Last year, in November 6, the coast guard fleet made a comeback and both sides encountered each other again on the sea surface of Kitsuguchiguchi.

After seeing the Ming warships that came this time, Jiugui Jialong and his navy were all shocked.

Big, so fucking big! It's big that covers the sky and the sun!

They thought their armored ships were the largest warships in the world. Unexpectedly, these Ming warships were more than twice as big as them!

And one, two, three, four, five...a total of twenty ships came!

Looking at the densely packed muzzles on the warships, Jiugui Jialong's hair stood up all over his body. Only then did he know what the real coast guard battleship looked like...

But now that things have come to this point, timidity is useless. He can only pluck his courage and shout to his subordinates: "Don't be afraid, so what if they are big, we are an unbreakable iron-armored ship!"

"Sir, they seem to be iron-armored ships too..." his subordinate reminded him timidly.

"Nani?!" Jiugui Jialong looked closely when he heard this. Sure enough, the hulls of those huge warships were shining with metallic luster in the sun, and it seemed like they were covered with a layer of iron... Oh no, like steel armor.

"It must be a lie! Only by refining a hundred times can steel be made. No matter how rich the Ming people are, they cannot put on steel armor for such a large warship!" Jiugui Jialong exclaimed strangely: "Don't be afraid, it must be painted with silver paint!"

Whether they were afraid or not, the Ming warships like mountains were lined up in a row and rushed up all over the sails.

"Go forward at full speed and meet!" Jiugui Jialong immediately drew his sword and roared and ordered. The armored ship was originally used for rushing around, so let's see whose ship is harder!

A moment later, the warships on both sides collided into a ball on the sea. The seemingly indestructible iron-armored ships were knocked over by four in diameter. Hundreds of naval troops on the ship screamed and fell across the sea.

The iron-armored ships that were not hit were shrouded in dense artillery fire that was close to each other. At this distance, whether it was the Hongwu cannon, the Yongle cannon or the Hongxi cannon, they could easily penetrate the thin layer of iron on the iron-armored ship, smashing the fragile wooden hull and the more fragile human bodies inside.

Without the time of meals, the remaining six armored ships were shot into honeycombs and completely lost their combat effectiveness.

Then, the Ming giant ships set a distance from them, rushed up at full speed again, knocking over the six armored ships one by one, causing Katsura Kyuki and his Oda navy to sink into Osaka Bay...

It was said that Jiugui Jialong was unlucky. He actually caught up with the strategic fleet of the coast guard stationed in Nanyang and went north to Jiangnan Shipyard to install steel plates...

As mentioned before, after the converter steel workshop in Tangshan was put into production, the group could finally mass-produce steel. The first thing Zhao Hao thought of was to put a layer of steel armor on his treasure warship first.

This is not Zhao Hao's whimsical idea. In another time and space, the British and French navy had already installed iron armor on the sail battleship and conducted many tests.

The final conclusion is that the sail battleship has increased its displacement due to an additional layer of armor. In order to ensure speed, a layer of gun deck must be cancelled.

That is to say, the price of adding a layer of iron armor is to cancel a layer of artillery. Before the invention of a blast bomb that can pose a fatal threat to the oak hull, it is actually not worth the effort.

But the problem is that for the sake of safety, the coast guard warships designed by Yang Fan used a watertight capsule design and sacrificed the lower artillery deck. That is to say, for the same size, the Portuguese could set up three-layer artillery decks, but the coast guard warships only had two layers of artillery. One layer of artillery decks had been cancelled!

In addition, since the watertight cabin plate is closely connected to the hull, it plays a role in strengthening the hull. It not only increases the overall lateral strength of the ship, but also replaces the process of adding ribs, greatly reducing the hull's self-weight.

So the Coast Guard's hull, which looks the same size, is one-third more lighter than the Portuguese. In order to maintain the stability of the hull, it is necessary to add a lot of ballast iron.

So why not put the ballast iron outside? This is the original intention of Mr. Zhao, who would rather sacrifice a layer of fortress than use a watertight cabin!

According to Yang Fan's calculations, the side and sterns of the coast guard's battleships and cruisers should be equipped with steel plates of no more than 20 mm, which will not affect the speed at all. It will greatly enhance the strength of the hull and its ability to withstand wind and waves!

After testing on two newly launched battleships, there was no problem, Mr. Zhao immediately ordered the strategic fleet to travel to the Jiangnan Shipyard in batches for modification.

As a result, when the first batch was modified and the second batch had just arrived, news of the Japanese making armored ships came. The coast guard officers and soldiers were immediately in anger and screamed to go and level them.

However, the strategic fleet needed the commander-in-chief himself to enter the battle. The report hit Mr. Zhao, and Zhao Hao ordered to continue to modify as planned, but did not allow the first batch to return to Luzon.

The reason is very simple, the typhoon season is coming. Although the group has established a relatively complete typhoon early warning system, it can basically ensure that the fleet on the route enters the port to avoid typhoons in a timely manner.

However, when warships are in combat, they cannot guarantee a fixed route, so during the typhoon season, Zhao Hao did not allow him to invest heavily in the strategic fleet to fight.

As a result, it was not until October's typhoon season passed and the second batch of warships had iron shells installed. Zhao Hao ordered them to go to Osaka Bay to relieve the siege of Ishiyama Honanji.

So eight battleships and twelve cruisers, which had been destroyed, were storming towards Japan under the escorts of destroyers and frigates...

It turned out that they were exerting too much force.

The so-called iron armored ships of the Oda Army were just adding a layer of iron sheets of several millimeters to the Anzai ship. Japan's shipbuilding technology was worse than that of the Li Dynasty, and it was only able to make those few after tossing and turning. Therefore, the structure of the ship had no change, and it was still an ordinary hull with a huge castle, and there was even a Tianshou on the castle...

Because of the addition of iron armor, the problem of being too heavy to the top is getting worse and worse, so I can only bully those small boats. When they encounter a much larger tonnage than theirs, they will overturn as soon as they hit.

Seeing that the legendary iron-clad ship was so vulnerable, the strategic fleet that came with excitement was inevitably defeated. It felt like I was wearing graduation equipment to go back to the novice village to kill chickens, and I could only comfort myself, "I also use the dragon-slaying sword to kill chickens."

In order to pay back the ticket price, they attacked the Oda army besieged Honan Temple. Because the military flag with Yongle Tongbao printed on it was so eye-catching...

Because the distance was a bit far, the fleet did not fire the artillery, but fired a thousand Oda City remarriages, burning Oda Nobunaga's military camp to pieces.

Unexpectedly, this time it actually played the role of proposing to his eldest nephew Zhao Shizhen.

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Oda Nobunaga was shot by the Oda City rocket and fled in a panic. He escaped for several miles in one breath before he was shocked.

Now he finally stopped being crazy. He knew that even if he lost his capital, he would never have the possibility of defeating the Ming Navy. He immediately changed his strategy wisely and offered the coast guard 100,000 taels of gold to the coast guard through Sakai Shang Co., Ltd. and asked about the conditions for the alliance between the two sides.

Sakaisuke Co., Ltd. nominally surrendered to Oda Nobunaga, but in fact it was already a company under the Gangnan Group. President Chirikyu quickly passed on Nobunaga's meaning to Mr. Zhao.

Zhao Hao sighed at the news, saying, "For nothing else, it's just for the lifelong event of his eldest nephew... Zhao Shizhen is already twenty-six and is still a member of the pistol team."

He is handsome and talented, and he is a senior leader of the group. He is the nephew of Mr. Zhao. If he wants to marry his daughter to his wealthy family, he is simply going to break the threshold of the Zhao family. However, this stubborn guy is still not married to him, and he is almost crazy.

Over the years, when Zhao Shouzheng saw Zhao Hao, he asked, uncle, when will he give me Oda City? It made Mr. Zhao avoid him.

However, Zhao Hao did not expect that he would have to wait so many years before he had the opportunity to accomplish this.

Zhao Hao originally thought that he should ask for peace after he had cleaned up Nobunaga's naval army three years ago. The coast guard fleet obviously would not land on the land to compete with him for hegemony. It's no reason that he was so stupid.

However, he still underestimated the ambition of a worldly person, because Oda Nobunaga's ambition was to unify Japan and form a large fleet to conquer the world!

How can you do nothing at sea? What's more, if you cannot break the blockade of the coast guard fleet, how can you attack the four countries of Kyushu and unify Japan in the future?

So Oda Nobunaga invested a lot of money and asked Kyuki Katsurato to build ten armored ships. As a result, he attracted the real main force of the coast guard...

The bloody reality completely eliminated Nobunaga's idea of ​​winning the dominance at sea, and then he honestly asked Mr. Zhao for peace.

Zhao Hao did not intend to stimulate Oda Nobunaga too much, because the group's strategic direction was to move south, and Japan in the east was not the focus of his efforts. Moreover, Japan is still a land country now, and no matter how strong his navy is, it is difficult for him to interfere in the battle for hegemony on the island.

After the heroes such as Mori Motozu, Takeda Shingen, and Kenshin Uesugi have withered one after another, no one in Japan can challenge Oda Nobunaga. Zhao Hao asked the Danra Chamber of Commerce and Sakaishu Co., Ltd. to take charge of Ishiyama Honganji, just to replace the non-existent Maori water army and provide support to Ishiyama Honganji so that Nishiro does not surrender in advance, so as not to affect the historical progress of Japan's Honganji.

A hero with great fortune like Oda Nobunaga would make him feel more at ease to die. If everything is normal, his death will be three years later. If Nobunaga escaped the Honnoji Incident because of Zhao Hao, it would be more than worth the loss.

So Zhao Hao only put forward three conditions. First, he asked his nephew to marry Nobunaga's sister Odashi as his wife.

Second, the Oda family admitted the "Three No Forbidden Foreign Order" and promised not to rebuild the navy.

Third, give Honanji a way to live. On the premise that Nishiru guarantees that he will no longer be enemies with the Oda family, Osaka will be set as a demilitarized zone. There should be no army in the demilitarized zone and any military operations will take place.
Chapter completed!