Malacca Port Terminal.

Dozens of warships crowded the sea outside the entire dock. And on the dock, it has long been blocked, except for the soldiers of the Chinese Empire, idle people, etc. are all forbidden to stay nearby.

On the dock, Tan Tiyuan, commander of the Nanyang Fleet, made the final mobilization for the commanders of several detachments and the captains of various ships under his command: "Brothers, most of you are still in the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy during the Taiping Holy Kingdom period, and you stood out in the actual combat of the earliest navy and navy, and later entered the Ship Master School for further study, and your naval combat experience is relatively rich, and many brothers are even stronger than me as a commander. I won't say much about the operational aspect, I'm about to go on the expedition, I just want to say a few words! ”

"On this expedition, it is very likely that many of the Brotherhood will die in the sea, including myself. But we must summon up the courage to attack the enemy with the belief of victory, and the future invading Yingyi fleet will be ruthlessly defeated and destroyed, and we must be crippled and wounded, so that the Yingyi and other enemy forces will not dare to invade our Chinese empire again! Tan Tiyuan roared: "Some time ago, our fleet has been dodging and retreating, I know that everyone is very aggrieved, but this is the strategic arrangement of the entire Admiralty and the entire empire, because the enemy army is much stronger than us, and it is not good for us to fight head-on."

But now that we have withdrawn from the newly occupied Indian Ocean, we have abandoned Rangoon, the base of the Indian Ocean Fleet, and further back, the South Sea. The Nanyang area is now the territory of our Chinese Empire, with more than 2 million of our Chinese compatriots living there, and we must not retreat! Otherwise, these Chinese brothers and sisters will be invaded and humiliated by the British, and as soldiers of the Empire, we have the responsibility to protect them!

Last night, the Admiralty sent an order, conveying the order signed by His Majesty himself, that from now on we will counterattack and fight a decisive battle with Yingyi! Because we have enough strength to defeat them!

Reinforcements have arrived at Penang Harbour and are waiting there for our rendezvous! Moreover, most of these reinforcements will be assigned to our Nanyang Fleet, so that our Nanyang Fleet will become the first fleet of the five major naval fleets of the Empire, and will become the main force to defend the Empire's maritime frontier and defeat the enemy forces attacked by the Yingyi! Moreover, the information I just got, with the arrival of this batch of reinforcements, there is also a batch of secret weapons of the empire, for this batch of killer weapons, I will tell you in private, brothers, you must keep it a tight secret, and explain to the gunners on each ship to adapt to the performance and power of this secret weapon, and give full play to this advantage and power, and give a huge surprise to the Yingyi fleet! ”

"I believe that with this batch of reinforcements, as well as the secret weapon this time, and you brothers who have sacrificed their lives and forgotten their lives, the Chinese Empire will win, and the Nanyang Fleet will win!" Tan Tiyuan roared!

On the dock, the captains of each ship followed the roar, and the roar of nearly 100 people made people's hearts surging and their blood boiling.

Seeing that his morale was high, Tan Tiyun nodded with satisfaction, waved his hand and ordered: "Go out!" ”

It didn't take long for dozens of warships throughout the port of Malacca to turn into a long line, stretching out and heading westward in a spectacular manner.

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Ten days later, in the Andaman Sea, more than 800 kilometers northwest of Penang, a huge fleet appeared, faintly forming a lineup in the shape of a "human", riding the wind and waves, rushing to the direction of Yangon Port in the north. It is the Chinese Empire's British fleet, which is a joint mix of the Indian Ocean Fleet and the South Ocean Fleet!

A few days earlier, in the port of Penang, the two fleets had been assembled, and all the warships of the Oriental Fleet, which had been from the mainland of the Chinese Empire, Japan, Korea, and even the Pacific region, were temporarily incorporated into the Indian Ocean Fleet, while the 18 new warships and part of the Nanyang Detachment that had returned from the Australian campaign were all incorporated into the Indian Ocean Fleet. The total size of the entire mixed fleet has reached an unprecedented 122 warships, and the total displacement tonnage has reached an astonishing 200,000 tons.

Coupled with the fact that the main warships are now equipped with a lot of shells made of TNT yellow explosives, the mixed fleet of the Chinese Empire sailed north majestically.

In the hold of the ironclad battleship "Dingyuan No. 1" led by the leader, two kerosene horse lamps were burning brightly in the glass cover.

Indian Ocean Fleet Commander Wei Jun and Deputy Commander Yang Zaifu, South Ocean Fleet Commander Tan Tiyuan, Deputy Commander Ding Ruchang, and Indian Ocean Fleet Chief of Staff Buchanan gathered together to discuss the upcoming war.

Wei Jun, as the commander-in-chief of the entire mixed fleet, was the first to speak: "Chief of Staff Buchanan, you first tell everyone about the situation of the British Combined Fleet at the front. ”

"Okay, Commander Wei!" Buchanan introduced: "The general situation of the British fleet is already known to everyone, and it is mainly divided into four sea areas. The main forces are concentrated in Chittagong, Dhaka and other bends where the Ganges River enters the sea, with a total of hundreds of warships; and another force of nearly forty or fifty ships at the port of Calcutta, the western tributary of the Ganges, to assist the British Army in attacking our army; The other two detachments, each with about 30 ships, circled around the island of Ceylon and Madras, and occupied the base of the Indian Ocean Fleet of our Chinese Empire in the vicinity of Yangon.

And the target of this attack is this British detachment in Rangoon! ”

Wei Jun took Buchanan's words and said, "There are a total of 122 mixed fleets in our Chinese Empire, but only 86 ships are involved in the attack on the target British fleet in Yangon Harbor. The remaining 26 ships were on alert in the waters near the Andaman Islands, and the other 10 were scattered to the Bay of Bengal in the northern seas to keep on guard, and their main mission was to reconnoiter the whereabouts of the other three British fleets, especially the main British fleet in the Bay of Bengal where the Ganges River flows. If there is a change, immediately warn you!

86 capital warships surround and annihilate this British fleet of 30 warships, and it must be completely annihilated! ”

Tan Tiyuan also said: "Commander Wei's tactical arrangement makes me wait and admire!" Although the mixed fleet of the Chinese Empire has reached a displacement of 200,000 tons, the number of warships is still somewhat different from that of the British Combined Fleet for the Chinese Expedition, and more of a difference is the training level of the naval soldiers. Therefore, we must seize this opportunity to reverse the gap and wipe it out completely, so that the disadvantage can be turned into an advantage.

I heard that this fleet in Rangoon had already conquered the port of Rangoon more than half a month ago and occupied the base of the Indian Ocean Fleet, which Commander Wei had deliberately abandoned. Commander Wei designed the defenders of Rangoon to deliberately pretend to flee in a hurry, abandoning their belongings and some guns, and fleeing to the interior of the north, so that the British fleet was indeed successful, and they had now docked the fleet in the harbor of Rangoon, and they went ashore to plunder everywhere, and even went deep inland to loot their property, and they were very busy.

Now is the time to 'thank' them! ”

When everyone heard this, they all laughed and looked at Wei Jun's gaze with some admiration.