Lord of Ming Dynasty

Zhao Shuai and the others are actually the representatives of the interests of the Chinese Empire, as well as the previous Wu Kejing, the old colonel Tang Yaweng, etc., and maybe the junior officers who rose later, but the feelings of these people for the Chinese Empire make the new Qin Empire actually Above all is the hand extended by the Huaxia Empire, otherwise they would not have supported them so hard.

Although Spain is now moving towards integration and strength under the reform of the new King Philip V from France, it has lost most of its European territory. Although there are colonies, they are gradually declining and Spain is still very weak. Therefore , New Qin State dared to ignore them, and the continuous recovery in the past few years could not cause Spain to cause much harm to New Qin State, a country that started from the sea.

After the fourth prince established his position in the New Qin Kingdom, he hibernated for a period of time. After this wave of busyness passed, he began to adjust the distribution of power in the country, and placed several old officials who followed him in several key positions. These are all his close old officials in the Huaxia Empire, officials of the forces that support him, but these officials actually don't have much real power, because they don't understand how the new Qin State works, and if they don't understand, it is very important for this country to intervene That was disaster.

So they are at best the eyes and ears of the fourth prince.

At the same time, the young people who followed him were sent down to study in various departments and started from the grassroots in the army, which is equivalent to being his eyes and ears while training.

And he used He Haole to form a guard army, about the strength of a regiment. The guards all came from his original guards who fled across him, as well as the soldiers and soldiers of the advance team brought by He Haole. The military officers then selected a group of young Han Chinese who had recently arrived. After verification, investigation, and martial arts competitions, they were recruited. After a week of short study, mainly etiquette and discipline, they were finally formed.

About one-fifth of the people are veterans and old officers, one-fifteenth of them are his old guards, and the rest are new-comer Han youths, but they may not have much combat effectiveness. , may not even be able to beat a single regiment of the new barracks of the Han regiment that has just undergone rigorous training for three months, but it can still be used as a guard of face and honor, because they are all tall, strong, good-looking young Han with some culture people.

On the periphery of them is a garrison battalion of elite Han veteran infantry battalions and a company of garrison cavalry companies trained in South America to help defend.

But he can only influence such a small number of people, because Li Ya and the others are actually in power now, the military power is in the hands of Li Ya alone and his officer corps, and Li Ya is still the prime minister, and the fourth prince is just a representative It's just a representative of the Huaxia Empire. From the current point of view, he can only do this. Although the two sides respect each other as guests, Li Ya and the others still don't want the fourth prince to intervene in some issues. Let a person who doesn't understand military intervene in the military. Said it was a catastrophe.

Several times of negotiations, although the fourth prince was there, it didn't work. Li Ya and the others just made a decision and showed him. Now everyone knows that he is just a rubber stamp. , so that he can have power. Whether the power above is strong or not comes from the breadth and strength of support from the bottom.

Of course, he didn't want to destroy the current situation, which can be said to be very good for the new Qin State.

Although Spain is on the road to recovery, they are not allowed to continue to collide with the new Qin State in their country. They will not get any advantage on the sea. Spain still has a lot of sailing ships, although the sailing ships are actually as early as 20 years ago They have withdrawn from the battle for the hegemony of the sea before, and now they are replaced by steam engine ships, new, old, and high-end.

Although Spain has obtained a lot from the Chinese Empire, the battle for the throne for more than ten years has caused the French, the British, and the Dutch to fight wars on their land for more than ten years, making the technology of steam ships only develop slowly , Only now have they successively built a lot of their own steam engine ships and steam engine battleships.

But it is not as good as the current Portugal. Since Portugal signed a treaty with the New Qin State, it has received the help of the British. The New Qin State's liberalization of purchases allows them to purchase the steam engine warships of the New Qin State.

Since the previous relationship with the New Qin State was similar, at least in terms of trade, they also got a lot of steam engine battleships and steam engine ships, transport ships, cargo ships, and steam engine paddle steamers retired from the previous New Qin State, but their level is also low. That's the case, after several years of development, they have just produced a steam engine battleship similar to the Iron Armored Ship. They are far behind the new Qin State.

Perhaps their population base is dozens of times that of the New Qin State, and their huge overseas colonies still provide them with daily benefits and support them, but they are cowardly like children in front of the New Qin State.

On the contrary, with a small population but booming, the old empire Britain is developing rapidly. Not to mention that their huge French and Spanish combined are not as good as their overseas colonies. The largest piece is India, and India alone is It can feed them for 200 years, because the current population of the UK is only about 3000 million people. Maybe including the colonized British people in North America and other overseas places, their population exceeds 100 million. In the end, less than [-]% of the British people went to the colonies, and about [-] million people will recognize or become British. If they are recognized, others have long been second-class people, but the native British people are fundamentally different.

This is a bit similar to the past history of China, but what is better about these second-class British people is that while they are expanding their territory for the British, they are actually thinking about how to climb to the first-class British people. The common people even became British nobles, while the Chinese Han Chinese or other ethnic Chinese who were forced to leave wished to eat meat and stew soup for their mother Huaxia. They had a deep hatred for Huaxia, and of course some people, they In my heart, I still long to return to China, and the leaves fall back to their roots, but after they die, their descendants quickly degenerate into third-class, fourth-class, and even slaves. And so on, fifth and so on.

Although the British lost almost half of their warships in several naval battles with the New Qin State, they replenished them again and again, maintaining a large fleet size, and it will be weakened at all, because they, like the United States of later generations, Occupying a good place, no one can beat them.

The first thousand and 540 chapters of the British made a big move

As the cowardly Spaniards stepped up preparations for the war between the Panama colony and the new Qin, the British also started their activities. They were beaten to silence, and they exchanged their former captives for their captives in the hands of the new Qin in a low voice. A total of 15 British captives returned to China, and at the same time, 15 Han captives captured by the British and about [-] mercenary captives returned to the new Qin State and were resettled in Xindingzhou to strengthen the Han population there and the total population .

Afterwards, the Portuguese sent back the population and captives of the new Qin State they had captured, as well as the wounded and some captives of the British they sent back, in exchange for the new Qin State letting them go, and re-launched commercial trade, and occupied the The Spaniards reduced about 300% of the trade share with the New Qin State, which is equivalent to [-] million Spanish gold coins or British gold pounds. Although not much, it also enhanced the strength of the New Qin State, making the Trade picked up again as Spanish relations deteriorated.

The new Qin State is not bright in the east and bright in the west, so try your best to recruit allies.

As the situation changed, with Spain and the British, the British and the Dutch in the colonies, the fighting in the Caribbean became more and more fierce, and the Netherlands gradually moved closer to the New Qin Empire, because the New Qin Empire and the Netherlands are now called The Netherlands basically has no conflicts, but the Dutch have a strong sense of superiority in Europe and Western society, so they look down on the Chinese Han people from the Far East who once attacked them and seized their eastern colonies. Steady footing, changed its name to New Qin State, and had its own monarch. The trade between the Dutch and New Qin State also increased, and made up for part of the trade losses of the Spaniards.

Just when the new Qin State was concentrating on dealing with the possible Spanish attack and mobilizing manpower to dig a canal to communicate with the Chinese Empire, the British began to exert their strength.

According to the news sent back by the intelligence personnel of the Portuguese Military Intelligence Department, although the British were retreated and rebelled by the Portuguese, they still supported Portugal, gave them a share of commercial trade, and built railways and telegraph lines for them, and gave them steam engine manufacturing technology. , boiler manufacturing technology, helped Portugal replace new ironclad ships, and sold their earlier ironclad ships to the Portuguese, which restored the Portuguese fleet to the size of nearly fifty new British ironclad ships, controlling the the navy of this country.

Huaxia's share of telegraph and railway construction was reduced to the minimum, and was squeezed out by the British, and the help of the new Qin State also pushed the British out.

Where in Spain, the British cooperated with Spain to attack the forces of the new Qin State, sold their warships to Spain, dispatched a lot of colonial troops, and recruited many colonial blacks to help the Spaniards. At the same time, they cooperated with Spain to build new ironclad ships .

The British began to disrupt the situation again, using their usual tricks to contain the newborn country.

The new Qin State is not bright in the east and bright in the west, so try your best to recruit allies.

As the situation changed, with Spain and the British, the British and the Dutch in the colonies, the fighting in the Caribbean became more and more fierce, and the Netherlands gradually moved closer to the New Qin Empire, because the New Qin Empire and the Netherlands are now called The Netherlands basically has no conflicts, but the Dutch have a strong sense of superiority in Europe and Western society, so they look down on the Chinese Han people from the Far East who once attacked them and seized their eastern colonies. Steady footing, changed its name to New Qin State, and had its own monarch. The trade between the Dutch and New Qin State also increased, and made up for part of the trade losses of the Spaniards.

Just when the new Qin State was concentrating on dealing with the possible Spanish attack and mobilizing manpower to dig a canal to communicate with the Chinese Empire, the British began to exert their strength.

According to the news sent back by the intelligence personnel of the Portuguese Military Intelligence Department, although the British were retreated and rebelled by the Portuguese, they still supported Portugal, gave them a share of commercial trade, and built railways and telegraph lines for them, and gave them steam engine manufacturing technology. , boiler manufacturing technology, helped Portugal replace new ironclad ships, and sold their earlier ironclad ships to the Portuguese, which restored the Portuguese fleet to the size of nearly fifty new British ironclad ships, controlling the the navy of this country.

Huaxia's share of telegraph and railway construction was reduced to the minimum, and was squeezed out by the British, and the help of the new Qin State also pushed the British out.

Where in Spain, the British cooperated with Spain to attack the forces of the new Qin State, sold their warships to Spain, dispatched a lot of colonial troops, and recruited many colonial blacks to help the Spaniards. At the same time, they cooperated with Spain to build new ironclad ships .

The British began to disrupt the situation again, using their usual tricks to contain the newborn country.

The new Qin State is not bright in the east and bright in the west, so try your best to recruit allies.

As the situation changed, with Spain and the British, the British and the Dutch in the colonies, the fighting in the Caribbean became more and more fierce, and the Netherlands gradually moved closer to the New Qin Empire, because the New Qin Empire and the Netherlands are now called The Netherlands basically has no conflicts, but the Dutch have a strong sense of superiority in Europe and Western society, so they look down on the Chinese Han people from the Far East who once attacked them and seized their eastern colonies. Steady footing, changed its name to New Qin State, and had its own monarch. The trade between the Dutch and New Qin State also increased, and made up for part of the trade losses of the Spaniards.

Just when the new Qin State was concentrating on dealing with the possible Spanish attack and mobilizing manpower to dig a canal to communicate with the Chinese Empire, the British began to exert their strength.

According to the news sent back by the intelligence personnel of the Portuguese Military Intelligence Department, although the British were retreated and rebelled by the Portuguese, they still supported Portugal, gave them a share of commercial trade, and built railways and telegraph lines for them, and gave them steam engine manufacturing technology. , boiler manufacturing technology, helped Portugal replace new ironclad ships, and sold their earlier ironclad ships to the Portuguese, which restored the Portuguese fleet to the size of nearly fifty new British ironclad ships, controlling the the navy of this country.

Huaxia's share of telegraph and railway construction was reduced to the minimum, and was squeezed out by the British, and the help of the new Qin State also pushed the British out.

Where in Spain, the British cooperated with Spain to attack the forces of the new Qin State, sold their warships to Spain, dispatched a lot of colonial troops, and recruited many colonial blacks to help the Spaniards. At the same time, they cooperated with Spain to build new ironclad ships .

The British began to disrupt the situation again, using their usual tricks to contain the newborn country.

The first thousand and 540 chapters reinforce Xinding Yangzhou

Fifteen ironclad ships of Type IV, plus a capital ship as the flagship, a new type of ironclad ship, with a wide hull, twin propeller propulsion, four chimneys, eight doors and four double-mounted 128mm cannons, plus the double There are as many as four cannons in front of the 75mm artillery.

A few meters back on both sides, under the bridge, the left and right are facing both sides, and can be rotated to the front at the same time. The rotation angle reaches 160 degrees. Millimeter cannon, and then the chimney more than ten meters away, the middle is the boat storage place, the sub-mast for observation, and the place near the tail chimney is a 75mm cannon that can rotate 128 degrees, and on it, there is a distance from left to right Then there are several symmetrical 190mm cannons, more than ten meters behind, the 128mm cannon in the middle of the rear chimney, the tail building behind the rear chimney, the tail cannon behind the tail building, and the secondary 75mm cannon.

On the top of each building, and the 37mm rapid-fire guns deployed in every possible way ensure that there are artillery that can attack the enemy at close range. The entire capital ship has four double-mounted cannons, sixteen 75mm secondary guns, eight 37mm rapid-fire gun, under the bridge of the battleship is the officer's cabin, and below that is the intelligence processing cabin, which is the telegraph cabin. Going to the rear is the large dining room. Under the first deck, the large dining room is followed by the kitchen and fresh water and food supplies. The cabins, overhead are the living quarters for some soldiers and officers on duty, on deck.

There are all kinds of sundries on the deck, cables, sand for fire fighting, lifeboats, buoys, as well as observation cabins, chart rooms, temporary ammunition storage rooms, soldiers and handymen on duty, doctor living quarters, and of course the duty of the damage control team cabin.

Below the second deck are ammunition, supplies, and soldiers, sailors, gunners, and cabins for handymen, as well as separate storage compartments for some food and fresh water, as well as ammunition cabins, weapon warehouses, secret rooms, medical cabins, and damage control teams. Living and watch cabins, officers' cabins, and captain's cabins.

At the bottom are densely packed small sealed compartments, as well as the power cabin, the boiler cabin, and the coal bunker at the rear that can be opened directly to the first deck, the water tank, the ammunition cabin protected inside, and finally the engine room, where the power shaft passes through The cabins are the maintenance cabins, and the ballast cabins. The ballast cabins are located at the rear, middle, and front.

The entire capital ship is full of 520 people.

The entire battleship is a little over 18 meters wide and 126 meters long. This is a newly improved capital ship, which is better than the previous iron-clad ships Type [-] and Type [-]. The key is to improve the living environment of officers and soldiers and strengthen management. , and excluded mercenaries and foreigners boarding the ship, all of them were Han Chinese.

But this time here, every ship is full of foreign civilians and mercenaries, each ship is packed with at least 300 people, and the main ship is stuffed with people even in the coal bunker, at least 1000 people and some guarantees food.

There are a total of [-] foreign nationals and [-] mercenaries brought in from Xindingzhou. Of course, only [-] ironclad ships and a capital ship can't take so many people. Where did merchants from various countries lease the [-]-ton merchant ships that were originally sold to them with their weapons and equipment removed and some reinforced armor and main keel.

These people are all reinforcements to Xinding Yangzhou. With the [-] veterans who have fought against the French and the British, pick some third-class soldiers and fourth-class soldiers, and reorganize them. With a large force, it is not afraid to guard the Xinding Yangzhou industry on both sides of the strait.

It took nearly 20 days for the ship to dock, but these people were exhausted. After three days of rest, the people were resettled in the small towns of the original Mexican indigenous people. These small towns are all around the port city. The town of Cologne was established about fifteen miles away from the town. After so many years of expansion, it is almost connected with the town of Cologne. Where these people are placed is an outer line of defense for Cologne town.

Each small town has a company of recruits stationed in the Han battalion who have undergone three months of training. Five miles away is the mercenary battalion. The newly arrived mercenaries were randomly organized into these mercenary battalions. The mercenary battalion is actually a mercenary battalion formed by the locals in partnership with the previous mercenary garrison battalion. There are a total of three regiments of mercenary soldiers stationed here. corps.

Behind these small towns are countless Han Chinese garrison camps, mixed with new barracks. Some key places are the regular army garrison battalions. The regular army garrison battalions are relatively large, with cavalry battalions, artillery battalions, infantry battalions, and cavalry reconnaissance companies. The supply company is simply a simplified regular army brigade, used to suppress and guard the important passage to Cologne Town.

The Port of Cologne is home to naval camps and Han Chinese garrison camps, as well as regular army garrison camps and coastal artillery camps. The city is patrolled by patrol platoons mixed with garrison battalions and recruit battalions. They patrol the entire city of Cologne in units of squads. The same is true for another city on the opposite side. So heavily guarded, after all, this is the capital of Xinding Yangzhou and their foundation.

After the reorganization, the redundant garrison mercenary regiment was transferred out, along the banks of Gatun Lake, the territory controlled by the new Qin State faced the direction where the enemy might come, and stationed together with the recruit battalion and garrison battalion there to control Gatun Lake A place with a radius of one hundred miles on both sides of the strait.