"Woo ......"

When the piercing battle alarm sounded, on the mast of the armored cruiser Cao Guogong, Sergeant Lu Benwei, who had been in the Ming Navy for eight years, was a little blind.

He is just a farmer from a small county in remote Yunnan, because the land in his family is already the smallest share of the family farm according to the provisions of the "Uniform Land Order" and the "Land Restriction Order" (there is not only an upper limit but also a lower limit on the land limit), and it can no longer be divided, so it must be inherited by his brother. And he could only graduate from junior high school, while "asking for fields" from the top, he joined the army as a soldier and became a sailor.

And the reason why I want to be a soldier is not to make a contribution...... It was all the daydreaming of a low-ranking officer from a civilian background, and he didn't want to do that when he became a soldier. In the Ming Army, it is very difficult for a soldier to be promoted to an officer, and no matter how good a soldier is, he will be promoted to a first-class sergeant major. Lu Benwei is also very interested in being a first-class sergeant major, and his purpose in joining the army is just to mix up a little "ask for a field".

The so-called "please share the field" means that the state will score the children of Ming farmers who apply for land, and those with high scores can be given priority to the land, and those with low scores are sorry...... I'm afraid I won't have any land to divide for the rest of my life.

Of course, the fact that there is no land to distribute does not mean that the country will not care - King Zhuge Wuzhong, an "idealistic" traverser, has long drawn rules and regulations for his descendants. If because of the large population, the calculation and dictation of land stipulated in the "Juntian Order" cannot be enforced, then the imperial court will have to help Ding Nan, who "asks for land", to buy real estate in the city. Don't think about a good location in the center of a big city, generally a small plot of land near a satellite city on the outskirts of a big city or an industrial area in a new industrial city, and let the men build a house at their own expense.

Therefore, in the suburbs of the new Ming Dynasty, there are many well-planned towns with two- or three-story Chinese-style buildings. It was not inhabited by rich people, but poor workers who had to go to the periphery of the big city to get a piece of land to build a house.

They have lived their whole lives, that is, a small building with two cars (the automobile has just been invented now, and it has not yet become popular, but it will definitely be available in the future), a wife and two or three children. Well, in the imagination of the citizens of the new imperialist Ming Dynasty, a poor person is also so poor. No matter how poor you are, it's to change to a Japanese wife who is more able to live......

However, Lu Benwei was more motivated, and he did not want to be a poor worker, he wanted to be a rich peasant with a family farm...... And to be a rich peasant, there are generally only two ways, one is to earn points. Now the Ming court still has a little land in its hands to share, but it is already very precious, so ordinary people can't get it, and they have to be a soldier for the country for a few more years to earn enough points. In addition, you can earn a lot of points by studying hard and taking the agricultural college exam. But Lu Benwei was a scumbag in his studies and couldn't be admitted to the Agricultural College. Therefore, being a soldier is the only way for him to earn points.

In addition to earning points, you can also go to a vassal country or go to the frontier "no man's land" to be a rich peasant. But that requires a lot of capital, and the risk is also large, and if you don't do it well, you will lose all your money and become "the poor of the poor". At that time, I won't even be able to marry a Japanese wife.

So Lu Benwei became a soldier. Because his eyes are very good, his brain is also very clever, and he learns things quite quickly, he was assigned to the navy as an observer. There are two main tasks, one is to use a telescope to look around the sea; The second is to use a stereo rangefinder that at first glance looks a bit like a bamboo pole placed sideways to measure the position of distant islands, ships, and warships in the distance.

His position usually doesn't matter, it's just that the assessment is a bit much, but when it's time to go to war...... Whether this cannon is accurate or not, first of all, depends on his observation level, and then whether the abacus of the "abacus soldier" in the artillery bridge is good or not?

But Lu Benwei didn't understand that he was sitting on an armored cruiser, looking at the scenery of the Indian Ocean, thinking about the happy life of being a "rich peasant" after earning all the points, why did he suddenly want to fight?

Also, what happened to Daming in the past two years? How can you fight with people at every turn? The last time there was an inexplicable war in Japan, the newspapers said that a small group of Japanese careerists had created trouble in the Kii Suido in a vain attempt to provoke a world war between the Ming Empire and the British Empire, so as to achieve their sinister goal of taking advantage of the chaos and seizing power in Japan...... This story looks a bit fake!

And the result of that war, in Lu Benwei's view, was that a large number of officials were promoted through meritorious service, and the prices of Japanese brides and Japanese ladies increased by three to fifty percent!

This time it's even more inexplicable...... I went all the way to the Indian Ocean to fight with people!

Could it be that there are people in India who want to stir up trouble and provoke a world war between the Ming Dynasty and the British?

Just when Lu Benwei was surprised by the inexplicable outbreak of war, the alarm suddenly stopped in the loudspeaker beside him, and then the voice of the captain Lei Teng came: "Colleagues, I am Lieutenant Colonel Lei Teng, the captain of the Cao Guogong...... The battle is about to begin, and I hope that each and every one of you will do your duty in this battle to win victory and glory for our empire, and for yourselves! Long live the Ming Dynasty, long live the Emperor! ”

Then a group of bridge officers cheered from the loudspeaker: "Long live Daming!" Long live the Emperor! ”

Then, the music of the national anthem of the Ming Empire, "Song of the Red Turban Army", sounded - this song was of course composed and lyrics by King Zhuge Wuzhong himself, the tune is impassioned, and the lyrics are exhilarating.

Lu Benwei, who didn't quite understand this sudden war, didn't think about it anymore, but began to sing loudly to the music of "Song of the Red Turban Army": "Get up, people who don't want to be slaves ......"

......

"Report, nineteen thousand yards away!"

"Eighteen thousand yards!"

"Seventeen thousand yards!"

"10,000 ......"

With the sound of the captain reporting one after another, the atmosphere in the bridge of the USS Blake armored cruiser also ignited, after all, the other party was only 8 3,000-ton third-class cruisers, not the opponent of the three Blake-class armored cruisers of more than 9,000 tons.

Although the Ming Empire is a formidable opponent, today's victory must belong to the British Empire, no, to the Indian Empire.

Unlike those officers and men of the Ming Navy who do not know what they are fighting for, the officers and men of the Royal Indian Navy know what they are fighting for!

The British in the fleet knew that their empire on which the sun never set was fought by victory...... Spain, the Netherlands, France, the princely states of India, and the barbarians of the New World were all defeated by the empire on which the sun never set. And they, the English, can go from being islanders on a wild island in Europe to being the people of the richest country in Europe who are almost on the verge of catching up with the people of the Oriental Celestial Empire in terms of per capita income and living standards.

If they can defeat the Ming Dynasty, then their empire will become the number one in the world, and they will follow the light and go to the next level!

As for the Indians in the fleet...... Most of them were of the Kshatriya caste and came from a family of landowners in Chamindar. They were quite satisfied with the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm, and they all thought that Kaiser Wilhelm would make their India great again!

Well, India is great now! is not only the eldest son of Great Britain, but also the master of the Indian Ocean, with the second largest GDP in the world, second only to the Ming Dynasty.

As long as you work harder and defeat the Ming Dynasty, India will be the veritable number one in the world, and then the 19th century will be the Indian century!

"Thirteen thousand yards!" At this time, the navigator shouted in the loudest voice, "Sir, it's thirteen thousand yards now!" ”

Colonel Jervis nodded heavily: "Good! Now the left full rudder! We are going to pass through the front of the enemy's column, may God bless us, may God bless Emperor Wilhelm and the Indian Empire! ”