"Shameless!"

"Shameless!"

"You guys are so shameless!"

Marin hugged the mast, and as the Minotaur sank, the water flooded his feet, forcing him to climb up as hard as he could, while scolding.

The five British warships, unsuspected, were hit one by one by the fish and radium fired by the approaching Chinese Navy's fish and radium boats, and sank collectively without any suspense.

Don't you lose so badly!

Marin's tears were so dripping that he couldn't cry. The head hit the mast vigorously, and soon the head broke and the blood flowed, and the intestines that obviously regretted it were blue.

Five British warships were sunk by the Chinese Navy without firing a single shot, creating a miracle in the history of modern naval warfare in the world, and forever written on the pillar of shame in the history of the British Royal Navy.

This is also the first time that the fish and radium boat has appeared on the stage of naval warfare, and has achieved brilliant results, becoming the pride of the Chinese Navy.

Of course, this is also because the British Navy did not know anything about the Fish and Radium boats, and at first thought that it was the Chinese Navy that sent small boats to pick up their commanders to talk, so they did not take precautions, and as a result, they were sunk one after another.

Regret is useless.

Soon, the Chinese Navy battleship approached, and the ship's Gatling machine gun strafed the British sailors who had fallen into the water.

"You can't kill us, we are protected by the international law of naval warfare!"

"We are not a signatory to the Paris Declaration on Naval Warfare, so we don't need to abide by the International Naval Battle Protection Law of Nima!"

“……”

The British sailors instantly collapsed and were scared. I no longer dare to hold the shelf of the British Empire, and it may be useful to sincerely beg for mercy.

"Don't kill us, we're still useful to you!"

"That's right. We have intelligence about the British Navy, you must want to know! ”

"You can put us in a concentration camp, we are strong enough to work!"

Hearing that the British sailors gave up the dignity of the British Empire and shamelessly begged for mercy, the officers and men on the Chinese warship burst into laughter when they heard this.

"It's quite good, I even know our concentration camp system!"

"Then spare their dogs' lives, we just took Manila. There are no decent naval camps yet, so it's good to catch them and go to work! ”

The British officers and soldiers in the water were suddenly amnesty. I finally don't have to die.

However, when they think of the so-called concentration camp system, they also shudder, and they have lost the two Yapian wars, and they don't know how many British soldiers died of exhaustion in the concentration camps. That's not a place for people!

But it's always good to be alive. The British sailors had no choice.

Of course, the British sailors who shot Luoshui were not the murderers of the Chinese Shence Army. This is nothing more than a deterrent, to set an example for the chickens and monkeys, and from the beginning there was no intention to kill them all, that is, to deliberately kill the prestige of the British.

The battlefield was quickly cleaned up, five British warships were sunk, and a total of 1,680 British officers and men from Marin down were captured.

"Let go of me. I don't want to go to concentration camps, I'd rather die! ”

Marlin was roaring. is struggling, I really don't want to go to the concentration camp anymore, and the last time I lived in the concentration camp, he already had a shadow in his heart.

Boom!

The butt of a rifle smashed into the back of Marin's head, knocking him to his stomach.

"Noise! Drag it away! ”

Marlin was dragged away like a dead dog, and the remaining British sailors did not dare to bark any longer, and the commander still treated them like this, let alone them.

"Rejoice! What a great battle! On the battleship Weiyuan, Lin Changlong shouted excitedly.

"It's just taking advantage of the British being defenseless against our army's fish and radium boats!" Although he opposed the sneak attack on the British, he sank five British warships without wounding a single soldier and won the victory, and he also had merit as the Minister of Overseas Protection.

If you have a cheap advantage, you don't take advantage of it, and Weng Tonggong is suddenly full of spring.

Deng Zhilong was also speechless, these civil officials are all virtuous, just get used to it.

Later in the evening, an officer sent in an interrogation transcript that had obtained some information about the British Asian Fleet from the interrogation of British captives.

Deng Zhilong and Lin Changlong reviewed them separately and roughly knew the overall strength of the British Asian fleet.

At this time, not counting Marin's five warships, the British Asian Fleet also had 10 10,000-ton ironclad ships, 12 cruisers, 33 frigates, 17 patrol gunboats, and more than 20 auxiliary ships, including communication ships, troop carriers, supply ships, tugboats, etc., with a total tonnage of more than 280,000 tons, exceeding the total tonnage of the Chinese Navy's Four Oceanic Fleets by more than 30,000 tons.

"The Royal Navy, which is worthy of being the first in the world, is so powerful in the Asian fleet alone."

"It should be that most of the elite of the British Navy are concentrated in Asia, as far as I know, the total tonnage of the British Navy is only more than 500,000 tons, many of which are sails, steam engine hybrid external ironclad wooden hull warships, only the battleships built after the second year of Guanghua (1867) are all ironclad."

Combining the information already possessed by the Chinese Navy with the information obtained from the interrogation of British prisoners, Deng Zhilong, Lin Changlong, and others basically mastered all the strength of the British Asian Fleet and some secret parameters of each ship.

In the first year of Guanghua (1866), the Chinese Navy completed the sea trials and various tests of the Zheng He test ship, and then approved the construction of nine Dingyuan-class ironclad battleships and nine Haiqi-class dome-armored cruisers. As soon as China's major shipyards started, Britain received information and launched an arms race in a targeted manner.

In the past five years, the Chinese Navy has acquired nine Dingyuan-class ironclad battleships and nine Haiqi-class dome cruisers as its main warships, while the British Navy has built 18 ironclad battleships of more than 10,000 tons and 33 cruisers of 3,000 to 5,000 tons in order to comprehensively suppress the Chinese Navy.

At the same time, the British Navy is also adjusting the deployment of global maritime forces, and deploys more than half of the newly built capital ships to the Asia-Pacific region under the strategy of rebalancing to the Asia-Pacific region.

These include: one of the Monarch class (1866), the Monarch, 10,322ton. Section 15.

Hercules-class (1866), Hercules, Hercules. 11000ton, 14.7 knots.

Audacious class (1867) four, Audacious, 10909ton, 14 knots.

Iron Duke, IronDuke. 10,700ton, 14 knots.

Vanguard, Vanguard. 11109ton, 14 knots.

Invincible, 11109ton. Verse 14.

One ship of the Sudan class (1868). Sultan, Sultan, 10290ton, 14 knots.

Two Agile class (1868), Agile, Swiftsure, 10910ton, 13.75 knots.

Performance number. Triumph，10910ton。 Section 13.75.

Grumpy-class (1868), Wrench, Hotspur, 10331ton, knots 13.65.

Two Doom-class (1869), USS Doom, Devastation, 10020ton, 13.8 knots.

Thor, Thunderer, 10020ton, 13.8 knots.

These seven-class twelve ironclad ships, with a total tonnage of more than 10,000, and a speed of 14 knots fluctuate, although the hull layout is chaotic (slipper type, disc type, butter box type and long bathtub type, it is simply a hundred ghosts at night), but the most ensure that each battleship is equipped with two 120-pound guns, with turret type, open gun type, and ground well type, and the position of the main gun is not necessarily, or in the bow and stern, or in the ship's amidship, all kinds of guns.

The twelve main ironclad ships made Deng Zhilong and Lin Changlong's heads several times bigger.

Does this Nima want to make it so complicated, remembering the monarch-level appearance and forgetting the destruction level, the agility level and the vanguard level are always confused.

It's really nerve-wracking!

Deng Zhilong and Lin Changlong looked at each other and smiled bitterly, as commanders, they must master the various characteristics and data of the capital ships of the British Asian Fleet, otherwise it is easy to make the wrong target when the war starts.

Fortunately, the British only changed the main ironclad ship beyond recognition, and as for the cruiser, except for the change from all-wood to wrought iron, the sails were completely canceled, and the whole did not change.

This is because the basic tasks of patrol ships are patrolling, reconnaissance, escort, notification and display of force, they often need to sail to foreign countries and overseas colonies to carry out tasks for a long time, and need high speed, strong endurance and good navigation performance, so the ship type generally adopts a streamlined ship type with a relatively large length-to-width ratio, except for the armor protection part and area, the overall layout is almost unchanged.

However, the deployment of 15 patrol ships in the Asia-Pacific region is still six more than the nine patrol ships of the Chinese Navy, and the pressure is enormous.

"Fortunately, we killed the five capital ships of Marin first, although these five capital ships were built before the first year of Guanghua, but they have also been refitted, if the two sides are added together, our pressure will be even greater."

Weng Tongyi couldn't help but interject: "Then you still insist on going your own way and strike first, I see how you will deal with the main force of the British Asian Fleet this time." ”

This Weng Tongyi really didn't talk for a long time, and his eyes suddenly turned black with anger, and Deng Zhilong and Lin Changlong were so angry that their faces darkened.

Fortunately, Shuanglong didn't have the same knowledge as Weng Tongyi, so he got up and left directly, out of sight and out of mind.

Outside, it was already nightfall.

Camps were being set up on the shore, and the camps left behind by the original Spanish-Philippine fleet were simply not enough, and the officers and men of the 50th Town of the Chinese Shence Army were fed up with vomiting in the cabin, and would rather sleep on the ground than climb back on board.

Around the Manila Bay Channel, more than a dozen naval frigates are laying radium underwater, more artillery is deployed in the batteries on the shore, and even the old iron cannons abandoned by the Spanish defenders have been restored to service by professionals.

All this in preparation for the coming British Asian fleet.

"What if the main forces of the British Asian Fleet do not come?" Lin Changlong asked suddenly.

Deng Zhilong was stunned, he really hadn't thought about this problem. For a long time, from Li Weiguo downward, the entire imperial official and military all believed that there must be a war with Britain until the world hegemon was decided. It was based on this general environment that Deng Zhilong doubted the motives of the British Navy and decided to strike first.

However, if the judgment is wrong, the British have no intention of going to war, Marin is purely passing through Manila, and the British Asian fleet will not come to Manila, then the Chinese naval fleet led by Deng Zhilong will have to bear the responsibility of starting a war without declaring war.

"They're definitely coming, trust your own judgment!"

Well, Deng Zhilong has no better way at the moment, what is the matter, anyway, he has already sneaked attack, and he has already declared war, if he really misjudges, then go to the military court.

"Don't worry, you have something to carry together!" Seeing Deng Zhilong's expression, Lin Changlong was immediately happy and patted him on the shoulder to show comfort.

Deng Zhilong suddenly smiled bitterly: "Do you need to comfort me?" I had already sent a report to the army, and the military department called back to say that His Majesty did not blame, but had given us a credit and informed us that the Northern Ocean Fleet and the Eastern Ocean Fleet would arrive in Manila in two days and that we should be ready. ”

"Okay, so you're pretending! If you don't tell me about this, I'm worried about you in vain! Lin Changlong pretended to be angry.

"There was Weng Tongyi just now, I deliberately didn't say it, I just wanted to make him nervous!" Deng Zhilong then told the reason.

Lin Changlong immediately understood that General Deng was deliberately taking revenge on Weng Tongyi.

However, Lin Changlong was also very happy in his heart, which made Weng Tonglong worried and teased him.

On this night, many people were destined to not be able to sleep.

Deng Zhilong and Lin Changlong were full of thoughts that if they dealt with the powerful British Asian fleet, if they were not careful, they might be blocked in Manila Bay and turned into an urn to catch turtles.

The officers and men of the entire overseas Chinese fleet were also waiting for the day, and they all heard that the main force of the British Asian Fleet was about to arrive, and it would be a battle that would decide the fate of the Chinese navy, and there was no room for failure.

Li Weiguo, the Chinese emperor who was far away in the Forbidden City, also couldn't sleep over and over, and the whole person became worried when he thought of the main force of the Chinese navy going south to fight a decisive battle with the British navy.

"Your Majesty, it's useless for you to worry now, the navy is fighting outside, it's all on its own, and the imperial court can't help if it wants to. It's better to keep your spirits up, and maybe you'll hear good news tomorrow. Queen Fu Shanxiang woke up faintly, and when she saw that Li Weiguo was not asleep, she comforted her.

"I know it's useless to worry, but I just can't sleep." Li Weiguo said with a wry smile, this time it was the Imperial Navy that fought far away from home, and the success or failure was related to the fortunes of the country, how could he not worry, after all, he fought against Britain for sea power, which was caused by him.

Fu Shanxiang suddenly smiled and said: "The concubine has a way to make His Majesty fall asleep, but I don't know if Your Majesty dares or not?" ”

"Is there anything else I wouldn't dare?" Li Weiguo smiled: "You won't knock me out, right?" ”

Fu Shanxiang sneered and said coquettishly: "How dare the concubine stun Your Majesty? The concubine means that His Majesty can pamper the concubine a few more times, and when he is tired, he will be sleepy, and he will naturally be able to fall asleep. ”

The seduction of Chiguoguo!

"This ......"

"Come, Your Majesty......"

“……”

Li Weiguo smiled bitterly, there is a way that a woman is thirty like a wolf and forty like a tiger, but he clearly understands it.

In the Seven Continents Ocean, a huge fleet under the night sky is breaking the waves and galloping straight to Manila.

It is the main force of the Asian Fleet of the British Navy.

In the rest room of the commander of the battleship of the flagship Iron Duke, Klaus also couldn't sleep after tossing and turning.

Seeing that he was about to arrive in Manila, he had not yet seen the Marin dispatch to contact him.

Klaus had an ominous premonition that something had happened to Marin.

"Report!"

"Ghosts in the middle of the night! Surprise me! ”

Klaus muttered, got up and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"Report to the commander, Manila intelligence officers risk death and never report urgently!"

"Yesterday Marin led five warships into Manila, but was suddenly attacked by the Chinese Navy, all five warships were sunk, and thousands of people from Marin were captured."

"What? Say it again! ”

Klaus was taken aback when he heard this, and in a hurry, he stumbled under his feet and did not stand firmly, and suddenly a dog grabbed and fell to the ground, knocking two front teeth off. (To be continued.) )