Chapter 332 We don’t surrender, we just do non-violence and non-resistance (please subscribe, please vote)

To be honest, the solution that Emperor William, Marquis Nelson, and George Elliot came up with was okay, because Britain's shipbuilding capabilities are not weak. After all, her colonies are many and far away, and she also owns the largest commercial ship in the world.

The British fleet 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. Let alone the current New Ming Dynasty, if the world factory in another timeline were to do it, a large ship with a full row of more than 20,000 tons would not be completed within a year.

In addition, the British shipbuilding steel and armor steel are not much worse than the Ming Dynasty. Although the British steel output is only about 15% of the Ming Dynasty, because the British shipbuilding scale is large, their steel plants mainly serve shipbuilding.

A lot of energy is invested in various marine steel materials, so the technical level is not lower than that of Ming Dynasty counterparts.

In terms of armor steel, the current research directions of both sides are actually the same, which is to try their best to increase the hardness of armor steel - as long as the armor steel is harder than the warhead of armor-piercing projectiles, it can theoretically be "invulnerable". And increasing the hardness

The path 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 professional team and continuous attempts of various solutions. The latter requires a large enough territory and sufficient non-ferrous metals.

, rare metal resources. And the two sides are obviously evenly matched in these two aspects. Although the number of engineers and technical workers in the UK is far less than that of the Ming Dynasty, it can still ensure the demand in a few key areas. At the same time, both the Ming Dynasty and the UK

big enough.

Therefore, both sides are now proficient in the smelting technology of high-strength armor steel similar to "Harvey Armor Steel", and have also begun to research more complex deep reduction hardening technology. With the capabilities of the two countries in this area, a breakthrough is only

It's a matter of morning and evening.

As for artillery technology, the gap between the two sides is not big, but Ming Dynasty has a better machinery industry, so they can produce better naval gun servo systems and can rapidly fire large-caliber artillery faster.

However, the technical ceiling of large-caliber artillery is obvious. Going above 400 mm is of little significance, and the 300-mm rapid-fire cannon has already passed the test on both sides. The progress of both parties in the development of larger-caliber rapid-fire cannons will not be different.

Too many. After all, Britain could also overcome its shortcomings in the mechanical industry by making the artillery's servo system larger.

The only thing that leaves the British with nothing to do 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 the British, but it is at least the best choice under the current circumstances. It can at least allow the British to

Continue to resist.

To complete the adjustment in the direction of capital ship development, the British must try their best to buy time for themselves with the lives of others! As for the Ming Dynasty, although they did not know the British plan, they also knew that they could not give the British too much

Time. You must take advantage of the fact that the battleships in your hands are still "very fragrant" to expand your advantage on the battlefield as much as possible.

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

"Brother Shenshan, how is the situation?"

At the Malacca Military Port Pier, Zhuge Weidao, who had just got off the Shu Zhongwang, saw Major General Zheng Guoxian, Chief of Staff of the Nanyang Army, who came to greet him, and hurriedly inquired about the progress of the war.

It is now the first month of the 11th year of Taiping. Due to the existence of the Johor Strait defense line, the Malay Peninsula Campaign has come to a standstill since a few days before the Chinese New Year. Although the Johor Strait is only one kilometer wide,

It is not easy to get through, and a forced crossing campaign must be launched! This requires preparing a large number of ships and mobilizing a sufficient number of artillery and troops.

It is impossible to complete the task with just two lightly-armed Japanese divisions plus an equally lightly-armed Japanese independent brigade, so the subsequent heavy-armed troops must be moved forward. The heavy-armed troops include two Japanese

The artillery of the division and a Japanese independent brigade, an infantry corps of the Ming Army, designated as the 10th Army of the Ming Army - this army has been stationed in Pattani and Songkhla for decades, and has a large number of adapted

The mules and horses in the tropical climate are also equipped with 210mm heavy howitzers that can bombard British strongholds!

As for the 120mm caliber and 155mm caliber howitzers, there are even more. Each of the three divisions it belongs to has a large "reinforced artillery regiment", and the army also has a heavy artillery brigade!

If you look at the organization list of this army, you will know that this is an army prepared for World War I! This firepower can be used to fight the Battle of Verdun, but this time, this main force can fight Verdun.

But there was no opportunity to make meritorious deeds. Because as soon as the Japanese invaded, the British and Indian troops collapsed all the way! The planes could hardly catch up, let alone these "World War I infantry" who were marching slowly pulling heavy howitzers?

However, the 10th Army of the Ming Dynasty, which finally "caught up" with the enemy in the Johor Strait, was not busy launching an attack, because Lieutenant General Mu Zhongjun, who also served as the commander of the 10th Army, inspected the frontline terrain and studied the "Wuzhong King's Art of War"

After that, he decided to adopt the method of "attacking the city first, attacking the heart first" and wanted to open a gap in the captured Indian soldiers and attack the hearts. He also assigned Zheng Guoxian to lead this seemingly easy task.

Intelligence elites from the army went to the prisoner-of-war camp in Malacca City to capture people's hearts.

Malacca City was also the logistics transfer center for the Allied Forces of Tomorrow and Japan. During this period, Zhuge Weidao's First Air War moved back and forth between Penang and Malacca City, performing tasks such as guarding and covering transportation.

This time, he got off the ship for the first time and landed on the territory of the Malay Peninsula - this will soon be the Straits Province of the Ming Dynasty!

Now that more than 99% of the Malay Peninsula has been liberated, only Temasek Island is left. The experience of another timeline tells Zhuge Weidao that Temasek Island is easy to win. But Zheng Guoxian's answer made Zhuge Weidao

Very surprised.

"No! Those Indians are unwilling to surrender."

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

"Taozi, that's not surrender," Zheng Guoxian said dumbfounded, "that's non-violence and non-resistance!"

"Non-violence and non-resistance?" Zhuge Weidao was stunned again and again, "What is this? Who said it?"

"Of course it was said by 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 prisoners said so."

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

Zheng Guoxian was stunned, "It seems that his surname is Gan. 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, "Taozi, how did those Indians offend you? Why are you so angry? Our dynasty is going to conquer people with virtue, so how can we kill prisoners?

"

Zhuge Weidao remembered that the current Ming Empire is very reasonable. The captured prisoners cannot be killed or beaten, and they must be well fed and fed. The prisoners of the British Royal Navy captured before are now in Batam.

Live your life comfortably.

Those Indian Asans are used to lying around, so it is normal for them not to want the Ming Empire to liberate them.

However, Zhuge Wei Dao changed his mind and found a way.

"Holy Mountain," he said to Zheng Guoxian with a smile, "I have a way to do this. We Zhuge family members are the best at attacking people's hearts!"
Chapter completed!