Da Ming started to ascend the throne

All the soldiers fell to their knees with a clatter:

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, we will never disappoint your expectations, and we are willing to shed the last drop of blood for Daming."

"Soldiers, get down quickly!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

After Zhu Youjian encouraged the soldiers, he turned and looked at Li Dingguo:

"Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu!"

Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu hurriedly bowed and answered:

"The end is here, please give instructions from Your Majesty."

Zhu Youjian smiled slightly:

"I appointed Li Dingguo as the commander of the Dragon Banner Army, and Liu Wenxiu as the deputy commander."

The two bowed again and saluted:

"Thank Your Majesty Ron"

Zhu Youjian looked at Yan Yingyuan again:

"Yan Yingyuan, I named you the Dragon Banner Army's military advisor, and you will fight with the Dragon Banner Army!"

To Yan Yingyuan, this was an accident, a surprise, and a trust.

Yan Yingyuan didn't have any mental preparations, and almost didn't react.

Hastily stepped forward to salute and thank you:

"Thank you, Your Majesty Long En, Yan Yingyuan swears to be loyal to Daming!"

After Zhu Youjian asked Yan Yingyuan to excuse him, he said:

"Go to the Ministry of Industry to collect weapons tonight, and leave tomorrow with light clothes. I will send an order to Duke Qian Mu Tianbo, and they will provide your logistics support.

From there, secretly enter Myanmar and the Annan jungle for training, and there will be naval warships to pick you up. "

"According to the purpose"

"Qinglong, you choose a dozen Jinyiwei to be the bodyguards of the three generals. If there is any accident with the three of them, I will take you as a questioner!"

Qinglong hastily bowed to receive the order:

"According to the purpose"

Yan Yingyuan, Li Dingguo, and Liu Wenxiu smiled at each other. They didn't think that the emperor was supervising them.

Now that Daming is peaceful, and the emperor is an eternal sage, they have no intention of disobedience. It is of course best to have experts around to protect them.

After leaving the martial arts field, Zhu Youjian did not go back to Qianqing Palace, but went to Tanggu, Tianjin.

The rivers are frozen and boats cannot sail. Although the coast of the Bohai Sea has also frozen, the ice layer is not thick yet.

If it is a wooden sail warship, it cannot travel through the ice at all, and it will be frozen soon.

But an ironclad warship with a steam engine is completely different from a wooden sailing warship.

They can use steam power, rely on the iron armor and the weight of the hull to crush the ice to advance, but the speed is affected to some extent.

Of course, ironclad battleships are not icebreakers. If the ice is too thick, they will be trapped.

At this time, Zheng Chenggong led his subordinates to train on the Ming Dynasty's homemade iron-clad warship in Tanggu.

A few miles away from the shore, the sea ice is only five centimeters thick, and it cannot stop the crushing of the iron-clad warships at all.

Chapter 357

It is comfortable to travel in a horse-drawn carriage in this weather, but the road is icy and easy to overturn, so it is safer to ride a horse.

The snow had been frozen, and the horses creaked when they stepped on it. Zhu Youjian and his party of more than two hundred horses galloped on the snow.

In order to facilitate travel, Zhu Youjian only brought 20 members of the Royal Guard, plus more than 100 elite guards from Jinyiwei and East Factory and West Factory.They tightly guarded Zhu You in the middle.

To say that being the emperor of Ming Dynasty is really hard for Zhu Youjian, he has been busy so far, and he has not enjoyed the blessing of the real emperor for a day.

Although there are already several beauties in the imperial palace, compared with the other emperor Sangong Liuyuan, he is completely a beggar emperor.

It took more than half a day to arrive at Tanggu. As soon as he got off the horse, he heard the sound of cannons from time to time. Zhu Youjian could guess that it should be Zheng Chenggong and the others who were testing the firepower of the iron-clad warship.

After all, it was the first iron-built warship built by Daming himself, and it would definitely require a period of training before it could actually fight, leaving everyone else outside. He only brought four of his cronies into the port.

Standing on the shore, I saw that the sea was frozen. When I went to the ice, I dug it open with a sword and saw that the ice on the shore was at least ten centimeters thick.

Zhu Youjian took out the telescope and found that the ice on the sea surface was almost still floating about two kilometers away, indicating that the ice was not thick there, but he did not see where Zheng Chenggong's warship was training.

Zhu Youjian looked back and saw Aqing, Cao Zhengchun, Yuhuatian and Qinglong beside him. These four people all came from the system. No matter what Zhu Youjian did, the four of them would not be too surprised.

He smiled triumphantly and began to communicate with the system:

"System, use five ironclad warships."

Soon a nice female voice sounded:

"Ding, congratulations on the successful use of the host ironclad battleship."

"Whoa..."

There was a sound from the ice ahead, and five thousand-ton ironclad battleships suddenly appeared on the sea. There were no sails on the battleships, but two tall chimneys.

"Go up and have a look."

Before Zhu Youjian finished speaking, he stepped on the ice on the sea and rushed towards a battleship, and Ah Qing and the others immediately started to follow up.

At a place more than 300 steps away from the battleship, the ice surface had turned into floe. This did not bother the five of them. They tapped the floe with their toes and continued to advance rapidly.

When I got to the battleship and looked up, I realized that the battleship was as tall as a three-story building, and it was a huge monster.

It's not difficult to go up with five people, and they rushed to the deck with the help of one in the air. After boarding the battleship, Zhu Youjian ran directly to the cab.

Zhu Youjian was relieved to see that the operation manuals of the warship were all placed in the cockpit. It would be embarrassing if there were no manuals.Mobile terminal../

Looking at the description, the battleship is 67 meters long, 10 meters wide, and has a displacement of 1300 tons. It is powered by two coal-fired steam engines and has a speed of 14 knots.

The naval guns are all breech-loading guns, a total of 50, including 10 80-pound guns, 20 60-pound guns, and 18 30-pound guns. 80 shot per minute.