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[278] Circum-Asia Railway

The Marquis of O'Radde stood on the bridge of the Intrepid with the consciousness of death in his heart, looking at the fierce battle on the sea, and the four Chinese 10,000-ton giant ships that were firing their guns attracted his attention like magnets. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"What kind of artillery can have such a long barrel! Range...... Range...... Oh, my God! They are shelling the 7th detachment at a distance of 30 km! ”

Oled clenched the binoculars tightly with his sweaty hands, and judged from experience that those huge ships were equipped with 203mm 8-inch guns, and he couldn't help but feel cold in his heart.

"Looking at the length of the barrel, it's about 40 or more...... Maybe about 45 ...... Oh my God, the Dreadnought's 12.5-inch 317mm gun is only 26 times the diameter, which is already the extreme of Great Britain, but it can only project a solid projectile to a maximum of 10 kilometers, and a grenade can fire about 5 kilometers at most...... If you want to get a certain level of accuracy, unless you are close to within half of the maximum range, you can ......"

O'Raid visually observed the ballistics of the 203mm guns on Chinese warships, and empirically estimated that the range of the Chinese 45-fold diameter 203mm guns could be 40 to 50 kilometers, and the rate of fire was one shot a minute.

"Impossible! That's impossible! O'Raid lost all confidence and shouted in a panicked voice.

"How could such a powerful gun be so much faster than the Dreadnought's 12.5-inch 317mm gun that reloaded in nearly 5 minutes!"

Oled's heart trembled, and he knew he couldn't beat it.

Just as he wanted the Intrepid to signal the evacuation of the battlefield, a Fish# Mineboat cunningly sprang out from behind the sinking British cruiser Steadfast, and quietly rushed at high speed in the direction of the Intrepid, firing two 533mm Fish# torques at the Intrepid at a distance of 8 kilometers. After communication with the 21st century, the maximum range of the 533mm Fish # torpedo equipped by the Chinese Republic has been increased to 15 kilometers, and the effective range is 10 kilometers.

However, the officers on the Intrepid did not find the Type 6625 Fish# Mineboat that was sneaking up to 8 kilometers away.

The Chinese Navy's Fish # Mine imported from the 21st century can have a maximum depth of 400 meters, which ensures that no opponent in the 19th century can find the Fish # Mine from a long distance on the sea surface.

Six minutes later, the Dreadnought was hit by the first surfacing Fish# tordo, the middle and front hull was completely smashed into two, and 20 seconds later, the second Fish# tordo followed, and the Intrepid was shot again, splitting from the middle, the hull split into three sections, and began to sink rapidly from the sea.

The Battle of the Bay of Bengal lasted nearly six hours, from mid-afternoon to dusk, and ended with the total annihilation of the British Royal Navy. None of the 139 large and small warships and gunboats of the British Overseas Fleet were spared, 75 were sunk, 24 of the 64 survived and were seriously wounded, ordered to sink themselves, and 40 were captured, and under the escort of the Chinese Navy, they turned back to the port of Calcutta, which had been launched and occupied by the Chinese Army.

Among the 36 large and small warships of the Chinese Navy in this battle, a Fish # Mineboat was seriously injured, which was due to the fact that the boat was shot after making meritorious contributions after launching the Fish # Mine, and was close to a British 1,200-ton gunboat to wash the deck. Four other 037 hunting submarines were shot and slightly wounded while breaking into the British fleet's melee deck.

By the end of 1886, the Chinese army had liberated the entire territory of India, and in addition to a part of the northern part of the country that was under the direct jurisdiction of the Huaxia Republic, it had also established 52 socialist republics, including Beloch, Sindh, Gujarat, Bikaner, Jaissem, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Mewar, Bendkend, Gwalior, and Indore.

At the same time as the agrarian and socialist transformations were carried out, these countries established constitutions, joined the United Nations as a matter of course, and voluntarily renounced the establishment of military or semi-military rights other than the police. The Huaxia Republic was also given the right to garrison troops in 1,455 locations in the region and the right to build military bases.

After this war, the jewel in the crown of Britain disappeared, and Britain fell from the clouds of global hegemony to the dust.

At this time, all the countries of the world saw the weakness of Britain, and here we must especially mention Germany, which began to expand its army frantically, and in the eyes of Wilhelm I, Britain could no longer cover France as an ally at this time.

According to the historical records of later generations, Wilhelm I nakedly told Wilhelm II and his close ministers in the palace that taking France, getting the Mediterranean Sea, further marching into Africa, and seizing the African colonies belonging to Germany would be all the hopes of the German Empire in the future.

Britain lost 200,000 troops in India, not to mention the great loss of vitality, it was as if they had been broken and could barely stand up.

Britain is in a depression, and government bonds in the financial markets have been sold off to almost nothing! The international banking syndicate is moving huge sums of gold every day and fleeing frantically, with only one target, the United States.

The Jewish consortium chose wisely, there were no eggs under the nest, England was in chaos, and France was certainly unreliable; The Germans and the Chinese wear the same pants, and they are vigorously developing the so-called "Germanic banks", which they cannot rely on; Russia has always been worried about it, and there is no need to think about it at all; Austria is a close relative of Germany; The Slavic states were all puppets of Russia; Ottoman Turkey was a heretic; The Nordic countries are too weak to be trusted......

In this case, if you don't choose the United States as an illegitimate child, where else can you go?

All of a sudden, the United States suddenly got rid of the deflation that had been bothering them, and there was a large-scale foreign investment, which suddenly became inflationary, and the economy grew rapidly for a while.

Since the Chinese Republic tore its face and started a war with Britain, it no longer had any scruples, and the East China Sea Fleet went south to Borneo, successively occupied the Sunda Islands, the Moluccas, and the island of New Guinea, and landed in Australia, which had a total population of only 500,000 at this time, and more than 6,000 marines and men occupied the whole of Australia in a hurry, and easily took New Zealand, which had a population of only more than 20,000. At the same time, all islands in the Pacific Ocean that are not part of the United States will be landed, and naval bases, ports, and anchorages will be built.

Because of the state of war with the British, and the vast and sparsely populated area of Australia, there was no strong demand for land reform, so Yao Fan stepped up the immigration of these new lands of the Chinese Republic, including Australia, and the entire Third Five-Year Plan was greatly inclined to the immigration plan.

Without the British threat, Japan recovered all its concessions, abrogated all unequal treaties, and although China did not agree to ease the technology embargo on Japan or any other country, objectively speaking, Japan benefited from China's grand expansion.

Britain did not sue for peace after suffering a terrible humiliation, the Liberal Cabinet collapsed, the Conservative Party came to power through early elections, declared the British Labour Party illegal, and began a national general mobilization to conscript troops and build ships on a large scale.

Britain dispatched a total of 110,000 infantry, artillery, and cavalry to invade Egypt, which was protected by the Ottoman Turks, under the leadership of the Ottoman Grand Fleet, and completely blocked the Suez Canal.

In the face of British madness, Yao Fan still adopted the strategy of the army as the main navy and supplemented by the army, step by step, and did not consider the plan to liberate the Middle East before the Rim Asia Railway was repaired.

The idea of the Rim-Asia Railway was urgently proposed in the Third Five-Year Plan, and the southern section was planned to be extended westward along the existing Beijing-Saigon line to Bangkok, Yangon, Chida, Dhaka, Kolkata, New Delhi, and Karachi.

The northern section is planned to follow the existing route from Beijing to Tashkent via Urumqi and extend south to Samarkand, Dushanbe, Kabul, Islamabad, Lahore and New Delhi. In this way, the southern and western sections are rounded up in New Delhi and extend from New Delhi to the port of Karachi at the mouth of the Indus River. r1058

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