Lord of Ming Dynasty

Mo Lin's heart skipped a beat, his brain was running fast, and he kept asking himself, "What should I do?" "What should I do?".

Morin didn't think he and the others couldn't beat an enemy's super fleet, but so what?

Destroy the enemy's super fleet here, and then the escort fleet will only have the [-]-ton and [-]-ton sail warships and steam engine warships that cannot be put on the table in the auxiliary fleet, um, there are also seven [-]-ton Turkish ships [-] tons of sail warships, eight [-]-ton improved experimental steam engine warships, and as many as [-] warships of various types and sizes like armed merchant ships. Pirates can bully them.

After all, Turkey has no money. Even if the Chinese Empire gave them a loan, they spent a lot of money in fighting the Russians, and then gave the tribal chiefs and sultans money. There was not much money left to update the navy, and because of this they They actively paid back the money, so the Huaxia Empire gave them a large credit line this time, as many as tens of billions of Huaxia Yuan, with the purpose of asking them to send this support fleet to the New Qin Empire.

The eldest prince of the New Qin Empire has also worked hard. This is the last time to help the New Qin Empire. In the future, he does not want to have anything to do with the New Qin Empire. Although the Huaxia Empire is getting stronger and richer, their expenses are also high, if not At the request of the third prince and the old emperor Zhang Qiang, the eldest prince and crown prince Yongwu will not give even one assistance to the new Qin Empire.

They will not appear in the future strategy of the New Qin Empire.

Zhang Qiang is 90 years old, and Yong Wu is also in his 60s. Although he has real power, the regent, and the crown prince, he is not yet the emperor. The emperor's jade seal and absolute power, so he is very anxious, and nothing can go wrong. It can be said that he is more diligent than Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty.

But he is also a bit sad, Zhang Qiang is over 90 years old, and he is still alive. Although he is no longer in power, the name of the emperor still gives him the influence to veto everything.

In short, the Turkish fleet is just a show, but at present, no one is going to provoke the Turks, and the British don't want to provoke them. They don't want to make enemies. Everyone has not entered a state of war, and it is still very peaceful.

The Turkish fleet is actually just showing off. It is okay to fight pirates. If you ask them to touch the British, they will not touch them.

Mo Lin looked at the communication between the ocean-going communication ship and the telegraph relay ship and the reinforcement fleet, and found that his fleet could not avoid the enemy's super fleet no matter what. No, if it went to meet the reinforcement fleet, the enemy's super fleet would definitely It will happen. At that time, the main fleet will take care of the reinforcement fleet while fighting against the enemy's super fleet that may be much stronger than itself.

The result is certain, the enemy's super fleet can intercept its own main fleet while beating the reinforcement fleet to the point of paralysis, sending [-] to [-] people and equipment into the seabed.

In that case, the main fleet that I can bring back will definitely only have 3 or [-] people left, and at the same time, the equipment will be almost lost. The warships under the enemy can scare away the other warships of the enemy, and his mission has also failed.

But the speed of the reinforcement fleet is too slow, sailing at a speed of ten or eleven knots every day, it is not an easy task to get rid of the enemy's fleet.

What's more, apart from here, there are other places, such as the mouth of the Strait of Gibraltar.

"How to do?"

For a long time, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration, walked around on the deck of the ship with his hands behind his back, and said to himself: "Let's talk about the people first, no, let's talk about the equipment first, and the Turks can take it away, yes, replace the Turkish fleet." For a while, let their fleet take away the equipment, take a small number of people, enhance their combat effectiveness and take away important people."

"Come on, is the relay ship still following?" Mo Lin asked.

The first mate immediately said: "Follow, they are disguised as ships in the territory occupied by Russia and Romania, and they are slowly sailing in the queue of merchant ships from various countries five miles away from the main fleet, accompanied by a disguised [-]-ton steam engine ship escorting them."

"Send a signal to the disguised ocean-going communication ship, approach them, let them send a message to the relay ship, let them send a message to the communication relay ship at the Algeria station, let the three ships go, find the reinforcement fleet, so, so .”

"The first mate asked with a look of disbelief, can it work?" Mo Lin nodded, "Can you, you have to give it a try, even if you can take away [-] to [-]% of the equipment and equipment, there are still some expert craftsmen And some important personnel, our trip this time is worthwhile, at least it can reduce casualties."

The first officer hurried down to convey the order, and soon a communication relay ship hidden in the passing caravan five miles away began to send a report.

Mo Lin didn't know if the relay ship over there could get in touch with the reinforcement fleet in time. If it was feasible, he should be able to reply in an hour, and his main fleet would move forward for another hour. The distance decreases at double the speed.

An hour later, the relay ship sent out a signal. After receiving the signal, the communication ship on the edge came to report to Mo Lin, "Sir, the relay ship over there is escorted by two 95-ton steam engine frigates. Accompanying the reinforcement fleet approaching us, it is now [-] nautical miles away from us, and there are many British camouflage ships around them scouting the reinforcement fleet."

"Great, has my order been conveyed to the reinforcement fleet?" Mo Lin asked happily.

"Report sir, the relay ship said it has been conveyed. Your order has been carried out over there." The officer on the communication ship told him.

"Okay, tell them that they would rather slow down than be noticed by the enemy, release those small ships as communication ships and reconnaissance ships, and then quickly change the appearance of pirates or Turkish ships after they go out, and hang Turkish flags. You can hang them when necessary The flag of the British ships, let them send out a team every 10 minutes in small groups, giving the enemy an appearance that we are going to scout the surrounding situation.

Ships with powerful firepower must return to the team in half an hour or an hour later, but the personnel must be sent to other camouflaged ships, such as our ocean-going communication ships. Let our personnel leave as much as possible, and exchange combat personnel As soon as possible, take away all those who cannot fight, every ship, and the returning ships should make a scouting appearance, and then return to the fleet,"

The first thousand and 350 chapters two successful deception

In the second hour, the two sides had already separated for nearly twenty miles, but this time Morin's main fleet slowed down, and they didn't need to rush back, because they wanted to keep some coal and resources for Leave room for future fights and escapes.

It is more than 5000 nautical miles from here to the New Qin Empire.None of the main battleships has such a high endurance. They came out more than half a month later than the Wunan Fleet. Their battleships can only last [-] nautical miles. They have already carried out a coaling operation in Korwu Town. Up to now, their coal can only be used for six hundred nautical miles, and they must stop to replenish the coal. After replenishing the coal, they are just in time to meet the reinforcement fleet.

And the five steamships that have replenished the coal can also join the battle, and return to Korwu Town with the main fleet in one breath. Afterwards, they have to wait for the coal supply ships in the scattered reinforcement fleet to join them and give them supplies, or else , They can't even run back to the New Qin Empire.

It's okay to say that the sailboat, but the steam engine battleship was thrown into the sea.

In the third hour, Mo Lin stopped advancing resolutely. At this time, he had only advanced halfway, and then the sailing ship was alerting the surroundings, and the steam engine ship began to replenish five by five.

In addition to food, supplies, fresh water, and shells on the steam engine supply ship, the most are coal and armor plates, which are used to repair ships, as well as some technicians.

There were very few fighters and crew members. As soon as the supply started, personnel were deployed, and the steam engine ship was quickly replenished with the fighters and crew gunners it should have, diluting the personnel on other battleships on the main fleet that was about to fight.

They started to stop in the middle of the sea for supplies, and the ocean-going communication ship came back to change a group of personnel and then went out to investigate.

The reinforcement fleet over there dispatched thirty 180-ton and [-]-ton small boats in one hour. Except for the returning ships, the other ships were covered by the sails and hulls of the big ships of the Turkish fleet. Next, while sailing at a slow speed, the two warships are close together, transfer some supplies and personnel, disperse some core personnel to their ships, and then arrange some foreign crews for them to cope with the inspection of the British, better Through the Strait of Gibraltar and the British sea blockade of nearly [-] nautical miles.

The huge fleet is crowded together, and the enemy will not notice the shortage of ships for a while, nor will they notice the small movements of the reinforcement fleet.

In the original 210 eight warships, except for one that was sunk by pirates and destroyed by itself, the other ships followed closely. When they encountered the attacks of British harassing ships at sea, five were damaged and five were damaged. Later, it was abandoned and took the initiative to sink to the bottom of the sea.

In this way, the original fleet of 210 and eight ships lost seven warships.This is a normal injury.

Thirty warships going out will change their appearance after avoiding the enemy's sight, and then only five will come back in the end, so the reinforcement fleet that is advancing while sailing is suddenly reduced. Thirty warships are just small boats, so There are too many ships, and the British investigators don't care too much. After all, there are too many ships. Even if they are crowded together, they will still form a formation as long as ten nautical miles.

The British who were observing and reconnaissance from a distance did not dare to approach such a large fleet. They could only observe from a dozen nautical miles away. Sometimes they ventured closer to five nautical miles, and were immediately driven away by the battleships of the auxiliary fleet.

The reinforcement fleet successfully evacuated some core personnel and some small equipment in the second hour, about nearly 2000 people, and two ships came back half an hour later, and three ships returned an hour later. At this time, the reinforcement fleet still had 180 people. ship.

Then they grandly dispatched another wave of reconnaissance ships, this time a [-]-ton ocean-going communication ship and two [-]-ton reconnaissance ships, in cooperation with a [-]-ton steam engine ship, took another six small fleet.

If you don't pay attention, no one will know that the fleet has shrunk again.

This time, another 600 Han Chinese women and children, the elderly, children, girls, and some powerful soldiers were taken away. The soldiers were all low-level officers and talents retired from the original Chinese Empire, especially sailing and cavalry.

This time two ships came back, one ship returned after a while, and these people were sent to the escort warship of the accompanying relay telegraph ship, and then three ships returned after a while, and then one ship went out again, the continuous flow Scouting and reporting confuse the enemy's eyes.

In fact, after the last ship went out, some people were taken away. These people may be some family members of mercenaries, old people, women, and some elite mercenaries, about 1000 people. There is no longer any delay. After disguising, I will immediately return to the New Qin Empire alone, or go to Korwu Town to gather.

After the second hour and 10 minutes, the ocean-going communication ship and accompanying warships were dispatched for the second time. These warships were sail warships. Soldiers, leave quickly and never return,

At this time, the reinforcement fleet changed its formation to make the formation as chaotic as possible, and then let the returning ocean-going communication ship cover the sailing ship and some small boats that had gone away.

In the third hour, they advanced a total of 35 nautical miles, and Molin's fleet only advanced 28 nautical miles. After calculation, they were already close, very close, and there were still 66 nautical miles to go.

At this time, it is almost time for the British super fleet to appear, or it is already approaching.

In the third hour, after the reinforcement fleet dispatched the second wave of small boats, the boats returned in the fourth hour and 10 minutes, but they returned this time playing the role of African pirates and launched an attack on the reinforcement fleet. Fighting, while advancing, although the speed is not fast, it seems to have suffered heavy losses, smoke is everywhere, and then there are ships trying to escape, or fleeing to avoid the attack of pirates.

Pirates raged inside the reinforcement fleet for 10 minutes.

Then the small boats with a few captives retreated, and the reinforcement fleet quickly sank several small boats that had been emptied in the smoke. At least fifteen small boats were missing. The steam engine ship is not big, but almost all the personnel and equipment of small boats and ships under [-] tons have been put on board.

Then they fled in a hurry. This time, the steam engine ships representing [-] to [-] tons of steam engine ships will lose about [-] to [-] ships in the eyes of the enemy.

In the third and fourth divisions, the pirates attacked for the first time, and the direct loss reached about 35 ships. In the smoke, they made at least 48 to [-] wrecks of small ships under a hundred tons, and let the enemy go view.

In this way, the size of the reinforcement fleet has been reduced a lot, from 180 ships to more than 120 ships, which looks very tragic.

After being delayed here for nearly an hour, the reinforcement fleet seemed to be about to speed up, and quickly accelerated to leave this place of right and wrong.