Chapter 1985: Passage

On the section of the Panama Canal near the Atlantic Ocean, Qin Zhangfeng had not felt this nervous in many years; he could even feel sweat seeping from his palms.

His eyes were fixed on the canal in the distance, where a Merchant Ship had already entered the Sluice Gate.

According to their original design, this section required the Sluice Gate to open, lowering the water level to allow the ship to pass.

But how much the water level should drop now seemed somewhat miraculous.

If the water level dropped too much, it was very likely that the Merchant Ship would touch the bottom, which was something no one wanted to see.

Qin Zhangfeng stared intently as the water level slowly descended, watching with his own eyes as the ship lowered in altitude within his field of vision.

Upon reaching a certain height, the Sluice Gate opened.

Qin Zhangfeng watched the ship's mast move forward, slowly crossing the river and entering before the next Sluice Gate.

In his eyes, the ship was like an old man walking down stairs, cautious yet extremely steady.

Finally, following his gaze, it sailed out of the Panama Canal!

Seeing this scene, Qin Zhangfeng trembled with excitement; the Panama Canal they had built was a success!

This was a world-class project he had supervised, and its difficulty was several times that of building the Suez Canal.

Such a project was now completed in his hands.

Qin Zhangfeng could no longer hide his inner excitement, and the construction workers on both banks of the canal shed tears of joy upon seeing the successful construction of the Panama Canal.

The successful construction of this canal would bring unprecedented development to the surrounding regions; no one could ignore all this development.

And such an epoch-making canal was built in their hands.

The Spain spies lurking among the crowd felt even more anxious and humiliated after seeing the successful construction of the Panama Canal.

When they had established a colony in the Panama region, they had thought more than once about building a canal here to open up the passage between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.

But such an idea had not led to success.

The Spain government at the time thought that building this canal would cost an unknown amount of money, but now seeing Longyan build a canal here.

This was simply more painful than losing money themselves.

But now, this was an indisputable fact, and they no longer had the ability to continue bossing this region around.

Spain now still had to worry about the army from the Portugal Colonial Area.

They lived in fear every day.

Meanwhile, the French and the British received the news at almost the same time.

The Panama Canal was open!

After learning that Longyan had established a city-state in this place called Panama, they were very wary.

Richard even learned that Longyan was building the Panama Canal here and immediately launched an attack on the Longyan Unit.

But such an attack clearly did not take the Longyan Unit seriously.

In the end, the French failed and also lost a large area of important colonies.

Now the French looked at this canal that had caused their colonies to shrink, a canal they had suffered huge losses for but failed to capture.

Their hearts were filled with grievance, but they no longer had enough power to continue resisting the Longyan Unit.

They even needed to shake hands and make peace with the Longyan Unit now to exchange for Longyan weapons.

Using these weapons to defend against their blood feud, their true enemy, Britain!

The British were also hidden among them, watching the successful construction of the Panama Canal.

Their hearts were filled with envy, jealousy, and hatred!

Britain had once competed with Longyan for control of the Suez Canal in Egypt, but unfortunately, they failed.

They lost to the Longyan, and more importantly, the two countries had now become allies.

Regarding this canal built by Longyan in Panama that could connect two oceans, the British had no good Method even if they were greedy now.

However, they now had the capital to negotiate terms with Longyan regarding the Panama Canal.

They had already built a Dreadnought-class Battleship.

They had enough ability to wrestle with Longyan.

But not now, only after completely resolving the problem with the French.

Only then could they truly discuss the next terms with the Longyan Unit.

"General, do we really have to let people from those countries covet our Panama Canal?"

Qin Zhangfeng laughed: "This is the intention of Mr. Qingyang Shuo; ignore them, we will continue doing what we should be doing."

Hearing this, no one continued to track these foreign spies.

Qin Zhangfeng did this intentionally; they wanted outsiders to know that their Longyan had now built the Panama Canal.

And they could publicize it unscrupulously.

They were not afraid of them coming to sabotage it!

For Longyan, they had paid a very high price to build this Panama Canal.

If this Panama Canal could not make a profit, then any talk of a Golden Waterway was nonsense to them.

That was why Qingyang Shuo wanted those countries that needed to pass through this shipping lane to know.

But as for their covetousness, in the face of the powerful Longyan Navy, they did not know what it meant to fear battle at all.

This time, it was to let those petty people who wanted to cause trouble know that Longyan's things were not so easy to obtain.

Qin Zhangfeng ordered in a deep voice: "Prepare for a military exercise, let them all know the power of our Longyan Unit."

"Yes!"

The soldiers under his command shouted loudly.

The spies sent by these countries to gather intelligence looked at the ships getting closer and closer on the coast, their faces changing drastically.

These are Longyan's Supply Ships, and there are as many as three of them!

Surrounding these Supply Ships is a uniform Patrol Ship Strike Group; such a troop configuration is something that neither Britain nor the French can produce at present.

Longyan's ships now all adopt steam-powered structures, which are incomparably more powerful than those traditional wooden-hulled ships.

At this moment, commands were issued from the Supply Ship, and those spies watched the target ship sailing in the distance.

In just an instant, Longyan's Patrol Ship Strike Group launched a frantic attack.

In that single instant, the target was completely destroyed!

And when the target ship drew near, these spies clearly discovered that for this military exercise, Longyan had actually set the target as a Supply Ship.

Looking at the degree of fragmentation, this Supply Ship had been torn to pieces directly by the aforementioned Patrol Ship Strike Group.

Furthermore, this mock battle did not even take a minute from start to finish.

Heavens, this felt unbelievable to the French, who had once faced the terror of the Supply Ship head-on.

Back when their fleet possessed firepower even greater than the Longyan military's units.

Their troops had no Method whatsoever to break through the Supply Ship's defenses.

At that time, their troops attacked for a long while.

They even resorted to an ambush in the end to finally sink one of Longyan's Supply Ships, but even so, they paid a more tragic price, and the unit that attacked the Supply Ship was completely wiped out.