Lord of Ming Dynasty

At dusk, the enemy sent four [-]-ton main warships, steam warships, and ten sailing warships ranging from [-] to [-] tons to approach Xinxianju Town, St. Lawrence Port, and the adjacent town port for bombardment.

This time the New Qin Empire used six 128mm cannons to fight back, damaging one of the enemy's [-]-ton sailing warships, destroying a [-]-ton sailing warship, and causing damage to four [-]-ton steaming warships at the same time. Some damage, but because the bullets are near misses, and the distance is relatively long, the enemy moves too fast, and the shells are sparse, so the hit rate is relatively low.

The enemy only lost a few sailors, a cannon, and some unbound supplies on the deck were washed to the surface of the sea by the big waves.

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The enemy was unable to get close to the five nautical miles outside the port, and was repelled at a distance of 1000 meters when he rushed to the nearest battle. Although the losses here were higher, the enemy still could not break through the defensive firepower network of the shore artillery. Xinxianju Town suffered little loss. Several 75mm guns were destroyed, or the gunners were injured. The slaves lifted the gunners down, replaced them with a new gun, and formed a new gun group. There are still so many shore guns, and the enemy still cannot blast the port. Storm into the port and do whatever you want.

At night, the enemy fleet retreated to St. Pierre Island to rest at anchor, and sent countless sailboats to cruise five or six nautical miles near the anchorage to keep watch.

Mo Lin stood on the watchtower of the camp and looked at the port outside. Li Ya stood beside him, and Wu Kejing stood on the other side. The three of them silently looked at St. Pierre Island in the distance, which was facing the port, but 65 nautical miles, although you can't see what's going on there at night, you can only see the dark sea, the flags fluttering in the evening wind, and the flickering navigation lights on the lighthouse on the beach in the distant port.

Wu Kejing said worriedly: "Do you think they will come to attack the port at night?"

Li Ya shook his head, "They can't sneak attack Xinxianju Town. I'm worried about Marin Port and Grand Bank Port. Those two ports are small ports. A few main battleships of the enemy can sneak attack. Where the shore artillery can't hit Enemy battleship artillery."

"So we have to take the initiative." Wu Kejing said.

Mo Lin shook his head, "It's not that we are not afraid of death, but that we will definitely not be able to defeat the enemy when we take the initiative. That is no different from sending to death. Everyone has seen today that the enemy's warships are similar to our newly built warships, and may be even better in performance. I think the defense may not be as good as our battleships, but it’s a good idea to use our armored plates to defend in the main places, and we also have turret artillery and corridor artillery.”

"Then do we want to hide in the port and let them attack? If they destroy all our ports, we will fail if we only leave here, not to mention they have time to destroy more artillery. We don't have so many artillery, even if We have two hundred artillery pieces, and we will be slowly consumed by them, and once they approach the periphery of the port for one nautical mile, the artillery on their main battleship or a sailing warship with a larger tonnage can completely enter the port, one by one Destroy our warships in port."

"Of course not. We will definitely find the right opportunity to attack. We will definitely fight back. Now we can only hide in the port and use shore artillery to slowly consume their warships. Even if they know our thoughts, they have to fight to consume them. , Slowly destroy our shore artillery, and then infiltrate it bit by bit. We just find the right time to attack them when they are weak, and they will definitely divide their troops to attack other ports. Over there, Swift The battle of Callent Fort has also started, and the enemy will definitely send a fleet to support it.

Although the main fleet will not be dispatched, the second brigade of our sailor brigade still has a few battleships over there, five thousand-ton steam battleships, and two two thousand-ton sail warships. They must send out some auxiliary warships to destroy them. Where is the port, and then destroy where the fleet, and at the same time send warships to occupy where the port, to help the enemy where to capture our castle. "

Li Ya analyzed.

Mo Lin went on to say: "As long as the enemy divides and keeps dividing, we have a chance. The four small islands, they will definitely arrange for those troop carriers, merchant ships, supply ships, or some auxiliary ships to station, and then their base camp port will definitely Warships will be left behind, and the force will continue to be diluted. Where do we still have some merchant ships and armed merchant ships, they will definitely send more or more powerful warships to destroy those ships.

Some ships will also be deployed at sea to find and intercept, blockade our returning ships, and a squadron led by a squadron of the Second Sailor Battalion we sent this time to respond and protect the Atlantic island relay station, so that their strength will further increase. Diluted, we will definitely have a chance to fight back.It's just that this opportunity is hard to say. "

Wu Kejing lowered his head and pondered for a while, "In this way, we will have to bear a lot of pressure in the next few days. Just letting others suppress and beat the captives and slaves in the entire peninsula will be unstable. We have to divide our troops to watch They, lest they riot, the 20 captives and slaves who escaped before heard that they were besieging Gubisburg and Swift Current Fort at this time, and no less than [-] tribal fighters gathered on our front line. Attacking our defense line desperately, we almost offended the forces of about [-] people on the island."

Mo Lin looked at him as if he didn't speak. He felt that Wu Kejing was a little lost or a little cowardly. This is what happened. Occupying a piece of other people's land is not a negotiable thing, but an easy thing to do. , how can it be so easy, you can get benefits without paying, if you don't fight now, you have to fight.

The next day, the British continued to wander and besiege, breaking through several times to a place only 500 meters away from the breakwater dam of the port, and fired at the shore artillery on the breakwater dam.

The enemy's fast-advancing sailboats, steamships, and almost oppressive surrounding shore artillery, these artillery with limited shooting angles cannot raise their heads to fight back. After all, there are too many enemy ships. If they are forced to fight for a while, it is thousands of artillery together. Open fire, thousands of cannons bombarded the port breakwater dam and the cliffs on both sides, and the fort positions on the beach on the ten-mile wide sea, it was really a real fire.

Relying on the strength of their ships and guns, the British steam ship braved the artillery fire to make room for the sailing ship and the small-tonnage steam ship behind it to shoot.

There are hundreds of artillery pieces on the breakwaters, all warships in the port, armed merchant ships, merchant ships, floating forts, and city walls, and all the artillery on the beach fired bullets at the enemy. screen.

Only the rich and powerful British dared to fight such a reckless firepower battle, but the French did not dare.

Fighting for a whole morning, both sides suffered heavy losses, and the artillery consumption was quite large. At noon, the two sides could only use solid bullets to hit each other. There are not many such things. You can carry more on the ship. Copper shell shells require high technical level and are too expensive. It is also not easy to manufacture, so no one brings many. At the same time, at this time, naval battles with solid bullets are still the main battle.

The artillery on and behind the entire breakwater was almost completely destroyed, 450 gunners were killed and injured, more than 500 slaves were killed, 210 were killed or injured by coastal gunners and soldiers on cliffs and beaches, and more than 600 prisoners and slaves were killed or injured.

The small gunboats in the port lost more than 30 ships, most of which were sunk. The sail warships were also damaged by more than 20 ships, and they were almost unusable. Five steam engine warships were destroyed and [-] ships were damaged. Even the main fleet One of them was damaged, and the others were also injured. Although they did not affect sailing and combat, they were still injured.

However, the enemy left more than 20 sailing boats and paddle boats of less than [-] tons on the sea surface with a radius of [-] nautical miles. A dozen wounded sailing boats dragged away with thick smoke and withdrew from the battlefield. The steam engine ship was destroyed when it rushed to the beach, and sank in the not very deep sea outside the port, and some masts and bows were exposed.

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Mo Lin's face was very pale, there was no way, the British storm on this day injured at least 300 sailors in the brigade, one of the main fleet was destroyed, one was sunk, and the one destroyed was a [-]-ton steamship. It was a [-]-ton sailing warship that was sunk. Although the other warships did not affect the sea operations, they still had some damage to each ship.

Either the sails were burned, the mast was broken, or the bow was damaged, the anchor was knocked down, or the cabin was smashed, and there were many holes left by solid bullets or open-ended bullets on the hull.

It can be fixed in about one night.

The problem is that the loss of auxiliary ships and transport and traffic ships is not small. Nearly 28 ships are gone a day, and nearly [-] ships are injured.

The enemy was destroyed only [-] warships below [-] tons, most of which were transport ships, armed merchant ships, or some small-tonnage warships. The enemy's main battleship seemed to be undamaged, with thick skin, fast speed, and firepower. fierce.

The enemy can be repaired tonight, and will appear in the open sea tomorrow.

Ships of the [-]nd and [-]rd Battalions in port suffered heavy losses apparently.

"Your squadron sneaked out tonight. Don't stay in the near sea, go to the far sea, find a small island to stay, and be sure to harass the enemy's outer patrol ships and interrupt the enemy's supply route." Mo Lin told the second sailor brigade A squadron of seven thousand-ton warships and five five-hundred-ton sail warships left in the port gave orders.

"The ships left by the third brigade also sneaked out tonight, don't go together, spread out, go to the northeast coast, look for the port on the main island of the British to attack, or attack the enemy's communication ships going to and from the main island , At the same time, we must look for the ships that were scattered earlier, gather them, and then find a place to hide, so that we cannot be blocked by the enemy.

We must allow the enemy to divide the troops to the maximum extent. Your task is to attract at least one or two main warships in the enemy's main fleet to leave to look for you. "Molin's reinforcements consisted of two 180-ton sail warships, two [-]-ton steam warships, five [-]-ton armed merchant ships, and a [-]-ton material transport ship of the third sailor brigade. The squadron leader ordered.

At night, the warships of the [-]rd Sailor Brigade and the [-]nd Sailor Brigade in the port scattered and slipped out under the cover of night. In addition to the [-] or so warships of the main fleet, there were five warships under construction in the port, as well as some main fleets. Except for a total of fifty or so ships, the other ships have all gone to sea to avoid the enemy's attack.

And the defensive shore artillery on the breakwater dam that was destroyed during the day, as well as the cliff fort, the artillery of the beach fort was restored again, and about [-] captives and slaves who were captured were escorted back to repair many forts under the darkness of night. A lot of shells were transported, and even a few more anti-burst holes were dug, as well as fortification bunkers for storing shells.

The wreckage of the destroyed cannons and guns and ammunition were transported to the rear smelter for reclassification. The smelter was brightly lit, and the newly captured, or betrayed captives and slaves were gathered together, swung this big hammer, and smashed those Fragments, some people sorted iron sheets and sheets, or iron ingots, and then sweated and transported them to another place.

If something is not satisfactory, the people in the supervisory brigade will whip, kick and beat. If there is any resistance, they will be shot to death with crossbow arrows or hacked to death with knives and guns. Everyone is terrified.

This is not a place that pays attention to benevolence, righteousness and morality. It is not an era of five emphasizing four beauties. This is an era of passionate colonialism and an era of territorial expansion. In another 200 years, if you try to do this, you will be condemned to pieces. In an era of moral decline, This kind of thing is the most immoral. People choose to abide by some morals, and at the same time, double standards require the morality of others and themselves.

Many old loyal slaves died during the day, and these betrayed slaves have to be sent to work tomorrow, but many soldiers are required to monitor them. This is the cost.

Now the whole land is full of slaves and captives who seem to be betraying, because the pressure is too strong, the enemy is too strong, and everyone knows that those Newfoundlanders and Inuit tribes who are now mostly British or British allies People who know this must know it, or grit their teeth with hatred for the New Qin Empire, and gloat over others' misfortune.

The next day, the British sent a [-]-ton sailing ship to lead the way, followed by a group of sailing ships, and continued to bombard Xianju Town, while those steam engine ships bombarded the surrounding cliff forts, Marin Port, St. Lawrence Port, and neighboring towns.

The forts of the New Qin Empire continued to counterattack, and the main fleet also drove out of the port waterway to counterattack behind the breakwater. At the end of the day, the ships of both sides suffered a lot of losses.

At least two [-]-ton sailing ships were damaged, two steam engine ships were sunk, and many other sailing ships were damaged, three of which were destroyed.

After two days, the British found that this was a hard bone. Twenty sailboats under [-] tons were sunk, four were sunk under [-] tons, two were sunk under [-] tons, and two were sunk under [-] tons. One ship was sunk, and eight ships of [-] tons were damaged.

If the fight continues like this, they may not be able to gnaw at the main towns and ports of the New Qin Empire, so the British divided their troops on the third day.

On the basis of the original division of troops, continue to divide the troops. The steam engine warships are five nautical miles away from the shore artillery, and the sail warships are separately looking for other ports to bombard.

Moreover, the British brought out all unused ships and patrolled the surrounding islands and seas with a radius of [-] nautical miles, completely blocking the purchase of materials from other European countries by the New Qin Empire and the introduction of manpower and science and technology from the Chinese Empire, as well as Access to weapons.

Five consecutive days of bombardment and five days of fighting caused heavy casualties to the troops of the New Qin Empire. Three sail warships of the main fleet were sunk and two were seriously injured in the port.

The two sunken warships were 32-ton sailing warships and one [-]-ton sailing warship, and the two seriously injured were [-]-ton sailing warships. This made the main fleet of only [-] warships even worse. The two thousand-ton steam engine battleships that were previously sunk, one two thousand-ton steam engine battleship, the five one thousand-ton steam engine auxiliary battleships that were seriously injured, and one five thousand-ton steam engine main battleship.

The main fleet was severely damaged in the port, and there were only eleven of the more than 20 auxiliary ships left. The sail warships of the main battleships of the main fleet were only one [-]-ton ship, two [-]-ton ships, and two ships. Five thousand-ton ships, one five-thousand-ton ship, and other steam engine warships were all wounded. They were repaired and then destroyed. One was completely lying down and had to be dragged to the berth for emergency repairs. It took at least half a ship. Months to regain mobility.

The project of the five ironclad warships being installed was also affected. They could hardly move during the day and could only work at night. The shipbuilding workers have been busy all night, and they have reached 80.00% of the progress, but they have been stagnant.

There were sabotage by captives and slaves in the middle, and such things were caught five times. The captives and slaves were executed, and there were even a few Han Chinese from the sailor brigade who helped them, as well as foreign officers and soldiers from the sailor brigade.

After Mo Lin knew about it, he executed 100 slaves and captives in one go, the sailor brigade executed more than 100 people, and more than [-] officials and officers were investigated and detained, which greatly affected the morale of the troops.

Chapter 280, The Situation of the Squadron