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Gan Ziba got married in a daze. On the day of the wedding, all the prominent people in the city came to the Lei family to congratulate him. More gentry learned about Gan Ziba's identity from the wedding invitation issued by Lei Biao, and kept trying to curry favor, which made Lei Biao look more proud. You must know that before, they used to look at the expressions of the officials in the city.

Nowadays, there are two largest regimes in the Central Plains, the Great Chu in the south and the Great Han in the north. In comparison, local gentry is more willing to accept the rule of the Han Dynasty.

This is inevitable. First of all, Liu Celi met the Zhou clan and made the Han Dynasty add a lot of political points from the beginning. After all, the scene of the Zhou emperor abdicating is also a legitimate orthodox dynasty. Relatively speaking, the yellow Chu State is a robber country that is not legitimate.

Secondly, the Chu State had a series of high-pressure measures, such as suppressing vendors, belittling gentry, banning people from reading and literacy, and confiscating a large amount of aristocratic property. No one was willing to be loyal to him. Moreover, the environment under Liu Ce's rule was relatively relaxed, so everyone knew how to choose.

Finally, judging from the strength of the two, although the Han Dynasty in the north was just established, Liu Ce has been conscientiously governing it for many years. Many places in the north have recovered their vitality after these years of development, and are even more prosperous than before.

The Chu State had almost all industries withered and people were in panic. Under the ruthless and desperately ruling, everyone clamped their tails and even said things carefully. This is a manifestation of insufficient strength.

Therefore, the gentry of Nancheng Mansion was very enthusiastic about the arrival of Gan Ziba. Many people were jealous of Lei Laohu's luck and had such a prominent general to be his son-in-law.

The day after the marriage, Gan Ziba took Shangshan Yilong and his group to turn back to Zhennan Pass. Since they were going to carry out military missions, Lei Fengjiao could not go with her, so she could only wait for Gan Ziba to come back before taking her back to Beijing.

Lei Biao also made up his mind that since the relationship between Gan Ziba was present, it could not be wasted. He decided to move his family to Chang'an to develop, which would be better than staying in this place where smoke is everywhere for the rest of his life.

On the first day of April, after Gan Ziba rushed back to Zhennan Pass, Tie Wuya handed him the strategy of Annan coastal areas discussed with Zhang Yanwu.

When he opened the Annan strategy, Gan Ziba knew that his fleet was about to begin the first real naval battle.

On the sand table in Annan Sea arranged by Tiewuya, he pointed to two ports in Xintan, Annan Guodu, and said:

"According to the current known intelligence analysis, the navy of Annan Kingdom is concentrated in these two places. There are 143 Clippers that can be used for combat in Hongdu Port in the upper left corner.

Each navy can carry forty-three people. If you want to quickly occupy Hongdu Port, you must destroy this navy in the shortest time. Of course, in addition to these Clippers,

There are more than ten conventional ships, all of which are speeding up with bamboo sails, so we have to be careful…”

Gan Ziba looked at the layout of the Hongdu Navy on the sand table and couldn't help but sneer: "I just need to push the Sailing Rover within two nautical miles of the port and use iron cannons and catapults to shoot together. In just one round of kung fu, they can lose more than half of the fishing boats..."

Tie Wuya said: "After that being said, you must be cautious in everything. The Annan Navy may not be as good as us, but they are also the overlords of this sea area and have to be guarded against."

Gan Zi domineeringly: "Don't worry about this. I've been preparing for so long. I just want to find an opportunity to work with someone with real swords and guns for a while and talk about the situation at another port..."

Tie Wuya nodded and pointed to Keelung Bay in the lower left corner: "This port is not tightly arranged in comparison to Hongdu Port. There are no more than forty real ships docked on the shore, and they are all material ships with smaller loads.

The rest are modified through fishing boats, which seem to be huge in number, but in fact they are just a mere appearance. Therefore, I suggest that the Yangfan fleet divide the seven lucky ships to block their ports.

So that the main force will not be affected by the enemy who rushes to rescue when capturing Hongdu Port..."

"No problem..." Gan Ziba raised his hand, "I will discuss it with Fang Xunshuang later and let him divide the seventeen Fu Ships to control Keelung Bay so that the main force can safely attack Hongdu Port."

"In addition, the defenders of the Han Fort also need to pay more attention. There are at least 5,000 Annan Army guarding the Hongdu Port. If you want to reduce unnecessary losses, please let General Gan lose his mind."

"No problem, leave it to me." Gan Ziba said indifferently, "As long as they eliminate all their warships, these mere coastal defense forces will be like fat on the chopping board, let me chew on it."

The plan was decided, and Gan Ziba and Tie Wuya immediately began to take action separately, which surprised the veteran Zhang Yanwu.

"It turns out that they are planning to attack Annan with the initiative?"

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On the second day of April, the Xintan Sea in Annan is still twenty nautical miles away from Hongdu Port...

In this calm sea, fishermen in Annan are sailing boats, humming polls, and spreading fishing nets to the sea with all their heart's content, praying for a great harvest today.

A fisherman and his son were dragging the fishing net hard together. After a while, the fishing net was pulled onto the fishing boat, and the net was filled with lively fresh fish.

"That's great, this time it's a big harvest!"

The fisherman's son was very happy and his face was tanned by the sun and laughed loudly.

"Closing the net..." The fisherman was also very excited, poured the fish in the net on the deck of the fishing boat, and said to his son with a smile, "We Annan people rely on the mountains and the sea, and the ocean is our life. The king said that at the latest one year, we will be able to fish in the Lingnan waters next year..."

The fisherman's son was very energetic and said, "Lingnan was originally the land of our Annan. Those despicable Central Plains people occupied my land back then. Now we should ask them to come back!"

"Let's stop talking, hurry up and go back. There are still many people waiting to buy our fish on the dock..."

And so, the fisherman ordered his son to rock and prepare to start his return.

“Woo~~”

At this moment, a deafening sound of steam came from the horizontal plane in the distance.

The fishermen and son and other fishermen around looked up and saw dense sails appearing in the distance, heading towards their own sea area at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Dad, that's..." The fisherman's son pointed at a huge ship and widened his eyes and said to his father, "Look, what a big ship..."

Without the need for the fisherman's son to speak too much, the fisherman had noticed the ship long ago. To be honest, he had never seen such a majestic and tall ship in his life.

After the fleet slowly approached, the fishermen reacted and shouted loudly: "That is...that is the ship of the Central Plains people! The ship of the Central Plains people! They are going to get close to our Annan Sea!"

The next moment, as if to prove the fishermen's words, a sharp warning sounded on the giant ship: "Listen to the fishing boat in front, and immediately disperse and do not block the way, otherwise you will be responsible for the consequences! Listen to the fishing boat in front..."

The soldiers on the Battleship, Yangfan, continued to warn him three times with a steam horn, and stopped talking and continued to drive forward according to the original channel.

The steam whistle and horn were both inspired by Lu Que's past "looking at the pot and pondering". Although the steam engine has not been built yet, this kind of secondary-level thing was made possible by him and his team. Once it was released, it immediately became popular in the north.

"They are indeed from the Central Plains! They must have come to invade my Annan Kingdom!" After reacting, the fisherman resisted his fear and shouted, "As the people of Annan Kingdom, we have an obligation to protect the territory of Annan for the king. Don't be afraid, we are all blocking here? I want to see if this group of guys who claim to be etiquette dares to come over?"

The patriotism of the fishermen quickly infected the rest of the fishermen. In this way, hundreds of fishing boats that were originally intended to avoid were united, crossing the fleet, using people as a wall, trying to stop them from moving forward.

"Get back, the Central Plains bitch!"

"Go and eat shit, despicable Central Plains people!"

"Central Plains Pig, if you have the courage, come over. Do you dare? Hahaha..."

Countless Annan fishermen kept yelling at Gan Ziba's fleet, and many people even threw fish at the coming fleet to express their dissatisfaction.

Standing at the bow of the ship and looking at the movement of the sea from the high-powered mirror, Gan Ziba couldn't help but frowned and said softly: "Did these stupid xs get in their brains? What do you want to do? I thought this would slow us down?"

Thinking of this, he put down his glass and said to the soldiers behind him: "Take flag words and tell other ships not to slow down and hit them directly!"

Soon, the flag-tag player climbed up the high mast and passed Gan Ziba's orders onto the other seventy-two warships in the form of flags.

The fleet still accelerated through the crazy fishermen as planned, without any sign of slowing down.

"Wait, they didn't seem to slow down..."

"No, I'm going to bump into it..."

"How could this happen? It wasn't that I was deliberately scaring us, right?"

As the fleet was getting closer, the originally excited fishermen were suddenly panicked. The situation seemed to be different from what they had imagined...

"Don't retreat, they must be bluffing. When we retreat, their conspiracy will succeed!"

The fisherman loudly comforted the rest of the people, but when he watched the giant ship splitting waves towards him, his body was already surrounded by fear.

Fifty steps...

Forty steps...

Thirty steps...

Ten steps...

Five steps...

"Boom~~"

"Plop~~"

The fleet did not stop at all. The ship's hull covered with iron sheets hit the simple fishing boats. For a moment, the entire sea was filled with bodies falling into the water and the ship was overturned.

The waves brought by the fast-moving ships also overturned the fishing boats behind. The father and son, who had previously boosted morale, were immediately swept into the sea, leaving only the broken fishing boats that were hit and ripped off the sea.

"Overbial ability, you can get rid of a car!"

Gan Ziba muttered contemptuously and continued to direct the fleet forward without any intention of promoting humanitarianism. He wanted to rescue the fishermen from the sea.
Chapter completed!