Chapter 283 The Existence of the Fleet - You can’t pretend I don’t exist! (Please subscribe and vote monthly)

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After hearing the report from the people below, the navy lieutenant named Wang Zuo quickly closed the lid of the military kettle, threw it aside, and ran up the mast with his bare feet. Looking at his agility, he was almost like a monkey.

Already.

After climbing to the top of the pole, Wang Zuo immediately raised his telescope and looked east. After a little search, he found several black smoke pillars floating on the sea level - at a glance, he knew that they were exhaust gases emitted by British coal stoves!

After a while, there were more and more smoke pillars on the sea. There were twenty or thirty pillars, which were almost blocking the sky! Tall triangular masts also began to appear, and the faintly floating thing on the mast was the original

The cross-red striped flag of the East India Company was now taken by the Indian Empire and became the national flag of India!

From the size and shape of the masts, Wang Zuo has identified that these are two British-produced Blake-class armored cruisers and four more advanced Arrogant-class armored cruisers. There are at least eight second-class and third-class cruisers following them, and there should be more.

The destroyers follow, this is a typical outpost fleet in front of a large formation!

There should be the battleship formation of the Indian Grand Fleet 20 nautical miles to the rear. This naval academic who was last in the exam (all academics who can pass the exam) quickly guessed the deployment of the Indian Grand Fleet's forces.

However, he could only guess that there was no way to see it, and the outpost fleet of the Royal Indian Navy would come to arrest people and destroy the ship.

I only saw him coiled on the mast with a serious expression, looking around and muttering: "The outpost formation has almost 20 ships, and the main formation following it should be more powerful. The main force of the Indian fleet should have arrived!"

Depending on the situation, the British still want to force our Persian Gulf Fleet away, but our Persian Gulf Fleet exists, not does not exist, and it is not that easy to drive us away!"

As Wang Zuo spoke, he slid down from the mast and gave a loud order: "Generator to generate electricity! Set up the radio antenna and report to the torpedo boat brigade headquarters! There are eight enemy armored cruisers, eight cruisers, and ten to twelve destroyers. Directions

East longitude

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

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He did not say this casually, because the Ming Dynasty's Persian Gulf Fleet did not intend to be a quietly existing fleet from the beginning - An Anjing was a "non-existent fleet". To exist, a fleet must have a sense of existence.

If you can draw hatred, you can make your opponent hate him till the very end of his teeth, but you can't destroy him.

This is the successful existence fleet!

In order to become a successful existence fleet, the Ming Dynasty's Persian Gulf Fleet has been holding back from the beginning to recruit losses, and their strength is not too weak. There are 8 battleships, 4 shallow water gunboats, and 5 "small armor patrols"

There are 8 fast cruisers (actually only 189 knots), 8 sail landing ships, 2 minelayers, 20 destroyers of several hundred tons and 12 small steam turbines.

Fast torpedo boat - this is a trump card!

Because the Logistics Bureau of the Ming Navy has sent them 24 powerful and top-secret steam gas torpedoes via ultra-long-range airships from Yining-Xianmenguan-Tehran-Muscat.

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Don’t underestimate this number, once you use it, you can let Emperor William know what the real “existence fleet” is!

At this time, the communications soldier on the fishing boat where Wang Zuo was on had already set up the antenna, installed the hand-cranked generator, and also took out a spark transmitter and started sending messages ticking.

This transmitting device, coupled with the ore receiving machine, is the flagship product of Tongling Telecommunications controlled by Zhuge Shijia and Dentsu Industry controlled by Zheng Shijia. Although Europe has also developed the same product, its technology is far inferior to that of Ming Dynasty.

The transceiver is mature, and the output is not enough. It cannot be "cabbageized" yet, and it is difficult to iterate quickly.

And "cabbageization" and rapid iteration are the most powerful golden fingers of Ming Dynasty!

After all, the Ming Empire was an industrialized empire with a population of 360 million! It also had a complete system of compulsory education and higher education. It trained more science students every year than the rest of the world combined. So the Ming Dynasty also had

The largest number of skilled workers and engineers in the world!

Fortunately, this era does not yet have that kind of deep globalization, and the intellectual property protection system of Western countries is not perfect (basically non-existent), so they can use tariffs and non-tariff barriers to block highly competitive Ming products, and at the same time, they can blatantly

Plagiarism. Otherwise, their industrial system would have been shattered to pieces!

However, precisely because of the existence of such barriers and plagiarism, Daming's industrial chain has been protected. Daming's low value-added industries will not be transferred to Europe, and Daming will not open its doors to Europe's low-value products without reservation.

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

It is difficult for an industrial and commercial group in one circle to enter another circle, unless the circle it is in swallows up other circles. The only way to obtain new markets and raw material collection places is military expansion!

When the industrialization of the Ming Empire reached a certain height, so that the market resources of the 18 million square kilometers of mainland and several million square kilometers of vassal lands owned by Ming Dynasty were not enough, of course they had to break through the market of others.

Circled.

And this kind of behavior that breaks through other people's circles will of course cause others to fight back!

A psychic brand spark telegraph machine quickly conveyed the news that the Indian Grand Fleet had arrived to the Persian Gulf Fleet land headquarters in Muscat - the main force of the Persian Gulf Fleet could retract into the Persian Gulf, and at the same time, it could also be in Kazakhstan.

Naval bases, naval shipyards and land barracks have been established in Ras al-Ima, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and other places. However, these projects cannot be completed in a few months and must be constructed for a long time. Before completion, the capital of the Sultanate of Oman, Maldives

Skate is also a comfortable place for the family members of the army, and it is also a good place for officers and soldiers to rest and recuperate.

In addition, there is a dock in Muscat that can repair and scrape the bottom of a "giant ship" of 10,000 tons. This is really important for the Persian Gulf Fleet, which has more than a dozen "giant ships".

Already.

Therefore, Li Chenghui is unwilling to give up Muscat unless he has to. Therefore, his headquarters is still in Muscat. He has also set up positions near the port of Muscat and deployed some artillery and marines.

, and mines were also deployed around the port of Muscat.

After learning that the Indian fleet was approaching, Li Chenghui notified the country through the long-wave radio station and sent two Feilong III ships to conduct reconnaissance.

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

This time, Emperor William of the Indian Empire is very likely to take action!
Chapter completed!