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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 first thousand and 610 chapters and six crazy slaughter fleets

It was getting dark, another sweltering night on the African coast of the Mediterranean.

Huceima Port, the base port of the New Qin Empire in Morocco, wooden sailboats pulled their sails, pulling Zhang Siyuan’s fleet out of the port waterway one by one, and then along the coast of Africa, only one nautical mile away Slowly driving at a speed of only three or four knots, from time to time to avoid the enemy's reconnaissance and patrols, it took about ten hours to run thirty nautical miles, and it was only at three or four o'clock in the morning in the middle of the night that they scattered one by one Return, or rush to the port of Algiers, a French colony, to take refuge.

But Zhang Siyuan and his fleet raised the boilers and sailed for another two hours at a speed of three or four knots with the lowest efficiency of smoke and siren sound. It was only when the merchant ship accelerated to leave, and the speed could be as fast as nearly 120 knots. It took nearly four hours to drive, and they had already left the port of Huceima for [-] nautical miles.

After they left, Jin Qishun disguised the sailboats in the port and pulled them down to an obvious place. He also disguised some warships that were damaged and could not be repaired, and dragged them to the coastline near the port exit, so that the outside could watch them. Everyone knows that Zhang Siyuan and his fleet are still in the port, and his gradually increasing number of warships, although they are already somewhat dilapidated, are still very effective battleships. After maintenance, their combat effectiveness has improved to a higher level. Sailors, gunners, and even some Sudanese tribal soldiers were recruited to serve as handymen on the ship, carrying shells, scrubbing the deck, and slowly restoring the combat effectiveness of the fleet.

In the morning, the Spaniards began to prepare to attack the port as usual. They have been doing this kind of work for half a year. The forts in the port and the surrounding beaches, cliffs, and mountains have long been destroyed by their naval guns. Now The only thing to worry about is the naval guns of the enemy's new fleet rushing into the port. For this reason, the British supported [-] capital ships to bombard the port with the Spanish attacking fleet in the open sea, preparing to fight against the enemy's new fleet that may rush out of the port at any time. The coming fleet fought a decisive battle.

In the port, there are only a few observation posts and patrolling rangers. None of the underground fortifications are full of people. Everyone is hiding in the mountains and air-raid shelters on the edge of the enemy's naval gun range. The men were also in the caves behind the strong stone houses.

As always, the Spanish warships approached the coast and began shelling, and the shore artillery that had been silent for several months finally began to counterattack. The newly brought cannons dealt a heavy blow to the enemy. Those who thought that the Moroccan base had no shore artillery firepower After the Spanish hull bombarded for some time, they arranged for the landing craft to land step by step. Many Spanish colonial soldiers approached the beach and coastline in small boats on the sea. As soon as they stepped on the coastline, they were met with fierce firepower. Then the hidden shore artillery began to show its power. , inflicting heavy blows on the enemy's transport merchant ships and warships used to land and load troops.

In the morning, the Spaniards lost [-] merchant ships, [-] steam engine battleships, and two sailing warships. The British lost a capital ship, an ironclad ship, and three steam engine battleships were severely damaged. The counterattack troops were completely annihilated. The Spaniards and the British, who were furious and unwilling to fail, organized [-] warships to fire against the shore artillery.

And the artillery on the wounded warships that were dragged to both sides of the coastline waterway also participated in the counterattack.

The war on land is so big.

However, the shadow fleet led by Zhang Siyuan, who had already moved out quietly and rested in the Mediterranean Sea for two hours, quietly set sail and quickly assaulted the enemy's ports along the coast of Spain.

Adela, a small port in Spain, has a population of less than 1000 people. There is only one row of Spanish soldiers stationed on the pier. There are about five or sixty militiamen. However, there are many sailors on the merchant ships passing here. Hundreds of soldiers from the Spanish fleet were stationed and rested here.There are five thousand-ton warships with steam engines stationed and resting here, and more than a dozen passing merchant ships. At twelve noon, eight destroyers led by Second Lieutenant Baozi visited here.

The 37mm short-range rapid-fire gun on the destroyer is enough to deal with these canoes or small fishing boats of tens of tons. If it fails, it can also be hit and crushed. Anyway, they are all made of steel. The hull of the ship has a ram angle below.

About a dozen fishing boats were crushed, hit, and bombarded. Some small sailing boats, small merchant ships, and some large Spanish merchant ships passing by also caused disaster. All ships were sunk, and then no rescue was made The personnel drove away directly, and after cleaning up in a circle around the open sea, they approached the port.

Two destroyers blocked the left and right, intercepted merchant ships and fishing boats, and the other six gradually approached the port. First, they bombarded the merchant ships and warships in the port regardless, and then extended the artillery fire to the dock. In the town, it took Adela a full three hours. The port was wiped off the map.

There was heavy smoke in the port, and there were heavy casualties. The sunken ship blocked the river, and the debris flew onto the dock. Hundreds of sailors and a platoon of Spanish army soldiers here suffered, and no one escaped.

Seeing the Adela port that had been reduced to ashes, Second Lieutenant Baozi was satisfied and left with the fleet almost empty of the short-range ammunition and half of the ammunition for the main gun.

Just as he left triumphantly, a frigate squadron of seven warships secretly took a tortuous route to avoid the patrols and reconnaissance of the Spaniards, and avoided the sight of most Spanish merchant ships. Marvelia, a small port in Spain closest to the Strait of Gibraltar, suddenly appeared, copying Second Lieutenant Baozi's strategy of burning villages, but they also did one more thing. The war horse, after sinking a main battleship in the enemy's port, an ironclad ship, and three wounded steam engine battleships, walked away.

Halfway through their progress, the port of Fuengirola, not far from Marvellia, was also attacked by a destroyer squad and a frigate squad. Fleet, nearly 1000 warships, and 2000 transport ships, there are nearly [-] Spanish colonial troops on land preparing to land at the Huceira Morocco base, as well as [-] British auxiliary troops, and [-] Spanish troops. regular army.

Not far from Malaga is a big port, where the Spaniards and British are stationed, so Zhang Siyuan sent a frigate squad and a destroyer squad to attack here.

The main fleet led by Zhang Siyuan, under the protection of a frigate squadron and a destroyer squadron, is waiting [-] nautical miles east of Malaga port. This is an important Mediterranean route for the Spaniards. Take the shot, the destroyer team intercepts the merchant ships coming from both sides and the enemy warships on patrol and reconnaissance ten nautical miles away.

The crazy slaughter did not leave the Spaniards at all.

The frigate squadron encountered an enemy fleet returning to transport the wounded and supplies on the middle route from the Moroccan base to Malaga [-] nautical miles away, and sank three enemy steam engine warships at the cost of one injury. , a Tier [-] ironclad they sold to the Spaniards, sank five enemy transports simultaneously.

The loss of the Spaniards in the first thousand and 610 chapters of the attack

At 28:4000 noon, Zhang Siyuan led the fleet to raid the port of Malaga, sank [-] wounded warships in the port, and sank the two enemy ships that rushed out to support the ports of Fuengirola and Marvellia. [-] battleships composed of steam engine battleships and old-fashioned battleships, and forced about fifteen enemy ironclad ships to hide in the depths of the port, destroyed most of the enemy's port facilities within the range of naval gun fire, and dragged the enemy's surrendered After the warship was bombed and sunk in the waterway of the enemy's port, it left about [-] Spanish sailors and crew members wandering on the sea for more than ten miles, and half of the main British and Spanish fleet with the fleet came back from the enemy's Huceima port. At about ten nautical miles, they quickly retreated towards the depths of the Mediterranean Sea.

The main fleet of the Spaniards was chasing wildly, and the fleet of the British was also outflanking, but at this time Zhang Siyuan had already retreated towards the Mediterranean Sea with all his rendezvous fleet. Some can soar at a speed of 22 knots, but they have to reduce their speed to [-] knots to take care of other warships. There are no speeds of eight knots, only fifteen or sixteen knots. This is the case with the Spanish warships, and only a small part of them can soar at a speed of nineteen knots.

After the improvement here, the speed of [-] knots can even be soared by destroyers, let alone frigates and cruisers that are known for their speed.

Even if some warships are injured and cannot run at a speed of [-] knots, even at a speed of [-] or [-] knots, the two sides are separated by about ten nautical miles. It is a bit ridiculous for Zhang Siyuan and the others to run for an hour first. The enemy will never be able to catch up, unless there are warships intercepting in front, but the British will not do their best for the Spanish war, and the fast pursuit of the capital ship that detours and intercepts only lasts for an hour, and it is about to catch up to the new Qin State. Zhang Siyuan's fleet dropped the speed to [-] knots. After all, their steam engine technology and boiler technology are not as good as those of the new Qin State. They can run at full speed for an hour. During the war, the British wisely chose to reduce the speed, otherwise the steam engine would overheat, explode or be damaged, and they would suffer.

The frenzied pursuit all afternoon finally came to an end when Zhang Siyuan and his fleet escaped through the night.

The fleet finally rested in a small hidden port in a French colony near the coast of Africa. In the middle of the night, the fleet began to return. In the early morning, three destroyer squadrons and a frigate squadron raided Kata, Spain, and all nearby ports and villages. And the fishing village, all the merchant ships and fishing boats on the sea, another frigate squadron continuously raided the two ports of Alicante and Benidorm, tens of kilometers away, and another frigate squadron continued to attack on the sea not far from the main fleet. Shen He dissuaded merchant ships from other small countries coming from various coasts of Italy at that time, and even wiped out a group of pirates who attempted to attack the fleet.

After the attack, the fleet rendezvoused at [-]:[-] noon, where the main cruiser was located, on the commercial route near the Spanish coastline in the Mediterranean Sea. After waiting for supplies from several sailing ships, the wounded were handed over to them, and at the same time, some tribal fighters and sailor officers and soldiers were obtained. After the replenishment, the warship continued to move east of the Spanish coastline after simple maintenance.

Two hours after they left, more than 70 warships, about half of the main fleet of the Spaniards and the British, appeared in this sea area, but all they saw were fragments of merchant ships floating in the sea and faint sailors on the sea. Their corpses, close to the coastline, saw smoke everywhere on the nearly [-]-kilometer coastline, the port was destroyed, fragments of warships and merchant ships washed up on the beach, and the beach was full of corpses.

A Spanish fleet set off very enthusiastically to chase the direction of Zhang Siyuan's fleet. The other warships hesitated for a while. When it was getting dark, a British fleet and a Spanish fleet chased them together. Most of the others The warships all returned to their port stations, or continued to maintain pressure on the Huceima Moroccan base and blocked the Strait of Gibraltar.

Such a blow became more obvious three days later. The Spanish villages and towns along the coast were devastated, and about 50 people had to retreat to villages and towns a hundred kilometers or thirty kilometers inland. Some hot-blooded Spaniards who are hard to leave their homeland are still on the coastline, but Zhang Siyuan will not waste ammunition with them. What he is looking for is a port city with a complete enemy, a large city.

So for more than a week they destroyed more than 50 Spanish villages, fishing villages, more than 30 towns, and 300 port cities, forcing about [-] million Spaniards to move to the interior. Panic was spreading, and Zhang Siyuan even sent a marine corps to land About twenty rich Spanish, family estates within thirty kilometers of coastline were burned.

The panic of the war spread and spread to the Spaniards inland, and the two Spanish fleets and one British fleet that pursued them could not catch their traces.

The most important thing is to cut off the maritime trade in the Strait of Gibraltar and attack the Spanish merchant ships. The total tonnage of the destroyed Spanish merchant ships has reached [-] tons, and there are nearly a few hundred merchant ships. If you don't change the route or go this way, most of the goods will be transported by land, not by sea.

Seriously affected Spain's maritime trade.

At the same time, they also waited for an opportunity to attack the British and Spanish fleets of about [-] ships that were chasing them. At dusk, they severely bit off a piece of the tail of the British fleet, and then two frigate squadrons sank three enemy ships. After the second-generation warships, five first-generation warships, and two transport ships, they left easily with minor injuries.

Just when the British wanted to support, Zhang Siyuan's main force, six cruisers and one frigate a dozen nautical miles ahead attacked the five destroyers in front of the British again, seriously injured three ships within 15 minutes, and sank Two ships, then turned around and left. The British popularity scored more than a dozen main battleships to pursue them. After being attracted by a destroyer fleet more than ten nautical miles away, three main battleships were separated. After two destroyers went to chase Zhang Siyuan's destroyer team, they Surrounded by two destroyers and one frigate squad, the main force of the cruisers arrived within ten minutes of surrounding the enemy. After a big battle, at the cost of sinking a destroyer and seriously injuring a frigate, the British were completely wiped out. Fifteen main battleships and one destroyer.

Afterwards, the two injured destroyers and frigates withdrew to the coast of the French colonies. After the reunion, the remaining fleet ate the capital ship of the enemy's chasing destroyer squad, and then went to support the two frigate squadrons that were fleeing. After a circle, he rushed into the encirclement here with more than a dozen British battleships.

After the entire fleet reunited, they surrounded the British from all sides. Although the British finally sank a frigate here and severely damaged two destroyers, they were also annihilated, and about five second-generation battleships surrendered.

So far, the fleet pursued by the British was wiped out, and only a few scattered warships escaped. The other warships were sunk and nine were captured, four of which were improved second-generation main battleships of the British.

The price Zhang Siyuan and the others paid was that three frigates were severely damaged, two frigates were sunk, three destroyers were sunk, two destroyers were severely damaged, and about half of the squadron's strength was lost, and more than 800 sailors and crews were lost. In the end, more than 200 crew members were salvaged and assigned to the captured British warships, and the two remaining frigates replaced the lost frigate squad.

The remaining four captured British ironclads of the first generation, together with the one destroyer remaining after the last battle outside Hoceima, and the remaining destroyers of the battered squad now form a destroyer squadron of nine ships in total.

In this way, all the squadrons in Zhang Siyuan's fleet are still fully staffed, and even have one or two extra ships, but the overall combat effectiveness has dropped a little, because other warships have also suffered some damage. After three battles with the enemy's fleet with the main battleship, although the enemy's [-] ships were successfully annihilated. The main battleship lost nine warships, and five were severely damaged. It can be regarded as killing a thousand enemies and losing five hundred.

Today, Zhang Siyuan had no idea, leaving a frigate squad to scout out the enemy's situation, and he took all the wounded and uninjured warships back to the hidden African coast port of the French colony to rest.

The remaining frigate squadrons were basically undamaged. After doing some reconnaissance within a radius of [-] nautical miles, they encountered a small fleet of three reconnaissance British warships from the Spaniards while retreating in the dark. Killing the past, seven ships beat three ships, and there was a substitute. Of course, it was very easy. Before giving the Spaniards a chance, they sank a Spanish warship, another one was injured and escaped, and one was captured.

When they returned in the middle of the night, they attacked seven Spanish merchant ships that were sneaking away, captured three, and sank the enemy's two escorting steam engine warships, and then turned back to the port to rest.

Summarize how much damage Zhang Siyuan and his attacks have caused to the Spaniards and the British in the past half month.

First of all, the British lost about seven steam engine warships, seventeen first-generation warships, eight second-generation main battleships, and 28 second-generation improved warships, of which four were captured, four first-generation improved warships, and second-generation improved warships.

There are even more Spaniards. The total tonnage of merchant ships has reached 3 tons, and there are seven or eight hundred merchant ships of approximately large and small tonnages. The key is to paralyze the Spanish Mediterranean maritime trade.

The 96 Spanish sailing reconnaissance and transport ships were mostly destroyed in the port, and the 55 steam engine warships and transport ships were mostly destroyed near or in the port. There are 32 old warships, except for those destroyed in ports and ports, most of them were destroyed by attacks during the battle.

The main battleships of the Spaniards were thirteen second-generation battleships of the British, eighteen British improved ironclad ships purchased by the first generation, nine British main battleships imitated by themselves, and seventeen first-generation ironclad ships imitated. They surrounded Zhang Siyuan's fleet that night and were destroyed in the early hours of the morning, others were destroyed in raids.

Not only that, but more losses.

The first thousand 610 eight chapters of the Spaniards are under great pressure

Although Zhang Siyuan and the others also lost 1000 crew members and nearly nine warships, and six more were severely damaged, compared to the losses of the British, this loss is very small, and compared to the losses of the Spaniards, it is like ants and warships. Compare the size of an elephant.

Nearly 3 people died on the Spanish coastline, dozens of ports and docks were destroyed, and maritime trade was interrupted. Although they still had nearly 100 warships, the British also had more than [-] warships, and they were still in the Huceima port It caused pressure, and the attacks continued every day, but they couldn't get to the shore, and the offensive on the land over there made no progress, but the Spaniards had to bear huge pressure, and millions of people near the coastline fled inland.