Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 1036

[Chapter 1036 Calcutta]

“Yes, the general will remember.” Qin Shan looked in the direction of Tianzhu and answered yes.

The navy’s pursuit this time will take at least ten and a half months to return.

The three of them chatted for a while, Qin Shan and Guan Tong led Zhao Xu to inspect the captured Xitu soldiers.

“After counting, the number of captured Western soldiers is about 23,000, and there are also Tianzhu natives, about 30,000.” Qin Shan pointed to the prisoners and said.

Zhao Xu nodded.

Qin Shan and Guan Tong separated the Western natives from the Tianzhu people.

The soldiers of the Western Turks squatted to the west, and the soldiers of Tianzhu squatted to the east.

Now, these soldiers are all downcast, listless, and their eyes are full of anxiety.

“Your Highness, look at these soldiers from the Western Regions. They are all in good health. They are suitable for sending to build railways and dig mines.” Guan Tong joked at this time.

Zhao Xu smiled lightly, “I think so too, remember to write down their names and register them.”

“Yes, Your Highness.” Guan Tong replied.

After turning around, the three returned to the port.

Zhao Xu is going to the South Bank to inspect the battle situation of the Marine Corps.

At this time, I saw a boat coming across the strait, and it was Pan Chang.

It turned out that Pan Chang hurried over when he learned that Zhao Xu was on the north shore.

When he docked at the port, he immediately came over to report to Zhao Xu the battle situation on the south bank of Malacca, “Your Highness, our Marine Corps has captured 16,000 soldiers from the West and 48,000 soldiers from India and Java.

” That’s right, it can be said that they are going hand in hand with the Azure Dragon Army and the Vermilion Bird Army.” Zhao Xu laughed.

Then, he told Chang Pan again about his layout plan, including the plan to take down the entire Java area.

“This is a trivial matter. The general estimates that there should be less than 3,000 Sterdan soldiers remaining on Java Island. As for the indigenous army in Java, it is not worth mentioning. Give the general a month to fully control Java and make Java Praise to Da Song.” Pan Chang said.

Zhao Xu nodded, “In that case, I will wait for your good news in Yancheng.”

After staying in Malacca for two more days, Zhao Xu returned to Yancheng by boat on the third day. After ten days of sailing, he Back to Tranquility.

And Qin Shan, Guan Tong, and Pan Chang followed his orders and carried out the tasks of guarding Zhang Liujia and restoring order in the southern region step by step.

at the same time.

When Zhao Xu returned to Yancheng, the Dasong Navy led by Zhou Yi was also killing all directions on the ocean.

The wreckage of Xitu sailing warships can be seen everywhere on the route from Malacca to Tianzhu.

Under their pursuit, sailing warships that had no time to escape were sunk.

However, in order to avoid the annihilation of the entire army, Malfoy also adopted a corresponding strategy, breaking up the navy into pieces and dispersing and fleeing.

This also allowed some sailing warships to survive.

But even so, forty-eight sailing warships did not escape, and were buried in the sea, and nearly half of the warships were damaged.

On this day, Zhou Yi led the fleet and chased it all the way to Calcutta in Tianzhu.

Until the Xitu fleet entered the inland river and disappeared, Zhou Yi and his party stopped pursuing.

“The performance of our warship’s steam engine is not far behind that of the Western Turks. Unfortunately, we can’t keep up.” Looking at the city of Calcutta in the distance, Gong Ying couldn’t help sighing.

Zhou Yi nodded, “This is only temporary. Your Highness said that the second-generation steamships are already under construction. These steamships will be equipped with triple-expansion steam engines like ironclad ships. By then, they will not be able to escape our grasp.”

While speaking, Zhou Yi slowly clenched his fists.

Gong Ying showed a longing look, “I really hope that this second-generation steamship will be put into use as soon as possible.”

Thinking of something, he said again, “By the way, counting the days, it seems that our first iron-clad ship will be launched in a month.”

Gong Ying’s words reminded Zhou Yi, and he laughed, “This iron-clad ship To our navy, it is equivalent to machine guns to the army, and our navy will soon be invincible.”

According to the promise of Chen Shou years ago, they will launch their first ironclad ship in April.

If there is no accident, other ironclad ships will be installed one after another in June.

Because about two months after the construction of the first ironclad ship started, the sail warship of Jinghai Shipbuilding Workshop was launched.

After that, the dry docks of these sailing warships were dedicated to building ironclad ships, and sailing warships were no longer built.

“It’s been almost a year and a half, and the Ironclad Ship is finally going to be born.” Zhou Yi said cheerfully again.

Immediately, he looked towards the city of Calcutta.

This city of Calcutta is the residence of the British governor in India.

Now the Xitu Fleet is hiding in the inland river, leaving him with nothing to do.

But since he has chased here, it is impossible for him to leave without doing anything.

So he said, “Leave a deep impression on the British before leaving.”

Gong Ying understood, “General, leave this matter to the last general.”

After that, he ordered a warship to come over, and he boarded That warship, leading twenty-four warships, headed for Calcutta.

“All enter the fort, these damn Dasong people, they must want to bombard Calcutta.”

At this moment, the governor of Tianzhu, Bolt, is watching the approaching Dasong fleet on the coast.

Putting down the binoculars suddenly, his face was distorted, his face was livid, and he roared like a beast about to eat people.

At his command, British soldiers in red uniforms burrowed into the concrete forts.

During this period of time, in addition to Malacca, they also built powerful fortifications in Tianzhu. In order to prevent the defeat of Malacca, the Dasong fleet invaded Tianzhu.

He was in a fit of anger, when a group of officers suddenly surrounded Wesley and arrived.

After the warship entered the inland river, Wesley disembarked with the officers.

Seeing the Dasong fleet approaching, they led the army to come.

However, Bolt was not only not happy to see Wesley, but very angry.   He said loudly, “Wesley, look at what you’ve done. You lost Malacca. Now we’re like

prostitutes in a tavern, and we can only be molested by Da Song.”

He said again: “You are the general of Britain, and you will be a marshal in the future. I can understand losing Malacca, but I really don’t understand why you lost Malacca in such a short time!”

“Close Come on, Bolt, if you have personally fought against the Dasong Army in Malacca, you will understand why, we did not underestimate the Dasong Army, we underestimated the Dasong Army, you should now pray that this time will come The reinforcements are strong enough, and our British have imitated the muskets that the Dasong army is using now.”

After a pause, he continued, “Oh, this is not enough, because the Dasong army also has a fucking gun that can shoot continuously A musket that can blow you like a honeycomb in a few seconds.”

(End of this chapter)