Chapter 508: You Can Really Do It!
Two days later, Li Ming led the joint attack fleet and sailed to the waters near Ceylon. Song Tao and the ocean-going exploration fleet are also about to join the main fleet here. He was about to see his brother, and Li Ming was very excited.
Song Tao and they have been gone for more than a year, and Li Ming has been worried about them a lot. Since the invasion of the Far East by the Netherlands and other countries, the company has been passive everywhere, and the fate of the ocean-going exploration fleet has always affected everyone's hearts, for fear that they will make a mistake.
"Commander, radar echoes have been detected in front of the fleet......"
Li Ming listened to the report of the bridge radar operator, immediately picked up the microphone, and shouted loudly: "Song Tao, Song Tao...... Hear the reply, this is the Combined Attack Fleet, I am Li Ming......"
He shouted several times in a row, and only then did there be an excited shout from the earphones: "Dude, you have finally arrived, but you want to kill me, haha......"
Li Ming heard Song Tao's familiar voice, and laughed excitedly: "You kid can be regarded as here, haha...... Immediately move closer to the main fleet, immediately move closer to the main fleet......"
An hour later, the sails of several sailboats appeared on the sea in the distance, and the people around Li Ming cheered. But when the ocean-going exploration fleet approached them, Li Ming's face suddenly became gloomy.
There are only five ships left in the ocean-going exploration fleet, and several ships can clearly see the traces of large-scale repair, indicating that they have fought a lot of vicious battles along the way. And there was one less ship, which also made everyone's hearts sink.
Song Tao, Li Shaojie and others sat on an assault boat and landed on the No. 1 landing ship where Li Ming was, and as soon as he stepped on the deck, he laughed and said, "Haha...... We are looking forward to the stars and the moon, and we have finally brought you here......"
After he finished speaking, he rushed over and gave Li Ming a bear hug. But Li Ming pushed him away, and said with a gloomy face: "Why are there only five ships left?" Where did the other ship go? ”
Song Tao listened to Li Ming's words, and his originally excited mood suddenly darkened. He took a deep breath, and then told everyone what he had experienced along the way of the ocean exploration fleet.
Li Ming was relieved after listening to Song Tao's narration. But he's scared now, too. This voyage of the ocean exploration fleet is really a lot of disasters and difficulties! Fortunately, the loss of personnel is not large, and the loss of the ship is nothing, as long as the people are there.
The officers and men of the ocean-going exploration fleet have experienced the baptism of this ocean-going voyage and will surely become more mature in the future. Li Ming had already seen some clues from their temperament. The navy, which has experienced storms and countless vicious battles, is the real sailor.
The East Asian Ocean is completely different from the vast Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.
Li Ming patted Song Tao on the shoulder and said with a smile: "It's good to come back." As for the brothers who died, we will avenge them. ”
He also told Song Tao about the general process of the Battle of Manila and the Battle of Nanyang. Song Tao listened to Li Ming's words and said excitedly: "Then Nanyang will be our Far East bathtub from now on, haha...... Listen to you, should we also sweep the coast of India? ”
Li Ming scolded with a smile: "Nonsense, the combined fleet of the eight European countries has hit our doorstep, if we don't drive them out of the east." Our Far East is too poor. If it weren't for the company's unstable foothold in the South Seas, we would all want to build a fleet and go to Europe. ”
Song Tao also smiled: "Hehe...... Actually, I took the fleet with me. There were also a few votes in the Americas and Europe. In order to find coal on the east coast of the Americas, we swept up the British colonies in the New World of America. Before returning home, I went to Europe, set a fire in London, destroyed Portsmouth, and bombarded Lisbon, Port Sangra ......"
Before Song Tao finished speaking. Li Ming interrupted him and said angrily: "You can really do it!" With a few broken ships, you dare to make trouble in the Heavenly Palace, and there is no organizational discipline, what did I tell you when I left. Have you forgotten everything? ”
Song Tao was so scolded that he didn't dare to speak, and muttered: "We were beaten by them in the English Channel, and we just left, I am so unwilling." And they also dare to hit our Far Eastern ideas, I regret it now, I should burn a few more places. ”
"What else do you want, you are going out with a fleet, not you alone, you are responsible for the entire fleet."
Li Shaojie next to him couldn't listen to it anymore, and hurriedly said: "Commander, this is the entire resolution of the entire fleet team, not a decision made by Song Tao alone. ”
Li Ming turned his head, glared at Li Shaojie and scolded: "I haven't said anything about you yet, as the deputy commander of the fleet, why don't you stop him, what do you want to do." Okay, Song Tao, you write a check in a while, you must be profound, and leave it to me when you finish writing. I'll pick you up when I get back. ”
When Song Tao heard this, he hurriedly straightened up, and said with a hippie smile: "You better lock me up, check if I can't write......"
"You don't talk nonsense, you can't miss a word of 5,000 words, if you dare to deal with it, you know the consequences. And Li Shaojie, the people in your fleet team have written for me to check. By the way, what about Ding Xinghao? ”
Song Tao laughed and said, "He's talking to the Arab girl, haha...... This crow's beak almost didn't kill us along the way. ”
Everyone laughed out loud after listening to Ding Xinghao's deeds all the way. Li Ming also smiled bitterly when he heard this, it seems that he can't let him follow him when he goes to sea in the future, this guy's mouth is too ruthless. As soon as he waved his hand, everyone on board stopped laughing.
"Okay, everyone go back to their ships and prepare, take Colombo today, use Ceylon as our forward base, and then sweep across the coast of India."
Everyone listened to Li Ming's order, and they all responded violently, and then left separately.
The Combined Strike Fleet easily breached Colombo before dark. The Combined Fleet carried the Marine forces of a field division on board this time, and they took Ceylon in just a few days, and then repaired on the island for a day, and the fleet set sail again.
In just one month, the Combined Strike Fleet, together with the Ocean Exploration Fleet, swept across the coast of India, and the British, Dutch, and Portuguese colonies were swept away by the Far East Navy. Western colonizers had built castles and harbors along the coast of India for many years, but they were wiped out in the face of the strong ships and cannons of the Far East.
Goa, Sutra, Madras, Bangladesh, Calcutta, Mombasa, Cochin, Dammam, Trankuiba, Diu, and other commercial ports of Britain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Denmark, and other countries were occupied by the Far East Combined Attack Fleet.
Li Ming used Colombo in Ceylon as the headquarters of the Combined Fleet, and arranged the various divisions of the field division in various places along the coast of India. The Joint Strike Fleet has also remained in the Indian Ocean, where the fleet will spend the winter, and will not be able to leave here and return to Liaodong until the new training units of the Military Commission arrive in the South Ocean this year. (To be continued......)
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