Chapter 354: War broke out

On the turbulent Isabella Sea, the clouds are thick, the smoke is filled, and the sea and the sky are inseparable.

On the Peruvian battleship, the Spanish sailors were stunned one by one, and the opposing battleship was so powerful.

The one-time salvo of the battleship Dingyuan frightened the Spaniards, and the battleship Zhenyuan completed its maneuvering turn and began to attack.

After the battleship Zhenyuan fired a salvo, a cruiser of the Peruvian Navy was hit by four shells, two of which were fired by a 200-millimeter cannon in the three-tier gun deck of the Zhenyuan.

Suddenly, the sea poured into the ship, and the cruiser became slower and slower, and it was about to sink.

The might of the powerful battleship of the first class once again frightened the Spaniards, who had not seen it clearly when the Dingyuan shot just now, but after the Zhenyuan shot this time, they could see it clearly.

"No warship can sink them"

Kestras couldn't help but sigh, and then scolded the British and French in his heart, how could they sell such a powerful warship to the Chinese Empire

Subsequently, the other warships of the first and second warboards completed the "L" turn one after another, and the starboard guns opened heavy fire on the Peruvian Navy.

"Surrender"

Kstrath sighed and finally said the word surrender.

Odyssey was stunned for a moment, and then happily informed the sailors to lower the Spanish flag, raise it and surrender.

Kstrass sighed, understanding the excitement of the Odyssey. At the moment, it was not at all the incompetence of the Spanish naval soldiers, but in the face of the absolute disparity in strength, resistance was just a senseless sacrifice.

According to the Western philosophy, this is not worth fighting any longer.

The wind was high and the waves were fierce, and the smoke was wrapped in a thick smell of blood.

After a salvo of the 1st and 2nd Fleets of the Pacific Fleet, the 1st Detachment of the Peruvian Navy, knowing that it was invincible, hurriedly lowered the Spanish flag and the relevant naval battle flag.

The sea breeze swept away the thick smoke of gunpowder, and the watchtower of the battleship Dingyuan spotted the Peruvian fleet raising the white flag.

"Report, the white flag was raised by the ships of the Peruvian Navy"

On the battleship Dingyuan, Shi Jianfei looked a little wrong after receiving the report of the surrender of the Spanish Navy.

I raised my binoculars, and sure enough, I found that the other party had raised the white flag.

Shi Jianfei looked at the sky, weighed the pros and cons of continuing the battle, and finally ordered: "Let them lower their sails and anchor, and stop the ship immediately, otherwise they will be sunk."

Soon, the Spaniards lowered their sails and anchored on the spot.

The Pacific Fleet then demanded that the Spaniards all be concentrated on deck and all gun doors closed. Kstras instructed his men to do so.

The Pacific Fleet sent a small boat with dozens of Marines on board the Spanish ships to ensure that the Spaniards would not take the opportunity to open fire.

The Pacific Fleet then sent an equal number of warships to take over the ships of the First Detachment of the Peruvian Navy.

Banqiao fell, and the marines aboard the battleship Dingyuan boarded the Mortis, the flagship of the Peruvian Navy.

After confirming that there was no danger, the commander of the Pacific Fleet, Shi Jianfei, boarded the ship and accepted the surrender of Kstrass.

The surrender ceremony of the Spaniards was very grand, and in the eyes of the naval officers and men of the Chinese Empire, surrender was also a matter of face.

Shi Jianfei asked for a simple order, and finally directly omitted other messy face-saving procedures, and directly took Kstras's saber and was done.

"I think we should start with the treatment of prisoners"

The interpreter translated Kstrass's words to Shi Jianfei, and after Shi Jianfei listened, he said coldly: "You first send someone to inform your Second Fleet and tell them not to resist anymore." Otherwise, if the Imperial soldiers get angry, you captives may not have good fruit to eat."

Kstras was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that the Second Squadron in the bay did not know the situation here, and they were still fighting.

If the Pacific Fleet inflicts heavy casualties, the other side may not be kind to the prisoners.

Kstras thought about it, shuddered, and looked at Odyssey next to him, who understood and hurriedly arranged for the clippers to inform the Second Squadron to end the battle and surrender immediately.

In the bay, when the Second Squadron of the Peruvian Navy was engaged in a fierce battle with the Sixth Squadron of the Pacific Fleet, they suddenly received a notice from Odyssey that all the officers and men of the Second Squadron were puzzled by the surrender of the First Fleet. But when they found the huge figures of the two battleships in Dingzhen, as well as the countless warships in the surrounding area, they immediately turned off the fire and surrendered.

In the evening, when the smoke of gunfire over the Isabela Islands gradually cleared, the naval battle between the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy and the Peruvian colonial fleet of the Spanish Empire also came to an end.

The Pacific Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire completely annihilated the Peruvian Navy with absolute superiority, defending the absolute maritime military supremacy of the Chinese Empire in the Pacific region of East Asia. From then on, the Americas on the eastern coast of the Pacific Ocean had no maritime strength that could counterbalance the imperial navy of China. Since then, the passage of the trade routes of the Chinese Empire in South America has been opened, and there is no longer a threat of maritime power in South America.

In the Battle of Isabella, the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy suffered only seventy-three casualties. The main fleet of the Spanish and Peruvian navy was completely destroyed, four third-class Spanish Galen battleships, including the Mortis, and 11 cruisers were captured, 20 cruisers and 17 frigates were sunk, burned, and maimed, 930 officers and more than 3,000 sailors from Vice Admiral Cstras and below were captured, and more than 6,000 Spanish sailors were killed or missing.

Walking on the Mortis, Shi Jianfei and Shen Yanghao, along with other squadron commanders, visited the battleship of the Spanish Navy.

As the main type of battleship in the Anglo-Spanish naval battle, the overall design and construction of the Mortius has not changed much, and it is still the mainstream Spanish Galen ship type a few decades ago.

Perhaps the Spaniards simply did not believe that their ship was outdated, or perhaps because they were still nostalgic, but the structure of the battleship Mortius was very old. Although the Spaniards reformed the artillery system to a certain extent after the Anglo-Spanish naval battle, no longer using all large-caliber long-barreled guns, but adding some British-style short-barreled guns, it still could not change the backwardness of the Mortis.

"Maybe this battleship could be used as a training ship for fleet recruits"

Xue Muhua's mention made the others nod their heads.

Originally, Shi Jianfei also planned to integrate these four third-class battleships into the Pacific Fleet to increase the strength of the capital ships, but he never wanted to be disappointed after a careful observation.

"When a recruit training ship"

"That's a good idea"

Shi Jianfei nodded, and immediately decided the fate of the Mortis, she was destined to serve as a training ship for the recruits of the Imperial Chinese Navy for decades to come.

"The main force of the Peruvian Navy is no longer there, are we carrying out a landing operation against Peru in advance?"

The original plan was to wipe out the main force of the Peruvian Navy within three months and sweep away the last sea power in the South Pacific. Now that the Peruvian Navy is arrogant and has been wiped out in just three days, the original plan naturally has to be advanced.

Shi Jianfei thought for a while and said: "Starting tomorrow, the whole fleet will be divided into twenty small fleets, starting from the Wucheng Naval Base and extending to the vicinity of the Falklands in South America, to comprehensively clean up the ships off the coast of Peru and provide guarantee for safe landing operations." ”

Then he said: "Send a communications ship to report back to Pearl Harbor and inform the army to implement the plan in advance."

Shen Yanghao nodded and said, "It's just that it takes half a month for the army to arrive in Peru from Hawaii. During this period, can we use the Marine Corps to conduct a landing operation first? ”

"yes"

Liu Jian said suddenly: "Our marines are no worse than the army in terms of equipment, if we can get heavy results one step ahead of the army, such as occupying Guayaquil, where the Spaniard military port can provide the fleet to rest and recuperate, and even serve as a landing site for the army." ”

Xiao Nai said: "Let the army owe us a favor, maybe we can share a lot of benefits in this Peruvian colonial war."

Shen Yanghao smiled and said: "The emperor said that Peru's silver reserves and production will surpass Mexico's, and it is the world's largest silver base, I think we should participate more in this credit."

Shi Jianfei smiled bitterly and said, "Everyone seems to mean this, so naturally I won't refuse."

The crowd burst into laughter.

The Royal Navy's Pacific Fleet has always maintained a 10,000-strong Marine Corps, well-equipped, and its soldiers are all time-tested and no less effective than the ace army infantry divisions.

Once the deployment was complete, the Pacific Fleet sailed for Guayaquil.

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The news of the Imperial Chinese Navy's victory at the Battle of Isabella quickly reached Beijing, and the Imperial Government did not expect things to go so smoothly.

At this time, the imperial government was busy with tensions in South and West Asia. After receiving the news of the victory in the Battle of Isabella, it undoubtedly greatly boosted morale.

On the South Asian subcontinent, the Imperial South Asian Expeditionary Force has quietly entered the town of Qinghai-Tibet-Pulan, passing through the Kaqing Narrow Road in the Himalayas, and secretly entering the northern plateau of the Mughal Empire, the upper reaches of the Jumuna River.

In order to contain the main army of the Mughal Empire as much as possible, the government of the Chinese Empire provided free financial assistance of 4 million silver dollars to the five major feudal lords in the south of the Indian subcontinent, with the purpose of opening up the permission of the feudal lords of Orissa, Coromandel, Bijapur, Malabad, and Ceylon to form an anti-Mughal alliance.

As the largest feudal lord in southern India, Orissa received more than two million silver dollars from the Chinese Imperial Government. To this end, the Orissa feudal lord led the military alliance between the five major feudal lords of southern India and the Chinese Empire against the Mughal Empire forces moving south. This military alliance is located on the southern continent of India, so it is called the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

At this time, the total strength of the Mughal Empire's army exceeded 700,000 and was assembled at Napopur. The north of Godavari has been completely occupied by the Mughal Empire, and the south is still under the control of the combined forces of Orissa and Bijapur, but the situation is clearly not optimistic.

In order to force the Mughal Empire to transfer all or most of its troops near Delhi in the north to fight in the south, and create an opportunity for the Chinese Imperial Army to attack Delhi, the Chinese Empire requisitioned 500,000 indigenous servants from its Southeast Asian colonies and threw them into the Godavari River battlefield.

As a result, the total strength of the Yugoslav army exceeded 800,000, which bankrupted the plan of the Mughal Empire to cross the Godavari River south.

However, the overall combat capability of the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is very poor, and the troops they use are basically cold weapons. In particular, the 500,000 indigenous servant army sent by the Chinese Empire was huge, but its combat effectiveness was extremely low, and it could not pose much threat to the Mughal Imperial Army in Hebei.

To this end, the Chinese Imperial Government transferred 200,000 troops from the four major vassal states of Southeast Asia, including Vietnam, the Taungoo Dynasty, the Siamese Dynasty, and the Lancang Dynasty, to directly attack the Bengal Delta at the mouth of the Ganges River with Assam in Siam as a springboard. The feudal lord of Orissa on the west side of the Ganges River took the advantage of more than two million silver dollars from the empire, so naturally he could not stand idly by, and transferred 50,000 troops from the southern line of the Godavari River to cooperate in the attack on Bengal on the west bank of the Ganges.

At the same time, the British and French East India Companies also took advantage of the fire to loot and send troops from their respective strongholds to cooperate with the Yugoslav army to invade and occupy the Bengal Delta.

The prosperity of the Mughal Empire was achieved by the delta plains of the Ganges Valley, and its major cities from Delhi on the Jumuna River in the northernmost part of the Ganges River to Calcutta at the mouth of the Ganges River were developed on this river.

As a result, the Mughal Empire had to send additional troops to Bengal in order to control the main tax areas of the Empire.

However, the expansion of the Mughal Empire led to enemies on all sides. To the south, there were 800,000 Yugoslav troops on the battlefield of the Godavari River, and the 700,000 Mughal Empire troops reluctantly dispatched 100,000 reinforcements to Bengal. In the Tata region to the west, the Persians and Afghans have also been reluctant to lose the Indian continent, shouting slogans to expel the Mughals back to the desert and constantly waging wars. There were 100,000 Mughal troops there, but not a single soldier could move.

Therefore, the Great Khan of the Mughal Empire had no choice but to quietly transfer 50,000 troops from the defense lines of the northern Western Regions countries, and cooperate with the 50,000 forbidden troops in the capital of Delhi to form a 100,000 army to reinforce Bengal.

But obviously, the 200,000 Mughal Imperial Army could not drive out the 250,000 Yugoslav Army, and the British and French East India Company musket teams made trouble from it, so that the Mughal Imperial Army could only defend passively. However, although the Yugoslav army had the upper hand, the seven-nation coalition army had repeated problems in command, especially the British and French musket teams, which were absent from the battle at every turn and ran to the surrounding towns to rob, which made the Yugoslav army unable to defeat the Mughal imperial army, and the Bangladesh Delta battlefield also fell into a stalemate.

The Mughal Empire is under enemy on three sides, and it is already very good to be able to hold on. In the northern Delhi area, there were 50,000 forbidden troops left to defend, and it seemed a little lonely.

In Delhi, some officials feared that the future of the Indian subcontinent would be uncertain after the Chinese Empire entered the war. There is unease about whether the Mughal Empire will survive the crisis. This uneasiness even shook the minds of the various feudal lords within the Mughal Empire for a time, but fortunately, the Mughal Great Khan immediately appeased and avoided a split within the empire.

The northern army was empty, and this was supposed to be a good time for the Chinese Empire to quickly attack Delhi, but the Imperial military overestimated the capabilities of the logistics department. Two infantry divisions and three cavalry divisions of the army passed through the narrow Himalayas, but the infantry division's most important infantry artillery was delayed in arriving on time. The Logistics Department has tried to send as many horses as possible to carry artillery and ammunition, but it has not been able to meet the number of troops to launch an attack for a month.

The longer the time drags on, the greater the cost of foster care for the 50,000-strong army that has crept into the upper reaches of the Jumuna River to ambush. The transportation of weapons and supplies through narrow lanes collided with each other, and the logistics department was busy but had little effect. In the end, it is necessary to ensure supplies first, and then squeeze out space and time to transport weapons.

As a result, the time for the Imperial army to launch an attack was pushed back and forth for several months. However, there are even more strict things, that is, the climate gap between the north and south sides of the Himalayas is quite large, the imperial army that has just experienced the severe cold of the Qinghai-Tibet region, and spent several months of tropical life in the deep forest area of Panibat, up to the generals, under the orders of the soldiers, men, the physical resistance ability has been sharply reduced, the disease has spread in the army, and the non-combat attrition has affected the combat effectiveness.

The war situation in South Asia has fallen into a stalemate and embarrassment, and Deng Haonan, the Shenwu Emperor in Beijing, has no good way to deal with it. He wanted to build the Qinghai-Tibet Highway, but far from water could not quench his thirst, and it would take ten or eight years to build a Qinghai-Tibet Highway, and the amount of work was no less than that of the Suez Canal.

This is true in South Asia, and there is also a crisis in West Asia.

Seeing that the Suez Canal was about to be completed, the fangs of the Ottoman Turkish Empire began to be exposed. As Deng Haonan previously judged, the Turkish Empire ceded the right to dig to the Chinese Empire, but with the help of the Chinese Empire's financial resources to help it complete the canal, once the Chinese Empire successfully dug the canal, then the Turkish Empire will immediately turn around and seize the canal by force.

The Ottoman Turkish Empire did not hesitate to pit the money of the Chinese Empire, but also turned its face and went to war, and such a big strategic decision was because of the huge economic value of the Suez Canal. Just as the control of the Suez Canal by the Chinese Empire was equivalent to opening the door to Europe, the control of the canal by the Turkish Empire was equivalent to controlling the throat of Europe, transferring maritime trade from the Atlantic back to the Mediterranean again, and promoting the prosperity of the Turkish Empire.

With such great strategic significance, the Turks will take it back at any cost, for which the other side is likely to abandon Ukraine, end the Russian-Turkish war, and regain power in Suez.

Deng Haonan had already seen the thick smoke of gunpowder on the battlefield in Suez, and he knew where a bloody battle would break out, even a protracted bloody battle. E