Despite his efforts to speed up, the cost of a detour to the Cape of Good Hope was inevitable, and by the time Seymour's expeditionary fleet arrived in Bombay, it was already September, but he was glad that Mumbai was still in the hands of the British. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Viceroy of British India, who knew how important the city was, concentrated all the mines outside the port of Bombay and almost sealed it himself, leaving only a very narrow waterway, so that Seymour's expeditionary fleet had to reduce its speed to the point where it could not be lower, and it was inevitable that it would be cautious when entering the port......

After meeting Seymour, the Anglo-Indian governor was pleased to introduce to him, "Although China already has a powerful fleet that can challenge the Royal Navy, the continental thinking in their minds is still deeply ingrained. But they attacked Yangon, Kolkata and Madras in order, and they haven't hit them until now, how stupid! ”

"The stupidity of our enemies is our luck, and it shows that God still protects the British Empire." Seymour laughed heartily when he heard this, but he didn't know that the reason why Li Hui asked the navy not to rush to attack Mumbai was not only worried that the ground forces would not be able to keep up, but also because he was afraid of scaring the British expeditionary fleet back......

Li Hui's order to the Chinese navy was not only to defeat the British expeditionary fleet, but also to annihilate it and not let a single one escape.

After achieving this goal, on the one hand, Britain can lose the ability to use the tactics of breaking diplomatic relations to disgust China, and on the other hand, it can pull the British Empire off the throne of the world hegemon in advance. Nor can it really unite against China. In that case, life in China would be much better.

Moreover, only by losing badly enough can the British arrogance be completely destroyed and the British government be forced to accept harsh conditions that can satisfy the Chinese side in the peace talks.

However, it is not necessarily faster than the enemy ship that it will not be able to escape, and there are countless examples in history of successful escape despite the fact that the speed of the enemy is not as fast as the pursuer, and although the current combat distance is still relatively close and conducive to pursuit, it is not completely impossible to escape. Especially the Sovereign-class battleship has a large tonnage, strong sinking resistance, or a battleship with strong armor, it is not easy to sink, and the maximum speed is seventeen or eighteen knots, which is not slow, if the battle is not over and exits the battle, because at most only one will be sent to pursue so as not to affect the victory of the main battlefield, it is really difficult to guarantee that it will be sunk.

In order to minimize the chances of the enemy ships escaping, the thinkers of the Navy General Staff from the top of the Yan Fu down to the Navy can be said to have racked their brains, but they have not been able to think of any clever plan to be absolutely sure. But what they didn't expect was that the goal that the stratagem could not achieve anyway was made incredibly easy because of the emergence of a new technology.

Originally, Li Hui planned to wait for the West to invent wireless telegraphy before letting the system produce the radio station, but considering that it was more important to completely annihilate the British expeditionary fleet, and now there was not much time left for the West to invent wireless telegraphy, if he did a good job of secrecy, he would not have accelerated the West's technological progress in this field much, so he produced 12 units as secret equipment and sent them to each Haitian-class armored cruiser.

These radio stations were only at the technical level of 1900, and the vacuum diode had not yet been invented, so it could only be a spark wireless telegraph, which was bulky and bloated, had poor reliability, and the communication distance was not long enough, but in fact, it could not necessarily play the role that Li Hui expected. But they can be used as a disguise, so that the biochemical soldiers responsible for using these radio stations can show their special ability to transmit messages to each other (through the system message board) over long distances, anyway, these radio stations are special equipment belonging to the Momen and not the Datong Party, and they are considered to be borrowed before the merger of the two, and others can't even touch them, so what information those biochemical soldiers "translated" is only known to them, and even if others have doubts in their hearts, it is not easy to talk nonsense without evidence......

Although Liu Buyun and the others are very curious about this kind of equipment that is said to be able to communicate wirelessly over long distances, Momen and the Datong Party are not completely integrated, and it is inconvenient for them to ask more, anyway, they just need to know the purpose of this thing, and they can communicate wirelessly over long distances, which has immeasurable tactical value on the sea where there is no wire. With almost no brains, the top brass of the Chinese Navy came up with a combat plan that was absolutely impossible to implement before......

Having just undergone a long voyage, the twelve warships of the British expeditionary fleet needed to undergo a long period of maintenance before they could go to sea. When all this was done, the Chinese navy took the strategically important Colombo and connected with the previously occupied Kolkata and Madras to take full control of the Bay of Bengal. However, Seymour is not particularly worried about this, in his opinion, the decisive battle at sea that is about to begin is the key, and after this battle is won, China will have to spit out a lot of land no matter how much territory it has occupied. From the point of view of a decisive battle at sea, Seymour believes that it is a good thing for the Chinese Navy to move forward to the island of Ceylon, because it means that their supply lines will be lengthened and the situation of home and guest will be reversed. As long as he takes full advantage of the advantages of waiting for work, his fleet will have a better chance of victory than previously expected.

However, there were other news that came out of this period that worried Seymour, such as the fact that the Chinese army advanced into Northeast China, Xinjiang, Outer Mongolia and Yunnan, but did not break out into military conflict with Tsarist Russia and France as the British government expected, and it seemed that China's reunification was a foregone conclusion.

As long as there is this merit at the bottom, with China's deep-rooted concept of great unification, even if the Chinese Navy loses the decisive battle, China will not break out into large-scale civil strife, and as long as there is no internal chaos, with the reborn strong combat effectiveness of the Chinese Army and China's terrifying size that is terrifying to think about, even if they lose the sea, they will still be invincible. And the British Royal Navy can't always keep most of the capital ships in the Far East, so what if China rebuilds its navy again in the future? (To be continued.) )