Lord of Ming Dynasty

The first ones to appear were thirty Spanish first-generation ironclad ships imitating the British and imitating the Chinese Empire's ironclad ships, which were equivalent to the first type of ironclad ships of the New Qin Kingdom.

Facing so many warships, a frigate squadron of eight warships immediately turned to face the enemy, and another squadron immediately took over the position of the frigate squadron, covering the transport fleet and destroyer fleet on the route close to the African coastline. , and no exchange of fire, just constantly changing positions to protect the transport fleet and destroyer fleet.

The leading frigate squadron continued to protect the fleet, and they would not take care of that frigate squadron.

The double reverse maneuvered for fifteen nautical miles, and fifteen nautical miles away, the enemy's second interception fleet appeared, about fifteen old Spanish ironclad ships, these were purchased from the British, the new Qin State, and the warships of the Chinese Empire , after the Spaniards have repaired and improved the steam engine ironclad ships in the past few years, the key is not only these fifteen ships, but also thirty other British first-generation ironclad ships produced by the Spaniards themselves, all of which are British. The Spaniards provided technology and guidance, and even some key components. Under the guidance of the Spaniards, the first batch of ironclads were produced for the remaining native fleets of the former main battleships.

So the leading frigate squadron of the escort had to fight, and the leading destroyer squadron had to fight, and then another covering frigate squadron took over and continued to protect the transport fleet and the destroyer fleet to the Moroccan base.

The closer to the base, the stronger the enemy's interception. When it reached fifteen nautical miles from the coastline, the capital ship cruiser fleet had to detour out from the rear of the fleet at high speed, joined the escort frigate squadron that was leading the cover now, and left the transport fleet to the rest. The three destroyer squadrons of the U.S. Army protected the enemy's fleet that was attacking the base in Morocco.

The first thousand 610 chapter four this is a trap

The scene of the Moroccan base is dilapidated and miserable in people's eyes.

The Spaniards came to harass from time to time, from the tense situation at the beginning, to the harassing fleet later, and finally sent the fleet to attack and intercept the merchant ships transporting personnel and supplies from Turkey and Russia, cutting off the sea with the new Qin State. The trading merchant ships and the British blocked the Strait of Gibraltar for a total of half a year. The port of the Moroccan base has been dilapidated, and there is only a section of the pier trestle where its own fleet is moored for emergency repairs. Other places have long ceased to operate.

Later, the Spaniards mainly carried out land offensives, so most of the personnel in the base were transferred to land to defend several mountain passes and desert areas at this time. Those coastal cliffs and beaches, dense forests, and useless desert areas, in fact, the Moroccan base now occupies an area of ​​only ten square kilometers, about thirty miles, and five or six miles wide.

The harbor and breakwaters extending from the port have been blasted to pieces, and the permanent forts and fortifications on both sides have also been blown up. Only the newly built forts and movable cannons are on both sides of the pier.

Most of the warships in the port are also scarred. There are many wooden ships, which are used for transportation and reconnaissance of the enemy. These are self-built ships here.

Jin Qishun and Xiao Nan have paid a lot for this place, and now all their functions have stopped, only one function has not stopped, which is to defend the base.

The rumble of guns on the sea sounded, and they immediately dispatched wooden sailboats to investigate the enemy's situation.

But even though they knew it might be reinforcements, they didn't dare to go out, because it was dark and their combat effectiveness could not be displayed at all.

On Zhang Siyuan's side, all the fleets were dispatched to stop the enemy. Only a destroyer fleet led by Second Lieutenant Baozi was still protecting the transport fleet. Before the enemy's warships approached, they passed through the attack port and patrolled and blocked the port. The enemy's fleet, but they can't enter the port, because the port waterway is the secret of any port. If you rush in, you can only run aground or sink when you hit a reef. So they waited and sent small boats to the port. connection.

At the same time they sent several small boats to investigate the condition of the waterways in the port, testing the water depth and the waterways.

As soon as the boat was dispatched, the pier on the shore was on fire. It was the shore artillery in the port that was firing. The boat had to withdraw. A small boat went in to communicate at the risk of being sunk. They had no direct contact with the telegram in the port. All call communications are on Zhang Siyuan's flagship, and only he and his staff have the password and contact method.

The new state of Qin adopts a hierarchical review method of level-by-level upward connection. In a group, only the flagship of the group has a wireless telegraph, which uses an old-fashioned third-generation telegraph machine, and the telegram contact password and call sign used can only call The superior team has one flagship in the team, and the warships below do not have radios. They can only issue orders to the subordinates, and at the same time they can only contact the squadron. The squadron can only communicate with the squad, or communicate with the superior team. , or communicate with the flagship of the squadron, that is to say, except for the special reconnaissance fleet, other warships either do not have wireless telegraphs, or the telegraphs are restricted, or only have the communication call signs of squadrons and brigades.

If you don't know the communication rules and call signs, and call randomly, other stations will not respond to your calls.

But you can call in plain text, but the telegraph machines at all levels are limited in terms of hardware, the communication range and communication channels have long been dead, you can't report to the next level, or you don't know what the technology to report to the next level is. It has been achieved, and the superior will not accept the call sign of your leapfrog report, unless there is a special call sign of a senior person, otherwise it will not respond.

This is the same as the digital soldier equipment of later generations. A soldier can only communicate with his squad leader. The squad leader commands you and you accept orders. The squad leader can only contact the platoon level. The platoon level can only contact the company headquarters. The company command The headquarters can only contact the battalion headquarters. Some battalion headquarters can contact higher-level superiors, and most of them can contact the battalion at the same level or the regiment headquarters at the higher level. The regiment headquarters contacts the brigade headquarters. , The communication equipment limits the scope of your contact and the exclusive call sign and password. Without this call sign, you cannot contact your superior.

So Second Lieutenant Baozi could only report and at the same time send a small boat to communicate with the port at the same time.

And when the fleet led by Lieutenant Baozi was communicating with Jin Qishun and the others, Zhang Siyuan's fleet was surrounded by at least 100 Spanish warships. An encounter.

When the sky was about to brighten, Second Lieutenant Baozi, who had led the destroyer team to resist, finally contacted Jin Qishun and the others. Jin Qishun personally drove the warship out of the port and guided the transport fleet into the port. Due to the narrow port and limited berths, the transport ships had to berth one by one. Unloading of personnel and weapons and supplies, food.

When the sky was bright, only five transport ships were unloaded and moved to the port anchorage. After the sixth transport ship was admitted to the berth, the personnel who had previously unloaded were busy transferring materials under Xiao Nan's command. It was easy to put them in the docks and ports. Destroyed by enemy naval guns, personnel are also easily killed by enemy naval guns, and personnel and materials are being transferred.

At 19 o'clock in the morning, the No.[-] transport ship docked at the berth and was unloading. The destroyers outside the port were covering the wounded warships and salvaged personnel and prisoners entering the port. They also had to unload a lot of equipment and supplies. , and transported personnel.

At nine o'clock, the destroyer fleet all returned to the port and built a sea defense line to prevent the small Spanish warships from rushing into the port, and at the same time intercept the enemy warships that slipped through the net and rush into the port.

The entire port was hot outside, the sea water was boiling, and the shells almost filled the surrounding sea area. The sunk Spanish warships sank one by one in the surrounding sea area, and the destroyers here lost seven ships, almost one With the strength of the destroyer squad, three frigates were sunk, two were seriously injured, two were slandered, and all the other frigates were injured.

Cruisers become the largest firefighters.

It is hard for you to imagine the scene. According to the estimates of all the combatants here, the enemy has at least 100 warships of various types participating in the battle, and there are more than 80 main warships, and only Zhang Siyuan's squadron is fighting the enemy here.

The loss was a bit big in the dark night. After the sky brightened, the advanced nature of the warships here was brought into play. The accuracy of the salvo firepower of the frigates was greatly improved, and the firepower advantage of the cruisers was brought into play. After a few maneuvers at sea, all the ships were intercepted The enemy warships rushed to the port and sank at least thirty enemy warships.

The battle lasted until eleven o'clock at noon, when the Spaniard's fleet retreated with thick smoke. Zhang Siyuan and the others led the fleet into the port. The moment he stepped on the pier of the port, the troops on the destroyer were unloaded and the cargo was being unloaded. .

And other frigates and cruisers began to use small boats to transfer the Han Chinese regiment and supplies, and at the same time replenish the artillery shells and repair parts of the battleship from the cargo unloaded from the destroyer, and supply various fuel supplies to the battleship.

On the other side, Jin Qishun and the others also began to receive various parts for repairing warships and various artillery shells and weapons to repair their fleet.

At two o'clock at noon, the sailboats and destroyers that had left the port for reconnaissance came back to report that the Spaniards had made a comeback, and the British fleet also arrived.

Zhang Siyuan feels that this is a hole dug by the Spaniards and the British for the new Qin State. Their crazy attack is to consume the warships, manpower, material resources, and financial resources of the new Qin State. How difficult it is to supply them at once. He listened to it and persisted for more than half a year. Jin Qishun and the others know that this kind of expense is beyond the current state of Qin.

The first thousand 610 five chapters to make our enemies less

Knowing that this is a trap, the new Qin Kingdom has to continue to struggle with the British and Spaniards, because although the canal has been opened, the Chinese Empire will not be able to support them in half a year, because the Chinese Empire is still healing itself. During the transformation, it was all because the technological level of the New Qin State had improved to a certain level and even surpassed the Huaxia Empire, and all kinds of contradictions in the Huaxia Empire that had been suppressed by the old emperor Zhang Qiang for decades broke out at this time.

Maybe some people traveled thousands of miles to trade with the New Qin State through the opened canal for profit, but it was only some agricultural and light industrial products that the New Qin State could not produce, or the production volume was not large. The export of mechanical products was prohibited by the Chinese Empire, so even Even the official is only trading some technical things with the New Qin State, and high-tech things require an equal exchange of benefits.

Generally speaking, the Huaxia Empire doesn't care about them now, they have to save themselves.

The soldiers from the fleet were quickly reorganized. The 1-man force lost 4000 men after World War I. The biggest losses were mercenary regiments and weapons and equipment, as well as part of the Han Chinese regiment and cavalry regiment, but artillery shells and machinery, battleship artillery and parts , and some maintenance machines are back.

The hospital was overcrowded, and the lightly wounded couldn't get ambulance. They had to be treated and bandaged by some veterans with medical knowledge from each regiment. The wounded were treated by the doctors of each regiment themselves, but some doctors with good skills could They were transferred to bases in towns and mountains to treat the seriously wounded. The transfer of personnel was basically completed by two o'clock in the afternoon.

The distribution of machinery and parts and materials was also transferred to the base after three o'clock, but the maintenance and parts replacement of the warships, and the formation of personnel were still in progress. Outside the Spanish warships gathered in the open sea, and the British warships arrived one after another, reaching four o'clock in the afternoon Many, just when the formation of personnel was completed, mercenaries began to take over the defense of the port, and the cavalry regiment moved to an important land guard point, the main fleet of the British arrived.

The Han regiment assigned a battalion to take over the duties of a part of the marines on the warships, another battalion to defend the town, and a part to assist the artillery regiment in establishing shore artillery firepower, and Xiao Nan transferred all the army troops guarding the port to land to protect the land of the Spaniards. attack.

The captives they captured and the local Sudanese tribe's fighters began to clean up the port and nearby ruins and build fortifications.

There were 1 wounded in the hospital alone, and the slightly wounded continued to be responsible for the fortifications outside the city and the port after being bandaged, as well as patrolling tasks in the nearby mountains and deserts.

The surplus sailors and officers in the fleet will replace the warships that have been repaired and repaired in the port due to the shortage of naval personnel, and supervise those technicians to repair the warships and replace and upgrade warship parts.

At night, all the preparations were almost done, and the British and Spaniards did not attack, so I don't know what they were doing, but from Zhang Siyuan and Jin Qishun's point of view, the enemy wanted to trap them instead of attacking them.

The fleet that went out for reconnaissance came back and figured out the approximate strength of the enemy. The Spanish side intercepted and lost 78 warships last night, all of which were low-level warships. About [-] warships were injured, and all of them withdrew from the battle and returned to their port. , there are still about [-] capital ships about fifteen nautical miles away, and there are about forty old warships that have just arrived.

The British have about [-] capital ships, and about [-] other warships of various types. It can be said that there are two warships gathered. From a rational point of view, even if Zhang Siyuan's squadron can fight ten of them, they must be the ones in the end. The whole army was wiped out, and Jin Qishun and his fleet couldn't do it anymore. After half a year of supplies and reinforcements, Jin Qishun and his fleet lost about [-] warships, and there were [-] battleships that could fight, and only a dozen or so warships were repaired. The others were wooden sailboats built by themselves. This kind of boat probably couldn't even get a single shot from the enemy, so it was wiped out. The only combat effectiveness was the remaining shore artillery and artillery troops.

But these troops can't go out and can only defend on land. The Spaniards and the British are not good at land warfare.

The distribution of machinery and parts and materials was also transferred to the base after three o'clock, but the maintenance and parts replacement of the warships, and the formation of personnel were still in progress. Outside the Spanish warships gathered in the open sea, and the British warships arrived one after another, reaching four o'clock in the afternoon Many, just when the formation of personnel was completed, mercenaries began to take over the defense of the port, and the cavalry regiment moved to an important land guard point, the main fleet of the British arrived.

The Han regiment assigned a battalion to take over the duties of a part of the marines on the warships, another battalion to defend the town, and a part to assist the artillery regiment in establishing shore artillery firepower, and Xiao Nan transferred all the army troops guarding the port to land to protect the land of the Spaniards. attack.

The captives they captured and the local Sudanese tribe's fighters began to clean up the port and nearby ruins and build fortifications.

There were 1 wounded in the hospital alone, and the slightly wounded continued to be responsible for the fortifications outside the city and the port after being bandaged, as well as patrolling tasks in the nearby mountains and deserts.

The surplus sailors and officers in the fleet will replace the warships that have been repaired and repaired in the port due to the shortage of naval personnel, and supervise those technicians to repair the warships and replace and upgrade warship parts.

At night, all the preparations were almost done, and the British and Spaniards did not attack, so I don't know what they were doing, but from Zhang Siyuan and Jin Qishun's point of view, the enemy wanted to trap them instead of attacking them.

The fleet that went out for reconnaissance came back and figured out the approximate strength of the enemy. The Spanish side intercepted and lost 78 warships last night, all of which were low-level warships. About [-] warships were injured, and all of them withdrew from the battle and returned to their port. , there are still about [-] capital ships about fifteen nautical miles away, and there are about forty old warships that have just arrived.

The British have about [-] capital ships, and about [-] other warships of various types. It can be said that there are two warships gathered. From a rational point of view, even if Zhang Siyuan's squadron can fight ten of them, they must be the ones in the end. The whole army was wiped out, and Jin Qishun and his fleet couldn't do it anymore. After half a year of supplies and reinforcements, Jin Qishun and his fleet lost about [-] warships, and there were [-] battleships that could fight, and only a dozen or so warships were repaired. The others were wooden sailboats built by themselves. This kind of boat probably couldn't even get a single shot from the enemy, so it was wiped out. The only combat effectiveness was the remaining shore artillery and artillery troops.