As soon as Ruan Lai and the Jiaozhi assault battalion occupied the port, two huge sailing ships appeared on the sea not far from the port.

Traditional shipbuilding methods can only make wooden boats, and the sailboat combines the two power modes of steam engine and sailing ship well.

These merchant ships were powered by two steam engine boilers and a sailing ship as auxiliary power. The hull is made of wood and is used on ocean voyages. You can spread out your sails and sail with the power of your sails. If it is a headwind, the sails can be lowered and a steam boiler can be used as propulsion power.

In addition to economy, the sailboat also increases the speed of sea transportation, which can be described as a model of economic efficiency. The huge hulls can carry huge cargoes, and in terms of displacement, these sailing ships are all more than 3,000 tons. Li Xiu's requisition of the two largest troop carriers has reached a scale of 5,000 tons.

The huge sails quickly fell, and the captain immediately ordered the twin engines to reverse. When the distance was about three hundred meters, the experienced captain immediately ordered the left full rudder. The mountain-high hull drifted beautifully on the sea and landed firmly on the dock. When the sailboat dropped the cable, the battle for the siege of the customs building had just ended.

There were corpses in the hallways, in the offices, and in the dorms. Stepping on the blood and making the sound of "Zla" and "Zla" is very uncomfortable to listen to in the ears. There are Gurkhas, but also Tamils and Indians. Of course, there are also Jiaozhi people. Ruan Lai's men suffered more than 60 casualties, and the wounded were lined up outside, and after being simply bandaged by the health soldiers, they were prepared and sent to the ship, and then transferred to Xinjiapo for treatment.

The sailboat lowered its gangway, and a group of heavily armed cross-toe soldiers ran down. A mechanical boom on a merchant ship, frantically lifting ammunition and weapons downward. Able-bodied North Korean men also went down the gangway to carry ammunition to the freight yard on the dock.

The two teams seemed to be in harmony, and no one interfered with the other. At this time, the language barrier has become a benefit, and it is better not to understand it anyway.

The sky was getting brighter and brighter, and Li Hu saw the sailboat approaching the dock in the telescope, and excitedly smashed the side of the ship.

"Damn, that's great. If you go on a sailboat, you'll win half the battle! "Two sailing ships carried 2,000 infantry, as well as mortars and huge quantities of ammunition. As long as they land, there is no problem in holding the port.

As long as the port is held, there will be a steady stream of soldiers and weapons landing. When all of his 50,000 troops landed successfully, Colombo became his own bag. Colombo is known as the key to the island of Ceylon, and as long as Colombo is captured, it is only a matter of time before the whole island of Ceylon is occupied.

Smoothly! The raid can only be described in two words, and that is smooth. Whether it is the sneak attack of the Japanese people or the landing of the Jiaozhi people, it is remarkable. It is still unknown [ ] casualties, in Li Hu's eyes, as long as the landing is successful, these two commandos will be dead.

The unloading of the ship went very smoothly, and 1,000 Jiaozhi soldiers and 500 Korean men quickly disembarked. In just half an hour, a whole shipload of munitions was delivered under the ship. North Korean men pushed small carts and carried the munitions to the warehouse seven or eight hundred meters away.

Ammunition must not pile up at the landing site, and if a shell comes at this time, the entire dock will be blown up into the sky. Without the dock, how the fuck can I land.

The first sailboat left the dock, and the second sailboat hurriedly docked to continue unloading. The same 1,000 Cochin soldiers, 500 North Korean civilians, and the same amount of ammunition.

By the time the sun was shining, the rain had already been much lighter. Two boatloads of people had already been transported at this rate. Before the sun comes out, it can carry five thousand people. Five thousand people guarding a port should not be a problem.

Now that the sky was about to dawn, the two remaining wooden boats carrying stones no longer had any scruples. The two ships wander around the sea, constantly exploring uncharted seas, hoping to run into mines that have not exploded.

The ironclad ship commanded by Li Xiu also came up, and the muzzle of the black hole was aimed at Colombo City, and the shells were already in the barrel, just waiting for Li Xiu to give an order to open fire.

The city of Colombo did not yet know that the pier had fallen, and when the sun was just rising, soldiers patrolling the city could be faintly seen. There are even dock workers who have eaten breakfast, walking in groups in the direction of the docks, ready to start the day's work.

All military operations have accidents, and Li Hu has thought of all kinds of accidents, and has made various arrangements in order to deal with these accidents. Li Hu never expected that the landing operation would be so smooth that Li Hu couldn't believe that he was so lucky.

But the accident still came, and he couldn't imagine that Li Hu was killed, and the accident actually came from the sea.

This time, in order to transport a large number of landing troops, Li Xiu mobilized many civilian ships. There is no way to do this, it is impossible to transport so many troops and military supplies by warships alone.

One sailboat leaves the dock and another sailboat enters the port.

It is customary for the two ships to sound their horns when they meet. This is the nautical etiquette that only steam engine ships have!

Now it's a military operation, and the emphasis is on quietly entering the village to shoot. But there was a steam-engine ship, and suddenly the whistle sounded.

The sound of the whistle echoed over the sea, and it could be heard clearly for ten miles. Li Hu's face immediately turned black, and soon Li Hu knew that he had been black early.

The boat on the opposite side didn't know which string was wrong, and actually gave a whistle back. If this is in Xinjiapo Port, there is no problem at all. Hell, this is in the port of Colombo in Ceylon. There are so many steam engine ships here!

A whistle didn't attract the attention of the defenders in the city, but it was fucking again.

"I'm fucking killing him!" Li Hu pointed to the two damn sailboats and gritted his teeth with hatred.

Turning his head to look at the half-rising sun, Li Hu gritted his teeth. With such a large fleet appearing at sea, it is impossible to hide.

"Bring the arsenal ships up." Li Hu walked into Jianqiao and shouted at Li Xiu.

"Arsenal ships? What are you doing? We have an agreement with the Tamils that we can't shell ......! Li Xiu was taken aback by Li Hu's words, he knew what it meant to use the arsenal ship.

There is only one weapon for this thing of arsenal ships, and that is heavy rocket artillery. The rocket artillery thing is fucking inaccurate, and it can only be aimed in one direction for a covering shot. If this thing were aimed at the city of Colombo, hundreds of people would be killed.

Li Yongfang secretly bribed the Tamil elders, which gave rise to the support of the Tamils. If there were a large number of Tamil casualties, the consequences would be unpredictable.

"How much more? Now the landing site dock is full of ammunition, if we don't shell the city of Colombo, a volley of rockets in the city, as long as one shot detonates the ammunition on the landing site, we will definitely not be able to return to the 5,000 people who landed on the landing. ”

"You don't have to worry about this, their shells can't hit the landing field." Hearing Li Hu's worry, Li Xiu smiled faintly. Take out a map from the desk!

"Two Tamil elders who had just picked up the boat helped point out the location of the barracks and the location of other artillery. According to them, rocket artillery should be in this position. I asked the Calculator to calculate, and the front main gun of the ironclad ship was definitely within reach. ”

"Then fire!" What Li Hu is most afraid of now is rocket artillery, which basically depends on character to eat. In the event that one of the shots made it into the makeshift arsenal, the entire dock would be blown up.

"Don't be in a hurry, lift the airship up. Without them directing the landing point of the shells, how can they hit accurately? Li Xiu was confident and pointed to the inflating airship. According to the practice of the Navy, airships always have to stay on the head of the fleet to observe and look. Now that the wind is lighter and the rain is not so heavy, there is no problem with the airship taking off.

The town's nice rear deck has been converted into an airship landing field. The huge airship quickly inflated, and soon the fire-breathing airship rose into the air.