Lord of Ming Dynasty

Zhang Qiang raised his head and looked at him until he lowered his head before he said: "That's not okay. If the generals below conceal the situation until the end we don't know the enemy's situation, it is still a small matter to cause us heavy losses. The important thing is that it is possible He will become a vassal, which is a major event and must be severely punished, but I will follow his explanation. If his explanation can convince the cabinet, the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff, I can consider punishing him as appropriate."

He stopped and took two steps, "Also, I followed the order to help the forces that are not our kingdom. Therefore, there was no such thing before, and it cannot be done now, and it will not be possible in the future. The position of Liu Taiyun of the Fifth Fleet will be escorted back to Jinling Mansion to be reviewed by the Navy Commander's Department."

After shouting, he said to Perrin: "Send a small fleet of three [-]-ton warships to carry out the order. Let the three patrol ships and transportation ships follow them."

Perrin stood at attention, "But we don't know where they are now, and what will happen to the Fifth Fleet in the future? Who will temporarily manage them?"

"Also, the Qiongdao Squadron of the Fourth Fleet was involved in this attack, and how did Kodak, the commander in chief of the Fifth Fleet, deal with it? He didn't report this kind of thing either."

Zhang Qiang said to him: "You are temporarily going to take over the Fifth Fleet and act on behalf of the Fourth Fleet. The Fourth Fleet also dispatched manpower, but did not report to me. This is a serious violation of discipline. It must be thoroughly investigated. You go Cooperate with the investigation team led by the aide to investigate this matter, and at the same time regroup to prepare for the counterattack of the Annan people and the attack of the Duge rebels. I don't know where they will attack next."

Perrin saluted, then took his personal guards into the small boat, and went to the periphery to board a 180-ton warship of the three peripheral guards that came this time. Soon, the two ships that looked a little seriously damaged Warships also joined his ranks, and he owned five six-hundred-ton warships, two [-]-ton patrol boats, and one traffic boat.

He sailed away with a team of 12 people in total, consisting of the military attaché, the military attache, the secretary of the attendant, the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the king's personal guard team of 25 people.

Zhang Qiang said to the captain of the Huaxia No. 310 beside him: "Convey the order, the fleet will be under my direct command, and speed up to the Fifth Fleet."

Zhang Qiang was very angry. After being angry, he thought that there was still a problem with the flow of the army generals, and although the navy had eliminated a group of old pirates and let them go home to recuperate and enjoy their lives, most of the sailors and generals of the navy were still soldiers. Jian Guo and the young sailors and coastal fishermen captured from the Zheng family navy and the Taixi navy. For this reason, two rounds of selection of soldiers from the north to enter the navy were conducted before, and a group of land soldiers were forcibly trained to go to sea. Be a sailor, but northerners can't bear the hardships at sea, so those soldiers are basically eliminated, and there are not many talents who can stay in the navy. There are not many low-level soldiers, and even fewer officers. The less one hand can count.

Half of the military cadets arranged in the second batch were eliminated or turned into civil servants on land. In fact, most of them were from the southern Zhejiang and Fujian prefectures, and some were from Guangdong and Guangxi prefectures. There are still very few states in the first two states. This is something that the Huaxia Navy has no solution for.

At present, the only way to ease the southerners' control over the navy is to increase the number of cadets and Marine Corps personnel who turn into sailors, promote from sailors to relevant naval officers, and then occupy positions in the navy.

In fact, the main reason is that Liu Taiyun is still a group of naval generals from Lu Jianguo who were left behind by Zhang Ying and the others. My brother has become more loyal. Maybe he knows that the Zheng family is now in an alliance with the Huaxia Army, or it is not an alliance but has a very good relationship. He is familiar with and used to doing business, so he dared to dispatch the Fifth Fleet to help the Zheng family, without needing to greet Zhang Qiang and the Navy Director of the Ministry of National Defense in advance, or to ask for instructions, he regarded the fleet as his, his Capitalized.

This is undesirable.

The captain came over with his ear and whispered: "The ship that went to investigate the direction of Manila in the southeast direction has returned."

Zhang Qiang was very angry, "Let them come to see me, why didn't they come back for so long? Why didn't they send someone to report after leaving the fleet so far?"

Chapter 8: Zheng Zhi rebelled?

A captain of a hundred households jumped onto Zhang Qiang's ship, saluted, and said to Zhang Qiang: "Report Your Majesty, we found an unknown ship following the fleet, so we went to pursue it. The speed of the unknown ship was very fast, basically surpassing us. The speed of one knot always hangs us far away, because the distance is too far, we can't go back to report, we have been chasing to the vicinity of Manila, and found the Spanish fleet, about [-] ships, they are heading towards Palawan Island go ahead,

We were afraid of being defeated, so we retreated quickly. They sent three [-]-ton warships to pursue us. We fought a few small battles with them and repelled the enemy. When one of our warships came, we turned back to drive them back, when we found we were nearly thirty miles from the Spanish fleet, and had to retreat again.

Later, the following Spanish warship disappeared, and when we met and prepared to return with the third warship that came, because we wanted to chase the fleet, we passed through the island group between Manila and Palawan Island, and then We found about [-] Hong family warships behind the island group, and when they saw us, they immediately chased us like an enemy and prepared to sink us.

Just as we were escaping, we saw Zheng's fleet joining them. No war broke out between the two sides. We were very surprised, but there was nothing we could do, because the enemy had already caught up, and we left a warship entangled. Following them, the remaining two ships rushed back to report the news. On the way, we saw about ten warships flying the flag of the Zheng family and the Duge rebels, as well as the British and Portuguese fleets. The two sides seemed to be very friendly. .

In the middle, there were several warships of our Huaxia Navy with the flags of the Zheng family or the Duge rebels flying, and we left another warship to be entangled. In the end, only one of our warships that went out first came back to report. The fate of the other warships is uncertain. "

The situation looks pretty serious.

Zhang Qiang tried his best to analyze his opponents. The Fifth Fleet and Fourth Fleet Squadrons seemed to have suffered disastrous defeats, but they didn't know who their opponents were?

According to the report of the captain who came back from the investigation, the fleet of the first prince and the second prince joined together, and the force reached [-] warships.

Zheng Zhi also received assistance before, and bought 700 warships and 260 merchant ships with 50 million Huaxia coins. Koh Kong Island suffered a disastrous defeat, [-] warships lost [-] ships, and the previous battle with the Dutch fifty Three warships sank and a dozen were injured, so the Zheng family still has at least [-] warships. Even if half of the [-] merchant ships went back, or half went to other places, there would be more than [-] to one hundred and twenty-three Ten ships, which means that the Zheng family has at least [-] warships that can participate in the battle.

Du Ge's fleet has from 210 to [-] ships, which is equivalent to more than one fleet of the Huaxia Army Navy in its heyday. At least there are more battleships than one fleet. It is as strong as the two Chinese navy fleets.

There is also the Spanish Navy whose enemy is unknown, and there are nearly [-] warships, and the warships are still very powerful.

The Chinese navy seems to be at an absolute disadvantage in the South China Sea.

"Turn around, go to Qiongdao, send the remaining eleven [-]-ton warships to the Fourth Fleet, and the Fifth Fleet to send orders to gather most of the warships in the fleet to Qiongdao, and send people to the Third Fleet Baodao Prefecture mobilizes part of the fleet to come to Qiongdao, but not all of them, and then mobilizes most of the navy fleet of the Third Fleet stationed in the trench gate to gather in Qiongdao, and let them carry supplies and ammunition supplies for about [-] warships , install a Marine Corps brigade to Qiongdao, give orders to the First Fleet and Second Fleet to guard against death, and the Second Fleet will send people to patrol the waters of the Third Fleet, and if feasible, let them fill up the supplies of [-] warships Come to Qiongdao to assemble with ammunition and half the soldiers of the Marine Brigade."

"Oh, by the way, let all the new warships that have already launched into the sea form a fleet to form a fleet with the fleet sent by the Second Fleet, and they will arrive at Qiongdao within half a month."

After giving the order, Zhang Qiang felt his head explode. Is this a big conspiracy?Is it aimed at the Huaxia Kingdom?

What did the Huaxia Kingdom gain from the trade with the Zheng family?

Hundreds of thousands of Han Chinese who did not want to be naturalized were sent to the Zheng family's Australia, and then the Zheng family suddenly turned around and rebelled against themselves after acquiring nearly [-] naval warships, warships, and merchant ships in the Huaxia Kingdom. Are Han people really so ambitious, are they all white-eyed wolves?

Now he wants to divide the first prince and the second prince, but he can't find anyone, because he is drifting on the sea, and he is also at sea, and those people he defeated are those who are absolutely loyal to the first prince and the second prince. They left, and now even if the boss and the second child are harboring ulterior motives and want to plot against each other, it is definitely impossible to plot against each other now, because they will form an alliance to attack themselves for the time being, with the purpose of weakening the maritime power of the Huaxia Kingdom.

Three hundred, four hundred, nearly five hundred warships and battleships, where there are nearly two hundred in Duge, I don't know if the Spaniards will form an alliance with them, if they do, the total strength of the other party will reach There are more than a thousand terrifying ships, and there are almost [-] warships of the [-]-ton class, and there are two to three hundred warships of [-] to [-] tons, and the rest are [-]-ton warships. Ships and some merchant ships, armed merchant ships, which are absolute combat ships.

How many ships can I concentrate on this aspect now?

If there is no problem with the Fourth Fleet, except for the 320 ships of the squadron, which is basically miserable, then the Fourth Fleet still has 120 ships. Throwing away some old and weak ships that need to defend the coast, then there are 140 ships. Since the total strength of the fleet is 140 ships, there must be a few ships left behind in Qiongdao, so [-] ships is not bad.

This is the ship that can come over in the last three days. If he obeys the order, there are not many fleets left behind on Baodao, and forty ships can come. The fastest time is seven days.

The concentration of troops in the trench gate can also rush to twenty ships, because there must be certain ships and squadron patrol ships called for patrols, so there must not be many, but after ten days, almost as many as 300 ships can be concentrated Ships, plus the forty ships of Treasure Island, then the Huaxia Navy will have warships, about 480 warships, warships, of which there are at least [-] warships.

Generally speaking, with the combat effectiveness of the Huaxia Navy, this combat effectiveness is almost enough.

When Zhang Qiang was thinking about how to gather enough naval forces, he was still praying in his heart that no accidents would happen to the new naval warships. He hoped that Kodak would resist Liu Tae-woon's order and stay in Saigon in the name of staying behind. His new fleet would not have been ambushed and wiped out by the enemy.

He only has sixteen warships in his hand now, six thousand-ton warships, almost all of which are 310-ton warships, eight eight-hundred-ton warships, one six-hundred-ton warship, and one new-type warship Huaxia No. [-] ship.

He looked up at the sky, and the captain reported to him: "It will be dark in one hour, the wind has reached level five, the waves are a bit high, and our top speed can reach seven knots. These are newly built The speed of the warships and warships can be guaranteed, should we let the [-]-ton warship that stayed behind go out to investigate, so as to prevent the enemy from intercepting us in front?"

Chapter 8 Discovery of the captured ships of the Fifth Fleet

Zhang Qiang shook his head, "No need, although the tonnage of that ship is [-] tons smaller, it can't run very fast, let him follow the fleet, and throw it out and become food for others."

The captain had no choice but to listen to Zhang Qiang, who made Zhang Qiang His Majesty the King.

Fifteen [-]-ton warships were following me, two of them were missing, I don’t know if they were destroyed or captured by the enemy, three of them followed Perrin to the Fifth Fleet station, and ten of them scattered to send messages in all directions , only this one returned in a hurry, and now the fleet is full of warships, only one like him is a warship, a small-tonnage ship is the starting point, this is the tradition of the Chinese Navy, so even if it is not a scout ship, patrol ship, or traffic ship, he It must also be able to line up the strength of the battle line to do the work of the three types of ships. Who makes it the smallest tonnage now?

"Dang dang stall, stall,"

The watchman on an 310-ton battleship in the distance suddenly rang the warning bell, and the bell passed from ship to ship, and finally reached the Huaxia [-] ship, and the watchman on it also rang bells, and quickly decipher the signal flag signals from other ships.

"A fleet was spotted in the rear, and the Hong character flag was hoisted. It was preliminarily determined to be the flag of the second prince's son, the little prince,"

After a 1-minute pause, the watchman interpreted the signal again, "They have about 58 ships, 42 armed merchant ships, ranging in tonnage from 12 tons to 680 tons, all of which were rebuilt from old ships we sold to them. There are also 13 warships, which are our [-]-year-old naval warships, ranging from [-] tons to [-] tons... There are also [-] thousand-ton warships, seven of which are [-]-year-old warships, and eight of them are Seven-year battleships, my God, those battleships are the battleships of our Fifth Fleet, there is a signal from the rear, ready to fight, the enemy may be the group of people who attacked our Fifth Fleet."

The seven-year warship is a warship that the Huaxia Army Navy has never sold. No one has been able to imitate it so far, and Du Ge and the others can only imitate the [-]-ton warship or the [-]-ton warship of the Huaxia Army Navy. They are some old models. Every batch and year of warships of the Huaxia Army Navy has a huge difference in appearance, so even in the distance, familiar sailors can quickly recognize them.

It was already five years ago that Du Ge rebelled, and he had no access to the navy at that time, so he could only know some of the techniques of the navy from the old experience of rebuilding the old Ming Dynasty ship or imitating the Galen sailboat in those years. .

The recent seven-year warships are step by step away from Daming Fuchuan, Daming Guangchuan, and ship types that combine the characteristics of some other Chinese warships, and transform them into warships that combine Karak ships and Daming ships, and completely get rid of Daming ship types. Combining the ship types of Carrack ships, Portuguese warships, and Spanish Galen ships, combining the ship types of Karak ships, Caravel ships, galleys, and Spanish Galen ships, transforming Spanish Galen ships, combining the sails of Daming and the West The warship with the characteristics of the sail, the tonnage increased from [-] tons to [-] tons, to the ship type of [-] tons, the combination of the Spanish Galen ship and the British Galen ship, the combination of the British Galen ship and the new large warship , a more advanced ship type than the British Galen ship, and the current development process of the old-style galleon is like this.

The seven-year ship type has developed into the era of the combination of the Spanish Galen ship and the British Galen ship.

Each ship type change is based on a year, and has its unique characteristics every year.

The ships sold have never been more than ten-year-old ships. The recent sale to the Zheng family broke this rule, but they have not sold seven-year-old ships. Eight-year-old ships are considered their best, which means that they can get the latest The best ship type is Zheng Zhi, and the ship type that the third prince bought this time, but they are all ship types that are more than seven years old, from seven years to the last year, and the ship types that have never been sold until the appearance of new warships .

Zhang Qiang didn't know how the ships of the Fifth Fleet were captured. Judging from the current situation, the enemy had seized the initiative, and they actually intercepted their own fleet here, indicating that the enemy was looking for them specifically.

"Fight against the enemy and line up in battle formation. Gather the enemy at 600 meters and fire, and wait until they reach nearly 420 meters to shoot a volley." Zhang Qiang shouted.