Lord of Ming Dynasty

Wunan just wanted to give the enemy a surprise attack. The British must be very vigilant, and Wunan's requirements are not high. Try to get as close to the enemy as possible, and then suddenly attack the enemy, paralyzing as many enemy ships as possible in the shortest possible time.

He now has four ships, which are still large ships. He is going to attack as soon as possible, and then collect a few [-]-ton, [-]-ton, and a thousand-ton sailboat from the island, a total of five or six ships to attack the enemy. At anchorage or other places, try to hold back the enemy. These small boats will follow behind for half an hour. They can meet them when the battle starts, or they can be sent to other places to intercept the enemy.

The lights in the port are brightly lit, and there are thousands of people gathered as much as possible. At this time, except for a few people who will stay here on some injured ships, most of them need to board the ship to fight. The ship must have more than the ship itself needs. There are more fighters and sailors, because Wu Nan's method is to capture enemy ships in the middle of constantly attacking the enemy to supplement himself. He has used this method many times and succeeded.

Since the chief mate and his fleet of steam engine warships were assigned to the main fleet yesterday, all the first mates did not come back. They must have been moored with the main fleet off the coast of Xinxianju Town for the night, or on a berth in the port that was not occupied by the enemy. Repair, or station in port.

All he can have now are four battleships that are scarred and battered. After a fierce battle and last night’s raid on the remaining four small islands, after rushing back for repairs, the broken hulls and artillery can only dismantle the artillery on those small boats. , hastily remodeled the artillery that was used to make do with it.

After a month of fighting, the New Qin Empire was exhausted, and the British were even more exhausted. They came here from thousands of nautical miles. People and those European mercenaries have no good temper. Tomorrow, tomorrow is the last day of the decisive battle.

It should be said today, because the battle will start in half an hour from him, and it is already the beginning of today. It is now [-]:[-] in the morning, and the battle will start in two quarters at most.

At three o'clock at three o'clock, the fleet set off, first four large ships, followed by five small ships, and almost all the ships capable of fighting went out to sea.

After going out to sea, the four big ships were close to full strength, and the small boats followed behind to catch up. The distance between the two sides widened, about a quarter of an hour, almost three or four nautical miles.

After an hour of sprinting, covering about fifteen knots, the boat slowed down, made some overhauls, and then sprinted again, this time covering sixteen knots at an average speed of a little over fifteen knots.

At this point, the ships stopped, checked again, and then slowly approached the battlefield at a speed of six knots. An hour later, the fleet, which had traveled a total of forty nautical miles, changed into small boats and paddled manually. Move towards the battlefield at a high speed, sneak attack? If you are still driving the steam engine, emitting black smoke, or making great fanfare and full of sails, then wait to be instantly killed by the artillery fire of the enemy's main fleet.

At this time, the shadows of the warships behind were already faintly visible, and they were chasing three or four nautical miles away, waiting for the order to attack.

"Send out the [-]-ton and [-]-ton sailboats, let them carry signal flares, and find that the small fleet that the enemy can sneak attack will fire signal flares." Wu Nan ordered the captain.

The captain ordered the small boats that were not involved in the tug to be sent out to look for nearby enemy ships.

In this era, there were no planes, and the detection of the enemy's traces depended on small boats and some professional scouting ships. This was the case even in World War I. In the later period of World War I, and in the early days of World War II, a professional scouting fleet had to be dispatched.

Of course, the towing speed of the boat cannot be fast, only one or two nautical miles per hour, which is tantamount to standing still on the vast sea.

Wu Nan anxiously waited on the boat. In another quarter of an hour, the sky would be bright. It would not be a sneak attack, but courting death.

It seems that I came out a little late.

It should be half an hour earlier.

But now we can't move wildly, because we don't know where the enemy is. We can see clearly from the sea, but we can't see far, at most two nautical miles. The sun is still hiding under the sea plain, and maybe it's coming out soon. The sky black dispelled some.

"Twelve nautical miles, five nautical miles outside of Marin Port, the enemy's main warships are berthed, about 23 ships," the captain quickly ran to the bow command platform, and shouted to Wu Nan.

"Wait a little longer and see if there are any enemies in other directions." Wu Nan continued to pace with his hands behind his back.

If he goes to fight the main fleet, he is courting death.

Those squadrons of warships separated by the enemy's main fleet were his targets.Let the main fleet be handed over to the main fleet of the New Qin Empire. Originally there were six ships left, and he dispatched five ships. If you add four ships from the second fleet, there will be a dozen ships. Lin adjusted his deployment. He was too far away to contact him, but the second and third teams not far away would definitely be reassigned.

"There is a reef pile eight nautical miles away from Xinxianju Town. The enemy has a small fleet and twelve warships. There are still nine nautical miles away from us. Not far away are eight warships from the third brigade."

The captain shouted loudly after hearing the information from the ship's first officer.

"Order the fleet to turn around and recover the boat. All personnel will be ready within 10 minutes. We will rush over at full speed and let the following fleet circle behind the enemy to intercept enemy reinforcements in the direction of the Avalan Peninsula or enemy ships fleeing. Send a [-]-ton ship to quickly inform the third brigade, and we will attack the enemy together."

Two quarters of an hour later, the high-speed fleet rushed towards the enemy fleet in the bright sky. Each ship had a speed of fifteen knots at the beginning, and after three or four nautical miles, it dropped to a speed of twelve knots. , the speed dropped to ten knots when the enemy was three nautical miles away, and the speed was already eight knots when the enemy was two nautical miles away, because at this time the enemy had already discovered that the rumbling gunfire had awakened the enemy, and the enemy had already begun to mobilize Now, the ship drove out of the reef pile, and this side can't sprint at high speed unscrupulously, because maybe it hit the reef without rushing to the enemy's side.

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The enemy's main fleet stationed at the anchorage in the reef-strewn sea area was part of the main battleships of the enemy's main fleet yesterday to attack the second and third brigades. There were originally some warships of the enemy's auxiliary fleet and some warships of the patrol fleet yesterday to help, but In the battle yesterday, the Wunan Fleet forced them to mobilize manpower and warships three times, and seized warships from them three times to supplement the Wunan Squadron, making them change from thirty warships to a dozen warships.

Originally, there were only [-] ships in the auxiliary fleet, but it was a pity that they fought against the Wunan fleet, fought with the second and third battalions, and fought with the main fleet of the New Qin Empire. Part of the Avalan Peninsula was sunk in the sea, and was almost slaughtered by the Third Battalion and Wunan Squadron.

In terms of the number of warships, the fleet of the British is still above the main fleet of the New Qin Empire. Yesterday most of the warships of the second brigade rushed into the port to fight decisively with the enemy's auxiliary fleet and part of the main fleet, and at the same time bombarded the land attack Against the enemy's artillery, there are only a few warships that are separated from the main fleet of the enemy to contain the enemy.

Part of the third brigade contained the enemy in various battlefields, and several warships cooperated with the second brigade to bombard the land while helping the main fleet resist the enemy's main fleet.

Yesterday, the warships of the second and third brigades in the port suffered heavy casualties, and most of them were unable to control the warships. They had to throw away some small tonnage or injured warships, let these warships sit on the beach, and then they took small boats to bypass the enemy On the land of the attack, return to the main fleet or the remaining ships of the second and third brigades to supplement the number of damaged battleships there.

Last night, the main fleet fought the enemy until after [-] o'clock. Because it was too dark, both sides stopped fighting. The main fleet gathered the second and third battleships of more than [-] tons that can still fight. The battleships of the main fleet have been replenished. Thirteen ships, and the second and third brigades are tantamount to being merged. Their combined warships of less than [-] tons are stationed five nautical miles away from the flank of the enemy fleet, ready to fight again at any time.

At dawn, the squadron, which was ready to deal with the enemy's surprise attack, had already set sail, the pressure of the boiler increased, and it was ready for a decisive battle. Unexpectedly, they saw the signal flares all over the sky, and then when there was still a black band in the sky , Seeing the four warships of the Wunan Fleet rushing towards the enemy from the open sea.

The commander of this fleet, the former second lieutenant officer of the third brigade, Zhuang Lin, immediately ordered the fleet to turn around and rush towards the enemy.

Over there, the enemy's anchorage is one mile wide and half a mile long. There are several small boats of the patrol fleet of more than 100 tons wandering outside, and then there are one or two thousand-ton sailing warships of the patrol fleet patrolling and escorting. Inside is the main battleship squadron.There are three steam engine battleships of [-] tons, three ones of [-] tons, two of [-] tons, and one of [-] tons. Sail warships, two of [-] tons, and four of [-] tons.

This is quite a lot, a total of thirteen ships.

Including the two thousand-ton sailing warships of the patrol fleet, there are fifteen ships. Of course, those small ones with only more than 100 tons can be ignored, and there are also five or six ships.

Of course, Wu Nan was not so stupid as to directly confront the enemy. He only needed to hold the enemy back, and then let the third brigade come over to deal with the enemy. The two companies might have a chance of winning together, at least they could severely damage a few enemy ships.

The British seem to have made up their minds to destroy the New Qin Empire this time, otherwise they would still be gritting their teeth if they would not suffer such a heavy loss.

It is true that the decline of this side has already been revealed, and the territory lost is only a small area of ​​about ten kilometers. They still have nearly a hundred thousand soldiers and horses on land, and the British alone have nearly 1 people. Most of the prisoners who came here were Newfoundlanders, Inuit, and most of the Europeans who immigrated here. Most of them were British. army of people.

Well, in the eyes of the island nation of the British, 5000 people are considered a large army.

At sea, the main battleships of the New Qin Empire are only seven or eight ships, and there are only a dozen or so large ships mixed with some captured British. Leaving aside the ships of the squadron like Wunan, in fact, the main battleships of the New Qin Empire The damage is also heavy, and the firepower has been reduced.Otherwise, the British must have retreated back to the Avalan Peninsula.

That is to say, the British felt that if they gritted their teeth and persisted, they would be able to destroy the New Qin Empire today.

The four warships of the Wunan Fleet rushed up, and the enemy's small boats came to intercept them one after another. Amid the rumbling gunfire, the enemy's small boats lost three ships in one round. They continued to approach, but the enemy's steam engine ship was still igniting and boosting the pressure, and the boiler could not get up at once. Come on, the sailboats are still tensely recruiting troops to climb the mast, pull anchor and set sail, some fast ones have already sailed out of the hidden reefs and shallows, while the slow ones are still getting up and putting on clothes.

The four warships of the Wunan Fleet approached a distance of 500 meters, fighting with two enemy sailing warships of [-] tons and one sailing warship of [-] tons, and several other small boats of the enemy surrounded them in an attempt to assist The fleet attacked Wunan and the others, but it was in vain. At least a [-]-ton battleship faced the solid bullets fired by them, and that was just a matter of knocking out one or two armor plates.

Six rounds of salvo in 5 minutes, a thousand-ton sailboat of the enemy sank, and seven rounds, the enemy's two thousand-ton sailboat needed to block the fleet behind, so its maneuverability was not high, and it was directly killed by the four thousand-ton sailboat. Sinking to the bottom of the sea, the sea is full of struggling British people.

In the 8th minute, Wunan and the others rushed in front of the enemy. The enemy's two sailing warships had just sailed out. After a round of blows, the two sailing ships retreated rapidly. As a result, the two sailing ships behind them hit the rocks and ran aground. After five salvos from one ship, the four of them hoisted the white flag, and they sank if they fought any more.

Let the two [-]-ton sailboats that followed rush forward to take over the ships. The four warships were still wandering outside the anchorage, constantly attacking the enemy. The enemy's [-]-ton sailboat fought back the most because it was on the periphery. The deck was washed by gunfire.

After fighting for a while, about two quarters of an hour, the third brigade rushed over to block the other side of the anchorage while flying the banner. There are quite a few boats, although they are small boats and the tonnage is not high, but there are also seven or eight high-tonnage ones, at least three thousand tons. The ships behind couldn't break out, so they could only fight back with artillery fire.

After the five or six small boats on Wunan's side are all in place, the enemy is the target. Under the parallel pincer attack of the third brigade and the Wunan Squadron, and with the surrounding boats locked, the enemy squadron took an hour to be defeated. Surrender.

After all, Zhuang Lin belonged to the third brigade. Although Wu Nan was also a second lieutenant, he also belonged to the brigade and was subject to jurisdiction. Therefore, Zhuang Lin ordered Wu Nan to hand over several large-tonnage ships to Zhuang Lin, and then Zhuang Lin took the assembled Ten warships of more than [-] tons, the wounded and some small-tonnage warships, as well as the captured enemy warships were handed over to Wu Nan to lead.

Zhuang Lin took ten large-tonnage warships to support the main fleet.

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Zhuang Lin took away steam engine warships, three of [-] tons, three of [-] tons, sail warships, three of [-] tons, one of [-] tons, and one of [-] tons, ten in total. Part of it was the capture of squadrons of the enemy's main fleet.

In terms of the condition of the battleships, the condition of the British warships, which have a superior force, is in good condition, which is much better than that of Wu Nan and the others who have been captured several times after several battles.

Zhuang Lin was not bad. Instead of taking away his flagship [-]-ton sailing warship, he took away a [-]-ton sailing warship captured by Wu Nan earlier.

In this way, there is only one [-]-ton sailing warship left in Wunan's squadron, and the only one is [-]-ton.