This is even more true of the captain of the Margaret, Royce, whose wheelhouse is located on the topmost deck, the farthest away from the lifeboat and the liferaft, so Captain Royce sank into the sea with the Margaret before he could get out of the wheelhouse, and never floated up again.

Only a hundred or so escaped by chance, and the remaining 800 or so wealthy British merchants sank into the sea along with their looted belongings.

When Xie Tao saw the sinking of the Margaret, he immediately sent a message to Lin Yuan, who then ordered his subordinates to send a telegram to the Governor of Mumbai, Tanzanpec, telling them that this was the fate of disobeying his orders.

When the Governor of Tanzanpec received the news of the sinking of the Margaret, he did not believe it at first, but soon a wealthy British merchant fled back and sent a message to the Governor's Palace at the port, and the Governor of Tanzanpec believed it.

The Governor of Tanzanpec was heartbroken, and the Margaret contained the treasures he had painstakingly looted in India, especially a group of twelve solid gold statues of Hindu deities, which were worth a fortune and that a wealthy businessman was willing to pay for three million pounds a decade ago, when China was not yet on the rise.

The Governor of Tanzambique held his forehead with his hands on his forehead, and tears were almost falling, when an attendant whispered, "Your Excellency, let's find a way to escape." ”

The Governor of Tanzanbeque looked up and asked, "Where can we flee to?" Are we going to flee to Delhi too? ”

The attendant said: "There is no need to do this, our Bombay has an advantage over Calcutta and Madras, and the west side of Bombay is Iran and the Arabian Peninsula, of which Iran is controlled by the British, and there is also British territory on the Arabian Peninsula, we can go to Iran or the Arabian Peninsula first, and then return to England through there, and then flee to the United States on the other side of the ocean." ”

The Governor of Tanzanpec frowned and said: "This method is not bad, it is better than fleeing to that place in Delhi, the place of the Indians is too dirty and messy, I never want to stay longer, but now the Chinese do not let our ship leave Mumbai, we force out of the port, won't they sink it?" ”

The attendant smiled and said, "The port of Mumbai is so big, how can a Chinese submarine block it?" We still have a good chance, I heard that the British HSBC fleet is planning to transport a batch of gold back to the UK, there are more than a dozen large ships with a displacement of about 10,000 tons in the fleet, they are about to go to sea, let's see if they can escape, if one of them can escape, we can also find a way to escape. ”

The Governor of Tanzanpec rolled his eyes and said, "Your analysis is very reasonable, well, let's do this and see if the gold carrier of HSBC can escape." ”

The attendant nodded, and the governor of Tanzanbeque suddenly smiled: "I really don't understand, why is our British Empire still firmly grasping for gold, and what kind of gold standard is still being implemented, look at China, which implemented the credit standard as early as a few years ago." ”

The attendant smiled and didn't say anything, but at this moment, the phone on the table suddenly rang, and the sound of "bell bell" frightened the governor of Tanzanpec and the attendant all trembling, and the governor of Tanzanpec sighed softly and said, "Alas, I don't know what news is on the phone?" ”

The attendant just wanted to say, "It's definitely not good news", but when the words came to his lips, he swallowed the sentence again, and the attendant picked up the microphone, only to hear an anxious voice from inside: "Your Excellency, it's not good, the power plant at the port terminal has been bombed." ”

When the Governor of Tanzanbeque heard this, he leaned over, snatched the microphone from his attendant's hand, put it in his ear, and asked, "What did you say?" ”

The voice on the phone trembled and said: "The power plant at the port terminal has been bombed!" ”

The Governor of Tanzanpec hurriedly asked, "Who did it?" Is it a Chinese agent or an Indian mob? ”

"I don't know, it doesn't seem to be, according to people near the power plant, they saw a flying black dot coming from the sea, and then directly hit the power plant's substation, the transformer was completely destroyed, and now the dock has been completely cut off."

The Governor of Tanzanpec was so surprised that his mouth could not be closed, and then the voice on the phone said: "Your Excellency, please send a police force to the docks immediately to maintain order." ”

The Governor of Tanzanpec exclaimed, "What happened at the dock?" ”

"HSBC was transporting gold to the ship, but the electricity suddenly went out, the crane couldn't grab the container, and the container fell to the ground, and the gold inside was scattered, and the Indian mob started looting at the sight of it."

The Governor of Tanzanbeque and the major shareholder of the British HSBC Bank are good friends and allies of interests. He immediately ordered the police in the city to go to the dock to drive away the Indian mob, and the Governor of Tanzanpec had just put down the phone, only to hear a loud "boom" coming from not far away, and the Governor of Tanzanpec exclaimed in surprise: "What's the matter?" Where did the explosion happen? ”

The attendant hurriedly ran out to inquire, and after a short time, he ran back and said, "Your Excellency, it's not good, there has been an explosion in the city hall!" ”

The Governor of Tanzanpec frowned and asked, "How could there be an explosion in the city hall?" ”

The attendant replied: "I don't know, I'm afraid it was done by the Chinese!" ”

The Governor of Tanzanpec looked solemn, did not say a word, and the attendants did not dare to speak, and after more than two minutes of silence, the Governor of Tanzanpec finally sighed and said: "When the Chinese attacked Burma, they used something called 'ballistic missile', which can fall from the sky and hit the target, which is extremely powerful, and now they should also use this kind of thing." ”

The attendant cautiously asked, "Then what shall we do?" ”

The governor of Tanzanpec sighed and said: "There is no other way but to retreat, the Chinese have begun to bomb the port, let's go to the port again is to drill under people's bombs, there is no other way, go to Delhi." ”

The attendant nodded silently and began to prepare for going to Delhi, the news that the Governor of Tanzanpec was going to Delhi spread in Mumbai, and the whole Mumbai was a sensation, the British were all frightened, and the Indians were all gearing up, secretly rejoicing, ready to take advantage of the withdrawal of the British police and troops to rob it.

However, the wishful thinking of the Indians failed, and although the governor of Tanzanbeque withdrew, the nearby Indian kings sent native soldiers one after another to control the situation in Mumbai, and the wealthy British merchants who could not escape were finally relieved.

What the British could never have dreamed of was that the weapon that bombarded them was not ballistic missiles at all, but nuclear submarines floating on the sea, and the pacification of a city by a nuclear submarine is a spectacle in the history of warfare!