty manner, and slowly moving towards the north coastline.

On the main sail of each ship, a huge blue-bottomed hexagram national emblem is drawn, symbolizing the glory and glory of a thousand-year-old magic empire.

The commander of the Far East Fleet of the Naserel Empire, Gallusdu Adeden Perry, was wearing a gorgeous and luxurious dress, waving his hands with the generals inlaid with colorful gems, standing firmly on the back deck of the flagship "Oriental", with a cold face staring at the tyrannical sea ahead, and was silent for a long time.

As the fleet gradually approached the land, rows of huge waves of the sky began to become more and more rapid and higher. The white foam waves kept hitting the ship's side. The continuous roar was deafening for a moment, and along with the blowing sea breeze, they carried countless fine salty water droplets, hit Admiral Perry's bronze vicissitudes of old face, "but he was unmoved. He didn't even blink his eyelids.

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On the eve of the war, Admiral Perry's mind seemed to be integrated with the gloomy sea view in front of him. All doubts about the outcome of this war have been completely eliminated from the Civic.

It has been almost thirty years since he bid farewell to the distant hometown of Feren and came to this strange ancient Eastern country.

After thirty years of adventure, speculation, fighting, striving for governance, and fighting for his fate, he has gone from being excluded and unsuccessful naval officer to a famous and great conqueror, and a prince who is proud of the Far East. Although Admiral Perry is subject to various constraints in actual power, he is the greatest existence that is the only one in the Eastern Ocean!

All this glorious status is based on the ignorance, clumsiness and backwardness of many opponents in the Far East, as well as military victory after military victory. Admiral Perry could not understand his own empty essence.

It is impossible to completely control this with just a few thousand soldiers of the Imperial Far East Fleet. The Far East island country with a total population of over 30 million is difficult to achieve even long-term deterrence and blackmail. After all, if the other party makes up his mind, it is easy to do it as long as he takes out enough money to smash it hard and achieve modernization on the military level alone.

Therefore, he cooperated with the Yajin Church and the Dachao Trading Group to carry out peaceful evolution of the decaying and decaying Edo Shogunate, and allowed it to participate in sharing the various powers and interests of the Empire's Far East Army, and to some extent, he was willing to encourage it. Even in the previous few years, the relationship between the Magic Goddess Church and the Nirkin Church deteriorated. When they were hostile to each other, Admiral Perry, a believer of the Magic Goddess, also withstood the huge pressure exerted by his church and continued to persist in this mutual assistance and cooperation.

Now, after the defeat in the imperial election, the Magic Goddess Church finally corrected its attitude, completely gave up its ambition to monopolize the regime, and instead formed a formal alliance with the Yajin Church. The long-standing internal conflicts in the Empire's Far East and Sea Army were greatly alleviated, but at this time, another new wave of tide, with the sudden military coup in the Changshu family, it was fully aroused in the entire island country!

The Edo Shogunate, who thought he had found an opportunity to establish his authority, first announced in a grand manner that he would quell the unrest alone. He refused the help of Naserel's allies. Admiral Perry could only watch on the sidelines for the time being. As for the next, there was a series of poor record: the Battle of Kumanotan was defeated by the sea, the Battle of Irono Ginshan was defeated and fell, the Shogunate Western Route Army completely collapsed, the Satsuma family issued an anti-war announcement, the court signaled the two families to squash, the grave robbery in the Gyeonggi area, the western vassals generally resisted recruitment, the South Shogunate Army in the Shogunate was infighting and mutiny,

For a moment, the shogunate prepared several armies that were besieging the Choshu vassals, were defeated and defeated before entering the Choshu vassals! And the various riots caused by this were spreading across the country in an extremely urgent manner!

Faced with such a blessed and chaotic situation, the shogunate, who had no military experience, was completely in chaos. He neither knew how to continue the war nor did he know where to target the finger first.

Admiral Perry, who was outside the street, always had a clear understanding of this: since the source of all chaos comes from the Choshu vassal. Then, no matter how strong the external interference is, we must unswervingly use the Choshu vassal as the target of attack, and even if we have to overcome all difficulties, we must wipe it out in the bud. As long as we can successfully remove the lesions that cause disasters will be removed immediately. From the Emperor of Kyoto to the mob on the street, we will stop and crawl back under the great authority of the shogunate.

Therefore, after a brief rest and replenishment at Daling Port, he led all the warships that were less damaged in the typhoon, sailed up again and rushed straight to the Changzhou vassal state with great momentum, trying to completely solve the Japanese problem through a battle.

"Report to General! Our army has arrived at the coast of Changzhou Phantava. The Guanmen Sea is ahead of us

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A sergeant rushed to the contemplative Admiral Perry. After standing attentively, he reported loudly that no enemy warships had appeared on the sea and no obstacles were set up near the port,"

"Oh. I have arrived at the battlefield. This is the time we have bombarded Maguan? Why are there so many "hot-blooded young people in the Changzhou vassal?"

Admiral Perry raised his telescope, glanced at the coast ahead for a few rough glances, and waved his hand gently. He murmured and issued a combat order to pass on my military order. The entire fleet immediately prepared for battle! Target, Maguan Fort!"

As the red battle flag slowly rose, a sharp and loud horn of battle sounded on each battleship.

The sailors of the Far East Fleet of Neserel were all busy moving, starting to remove the baffles that separate the ship's warehouse, unbutton the ropes that fixed the gun mounts, and grind their respective daggers and bayonets, and set up muskets and grenade throwers on the combat pods of the mast to deal with possible landing or mount battles. The deck was also covered with sand stained with sea water, with the purpose of preventing personnel from falling and slipping during the battle.

"All people pay attention, everyone pay attention, immediately unseal all the muzzle seals! And release all the extra lifeboats out of the ship! If anyone dares to still be slow at this time, just kick the lazy bug into the sea!" The sailor waved his whip in the air and urged his sailors to work. Although the opponent this time was really weak, all preparations were still done in vain.

The ancient-style Makkat is certainly nothing to be afraid of; and the three ragged warships of the Choshu clan were just side dishes for the Naserel Far East Fleet, but last month, the mysterious fleet of the Shogunate Navy was wiped out in Kumanotan, and there has been no new waste so far.

Therefore, it is always impossible to make mistakes when preparing more before the war.

Over the deck of the battleship, the horizontal nets were temporarily pulled open to prevent falling. The fragile sail building was urgently reinforced by thick chains, and the four walls of the ammunition depot were hung with soaked canvas. The sailors with conditions changed into clean new clothes to avoid infection after being injured in battle. Between the ammunition depot in the bottom cabin and the gun positions on the deck, the idle sailors with muscles relayed each other to pass the heavy shells one by one, and soon piled up a mountain on the deck. As for the real gunners, they were busy cleaning the barrel, measuring distance, selecting targets and types of ammunition,

However, before they were fully prepared, the shore defense artillery of the Maguan defenders began to spit out the red flame tongue.

"Dian, bang, bang, bang!"

In an instant, a huge string of noise continued to echo near the fleet, and three or four high water columns were instantly aroused on the sea not far from the north of the route, which surprised the sailors who had not yet completed their combat preparations, but were only shocked.

Generally speaking, due to a series of significant favorable conditions such as terrain and fortifications, naval guns of the same caliber always suffer from range than shore guns. But that is only the general situation. Due to the shortcomings in casting technology and combat thinking, the range of locally produced locally in Japan is quite poor.

What's worse is that the dozens of new Western heavy artillery that were originally equipped on the Maguan Fort were either dragged to the parish and strengthened its defensive firepower by the untouched people in Chuntianzhuang to take advantage of the chaos. Or the Changzhou army besieged the Shanshu to bombard Chuntianzhuang. Therefore, in the Maguan Fort, there are only some old-fashioned earth artillery that others don't like. The two hundred "Shock infants" who were responsible for guarding the fort could only throw the shells into the sea in a depressed mood. During this period, there were also two blow-offs. Cheap arms produced in peacetime were usually somewhat of a certain quality problem.

After that, the Naserel Far East Fleet fought back like a storm.

Outside the sea of ​​Maguan Port, several transport ships were stranded on the periphery, while fifteen large warships lined up in a row, almost at the bottom of the shore defense turrets, and they seized the most favorable shooting position in a large manner. Then, they passed through the seemingly fierce and fierce water columns, which were actually without any killing effect. Dozens of artillery on the side of each ship roared one after another, and in the continuous smoke and roar, they smashed the shells at Maguan Fort like raindrops.

Accompanied by a series of sharp and long whistling sounds, one after another of iron ball solid shells, like meteorites falling from outer space, smashed straight into the Maguan Fort without the protection of the top cover. The gunners and auxiliary soldiers who could not dodge suddenly flew with flesh and blood, and the gravel splashed up in the ground like bullets. The broken limbs hovered from the air and fell a shell to knock down dozens of people!

For a moment, the fire splattered in the turret, and blood and flesh flew everywhere, as if hell had come. The floor was painted red in an instant. Even two old copper cannons were bombed out and smashed through partitions that seemed to be more fragile than thin paper. The soldiers hiding inside were crushed like butter. Although the surprise troops guarding the turrets endured the terrifying casualties, they continued to fire shells at the sea in vain, the huge gap in range made this heroic counterattack eventually only a tragedy.

Soon, this fort, which was obviously too old, turned into a pile of black smoke-filled ruins in such one-sided and wanton ravages. After destroying the only coastal defense fortification at the port of Maguan, the Naserel Far East Fleet swaggered and directly entered the port area. Almost drove cobalt at the dock, and then started a new round of artillery bombardment.

Since I got news from the coastal observation post in advance, the only three small warships in the Changzhou clan finally slipped out before the enemy arrived. Therefore, the port is empty and there are almost no ships worth wasting shells. Therefore, the shells of the Naserel Far East Fleet flew directly over the empty pier and towards the city houses.

In order to try to expand the destruction effect and open a landing ground for the subsequent troops, the Naserel Far East Fleet replaced the expensive white phosphorus incendiary bomb. Although it had rained just today, after hitting the Japanese-style wooden structure house, an irrepressible raging fire was immediately lit. In the smoke of gunpowder, one round after another exploded, one house after another collapsed, caught fire, burned, and occasionally caused even more earth-shaking explosions, and the black smoke column that soared into the sky. It was fortunate that the Changzhou Army had hit the gunpowder scattered in the rear.

So, the Changzhou warriors who had hurriedly retreated from the Chuntianzhuang battlefield had just rushed to the city of Maguan when they were blown away by a blow of cannon fire. The survivors had to cover their ears with both hands and hide behind the drainage ditch and walls. They had no idea what the situation was going on at this moment. What was the superiors planning to ask them to do, and they could only hear continuous explosions ringing around them. They were at a loss for a moment.

Some of the strong-willed warriors were still gritting their teeth in the fire and continuing to endure, wanting to wait until the enemy landed before launching their own specialty hand-to-hand combat; while the other active guys took advantage of this uncontrollable opportunity to secretly take off their military uniforms and cover their faces with rags. They tried to get involved in the ranks of fleeing citizens and thrust away.

No matter what the thoughts were on the shore, the Naserel Far East Fleet that invaded the harbor, was still so rigorous and coldly manipulating their carrier-based artillery, blowing up and igniting all houses within the range of the range: one house after another, one block after another, until they all turned into ashes. If someone could look down here from a high altitude, he would see the burning red nanmu flames. It was slowly expanding the range one by one, gradually swallowing the entire bustling town of Maguan Town.

Tens of thousands of citizens who had not had time to evacuate were all like headless flies, crying and fleeing everywhere in the burning city. They were killed by heat waves, smoke, shrapnel and collapsed buildings, and only about half of them successfully ran to the suburbs. The heavy ammunition stockpiled by the Changzhou army was also very small in the sea of ​​fire. As for the casualties who were lucky enough to retreat from the ruins of the fort, they could not get the minimum treatment and resettlement, and could only lie on the cold and wet street ground and moan quietly, waiting for the last trace of vitality in their bodies to pass away.
Chapter completed!