Lord of Ming Dynasty

Because his main battleships are as many as 61, which is more than the largest Third Fleet. This is more of the battleships brought by Kodak from the Fifth Fleet Squadron and the Royal Fleet, and there are as many as [-] frigates. It can be said that he is the main fleet. No one would believe it. Compared with the Fourth Fleet, which is in the rear and can only patrol the coastline and support missions, the Third Fleet Squadron seems to be the main combat force.

Even the Saigon Base of the Third Fleet in the rear only has 1 warships and [-] frigates, mainly patrolling the Gulf of Siam and Treasure Island waters, while the Third Fleet Squadron patrols as many as [-] nautical miles. A circle of more than [-] nautical miles covers Indonesia, Australia, Luzon, Malacca and other places. The smallest circle patrols around Palawan Island to the main island of Indonesia, and there are nearly a thousand nautical miles near Mindanao.

It has been half a month since the order was delivered. From Yanjing to Indonesia to Palawan Island, there are tens of thousands of nautical miles. The pigeons and the fast horses are [-] miles away, and they arrive at the Fourth Fleet of the Momen. The fleet station was sent to Qiongdao Station of the Fourth Fleet, and then a clipper was sent to Palawan Island. After Kodak received the news, the atmosphere was already very tense.

After three months of going back and forth, Hong Tianpao's huge fleet was besieged by the Dutch and the Spaniards, and suffered heavy casualties. Only more than 50 ships fled back to the Ryukyu Islands. Wang Dao ran back to the Ryukyu Kingdom.

Eight hundred ships, such a huge fleet, were wiped out by the Thai-Western coalition forces, and lost 100 million Han people and Southeast Asian indigenous naturalized people, as well as the rest of the Han people who ran back after hiding on Manila Island and re-landed. Spaniards killed.

On Luzon Island, there was a bloodbath.

On Cebu Island, although the British attacked fiercely, the [-] Nanyang soldiers who resisted still made it difficult for the British. The British are different from the Dutch and the Spaniards. They slaughtered the colonial people. They have more brains than the other two countries. It was just managed, and a lot of people settled down and lived under British rule.

Under the leadership of Zheng Zhi's confidant Feng Xin, the troops of the Nanyang Kingdom who withdrew from Cebu City moved to the island forest and continued to resist.

In fact, the coalition forces also suffered heavy losses this time. Let’s talk about armed merchant ships first. These ships, which seem to have low combat effectiveness, are extremely powerful, even higher than warships and sailing battleships. What are these people doing here?

Except for the British who want to seize a little more colonies, the others are just wanting to trade and make money. Since the armed merchant ships have been fighting for four months, they have lost two thousand merchant ships and armed merchant ships. It is equivalent to smashing all their money-making tools. This is the three-year merchant ship reserves of the Dutch and British East India Companies. As a result, they are now all pieces of wood floating on the sea.

The Spaniards suffered the heaviest losses. Five or six hundred ships were sunk in the port of Manila by Zheng Zhi.

Zheng Zhi and the others also had so many merchant ships and armed merchant ships that were bombarded and sunk in the port, making it impossible for the Spaniards to compensate themselves by capturing them.

British Governor Thomas Blackburn patted the table and said: "We should end this damn war. For months, we haven't earned a penny. Instead, we have lost 100 million pounds. No, it is 1000 million pounds. Merchant ships, warships , and the lives of nearly [-] British soldiers and [-] Indochinese colonial soldiers, we should negotiate with the Kingdom of China, we just need to do business with them."

Chapter 953 Tiger Tiger Tiger——Sneak Attack on the Port of Palawan Island

Spanish Governor Gerard Pique stood up, "No, never, these damn Chinese monkeys must be killed, they don't want to do business with us at all, look what they have done to my Luzon Island, there is no place Well, we need to get back more now, believe me, as long as we completely defeat them, we can get more benefits, we can get a hundred times, a thousand times more benefits than what we lost."

The Dutch are actually the loudest inside, and the losses are the least. They initiated the alliance. They have nothing to lose. There is the long and narrow peninsula in the Malay Peninsula, which the Chinese army has no intention of attacking now, and the city of Malacca. This time they successfully obtained Cebu Island. Although Cebu Island was captured by the British, according to the agreement, Cebu Island belonged to the Dutch, and the British got Wright Island.

The Spaniards took back Mindanao, Luzon, and Manila.

These islands were originally part of the collective name of Luzon Island. The Spaniards originally had complete control over these islands and the right to collect taxes. Now they have won the war against the Nanyang Kingdom and also won the fleet of Zheng Keshuang and Hong Tianpao who came to support them. , gaining a population of nearly 100 million in vain, but they still lost a large colony. Therefore, they are not reconciled and want to continue the war. The main force now is the Dutch and the British, and the strongest is the British .

The Spaniards will not do trade with peace of mind, their colonial nature is out, and the Dutch do business, but their colonies here are almost lost, so they don't have much effort to do trade, when they can't do trade , they, like the Spaniards, were the quickest to plunder.

Although the loss was not small this time, they also gained a lot. They killed so many Han Chinese and merchants in the Nanyang Kingdom. The property that originally belonged to the merchants who belonged to the Spaniards alone and the property that Zheng Zhi collected over the years are enough. It is enough to compensate for their loss, so their purpose is the same as that of the Spaniards, to expand the colony and plunder more wealth from the colonial Han people. This is what they want to do now. As for the truce, when they plunder enough, they will get more Let's talk about the colonies.

The British have a great career, not only in the West, but also in other places. Although the largest colony in the Far East shared the place of India with the Portuguese, the Dutch, and the French, recently the Dutch wanted to get their support. , where the colonies have been transferred to them. After the French were beaten once, they also transferred the colonies to them. They want to digest these colonies and need to trade with the Huaxia Kingdom. That is the biggest market.

Therefore, all parties have their own ideas. Of course, the British also want to have colonies, but the British know that their strength in the Far East cannot shake the behemoth of the Chinese Empire, especially after several naval and land battles between them and the Chinese Kingdom. The governor wanted to ease the relationship with Huaxia so that he could start trading and make money. If the fight continued like this, they would lose even more.

The British are good at coercion, deceit and deception, especially deceitful abduction. With these, they almost took the whole world into their pockets in the 10th century. A small island country turned into an empire on which the sun never sets. It can be seen that they defrauded and abducted How deep is his knowledge? Later generations of China’s Chiang Kai-shek were buried in Burma by a [-]-strong army fooled by the British. How many elite soldiers who could be used to fight the Japanese were buried in Burma for their tens of thousands of soldiers and tens of thousands of expatriates to retreat from Burma? Bullets, in France, they pitted tens of thousands of people in France, and forced France to surrender to Germany.

In Africa, other soldiers of the Allied Forces fled thousands of miles away. In Australia, tens of thousands of people in the United States were cheated. MacArthur couldn't help but sigh that if the British were to fight, unless God came down to earth, Singapore faced a mere 10 Japanese troops. , Still naked, the kind of Japanese soldiers who were hungry and about to be blown away from the mountains of Malaysia, 10,000+ people put down their weapons and surrendered, cheating 80.00% of the Han people in Singapore and people from other countries.

In the entire World War II, apart from the pig teammate in Italy who actually didn't want to fight at all, I am afraid that the most pitiful teammates belonged to the British troops.

If you can’t fight, don’t fight. If you can be a gentleman, it’s better to be a gentleman. But to be honest, the British navy in this era is still very powerful. The Anglo-Dutch war has brought down the Spaniards and the French for a hundred years. , brought down the Dutch, beat the Dutch, the sea coachman, into a sea coward, and beat the proud Portuguese into a co-lord and subject of the Spaniards.

So the British actually choose how to deceive others, and generally do not use force, unless they feel that there is no way to coerce and lure them. Murderers, the troops formed by these people, especially the combination of the British on ships at sea, these people also created a monster, the Americans.

But now these people are still pitting the Indians in the Americas. When the next century begins, they will become the United States independently, and then start to be more brutal than Zhang Qiang, killing all the Indians in the entire Americas.

But this is not what I want to talk about today. What I want to talk about today is that the British don't want to fight anymore, they want to change it.

However, the Spaniards and the Dutch disagreed, and the rescued Swedes, French, Italians, and Poles who escaped did not agree either. gain benefits.

Faced with the resistance of the crowd, the British had no choice but to fight with them.

But how to fight?

Now that they have defeated Hong Tianpao's reinforcements from the Ryukyu Kingdom and destroyed the Nanyang Kingdom, it can be said that they have won the first stage, and in the second stage they have attacked the weak Xinlu Kingdom and Australia as agreed.

The Dutch are the most supportive of taking action against Australia, because they have established several small colonies on the west and south coasts of Australia. Although the expedition is a bit troublesome, they still covet it. There is unbearable greed for not fully grasping how big the land is, but facing the Huaxia Kingdom, which occupies Indonesia, their original colony, at their doorstep, they are still gnawing at their throats, not getting rid of their displeasure.

The Spaniards also coveted Mindanao, Sumatra and other places, and wanted to get a share from the Dutch colonies. The British saw that everyone coveted the original Dutch colonies. The Dutch knew that they could not win China with their own strength. The army also had to promise them that if the matter is resolved, each family will have a share.

Ike, the governor of the Netherlands, looked at the crowd, "The navy of the Huaxia Army is very powerful. I heard that they have replaced a new type of warship, which defeated us last time, and the fleet of the Huaxia Army defending the Indonesian Islands is the most outstanding. Therefore, We have to think of a good way. After our scrutiny, as long as we can block them in the port, with the firepower of our sail battleship, the enemy will lose their mobility, then we can pay a certain price to take down the enemy and wipe out this group. Enemy, therefore, we plan to dispatch the whole army five days later, approaching the enemy's port of Palawan Island in the evening, and besieging the enemy in the harbor."

The French fleet commander said: "We don't know the water depth and terrain of the harbor."

Spanish Governor-General Gerald Pique said: "This Dutchman knows that it was their colony and the seat of the Governor's Palace, haha."

Dutch Governor Ike blushed, and the Spaniards laughed at them for losing Palawan.

Chapter 954 A Sneak Attack Becomes a Strong Attack

The bright moon is in the sky, the waves are calm, the sea breeze is blowing, and the phantom of the island in the distance is whirling and blurring. As the waves swayed, a [-]-ton armed merchant ship comparable to a mountain approached in the smelly sea breeze. Before the people on the fishing boat who suddenly woke up could react, they slammed into it.

The small fishing boat, no more than ten tons, disintegrated in an instant, and then was crushed under the huge hull of the armed merchant ship. The fishermen on the fishing boat did not even have a chance to shout, and were swept away by the waves.

Fifty nautical miles, they are still at least three hours away from Palawan Island.

Dozens of armed merchant ships Yang Fan quickly rushed towards Palawan Island.

Along the road, they kept bumping into the guard posts of fishing boats scattered all over the place. Nearly 180 nautical miles away, they encountered a [-]-ton warship and a [-]-ton patrol boat of the Huaxia Army Coast Guard on patrol. It is behind, but fishing and guarding the coast still depend on them, so a large part of these ships have not been sold and are still serving in various fleets, but the big ships have been sold.

Facing such an opponent, the armed merchant ships and fast boats that attacked could only dodge. Fortunately, the sea was still dark. They escaped most of the patrol boats, and those who did not escaped also disguised themselves, approached and waited for the enemy to check, and then suddenly came from Many sailors jumped out of the cabin, rushed to the enemy's ship, and used cold weapons to solve the battle. Facing the enemy's surprise attack, even if the technology of later generations developed, they still got caught. This era of history is over.

As a result, the navy of the Huaxia Army was defenseless. When the enemy's fleet approached ten nautical miles from the coastline at dawn, they were discovered by the lookout post on the island. It will only ring when a large number of enemies are attacking. As soon as the big bell rings, all the ministries on the island rush out of the barracks one after another, preparing to fight the enemy.

A few fast boats rushed out of the harbor to investigate the enemy's situation. In fact, there was no need to investigate. The bright moon was in the sky, and the next day must be a good weather. On the sea, it is different from land. Looking far away, you can see at least three The shadow of the mast and sail rising from the sea level ten nautical miles away, let alone the enemy's large army has come to ten nautical miles away.

In front were the Dutch armed merchant ships and warships, followed by the Spanish fleet, and the British fleet was still lingering twenty miles away.

The preliminary statistics on the sea are about 100 ships, [-] super-large ships, nearly [-] large ships, [-] medium-sized ships, and more than [-] small ships.

After several battles with the Zheng family and the Hong family, the three families no longer have many armed merchant ships and small-tonnage warships, so there are actually not many armed merchant ships and warships coming this time, and medium-tonnage warships There were no more than seventy or eighty ships, and all of them were warships and battleships over [-] tons, as well as sailing battleships.

In fact, Palawan Island is no longer here with the Third Fleet Squadron. At dusk yesterday, the main force of the Third Fleet Squadron had left the port and hid in the Indonesian archipelago. I really thought it was dark where you were fighting. How can the navy remain indifferent at such a close distance?

Kodak looked at the various ships that appeared in the enemy intelligence sent by the Ministry of Military Intelligence in the telescope, and took a deep breath, "The enemy is out in force, fortunately, there are precautions, otherwise, even if the Third Fleet is all iron-clad ships, they will leave the port." It also takes two hours, which is enough time for the enemy to use fierce artillery to sink all the ships leaving the port in the channel."

At present, there are only three warships and thirty frigates guarding the port. When the bell rang, the crew on duty had already started to hoist the sails. For merchant ships fleeing from Manila, Mindanao, Cebu, and Wright Island, as well as merchant ships from Australia, Xinlu, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Ryukyu, the Kingdom of Huaxia, and Cambodia, use special waterways out of port.

At the same time, the merchant ships in the port began to be evacuated. Those who were capable began to break out of the encirclement, and those who were unable to go to the port covered by cliffs could somewhat avoid some artillery fire, and those who could not let go were evacuated to various places in the port. Together, let the enemy's shells hit them more easily. After evacuation, send people nervously to carry the cargo and all valuable things on the merchant ship to hide on the island.

The Huaxia Army is better than the Nanyang Kingdom and the Spaniards in dealing with the enemy's possible blockage of port exits and attacks on the port. Compared with them, the Huaxia Army, or the Huaxia Kingdom, has more foundation, system and people's hearts. Once the national strength is strong, They are doing better than ordinary small countries in all aspects. They each manage their own affairs, and everyone thinks about their own affairs.

About [-] armed merchant ships rushed out of the port. These were probably merchant ships from Manila, Australia, and the Xinlu Kingdom. They were so far from being equipped with a little firepower that they dared not run away. There were also the Nanyang Kingdom and the port of Manila. As well as the merchant ships coming from the ports of Koh Kong Island, these are also armed merchant ships. Regardless of the size of the merchant ships, no matter whether the artillery on them is advanced or weak, they are still capable of fighting.

As the merchant ships rushed out of the port, the armed merchant ships of the Dutch began to intercept them. Nearly [-] armed merchant ships fought on the surface of five or six nautical miles. The merchant ships here wanted to escape, and the merchant ships over there wanted to intercept them. Regardless of the assault by the frigates and warships of the Huaxia Army, the armed merchant ships followed the Huaxia Army's fleet and rushed to the sea outside the port in one breath.

With the cover of the warships and frigates of the Huaxia Army, the armed merchant ships and warships of the Dutch were unable to cope. The Dutch sent more warships over, and now there were nearly [-] ships fighting on the sea nearly ten nautical miles.

The warships and port firepower of both sides did not open fire, because this is not a level of battle. The originally wide sea is now crowded with more than 600 ships below.