Lord of Ming Dynasty

When the imperial territory was suppressed and could not fight back, the ships in the surrounding ports were also fighting hard. Many ships fled, because the enemy ships were many and stronger than them. Most of the third sailor brigade guarded the port. On the first day, [-]% of the ships managed to hold on, and on the second day, [-]% of them sneaked out of the port in the dark and sailed to the sea.

Only the defenders and shore artillery teams were left to defend the port. The enemy's shelling on the second day and the enemy's heavy attack on the third day almost destroyed all the ports. Almost all the fortifications built were destroyed, and the ports were also paralyzed. Most of them are paralyzed and can no longer be used unless a great effort is made to rebuild them.

However, the defenders and civilians of the port have retreated to the woods and cliffs five miles behind, and they are inside the cave. Only the shore artillery team and infantry team are left in the port to hide in the cave to prepare for the enemy's attack.

On the fourth day, the fifth day, and the sixth day, the British sent troops to the sea to find those ships, and sank or captured them one by one. Of course, not every ship had no resistance. Most of the sweeping fleets were armed merchant ships or followed by one or two warships at most, so that the squadron of the Third Sailor Battalion could counterattack.

After a few days, a lot of results were achieved. Most of the small tonnages were sunk by the squadron. Even if the large tonnages caused them a lot of casualties, they still could not be wiped out, but lost troops.

The sail warships and steam warships of about [-] tons on both sides fought each other on the sea, looking for each other's weaknesses, attacking the opponent's strength, and consuming the opponent.

But generally speaking, the British are still powerful, because the British have hundreds of ships, close to 150 ships, plus the British fleet on the Avalan Peninsula, plus some remaining armed merchant ships on the main island, as well as merchant ships. Nearly [-] ships, even if there are about [-] ships that have no combat effectiveness, there are still [-] ships.

The total number of ships including ships without combat effectiveness here is only 120. Many ships were blown up and damaged while hiding in the port in the early stage, and more than 30 ships were lost at once. The fleet was captured or sunk under the pursuit of the fleet. In the end, about 45 of its ships escaped, and the [-] ships of the main fleet were still in the port.

Among these escaped ships was a squadron, which was the fleet sent by the [-]rd Sailor Group to assist in the defense of Fort Swift Current, five sail warships, two [-]-ton steam warships, and There are five steam warships of one thousand tons.

An enemy fleet came, ten sailing ships under a thousand tons, five sailing ships of two thousand tons, seven steam battleships of two thousand tons, and one steam battleship of three thousand tons.

After fighting the enemy for three days with shore cannons and forts on both sides of the cliff, the fleet finally lost because the enemy dispatched a [-]-ton steam warship and a [-]-ton steam ironclad ship to attack.

In addition, the port on land was captured by enemy tribal fighters, and the fleet was restricted to a strait that was two to three kilometers wide and seven or eight kilometers long. They suffered heavy losses. More than 100 soldiers and civilians in the town, as well as soldiers from the Foreign Legion, began to break through.

Riding in the dark, after sacrificing five sailing ships of less than 100 tons and a steam engine battleship of [-] tons, they took the remaining five steam battleships of [-] tons and a steam battleship of [-] tons with a full load of The soldiers and slaves on the artillery positions on both sides of the strait who fled to the ship, as well as more than [-] remnants of the port and small towns, fled the canyon and rushed to the sea after being defeated.

The town and Fort Swift Current have been besieged by the enemy for ten days.

They didn't have the time to take care of these people either. Jinlin and Gubisburg were also besieged by Skysweeper and the others. Skysweeper and others were besieged earlier and had been besieged for twelve days.

Not to mention returning to the front line, which has been besieged for nine days.

This squadron was also headed by an ensign, assisted by a garrison sergeant, a garrison sergeant from the town that later retreated to the ship, and an artillery sergeant from the shore artillery squadron.

There is also a Spanish second lieutenant from the Overseer Brigade, a small team leader from the Han Chinese team, and several team leaders from the Cavalry Squadron.

There are a lot of talents, the fleet was short of manpower, and six ships were lost in a few days of fighting. When they reached the sea, they had to transfer the remaining 75 crew members on a thousand-ton steam engine ship, and then let the steam engine ship sink. It lost too much, the power was broken, the boiler exploded, and at least fifty slaves under the cabin and ten overseers were burned and killed.

After sailing southwest for about a hundred nautical miles, the fleet transferred the personnel, materials and coal on the ship, and then directly opened the sea valve to let the ship sink.

In this way, all the ships in the squadron are left with one 150-ton steam battleship and four 450-ton steam battleships. There are more than [-] people, and there are more than [-] people on a [-]-ton ship, which is more than the crew on a [-]-ton warship.

After resting for a night and a day at an abandoned port stronghold once occupied by the British on the main island, the fleet began to return the next night, and within thirty nautical miles, they encountered a British patrol fleet.

It was a patrol of five 750-ton armed merchant ships led by a [-]-ton steam engine warship.

Due to the darkness of the night, and because the British had the upper hand, they turned on the lights at ease and patrolled at a speed of about six knots per hour on the sea about [-] nautical miles away from the main island. Orlando Peninsula is about fifty nautical miles away.

The night is not too dark, but in the distance, especially when you turn on the lights, if you are not very close, about a few nautical miles, you will not find whether there is a ship near you.

When they saw the enemy, the two sides were already about seven or eight nautical miles away. Due to caution, they did not turn on the lights. They just used the lights at the stern to communicate and correct the direction of the fleet to maintain their formation.

The second lieutenant went through a battle between heaven and man, and when the place was obviously similar to his own combat effectiveness, and the approximate distance between the enemy's patrols was [-] nautical miles, and the distance between the two patrols was about [-] nautical miles, he had to fight. If the battle cannot be resolved within half an hour, the enemy's rear or front patrols may be surrounded by the enemy's superior forces if they increase their speed.

This is a very dangerous thing.

The first thousand and 280 chapters of the second sea attack patrol

While he was thinking and dispatching troops, the ship was running at the minimum power, and the propeller underneath was rotating slowly, which was almost equal to the rotation speed of the wind blades in the breeze state. Only the sound of splashing, splashing water, and the sound of chimneys were heard. There is no smoke inside, because it is a small fire, and there is a special baffle in the boiler to block the fire and prevent oxygen from entering the furnace. A trace of steam accumulates pressure in the final air storage chamber, and when the pressure reaches a certain value, it will be released suddenly, and then push the ship's propeller to rotate.

In this way, in the dark night, at a speed of less than one knot, he slowly drifted towards the enemy. By the time the second lieutenant made up his mind, the two sides had already approached three nautical miles, and it was almost time to find each other. Seeing such a short distance, and flanking each other, the second lieutenant finally made up his mind.

"All the ships fired, and after 3 minutes, all the artillery fired at the enemy's leading steam engine battleship. Be sure to kill our biggest threat, the enemy's steam engine battleship, and then the remaining four warships rushed to the enemy's sail battleship separately. , don't take prisoners, sink or seriously injure. Then we will withdraw. The battle is over in 15 minutes, and we will turn around and return with all our strength."

Following the order of the second lieutenant commander, the lights and signals flashed. After 1 minute, thick black smoke rose from above the fleet, the boilers began to heat up, and the pressure began to increase. After 3 minutes, the speed of each battleship increased to about three knots, and the entire fleet turned around. Readjust the formation and insert it in front of the enemy's formation in a battle line formation.

In 5 minutes, all combatants were in place, the artillery was launched, the turret was raised, and it began to aim. The speed of the ship accelerated to four knots, making clicks, mechanical sounds and the sound of propellers pushing away tons of sea water.

The fleet began to chase the enemy fleet, 6 minutes, 7 minutes, as the speed increased to six knots, the fleet had already caught up with the enemy fleet by a long distance, and the two sides had only met for one and a half nautical miles, or about three kilometers.

At this time, the enemy reacted, and the whistle sounded, and the enemy fleet panicked.When the fleet here accelerated to seven knots, it was already one nautical mile close to the enemy.

In a few hundred meters, we will be able to reach the front of the enemy formation, and the enemy's formation will begin to change, preparing to fight here.

The steam engine boiler continued to accelerate to eight knots, and the fleet was still 1000 meters away from the enemy.

"Boom," the enemy fired first. After all, the enemy started cruising at a speed of six knots, and found that they were only falling a little. After they adjusted their formation, the enemy also began to speed up, and the two families came facing each other. Approaching 1000 meters, the enemy began to change formation, and the two sides began to turn to the battle line to fight.

Before forming a battle line, the enemy opened fire, and the formation was still chaotic, so the enemy's artillery became messy. The messy artillery, of course, has no lethality at a distance of 1000 meters. A messy water column wall was formed more than 100 meters in front of the remaining fleet ships of the Swift Current Port Squadron of the Empire's Third Sailor Squadron.

Here, the battle line has been formed. As the data is transmitted one by one, each ship adjusts its advance by itself, and the artillery points at the enemy.

As the artillery of the flagship on the second lieutenant commander's steam battleship flickered sequentially, the firelights of the four steam engine battleships following behind also flickered in sequence.

"Boom, boom, boom,"

There are not as many cannons here as there are. The caliber of the cannons is large, and many of them are old captured cannons, but they still form a straddle of about 100 meters in the messy formation of the enemy.

A straddle shot means that the enemy's speed has been correctly calculated, the enemy is aimed at the correct course, and it is possible to hit the enemy, but because of some data differences, the enemy is not hit, but a straddle shot is formed, just like Putting the enemy in the scope, hitting the enemy is just a matter of time.

The enemy's battle lines are gradually taking shape.

The second lieutenant commander saw that the second round of shooting was still straddling. All the artillery had formed a water column group around the enemy warship that was nearly 50 meters away. Three rounds of straddle shooting can hit the enemy, but the enemy will definitely form a battle line. Once the battle line is formed, a unified shooting distance and shooting parameters can be used.That would pose a greater threat to one's own fleet.

When attacking the enemy here, the enemy is also counterattacking. The fifth round of dense artillery formed a straddle shot within a hundred meters of this side. The nearest shell was only more than 50 meters away from his flagship. It can be said that in the next round, if the enemy is lucky, he will definitely hit his flagship.

The second lieutenant officer ordered the fleet to turn around and approach the enemy again. His fleet is small and the artillery range is short. The enemy's artillery is better than his own, and the range is farther. It may be more threatening to approach the enemy, but the chance of hitting the enemy is the same as that of the enemy. equalized.

All the sailors of the New Qin Empire have a trick, which is to change formation with the enemy on the sea, turn, turn, and turn behind the enemy's buttocks, and then when the enemy turns around again, they can catch the enemy's turning Several ships on the tail.

This killing is not as good as breaking a person's palm, breaking a person's palm is not as good as breaking a person's finger, ten fingers connected to the heart, it hurts when you hit it, if you can grab the enemy's tail, and then give the enemy little pain, no matter how strong a man is I can't stand it.

So when the enemy's formation turned again, the adjusted formation here was 200 meters closer to the enemy's artillery, and 800 meters away from the enemy. This distance could be reached by the British and the solid bullets of the Chinese Empire 40 years ago. distance.

The British are happy now, even though their formation has not been adjusted properly, the enemy has turned to the rear at this moment, and the 750-ton sailboats behind have not been adjusted properly, but with four [-]-pound cannons on each ship at the stern Suddenly, more than a dozen solid bullets fell on the ships of the third squadron of the New Qin Empire that rushed up.

Several steam engine battleships, which were adjusting their bows, were shot one after another, and the hulls hit by solid bullets thumped.

A solid bullet directly hit the chimney of a steam engine battleship, and a big hole was opened in the chimney immediately. Unrestrained thick smoke came out of the hole, confusing the entire battleship, coughing, tears, and snot They disturbed everyone on the deck of the battleship. When everyone wet towels around their mouths and noses, seven or eight people were already fainted by the thick smoke and fell from the high deck.

The continuous flying solid bullets caused casualties of more than a dozen people on board, and the thick smoke also affected the aiming of the artillery on this ship. Suddenly, the artillery on this ship was very messy. Meters away, it's a waste of shells.

The first thousand and 280 chapters and three captures

Taking advantage of the chaotic node in the enemy's turning process, a salvo was fired here. Except for a thousand-ton steam engine warship, which was affected by the smoke, the hit was really messy, and nearly [-] shells from three ships fell on the enemy's turning point. Near the last two ships, eight of them hit, and two of them nearly missed. The water column more than ten meters high caused by the other shells made the other two ships mess up and completely separated from the fleet.

At this time, the enemy's posture was like a centipede fleeing for his life, twisted and crooked, and lost two parts of the tail.

The eight shells that hit were all explosive shells, two of which were relatively simple shells produced by the New Qin Empire. They directly hit the deck of a ship, and the sudden explosion blasted away dozens of busy people on the deck. Ten people fell into the water, and 30 people hit the railing of the ship, and were thrown into a daze. There were more than a dozen people whose limbs and arms were broken by two shells, and their flesh and blood flew all over the place.