Seawater squirted down the torn steel plate into the bilge. In the corridor of the cabin on the ground floor, people and rats run wildly at the same time, and whenever they see a ladder, they will climb up wherever it leads. Inside the boiler room, the sailors were staggered by the raging seawater.

"Sealed! Sealed cabin! The only voice of reason was drowned out by a cacophony.

There was even more chaos on the upper deck, and everyone was huddled around the lifeboats in a hurry. To board the lifeboats, the soldiers used a range of weapons, from fists, teeth, and forks to katanas and even revolvers.

There are also some who know that they can't fight for a lifeboat seat, so they simply jump into the sea with a lifebuoy. If you don't have a lifebuoy, you can just tear down a piece of wood, and you can carry it or not, and you will rush into the sea with it.

There was a lot of confusion on the warship, and they had only been on the ship for more than a month. I am far from familiar with the steam engine warship, and now it has suffered a great change, and it is even more ownerless. As for the Maori half-guards' shouting orders, no one listened to them at all.

The Japanese people had strict military discipline, and the skin of obedience to orders was stripped naked.

On the other two warships, the Japanese soldiers were even more chaotic than here. In order to snatch the few lifeboats, there was even a large-scale fire on board. The living and the dead burrow into the sea like dumplings.

Inside the telescope, Wu Sangui saw the battleship burning on the sea, and he felt his face burning with excitement.

"Look at it! As I said, it's worth the amount you spend. Wu Sangui pointed to the three torches on the sea, and smiled so much that his little tongue showed off.

"Three thousand silver coins, it looks expensive, but it is still a lot cheaper than three ships. And judging by the firelight, these ships are all ironclads. If it is really an ironclad ship, let alone 3,000 silver coins, even if it is 30,000 or 300,000 silver coins, it will not be unjustly spent. George put down his binoculars, his face full of excitement.

"I just said that the carrier pigeon thing is still reliable. It's not in vain that we've been here for a week, and the mines are a good thing. He Li Xiu wants to come to fight Mumbai, and he will break my mine array first.

If he dares to drop the Marines somewhere else, hehe! In the vast sea, I saw where they were going, and let him taste the taste of coming and going. Wu Sangui looked at the sea viciously, and imagined in his mind that Li Xiu was in one of the boats, if he was like that, it would be too perfect.

There is no greater military achievement than taking out the commander of the navy of the Ming Kingdom and the younger brother of the actual ruler of the Ming Kingdom. Drake, sent by the Queen, buried the entire Far Eastern Fleet. Now, it's time for revenge.

"Don't let them run, coastal artillery fire." George laughed wildly and immediately ordered the coastal batteries to open fire.

The 240 mm cannon required two strong soldiers to shake their rocker arms when turning. Through a series of large and small combinations of gears, the gun position is rotated. The shells, which are close to one person long, require four soldiers to work together to push and load them with ammunition delivery carts.

Although it is expensive and extremely slow to reload. It takes five minutes to fire a shell, but the advantage is that the charge is large and powerful. A man-long cannonball hit a warship, and even an ironclad ship would be shattered and scattered, disintegrating and sinking.

In the dark! The warships burning like torches on the sea were live targets, and the six coastal batteries, which were carefully arranged, began to aim nervously.

Three ironclad ships actually don't have to fight, and now this situation will sink itself. The power compartment has run out of power, and the entire warship is a fixed target floating on the sea. For coastal batteries, such fixed targets are much easier to hit.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" ……！

In the first volley, the flagship of the Maori Hanbei was blown apart. The parts on the warship were blown up 100 meters high, and when they fell, the stern of the warship was already below sea level. The Maori half-guards in the cockpit disappeared without a trace of direct vaporization. That was the real ashes, and it became cannon fodder.

The remaining two battleships are already sinking.

When designing the two warships, Fleming, a communications expert from Oxford, borrowed from the watertight cabin design of the Ming ships. Even if a mine explosion is badly damaged, as long as the watertight compartment is closed, the battleship can actually float on the water.

Pity! The Japanese soldiers were on the ship for a month, and the training was simply a no-brainer. When the ship is on fire, everyone thinks about running for their lives, and who thinks about the watertight compartment.

The sea poured more and more, and the battleship gradually sank. In the second salvo of coastal artillery, not a single shell hit the target, and only one shell was considered a close miss, causing some damage to the warship.

The third salvo still missed, and this time there was not even a close miss. It's just that on the surface of the sea, a column of water is blown up. Some of the Japanese soldiers floating on the surface of the sea fell into blood mold, and the huge shock wave from the sea directly shattered their internal organs. These guys swam and died.

Those monkey-anxious sharks were also hit by the seedlings, and before they could eat a bite of human flesh, they were shocked by the explosion and floated on the surface of the sea to swim back.

There was no fourth salvo, because the two warships were already erected high. The whole ship slammed downward, and the terrifying sound of the warship's sinking could be heard far away.

The sky is slightly bright, and you can see the terrible scene on the sea through the hazy skylight. There were many Japanese soldiers floating in the waves, some rowing lifeboats, some simply paddling in the water. The lucky ones have a piece of wood, or a lifebuoy.

These people were scattered very widely, and the unlucky ones were swept into the whirlpool of the sinking ship, and were sucked into the bottom of the sea, and it was estimated that they would not be able to float up for a while.

Li Xiu's hands holding the telescope were trembling, as if the telescope was as heavy as a thousand pounds.

Finished! It's all over!

In just an hour and a half, all three ironclad ships were sunk. Li Xiu was sure that the three ironclad ships were not sunk by shelling. But what kind of weapon caused such a big explosion, Li Xiu couldn't say.

All ships immediately changed course, unlike on land. Ships on the surface of the sea usually do not anchor in the deep sea zone. In addition, the length of the anchor chain on the ship may not be able to scrape the seabed, and all that can be done is to change the course.

The situation ahead is unclear, and it is clear that Wu Sangui is prepared.

Li Xiu really wanted to change places and scatter the Marines. But after thinking about it, I gave up this tempting idea. Without the help of the Navy, a single Marine Division could not defeat the British army.

According to Li Yongfang's intelligence, while vigorously developing the navy, Wu Sangui also trained an army with a strong work style. Especially the Gurkos from the north, who carried rifles, each with a Gurco scimitar of their own making. Each scimitar is engraved with the name of the user, and after death, the knife is buried with its owner as a burial object.

It is said that the Gurkos fought fiercely and were not afraid of death, and when they ran out of bullets, they used their knives.

If it were one or two people, Li Xiu would think that these people were two hundred and five, the type with brain disease. But the Marine Corps has to face more than 200,000 such sick guys. In Bombay alone, it was 100,000 Gurko soldiers.

And that's not counting the other soldiers who were conscripted in the Indian states.

In Li Yongfang's intelligence, he said that Britain had recruited 600,000 troops in India. And more than a million people can be called up at any time as needed. So much so that there were no longer enough officers from the British mainland, and it was necessary to select junior officers from among the Indians. The British only served as commanders above the battalion!

With a division of marines, he fought 200,000 crazy people hard, and he knew what the result would be with his ass.

But he prepared for a month and a half, and re-armed the three captured British ironclad ships. In just an hour and a half, it was brutally destroyed. The worst thing is that I don't know what the hell I was attacking. Even if it's thunder, it's going to have a fucking lightning!

I want to go, I don't want to! I want to stay, but I can't fight.

Li Xiu was in a dilemma, holding a telescope and could even faintly see the huge dock on the Bombay shipbuilding. But it can't be helped, it's not within range. He can't destroy the warships that are being built and will become his opponents in the future.

Just when Li Xiu was hesitating, suddenly there was another loud noise on the sea. Li Xiu's heart twitched!

"Commander! Oh no, the side of the Jiyuan exploded inexplicably. Deng Yongchang ran over and reported to Li Xiu out of breath.

"Enemy shelling?"

"It's not!" Deng Yongchang shook his head.

Li Xiao threw down the pencil in his hand, left the battle map and ran to Jianqiao.

Standing on the bridge, holding a telescope. You can see the Jiyuan with billowing smoke!

The Jiyuan battleship was already injured, and I don't know what to do now, whether it can survive it.

If Jiyuan sinks again, then this time it can be regarded as a bad thing. Not only did he lose all the wins, but he also lost his mother's money. Fortunately, the captain of the Jiyuan is Zheng Xintai, the younger brother of Zheng Zhilong.

This old guy has been running the sea since he was a child, and he has a lot of experience at sea. He was specially trained at the Qinhuangdao Naval Academy, and at the age of forty-five, this old guy won the outstanding cadet of that year.

After twenty minutes, Li Xiu's head began to sweat. It's not clear whether the attack came from or not, and I don't know what it was blown up.

The signal light on the Jiyuan began to flash, and the signalman recorded while the person next to him helped translate:

Captain Zheng said that the left string suddenly exploded, as if there was something underwater. The fire on the ship has been controlled, but one side of the boiler has been damaged, and the power is only 30% of the original power, and the speed will become very slow. ”

At the very beginning of the explosion, it was found that the hull was ruptured and could not plug the leak. Zheng Xintai decisively ordered the watertight compartment to be closed, and at the same time injected water into the other side of the hull to ensure the balance of the hull. After a series of operations, the ship finally sank, but the power was only 30% of the original, and it could only sail extremely slowly on the sea.

At this speed, it is inevitable that it will fall out of the fleet.

Li Xiu hated the root of his teeth, but there was nothing he could do. On his side, he did not fire a single shot, lost three ironclad ships, and seriously injured one. And I didn't even understand who was doing the trick on me!

This battle has never been such a fucking bag.

"Commander! It can't be fought like this, the enemy's attack method is unknown. If we rush into the army again, maybe there will be damage to the warship. We can't afford to lose this little bit of money anymore. Chen Laohu saw the three ironclad ships sinking to the bottom of the sea, and he was so distressed that he began to twitch.

Now that I see that Jiyuan also had an accident, I can't hold my breath anymore.

"Homecoming!" Li Xiu's cheeks were as hard as a stone, and the pencil in his hand slammed the combat map.

"!" Li Xiu, who was angry, kicked over his chair and walked into the cabin without looking back.

"What are you doing in a daze, pack up and go back!" Chen Laohu glanced at the trembling officers and began to perform his duties as captain.

Laiyuan was responsible for guarding, and Zhiyuan and Jingyuan dragged the Jiyuan, which had slowed down into a turtle, to return home.

The ship sailed along the coastline of the Indian subcontinent, and when it was about ten o'clock, Li Xiu saw another Indian city in the telescope.

There are not only docks in the city, but also factories. White smoke came from the chimney of the factory, and it was not known what was being produced.

"Grandma's! Let Zheng Xintai command the fleet to continue to return, and Lao Tzu will relieve his hatred. Returning to Jianqiao, the more Li Xiu thought about it, the more he thought about it, and now he saw some industrialized Indian cities, and he couldn't help it anymore.

"Second master! Let's go back, just in case ......! "Chen Laohu is really scared, that unknown weapon.

People who run the sea are actually the most superstitious, not to mention that Chen Laohu is a pirate. The four ships had an accident inexplicably, and Zheng Xintai on Jiyuan also said that it seemed to be an attack from the bottom of the sea, could it be said that the British ship could dive?

"You're afraid you'll go first!" Li Xiu took out the wine jug and poured it hard.

"No!" didn't dare to contradict Li Xiu, who was in a state of rage, Chen Laohu could only bow down and agree. This master is now annoyed, but he doesn't dare to say anything.

Li Xiu's flagship turned the rudder, and the mountain-like battleship headed straight for the Indian port of Alibagh.

Alibagh is a small city on the edge of Mumbai with only 70,000 or 80,000 people. That's a relatively small population in India! The city is small, but the industrial structure is not low.

It is home to the third largest steel mill in India, the Alibagh Steel Mill.

The ore here comes mainly from the Middle East, and after the initial smelting, it can be rolled into steel plates or cast into a variety of things.

Although it is on the edge of Mumbai, the protection force is many levels worse than Mumbai.

Wu Sangui knew that India had a long coastline, and it was very easy for Li Xiu to land. Just focus on the defense, as long as you keep Mumbai. I don't believe you, Li Xiu will go ashore and rob those poor Indian peasants.

If Li Xiu's marines dared to go deep inland, then Wu Sangui would unceremoniously teach Li Xiu a profound lesson.

The battleship stopped at a distance of six kilometers from the coastline, and the front and rear main guns were loaded with 220 mm main guns, ready for all battles.