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"Report to the General, we didn't grab anything this time!"

On the bridge of the battleship Xiongfeng at the Port Jackson dock, an officer reports to Admiral Chen Shaoyi.

"What, didn't grab anything? A bunch of rubbish! ”

Chen Shaoyi's face darkened suddenly, he had gained huge benefits from looting the mud last time, but this time he didn't grab anything, wouldn't Lao Tzu come so hard to come empty-handed, at least he had to earn back the coal cost consumed by the fleet in the past three days!

"Actually, the mud has been looted by us for a week, there shouldn't be anything left, even if Matt has rescued the mud before, at most he will leave some food to help the victims, and it is impossible to leave gold and silver treasures or anything!" Chief of Staff Xie Fei explained.

Chen Shaoyi nodded and asked rhetorically: "In three days, Matt will receive information that we will attack the mud again, do you think he will come back?" ”

Xie Fei smiled: "The mud is no longer valuable, Matt won't be so anxious even if he comes back!" ”

Chen Shaoyi agreed: "Yes, if he is not in a hurry, he will not make mistakes, and if he does not make mistakes, he will not give us a chance, it is difficult to do!" ”

A staff officer on the side suddenly said: "There is nothing to rob in the mud, you can rob other Australian cities, such as the Gold Coast, Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, etc. to the north, although the scale of the cities there is not as good as the mud, but you can get tens of millions of yuan by looting." ”

Chen Shaoyi was suddenly happy and said with a smile: "Yes, mosquitoes are also meat!" ”

Xie Fei added: "We have burned up tens of thousands of tons of coal stored in the Garden Island Naval Base, but it doesn't seem to have much impact on the British fleet. ”

Chen Shaoyi asked rhetorically: "You mean Matt is also playing with us?" What other supply bases do they have? ”

Xie Fei nodded and said, "You must know that Matt brought more than 90% of the military strength of the entire British Imperial Navy. There should be more than one Garden Island base responsible for logistics. ”

Chen Shaoyi frowned and said, "But our intelligence shows that a thin mud is responsible for supply!" ”

Xie Fei shook his head and said: "Our intelligence is certainly credible, but don't forget that the British have suffered our losses in intelligence for many years, they will not be without action, although our Chinese S.H.I.E.L.D. is powerful, but often standing by the river without getting wet shoes, it is also possible to miss some information." ”

"You have a point!" Chen Shaoyi agreed. Immediately came to the map, knocked back and forth a few times on several coastal port cities in the east of Australia, and finally said: "Order, the fleet goes north, the target is the Gold Coast, the speed must be fast!" ”

Chen Shaoyi's decisiveness soon paid off.

When the Imperial Chinese Navy fleet arrived at the Gold Coast a day later, it spotted a British convoy escorted by British warships. Apparently to deliver supplies to the British fleet in Guam.

"Sure enough, there are other supply bases!" Chen Shaoyi was overjoyed and immediately ordered an attack on the British fleet.

Since it was daytime, the British convoy quickly discovered the Imperial Chinese Navy, and they only had two cruisers and five frigates, which were obviously no match for the hundreds of Imperial Chinese warships. The British commander immediately ordered the fleet to be abandoned, and turned around to return to the ship, presumably preparing to go back to warn.

Chen Shaoyi naturally did not give the other party a chance to report the news, and immediately ordered the cruising fleet and the escort fleet to attack. Interception attacks on the British fleet.

The cruisers and frigates of the Chinese Empire were significantly faster than those of the British Navy, especially the latest Zhongning-class armored cruisers. The surging power under strong pressure and ventilation reached 24.5 knots, which was a full 4 knots faster than the fastest British cruiser, and it caught up with the British battleship in less than an hour.

Soon, nine Zhongning-class armored cruisers and seven British warships attacked.

Knock knock! Knock knock!

The nine Zhongning-class armored cruisers were divided into three squadrons and formed an encirclement posture, separated by more than 3,000 meters. A total of eighteen twin 254-mm guns were the first to fire a salvo, kicking off the battle.

Seven British battleships were forced to fight and began to return fire. The British cruiser was equipped with only 203 mm of main guns, and its firepower was significantly weaker, and the other five frigates were even worse. The main gun was only 128 mm, and the kinetic energy loss at a distance of 3,000 meters was huge, and it was simply unable to threaten the warships of the Chinese Empire.

In just five minutes, one of the British cruisers and a frigate was shot and burst into flames. This British ship is not the latest armored warship of the British Navy, but an old iron-ribbed wooden hull, because the latest one has been incorporated into the main fleet by Matt to prepare for a fleet decisive battle with the Imperial Chinese Navy, plus the rear escort warships, it is too wasteful to use cutting-edge warships.

The nine Zhongning-class armored cruisers still had no intention of slowing down, and the distance between the two sides continued to close.

When they reached a distance of two thousand meters, the 128-mm secondary guns and 75-mm secondary guns of the nine Zhongning-class armored cruisers also opened fire one after another.

Barrages of bullets were fired at the British ships, forming a dense network of firepower, and bullets rained down.

In an instant, seven British ships were hit one after another, and two of them were hit by 254-mm explosive shells.

Seeing the Chinese Imperial warships constantly approaching and firing, the British officers and men were terrified, because they found that their main gun shells could not penetrate the opponent's armor protection at such a close distance.

Is this still a cruiser? What a hell of a life!

What the British army didn't know was that the hull of the Zhongning-class armored cruiser was covered with 200 mm of homogeneous steel armor, and its protection ability was close to that of the ironclad ship, and the British 203 mm main guns that were still using hey medicine naturally couldn't penetrate the opponent.

Soon, something appeared that frightened the British sailors even more.

As the warships of the Chinese Empire approached the British ships, at a distance of about 1,500 meters, a large number of 30 mm Gatling rapid-fire guns on board the ships fired, this weapon was specially designed for the sailors on the enemy ships, the rate of fire was fast, and the lethality to personnel was very ferocious, or more precisely, it should be called murderous.

In the Sino-Japanese First Sino-Japanese Naval War in history, the Japanese Navy won the victory by relying on the Yoshino's fast speed and fast firing warship. Today, the Zhongning-class armored cruiser of the Chinese Empire. It was even more ruthless than the Yoshino, and the attack on the British ship was even more merciless, directly crushing.

Many British sailors on the British ship were busy extinguishing the fire on the ship, but they were strafed by the rapid-fire guns of the Chinese Imperial warships, and immediately their flesh and blood flew and they suffered heavy casualties.

"The Phyllis and Langton are broken. Evacuate the other ships! ”

The commander of the British escort fleet planned to break the wrist of the strong man, sacrifice two battleships, and cover the evacuation of the other five warships.

However, the Imperial Chinese Navy would never give the enemy a chance to escape. Nine Zhongning-class armored cruisers entangled seven British ships, taking advantage of their absolute superiority in speed, armor and firepower, directly blocking the escape routes of the British ships, and firing fiercely to force the British ships to turn around.

At the same time, nine Haiqi-class dome cruisers also took the opportunity to rush over, also divided into three teams. Join the battle and encircle and annihilate the British ships.

The seven British ships had no way to enter the sky, and the hulls of the iron-ribbed wooden hulls could not withstand the ravages of the shells, and the fires that could not be extinguished quickly burned the keels and deformed.

"Launch Fish Radium!"

Seeing that the Phyllis was surrounded and killed, the captain directly ordered the launch of Fish Radium to prevent the Imperial Chinese warships from approaching and firing.

However, the Fish Radium launch tubes of older warships could only be installed on the deck and were the most vulnerable.

It's not. Before the Phyllis could launch the Fish Radium, it was hit simultaneously by a group of shells that did not know how many.

Boom! Boom!

Shells exploded. The fish radium was also detonated, and in an instant, the entire second half of the Phyllis hull was blown to pieces, and the stern was quickly annihilated by the sea, and the bow of the ship stood high and sank into the sea at a speed that could be seen.

The situation quickly turned 18 to 6, and six British ships had no way to escape. Either they were beaten to death, or they had to surrender.

In the end, the spineless six British ships chose to surrender and raised the white flag of humiliation.

This was the first appearance of the Zhongning-class armored cruiser, a new warship of the Imperial Chinese Navy, although it was not a complete fight. However, it highlights that this kind of high-speed armored cruiser shoots at close range, causing huge lethality and psychological shadow to the enemy ship, this advantage makes Chen Shaoyi's eyes shine, and he has discovered a new tactic, which may be able to play an unexpected tactical effect in naval battles.

Half an hour later, more than thirty British transport ships were captured. The British captain of one of the transport ships refused to supply the enemy, but instead opened the sea valve and chose to sink himself, and then surrendered to the Imperial Chinese Navy in a small boat.

Faced with this situation, the Imperial Chinese Navy was furious and refused their surrender, and a rapid-fire cannon blasted them to pieces, staining the sea with blood.

The other British captains had intended to follow suit, but when they saw this result, they all gave up and surrendered obediently.

More than 30 British transport ships were all supplies for the British Navy and Army on Guam, including rifles, Gatling machine guns, artillery, guns and ammunition, as well as coal, fresh water, food, medicine, and so on for the navy, totaling more than 3,000 tons of supplies, all of which fell into the hands of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

Chen Shaoyi laughed, with this batch of supplies, the defenders of the Chinese Empire on Guam could hold out for another month. In turn, Matt's army on land and sea was short of these supplies, and it was expected that he would soon be forced to evacuate Guam due to a lack of ammunition and food.

Two hours later, Gold Coast, Southport Harbour.

The Imperial Chinese Navy once again blocked the door and slapped the face, and the British coastal artillery stationed in Southport fiercely resisted, but was soon blown up by the overwhelming shells fired by the Imperial Chinese Navy.

This time, Chen Shaoyi had only one battalion of Marine Corps strength in his hands, and he drew another battalion from the naval sailors of each ship, barely formed a Marine Corps, and then landed in Southport Bay.

The British army has more than 10,000 defenders on the Gold Coast, and there is indeed a logistics supply base here, storing a large amount of coal, weapons, ammunition, medicine, food and other materials.

The British army here is different from the British army in the mud, all of them are elite, because Matt suffered a big loss in the mud, in order to avoid the Gold Coast supply base being easily attacked and occupied by the Chinese imperial army, he specially left 10,000 elite British troops to defend.

A Marine Regiment formed by Chen Shaoyi met with stubborn resistance when attacking Southport, and even with the support of the powerful naval guns of the Imperial Chinese Navy, it was unable to move forward.

So Chen Shaoyi sent someone to contact the 4th Marine Brigade in the north of Sydney, asking them to cooperate with the ransacking of the Gold Coast.

However, the 4th Marine Brigade was also in fierce fighting at this time, and they were facing an attack of more than 70,000 British troops. These British troops were brought back from Guam by Matt. Cooperate with the British army in Australia and prepare to destroy the Chinese imperial army that invaded Australia.

Eventually, Chen Shaoyi changed his tactics and canceled the plan to have the 4th Marine Brigade fight guerrilla warfare in Australia. As a result, the 4th Marine Brigade quickly withdrew, broke away from contact with the British army, and quickly moved north. The raid on Cape Burley, behind the Gold Coast, caused the British troops defending Southport to suffer from the back, and finally the British were forced to abandon Southport and urgently evacuate from the Gold Coast.

Subsequently, the Chinese Imperial Army captured the Gold Coast, but the British burned the supply base on the Gold Coast before leaving.

Chen Shaoyi secretly said that it was a pity, but the Gold Coast is also a big city with a population of more than 500,000, although this time the British were prepared and fled more than 100,000 people and took a lot of wealth. But there is still a lot of wealth that cannot be taken away and left behind.

The Chinese Imperial Army then ransacked the Gold Coast, swept away nearly five million yuan of wealth, and then burned down the entire Gold Coast, the entire city was reduced to ashes, causing direct economic losses of 200 million pounds to the British, although it was not as good as destroying the mud and causing at least more than a billion pounds of economic losses to the British, but it was enough to make the British suffer for a while.

On the Gold Coast, the British army resisted stubbornly, and it was delayed for a long time. So Chen Shaoyi canceled his plan to continue to sack Brisbane, north of the Gold Coast, knowing that Matt's fleet was coming back soon. So immediately take the 4th Marine Brigade and disappear into the waters of the Solomon Islands.

A day later, Matt returned with the main fleet of the LinkedIn Navy, and learned that the Gold Coast had fallen and the British supply base there had been destroyed, and Matt's eyes were immediately black. Passed out for two hours.

"Now! Right away! Find out the damn Imperial Chinese Navy for me right now! ”

"I'm going to skin them!"

Matt woke up and immediately scolded, he was so angry that he couldn't do it.

"Report, reconnaissance found that the direction of the disappearance of the Chinese Imperial Navy is the waters of the Solomon Islands, and it is suspected that they are hiding somewhere in the Solomon Islands!"

Matt was so angry that he vomited blood. But he had not yet lost his mind, and he knew that if he rashly entered the waters of the Solomon Islands, he was afraid that he would be ambushed by the Chinese Imperial Navy.

But if it doesn't go, the Imperial Chinese Navy will probably have to give up the ambush again and go north to Guam again.

"These cowards!"

Matt gritted his teeth, and his heart was almost angry!

"The target is the Solomon Sea, it's still the tactic of last time!"

This was Matt's only way, he could not separate the fleet to defend Guam and Australia, it would be difficult to create an overwhelming numerical superiority over the Chinese Imperial Navy, but would be broken by each one.

As a British admiral, Matt was well aware of the consequences of dividing his troops, so he knew Chen Shaoyi's motive for attacking Australia, but he did not dare to divide his troops.

"But in this way, we will always be led by the nose by the Chinese Imperial Navy!" Some British staff officers questioned it.

"What can I do? If we don't chase it, they will definitely attack Guam again! Matt asked rhetorically, and he was helpless.

So, the British fleet did not stop and went directly to the waters of the Solomon Islands.

Somewhere in the Solomon Islands, the Imperial Chinese Navy fleet temporarily stopped here to observe the movements of the British fleet.

Soon, Chen Shaoyi learned that Matt had led the fleet to chase after him, but Matt still used the most prudent tactics to enter the waters of the Solomon Islands and did not give Chen Shaoyi a chance to sneak attack him.

"This old fox is still so cautious!"

Chen Shaoyi smiled bitterly, once again gave up the ambush plan, and led the fleet to withdraw from the waters of the Solomon Islands. But instead of going straight to Guam, he went to Australia again, targeting Brisbane in Moreton Bay, Australia's second largest city after the mud, and it was worth plundering.

However, Matt learned the lesson of the last time, he became smarter, and sent a few small search fleets, even if he ran into the main force of the Chinese Imperial Navy, it didn't matter, it didn't matter if he lost everything, it didn't affect the overall situation. Matt only wanted to know the location of the main fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy, and then judge Chen Shaoyi's tactical intentions.

Soon, a search fleet learned of the movements of the Chinese Imperial fleet from the local natives of Solomon and reported it to Matt.

"It's so bold to dare to attack Australia right under my nose!"

Matt sneered, this time it depends on where you are going, and immediately ordered the British fleet to turn around and sail back, and also went straight to Moreton Bay.

Chen Shaoyi planned to commit a crime under the nose of the British Navy, of course, he had to be very careful, and soon, the Seventh Patrol Fleet, which was in charge of the guard of the rear of the palace (when not in combat state, a cruiser patrolled with six frigates as the lead ship) discovered the British fleet forward and reported it to Chen Shaoyi in time.

"Matt is getting more and more thieves!"

Chen Shaoyi smiled, immediately gave up the plan to raid Moreton Bay, ordered the whole fleet to turn around at night, and accelerated its advance to widen the distance from the British fleet.

This time, Chen Shaoyi did not go to the Solomon Islands, but walked the Coral Sea, sticking to the east coast of Australia, passing through the Dutch East Indies, returning to the Pacific Ocean and heading straight to Guam.

The British Navy had too many warships, and each ship had different speeds, so it was slow to ship for fear of being attacked in the dark, and as a result, it lost the target of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

The next day, after a day of searching without finding the Imperial Chinese Navy, Matt judged that the Imperial Chinese Navy might have returned to the Solomon Islands, so he turned around again and headed for the Solomon Islands.

After Matt arrived in the Solomon Islands, after a careful search, he failed to find the Imperial Chinese Navy, and then Matt realized that the Imperial Chinese Navy had taken another route back to Guam.

"Fack!" Matt was worried about the British troops on Guam, so he hurried north and headed straight for Guam.

Chen Shaoyi arrived in Guam one day before Matt, and once again used fierce naval artillery fire to ravage the British troops invading Guam, and sent the 4th Marine Brigade to Guam, cooperating with the 3rd Marine Brigade and the 7th Marine Brigade to carry out a counteroffensive against the 30,000 British troops on Guam (which were replenished).

Because of the urgency of time, the intensity of the battle was extremely high, the battle was extremely tragic, the Chinese Imperial Army launched a fierce counteroffensive, using bulldozers to open up the radium area, so that the British army's ground radium failed, and broke through the six lines of defense of the British army in one day, killing more than 10,000 enemies, and severely damaging the British troops.

Just when the Chinese Imperial Army was preparing to completely eliminate the British army invading Guam, Matt led the main force of the LinkedIn Navy to Guam, Chen Shaoyi was still not ready to fight the British Navy and quickly withdrew from Guam, so the Chinese Imperial Army gave up the operation of eliminating the British army and quickly withdrew to the fortress of Guam.

This time, Matt saw the Imperial Chinese Navy run away again, and he also saw with his own eyes that the British army in Guam had suffered more than 10,000 casualties and was beaten like dogs, and he even saw that the Imperial Chinese Army, which had been cheapened, retracted back to the fortress of Guam and hid in a turtle shell.

On this trip, Matt returned in vain, but the Gold Coast fell, another supply base was destroyed, and the British army in Guam lost more than 10,000 men.

If this Nima continues like this, he will really be to death!

Matt resisted the urge to squirt blood, he couldn't eat or sleep well recently, and he was weak and anemic and didn't dare to vomit anymore......

[It's about to be 515, I hope to continue to hit the 515 red envelope list, and the red envelope rain will be able to give back to readers and promotional works on May 15. A piece is also love, and it must be better! (To be continued.) )