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Saclelle sat in the carriage, twisting his fat body and urging, occasionally stretching his neck to look out into the sea.

In the early morning, the coast of Mumbai was misty, and no matter how hard he tried, he could only look in a daze, so he had to sit down and constantly urge the coachman to accelerate, but he did not do it for a moment and looked into the distance, looking impatient.

No wonder he is in a hurry, and I am afraid that it will be unbearable for someone else, because today he has come to the port of Mumbai for a great business.

Sakelle had done a lot of big business, and when the war began, he used the good relationship that his family had built up over several generations with the West India Company to make a fortune between the British garrison and the common Indians.

But he also did not expect that yesterday the Indian Governor General and the French Ambassador would jointly call him, ready to give him a great fortune and sell him 2 French damaged battleships and several small transport ships anchored in the port of Mumbai!

Lord Shiva is on top, and the transport ship is nothing to the Sakelle family, a big shipwunder in India, but there are still 2 battleships in it! Even if it is damaged, even if it is a pile of scrap iron, it is tens of thousands of tons! It's worth at least a million pounds after it is demolished!

What's more, Gandhi and those people have been secretly inquiring about these two battleships for a long time, although they are broken, they are battleships after all, and the cannons on them are still intact, for them who want to learn the rise mode of their neighbor named Li Mo, they are willing to pay even a big price, so they will definitely be able to sell them at a good price!

In Sakelele's anxiety, the Mumbai military port, located in the southwest of Mumbai Island and with a good deep-water dock, finally appeared in the distance.

"Ambassador Simon, what you say is true?"

On the battleship dock, Governor Charles Harding looked at the harbor with a gloomy expression, a few days ago it had a large fleet that could dominate the Indian Ocean, but now it was empty, except for the two French Brittany-class battleships that were damaged in the last naval battle of the Octave in the corner of the .......

In the past, they were the pride of France, but because India basically had no industrial capacity and could not carry out repairs, they had been soaking in the water since they came back from injury, except for machine guns and ammunition, the battleship was basically intact, and the Grand Fleet had thought about simply dismantling it before, but Bombay could not even dismantle the industrial level of these two tens of thousands of tons of warships, plus every day I was afraid that the Chinese would kill them, so it has been hanging here.

Charles Harding sighed, in the past, as long as there was one such warship in the Indian Ocean, it could ensure that the interests of Britain and France here would not be violated, but now even with the Grand Fleet, even life cannot be guaranteed.

I can't live this day!

So taking advantage of the departure of the Grand Fleet and the emptiness of the bases, he discussed with the French ambassador to sell them along with some useless ships and supplies left behind by the Grand Fleet. Although Europe is still at war, and the outcome has not yet been decided, in fact, many people already know that Britain has entered the countdown to leaving India and leaving the Far East, otherwise the above will not spend a lot of money to let the army go back from Hyderabad to Afghanistan to Russia, so instead of cheap and greedy Chinese, it is better to take advantage of the latter stage of the term to plan for yourself.

Ambassador Simon looked at the broken hull and was a little sad, but he couldn't recover it, France was exhausted, and the only thing he could think about at this time was to let himself live well, so he nodded and said: "Yes, General Xia Fei and General Haig have exhausted all means, but they still can't break through the German defense, and they haven't even seen the shadow of Paris, I heard that the war is going on very anxiously, and tens of thousands of soldiers die every day." ”

"God, are we really going to lose the war?" Charles Harding couldn't help but sigh when he heard this.

"Now maybe only God knows the answer, but I've heard it said at home that if the Americans can hold off China, or drain their strength, then there's a chance, if it can'......."

"U.S. victory over China? Consume Li Mo's arsonist? Charles Harding patted his chest: "It's even more difficult than defeating the Germans first!" ”

"yes."

Ambassador Simon nodded, and said as he walked towards the ship: "Even if Chinese can enter the Mediterranean, it will not be able to cross the narrow Strait of Gibraltar, so Europe needs General Campbell to go back and defend the Atlantic with all his might, but the way home is too difficult to ......." ”

"It's very difficult, but Vice Admiral Hill has already led the South African fleet to respond, I don't dare to say that they can defeat Chinese, but at least there should be no problem in breaking through, so ......." Charles Harding looked at the battleship and several broken ships, and said with a smile: "We must dispose of them as much as possible, otherwise when the Chinese come, we will get nothing." ”

"Yes." Speaking of dealing with these two damaged battleships, the two of them had a little more smile on their faces, not to mention anything else, just selling scrap iron is worth more than a million, and half of them are worth 500,000 pounds, enough for them to go to South America or other places to wait for the war to end.

Just as the two of them were calculating how to complete the contract after Sakelele's arrival, the guards hurried over on horseback: "Your Majesty, there is an urgent call from the country. ”

"Urgent?" Charles Harding was a little puzzled, the Grand Fleet had left, what else was there to rush to? Could it be that there is going to be a counterattack? Or was the battle of Paris lost? It's not that early, right?

Governor Charles Harding opened the telegram, and when he glanced at it, the whole person seemed to be swept by Medusa's eyes, and he was completely petrified, and he didn't even notice that the telegram fell from his hand.

"What's wrong? Governor Charles? Simon picked up the telegram in surprise, but was as completely sluggish as Charles Harding.

After a surprise attack on the South African fleet led by Hill with 2 prestige-class battlecruisers, it was surrounded in the port of Seychelles and had to sit down and surrender, and the two Spanish battleships were directly captured intact!

In the early morning of the second day after Hill was captured, the Indian Grand Fleet led by Campbell encountered a frantic attack by a Chinese cruiser fleet off the coast east of the island of Madagascar, and under the attack of dozens of planes and mysterious torpedoes, only two Nelson-class and three battleships of the Malaya were finally killed, six cruisers successfully escaped, and other ships, including two American capital ships that had lost their combat effectiveness before, were sunk or captured!

How is this possible!

No one could believe that a large fleet of 80 ships at the time of departure, a support fleet with 2 sharp battlecruisers, 4 battleships, and 4 sharp air defense cruisers that had been carefully prepared to set off from South Africa were destroyed or paralyzed one after another within 6 days of departure, and it is difficult to say whether the last nine ships could escape back to the Atlantic!

And the intercepting side only mobilized part of the forces including one heavy mothership, two light carriers and four battleships, if the main force of their navy were all dispatched, what kind of apocalyptic scenario would it be?!

Campbell didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and Hill's entire army was destroyed, which meant that the Entente's rear power in the Indian Ocean was also completely destroyed, except for the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean, the Entente had lost two-thirds of the world's oceans!

In addition to this news, the telegram also brought bad news: a convoy of the Chinese Army had departed from Ceylon two days earlier and was expected to arrive in Mumbai within today!

The Chinese Army is coming!

"Dear Governor Charles, Ambassador Simon, your esteemed servant Sakelle arrived on time." The fat-headed, big-eared Saclele jumped out of the carriage and stared at the two battleships as soon as he got out of the carriage, completely oblivious to the gaffes of the two men in front of him.

"Your Majesty Sakelele, it's a pleasure to meet you." Charles Harding and Simon immediately restrained the shock at the corners of their mouths, anyway, it was true to get the money first, so Ambassador Simon immediately took out the contract and documents that had been prepared long ago: "This is the authorization and contract of our government, as long as you sign, they ......, they are yours!" ”

"Is this true?" The people of Zakelele are stupid, he came today just with the idea of trying it out, but when these two documents appeared, he knew that it was really super rich and rich from the sky!

Harding, who was afraid that he would not believe it and wanted to complete the delivery as soon as possible, also immediately said: "Your Majesty Sakelele, this is a good opportunity, you must know that although they are a little damaged, most of them are intact, and the steel used in the battleship is of high quality and can be used in many places, this is your ......, a good opportunity, what are you waiting for?" Sign it! ”

"Okay, okay!" Sakelele was excited to sign immediately, but as soon as the pen fell, he suddenly raised his head again, which made the two of them suddenly hang their hearts, could it be that this fat also knew the news?

"Your Majesty, Mr. Ambassador, I am very grateful to both of you for taking care of me, but ......, I may not have that much cash on hand."

"No money!"

Simon and Charles Harding seemed to be stuck in the neck by a fish bone, how ugly and ugly their faces were, at this time, this bastard actually said that the money was not enough, and immediately asked, "Then how many do you have?" ”

'At the moment I only have £600,000. Seeing that the faces of the two began to darken gradually, and the soldiers around them were all unkind, Saclele suddenly sweated profusely and hurriedly said: "Of course, I am going to mortgage my two properties in London to the two of them first, but please rest assured, I will definitely come with cash in ten more days." ”

"600,000?"

Although it was a little worse than the expected 1 million, but at this time, there was not so much to take care of, Simon nodded hurriedly: "Okay, it's 600,000, and the property mortgage can be handled at the Governor's Mansion in the afternoon." ”

"Thank you so much!" Seeing that the big trouble was solved, Zaclele immediately signed it, and then took out the bill from the bank yesterday from his pocket and handed it to Simon. Immediately after taking it, a smile appeared on Simon's face, and he handed over the contract for the resale of the two battleships and the power of attorney from the French government.

"They're yours!"

"Thank you so much, Ambassador, Governor, I invite you to ......, where are you going?"

"We still have some business, see you at the Governor's Palace in the afternoon."

"Okay, okay." Scratching his head, Sakelle bent down to see off the two who suddenly looked in a hurry, a little puzzled why they were in such a hurry.

When he turned around, he was even more surprised, because he saw that the British soldiers who had just stood around with serious vigilance were all running desperately into the city, what had happened?

Suddenly, Saclele saw the telegram on the ground, looked around and found that no one was paying attention to him, he quickly picked it up and covered it with his hand to look at it secretly, but after taking a look, he suddenly felt that it was pitch black in front of him, and his fat body suddenly collapsed beside the two mighty battleships.

At the same time, in the waterway not far away, two destroyers flying the Blood Cloud Dragon Claw flag have appeared in the bay of Bombay Harbor after the departure of the Grand Fleet and the opening of the mine channel.

For the first time, the dragon flag flew over the Indian peninsula!

RO！ ~！