Great Entrepreneur of the Universe

Chapter 242 King, you have become a new generation of Sea King

After nearly a year, the sea battle between the Sihai Escorts and the Japs combined fleet was finally concluded at five o'clock in the afternoon on the Double Ninth Festival.

Under the leadership of Wang Shouliang, the Sihai Escort Bureau achieved a super brilliant victory. They sank the Hatsuse and captured the half-disabled Mikasa and Yashima. Afterwards, an investigation revealed that nearly a thousand people died on the two ships, and More than 500 crew members became prisoners.

Of the dozen Japanese destroyers and cruisers, three were sunk by the Sihai Fleet, two were sunk by torpedo boats, and one was sunk by the artillery of the Nanhai where Luo Sanpao was stationed with a picric acid bomb.

Seven Japanese destroyers and cruisers were seriously injured and all were captured.

Four more ships escaped...

Almost all of the more than 30 torpedo boat kamikazes unleashed by the Japanese were wiped out, and the large cargo ships carrying the torpedo boats naturally became prisoners and spoils of war.

This time, they only captured more than 2200 prisoners, all of whom were elites who had fought in the Sino-Japanese War and were preparing for the Ghost Bear War.

In such a profitable situation, the Four Seas Fleet was not without losses. For example, three cruisers were injured, seventy or eighty people were killed in the torpedo boat suicide squad, and more than 20 ships were sunk.

With a fleet of more than 5700 people, the number of casualties this time also reached more than 300.

There is no ability to repair or build cannons.

Wang Shouliang also had no shipbuilding skills, and his shipbuilding industry had not even started yet, which was hundreds or even thousands of miles behind the Japanese.

In the subsequent battle, Wang Shouliang discovered that aside from a few 10,000-ton giant ships, other Japanese destroyers and cruisers had no picric acid shells at all.

Especially after the Xiaoliuqiu Battle, the Japanese were eager to use picric acid technology to defraud money. After this battle, their fleet power, at least in terms of tonnage and firepower, compared with Mao Xiong’s Far East Fleet, it was a numerical ratio of 1 to . .

But this was still a terrifying record that no one in the fleet, except Wang Shouliang, had ever imagined or dared to think about before the war started.

Thinking of this, Kevin and Joseph both felt a little numb.

Therefore, facing a fleet that is also armored with thick armor steel, even the destroyers of the Sihai Fleet can be hit by two or three rounds without causing any serious problems.

Under his words, Joseph rolled his eyes, "You, a guy blessed by the goddess of luck, are too open-minded."

Kevin and Joseph looked at each other, and there was nothing wrong with them.

Compared with the naval battle of Kume Island, this is a brilliant victory, a great victory!

But the furry bear always wanted the peninsula!

Once Mao Xiong takes over the peninsula, what about the small peninsula strait and the Tsushima Strait? ? How far does it add up? Mao Xiong's troops will be directed towards Kyushu Island, Shikoku Island, Kanto, Kansai...

Wang Shouliang smiled brightly and said, "Let's call them Huanghai and Bohai."

The horrific results of the Xiaoliuqiu naval battle were due to only one factor. Wang Shouliang personally acted as an artilleryman. It can be said that the artillery king of the early 20th century has arrived.

We must continue to vigorously support the Japanese, otherwise who will resist the bear?

Balance, balance is important!

"It's okay to repair a Mikasa or a Yashima, but you still have to pay for the others."

As long as Wang Shouliang does not compete with Yan Lun for big benefits and does not have any major conflicts, he is indeed the hegemon in East and Southeast Asia.

Picric acid shell technology, how much is it worth? Actually, it's hard to say. He can offer a black price but the island guy can do the same.

In this battle, the mine attacks and submarine assassins prepared by Wang Shouliang in advance were not used.

Wang Shouliang thought for a while and said speechlessly, "When picric acid shells are added to the battlefield, the resistance of Shikishima and Fuji-class battleships is only average."

But when two different fleets are at close range and fighting each other within the effective range, the bitter taste comes, and the Shikishima-class becomes a joke. Seven years ago, the Zhenyuan-class and Dingyuan-class were considered top-notch among the great powers. -class battleship is even more of a joke.

On the spacious deck, facing the sea breeze, Joseph opened a bottle of red wine directly, with complex emotions on his face, "King, congratulations, you have become a new generation of sea kings in East Asia and Southeast Asia at the beginning of the 20th century."

The game that had just been played in Sino-Japanese War collapsed immediately.

The sea battles in the future will be much more brutal and terrifying than before.

But for the destroyers and cruisers in the Four Seas, a single shot of picric acid can cause the opposite ship to collapse. The Luo San Artillery Department of the Nanhai, the earliest, still has more than 200 elite artillerymen at ease. They have only learned, practiced, and actual combat. A little over a year ago.

As for the picric acid bomb? ? This is probably because Wang spent money to steal the Japanese's picric acid technology and secretly modified a batch of artillery shells.

Kevin also handed over a glass of red wine and said with a smile, "Wang, how do you plan to sell your picric acid shells? We have cooperated for so long and have always enjoyed our cooperation, but it can't be too dark."

The price of the picric acid shell technology mastered by Wang Shouliang is really volatile.

In this case, no matter how secret the picric acid is, there is no way to keep it secret. Selling whatever you have, the best way to restore a certain self-protection ability as soon as possible.

Also, the two of them, including many, many people behind them, will also change their attitude towards Wang Shouliang from today on. They will not overly suppress and target him, but they can no longer let the man named Wang easily defeat the Japanese navy.

They were even more fortunate at the moment that many of Yan Lun's active ordinary destroyers and cruisers, including Sihai and Nanhai, had been sold to Wang Shouliang, otherwise they would just wait to serve as training ships for new recruits.

"Based on today's performance, as long as you are lucky, it will be useless after a few shots. It is not worth investing how much money you have to invest in these big ships. What do you think?"

Wang Shouliang raised his glass with a smile and clinked his glasses, "Will you help me repair all these captured fleets? I will transfer the technology to you."

In the final analysis, the Japanese have insufficient resources. When picric acid shells are used as surprise troops, there are only three 10,000-ton ships equipped.

You can complain that Wang Shouliang's Sihai Fleet had great luck today, but it won't be possible next time, and it won't be possible to win so easily again.

This is a disaster for the island country!

Fortunately, even if Wang Shouliang established the Pearl River series of ordnance repair factories, they could only repair Lee's long rifles, Maxim machine guns and pistols and produce the bullets needed for those guns.

It is already the most capable and accurate artillery team among the water forces of the Sihai Escort Agency.

The next moment, Kevin smiled and said, "Wang, when the Mikasa and Yashima are repaired, what are you going to name them?"

When the Sihai Fleet escorted a dozen large and small Japanese ships towards Hong Kong Island, Kevin and Joseph had already taken a boat to kill the Sihai.

This is not to say that after Wang Shouliang withdrew from the turret, his own artillerymen showed their bravery one by one and entered the super state, but...

The craziest thing now is not how much protection money Wang Shouliang wants to collect.

After this battle, the strength of the Sihai Fleet has really skyrocketed. Various damaged warships have been repaired. The total tonnage of the Sihai Fleet is about to reach a displacement of 13 tons. This is the strength of more than 200 torpedo boats and three submarines.

Is the data large? ?

During World War II, more than 30 years later, the total tonnage of the entire island country's warships was more than 160 million tons.

Now, the total tonnage of the Japanese is estimated to be between 60,000 and 70,000 tons, plus several escaped warships and various scattered small fleets.

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On October 10, Wang Shouliang woke up at his villa in Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong Island. After having a simple breakfast, accompanied by the guards, he rode a bicycle around Yau Ma Tei, including Sham Shui Po, Shek Kip Mei and Kowloon City. After seeing the huge underground reservoirs and ponds filled with fresh water, he smiled and said, "At this stage, it is not difficult for Hong Kong and Kowloon to accommodate 15 people."

“We still need to carry out large-scale projects and build infrastructure in order to develop rapidly.”

A year and a half later, I won’t say much in the early days. Now there are reservoirs and ponds all over the place. Normal rainfall can guarantee daily water supply for less than 500,000 people.

As for industrial water, as long as the factories in Yau Ma Tei do not expand too much, there is no need to worry. After all, at this stage, a series of factories and enterprises in the Pearl River and heavy industries are all developing in Foshan and Shanghai.

There is no need to worry about being occupied by magpie nests. His navy is here. If he does not start a war with Yalun Guilao, he will be the regional hegemon. As for the land division, it is even more outrageous. At this stage, the land power of 15,000 people will take turns to pour in. The Black Flag Army fought guerrillas where they died.

This is the best practical training.

There are 3000 people stationed in Foshan, which is enough to make everything worry-free.

Yangcheng plus Shaoguan 3000, Yau Ma Tei 5500 can be dispatched at any time, as for Shanghai? There is no way to station on a large scale in Shanghai. On the surface, there are only 150 people who can lead the long and short guys and be responsible for the security of the Sihai Escort Bureau and the Pearl River Trading Company.

In fact, when the power plants, steel plants, Pearl River Construction, and cement plants started to operate one after another, and the number of serious factory workers exceeded 3000, the Sihai Bodyguard Bureau expanded its recruitment by more than people, without guns, according to the previous training model. Factory Security Section form, stationed with tactical knives and plastic batons.

Each one goes to the Shanghai factory security department, which is also manpower! !

Wait until next year, just the tour operators and escort team of the Sihai Escort Agency, can easily...

When Wang Shouliang and his party arrived at a pond covering an area of ​​about one acre near Lion Rock, they saw Ma Rulong, Taibao, Dazui and others riding patrol vehicles nearby.

Wang Shouliang was a little stunned and waved to someone from a distance.

Ma Rulong and others were also surprised.

But a few people quickly changed their minds and rode their bikes to the vicinity of the guard. Ma Rulong smiled and said, "A-Liang, you are so powerful. I never imagined that in just one and a half years, you would make such a big move." momentum."

"The Japanese fleet you recruited arrived in Hong Kong the day before yesterday, and it caused a sensation in Hong Kong... No, it should be said that it caused a sensation in Asia."

More or less, because of the relationship between Shi Xi and Shi Aihua, he could still have a relatively normal conversation, while Taibao and Dazui were already full of tension and restraint.

More than a year ago, they were still sitting in the Zhujiang Instant Noodles Factory, joking and chatting with Wang Shouliang in the factory director's office, including introducing some good guys who were good at water and not afraid of waves to go to the Sihai Escort Agency for interviews.

Now?

Kumejima and Xiaoliuqiu fought two battles.

Wang Shouliang is the well-deserved King of Nantian!

Wang Shouliang scattered a few cigarettes and said with a smile, "Are you patrolling the pond? That's not the case."

As we all know, the police on Hong Kong Island guarding reservoirs are like being sent to the frontier. Even in this dimension, the police on Hong Kong Island have become the auxiliary police force of the Blue Jackets of the Sihai Escort Bureau. The number of reservoirs and reservoirs in various parts of Kowloon has also greatly increased.

The importance of ponds has also increased a lot.

This is still a pond.

Ma Rulong smiled bitterly, "The day before yesterday, a pond in Sham Shui Po was poisoned. Because the pond was too big, the dose of poison was diluted and it did not cause serious consequences."

"But some people are still injured and hospitalized. The matter has been found out. It was an overseas Chinese businessman from an island country who poisoned and caused trouble and retaliated indiscriminately. Don't you know?"

"Then it's probably Alian and your team in blue who reported it to you, but you were dealing with more important matters, right? So you didn't pay attention to such news."

"In the past few days, our police, including some people on the road, and your team in blue, have been paying strict attention to various reservoirs and service reservoirs."

Mr. Wang, "..."

He shrugged silently, "I know about this, but I didn't expect that you, a new agent, would lead a team to patrol the front line."

In the past few days, he had been dealing with various post-war arrangements and the training of more than 3000 security officers in Shanghai.

In the Sham Shui Po reservoir poisoning case, dozens of people suffered from vomiting and diarrhea. In the most serious cases, they only had to be hospitalized for recuperation for a while.

It's not a big deal, it's very bad in nature.

If the water is not taken from a pond, there are also steps such as purification, boiling, etc., and it will not just be dozens of people vomiting and diarrhea.

Wang Shouliang found out about this yesterday, and the order he gave at that time was to strengthen patrols.

Ma Rulong giggled, "As my assistant, I still asked you to help you. It's okay to run more errands. By the way, I plan to get married to Aihua during the Spring Festival this year..."

Wang Shouliang nodded, "Okay, I will definitely make time to drink your wedding wine then."

Lao Ma is finally going to marry his cheap cousin. It seems that Aihua has always liked him. There is no way, but it is also good news for Wang Shouliang that Shi Xi can have a grandson as soon as possible.

He can make Shi Xi live longer and healthier by giving her medicinal wine, but for the old man, what he fears most is an empty nest, as well as emotional loneliness and coldness.

He joked and was polite for a while, and encouraged Taibao, Dazui and others.

When Wang Shouliang and his guards set sail again, he said to captain Xu Si, "Send someone to talk to the Japanese. If they want to redeem the more than 2200 people we have captured, just 230 million taels of silver."

"One thousand taels per person, zero them in reverse."

"Either no one is redeemed, or there are more than 2220 people and no one can be spared."

Xu Si nodded hurriedly, and then asked tentatively, "Big shopkeeper, if you let the Japanese redeem people, do you still have to cut off your hands, feet, and thumbs?"

A few days after the end of the war, Wang Shouliang had considered several options for what to do with the more than 2200 Japanese prisoners. The first was to send them to Shaoshan for mining. The future of the Foshan Iron and Steel Plant still relied heavily on the Shaoshan Iron Mine.

Then some escort leaders suggested that they could capture a group of Japanese soldiers and let the elite artillerymen inside teach them their artillery firing techniques, experience, etc.

In the past, there were Yalun Guilao teachers, but when it was inconvenient to resort to various means, they just spent money. Yalun Guilao taught more and taught less, and there were many instructors, so I asked for instructions from the Japanese veterans to teach them techniques. They were beaten three times a day at every turn, forcing them to give everything they had to each other without any reservations.

The Japanese had already sent a message, wanting to redeem people.

Even if not all are redeemed, some grassroots commanders, veteran artillerymen, mid-level generals, etc. must be redeemed.

Wang Shouliang had not made up his mind before and was considering weighing it.

Therefore, today was originally to inspect the reservoirs, and he also learned about the poisoning case yesterday, but the larger purpose of today's inspection was to focus on how many people these reservoirs and reservoirs could supply with water.

Ma Rulong brought it up, so let's handle it smoothly.

Wang Shouliang made a gesture after Xu Si's words, and Captain Xu nodded hurriedly again.

It is already a poor island country, but it must be very exciting to have more than 2,000 disabled young people, including elite artillery and commanders at all levels.

(End of this chapter)