Chapter 338: Ambush the British Transport Fleet

In the evening, the capital is still brightly lit.

The prosperity of the country has increased the nightlife of the capital, with merchants feasting, workers gathering, and the once eight hutongs are now all hung with nightclub signs, becoming the representative of nightlife.

Li Weiguo did not prohibit these "chances" to serve men, because he knew that this kind of product could never be banned, and if it was banned, it could only become a secret prostitute, and the "chance" of going underground to work would only bring higher hidden dangers, such as the spread of "luck" and the harm to more people. On the contrary, the public "chance" can be recommended to be controlled, because Li Weiguo issued a decree that every week, "chance" workers are checked by the infectious disease prevention and control center designated by the Ministry of Catering (Ministry of Health), and only women who are in good health can be listed for work.

However, with the economic prosperity of the Chinese Empire, the people's living standards have improved day by day, and now they have entered a moderately prosperous society, and the traditional concept has made fewer and fewer women engaged in "chance" work, but the mothers still have a countermeasure, and they soon found replacements from vassal states and foreign countries, and these "foreign-imported" women are more popular with Chinese men.

Luzon and Lanfang Prefecture are "suppressing bandits" every day, at first those indigenous women had no eggs, they were all executed, but soon the local businessmen saw the business opportunity and started these indigenous goods business, while selling indigenous women back to China, they could also provide extra money to the local garrison, so the two sides hit it off, and a large number of cheap "indigenous chickens" entered the customs.

In Annam, the same is true of the border refugee camps, where men are rearmed and returned to fight in Annam, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled remain in the refugee camps to eat and die, and young and beautiful women are allowed to enter the territory of the Chinese Empire. I can only go to work by chance.

Now, with the Japanese attack on Korea, the Chinese Empire has drawn a gourd in the same way, and has set up refugee camps on the border between China and North Korea, and a large number of Korean women have also joined in.

However, recently, as the emperor of the Chinese Empire, Li Weiguo has been "not returning at night", but living in the local palace under the pretext of inspecting the place. Local officials selected local beauties to accompany them to take care of Li Weiguo's "life".

Of course, Li Weiguo didn't come out to fool around and "recruit chickens", he has no shortage of women, let alone beautiful women, the beauties selected by local officials are indeed very beautiful, they are all the best in a million, but most of them are still not comparable to Li Weiguo's harem concubines.

Li Weiguo is bitter when he doesn't return at night, because there are three women in his harem who are pitiful and "coquettish" when they see him.

The three women are from North Korea, Annam and Hawaii. Especially the little Hawaiian princess, she is only ten years old, and she is a pure little Lori. may have been instigated by her father, Wang, who blocked Li Weiguo's door every day, crying and begging for "favor".

Li Weiguo doesn't mind pushing down Little Lori, but the premise is that he is willing and happy, and the most important thing is that Li Weiguo must recruit a certain concubine to sleep, not a certain concubine calling Li Weiguo over.

This involves a question of family "sovereignty" and "face". What's more, Li Weiguo knew that the purpose of Xiao Lori was nothing more than to help her father regain Hawaii after Li Weiguo was "happy".

It's just this kind of "coolness" with a reluctant factor. On the contrary, it made Li Weiguo unhappy, so he simply didn't live in the palace, and he "didn't return home at night" outside, out of sight and out of mind.

However, getting rid of the harassment of Little Lori, I can't get rid of my worries about state affairs.

It's been more than two months since the outbreak of the Fifth Hip War. The Guam Battlefield, the Lanfangzhou Battlefield, the Western Xinjiang Battlefield, the Sakhalin Island Battlefield, the Korean Battlefield, the Ryukyu Battlefield, and the Burma-India Battlefield broke out at the same time, which was the first time since the founding of the Chinese Empire. are the most in the world, if you count the upcoming Australian battlefield, I am afraid it is equivalent to World War I.

Li Weiguo was not too worried about the land war, and his most tense battlefield in the western Xinjiang was greatly reduced because of the outbreak of the Russian-Turkish War, leaving only the British army attacking Tibet all the way, without the hidden danger of Tsarist Russia's belly attack, and the troops in the western theater were enough to deal with it.

The second is the Sakhalin battlefield and the Ryukyu battlefield, because the main fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy went south to Australia, seeking a decisive battle with the British Royal Navy, resulting in the weak coastal sea power of the Chinese Empire, only a dozen ironclad ships and more than 50 frigates were left, of which the ironclad ships were the three ironclad ships captured by the British Navy in the Battle of Scarborough Shoal, and ten shallow water heavy turret ironclad ships, which could only ensure the safety of the coastal ports of the Chinese Empire.

The Japanese Combined Fleet, on the other hand, has received great assistance from the British, has eight ironclad ships and eight armored cruisers of the latest type, and has completely controlled the sea supremacy in the waters around Korea, the Ryukyus, and Sakhalin Island in conjunction with more than 20 frigates.

As a result, the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire, which was fighting on Sakhalin Island and the Ryukyus, had no naval support, and the battle was very hard.

As for Korea, half of the territory has already been occupied by the Japanese army, and the Chinese Empire has no obligation to send troops to Korea, and in the face of the new Japanese army, the Korean army is obviously invincible.

However, the Japanese army fought on three fronts, and the consumption of Japan's national strength was also huge, and without the financial support of Britain, I am afraid that it would have collapsed long ago. Even so, for Japan, it was still a war of all its strength, and after more than two months of fighting, it still did not occupy Korea, Sakhalin Island, and the Ryukyu Islands, and the Japanese army was stubbornly resisted by the Chinese Imperial Army in Sakhalin Island and the Ryukyu Islands, suffering heavy casualties, and now it is also showing a tendency to weaken.

In dealing with Japan's tactics, Li Weiguo adopted the word "trust," because Japan's national strength was weak and its resources were scarce, so it was simply unable to fight a protracted war.

As for the Lanfangzhou battlefield and the Burma-India battlefield in the south, the Chinese and British armies also attacked and defended each other, and there was no major problem for the time being.

Guam is the key to blocking Britain's entry into the Western Pacific, and if it is lost, the whole of Luzon, Lanfang, Taiwan and the Ryukyus will be in danger.

In order to alleviate the pressure on Guam, the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy has already left for the Australian battlefield, and it is believed that it will not be long before the main force of the British Navy will withdraw from Guam and return to Australia, and the siege of Guam will naturally be resolved.

"I don't know if Chen Shaoyi has succeeded, this time should almost start!"

There is a time difference of more than two hours between Beijing and Sydney, but China S.H.I.E.L.D. has a secret site in Sydney, and it can send a telegram back as soon as possible to let Li Weiguo know.

Report. The Sydney Intelligence Station of the Chinese S.H.I.E.L.D. reported that the Imperial Navy had just started the Battle of Sydney! ”

"Call back, pay close attention, and report at any time!" Li Weiguo suddenly ordered, and at the same time became nervous.

The battle of national fortunes, in one fell swoop.

Off the coast of Sydney. The Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy was dispatched, and more than 100 warships instantly surrounded a British supply fleet that had just sailed out of the Huayuan Island Naval Base.

Under the cover of night, four submarines of the Imperial Chinese Navy were ambushed near the target route, and when the target entered the firing range, the Great White Shark was the first to attack, and the six fish and radium launch tubes in the bow launched an attack at the same time, and the six bubble lines were whirring close to the British escort battleship at the head, and were immediately discovered by the British searchlight.

"Multiple Fish Radium Attack!"

"To the east!"

The British officer on duty urgently ordered evasion, but it was too close. There was no time to evade, and the Jaws submarine launched six Fish Radium at once, even if the British ship dodged the front one, it couldn't avoid the one behind.

It was too late to say that it was too late, and the four rays hit the bow and amidships of the British ship one after another.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The four fish radium exploded one after another, tearing apart the armor walls of the bow and aside of the British ship, 533 mm fish radium, and the warhead charge was nearly 210 kilograms, and the explosion power was incomparable.

In a flash. The bow of the British cruiser, with a displacement of more than 3,000 tons, was blown to pieces and the amidship was torn in half. A fiery mushroom cloud rose into the sky, instantly lighting up the entire night sky.

The British troops on the other three escort battleships were suddenly dumbfounded, a battleship of more than 3,000 tons was blown to pieces in the blink of an eye, and more than 1,000 British soldiers on it were swallowed by the explosion before they could shout for help, what happened. Was it attacked by the enemy, or was it caused by an accident on its own.

"Look, what's that?"

Some British sailors shouted, and in the darkness, huge warships appeared.

"So many warships must be back of our fleet!"

A British sailor said innocently that many people believed his words.

"Oh God. Don't tell me they're enemy ships! ”

The experienced veterans of the British army looked at each other and sensed danger, and some of the shrewd ones stepped back as they spoke.

The next moment, when they saw rows of fiery red light shining in the darkness, they immediately turned around and ran, shouting at the same time: "Enemy attack! Enemy attack! ”

The other rookies around them were confused, and it wasn't until a few seconds later that there was a thumping roar in the darkness.

"It's the sound of cannons!"

"Fack! These damn veterans know they run first! ”

"Everyone, run!"

"Fake, this is a warship, where are you going, prepare me for battle!"

A British officer was furious and hurriedly ordered.

It's just that as soon as he gave the order, a shell fell from his head.

With a loud bang, the British officer was instantly blown to pieces, and several British soldiers who were running slowly around were also instantly swept away by the blast air.

Boom! Boom!

The shells rained down and exploded, and the battleship was immediately hit hard, sparks burst out, and the smoke of gunpowder filled the air.

The British ships were in the light, and the Chinese Imperial Fleet was in the dark, and the situation was very unfavorable to the British escort fleet.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Following the explosion and sinking of the British escort warship in the lead, there was a large explosion of ships ahead, they were just transport ships, and their protection was more fragile, and they could blow up and sink a transport ship of several thousand tons with just one ray of fish.

At this time, the entire transport fleet understood that this was an attack, so more than 20 transport ships turned around and fled in all directions.

However, soon their captain found himself in front of him with huge warship figures.

In the face of these unarmed transport ships, the ships of the Imperial Chinese Navy approached directly at a high speed, two or three hundred meters apart, and bombarded them with rapid-fire guns.

This is not to sink them, but to capture them, after all, these transports are loaded with military supplies, and the harvest of capturing a few transports is worth the consumption of materials for a skirmish.

However, these British transports were not so cooperative, and they kept turning to flee, and some of the Chinese Imperial warships quickly bombarded them with their main guns. As a result, it became clear that these transports could not stop the bombardment of the main guns at all, and even the smallest caliber frigates, their 128-mm main gun shells were enough to hit the transports hard, or even sink them directly.

One after another, the British transport ships were sunk, and the red light soared into the sky, and countless British sailors screamed and jumped into the sea to survive.

Three of the four British warships that had been on escort duty were sunk in less than ten minutes, and the other frigate fled.

Chen Shaoyi did not order the pursuit, because he had to let the British Commander-in-Chief Matt, who was in Guam, know what was going on here, so he let the British ship go.

Twenty minutes later, more than 20 British transport ships were surrounded by more than 100 warships of the Chinese Empire, and 17 were sunk successively, and finally three surrendered in desperation, and a total of more than 800 tons of military supplies fell into the hands of the Chinese Imperial Navy.

"Report, the head of the Sydney Intelligence Station of the Chinese S.H.I.E.L.D. ****** begging to see you!"

Chen Shaoyi immediately met with ****** and obtained from ****** the shipping route of Sydney Harbour, as well as the military defense map of Garden Island, the coastal radium area and the safe shipping lane.

"Thank you so much to Stationmaster Huang, with this map, we can go straight in!"

"Commander Chen is polite, and he is also ordered by His Majesty to fully cooperate with this operation of the Imperial Navy!"

Without further ado, Chen Shaoyi did not greet ******, and immediately formed an advance reconnaissance fleet, with more than a dozen frigates and rows of radium boats according to the map markings, and the current path was explored.

Except for one misidentification of the position of the water radium, everything else is correct, especially the military port channel, which is highly confidential, and it was also obtained by agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which is really admirable.

In this way, the Chinese Imperial Fleet easily passed through the water radium area outside the Huayuan Island Naval Base, and drove directly into the inner harbor of the Huayuan Island Naval Base along the safe channel.

"What's going on, is there a thunderstorm?"

"No way, the weather forecast doesn't say there will be a thunderstorm tonight!"

On the trestle bridge of the military port, some British soldiers looked out at the sea in the distance, and the rumbling cannon sound and the fire generated by the explosion just now reached their ears, making them think that a thunderstorm was coming.

At first, they thought it was the British warships returning to the harbor, but as the two British patrol gunboats tried to get close to each other, they were suddenly attacked by the opponent's rapid-fire guns and exploded and sank, and everyone reacted.

"It's an enemy ship!"

"The enemy is coming, quickly raise the alarm!"

…… (To be continued.) )