In the days that followed, the six steam cruisers were like a group of ghosts, erratic and often in the sight of the British. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Or the port of Chilaza.

Or next to a patrolling battleship.

Relying on the advantages of speed, artillery range, and sighting equipment, they poured cannonballs at the fastest speed at a distance beyond the reach of the British, and then drifted away and disappeared into the vast sea, and in less than half a month, they sent two battleships and four armed merchant ships to the bottom of the sea with their terrifying cannons. Enraged, Admiral Bing even drove the entire battlefleet out, but the huge difference in speed still allowed them to easily escape from the encirclement and interception, and instead sank another battleship.

And that's not the battle yet!

This huge fleet had already lost one-eighth of its battleships.

Admiral Bing, who had no choice but to adopt a rather clumsy turtle tactic, simply took back all the warships patrolling outside, and then painstakingly built an artillery position near the port of Chiraza, erected forty twenty-pounder rifled guns as protection, and used the range of 4,000 yards of this cannon and the power of cast steel flowering shells to stop these ghosts, this trick did solve this problem for him, but it also made him lose control of the outside world, and also doomed him to future tragedy.

But there's a lot of good news.

Amunggula III brought in a large number of warriors with combat experience as quickly as possible, and then Sulabati brought a group from East Java, and soon the number of warriors who fought for the freedom of Du, of course, mainly for Dandan, exceeded 100,000. You must know that at this time, the population of the entire Java Island is estimated to be no more than two million, and it is possible to gather so many people in a short period of time, you can imagine how hated those Ming slave traders are here. Relying on the arms provided by the British, the Javanese quickly completed their armament, and then left 10,000 men and the British army to guard Ciraza, leaving 90,000 troops and a group of British advisers, dragging the cannons to Batavia, and the ranks continued to expand as they marched.

When Admiral Bin watched the army go away with a pleased gaze, he didn't know that Chen Taizheng of Batavia was smiling very happily at this time.

100,000 monkeys.

If they hide in the jungle, it will take a few teenagers to clean them up!

"Good people, I like such good people!"

In the city of Nanjing, Emperor Yang also expressed his heartfelt admiration, it is obvious that this time the British have helped him a lot, as long as this battle is over, Java Island will be pacified, although it does not mean that the entire Nanyang colony has been pacified, but at least it has solved a big trouble for him. Once the resistance on Java is eliminated, the two brigades of the Eighth Army there can be drawn and thrown into other battlefields, such as the Malay Peninsula, and then the resistance there can be quickly resolved, and then the most difficult Acehnese can be concentrated.

The latter is still useful at the moment.

The main partner of the Ming slave traders in Sumatra was the Sultan of Aceh, for the Acehnese could capture the Bataks who believed in God and witchcraft.

"Actually, I never understand, what do the British want to do? Their behavior is simply inexplicable, I have been working with them for eight years, and in the eight years I have thought that I have nothing to do to them, I buy their warships, give them cargo agency rights in Europe, sell them the latest technology that they can use against me, give them weapons that they can also use against me, why do they still treat me like this? To slander me, to betray me, and even to invade my land until now, is simply ungrateful, simply despicable! ”

Yang Feng put down the report in his hand and said with an expression of righteous indignation.

"Your Majesty, they have always been like this, always betraying, betraying, betraying again, constantly betraying and betraying friends one by one in exchange for their interests, but we are different, we have always been loyal to friendship, no matter when, we will never betray our friends."

Larsen, the Swedish envoy standing opposite him, hurriedly said.

This envoy had just come all the way from Sweden to tell him a long-awaited piece of good news, a good news that had rewritten history.

Charles XII defeated Peter I at Poltava.

And the latter suffered heavy losses, the Swedes found more than 7,000 corpses on the battlefield alone, and captured more than 10,000 Russian troops, just like the last time in the Battle of Navarre, Peter I once again did the Swedes ridiculed the escape master, Charles XII had already bombarded the Poltava fortress with heavy rockets purchased from the Ming Dynasty when Larsen set off, and led 20,000 troops and 10,000 Cossacks who followed him, heading towards the Russian hinterland, aiming directly at Moscow.

This news really made Yang Feng very happy.

You know, he's always worried about the outcome of this battle.

In fact, Charles XII's victory was not surprising, rifled guns and rifled guns plus the best soldiers in Europe plus a battle-hardened commander, and smoothbore guns and almost the worst soldiers in Europe, even if the latter had an equally battle-experienced commander, it was also crushed without suspense. The sight of Russian soldiers on the battlefield in Poltava, armed with rifles with an effective range of less than 100 yards, marched in line from 400 yards to brave the bullets fired by the Swedes, and even if Peter I himself went into battle to boost morale, it could not make up for the gap of 150 years in technology.

In fact, before they could get to the distance of firing from the rifles in their hands, the Russian soldiers had already collapsed.

As for their cavalry, because they were not adapted to the flowering shells, they also scattered under the bombardment of fifteen-pound rifled guns.

However, it is still unknown what will happen to the little lion, you must know that Xiao Na took it farther than him, and he did not fight on Russian soil before, Poltava is in Ukraine, to be precise, it belongs to the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, and the latter is the Elector of Saxony, who has surrendered to him at this time, and he also has the support of the local Cossacks, but it is the territory of the Russians to move on.

"That's why I like to be friends with you more!"

Yang Feng said.

"Go back and tell Charlie for me, I look forward to sharing the wine of victory with him on the banks of the Urals, as for the arms and ammunition you want to buy, just buy this, and I will give Charlie another gift, the latest gunpowder, a new type of gunpowder that is five times more powerful than black powder, and it will help you blow up any Russian fortress."

Then he added.

He is going to sell cotton gunpowder to Charles XII, and then let this little lion go to bomb Moscow, anyway, this thing is not afraid that someone will be able to take it and imitate it, not to mention that he doesn't know the manufacturing method, that is, he knows that the manufacturing method does not have the industrial production capacity of nitric acid and sulfuric acid, and there is no way to really manufacture it in batches.

After sending him away amid Larson's surprised thanks, Emperor Yang sat there happily humming a song.

It's time for him to sing, and the good news can be said to follow.

The First Army in the north finally reached the North Sea, and after a completely worthless skirmish, annihilated more than a thousand Cossacks in Ulan-Ude, plus Nebuchu, which had previously been conquered by the river fleet, the Russians' stronghold east of the North Sea was almost completely cleared, leaving only Okhotsk and Anadyr, which was more distant and had actually reached the Arctic Ocean.

And the Fifth Army on the Western Front has finally arrived at the place he is most looking forward to.

Distant Shanshan.

Yinci is still running, it is said that at this time they have already run to Ili, and then they are going to go to the Kazakh Khan, if the latter is willing to take him in, then the Ming army will just go over and push it with confidence, of course, even if the Kazakh Khan refuses to accept him, the Ming army will also push it confidently.

However, Emperor Yang did not want to continue to push forward in the short term, and now the most critical thing for him was to build roads and transport saltpeter from Shanshan to the mainland, during which time he greatly expanded the nitric acid factory, and the supply of saltpeter became more and more tight. And his next step is to popularize explosives on a large scale, and even now that smokeless ****** for rifles have been made, a group of old craftsmen in the weapons factory of the Ming Royal Army even used smokeless ****** to experiment with small batches of copper-shelled bullets for him to use to load those officers with revolvers.

Therefore, the most important thing for the Fifth Army next is not to play the bright moon out of the Tianshan Mountain, but to supervise the collected slaves to build the highway from Shanshan to Guanzhong, at least to be able to run those latest four-wheeled trucks.

It's not a short route!

"Your Majesty, Luo Zhang sent a telegram from there, saying that a large number of mines are needed."

He was there in the United States, and the commander of the Jinyi Guard Intelligence Department walked to the side with a telegram he had just received and whispered.

"Mines?"

Yang Feng said speechlessly: "If he wants the mine to find Chen Tai directly, does this bit of also need my approval?" ”

"Your Majesty, he wants a lot, and Chen Jingluo's envoy is far from enough, he must be transferred from the war reserve treasury of the military department, and the combat readiness treasury of the military department may not be enough, maybe it will have to be transferred from other economic and strategic envoys, and he is very urgent, and the request must be delivered in a month at most, so that the General Staff and the military department have tossed several procedures, so it is better to directly find Your Majesty for the next holy decree."

The commander said.

The warehouse of the Ming Army's Economic and Strategic Envoy usually reserves arms to maintain normal operations, but if it exceeds the normal level, it must be applied to the General Staff by the Economic and Strategic Envoy, and then transferred to the Military Department after the approval of the General Staff, and the Military Department is responsible for the allocation.

"How many mines does he want, and he doesn't even have enough in the combat readiness warehouse of the military department?"

Yang Feng said.

"Two thousand."

The commander said.

"Two thousand? Is he going to repair the Beihai Thunder Curtain? ”

Yang Feng said in horror. (To be continued.) )