Indian Empire, Bombay Bay, piloted the armored warrior HMS Warrior for a ten-kilometer expedition.
The ever-warm sunshine of the Indian Ocean penetrated through the glass into the chilly Warrior conference room.
George Elliot, who was explaining why the Royal Indian Navy... lost the battle again, had just flown in an airship for nearly 30 hours, flying all the way from the Great Strait back to Mumbai's Elephant Island. As soon as he got off the airship, he immediately boarded Emperor William's ship and saw His Majesty the Emperor, whose face was ashen and his eyes were red, and he was about to bite someone at the sight of him.
Emperor William was certainly in a hurry. A rabbit bites someone when it's angry, let alone an emperor?
When George Elliot was rushing to Elephant Island, Emperor William had already received the battle report sent by Lieutenant General James Hood via radio wave! That is really a shocking battle report. In just a few days of naval battles, the Royal Navy lost 8 shallow-water heavy artillery ships, 18 armored cruisers, 21 old second- and third-class cruisers, and 6 latest fast destroyers. And...2 powerful Victory-class battleships!
In addition, seven or eight transport ships transporting ammunition, supplies and Ah San soldiers to Penang Port and Port Klang are missing... missing means that they suddenly disappeared, and no one knows where they went. ?
What's even more frightening is that it can currently be determined that the Ming Dynasty's losses are minimal, and the only significant ones are a few Haohan-class armored cruisers. Moreover, it can only be determined that it was severely damaged, but it cannot be determined that it was sunk.
It is no exaggeration to say that the results of the just-concluded Battle of the Malacca Strait and the Battle of the Great Strait were a great victory for the Ming Dynasty and a great defeat for Britain and India!
The British Empire had been carefully preparing for the current battle for several years. It also created an Indian empire that was specially used to take responsibility for debts and serve as cannon fodder. It also had its local shipyards work at full capacity to work overtime to build new battleships. It originally thought that it could rely on mass production The manufactured Victory class gets an advantage of 18 months to 24 months. Unexpectedly, as soon as the highly anticipated Victory class went into battle, one of the Ming Dynasty's "aircraft carrier battleships" blasted two of them with cannons and torpedoes!
Could it be that the Victory Level was "made" wrong? The future belongs to aircraft-carrying battleships? Also, the British Empire seems to have no usable "aircraft" now. Does this aircraft-carrying battleship without "aircraft" still make sense?
Can Emperor William not turn blue with anxiety when he thinks about these things? Could he sleep peacefully last night? I'm so anxious that I can't sleep. Can my eyes not be red?
And George Elliot's current words made the emperor of the Indian Empire and king of the United Kingdom even more excited and his blood pressure increased.
"Your Majesty the Emperor, in the Battle of Tregg Strait, the Ming Empire's fleet used a coordinated sea and air tactic. Specifically, they first used aircraft to drop bombs, and at the same time used cannons with a caliber of more than 300 mm at 10,000 yards. ——Long-range fire at a distance of eight thousand yards. When our attention was completely attracted by their aircraft and battleships, their torpedo destroyers suddenly launched a charge and launched a large number of long-range missiles at a distance of three thousand yards. High-speed torpedo..."
“After the Malina and the Willis were hit by torpedoes and were severely damaged, the aircraft that had been circling at mid-altitude to drop bombs began to use dive and hover methods to lower their altitude to several hundred meters before dropping bombs... "
"After the Malina and Willis were hit by bombs and suffered heavier losses, the Ming army's aircraft-carrying battleship boldly approached and bombarded them with its cannons. At the same time, it also fired torpedoes, inflicting heavy losses on both sides. A final blow from a dying battleship!"
"Your Majesty the Emperor...the soldiers on the Malina and the Wellesley have tried their best to fight! But the Ming Empire's battleships are too powerful, and the artillery and torpedoes are too powerful... There are carrier-based aircraft that can carry heavy bombs for air strikes! They are so powerful..."
George Yilu's voice trembled a little as he said these words. He was fully involved in the war preparations of the British Empire, and he witnessed with his own eyes the "human powered gliding bombs" that he had worked so hard to build, being shot down one after another, and watched as powerful warships like the Victory-class battleships were used by the opponent's "coordinated sea and air tactics." Easily sink...Now that he talks about it, can he not tremble?
"Are we defeated?"
Before George Yilu finished speaking, he was interrupted by a hoarse voice. Everyone followed the sound and found that the speaker was none other than their Emperor, His Majesty William.
"Did I make a mistake?" Emperor William glanced around and saw twenty or thirty eyes full of doubts and surprises. "Should we consider suing for peace now? Maybe we can ask my good brother Emperor Daoguang to come forward. As a middleman... Oh, and Louis XVII of France, he is also my friend. And the Czar... I can cede the Malay Peninsula to the Ming Dynasty, and then persuade the Dutch to transfer the Netherlands to the Ming Dynasty. East India can be given to the Ming Dynasty, and our rights and interests in the Oregon colony can also be given to the Ming Dynasty. If that doesn't work, then we can pay hundreds of millions of rupees... as long as they don't touch India and Australia."
Emperor William is really scared now, afraid that his India will be taken away by the Ming Dynasty!
After being the emperor of India for a period of time, he has become "lucky", so he really can't imagine losing India and running back to England. Not to mention whether the British people still want him, the "Landless King William", even if they still want him. How can this British king be as happy as the Indian emperor?
"Your Majesty the Emperor!" Amesh, the Chief Minister of the Indian Empire, reminded, "The Oregon Colony does not belong to the Indian Empire... and the House of Commons will not allow us to surrender to the Eastern Z-controlled Empire of the Ming Dynasty, because that means Give up the power to rule the world!”
"Then we won't cede Oregon," Emperor William thought for a moment, "We can't give up the power to rule the world... We can, we can rule the world together with the Ming Empire!"
"Your Majesty the Emperor!" Marquis Nelson couldn't stand listening anymore. "Now is not the time for compromise, and there is no room for compromise between us and the British Empire! Because in today's world, there can only be one master and one order!"
"No, no..." Emperor William shook his head repeatedly, "We can try a dynastic marriage. We can marry Princess Victoria to a prince of the Ming Dynasty! Her engagement with Grand Duke Alexander has almost been disturbed by the House of Commons. … We can arrange a new marriage for her now!”
In fact, Victoria still likes that handsome boy Alexander. But people in the House of Commons of the British Parliament looked down upon Maozi (Alexander was actually not Maozi, he and Victoria were fellow Germans) and felt that Grand Duke Alexander was not worthy of Princess Victoria. Moreover, the Romanov dynasty has always been strong. Once they take over England, the authority of the royal family will probably increase, and the Parliament will be suppressed.
"Your Majesty the Emperor," Amesh became anxious upon hearing this, "This will make people think that we have surrendered to the Ming Empire... Who can imagine that the Zhu Ming Dynasty rules the United Kingdom?"
"Isn't it possible?" Emperor William frowned, "The Zhu Ming Dynasty has noble blood, and they began to rule China more than 400 years ago!"
"But the first emperor of the Zhu Ming Dynasty came from a humble background," Amesh said. "I heard that he even worked as a beggar... How can such a bloodline rule Britain?"
Emperor William said with a stern face, "My chief minister, what do you think we should do? Are we sitting here doing nothing and waiting for the generals of the Zhu Ming Dynasty to come over with their invincible fleet? The Zhu Ming Dynasty cannot rule. United Kingdom, is it okay to rule India?”
"Your Majesty the Emperor, you are worrying too much," Marquis Nelson said. "Now that Tan Masi Island and the Malay Peninsula have not fallen, it will take the Chinese at least 6-12 months to occupy them. Even if they occupy the Malay Peninsula and the Tan Peninsula It is impossible to organize an expedition to India immediately from the Masi Fortress. So we should have 18 months to reorganize the navy, and I already have a plan to reorganize the navy..."
"Emperor!" As soon as Nelson said this, Charlie Elliot had already knocked on the door and walked in, "Telegram from Ceylon Island, a Ming naval fleet has bypassed Ceylon Island and is currently heading north along the Indian coastline, possibly Coming to Mumbai!”
