On the ninth day of the fifth month of the twenty-sixth year of Chongzhen, Joao IV sat in the audience at the Fanjiazhuang training base and observed the five thousand tiger soldiers a mile away with a telescope.

João IV holds a telescope in his hand in the form of a town and six provinces. Such telescopes are equipped for front-line soldiers and military administrators, with a magnification of thirty-two times. João IV spent a while and found that the telescope was very transmittant, much better than the Portuguese monoculars.

The five thousand Tiger Army soldiers in the distance were not infantry, and these soldiers were flanked by various complex chariots and weapons. Those weapons João IV couldn't understand at all. He desperately looked through the binoculars, but the more he looked, the more confused he became.

Li Zhi still did not appear on the training ground, and it was Bo Zhongfeng in Zhenbei who was in charge of this "exercise".

Zhong Feng was very polite to the King of Portugal, who had withstood the attack of the Dutch and British, and he walked up to João IV to greet him before the training began.

Zhong Feng's status is obviously relatively high, and seeing that Zhong Feng thinks so highly of Joao IV, the other Fanjiazhuang officials are a little respectful of the Portuguese.

But even if it is respectful, it is only polite to a small country. No one has put Portugal on an equal footing with one town and nine provinces and has treated João IV like a prince.

When the clock hand of the clock tower at the entrance of the training base pointed to the nine o'clock position, Zhong Feng held a flare gun and fired a shot into the sky.

The exercises began.

João IV suddenly became nervous and stared at the soldiers on the training ground.

Raphael was also nervous, and he even stood up at one point. However, when he stood up, he stopped the audience behind him and had to sit down again.

The first to come out is the hot air balloon.

Hot air balloons are for observation. Three giant hot air balloons ignited the diesel fuel and slowly rose into the sky using the heat. An observer holding a high-powered telescope stands inside the box of a hot air balloon and uses a telescope to observe a distant target.

Seeing this huge round object rise into the sky, the king of the Portuguese turned pale with astonishment.

He didn't believe what he saw in the telescope, so he put down the telescope and looked at it with the naked eye for a long time. However, the naked eye told him that all this was true, and that the huge hot air balloon did fly into the sky, higher and higher.

Humans have gone to heaven?

It's really flying!!

Is this magic?

João IV and Alves looked at each other, their eyes filled with shock.

Humans have no wings, but they fly into the sky. The dream of flying that has been shared by human civilization for thousands of years has become a reality in Fanjiazhuang?

They wanted to express their surprise with a few shouts, but they were afraid that their "fuss" would throw the Portuguese face away. However, the huge shock made them unable to sit still, and they turned their bodies to see the reaction of the rest of the audience in the back row.

To their great surprise, the audience seemed to be so used to hot air balloons, that they didn't have any expressions.

João IV was even more alarmed.

This flying magic is common in one town and nine provinces?

What's going on?

The people around him were extremely quiet, and João IV was too embarrassed to show his "lack of knowledge", so he could only sit in his chair with great shock, his face full of incredulity.

The hot air balloon flew into the sky two hundred meters high and stopped, no longer rising. The exercises on the ground officially began.

The first to appear is the rocket car.

Over the years, the rocket car has been improved and has become more advanced than the original model. The most direct manifestation is that the launch of the rocket vehicle no longer requires a fuse and a fire source, but instead uses a bolt fuse.

João IV saw the rocketeers go to the rear of the twenty rockets and pull the bolt of the bazooka.

"Boom~"

The tail of the rocket on the car erupted with a huge flame and a deafening roar. The tail of the rocket car suddenly flew sand and rocks, and huge smoke and dust more than ten meters high bulged out. Then the rocket shot out of the canister like a meteor and shot towards the target area four miles away.

João IV was shocked by the power of the rocket car's launch.

Even more frightening, however, was the explosion at the site where the rocket landed. Twenty rockets flew to the target area four miles away and exploded with a bang, setting off a huge shock wave dozens of meters high. Black-red flames erupted violently from above the shockwave, blasting more than twenty mushroom clouds over the desolate training ground.

João IV's eyes widened as he stared at the terrifying explosion.

However, this is only the beginning. The rockets on the rocket car are like cannons, constantly firing at the target. The half-mile-long and wide target area was carpet-bombed, and sparks and shockwaves bloomed one after another like fireworks, completely enveloping the entire target area in iron and fire.

Raphael's eyes widened in disbelief as he watched the incessant explosions, and his hands holding the telescope began to tremble slightly.

Terrible, terrible, just sixty rockets can achieve such a carpet bombing effect. If the enemy is a cold-armed army, I am afraid that if it encounters this rocket, I am afraid that the whole army will collapse after one round of bombing.

The Portuguese were indeed scared. Although Portugal received weapons support from Li Zhi in this "Portuguese-Dutch-British War", all of which were fought with standard rifles and completely trench tactics, this was only a recent change. You must know that three years ago, the Portuguese were still using the Spanish phalanx to fight in arrays.

If the Spanish phalanx encounters this rocket car, it will not be able to withstand a round and will be blown up.

If Portugal's fortresses and fortresses in the world's key waterways were bombed by this rocket truck, they would probably be blown to ashes.

This rocket was so terrifying that a lot of cold sweat oozed from Portuguese Foreign Minister Alves on his forehead. His body trembled slightly, and he had to take out his handkerchief and wipe the beads of sweat from his head in embarrassment.

Alves' embarrassed appearance drew ridicule from a teenager behind him. The young man pointed at Alves and smiled, leaving no emotion for the aged Portuguese foreign minister.

Alves didn't dare to scold this teenager, and the audience on the training ground was either rich or expensive. The young man was able to sit in the audience and observe, obviously the son of a high-ranking official. The strength of one town and nine provinces is too strong, and Portugal is a small country, and it is unbearable to offend any high-ranking official in one town and nine provinces, and it can only endure being ridiculed by young people.

However, Zhong Feng looked down on the Portuguese who had fought for one town and nine provinces, and scolded loudly: "Li Xiao, who made you laugh? You have lost diplomatic etiquette, I will send a telegram to your father Li Xing to clean you up. “

The boy was Li Xing's eldest son. He was scolded by Zhong Feng, a little scared, and didn't dare to laugh anymore.

Alves glanced at Zhong Feng gratefully and put away the handkerchief in his hand.

João IV didn't notice the small details on Alves's side, his hands trembling slightly, and he grabbed the binoculars and stared at the next weapon that appeared on the training ground.

Sixty twenty-four-pounder rifled guns loaded with ammunition and opened fire at the same time, spewing tongues of fire into the target area four miles away. The cannonballs slammed into the target area like a meteor shower, sending off a storm of iron and fire in that area once again.