Lord of Ming Dynasty

Now the British are desperately building and catching up, and the total base is only 10,000+, which just replaced the old sailing warships of more than [-] tons that died out, and occupied the active position of Western warships.

This situation will always continue, because those ships will not disappear all at once, and they will still generate value.

At a distance of more than ten nautical miles, the reconnaissance ship intercepting the enemy could easily fall into the artillery fire that came later, but there was no way to do it, because if it was not stopped, the large fleet would be tracked, and as long as it could be delayed for half an hour, the enemy would Impossible to track down.

The violent 75mm artillery shells smashed down, and the sea boiled.

Jin Qishun also made up his mind to stop it.

The remaining nine warships surrounded the enemy, and the British scout ship fled immediately. Their arms and legs were too thin to fight against the enemy.

Even this kind of slow and injured warship.

In the distance, Song Qing is leading the fleet anxiously on their way, with each warship traveling at a speed of thirteen knots. A dozen nautical miles behind them, the British warships are also speeding up to catch up. Song Qing and the others have turned around several times in a row. None of them got rid of the pursuit of the British large fleet and super fleet.

Originally, it was just to stop it, Song Qing didn't want to fight against the British super fleet.

Using distance and artillery fire to stop the enemy for half an hour, he led the enemy fleet to circle in place. An hour later, when the enemy arrived at the battlefield, they fought harder. After an hour and a half, they gradually retreated, heading towards Ke After retreating [-] nautical miles in the direction of Erwu Town, they circled back and continued to pursue the auxiliary transport and supply fleet.

After being overtaken by the enemy, fight again and run again.

The first thousand and 480 chapters three raids in the night

In the night, Jin Qishun successfully sank three British scout ships that were trying to overtake them to track the large fleet. The British crew who fell into the water turned around and ran away. The enemy was only three nautical miles away from them at this time. When they turned around, the enemy The [-]mm naval gun resounded through the sky, almost lighting up half of the sky, but there was nothing wrong with it. The [-]mm gun could hit three nautical miles, but with that accuracy, unless it was shelling land targets, it could only scare people.

Jin Qishun turned around three nautical miles in front of the enemy's super fleet and ran away with the fleet. The fleet was not dragged down by the seriously injured warships. It was because he had suffered minor injuries and was able to run at a speed of [-] knots. The enemy behind him pursued like crazy. They, the big fleet over there has been hidden in the darkness more than a dozen nautical miles away, and the fleet here accelerated to a speed of six nautical miles in less than half an hour.

The British sent fast steam engine warships with relatively small tonnage to chase down, trying to entangle them, but it was obvious that the steam engine ships could not keep these ironclad ships.

Although the British super fleet was also chasing after Jin Qishun and the others, they never caught them. The two sides retreated while fighting like this. Soon they arrived at the south of Korwu Town. At this time, the large fleet had already turned to Korwu Town in the dark, heading northwest, at a bearing of about 240 degrees, about ten degrees away from Jin Qishun and them, about forty Then turn around and change direction to the southwest 260, and catch up with the British fleet in parallel.

The speed of the large fleet of the New Qin Empire is about eight knots, and it is now in the dark. It is unnecessary to keep too fast. In case of damage or loss of a warship, it will be difficult to account for too much loss. After all, now There are at least 800 people on a battleship, and nearly 500 people on a large battleship. The loss of the New Qin Empire cannot bear it.

Three hours later, Song Qing and the others arrived at the place where Jin Qishun exchanged fire with the British reconnaissance ship, and rescued a Hessian mercenary sailor on the British warship that the British missed. The fleet separated, and the British chased towards Jin Qishun and the others. Song Qing weighed it, and sent several warships that were injured but did not lose their combat effectiveness and speed to pursue along the direction of the large fleet. The warships continued to pursue the British Grand Fleet.

At midnight, both sides were exhausted, and they were sailing in the dark sea. The sea was not very windy, the weather was not very clear, and the visual distance was less than one nautical mile. The fleet slowed down carefully, and the speed was only about six knots. speed.

At this time, they had already left the town of Korwu, within the range of the Azores, and were heading back to the mainland of the New Qin Empire.

Two hours ago, after confirming that they had nothing to do, Wu Nan had already turned his head and returned to Hero Port. They could not leave Hero Port too far.

After the telegram contacted Jin Qishun and the others to know the location, Song Qing and the others became more leisurely in their pursuit.

The night was long, and eight hours later, Song Qing and the others advanced [-] nautical miles, constantly adjusting their speed according to the sea conditions. Suddenly, a flash of light appeared in the eyes of the watchman on duty on the mast. In that sea area, the flash suddenly became bigger in his eyes, and the watchman immediately pulled the bell beside him.

And regained his senses, shouted loudly to the bottom: "Enemy attack, range 270, distance 1850 meters, one shell."

Following his shout and the sound of bells, everyone on the battleship woke up, rushed out from under the cabin, and rushed to various posts. The muzzle points to the direction reported by the lookout.

Before they could fully rush out and rush to the post, in the darkness, more flashes of light struck from that direction, and the first shell, with a sharp whistling sound, fell into a place 150 meters away from the left front of the fleet.

The awakened fleet still did not fight back. Song Qing rushed into the command tower and raised the binoculars to observe carefully. During this period, more shells fell around the fleet, about 100 shells. The enemy fleet was about 268 or [-] ships, because the night was too dark. The enemy was far away again, and the identity of the enemy was unclear. Song Qing ordered the fleet to use light signals to issue orders to the warships behind, turn to the bearing [-], speed up the sailing, and follow the flagship.

Therefore, regardless of the enemy's artillery shells, the fleet began to maneuver in the sea, deviated from two azimuths and continued to advance.

The warship that came out immediately figured out the position of the enemy warship that fired and which side it belonged to.

The two sides sailed in parallel for more than ten nautical miles, and there was no firing on this side. It was not until they found out that it was only a British fleet of about [-] warships that fired, Song Qing and the others fired back fiercely.

After sinking two enemy warships, the enemy fleet turned and fled. Song Qing didn't let the fleet pursue them. It was a mess. Once the warships were released, what if they were chased and plunged into the enemy fleet?

Everyone knows that the enemy's super fleet is chasing the returning fleet.

The fleet continued to move forward for less than half an hour, when the scouting fleet in front suddenly sent a signal, and the departing fleet was turning around. The good thing was that this fleet didn't seem to know where they were, and didn't find them.

Song Qing carefully looked at the chart and gave an order, "Catch up, if you beat us, you want to run away, so let's beat them once too."

The fleet turned around, and quietly came to ten nautical miles behind the enemy under the cover of night, then the fleet lowered its speed along the ocean current, hid the rest of its steam engine, and floated towards the enemy. It appeared three nautical miles away from the enemy in an hour, and the sky was slightly bright at this time Yes, the observation distance expanded, the following warship gave a signal, and then the entire fleet began to accelerate.

three nautical miles,

two nautical miles,

He could vaguely hear the battle bells on the enemy warships coming along with the wind from the upper wind.

one nautical mile,

Some warships in the enemy fleet had fired hastily, which revealed their position and specific coordinates, and the position of a warship was known.

Song Qing's fleet increased its speed and swooped over at a speed of fifteen knots. The messy shells exploded in the middle of the fleet, but none of them hit the battleship.

200 meters,

Song Qing's fleet began to fight back and fired. Following the light of the enemy's artillery fire, they tried their best to project the shells on the battleship closest to the enemy, and hit the enemy's exposed battleship.

While fighting, while approaching.

The shells fell and detonated one of the enemy's warships. Immediately, three or four enemy warships around fell into the eyes of this side, like an object illuminated by a bright light, appearing, and there is nowhere to hide.

The exposed enemy warships immediately attracted the roll call of more battleship artillery.

However, Song Qing observed that the enemy didn't seem to pay all their attention to their side, and their attention seemed to be attracted by the other side. It turned out that in front of them, from the north, from the north of the enemy fleet, in front of the side, several warships The artillery fire is also attacking the enemy, but the main artillery fire of the enemy is the few warships that are firing on the other side.

The first thousand and 480 chapters and four chapters of the big fleet

Here, the battle was raging in the darkness before dawn, and there, about sixty nautical miles away from them, a fleet was sailing slowly at three knots. The large fleet that set off successfully escaped the danger. Under the cover of the night, it deviated from the channel and was sailing in the direction of Xindingzhou. This was something no one could have imagined.

Because of the limited number of telegraphs, and these warships are dilapidated warships, the reconnaissance fleet is equipped with the battle fleet, so the large fleet has no warships with telegraphs accompanying them, and no one can find the large fleet.

The fourth officer thought about it for a long time. If you return according to the route, no matter where you go back to the Xinqin Empire, you will be intercepted. It is better to go to Xindingzhou. The repair shipyard there is also capable of renovating and upgrading. The maximum limit has been reached, but Xindingzhou has a large land area and a small population. There are only about 600 people in an area of ​​more than [-] kilometers.

Of course, his thinking must not follow his thinking. He can only go somewhere first. This is the safest route, and no one has thought of it now.

Of course, it is also possible that bad luck on the way, encountering the British fleet intercepting the merchant ships of the New Qin Empire everywhere, even a small fleet may cause them heavy losses, but after all, the probability is not high, he thinks so, now the two The country is in the most tense stage of the current war, and it is estimated that they have all been transferred to fight.

The fleet speeded up at dawn, and in three hours, it left another 30 nautical miles, 90 nautical miles away from this route, and a total of more than [-] nautical miles away from the British fleet and Jin Qishun's fleet, let alone seeing battleships or fleets , that is, the thick black smoke column raised by the fleet can no longer be seen.

When accelerating to 179 knots, the fleet left 179 nautical miles, and it was only after [-]:[-]. Sailing fast.

They stayed away from the battlefield, while Jin Qishun and the others fought all night. The British fleet kept sending some auxiliary warships to attack them and drag them down, but they were always thrown off, sunk, or injured by them. They also lost five warships , Even the personnel were not rescued.

But Jin Qishun didn't dare to stop, and continued to run for his life. They were followed by sixty British ironclad ships.

Seeing that it was dawn, Jin Qishun thought about running into the deep sea like this, and being chased all the time, what should he do if the British fleet chased them at a speed of [-] knots at dawn?

So he looked at the sky, turned his head and ran towards the east direction of 340. After running for a few hours, after dawn, he bypassed the entire British fleet and returned to the direction of Corvo Town. The front team directly pursues at a speed of [-] knots.

Jin Qishun's fleet was almost running out of mechanical problems, and it still couldn't get rid of the main super fleet of the British.