Chapter 164 The Fleet Departs for the Great Battle
Chapter 164 The fleet sets off and the war is about to begin! (Please vote for me!)
The so-called Nanyang Fleet was actually composed of the Jia family fleet as the backbone, plus some ships seconded from several river naval divisions in the south of the Yangtze River.
In Jia Lian's plan, the biggest role of this Nanyang fleet is actually just as a transport ship.
Although I don’t want to admit it, Daqing’s ship technology and artillery technology at this time are indeed far behind those of Western countries!
At this time, the people of Daqing had extremely close contacts with merchants from Western countries. As Jia Lian, it was not difficult to send people to find out the information of Western countries.
The mainstream warships of Western countries during this period generally had a displacement of about 1,200 tons, were more than 60 meters long, were equipped with double or even three layers of artillery, and could carry more than 60 12-pound, 24-pound or even 36-pound artillery pieces.
A heavy artillery that fires 36-pound projectiles is almost the upper limit of projectiles fired by all artillery in this era.
If such data is almost the same as Jia Lian's previous life in the 17th century, then the following is a completely different trend regarding the extraordinary system of faith knights in Western countries.
The original inheritance of this extraordinary system of Knights of Faith comes from the famous Knights Templar!
It is unclear where the Knights Templar's spiritual practice came from. It is generally said that it was passed down by their God, Jehovah.
The training of these first-level Templar Knights is similar to that of Daqing Martial Arts. They require years of hard work and tempering of the physical body until all physical indicators reach the limits of the human body.
However, if you want to advance to the second level, you still need to practice hard and hone your spiritual will in order to withstand the mysterious power of faith given by God the Father.
This is also the origin of countless rumors about ascetic monks in Western history. There are even many knights of faith who have not been able to complete the first-level knight training due to physical hardship and training. Even if they have practiced hard for a lifetime, they cannot inherit the power of faith and can only die in depression.
After inheriting the power of faith, the second-level faith knights refine the power of faith with the knight secrets of their respective schools as their own "fighting spirit", and use it to attach weapons or themselves to strengthen their combat capabilities.
The second-level and high-level faith knights can already use "fighting qi slash" and other fighting qi-discharging moves, but they cannot last long due to consumption.
There are also second-level knights of faith, although their spiritual will is as solid as a rock, but after all, it has not undergone extraordinary transformation and cannot control the "fighting energy" energy in a fine way.
At the second level, a move like "Fighting Slash", except for a few secret tactics of the top knight schools, is not outstanding in power and consumes a lot of money. It is just that the visual effect is extremely stunning and it is very suitable for showing off.
But when the faith knights advance to the third level, their spiritual will will also undergo an extraordinary transformation similar to the Daqing warriors condensing their martial will. Not only the body can carry the refined power of faith, but also the amount of refined "fighting energy" will be condensed.
The degree of realism has also been greatly increased.
It is almost the same difference as water vapor liquefying into water, which also allows third-level faith knights to possess various extraordinary abilities similar to martial arts masters that are completely different from ordinary people.
Not only has the power of the most basic fighting spirit slashing been greatly increased, but cutting steel and iron has become a regular combat move for faith knights of their level. Even cool abilities such as "fighting spirit turning into wings" can be used easily.
Going forward a few hundred years in time, the third-level Templar knights and priests who could turn their fighting spirit into wings played the role of "angels" of the Holy See!
The Knights of Faith were originally a military support unique 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 took hundreds of years to develop into what it is today.
In today's Western countries, those who can become third-level faith knights are all from noble families. As for ordinary civilians and free people, second-level faith knights are their limit.
Because advancing to the third level of Faith Knight requires a large amount of faith power as support, and the prerequisite for obtaining a large amount of faith power is that you must have a territory!
You have to be able to support a large number of people who believe in you...
Western aristocrats first forged their own family crests and symbols - holy objects - using secret techniques and various precious materials, and then forced the subjects to pray every day and even every meal. In addition to pointing to the God of the Holy See, the prayers also included
There are exclusive alternatives referring to local noble families.
The role of each noble family's coat of arms and sacred objects is to collect and transform these powers of faith directed towards their own family.
The West has even derived an extremely complex knowledge from this - aristocratic literature!
Doing so will naturally and inevitably take away part of the power of faith from the Holy See, but who makes the Holy See the most powerful?
Being able to force the Holy See to recognize the existence of the Knights of Faith system in various countries was the result of more than ten years of back-and-forth between the major powers in Europe and the Holy See.
In addition, Western artillery technology also began to advance by leaps and bounds at that time, because at that time, if you wanted to curb the Holy See's high-level combat power, the most cost-effective solution was heavy artillery of more than 24 pounds!
Today, the probability of the birth of a third-level faith knight basically depends on the size and richness of the nobles' respective territories, as well as the quality of the people they support.
But Jia Lian vaguely felt that with the rise of the Western capitalist class, this situation might have quietly changed!
Presumably, in the future, those big factory owners and big capitalists who have tried every means to gather a large number of workers will definitely not let go of the opportunity to get their hands on this extraordinary power!
I am afraid that a new reshuffle will soon take place between the Western aristocrats and capitalists, and I wonder if Jia Lian will have the opportunity to see it with his own eyes...
In addition, it is said that the Holy Court also has a certain core first-level body-building technique, which can train the human body into a "battery" more suitable for storing the power of faith, thus becoming a long-range extraordinary system similar to that of a mage - "
priest"!
Compared to knights of faith, priests are better at using spiritual spells, light and auxiliary spells, and can be called an all-rounder.
Although priests are physically much more fragile than knights of faith and have shortcomings of one kind or another, they are now 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 in front of the major Western kingdoms and has an advantage!
And this seems to be the exclusive ability of the special holy weapon "God" of the Holy See. Even the most powerful empire in the Western countries, the "Stone Stone" with the British Empire's holy weapon cast by the ancestor of the Knight King Arthur.
It can't be compared to "Sword in the Sword".
Of course, King of Knights Arthur's Sword in the Stone also has its own unique bonus ability. As for the specific attributes, we still need to continue to explore.
The extraordinary "sacred weapons" in Western countries are different, and the beliefs and abilities within their respective systems are also different.
As for the relevant information about the existing fourth-level legendary powerhouses in the West, Jia Sidao did not find out. He only knew that the knight king Arthur who was recently recorded in Western history should be a very clear legendary powerhouse.
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In addition, there has been a collision in the West between guns and other firearms and the extraordinary power of the Knights of Faith. The result is a high-precision self-generated flintlock musket like the Peruvian gun, which has considerable lethality for the Knights of Faith who are still in the first level of body forging.
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Basically, two or three shots can take care of the most basic faith knights, but when faced with the second-level faith knights who have already begun to embrace the extraordinary, the effect of this single-shot musket with a range of only 200 meters is not so ideal.
For the second-level faith knight who has condensed "fighting spirit" and can attach this unreasonable extraordinary power to the surface of the body to protect against bullet attacks and increase his own speed, he can just fire a musket, as long as it is not within a very short period of time.
If you take hundreds of shots in a row, then it won’t be a big problem!
Ordinary people can only deal with this kind of existence that has completely stepped into the extraordinary world with cannons!
As long as small guns such as the 6-pounder and 12-pounder can hit, they are enough to kill them.
As for the faith knights who have advanced to the third level, the only way ordinary people can threaten them is the 24-pound cannon and the 36-pound cannon.
There is also a dramatic episode here, that is, compared to the more accurate breech-loaded rifled cannon that just appeared, the smoothbore cannon with a larger deviation is more threatening to the third-order knights.
Because of the faith knights at this level, their spiritual will has already undergone extraordinary transformation, and they generally possess an extraordinary sense similar to intuition. The great knights can often sense in advance the cannonballs fired by their opponents and evade them.
On the contrary, the smoothbore gunners who don't even know where they are aiming pose a greater threat to the third-order faith knights!
It is said that the third-level knights of the Sea Coachman were so confused that they defeated the Kingdom of England...
Perhaps it is because these great knights who rely too much on the power of faith may only be more sensitive to the gazes of fellow humans.
Their so-called spiritual will that has undergone extraordinary transformation should be somewhat different from the true meaning of martial arts of Daqing warriors.
At least the whim abilities of the innate masters of martial arts that I seek from within come from the underlying laws of heaven and earth, and they are by no means helpless in dealing with attacks like smoothbore artillery.
"So how many innate master-level powers do the people around Nanyang, including Tianzhu, England, Portugal, the Netherlands, France and Castile have?
Are there any legendary level experts?"
"General, there should be more than 15 masters from these five Western countries who are equivalent to the innate grandmaster level around Nanyang. As for the legendary strong ones, they have not yet been discovered.
I have heard that the barbarians themselves have been fighting against each other for years in the Western Ocean, so I am afraid that they may not be willing to put such an important force of the legendary strongman in Nanyang, thousands of miles away."
"Hmm... It makes some sense, but be prepared. Let Chang Gong take Dahei with him to follow the Nanyang Fleet this time!
In Daqing’s first overseas expedition, I can only win but not lose!”
"yes!"
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The Tianjin port is lined with thousands of sails, and the Daqing Nanyang Fleet, led by nearly fifty large-scale ships about fifteen feet long, is getting ready to go.
Far away, where the waves kept rising and falling, groups of giant black and white dolphins jumped out of the sea alternately, then crashed down again, causing splashes of water.
"嘤嘤嘤~"
From time to time, the melodious cry of whales can be heard. This is the team of three hundred killer whales that will be responsible for the escort mission.
The artillery of Daqing's fleet is indeed inferior to that of Western countries, and even inferior to some large-scale pirate forces that have been roaming the oceans all year round.
Without these "ancient allies of the human race", those in the Nanyang Fleet who know something about the Western countries would really be a little scared.
Now, looking at the giant ocean beasts that are three to four feet tall in the distance, the people on the fleet and on the shore all feel a sense of security.
Nowadays, the killer whale team is led by the adult Xing Xing. This semi-large killer whale, which was discovered by Jia Er Yuanshen in his early years, has grown into a 16-meter-long behemoth under the continuous feeding and training of the Jia family!
Under the careful instruction of a water attribute innate master in the [Jia Lian Legion], Xingxing's current martial arts realm is equivalent to that of a peak acquired warrior.
However, this acquired martial artist can be said to be unprecedented, and there may not be anyone who will come after him. He can be said to be a scorpion pulling a daddy, the only one of his kind!
[Blue Dragon's Jade] I came back to visit it some time ago. The innocent Qi of this "little guy" cannot be described in two words. The huge ocean of Qi in its body is at least twenty times that of the peak acquired warriors of the same level.
above!
Jia Lian is already looking forward to what kind of surprises Xingxing, the killer whale, will have when he breaks through to the third-level innate grandmaster, or even the legendary realm.
In the Nanyang Fleet, 20,000 elite troops drawn from the Jiangnan Camp and the Yunnan-Guizhou border army, who are good at fighting in the mountains and forests, have already boarded the ships.
The fleet finally slowly sailed away from the coast amidst the shouts of "Long Live Long Live" from the mountains on the shore of Tianjin Port. Under the escort of the killer whale team, it accelerated towards the south.
On the main ship, Liu Changgong was sitting aside, listening to the fleet generals' strategic layout and tactical discussions like an outsider.
The commander-in-chief of the Nanyang Fleet this time was Fenyang Bo Xie Yun, who came from the lineage of the founders of the country. He was one of the few people who knew military affairs among the generals of the founding lineage.
Niu Jizong of the Zhenguo Duke's Mansion needed to be stationed in the Jiangnan camp, so the candidate for the lead general of the expedition to Southeast Asia naturally fell on Xie Mao.
The banner of Daqing's Nanyang Fleet's expedition was to retaliate against the Four Massacres of Luzon caused by the Castilians, and to take back the rule of the Nanyang Islands, including Luzon.
Therefore, this time the Nanyang Fleet's troops were directed towards Manila on the west coast of Luzon Island, because the Castilian Governor's Palace in Nanyang is in Manila!
The place has been run by the Castilians for many years and has already established a huge cluster of castles and forts. It is the hardest nut to crack in this era!
Moreover, the nearby Manila Bay is one of the best ports among the several large islands in the surrounding area. Most of the Castilian warships in the Far East are docked here.
Occupying Manila Bay and destroying the Castilian Governor's Palace is equivalent to cutting off all the Castilian tentacles in Southeast Asia!
This month’s monthly ticket seems to have been cut in half. Is it because I didn’t ask for a vote? Uh-huh~
