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Lin Haijiang's originally unhappy mood suddenly became angry, the British did not declare war on themselves, but they sent an additional formation of heavy cruisers in the Indian Ocean? It seems that the dog that bites people really doesn't bark!

Lin Haijiang frowned and looked at Li Haibo and said, "How can a Glory-class B-class heavy armored protection cruiser have four hundred and eighty-nine people?" I remember that the standard wartime establishment of the Glorious-class B-class heavy armored protection cruisers was three hundred and thirty-seven people? ”

Li Haibo hesitated for a moment and said, "The Assault was carrying one hundred and fifty-two trainees from the Imperial Ship Academy at that time!" ”

"What?" Lin Haijiang was like an old cat whose tail had been stepped on, and angrily slammed the coffee cup in his hand to the ground. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Lin Haijiang is not a fool or a bastard, he is still somewhat involved in international politics, unless he takes the initiative to pretend to be stupid, the original intention of the British, French and Russian forces of the Chinese Empire to declare war is to delay the pace of the deployment of the Chinese Empire's participation in the war, and prepare to settle accounts after the autumn, if it is the main force of the Imperial Navy that is sneak attacked, Lin Haijiang may be able to understand the British approach, at least it is worth it! Now attacking yourself with a patrol formation of only six warships, what's going on? A warning or a provocation?

However, all this is no longer important in Lin Haijiang's eyes, and even who fired first to provoke the firefight has become unimportant, the reason is that Lin Haijiang will suffer a big loss, a big loss that Lin Haijiang has never suffered, a full more than 150 ship cadets of intern students, you must know that the imperial ship cadets are a standard three-year academy, and there are only 360 to 420 cadets per session, excluding the scientific research department and the Admiralty General Staff, and the various ones assigned to the grassroots fleet are all treasures, and now there are 152 of them? How many of the Empire's future admirals will come out of this? How many future pillars of the empire will be produced?

At this moment, Lin Haijiang's eyes were already red, Li Anmin and Li Haibo stood aside without saying a word, they were very familiar with Lin Haijiang's expression, and the head of the year was furious!

After pacing repeatedly, Lin Haijiang suddenly said to Li Haibo: "Where is Jia Wuji's battle cruiser formation now?" ”

Li Haibo thought for a moment and said: "The final preparations should be made for changing the livery in the Imperial Fortress, because the fleet is about to enter the Mediterranean Sea to carry out a breaking engagement in the Atlantic, so the ships must be fully commissioned." ”

Lin Haijiang took a deep breath and said: "Order Jia Wuji's battle patrol formation to return immediately and go to the Indian Ocean, in addition, the main force of the Imperial Navy, except for the second squadron of the Pacific Fleet, its main force will all enter the Indian Ocean to break the engagement, I want to cut off all ties between the British mainland and India!" ”

Lin Haijiang's order made Li Anmin and Li Haibo suddenly refreshed, this will mark the full involvement of the empire's military forces in this war that seems to have swept the world, this war will be related to the rise of the newly born Chinese Empire or will fall into a place of no return, for every emperor, this war has made them look forward to it for too long and too long, since the Tang and Han dynasties, the iron army of the Han family will be ready to go again, whether it is a mountain of corpses or a sea of blood or a horse leather shroud, What has been lost in history can only be regained through war, and history is fair and just in this regard!

At this moment, in the small building of the former East India Company branch in Mumbai, the largest port in India, Sir Lawrence, the current British Governor-General in India, was looking at Lieutenant General William angrily, Sir Lawrence was like a panting bull, he did not expect Lieutenant General William to dare to challenge the majesty of the Chinese Empire?

Although the Royal Navy of the British Empire is one of the world's leading deterrents, it is really far from quenching India's thirst. Officials and merchants throughout India were almost universally aware of it, and the overall strategy of the empire was to delay the Chinese empire from joining the war circle, but Lieutenant General William seemed to have destroyed all of this.

Sir Lawrence can be said to be the most heart-wrenching and aggrieved Indian governor in Indian history, because Sir Lawrence caught up with Tang Ziqiang, the demonic commander of the Indian Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Empire.

Tang Ziqiang, as a senior admiral of the Chinese Imperial Navy, his behavior was even worse than that of pirates, in Sir Lawrence's opinion, pirates at least sometimes talked about some credibility, but Tang Ziqiang did not say anything, and often took the fleet to various ports in India to ask for the so-called sea security patrol fee?

This kind of bastard logic Sir Lawrence has never seen before, you a foreign admiral actually brazenly ran to the colony of someone else's country for the so-called security patrol fee?

Sir Lawrence naturally refused Tang Ziqiang's request, and then the merchant ships of the British Empire were frequently robbed, and even several light cruisers that went to sea to suppress bandits were sunk! Sir Lawrence could figure out who did this with his heels, when did there be such a powerful pirate in the world? Can even three light cruisers of the British Empire be sunk?

However, Sir Lawrence has no evidence, and the Indian mainland can be described as panicked, in desperation, Sir Lawrence had to pay this expensive protection fee at the same time to the domestic emergency, but due to the strategic arrangement of the British Empire, the order of the Asian battlefield was reared, Sir Lawrence waited for a year, before he came to Vice Admiral William's heavy patrol advance formation, but what shocked Sir Lawrence was that Vice Admiral William took the initiative to attack the Indian Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Empire before the main force of the Imperial Royal Navy arrived.

It is conceivable that war is inevitable, and now Sir Lawrence is looking at Vice Admiral William more and more unpleasantly, Sir Lawrence does not object to Vice Admiral William's attack against those damned Eastern bandits, but he is opposed to Vice Admiral William poking this hornet's nest before the main force of the Royal Navy arrives.

Sir Lawrence has made the last plan, he has ordered to start the transfer of supplies in the port, all the merchant ships and cargo ships in the port immediately, according to the scale of the war, Sir Lawrence estimates that it will take at least a year or two, or even longer, after all, the Chinese Empire and the British Empire are both countries that rely on sea power, the difference is that the British Empire carries out sea power trade and colonization, not the rise of the Chinese Empire, and the countries that rise through war will eventually lose miserably in the war, This famous sentence of the famous general of the ancient Roman era more than 1,000 years ago is still ringing in Sir Lawrence's ears, but at this moment, before the final decisive battle between the Royal Navy of the British Empire and the Imperial Navy of China, Sir Lawrence is not arrogant enough to be blindly confident, so Sir Lawrence is even more concerned about how to reduce the losses of the colonies than how to prepare for war.

On February 10, 1869, the Great War in Europe had burned half the sky, and the Chinese Imperial Expeditionary Force had welcomed the vanguard of the Russian army at the fortress of Gozów, and Jia Wuji, who was in a very bad mood, also led his sabotage fleet back to the port of Guangzhou.

In the former Imperial Consulate in Guangzhou, the head of the empire, Lin Haijiang, received Jia Wuji, and Lin Haijiang's order to Jia Wuji was very simple, lead his battle cruiser formation to the Indian Ocean immediately, as the advance force of the main force of the entire imperial navy, shell all the ports along the coast of India, not to be used by the British, and completely annihilate the British Royal Navy's Indian Ocean dispatch formation at all costs, the size of which should be fifteen or sixteen heavy cruisers.

Jia Wuji was deeply honored by the combat mission delivered by the Führer himself, and he also knew more or less about the previous losses of the Indian Ocean Fleet, and from the Führer's quick transfer of his return to the sea, Jia Wuji guessed that the eight Nanling-class battlecruisers under his command were all designed and built on the basis of the Zhenyuan-class, and the fastest Knight-class light cruiser equipped by the British Royal Navy was only the highest combat speed of 21 knots, but the standard displacement was 12,000 tons. Equipped with eight 308-mm guns of 30 times the calibre, the Nanling-class battlecruisers were able to maintain an astonishing speed of 26 knots, and they were heavy cruisers in terms of speed, armor, and firepower.

But this high speed is to rely on the empire's latest heavy oil blending boiler and new steam turbine, more importantly, sacrifice most of the armor protection as a price, it can be said that if a Nanling battlecruiser-class encounters a Zhenyuan-class battleship, then the Nanling-class will be sunk or escape without accident, compared to the Zhenyuan-class battleship, the only advantage that the Nanling-class has is speed, but the combat goal of the battlecruiser is not a battleship, but a heavy cruiser! Use high speed to hunt and attack.

Jia Wuji has been planning how to evade the British Royal Navy's battle columns after arriving in the Mediterranean Sea while completing the sabotage and hunting mission, and now it seems that these worries and previous plans are useless, because his opponent is the heavy patrol formation that he has always dreamed of, but in the matter of the attack on the Indian Ocean Fleet, Jia Wuji still kept a very low profile, after all, Tang Ziqiang is not a guy to mess with.

According to Jia Wuji's analysis, the attack on the Indian Ocean Fleet should have been deliberately carried out by the British, otherwise it would be very unwise for the British to take the initiative to provoke the Chinese Empire in the Far East Indian Ocean region without the Chinese Empire taking the initiative to declare war, although Jia Wuji did not understand why the British took the initiative to provoke a war in the Indian Ocean, after all, it was very unwise before they were ready, but Jia Wuji was very grateful to the British, because the generous British sent him a heavy patrol formation.

Sortie in the Indian Ocean! Whether this was a strategic shift in the Empire's navy was unknown, but he knew that the British attack had greatly interfered with the Empire's overall strategy.

(To be continued)