Lord of Ming Dynasty

On the 20th and fifth day of the third month, there were more than 300 Han Chinese and more than 30 mercenaries left in the castle, but there were more than 1000 wounded. At this time, Zhuang Lin didn't know what to do.

The enemy had already entered the castle, and the escaped and captured British returned, and the British organized more people to fight against them in the streets.

As soon as they gritted their teeth, Zhuang Lin and the others led the rest of the people, some lightly wounded, to break out that night.

The direction of their breakout was South America, because Zhuang Lin knew that if they headed north and returned to the New Qin Empire, they might be caught by the enemy and be surrounded, and their entire army would be wiped out.

Breaking through at night, I ran seventy or eighty miles that night. I didn’t dare to rest much the next day, so I continued to run, sticking to the foot of the mountain, and ran to the Spaniard’s place, Cordoba, in ten days.

When they arrived here, more than 500 people, more than half of them were wounded, fought with some local tribes, then stayed for a few days, continued to run down, climbed over the mountains, and ran to Panama in the Caribbean in a total of one and a half months.

There were only 230 people left in the whole team, and everyone else died.

Zhuang Lin felt a sense of sadness from his heart, and couldn't help crying bitterly.

The people next to him quickly comforted him.

After crying bitterly, life is still going on, and they have to go back to the New Qin Empire. Now Panama is still a Spanish colony, and there will be no British to chase them here.

However, the Spaniards here didn't like them either, so they drove them away. They fought dozens of times with the Spaniards, and nearly half of the wounded died because of the Spanish pursuit.

They are not safe here, but the management of the Spaniards here is not very strict, the wide area is no man's land, and it is very chaotic, which allows Zhuang Lin and the others to stop and rest for a while.

At this time, the New Qin Empire had ended its sea war with the British, defeated the British, and successfully rescued the reinforcement fleet.

Lu Fang and his ocean-going scout fleet are heading towards the Gulf of Mexico in the Caribbean Sea.

The first thousand 380 chapters are very miserable British people

In the Gulf of Mexico, the British captured the castle and rested for nearly a month. Their two fleets lost a lot, almost 120 warships under [-] tons were lost, and the entire Caribbean colonial fleet lost ships of all sizes. Nearly [-] ships, nearly [-] colonial sailors and slave casualties directly affected their military strength and population growth in the colonies, and the commercial losses were even greater. This year, almost all of the income of the British in the Caribbean Sea was invested in this encirclement and suppression battle. .

It was the Dutch who lost again. Although they only fought one game, they lost more than 20 warships and nearly 3000 people, which made them slightly disadvantaged in the competition with the French.

At sea, their pirate ships fought hard with the French pirate ships, and the friction with the British increased. The British were their enemies. This time they indirectly helped the British, but the British did not appreciate it. The colonial islands fought several small battles with the Dutch, and the two sides lost hundreds of people and a dozen small boats. The pirates on both sides intensified their attacks on the merchant ships of both sides.

The British have many enemies in the Caribbean, the Spaniards and the French, the Dutch, and the Dutch can't have much to do with them for the time being, because the Dutch have no colonies in the Gulf of Mexico, but the Spaniards and the French have colonies, Tempe Coe was originally French, occupied by the British, and later occupied by the Spaniards, and the British snatched it back.

Zhuang Lin and the others detained the merchant ships of the French and the Spaniards in Tampico, which was tantamount to indirectly declaring war on the French and the Spaniards, so the French and the Spaniards would not help them, and the Spaniards would even pursue them.

The offensive and defensive battle between the British and the New Qin Empire in Tampico was very tragic. The Spaniards quickly reacted. After the British left thousands of wounded and slaves, after more than 1000 British immigrants, the Spaniards landed The soldiers and horses on board came over immediately, and it took three days to capture Tampico.

The British had just left and the Spaniards unceremoniously recaptured Tampico.

The British were so angry that a large-scale naval battle broke out with the Spaniards in Havana. The Spaniards did not have many fleets, but they still fought tenaciously. The two sides chased, destroyed, and attacked merchant ships on the sea.

Before the battle between Spain and the British was over, another naval battle broke out between the French and the British, so the British fleet stayed in the Caribbean and fought hard with the French and Spaniards. The two super fleets became smaller and smaller .

The war that broke out between the Spaniards and the French and the British in the Caribbean Sea completely affected the commercial trade of the three countries in the Caribbean Sea. For a while, the number of ships in the Caribbean Sea shrank rapidly, from tens of thousands of ships per day to less than [-] ships per day. The Caribbean coast is in depression. Today the French blockade the ports of the British islands, and tomorrow the British fleet blockades the French ports.

In the face of shrinking commercial trade, the Dutch couldn't sit still, and began to unite with the French and the Spaniards to expel the British. The British colonial islands in the Caribbean were attacked by three companies, and the two super fleets were divided into several small groups. The fleet was busy fighting the fire, and those who chased Zhuang Lin and the others on the shore were quickly repelled by the Spaniards and had to retreat to the colony.

In the Caribbean Sea, the British lost nearly 35 ships, and the main force of warships also lost about [-] ships. The two super fleets were beaten and only one fleet remained.

But they have to continue to guard the Caribbean Sea, otherwise, the French and Spaniards will rob their colonies.

The ten ships of Lu Fang's ocean-going reconnaissance fleet disguised themselves when they arrived in the Caribbean Sea, and then separated to investigate the enemy and Zhuang Lin's movements. They came early, but they had no ability to help Zhuang Lin and the others, so they could only keep sending news back. New Qin Empire.

One month after Zhuang Lin and the others disappeared, they finally figured out everything that happened to Zhuang Lin and the others. Lu Fang knew that they couldn't play a role, so he left four scout ships behind and returned to the New Qin Empire with six scout ships.

On the way, they ran into the rescue fleet led by Wu Nan. Wu Nan left behind four scout ships, and then asked Lu Fang to return to the New Qin Empire with two scout ships to report.

In the New Qin Empire, in addition to the three ships that were sunk, and one iron-clad ship that was sent to the recruits as a training ship, there were thirteen iron-clad ships left among the seventeen. The new type ironclad ships formed the main battleship fleet of the new ironclad ships, and the two newly built modified type II ironclad ships have also begun to lay the keels.

The remodeled Type II ironclad ship is slightly smaller than the previous Type II ironclad ship, 150 tons, 75 tons smaller than before, but the firepower has increased from four 37mm cannons on the flanks to six on one side. Between the first deck and the second deck, turret artillery is used, and six [-]mm rapid-fire guns are added to the first deck. There are a total of three sides on one side in the middle of the conning tower, mast, and other raised high decks. doors, six [-]mm rapid-fire guns.

That is to say, the firepower has been enhanced, and waterline fish scales have been added to the two wings of the lower deck, which has increased the speed of the ship and the flexibility of steering, which has increased the buoyancy of the ship and sailed more diligently on the water.

Increased boilers, enlarged coal bunkers, reduced crew members, and reduced crew bunkers are tantamount to sacrificing comfort and increasing combat capabilities.

The overall change is not big, but the combat effectiveness has been further enhanced.Three-dimensional firepower is formed from short-range, medium-range, long-range, and ultra-long-range.

After Lu Fang came back, he listened to Lu Fang's report. Everyone brainstormed and found that the Caribbean Sea is now a hot boiler. Now that they participate in it, it is easy to break out of war with the French and Spaniards. But Zhuang Lin and the others have to save them, so they ordered Song Qing took nine ironclad warships that had been repaired, simply strengthened their firepower, and remodeled to help Wunan.

And Lu Fang took two ocean-going reconnaissance ships, eight ships from the eighth squadron of the patrol fleet, and thirteen ships from the first squadron of the auxiliary fleet to follow with supplies. Therefore, the supply fleet brought more than 1000 students who graduated before, 300 new Han Chinese who had just been familiar with the new Qin Empire for three months, and a mercenary regiment of more than 300 who had just finished fighting on land. People, a Han regiment of more than 800 people, a cavalry battalion, and an artillery battalion, a total of 500 people, as well as 3000 prisoners and [-] slaves, went to sea together with the patrol fleet.

What Li Ya meant was to go to the Caribbean to snatch the British colonies, at least where the New Qin Empire would have a foothold.

The poor British lost a lot of manpower and ships because of chasing Zhuang Lin. Now they are fighting with the French and the Spaniards. They are struggling, but they don’t know that the New Qin Empire will launch revenge actions against them. The arrows are directed at them Colonies in the Caribbean.

380 Chapter Four Another Holland

The disappearance of Zhuang Lin and the others concerned the hearts of countless people in the New Qin Empire. This was the first time that the New Qin Empire suffered such a huge failure. A fleet was wiped out by the British, and the whereabouts of a relatively outstanding officer in the officer corps was unknown.

In the officer corps, except for those who have already emerged, the others are basically broken. Of the 41 officers, except for Li Ya and Wu Kejing, most of the other 39 were killed or injured and retired, fading their shining brilliance , becoming a dull lump of rusty iron, which will soon rot together with the soil here.

Nowadays, the real senior members of the military officer corps have already come forward, and those who are not have disappeared. It can be said that the military officer corps has completed its mission and officially disappeared. It has been replaced by various civil and military generals of the New Qin Empire, the civil and military team of the New Qin Empire, Apart from the weakness of the civil service system, the army and navy are not weak at all, and each has a few top people guarding the scene.

After nearly ten years of fleeing, struggling, fighting, and founding the country, the New Qin Empire has really developed.

11 Han Chinese, more than 3 mercenaries and their families, and [-] to [-] British captives who have not yet surrendered to the New Qin Empire, but have actually made a lot of contributions to the New Qin Empire, and their dependents.

As well as hundreds of thousands of native slaves and their families, the population of the entire Newfoundland island reached 32.

With the rapid development of city construction, castle construction, road construction, workshop construction, and railway construction, the entire island is in a boom of construction.

The rapid demand for materials led to the rapid development of the industry of the New Qin Empire. The textile industry has already undertaken 80.00% of the goods demand of the French merchants and 20.00% of the goods demand of the Spaniards.

The New Qin Empire set up a customs office to levy a tax of 20% on exported linen products, which is better than nothing, but it can collect about [-] French francs of gold coins every month.

With the improvement of the quality of textile linen, the income of the new Qin Empire is increasing by [-]% to [-]% every month.

From the linen cloth that can only be used as a shroud and a rag-like cloth to cover goods, to the cloak that can be worn on the body, as a soldier's smock outside, to the artistic linen with fine silk threads, complex weaving texture, and artistic sense, it has already been developed. Cloth that can be tailored to make good clothes has become qualified, which makes the sales of linen soar.

With the mining of an asbestos mine on the island, the workshop was established and the construction was successful. Asbestos filaments were added to the linen, coated with fireproof paint, and then made into canvas, oilcloth, and some previously manufactured linen has been reprocessed and has become It has become an indispensable canvas material for sailboats at sea, as well as industrial cloth to cover goods and prevent water ingress. Of course, the price has skyrocketed.

Linen rope has also been added tough and elastic rattan, as well as asbestos silk, making it fireproof and strong. It has also become an indispensable item for sailboats or steamboat cables. Nearly half of the French come to buy ships. Cables of the New Qin Empire.

Because the giant wood shipbuilding resources on the adjacent peninsula were exhausted, the New Qin Empire banned the cutting of giant trees on the island. The giant wood disappeared from the commodity catalog on Newfoundland, and was replaced by Inexhaustible. Some dead trees in the woods or charcoal made from replanted tree resources that can be developed are essential for Newfoundland, which is wet and cold in winter, so the output is also huge.

Although the output is huge, the New Qin Empire still prohibits export, because the unrestrained production of charcoal is a waste of tree resources in Newfoundland, and the added value of charcoal is not high, but it still passes the export of some high-quality charcoal. It was decided to impose a 20.00% tax on this kind of charcoal, but there are still French and Spanish merchant ships willing to buy some good-quality charcoal for their own use on board, or to sell it to Europe. Charcoal resources bring [-] yuan to the New Qin Empire every month Income in French francs or Spanish ducats up to fifty thousand ducats.

In addition to these two commodities, there are also the sale of old ships and slaves. Every month at least three old ships and a thousand slaves are bought by the French and Spaniards, and later the Portuguese come to trade. So far, all the old ships that captured the French have basically been lost or bought by people from these countries. Except for the old ships that captured the British that sank due to battles, the ships in the port can basically be recovered in a month or two. Sell ​​one.

Because after all, Europe is still an era dominated by sailing ships.

The Portuguese even bought seven restored [-]-ton sailing ships for maritime trade, [-] local native slaves, and nearly [-] old-style cannons captured by the British navy. Come to a new type of artillery, the value of guns and ammunition is nearly [-] Spanish gold coins.

With the end of the large-scale naval battle with the British, although the way for the New Qin Empire to receive reinforcements and supplies from the Chinese Empire from the coast of Turkey and Russia through the Strait of Gibraltar is still not very smooth, the British will still block them, but there is little resistance. Occasionally A small war broke out, and everyone won and lost each other, but the new Qin Empire's maritime trade routes to France and the Spaniards have been unimpeded.