Lord of Ming Dynasty

The main battleship is six cruisers, the captain is the captain, the commander is himself, the rank of major, and at the same time he is the commander of the main fleet and the commander of the total fleet.

The reason why there are so many squadrons is because it is easy to command. One person commands seven or eight warships, and the seven or eight warships are more powerful when coordinated.

Now that the scale of fleet operations is getting bigger and bigger, one person really cannot take care of all the warships at any time on the battlefield of anti-inflammation and confusion, so that even if the main fleet is surrounded or frustrated, the commander of the following squadrons can still take over the command Quan, continue to command.

"Sir, the Azores fleet called back. Since the British super fleet is approaching the Azores, they can't send a fleet to help us. Let us figure out a way. If there is no way to cross the past, they want us to go back to Ribery Island to accept them. command."

Zhang Siyuan had already expected such a situation. The Azores were once again surrounded by the British on three sides, the coast of Africa, the coast of Spain, and the coast of the North American colony of the British colony. Now another super fleet has been dispatched. , surrounded on all sides, patrolling in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean and Cape Verde on the coast of Africa, so it seems that the super fleet on the coast of the North American colonies and the super fleet on the coast of Spain are close to them. If you add the Portuguese to help reconnaissance and patrol some In the sea area, it is really difficult for them to pass through the Strait of Gibraltar.

The Moroccan base is at the junction of the coasts of Morocco and Algeria after passing through the strait. Because of its remoteness, the new Qin State took advantage of the loophole. Now the Spaniards are suppressing the Moroccan base from the land and attacking from the sea. Their crisis is difficult to resolve. Unless the Spanish native fleet is defeated.

But this is more difficult.

How to offset the enemy's numerical advantage in the first thousand and 610 chapters

The former captain of Zhang Siyuan's flagship said to Zhang Siyuan:

"According to the information sent back by the scouting fleet, a squadron of the enemy's Caribbean Sea Fleet is divided into two teams stationed on the two wings of the port of Gibraltar. One is on this sharp corner, and the other is in the port of Spain. The thing is, it only takes half an hour for them to come out. Except for the merchant ships that have been inspected, now our warships have no chance to pass through

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Chapter 610 Annoying Wolves

A week passed in a blink of an eye, the Portuguese felt a little depressed, the Spaniards felt a little fear, and the British felt a little uneasy.

Colonel Coleman, the commander of the Portuguese Gibraltar Fleet, was very helpless, because they helped the British patrol and intercept the fleet of the New Qin Kingdom, which had lost 150 steam engine warships, 35 sailing warships, and 21 fishing boats, [-] There were [-] merchant ships with sails and [-] merchant ships with steam engines, which caused heavy losses to Portugal. These ships have never been heard from, and not even a living person has been seen.

The enemy is going to Spain or England, they know, but there is nothing they can do, the enemy will not contact them, the angry Portugal warns the new Qin State not to carry out such an attack, but the new Qin State tells them that they have no fleet Gibraltar entered the Atlantic Ocean for activities. All their fleets stayed in the port, or performed escort missions for the transport fleet. Now they are facing pressure from the British and the Spaniards, and all the fleets cannot be dispatched to make trouble here.

To put it simply, the new Qin State does not admit that this is what they did.

Through contact with the Spaniards, they learned that the Spaniards’ losses were even heavier than theirs. A Spanish steam engine fleet disappeared more than 100 nautical miles south of Funchal Island. Except for one fleet, the sound of guns was heard from a distance. Except for the sailing merchant ships on patrol, all the others were destroyed. The destruction of this fleet made their patrol at the mouth of Gibraltar less than three hours of night patrol time.

Then all the merchant ships that traveled two hundred nautical miles from the coast of Spain and Portugal in the deep sea did not arrive at the ports they needed to go to on time. The loss was about 34 merchant ships, and there was a transport fleet that went out from Portugal to cross the Strait of Gibraltar. An unknown fleet attacked, ten steamships were sunk, two first-generation ironclad ships escorted by the British were seriously injured, about eighteen merchant ships were sunk, and the number of casualties reached 3000.

On the coast of Africa, a small port of the British was attacked and the port was destroyed. Fifteen merchant ships from various countries passing by inside were destroyed in the port. The port fort was blown up and the waterway was blocked by merchant ships. The warship was sunk, and it will take at least a month to restore the port's operations. During this month, all merchant ships and warships that shuttle from the coasts of South Africa and North Africa must detour about 120 kilometers to the next small port to rest or replenish supplies. Moored to rest.

If you have to go on the road to unload, you can only anchor in the open sea, use a small boat to transport materials to land bit by bit, or use a small boat to transport materials from the beach on land to a large ship, and then lift them to the deck of the ship by roller skating. Transferring materials bit by bit, this completely delayed the speed of loading and unloading goods on ships and the happy experience of doing business.

If this is a bit rough, then the next more difficult thing is that there are suddenly more pirates on the sea. After knowing the chaos at the entrance of the sea, many pirates also fished out of troubled waters to rob, making the already chaotic situation even more chaotic. up.

The British African fleet sent all 28 warships that were not the main fleet to fight against pirates, but in a week, [-] steam engine warships, [-] sail warships, and many fifty or sixty armed merchant ships were lost. When the pirates attacked, the pirates changed their guns. Even if a wave of pirates attacked a ship, they lost [-] armed merchant ships in one day. Nearly [-] merchant ships were forced to hide in the port, and the British escort fleet escorted them. Dare to drive along the coast, pass through the [-]-kilometer sea area around the mouth of Gibraltar, reach Portugal or Spain, or enter the Mediterranean Sea. In short, the Portuguese, Spaniards, and British are in big trouble.

For the one-week attack, Zhang Siyuan and his fleet only paid a slight price for the loss of one destroyer, one destroyer was seriously injured, and seven destroyers were slightly injured.

But this is not enough, the enemy is only messed up, and the enemy's patrol at the mouth of the Strait of Gibraltar has not been broken at all. Although he can jump in with his strength, Zhang Siyuan is not prepared to do so. He needs to let the enemy chase, and then other The battleship took the opportunity to go in.

So the reconnaissance team was sent out to continue playing the role of pirates to confuse the enemy at the mouth of the sea, while the cover team was responsible for meeting them not far away, and the security team was sent out to play the role of pirates to continue the attack, this time attacking the coast of Portugal and the coast of Spain , Attracting the enemy's fleet sight to [-] kilometers away on both sides of the estuary, he called a frigate to cover the squad, and guarded behind to prevent the enemy's fleet from biting the security squad.

The main fleet continued to rest, hiding not far from Folsa Island and watching a small fleet stationed by the British here. The other two frigate squadrons went to the other side of Africa, [-] kilometers away, to continue to attack the enemy's The port is close to the port that was attacked this time, another small port about a hundred miles away, destroying this port will separate the enemy's African fleet from the enemy's squadrons at the entrance to the sea. If the enemy wants to get news and support, it will take at least three to four days, so that even if the enemy has a patrol fleet, they will not be able to react, and they can calmly eat one of the enemy's fleets and retreat.

In the second week, the Portuguese found that their merchant ships had lost another 56 ships, and the merchant ships from the African coast had been reduced by nearly half. The remaining half had to be escorted by the British fleet. The fleet has been reduced by 33 ten ships, and their remaining old warships can no longer go out for patrol.

The British lost 120 merchant ships, and the escort warships lost [-] old sail and steam engine warships, as well as eight first-generation ironclad ships and one second-generation capital ship. The British felt a crisis.

Only the fleets of other countries can beat their first-generation battleships. The Dutch and the French have this strength, but the second-generation battleships are only as strong as the warships of the New Qin Empire, and Zhang Siyuan's fleet only paid two One destroyer was seriously injured, another sank, one frigate was injured, and eight were lightly injured.

They had hit hard on the Spaniards and Portuguese, as well as the British trade routes to Africa and the Mediterranean.

The British and Spaniards have a lot of headaches for this, and if it is just a headache for the British and Spaniards, it will be a devastating blow to the domestic business of the Portuguese, almost cutting off most of their maritime business.

For this reason, the Portuguese are preparing to dispatch a large number of fleets, including the local fleet to patrol the sea within [-] kilometers around the Strait of Gibraltar from the North Atlantic to the South Atlantic.

And just when the Portuguese were about to do this and sent personnel to contact the Spaniards, that night, the captain of the squadron in Macaibo Bay took twenty transport ships across the Atlantic Ocean, passing through the inestimable distance of the British African fleet. About [-] kilometers deep in the Atlantic Ocean, came to the sea near Funchal Island, once again replenished Zhang Siyuan's fleet, took away the wounded and seriously injured warships, and left him with a cruiser again , three frigates, six destroyers.

The strength of Zhang Siyuan's fleet has increased to seven cruisers, 24 frigates, and 28 destroyers. This strength can be regarded as not small.

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However, the major warned him that the higher-ups were very dissatisfied with him. He had delayed arriving at the Morocco base for more than half a month, and was expected to arrive in 28 days, but he spent more than half a month here, even the Strait of Gibraltar. Although it was because the Azov Islands did not cooperate with him, this cannot be a reason. The Moroccan base was ordered to be in crisis. The Spanish fleet continued to attack, attacking on land.

At the same time, he was left with a mercenary regiment, an artillery regiment, a cavalry regiment, and a Han regiment, with a total of 1 troops, which made most of his warships overcrowded.

The major and the others were already packed with people. Twenty transport ships simply couldn’t hold so many people, horses, and cannons, so the fleet was full of people. Although their fleet was larger than the major’s, it also took up a lot of space. space on the battleship.

The major returned with the fleet, but left the transport fleet to him. He had to deploy the destroyer team of Lieutenant Baozi and the others to protect the transport fleet, so that he lost one mobile force.

Although six destroyers were added, it was still not enough.

The Artillery Regiment and the Cavalry Regiment are still arranged in the transport fleet, because their horses and cannons take up a lot of space. Apart from one company, the Han Chinese regiment is distributed on the destroyer squadron of the escorting transport fleet of Second Lieutenant Baozi, and another The mercenaries connected to the battleship of this destroyer team, so that there are more marines on the battleship, but it also makes the space of the battleship narrow, the living conditions become worse, and the speed of the battleship also drops by half a knot, flexibility and operability It's not as good as it was when there was a shortage of people before, but it has dropped a lot.

Then the destroyer squad, and the remaining three squads were all equipped with the men and equipment of the mercenary regiment, and only kept a few officers who were monitored by the Han regiment.

On top of the cruiser and frigate fleet of the Han regiment, this fleet has become a pure transport fleet.

It is almost difficult for such a fleet to break through the enemy's blockade and reach Morocco. The main reason is that it may suffer heavy losses during sea battles. It is not a good thing to be densely populated on a battleship. Dozens of people will die in one shot. Will a battleship sink? Five to six hundred people may die, which is simply a disaster for the new Qin State with a small population base.

But there is no way, who forced so many people from above, I heard that as the new crown prince, His Majesty knows the news that will be released in the future, after all, the new Qin Kingdom does not have much conflicts and differences, Zhang Siyuan and his fleet may be able to To hide it for a while, but as a subordinate who wants to hide it from his superiors for a long time, it is not suitable for emotion or reason.

Now that Zhao Shuai is still the envoy of the Privy Council, Wu Kejing, as the Prime Minister, needs to know some important things. Zhao Shuai knows, and he must report it. Maybe it can be delayed, but it can't be too long. Wu Kejing has been walking a little closer to the Crown Prince recently. This is something everyone knows.

Jin Lin and Song Qing conspired, Zhuang Lin and Lu Fang signed the plan, and Wu Nan's plan was finally to be reported as a major event and a top-secret event. Otherwise, the Military Intelligence Department managed by Zhao Shuai might have found out, because in the There are too many officials involved in this matter internally, it is impossible not to leak it. If it is kept secret, then the military chiefs below are plotting to treason. when.

After learning about this, Wu Kejing ordered the Privy Council envoy Zhao Shuai to mobilize the army from Luozuo to send troops to support Jin Qishun and the others, so 1 troops came here on transport ships. There are [-] transport ships, and the coast guard's transport fleet is small and can only carry out offshore transport tasks. In the far sea, one is not enough in tonnage, one is not enough in range, and the other is that it needs a lot of shipping capacity to meet such a large force. The new Coast Guard Commander and Zhang Siyuan, who are naturalized majors, have grudges in their hearts, and they are unwilling to send transport ships to support them, and they obstruct them in every possible way.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and gossip is the same everywhere. The new squadron major and the coast guard major are also at odds, because the mercenary rebellion happened at the same time. Deal with it, and the naturalized major is almost of Germanic descent. He is rigorous but not flexible, and has a sense of national superiority, so it is not pleasing to anyone, especially in the new Qin State, a country dominated by Han people. He was actually arrogant to the Han people, which made his official career not smooth, and his temper made him reach a bottleneck in the new Qin State dominated by Han people, which made him even more irritable, and his irritability made it difficult for him to get along with his colleagues .

In this way, his colleagues complained and gossiped about him more, and they couldn't help but talk to this captain of the flagship of the Zhang Siyuan Squadron who had only lived in Macaibo Bay for a month. Of course, his current status, this squadron major It is not comparable, because he has a heavy responsibility and has a major task. Han officers who can be entrusted with important tasks are a precursor to training and promotion, so many people will flatter them. Of course, if he fails in the task and lives If you come back, you will be thrown into the cold palace. If you come back victorious, although you won't be promoted in a short while, you will definitely be promoted and cultivated talents in the future.

With such an advantage, if Zhang Siyuan wants to know anything, he can find anyone who he can find out, and everyone is happy to talk to him and tell him some gossip.

After returning to the anchorage with these people, the Shadow Fleet of the Second Squadron of the Xinding State Coast Guard, which had been drifting on the sea for more than half a month, re-anchored and sailed to the Strait of Gibraltar for a day and a night. On the way, the frigate fleet sank After several enemy patrol steam engine warships went back and forth, they suddenly crossed the Strait of Gibraltar in the middle of the night.

Because there is a transport ship, the speed of the fleet is only [-] knots. The fleet was intercepted by the Spanish fleet less than [-] nautical miles after crossing the strait. This Spanish fleet was stationed at the Spanish port of Gibraltar. The fleet received the news. Strike now.

Zhang Siyuan and his warships are sailing on the sea, and Spain can send war horses to deliver letters from land, not to mention the fact that wired telegraph rooms on land have become popular. Spain, with the assistance of the Chinese Empire, switched to the British standard cable telegraph halfway. Over the years, the wired telegraph machine room has also been freed from the huge and complicated construction. The wired telegraph machine has been shrinking continuously, and now it has been reduced to almost the size of a distribution cabinet for later generations. Of course, this is the progress of the West.

The Huaxia Empire has long since shrunk to the size of a TV that can be pulled by a casual pony cart. It is about the size of a TV at the bottom of a glass bottle in the 80s and 90s. Well, it is about the size of a 29-inch TV. The appearance is about half smaller than the current wired telegraph in the West. Although everyone has the same principle, and they all have to build external antennas tens of meters high, it also greatly facilitates construction and transportation storage.

Because the destroyers are full of mercenary troops, 28 destroyers, and each of the 28 destroyers has to carry more than 100 people, as well as horses, weapons, and artillery, so the mobility is greatly reduced, while the 24 frigates are equipped with large Part of the Han Chinese regiment, part of the weapons and equipment are on the transport ship, some are on the destroyer, and some officers are on the destroyer and transport ship. A battalion has 600 troops on the destroyer, so the destroyer and transport ship are now bloated fat people, so the battle can only be done Happened where the frigate.

The main battleship also received the strength and weaponry of a company of Han regiments, but relatively speaking, the number of them is not too large, so the main battleship, cruiser and frigate are the main force of the fleet battle, escorting the slow-moving transport fleet and destroyer fleet through the strait .

Three frigate squadrons, each with eight warships, faced the enemy's previously intercepted patrol fleet, defending the fleet while fighting, and passed through the strait.

The cruiser is in the rear, protecting the transport fleet, and the destroyer squadron is protecting the transport fleet. One destroyer fleet is dedicated to protecting the transport fleet. It was of no use at all, until the fleet had passed some sixty miles, and was about to reach the coast of Morocco, when the main body of the enemy's Spanish fleet appeared.