2120 Raise your eyebrows
The time soon came to June 1, the Beijing aircraft carrier battle group set sail, the propeller pushed the splash, the bow split the waves, left the embrace of Port Arthur, and sailed towards the vast sea.
Lin Yuan personally commanded the liberation of the fleet, and he stood on the bridge of the Beijing ship, looking at the sea in the distance, and at this time the Beijing aircraft carrier battle group was on the Yellow Sea, and Lin Yuan looked at the yellowed sea water, and could not help but remember the scene of fighting with the Japanese Combined Fleet on the Yellow Sea at the beginning of the crossing.
Japan was once China's opponent for a long time, but now it has become a part of China, and China has garrisons in important cities such as Tokyo, Yokohama, and Kobe, and under China's control, the Japanese militarists and the emperor's supporters have no place to stand, and the unrepentant death of the Japanese right-wingers in the Lin Yuan era can no longer happen.
Under the instruction of Lin Yuan, Japan comprehensively revised its history textbooks, and in the new edition of history textbooks, the era of the Meiji Emperor was written as the darkest era in Japanese history, especially in the later period of the military recklessness, and was severely criticized, and the Chinese were written as the role of saviors, and it was the Chinese who overthrew the emperor's evil rule and saved the Japanese people, and the Japanese were all grateful to the Chinese.
On June 4, the Beijing battle group sailed past Taiwan and into the blue South China Sea, passing through one island after another, which in Lin Yuan's time and the oil fields near them were the objects of division among Southeast Asian countries, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Indonesia all occupied far more islands and reefs than China, and in this era, they could no longer be divided by these countries, because these countries became members of China's economy or became China's autonomous regions.
On 7 June, the Beijing aircraft carrier battle group sailed through the waters off Malacca, and the amphibious combat force dispatched two divisions to accompany the aircraft carrier battle group on amphibious landing ships.
At 9 a.m. on 9 June, Lin Yuan sent a telegram to Cruzwaite, the governor of Burma, demanding that he surrender immediately.
Burma was once a vassal state of China, and the Burmese dynasty paid tribute to the Central Plains Dynasty for a long time, and in Chinese history, Burma was also part of the province of Yunnan.
In the early 19th century, the British came to Burma and gradually annexed the whole of Burma through the three Anglo-Burmese wars, and the Qing government was unable to intervene, so it had to let the British occupy Burma.
Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar and the seat of the Governor of Myanmar, is the third largest port of the United Kingdom in Asia, after Mumbai and Kolkata in India.
After Lin Yuan sent a telegram, he ordered the heralds: "Invite Mr. Xu Jingcheng for me." ”
Xu Jingcheng is also on the Beijing ship, and this time the Beijing ship will face a lot of affairs in the diplomatic field, so Lin Yuan brought members of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the ship, including Xu Jingcheng, Li Jingfang and others, many of whom are diplomats of the original Qing government, and they have been bullied a lot when dealing with Western countries, and now is the time for them to raise their eyebrows.
Xu Jingcheng soon came to Lin Yuan, and when he saw Lin Yuan, he first asked, "Lin Shuai, what do you command?" ”
Lin Yuan said with a smile: "In 1885, did you follow Mr. Zeng Jize as an envoy in the UK? ”
Zeng Jize is the second son of Zeng Guofan, a famous minister in the late Qing Dynasty, a famous diplomat in the late Qing Dynasty, and once served as an ambassador to the United Kingdom. ”
Lin Yuan said with a smile: "In 1885, the British sent troops to destroy Burma and annexed India under the British, becoming a province of British India, the Qing Dynasty government of China ordered the British minister to protest to the British, but the result was invalid, the minister to the British at that time was Zeng Jize, you are his deputy, you should have followed him to protest to the British government, right?" ”
Xu Jingcheng was stunned when he heard Lin Yuan say this, and said: "That's right, I did follow the ancestor Zeng Gong Ji Ze to protest to the British government, I still remember the scene at that time, we went to the diplomatic department of the British government, but we didn't even see a decent official, and we were received by a low-level official who was not in the stream." ”
"We handed in the protest papers, and it took many days for a senior official to agree with us, and when they saw us, of course, they were cynical, and of course our protests were invalid."
Lin Yuan pointed to Burma in the distance with his hand, and said with a smile: "To give you a chance to raise your eyebrows, you take the Littoral Combat Ship to Yangon, meet the Governor of Burma, Cruz Waite, and ask him to surrender quickly." ”
Xu Jingcheng immediately became excited when he heard this, and said: "This Cruswaite is the senior official who saw us back then, the strength of the Qing court was extremely poor back then, and Cructhwaite had arrogant capital, but he wouldn't have thought that thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, today our strength in China is strong!" I'd like to see how arrogant he is now. ”
Lin Yuan smiled and asked Xu Jingcheng to take a helicopter to the Littoral Combat Ship, and then the two Littoral Combat Ships sailed to Yangon Harbor.
When the Chinese fleet set out on the expedition, it used the name of entering St. Petersburg, so the Burmese side did not know the news of the Chinese fleet's arrival, after all, they did not have the ability to cover the whole world, and when the two littoral combat ships that Xu Jingcheng was riding sailed into the waters near Yangon, the merchant ships entering and leaving Yangon looked at them curiously.
At this time, Burma was a province of British India, and it was the most important producer of oil, tin ore, copper ore, timber and other raw materials in Asia, of which oil production accounted for two-thirds of British India, and these materials needed to be transported back to British factories by merchant ships.
The Chinese flag flying on the two warships attracted the attention of others, and thirteen percent of Burma's population, most of them were merchants, saw the warships of their compatriots welling up with a different kind of joy and excitement in their hearts.
The British marine police in Yangon were very surprised, they hurriedly drove a steam patrol boat to intercept two littoral combat ships, this steam patrol boat is still a wooden plank boat, there are only two machine guns on it as weapons, the marine police who operate the patrol boat have not experienced actual combat for many years, and the two coastal combat ships are equipped with rapid-fire guns, automatic grenade launchers and other advanced weapons, and the soldiers on the ship have also experienced the Seto Inland Sea blockade operation, and the difference in strength between the two sides is not half a point.
The British steam patrol boat approached the Littoral Combat Ship with no effort and gave the signal "Please stop for inspection".