However, Britain also has its own considerations in doing so. In the end www.biquge.info, there are many soldiers, and if they are sunk by the Ming Dynasty, they will suffer heavy casualties. As if he were a thief, he made a big circle and sailed the ship to the sea off Sumatra.

Then they board a wooden sailing boat and land on an island off the coast of Sumatra. Look for another opportunity to sneak up on Sumatra.

At that time, it will be able to use this as a springboard to enter the hinterland of the South Seas. Even if the east window incident happened and was discovered by Daming, the daylily would be cold.

It is no wonder that the 2nd Marine Division waited for so many days in the Gray Strait and found no trace of British reinforcements. However, it had deviated from the course beforehand and bypassed the Andaman Sea.

As soon as the British troop transport ship came over, Guangzong 2 felt suspicious and had to go on board to inspect it. After all, ordinary Portuguese merchant ships will pass through the Strait of Malacca and enter the South Seas. It is impossible to sail around this large circle off the coast of Sumatra.

Because from the perspective of commercial interests, this undoubtedly increases the cost. Counting up, some of the gains outweigh the losses. As shrewd merchants, Portuguese merchant ships, apparently, would not have chosen this way.

Although the Strait of Malacca, due to the Ming Dynasty, was completely blocked. But Portuguese merchant ships were still passable.

It's just that you can only stop at Johor Bahru at most! One more nautical mile, that's delusional.

Therefore, the Portuguese merchant ships that detoured this side were probably smuggling ships that wanted to bypass into the South Seas from other places. In this case, it is even more important to check. As one of the responsibilities, Guangzong No. 2, of course, cannot shirk.

But the four Portuguese merchant ships, without even saying hello, suddenly opened the muzzles of the guns hidden under the tarpaulin. Boom, like Gwangjong No. 2 firing a cannonball.

This is also the scene that Chen Jiasheng and they see now.

In the current situation of one enemy and four enemies, Guangzong No. 2 seems to be isolated. The dense artillery fire was even more exploding along the edge of Guangzong No. 2. There were even shells, which fell on the deck of the Gwangjong-2.

Bursts of fire and smoke rose into the air. Chen Jiasheng and the others on the shore were all anxious. If possible, they would like to come forward and help. But relying on those few rubber rafts that don't even have shells is simply whimsical. Therefore, they could only pray as hard as they could, and the second Guangzong would be able to save the day.

At the same time, the two captives were interrogated intensively. Although the conditions here are rudimentary, there are no interrogation tools. But soldiers who are born in the military are all bloody and sexual. With the simplest fist, the captives honestly spit out the truth.

So under the punches and kicks, the British soldiers, who couldn't stand the pain of flesh and skin, were like sprinkling beans, and only promised, telling everything they knew.

It turned out that they had come from the Cocos Islands. It is an archipelago located in the Indian Ocean with a total land area of no more than 14.2 square kilometers.

Specifically, between Australia and Sri Lanka, it is 12 degrees south latitude and 96.3 degrees east longitude. It has a tropical maritime climate with annual precipitation of 2,300 mm and an average temperature of between 22 and 32 degrees.

At the beginning of each year, the island is hit by very destructive cyclones and earthquakes are frequent. Coupled with the fact that the highest altitude is only 6 meters, at high tide, more than half of the 27 islands will be submerged.

The island was first discovered by William Keeling, a seafarer of the British East India Company. In 1609, he pursued pirates and strayed into the area.

However, due to the harsh natural conditions on the island, it is not enough to be self-sufficient, so the approximate voyage is simply described. Now that British reinforcements have come here, they have read William Keeling's voyage diary. Only then did they find a definite route and occupy the island.

Originally, the Ming Dynasty also sent soldiers to garrison the island. After all, this is an important route for the Ming Dynasty to directly cross the Indian Ocean and connect Africa. It's just that with the British blockade of the Ming Dynasty, this African route is gradually becoming lonely. As a result, the Cocos Islands have remained in their pristine state.

The number of soldiers stationed here has also dropped sharply from 500 at the beginning to less than 50.

The Cocos Islands are really isolated overseas, and the supply is extremely inconvenient. Therefore, from the perspective of reality, the high-level of the Ming Dynasty downgraded the strategic position of the Cocos Islands to an ordinary level.

Anyway, according to the usual situation, no one comes to the Cocos Islands. This allowed the British to pick up the leak and take the navy with them quietly, forcibly occupy the Cocos Islands.

Under the overwhelming number of people, the Ming soldiers stationed on the island all died heroically. It's just that due to the inconvenience of communication, the island was stolen by the British, and it has not been reported back to Daming until now.

It was not until now, because of Chen Jiasheng's questioning, that the reason was clarified.

In this way, the matter is much more serious.

Next, they asked how many British troops there were on the island. The captive really didn't know about this. In the end, the number of soldiers is a military secret. Generally, lower-ranking soldiers are not qualified to know about this.

However, they didn't care about this, and if they couldn't ask, they would give the captives more flesh and punishment. In the end, the tactics changed and escalated to waterboarding.

He casually pulled a breathable rag and put it over the captive's face. and tie the captives' hands and feet so that their feet are higher than their heads. Then pour water straight into the captive's face, making him feel like he was about to drown.

It was a penal code invented by the Spanish Inquisition in the Middle Ages to punish heresy.

Under normal circumstances, after 50 seconds to 1 minute of waterboarding, the blood and oxygen consumption in the body will be accelerated due to the exertion.

Immediately afterward, the human body reflexively causes the nervous center to control the victim to open his mouth wide and breathe and swallow with all his might.

As a result, large amounts of water are sucked into the stomach, lungs, trachea, and bronchi. As a result of this stabbing, the victim will vomit and cough violently. However, the water in the lungs and trachea can be extremely irritating and irritating. Cause the victim to scratch his hands and kick his feet.

After two or three minutes in this way, the victim basically loses consciousness. However, because the central nervous system is still protecting the human body, although the tortured person has lost consciousness, the physical pain is even more difficult.

A large amount of thick nasal discharge also begins to be secreted from the lungs and bronchi. The victim will lose his or her bowel movements, and will have spasmodic and stotrial struggles.

This is what people often call the dying struggle! The hands and feet are constantly scratching and kicking, and they are still very powerful. At the same time, the seven holes bleed, and he kept farting.

When such a criminal law was tested on one of the captives, the captives standing by were immediately frightened.

It's so terrifying to be punished, it's like life is worse than death.

In the end, torture has been recognized since its inception, and now it seems that it really deserves its name.

In order to suffer less physical torture, the captives who were still standing made up nonsense and reported a figure of 20,000.

As a result, the knife neck was frightened, and he quickly changed his words. Such a reaction immediately made people think that he was not honest.

So that no matter how much he begged for mercy, he was stabbed and punished by water.

It didn't take long for two more corpses and bodies on the beach to bleed.

At this time, Guangzong No. 2 was finally outnumbered and hit the waterline by a cannonball. The turbulent sea water rushed in in an instant. The stern of the boat began to tilt, and the bow of the boat continued to rise upwards. When it reaches a certain height, it makes a crisp clicking sound and breaks into two.

The tall chimney was also after a few puffs of smoke. It leaned and paddled into the sea.

A large number of surviving soldiers, also on rubber rafts, quickly headed to the coast (to be continued. )