Looking at the island again, it is completely digging. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info, especially near the British garrison, the ravines are vertical and horizontal, and the undispersed gunpowder smoke has become a fog that cannot be seen by reaching out to the five fingers.

When the Ming army rushed to the island, they basically did not encounter any decent resistance. Those buildings also collapsed alive under intensive artillery fire. Even if there were still people inside, there was little hope of survival.

The movement here can be heard from a radius of hundreds of miles. Especially the fire that rose to the sky, even from a distance, you can see it clearly. Therefore, when the formation of the 2nd Marine Division went to other islands, the small number of British troops stationed on it simply surrendered.

After all, the lessons of the past are there, and they don't want to follow in the footsteps.

In this way, the British army on the Coco Islands was completely annihilated, and this place was officially included in the rule of the Ming Dynasty. Later, Ou Ziwen did not delay, and took the formation of the Second Marine Division to the north non-stop. When you arrive at Preparis Island, north of the Coco Islands, it is already full of sailboats.

It's the Burmese sailor!

This is the agreement between Daming and Myanmar before departure, and he said that he would meet here.

For the arrival of the Ming Navy, the Burmese Navy was also extremely cautious. It was also before the Ming Dynasty deterred Yangon and scared the Burmese sailors. Therefore, the commander of the Burmese Naval Division, in front of Ou Ziwen, was like a subordinate, extremely respectful.

Ou Ziwen was also not polite, and without discussion, he took over the general command of the Ming-Burma joint military exercise. Then take the navy of Ming and Burma and go all the way south. The matter of this command has also been discussed a long time ago. With the half-baked strength of the Burmese sailors, even if the Burmese side is appointed as the commander-in-chief, it is impossible to find a suitable person.

However, in order to take care of Myanmar's face, Daming still let the Burmese commander serve as the deputy commander. It seems that in addition to the commander-in-chief Ou Ziwen, the authority is still very great. But the deputy commander of the joint exercise was four people. There is only one person on the Burmese side, and the others are all Ming people.

So how much of a role it can play in the exercise is still debatable.

After a five-day voyage, the combined fleet arrived in the Andaman Islands. If it weren't for the Burmese sailboats being too slow, the 2nd Marine Division could have been faster.

However, the main reason is that the Burmese commander deliberately slowed down the speed. Because the Andaman Islands are British territory, Myanmar is also aware of the strength of Britain and knows that it cannot afford to provoke it. Therefore, there are objections to Daming's selection of the Andaman Islands as the final exercise site. But the Myanmar commanders had little say in the joint exercises, and even if they were openly opposed, they were ignored.

I thought of such a way to express my dissatisfaction.

Ou Ziwen has always been impatient, so he doesn't bother to explain. Find an empty room directly and invite the Burmese commander in for tea. They are not allowed to come out until the end of the exercise. At the same time, replace the captains of all Burmese warships and let the Ming soldiers drive the ships for them.

In this way, I am not afraid that the Burmese sailors and the Ming are not of the same mind.

This was also planned by the Ministry of Defense long before coming. Thinking of using the Burmese sailors to make up the numbers and take the Andaman Islands.

Due to the close proximity of North Andaman and Central Andaman Islands. Therefore, the news that North Andaman Island was captured by the Ming Dynasty was learned by the British troops who went to North Andaman Island to inspect a few days ago. By the time the Combined Fleet arrived, the British forces on the island were already on guard.

And they have notified the Indian fleet stationed in Dhaka and are waiting for help to relieve the siege.

It's just that for the Andaman Islands, Daming has taken a more obscure approach. It's also Ming and Britain, and they didn't tear their faces in the end. It is also difficult for the Ming to openly occupy the entire Andaman Islands. Although the Northern Andaman Island was previously taken, it can be fooled by the rhetoric of going to the wrong place. But now that the entire Andaman Islands have been taken down, it is somewhat impossible to use this set of rhetoric.

Therefore, as soon as the Ming Dynasty arrived in the Andaman Islands, it blocked the entire sea area under the pretext of exercises. From the Coco Strait to the 10th Degree Strait, no ships are allowed to pass through. Vessels are not allowed to approach any of the islands within the scope of the exercise.

But after all this, the Ming-Burma combined fleet did not make any further moves. Neither send people to the island to negotiate nor use force to seize the island. The British army, who had been nervous and guarding against Daming landing on the island, was confused.

In this way, two or three days passed, when the British troops on the island thought that the Ming would not dare to make further moves. Late at night on the fourth day, hundreds of Navy soldiers sneaked into various islands. They didn't go far, estimating the direction of the wind and diving into the dense forests of the island.

It wasn't long before a ray of light lit up the island of Central Andaman first. Immediately afterward, the fires of South Andaman Island and Little Andaman Island were also lit one after another.

Like other islands, the Andaman Islands are sunny, densely forested, and sunny. It is winter in the northern hemisphere, and like India, it is affected by the northeast monsoon, with high temperatures and little rain. It was a dry day, and as soon as it burned, it was like a prairie fire.

And when the fire was set on fire, the Ming army tried its best to pick the place where the wind was blowing. With the help of the wind, the fire swelled rapidly.

At first, the British army also wanted to force the natives to fight the fire. However, there is not much water on the island, and then running to the beach to fill the water is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Not to mention that the fire is still so big! After more than a dozen firefighting natives were mercilessly engulfed by the fire, the remaining natives, desperately at the risk of being shot, ran away in a swarm.

So the British troops who stayed behind also got on small boats one by one and went to sea in a hurry. The Ming-Burma Combined Fleet, which had been waiting outside the island for a long time, took them away without leaving them behind on the pretext that they had forcibly intruded into the important place of the exercise.

It was also because the vegetation on the island was so abundant that the fires burned for a day and a night before finally weakening. The smoke filled the air, blurring the vision of the entire sea.

Seeing this, Ou Ziwen had no choice but to ask the soldiers to take advantage of the reduction of the fire and hurry up to the island to plant the flag of the Ming Dynasty. When they encounter a living person, they are also killed. Neither the natives nor the British could be left alive.

Only then with the combined fleet, away from the Andaman Islands. It wasn't until they escaped the choking fog that they dared to let the Combined Fleet stop.

At this time, the British Indian fleet also arrived in a hurry. After meeting the combined fleet of Ming and Burma, he first sent people to negotiate and express the legitimate sovereignty of the British Empire over the Andaman Islands. Let the Ming-Burma Combined Fleet leave with interest.

When the Ming replied that the Andaman Islands had been burned to the border, they belonged to the Ming Dynasty. The Indian fleet immediately assumed the posture of going to war. They want to break through the blockade of the Ming Burma fleet by force.

At this time, the Andaman Sea is not stormy, and the sky is also clear and blue, clean and clear. When Ou Ziwen watched the Indian fleet adjust its gun chambers and aim at the Ming-Burma Combined Fleet, he immediately ordered the Burmese Navy Division to withdraw from the battlefield, and the Second Marine Division formation to seize the advantageous position with the T-prefix as soon as possible.

If you want to fight, you will fight, in the dictionary of the Ming Dynasty, there is never a reason to retreat.

(Thanks to the recommended votes of Yellow Potato, Qin, Han and Tang Ming.) Because it was a severe cold, my spirit was still not very good. But in order to keep changing, so I worked hard to code a chapter. I'm so sorry. (To be continued.) )