The British gunboat was already burning to the point that it could not be extinguished, so Wei Jun simply became a practice gunner and ordered the "Dingyuan No. 1" to sink it. Another British cruiser directly raised the white flag and surrendered, but the captain of the cruiser was still very backbone and committed suicide and martyrdom.

Wei Jun sent someone to take over the captured cruiser, let it follow behind the Indian Ocean Fleet, wait for the port, and then repair it, which can be regarded as adding a warship to the Indian Ocean Fleet.

For these prisoners, they were interrogated, but most of them were Tamil sailors on Ceylon Island, and there were only a dozen or so British soldiers, because the captain committed suicide, these soldiers didn't know much, Wei Jun didn't have time to interrogate, and directly ordered someone to be imprisoned.

Not long after, after sailing forward for more than three hours, sure enough, they found Dingyin "No. 3 returning" head-on, and the captain of the "Dingyin No. 3" ship sent someone to report that more than half an hour ago, in the sea not far ahead, the last British gunboat was sunk by them, and at that time, more than 20 British soldiers jumped into the sea to ask for help, and the "Dingyin No. 3" only picked up one British officer and five soldiers.

Wei Jun immediately sent someone to escort the prisoner to the "Dingyuan No. 1" ironclad ship, and interrogated him with the prisoner who had been held from the cruiser. The British officer was a Lieutenant Commander of the Ceylon Fleet, and only one of the five soldiers was a true British sailor, and the other four were all Indian soldiers.

Buchanan had a squad of soldiers escort all the prisoners onto the deck and personally interrogate information on the island of Ceylon, particularly Colombo. But the British major did not speak, and the British soldiers did not speak when they saw their superiors. Only the Indians and Tamil sailors chattered non-stop, some in intermittent English, some in unintelligible light, but there was no actual information, only sporadic information already in the possession of the Secret Service.

Wei Jun also came over to check what was going on.

Buchanan asked the British major again, and the other party glanced at Wei Jun, who was approaching, and understood that Buchanan was working for the Chinese Empire, so he opened his mouth and scolded: "Seeing that you are also a white European, how can you serve the Orientals of the yellow-skinned monkey?" As he spoke, he seemed to see that Wei Jun was the leader of the people present, and shouted at Wei Jun again: "You yellow-skinned monkey, you dare to sneak attack my Royal Navy of the British Empire!" Does your emperor know what you do, you will cause great disaster for your homeland! Why don't you release us quickly, apologize, maybe I can explain a thing or two for you and mitigate your crimes! ”

After listening to Buchanan's translation, Wei Jun was so angry that he almost laughed, and motioned to his subordinates to tie up the British major and the soldier, escort them to the side of the ship, and without saying a word, he directly ordered the four Indian soldiers to be thrown into the sea one by one, and then the five Tamil sailors were sunk into the sea, so that the rest of the captives on the deck wept bitterly and begged for mercy.

The British major was quite strong and kept silent, but the British soldiers had begun to beg for mercy and kept revealing what they knew. Wei Jun ordered the soldiers to loosen the ties and put them aside, and then tied the British major with ropes to his feet, and hung them upside down, and he was about to fall into the sea from the side of the ship.

Before he could get close to the sea, the British major immediately cried hysterically, cried out to God and begged for mercy, and gave a detailed account of what he knew about the colony of Ceylon.

Ceylon was a place of constant calamity, from the Middle Ages onwards, between the Sinhalese and Tamil kingdoms living on the island of Ceylon, until the Dutch colonists conquered Colombo in the 17th century, and then the British occupied Colombo in the early 19th century, and then further defeated the Kingdom of Kandy in the central part of the island, and the whole island became a colony of the British Empire.

Ten years ago, the Governors of Ceylon had cultivated a large area of rice, coffee, coconut and rubber plantations in Kandy, and they plundered Ceylon mainly by opening up plantations, forcibly expropriating the land of peasants and forcing them to work on the plantations. But because Ceylon has a population of one million, 8 percent of which are Sinhalese people who believe in Buddhism, although they have a mild character, but because the number of British troops stationed on Ceylon Island is small, in desperation, successive governors of Ceylon are trying their best to drive a wedge between the Buddhists on Ceylon Island and Hinduism and ***, resulting in bloody conflicts between believers of three religions, so as to smoothly control Ceylon.

From the mouth of the British major, he learned that Ceylon originally had tens of thousands of British troops, but now because of the Indian rebellion, the strength is tight, and the Sinhalese people on Ceylon Island are too mild and weak, and the Tamils who have been co-opted by the colonial government are contained, the island is unexpectedly peaceful, so the British troops on Ceylon Island are all transferred to India to quell the rebellion, and there are only four or five thousand troops on the entire Ceylon Island. The majority of these troops were based in Colombo, the seat of the colonial governor's palace, while several other colonial ports, Matara and Galle in the southwest and Jaffna in the north, were scattered with hundreds or hundreds of troops to protect the ports and docks.

As for the Ceylon fleet, there was no discrepancy with the information provided by the Special Services Division. In total, the Ceylon fleet consisted of 2 cruisers, 3 frigates, 3 gunboats, and 2 gunboats, which was 3 more warships than the information detected by the Special Services Division. However, the three warships encountered in the waters they had previously passed through were sunk or captured, and the so-called Ceylon fleet now consisted of only one cruiser, three frigates, one gunboat, and two armed steam gunboats. Two armed steam gunboats and one frigate were docked at the southern ports of Matara and Galle, respectively, while the remaining four warships were stationed at the ports of Colombo.

Wei Jun specially asked Buchanan to ask about the shore defense at the Colombo port, there are two forts, a total of 14 large-caliber shore defense guns, guarding the Colombo port. However, although the caliber of those coastal defense guns is large, they were all built and installed in the thirties of this century, not only the batteries are already old, but the coastal defense guns are still old-fashioned front-loading smoothbore guns, with limited range and poor accuracy, and compared with the Krupp rifled guns equipped on their own Indian Ocean fleet, they have completely lost the role of coastal defense guns.

Wei Jun, who learned the details, was overjoyed and said to Buchanan: "The British have such a little strength on Ceylon Island, it is not enough to give me the Indian Ocean Fleet, not to mention that we have also mobilized the infantry of one division, it seems that the reinforcements of the other division behind do not need to come, and they will fight directly!" ”

Buchanan said: "With this little force of the British Ceylon colony, my Chinese Empire is indeed killing chickens with a knife." Commander, this is the so-called victory over the weak with the strong, in the face of overwhelming superiority, no matter what tactics or stratagems, it is useless. ”

Wei Jun nodded, and asked the British major and soldiers, sailors and other prisoners to be sent to the bilges of each ship and detained, and no longer organized discussions, according to the British strength in Ceylon, there is no need to bother with any tactics, the most important thing at present is to be fast, is not to let the news get out. Therefore, he directly ordered to attack westward along the southern coastline of Ceylon according to the map.

The fleet successively occupied the two ports in the southwest corner of Matara and Galle, and sure enough, there were three small warships, two armed steam gunboats and one frigate. The British warships did not react at all, and it was not until the Indian Ocean Fleet gave the order for them to surrender that they realized that the huge fleet in front of them was actually an enemy force.

There was little room for resistance, and the three warships obediently raised their white flags and surrendered, after all, the two armed steam gunboats were completely offshore harbor guards, which was just a deterrent to private merchant ships and small pirates.

A day later, in the early morning, the Indian Ocean Fleet came outside the port of Colombo.

The commander of the fleet, Wei Jun, did not hesitate and directly ordered the attack. Despite the suggestion of a staff officer that a forced landing could be made 20 kilometres from the port of Colombo, it would have been much smoother to send transport ships to send the infantry to the island of Ceylon and then advance by land to capture Colombo from the inland hinterland of the port of Colombo than to attack directly from the port. But Wei Jun did not take it. His aim was to verify the power of the Indian Ocean Fleet's artillery.

Therefore, the warships, which were bearing the expectations of the fleet commander, entered the white-hot point as soon as they attacked.

Led by 2 ironclad ships, 2 ordinary battleships, 6 cruisers and 4 gunboats fired shells at the same time, covering the entire Colombo pier and shore defense batteries, and the meteorite-like shells blew up the entire Colombo pier. The British army did not even have time to fire at the shore defense batteries behind the docks, and they were caught in a world of exploding shells and had to hide.

The four warships moored in the harbor had been discovered when the Indian Ocean Fleet approached Colombo Port, but perhaps because Chengping had been too long and did not believe that the British Empire would have enemies, they did not make any response, and it was not until the Indian Ocean Fleet blocked the port channel that the four British warships realized that the fleet in front of them did not seem to be friendly, and hurriedly sent people over to prepare for communication, but what greeted them was directly a round of shelling.

In particular, the frequency of artillery shells output by "Dingyuan No. 1" and "Dingyuan No. 2" has reached a terrifying level. As soon as the first round of artillery ended, the British warships had not yet reacted, and even the position of the ship's side had not been adjusted, and the second round of guns of the two ironclad ships had already been fired, and the two main guns were aimed at the cruiser, and several shells hit, and suddenly, many of the cruiser's side panels were penetrated. Before there was much time to respond, the third round of artillery came again, and now the cruiser was even more miserable that even the inner compartment was blasted open by a powerful flowering shell, the ship's planks cracked, and the water began to gurgle in.

Wei Jun was so angry that he just wanted to see the fourth round of artillery completely sink the enemy warship, but Buchanan next to him hurriedly stopped him and said, "Commander, quickly order to stop the attack!" Look, the British are already shaking the white cloth and surrendering! ”

Wei Junshu said scoundrelly: "Chief of Staff, it was only these cruisers of the British army that surrendered, and the other two frigates and that gunboat did not surrender." There's also that battery, and it's still returning fire! Keep firing at me! ”

Buchanan hurriedly said: "Commander, no! This cruiser is afraid that it has a displacement of more than 2,800 tons, and it is the flagship of the entire British Ceylon fleet, and its surrender represents the surrender of the entire Ceylon fleet. If we surrender, we will be our trophies, and if we sink them by artillery fire, we will sink our own warship! ”

Wei Jun listened to these words, he shook his head and hurriedly said, "That's not good!" Hurry up and stop firing! See if the batteries on the shore have surrendered, if not, aim at the batteries and fire, quickly suppress them, can't let him open fire and wound those surrendered warships, now it is the warships of our Indian Ocean Fleet! ”

In fact, as soon as the gunfire stopped, the entire port of Colombo fell silent, but the smoke of gunfire filled the air. When the smoke cleared slightly, two pieces of white cloth were held up with rifles at the positions of the two batteries, and the batteries gave up resistance and surrendered.