Lord of Ming Dynasty

On the smoky battlefield, on the wide sea, the two sides fought each other with each other on a sea about fifteen to ten nautical miles long and wide.

Amidst the rumbling guns, Brangrey watched the second-class battleships in his fleet withdraw from the battle line one by one, and were injured or destroyed by the enemy's giant artillery at a distance of 1000 meters to 800 meters. None, those injured by the enemy's secondary 75mm artillery may still have time to retreat, but those hit by the giant artillery can basically only float in the sea and become living targets.

The artillery on the enemy's battleships was too brutal. The huge body of a first-class battleship basically lost most of its combat capabilities after being hit by a single shot. In front of him, a battleship that was hit by a giant artillery capsized on one side , the flames were soaring into the sky, the people on it jumped into the sea like dumplings, and were swept by the fire and smoke at a slow speed, no one was seen running out of the smoke and flames, look at the miserable appearance of that battleship, others The battleships in the battleships became impatient and hesitant, making Brang Gray furious, but there was nothing they could do, everyone was desperately keeping the distance.

In the battle of sea warships with direct artillery fire, opening the distance is equivalent to being passively beaten, because the effective distance of their artillery is about 800 meters, and the effective distance of the enemy is 200 meters or farther. Within a distance of 200 meters, the enemy's artillery has about a [-]% chance of straddling, a [-]% chance of near miss, a [-]% chance of hitting, a [-]% chance of direct hit, and a [-]% chance of direct destruction. .

There are a total of fifteen cannons on the five enemy warships, but from the perspective of people here, it seems that at least 150 cannons are firing, and the hit rate is extremely high.

Finally someone couldn't stand it anymore, and drove away quickly from a distance of 1000 meters, but was quickly stopped by the enemy's auxiliary warship. Although there were other warships chasing the enemy's warship behind, the battleship still did not hesitate. Flags lowered, white flags raised, surrender.

The furious Brangrey vowed to severely punish the captain and all the officers and men of that battleship. Before finishing his sentence, his ship was also hit by a giant cannon. The huge shells with endless kinetic energy directly penetrated the armor of the hull The five-inch-thick teak board at the back was blown apart, and the blast blast swept away all the personnel and skeletons in the cabin, and then pushed the boiler in the boiler cabin directly to the gap on the other side, and the boiler fell directly into the sea. The boilers exploded, and the air wave of the second explosion carried hot steam, roasting all the wounded in the boiler room into cooked meat, and then rushed to the upper floor and the lower floor, killing and roasting all the people inside. .

The blazing steam was wrapped in a blazing flame, burning everything that could be burned, turning them into ashes. This explosion caused all boilers to be scrapped. Fortunately, the isolated ammunition compartment was closed in time, and because of the explosion, the ammunition compartment was closed. The gunpowder barrel was soaked by the seawater that rushed in. Otherwise, the gunpowder barrel would explode, enough to make this first-class battleship, with a huge body of [-] tons, fly more than ten meters above the sea surface, and then the structure was damaged due to its own weight on the seawater. , the hull broke in the middle.

This shot calmed Brangrey down. Although the powerless battleship still had firepower to resist, it could not escape the fate of being a target. Before Brangley could speak, the officers below woke up from the panic and immediately ordered another ship The battleship approached them, lowering the small boats at the same time, preparing to transfer to other battleships, while ordinary soldiers and others jumped into the water, or snatched other small boats, preparing to leave the powerless battleship.

In half an hour, the second-class ironclad battleship fleet of the New Qin Empire took care of three first-class battleships and five second-class battleships, which made the British know that the situation was over, and ran away slowly, but unfortunately, Wu Nan would not let them go. The two second-class ironclad ships circled quickly, firing their secondary guns to show the enemy's firepower, while urging the British battleships to surrender. Soon the remaining two first-class battleships and two second-class battleships also surrendered. A [-]-ton steam engine warship approaching the enemy.

The remaining three ironclad ships of the second type and three warships came back to help the auxiliary fleet deal with those wandering soldiers.

Half an hour later, the battle also ended. Under the impact of 75mm artillery, the remaining dozen warships and warships of the enemy also surrendered or sank.

When Wu Nan, who gathered the fleet two hours later, brought the entire fleet outside the port of Korwu Town, the British in Korwu Town surrendered directly.

There is no way, the town of Corvo is too small, the artillery can cover almost 50.00% of the coastline of the island area, there is no place to run.

The island's [-] British sailors and wounded surrendered.

The main fleet left and the auxiliary fleet was defeated. Facing the aggressive fleet of the New Qin Empire, all they could do was surrender. There was no need for Korwu to resist. The New Qin Empire bombed around the island like the British did. They They all died. In order to survive, those British mercenaries immediately rebelled against the British officers, put the British officers under house arrest, and ordered to negotiate with the New Qin Empire, but after a round of artillery, their organizers were all killed. Many people died, so they had to surrender.

The battle is over and Korwu Town has been taken back, but Wu Nan knows that his fleet can't cope with the enemy's main fleet now. Twelve hours have passed, and the enemy's main fleet should have returned to Hero Port, so there is not much time left for him Yes, the enemy will definitely come back with all their strength. The auxiliary fleet was completely wiped out, and the town of Korwu was lost.

But the remaining combat power is still unstoppable by the Wunan Fleet. Although there are ironclad ships, the losses of the ironclad ships are too serious.

Although the armored ship has rough skin and thick flesh, facing the enemy's attack of solid bullets and artillery shells at a distance of 800 meters, dozens of shells were hit at once, and even the hardest iron shell would have to be twisted. The most feared thing for an iron-clad ship is vibration or explosion The shock wave damaged the pipes and propulsion shafts in the boiler room, and now several warships have suffered serious failures, and dozens of shells in the two ironclad hulls that were attacked by the enemy not only damaged the superstructure, but also damaged the hull. Some holes were blasted, some keels were broken.

Fighting against a super fleet of enemies is tiring.

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The sea breeze was blowing, and when it was dark, the fleet packed up all the supplies and personnel in Corvo Town, plus the captives and British supplies, and captured all the merchant ships and warships of the British. The huge fleet reached more than 100 The boat slowly left Korwu Town and headed for the New Qin Empire.

Although the British blockade was not broken this time, it also caused great losses to the British.

In a short period of time, the British blockade ships in the North Atlantic will drop by a level. Think about nearly a hundred warships other than the main battleships being sent into the sea, or captured, some escaped, and were dispersed. These dispersed ships It is impossible to carry out the blockade mission for a period of time, which means that except for the Azores, other places will become a blockade fault, and the British will not have too many ships to plug this hole for a period of time.

There are many loopholes in the vast North Atlantic Ocean. Even though the British blockade is tight, there are still many Spanish and French ships that use the loopholes to trade with the New Qin Empire. The low-end linen of the New Qin Empire is very important for France and Spain. It is said that it is a commodity with huge profits, and the toilet paper developed by the New Qin Empire is still very marketable, at least it is cheaper than other Spanish and French businessmen’s toilet paper, not to mention the New Qin Empire It also continued to provide various captured British ships. These ships were repaired by the New Qin Empire, which can make up for the gap that the Spaniards had no money to build ships and build large ships in recent years.

Moreover, the shipbuilding level of the New Qin Empire tends to be at the middle level of the Spanish and French shipbuilding levels, at least on steam engine warships, surpassing those of their low-end shipbuilding levels, and there are some technologies that the Spaniards and French cannot learn. , because the New Qin Empire has the steam engine manufacturing technicians and technical support of the Huaxia Empire, and its own research and development is also very fast.

Soon, the fleet led by Wu Nan traveled more than 100 nautical miles and disappeared into the night.

At this time, the main battleship of the British was long overdue. Looking at the burning island of Corvo Town, the commander of the British super fleet, a noble earl, was very silent. They were captured by the people of the New Qin Empire. Leading by the nose, they lost here and where they lost. The Portuguese were defeated, and even the facilities for repairing ships in Hero Port were destroyed. A dozen or so battleships that needed maintenance due to long-term voyage and battle aging losses had to stay in Port Heroes, waiting for the British to send someone to tow them away or to repair them.

Where the Portuguese returned, the British had to give it back to the Portuguese, and the Portuguese didn't look good on them. This time, the warship that fled back told about how they were attacked at sea. He immediately He led the fleet to the rescue. As a result, the battle was over, and he searched for some drowned crew members who escaped the enemy's search. Two hours were delayed, and another four hours were wasted on the road. It took him six hours to get here, and the enemy had already left. .

After two shellings on such a dilapidated island, there is basically not much green left. It is a waste of time to rebuild it, and it is also easy to be shelled by the enemy again. The traces of the construction of the New Qin Empire still remain, which is a pity. A good foundation has basically been laid, but it was completely smoothed out by this battle.

It is very possible that the enemy's battleship is still wandering somewhere in the open sea. Once people are kept and separated, they will be wiped out by the enemy at once. The Earl intends to let some people go, and then leave to lure the enemy to attack. , but after thinking about it for a long time, he still rejected it. He brought [-] main battleships. If there are many people left, then no one will outflank them.

He has already felt that even if he puts out all his strength, it is impossible to defeat the enemy's fleet. A fleet that can annihilate hundreds of their warships in one day is such a large fleet, or even his If the fleet goes all out, it may not be able to win. I heard that the enemy's ironclad fleet is very powerful. Britain has lost two and a half super fleets, all of which were maimed by the enemy's ironclad fleet.

After lingering for two hours, when the scout ship that searched nearby came back to report that the enemy was far away and no trace of the enemy could be found, the Earl ordered the fleet to withdraw to Hero Port. He needed to take the fleet back to England to repair and replenish personnel.

This time brought out 3000 army soldiers, 4000 naval officers and soldiers, as well as 5000 temporary sailors recruited, more than 800 handymen, and [-] sailors and some servants recruited from Hero Port, a fleet of [-] people in total , now there are only [-] army soldiers left, [-] navy officers and soldiers, [-] temporarily recruited sailors, and only a little over [-] handymen left, and [-] people recruited from the Port of Heroes in Portugal, which can be called a loss heavy.

He didn't dare to stay here anymore.

But Wunan and the others didn't know that they were already 150 nautical miles away. They didn't bring many ocean-going reconnaissance ships, so they wouldn't keep ships behind. They have to rush back to the New Qin Empire now. The state of the entire fleet In fact, it's not good. Brangley's method is actually good, at least they have sneaked into them. Wunan and the others didn't know it at first, and didn't notice their approaching attack.

It can be seen from this that the British battleships can still threaten the ironclad ship at close range, and the armor and artillery of the ironclad ship cannot resist the enemy's attack when they are attacked by the enemy's close-up saturated attack.

It took me a month to go out, but it took two months to come back, and a month and a half of fighting in the sea in the middle, and it took a total of four and a half months.

The warships were all wounded, this is Wu Nan's style.

The harvest was good this time. Aside from the enemy ships and personnel captured during the guerrilla warfare, they had already been sent back first. This time, they captured more than 60 enemy ships of various sizes, nearly 1 personnel, and seized countless goods. At least hundreds of thousands of Huaxia coins and jewels and gold coins of inestimable value were seized in Hero Harbor, as well as various living supplies and industrial supplies that were scarce in the New Qin Empire, especially coal, iron ingots, and copper ingots. It can be said to be a big victory And return.

Everyone was busy, Li Ya personally came to welcome Wu Nan, who had returned from the great victory, handed over all the ships to the sailors, and handed over the goods to the management personnel sent by Zhao Shuai, Wu Nan and Li Ya came to the Juyi Hall, The two of them drank tea made from pure tea leaves from the Chinese Empire, and Wu Nan made some reports on the situation and situation these days.

Li Ya patted him on the shoulder, "It's difficult for you these days, but you still have to go out, Lu Fang stays, let him manage the affairs of the navy, Mo Lin is busy now, no one is available, Song Qing and Jin Lin There's a lot going on in Nova Scotia, dealing with friction with the French.

They have occupied another peninsula, but those French are allowed to stay there, but the French are not honest, they are still very hostile to us, they are not the same as the French navy and domestic.

They belong to the faction of the French colonies, and they are very friendly with the people of the British colonies, cooperating and fighting.

This is an unstable factor, so when the French broke with us, we should try our best to get enough supplies from France, and let our aid channels be unimpeded, and try our best to grow our power before the European Westerners block us strength. "

Wu Nan patted his chest and said, "After a few days of rest, I will lead the fleet to set off as soon as possible, and we must make our business routes basically unimpeded within half a year."

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"These are fifteen merchant ships. There is not much loss. The tonnage is not bad. Remove the weapons and remodel them. They can be used as our transport ships or disguised scout ships. Although the speed is not fast, it is still possible to go to Xindingzhou in the North American continent. Yes, for a short distance, these sailboats save trouble, but there are many people who use them, and slaves can be used to replace most of the work. After a period of time, if the Spaniards or French are interested, they can be sold to them.”

Lu Fang introduced to Li Ya the British merchant ship they brought back.

"There are ten sail and steam engine ships here, the tonnage is not large, about [-] tons or less, although they can also run long-distance commercial transportation, but it is not cost-effective, so we can sell these to the Spaniards and French next time. It is a Portuguese ship, and one or two British ships can still undertake our round-the-island transportation task."

Lu Fang knew the British and Portuguese ships he got back this time like the back of his hand.

"These are five first-class battleships, we don't need them, but their firepower is strong, especially the old guns on them and some British-style rapid-fire guns are still very good for our merchant ships, and some of them can be dismantled and installed in our ships. Merchant ships, or add some old guns to them, and sell them to the French and Spaniards, especially the Spaniards, who have great expectations for the British battleships, and it is best for them to buy second-hand battleships from us But it’s okay, it’s easy and cheap.”

Lu Fang is very familiar with these things. When he was on the island, he was in charge of transactions in this area in Xinbaodao County.

"There are also these second-class battleships, third-class battleships, fourth-class steam engine battleships, fifth-class sailing warships, and sixth-class armed warships. It can be said that the British have done a good job in this aspect and formed a whole series. Their individual The manufactured steam ship looks very effective and fast, but it is not as durable as these battleships, and it has no advantage over us in terms of firepower."

"Look, there are still quite a few intact steam engine battleships, all of which are about 30 to 30 tons. Our auxiliary battleship fleet lost almost all of the warships sent out this time. We can organize these warships into Our fleet, especially the auxiliary fleet, may add some warships to the patrol fleet on the island that is now in name only. From the warships captured these few times, we can still pick out more than [-] warships, plus the [-] we left behind. There are many such warships, almost sixty.

The patrol fleet also needs to take into account both speed and transportation volume, so it is mainly merchant ships, supplemented by fast or small-tonnage sail or steam engine ships. In this way, the strength of the patrol fleet seems to be the weakest, but only one message needs to be sent, and usually It can also catch pirates or enemy scout ships, or it can be used as a river transport ship. "

Li Ya thought for a while, "Five first-class battleships are still useful, and seven second-class battleships are also useful. Eighteen third-class battleships, plus the steam engine battleships over [-] tons that were selected and not sold by previous captives, we An auxiliary fleet squadron can be organized to garrison the mainland. In the future, the ironclad ships will go out to fight. The second squadron of the auxiliary fleet can be stationed in the mainland. It can use continuous training to drive enemy ships and know how to use them for combat. staff.

For staffing, choose one-third of the Han Chinese and one-fifth of the mercenaries. They have experienced a few years ago and have a good impression of us, and the remaining one-third of the surrendered captives and slaves are selected for staffing. this fleet.

As a mobile fleet, you will be the commander of the fleet. I will ask Wu Nan to choose a new commander of the auxiliary fleet to lead the third squadron of the auxiliary fleet to cooperate with him in combat.

Your task is to undertake the training of naval reserve personnel while undertaking homeland defense, and at the same time communicate with the First Squadron of the Auxiliary Fleet commanded by Song Qing over there, and be ready to reinforce or provide them with supplies at any time.