Lord of Ming Dynasty

At that time, the situation was critical, Jin Lin led the fleet to rush up, and Lu Fang led the other half of the fleet to outflank and capture all these warships.

Completely wiped out the scattered auxiliary squadrons of the British super-fleet, severed one of the enemy's arms.

After all the enemies were wiped out, Song Qing led the captives and the injured warships of the enemy's captured fleet back to Hero Harbor. Jin Qishun took over Jin Lin's command of the remaining fleet and captured ten warships that were in better condition. He and Song Qing's fleet There are also eight warships in better condition, so he directly commanded about 25 warships, and about 35 warships under Lu Fang's command served as Lu Fang's auxiliary fleet.

And Jin Lin followed Song Qing back to Hero Port, and served as the land commander of Hero Port and Korwu Town and other islands. Wu Nan's adjutant is still unable to cope with such a big situation.

After all, Jin Lin is a supervisor of a territory on land, and his rank is higher than that of an adjutant. He is a colonel, and is on the same level as Wu Nan.

They first hid in the island group behind Heroes Port, then hid on a small island, and then stationed in Pocorvo Town. When the British fleet took Horta Island, they turned to the farther Sao Jorge Island to station After that, he hid all the time, what Wu Nan was waiting for was to wait for the enemy's super fleet to come out and use them in the final decisive battle.

For this expedition escort, they hid in the group of islands behind the island of Hero Port, and waited for a long time. Wu Nan led the fleet escort. Wunan ordered to occupy the island of Korwu Town and support the Wunan Fleet. After completing this task, Lu Fang and the others led the fleet to rush over immediately, and met Song Qing and the others who were fleeing.

At that time, the situation was critical, Jin Lin led the fleet to rush up, and Lu Fang led the other half of the fleet to outflank and capture all these warships.

Completely wiped out the scattered auxiliary squadrons of the British super-fleet, severed one of the enemy's arms.

After all the enemies were wiped out, Song Qing led the captives and the injured warships of the enemy's captured fleet back to Hero Harbor. Jin Qishun took over Jin Lin's command of the remaining fleet and captured ten warships that were in better condition. He and Song Qing's fleet There are also eight warships in better condition, so he directly commanded about 25 warships, and about 35 warships under Lu Fang's command served as Lu Fang's auxiliary fleet.

And Jin Lin followed Song Qing back to Hero Port, and served as the land commander of Hero Port and Korwu Town and other islands. Wu Nan's adjutant is still unable to cope with such a big situation.

After all, Jin Lin is a supervisor of a territory on land, and his rank is higher than that of an adjutant. He is a colonel, and is on the same level as Wu Nan.

They first hid in the island group behind Heroes Port, then hid on a small island, and then stationed in Pocorvo Town. When the British fleet took Horta Island, they turned to the farther Sao Jorge Island to station After that, he hid all the time, what Wu Nan was waiting for was to wait for the enemy's super fleet to come out and use them in the final decisive battle.

For this expedition escort, they hid in the group of islands behind the island of Hero Port, and waited for a long time. Wu Nan led the fleet escort. Wunan ordered to occupy the island of Korwu Town and support the Wunan Fleet. After completing this task, Lu Fang and the others led the fleet to rush over immediately, and met Song Qing and the others who were fleeing.

At that time, the situation was critical, Jin Lin led the fleet to rush up, and Lu Fang led the other half of the fleet to outflank and capture all these warships.

Completely wiped out the scattered auxiliary squadrons of the British super-fleet, severed one of the enemy's arms.

After all the enemies were wiped out, Song Qing led the captives and the injured warships of the enemy's captured fleet back to Hero Harbor. Jin Qishun took over Jin Lin's command of the remaining fleet and captured ten warships that were in better condition. He and Song Qing's fleet There are also eight warships in better condition, so he directly commanded about 25 warships, and about 35 warships under Lu Fang's command served as Lu Fang's auxiliary fleet.

And Jin Lin followed Song Qing back to Hero Port, and served as the land commander of Hero Port and Korwu Town and other islands. Wu Nan's adjutant is still unable to cope with such a big situation.

After all, Jin Lin is a supervisor of a territory on land, and his rank is higher than that of an adjutant. He is a colonel, and is on the same level as Wu Nan.

They first hid in the island group behind Heroes Port, then hid on a small island, and then stationed in Pocorvo Town. When the British fleet took Horta Island, they turned to the farther Sao Jorge Island to station After that, he hid all the time, what Wu Nan was waiting for was to wait for the enemy's super fleet to come out and use them in the final decisive battle.

The first thousand and 480 seven chapters of the constantly moving battlefield

120 nautical miles from Hero Harbor, 240 nautical miles from Korwu Town, 65 nautical miles above Lu Fang's fleet, [-] nautical miles southeast, Wunan's fleet and British Major General John Bing's fleet have a total of [-] warships. Hours.

In Wunan, 47 of the 23 ironclad ships have been lost, and all steam engine battleships have been sunk. There are a total of 24 warships left. On the entire sea surface of more than 100 nautical miles, all the twists and turns are the wreckage of warships and survivors who fell into the water. The crew included both the British and the New Qin Empire.

The battleships of Major General John Bean of the British have a total of 52 warships, including 43 ironclad ships, seven battleships, and two Portuguese steam engine battleships.

The British have lost 22 ironclad ships and four battleships, and the overall loss is less than that of Wunan's fleet.

But the strength of the two sides is still half a catty, half two. Both sides are old opponents who know each other. They both know each other's tricks, strengths, and weaknesses. Often, this kind of battle is the most difficult.

Several sub-fleets of Wunan fought side by side, while Major General John Bing attacked with the main force, and other warships covered them.

Wunan dispersed the fleet and surrounded it on all sides. Rear Admiral John Bin organized all the warships into a hollow formation with double rows of battle lines, so that Wunan could not sneak attack. If the sneak attack failed, several warships were seriously injured.

But the Wunan Fleet did not fail to attack every time. Sometimes it even broke the enemy's formation and broke into the enemy's hollow formation, making the British dare not attack, because the shells did not recognize people, and they hit beyond the shooting range and hit the opposite side. , This allows the squadrons in the Wunan Fleet to use their left and right side-spinning firepower, attack the enemy on both sides, and shoot in sequence, causing a lot of damage to the enemy and the dilemma of throwing rats.

From the encounter to the present, the exchange ratio of the two sides is one to one exchange, and occasionally there is a zero to two exchange once or twice, and the loss of two ships is Wunan's fleet warships. This is not because of the performance of the warships of the New Qin Empire. Or the combat power is not good enough, but the gap between the two sides is narrowing. The British have advantages in firepower and numbers, and the New Qin Empire has advantages in speed, power and accuracy. limited.

Especially the speed advantage of the New Qin Empire. When the formation enters the battle line decisive battle, the speed of both sides is mostly 500 to 300 knots. No matter how fast it is, it is difficult to guarantee a few rounds of projection at a distance of [-] meters or [-] meters. If you hit the enemy warship and fail to hit it in three to four rounds, you have to choose to leave. It is not good for the enemy to form a situation where multiple ships fight one.

Losing the advantage of speed, the New Qin Empire had to fight for the advantage of the line with the British. Except for [-] warships of the New Qin Empire, which were new warships transferred from the local fleet, the other warships had a few personnel changes. After all, after the damaged battleship was repaired, some artillery firepower was missing and was not installed. It had to be replenished after returning to the New Qin Empire. In this way, the firepower lost would be even worse than that of the British.

Because of the long-term pursuit and movement, the warships on both sides could not run fast. Both warships were injured. After several fierce battles, they both had some local supplementary warships. Although the guns on the British warships were smaller, The range is shorter, but the accuracy is not as good, but after all, they have two more cannons than your battleship, even if they lose two, they have the same firepower as you.

After the New Qin Empire has fought several times, it is no longer two fewer than the enemy. There are at least a few hundred artillery pieces in the large fleet. Some, but in the final battle, the accuracy of the firepower of the New Qin Empire could not completely suppress the extra firepower of the British.

In the end, Wu Nan had to send a telegram to Song Qing asking him to come for support, and Song Qing happened to be on the run at that time, unable to give him support, Wu Nan could only support himself hard, while fleeing towards Hero Harbor.

How could John Bing let this opportunity to annihilate or inflict heavy losses on his opponent pass away?

At the same time, they sent a scout ship to search for the British super fleet on the route they had agreed to in the distance, and asked them to help.

Both sides were waiting for reinforcements. John Bing received a reply from Nar Downs. They were chasing an enemy squadron, just two hundred nautical miles away from them, and they would arrive in the early morning, but at three o'clock in the afternoon It didn't arrive either. John Bing was anxiously chasing the Wunan fleet, and at the same time sent people back to look for it. The latest report is that Nar Downs didn't come to chase them because of a small and trivial fleet, but it's not far away, about Eighty nautical miles northwest of the bottom.

So he sent a reconnaissance ship to send a message to Gnar again. If he didn't come again and his fleet was lost, he would go to the council to sue him. Only then did he get a reply from Gnar Downs, entangled the enemy for three hours, Arrive before dark.

Gnar Downs' super fleet had to return with a main fleet of only fifty ships after losing all the auxiliary battleship fleets, and scattered ten ironclad ships to search separately for Jin Qishun's fleet, Song Qing's fleet, and the large fleet. , and rushed towards the battlefield where they were fighting.

In fact, according to the speed of Gnar Downs' fleet, even at a full speed of [-] knots, it would not be able to reach here. It would take four hours to reach the periphery of the battlefield at most ten nautical miles away. Naval battle veterans certainly don’t speak vernacular, Nall Downs and the others just came at a speed of [-] knots, and Rear Admiral John Bean intentionally or unintentionally guided the Wunan Fleet to run towards the route of Nall Downs, They have been forced to go in this direction many times.

From the chart, it can be seen that Lu Fang and the others are on a base corner of an equiangular triangle, fifteen or six nautical miles faster than Nall Downs' fleet. The fleet besieged, forced, and approached Lu Fang's fleet in a downward step shape. At the same time, Nar Downs and his fleet were on the farthest side, constantly maintaining the equal distance of this equilateral triangle.

That is to say, no matter how the three parties move, the general direction is moving towards each other.

In other words, the three parties are approaching each other regardless of their speed. This is equivalent to speeding up the speed of the three parties. After all, are they approaching each other?

And the battlefield is constantly moving in the direction of Hero Harbor, from the first 180 nautical miles to the last 120 nautical miles, to the nearest 20 nautical miles. A dozen warships, and the dozen or so broken warships they injured were also constantly moving towards Hero Harbor.

The first thousand and 480 eight chapters, hurry up, in a hurry

So an hour and a half later, the Lu Fang fleet closest to them, 35 ironclad ships of Type 25, and Jin Qishun's fleet of [-] warships of various types arrived at the battlefield.

And Gnar Downs' fleet still had 35 nautical miles to reach the battlefield, but their movement had been detected by the scout fleet sent by Jin Qishun.

As the auxiliary fleet of Lu Fang's fleet, of course they have to undertake the tasks of the fleet's four-sided detection and early warning.

A fleet of three reconnaissance warships discovered them twelve nautical miles away from Nall Downs's fleet, and immediately reported the news to Jin Qishun's fleet, and Jin Qishun's fleet contacted Lu Fang's fleet with a flag, reporting the enemy's Location and size, time of arrival.

Thirty nautical miles, according to the original speed of Gnar Downs and the others, they will arrive in a little less than two hours, but when John Bing saw the Lu Fang fleet swaggeringly appearing on the sea, he panicked and deviated from the route involuntarily. The speed of the chase slowed down, which made the fleet's movement towards Nar Downs stagnant. When the Wunan fleet saw the arrival of the Lu Fang fleet, they immediately turned to face it and stopped running away.

After John Bing saw more than 20 warships of Jin Qishun following behind him, he had given up hope, and immediately turned and fled, heading south of Hero Port, towards the British mainland.

More than 20 warships began to leave the battlefield one after another, but that was so easy. In order to hold down the Wunan Fleet, they were already too deep, and many warships were entangled with the warships of the Wunan Fleet.

The difficult movement was only three to five nautical miles away, and after receiving the order, the warships of the Wunan Fleet had to hold them back due to their damage, so regardless of the casualties, they approached and beat the British. The two sides were entangled and waited for half an hour. , They only moved seven nautical miles, and Lu Fang's fleet has already put a dozen warships into the battlefield.

The remaining warships surrounded the enemy at high speed. Although their warships also sailed and evaded for a long time, their speed dropped a bit, but they still had a speed of 5 knots. They usually sailed at a speed of [-] knots. Now they are going to fight, of course. Speeding up to [-] knots, at this speed, they approached the battlefield in only half an hour, and after another [-] minutes, they were able to use long-range artillery fire to interfere with the escape route of the John Bean fleet.

An hour later, they escaped eleven nautical miles, and Lu Fang's fleet had completely surrounded them. Fifty warships, plus more than 20 warships from the Wunan Fleet, seventy warships fought against twenty warships, and four fought against them. One of them was exhausted from many battles, and the other was panicked after many days of idleness. They had just finished warming up dozens of nautical miles away, and their will to fight was high. Soon, the battleships in John Bean's fleet were blown up one by one. .

While fighting, the battlefield was still slowly moving towards the distance, so that after Nar Downs' battleship chased it with all its strength, it was [-] nautical miles closer to the battlefield, but it was farther away from the battlefield. Although it was not too far away, it was almost delayed Although they could already see the battlefield in the distance, they were still twenty nautical miles away from the battlefield.

In order to prevent the enemy from dispatching fast warships to attack, Wu Nan, as the commander in chief of the battlefield, assigned five or six warships to clean the battlefield while waiting for the enemy's surprise attack.

And Lu Fang led the fleet to attack Major General John Bing's fleet with all its strength.

Fifteen ships, John Bing looked at the statistics of battleships that were still able to fight, and looked at the confusion of gunpowder and smoke on the sea. His battleship will be hit by at least one [-]mm artillery shell once, and the battleship is already scarred.