The winter in Qinhuangdao is very cold. The cold current from Siberia turns into a cold wind, blowing on the face like a knife cutting flesh.

But in the square in front of the pier, rows of soldiers stood like nails in the cold wind. With more than 20,000 people, not even a cough or squeak could be heard.

Li Xiao stood on a high platform. In front of him was a microphone, the latest technology product. With this thing, you don’t have to shout at the top of your lungs when speaking. The huge broadcast speaker can spread the sound so far that even the people at the end of the queue can hear it.

Clearly.

On both sides of the high platform, there is a glass dome. There are two people sitting in the glass dome, Dzerzhinsky and Dzhugashvili. There are experts in the Fusi of Beijing's former Jinyiwei North Town who can make living people into wax.

Mr. Li Xiao doesn’t know the specific process, but he is very satisfied with the product that can be made.

Dzerzhinsky and Dzhugashvili's noses, eyes, eyebrows, and mouth were all intact. Moreover, they looked lifelike, no different from two living people sitting there.

These two figures have their own fixed places in the capital. Two pavilions were specially built for them outside the Meridian Gate. On a few days every month, these two figures are carried into the pavilions for exhibition. Let everyone see.

This is the fate of slaughtering the people of Ming Dynasty.

Dzhugashvili is a major and Dzerzhinsky is a colonel. However, in the writings of Zhang Huangyan, an old fox, these two have become generals of the Rakshasa Kingdom. They are also generals with heavy troops.

Anyway, with the appearance of the Rakshasa people, you don't know how old these two are.

Zhang Huangyan believes that two generals can arouse people's fanaticism more than some bullshit colonel.

The old fox never made a mistake!

The first day Dzerzhinsky and Dzhugashvili were exhibited created an unprecedented effect. There were more people standing in front of the Meridian Gate than during the Caishikou Massacre.

In the cold wind, the people of the capital were eating melon seeds and having runny noses, looking at the two wax figures as if they were watching a play. The number of people was so large that Li Xiao even had the idea of ​​selling tickets to visit.

Today, the two of them had to make a long trip to Qinhuangdao to build momentum for Li Xiao's southern expedition.

Off the coast of Qinhuangdao, there are more than 130 warships parked. Most of these warships are troop carriers, and only a few are gunboats. This is the essence of the Ming Dynasty's navy. The three heavy arsenal ships are the core of ground strikes. These warships

Three heavy arsenal ships fired a salvo, and there was probably no one alive within a radius of ten miles. The shock of a five-hundred-kilogram rocket falling down could kill people alive.

The core of the naval battle is of course Zhenyuan and Dingyuan, as well as the newly commissioned Zhiyuan and Chaoyuan.

The latest Zhiyuan and Chaoyuan in service are real ironclads. Far from Zhenyuan, Dingyuan is comparable to the pseudo-ironclads with external armor. The boiler manufacturing process is becoming more and more mature, and the power is becoming more and more abundant.

The biggest difference between Zhenyuan and Dingyuan is that Zhiyuan and Chaoyuan have electricity!

This is so rare. When soldiers are in the cabin, they no longer need to light candles and lanterns. They only need to press a button, and the lights on the ceiling of the cabin will light up. The light cannot match the light of eight candles.

The application of electricity allows artillery shells to be sent directly to the turret through the electric transmission device. This is much more advanced than Zhenyuan and Dingyuan.

Zhenyuan and Dingyuan fire two cannons, and Zhiyuan and Chaoyuan can fire two cannonballs.

Moreover, the rocket launchers at the stern of these two ships were canceled. The place where the rocket launchers were originally installed is now equipped with two large-caliber artillery pieces. The powerful artillery can tear any ship in the world into pieces. Even the picky Li

Hugh, both admired these two ships.

After experiencing the truth, Li Xiu is a loyal fan of big ships and cannons. The latest warships are much larger than Zhiyuan and Chaoyuan. On the sea, they really exist like mountains.

As for those troop transport ships, they were a bit pitiful, just old-fashioned sailing ships. Some of them had old-fashioned muzzle-loading cannons, and some simply had Fran cannons obtained from nowhere. The sailors gave these cannons affectionate names.

, old gun!

There are many cannons, and the age of the cannons is longer than the age of the artillerymen.

Anyway, there are not many opportunities for these cannons to be used in actual combat. Li Xiao feels that the biggest role of this thing is to embolden people. Unless they encounter the regular European navy, most of the pirates in the South China Sea are still in the stage of joining gangs to fight.

It can be considered an advanced weapon if it has a few firecrackers.

This time, there were only two regiments of the Marine Corps. However, the Japanese sent 18,000 troops to support Li Xiao in his conquest of Southeast Asia.

Both Hidetada Mouri and Katsuyori Tokugawa understood how rich the resources were in that land. In order to make a profit from such a rich land, the two families brought out their own elites. Tokugawa Katsuyori sent 10,000 troops.

Mouri Hidetada sent 8,000 troops. The so-called sending troops to buy shares means dividing them according to shares!

Therefore, the main force in this battle was actually the Japanese.

The equipment of the Japanese people is far worse than that of the Ming army. They still have front-loaded matchlocks, and only the most elite people have flintlock guns. The only artillery is the mortars sold to them by Li Xiao, which

Like the Ming Dynasty Marine Corps, they have everything from infantry, artillery, and mortars. There are even grenade launchers that can launch grenades up to 300 meters away. It fills the gap between guns and cannons.

Empty area!

Li Xiao stood in front of the microphone and looked at the dark crowd below.

Li Dingguo and Zuo Liangyu stood at the front, their clothes swinging wildly in the cold wind. They still stood at the front of the team like nails, ready to listen to Li Xiao's lecture.

"Boys! The place you are about to go to is as hot as a furnace. You are very cold now and you wear a lot of clothes. When you get there, you can only wear shorts and vests.

Why do you want to go so far away? That's because as long as you hold Temasek, you can hold the throat of the two oceans. The vast South China Sea is the inland sea of ​​our Ming Dynasty. Whoever wants to get involved will have his mother beaten.

We in the Ming Dynasty only focus on our own land, but cannot see the wealth in the distance. Now, I order you to go to the South China Sea and enclose the South China Sea for me. In the future, my Ming Dynasty will have too many people to live in my home. There will be future generations.

If there is only a place to find food, even if there are unscrupulous descendants and prodigal sons in later generations, they will be ruined for two more years.

If you don't guard the two oceans today, maybe one day the enemy will attack from the sea. Our Ming Dynasty's long coastline from Liaodong to Guangdong is within the enemy's attack range. It can be said that we are defenseless.

Defend!

Look, these two are Westerners. They call them Rakshasa!

Their country is tens of thousands of miles away to the west. Just last summer, they led 4,300 cavalry across thousands of mountains and rivers and attacked our Ming garrison.

Thousands of soldiers and civilians in Mengjiatun were massacred by them and their men. More than ten days after the incident, the bodies of countless victims who had drowned at the bottom of the Heilongjiang River floated to the surface and flowed down the river. Oil layers floated on the surface of the river, making the river smell strangely fishy.

If you don't guard the strait and build the first barrier for our Ming Dynasty, I don't know how many tragedies like this will happen in the future. Brothers, do you agree?"

"No!"
Chapter completed!