At the beginning, the British expeditionary force came violently, the army was fine, the naval fleet was too powerful, about 200 warships and nearly 400 troop transports, overwhelming people trembling, even Wei Jun, who was full of self-confidence, was a little uneasy.

The outpost learned from some of the merchants that the opposing fleet was too large. When Wei Jun found out, he realized that his Indian Ocean Fleet and the South Ocean Fleet combined were only half of the tonnage of the other party. In desperation, he could only adopt some delaying tactics and wait for the reinforcements to arrive.

Against the arrogant British, Wei Jun's tactics are actually very simple, that is, try to separate them and break them down. Therefore, Wei Jun adopted the method of withdrawing the Indian Ocean Fleet and the South Ocean Fleet in full, and only sent several fast sailing ships with a speed of more than 13 knots to cruise around the Indian Ocean to lure the British army to pursue in all directions, but the British fleet was not fooled, but these fast sailing ships detected the whereabouts of the British army.

And the tactics adopted by Wei Jun worked. The British army wanted to occupy the Indian Ocean as soon as possible and regain India, but seeing that the Chinese Empire had no resistance and the main forces were retreating and fleeing, they scattered their fleets and captured major ports everywhere, just as Wei Jun hoped. In their opinion, even if a detachment meets the main fleet of the Chinese Empire, there is no need to worry too much, because the time of naval battles is generally long, at least a few days, once they encounter the enemy, they will send sentinel ships for help, and after a little delay, the huge main fleet of rescuers can arrive, but can destroy the enemy fleet that was worried about not being able to find it together.

Two days later, the mixed fleet of the Chinese Empire reached the sea of Yangon Harbor twenty or thirty nautical miles. At this time, a small British sentry ship in charge of the guard also discovered that a large number of fleets were coming, and hurriedly lit warning smoke on the deck of the ship, and turned around and returned to Yangon Port to report the news.

The mixed fleet of the Chinese Empire led by Wei Jun did not care at all, and still according to the prior arrangement, the 38 warships of the Indian Ocean Fleet led by Wei Jun lined up in the east and headed north, while the 48 warships of the South Ocean Fleet led by Tan Tiyuan lined up from the west and went north, dividing and encircling all the sea areas within a radius of several nautical miles, including Yangon Harbor.

It may have been that the British army was too happy to loot property on the shore, and it was not until three or four hours later that the 30 British warships in Yangon Harbor sailed out of the port in a scattered formation, but at this moment, the entire port had already been blocked by 86 main warships in the mixed fleet of the Chinese Empire.

The naval battle has officially begun!

The 30 warships of the British army were quite calm, and began to adjust the combat formation, setting up a large horizontal column about 6,000 meters wide, the fleet was divided into the left wing, the right wing and the center, there was a prominent avant-garde in front, an ironclad battleship and a wooden battleship, and there was a mobile rear guard in the rear, which was two cruisers, rushing towards the Nanyang fleet led by Tan Tiyuan on the west road like a frenzy. Obviously, he wanted to suffer some losses, break out of the encirclement of the mixed fleet of the Chinese Empire, and move the rescue troops.

Tan Tiyuan also began to adjust his Nanyang Fleet formation at this time, although the adjustment of the formation was a little slow because of the addition of many new warships, but it was still completed before the British warships rushed to the line of fire. The South Sea Fleet formed a huge crescent to meet the British warships, and the same left, center, and right flanks and mobile rearguards, each wing was lined up horizontally, and met the enemy with maximum firepower.

The warships of both sides soon approached the range of the Krupp guns of the Chinese Empire. With Tan Tiyuan's order, nearly 30 main warships opened fire violently, and in an instant, the sea was filled with gunsmoke, artillery roared, and bombs flew indiscriminately.

The guns of several warships in the center of the South Sea Fleet were unusually fierce. One ironclad battleship of more than 5,000 tons and five ordinary battleships of more than 4,000 tons opened fire at the same time, and more than 100 guns fired at the British warship group 3 kilometers away, and 8 British warships were shot.

To everyone's surprise, one of the eight British warships that were shot was immediately penetrated through two decks and cabins, causing an explosion at the ammunition depot and causing a violent explosion of the entire warship. The other 3 warships were hit by several shells, and the explosion caused by more than 10 kilograms of TNT yellow explosives was extremely powerful, and the area around the part where the warship hit the bomb became a burning world. The huge impact force made the fragments of the shell very fast, easily tearing apart and shattering the cabin of the British warship, and the shock wave and high temperature generated by the explosion made the warship burn strongly, and spread to all sides with the hole in the hatch.

Tan Tiyuan secretly swallowed a mouthful of saliva, stared at the rumbling artillery and scolded with a smile: "Damn, this new gunpowder is even more fierce than I imagined." Fortunately, it is our Chinese Empire that has mastered such devil explosives, otherwise, it will be unimaginable! Now it's the British's turn to be surprised! He immediately ordered free shooting.

Suddenly, the artillery rumbled non-stop, and the 48 warships of the Nanyang Fleet fired non-stop at the British warship group, accurately pouring shells over the sea surface of the British warships nearly 6,000 meters.

In fact, just two rounds of shelling by the Nanyang Fleet made the commanders and soldiers of the British fleet on the opposite side already stupefied!

Two rounds of shelling, less than 300 shells, the hit rate is not high, only less than 20 shells hit 7 British warships, evenly spread, each warship less than 3 shells, but to everyone's shock is that these 7 warships were all injured by the powerful shells of the Chinese Empire, and the side panels of the hull were seriously damaged, especially the 5 warships, the side board and even the bottom plate were blown open by the shells A huge hole, and the sea water poured violently into the cabin, and there was no time to scoop water to save themselves.

The commander of the British fleet was terrified. He did not care about giving the order to open artillery fire and return fire, but directly issued the flag order, and ordered to turn the direction of the bow of the ship and break out in the opposite direction, that is, to the east.

But before the bow could be completely turned, another round of bullets rained down over the fleet, and three more warships were damaged by bullets. At this time, the 38 warships of the Indian Ocean Fleet in the east also appeared in front of them, the dark gun window had been opened, and they were aiming at the warships on this side, and a suffocating pressure immediately landed on the heads of the British naval soldiers.

Just kidding, just four or five rounds of artillery made 7 of their fleet of 30 warships incapacitated, and 6 warships began to sink slowly. And even if they can successfully break through, the period before this breakthrough is enough to be destroyed by the ferocious naval artillery of the Chinese Empire.

The 30-ship British naval fleet in Rangoon was so easily annihilated by the Chinese Empire. At this time, even Tan Tiyuan, the commander of the Nanyang Fleet, who had won a big victory, had not yet reacted.