Looking at the vast ocean of ships, the "Nanyang Navy" flag was hung on the masts, and countless figures stood on the dense ships. Countless people shouted slogans, raised white sails, and pulled up the iron anchor. Chen Ao was in a state of excitement and suddenly said to Yang Rui behind him: "Whoever has the ocean can have everything!"

The whimpering horn roared in a low voice, and the water pilot stood on the pier, holding various flags, and began to command the ships to go out to sea.

The flagship where Chen Ao was sitting was too large, and it actually occupied two waterways. It was not fast to move, and it even looked a little slow. The ship was as tall as a building, with a sharp bottom and wide top, high head and tail, and guard plates on both sides. The entire ship was divided into four layers, with earth and stone basins installed on the lower layer, soldiers were occupied on the second layer, and soldiers were occupied on the third layer, and the upper layer was the combat place. It was condescending, and bows, arrows and artillery were fired downwards, which could often defeat the enemy.

The bow of the ship is quite high and has a strong impact device. It can plow and sink an enemy ship by wind and use the power of the ship to win. The draft can reach two feet. In this era, it is definitely a giant mothership.

Standing on the fourth floor and looking down, Chen Ao immediately discovered the disadvantages of this flagship. Although the ship has a huge load capacity and a large-scale naval battle, it is at a disadvantage in speed. Therefore, there are only more than 60 such ships in the navy, and most of them are mainly smaller ships.

In addition to this kind of ship, the best speed is naturally the gunboat that sailed out of another bay. Although the gunboat is only 30 meters tall, the hull is small and has great lethality. It is equipped with guard plates on both sides, with three layers of hull, and a bay with earth and stone on the bottom floor. There are more than 30 muzzles on each floor. Although they are all small cannons, they are enough to shock the earth if they are fired together. What's even more amazing is that the ship has three masts and five sails, and its speed is at least twice that of the flagship.

There are only more than 30 such gunboats, all designed according to Chen Ao's meaning. The shipbuilding technology of the Song Dynasty was at its top level in this era, and there was no one in the world. The reason why such gunboats were not built before was nothing more than that. The fleet of the Song Dynasty had never had any opponents on the sea surface. If enough lucky ships were enough to defeat the enemy, why do you need to spend a lot of time and money to build gunboats? Moreover, the lucky ships can also load military supplies and sailors in large quantities, while gunboats are only pure combat purposes. Not only is it not cost-effective to manufacture them, there is no need in this era.

With Chen Ao's order, the purchase of such ships in the name of the Nanyang Navy made the docks immediately rack their brains and constantly design and perfect similar ships. It is hoped that the Nanyang Navy can purchase a large number of ships. Because of this, it took only a year to make the prototype of the gunboat, but there are many places that need to be improved. Because this ship is loaded with too many artillery and is greatly impacted by the back seat of the artillery, the materials used are different from ordinary ships. The wood used is carefully selected. When craftsmen work on keels, Liu Ding must not have any negligence. Often, such gunboats are often much more expensive than Chen Ao's flagship, and they have only made more than thirty ships.

In fact, there are two factions in the Nanyang Navy. One side believes that the lucky ship is the weapon to defeat the enemy, and the other side believes that a gunboat is enough to fight the lucky ship. However, this debate was completely silenced when Chen Ao's side. Chen Ao only used one sentence to calm the debate: "If my Song Dynasty is strong, using the lucky ship is enough to gallop around the world. But if my Song Dynasty encounters a strong enemy in the sea, the gunboat cannot win."

This sentence is very clear. If you simply bully the vassal states in Nanyang, a blessed ship is enough. But if you encounter a strong enemy, a blessed ship is not enough. This is the time to exert the power of the gunboat. People who go out to sea have seen the vastness of the world. Who dares to say that the Song Dynasty will not encounter a powerful enemy? Therefore, this sentence left the navy officer who denies the gunboat speechless.

Now, after Shen Ao's flagship sailed out of the bay, these more than 30 gunboats immediately slowed down tacitly, and followed the flagship around the entire ocean, with dozens of ships and thousands of ships passing along the waterway towards the vast depths of the ocean.

Anyone who saw this huge fleet would not help but sigh that the strength of the Nanyang Navy was truly revealed for the first time.

Although the Sanyang Navy was forged, the Nanyang Navy was the most powerful in the Song Dynasty, which was naturally due to the advantages of the world's largest port and the trade between Nanyang and Quanzhou. After all, the Beiyang Navy was destined to be able to patrol in the empty sea, and the Dongyang Navy at most suppressed the Japanese dissatisfaction. The real core of the Song Dynasty's maritime affairs was still in the South Ocean. With the support of Shen Ao, the Nanyang Navy, on the one hand, allocated expenses by the imperial court, on the other hand, the fundraising of local merchants in Quanzhou and the members given by Shen Ao, and now the scale of the number has reached unprecedented. Even if it is in later generations, Zheng He may not have been so powerful when he voyages to the West.

This fleet spent a lot of money, and it was because of money that created this peerless navy. For Shen Ao, investment requires profits, and now is the time to dig out the first pot of gold.

"It would be great if there was a telescope at this time." Shen Ao's eyes were blurred, and he thought regretfully, but his ability to make glass was really limited, so he could only fantasize about it in his heart.

Shen Ao's cabin is on the third floor of the flagship, a luxurious living cabin with a radius of hundreds of feet. In the cabin is filled with Si Nan and Nanyang maps. There are palace lanterns at each corner. I don't even know which guy is stupid or I don't know if he is a scheming or thinks that Shen Ao likes these things, but he even puts a lot of porcelain bottles. Shen Ao felt that the placement of the porcelain bottle was a bit wrong, and he walked over and held it in his hand to play with it, but found that it was actually an antique.

But soon, Shen Ao was completely disinterested. The antiques were antiques, but I don’t know which tower it was. The traces of antique imitation were really crude. In the eyes of experts like Shen Ao, it simply stained his eyes. After finally putting on a porcelain bottle, it was still fake. Shen Ao’s mood can be imagined.

"But... since I brought it, it would be a pity that I broke it. I believe that friends from Dayue Kingdom always like it. Then I will go to Dayue Kingdom to see if anyone is willing to buy it." Shen Ao thought so in his heart, and that anger immediately disappeared.

As for whether anyone buys it, this is not included in Shen Ao's consideration. I traveled thousands of miles, thousands of miles away, and brought a hundred thousand royal army all the way to work hard to punish you, the Great Yue Kingdom and eliminate the foolish monarchs. You don't even dare to buy a porcelain bottle of this king? It's simply outrageous and bullying.

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Chameng is the largest city in Yue Kingdom. It is adjacent to the South China Sea of ​​the Song Dynasty and across the sea from Quanzhou. Although it was destroyed by wars more than ten years ago, it is gradually becoming more prosperous now, with a population of up to 50,000 households. In this Nanyang, it must not be underestimated.

The military strength of Chameng is more tight than that of the Shenglong Mansion, the capital of the Great Yue King. This was once the capital of the Chameng Kingdom. The Chameng tribe of the South Yue had been entrenched here for hundreds of years. Although it has become the treasure of the King of Yue, it is mostly occupied by the people here. Therefore, in order to prevent changes, Chameng General Li Richao led 10,000 Vietnamese troops to station here.

The General's Mansion of Cham City is the old palace of Cham City. It covers a large area and is magnificent. However, at this time, the singing and dancing performances here suddenly disappeared, and the noise of the guests at the banquet was gone.

In a hall, Li Richao, wearing a Song Dynasty official robe, was looking at the visitor.

Although this guest had the darkness of a Yue man, his eyebrows were no different from those of a Han man. It was Cai You who had just escaped from Quanzhou.

Cai You really couldn't figure it out. Chen Ao would have found his whereabouts. Fortunately, he heard something wrong that day, and immediately climbed over the back wall and fled. While Quanzhou had not yet arrested him, he dressed up and quickly searched for a merchant ship to go to the dock to go to sea. After wandering around, he arrived in Chameng.

Li Richao had a bad impression of Cai You and said lightly: "Didn't Mr. Cai go to Quanzhou? Why did he return to Chameng at this time?"

Cai You smiled and said, "The Great Yue Kingdom is in danger. How can Cai watch coldly? Let's tell you the truth..." He told Quanzhou. Li Richao secretly frowned when he heard it, and said for a long time: "Then isn't Your Highness, King Yue..."

Cai You said coldly: "Whether Your Highness can return to the country safely depends on the upcoming war."

Li Richao seemed to be disbelief and said, "Even so, the Song Dynasty would not dare to provoke the battle easily."

Cai You said: "The Song Dynasty will not provoke the battle easily, but there is one thing that will happen. King Chen Ao of Pingxi has always been vindictive. This time, Dayue plots against Quanzhou, and he will remain indifferent? This is the most favored minister of the Song Dynasty. As long as he makes up his mind, the Song court will definitely support it strongly. At that time, the King of Pingxi will refer to the Nanyang Navy. I am afraid that it will come to Champa. The general is the most urgent task at the moment to strengthen his vigilance and be ready to fight. As long as the Song army cannot conquer Champa, the Nanyang Navy will definitely not last long. Then we will discuss peace with the Song people and welcome the King of Yue back to the day."

Li Richao was half-believing and half-doubted. He knew some of the King Pingxi of the Song Dynasty. This man was very famous and liked to show off his martial arts. Since Cai You said it was so bright, he had to believe it. After pondering for a moment, Li Richao said, "Even if the Song people want to conquer my Dayue, I am afraid they may not come to Cham City. It is necessary to know that this city is hundreds of miles away from Shenglong. Why do other nearby towns not attack and capture, but come to Cham City instead? You Song people have a saying that you want to leave the nearest and seek far away. Wouldn't they know this truth?"

Cai You took a sip of tea and said slowly: "If it were someone else, what the general said would make sense. But Chen Ao is the most cunning. If he supervised the expedition and took the lead in attacking Cham City, one could be unexpected, and the other..." Cai You paused and continued: "Cai said yes, the people in Cham City have always been disinterested from the Great Yue Kingdom. If he took Cham City for the guise of revenge of the country, the Song army's navy could have no worries and go all out to attack Shenglong in the north. Wouldn't it be more cost-effective?"

The Yue people were unruly. If they took several other ports as their foothold, the Song army would inevitably be attacked by the Yue people. However, it would be different to use Chameng as the base. Cai You had a very vicious eyes and immediately saw the mystery of this, so he insisted that if Chen Ao led his army to attack Dayue, the breakthrough point would definitely not be a port closer to Shenglong, but Chameng would definitely be.

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Chapter completed!