The huge roar shakes the eardrums and makes people feel irritated.
Sa Zhenbing was shirtless, feeding coal into the boiler with a shovel. Sweat flowed from his chest, dripping on the floor and quickly evaporating.
On a battleship, the worst environment is the boiler room.
The soldiers who entered inside felt like they had entered a big oven, and every breath they took was burning their lungs.
The happiest thing for the soldiers was to gather next to the snorkel when the steam engine was producing steady power, take a sip of mung bean soup and feel the "cold" fresh air.
At this time, several logistics soldiers came in carrying two large buckets, one with mung bean soup and the other with saltpeter ice cubes.
"Lao Sa, I'm going to take a few sips first and I'll take your place later!"
"Okay."
Sa Zhenbing responded and continued shoveling coal into the boiler.
In the upper bridge command tower, Shen Yulong looked delighted.
"Okay, I found it!"
A merchant ship returning to Luzon from Bangladesh brought good news.
The British Empire's expeditionary fleet anchored in the port of Bengal.
The First Fleet of the Ming Navy, except for the Zhenyuan that stayed in Xinxiang, the other three battleships had just passed through the Strait of Malacca with transport ships filled with coal, artillery shells and a regiment of soldiers.
Along the way, many colonial fleets waiting for Ming Dynasty to hand over followed curiously for a while.
At this time, European colonists in Southeast Asia were basically concentrated in Kuala Lumpur on the Strait of Malacca, and more than 200,000 foreign colonists obtained temporary residency rights.
The entire Nanyang can be said to be the world of the Ming Dynasty.
Unsurprisingly, the Manchu Qing was imposed an economic blockade by the Ming Dynasty, and all the trade between the East and the West was swallowed up by the Ming Dynasty.
Mainly still the third child, Zhu Zaiming purchased a large amount of silk, porcelain and tea from the system.
Trade in a short period of time will be shipped jointly by various commercial banks and household departments in Ming Dynasty.
It's the end of August.
The First Fleet of the Ming Navy finally intercepted the British Expeditionary Fleet in the Bay of Bengal.
Nelson, the one-eyed and one-armed Admiral of the British Empire, was reading the Ming Dynasty newspaper under an oil lamp, his brows sometimes frowning and sometimes relaxing.
Suddenly, there was a gunshot, followed by a huge explosion, like a powder keg exploding.
A soldier opened the door and gasped for air.
"Admiral Nelson, the foreigners...ah, no, Akito is coming in a huge gun battleship!"
"What?"
Nelson closed the newspaper, put the musket on his waist, and took out a telescope and went out to check.
Under the pitch-black night, a row of orange-red fireballs flashed across the sea in the distance.
A few seconds later, the whistling sound of artillery shells came, followed by a series of explosions, and finally the "rumbling sound" of naval gunfire came.
The battleship's bombardment was astonishing, but with little success.
Two port shops were reduced to rubble and a wooden slipway was blown off.
The British Expeditionary Fleet was anchored in the port, crowded with a large number of merchant ships, but no one was damaged.
The sailors of the British Royal Navy hurriedly raised the anchor and lowered the sails to leave the port first, but found that the sails were limp.
Everyone woke up and said in unison.
"Fuck!"
"Damn it!"
Shen Yulong stood in front of the window and cursed secretly.
"Let the boys shoot more accurately! There is no wind tonight, and if the fight is so bad, you will wash the deck for me after the war!"
Perhaps Shen Yulong's words had an effect. The second round of shelling accurately hit the shore defense forts, and the two open-air forts were blown into the sky.
The coastal defense artillery has a range of 2 to 3 kilometers, which is far less than 5 kilometers away from the First Fleet of the Ming Navy.
The British gunners could only be beaten unilaterally.
As time passed, after 22 rounds of shelling, all coastal defense guns on both sides of Bangladesh Port were destroyed.
Nelson had already arrived at the port and was organizing defenses.
"Quickly, drag those tall merchant ships in front of the battleship!
Dismantle part of the deck shotgun and move it to the port shop! "
Nelson, who had learned more about the Ming Dynasty's spring offensive, did not believe that the British Royal Navy could annihilate the Ming Dynasty Navy at this time.
If you can't win the naval battle, you can only fight in the streets.
Nelson discovered by studying the Ming Dynasty newspaper that street fighting could cause serious damage to the Ming Dynasty.
At this time, the First Fleet of the Ming Navy launched another salvo. The shells fell into the densely moored ships, the ships were broken, and the high explosives ignited the wooden ships.
The raging fire began to spread, and the explosion began.
There were explosions and shouts, and the entire port was on fire with thick smoke billowing into the sky.
The dark night sky was burnt red, and it could even be seen in cities dozens of kilometers away.
Nelson watched all this with one red eye, helpless.
The admiral who dominated Europe faced his first defeat.
The bridge command tower of the Dingyuan.
"There are 11 rounds left in the main gun reserve!"
The crew announced loudly.
Shen Yulong ordered to stop the bombardment and prepare to return.
The Dingyuan-class battleship's main gun ammunition reserve is 50 rounds per gun.
If the humanoid supply ship Zhu Zaiming is not on board, Shen Yulong will not launch an unbridled bombardment.
A reserve of 11 rounds per door must be maintained to deal with possible threats when returning.
Although there were a large number of supply ships on the sea behind the fleet, carrying main gun shells, Shen Yulong still gave up supplying at sea.
The main gun shells are too heavy. Without a cable motor, it would take several days to complete the supply of these shells by manpower on the sea.
This will give the enemy a chance to recover. If they are attacked by surprise during the supply process, they may also be killed in one round.
Moreover, the port shops are not far from the shore, so casualties will be very high during beach landings.
A flintlock gun is also a gun, and a muzzleloader is also a cannon. As long as a shotgun is successfully ignited, a large number of army soldiers will die.
At this time, the Samurai Corps was still recruiting people in Xinxiang, and they couldn't be counted on.
Therefore, facing a brave general like Nelson, Shen Yulong was not prepared to take risks.
The fleet returns.
After receiving the order from the upper deck, Sa Zhenbing accelerated the speed of shoveling coal, and the afterimage of the shovel was waved.
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Xinxiang City.
The East India Company's clipper anchored here, and Smith entered the palace with several diplomats.
"His Majesty the Ming Emperor, Foreign Minister Smith on behalf of the King of Great Britain, the King of the United Kingdom of Ireland, the leader of the royal arts, the ruler of the Indian region...His Majesty George III, I send you my greetings."
Smith took off his tall hat, hung a gentleman's staff on his arm, and bowed.
Zhu Zaiming and the ministers were also confused by George III's series of titles.
Upon seeing this, Qin Yuan, the Minister of Rites, rolled his eyes, stood up from his chair and slightly cupped his hands.
"As a return gift, Qin Yuan, Minister of Rites of the Ming Dynasty, on behalf of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the master of Australia, the ruler of Southeast Asia, the God of Guyana in South America, the suzerain of the vassal states of East Asia...the loving father of Eastern civilization, His Majesty the Emperor of Wude, presents to George III salute."
Who can't take the title? Qin Yuan said with contempt in his heart.
Smith choked.
As the British Empire's ambassador to the East India Company in India, he just habitually added a bunch of titles to George III.
By the way, he suppressed Daming in terms of status and prepared for subsequent negotiations.
Unexpectedly, this Minister of Rites is also a wonderful person.
But isn’t Guyana, South America, French? How did it become Ming Dynasty?
"Your Majesty, as far as the foreign minister knows, South American Guyana is a colony of France, the brother country of Great Britain, but it has become a dependent territory of the Ming Dynasty. Did the Ming Dynasty attack French Guiana?"
Zhu Zaiming smiled slightly and said to his good brother Napoleon, "I'm sorry." Anyway, it won't be long before Da Ying can guess where your cannon came from.
"That was a gift from France, the country of brothers. Brothers of brothers are also brothers. I wonder what my good brother George III gave me?"
"Forehead……"
Smith was stunned again, and at the same time a terrifying guess emerged in his heart.
Ming Dynasty and France will not form an alliance...
