Three days passed in a flash, and in a blink of an eye it was the day of the first expedition of the Royal Navy North Sea Fleet.

Early in the morning, the thick morning mist had not completely dissipated, but the huge port of Lushun Port was already full of people and bustling.

Now the entire North Sea Fleet is coming out in full swing, and only a newly formed reserve army is left in the old nest Lushun Port.

This reserve army, two royal fleets, formed one, to protect its own nest after the fleet goes to sea and provide supplements to the Royal Navy reserve personnel.

You should know that naval combat is very easy to damage, and there must be sufficient reserves to supplement it in order to maintain the integrity of the staffing and ensure the combat effectiveness of the Royal Fleet.

After a simple and grand ceremony for the sea sacrifice, the sound of war drums suddenly came out, and a long line of large fleets were led by several pilot clutches and slowly sailed out of this huge military port.

The road was directed by two leopard cruisers as the forwards, and the remaining four leopard cruisers and nearly 100 large and small warships surrounded the transport ships with about 400 ships in the middle, arranged their long-distance voyage formations, and began to sail towards the Korean Peninsula in the east.

The fleet began to accelerate slowly, getting faster and faster, and finally maintained a suitable speed. In a short while, it disappeared into the distance, leaving Lushun Port missing.

The first stop of the fleet sailing is the Incheon Port on the Goguryeo Peninsula.

The Second Division of the North Sea Fleet was already waiting, and they were going to go to war together.

Three days ago, Zhu Youxiao used the Golden Eagle to pass on the secret order to ask the soldiers of the Second Division to prepare for the expedition today.

The reason why the current large fleet has so many transport ships is that in addition to transporting military supplies and soldiers of the North Sea Fleet, it is also filled with a large amount of building materials and construction tools. Of course, the most are the various craftsmen.

These craftsmen and a large number of building materials were prepared for the rapid construction of two naval bases in the northern part of Sakhalin Island, as well as two major cities.

The sea cucumber is too far from the north of Sakhalin Island, so it is not appropriate to build a super-large naval base in Sakhalin Island. It is necessary to build another large base on Sakhalin Island.

The current sea cucumber is simply a desolate bay, and no one lives in it. There are only some scattered small tribes of the Tungus people nearby.

Only when the large fleet arrives can easily occupy this super unfreezing port.

Sea cucumber power is much larger than Lushun Port. The size of the harbor is similar to Qingdao Port, and there is also an outer port, which can catch up with Lushun Port by just the outer port.

After the Ming Empire occupied Goguryeo, its geographical location was no longer very critical and prominent, and it did not have the military deterrence effect as much as Lushun Port.

In fact, it doesn’t take long to send an army to the northern part of Goguryeo to reach the sea cucumber power and occupy this natural unfreezing port.

However, now all the army corpses of the Ming Empire have more important tasks, and they can only rely on the navy to act on their own.

If nothing unexpected happens, the Ming Empire will soon add a great large naval base.

The trouble is the Heilongjiang River Basin in the west of Sakhalin and Sakhalin Island, as well as the nearby Ussuri River Basin.

There are countless barbarian tribes living in these places. Those barbarians are extremely fierce and not so easy to clean up and control.

Now this season is the season when the Goguryeo Peninsula is calm and the ocean is going out. Every year in late spring and early winter, the wind and waves are not big at the edge of the coastal sea area.

The real dangerous season is from mid-summer to late autumn, when typhoons, storms, and even tsunamis occur from time to time.

Most of the pirates in this sea area have been cleaned up by the Royal North Sea Fleet.

Therefore, the large fleet arrived at Incheon Port with a smooth journey.

This Incheon Port was renovated by a large number of people from the Northeast branch of the Royal Construction Brigade. It is not much smaller than the size of Lushun Port, and it looks very neat and orderly.

Today, the Goguryeo Peninsula lives all over the people in the original Liaoxi Corridor, which has completely eliminated most of the trajectory of the Goguryeo Dynasty.

Only by seeing some classic buildings in those big cities can you recall the past of the Goguryeo Dynasty and make people sigh.

Zhang Li, the commander of the Second Division of the North Sea Fleet, had long led the 30,000 naval soldiers of the Second Division to wait for a long time.

Just about an hour later, all the soldiers of the Second Division had boarded the ship and placed them in place. The nautical necessities such as freshwater, fruits and vegetables were also replenished, and the large fleet continued to set sail.

This time, I was sailing around the entire Goguryeo Peninsula, and I spent a lot more time.

After four days and five nights, the fleet sailed not far from the coastline and finally arrived at the Sea Cucumber.

The current sea cucumber power is simply a barren area with dense forests and weeds.

After everyone landed, it took more than 100,000 people two days to open up a large area of ​​territory that could build a large port and a big city.

Then, a squadron, five thousand logistics soldiers, thousands of craftsmen and most of the buildings were left behind. The large fleet continued to set sail and marched directly towards the Tatar Strait.

Although we can reach the southern part of Sakhalin Island relatively quickly, there is no suitable place for building a large port in this southern area.

Only in the middle of the northern end of Sakhalin Island, where there are two adjacent and natural, almost enclosed huge bays, are suitable for the construction of naval bases and large cities.52 Literature

This time the journey is not much worse than bypassing the Goguryeo Peninsula.

It took more than three days and everything went smoothly. The fleet finally arrived at the waters ahead of the destination.

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The northernmost east of the Tatar Strait, the sea surface in the middle of the northern part of Sakhalin Island.

Today, the sea breeze is very small, and the sea surface looks particularly quiet. One wave after another ripples continue to ripple and gradually disappear.

The early summer sun also looks particularly warm, shining on people, warm and a little lazy.

The sky is very blue, with white clouds floating, and the blue sky and white clouds shining in the sea, as clear as a picture.

In a vague way, you can see a large area of ​​land, which is the northern end of Sakhalin Island.

Opposite the western Nanghaerwei at the northern end of Sakhalin Island is the estuary of Heilongjiang.

Before the Royal North Sea Fleet of the Ming Dynasty officially landed on Sakhalin Island, the Marine Corps' scout brigade had already landed in a fast ship and controlled the outer beach of this nearly closed bay.

Now, on the outer beach in the middle of the northern end of Sakhalin Island, there are the Ming Dynasty Royal Golden Dragon Banner and the Navy North Sea Fleet’s military flag.

Six leopard cruisers were scattered in two rows, forming a straight line on the left and right, staring vigilantly at the land ahead.

In front of the six Leopard cruisers were dozens of small Clippers, those scout brigades that made outposts used to land in advance.

The six leopard cruisers, because they are huge and cannot be directly docked, are distributed on both sides of the outpost ships, and are used as deterrent enemies and alert ships.

This is the vanguard of the Royal Navy's North Sea Fleet. What they performed was a mission to clear a beach and escort the subsequent landing forces.

And those huge transport fleets came late at a place beyond the naked eye to see.

This season of the year is the calmest time in the Tatar Strait.

Under normal circumstances, the biggest storm will generally not exceed level five, which is very beneficial for landing troops.

Scientific research results from later generations show that once the wind and waves on the sea exceed level 6, wooden sailboats may have the possibility of overturning.

The landing troops of the North Sea Fleet must seize the time to land at this time, and all subsequent troops, as well as logistics and materials will be transported as quickly as possible.

Otherwise, once it is mid-to-late summer, storms will follow one after another, which will bring huge dangers to landing. Even simple material transportation will become difficult.

"Here you come!"

Some soldiers pointed to the rear of their large fleet and suddenly shouted loudly.

From everyone's voices, you can clearly hear a little excitement.

Following his sight, you can clearly see that a large number of ships are slowly appearing on the sea.

As more and more ships became more and more, the entire sea surface was quickly occupied.

Because there is no wind on the sea, these hundreds of transport ships carry a lot of things and have a deep draft.

Therefore, the sailing speed of these densely packed transport ships that the soldiers saw was quite slow.

"Wow! It's so spectacular!"

Someone was muttering to himself excitedly.

Indeed, this login operation is different from when I logged into Incheon Port more than a month ago.

Not to mention seeing such a scene with your own eyes, it will be very exciting even if you think about it.

In this era, people don’t even dare to think about the landing war with such a large scale.

Perhaps, only Zhu Youxiao's Ming Empire can make such a huge deal, one can bring about nearly 90,000 soldiers, 30,000 logistics troops, a large number of supplies and over 10,000 various craftsmen.

Today's Western countries cannot make such a big deal at all. At best, it will be the best to dispatch 20,000 or 30,000 people at a time.

Although they have many warships and transport ships, their population is too small. In addition, Western countries now occupy too many territory and their navies are too scattered, so are warships and transport ships.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for Western countries to dispatch such a large-scale landing fleet at once.

Or, they don’t have the concept of large-scale landing operations at all now.
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