After recent years of construction, the Navy has now taken shape. However, the navy's combat power is definitely not as strong as the army.

Even with the same armor and equipment, the navy relies more on warships. The quality of warships cannot surpass the times, and the combat effectiveness of the navy cannot surpass the times.

No matter how well-equipped the armor cast by gold and yuan alloy, people will still die after the ship is destroyed.

In Ying Yi's mind, the importance of the navy is not inferior to that of the army. However, if the shipbuilding technology cannot be broken through, the navy's combat effectiveness will be difficult to reach the level in Ying Yi's mind.

To this end, Ying Yi of Denglai Province planned to build it as the center of the first shipbuilding industry - a metal warship based on high-quality materials such as gold-yuan alloy. But this is not something that can be broken through in a short time - in the original history, metal shell warships only developed greatly after the emergence of steam engines.

In Yingyi, the existence of steam engines is too low and does not conform to Daxia, which uses the Yuanqi scheme as its foundation and development direction of civilization.

As a power energy, Ying Yi has a better choice, that is, Yuanqi, which is the eight-sided tower. However, if you want to use Yuanqi as energy and integrate it with the warship, it will definitely not be possible in a short period of time.

So the navy's warships are still old-fashioned guys.

The shipbuilding industry in the Ming Dynasty was not much worse than the Western shipbuilding technology at this time, and in terms of the construction technology of giant warships, it was even better than the Western civilization at this time.

But the Navy's first opponent was not the Western civilization at this time. It was Zheng Zhilong.

Zheng Zhilong, who started out as a pirate, has a great influence on the sea surface. There are thousands of warships and tens of thousands of people. They are experts at the sea. Compared with the skills of fighting naval battles, Ying Yi's newly built navy is probably still much worse.

Now Zheng Zhilong has pulled his fleet from Fujian waters to the Yangtze River, looking like he made peace with his former ministers of the previous dynasty, which is destined to attack him.

In fact, even if Zheng Zhilong did not make peace with his former ministers of the previous dynasty, Ying Yi would not let him go. This person was too powerful on the sea, and he was self-reliant and obeyed the tune or not, which was intolerable.

While there were movements between the Liaodong War Zone and the Northwest War Zone, the navy stationed in Denglai also frequently began to mobilize southwards.

Yangzhou Prefecture, Jiangdu.

The palace king Yuan was patrolling the highlands by the river.

Wang Yuan had been serving as the lord of Yangzhou Prefecture for more than three months. He was a student from the capital and from Baoding. King Xia swept across Hebei and was appointed as an official. Because of his outstanding ability, he was appointed as the county magistrate. After the Shanhaiguan War, he was promoted to the lord of Yangzhou Prefecture for his capable people and outstanding humanitarian achievements. He took office three months ago.

After taking office, Wang Yuan calmed the people, encouraged agriculture and sericulture, straightened out business, and worked diligently until Zheng Zhilong's naval army reached the Yangtze River.

Yangzhou is opposite to Zhenjiang Prefecture, Changzhou Prefecture, and Suzhou Prefecture across the river. Nanjing Yingtian Prefecture is located in the west of Zhenjiang. After Zheng Zhilong Navy arrived at the Yangtze River, he harassed Jiangbei for many months, especially Yangzhou, which made Wang Yuanji angry.

Only when the Jiangnan War Zone stationed in Jiangbei, confronted Nanjing Yingtian and established the Yangtze River Front, this situation would be alleviated.

Then the Jiangnan War Zone sent a letter asking the governments along the river to cooperate with the Jiangnan War Zone to establish a fort along the river, and the capital of Yangzhou Prefecture was one of the key points.

Wang Yuan attached great importance to this and personally went to the riverside to command.

"The river capital is surrounded by water, and the bandits can reach it directly, which is extremely hidden danger. Now that the fortress is set up along the river, if the bandits come again, they must give him a color."

Wang Yuan was wearing a capable brocade robe and walked on the construction site along the river highlands. He saw workers and craftsmen, and he was in full swing.

"The Lord of the Mansion is afraid that he can't do it." The Minister of Civil Affairs of Yangzhou Prefecture smiled and said, "From the Jiangnan War Zone, the water bandits suffered several great losses. How dare they come to Jiangbei to harass them?"

Wang Yuan slid his beard and laughed: "It's better if you come or not. There are firearms to guard the river, so the people can feel at ease. This is better than anything else."

The fort was built along the river, which seemed to be to defend against the attack of Zheng Zhilong Navy, but Wang Yuan knew the deeper reasons. He had received a message from the Ministry of State Security at noon, asking him to prepare to welcome the arrival of the Shandong Navy at night - the fortress along the river in Jiangbei. The ultimate goal was to cooperate with the Shandong Navy to block Zheng Zhilong Navy in the estuary of the Yangtze River and eliminate it in one go!

Zheng Zhilong's naval commander is very good at naval battles. If Zheng Zhilong's naval commander is at its peak on the vast sea surface, it is not easy to defeat. Now Zheng Zhilong has made peace with his old minister of Yingtian Prefecture and pulling the naval commander to the Yangtze River. This is an excellent opportunity for Ying Yi.

In the narrow estuary of the Yangtze River, with the help of the forts set up on the north bank, there is a greater chance of annihilation of Zheng Zhilong Navy in one fell swoop.

After returning from the riverside patrol, Wang Yuan was already ready to welcome the navy. At night, Wang Yuan and a general stationed in Jiangdu went to Tongzhou to welcome Zheng Wu's Navy headquarters.

Zheng Wu led his troops to set out from Denglai, headed south along the coastline, bypassed the Shandong Peninsula, passed through Huai'an and Yangzhou prefectures, and entered the Yangtze River Estuary.

The estuary of the Yangtze River was not calm. Zheng Zhilong left a navy with a number of fifty warships on Chongming Island. However, the situation here has long been discovered clearly. Even Zheng Wu knew the military deployment of the enemy on Chongming Island. The forces formed by the old ministers of Yingtian, Nanjing, were like sieves, and were leaking from all sides. Moreover, there were countless people who were looking forward to surrendering. If you ask a little, you will know everything.

The navy who Zheng Zhilong stayed on Chongming Island was headed by his son Zheng Sen. Zheng Sen, whose courtesy name was Mingyan, was Damu, which is the original national hero Zheng Chenggong in history.

Zheng Sen just turned 20 years old. He had studied with celebrities in Yingtian. After Zheng Zhilong led his troops to Nanjing, he was given a thousand men and fifty warships to the Chongming Island after he was able to train.

Zheng Sen can be said to have a family background - he has been influenced by water war since childhood and has abilities far beyond ordinary people.

Of course, Zheng Zhilong sent Zheng Sen from Nanjing not only because he believed that his son was capable, but his purpose was not so simple. Nanjing is now a big whirlpool. Zheng Sen is Zheng Zhilong's eldest son, and Zheng Zhilong is now the support of his old minister in Nanjing. Zheng Sen was plotted against him, so Zheng Zhilong sent him away.

But unfortunately, Zheng Zhilong miscalculated. He thought that no matter what happened to Yingtian, Zheng Sen could go directly to sea from Chongming Island and escape from danger. But he didn't know that Ying Yi had formed a navy.

How to say the intelligence system of the old Nanjing ministers, at least half of them were from Ying Yi's Ministry of State Security.

Zheng Zhilong didn't know that there was a war zone in Shandong, with a naval force of 48,000 people. Therefore, he didn't know that Chongming Island was in the first dangerous sequence.
Chapter completed!