Lord of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 1999 Jump, Jump, Battle of the Springboard

"We can't fight the enemy like this. Now the French army has appeared in Egypt and Tbilisi. Their pace of conquering Ottoman is getting faster and faster. Although the naval battle is unbearable, the land battle is getting more and more powerful. We have to prepare for the war. , it's time for the Army to perform."

Since they started to use the tribal chiefs and sultans they won over to deal with the tribal sultans who are hostile to Naxi, they have been harassed and attacked a lot less. This is what they paid for the goods and materials they originally supplied. Those people eased their hostility and at the same time attracted more part.

However, Yuan Xiaodao and the others know that many British people here are staring at them from a distance, and many tribal chiefs here still don’t like their arrival. Although there are many benefits and it can bring them a lot of tribal work opportunities, but They are more nervous about the impact of power and prestige brought to them by these outsiders.

"The period from "1701 to 1800 AD" is called the 18th century. During this period, Europe was in a period of drastic change, while China was in the heyday of the last monarchy society." This is the world Zhang Qiang was in before The description of this stage is very different from that stage in that world, but Egypt does not seem to have changed much.

It is still a poor and backward colonial country ruled by Britain and France under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, but it has an ancient and brilliant civilization. This civilization has lost the motivation and all opportunities for innovation and development. If an ancient civilization loses innovation and development The driving force of them, his glory is to decline, to lose.

But what they lost was oil paint and loess, boulders, and mystery and antiquity. What emerged from the pain of being colonized was the changes brought about by the colonists. For example, their cavalry, Mamluks, now use flintlocks or rifles. Now, the warriors of their Sudanese tribe are not just javelins and poisoned arrows, nor are they just wrapped in long strips of cloth and fired stones, but at least they are carrying arquebus guns, daring to go far Put a shot at you, then quickly pick up the javelin and machete to escape the barefoot Horde warriors.

Their tribal sultans are no longer short-sighted people who only value the interests of the tribe, and which interests are on the tribal territory. Many people have been taught by the British and French to be extremely cunning, and they can even distinguish which goods they need. Those goods cannot be exchanged for glass balls.

And many warriors of their tribe followed the British and French as slaves or entourages, and saw the world. Their nephews went to England and France to see the world, and even studied. After they inherited the tribe, the tribe became more prosperous Or be more ambitious and aggressive, perfectly learn the cunning of the British, and learn the romance and bloodiness of the French.

However, not all Sudanese tribes are like this. Some still maintain their primitive customs and the living conditions of the primitive tribes. This kind of tribe is easy to win over, but it is not easy to win over, because they are more stubborn and tenacious, saying no If you can't change it, you can't change it. Compared with the tribes that were ruled by the British and French colonists, or changed, they are very open and willing to accept their suggestions and gifts. Of course, they are not very safe.

Yuan Xiaodao was worried about this. In order to open up the situation, he almost fell into danger several times. If there was no cavalry led by Yang Yong, the cavalry second lieutenant, they would have died long ago.But it's not without gains, at least they opened up the situation with some occupied water sources and some commodities, weapons, and some tribes are willing to accept their goodwill.

Zhang Yuan valued him as an old seaman very much, even though he was injured, he still met him in the ward and affirmed his heroic performance in this battle to defend the strait.

And I hope that he will continue to work hard, encourage him, and hope that he will become a pillar of the New Kingdom as soon as possible, and become an old and strong Huang Zhong.

The empire, the new Qin state, or the new kingdom all used the imperial examination textbooks of the Han people from previous dynasties for primary education, especially private schools, so that even after thousands of years, the Han people still exist and the inheritance continues.

The people he raises are all loyal people, and Zhang Yuan also wants to be loyal to these people. Although he is not capable, he is already a high-level man after all, and he will need many people to assist him in the future.

"I believe in you, you performed well in this battle, so I suggest that you upgrade your formation to be the main formation among the one to ten formations, and this time, I think your formation should be strengthened, now all rely on Your formation supports it, let's upgrade it to a super formation of 58 ships." Zhang Yuan said kindly to Tang Kefeng.

"Thank you, Commander, thank you, Deputy Privy Envoy." Tang Kefeng saluted Zhang Yuan and expressed his gratitude.

"Well, go and see your direct subordinates and Governor Mighty Wei. They will implement it in detail. I will return to the mainland with this return flight formation. I will leave this place to you and your commander." Zhang Yuan sealed the way to Tang Ke.

"Thank you, Commander. I will make persistent efforts. I will never let the enemy take a step closer to the port. They have to step over my battleship and my dead body to reach the edge of the coast. I will definitely lead the fleet to defend Morocco and the mouth of the Strait of Gibraltar. , will not be touched by ships from Western countries." Tang Ke said a lot about his loyalty.

After all, he is 48 years old and has spent half his life in the military. He has seen a lot of these things and learned a lot, but he rarely uses them.

After meeting Zhang Yuan, the commander-in-chief of the navy, he first went to meet his original fleet commander, and then went all the way up to meet the new commander, and finally arrived at Qiangwei's Governor's Mansion, and met the ruler here, Governor Qiangwei.

"Very well, you have been here many times. I heard their evaluation of your recent work. To be honest, you are a bit inferior to doing logistics work. Now I have a new task for you. It can be regarded as an extension of your work. New battleships have arrived. Although the new main battleships have not improved much, they are faster than before, with more powerful artillery and higher defense.

What I mean is that your formation receives all the new warships, and replaces the previous warships with eight to ten formations. The main battleships of the first to sixth formations are basically debugged and repaired. They will divide some new warships, But they won't be fully replaced. Their task is to cooperate with you to guard the port and the mouth of the strait, but now there is a more difficult task for you. "

Chapter 2000 Difficult battle

The fighting on the island is not so good. The resistance of the natives is more determined. The natives who are incited are more brutal than the British and French colonists. Many temporary army soldiers have not fought for several years, and the veterans are gradually retiring. Now, to deal with these people, you need to accumulate experience with blood again.

The current soldiers are not the mercenaries of the past, but the Han soldiers who need to experience the war again. They come out of the arms of their mothers and enjoy the ordinary and peaceful towns, with dreams and longings in their arms. Cruel fighting and blood and tears, now it is time for them to pay for their mistakes.

Here is the artillery that the army has not updated for a long time. It uses the horse-drawn eighteen-pound heavy artillery, twelve-pound medium artillery, six-pound light artillery, and three-pound small field artillery that were used in the last century. Well, the British nine-pounder and six-pounder can't match it, nor can the French ten-pounder and seven-pounder. Although the French army is shining now, the colonies here are not as good as their native artillery.

Nowadays, after the sea battle in the whole of Europe, there is a wave of land warfare. Everywhere is fighting. There is always a battle going on in every country. Land war generals from various countries have sprung up like mushrooms, but sea war generals are withering one by one.

Some of these land generals who came out were in the French and British colonies in Egypt, but they led the army and have not yet engaged in a larger-scale battle. They proposed to send someone to severely reprimand Yuan Xiaodao and them, but Yuan Xiaodao didn't care about their warnings. He came here to occupy this place. Of course, he was just an officer who carried out the order from above. In order to open up the passage from the Mediterranean Sea to the Eastern Indian Ocean, they must do their best. Go all out, any blocking force must be crushed.

Of course it is impossible now, he has not received a greater authorization, but the advance team, the leader, arranges accommodation for the soldiers and horses who arrive later, establishes relationships, finds out the situation here, the enemy's deployment, strength, and various complicated situations, By the way, explore the terrain to find the most suitable approximate location and route for digging the canal.

Now he has tried his best, tens of thousands of troops, and tens of thousands of indigenous tribal fighters followed them along the landing site to another port they found two hundred kilometers away, at the beginning of the selected canal, Then continue to set up camp, and then dispatch an exploration team to explore the surrounding terrain under the protection of indigenous warriors and cavalry.

When Yuan Xiaodao was working hard in Egypt, the British and French warships that had been dispersed were in the Caribbean Sea, along the coast of Africa, and on the south coast of the Atlantic Ocean, struggling to find their way back to the North Atlantic. There were about a hundred of these warships.

The blockade fleet is their nightmare. Although after the war, the blockade fleet needed to supplement the loss of the coastal defense fleet and change its strategy, it needed to join in the inspection of passing merchant ships from various countries. The force was a bit stretched and the blockade area was reduced. Their blockade area is still nearly Four thousand nautical miles, every hundred nautical miles, but a small fleet of twelve warships is carrying out the blockade mission, but for the British, French, and Dutch warships who chose the direction of the South Atlantic Ocean when escaping, they still cannot break through This blockade.

The British colonial army in Egypt was simply vulnerable. After the army landed, it defeated them, cut off the traffic on this sea route, and completely took over here.

Then Zhang Siyuan sent He Jing and Wang Weiyun to run here.

Standing on the bridge, holding on to the hot railing, Tang Kefeng was a little touched. This is the seventh warship they have replaced in the past two months. A new warship, a new start, this also reflects the new warship from one side. How fierce are the enemies of the kingdom.

The enemies of the New Kingdom, the French and the British united are very fierce and formidable. In the past, they had to face one enemy, but now four or five enemies are united, and the outcome of the battle is still unclear. This is the last sad.

How difficult is the battle of the New Kingdom, no matter how large it is, there is only one piece of the west coast in the whole of North America that does not belong to them, and which piece of land in Canada does not belong to them, and the entire Caribbean coast of other places is almost the land of the New Kingdom. The Azores, a transshipment point in the Atlantic Ocean, is a strategic and important trade location.

This was intolerable to his enemies.Because the Atlantic Ocean is directly cut off here, and most of the Atlantic Ocean is blocked at once. All the British and French colonies must pass through the sea area, and they need to go to their colonies.

So this time, Britain and France need to fight back and open up the situation. Of course, the main reason is that the rise of the New Kingdom's strength and the threat to them have increased day by day in the past half a century.

He is now the commander of the seventh formation.Colonel Formation Commander.

No matter what happens in the future, he is now a sea blade of the New Kingdom, specially designed to deal with the threat of the British, French, Spaniards, and Dutch to the New Kingdom. What he wants is to form a blockade and deterrent to these Western countries, so that they Submit to the rule of the new kingdom.

"Sir, we found that a French warship is approaching us rapidly," the fleet left the port of Morocco about [-] nautical miles, and entered the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, and a French warship came to scout them.

Tang Kefeng raised his binoculars and looked at the French warships that were getting closer and closer. The other party seemed to see them, but they still didn't turn around. First one, then two, seven, fifteen, and finally About a hundred French warships appeared on the sea.

"Why are the French here? Haven't they returned? They can't intercept our reinforcement warships, so they can only return to the port. The battle at the mouth of the strait has already been fought. Don't they still want to give up?" Tang Kefeng said a little Strange soliloquy.

"Maybe they want to intercept our escort warship, intercept us and destroy us, maybe they can save some face. After all, they have failed too much." The first officer interjected.

Tang Kefeng: "All personnel entered the state of engagement, dispatched fast warships and destroyers to intercept, separated the formation, finished the glyph, protected the cruiser formation on the inside, and we continued to move forward. If the enemy does not vigorously attack and surround us, we will pass by them. If they open fire, we will counterattack and let the No.12 and No.30 three formations of the coastal defense fleet pay attention to protect the commander's cruiser, and if necessary, they can leave us and rush out of the encirclement."

Although he had doubts about the enemy's intention, Tang Kefeng still gave the correct order, first protect the people who need protection and rush out, then prepare for the battle, try not to conflict with the enemy, and fight, because they are not fighting alone now Formation, now their task is to escort.

"Flanking cruisers form an assault to intercept the enemy."

"The second group on the right wing spread out the battle line, ready to intercept the enemy,"

"The formation of the main fleet is unfolding in wild geese. Each formation should pay attention to the enemy's ambush and be ready to maneuver and respond at any time."

The enemy's intention to attack and intercept is becoming more and more obvious.

But the French began to attack. After the heavy artillery fire, the fleet of the New Kingdom began to maneuver and evade, and counterattacked. The two sides fired the first round of mutual test fire.

The shells landed poorly, and both sides were maneuvering, so there was no accuracy.

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Chapter 2001 Naval Gun Coordination

Island warfare always has an advantage for those who have command of the sea. Now the naval guns can hit very far, and the shoulder-mounted telegraph also makes artillery support possible.

Here is the artillery that the army has not updated for a long time. It uses the horse-drawn eighteen-pound heavy artillery, twelve-pound medium artillery, six-pound light artillery, and three-pound small field artillery that were used in the last century. Well, the British nine-pounder and six-pounder can't match it, nor can the French ten-pounder and seven-pounder. Although the French army is shining now, the colonies here are not as good as their native artillery.

Nowadays, after the sea battle in the whole of Europe, there is a wave of land warfare. Everywhere is fighting. There is always a battle going on in every country. Land war generals from various countries have sprung up like mushrooms, but sea war generals are withering one by one.

Some of these land generals who came out were in the French and British colonies in Egypt, but they led the army and have not yet engaged in a larger-scale battle. They proposed to send someone to severely reprimand Yuan Xiaodao and them, but Yuan Xiaodao didn't care about their warnings. He came here to occupy this place. Of course, he was just an officer who carried out the order from above. In order to open up the passage from the Mediterranean Sea to the Eastern Indian Ocean, they must do their best. Go all out, any blocking force must be crushed.