1825 My New Daming

Chapter 283 Fleet Exists—You Can’t Treat Me as Not Existing! (seeking subscription and monthly ticket)
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Hearing the report from the people below, the second lieutenant named Wang Zuo hurriedly covered the lid of the military kettle, then threw it aside, and ran up the mast with his bare feet. His agility was similar to that of a monkey. up.

After climbing to the top of the pole, Wang Zuo immediately raised his binoculars and looked eastward. After a little searching, he found a few black smoke columns floating on the sea level—it was the exhaust gas from British coal stoves!
After a while, there were more and more pillars of smoke on the sea, and there were twenty or thirty pillars, almost covering the sky and the sun!Tall triangular masts also began to appear, vaguely fluttering above the masts, was the East India Company's red cross flag, and now this flag was taken by the Indian Empire, and it directly became the Indian flag!

From the size and shape of the mast, Wang Zuo has identified two British-made Blake-class armored cruisers and four more master-class armored cruisers. There are at least eight second- and third-class cruisers following them, and there should be some more. The destroyer followed, this is a typical outpost fleet ahead of a large formation!

20 nautical miles away, there should be the capital ship formation of the Indian fleet.The naval master who was at the bottom of the exam (all masters who can pass the exam) quickly guessed the deployment of troops on the Indian Grand Fleet.But he can only guess, it is impossible to watch, the outpost fleet of the Royal Navy of the Indian Empire will come up to arrest people and destroy the ship.

I saw him coiled on the mast with a serious expression, looking around, and muttering in his mouth: "The outpost formation has almost 20 ships, and the main formation following behind should be stronger. The main force of the Indian fleet should have arrived! Depending on the situation, the British still want to drive our Persian Gulf Fleet away, but our Persian Gulf Fleet exists or does not exist, and it is not so easy to drive us away!"

As Wang Zuo said, he slid down from the mast and ordered loudly: "The generator will generate power! Set up the radio antenna and report to the headquarters of the torpedo boat brigade! Eight enemy armored cruisers, eight cruisers, and ten to twelve destroyers. East longitude XXX, north latitude XXX appeared in the eastern sea of ​​the Gulf of Oman on the sixth day of October! The speed of the enemy ship is about 10 knots. Whether there is any capital ship formation needs further observation.”

There were beads of sweat dripping down his forehead, he was a little nervous, but more excited, and finally cursed fiercely in his mouth: "Damn it, these Yingyi finally came here to seek death! "

He did not say this casually, because the Daming Persian Gulf Fleet did not intend to be a fleet that exists quietly from the very beginning—Quietly means "a fleet that does not exist", and a fleet that exists must have a sense of existence, just If you know how to pull hatred, you can make your opponent's teeth itch with hatred, but you just can't get rid of it.

This is the successful existence of the fleet!

In order to become a successful existing fleet, the Daming Persian Gulf Fleet has been holding back its cunning from the very beginning, and their strength is not too weak.There are 8 battleships, 4 shallow water gunboats, 5 "small patrols", 8 fast patrols (actually only 8 or 2 knots), [-] sail landing ships, [-] minelayers, and Twenty destroyers of several hundred tons and twelve fast torpedo boats equipped with small steam turbines-this is a trump card!
Because the logistics bureau of the Ming Dynasty Navy has sent them 24 powerful and top-secret steam gas torpedoes through Yining-Xianmenguan-Tehran-Muscat ultra-long-range airship airlift !

Don't underestimate this number, if you use it well, you can let Emperor William know what a real "existing fleet" is!
At this time, the communication soldiers on Wang Zuo's fishing boat had already set up the antenna, installed the hand-cranked generator, took out a spark transmitter, and started sending telegrams tick-tock.

This sending device plus the ore receiver is the flagship product of Zhuge Shijia Holdings' Telecom and Zheng Shijia's Dentsu Industry. Although Europe has also produced the same product, the technology is far from that of Ming Dynasty. China's transceivers are mature, the output is not enough, and it is not yet "cabbageized", and it is difficult to achieve rapid iteration.

And "cabbageization" and rapid iteration are Daming's most powerful cheats!
After all, the Ming Empire was an industrialized empire with a population of 3.6 million!Moreover, it also has a complete compulsory education and higher education system, and it trains a large number of science students every year than the sum of other countries in the world.So Daming also has the most skilled workers and engineers in the world!
Fortunately, there is no such deep globalization in this era, and the intellectual property protection system of Western countries is not perfect (basically non-existent), so they can use tariff and non-tariff barriers to block the very competitive products of Ming Dynasty, and at the same time they can be blatant to plagiarize.Otherwise, their industrial system would have been blown to pieces!

However, it is precisely because of the existence of such barriers and plagiarism that Daming's industrial chain is also protected. Daming's low value-added industries will not be transferred to Europe, and Daming will not open its doors unreservedly to low-value European products.

And this is also the main reason why the world war is inevitable-the East and the West have now formed two semi-closed big circles and a semi-closed small circle.

It is difficult for an industrial and commercial group in one circle to enter another circle, unless the circle it belongs to swallows up other circles. The only way to obtain new markets and raw material collection places seems to be military expansion!
When the industrialization of the Ming Empire reached a certain level, so that the market and resources of the 1800 million square kilometers of the Ming itself and the several million square kilometers of the vassal state land were not enough, of course they wanted to break through other people's Circle up.

And this kind of behavior of breaking through other people's circle will of course cause others to fight back!

A psychic brand spark telegraph quickly transmitted the news that the Indian fleet had arrived to the land headquarters of the Persian Gulf Fleet in Muscat-the main force of the Persian Gulf Fleet can retreat into the Persian Gulf, and at the same time, it can be in Kazakhstan. Ras Imah, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and other places have established naval bases, naval shipyards and land barracks.But these projects cannot be completed in a few months, and must be built for a long time.Before the completion of the project, Muscat, the capital of the Sultanate of Oman, was still a safe haven for the family members of the army, and it was also a good place for officers and soldiers to rest.

In addition, there is also a dock in Muscat that can repair and scrape the bottom of the [-]-ton "giant ship", which is really important for the Persian Gulf Fleet with more than a dozen "giant ships" up.

Therefore, unless it is absolutely necessary, Li Chenghui is not willing to give up Muscat.So his headquarters is still in Muscat, and has set up positions near the port of Muscat, deployed some artillery and marines, and deployed mines around the port of Muscat.

After learning the news that the Indian fleet was approaching, Li Chenghui notified the country through the long-wave radio station, and at the same time sent two Dragon IIIs to investigate.

Three hours later, he received another telegram, which not only confirmed the report of the scouting fishing boat, but also increased the number of battleships by as many as 10, and there were another thirty or forty ships of various types!

This time, Emperor William of the Indian Empire is likely to be serious about it!

(End of this chapter)