Li Xiao did not doubt Yuan Chonghuan's ability to clear out the remnants of the Indian army on Ceylon Island. If he could not even do this, the Second Division should really be disbanded.

The Zhiyuan ship split the dark blue waves and broke into white waves. There were unknown seabirds flying in the sky, and flying fish soared into the sky on the sea. This is the Indian Ocean, a place where the Ming Dynasty's navy once visited.

The last time, a eunuch named Zheng He came here with his huge fleet. They did not extort land, they did not ask for trade, they only wanted to show the prestige of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Xiao felt that this kind of behavior was stupid. It was a waste of national funds and sailed across the ocean without making any profit. No wonder this kind of idiotic behavior was stopped. In this world, business that only loses money but does not make money cannot continue. The public

Only an emperor like Yongle who had a very good face would do such a thing as pretending to be a fat person.

Since the capital is invested, it must be profitable. The Island of Ceylon can be said to be the lifeblood of India. As long as the Island of Ceylon is occupied, the Ming army can attack anywhere on the east coast of India unscrupulously. Even passing northward

Bay of Bengal, attack that country known for floods. Of course, Li Xiao would not make such a stupid decision.

Bangladesh is rich in typhoons and floods, but it doesn't have many resources. What little oil and gas resources there are are distributed in small patches. When the value of oil becomes very high in a few hundred years, people will be reluctant to exploit it.

, let alone now.

Relatively speaking, Li Xiao prefers Myanmar. The output of the Letpadaung copper mine is very high, and the modernization process of the Ming Dynasty requires materials measured in tens of thousands of tons. Copper is of course an important item among them! If possible, Li Xiao would like to have all the

All the world's mineral deposits were brought to the Ming Dynasty. Even if there are unworthy descendants in future generations, they will at least ruin the family for a few more years.

A wave came over, and sea water splashed onto the front deck. Marshal Li, who was thinking wildly, was completely drenched by the waves. He stayed on the deck before the storm came. This behavior was stupid.

Li Xiao was not prepared to be stupid. If he caught a cold in a place like this with little medical treatment, he would probably die. God knows what kind of influenza virus is prevalent these days.

Seeing Li Xiao return to Jianqiao, Deng Yongchang breathed a sigh of relief. The sea breeze outside was very strong, and it looked like a storm was coming. The commander was very dangerous outside at this time, but he didn't dare to let anything happen to him.

If something really happened, I wouldn't be able to chop off the heads of my crew.

After returning to the cabin and changing his clothes, Li Xiao was ready to lie down on the bunk for a while. He was exhausted from being in Mumbai for the past two months, and at the same time, there were some things that Li Xiao needed to think about.

The attack on India was a war of aggression, and Li Xiao did not shy away from this. If you want to make the 200 million people of the Ming Dynasty rich as soon as possible, robbery is a very good way. Whether this kind of plunder is spiritual

, or both physically and materially, they are very attractive to Daming.

But here comes the problem!

How much sacrifice did Ming Dynasty have to pay for this kind of aggressive war?

Li Xiao originally naively thought that he could use mercenaries to plunder the whole world. Now it seems that this is simply a wishful thinking. Li Shimin did such a thing, and the result was that his descendants were driven away like dogs.

Shuzhong.

Learning to fight through training is two different things from actually learning to fight in war. The Second Division actually performed very well in training, but when it encountered problems that it had not encountered in daily life on the battlefield, it was blinded. Not to mention, the bloody battlefield

Psychological stress on new recruits.

Hina, who had never seen blood, experienced such a cruel battle when she first entered the battlefield. It was almost a human instinct to panic.

This is not the case for Japanese people. The four words of being brave and fierce are instilled in everyone's bones. The strong have everything, while the weak can only be bullied. These four words of the weak and the strong are unbreakable truths in the Japanese country.

War can bring everything to the Japanese people, money, wealth, honor, and status. These people risked their lives on the battlefield. In the final stage of the Battle of Bombay, the resilience displayed by the Japanese army amazed even Li Xiao.

Such an alien army lives next to Ming Dynasty's bed. One day, Ming Dynasty cannot suppress these enemies who are more ferocious than jackals, and the consequences will be...!

This matter must be resolved as soon as possible. From now on, the people of Japan will go fishing in the sea and farm ashore. Just don’t go to the battlefield again. If one generation does not go to the battlefield, the character of the people of Japan will be much peaceful. If two generations do not go to the battlefield, the Japanese people will be better.

People's martial spirit will collapse. If people don't go to the battlefield for three generations, then they will probably never be able to hold a sword again.

Yes! Immediately disarm the Japanese people and let them farm and fish happily. It is best to abolish their education. Ordinary people can count to ten. Nobles can know a hundred words, even if

He is a master of Chinese studies.

It would be best for them to be like the North Koreans, who spend all day enjoying themselves and having fun. This is what a slave state should be like! They are more bloody and brave than the Ming Dynasty's army. How can I stop thinking wildly?

After thinking about this level, there was a feeling of a sudden opening in my mind. Along with this feeling came endless fatigue. He closed his eyes and covered himself with a blanket, and Li Xiao decided to sleep for a while.

I don't know how long I slept, but I was suddenly woken up by the sound of the siren on the ship.

"What's going on?" Li Xiao stood up and pulled out the revolver.

"Commander! Wu Sangui's warship was discovered at sea to be an armored warship." Shunzi opened the hatch, his face a little nervous.

After all, this is in the sea. If something goes wrong with the ship, even the commander will not be able to put on his wings and fly out. In addition, if there are wind and waves on the sea, if the small sampan goes into the sea, it will be pushed into the bottom of the sea by the huge waves like mountains.

.

"What are you afraid of? It's just an armored ship, isn't it? We are also an armored ship, or two." Li Xiao straightened his collar, inserted his gun and walked out of the cabin door. When attacking Mumbai, the enemy's armored ship hid away from the battle.

The whereabouts made Li Xiao worried for a long time, fearing that an enemy warship would pounce on him halfway through the landing.

Unexpectedly, until the end of the Battle of Bombay, no enemy navy was seen. I have to say that these guys are very tolerant. The result of their patience was that they came here to intercept the Ming Dynasty's transport ship. But they did not expect that this time

Encountered two powerful ironclad ships.

When he came to Jian Bridge, Deng Yongchang quickly saluted Li Xiao!

"Don't be pretentious at this time! You take command, I want to see how the battle with the armored ship on the sea is different from when I fought the red-haired ghost on the sailboat." Li Xiao has not seen the sea for so many years.

The gunfire exchanged between the ironclads.

"Commander! Opposite are three ironclad ships of the Indian Navy. The names of the ships are unknown! Now according to the observation results, they should be the first generation of old-fashioned ironclad ships. You can see that their ships have three large chimneys, which means they have six

to the boiler.

Our Zhiyuan and the accompanying Laiyuan both have eight boilers. Moreover, after redesign, our ship has a chimney, which greatly increases the deck area. In terms of firepower, we are better than them, and in terms of maneuverability, they cannot compare.

." Although Li Xiao did not report to Deng Yongchang, Deng Yongchang still made a brief report to Li Xiao. His words were full of disdain, and it seemed that he did not like the two ships on the opposite side at all.

"You need to use all your strength to fight a lion against a rabbit, and be careful to sail a thousand-year ship on the sea. Don't be careless! Now that you are in command, just pretend that I don't exist." Li Xiao reminded Deng Yongchang, I am on the battleship

Above, absolutely nothing will happen.

"Promise!" After Deng Yongchang promised, he took the command position.

"Left rudder three! Speed ​​six! Signal a signal to Laiyuan that we use a one-word formation to cut across their bow." Deng Yongchang stepped into the command position and seemed to be a different person, issuing orders calmly and calmly.

"Left rudder three! Speed ​​six! Send a signal to Laiyuan, telling us to use a one-line formation to cut across their bows."

After Deng Yongchang finished speaking, a soldier in charge of delivering the order loudly spoke into the loudspeaker. All the officers and soldiers on the ship could hear Deng Yongchang's order through the loudspeaker.

Li Xiao felt his body being thrown violently to the right. Fortunately, the chair he was sitting on was firmly welded to the cabin board, otherwise it would have been ugly to be thrown out.

The huge waves flew directly onto the deck, hitting the huge windshield and knocking out countless water droplets. Suddenly a flash of lightning flashed in the sky, and a fork-shaped purple lightning struck the sea, sending out a puff of blue smoke. The strong wind blew the sea

It seemed to boil all of a sudden, and large waves surged violently around the battleship.

Raindrops as big as beans hit the glass of Jianqiao directly, making a "crackling" sound. Two soldiers kept shaking a wheel-like handle. Two huge wipers, driven by gears, wiped the raindrops one by one.

erase.

In the past, madmen would kill each other in such a big storm. The right thing to do is to avoid God's thunder and save your life.

As the oldest enemy of sailors, the storm has devoured countless lives with its violent power. Times have really changed, and battles between armored ships can already ignore storms of this level.

Light communication has been widely used as a means of communication among Ming warships. There is no electricity on Wu Sangui's warship, so of course they cannot use this method. I don't know how they convey the message. Maybe they are in combat.

At that time, they could only rely on the tacit understanding between the captains.

Two ships faced off against three ships, and the Ming warship showed no signs of timidity. The warship cut through the waves and drew an arc, and the warships crossed the bow direction of the Indian warship one after another.

Of course, Li Xiao understood the purpose of this tactic, which was to use the side string of his warship to face the bow of the local warship. If the Indian warship happened to be in a straight formation, the two front main guns would have to fight against hundreds of enemy ships.

Cannon.

No matter what probability is used, the hit rate of the covering fire of hundreds of artillery guns is higher than that of two guns. If it happens that the front main gun of one's own hits the front deck of the Indian warship, the explosive shells with huge explosive power can destroy

The opponent's turret was opened directly. The thick mantlet was like dregs in front of the 380mm caliber artillery shells.

Relying on the two more boilers on the battleship, the Zhiyuan increased its speed to the extreme. The battleship successfully got rid of the Indian warships and occupied a favorable cross-cutting position.

The Indian armored ship was firing on all cylinders like a mad cow, and the thick smoke from the three chimneys was still clearly visible under the rain. A bolt of lightning flashed across the sea, and under the light of the lightning, Deng Yongchang roared: "Fire!"

The main gun on the side of the Zhiyuan ship opened fire almost at the same time as the order was given. A large plume of thick smoke was emitted from the side of the battleship, but it was soon diluted by the strong wind and heavy rain and disappeared.

Less than a minute after the Zhiyuan ship opened fire, the cannons on the Laiyuan ship also sounded. It can be seen that the captains of the Ming Navy cooperated in a tacit understanding.

It was difficult to hit the target in the first round of shelling, especially in such strong winds and waves. The battleship was bumping violently, making it even more difficult to hit the target.

Inside the telescope, water columns rose up around the Indian warship, but not a single shell landed on the opponent's deck. Deng Yongchang took a careful look at Li Xiao and sighed when he saw that Li Xiao was also holding up the telescope to look at the opposite side.

.What a great opportunity to show your face. Damn, you missed it like this.

Suddenly, an orange fire flashed on the battleship opposite.

Obviously, the salvo fired by the Laiyuan ship hit the target.

This time, Deng Yongchang's face became even more ugly.

"Load, correct the target, and fire freely." The calibers of the guns on the ship are different. There are two triple-mounted main guns at the front and rear. Because of the large caliber of the shells, loading will be slower. The loading of those 120 mm guns is much faster.

Most of the time, they fire three rounds before the main gun is fully loaded.

Suddenly there was a loud sound of cannons, and the gunners stuffed the cannonballs into the barrels as quickly as possible and fired at the enemy ships.

Soon, a second, third, and fourth burst of fire appeared on the bow of the Indian warship. Both Zhiyuan and Laiyuan were shooting freely, and they didn’t know who hit them. Shooting on such a bumpy sea

, there is some element of luck in hitting the target.

The bow is the strongest part of a warship, and it is far away from the vital parts. Although it was hit by four 120mm shells in succession, the speed of the Indian warship did not slow down at all. Only the front main gun was hit by

It blew up, forcing them to turn the rudder, turn the ship sideways, and use broadside artillery to fire at the Ming warships.

Deng Yongchang, who had just fired a salvo at the bow of the ship. The target on the bow was relatively small, and the distance was farther, so the hit rate was low. Deng Yongchang was a little embarrassed. Now if you turn the ship sideways, you are courting death. It is on the hull of the Indian warship.

When it just came across, the Zhiyuan ship's triple-mounted main gun fired directly at it!

A shell directly penetrated the side of the Indian warship. This was a 380mm main gun shell. The strong armor was directly torn open, and the shell rushed into the boiler room arrogantly. After a loud noise, there was a huge plume of smoke.

Soaring more than a hundred meters high!
Chapter completed!