A high-speed patrol ship, a protective cruiser, a supply ship, struck a mine in the strait and was silent, or did it hit an iceberg?

If only the former were OK. If the latter, did the ship sink on the spot, or did it go to the port in the strait to wait for help? Seven torpedo boats, one destroyer, also need to be tasked with eradicating the aftermath.

Xu Yongtai agreed with a smile. The torpedo boat unit suffered heavy losses in this battle, but the results were also unbeatable. They snatched a battleship and a first-class ironclad ship from the mouth of the submarine force, such two 10,000-ton behemoths, and more importantly, rescued 22 officers and men of a submarine who were forced to float. Because of this, the torpedo boat unit made up for a second-class ironclad ship and robbed the submarine force of the combat exploits, and Liu Yang and others did not care about it.

For the submarine force of a small family, the officers and soldiers of a submarine, that is very important. Compared with those 22 lives, the torpedo boat unit only robbed a second-class ironclad ship, which is nothing.

Therefore, the torpedo boat unit suffered heavy losses in this battle, but it also made outstanding achievements and definitely made a lot of gains.

Xu Yongtai stood on the destroyer with a smile and watched the submarine force and transport ships leave, after this battle, high-speed torpedo boats can also shine in the world. He didn't want a torpedo boat to have the weight of a submarine, but the problem now was that the name of the torpedo boat was too small and too small. The only thing people around the world seem to think of when it comes to torpedo boats is the distant 1880 - the 10th Russo-Turkish War, when Russian torpedo boats successfully used bald heads and torpedoes for the first time, sinking the 2,000-ton Turkish gunboat Indiba at a distance of 70 meters.

But now, when it comes to the achievements of torpedo boats, it will be replaced by sinking 10,000-ton battleships and first-class ironclad ships.

Xu Yongtai was born in Li Hongzhang's Beiyang Naval Division, and in 1875 he was selected to go to Germany to learn the joystick mineboat, and then changed to a torpedo boat. It's been 20 years since I was in this area. To be able to raise the status of torpedo boats in the navy is what he dreams of in this life!

Not to mention Xu Yongtai's southward march to the Strait of Magellan, let's talk about the submarine force that pursued northward. After chasing north for two days and one night, I encountered two British and American warships in the middle, one was a second-class ironclad ship of the British, and the other was a new battleship of the USS Indiana. The 11,000-ton battleship was found with only one deck left exposed.

The four main naval guns of 13-inch caliber did not fire a single shot. The battleship sank into the sea first, and the Indiana can also be described as a typical example of the time to be obedient.

The battle, which took place less than 100 miles north of the western mouth of the Strait of Magellan, was carried around the world two days later, accompanied by the remnants of the combined Anglo-American fleet as the remnants of the combined fleet arrived in Chilean ports, and with the transmission of cables.

North America was in mourning, and the Americans never thought that their huge warships would be sent to the bottom of the sea so easily for the Chinese. London, England, is also depressed. Such a large fleet, even the navy that could be used to repair the Germans, was bombed by a group of small submarines and a bunch of torpedo boats in the vast ocean. The absurd statement that submarines do not pose a threat to the 10,000-ton capital ship was completely shattered like a bubble. And the value of the existence of torpedo boats is also as Xu Yongtai hopes. In the days that followed, with the rising buzz and heat of the battle, the tide rose.

"There was no damage on the decks of each battleship, there was no trace of battle. But their waterline, their huge holes spitting seawater, twisted armor, and deformed keels all tell their tragic fate......"

The news was quickly published in local newspapers in Chile. The Chilean government itself is even more thoroughly determined to ignore Iquique. From now on, ignore Iquik as if there is no such land in your own land. Saltpeter or something. There was a tax collected by the Chinese, and Lao Tzu gritted his teeth and paid the tax.

Tiny Chile. No one dared to turn the eyes of war on Iquique anymore. And the whole of South America is full of fear and awe of the word 'China'.

America is the America of Americans, and America is the America of Americans!

The United States, which has already achieved great success, if it still follows the trajectory of the original time and space, will begin to show its muscles in less than two years, and beat Spain, the Europa, to break down. It's time to really take over your colony.

Now that the United States and Spain have become allies, this is not to say that South American countries cannot feel the pressure brought by the Americans, but this pressure has not yet been released.

And now, this American hegemon has been pressed to the ground by the Chinese early on land. A painful beating. The reason why they can still hold on is only because the United States has a large territory, and at the same time, the population loss of the United States is not large, the western part of the United States is the gathering place of their population, and the industrially developed United States still has the capital to continue to resist.

They use the speed of knowledge to build guns and warships, in order to maintain the confidence of their own families and the taming of South American countries. Therefore, the Chinese could not eat in South America before, and those South American countries were humble and persistent in the face of China, rather than kneeling directly to Europe and the United States.

It's because of that huge fleet, an incomparable fleet.

To this day, the fleet is shattered, the 'halo' is shattered, and the faith of the countries of South America is shattered.

Liu Xian had just laughed heartily in Beijing when the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent Mexico a secret agreement that the Mexicans were willing to provide the Chinese army with abundant quantities of crude oil. It's crude oil, not fuel oil.

As the world's largest oil exporter, Mexico unfortunately does not have a few decent refineries in the country, and it has to import fuel from the United States for all its needs, and the price is almost ten times that of the United States. The Chinese defense forces need to take the crude oil from the Mexicans and refine it in the refineries in the east.

The Mexicans' demand is that all they need is a public pledge from China that they will not go south to Mexico. Dias, who now rules Mexico, is an absolute old oilman. To be old and not to die is to be a thief, and he is talking about him.

He is 66 years old this year and has ruled Mexico for almost two decades. This is a standard dictator and dictator! Mexico was in chaos by him, and the social contradictions were acute. But Porfirio. Dias had been actively moving closer to the Americans, extending the railroad beyond the boundary to connect with the American railroad and giving the Americans special concessions. Naturally, American businessmen flocked to Mexico. The U.S. government was very satisfied with Dias's proximity and praised him endlessly. U.S. Secretary of State Elihu. Ruth even toothlessly called Dias "the hero of mankind" and "a great man". Díaz was able to hold on to his power because he had been protected by the United States before, which naturally ruled out the armed threat of other powers against Mexico. It also cemented his unbreakable position in Mexico.

But now Dias's backers, the Americans, have been beaten. Díaz did not dare to send troops to the California Peninsula at the behest of the Americans to contain the flank of China.

There are too many forces in Mexico who are dissatisfied with Dias. If the army is mobilized and the Chinese are hostile, it is difficult to ensure that no one will take risks and lead the Chinese as foreign aid to subvert his ruling power.

Dias only stayed away from China, and maintaining the rule of his dictatorial and dictatorial regime was the most important thing for Dias to start a war between China and the United States. Fortunately, the influence and deterrence of the Americans in Mexico were too great, and no one had taken the initiative to talk to the Chinese Defense Forces for a few months before, and Liu Xian had to order the North American Expeditionary Force to send a force to threaten Mexico to trade crude oil if necessary.

Until now, the defeat of the Anglo-American Combined Fleet has dealt a heavy blow to the American domination in the Americas.

Díaz and many other Americans were shocked to find that the Yankees, who thought they were powerful, did not seem to be really powerful in front of the Chinese. It is really possible for the Chinese to settle in North America.

Dias knelt down for China in an instant.

In the secret agreement, he asked China to support and maintain his regime, because only a stable regime could allow Mexico to produce enough oil.

At the same time, it is requested that Mexico's military can assist the Chinese National Defense Force at a critical moment in the Sino-American war. As a result, part of the territory of the southern coastal region of Texas was obtained.

Liu Xian readily agreed. While the southern Texas coast is an oil-rich Gulf of Mexico, for China, military fuel is the most important. Without fuel supplies, China's armoured forces would go on strike as a whole, and the Chinese National Defense Forces would lose their sharpest minions.

Mexico, which was originally intended to be an oil depot for the North American Expeditionary Force, was as significant as Baku's army on the Western Front. It's a matter of life!

Chile followed Mexico in sending a secret agreement to China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It was to negotiate the question of the ownership of Iquique. Chile relinquished the ownership of the port of Iquique and the surrounding area in exchange for China's guarantee that it would not infringe on the rights and interests of the rest of Chile. The same is a request for public assurances from China.

It stretches so long in this country, the coastline is not a problem, but the whole country has nowhere else but the coastline. So the Chinese Navy poses the most lethal threat to it.

"Yes. But we need the Chilean government to provide traumatic ...... for the remaining warships of the Anglo-American Combined Fleet"

Liu Xian didn't know how many times he sincerely prayed to God that the remaining ships of the Anglo-American Combined Fleet would be suspended for a year and a half after the fiasco. It will take at least half a year, so that the Chinese expeditionary force on the North American continent will be qualitatively strengthened. Moreover, the Beiyang Fleet can directly block the port and bombard the British and American warships. If only all the ships were badly wounded. Can the main force of the Nanyang Fleet also be transferred eastward? (To be continued......)