Lord of Ming Dynasty

New Kingdom's latest main battleship is 130 meters long, 21 meters wide, with a full-load displacement of more than 900 tons, a total buoyancy of more than 300 tons, and a draft of 250 meters. It has six 23-four The millimeter twin-mounted turret, such a large battleship, has such ample buoyancy, enough to allow this battleship to sail more than 3000 nautical miles in the Atlantic Ocean at a speed of 700 knots. If it is accompanied by a supply ship, it can sail more than [-] nautical miles. Two supply ships It will allow it to go around the Horn of Africa and reach the island of Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean.

Generally speaking, don't look at the [-]s, the warships of the New Kingdom are infinitely close to the level of the Nassau-class German warships in the late World War I.The British and the French were still hovering at the level of building warships in the early days of World War I. This is the confidence of the New Kingdom, and the reason why the New Kingdom made countries tremble in the West.

But such warships are obviously huge, expensive, and take a long time to build. With the current construction level and technology of the New Kingdom, it obviously takes three years to build such a ship, one for each dock, maybe A dozen or so ships can be built, but there is no major war now, and the maintenance cost is also very expensive, requiring nearly 200 million maintenance costs per year.

Perhaps in the huge New Kingdom, the maintenance fee of 200 million is really nothing, but what if there are more than ten white ships?Ten ships is 2000 million, and one hundred is more than [-] million. In addition to the maintenance of other naval warships, in one year, the New Kingdom will have to spend nearly one billion yuan on the maintenance of these naval warships. Then personnel salaries, naval construction , The maintenance of the naval base, the training of the navy's personnel, the money spent on the transfer of the navy, and the money spent on fighting the war, is it necessary to spend billions of dollars a year for the navy?

Don't look at the wealth of the New Kingdom now, don't look at the strength of the New King Army, but the annual net income of the economy is not 200 billion, a little is distributed to the army, and a little is consumed by the government's own operations. Although the army is constantly being cut down, the military expenditure is still huge , how can it be so wasted?

Now there is no national war. The naval fleets of several countries like Britain and France, the scale of nearly [-] warships may attack once every five or six to ten years. They do not need to maintain such a large navy and army every year.

Now the New Kingdom can make money, but there is still the newly recovered North American continent to be built and developed, and there are still places to be built and developed. Every year, tens of millions, or even billions, of funds need to be allocated for construction and development. To develop, you need to make money, and you don’t have to spend some money. How can you say it in the past?

What's more, for the strategy of returning to the east, the resources of the whole country are now serving this purpose, and the money is spent like water. Although this is not a big war, every time it will be for a small-scale, tens of thousands of people, or dozens of warships For battles of more than a dozen battleships, hundreds of thousands to two to three million yuan was allocated, so now the New Kingdom only has thirteen such super main battleships, which just happen to form a formation.

Of course, such a warship cannot be known to outsiders, and it is only stored in the harbor now. In case of a large-scale war, it will be used as a trump card to deter the enemy.

The main battleship currently in use is still an 254-ton main battleship with five triple-mounted turrets and a body that is a circle smaller than this one. The caliber of the artillery is 150 except for the front and rear triple-mounted turrets, and the other three are 88. [-]mm caliber guns, and dozens of [-]mm and [-]mm caliber secondary guns were installed.

Of course, the current main battleship of the New Kingdom cannot be used to curry favor with the empire that is tens of thousands of kilometers away. The New Kingdom Navy still took out the Type 5000 cruiser from the last battle and the frigates and main battleships with only more than 7000 tons and [-] tons. To please the imperial cabinet ministers and some princes, naval princes and some lords and princes.

Obtaining their trust and some promises, making their return to the East legal and reasonable, so that the Han people in the empire can accept them, of course the upper-level figures, the bottom-level Baixin all dynasties have no right to speak, they are passively accepted, not accepted It is also an emotion provoked by careerists. Anyway, the best thing for them is to have enough food and live a good life.

The warships and weapons to please are the main equipment more than ten years ago. Even so, they are very advanced in the eastern empire. Their current lag and backward level cannot advance in construction and master technology. Talented people who learn technology are old-fashioned and unable to learn. They can only be selected and cultivated from young people to learn again.

This is very similar to Zhang Qiang’s history in the late Manchu Qing Dynasty. History is like this. It’s not that Zhang Qiang belittled the empire and the Han people. Enemy, as for development and being prepared for danger in times of peace, tireless advancement is the business of the upper class, and the upper class is satisfied with pleasure and enjoyment of power and position, and then advances bit by bit in the overall trend, following in the footsteps of others, keeping their eyes on It is always the little interest on other people's one-third of an acre of land.

They fully supported the new Qin State because of the existence and encouragement of Zhang Qiang, a traverser. Second child.

They were resentful, jealous, and very xenophobic about the New Kingdom, but now the imperial family has no choice, and the Han people have no choice. If they want to prosper on the surface, but actually continue to survive under the turbulent skin and let the empire survive, they You have to accept the funding of the New Kingdom, and accept the help of the New Kingdom to restore the glory of the empire when Zhang Qiang was in the past.

Chapter 2275 Wandering Bullets

After fighting for so long, both the New Kingdom and the Empire were exhausted, but the situation prevented them from stopping.

Under such circumstances in the empire, it is impossible for Zhang Siyuan and the others to have many privileges. In the end, they still have to rely on their warships and technology, military strength, talents, and prestige to win the favor of governors and royal families everywhere. They just have righteousness.

I just have an identity certificate and pass to the empire.

Of course, the royal family certification is only for the royal family. If he wants to get the recognition of other lords and princes, the offshoots of the royal family, and the cabinet ministers, or not obstruct it, He Jing still has to work hard. , but it took about two years to deal with various royal family branches, royal family branches, royal family members, wealthy families, generals, and cabinet ministers. It took no less than 3000 million new kingdom coins to finally get everyone's approval. The commitment and guarantee of the royal family and various other people related to this has been confirmed in writing.

The money spent is enough to build several new [-]-ton main battleships.

New Kingdom's latest main battleship is 130 meters long, 21 meters wide, with a full-load displacement of more than 900 tons, a total buoyancy of more than 300 tons, and a draft of 250 meters. It has six 23-four The millimeter twin-mounted turret, such a large battleship, has such ample buoyancy, enough to allow this battleship to sail more than 3000 nautical miles in the Atlantic Ocean at a speed of 700 knots. If it is accompanied by a supply ship, it can sail more than [-] nautical miles. Two supply ships It will allow it to go around the Horn of Africa and reach the island of Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean.

Generally speaking, don't look at the [-]s, the warships of the New Kingdom are infinitely close to the level of the Nassau-class German warships in the late World War I.The British and the French were still hovering at the level of building warships in the early days of World War I. This is the confidence of the New Kingdom, and the reason why the New Kingdom made countries tremble in the West.

But such warships are obviously huge, expensive, and take a long time to build. With the current construction level and technology of the New Kingdom, it obviously takes three years to build such a ship, one for each dock, maybe A dozen or so ships can be built, but there is no major war now, and the maintenance cost is also very expensive, requiring nearly 200 million maintenance costs per year.

Perhaps in the huge New Kingdom, the maintenance fee of 200 million is really nothing, but what if there are more than ten white ships?Ten ships is 2000 million, and one hundred is more than [-] million. In addition to the maintenance of other naval warships, in one year, the New Kingdom will have to spend nearly one billion yuan on the maintenance of these naval warships. Then personnel salaries, naval construction , The maintenance of the naval base, the training of the navy's personnel, the money spent on the transfer of the navy, and the money spent on fighting the war, is it necessary to spend billions of dollars a year for the navy?

Don't look at the wealth of the New Kingdom now, don't look at the strength of the New King Army, but the annual net income of the economy is not 200 billion, a little is distributed to the army, and a little is consumed by the government's own operations. Although the army is constantly being cut down, the military expenditure is still huge , how can it be so wasted?

Now there is no national war. The naval fleets of several countries like Britain and France, the scale of nearly [-] warships may attack once every five or six to ten years. They do not need to maintain such a large navy and army every year.

Now the New Kingdom can make money, but there is still the newly recovered North American continent to be built and developed, and there are still places to be built and developed. Every year, tens of millions, or even billions, of funds need to be allocated for construction and development. To develop, you need to make money, and you don’t have to spend some money. How can you say it in the past?

What's more, for the strategy of returning to the east, the resources of the whole country are now serving this purpose, and the money is spent like water. Although this is not a big war, every time it will be for a small-scale, tens of thousands of people, or dozens of warships For battles of more than a dozen battleships, hundreds of thousands to two to three million yuan was allocated, so now the New Kingdom only has thirteen such super main battleships, which just happen to form a formation.

Of course, such a warship cannot be known to outsiders, and it is only stored in the harbor now. In case of a large-scale war, it will be used as a trump card to deter the enemy.

The main battleship currently in use is still an 254-ton main battleship with five triple-mounted turrets and a body that is a circle smaller than this one. The caliber of the artillery is 150 except for the front and rear triple-mounted turrets, and the other three are 88. [-]mm caliber guns, and dozens of [-]mm and [-]mm caliber secondary guns were installed.

Of course, the current main battleship of the New Kingdom cannot be used to curry favor with the empire that is tens of thousands of kilometers away. The New Kingdom Navy still took out the Type 5000 cruiser from the last battle and the frigates and main battleships with only more than 7000 tons and [-] tons. To please the imperial cabinet ministers and some princes, naval princes and some lords and princes.

Obtaining their trust and some promises, making their return to the East legal and reasonable, so that the Han people in the empire can accept them, of course the upper-level figures, the bottom-level Baixin all dynasties have no right to speak, they are passively accepted, not accepted It is also an emotion provoked by careerists. Anyway, the best thing for them is to have enough food and live a good life.

The warships and weapons to please are the main equipment more than ten years ago. Even so, they are very advanced in the eastern empire. Their current lag and backward level cannot advance in construction and master technology. Talented people who learn technology are old-fashioned and unable to learn. They can only be selected and cultivated from young people to learn again.

This is very similar to Zhang Qiang’s history in the late Manchu Qing Dynasty. History is like this. It’s not that Zhang Qiang belittled the empire and the Han people. Enemy, as for development and being prepared for danger in times of peace, tireless advancement is the business of the upper class, and the upper class is satisfied with pleasure and enjoyment of power and position, and then advances bit by bit in the overall trend, following in the footsteps of others, keeping their eyes on It is always the little interest on other people's one-third of an acre of land.

They fully supported the new Qin State because of the existence and encouragement of Zhang Qiang, a traverser. Second child.

They were resentful, jealous, and very xenophobic about the New Kingdom, but now the imperial family has no choice, and the Han people have no choice. If they want to prosper on the surface, but actually continue to survive under the turbulent skin and let the empire survive, they You have to accept the funding of the New Kingdom, and accept the help of the New Kingdom to restore the glory of the empire when Zhang Qiang was in the past.

Chapter 2276 Is it possible?

There is joy in the general direction, as if the new kingdom will be integrated into the empire tomorrow, but everyone knows that the road is still far away.

A relatively solid military base was established, and many logistics troops went ashore, or bypassed the Persian Kingdom and Ottoman Turkey by land, and entered here.

In Central Asia, other troops have also begun to do the same as the original Xiaodao, using them as a base, developing multiple routes in the rear, penetrating into other places in Central Asia, some developing to Siberia, some developing to Afghanistan, and some continuing The offensive advances towards the Yin and Helan Mountains, the grasslands, and Russia.

At this time, Yang Yong's task is to continue to move forward on the original trail, and Yang Yong turns around to sweep around and expand the control area of ​​the base area, because many areas are not very stable, and there are still many horse bandits like Yang Yong and the others that they just eliminated. And the private soldiers left by the governors, or some deserters, and some local nobles and stragglers left by the merchants.

Yang Yong watched the reinforcements from Yuan Xiaodao's army load the treasures into vehicles and prepare to transport them out of the mountain. He ordered the cavalry to assemble and continue to go into the deep mountain. There were still some remnants in the deep mountain that had not been cleared away.

Of course, he also knew that such days would not be too long, because they were the vanguard troops after all, they were used to explore the way and test the reaction of the empire, not the main combat force. The main combat force was the main force commanded by Wei Yuanchao remotely. Under the command of lieutenant-level army generals, school-level officers and lieutenant-level officers like them really don’t participate too much in too many battles. The big battles are all at the brigade level. Life and death, or the ultimate battle, can not shake the situation in Central Asia.

In fact, their role may be okay in the early stage. They sent back a lot of information and told the empire that they had intervened in Central Asia.

As their battles started here, they eliminated a lot of enemies, at least a few thousand enemy troops. Of course, the enemies were more mixed, most of them were stragglers, some horse bandits, and some bandits who robbed houses. , I don’t know why the land here has always been in chaos. It used to be some Central Asian peoples here, but now it’s the Han people, but the Han people came here and I don’t know how they were changed by the environment here.

They suddenly became irritable and rough. Even the accumulated Confucian culture could not calm them down. They were bold and rough. They had no time to think about it. They changed with the environment. The climate and environment are national customs. Inevitably formed.

Therefore, it is impossible to stabilize here, but it is still possible to control the situation. After all, bold people are easy to be impulsive and easy to appease.

At the same time, he served as the deputy commander of the coastal defense fleet in the Strait of Gibraltar, responsible for logistics coordination, coordinating the decommissioning and exchange of warships between the main fleet and the coastal defense fleet, and supporting tasks.

The arrival of the reinforcement fleet has greatly supplemented their previous battle damage, allowing the main fleet to recover to [-]% of the number before the war, and those injured warships have been repaired, and after some simple repairs to the battleships have been basically completed, they have all been destroyed. Sent down and joined the coastal defense fleet, making the coastal defense fleet reach [-]% of the original fleet's number of warships, barely supporting coastal defense and limited offshore patrol missions, which can't do everything like before. and the umbrella of the strait.

After accomplishing such a task, the repair and maintenance work is divided in half, and one fifth of the warships have entered the maintenance berth for maintenance work, completely replacing the damaged parts, replacing the gun barrel, replacing the turret, and everything in the early stage of operation. Among them, the part lost in the battle, because the enemy still has the possibility of attacking, can only be repaired briefly, replace the barrel and correct the parts that need to be replaced, so that the battleship can go to work with injuries. Now that the situation has basically eased, we have to Give the battleship a new look to cope with the possible next big battle.

And those damaged warships are also undergoing comprehensive repairs, not just being able to operate. One-third of the artillery that can fire on them is good, so they dare to send them out to perform missions. Now they all have to be replaced. Only in a state of combat effectiveness.

After this operation, at least two hundred warships will be assembled, all of which are main battleships. Of course, they are the main battleships of the coastal defense fleet. The coastal defense fleet is more needed than the main fleet at this moment, because they can finally protect the coastline and fight against the enemy at sea. Fighting, every fleet of the coastal defense fleet is more powerful than the main fleet of the Dutch, and slightly inferior to the fleets of the French and the British. After all, those warships are outdated or the new warships are not equipped enough.

The enemy will never be allowed to break through the coastline and reach the shore to bombard villages and shore artillery facilities on the coast.

"Fire,"

The main battleship had four turrets, and twelve artillery guns fired in one direction in turn. The three enemy destroyers that were outflanking were immediately enveloped in twelve nearly lost shells of 250 [-]mm artillery.

Although it missed, a near-miss bomb exploded 13 meters away from the enemy destroyer, causing a huge wave as high as 30 meters high. The shrapnel from the explosion flew to the destroyer, blowing up at least a dozen people and hitting a double-linked enemy ship at the same time. The base of the turret, this base immediately lost the function of rotation, the artillery was stuck in front of the chimney and the turrets of the secondary guns on both sides, and at the same time swept the mounts of the two 120mm secondary guns.

At the same time, the enemy's main fleet also fired countless shells at this side, and the shells coming and going from both sides could fight in the air.

In the first round, in the second round, the losses in the first round were the enemy frigates and destroyers intercepted by the low-level warships in front of the enemy, as well as some cruisers. The artillery shells and the neatly arranged formations were smashed by dense secondary artillery, or torn apart by the shells. In addition, their purpose was to entangle the warships of the New Kingdom in front of them, so they could not go away.