Ang Lee's tactical plan was to use thirty of the main steam gunboats to gain full control of the sea, and if they encountered pirates in the vast seas, they would annihilate them with all their might, and if the pirates fled to the lair, they would immediately launch a pursuit and compress the pirates in the harbor to strike. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, due to the limited range of artillery, the steam gunboats are powerless against the pirate forces in the depth of the land, and at this time, the space army motherships and landing ships are needed to exert their power.

The 10 planes on the space force mothership will take off in turn to bomb the pirate force in depth, greatly weakening the pirate force, and at the same time reconnoitring the topography and strength of the pirates in the deep area, and immediately report to the command headquarters.

In the end, the command can let the steam landing ships rush to the beach according to the report of the heavenly army, and fifty ironclad gun trucks rush onto the beach in one go, and continue to develop in depth.

The next thousands of soldiers and horses accompanying the landing of the ironclad artillery cart could easily pack up the remnants of the enemy, escort the surrendered pirate collaborators back to the ship, and finally send them back to the Guangzhou government, where they were dealt with according to the severity of the crime.

After visiting the Celestial Army mothership and landing ship, Li An accompanied his subordinates to visit the steam cannon ship, more than 30 steam cannon ships are the main force in the south, and the strength of the combat effectiveness directly determines the progress of opening up the Maritime Silk Road.

The more than 30 steam gunboats are not all the same size, there are still differences in tonnage, and the configuration of artillery varies from thirty to fifty, and the largest flagship is equipped with sixty guns of various kinds, and its strength is naturally the most powerful.

Ang Lee and his subordinates naturally want to visit the largest flagship, but this time, Ang Lee himself will not stay on the flagship.

He was on a huge ship with a displacement larger than the flagship, not a single gun on board, and only a hundred guards and boatmen.

The reason for this is that the living facilities of the battle gunboat are so rudimentary, and most of the space of the ship is used to store war materials, and it must be uncomfortable to live in such a ship.

"Big brother, this gunboat has sixty guns, the strength is really strong enough, much more than the number of artillery guns in an artillery brigade, I brought six thousand dragon martial troops this time, but it is only equipped with two brigades, a total of only one hundred guns."

Li Feiyu looked at the neatly arranged artillery on both sides of the cabin and said enviously.

"Li Shilang, just such a gunboat, it is enough to defeat more than a dozen pirate ships, I have seen pirate ships with my own eyes before, and they are equipped with catapults and heavy crossbows, which are far less powerful than artillery, but each big pirate ship has hundreds of pirates, equipped with swords and bows, if you let them get close, it will be troublesome."

Nanxia said seriously.

"Hmph, a few salvos can sink the pirate ship, how can it give them a chance to get closer, haha!"

Zhang Erniu shouted arrogantly.

"Erniu is right, we will not give pirates a chance to fight in close combat, although even if we fight a separatory battle, we will win, but there will inevitably be a lot of casualties, it is better to have no casualties."

Li An said approvingly.

Regarding encountering pirate ships on the high seas, Ang Lee has only one principle, that is, to annihilate, sink the pirate ship with powerful firepower, or severely damage and capture, and will never tell them anything humane, otherwise, it is irresponsible for the lives of the soldiers under his command.

With the core of the Celestial Army mothership and landing ship, as well as more than 30 powerful steam gunboats, Li Ang has a bottom in his heart, and he will definitely be able to make a great difference when he goes south this time.

Before setting off, all armed forces must conduct a painstaking training to test their real combat capability, especially the landing operations of the Sky Army and the Ironclad Artillery Brigade, which is the most important task of this exercise.

In order to enhance the strength of the landing operation, Li An took out 500 elites from the Guangzhou army and assigned them to five landing ships, each with 100 people.

It was most appropriate for them to follow the ironclad artillery cart to charge, and with the ironclad artillery cart opening the way ahead, their lives were still guaranteed.

From the day after arriving in Guangzhou, the military training officially began, and the Sky Army, ironclad artillery trucks, and more than 30 gunboats were all training in different sea areas so as not to interfere with each other, and only after the training was a little more proficient could they conduct joint exercises.

The training was conducted in a semi-enclosed environment so that the merchants of Guangzhou could see the great strength of the Tang army and increase their confidence in the imperial court.

In the past, the training of the space army was carried out on land, but this time it was all carried out on the space army's mothership, but in fact it was quite difficult, and if we were not careful, we might cause a tragedy of plane destruction and death.

Therefore, the training of the Celestial Army is the most dangerous, and it must be done with great caution.

Li An was most worried about the training of the Heavenly Army, so when he first started training, he ran to watch it himself.

Near the port, there was an airfield that had already been built, which Ang Lee had ordered to be built a month earlier, and where the ten planes arriving in Guangzhou were parked.

At the beginning of the training, the space army carrier first sailed out of the port, anchored near the port and waited for the plane to land, and then, the plane took off from the airport, looking for the location of the space army carrier, and finally stopped firmly on the mother ship, so that the landing work was completed, and then it was the take-off training, and the plane was successfully lifted into the sky by using the taxiing runway on the space army mothership, so that the take-off work was completed.

As long as the take-off and landing are completed, the combat capability of the space army will be formed, and as for air combat, it has already been trained when I was in the capital, and there is not much difficulty, as long as I throw bombs at the target.

"Oh, there are a lot of people!"

As soon as he arrived at the airport, Li An saw a large group of onlookers and ordinary people, as well as many Guangzhou officials.

These people are seeing airplanes for the first time, and they are very curious about such big guys as airplanes, and they all want to see with their own eyes how airplanes take off.

"They're all uninformed guys, and they haven't even seen airplanes, hehe!"

Zhang Erniu suddenly had a sense of superiority from the bottom of his heart, he has been living in the capital, and he naturally has more knowledge, in front of these Guangzhou people who are not highly knowledgeable, he does have the capital to fill the uncle.

"Erniu, not long after the invention of the airplane, the people of the capital have not seen it all, how can the people of Guangzhou have seen it, don't trust it."

Li An stopped Zhang Erniu's arrogance, stretched out his hand, and let the First Flying Brigade of the Heavenly Army go south to start training.

Led by the south, the ten planes took off in turn, formed two geese-shaped formations in the air, and flew several times above the crowd before flying to the designated sea area.

Seeing the behemoth flying above his head, the merchants and people of Guangzhou were all stunned, and they all showed incredible expressions, in the era of Datang, who can understand that such a big guy can fly into the sky?

The adoring eyes made Li Anpo feel intoxicated, these behemoths were all invented by himself? How can you be worthy of yourself if you are not proud.

"Let's go to the beach."

After watching the takeoff, the next step is naturally to see the plane landing on the mothership and taking off again.

Many merchants and civilians, knowing about the mothership, also ran to the sea, and seized the advantageous terrain, ready to see how the plane landed on the big ship.

Thanks to sufficient preparations, the training went exceptionally smoothly, and all ten planes landed on the Celestial Army Mothership steadily.

After some simple preparations, the ten planes took off again, taking off one after another from the small space army mothership and taking to the sky.

After completing the three tasks of take-off, landing, and take-off again, it was the last bombing exercise.

Not far from the port, a training ground has long been built, with pirate flags, simple houses with pirate logos, and many scarecrows wearing the usual costumes of pirates.

These guys are all bombing targets of the Sky Army's aircraft, which can be a good demonstration of the strong combat effectiveness of the Space Army.

During the time in the capital, the bombing training had already been carried out many times, and the training had to be continued here in Guangzhou, so that the merchants could understand the great strength of the Celestial Army and increase their confidence in the imperial court.

The bombing training went very smoothly, the flags, houses and scarecrows at the shooting range were almost all destroyed, and to the cheers of the crowd of onlookers, the ten planes of the Celestial Army returned one after another and anchored on the Celestial Army mothership.

Calm returned to the training ground, and many onlookers were allowed to enter the bombing site to see for themselves the effects of the bombing.

"Good guy, worthy of the heavenly army!"

"My Tang Dynasty has such a powerful force as the Heavenly Army, why worry about the immortality of pirates."

"We should unite and give our full support to the imperial court to eradicate the pirates."

"That's right, over the years, we still know a lot about the situation of pirates, we must tell Li Shilang what we know, and let Li Shilang lead the heavenly army to exterminate these pirates."

"Shhhh

"Hmph, what are you afraid of, anyway, the imperial court will soon exterminate them, and you have to say anything boldly."

"That's right, we have been oppressed by pirates for so many years, what else is there to be afraid of, with the soldiers and horses assembled by Li Shilang this time, we can completely wipe out the pirates."

"I feel that Li Shilang's move is too high-profile, so that the pirates know the strength of the Heavenly Army in advance, how to achieve the suddenness of the battle, and the pirates will prepare in advance."

"Hmph, no matter how the pirates prepare, it will never be possible to resist the attack of our imperial court, and the good days of the pirates are not far off."

A large group of merchants gathered together to talk, except for a few who were pessimistic, the vast majority of them were optimistic, believing that the elite soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty led by Li An were fully capable of completely eradicating the pirates.

And not far from the training ground of the Heavenly Army is the training ground of the 1st Brigade of Ironclad Artillery Vehicles, which is matched with 500 Guangzhou elites.

The training of the ironclad artillery carriage was also extremely exciting, and it also gathered a large group of fans, but the crowd of onlookers was much smaller than that of the Heavenly Army, and most of the merchants and civilians were still more interested in the aircraft, and slightly less interested in the ironclad artillery carriage.

In terms of difficulty, the landing drill of the ironclad artillery car is not as good as that of the heavenly army, after all, there are many uncertain factors in the sky, while the land is relatively stable.

Fifty ironclad artillery wagons divided into five groups, entered the five steam landing ships in turn, and stopped steadily in the cabins, and in addition, the five hundred Guangzhou soldiers were also divided into five groups and entered the landing ships in turn.

Once fully loaded, the five landing ships left the harbor and headed for the nearby landing ground, where there were specially set up barriers and scarecrows to simulate pirates, specially designed for ironclad gun carriages.

Not far from each other, after the landing ship set sail, the crowd of onlookers began to rush to the landing site, ready to see this rare historical scene.

The beachfront landing was still exciting, as the five landing boats approached the beach, the flap directly in front of them began to slowly open, and finally reached smoothly towards the beach.

Immediately after that, the ironclad artillery trucks drove onto the beach along the long baffle, and kept attacking forward, the various preset obstacles in front of them were too fragile to block the advance of the ironclad artillery trucks, and all the obstacles that tried to block the ironclad artillery trucks were ruthlessly crushed.

In addition, for the simulated pirates in front, the artillery equipped on the ironclad gun truck will not be polite, and directly fire cannonballs to blow these simulated pirates to pieces.

Soon, there were 50 ironclad artillery trucks on the beach, lined up in a long snake formation, and quickly developed to the depth of the landing field, in addition, 500 Guangzhou troops who followed also quickly landed on the beach and lined up in formation, taking on the task of supporting and mending knives behind the ironclad artillery trucks.

The roar of the rumbling machines had a great deterrent effect, and there was a majestic momentum that shook the onlookers and merchants.

"With this divine weapon, why worry about the immortality of pirates."

"Who has never seen pirates, they are all a group of rats with big knives and bullying the weak, if you encounter this army in front of you, the pirates will become fans."

"Yes! The ironclad artillery carriage is so brave, just what is in front of it is enough to destroy all the pirates in the world. ”

"It seems that in order to exterminate the pirates, the imperial court has made a bloody investment."

"Last time, all my five cargo ships were robbed by pirates, and the housekeeper and a dozen servants were all killed by them.

"Don't worry! Now that Li Shilang has arrived here, and the elite soldiers and horses have also been transferred, he will not just be a showman, he will definitely send troops to exterminate the pirates. ”

"That's nature, don't you know? Li Shilang proposed the Maritime Silk Road, that is, the route of our business, everything on this road, the imperial court will take care of it, and our good days are about to come! ”

The onlookers became excited.