Chapter 521 The glass on the rudder was shattered, Wu Dakui, who was holding the wheel in both hands, a stream of red blood flowed down his forehead to his cheeks

The Maldives, an East African island country called "quicksand (mountains lying underwater)" by the Ming Dynasty in China, once received a long-distance fleet led by Zheng He, a sea giant of the Ming Dynasty. With its specialty rope, it can also be recorded in the "travel notes" of Zheng He's fleet.

In order to avoid the continuous hurricanes sweeping in the Indian Ocean, Wu Dakui, the captain of the "Xiangyang" ship, commanded the "Xiangyang" ship and eight other cargo ships full of civilian goods, and had to stay in this small island country that had long been coveted by the British but was temporarily occupied by the Dutch.

Although the weather had just improved slightly, the Xiangyang ship led the entire fleet to resolutely leave the safe haven of "Fast Sand", but in order to avoid the warships of the British who always wanted to come and cause trouble as much as possible, they had to bypass Ceylon Island, which was controlled by the British.

On March 20, the radio telegraph equipped on the "Xiangyang" ship received an emergency telegraph from the Celestial Navy Department. According to the instructions of the telegraph, the "Xiangyang" ship not only abandoned the original route to continue to enter the Malacca Strait with its fleet, and immediately turned around and started to move southward, but also contacted the Red Navy Palembang base, which was preparing to provide assistance to them according to the contact information provided by the Celestial Navy Department.

On the morning of March 27, a fleet of four Red Navy ships, led by Palembang, and entered the Indian Ocean through the Sunda Strait between Sumatra and Java. The four-ship formation of the Red Navy, composed of the "Pontian" destroyer and three guard gunboats, was no more than 500 nautical miles away from the fleet led by the "Xiangyang" ship.

At most, in three or five days, you will be able to see our own warships in the Heavenly Dynasty. For the crew members on the ship who have been bumping in the dangerous sea for months, this is undoubtedly the same as the same great news as having returned to the embrace of their motherland.

However, at this great moment with a bright future, a major crisis has quietly arrived.

"Captain, unknown fleet was found in the northeast direction"

"Captain, the ship has steam power and continues to approach the high-speed approaching our fleet."

...

When the lookout sailor made the first alarm, Wu Dakui, who was standing in the "Xiangyang" wheel rudder, suddenly tightened his heart.

Because Wu Dakui, who had previously received the latest situation in the surrounding waters from the Red Navy of the Celestial Dynasty, was very clear that at present, at least 99% of the large fleets that could appear in the seas around him so unscrupulously, were from the Allied Power led by the British.

Judging from the opponent's speed and aggressive posture, this fleet will definitely not be the same as them, just a freight fleet, but a formation composed of warships.

When he thought of this, Wu Dakui could almost certainly determine that this fleet was approaching his fleet at full speed, a naval fleet from the Allied Powers.

"Slow down the speed" After issuing this short order with only four words to his pilot "Xiangyang" ship, Wu Dakui continued to issue a second order, "Send a signal to order other ships to maintain the maximum speed and booking direction to continue moving forward."

At present, among Wu Dakui's fleet, except for the "Xiangyang" ship that was officially launched four years ago and has a steam power system with the new technology of the Celestial Empire, the other eight ships are all old ships that can only rely on sails as power.

Those who come are not good, and those who are good do not come.

Wu Dakui knew very well at this moment that what was about to happen would never be done simply by entanglement and harassment.

Of course, he and his fleet could also escape without a life.

However, apart from his "Xiangyang" ship, if he uses the speed of the eight old sailboats in his fleet to compete with the warships of the Allied Powers, the final result will undoubtedly be a dead end.

In order to get most of your fleet out of danger, it seems that there is only one way.

"The captain is a British warship, a total of five..."

Wu Dakui took out his pocket watch and looked at it. It was 13:20 on March 27th.

"Change the course and go up." After the tentative interception, Wu Dakui turned around and looked at the young eldest lieutenant Tong Zirong who had been following him. "Zirong, you should go to the communication room immediately and report our situation to the Navy Department and the Red Navy's rescue fleet. As for what happened after it is finished... I don't need to say it, right? "

Speaking of this, Wu Dakui raised his right arm and made a move to throw objects into the sea.

"I understand, Captain." Looking at the captain in front of him with a relaxed look on his face, Tong Zirong nodded firmly, then turned around and ran out of the helm like flying.

At 1:31, when the last two telegrams were sent, Tong Zirong personally picked up the telegram machine in front of him who had always been regarded as a caring baby by all the crew members. He ran out of the communication room, ran on the deck, and then walked to the side of the ship step by step.

As his eyes closed, the telegraph fell into the sea.

Along with this precious telegraph machine, there was also the codebook that had turned into a pile of paper confetti in the hands of the radio operator who was following him.

The "Xiangyang" ship approached the British ship that was eyeing the opposite side one by one.

"Bang...huh...huh..."

"Bang...huh...huh..."

As Wu Dakui imagined, the British ships he encountered this time had long lost the same way as before. Although he felt so hatred that he felt pain, he always had to act like a gentleman on the surface. Although the distance between the two sides was still far more than three thousand meters away, the British ship had already started to speak with cannons.

With a scream, the shells that kept falling in front, back and left and right, pulled up large patches of water curtains, and some of them would pour them on the body of the "Xiangyang" wheel.

The two sides continued to get close at a distance of one meter.

"Bang...huh...boom..."

A shell landed on the deck of the "Sunshine" wheel, and the huge rain cloth covered with cargo was torn. The cracked rain cloth flew again with the air waves of the shell explosion.

"Huh...boom..."

Another shell landed on the side of the rudder of the "Xiangyang" wheel.

"Crash..." The glass on the rudder was shattered, Wu Dakui, who was holding the wheel in both hands, and a stream of red blood flowed down his forehead to his cheeks.

The speed of the "Xiangyang" ship also slowed down suddenly.

Finally, the British ship, who had the chance to vent his anger, saw the miserable appearance of the "Xiangyang" ship in front of him, suddenly felt a stronger revenge and greed, that was, to capture this cargo ship of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom alive.

Of course, they remembered this purpose not just to catch a few Taiping Heavenly people on the ship to abuse and abuse for entertainment, nor to just to make the goods on the ship. They really wanted to find the answer to the question that had been depressed by them for a long time on the Taiping Heavenly people's ship. Why can even the new cargo ship of the Taiping Heavenly people completely throw the sails that our dignified British Empire warships aside?

Chapter 521 The glass on the rudder was shattered, Wu Dakui, who was holding the wheel in both hands, a stream of red blood flowed down his forehead to his cheeks
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