Lord of Ming Dynasty

So Wunan had personnel to take over the captive ships, and arranged for the captives to be taken back by two [-]-ton sailboats and thrown on the island. The other ships were four [-]-ton steam engine warships and one [-]-ton ship. [-]-ton steam engine warship, two [-]-ton sailing warships, one [-]-ton sailing warship, one [-]-ton sailing warship, one [-]-ton sailing warship, two [-]-ton sailing warships, Two [-]-ton sail warships, a total of fourteen warships.

Wu Nan asked the chief mate to change his post, and went to serve as the commander of the steam engine battleship fleet on a relatively intact captured enemy [-]-ton steam engine battleship, and raised the flag of the flagship. Here he is still on this [-]-ton ship The sailing warship raised the flag of the flagship, and at the same time raised another flag of the flagship, and sent a signal to all ships to let everyone understand that he is the commander of the entire fleet, and also the commander of the fleet of sailing warships. The first mate is the commander of the steam engine squadron.

After the reorganization, it took half an hour to complete. The [-] warships in the entire fleet rushed to the battlefield after repairing the damaged parts in a hurry. blacken.

It was past six o'clock when we returned to the battlefield again. The setting sun cast thousands of rays on the sea, and the whole sea did not know whether it was stained red with blood or the setting sun. In the smoke, it looked extremely desolate and tragic.

But the battle is still going on, the enemy on land has already begun to attack the city, and the third brigade has already fought against the enemy's artillery on land in the port. With its own damage, it also needs to destroy the enemy's artillery and the attacking enemy. It seems that the situation It's very bad, just like zombies attacking a city, countless tribal populations are driven by the British to attack desperately.

On the beach, many battleships were sitting on the beach. For some reason, only seven warships in the main fleet were still fighting. With the enemy's dozen main warships desperately fighting, the two sides fought a tough battle seven or eight nautical miles away from the beach.

"This is not what I want." Wu Nan shook his head regretfully.

The enemy still has more than 30 warships, but there are only a dozen or so here, and they still don't have as many warships as the enemy.

"Let's go to help the remaining three warships of the second brigade, and the whole team turns."

The rest of the enemy is chasing the second brigade. The remaining three warships are steam engine battleships, one of [-] tons, two of [-] tons, three of [-] tons, and one of [-] tons.Sail warships: two ships of [-] tons, four ships of [-] tons, and three ships of [-] tons, a total of sixteen ships.

The three warships of the second brigade fled while dealing with the enemy.Three warships, a [-]-ton steam engine warship, a [-]-ton steam engine warship, and a [-]-ton sail warship. Only such a large tonnage warship can allow the enemy to send so many warships to pursue them. Of course, the enemy is not completely chasing them. , They also have some warships that stay in the port or bombard the third brigade in the port from time to time that bombard the enemy in the port.

There are two other warships, a [-]-ton galleon shelling the enemy camp in the distance around the coast, a [-]-ton galleon is chasing it; A [-]-ton steam engine warship and a [-]-ton sail warship fought in the open sea.

Chasing the three large battleships were the enemy's [-]-ton steam engine battleships, two [-]-ton steam engine battleships, three [-]-ton steam engine battleships, two [-]-ton steam engine battleships, and four [-]-ton steam engine battleships. Two ships of [-] tons.

One of the [-]-ton sailing warships approached the port to bombard the city from time to time, and the other also bombarded the city or the second brigade in the port on the route close to the city.

As the fleet approached, the enemy was obviously in a panic, and quickly mobilized two [-]-ton steam engine warships, three [-]-ton sail warships, and two [-]-ton sail warships, chasing the two of the second brigade from a distance. The thousand-ton sailing warship was also transferred over, the one thousand-ton sailing warship was also transferred over, and the one thousand-ton sailing warship was also transferred over.

The transferred warships liberated two sail warships, one of [-] tons, and the [-]-ton steam engine warship immediately turned around to help the main fleet.

"The Sail Fleet will fight with all its strength," Wu Nan ordered to the captain beside him. He is now the commander of the fleet, and each warship has its own captain, who is promoted by the first officer or other officers.

"The steam engine battleship continues to advance to help the second battalion," he issued a second order.

So he led the fleet of sailing warships to face the warships mobilized by the enemy.

Two five-thousand-ton sailing warships, one four-thousand-ton sailing warship, one three-thousand-ton sailing warship, one two-thousand-ton sailing warship, two one-thousand-ton sailing warships, two five-hundred-ton warships The sailing warships, eight sailing warships faced the enemy's ten warships.

In terms of strength comparison, it is definitely not as good as the enemy, and there are two fewer ships in number, but these two fewer ships cannot be stronger than the enemy in terms of strength, because the two ships here are [-]-ton captured sailing warships, and the enemy's lowest tonnage is the same. A thousand-ton sailing warship.

But this is nothing, because the first officer went to help the second brigade, adding six warships, the second brigade should be able to survive for a while.

Wu Nan believed that victory belonged to them.

As the fleets on both sides approached quickly, the sunset in the sky had already sunk down the mountain, and night was coming.

Three nautical miles, both sides conducted a test launch. The shells of the main guns on both sides quickly calculated the enemy's position and speed.

Chapter 4 Battle of the Main Fleet [-]

The fight here was in full swing, while Li Ya was standing on the watchtower of the camp and chatting slowly with Zhao Shuai, as if this battle was easy for them and they would surely win it.

"I've been here for more than three years, and I've brought everyone here to settle down, but I don't want the British to always hold on to us. They don't want to live in peace with us." Li Ya was drinking the fruit wine brewed by the Indians here. , said to Zhao Shuai.

"No one wants to give up what they own. They don't want to be snatched away by others. Even if you occupy the territory of the French, even if we win this time, the British are still our enemy, the biggest enemy. We this time Too many people have been lost, more than 4000 Han Chinese have already lost 2000 people, and the number of Han Chinese remaining in the fleet seems to be less than a few hundred.

For this reason, the second and third battalions had to give up some ships. Even if we sent the remaining Iliads, Indians, and some young and strong people on board, their total strength was only 500. That's about it, the available manpower on our side is dropping rapidly, and Sweeping Thunder and Jin Lin have already abandoned Fort Swift Current and are withdrawing towards us.

Luo Zuo has already abandoned some ports, abandoned the frontline positions, and hit the remaining troops in Winterburg, and dispatched the third brigade of the Han Brigade to join the defense of Xinxianju Town. The adjacent town has been lost. , The St. Lawrence port of the French almost gave up, and all the troops were used to defend Xinxianju Town, and our prisoners here basically escaped.

Now able to guard the port and wharf, Xinxianju Town is our 1000 people and more than [-] Han Chinese, the cavalry squadron guards Winterburg, and the remaining prisoner camps.

The British manpower and military strength are much greater than ours.

These are what I know about our current strength and the current situation. I don’t know if you can hold on to Xinxianju Town. Even if you hold on, we will only have this small town left, with a radius of only [-] kilometers.

do you need my help?

I can bring my people into the battle, at least we can support until Sao Tianlei and Jin Lin withdraw with the Second Han Chinese Brigade and Mixed Han Chinese Brigade, we still have at least [-] troops to fight. "Zhao Shuai asked sincerely.

"Well, since you insist, then take your people to help Tang Yaweng, he is not a qualified battlefield commander, I think you should be competent, you go to the front, bring your guards, and let Tang Yaweng come back , I need him to organize the manpower and production of the base, as well as the allocation of prisoners, wounded, and supplies."

Li Ya said calmly.

"Okay, you are the boss here, I'll listen to you." Zhao Shuai put down the flagon in his hand and said to Li Ya with a smile.

"Didn't you ask for it?" Li Ya also replied with a smile.

"Hmph, by the way, the reinforcements will arrive soon. Our telegram has been sent back for more than half a month. There will be reinforcements there soon. I think this reinforcement will be huge, except for the one mentioned earlier. I am afraid that the reinforcements of the regiment will increase a lot, after all, this is the moment of our life and death. In addition, the ships of the two squadrons of the second and third brigades will also return, and at the same time, they will bring back some of the dispatched Han Chinese brigade and mercenary brigade Manpower, we may wait for them first." Zhao Shuai said to Li Ya.

Li Ya said with a smile: "Maybe when they come, we will all be killed by the British, and we haven't come back for more than half a month. The return of the ships and manpower will only add fuel to the fire, and it will only make us lose more. I I don't want them to come back, because it will wipe out our entire army."

Zhao Shuai smiled wryly, "Maybe," he walked down after speaking, and Li Ya watched him lead his guards to the city wall to resist the enemy.

Now the entire camp is almost empty, only old people and children who cannot fight are left, and even the women have gone to carry things.

The defense of this camp is only his security team and 50 personal guards.

Li Ya has nothing to do now. Luo Zuo on the front line said that he had repelled the enemy's tribal fighters and retreated to the defense line of Winterburg with his troops. Soon there will be a squadron of [-] exiles brigade for reinforcements. That's what he can have now. The biggest reinforcement force is now. Sao Tianlei and Jin Lin are still on the way to retreat, and the enemy keeps attacking them. They need to come back with supplies and artillery, otherwise the reserves of Xinxianju Town are not enough to hold on for a long time.

The enemies are almost endless. Although most of them are tribal fighters, their fearless spirit makes them not retreat no matter how many people die. Only two tribal allies can help them, and those two tribes also support them. After the last drop of blood was shed, almost the entire army was wiped out. All the old men and women of the tribe went to take prisoners, and the young warriors and old men who were able to fight all stood guard on the city wall.

And Tang Yaweng kept mobilizing these people to supplement the enemy's frontal attack on the city wall and the positions below.

The enemy will use numbers to kill them. The people of the Huaxia Empire and the New Qin Empire are very good at fighting crowd tactics. Today, in the past month, they have been almost wiped out by Westerners using this tactic.

At the moment when the last ray of light fell, he saw that another battleship of the seven warships in the main fleet was sunk by the enemy at sea, and now only five newly built ironclad warships with strong defenses and a five thousand ton steam engine warship remained Still fighting the enemy, the enemy they have to face is more than 20 enemy warships with similar tonnage and strength.

The night is coming, and the battle at sea is still going on, but because of the darkness, both the enemy and us are keeping a certain distance to prevent being attacked, and the sudden explosion of guns from time to time knows that the battle is still going on.

The enemy stopped the artillery support to the shore, and this side also stopped the artillery support to the shore, and the remaining battleships of the two brigades surrounded the main battleships to form a new fleet.

The chief mate's fleet joined the main fleet, and Wu Nan led the sailing warship back to St. Pierre Island, reoccupied it, and sent people to search for the escaped British captives and tribal fighters on the island.

Taking advantage of the darkness, they took down several other small islands, and gathered more of their own captives, and hit about 1000 troops on the islands, adding two thousand-ton sailing warships and two 750-ton Steam engine paddle wheel battleship, and five merchant ships.

They were all concentrated on St. Pierre Island, and even the British who captured the enemy guards were taken to St. Pierre Island.

In the daytime battle near dusk, they lost two armed merchant ships of 100 tons, one sailing warship of [-] tons, and one sailing warship of [-] tons. A total of four sailing warships were lost, and only more than [-] people were rescued. .

The result of the battle was to sink two [-]-ton sailing warships of the enemy and damage one [-]-ton sailing warship of the enemy. It suffered a little loss, but the overall strength is still there, because there are still two [-]-ton sailing warships , a [-]-ton sailing warship, and a [-]-ton sailing warship, there are four in total.

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At dawn, the crews of the four ships, who had just rested for about four hours, got up again and prepared to attack.At this time, the sky is still very dark, and you can't see your fingers. This is the darkest time before dawn.That's about three o'clock in the morning.

Because St. Pierre Island is at least [-] nautical miles away from the neighboring peninsula, it will take nearly four hours to advance at the fastest speed, but the enemy is not necessarily outside the town of Xinxianju on the neighboring peninsula. They must have spent the night in Marin Port, or are robbing Overnight in a neighboring town, perhaps at a sheltered anchorage offshore.Therefore, it takes at least six hours to go to the neighboring towns despite the dawn, and it only takes about three hours to arrive in other places, that is, when the sky just dawns at six o'clock.