Lord of Ming Dynasty

Because since he proposed integration with the West and accepted the conditions of the British, he lost the Venezuela and Peru that Luo Zuo worked so hard to conquer, and gave up the Caribbean colonies of the British and Spaniards Puerto Rico and San Juan that Zhang Siyuan and Second Lieutenant Baozi defeated. , the Virgin Islands, Grenada and other places, the power of mercenaries began to infiltrate into various departments of the new Qin State where only Han Chinese could hold office.

This is a threat to the new Qin State, which established a Han Chinese-dominated national policy, and a mistake with great hidden dangers.

Although it is very difficult for the Han people to dominate in the West, the Han people will be assimilated because of the large number of Westerners and the great influence of the Westerners. They still have to bow their knees and try to change themselves and adapt to others. This is not to please both ends. Just look at Singapore and Australia in later generations. The two countries in the east, mainly Han Chinese, try to please the British, even if they stand on their own. , but in name it is still a vassal state of the British.

Outside they are not respected by others, and they are called around, but inside, all Asian countries look down on them and reject them.

Zhang Siyuan has long been aware of this situation, but he has no ability to change the new Qin State politically. Now Lu Fang and Luo Zuo are also aware of this harm. The key is that it directly hits their power and interests. Luo Zuo is taller than Zhuang Lin Such a ladder, but not too much in charge, lack of influence, Zhuang Lin's influence is enough, but it is not as good as Luo Zuo's qualifications, but he is the backer of all parties. Although Song Qing also has prestige, his qualifications are deeper than Lu Fang , but he still does not have enough voice and high prestige at the top, which has led to him being squeezed out to the position of the logistics minister, or the position of the naval logistics minister. A Governor is one step higher in rank, but has less domestic influence.

Now the place managed by Lu Fang and Luo Zuo has the most foreign people and mercenaries in the country, more than half of the foreign population, including mercenaries and foreign people, including the aborigines and North American immigrants here, Mexicans, and Colombian natives , and of course the Panamanians and Mexicans who have become Panama.

Although people are constantly being sent to the north bank to occupy the land on the north bank to engage in friction with the Spaniards on the north bank, where there are all Mexicans and these foreign people, they are all Spanish vassals, but the population growth is mainly due to the population growth of these western countries. Constantly, according to statistics, they already have more than 280 million of the 70 million foreign population in the country, and the remaining [-] million are divided between the mainland and Xindingzhou, the Azores and the Moroccan base.

Poured Luo Zuo a glass of Grenada rum, and Lu Fang sat back in his governor's seat, holding the glass and sighing, "Although foreign people can produce a lot of things for us, they can do a lot of work, and they are also flexible. , but they seized our domestic resources too much, especially the resources here. Now the Prime Minister has ordered all civil affairs officials to open up the acceptance of other western countries or indigenous people who want to come here to do business or immigrate, and no longer use levels And strict assessment restricts the entry of these people.

He doesn't know that our place is almost being eaten up by foreigners. What they bring are commodities, and we go to feed them with the grain we grow. They even subsidize our grain to those European western countries.

This is to let us feed those foreigners with our own food, and then let them take our food back to relieve their food plight, and then continue to beat us when they are full, and have we benefited?

The British are still besieging the Azores, only allowing food and non-army supplies to pass through without any concessions. After they returned to Puerto Rico and San Juan, the passage for us to go out became even narrower, and we could only go through Macaibo Our fleet can only sail close to the coast of Venezuela, and then turn to the Atlantic Ocean. Now the Spaniards have taken over all the sites in Venezuela except the depot line. "

Luo Zuo shook his glass, "The above is crazy. I received an order today that we all abandon the Venezuelan military depot line and the Macaibo Bay. It said that the British promised to withdraw their fleets in the Virgin Islands and Grenada Islands, and reduce the Caribbean Sea. The size of the fleet, half of the super fleet was transferred, and the above telegram stated that this proves that the British have agreed to cooperate with us, which is a good start.

The beginning of the fart, they transferred these troops and warships to fight Zhang Siyuan in the Strait of Gibraltar, and his second squadron fought well.In addition, we are now blocked in the Caribbean Sea, and it takes a lot of effort to get out. "

The first thousand and 630 chapters what can we do now

"What can we do now?" Lu Fang said to Luo Zuo, Luo Zuo glanced outside, and then said secretly: "Where Zhang Siyuan is short of people, he is short of supplies and battleships. Since the Macaibo Bay Squadron is going to be abolished , combined, you are left with two squadrons, but you can support most of the battleships there, and send some people, as requested in his letter."

Lu Fang frowned, "But now he has been declared a rebel by the superiors. We support him. What if he is found out? That bastard Zhao Shuai also has thoughts, otherwise he would not silently support Wu Kejing, and he would be half-hearted." Do you think I can't see it? What we said to him today, he will say part of it at his discretion tomorrow, and his intelligence personnel here will report it to him tomorrow, and then he will tell him when the time is right. If he can hold our handle, we will be subject to him."

"It doesn't matter. In fact, the officer corps is actually in charge of the army, so we can manage the officer corps. And now everyone doesn't mention the officer corps because Li Ya has faded out. Wu Kejing wants to eliminate Li Ya's influence, and the crown prince and the king don't want to. They made everyone want the officer corps, so they deliberately downplayed it, but they didn't know the strength of the officer corps. Even if we publicly supported it this time, they couldn't do anything to us, and those mercenary corps didn't pose any threat to us.

This is thanks to Zhang Siyuan’s suppression of the mercenary rebellion, which made the current mercenary regiment, the power system of the new Qin State, still suppressed and has not formed a scale. We can take the opportunity to eradicate the mercenary system this time, and once again let us Han people keep their word. Not those naturalized foreign mercenary officers who are unreliable. "

Jiang is still old and hot. Although Luo Zuo's prestige in the new Qin Kingdom is not obvious, he is still a branch of the army, and he is the youngest army dignitary in the officer corps.

Compared with Lu Fang, a naval officer who came later, he is the future and old man of the officer corps. Of course, he has much more knowledge and backbone, and he is not afraid of anything. What's more, he alone controls nearly 30 Colombian mercenaries and 30 foreign soldiers. Common people, 20 local aborigines, and [-] to [-] Han tribes and families who have been found in South America through sorting out in the past few years. Although these people are now part of the mercenary system, he has mastered Therefore, he did not use them as mercenaries, but trained them as his own soldiers and horses.

These people are easy to use and united. They are no worse than those Han people who came from Turkey, Eastern Europe, Russia, and the Qing Dynasty. They are less capable. On the contrary, they are more useful in South America because they are familiar with the terrain and local customs.

Compared with those Han people who came later, they were all arrogant and difficult to manage. They could only be used as a garrison force to guard the mines, logging sites, and various resource areas. There are 30 Han people. They all immigrated later, and the local people don’t want these people who have not gone through hardships and assimilation. After Xindingzhou has also been selected, the obedient Han immigrants who have training value are left to put these scumbags in this place for use. It comes from automatic consumption, because it will inevitably be attacked by Spaniards and indigenous people, and may be killed by rebellious captives, or by a foreign mercenary who has changed his mind.

He also holds an elite Han Chinese army of about 5 people, all veterans who have experienced various wars after 20 years of precipitation. The force is around 8.

With such a huge military force, the forces of the New Qin Kingdom dare not easily jump over him, mess with him, and threaten him. If they want to take over Colombia, an overseas territory that has now been incorporated into the new Dingyang State of Panama, the only one in the New Qin Kingdom Well, that's a dream come true.

Although they promoted many mercenary officers and other officers among the Han people, and used civil affairs officers to restrain him, for him, those people were easy to deal with.

Now he is clearly telling the people above that we are very dissatisfied with you and just do it, what can you do to me?

He is now going to pull Lu Fang to fight against the superiors, and Lu Fang was forced to retire in Zhuanglin. After Song Qing was left idle, he also felt the crisis, and cooperated with him very much. The two formed an alliance. Now that Luo Zuo said this words come.

After weighing it up, Lu Fang said affirmatively: "We want to strengthen our alliance. Although Morocco is a weak point for the new Qin State, thousands of Han Chinese and thousands of foreign mercenaries join us every year. For the current total population of Han Chinese has reached more than 230 million, the total foreign population has reached 280 million, and the total population base of the entire country has reached 500 million. There is not much contribution, but it is still a burden.

In the past, this was our lifeline, but now the assistance from the Chinese Empire is dispensable, and we have nothing to abandon. The key is that the strategically important Azov Islands cannot be lost.

Where can I find trouble for the British, suppress the Spaniards, the Portuguese, and get stuck in the Strait of Gibraltar? Where does the trade of hundreds of millions of Spanish gold coins go each year? It's too important for the French.

In other words, to keep the Azores is to keep our trump card against the British. The Azores fleet can put a certain amount of pressure on their African fleet, Caribbean fleet, and caravans going to the Mediterranean, so that they dare not act presumptuously. Attack the new Qin State. "

Luo Zuo nodded slightly, so we have to send the abolished Macaibo Bay Squadron there, and the people have to be sent there, and the Coast Guard will be brought back to deal with it. In addition, we have to send at least one mercenary brigade and one Han Chinese brigade. You can send more mercenaries and foreign people, let Zhang Siyuan and the British and Spaniards consume these foreigners, just take over the task of consuming foreigners here, and get more Mexicans and Colombian native North American immigrants when consuming , As for the Spaniards, British, French, and foreigners from other countries, they can stay first, and we will slowly integrate them. They have brains and do a good job.is our good labor. "

"Send a telegram and use the call sign we used to contact him earlier. This call sign has been abolished long ago. Zhao Shuai and the others have to react, but they can't find the corresponding password. We can hide it for a while, after all, it's too early to make a fuss." It's not good to be stiff." Luo Zuo said.

"Okay, I'll sort it out now, send my confidantes to take over the fleet, and then let them go to sea in the dark. This time the fleet is huge and needs to be supported there. Let's communicate first." Lu Fangdao.

"As long as you don't encounter the enemy's African super fleet, it should be easy to get through. At the mouth of the strait, if Zhang Siyuan and the others can withstand the enemy for an hour or two, the fleet will be able to enter the port of Ceuta and enter the strait. Unless the British are dispatched in full force , otherwise you won’t be able to take it anywhere.”

The first thousand and 630 chapters, this is a good opportunity to go all out

After discussing with Lieutenant Baozi and his fleet commander Zhang Yuan, Zhang Siyuan, who was far away in the Ceuta base in Morocco, led the fleet to set off the next day.

However, when the fleet set off, he took Zhang Yuan away, and left behind his confidant, Lieutenant Baozi, who led a destroyer squadron of ten destroyers to stay at the port and was solely responsible for managing the port.

"Here, here,"

"British patrol ships will haunt here. After the battle starts, the nearby British will come. We send three cruisers to fight the enemy's patrol fleet. Then the enemy will flee. We pursue them. When approaching the port of Portugal, There is a British garrison fleet, about thirty ships."

"According to the investigation by the people sent by our mercenaries, the enemy has about ten main battleships, which are the second-generation improved ironclad ships of the British, ten first-generation improved ironclad ships, and the other ten are quasi-ironclad ships, which are only responsible for transporting personnel and supplies. But it also has a certain fighting power.

After our attack on them, the enemy's fleet no longer dared to leave the port, so we have to give the enemy a chance. The three cruisers do not look like much, but they are very powerful. They are very attractive to the enemy. The enemy will definitely attack, so we sent eight destroyers of the destroyer fleet to entangle the enemy's first-generation ironclad ships, and three cruisers to attract the enemy's main battleship to a distance.

The enemy may not send too many battleships to chase our three cruisers, at most five to seven ships. At this time, the destroyer fleet is fighting and retreating, and our escort fleet is dispatched to eat about five of the enemy's main ships first. Battleships and ten first-generation ironclad ships, and then turned around to help the cruiser fleet.

It is expected that after the war we will be able to capture at least one to three of the enemy's main warships, so that our frigate fleet will increase in size, and we may also be able to capture a few of the enemy's first-generation ironclad ships, so that our destroyer fleet will also grow. This is our Great way to grow our fleet.

But the most important thing is whether the three cruisers can drag the enemy's main battleship away as much as possible, let the enemy divide up and pursue it, and at least attract five to seven enemy ships, so that our escort fleet and destroyer fleet can easily win The enemy's first-generation ironclad ships and a small number of main battleships. "

"Well, I think it's okay, just follow this standard. Remember that our most important thing is to force the enemy's warship to surrender, not to sink the warship. We need to supply the enemy's warship to survive." Zhang Siyuan looked at the sea Figure, knocking heavily on the table.

The fleet divided its forces at the mouth of the Strait of Gibraltar more than 30 kilometers away from the port of Ceuta. The last three warships of the cruiser fleet went straight to the enemy's Portuguese port. After several months of fighting, the cruisers did not go to battle many times. Insufficient, coupled with continuous incidents, one was assigned to the Huceima base in Morocco, Jin Qishun took one away, and the other one had to stop at the port of Ceuta due to mechanical failure and was seriously injured as a fixed turret, which became a replacement part for other cruisers. storehouse.

Now there are only three left to fight.

There are not many artillery and personnel on the three battleships, and some mercenaries have been transferred to work on the battleships. The gunners are now replaced by mercenaries, and there are also mercenaries in the Marine Corps. My own principle of giving priority to the Han Chinese is that there are too few Han Chinese and there are not so many to sacrifice. All marines and sailors have to be cut by half every time they sail, and they are sent to the Fleet Academy in the port for training and learning. The reserve force, at the same time, some old sailors and personnel have to teach the new sailors and gunners. The battle in the navy is cruel, and it is not easy to replenish personnel.

Except for Han Chinese veterans in key positions, recruits are used in other places, and mercenaries are used in unimportant or contributing positions. The Han Chinese sailors in the boiler room are also prone to death. Once the shell hits the battleship, the burst boiler is likely to kill these important technical soldiers of the Han Chinese.

The Han Chinese marines on each battleship are the most important. They are responsible for controlling the people on the battleship and preventing the seizure of the ship and riots.

The three cruisers rushed towards the Portuguese port stationed by the British at a speed of [-] knots, defeated several small patrols of the Portuguese in succession, and approached the enemy's port. The enemy patrol ship that fled back first reported the news, and they After rushing to five or six nautical miles outside the port, the enemy fleet came out, and the shore artillery fired one after another. For a while, countless water splashed around the battleship, and the water column was tens of meters high, making the sea like a fountain pool.

With the quality and combat effectiveness of the veterans on the cruiser, of course they will not be hit, and the speed and defense of the cruiser. If the enemy's shore artillery is not directly hit, the shrapnel and waves can only sweep the newcomers down or kill them , The veterans are very ghostly, they have already found a place to hide, or they can't kill the turrets and cabins, so the cruiser passed through the enemy's shell rain almost unscathed, and then returned the enemy's fleet fire with fierce artillery fire.

Being provoked, seeing that the number of warships here is small, the enemy fleet rushed over like chicken blood, and then was dragged by the cruiser bit by bit out of the range of the shore artillery, out of the range of the shore artillery, The cruiser exerted its power, and after the fierce main gun fire, it was followed by a plethora of secondary gun fire. In less than half an hour, it turned a first-generation ironclad ship of the enemy into fireworks and firecrackers at a distance of about ten kilometers from the enemy's port. After the explosion, less than 3 minutes later, a first-generation ironclad ship of the enemy sank.

Now the enemy won't hesitate any more. If there is damage, how can we do it if we don't get it back?

The main battleship was charged with firepower, and the destroyer quickly outflanked and maneuvered, trying to keep the three cruisers behind, so the fleet left the port for about [-] nautical miles. There are about seven or eight destroyers, and the remaining enemy warships are still relentlessly rushing forward. If we don’t kill the three enemy cruisers now, why should we wait until the enemy fleet returns?

Encouraged, the Portuguese fleet also rushed up. There were about twenty ships in total. Some of them went after the destroyer fleet, some followed the British, and the other followed hesitantly and sneakily. Unfortunately, because the Portuguese are very smart, they know that the fleet of the new Qin State is formed, and there is still an escort fleet that has not come.

Soon they saw a frigate of as many as seventeen or eighteen ships inserted horizontally behind the British fleet from the other side.

So the warships behind the Portuguese ran away decisively, and those intercepted in front also ran to both sides, leaving behind the British fleet.

The British separated most of the warships to deal with the frigates. When were they so proud that they were afraid of things?