Chapter 338: The Rising Might
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In the early morning of August 30, 1869, the combat pursuit lasted until the evening of the 30th, when 26 warships of the Royal Navy of the British Empire fled back to the port of Mumbai, and then the Chinese Imperial Navy formation completely surrounded and blockaded the port of Mumbai, and used the guns of more than 300 mm caliber on the battleships of the Cangqiong, Imperial, and Nanling classes to violently bombard the city of Mumbai. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
After three days of negotiations, on the premise that Sir Lawrence, the Viceroy of India, would hand over 50,000 pounds of gold and that the remnants of the British Royal Navy fleet in the port of Bombay would not surrender to self-destruction, Zhan Yang, the deputy head of the Chinese Empire and the commander of the Imperial Naval Fleet, assured Sir Lawrence that the Chinese Empire would not send marines to invade India, but that India would pay full taxes to the Chinese Empire, and the Chinese Empire assured the Indian colonial authorities that it would not send secret police and SS troops into India.
Zhanyang struck while the iron was hot, and signed a Sino-Indian 42-article treaty with Sir Lawrence, the governor of the Indian colony of the British Empire, which included Indian customs duties, the re-demarcation of the border between India and the Chinese territory of Tibetan Province, the opening of 20 ports, and the concession of five ports as overseas garrison bases of the Chinese Empire, bilateral trade between China and India, and so on.
When Sir Lawrence told Zhan Yang with a bitter face that he had no authority to sign such a treaty, such a treaty could only be signed by Her Majesty Queen Victoria after the decision of Parliament! Zhanyang handed the matter directly to Jia Wuji, who believed that Jia Wuji must have a way to get Sir Lawrence to sign the treaty, which would take effect immediately.
In this regard, Jia Wuji did not talk any nonsense with Sir Lawrence, but directly told Sir Lawrence: "Dear Sir Lawrence, if you can't sign this 42-article Sino-Indian Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance, then I can only rule you with regret, Your Excellency Lin Haijiang, the head of state, has prepared ten SS divisions to come to India, and I believe that the Imperial SS can achieve all our wishes, and we don't need anyone's help!" ”
In the face of the naked threat, Sir Lawrence reluctantly accepted Jia Wuji's suggestion and began to sign a treaty agreement, as the governor of the British Empire's colonies, to sign a document that accepted other countries to monitor the taxes and territories of the British Empire's colonies? This seems a little difficult to understand and accept, but since the Royal Navy is still defeated and almost completely wiped out, then Sir Lawrence thinks that his voice should be lowered, if the Royal Navy of the British Empire wins, even if Sir Lawrence speaks louder than the roar of cannons, it is not a problem at all, it is a pity that the naval ship formation of the Entente group is completely gorgeous.
It can be said that the naval battle in the Indian Ocean marked the decisive victory of the Chinese Empire in the Indian Ocean, and the destruction of the main force of the British Royal Navy marked the end of the era of absolute maritime hegemony of Great Britain's impregnable empire, and also meant the advent of a new maritime era.
When Lin Haijiang, who was in the North Sea, received the report of the Indian Ocean naval battle, it was already mid-September, and thanks to the developed cable telegraph network of the Chinese Empire, the intelligence was transmitted tens of thousands of kilometers in just a dozen days!
Lin Haijiang, whose dust had settled, also suddenly changed his face, and invited Tsar Nicholas I and President Chekov of the New Russian Republic in Beihai to discuss the demarcation of the border between the three countries in Beihai.
Attitudes towards the Chinese Empire have suddenly changed, as if there is something to rely on? Tsar Nicholas I was a little puzzled? What is the reason why the Chinese Empire dares to jump out directly? Or even have the meaning of directly throwing off the puppet spokesman Chekov? In the face of the menacing momentum of the Chinese Empire? Moscow is also in a mess, not to mention the fortress of Gozów, which has been released from siege on the Eastern Front, and now there are more than 800,000 troops of the Chinese Empire stationed in Beihai and Siberia alone, and with the laying of another major railway line, the projection capacity of the Chinese Empire can be described as a thousand miles.
Nicholas I did not see that Empress Victoria's stated that the forces of the Chinese Empire would be pinned down in the southeastern and south-central provinces, but only saw a steady stream of Chinese troops entering the Far East, which colluded with Chekov's gangs, helped Chekov train his army and even provided ordnance.
Nicholas I was already very annoyed and regretted at this moment, how good it would be for him to take the initiative to cede a Far East to the Chinese Empire and join the camp of the Central Powers? Even if the Far East, which it has lost, can take enough compensation from Italy in the future, why not even Siberia now?
Although the inhospitable land of Siberia is barren, it is the territory of the Russian Empire, and the rulers of the Russian Empire can live in luxury, even without the company of women, but they must not lack the desire and need for land.
Soon, the news of the defeat of the Allied fleet in the Indian Ocean reached Moscow, and the Russians did not believe the news like a bolt from the blue, thinking that it was a trick on the part of the Chinese Empire, but through many confirmations, the Russians accepted this ironclad fact, that is, the Chinese Empire did win, a brilliant victory!
Nicholas I only noticed that the Chinese Empire had won a great victory, but he did not expect that at this moment, the main force of the naval fleet of the Chinese Empire and the captured ships of the British Royal Navy were overhauled in major shipyards, and it can be said that the current Chinese Imperial Navy only has dozens of warships of the Third Fleet of the Pacific Fleet and the Indian Ocean Fleet cruising between various overseas provinces! But even so, no international dare to test the power of the Chinese Empire on the sea.
The news that the Allied fleet was defeated in the Indian Ocean but suffered a crushing defeat made the entire Entente fall into an inexplicable panic, and for a time there were bleak gloom clouds floating over both Paris and London, and Empress Victoria never dared to believe that the fleet she personally saw off would be completely annihilated?
The fleet that was built with three years of work of the British Empire and countless dollars was once again sunk in the sand and collapsed? She obviously chose the most suitable person for this fleet, Admiral Gomsst, and at the request of Admiral Gomsted, she handed over all the command to him, in order to let Gomsted win a decisive victory for herself, keep the route between India and the mainland, and wait for the end of the European war, and when she turned back to clean up the Chinese Empire and Lin Haijiang, could it be that God did not bless the emperor in the dark? The huge losses of the Royal Navy of the British Empire made the throne of Queen Victoria precarious for a while, and some people have even talked in public about whether the Empress should abdicate the throne.
The Allied and German and Austro-Hungarian battles at the Battle of Vossul had been going on for months, and both sides were locked in the expected battle for position, with millions of shells turning over the land of Vossule, and both the Alliance and the Covenant were squatting in the trenches enjoying the cool autumn rain.
The Entente failed to defeat the Germans, nor did they thwart the overall offensive of the Germans, the two sides only entered a stalemate stage, these were expected by the Entente, to the surprise of the Entente, the army of Nicholas I failed to capture the fortress of Gozów, the Germans did not have the slightest pressure on the Eastern Front, the Germans not only did not increase their troops to the Eastern Front, but also transferred nine divisions from Berlin to join the Western Front, for the incompetence and inaction of the Russian army, the Entente side had no other way but to reprimand angrily, The fortress of Gozów, entrenched by the Chinese Imperial Expeditionary Force, has become a symbol of never falling!
After several large-scale poison gas attacks, Britain and France also tried to develop their own poison gas bombs and gas masks, as long as the wind direction in the Vosul area permitted, one side would wantonly release the billowing poison gas, and mustard gas, phosgene, etc. were also changed from artillery shells to large-scale use of steel cans, obviously the cost of this kind of steel canisters was cheaper, and it was more acceptable to the forward commanders, so the shelling and poison gas became the prelude to the attack.
The stalemate in the Battle of Vosol and the great retreat of the Russian side made the Entente side pin all their hopes on the naval fleet that could defeat the main fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy, thus putting tremendous pressure on the opponent on the long coastline of the Chinese Empire, forcing the Chinese Empire to have no time to take care of the Far East, so that the Russians can be said to redraw their strength to attack the German Eastern Front, because now the more than 300,000 Russian troops outside the fortress of Gozów are not encircling the fortress of Gozów at all. They had already taken the initiative of the defenders of the Chinese Empire several times and repelled dozens of kilometers.
Now that the Allies are acting on the Western Front, they must allow the Eastern Front to contain a large number of German mobile forces, otherwise the attack of the Entente on the Western Front will be tantamount to suicide, and although the German Navy is not worth mentioning in front of the Royal Navy of the British Empire, it is very unfortunate that the British Army is also vulnerable in front of the German Army.
Now the destruction of the Allied fleet in the East has swept through Europe like a storm, and the huge butterfly effect has plunged the entire European Entente camp into an inexplicable panic, especially in the port of Mumbai, eleven dreadnought-class battleships were captured, which not only made the British Empire lose face, but more importantly, the naval power of the Chinese Empire seems to have been strengthened?
The British did not know the exact losses of the Chinese Empire in this world-famous naval battle, although the Chinese Empire did not directly send troops to invade India, but the Indian governor was forced to sign a series of illegal treaties, and now the British are terrified of the crisis in India and the great crisis in Europe.
(To be continued)