Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 704 Denmark Strait

The commander of the Western Qing naval fleet was a Pole named Elias Piotroz.The Western Qing Navy was probably the unit with the smallest number of Eastern officers in the entire Western Qing military system.Because no matter whether it was the Manchus or Mongols who escaped from the capital, or the Qing Dynasty military system in the late Qing Dynasty, there were no real naval talents.Among the Westernization talents brought out by Wenhe, there are some who can build ships, but there are no talents who can operate ships.

In the end, the Western Qing Empire relied on a group of European mercenaries and Westerners to form its own navy, and also formed a relatively unique form of the navy, that is, the military order system and the military supervision system. These white people who may not be loyal enough often send supervisors, mainly Manchurians, but also Mongols, Kazakhs, or even Tatars and Turks.

The commander of the Qing navy fleet, Piotr Rocz, was a captain on a Dutch armed merchant ship in the early years. When he returned to Poland, most of the Polish land was occupied by the Western Qing Dynasty, so he defected to the Qing people and became He became a member of the Western Qing Navy, and eventually Piotroz did well and became the "Admiral of the Navy."

Piotrotz is well aware of the huge gap between the Ming Navy and the Western Qing Navy, and he is under great pressure. However, he also believes that as long as the Western Qing Empire does not completely collapse, he can still lead the fleet to a certain extent. Zhou Xuan, and finally surrendered to the Ming army when it was irretrievable.

But he must not surrender at the beginning, his family is under the control of Xiqing, his death in battle will treat his family favorably, and surrender will destroy his family.

Most of the Qing army lived in such fear. The new Eight Banners system created by Wenhe has strong personal control attributes. The families of the Eight Banners of the Guards are concentrated in the military-owned quarters or military dependents’ villages. If the soldiers defect or surrender, Then there is absolutely no good end for his family, easy to control.

"Our goal is, after entering the North Sea, to carry out indiscriminate attacks on the Nanming merchant ships and transport ships sailing, and to destroy their escort ships as much as possible. Care and caution are the core of our operations. You must know that the current Nanming The Atlantic Fleet is the most powerful fleet. Not only do they have many battleships and a large number of frigates to perform escort missions, but they also have five aircraft carriers with a large number of aircraft wandering in the sky. Once they are discovered, we will be in trouble But fortunately, under such bad walrus weather conditions, they will not have any planes to take off and land, so we will take advantage of this opportunity to reap the results of our battle." Piotroz declared to his fleet.

Standing on the bridge, Piotrotz sighed regretfully: "Obviously the Ukrainian is already an excellent warship, but why does Nanming's navy still exist in this world!"

The Western Qing Empire paid far less attention to the construction of the navy than the army and air force. Air-submarine speed has always been their core development strategy, and the construction of large-scale main battleships is relatively small.The formation that Piotrotz is now commanding is basically all the possessions of the Xiqing Navy.

Two Ukrainian-class battleships with a displacement of 31000 tons and two Romanian-class battlecruisers with a displacement of 27000 tons are all capital ships.Even for the construction of these four large warships, the court of the Western Qing Dynasty experienced a lot of quarrels. After all, the price was expensive, and even if it was built, it was not as good as the Ming Navy, so many people opposed it.However, Fei Yanggu is still very courageous, demanding that the navy must be developed, step by step, and eventually catch up with Nanming.

There are four battleships and two battle cruisers with relatively thin horizontal armor. The main guns are all 360 mm in size.In this plane, the imperial caliber size is not the mainstream at all, because the Ming Dynasty uses the metric system and has exported a large number of weapon systems, so even the British-made weapons in this plane are all using the metric system, there is no such thing as 8 inches, 16 inches inch diameter, but mostly in metric integer diameters such as 200 mm and 360 mm.

Piotrotz's battle plan is very simple and straightforward. It is to break the battle, sink the Ming transport ship and the frigate with a relatively low tonnage, and use it as the result of the battle. As for the sinking of large ships, such as battleships and battle cruisers, it is "I didn't That kind of destiny will not be my turn."

The battlecruisers of the Ming Navy are not that embarrassing. The armor is better. Although it is inferior to the Ming battleship, it is not much worse than the Ukraine class. The 27000-ton Siam-class battlecruiser was originally designed to be able to attack enemy heavy cruise formations or capital ships alone on the ocean, with the protection of carrier-based aircraft intelligence support.In the Ming Dynasty, it was a battle patrol, but in the Xiqing Dynasty, it was basically a battle formation.

While Piotrotz was thinking about how to find his prey, several huge water splashes gushed out in front of the battlecruiser Bulgaria in front of him.

"Bombardment! Enemy attack!"

The scene just now made Piotr Roots shudder.

"I actually met the Nanming Navy?! Why are they here? They don't have an aircraft carrier to dispatch, how dare they enter the Denmark Strait? The power just now is the main gun of the battleship! Bastard, why did the first round of shooting succeed? so close?"

In the thick and hard-to-see rain and fog, Piotrotz's fleet couldn't accurately determine the enemy's direction at all.

"Use the fireworks of the opponent's bombardment to find the enemy's position, use the range finder!"

But the gunners can only be confused at this time: "We can hardly see the flash of the enemy's firing..."

Piotroz immediately reacted: "It's a smokeless propellant."

Before he could react, the battlecruiser Bulgaria's bad luck came, and a heavy shell directly hit the middle of the Bulgaria, causing very serious damage.She was like a fresh and tender apple, a huge gap was directly gnawed out, the power of this blow made Piotr Roots tremble with fear!

"What caliber main gun is this?"

Galdan couldn't accurately observe the results of the Shanghai's main gun shooting at the opponent, but he believed that the power of the most terrifying body weapon on the sea was absolutely astonishing.

"With the 520mm main gun, one shot is enough to destroy the combat effectiveness of the opponent's warship."

The Bulgaria hadn't had time to fight back at all, and it had been blown up by this bomb, and the hull tended to break again. Although it hadn't been sunk directly, it was not far from this end.

Piotroz no longer cared about his own plans and quickly ordered: "Evacuate quickly and keep a distance from the enemy formation. The frigate will try to approach in a roundabout way. We need to know what enemy is attacking us!"

(End of this chapter)