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As for the warships on the Atlantic Ocean, they are not afraid. The fleet of Xinding Yangzhou, led by Lu Fang, attacked and provoked the Spaniards. The reconnaissance fleet did not dare to approach even within [-] nautical miles. In any case, it is also a pressure. Once there is a war at sea, the port may be attacked by the Spanish fleet after they leave. They also come from two sides, one is South America, and the other is Central America or the Spanish colonies along the Caribbean coast.

Sometimes passive defense, even if it has the upper hand, is not safe. Now the French fleet has attracted the Spanish fleet, at least their Central American fleet cannot come, and the South American fleet also sneaked around the Caribbean Sea Help over there.

Calculated in this way, the pressure on the sea in Xindingyang Prefecture suddenly decreased a lot. The Caribbean Sea and the Dutch quasi-ally dragged the Spanish fleet and the British Caribbean Sea Fleet, which can be regarded as minimizing the danger. If they want to support the Azov Islands or join forces with the Xindingzhou Fleet to attack the Caribbean Sea, they will be able to come out to fight, so the bigger the two of them fight, the better.

The greater the conflict between the Spaniards and the French in North America, the better. It is best to fight for a year. They can easily deal with the Spanish mainland fleet and other colonial fleets, or help the mainland and Wunan in the Azores to share part of the British super fleet. Threat, they can attack the British super fleet off the coast of Africa or just deal with the British African fleet and South American fleet.

The British's South American fleet is not large in scale and their combat effectiveness is not large, because South America is almost dominated by the Spanish, and the British do not intervene much. Their sphere of influence and strength in South America are too small. Without dispatching the main fleet in New Dingyangzhou, Panama, dispatching an auxiliary fleet composed of Type [-] and Type [-] warships can kill them in seconds.

During the period, the British wanted to use their influence to adjust and continue to play their checks and balances. The Caribbean fleet has fought the Spanish fleet several times.

Who is good for this situation, of course it is good for the new Qin State. Although the Pacific Hawaiian Fleet of the Chinese Empire comes from time to time to serve as their escort fleet on the Pacific coast, after all, they have not opened the canal. The only warships that appeared were temporarily launched thousand-ton wooden sail-flying scissor-style iron-clad steam engine warships, or the kind of warships with sails, which could barely expel and patrol the Spanish pirates and French with single-masted sailing ships around the sea Pirates have no solution to the Spaniards' fleets that have been hovering in the ports of Argentina and Central America in South America.

The dozens of small boats with hundreds of tons passing through the canal can only serve as transport and pilots, as well as patrol and guard tasks. They can only protect the port from being attacked by the enemy within the range of the shore artillery, and other shoals that can be landed will not be attacked. The enemy put down the destructive raider landing team, and the others in the Pacific Ocean had no fleet protection, and could only passively defend after the Chinese Empire's fleet left.

As for the warships on the Atlantic Ocean, they are not afraid. The fleet of Xinding Yangzhou, led by Lu Fang, attacked and provoked the Spaniards. The reconnaissance fleet did not dare to approach even within [-] nautical miles. In any case, it is also a pressure. Once there is a war at sea, the port may be attacked by the Spanish fleet after they leave. They also come from two sides, one is South America, and the other is Central America or the Spanish colonies along the Caribbean coast.

Sometimes passive defense, even if it has the upper hand, is not safe. Now the French fleet has attracted the Spanish fleet, at least their Central American fleet cannot come, and the South American fleet also sneaked around the Caribbean Sea Help over there.

Calculated in this way, the pressure on the sea in Xindingyang Prefecture suddenly decreased a lot. The Caribbean Sea and the Dutch quasi-ally dragged the Spanish fleet and the British Caribbean Sea Fleet, which can be regarded as minimizing the danger. If they want to support the Azov Islands or join forces with the Xindingzhou Fleet to attack the Caribbean Sea, they will be able to come out to fight, so the bigger the two of them fight, the better.

The greater the conflict between the Spaniards and the French in North America, the better. It is best to fight for a year. They can easily deal with the Spanish mainland fleet and other colonial fleets, or help the mainland and Wunan in the Azores to share part of the British super fleet. Threat, they can attack the British super fleet off the coast of Africa or just deal with the British African fleet and South American fleet.

The first thousand and 560 seven chapters of the British people caught off guard

Don't look at Zhuang Lin and the others swaggeringly, they are actually just a cover. The British scout ships didn't care when they saw it. They just thought it was the warship fleet of the caravan escorted by the new Qin country. Because the new Qin country often did this, so The British Caribbean Fleet didn't care either, and just sent scout warships to follow them from a distance. Who knew that it was the Panamanian Fleet led by Lu Fang who did the work.

When Zhuang Lin and the others swaggered around the vicinity of San Juan Island and took the British scout boats around, on a dark and windy night, about [-] steam engine boats took a thousand marines The mercenaries were sent ashore, and then Lu Fang's fleet turned to the front of the enemy's port, and violently bombarded the ground near the enemy's port, the cliff fort, and the shore artillery fort outside the port on the ground.

They even sent small boats to explore the waterway, guided some warships to approach the enemy's port waterway, extended shooting, bombarded the docks of the enemy's port, and the warships and merchant ships parked inside. The enemy's coastal artillery counterattacked in a hurry. When the Guolu Fang Fleet and their battleships fired fire, the hit rate was almost horrible. Only three or two unlucky Ironclad Type III battleships were attacked by the enemy's artillery fire and suffered a little damage.

The other battleships were not even brushed, and the fierce artillery fire attracted the enemy in the middle of the night. After running in the middle of the night, the mercenaries of the Marine Corps approached the enemy's ports, towns, and launched a surprise attack. Although the mortars were small, they were very powerful and there were a lot of them. The British who had just learned defense and skirmisher tactics fled in embarrassment. They chased them into the port.

Then the fort was taken down at dawn, and Lu Fang and his fleet quickly seized some small docks where more troops could be placed, and let the following transport ships, under the cover of the battleships, approach the docks and put down infantry on the beach. A regiment of newly recruited mercenary infantry in Panama.The infantry regiment continued to attack the enemy's town with three-pound guns and six-pound guns. They shelled and captured the enemy's few warships left in the port. Some old warships captured about 30 merchant ships, all British. of.

After clearing the waterways, more artillery and shore artillery battalions were released, a cavalry battalion, and about 1000 more South American and Mexican prisoners previously captured were released to help clear the port and transport supplies.

After leaving behind a company of Han regiment commanders, the fleet quickly disappeared into the sea with captured merchant ships, warships, and looted supplies.

Rush to Puerto Rico, followed the same pattern the next night, and fought all the way. The two islands of Puerto Rico and San Juan changed hands, opening the door of the Caribbean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.

There were two old fleets consisting of remodeled old warships, about ten ships in each fleet, and then Lu Fang and the others quickly fled into the Caribbean Sea.

After Zhuang Lin and the others received the telegram, they swaggered to the port of Puerto Rico. In the absence of the British scout ship, they released some mercenaries from the mainland and Xindingzhou, as well as the foreign people and captives they brought. Five old warships were left behind, about Type [-], and Type [-] warships passed through the strait and headed for Panama.

After tracking the distance for a while, the British reconnaissance ship found out the situation and returned immediately.

Since the British only had wired telegraphs in this era, and only ships communicated between the islands, so after they reported the news to other British colonies and spread it to the British North American colonies and the Caribbean Fleet station, then prepare and bring When the fleet arrived, Lu Fang and Zhuang Lin had already replenished and rested from Panama. Under the cover of night, they secretly appeared in the sea near Puerto Rico and San Juan.

Three days later, the Caribbean fleet of Port-au-Prince in Spain arrived first. Facing the [-] ships of the new Qin Empire fleet attacking from the two island ports composed of the old Type [-] and Type [-], the Spaniards sent [-] ships. battleships.

Their warships are also relatively old. There are only one or two Ironclad Type III warships, all of which were purchased from the New Qin State.

Zhuang Lin and Lu Fang took a [-]-ton fast boat and watched the battle from a distance with a telescope. This battle was commanded by the lieutenant commander of the two fleets. The remodeled warships are also better than the warships sold, and are at least one or two knots faster than the enemy in terms of speed.

The two fleets spread out, and both moved in a reverse "Z" shape to fight the enemy. At the moment they crossed, they fired a volley, paralyzed the enemy's two purchased iron-clad warships and a steam engine warship, and wounded the enemy. When I bought a first-class battleship from the British, my own losses were only based on damage control, which was basically not considered damage. It was just that more than a dozen sailors were killed or injured, and a little damage to the hull was dealt with.

The Spaniards were taken aback, and the formation immediately became chaotic, and then they were sent in a row to form a misplaced horizontal battle line. The New Qin Fleet once again blew up two wooden ships built by the Spaniards with sails and steam engines. It was still very advanced at the time, a steam engine warship purchased from the Chinese Empire technology.

The two sides are fighting at sea, you come and go, but there are always losses, and soon some slow warships are hit, injured, and have to withdraw with a white flag, but there are many Spanish warships, and there are still people watching the battle outside As for the twenty warships, someone rushed up and sank those warships immediately, and the entire sea was immediately filled with crews from both sides of the warships that fell into the water.

Perhaps this time the Spaniards were angry.

Maybe they were worried about their small islands being attacked, but they were really wrong, because what Zhuang Lin and the others wanted to do was to provoke a conflict in this place, and kill some British warships by the way, mainly targeting the British People, not them, they have been dragged in the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean, and on both sides of South America. There are not many of their warships here. Zhuang Lin and the others just want to wipe out a few of their warships, but they used it on a large scale this time Fifty warships arrived, and this is already the most warships they can deploy in the Caribbean Sea. After destroying these, the Caribbean Sea, at least the South Caribbean Sea, the New Qin Kingdom will basically go sideways.

"Our losses seem to be a bit too much, and we may not be able to hold on." Lu Fang said worriedly, holding up his binoculars and looking at the battlefield.

"We can't show up now. We have to wait for the arrival of the British fleet. First, we will unplug some of the British warships in the Caribbean. In the future, it will be really easy for us to fight here. The British must not have thought that we would dispatch so many warships to ambush them." , This time it’s just some island conflicts. Now that the British don’t know us well, they dare not send their super fleets. We have wiped out their super fleets in this way several times, and the British are also afraid.”

The first thousand and 560 eight chapters encircled and wiped out the enemy's Caribbean fleet

When the two of them were talking, the battle at sea was almost over, and their fleet also had some Ironclad Type [-] ships, which were outdated in New Qin, but they were not so easy to fight, at least for the Spaniards. Advanced, they did not fight against this type of warship. Although they had a few first-generation ironclad ships of the British, they could not completely wipe out this side.

After losing [-] warships, the Spaniards were about to flee, and they also lost [-] warships here. Both sides lost old warships more than ten years ago. Although the Spaniards have many warships, they can Lost in speed and tactics, the two lieutenants did not intend to defeat them, but to kill them as much as possible and hold them back. Therefore, during the three-hour battle, Lu Fang had actually commanded the fleet to form a siege to the Spanish fleet. There are also some old warships.

For this pairing, they brought all the previous coast guard warships, all of which were previously captured or decommissioned warships, steam engine warships, and also ensured that the enemy would not escape one by number.

There will be battles to encircle and annihilate the British fleet. Of course, they will not be allowed to escape to one or two ships this time to report.

Because they knew there were reinforcements around, they dragged the enemy and chased the enemy to fight. The enemy lost their morale and immediately scattered and fled. Then they were besieged by forty warships led by Lu Fang who surrounded them from all sides. Those wounded enemy warships directly hung white flags , Those battleships were still relatively advanced, and they resisted desperately, but after two hours, not a single Spaniard escaped.

After cleaning the battlefield, 25 warships were lost here, 24 warships were lost there, and 26 warships were captured. Among them, there was really no way to save seven ships. They had to be directly fired and sunk. Of course, the personnel were captured. .

A lot of battleships were lost this time, mainly because the Spaniards in the colonial fleet are sometimes of higher quality than those in their main fleet. They fight against the Dutch, French, and British every day, and they must have high combat experience.

So in the face of the enemy, even the entire main force of the Caribbean Fleet, the third-rate fleet, lost 25 warships, including two lieutenants, and the remaining five ships. The scarred battleships were dragged back to the port. Lu Fang had five ships sunk and eight ships injured. Lu Fang directly handed over the remaining thirty warships and personnel to the lieutenant, and promoted him to the captain of the two islands on the spot. Division commander, interim captain.

Temporary captains are temporarily promoted by superior officers during wartime. After the end of the war, they will be promoted or not promoted according to military achievements, some qualifications and specific circumstances. Only the position will be promoted, but the rank will not be promoted.

He is still in the middle of the war. As a battlefield colonel, he is not qualified to be promoted. He can only be promoted after the war is over, or after the captain returns to the station, or he lives until after the war.

Of course, if he died, it would be the actual credit, and it would be a kind of treatment to give him the rank of captain directly.

The remaining about 30 warships were commanded by temporary captains. After returning to the island to stand by, Lu Fang took a warship and returned to the fleet stationed in the sea. Of course, there were many wounded and operational warships behind him, along with the wounded and prisoners. , these will return to Panama under the cover of the detached convoy.

There will be battles to encircle and annihilate the British fleet. Of course, they will not be allowed to escape to one or two ships this time to report.

Because they knew there were reinforcements around, they dragged the enemy and chased the enemy to fight. The enemy lost their morale and immediately scattered and fled. Then they were besieged by forty warships led by Lu Fang who surrounded them from all sides. Those wounded enemy warships directly hung white flags , Those battleships were still relatively advanced, and they resisted desperately, but after two hours, not a single Spaniard escaped.

After cleaning the battlefield, 25 warships were lost here, 24 warships were lost there, and 26 warships were captured. Among them, there was really no way to save seven ships. They had to be directly fired and sunk. Of course, the personnel were captured. .

A lot of battleships were lost this time, mainly because the Spaniards in the colonial fleet are sometimes of higher quality than those in their main fleet. They fight against the Dutch, French, and British every day, and they must have high combat experience.

So in the face of the enemy, even the entire main force of the Caribbean Fleet, the third-rate fleet, lost 25 warships, including two lieutenants, and the remaining five ships. The scarred battleships were dragged back to the port. Lu Fang had five ships sunk and eight ships injured. Lu Fang directly handed over the remaining thirty warships and personnel to the lieutenant, and promoted him to the captain of the two islands on the spot. Division commander, interim captain.

Temporary captains are temporarily promoted by superior officers during wartime. After the end of the war, they will be promoted or not promoted according to military achievements, some qualifications and specific circumstances. Only the position will be promoted, but the rank will not be promoted.

He is still in the middle of the war. As a battlefield colonel, he is not qualified to be promoted. He can only be promoted after the war is over, or after the captain returns to the station, or he lives until after the war.

Of course, if he died, it would be the actual credit, and it would be a kind of treatment to give him the rank of captain directly.

The remaining about 30 warships were commanded by temporary captains. After returning to the island to stand by, Lu Fang took a warship and returned to the fleet stationed in the sea. Of course, there were many wounded and operational warships behind him, along with the wounded and prisoners. , these will return to Panama under the cover of the detached convoy.

There will be battles to encircle and annihilate the British fleet. Of course, they will not be allowed to escape to one or two ships this time to report.

Because they knew there were reinforcements around, they dragged the enemy and chased the enemy to fight. The enemy lost their morale and immediately scattered and fled. Then they were besieged by forty warships led by Lu Fang who surrounded them from all sides. Those wounded enemy warships directly hung white flags , Those battleships were still relatively advanced, and they resisted desperately, but after two hours, not a single Spaniard escaped.

After cleaning the battlefield, 25 warships were lost here, 24 warships were lost there, and 26 warships were captured. Among them, there was really no way to save seven ships. They had to be directly fired and sunk. Of course, the personnel were captured. .