Chapter 498: Strength Matters
There is nothing inherently wrong with the fact that anyone can feel complacent after achieving a certain level of achievement.
But for a country, if it doesn't have the strength to really laugh at the crowd.
This kind of operation is very stupid...
On the blue sea, occasionally a few seagulls continue to fly with the more than 100 warships of the Ming Guangdong fleet...
The sailors on deck looked bored.
There is a match and there is no match chatting with each other.
"This Portugal is too incompetent, we have more than 100 warships, I'm afraid it's a question of whether we can use 30 of them."
"You don't know that, do you?"
This is because since the rise of the British Empire, these Portuguese have been expanding their sphere of influence outward. I hoped to get enough resources from overseas to feed back to my country, but I didn't expect that the resources were not much, but this time we copied the whole thing. ”
"Wow, how do you know so much?"
"Well, in fact, I also listened to the staff officer.....
......
Suddenly, a sailor walked from the telegraph room at the top of the cabin, and walked to the captain's room with an anxious expression.
"Report!"
"Enter..."
"Report to the captain, according to the telegram from the staff of the Great Ming Naval Division, we should now assemble all of our staff and go to the port of London."
"Oh, has the battle plan changed?"
"So far, it seems."
"Inform down, change the coordinates of the destination, and we will go to London."
.....
Since the victory over the Netherlands at sea, the naval power of the British Empire has increased by leaps and bounds, and after the increase in maritime power.
Huge amounts of resources and supplies drifted like snowflakes across the British Empire.
All the citizens enjoyed the benefits of the war, and at this moment in a building with a strong medieval castle style.
A handsome young man was shaking the wine glass in his hand.
On the other side seems to be the adjutant.
"Your Excellency, according to the order, we will begin to assemble in the direction of Nanyang in three months and finally arrive in Daming."
"I really don't understand, why do we have to pick Daming as our opponent."
"Don't these stupid guys understand that behind high returns comes high risk? If there was a gallows, they really deserved to be hanged! ”
But the adjutant did not respond.
Because he knew that it was useless to say anything now, and that the whole British Empire had been in a state of madness since the end of the war with the Netherlands.
The price of war bonds experienced great ups and downs in a short period of time.
Countless people have made a fortune in this war, or they have a lot of money.
But countless people have also been bankrupt and displaced.
But this does not matter, because it does not affect the fact that the British Crown still has a firm grip on the country and has succeeded in pushing the British Empire's deterrent power to the point where it is the most powerful in all of Europe.
And behind this is the British Imperial Navy, which is now the most powerful in Europe.
Of course, this is on the bright side.
Many people are actually clear in their hearts, if the navy of the British Empire is compared with the navy of the Ming Dynasty.
In fact, it is like a young child wielding a tree branch in his hand, trying to provoke an adult with a sword in his hand.
"These greedy guys, okay, I got it...."
It was at this time.
The observer on the lighthouse in the port of London suddenly saw a large group of warships floating on the sea in the distance.
Due to the distance, his vision was blurred, but he just wondered if some of the fleets of the British Empire had returned again.
He didn't care, and said to the people on the side: "Our British Empire is invincible. ”
"But I heard that a few days ago, the navy of the Ming Empire destroyed the ports along the entire Portuguese route, and until now, a small number of people still know about this news."
"What! Why? You didn't say it before. ”
"You didn't ask."
"You don't know what those Ming warships look like?"
"If you have to say it, then you can only say that those Ming warships are very big!"
Big?! The lookout squinted, and suddenly it occurred to him that if the ships were very large, then the so many ships he had just seen were not very large.
Shocked, he slammed up from his chair.
Looking at the fleet on the sea from afar....
It took a while.
He finally couldn't help but say to his friend next to him, "I think I should understand what you mean.... They're really big! ”
"It's so big that I can't imagine that this is really from the fleet of the Great Ming."
"Stop drinking, hurry up and light the torch at the top of the lighthouse, something big is going to happen!!"
.....
"We are tenacious sailors, and we are also prodigal sons on the sea, and every prodigal son is looking forward to returning home."
"The blue sea is our home!"
"We are indomitable Da Ming Shui masters, we are also ordinary children, and every child is looking forward to going home..."
"Defeated the enemy .... We have a home! ”
The soldiers of the Daming Naval Division standing on the deck, each of them sang this tune that was widely circulated among the soldiers of the Daming Naval Division with their own loud singing voices.
But their gaze was unwavering.
The homesickness in the minor key did not change in any way, but the eyes were fixed on the port of London in the distance.
The command of the entire Ming Guangdong Navy fleet was the first warship headed by it.
I saw that the first warship skillfully hung the red flag.
Behind all the ships.
The red sailor flags were hung one after another.
At this moment they understood that they had come to the port of London not for any other mission, but because they wanted to destroy London here completely.
The port's busy commercial scene made it a huge port for the entire British Empire, with thousands of ships docked here at the same time.
But suddenly someone screamed in horror.
"Look at the ships approaching the harbor in the distance!"
"Why do I look so much like a warship!?"
A middle-aged Englishman who looked very much like Uncle John smiled and said, "Maybe it's really a warship, it's our British warship, you know, we just defeated the invincible Dutch on the sea!" ”
Speaking of which, the person who spoke just now was also embarrassed, hehe smiled and nodded, and said without thinking about it.
"Or you have the knowledge, you are right! The most powerful in this sea area can only be the British Imperial Navy! ”
"I heard that the Ming Dynasty is constantly robbing us of the colonies in South America and turning them into their immigration areas, if I have the opportunity one day, I must participate in the British Imperial Navy to beat those Ming people to the ground!"
"Oh, old John, you've drunk too much again!"
"Let's hope we can have this day."
The conversation between the two attracted a lot of attention, after all, they were talking loudly at the door of the tavern, and they didn't seem to shy away from it.
Instead, he set up his proud hooked nose and secretly sent autumn waves to the women who came and went.
Just when the two sides looked at each other and began to flirt.
The Ming army has opened fire!