Lord of Ming Dynasty

One platoon will be landed at a time, and after many times, it will be a company. If you land at multiple points, you will soon be able to land a regiment. The strength of a regiment is enough for the Spaniards to deal with it. A regiment of mercenaries will be transferred, and a battalion will be transferred from various Han troops. Han officers and excellent soldiers lead them, and then support them with warships along the coast. After all the troops arrive, they will capture a small enemy port with the troops and use it as a foothold.

Our first step is to control a small pier first, and then continue to send people up to occupy the territory. Don’t worry, the shore artillery regiment will deploy some artillery, about a battalion, to help defend and use cannons. The next step is to occupy the small port pier Sending the cannons up, we still have two relatively wealthy troops, two battalions of the cavalry regiment, each of which will send a company to help deal with the enemy's cavalry and colonists. Westerners are used to hunting on horseback, so pay attention to their cavalry raids. "

Baozi stared blankly at Zhang Siyuan, "Then what's the next step?"

Zhang Siyuan touched his forehead, "The next step is to wait for me to come back, and then we will say that we have not applied for approval, and we can occupy a corner of the enemy's territory. The next step is that we have to apply for more troops, or you think that relying on one Can the newly reorganized mercenary regiment take over the entire island?

The island of Port-au-Prince is not Puerto Rico. It is tens of kilometers at most, but it has a radius of several hundred kilometers. It can be said that the Xindingzhou we occupy now is not small. Of course, it is the original Xindingzhou. Now the territory of Xindingzhou has expanded One and a half times, more than twice the size of the current Port-au-Prince Island.

Well, according to the plan, we will occupy the ports on our side, as many as we can, and get closer to facilitate our defense. After such a long period of reconnaissance, where the enemy has gathered three thousand Spanish colonial troops, one thousand local There are more than 1000 indigenous troops, as well as the enemy sailors who have successively lost battleships, and their immigrants. They are all soldiers, and any child can shoot a few shots. According to incomplete estimates, the enemy immigrants plus Aboriginal people, there are more than 4 to [-] people on the island.

So don’t try to challenge the enemy with only 500 troops including the officers of the Han regiment, the shore artillery battalion and the cavalry battalion. You will be thrown into the sea by the enemy to feed the fish. At that time, you, a second lieutenant, will just become a In a few months, I will go to see Hades. "

After explaining to Baozi and handing over the defense to him, Zhang Siyuan set off with sixteen battleships from the main fleet, fifteen warships from the scout fleet, and four first-class armed battleships from the third-tier auxiliary fleet, advancing at a speed of twelve knots. In order to take care of the speed of several older steam engine warships in the fleet that captured the enemy, those warships were originally designed to be the fastest speed, but now they are obviously behind, and the fastest speed is only fifteen knots. How many years have passed now? , These 20-year-old warships can only reach a speed of [-] knots at the fastest, and they have to pray that there are no problems with his steam engine or boiler pipes.

The fleet circumnavigated the big island of Port-au-Prince, and sailed along the route parallel to the island from the Pacific Ocean for more than 100 nautical miles. Because it was dark, the sailing speed was very slow, only six knots, and it was only [-] nautical miles out of the strait from Puerto Rico. At this time, the sky was almost dawn, Zhang Siyuan ordered to speed up, and ventured to sail at a speed of [-] knots.

After another three hours of sailing, it was only 45 nautical miles away from the shore when the sky was bright. It is not safe here, because it is very likely that passing merchant ships will find them, and then bring the news of their departure to the enemy's port. At this time, Zhang Siyuan The order to continue sailing at high speed is also a beautiful work of nature. There is a layer of mist on the sea, and the ship cannot be seen within one or two nautical miles. The line of sight is blocked, which proves that the ship will not go to sea in advance. When it arrived at 70:[-] in the morning, the fleet was more than [-] nautical miles away from the shore. up.

At this time, the fog cleared, and they continued to sail at high speed. At eleven o'clock, they were 110 nautical miles from the shore. It took about fifteen hours in total. Then the fleet turned to a place parallel to the coastline and sailed towards the Dutch island.

Because this route is far away from the coast, ordinary merchant ships will not sail so far away, because they may encounter pirates or unpredictable weather factors, and they may be overturned by hurricanes and showers on the sea if they do not have time to take shelter from the wind , sank.

The first thousand and 590 chapters encountered the British patrol fleet

After 41 hours of sailing, they came to the Windward Strait between Cuba and Haiti. The general fleet does not go here, because the Caribbean Sea is the colonial power of the Spaniards and the British, and the Dutch often have conflicts with the Spaniards here. In the Great War, according to intelligence, [-] of the [-] warships assigned by the British were here to carry out the task of blocking and attacking the islands from here to the Dutch colony. The new Qin State generally bypassed the outer periphery of Grand Bahama Island and took the outer line of the Atlantic Ocean. Traveling to New Dingyang, Panama, an overseas territory.

But here Zhang Siyuan ran into a British patrol fleet. The patrol fleet of twenty British auxiliary fleets was stronger than all their warships, but they met unexpectedly. It was impossible for the two sides to retreat. Then Zhang Siyuan side The telegram communicated with Xinding, Panama, while deploying operations.

In order to buy time for the main fleet, fifteen warships of the scouting fleet rushed up, followed by four third-tier auxiliary fleets that captured the first-class armed battleships that had been modified by the British.

The strength of the enemy is very strong. Six new British second-generation ironclad ships, twelve British first-generation ironclad ships, and two reconnaissance steam engine battleships. The twelve British first-generation ironclad ships alone are more than all the cruisers here. The combat effectiveness of the two frigates must be strong. After all, they are equipped with the first generation of British ironclad ships eliminated by the British. Now the first generation of ironclad ships equipped by the enemy are all improved. , depending on the situation, the enemy's twelve first-generation ironclad ships are still new, and these are refitted first-generation ironclad ships.

It’s not the old ironclad ships. The key is that the ironclad ships in Zhang Siyuan’s fleet were also captured by the enemy. After battles, and because there is no place to repair them, no matter in terms of firepower, armor, or speed, there are only old improvements of the enemy. About [-]% to [-]% of the large-scale warships, let alone the enemy's newly built and improved first-generation ironclad ships.

Not only the firepower has been improved, but also the defense power and speed have been improved. In the past, the enemy's first-generation ironclad ship had a speed of only [-] knots, while the second generation had a speed of [-] knots. It has improved firepower and defense power. It is the British who greatly improved the defense power. After losing to Wunan and Molin several times, it was the result of painful experience.

Fifteen warships rushed up, and the battle broke out. The enemy sent out ten warships to deal with it. The other ten warships, two steam engine warships and two first-generation ironclad ships dealt with the four first-class armed battleships here, and the other six battleships. The sixteen main battleships here.

The enemy's six second-generation ironclad warships bypassed the battle area and sailed along the oblique line of the Cuban coast in a line of battle. Zhang Siyuan assigned the strongest cruiser flagship, two frigates as escorts, three destroyers to follow him, and the remaining seven The first-generation ironclad warships captured by the British lined up in another formation and went straight into the middle of the battle between the two sides, forming an angle with the main battleship side, passing by the edge of the battlefield of the auxiliary fleets of the two warring sides. The artillery on the side supports this side.

The remaining three Type III quasi-destroyers went to support the reconnaissance fleet in operations, outflanking enemy warships from the other side of the battlefield.

This side is still maneuvering, and the reconnaissance fleet over there has already engaged the enemy. Just 5 minutes after the battle, a Type 10 ironclad ship was severely damaged by the enemy's improved first-generation ironclad ship. The middle part was destroyed and caught fire. , while flying the white flag and launched the battlefield, but the enemy was relentless. All the firepower was focused on it. In less than 8 minutes, and only 75 minutes, the battleship broke and sank into the sea. The blow it gave the enemy was only a single [-]mm shell. hit the enemy's mast and exploded on the enemy's deck, the explosion caused a fire, burned some sundries on the ship's deck and wounded and killed some soldiers, but elsewhere there was no damage.

It's really because the enemy has strengthened the armor protection. The shells they use are no longer suitable for attacking the armor of the current enemy warships. They can't even break through the enemy's horizontal deck. Maybe they can, but they will explode first when they hit the enemy's mast. The fragments fell and hit the deck again, only setting the enemy on fire, causing some casualties and thick smoke.

The enemy's damage control troops quickly extinguished the fire and transferred the wounded, but the enemy's battleship was still alive and well, not even a single rapid-fire gun on the enemy's battleship was blown away.

The attacks of the two Type [-] ironclad ships were still lackluster against the enemy's warships. It didn't hit the enemy's hull, causing a few large holes in the enemy's hull, but it just distorted the enemy's armor plate or the structure was unpredictable. The crack is just to make the enemy's secondary artillery and rapid-fire artillery lose firepower, and the enemy's turret artillery of the new Qin State is hard to shake.

In terms of meritorious service, it depends on the Type III destroyer, but it is only a quasi-destroyer. The [-]mm artillery on it hit a first-generation ironclad ship of the enemy. The upper deck was damaged, and a five-meter-long opening was torn on the side deck. The hull below the waterline was not damaged at all, but the violent explosion still caused some ribs to break, and the hull was flooded, but it did not affect navigation and combat. The speed has only been reduced by one knot, which shows that the enemy's improvement has been effective.

The situation here is very critical. It seems that the strength of the enemy here is twice that of the enemy, but the enemy is able to fight with ease, and can send two warships to contain the destroyer over there. This makes Zhang Siyuan very annoyed. Wait for the armed battleship to rush forward, and use its huge body and fierce firepower to fight back against the enemy.

Facts have proved that facing an enemy with 120 artillery pieces on one side, even though the British are faster and have thicker armor, their firepower is still inferior to the firepower of four first-class battleships, violent salvos, 90mm artillery, Coupled with the addition of the 74mm artillery that was captured by the enemy, and the secondary artillery firepower of the British's own [-]mm artillery, the three enemy warships were severely damaged at the first moment.

Although the four first-class armed battleships suffered a lot of blows due to their huge bodies and because they had to share the enemy's firepower for other battleships, after all, they were big and durable, so losing a few cannons was nothing, and the firepower was still strong.

The British finally suffered from their own warships. The three British improved ironclad ships were quickly hit with fire, thick smoke billowed, one lost power and was spinning on the sea, and one was hit by the conning tower and observation equipment. , the observation artillery was also completely lost, the power dropped, the cabin was flooded, the speed dropped from sixteen knots to ten knots, and he staggered sideways and wanted to leave the battlefield. The foam plunged into the sea, and the sailors on it jumped into the sea to flee.

At this time, two of the seven quasi-ironclad ships in the main fleet attacking from the side cooperated with the Type [-] and Type [-] warships to fight the dogs in the water, while the other quasi-ironclad ships braved the enemy's artillery fire to entangle the other seven enemy warships. After losing two ships, they also dealt heavy damage to an enemy warship. The speed of the enemy warship dropped to twelve knots, and lost all its artillery, and quickly fled backwards.

At this time, the advantage in numbers was brought to the extreme. The only thousand-ton ironclad ship captured used its own 75mm gun, plus three 22mm secondary guns, plus its own high speed, up to 300 knots. Quickly passed [-] meters away from the remaining enemy battleships, and continuously swept the enemy's deck with four artillery pieces. The exposed sailors on the decks of the remaining five enemy battleships suffered heavy casualties.

The first thousand and 590 chapters defeated the enemy's patrol fleet

The main fleet also encountered the same situation as the auxiliary fleet. The three quasi-destroyers (old improved Type II battleships, which can be called the first-generation ironclad ship III) were simply unable to deal with the enemy's second-generation ironclad ships. The enemy only had six main warships, and within half an hour, one of them was severely damaged, one was sunk, and one was slandered. Two seriously injured warships had to withdraw from the battle order.

Then an enemy warship chased after it and sank the slandered destroyer before returning. It was hit sideways by three shells, lost a 74mm secondary gun, and lost 75 sailors. Sunk a battleship that slandered and fled the Xinqin, but it was too greedy for credit. After breaking away from the battle line, it was besieged by seven destroyers that turned around. It was hit on the bow, and a turret was destroyed. Two [-]mm The secondary battery was destroyed, and thirteen artillerymen and sailors were lost.

Not only that, because the bow was severely damaged, they had to inject water to the rear to maintain balance, so the speed dropped to 100 knots, and because the damage control was not strong, the speed was still declining, and a frigate seized the opportunity, and then A shot was fired, and two shells from the double-mounted cannon hit the middle section, causing the turret in the middle section to be blown away, and a big opening five meters wide and two meters long was opened on the deck. Many soldiers died, including damage management, doctors, and handymen, and even caused water to flood the lower power cabin. The speed dropped to five or six knots, and they had to retreat in embarrassment.

Here, Zhang Siyuan used a cruiser flagship to fight against the enemy's three second-generation main battleships. He was also full of fire and severely damaged. His speed dropped from the fastest speed of [-] knots to [-] knots. The two frigates over there helped share the pressure. , while dealing with the enemy's remaining two warships, both sides suffered damage to each other, and the enemy was wounded. Here is not only wounded, but also a first-generation ironclad ship that captured the enemy. It was not an improved warship that was sunk. The Type [-] destroyers that rushed across the battlefield were slandered.

It can be said that the powerful enemy facing Zhang Siyuan's fleet is desperately fighting, and now the rhythm has been disrupted. Although Zhang Siyuan is an officer of the Marine Corps, he has never commanded a large naval battle after all, and his mind is still in the era of the Continental Army. Because he was a man on land before crossing, and created brilliant achievements on land, but the battles at sea were all created by the officers and generals from the coast.

It is not bad to be able to fight like this now, not to mention that his fleet is only a dispensable second-level auxiliary fleet that is not valued in the New Qin Kingdom. The first-level auxiliary fleet is the main combat force and the auxiliary main fleet. The fleet is well equipped.

The nine Type III quasi-destroyers were quickly injured and sunk, and even the thousand-ton British fast battleship was shot by a first-generation ironclad ship of the enemy in seconds.

The rest of the warships, which were like fish, were entangled with the enemy's remaining three movable first-generation ironclad ships, fighting to buy time for the final end of the battle here.

Zhang Siyuan would not have sent all the steam engine warships and destroyers here to help them, but soon after a steam engine battleship captured by the British in a scouting fleet was hit and sunk, the frigates here continued to attack. One of the battleships was hit by the tail and lost power, and the firepower was almost destroyed. The two frigates went to the mountain, and the artillery fire sank the enemy's main battleship, so that the enemy had two main battleships. One escaped, and the remaining three were also slandered.

When the three destroyers were transferred back to intercept the remaining three main battleships of the enemy, the three main battleships of the enemy saw that the three first-generation warships had surrendered, and they had to surrender.

So the battle ended, with a total of fifty battleships, the Secondary Auxiliary Fleet lost nine quasi-ironclad ships, five destroyers, three were injured, eight steam engine battleships were lost, and one thousand-ton fast ironclad captured by the British was lost. A total of five Type [-] and Type [-] warships were lost. One first-class armed battleship was sunk, one was seriously injured, and two ironclad destroyers were seriously injured and could not be repaired. They had to be sunk by themselves.

36 out of [-] warships sank, the entire reconnaissance fleet was wiped out, the remaining three destroyers in the main fleet, two first-class armed battleships, the remaining two first-generation ironclad destroyers were slandered, two frigates were slandered, and the cruiser was almost slandered.

There are still five destroyers, two frigates, two first-class armed battleships, one cruiser, plus the two steam engine battleships that escaped earlier, a total of twelve battleships.

Zhang Siyuan scratched his hair. This time, the loss was huge. He almost lost all his capital and let the enemy escape three warships. Although he captured three second-generation warships and three first-generation warships, what is the report going to do? Write?

Want to save the Dutch fleet?

This battle lost one and a half of the newly formed marine regiment, more than 3000 people, and more than 3000 sailors. The remaining sailors were only 200, and the marines were more than 300 people. Less than 400 people were rescued and 300 prisoners were captured. people.In the fierce naval battle, the loss of personnel on both warships was also great, and the enemy did not have too many manpower to sail before surrendering.

"report"

"Come in."

"Reporting sir, the Netherlands has informed that their fleet has been severely damaged by the British fleet, and only one warship has escaped. This telegram was sent two hours ago, from a ship cruising above the enemy's engagement. I scout for telegrams from disguised Spanish merchant ships."

Zhang Siyuan kicked the cabin hard, then spat, "Go back."

At night, the returning fleet implemented a blackout and sailed at a speed of six knots. It was about fifty nautical miles away from the strait. In order not to be discovered by people or ships on the enemy's coast, they chose to continue to stay away from the coast, but they were in the Windward Strait. The news of the war with the British quickly spread to the Caribbean Sea through the clippers. When they reached the deep sea of ​​the Atlantic Ocean, [-] nautical miles away from the coast, the next morning, a telegram from Panama also caught up.

I didn't even see the face of the Dutch, so I fought a battle with the British. Although I won, the loss was too heavy. , they have no sailors.

This made Zhang Siyuan's heart ache.

Expanding the warship, upgrading the fleet, and commanding a larger-scale fleet are the only important things for him to come to this world, but he doesn't want to suffer for the Dutch for no reason this time, but there is no way, the Dutch are allies and must be saved , but this time the price was too high.

In fact, think about it for yourself, maybe the above is just to harass and guide you, but you don’t want to think about it, and fought a battle with the British solidly. If you can bring all the fast warships, the average speed of [-] knots is even Speed ​​is not dominant, and running is still no problem.

The first thousand and 590 chapters and two surprises