【2nd Update】

At 2 a.m. on July 25, 1892, the Governor General of India, Earl Blackwood, who was in Calcutta, was stunned by a telegram from Yangon on the other side of the Gulf, when Major General Solvey, the commander of the British Army in Burma, reported to him that the Burmese guerrillas, who had been driven from place to place by British troops, had suddenly conquered Mandalay and Minjian, important cities in the upper reaches of the Irrawaddy River.

Moreover, the British troops stationed there were also attacked by suspected Chinese troops, and it is clear that the Burmese guerrillas dared to openly challenge the British army's defense line only at the instigation of the Chinese, and Mandalay and Min Jian fell in less than 1 day, killing hundreds of British soldiers and Indian servants.

When Governor Blackwood was surprised by the chaos in Burma, he was again stunned by another news before dawn, a Chinese army appeared in Bengal, the back garden of India, less than three or four hundred kilometers from Calcutta, where he was located, and a British army that had fled from the front line reported to the Indian Viceroy that they had been attacked by tens of thousands of Chinese troops, and that the Indian soldiers, who had been British servants, had also defected in front of the battle.

Early in the morning, Governor Blackwood summoned Colonel Pater, commander of the 1st Indian Brigade of the Army stationed in Calcutta, to discuss a possible plan for the expedition, and new news came that the Kingdom of Hyderabad, which had been destroyed by the East India Company more than a hundred years earlier, had been announced in northern Bengal, which had been destroyed by the East India Company more than a hundred years earlier, from the northern part of Bengal, which had been the three important Ganges cities of Rampur, Dinaj, and Tubbri.

The kingdom of Hyderabad is just a reflection of India's chaotic internal affairs under the rule of the Waal Empire that began in the 16th century, and India was nominally a vast empire in South Asia in history. But in fact. Centralized unification was never truly achieved in India as a whole. The so-called Indian Empire was nothing more than a name for the locality to be unrestrained.

Hinduism, Islam, and feudal princes can all be divided and divided in India, and the East India Company was able to slowly rule the whole of India with an army of only 1,000 people, which was completely implementing the strategic policy of "Indians killing Indians", and the whole India was full of castes, princes, nobles, and sectarian barriers, and this time, the method of almost replicating history actually appeared in the Chinese army that had just entered India.

The question is. The British, who knew the Indians well, apparently understood the short-sightedness of the Indians, but the Chinese thoroughly magnified and made full use of this, so in just a few days, an Indian feudal lord who nominally accepted the canonization of China appeared in the colony of the British Empire.

"Your Excellency, we must draw marines from the navy to assist in the attack, and we must move north along the Ganges as soon as possible, and launch the attack before the Chinese has no complete control over Bengal...... Otherwise. God knows, how many Indian bastards are still in the author's Maharaja and King Dreams! ”

Brigadier Dispatch was very aware of the situation. Chinese suddenly appeared on the Ganges Plain, and the only way was to attack from the unconquerable southern Tibetan plateau, and the entire state of Bengal and the surrounding state of Gark, in addition to the Indian First Brigade of the Army, could only ask the Navy for reinforcements, of course, he still had seven or eight thousand Indian soldiers in his hands, and he still had to make full use of these gun positions......

Governor Blackwood, whose resource-rich India is now an important decoration in the crown of the British Empire, and who dedicates an astonishing value to the British Empire every year, naturally understood his heavy responsibility, and he immediately approved the report, sending a telegram to Vice Admiral Simon, the commander of the Far East Fleet, across the sea, and at the same time ...... He also did not forget about the 3 British Army divisions stationed in Burma.

When the telegram reached Vice Admiral Simon, commander of the Royal Navy's Far East Grand Fleet, who was reorganizing his navy in Penang Port, the admiral's brow was about to squeeze out of the water, and the navy was severely damaged, and he was forced to abandon his previous plan to attack Sumatra and South China, but he had no intention of giving up on the plan to deal a fatal blow to his opponent on the sea.

From the battle outside the Sin Chew Strait, to the Chinese battlecruiser Xuanyuan, which is still active in the Indian Ocean, to the Chinese torpedo boats that attacked the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet with complete courage and courage that night, he saw in it a sense of awe and worry that he had never felt before.

The rise of the Chinese Navy in the Far East is definitely not a simple increase in military strength, it is a sea force that has a shocking military spirit, so he can no longer give the other party any contempt and underestimation...... And it is these unimagined contempt that make them pay an unimaginable price.

The Kundur Channel lost three cruisers, including one Berx-class ironclad, and then the fleet defending the satellite port was completely wiped out, losing more than 20 fleet warships and supply merchant ships, including the supply fleet, and immeasurable losses to the Empire's commercial interests in the Far East......

At this moment, in the Indian Ocean, more than 20 large and small warships of the Royal Navy are still busy with a Chinese warship that is almost impossible to catch, even if the most powerful super cruiser in the empire is dispatched, assisted by two battleships, Ben Bao and Royal Oak, and the cruiser Edgar, which has just been launched, this luxurious lineup has no doubt lost to the opponent in the sea chase - the battlecruiser Xuanyuan.

In the past week, on the busy Indian Ocean shipping lanes, the Regulus captured a total of 27 British merchant ships, sank 3 British frigates, and at the same time, calmly broke through the encirclement and escaped in the encirclement of the Royal Navy twice, which means that the Royal Navy's ability to defend the interests of the empire is disappearing.

A series of sea strikes made Vice Admiral Simon anxious, but the night attack of the Chinese Navy, although the Far East Fleet secretly blocked the news, was a shocking wound when it was uncovered......

In the night attack, although a series of very timely evasion measures were taken, the torpedo fired by the Chinese battleship hit the bow armor belt from the flank, and the 12-inch armor under the entire bow was completely damaged in the explosion, and the battleship as a whole was seriously affected.

In addition, that night, a sturdy-class cruiser Qiangwei and an Ocean Star gunboat were also torpedoed, they did not have the good luck of the Ramilles, both battleships were fatally hit after being shot, and completely sank into the sea water dozens of meters deep, and in the end, the opponent died, and the navy completely lost the determination to fight in a series of defeats, he finally chose to terminate the battle plan, return to the military port to heal the wound first.

Today, the battleships Royal Oak and the battleships Ben Bow, who received their own secret orders, gave up the task of capturing the Xuanyuan and returned to the Grand Fleet sequence, which can be regarded as making up for the lost combat strength, Vice Admiral Simon was full of ambition and launched another attack, but he heard that the Chinese had launched a full-scale attack on the British Empire from land, which made him shake the outcome of the war again.

In the morning, Vice Admiral Simon sent a telegram to Governor Blackwood, agreeing to transfer three battalions of Marines from the Grand Fleet to support the defense of the homeland, and then the British Far East Grand Fleet, which had been recuperating for a long time, set sail again from Penang...... This time, he did not have any reservations, and had only one purpose, to seek a decisive battle.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, when the huge British fleet poured into the Sin Chau Strait, a Shanghai-class destroyer cruising here immediately left far away, trying to continue monitoring on the periphery, but was soon chased by the British light cruisers, and was forced to abandon the surveillance mission and quickly sail east.

The telegram was transmitted on the sea in an orderly manner, and the news of the reappearance of the British Grand Fleet had been delivered to Xu Shoushan before evening, and the Pacific Fleet had replenished it that night, and then quietly sailed out of the harbor and headed for the South China Sea...... And the movements of the British made Xu Shoushan smell a strong killing machine! (To be continued......)