Chapter 2545 - 2544: Warfare
Ling Feng decided to help. Firstly, he felt that this matter was incredibly audacious; how bold must one be?
Secondly, he wanted to see exactly how the other party obtained the compound’s poison.
This issue is significant; perhaps Westerners have secretly developed technological prowess, which cannot be underestimated.
However, before Ling Feng could act, an urgent voice came from outside the hall: "Report, an urgent battle report from Jinhae City!"
"Come in!"
Li Huang shouted, and a palace attendant rushed in, delivering an envelope.
After opening and glancing at it, Li Huang’s expression changed dramatically, then he became furious: "These foreign scoundrels are too much!"
"What happened?" Ling Feng asked.
"They assume I’ve been poisoned and must be dead!" Li Huang said.
"Oh?"
Ling Feng raised an eyebrow upon hearing this: "They’re really quite rampant!"
"Mr. Ling, we need your help again; their ship has heavy artillery and has shattered our coastal defenses!" Li Huang said.
"Your Majesty, don’t worry, I’ll go and check immediately!"
Ling Feng nodded and turned to leave.
Then Li Chunxi immediately followed: "I’m coming too!"
"Me too, I want to see how those arrogant foreigners are destroyed!" Li Huang said, getting up.
Ling Feng hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "Alright."
With that, he led everyone away and boarded the same airship.
Under the gaze of those in the palace, the airship ascended and flew directly southeast.
The distance wasn’t far, just over a hundred kilometers, so the airship soon reached the coastline.
From afar, they could see seven or eight massive warships resting on the sea, with no sails, only large smokestacks, clearly steam-powered.
Ling Feng squinted as he watched, thinking to himself that the Western world’s Industrial Revolution had indeed begun!
It was from the steam age that modern technology gradually developed, and Ling Feng was quite familiar with this history.
Watching the cannon fire spewing smoke from the ships as some structures on the land were blown to bits, while small-caliber cannons on land returned fire but couldn’t reach the ships due to the distance.
The disparity in strength was evident.
Seeing this scene, both Li Huang and Li Chunxi were furious.
Ling Feng then said to the father and daughter, "Don’t worry, I will deal with them soon, and I will never allow history to repeat itself!"
After saying this, he had the airship hover in the air and opened the hatch.
Then Ling Yao joined him, and the two left the airship, flying toward the sea.
Since the enemy dared to openly attack a land nation, they must be prepared; it certainly wasn’t just relying on cannons.
Ling Feng realized this midway, so just after leaving the airship, he expanded his Divine Sense.
Then he noticed people on those ships, with several merchants on the same ship, accompanied by more than a dozen robust men.
After scanning with his Divine Sense, Ling Feng found that besides sailors, there were less than five hundred people on these ships.
These are the main forces attempting to land.
But Ling Feng was puzzled: "Isn’t this too confident with so few people?"
Upon a closer look, Ling Feng discovered that they had firearms in their cabin!
"This..."
Ling Feng suddenly understood!
Even though it has been delayed by hundreds of years, history seems ready to repeat itself here!
These guys from the American continent clearly saw firearms as a secret weapon, knowing that the Li Dynasty didn’t have them, and planned to use this to force open the Li Dynasty’s gates!
Ling Feng was somewhat speechless.
Fewer than five hundred men, brandishing firearms, attempting power after pleasantries?
And as he and Ling Yao approached, the large men with the merchants noticed them, and two of them flew into the air!
So they also had experts at the Ninth Rank here!
Seeing short guns at their waists, Ling Feng chuckled.
Is this a blend of cultivation and technology?
But it was really quite crude!
The two sides quickly met in mid-air, and the chubby man opposite shouted, "Back off!"
"Why? You’re allowed to fire cannons, but we can’t retaliate?"
Ling Feng sneered, glancing at Ling Yao.
He didn’t want to waste time, knowing every cannonball caused significant damage to the ground below, requiring much manpower and resources to repair.
And Ling Yao understood his intention, familiar with Ling Feng’s style.
Originally, she could have directly sent those ships into the air, letting them shatter upon freefall, but Ling Yao chose another method.
She merely disrupted the firing of heavy cannon shells on one of the ships, causing the shells to explode within the barrel.
Huge explosions tore the ship apart, igniting gunpowder and leading to massive detonations.
One after another, several ships met the same fate, leaving the two men who flew up to stop Ling Feng dumbfounded.
Ling Feng didn’t give them a chance to speak, directly unleashing the Blade of the Apocalypse, dispatching them before they could draw their guns.
Their bodies fell into the sea, leaving just one warship afloat.
Then Ling Feng turned to Ling Yao and said, "Bring that ship up, I need to talk to them!"
"Okay!"
Ling Yao nodded, immediately lifting the several-hundred-ton warship from the sea into the sky.
The people on the ship were petrified, watching the ship lift from the sea and slowly rise into the air, each face full of bewilderment!
The merchants were also terrified, as they now saw Ling Feng’s faint smile.
Everyone on the ship was in a panic; some tried to jump ship, but the sea was full of debris, with nowhere to escape!
The deck turned chaotic as Ling Feng landed, looking at them: "Surprised?"
"You, you..."
They didn’t know what to say.
Ling Feng chuckled: "Don’t be so tense, I don’t kill easily without unforgivable cause!"
He then asked, "Who planned this attack?"
With this question, the three of them looked at the big-bearded man.
Ling Feng murmured, appearing before him in a flash: "For someone like you, my first instinct is to kill!"
With these words, he struck the man away with a palm!