On the blue sea, twenty battleships lined up in an arc-shaped column, and all the cannons on the port side were all extended, and in the focus of these five hundred cannons, hundreds of spinnaker row-oars battleships came mightily and violently, cleaving the waves with deadly angles of attack in the countless oars struggling to row......

"It's spectacular!"

On the mast of the ship, Yang Feng said with emotion.

"But alas, their time has passed!"

After saying that, he casually picked up the bazooka, aimed at a giant galleys more than fifty meters long at the front, and pulled the trigger without hesitation under the adoring gaze of Her Royal Highness the Byzantine princess, the rocket dragged the same spectacular wake, and in her exaggerated scream, it instantly flew over a distance of three hundred meters, and accurately hit the galley, the terrifying flames of the thermobaric warhead suddenly exploded, and in this brilliant light, the battleship turned into a torch, and King Yang casually threw the disposable launcher into the sea, and then grabbed Her Royal Highness the princess, Lay her head down in the mast......

Below them, the port side of twenty battleships erupted like a volcano, and blazing flames continued to shoot out.

The thunderous sound of cannon shook the sea.

Amid the sound of the cannons, Her Royal Highness the Byzantine princess screamed frantically, writhing with the violent shaking of the naval guns as they fired a salvo......

Half an hour later, the shelling stopped.

Yang Feng pushed her forward, then pulled out, with a satisfied smile, looking at the countless wrecks covering the sea below, the broken galleys under the bombardment of cannonballs, with fire and smoke, slowly sinking on the sea covered with floating corpses, and on the deck of those Tang warships, the sailors held flintlock pistols that were actually brown basses, and kept shooting at the surviving Dashi soldiers on the sea, watching their blood stain the sea red.

"Order, hook up all the flags of the big cannibals on the sea, and then the fleet turns north, bypassing Sicily, let's ......"

Yang Feng shouted below.

He looked at the Byzantine princess, who was still convulsing in a coma, and then said, "Let's go to Rome." ”

Their position at this time was west of the island of Malta, between Sicily and Tunisia, on the warships of the Tang Fleet, and the sailors immediately raised the flag of the Great Eclipse that could be found on the sea, and then quickly turned north and bypassed the coastline of Sicily, and then continued north to the Apennine Peninsula. They were the first to arrive in Naples, at this time Naples was a dukedom, theoretically still a vassal of the Byzantine emperor, but because of the close proximity to the Papal States, Charlemagne in the background of the Papal States has been invisible, of course, the arrival of Her Royal Highness the princess they still have to welcome, Yang Feng's fleet here to complete the supply, and then continue north to Ostia.

"Where was the prosperity of the past?"

In the mast of the battleship, Yang Feng looked at the dilapidated town at the mouth of the Tiber River and said.

The glory of the Roman Empire has vanished, and what was once the most prosperous port in the Western world is now just a small town, and the ruins of the ruins tell of the glory of the past, and the merchants and ragged poor people who are carrying fruits, fish, and even terrible black bread on the small ships under the warships have probably forgotten the past of this land.

"Ma's, is this what people eat?"

Suddenly there was a roar from below, and a soldier clutched his cheeks and carried a loaf of black bread angrily tossed to the surface of the sea, while spitting out a tooth that was not very strong because of his long life at sea.

There was a laugh around him.

The black bread that had fallen to the surface of the sea was then picked up by a fisherman who jumped into the water and picked it up.

At this moment, a small boat returned, the fishing boat next to the battleship quickly got out of the way, those fishermen and traders looked at Yang Zhong in a straight red military uniform on the boat with humble eyes, the latter reached the side of the boat and climbed up the rope ladder, saluted Yang Feng who had come down and said: "King, they forbid us to go ashore, saying that it was an order from the Vatican, we pagans can supply and trade here, but we are not allowed to go ashore, let alone go to the Vatican, if Her Royal Highness the princess goes there, you can bring your own entourage, but our people can't follow." ”

"This king was entrusted by the Byzantine emperor to escort his daughter to Rome as a friend, and Rome, as a dependency of the empire, had the right to refuse their emperor? And who is to stop their princess? Ordered the marines to prepare for the landing, ordered the ships to prepare for battle, and I wanted to see who dared to stop them. ”

Yang Feng sneered.

Old Rome and New Rome are not in love with each other.

In fact, the relationship between the Vatican and Byzantium at this time was very complicated, more like the local princes and emperors who were plotting against the law, the Vatican was the one who plotted against him, and theoretically the Byzantine emperor was still the Roman emperor, the co-lord of the Yahweh world, and the crown was still on the head of Constantine V, but because of the decline of Byzantium, especially the erosion of the Lombards before, the Vatican completely got rid of the shadow of Byzantium. After the Franks settled Lombardy, the Vatican immediately hugged this new thigh, and the church reciprocated the favor by giving the church a country of its own, so the Vatican at this time was ambitious and trying to completely abandon Byzantium. After the death of Leo IV, the heir of Constantine V, there was an internal struggle between the new monarch Constantine VI and the Empress Dowager Elena for power, and the Vatican took the opportunity to no longer recognize the Byzantine Emperor as Emperor of the Romans, and transferred the crown to Charlemagne.

Byzantium broke up with the Vatican for good.

But now they haven't, theoretically Constantine V is still the emperor of the Romans, and his daughter is still a princess of the Romans.

Therefore, Yang Feng could confidently escort him to Rome by force.

And Constantine V, the old fox, was probably also holding this insidious purpose at first, so he let his daughter follow Yang Feng to warm the bed of this guy, he knew that the Vatican would definitely not let Yang Feng go to the Vatican to do things, and with Yang Feng's violent temper, it was impossible to be obedient, and then this tyrant from the East could teach the Vatican a good lesson, and he could also watch the excitement happily, since Yang Feng didn't mind meeting his request, anyway, King Yang was here to do things, and the two had a tacit understanding at this point.

Immediately after that, the Marines began to land.

Of course, Yang Feng's fleet could not only have those battleships, and there were more than fifty merchant ships full of various goods and a brigade of soldiers behind him!

Because Huaiyuan County is surrounded by forests, wood can be said to be almost inexhaustible, and a large number of timber reserves in the past few years, now the shipyards there make ordinary merchant ships at a speed that can almost catch up with the Dutch in the Age of Discovery, in just a few years, there have been more than 100 merchant ships from there, for this trip to the Western Ocean, Yang Feng gathered nearly half of the merchant ships, he was just to come out to pretend, of course, it is impossible not to carry the marines.

With the order of King Yang, the mouth of the Tiber River suddenly became a battlefield.

As the fishermen and the people watching the excitement on the shore scattered in terror, twenty battleships lined up and first poured a round of shells on the shore, blasting the few soldiers to smithereens.

Immediately after the merchant ships full of soldiers docked at the dock, a group of marines wearing red military uniforms, helmets, and silver half-armor landed with rifles with bayonets on their shoulders, and at the same time, field guns and mortars were also hoisted from the ship, brown bass rifles, twelve-pounder and six-pounder Napoleonic cannons, and twenty-four-pounder mortars, which were all standard equipment for King Yang's army. At the same time, a gorgeous four-wheeled carriage was also hoisted down, and Her Royal Highness the Byzantine Princess and her maids landed under the protection of those Tang Dynasty soldiers, and during the landing, a team of about a hundred chainmail cavalry arrived, and these heroic knights tried to charge the Marine infantry, but before they could get closer, the cannons on those battleships roared, and then the knights also became scum.

"They're still applauding?"

On the deck, Yang Zhong looked at the excited people on the shore in amazement, who were applauding the knights being bombarded to slag.

"The affairs of the noble lord, what does it have to do with the people!"

Yang Feng sneered.

"Throw in a few boxes of pepper and hire them to help unload the cargo!"

Then he said.

As the order was issued, a merchant ship docked immediately carried down a few boxes of pepper, and after the accompanying Byzantine interpreter explained, the people watching the excitement on the shore rushed up like a carnival and began to enthusiastically help the Tang army unload, and even a few soldiers who did not want to get water on their feet simply took out silver coins and hired people to carry themselves to the shore, and some merchants took the initiative to come forward hoping to use their own carriages to transport goods for the Tang army, as for his enthusiasm, of course, was satisfied. Anyway, there was no shortage of pepper on Yang Feng's ship, which was picked, dried and packed on the islands of the South Seas by the slaves of the Weiyuan Company, and transported directly to the commercial base of the Lion Kingdom by the merchant ships of the East India Company, and then transported by the merchant ships of the West India Company to Sindh, which was transported by water by the Indus River to Peshawar, and then by land to the City of Champions via Kabul to Suiyuan.

Or it can be transported to the ports of Elam, such as Bushehr and Basra, and then head north to Suiyuan.

The cost of these two routes is actually higher than that of the Red Sea and Jerusalem routes, after all, the latter route has a short land transport distance, and the vast majority of it is by sea.

But in order to crush the Great Food economically, Yang Feng can only do this, otherwise all the money in the middle will be earned by the big cannibals who control Jerusalem, and now the three major colonial groups of the Tang Dynasty have divided the Eastern trade, and the merchant ships of the Great Food can't even go out of the Red Sea, and the Anxi Army warships cruising in the Gulf of Aden will sink any big food merchant ships out of the Red Sea, even if there are fish that slip through the net to avoid interception, the East India Company warships on the Lion Country's side will not let them go. Even the big cannibals themselves need oriental goods, and they get to the Elan people to purchase, which is an economic blockade played by the three major colonial groups of the Tang Dynasty and the Elan people, because the main profit of the Red Sea shipping is the Hashemite family, and the rise of the Great Food Empire is to rely on the wealth brought by the Red Sea shipping, otherwise where will their land that can't even feed people get the funds to buy armor and weapons?

Now they don't have access to that wealth.

This is an economic strangulation.

At this time, pepper was a real hard currency more popular than gold and silver in Europe, and Yang Feng quickly completed the landing with a handful of pepper picked from the tree by the slaves of the Annan group.

Then a brigade of soldiers of the Anxi Army escorted the carriage of Her Royal Highness the princess out of the port, and began to march towards Rome, they had just walked out of four miles, and the other cavalry that had already lined up on the opposite side could not wait to attack, it was obvious that these cavalry thought that without the protection of the warships, these poorly equipped infantry could not fight against them at all, so the chainmail knights on the galloping horses carried spears, lined up in a dense formation, and stepped forward with the sound of horses' hooves shaking the mountains, But unfortunately, the distance between the two sides has not been narrowed to a mile, and they know that they are wrong......

Accompanied by the commander's roar, the cannons and mortar cannons in front of the Anxi Army's formation roared at the same time, and the solid and flowering shells instantly shattered the era of the knights.

In the splash of flesh and blood from the impact of the solid bullets, in the loud explosion of the flowering bombs, and even in the whistling of the rockets, the knights in the chain armor on their sturdy horses were at a loss, allowing their horses to turn around and flee with a scream, and then let the flames of the explosion tear apart their bodies, and none of them could even rush into the distance of the Anxi army's infantry firing. Almost after the first salvo of artillery and rockets from the Ancy army, the heavy cavalry of about 200 men collapsed, and the more than 1,000 infantry behind them also collapsed, so to speak, this cannot be called a battle, because it was the first time to encounter such an enemy, and the knights who fought to defend the Vatican perfectly performed what it means to be crushed at the touch of a button.

Then the Anxi army moved on.

Still, the Roman soldiers were valiant, and despite encountering an enemy beyond their comprehension, they were encouraged by the clergy to erect wooden bars on the roads along the Tiber, and at the same time placed horse-repellent shields and a large number of archers, and prepared to defend themselves against the invaders.

But it was still useless, because as soon as the artillery of the Anxi Army, which had been replaced with shotguns, opened fire, the archers still broke out without any suspense.

Their wooden shields could not stop this.

Seeing that the archers were useless to defend, after understanding that these invaders knew witchcraft, the Vatican finally sent their final strength, they brought in a large number of monks, one by one in front of the Anxi army chanting in unison, and there were also holding the scriptures and sprinkling holy water, as for their results, of course, there was no suspense, those Anxi army infantry marching forward unceremoniously round by round of guns, and then these monks were meritorious.

"It's boring, why don't they have a little self-knowledge!"

Her Royal Highness the Princess of the Romans, shaking a small fan, said very dissatisfiedly in the crowd of ordinary people who were transporting supplies for the Anxi army.

Suddenly, there was screaming all around her.

Everyone looked up at them in horror.

"This one who has no conscience doesn't take me with him!"

Her Royal Highness the Princess said as she looked at the plane passing overhead, and closed her fan hatefully.

(Originally, 1.5 million words ended the Tang Dynasty volume, but there are too many things in the past few days, let's delay it for a few days, and the next copy of Diaoyu City)