Lord of Ming Dynasty

The Huaxia Army's fleet brought armed merchant ships to charge towards the enemy's left flank.

Even the iron-clad warships of the Huaxia Army were battered and staggered by the bombs that filled the sky. More than a dozen enemy warships came up to meet them, followed by a large warship of about [-] tons.

An hour and a half later, with the loss of three frigates and the rest of the ships being wounded, the fleet broke through the encirclement, and more than 100 armed merchant ships that followed one after another broke through the encirclement and fled with the fleet.

The enemy dispatched armed merchant ships and warships to pursue them, and there were more than a dozen warships on the left flank. Nearly two hundred ships were chasing two hundred ships. The rest were lucky enough to break through from the right flank, some were captured, and some were turned back to the port. , more were sunk by Dutch and Spanish warships. For two hours, apart from the burning shipwreck on the sea outside the port of Palawan Island, it was the sky full of gunpowder smoke, which gradually dissipated, and the wounded Spanish retreated slowly. Armed merchant ships, warships of the Dutch and Dutch.

In this battle, the armed merchant ships and warships of the Spaniards and Dutch who were still outside the port were almost completely lost. There were less than [-] ships left, each of which was wounded, so they had to go back to Wright Island for repairs.

The remaining Dutch and British outside the port, the Spanish warships and warships slowly approached the port on the periphery.

This time they already understood that a sneak attack was impossible, they had to attack by force.

The Spaniards and the Dutch used the battleships from the West as soon as they came up, the third-level battleships and the second-level battleships. Although there are not many in number, they have strong firepower. The total number reached ninety.

They approached three nautical miles from the port, then anchored, and together adjusted the muzzle, aiming at the fort on Palawan Island.

Chapter 955 Fire Feast

The firepower of the Thai-Western coalition almost blew up the fort like a boat in the sea, swaying left and right. The fort made of iron reinforced concrete is obviously much stronger than the fort made of sticky glutinous rice.

Hiding inside, the latest cannons of the Huaxia Army with nearly ten-meter-long barrels have three forts, and a group of forts has fifteen forts. They use crossfire to block access to the port and at the same time deal with threats on the sea.

The long barrel, improved round-headed shells, and open-ended shells can shoot at least eight nautical miles away. Even the innermost port fort of the fort can bombard the enemy warships moored outside the three-nautical-mile port.

When the enemy's firepower began to rage, this side began to counterattack.

The warships that the Dutch and the Spaniards approached for shelling at the same time were shot one after another, the masts were interrupted one by one, the decks were cleaned, sawdust was flying, and there were heavy casualties. The warships anchored in the far deep water area had to retreat. The enemy did not destroy a single gun. They lost 200 warships, severely damaged [-] ships, and slightly injured [-] ships.

Of the battleships three nautical miles away, fifteen third-tier battleships were sunk, and two second-tier battleships capsized. They had to be towed by other battleships to escape from the enemy's fire area and dragged to Wright Island for repairs.

The fierce artillery fire made even the British iron-clad ship unable to withstand it. A shell hit it, but it did not hit the deck of the ship, but hit the hull on one side. The hull was already covered with a finger-thick iron plate, but the shell Still relying on the kinetic energy of the long barrel, it easily tore the iron plate and exploded behind it. The impact of the explosion cracked the thick oak planks of the city wall. Although it did not reach below the waterline, the terrifying explosion shock wave, It still caused all the ballast in the bottom tank and the sailors in the bottom tank to be swept away. Most of them were stunned with bleeding ears and noses, crooked mouths and eyes, and were in a daze.

The huge explosion force pushed the entire ship nearly ten meters back, and the deck on the other side was pressed into the water. After the kinetic energy of the explosion was released, at least dozens of people were thrown off the entire ship, and there were many people on the deck. Several tons of seawater, all debris, and corpses were swept into the sea. The sailors and lookouts lying on the mast of the ship either fell to the deck and died, and then were thrown off the deck by the impact and transferred into the sea, or directly The huge waves raised by the shells that were transferred into the sea were pressed into the bottom of the sea. In short, the ship lost most of its combat effectiveness and the sailors who operated it.

It took nearly 5 minutes for the entire ship to recover. The British officers shouted to treat the wounded, rescue the drowning crew, and continue to operate the cannon.

Before they could continue shooting, another shell hit the mainmast. After a click, the mainmast was lifted up by the blast and fell into the sea. The whole ship was dragged out of the formation by the mainmast, heading towards Float away a few hundred meters.

Seeing that the ship lost its power and combat effectiveness, a warship in the rear drove over at the risk of being hit by shells, threw out hundreds of hooks, tied it up, and dragged it away from the battlefield.

The British Governor's flagship was also hit by at least two shells and was forced to evacuate. As soon as he left, other British warships evacuated, as did the Dutch and Spaniards. In less than an hour, they were out of the attack range of the shore artillery. , and returned to the anchorage ten nautical miles away.

At this time, several people sat together again with a dejected look. 150 warships and armed merchant ships were damaged, 45 warships were sunk, [-] were seriously injured, and the remaining battleships were only a dozen. Well, the strength of the Huaxia Army is terrifying. The small island of Palawan has nearly a hundred shore artillery, and the shore artillery is very powerful.

Even if they bombarded with nearly five or six thousand artillery pieces, they only destroyed the port and four or five enemy fort groups. Although the others were damaged, they did not suffer much. The army's shore artillery resisted.

At this time, the pursuing fleet came back, and almost all 120 armed merchant ships and warships were destroyed, only more than 30 escaped back. They encountered the enemy fleet [-] nautical miles away.

For this reason, everyone is worried. After a day of attack, they lost 230 armed merchant ships and warships, and more than 300% of the main battleships. Now they have more than [-] warships and warships left, including armed merchant ships. There are less than thirty merchant ships.

Moreover, these thirty armed merchant ships were still wounded, so they had to drag the wounded warships and warships back to Wright Island. Now they are still able to fight with minor injuries, and there are only 180 ships left that have not been engaged in battle. .

It seems that the strength is still strong. Facing the small Palawan Island with no ships, they can still fight around it. However, they failed in their sneak attack and could not take down the Huaxia navy. The news spread back that the Huaxia navy might come in full force. Then their strength in this generation has become a disadvantage.

They didn't know that a frigate sailing at a speed of 36 knots per hour had already sent the news to the Third Fleet base in Saigon. At the same time, they sent liaison ships to the Qiongdao base of the Fourth Fleet, and now they have arrived at Qiongdao. The Fourth Fleet of Qiongdao has sent all 36 warships and twelve frigates towards Palawan Island. But the news is still on the road. One day later, the twelve frigates of the Fourth Fleet in the trench gate will set off. Two days later, the twelve frigates and five warships of Treasure Island will also set off. Three days later, the second fleet The 48 warships and [-] frigates will also set off.

They've hit a hornet's nest now.

A week later, the Royal Fleet of Jinling Mansion will go south, with twelve warships with a tonnage of 580 tons, twelve frigates with a tonnage of 380 tons, and eight frigates with a tonnage of [-] tons will join their encirclement and suppression.

The First Fleet will send their fleet out to patrol the waters of the three fleets, replacing the patrol ships of the three fleets.

At least 380 of the 260 warships and frigates of the Huaxia Army will attack them.

"We have to retreat, the firepower of the Huaxia Army is so powerful, we will not be able to shake them," Gerald Pick showed timidity.

"No, if we retreat, the Huaxia Army will take back Cebu Island, Wright Island, and your Luzon Island. We must defeat them at sea." The Dutch Governor said.

"I also think that since this is the case, then we will fight to the death with the Chinese army at sea." The British Governor also said.

"Yeah, we can't retreat. Otherwise, which powerful monarch will never endure our sneak attack. They will land in India, sweep up the Indian colonies, and send troops to occupy Malacca. If we want to come to the Far East for trade in the future, it depends on who The king's meaning."

Governor of the Netherlands Eck said.

The Spanish governor said: "You can say whatever you want, it's your business, we have lost all combat power, the infantry, our expeditionary force is almost completely wiped out, there are still 570 people, plus the indigenous soldiers, only 2000 people, warships, This time, the battle from Europe was completely wiped out, and there were less than [-] wounded warships left. If the fifteen third-level battleships and one second-level battleship on Wright Island can be repaired, we may still be able to survive. It's okay to fight, but honestly, folks, I think I'll have to go back."

After speaking, the Spanish Governor Gerald Pique left the Dutch Governor's Goddess and returned to his new flagship Madrid.

Before dark, he set off for Wright Island with his thirty battered warships.

Anyway, they can't help if they stay there, and they can't provide fire support in the next battle, and they can't fight.

The main force remaining is the Dutch, but the British are the most powerful. Although they don't have many warships, they are all ironclad ships and huge sailing battleships, and there are still as many as 56 ships.

Chapter 956 You Sing and We Come On Stage

The Spaniards are gone. The Dutch and the British are already close. Without the Spaniards' involvement, they can act better. If they didn't take a fancy to the Spaniards' naval strength and colonies, they wouldn't fight with the Spaniards. Together, Britain and the Netherlands fought the Hundred Years' War in the West, but they cooperated well in the Far East, because the colonial governors' houses of the two countries are not far away.

The governor of the Netherlands stared at the chart and said to the British governor: "Your Excellency, we can't go to the island now. Why don't we change direction and attack their patrol boats and islands in Indonesia and other places? I heard that their fleet is hidden in the Indonesian archipelago. With our current strength, we may not be able to fight against the enemy's powerful shore artillery, but we still have a chance of winning against their navy. Hong Tianpao Ryukyu Kingdom and they use the original warships of the Huaxia Army, which is unbearable in front of our fleet hit."

The British Governor shook his head, "Otherwise, do you think their shore artillery is powerful, but their naval artillery is not powerful? I heard that they have replaced the new warships, and the new warships are not the warships that fought against us five years ago." , but after two or three generations of improved warships, five years ago they were able to beat us and fled in embarrassment. Do you think they have made no progress after five years? Now we don't know where they are and why they are different We fight, but if they come, it will be hard for us."

Ike, the governor of the Netherlands, also became worried. After all, this is the East. The Huaxia Kingdom has been powerful and stable for decades. They have a steady stream of financial, manpower and material resources. The biggest weakness of these colonists is that they do not have enough population and material resources. , They are just duckweed floating on the water, although the Chinese Empire can't kill them all, it may drive them all out.

They don't know why the Huaxia Empire is still patient until now, but they know that it will definitely not be like this. Ike is a businessman who has been traveling in the Far East for decades. Fighting against the Huaxia Army, knowing which emperor is not a good stubble, a person who is good at forbearance, revenge will be revenged, and is quite cruel.

Look at the population of more than [-] million in Southeast Asia and Japan, and look at the tens of millions of Han people in the Qing Dynasty. Those who died under the guns of the enemy, which emperor had a good appetite, killed more than [-] million people in this way.It is more cruel and terrible than their western colonists.

Today, the Japanese population in the Far East is less than 2000 million, the population in Southeast Asia is less than [-] million, and the population of Nanyang Han and Nanyang aborigines is only tens of millions. But in fact, many of these populations have been made into cannon fodder and fertile land. There are [-] to [-] colonists from these countries.

While they were discussing, a small Dutchman walked in and whispered to Dutch Governor Ike: "The Mahan Field Army Corps of the Chinese Army has already started attacking from the Malay Peninsula, and the target may be their colony in the Straits of Malacca."

The British also reported that the Fengwuyu Corps had turned from the northwest to Afghanistan and attacked Afghanistan. The next destination was their India. The Huaxia Army mobilized another 500 million immigrants to follow the army from Yunnan to Afghanistan.

The Yarkand Khanate has been wiped out by the Huze Cavalry Corps.

Because the Yarkand Khanate is a pagan and a foreign race, so the entire Yarkand Khanate, as long as they are not black-haired, black-eyed, not Han Chinese or descendants of Han Chinese, all people will be arrested, and those who are guilty will be executed. They were escorted back to the Chinese Empire and put into the prisoner camp built by the garrison brigade. Unexpectedly, millions of people were cast in this camp, and all the aliens from the West and the Middle East were wiped out.

All those who believed in Buddhism in China were released, and those who believed in other religions, no matter what religion, Zhang Qiang knew how troublesome these people would be in later generations, so they were all executed, buried on the Gobi beach and grassland, and then immigrated to the mainland. Where some of the population of the Japanese island went, the tribes that the Mongols surrendered were also immigrated there and began to build towns.

All those who did not believe in religion were thrown into the prison camp, and all those who believed in Tibetan Buddhism, which also belonged to the offensive sect, were put into the ranks of mortal death. They were differentiated in the prison camp, and they were tortured to death slowly like the criminals in the former hard labor camp.

Zhang Qiang can tolerate the kind of inland Buddhism that turns the Chinese into lambs, but he does not allow the mutated foreign Buddhism to take root in the place he ruled. As for the various sects in the Huaxia Kingdom, if you want you not to attack the Huaxia Empire, you can develop as you please.

Now the British, the Dutch, and the Spaniards allow them to do business, but they have force, which Zhang Qiang does not allow. Therefore, for the safety of future generations, Zhang Qiang ordered the expeditionary corps to attack the British territory.

At the same time, step up the deployment of troops to block the last retreat of the British, Dutch, and Spaniards, the Strait of Malacca.