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This makes him, the head of the Navy, so embarrassing.

However, this matter still needs to be done. The enemy has retreated, and they should return to the New Qin Empire. Dozens of warships turned around, and Mo Lin took over the command without hesitation. Lin, then Wu Nan was sent to the auxiliary fleet, while Song Qing was sent to the supply fleet without hesitation, and Lu Fang was sent to take care of the prisoners. On several second-class warships, the prisoners were concentrated Here, the wounded were hit on several wounded ships.

There is no way, this is the level, don't look at Song Qing who brought people to rescue Wunan, but Wunan has no awareness of being rescued at all. If it weren't for Song Qing's fleet, he might either be killed or captured. After all, with the British troops he led The auxiliary fleet composed of French and French battleships, guerrilla warfare is not caught by the enemy, it is because of his good skills, once surrounded and besieged by the enemy, he may not even be able to fight an auxiliary fleet of the enemy.

Because he has been fighting for three months, and the number of battleships around him is getting less and less, and the combat capabilities are getting smaller and smaller. They are all warships that have been repaired several times. Even those captured enemies have to fight first. The damage is heavy, The enemy can only be captured without damaging the basic combat capabilities. Now his fleet is almost at the end of its strength and is surrounded by Major General Carter's super fleet. It is Song Qing who came in time to survive, otherwise he will die or be captured.

But even so, he still snatched the most powerful ironclad battleship fleet as soon as he came up, and left all the burdens to Song Qing. Now Molin is doing the same, where is the level, he took over the command of the fleet, It is only right and proper.

The fleet sailed slowly towards the New Qin Empire. In the early morning of the next day, they speeded up and joined the returning fleet before running two hundred nautical miles. The fleet began to grow larger, reaching forty ships.

This size is equivalent to a super fleet of the British. The British scout ships and some small fleets wandering around did not dare to come up to stroke the tiger's beard, and ran away immediately when they saw it.

The first thousand and 370 chapters and nine new starting points

After 28 days of sailing, the fleet led by Morin finally returned to Newfoundland, the mainland of the New Qin Empire.

Li Ya and the others led all the officials and officers of the New Qin Empire to welcome them. When the fleet returned, everyone finally felt worried. The entire battle to welcome the support fleet took half a year. From getting the news to waiting for the armored fleet to take off, the British The people's strong blockade was delayed for three months, and then it took half a year to fight, support, fight, rescue, escort, and rescue again.

After returning, Mo Lin made a review to Li Ya and the others. Li Ya and the others were also very sorry. The loss this time was not small. At least twelve ironclad ships were sent, three of which were sunk by the enemy, and six of them were seriously injured. The two ships that were sent were also in bad condition, and the five ships that were sent later were also slightly injured and needed to be overhauled for half a month.

But one thing that cannot be ignored is that they did not have it before, but now they have a beginning. Thousands of people in the New Qin Empire were also captured or disappeared. What to do with these thousands of people? Letting them return is not good for the New Qin Empire. Everyone thinks that they must be rescued, but a frustrating fact is that they can't afford to offend the British, and the British don't seem to care about these captured British people. They haven't come yet. redemption.

The new Qin Empire captured a total of 3 British pure fighters ranging from army soldiers to navy soldiers, and 3000 soldiers and officers hired by the British, army and navy soldiers belonging to the British, and British explorers and colonists There are even more British immigrants, about [-] to [-]. This time, after half a year of fighting, more than [-] British and various British soldiers and immigrants were captured one after another.

This matter has to be discussed in the long term. Now that the officers and soldiers have returned, no, it seems that there is still a fleet that has not returned, and that is Zhuang Lin's fleet. Zhuang Lin's fleet has also attracted two enemy super fleets, and is now struggling in the Caribbean Sea.

After returning, Mo Lin sent Lu Fang to lead an ocean-going reconnaissance fleet to check the situation of the Zhuang Lin Fleet. The Zhuang Lin Fleet has not heard from it for three months. Since it was sent back to the supply fleet, a batch of wounded warships were sent back. , and a group of British immigrants and captives, the Zhuanglin fleet lost contact, and everyone in the Caribbean is still very strange to where.

Now that Morin is back, the most important thing is to rest and reorganize the fleet.

After Zhuang Lin came back, he immediately dispatched the Second Squadron of the Auxiliary Fleet to pick up the wounded and prisoners in Korwu Town, as well as the wounded warships, and then replaced two [-]-ton sailing warships in good condition to replace the guards there. The warships, in addition, sent two camouflaged [-]-ton sail warships to replace the warships guarding the relay ship in the Mediterranean Sea, and sent replaced garrison personnel and newly added personnel and slaves.

Juyi hall, all the officers and officials gathered in one hall, this time all the personnel except Zhuang Lin came back.

Jin Lin also finished building roads and railways around the island, and returned to Xinxianju Town to report on his work.

Swee Tianlei returned to Xinxianju Town for the first time to report on his duties after nearly a year of pacifying the entire island.

Tang Yaweng also returned to the Juyi Hall of the camp in Xinxianju Town for the first time to report on his work after not returning for nearly eight months.

Luo Zuo also returned for the first time after not returning for more than half a year.

Now the entire New Qin Empire lacks one Zhuang Lin for officials and military officers.

As the former nominal second-in-command, Wu Kejing first started, "After five years, we have finally gained a firm foothold in Newfoundland. Now that we have fully occupied Newfoundland, this will be our homeland from now on. country."

Everyone clapped their hands excitedly after hearing this. After suffering for such a long time, they finally came to the fore. The New Qin Empire finally stood up. They defeated the French, drove away the British, and fought several times with the British. In land battles and naval battles, they defeated the British every time, and this time they took food from the British and regained their own Han population.

As a result, the Han population of the New Qin Empire no longer hovered around three or four thousand. For the first time, it surpassed the number of foreign mercenaries and the island's population advantage. With a population of 11, the Han population became the largest ethnic group on the island.

"Now we have our powerful imperial army, powerful army, powerful navy, and our powerful people." Wu Kejing became more excited as he spoke, stood up and waved his arms, infecting everyone.

Everyone stood up and shouted together, clapped their hands together, waved their arms together, rejoiced together, and cheered together.

"Okay, now everyone's duties are basically settled. Everyone will keep their localities in the future. The main civil affairs will be presided over by Wu Kejing. In addition, Wu Kejing will act as the agent for the civil affairs management of Xinbaodao County. Luo Zuo is still the army of Xinbaodao County. As for the garrison, Zhao Shuai is the civil affairs officer of Xinxianju Township, Jinlin is the army garrison of the county, Tang Yaweng is the civil affairs officer of the main island of Newfoundland, and Swee Tianlei is a major of the army, in charge of army affairs, and concurrently serves as the army garrison of the main island.

Mo Lin was the major of the navy, Wu Nan was on guard for the acting captain of the navy, Zhuang Lin was on guard for the captain of the auxiliary fleet after returning, Song Qing was promoted to a second lieutenant, and later guarded the supply fleet, Lu Fang was on guard for the ocean-going reconnaissance fleet, and another officer Xue Xiangxiang was on guard for the navy Division shore artillery defense.In addition, the cavalry garrison lieutenant Zhao Dongfang is responsible for the patrol and mobilization of all the cavalry on the island, and the artillery lieutenant Lu Hope is the garrison for the entire artillery. "

All of them are juniors. These people don't even have names in the Chinese Empire, so they are just a little higher than the old farmers.

But here, they are the founding heroes, among them Xue Xiangxiang, Zhao Dongfang, and Lu Hope, they are the officers of the original officer corps.

Officers from the officer corps came out bit by bit, rose to high positions bit by bit, and gradually made their contributions to the establishment of the new Qin Empire. Now there are still seven or eight officers in the officer corps who are still at the bottom, but because the army With the expansion of the navy, their rank and officer corps status were reflected, and the vacancies were immediately raised, and the last one had the rank of a second lieutenant, leading thousands of people to garrison or fight.

Navy officers and soldiers are promoted quickly.Because the main battlefield is now at sea, they are an island country.

Same as UK.

Their goal is to become a maritime hegemon like Britain, with countless colonies to support the country's strong hope.

Because they are in the West, this model is the best, unlike in the East, where they can expand their own land and territory infinitely, which is completely encroaching and cannot accommodate other countries. There are too many ethnic groups in Western countries, unlike the East. Cultures are very different.

There are so many British people on the island who would rather be slaves than accept into the New Qin Empire. People from other countries would rather be mercenaries than be part of the New Qin Empire. They just want to make money, unlike Huaxia, which has a very high cohesion , to unify.

Chapter 380 Formation of Auxiliary Fleet

After the meeting, the New Qin Empire started a new journey. Morin integrated the navy, and the warships that had returned had been reorganized. The auxiliary fleet had ships from the supply fleet brought by the reinforcement fleet, so the first to eighth Patrol squadrons were immediately formed, each with a [-]-ton sailing warship or a [-]-ton sailing warship.

After the Juyi Hall meeting, the navy returned to its water village, and the naval headquarters held another meeting. This time, the shore artillery brigade also participated in the navy's meeting. Cannon troops.

The navy is stationed in the dock warehouse outside the city, a warehouse in a water village.

It is close to the largest wharf, the largest shipyard, and the shipyard in Xinxianju Township.

"We further refine the patrol squadron to patrol around the main island. The auxiliary fleet will focus on combat and dispatch the island guard missions where the relay ships stop and go out to escort, do business, or protect the surrounding waters of the colony. The main fleet Responsible for foreign operations and patrolling the seas and borders of various places."

"The auxiliary fleet is currently divided into three squadrons, one to three, and each squadron has eleven ships. Using the sails and steam engine battleships we currently have, in principle, we need all the sails and all the steam engine battleships."

"Then all the ships in the auxiliary fleet must be regularized, with larger tonnage, stronger firepower and maneuverability, not too few. The combined three fleets can surpass the British fleet. This is a bit of a disadvantage. "Wu Nan stroked his chin and made a very subtle request for his auxiliary fleet.

Mo Lin lowered his head and smiled, and said very cheerfully: "All the steam engine battleships and sail warships over [-] tons are deployed to form the auxiliary fleet. It's not that we don't want to give more, but we need to get so many battleships in good condition with strong combat effectiveness. We can't draw it out, we lost too many auxiliary warships this time.

After the war with the French, we obtained a lot of French sail warships. After the war with the British, most of the small-tonnage warships were sunk or dismantled, and then they were all sold to the French. In the future, we will not have small warships under 700 tons, and after the decisive battle with the British, we will not have many [-]-ton sails or more than [-]-ton steam engine paddle warships.

After this war with the British, except for the more than 30 small warships brought by the reinforcement fleet and the small warships of the Turkish fleet, we have almost no sailing warships and steam engine warships of [-] tons or less. .

After we sent the Turks away this time, basically the better 20-ton steam engine warships and sail warships were given to the Turks, and we gave them so many of our specialties, and paid them nearly one million Chinese dollars Currency, we emptied the Huaxia Yuan currency here. When the Turkish fleet came, there were only more than 60 warships, and when they returned, there were more than [-] warships, but this is what they deserve.

The remaining [-] tons, and the supply fleet below [-] tons, and the sail and steam engine warships exchanged from the Turks have been incorporated into the first to eighth local offshore patrol and transport fleets.

Some of the old [-]- and [-]-ton galleons and experimental steam-powered warships we've dialed in to our home inshore patrol fleet for patrol and transport.

Your auxiliary fleet is the auxiliary force of the main fleet. Of course, it cannot be established casually. I can assure you of this. Now we are in short supply of [-]-ton steam engine warships and sail warships. You want them now, and there are none here. You can only use those [-]-ton or [-]-ton sail warships and steam engine warships. Although these warships have participated in many wars, they are still in the same condition and can still serve for a few years.

I hope that one day your auxiliary fleet can also be replaced by ironclad ships. After all, those sailed ironclads that were remodeled have not been fought. We suffered heavy losses this time because we don’t have more ironclads, and our steam engine battleships and sailing warships are not as good as others. Many, and the firepower is not as strong as other battleships. If we hadn't owned a super-defensive ironclad ship, we might have nothing to do this time.

Therefore, improving the combat effectiveness of the auxiliary fleet is what we should do. To increase combat effectiveness, we must equip powerful warships. Now it seems that the third-class battleships captured by the British all the way to the first-class battleships, equipped with several [-]-ton battleships A steam engine battleship or a [-]-ton sail warship should be able to barely confront the enemy. "

Wu Nan cast a glance at him. This is not too bad. There are seventeen or eight first-class battleships that have captured the British, ten to twenty second-class battleships, and twenty or thirty third-class, fourth-class, and fifth-class battleships. The fourth and fifth ranks belong to the patrol fleet. After the third rank, they can barely be included in the supply fleet. The second rank can be transformed into general battleships that can be used as auxiliary fleets. After a while, 33 ships can also be assembled, and some remaining warships of the New Qin Empire in good condition can be added.

There are such supplementary warships.

However, Wu Nan believes that this kind of bloated British battleship is really not comparable to a [-]-ton steam engine battleship. Although they are also powered by steam engines, they still have masts and sails, otherwise they cannot be driven by unreliable steam engine power alone This kind of battleship equipped with hundreds of almost [-] cannons, steam engines, due to technical limitations, the highest technology is still in the Chinese Empire, whether it is the British who studied, or the New Qin Empire, the godson of the Chinese Empire Unable to obtain the most advanced steam engine technology of the Chinese Empire, the steam engine sometimes has no driving force, or the driving force is weak.

Under Wu Nan's proposal, these battleships and some good steam engine battleships and sail warships were all returned to the auxiliary fleet, a total of 38 ships.

According to Mo Lin's proposal, the 38 ships organized three fleets, one was sent to solve the problem of interception by the British at sea, and the other two and the remaining five battleships commanded by Wu Nan formed a fleet to rescue Zhuang Lin.