"In addition, if you dare to burn the battleship and surrender, I don't guarantee how Your Majesty Long Yan will punish you, at that time it is estimated that being a slave is not enough, and it may be possible to be a slave. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Li Hua looked at the battleship in the port outside and said.

The British did not do this kind of thing, they were cornered by Tourville, and the British once burned seventeen battleships and then surrendered to the French.

"Your Excellency, even though we are defeated, we still have our dignity."

General Norris said sadly.

"The vanquished have no dignity."

Li Hua said contemptuously: "In short, you either hand over the battleship and surrender, in exchange for the magnanimity of His Majesty the Emperor, maybe you will be given a treatment worthy of your status, or you will wait to be sunk by us, if you burn the battleship and surrender, then be ready to be like those Javanese prisoners of war!" ”

After saying that, he left directly.

After he left, the British twisted for another two days, and when the advance of the 31st Infantry Brigade of the Ming Army arrived at Ciraza two days later, and quickly eliminated a blocking British army and rushed to the nearby high ground, destroying an armed merchant ship with heavy rockets, General Norris finally gave up his last illusions, and then ordered the white flag to be raised, and then he himself committed suicide by drinking bullets on his flagship. His subordinates, totaling 25,000 British sailors, 3,500 infantrymen, and 20,000 armed merchant sailors, marched together to surrender their weapons to the Ming army, along with fifty-six battleships, six cruisers, and one hundred and thirty armed merchant ships.

It was the largest surrender of the British in history.

This also means that the British have forever lost the qualification to compete for dominance in Asia, not only the British, but in fact all European countries have lost this qualification, starting from the first stronghold established by the Portuguese in Goa, India two hundred years ago, the history of European colonization of Asia for two hundred years has also come to a complete end. Although they still had a lot of colonies, they were just waiting for the new overlord to take over, in fact, after the surrender of the British fleet in the port of Ciraza, the Ming fleet led by Luo Zhang began an expedition westward, and his target was Calcutta, Madras, Mumbai, India, which had opened its doors to His Majesty the Emperor.

"Your Majesty, the navy has to be greatly expanded now."

In Yingtian's General Staff, Han Wen, chief of the General Staff of the Navy, said somewhat excitedly.

Not only him, but even a group of generals in the Navy General Staff are all like chicken blood, it is obvious that the news of the capture of fifty-six battleships has given them a huge stimulus, saying that the Ming army added up before, there were only more than thirty battleships, and now it has skyrocketed nearly twice, plus these fifty-six battleships, the number of battleships in the Ming Navy is even faster than that of the British.

The best in the world!

"No, what do you want so many sailboats for?"

Yang Feng said speechlessly.

He's so idle that he won't want a bunch of rags that will be eliminated right away.

The first batch of steel-hulled warships of the Ming Navy is already under construction, because the new open-hearth furnace and large hot rolling mill have been put into use in the steel plant, and he can now mass-produce marine steel plates, which can be said to be the most important limitation of the popularization of steel-hulled ships has been completely solved. Similarly, with the construction of the first free-forging hydraulic press and the new 50-ton steam hammer, the problem of the manufacture of large structural parts has been completely solved, the former was originally historically invented by the British in 1793, and the latter was also invented by the British in 1843. However, Yang Feng put into use the Fritz, which held the world record for nearly two decades, on the basis of Krupp's rampant mid-nineteenth century.

Even the ironclad has already begun to be built.

Although it is still a little more difficult for him to make Harvey carburizing steel, after all, this thing requires a complex process, but the simplest steel-faced wrought iron composite armor, this is still not difficult......

Well, that's what Dingyuan uses.

A layer of steel plate, a layer of wrought iron, and the middle gap is poured with molten steel and welded together, it becomes a classical-like composite armor, which can not only defend against high-speed penetration of armor-piercing shells, but also defend against large-caliber low-speed heavy bombs and hard smashes, it can be said that if according to the normal historical development, there will be no pressure in one hundred and eighty years, so long is enough, after all, even a battleship is very exaggerated to use for a hundred years.

And the ironclad ship he also began to build was based on the Dingyuan, but the tonnage was much smaller, after all, he didn't need to install the four terrifying 305mm cannons, in fact, at least ten years, Yang Feng was not ready to change to larger caliber guns, and his eighty catties of naval guns filled with wet cotton gunpowder were enough to achieve the goal of dominating the world.

Well, in fact, a hundred years is enough.

After all, Armstrong didn't come out until the fifties of the nineteenth century, and the span of one hundred and fifty years was enough to make it invincible for a hundred years, although this kind of artillery was not too big in theory, if it was calculated according to the caliber, it should actually be five inches or one hundred and sixty millimeters.

The length unit of the Ming Dynasty is 3.2 meters, and then the decimal system decreases.

One zhang ten feet one foot ten inches one inch ten minutes ten centimeters ten millimeters, in fact, there are wires at the bottom, suddenly, slightly, but those few are not used except for high-precision instruments, and the commonly used ones are only one millimeter, that is, 0.32 millimeters, and the distance is two hundred zhang for one mile, that is, six hundred and forty meters, and there are also nautical miles, one nautical mile is equivalent to nearly three miles, as for other units such as meters, the barbarian system will not be used in the Ming Dynasty, and this set of length units has begun to become public in various subject countries.

Of course, the armor protection of his battleships was also much worse than that of the genuine Dingyuan.

The latter's armor is more than a foot thick is also too exaggerated.

In this era, with ten-centimeter-thick armor, it can be called an unsinkable battleship.

Not to mention fighting, even if you hit it, you can walk sideways.

Therefore, the new generation of Dingyuan-class ironclad ships in his design has a maximum displacement of less than 5,000 tons, all the Yangjia forts in the waterline armor, the design speed of the 5,000-horsepower steam engine can reach 17 knots, and it is equipped with an underwater angle of attack.

The whole ship has six 80-pound guns, and there are also eight new 15-pound guns

In this day and age, this is the hegemon of the seas.

He has this, what else does he need a sail battleship for?

Even if his new generation of unprotected cruisers really fights, they are better than a second-class battleship!

And in his shipyard, there are twenty of these cheap low-end unprotected cruisers being built in the dock at the same time, which is similar to the one used in this naval battle, except that the iron-ribbed wooden ships have been turned into steel hulls, although the hull steel plates are not armored, but they are still immune to the vast majority of spherical shells in Europe at this time, and those pig iron shells themselves are not as strong as the steel plates of his hulls, and at least the solid shells of the rifled guns under twenty pounds cannot penetrate these cruisers.

If he has this, will he still want a bunch of rotten wooden boats?

After understanding, Han Wen also sighed regretfully, it is obvious that the chief of staff of the Ming Navy is still more or less in control of sail battleships, he uses this sigh to lament the passing of an era, the elegant and majestic sail battleships have become history, just like Admiral Bing thinks, xie evil, spitting black smoke monsters will dominate the ocean.

"Your Majesty, what about these warships?"

He asked curiously.

"These warships ......"

Emperor Yang sat there and pondered for a moment, and suddenly said, "What do you think will happen if I sell them to the British again?" ”

"Sell, sell to the British?"

Han Wen was dumbfounded and stammered and exclaimed.

"Yes, sell them to the British, sell them to the British at the price of new ships, and if they don't buy them, then I will sell them to the French or the Swedes at half price."

Yang Feng said with a smile.

Well, that's what he's going to do.

Fifty-six battleships, if all of them were stuffed to Louis XIV at once, then France would immediately become the hegemon of the European seas, although the French navy did suffer heavy losses in the previous war, but now the port of Toulon still has more than sixty battleships, and the combined battleships left by Britain and the Netherlands in Europe are only a hundred outcrops, once these fifty-six battleships are added, then Louis will have an absolute advantage in Europe.

If England did not want them to fall into Louis's hands, they would have to buy them themselves at a high price, and sell them not only the ships, but also the sailors.

Well, in fact, the British have no other choice.

In fact, in the short term, Yang Feng must gradually ease relations with the British, as long as the British are expelled from Asia, then there will be no contradiction between the two sides, on the contrary, the Ming Dynasty also needs the British market, after all, the British still have a huge colony in the Americas, these old pirates who have robbed for more than a hundred years, the consumption power is still very considerable. And Yang Feng's next main enemy was Mu Dabeard, and he was even ready to unite with the Christians in Europe before dealing with the Mughal Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Arabs, the Kazakh Khan of Central Asia, Kokand and other messy heretics.

For example, if he were to attack the Ottoman Empire in partnership with Austria, the Habsburgs would be overjoyed.

You must know that they are a real enemy of the heavens, last time it was not the Poles who showed great courage, Vienna may be green, distant friends and close attacks, always have to play, anyway, it is still very unrealistic for him to go to Europe in the short term, at least ten years his claws will not extend to distant Europe, although he is a god, but it is too exaggerated to fight with two gods at the same time, it is most reasonable to pull one to fight one, and pull the Christians in Europe to carve up the bearded territory happily, this is what he wants to do next.

But before that, he had to settle the relationship between the two sides, that is, he had to take the Christian power out of his territory, and only when the two sides were separated by almost a continent from each other, would the two sides have the basis to be friends (to be continued). )