Iron Dynasty

Then how is the emperor going to divide India?

Zhan Xingchang asked with interest.

It's too early to divide now. What the empire needs now is to maintain long-term rule over India. Xiao Ming said.

In modern times, India's independence is full of drama. Unlike many methods of driving away the occupiers through war, India's independence actually kneels, and this is Gandhi's non-violent non-resistance movement.

After independence, India is still proud of the country that once ruled Britain, and has even been a member of the Commonwealth.

Therefore, in Xiao Ming's view, it will not be difficult to take over the British's rule over India after driving out the British, and after achieving complete rule, slowly divide India in terms of culture, language and religion. If one day the empire is destroyed Forced to withdraw from India, then they will leave behind a chaotic India.

Thinking of this, he explained his thoughts to everyone.

If this is the case, after ruling India, we still have a lot of things to do. Pang Yukun said.

Xiao Ming nodded, But before that, we must win the war in front of us. As for the governance methods of other colonies, Zhan Xingchang has a good idea. For a small number of indigenous people occupying land, we will completely occupy it by immigration, but Areas with a large number of indigenous people can completely use the indigenous people to collect resources, after all, the indigenous people in the Nanyang generation basically made a living by farming, which has its value in use.”

Everyone nodded after hearing this. After such a discussion, the empire's foreign colonial policy has basically been determined.

After deciding on this matter, Xiao Ming asked the cabinet ministers to go back and think about the detailed colonial policy. After all, as the territory of the empire became larger and larger, they had to formalize this area.

At the same time, he asked Qian Dafu to send another operational order to the Southeast Military Region, urging them to launch an attack in the Southeast Asia.

...

December 20th.

After waiting for half a month, Lei Ming successfully received the first batch of 300 mortars and 20,000 mortar shells in Singapore.

Although he was not satisfied with the number of shells, the quartermaster assured him that a batch of shells would be supplied in time, which reassured him.

It should be snowing in Qingzhou now. Lei Ming said to Yue Yun with a smile on the King's number, If Lu knew that we were still wearing such cool clothes, I don't know what the expression would be.

Yue Yun also had a smile on his face. Before the scientific education was carried out in the empire, he was just outside the bottom of the well, and he only saw the world of Dengzhou.

But it is different now. The voyage on the north and south oceans has made him truly realize the magic of this world. Even so, his footsteps have only set foot in Asia. The battleship he has always wanted to control can sail on the oceans of the world.

It must be snowing. I hope we can go home in time for the New Year after this battle. Yue Yun said.

Referring to this thunder and sighing, he said: You can, but it is estimated that our army is very difficult. According to the information we have received, the British, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch forces have built strong fortifications in Calcutta, even if there are mortars to want to Winning this war may have to pay a heavy price.”

Yue Yun has a deep enough understanding of the current war. He said: The current war can no longer rely on the physical fighting of the soldiers. All it needs is the bombardment of artillery shells to destroy the enemy's strength and disintegrate the enemy's will.

Lei Ming nodded, This is what I'm thinking about. The situation of the war has changed. When we have superior firepower, there is no need to let the soldiers die in vain. Of course, our soldiers are not afraid of death.

Yue Yun agreed with Lei Ming's words. Now the fighting enthusiasm of the imperial soldiers is still very high. After a short vacation, they entered a state of war again.

Looking at the endless ocean, he said: Time waits for no one. Before the Chinese New Year, we must at least give the emperor a gift. Even if Calcutta can't take it, we must occupy Jakarta.

We have completed preparations and can set off at any time. Lei Ming said, according to the requirements of the General Staff, the Southeast Army will act together with the Navy this time.

Yue Yun's mission is to annihilate Jakarta's enemy navy, and his mission is to occupy Jakarta with the marines.

In that case, we will leave early tomorrow morning. Yue Yun's eyes were sharp.

The next day, with the loud whistle of the steam battleship, the ironclad fleet slowly left Singapore and headed for Jakarta.

A day later, the fleet appeared at the destination.

This is the ironclad ship of the Chinese Empire? On the coast, Eiffel, Simon, Eric, and Stephen looked at the steel battleship moored in the sea off Jakarta with heavy expressions.

Unlike sail warships, these steel warships do not have any sails, instead they are smoked chimneys.

On a blue sea, these silver-painted warships look terrifying.

And when they saw the artillery on the battleship through the binoculars, they were even more surprised. Unlike the sail battleships, these ironclad ships had different numbers of artillery pieces installed on the deck, while the artillery pieces on both sides of the battleship were much less.

Now you should understand how terrible the industrial capabilities of the Chinese Empire are. Just a year ago, they only had an ironclad ship. Eric sighed: It is a nightmare to fight against such an empire.

Stephen's face turned pale, his attitude was not as tough as before, he said: Do you think we are willing to be involved in the war? In the war with the Chinese Empire, we only lose the interests of Asia, but if we continue to cooperate with them , we in the Netherlands will face the risk of subjugation, the Netherlands is small and sparsely populated, and even if France's weapons are backward, it can still defeat us.

Eiffel and Simon fell into silence. This is the tragedy of small countries. They are the first to be crushed in the game of big countries.

It's too late to say anything now, the enemy is at sea, how should we fight next? Eiffel said: I don't want to lose Jakarta.

Stephen has the most power. He said: No matter how strong the enemy's fleet is, we must go all out. Since we have chosen to stand with the Europeans, we cannot be half-hearted.

While speaking, Stephen looked at Eric.

Then he said: After half of the enemy's soldiers have landed, Eric will lead the fleet to attack, Eiffel and Simon will be responsible for the frontal battlefield, and 20,000 soldiers will be handed over to you.

Eric gave a wry smile, but finally nodded. Although he admired the technology of the Chinese Empire, he was Dutch, and for the interests of the Netherlands, the Chinese Empire was their mortal enemy.