"We are French warships, and your actions we will consider a provocation...... We reserve the right to appeal...... Again, you are provoking ......"

The flags given by the French to the British battleships were all very inward-looking, but it must also be said that this kind of forced intrusion into one's own battle formation and destruction of the formation was regarded as an extremely impolite provocation in the whole world, and it was very easy to misfire.

But the British battleship was so arrogant, from beginning to end, in Xiao Letian's eyes, there was such a way as when the US military was king and hegemonic in later generations.

"I'm driving dangerously, I'll rush into your queue, I won't listen to your warnings, you have the ability to shoot at me? Lao Tzu won't open the cannon door, and the face will be sent to you to let you fight, will you fight or not......?

"If you have a trick, you want to go, but if you don't, you'll die...... I'm so arrogant..."

The above is Xiao Letian's brain-filled dialogue, of course the British Royal Navy will not say this, they will only do this, very arrogant to show you.

When the British frigate brushed the side of the Glory, the rope ladder was thrown from the Glory, and the British captain and several officials deftly climbed over, and Xiao Lotian knew that it was to send a retreat order to the French.

"What about the French envoy, Monsieur Molière, and what about Major General Bruce? We have been commissioned by the French Government to send you a letter signed by your king...... Please sign for the envoy and the general..."

"I'm sorry...... Envoy ...... The envoy can't come forward, so I'm going to ask His Excellency the General..."

"Why can't the envoy come forward? Why is that, he's the head of the charge?"

"Well......" the French officer blushed like a monkey's buttocks, twisting like a woman, "envoy...... The envoy was captured by the Ryukyus......"

"Huh?" exclaimed several British officers, "you have lost so badly, we thought you were defeated in logistics, but you really failed miserably?"

There was a loud roar of red monkey butts on the entire deck, and all the French soldiers wanted to commit suicide by jumping into the sea. At this time, Major General Bruce finally came out, which made the British officer change the subject.

"Your Excellency General, this is the Emperor's Wen Jiàn, please check ......" Bruce opened the Wen Jiàn folder and looked at it, and immediately the expression on his face was distorted as if he was constipated.

Three seconds later, a wolf howl came from the Glory, and Xiao Letian in the distance was frightened, "Damn, it's haunted in broad daylight......?

"Unconditional withdrawal? How can France withdraw its troops unconditionally if they cannot bear such humiliation? You are lying to me......"

The crazy Bruce rushed up and was about to do something to the British, the British officer must not be used to his stinky problem, easily dodged him and sneered and said, "I'm sorry, you have seen the truth of the text clearly, our British Navy has done its duty...... Let me conclude by reminding you that your country is now facing very severe diplomatic pressure, and I hope that you will calm down and exercise restraint......"

"Let's leave the Ryukyus immediately, go to Hong Kong to rest, and leave the rest to the civilian officials......" After saying that, several British officers turned around and left.

Xiao Lotian would not be in the mood to listen to Bruce and their howls, and now the whole Ryukyus were waiting to greet him, and the tsunami-like cheers had already been heard on the surface of the sea.

Xiao Lotian and his officers raised their heads and prepared to accept the pride they deserved, and the sailors from the Lion City also had sparkling eyes and solemn concentrations, feeling the vitality of the entire Ryukyu Kingdom.

"This is the Ryukyus? The dreary Ryukyu I came to five years ago? At that time, the port of Naha always gave people a sense of twilight, and I really didn't expect it to be like this today......"

"This is the popular sentiment that the prime minister instigated? I thought that the celebrations in the Lion City were already lively, but compared to the momentum of the Ryukyus, we were compared......

"Look, there's Shuri Fort on the top of the mountain, isn't it? It's so big, it's so mighty...... It looks even more powerful than the forts built by the British......"

The 280-caliber coastal defense cannon was hovering on the cliff of Shuri Castle, and the entire Naha Bay was within his fire control range when the gun turned, and it was precisely because of the deterrence of this American-made giant cannon that the French fleet did not dare to shoot at close range from beginning to end.

At any time, the most shocking thing was the huge ship and huge cannon, and the appearance of the Shurijo Castle Fort not only stunned the sailors of the Lion City, but also the European sailors on the two silver cargo ships.

"God, I'm afraid the caliber of the fort that controls the Strait of Gibraltar is so big, isn't it? Is this still the barbaric East Asia in our impression? Just rushing this cannon The French will not be wronged if they lose. ”

The merchant sailors could only guess the power of the guns from the size of the batteries, but the officers on the two British battleships were all experts, and they had already guessed the best with a telescope.

"Damn...... is a breech-loading rifled gun of 280 caliber with a firing range of at least 20 km...... Fortunately, there is only one, and if there is one more to form a crossfire, the French fleet will be unlucky......"

"Record...... The intelligence officer immediately took notes...... Xiao Letian is not only a top politician, he is also a very good military equipment expert...... We in Britain are reluctant to use such a good cannon, but Xiao Lotian is willing to use it? How rich is he?"

The officer was right, there were not many varieties of special steel in the nineteenth century, and the steel used to make the bore of rifled guns was far less fine than that of later generations.

The principle of rifled guns is that there is a spiral raised rifling on the inner wall of the barrel, and when the shell is pushed forward by gunpowder, the raised rifling is cut thin on the shell skin like a turning knife.

Although it is a very thin layer, it can also give the cannonball a rotating force, and when the cannonball is out of the cannon**, the original direct force becomes the rotating force, so that the cannonball flies farther and hits more accurately.

There are many advantages of rifled guns, but there are also weaknesses, that is, if the quality of rifled steel is not good, the raised rifling is easy to grind, which is a big problem that plagues European engineers now.

Although the Shurijo Castle Fort was formidable, according to the experience of Europe, after firing more than 100 shells, the rifling would wear out, and the accuracy of the shells would be much worse after 200 shots, and if it was close to 300 points, the barrel would have to be replaced.

"God, it won't cost fifty or sixty thousand pounds to replace this cannon barrel? Xiao Le is really rich, he is really too rich...... The intelligence officer wrote down that Xiao Letian is a local tyrant, a big local tyrant......"

Xiao Lotian didn't know that the British were calculating him, his whole love had been ignited by the frenzy of the city, the ship had entered Naha Bay, the salute on the fort of Qixingshan had already sounded, and the fanatical roar of the people echoed loudly in the mountains.

"Prime Minister...... Prime minister...... The prime minister ...... "There is only one sentence on everyone's lips, and their prime minister has finally returned from Europa, and he has returned with victory, a wild victory that shook the whole of Asia."

"Everybody has ...... Attention... Salute..."There was a roar on the dock, and thousands of new officers and men with outstanding achievements stood up and saluted, and the sound of big leather boots hitting stone slabs was deafening.

Xiao Letian saw the familiar blue military uniform, looked at the haggard faces, and his eye sockets suddenly became hot and almost tears flowed out.

"European Expeditionary Force...... All of them...... Attention... Salute to the Ryukyus..."With a bang, more than a hundred officers' leather boots hit the deck, and their right hands gave a new military salute, and they were thanking their brothers who were guarding the house, and they were thanking them for their risk.

I can't cry, I can't cry... Countless people are reminding themselves in their hearts, but sometimes people are so unproductive, and they can't control their feelings at all, and all the officer corps, including Xiao Letian, rolled out tears.

As the ships drew nearer, the pier pier was in sight, all the merchant ships docked avoided, and the largest waterway and the widest pier could only be used by the most honorable prime ministers.

"Brothers...... Thank you...... Thank you for keeping our home... I, Xiao Letian, salute you..."Xiao Lotian burst into tears, leaning on the bow of the boat and shouting to his brothers.

The new army brothers on the dock could no longer control the floodgates of emotion, and the depression that had been suppressed for a long time suddenly burst out, and everyone cried.

"Prime Minister... You're back...... We fought this battle so badly, so badly......" The cry on the pier shook the sky.

The clipper slowly leaned on the trestle, the pedals had been set, Xiao Letian was the first to walk down, followed by Xiao Hexin, Sima Yun, Luo Huo, and Xiang Shaolong...... A familiar face appeared in front of people's eyes again.

"Old Xiao... What's wrong with your legs? Luo Huo, your face is also colorful?Master Long, do you still owe me a drink......" Familiar figures appeared in front of everyone's doors, and familiar friends all jumped to greet each other.

But when more than a hundred officers stood neatly on the dock and formed a small phalanx, the whole city suddenly fell silent.

"How...... What's going on? Why did you come back with such a little bit of people? Oh, I know it was the prime minister who left the others in Europe, right? Yes, that's right, that's it......."

Good people don't dare to think about that terrible reality, they desperately try to make all kinds of excuses for themselves, but the tears in their eyes betray them.

Xiao Lotian couldn't stand such a sad and indignant feeling, and he suddenly yelled, "Ryukyu fathers and fellow villagers, I, Xiao Letian, am incompetent...... The European Expeditionary Force went with 300 men, and only 100 of them came back, all of them wounded...... The rest of the brothers are already buried......"

"I, Xiao Letian, can't stand everyone...... I'm sorry......" Xiao Letian took off his military hat, bowed ninety degrees, bowed again and again, and apologized to everyone present.

There was a bang on the dock, hundreds of people knelt down, and even the king of Shangtai at the front knelt down on one knee to Xiao Letian, "What is the sin of Shang's father, Shang's father has no merit, Shang's father is proud of Europa, this is the luck of hundreds of millions of people in East Asia..."

"Please accept my bow..."King Shangtai knelt down on one knee, and the other ministers and people also knelt, only the new army could not kneel, that was Xiao Letian's death order, and those who wore military uniforms did not kneel.

In the autumn of 1866, Xiao Lotian returned to the Ryukyus, and the cry of Naha Bay shook the sky that day, and it was heard in the ten-mile sea.

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