Chapter 206 Chapter 180 Potential Threats of Nanyang (Part 1)

"Speak." Du Wei narrowed his eyes: "You'd better speak quickly and tell the truth, don't expect me to be deceived by you! Otherwise, that little Lufik won't be able to bear many whips!" Lao Benka sighed, and he looked at Du Wei helplessly: "Who are you, and how do you know Nanyang so well!" Du Wei smiled: "Don't you know my identity? My name is Du Wei! Oh, of course, you may not know my name, but you must know my father's name... His name It's called Raymond! Earl Raymond, once the supreme commander of the Empire's Nanyang Expeditionary Fleet!"

Raymond? As soon as this name was uttered, Lao Benka was terrified, and all thoughts were lost! ! Because, in Nanyang, Raymond from the Roland Empire... this name is too resounding! robber!Butcher!Executioner! ... His hands are stained with the blood of the natives. He is a notorious invader in the hearts of the native clans and tribes, a demon who burns down their homes and enslaves them.It can be said that in Nanyang, the name of Earl Raymond can even stop a child from crying. This noble boy with a sneer on his face is actually the son of that terrifying butcher devil? ! Lao Benka didn't have time to think too much, because Lufik's screams were still coming one after another!No one understands the importance of this teenager's identity better than him!No one understands the identity of this young man better than him, and what kind of profound significance it has for Nanyang!

"I say! I can say anything! I just ask you to stop your people first!" Old Benka swayed, as if he couldn't stand anymore, his face was pale, as if he had aged a lot in an instant. "Yes." Du Wei cast a wink at Ruolin, and Ruolin went out immediately, and after a while, the screams stopped. Only then did Benka heaved a sigh of relief, but the muscles on his face kept beating: "My real name is Benka. I am not lying about this name. In Nanyang, there are many people named Benka. This is a common name. And my identity is not a priest of the Sunlun tribe... ...I..." Lao Benka gritted his teeth hard: "My real identity is the Great Priest Elder of the United Kingdom!"

United Kingdom? Du Wei didn't express much on his face, but he sighed secretly in his heart. Sure enough, where there is oppression, there is resistance. In fact, as early as the time of the several expeditions led by Du Wei's father, Earl Raymond, some large tribes on the vast seas of the South China Sea were unwilling to be exterminated by the invaders from afar, and had carried out some very tenacious resistance.However, at that time, due to the huge disparity in power, both civilization and force were far behind the huge imperial fleet, and such resistance could not cause substantial damage to the empire's expedition.

However, with the transitional exploitation of Nanyang resources, those Nanyang tribes who had just retreated blindly had to break out a kind of desperate and tenacious resistance in order to survive.The decades of continuous wars have also greatly stimulated the development of the civilization of the Nanyang tribes, making the development of the original indigenous people almost deformed in terms of force.Even Du Wei's father, Earl Raymond, had a little worry about the future of the situation in Nanyang. Du Wei also vaguely heard about this so-called United Kingdom. Long before the time when Earl Raymond commanded the navy, in the far south, where the empire's expeditionary forces could not reach, some large tribes with relatively advanced civilizations had united countless small tribes to establish a war against the empire. And the "Kingdom" that exists.It is said that the kingdom has hundreds of tribes of various sizes, covering more than a hundred islands, the largest of which is even as large as a province of the empire.

Since the establishment of the rumored "United Kingdom", the pressure on the empire's expeditionary fleet has begun to increase.At the beginning, because of the huge gap in force between the two sides, the pressure was not obvious, but in recent years, the United Kingdom in Southeast Asia has begun to show some fruitful results in its resistance to the empire. Using their familiarity with the geography of the South China Sea, they even learned some harassment tactics.I don't know where I stole some of the empire's shipbuilding technology, and built a batch of simple, but already quite fast warships.Relying on those warships and the empire to strike on the vast sea, they often even set up traps to lead the empire's navy Junjian to some "dead seas" full of whirlpools and hidden reefs, causing some damage to the empire.

The biggest change occurred three years ago. Three years ago, an expedition to the South Seas by the empire brought a very obvious danger signal to the empire. Because, during an expedition three years ago, a glorious record kept by the empire was broken: zero damage to warships in frontal battles! For a long time, in the frontal battle with those Nanyang barbarians, the imperial army was invincible. The warships of the empire have never been sunk by those Nanyang barbarians! The huge gap in force made it difficult for the imperial army to receive any real threats on the frontal battlefield in Nanyang.For them, instead of worrying about the ridiculously simple "armies" of the Nanyang tribes, it is better to worry about those hurricanes and eddies, hidden reefs, terrible sea weather... Some proud generals declared: Let's go to Nanyang, Not fighting with people, but fighting with the sky.As long as the weather is good, we can even drive the fleet to the end of the world without hindrance!

But a battle three years ago finally broke the glorious record of the empire! Under the leadership and influence of the rumored "United Kingdom", the Nanyang tribes have established a large-scale "fleet", although by the standards of the empire, the so-called "fleet" is too simple to face up to However, the opponent's best so-called "warship" is even far inferior to half of an ordinary merchant ship in the empire. However, the number of the "fleet" of the United Kingdom is too terrifying.In that battle, it is said that the opponent gathered dozens of times more ships than the expeditionary fleet. After a decisive battle at sea, the imperial fleet still won the victory, but after that battle, the imperial warships were broken with zero damage!

During the battle, the empire lost two sea soul-class warships, and one sea king-class warship was almost seriously injured. This change should undoubtedly have sounded the alarm for the empire's military, but it seems that the empire's military did not care. justification. Even an elephant, facing endless ants, may occasionally be bitten a few times. But Du Wei learned the truth through some "channels"! Just a few days ago, after Earl Raymond left the imperial capital, Du Wei cleaned up the study left by Earl Raymond and found some documents that Earl Raymond put in the cabinet when he was in power... Those things were originally from the military Information, but after the coup d'état, the management was inevitably chaotic during the change of regime. The military did not recover some of the information held by Earl Raymond—or maybe it felt that such things were not important.

Indeed, as far as the military is concerned, Nanyang is just a fat sheep that can be slaughtered by itself. But Du Wei read those materials a few days ago, learned about the battle that broke the zero casualties of the Imperial Expeditionary Force three years ago, and found many differences! First of all, the United Kingdom of Nanyang seems to have mastered some basic tactics. Although it is simpler, it has indeed entered the category of "tactics". The opponent led the empire's fleet to a sea area that was very beneficial to him, and fought a decisive battle!It was a long and narrow sea area between two small islands. On the small islands on both sides, those Nanyang natives actually set up a group of catapults!

Those crude catapults have a very low hit rate, but they have a long range. On the islands on both sides, they can just cover the long and narrow sea area between the islands!And the low hit rate is not a problem, because those Nanyang natives are fighting the empire with a heroic and decisive idea!When the catapults on both sides were launched, there was almost no difference between the two sides fighting in the melee above the sea area with an almost indiscriminate "cover attack"!Among them, the sea soul-class warship lost by the empire was hit by the catapult. Even on the data, there are some indications that the opponent has also learned simple tactics such as "outflank the rear" and "detour on both sides"! These people are no longer the natives who can only use earthen canoes, spears and swords!Nearly a hundred years of oppression has made them build their own civilization with a strong military nature!