readx(); In the waters of the Bay of Bengal, a frigate of the British Royal Navy is cruising. ┢┢╪┢┠﹝.。 Britain had a large number of colonies and precious sea routes to maintain, and after 1765, Britain, having won the Seven Years' War, sent officials to sign a treaty with India's nominal master, the Mughal Emperor, and India lost its sovereignty and jointly administered the country with the East India Company. Since then, the British have been more attentive to the management of this huge family property. In particular, Britain lost its most important 13 colonies in North America, and was heavily damaged by the Tang Navy in the western Atlantic, which made Britain care more about British India.

Britain at the end of the 18th century could not be called an empire on which the sun never sets, and the number of its colonies has now been effectively overtaken by the Tang Republic. The current British colony in Europe is Gibraltar, Ireland does not. In the Americas, only Canada is visible, and the rest are places like Jamaica and Bermuda. In 1786, the Tang Dynasty intervened in support of Spain, causing the British to abandon the seizure of Belize. In West Africa, the British had a number of strongholds, such as the Gold Coast (Ghana), mainly for the slave trade and small quantities of local produce. The largest weight is only India.

The Tang Dynasty colonized Australia and New Zealand before the British, and as long as the British ships were approached by the six places in Oceania, they would be hit.

On the other hand, the Tang Dynasty not only occupies half of the western part of North America, but also includes Hawaii, Guwei, Oyu, Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Sunda, Siam, Chenla, Sriwijaya, Myanmar and Donghui, both in terms of quality and quantity, and other regions, both in terms of quality and quantity, have been far away from the United Kingdom.

Britain finally signed a treaty with Datang and won the condition that Datang would not act against India (whether it will fulfill it is another matter), so it is naturally particularly concerned about India. Even in order to safeguard the interests of British India, Britain also sent new warships, which were already relatively nervous, to British India.

The steam-ironclad frigate Perseverance, converted from a sail battleship, has been deployed to the Bay of Bengal for three years, and during this time, Captain Hales is in a good mood. The powerful Tang people had little presence in the Bay of Bengal, but there were some Tang merchant ships that traveled to and from Chittagong.

Captain Hales wasn't out of the woods, but reason stopped him. Because these merchant ships under the banner of the Tang Dynasty generally have a mysterious communication equipment on them, which can contact the nearby Datang Navy, it is basically impossible to loot unknowingly in the past, at least it is impossible to rob under the British flag of rice. Moreover, even if Captain Hales wanted to marry the merchant ships of the Tang Dynasty, it would be impossible. Because the maximum voyage of his frigate Perseverance was only 11. 5 knots, and the Datang merchant ships can basically run to 14 knots, and he can't catch up at all.

The navy of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is not the kind of gentle and elegant appearance that people remember, they live in relatively poor cabins, do not bathe all year round, and the hygiene is very poor, and what they do is not flattering, the navy at this time is the first naked bandits, burning, killing and looting all kinds of evil.

Even though the Royal Navy forbade their captains to touch the Tang ships, the captains enjoyed great authority, and some of them were adventurous, and they might be tempted by the high value of the Tang merchant ships. But the price to pay may be very heavy, the British East India Company was able to amass no less than 10,000 troops in British India, but most of them were Anglo-Indian troops composed of Indian Asan, which was relatively miscellaneous. On the other side, stationed in Donghui's overseas territory is the Yamato Corps of the Tang Dynasty, a corps that has always been majestic in Southeast Asia. Probably because the Japanese like to use exaggerated nicknames, these soldiers have been accustomed to calling the Yamato Corps "Okuba no Tiger" over the years to flaunt their bravery and good fighting.

The main purpose of the British East India Company was money, not to fight with the Tang Dynasty, which was fully armed and had stronger follow-up forces, so the East India Company never wanted to have any conflict with the Tang people at will. Even news came from within Britain that if someone stupidly caused the war, then the gallows in London would await him.

The thought of this made Hales very upset, and he was on fire when suddenly he heard a cacophony from his ship. Hales frowned, pushed the door and walked out of his captain's room, came to the deck, and asked, "What the hell are you guys called?" ”

The first mate of the ship pointed to the sea level in the distance with a shocked face and said, "It's the fleet, my God, Captain Hales, we have encountered a fleet!" ”

Hales was startled, and on the other side of the sea level, shadows showed the outlines of some ships, and Hales shouted at the lookout: "Mr. Johansen, tell me whose fleet it is?" ”

In fact, he didn't need a lookout to tell him, he also had the answer in his heart, the scale is so large, and the volume is so huge, only the Tang Navy in the world has such a fleet.

"Captain, it's the fleet of the Datang Navy, my God, the cruiser, I saw the cruiser of the Datang Navy! Or two" the lookout shouted, in fact, he was not to blame, as sailors of the Royal Navy, they already knew very well that there was something to mess with on the sea, such as storms, and such as the cruisers of the Tang Navy.

With the advancement of the British Industrial Revolution, the British made their own steam ironclad battleships, imitating the naval guns exported by the Tang Dynasty (in fact, the Armstrong guns on the other side), but the British Royal Navy still judged that they may already have the strength to deal with the frigates of the Tang people, but in the face of the cruisers of the Datang Navy with several 2O3 mm heavy guns, it is better to retreat. The cruisers of the Don had solid armor, terrible artillery, which the British could not deal with for a while. Even their newly acquired Warrior-class steam ironclad cruisers believed that they could not compete with the Pinghai-class cruisers of the Tang Dynasty in terms of gun range and power, as well as their own navigation.

The men on board panicked, and Captain Hales immediately ordered: "Go to the battle position for me, and ring the bell, ring the bell!" ”

At this time, the first mate couldn't help but say carefully: "It shouldn't come at us, after all, we have a peace treaty." ”

Hales said with a blue face: "We all know that such a peace treaty is a piece of waste paper, and anyone will use it to wipe their butts when they need it!" ”