Chapter 180 [Potential Threats to the South Seas] (1)
Chapter 180 [Potential threats from Nanyang] (Part 1)
"Tell me." Du Wei narrowed his eyes: "You'd better speak faster and tell the truth. Don't expect me to be deceived by you! Otherwise, that little Lufic won't be able to withstand many whips!"
Old Benka lamented, and he glanced at Du Wei helplessly: "Who are you, and how can you know so much about Nanyang!"
Du Wei smiled: "Don't you know my identity yet? My name is Du Wei! Oh, of course, you may not know my name, but you must know my father's name...his name
My name is Raymond! Count Raymond, the former supreme commander of the Empire’s South Sea Expedition Fleet!”
Raymond?
As soon as this name was said, Lao Benka was frightened and despaired!!
Because, in Nanyang, Raymond from the Roland Empire... this name is too loud!
Robber! Butcher! Executioner!... His hands are stained with the blood of the indigenous people. He is a notorious invader in the hearts of the indigenous clans and tribes. He is the devil who burned down their homes and enslaved them. It can be said that in Nanyang, Count Raymond's
The name can even stop a child from crying.
This noble boy with a sneer on his face is actually the son of that terrible butcher devil?!
Lao Benka didn't have time to think too much, because Lufik's screams were still coming one after another! No one understood the importance of this young man's identity better than him! No one understood the importance of this young man's identity better than him, and to Nanyang
What a profound meaning it has!
"I said! I can say anything! I just ask you to ask your people to stop first!" Lao Benka shook his body and seemed to be unable to stand. His face turned gray, as if he had become much older in an instant.
"Okay." Du Wei winked at Ruolin, who immediately went out. After a while, the screams stopped.
Old Benka breathed a sigh of relief, but the muscles on his face kept beating:
"My real name is Benka. I did not lie about this name. There are many people named Benka in Nanyang. It is a common name. And my identity is not that of a priest of the Rilun Tribe...
...I..." Old Benka gritted his teeth hard: "My true identity is the high priest elder of the United Kingdom!"
United Kingdom?
Du Wei didn't express much on his face, but he sighed secretly in his heart.
Sure enough, where there is oppression, there is resistance.
In fact, as early as the days of several expeditions led by Duweidi's father, Count Raymond, some large tribes in the vast waters of the South China Sea were unwilling to be exterminated by the invaders from afar, and they put up some very tenacious resistance. However, at that time,
Because the disparity in power is too huge, both civilization and force are far behind the huge imperial fleet. Such resistance cannot cause substantial harm to the imperial expedition.
However, with the over-exploitation of Nanyang resources, those Nanyang tribes who had only given in originally had to erupt an almost desperate and tenacious resistance in order to survive. And the continuous wars for decades have also extremely
It greatly stimulated the civilization development of the Nanyang tribes, causing the original indigenous people to develop in terms of force, almost to the point of deformity. Even Du Wei's father, Count Raymond, had doubts about the future of the situation in Nanyang.
A little bit of worry.
Du Wei also vaguely heard about this so-called United Kingdom.
Long before Count Raymond commanded the navy, in the very far south, in areas that the imperial expeditionary force could not reach, some large tribes with relatively advanced civilizations had united countless small tribes and established an alliance to fight against the empire.
As for the existing "kingdom", it is said that that kingdom has hundreds of tribes of varying sizes, covering more than a hundred islands, the largest of which is even as large as a province of the empire.
Since the establishment of the rumored "United Kingdom", the pressure faced by the Empire's expedition fleet has begun to increase. At the beginning, due to the huge gap in military force between the two sides, the pressure was not obvious. However, in recent years.
The United Kingdom's resistance to the Empire has begun to show some fruitful results.
They took advantage of their familiarity with the geography of the Nanyang Sea and even learned some harassment tactics. They also stole some of the empire's shipbuilding technology from somewhere and built a number of warships that were crude but very fast. Damn it.
With those warships and the empire guerrilla on the vast sea, they often even set up traps to lead the empire's naval swords to some "dead seas" full of whirlpools and reefs, causing some damage to the empire.
The biggest change occurred three years ago. Three years ago, the empire's expedition to the South Seas brought a very obvious danger signal to the empire.
Because, during an expedition three years ago, a glorious record that the empire had always maintained was broken: zero damage to warships in frontal battles!
All along, the imperial army has always been invincible in frontal battles with those Nanyang barbarians.
The imperial warships have never been sunk by those barbarians from the South Seas!
The huge gap in military force meant that the imperial army faced almost no real threat on the frontal battlefields of Nanyang. For them, instead of worrying about the ridiculously crude "armies" of the Nanyang tribes, they were more worried about those
Hurricanes and whirlpools, reefs, terrible sea weather... Some proud generals declared: When we go to Southeast Asia, we are not fighting against people, but against the sky. As long as the weather is good, we can even launch the fleet without any hindrance.
To the end of the world!
But a battle three years ago finally broke the empire's glorious record!
Under the leadership and influence of the rumored "United Kingdom", the Nanyang tribes established a large-scale "fleet". Although by the standards of the empire, the so-called "fleet" was too crude to be taken seriously.
, the opponent's best so-called "warship" is not even half as good as an ordinary merchant ship of the empire.
However, the United Kingdom's "fleet" was too terrifying in terms of numbers. In that battle, it was said that the other side gathered dozens of times the number of ships as the expedition fleet. After a decisive battle at sea, the imperial fleet still gained
Victory, but after that battle, the empire's warships suffered zero damage and were broken!
During the battle, the empire lost two Sea Spirit-class warships, and one Sea King-class warship was almost seriously damaged.
This change should undoubtedly have sounded the alarm to the empire's military, but it seems that the empire's military did not care. After all, the past achievements were too brilliant, and the enemy's too large "fleet" also gave the military a
Justification.
Even an elephant, faced with endless ants, may occasionally get bitten.
But Du Wei learned the truth through some "channels"!
Just a few days ago, after Count Raymond left the imperial capital, Du Wei cleaned up the study room left by Count Raymond and found some documents that Count Raymond had put in the cabinet when he was in power... Those things originally belonged to the military.
Information, but after the coup and the change of government, management was inevitably chaotic. Some of the information held by Count Raymond was not recovered by the military or it may be that it felt that such things were not important.
Indeed, for the military, Nanyang is still a fat sheep that can be slaughtered by itself.
But Du Wei read the information a few days ago, learned about the battle three years ago that broke the zero casualty of the Imperial Expeditionary Force, and discovered many differences!
First of all, the United Kingdom in Nanyang seems to have mastered some basic tactics. Although it is a bit simpler, it has indeed entered the category of "tactics".
The other party led the empire's fleet to a sea area that was very beneficial to them for a decisive battle! It was a narrow sea area between two small islands. On the small islands on both sides, the natives of Nanyang actually set up a
Catapult!
Those simple catapults have a very low hit rate, but their range is very long. On the islands on both sides, they can just cover the narrow sea area between the islands! The low hit rate is not a problem, because those Nanyang natives simply hold
The heroic and resolute idea was to fight the Empire! The catapults on both sides were launched, and they were almost indiscriminate "covering attacks" on both sides fighting in the sea! Among them, the Sea Soul-class warship lost by the Empire was exactly
Hit by a sling.
Even on the information, there are some signs that the opponent has learned simple tactics such as "outflanking the back", "circuit on both sides", etc.!
These people are no longer the indigenous people who only know how to use earthen canoes, spears and swords! After nearly a hundred years of oppression, they are building their own civilization with a strong military nature!