At 9:40 in the morning, a 220mm shell penetrated the engine room of the Edinburgh. The shell directly hit the boiler and exploded with a bang in the eyes of the stoker's despair.

The Edinburgh turned into a huge fireball, and the watchtower on the Jian Bridge was directly blown up to a height of 100 meters.

The huge explosion even made people feel that the sea surface shook.

Li Xiu watched all this through the telescope. The huge battleship was slowly sinking in the billowing smoke. There were almost no survivors. Even when it lost its combat capability, no one in the Royal Navy abandoned the ship.

"You're fucking playing Japanese tricks with me!" Li Xiu spat: "Let those warships fucking surrender. If they don't surrender, they will be sunk."

"Promise!" Deng Yongchang agreed and ran out to summon the person.

Despair enveloped the remaining five warships, and the airships in the sky kept making judgments. Some airships even tried to drop bombs, but unfortunately the height of the airship was too high, and none of the bombs hit the target. The nearest explosion point was one hundred meters away from the warship.

above.

However, the psychological deterrent of the bomb was very strong, surrounded by four shark-like ironclads. The ultimatum was 10:15. If the white flag was not raised and surrendered before 10:15, the warships would be mercilessly sunk.

The captains knew in their hearts that their warships had lost power and it was impossible to compete with those iron-clad ships that were moving freely. Especially those iron-clad ships, the caliber of the main guns actually reached an astonishing 220 millimeters.

This is much more powerful than a 120mm artillery shell, and their armored ship will almost be scrapped after just one shot.

The problem is that now that Drake is dead, the captains are leaderless and no one dares to assume the responsibility after surrender.

The battle was almost over. Li Xiu was sitting in the command room, looking through the huge glass window at the British warships in the distance.

"What time is it?" Li Xiu asked lazily.

"Ten past ten!" Deng Yongchang, the new loser, stood behind Li Xiu and glanced at the clock on the wall.

"If you don't surrender at 10:15, kill the ship closest to us first." Now the British Royal Navy is the meat on the chopping board, and Li Xiao can chop it up as he pleases.

"promise!"

The clock points to 10:15, and the captains of the Royal Navy are still hesitating. Should they give up the pride of the Royal Navy and choose to surrender, or resist and be sent to the bottom of the sea. Most of the officers with noble backgrounds who value honor choose the former, while those at the bottom

Soldiers hope to survive even more.

At 10:15 sharp, the Ming Dynasty fleet began to take aim. The four ironclad ships formed a line and crossed into the firing range.

At 10:16, the final surrender deadline had just passed. The four ironclads opened fire almost simultaneously, and the shells roared and hit the British Royal Navy ironclad Yorktown.

In just the first salvo, no less than four shells hit the Yorktown. The poor Yorktown didn't even resist, and fell into the billowing smoke. The people on the ship began to launch small boats to escape, and some

The sailors simply jumped into the sea.

Li Xiu held up his telescope and was very dissatisfied with the shooting level of his artillerymen. The enemy ships were parked there like target ships, but they still couldn't hit them. This was a shame for the Ming Navy.

In the second round of salvo fire, the Yorktown was hit by four 220mm forward main guns at the same time. The bombed fragments of the Yorktown flew into the air, and the farthest fragments flew directly to 500 meters away and fell into the sea.

For a moment, waves splashed all over the sea, and many unlucky Royal Navy officers and soldiers were blocked in the cabin by the surging seawater before they even had time to run out of the cabin.

Seeing a good warship turned into a ball of fire in just five minutes. The officers and soldiers of the Royal Navy were dumbfounded that the Ming people were so cruel. They originally planned to use the warship as a bargaining chip to have a good talk with the Ming people.

The guy has completely given up the idea now. The people of Ming Dynasty don’t care about their warships at all.

It only took fifteen minutes for the Yorktown's stern to rise high. The entire ship was smoking and sank to the bottom of the sea.

Li Xiu leaned back on the chair and watched everything. This felt so damn good!

"Tell the British to give them another twenty minutes. If they don't surrender for twenty minutes, they won't get another chance. I don't care about their broken warships!"

"promise!"

In less than twenty minutes, in just ten minutes, all the British Royal Navy warships raised white flags to express their willingness to surrender.

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Li Xiao is in Xi'an, making final preparations for the Western Expedition starting next spring.

When the Mongols go to war, they usually launch attacks in the autumn. This is because the horses are fat at that time, and there is nothing to do in winter. When they go to the Han people's place, they will grab whatever they can.

Anyway, idle time is idle!

This winter, no more Mongols will invade the borders of the Ming Dynasty. Because they are all focused on engaging in internal strife!

Galdan killed his father and declared the establishment of the Jungar Khanate and he became the Great Khan. But his nephew Tsering Alabutan was unwilling, so the uncle and nephew had a fight. The result of the fight

That is, Alabutan traveled to Central Asia and swore that he would not be at odds with his uncle.

The date chosen by Li Xiao for the attack happened to be in spring. After a hard winter, the Mongolian horses were already lean. It would take a summer to gain weight.

The Ming army, which was waiting for danger, did not want to give them another chance to gain ground. Li Xiao made a very conservative plan to capture Hami. Then he would build a railway from Jiayuguan to Hami, and then use Hami as an advance base to attack the entire Western Region.

For this attack, Li Xiao armed 37,000 Japanese troops and 42,000 Khalkha Mongolian cavalry led by Geritu.

As for the Liao army, three of the four reorganization divisions were dispatched!

The most capable division is placed in Gansu as the general reserve. Zu Dashou's third division and Cao Wenzhao's fourth division will appear in the offensive sequence. In terms of military strength, Li Xiao is surprisingly rich this time.

"Armored trains must be mounted behind the locomotive and at the rear of the locomotive. There must also be someone standing guard on the roof of the train carriage. In this way, the safety of the train can be ensured." The long railway line can easily be taken advantage of by the enemy. Li

Xiao Xiao has no choice but to come up with an armored train. This thing can effectively protect the safety of the train.

"Yeah! This thing is feasible. As long as the trains keep coming, our supplies will not be cut off. This kind of battle can be won with your eyes closed." Zu Dashou looked at the map, rubbed his hands and giggled "ha" and "ha". The three divisions had several
Chapter completed!