1825 My New Daming

Chapter 332 We Do Not Surrender, We Are Nonviolent Non-Resistance

The solution discussed by Emperor William, the Marquess of Nelson, and George Elliott is still possible, because Britain's shipbuilding capabilities are not weak. After all, her colonies are many and far away, and she also has the largest commercial ship in the world. The team has long controlled the bulk of the world's shipping.Therefore, Britain can now complete the entire construction of a Victory-class battleship from laying the first keel to outfitting in one year, and it can also ensure that there are no major problems in sea trials.

This skill has reached its peak, not to mention the current Xin Daming, if it is done by a world factory in another timeline, it is unlikely that a large ship with a full row of more than [-] tons will be completed within a year.

In addition, Britain's shipbuilding steel and armor steel are not much worse than Daming's.Although Britain's steel production is only about 15.00% of Ming Dynasty's, but because of the large scale of shipbuilding in the UK, their steel factories mainly serve shipbuilding and devote a lot of energy to various ship steel products, so the technical level is not as good as that of Ming Dynasty's counterparts under.

As for armor steel, the current research direction of both sides is actually the same, which is to try every means to increase the hardness of armor steel - as long as armor steel is harder than the warhead of armor-piercing projectiles, it can theoretically be "invulnerable".The way to increase hardness is nothing more than adjusting the formula of alloy steel and improving the smelting process. To put it bluntly, it is trial and error and resource allocation.The former requires a sufficient number of professional teams, and various solutions are constantly tried.The latter requires a large enough territory and sufficient resources of non-ferrous metals and rare metals.In both respects, the two sides can obviously be evenly matched.Although the number of engineers and skilled workers in the UK is far less than that of Ming, it can still ensure the needs of a few key areas, and both Ming and Great Britain are large enough.

So now both sides have been able to master the smelting technology of high-strength armor steel similar to "Harvey Armor Steel", and have also begun to study more complex deep progressive hardening technology.With the capabilities of the two countries in this regard, a breakthrough is only a matter of time.

As for artillery technology, the gap between the two sides is not too big, but Ming has a better machinery industry, so they can produce a better naval gun servo system, which can quickly fire large-caliber artillery.

However, the technical ceiling of large-caliber artillery is obvious, and it does not make much sense to go up to 400mm, and the 300mm-level rapid-fire cannon has passed the test on both sides.In the development of larger caliber rapid-fire guns, the progress of both parties will not be too far behind.After all, Britain can also overcome the shortcomings in the mechanical industry by making the artillery servo system a little larger.

The only thing that makes the British helpless is the gap between oil-fired boilers and steam turbines. Therefore, the configuration of giant ships, cannons, and slow speeds cannot be said to be the most suitable for Great Britain, but it is at least the most optimal under the current circumstances. At least it can make Great Britain Continue to resist.

To complete the adjustment of the development direction of the capital ship, the British have to do everything possible to use other people's lives to buy time for themselves!As for Daming, although they don't know the plan of the British, they also know that they can't give the British too much time. They must take advantage of the time when the battleships in their hands are still "very fragrant", and expand their own space as much as possible. advantage on the battlefield.

And the obstacle that prevents them from achieving this goal is the Temasek Fortress, because in the entire Malay Peninsula, only the Temasek Fortress is still in the hands of the British.

"Brother Shenshan, how is the situation?"

Zhuge Weidao, who had just disembarked from the King of Shuzhong, at the Malacca military port wharf, saw the Chief of Staff of the Nanyang Army, Major General Zheng Guoxian, who came to welcome him, and hurriedly inquired about the progress of the battle.

It is now the first month of the 11th year of Taiping.Due to the existence of the defense line in the Johor Strait, the Malay Peninsula campaign has come to a standstill from a few days before the New Year's Eve. Although the Johor Strait is only one kilometer wide, it is not easy to pass, and a forced crossing must be initiated. Battle!This requires preparing a large number of ships, mobilizing a sufficient number of artillery and troops.

It is impossible to complete the mission by relying on two lightly armed Japanese divisions and one equally lightly armed Japanese independent brigade, so the follow-up heavy troops must be moved forward.The heavy armored unit includes 2 Japanese divisions and 1 Japanese independent brigade artillery, and an infantry army of the Ming army, the designation is the 2th army of the Ming army-this army has stationed dozens of troops in Pattani and Songkhla. In 1, it had a large number of mules and horses that had adapted to the tropical climate, and was also equipped with a 10mm caliber heavy howitzer that could bombard British strongholds!

As for the 120mm and 155mm howitzers, there are more.Each of the three divisions it belongs to has a large "reinforced artillery regiment", and the army directly has a heavy artillery brigade!
Looking at the organization table of this army, you can see that this is an army prepared for the First World War!With this firepower, it would be no problem to fight the Battle of Verdun, but this time, the main force capable of fighting Verdun didn't get any chance to make meritorious service.Because as soon as the Japanese devils interspersed, the British and Indian troops collapsed all the way!The plane can hardly catch up, not to mention these "World War I infantry" who are slowly marching with heavy howitzers?
However, the 10th Army of the Ming Army, which managed to "catch up" the enemy in the Johor Strait, was not in a hurry to launch an offensive, because Lieutenant General Mu Zhongjun, who also served as the commander of the 10th Army, inspected the terrain on the front line and studied the "Art of War of King Wuzhong" After that, they decided to adopt the method of "siege the city as the bottom and attack the mind as the top". They also wanted to open gaps in the captured Indian soldiers and carry out psychological attacks.He also assigned this seemingly easy credit to Zheng Guoxian, asking him to take the army's intelligence elites to the prisoner-of-war camp in Malacca to attack the heart.

At the same time, the city of Malacca was also the logistics transfer center for the coalition forces of tomorrow and Japan. During this period, Zhuge Weidao's first flight battle was active between Penang and Malacca, serving as security and cover transportation tasks.

This time, it was the first time for him to disembark and land on the territory of the Malay Peninsula—this place will soon be the Straits Province of Daming!

Now more than 99% of the territory in the Malay Peninsula has been liberated, and there is only one Temasek Island left. Experience from another timeline tells Zhuge Weidao that Temasek Island is easy to win.But Zheng Guoxian's answer surprised Zhuge Weidao.

"No! Those Indians are not willing to surrender."

Zhuge Weidao asked in surprise: "What? You refused to surrender? Why did you end up in a prisoner-of-war camp if you refused to surrender?"

"Daozi, that's not called surrender," Zheng Guoxian said dumbfounded, "That's called non-violent non-resistance!"

"Non-violence and non-resistance?" Zhuge Weidao was stunned, "What are you talking about? Who said that?"

"Of course it was said by the Indians," Zheng Guoxian said. "At first it was said by an Indian second lieutenant who was captured by the Japanese. Later, for some reason, all the captives said the same thing."

Zhuge Weidao stopped, looked at Zheng Guoxian and asked, "Who did you arrest? Is his surname Gandhi?"

Zheng Guoxian was taken aback, "It seems that the surname is Gan or something. But those Indians are just like this, they just want to lie still!"

"Then they are not afraid that we will kill them all?" Zhuge Weidao glared.

"Kill them all?" Zheng Guoxian looked at Zhuge Weidao in surprise, "Daozi, how did those Indians offend you? Why are you so angry? We are going to conquer people with virtue, how can we kill prisoners? "

Zhuge Weidao thought about it, the current Ming Empire is very reasonable. The captured prisoners cannot be killed or beaten, and they have to eat and drink well. The captives of the British Royal Navy captured before are all in Batam now. Live comfortably on the Internet.

Those Indian Asan are used to lying down, and it is normal that they don't want the Ming Empire to be liberated.

But Zhuge changed his mind for Dao, and he already had a solution.

"Sacred Mountain," he said to Zheng Guoxian with a smile, "I have a solution for this matter, and our Zhuge family is the best at attacking hearts!"

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