Chapter 1169: Shaking the Foundation of the Empire
"Humph, I let you humiliate me. I'll see how you run this time !"
Grumman was helped up by the guards and said with a grin.
"Master Grumman, you'd better go back." The fat man said respectfully.
"No, I'm right here. I want to see him get caught. I want to step on his face with my boots. I want him to kneel down and beg for forgiveness! How dare you take my money!"
Grumman said through gritted teeth.
"Master Grumman, please rest assured. The Governor has already mobilized the garrison. I believe that under the siege of two cruisers, a mere merchant ship will not be able to escape from our grasp."
The fat man said respectfully.
"What should we do? With two cruisers, I'm afraid we can't get out."
Yin Lisabai said as she looked at the warships outside the port.
"Don't worry, I have a way!"
Zhang Tuohai used his skills to summon a ghost ship.
The Coconut battleship emerged from the void and rammed into a cruiser at lightning speed.
The cruiser never expected that a battleship would suddenly emerge from the void. By the time they could see the battleship clearly, the ramming horn of the battleship was less than ten meters away from them.
It's too late to dodge at this distance.
Bang! Kacha!
With a sharp friction sound, the Coconut's ram broke through the cruiser's side armor, and then it moved forward like a knight with a lance.
Everything the ram encountered, from the gun deck to the mast, was broken in two.
The starboard side of the cruiser also tilted due to the pressure, and the deck formed a 30-degree slope with the sea level. Then, relying on the huge impact force, the Coconut rushed up along this inclined slope.
Immediately afterwards, a violent breaking sound was heard .
The cruiser could not bear the weight of the battleship and broke apart, with the entire ship breaking into two pieces.
In this situation, even if the gods descended, they could not save the cruiser. In the blink of an eye, this second-class cruiser sank to the bottom of the sea.
Everyone in the port and on another cruiser were stunned.
They didn't expect that a battleship would suddenly appear.
The second was the shock of the sinking of the cruiser.
That was a cruiser of the Royal Navy that was invincible across the seven seas.
The most powerful navy in the world.
When was the last time a cruiser sank?
At least ten years ago.
Today, a Royal Navy warship actually sank in front of them, which was a severe blow to their three perspectives.
"This, how is this possible?" Grumman was stunned, his eyes full of disbelief.
The Royal Navy on another cruiser did not expect that it was just an easy trap. As a result, less than five minutes after they appeared, a battleship sank. This made them feel like they were dreaming and they were unable to react for a while.
They were too slow to react, but the Coconut was not idle.
After sinking a cruiser, the Coconut was at the T-head of another cruiser.
All the broadside guns were aimed at the stern of the other cruiser.
"Fire!"
Boom, boom, boom!
The Coconut's broadside guns fired a salvo, and dozens of shrapnel shells hit the cruiser's stern.
Cruisers are famous for their high speed, high attack, and low defense, and the stern defense is their weakest link.
After these shrapnel shells were fired from the stern, they even rushed into the center of the gun deck without any hindrance and then exploded with a loud bang.
The flying shell fragments, like steel fragments, reaped the lives of the gunners.
The entire gun deck was in chaos.
As luck would have it, a shell hit the propellant.
The flames ignited the piles of propellant.
Boom!
The propellant exploded, and the huge explosion directly broke the keel of the ship.
The cruiser broke into two and sank at a speed visible to the naked eye.
In less than two minutes, two Royal Navy cruisers were destroyed and sank to the bottom of the sea.
At this time, everyone on the shore was stunned.
They stared blankly at the warship sinking into the sea, their minds full of questions.
How did the once-mighty Royal Navy sink?
They don't understand.
After sinking two cruisers, the Coconut did not stop, but began to turn and pointed its guns at the people on the shore.
"Run!" Seeing that the situation was not good, the fat man turned around and wanted to run.
But it was too late now.
Boom, boom, boom!
Clouds of smoke exploded and shrapnel fell into the port.
The neatly-lined port guards were blown directly into the sky.
Grumman was hit directly by a shrapnel shell, his body was shattered, and his limbs and arms flew everywhere.
Boom, boom!
The Coconut's artillery had been roaring all the time. They had only one goal at this moment, which was to use up all the shells within their existence time.
Shells exploded in the harbor.
When the Coconut's existence period was over and it dissipated, the entire port had become like the surface of the moon.
"Let's go ashore and take a look."
Zhang Tuohai stood up, took the Unsullied off the boat, and stepped onto the land at the dock.
There were body parts everywhere, and the smell of burnt lake was everywhere.
A group of people walked into the city.
Thanks to the governor's determination to capture Zhang Tuohai, all the garrisons in the city were transferred to the port, so that they were completely wiped out by Zhang Tuohai's round of artillery fire.
Now, apart from the symbolic guards of the Governor's Palace, there were almost no available soldiers in the entire city.
Seeing Zhang Tuohai and his men coming to kill them, the guards dropped their weapons and disappeared.
The Governor-General has also disappeared.
Zhang Tuohai was too lazy to pay attention to him. He simply broke down the door of the Governor's Mansion and moved all the things inside out.
All the useful things were moved onto the ship, and the rest were distributed directly to civilians throughout the city.
Zhang Tuohai didn’t care whether the distributed things would be taken back by the governor. His only goal was to sow conflict between the governor and the civilians.
Zhang Tuohai discovered that his enemy was the entire empire. If he wanted to overthrow the empire, relying on himself alone and with more than one ship would not be enough.
With just one ship, no matter how powerful he is, how many ships and fleets of the empire can he destroy?
It doesn't take much. The Empire only needs to send 10 cruisers to chase him and he will have no choice but to escape.
If you want to reverse this situation, you must pry the empire from its foundation.
Only by making the empire's rule unstable and making the empire unable to take care of him can he find an opportunity to grow and develop.
Otherwise, sooner or later they will be strangled by the empire's army.
And distributing the governor's wealth to the common people was only the first step.
He now wanted to follow the path of King Chuang, get close to the grassroots common people, fight against the wealthy governors, and make a name for himself, changing his identity from a pirate hated by everyone to a rebel who upholds justice.
Only in this way can he reverse the situation where he is at war with the whole world.
