Lord of Ming Dynasty

The food stored in the port is enough for more than 6000 people in this area. This naval battle lost one-third of the warships and nearly 900 people. After the battle was won, all those who fell into the water were rescued. Only half of those who survived, or were able to return to the army in the end, were about 300 people, and about [-] people bid farewell to the navy forever, and could only become local people to guard the warehouse and the gate. Or do some clerical work.

This is the case of the sailors and marines. The mercenaries and captives, as well as the enemy immigrants from Ceuta, suffered even more losses. About 100 people were lost. The number of captives captured several times totaled more than 3000. This time, more than 1000 people were lost, and the fleet itself also lost more than 1000 Han Chinese and mercenaries. This time, more than 3000 enemy prisoners were captured. After more than 1000 Han Chinese and foreigners recruited from Russia, the Qing Dynasty, and other Central European and Central Asian countries stayed, the total population of the base almost reached 7000.

For the people of the New Qin Kingdom, it is infrastructure madness. When they arrive at a place, they first repair the wharf, then build the shore artillery fort, repair some city walls and fortifications, and then dig the water depth of the port, and then divide the various functional areas. Fortifications and forts are set up in the area. This is what Li Ya and the others did on the adjacent peninsula. Now Zhang Siyuan has given this task to Lieutenant Baozi. Lieutenant Baozi and Major Zhang Yuan worked together to build the port crazily.

On the other hand, Zhang Siyuan sent a fleet of destroyers to investigate, while staring at the telegraph room to receive news from the new Qin State every day, and at the same time often went to the simple ship repair shop to pay attention to the repair status of those warships.

The food stored in the port is enough for more than 6000 people in this area. This naval battle lost one-third of the warships and nearly 900 people. After the battle was won, all those who fell into the water were rescued. Only half of those who survived, or were able to return to the army in the end, were about 300 people, and about [-] people bid farewell to the navy forever, and could only become local people to guard the warehouse and the gate. Or do some clerical work.

This is the case of the sailors and marines. The mercenaries and captives, as well as the enemy immigrants from Ceuta, suffered even more losses. About 100 people were lost. The number of captives captured several times totaled more than 3000. This time, more than 1000 people were lost, and the fleet itself also lost more than 1000 Han Chinese and mercenaries. This time, more than 3000 enemy prisoners were captured. After more than 1000 Han Chinese and foreigners recruited from Russia, the Qing Dynasty, and other Central European and Central Asian countries stayed, the total population of the base almost reached 7000.

For the people of the New Qin Kingdom, it is infrastructure madness. When they arrive at a place, they first repair the wharf, then build the shore artillery fort, repair some city walls and fortifications, and then dig the water depth of the port, and then divide the various functional areas. Fortifications and forts are set up in the area. This is what Li Ya and the others did on the adjacent peninsula. Now Zhang Siyuan has given this task to Lieutenant Baozi. Lieutenant Baozi and Major Zhang Yuan worked together to build the port crazily.

On the other hand, Zhang Siyuan sent a fleet of destroyers to investigate, while staring at the telegraph room to receive news from the new Qin State every day, and at the same time often went to the simple ship repair shop to pay attention to the repair status of those warships.

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The Portuguese retreated, they gave up stationing their fleet in the port of the Strait of Gibraltar, the Spaniards also gave up stationing their fleet in the Mediterranean Sea, and at the same time, the mouth of the strait would not allow the British fleet to station their fleet, so Zhang Siyuan and the others won a phased victory , but for the Wunan fleet, this is dispensable, because Wunan doesn't care about the British at all, his fleet is almost rotten in the port of the Azov Islands, and apart from normal patrols, no battles have occurred.

The most intense fighting was on the Moroccan base here. Zhang Siyuan and the British had shifted their focus downward. Apart from most of the Spanish super fleet patrolling and encircling the Azov Islands, half of them were fighting against Zhang Siyuan and the others.The main opponent of Zhang Siyuan and the others is the enemy's African fleet. The last time they wiped out nearly half of the main warships of the African fleet, and a small half of the patrol fleet and auxiliary fleet.

After being emptied here, the main force of the African fleet moved to the port of Tangier. The Spaniards had a colonial patrol fleet of more than a dozen warships there to deal with errands, and most of them were the British super fleet.

After two months of replenishment, the warships of both sides have recovered to the most powerful state. Zhang Siyuan and his frigate fleet have two squads that captured the British and Spanish warships, and there are British improved second-generation ships. The battleships include the Spaniards' second-generation warships that have not been improved, and the Spaniards' unimproved first-generation warships. The frigate squad stayed at the Huceima base, and they were accompanied by a destroyer fleet of the same unimproved first-generation warships.

And the port of Ceuta also needs to leave a frigate squadron and a destroyer squadron to guard the port.

Excluding the warships left behind, Zhang Siyuan had a total of three cruisers, and the other cruiser was Zhang Yuan's flagship. Let him lead the fleet to stay behind, and Zhang Siyuan personally attacked.

Three cruisers, one frigate squadron of seven from the New Qin Kingdom, two destroyer squadrons, each squadron has eight warships, the choice of destroyer is to choose the destroyer of the New Qin Kingdom, after all, the combat effectiveness is higher, a total of sixteen destroyers, The fleet has a total strength of 26 ships.

Of course, this battleship cannot head-on with the African fleet that has been restored to full strength, and can only attack the enemy's patrol fleet.

Since the two outstanding personnel were left at the base to guard the base, Zhang Siyuan led the team himself, depending on Zhang Siyuan's commanding skills.

This time Zhang Siyuan led 26 warships out of the port under the cover of night under the intelligence guidance of Lieutenant Baozi's scouting fleet, escaped into the darkness, and sailed to the mouth of the strait at a speed of [-] knots.

The British and Spaniards will not give up patrolling, even if Zhang Siyuan and the others harassed them from time to time in the past two months, they lost a lot of warships, but they still can't give up blocking Zhang Siyuan and the Wunan Fleet. Difficult to deal with, at least there will be some unexpected ideas, so knowing that they will lose, the Spaniards are lazy, and they will not patrol if they can.But the British couldn't do it. They sent patrol fleets, and each patrol fleet was equipped with improved first-generation ironclad ships and second-generation main battleships. The number was enough to prevent Zhang Yuan and his fleet from attacking them easily.

But when Zhang Siyuan led the team, it was different. He had the decision-making power, and the loss was determined by him. If he felt able to fight, he would fight if he didn't suffer.

After sailing for ten hours, it was already [-] nautical miles out of the mouth of the strait. Zhang Siyuan and the others turned around and explored the outskirts of Tangier port. It was very dangerous. The enemy's main warships were likely to surround them, but they couldn't find the British patrol anywhere. The fleet, the patrol fleet in the distance, and the enemies are all escorted by large forces. Forty or fifty warships are assembled for patrol. Zhang Siyuan doesn't want to be held back by them, even if those forty or fifty ships are steam engine warships, or some old sail warships, But there is also the enemy's main battleship inside, and the ants kill the elephants. Once they are dragged and injured by them, they will not be able to escape the blockade and pursuit of the enemy's main fleet.

It was almost dawn, and Zhang Siyuan could already see the black smoke column far away on the sea through Zhang Siyuan's telescope. The watchman had already counted the number of enemy warships, about thirty or so. As the enemy approached, the watchman quickly reported The specific models of the enemy's battleships were revealed, five main battleships, seven improved first-generation ironclad ships, fifteen transport ships, five steam engine battleships, and two fast sailing scout boats.

In terms of combat effectiveness, there are only five main battleships, and the seven improved first-generation ironclad ships are threatening, and the others are all slaughtered.

"Increase the speed, increase the pressure of the boiler, and increase the speed to nineteen knots. The cruiser goes to entangle the five main battleships of the enemy, the frigate goes to deal with the seven improved ironclad ships of the enemy, and the destroyer fleet surrounds the enemy's merchant ships and other warships for an hour. Let's deal with the enemy, clean up the battlefield for half an hour, and don't let the enemy's uninjured warship escape."

Zhang Siyuan said to the staff around him.

Zhang Siyuan newly formed his own fleet team. The chief of staff of the fleet was a newly promoted captain. Six staff officers were lieutenant officers, including two mercenaries, one captured British officer, and three Han officers.

There are three Han Chinese officers, one is responsible for the ship's liaison and transmission of orders, one is responsible for communications, the other is responsible for managing firepower and planning tactics, and the mercenary lieutenant staff is responsible for communicating with the mercenaries on each ship in their own language. Planning and making charts, one is responsible for directing the screening and transformation of prisoners, and one British staff officer is also responsible for communicating with the British, sometimes used to disguise and deceive the enemy.

The Han Chinese chief of staff is responsible for recording orders and assigning tasks, conveying orders, and sometimes making suggestions, and he is also the deputy head of the Marine Corps of a Marine Corps, responsible for managing the Marine Corps of the fleet.

After the order was issued, Zhang Siyuan continued to observe the situation of the enemy's fleet. Because he had to wait on the sidelines, the pressure of the boiler was kept very low just now. There was not much smoke over the entire fleet, so the enemy would not see them from a long distance. Discovered, they are also close to the enemy.

The enemy has approached [-] nautical miles and is still on the way back. They intercepted the enemy and ambushed on the way back. When the enemy approached [-] nautical miles and thick smoke came out from the fleet here, the enemy also found out. They, Zhang Siyuan's fleet has already started to speed up, eight knots, nine knots, ten knots, the speed is increasing bit by bit, the distance between the fleet and the enemy is getting closer, and when the enemy starts to turn around, Zhang Siyuan's fleet has already accelerated to twelve knots Yes, the distance between the two sides is already close to twelve nautical miles.

The enemy fleet was in a panic. It took at least 6 minutes. It was already nearly one nautical mile away. The enemy's escort fleet adjusted in a hurry and jumped out from the side, ready to intercept them. Zhang Siyuan and his cruiser had already accelerated to ten miles. With a speed of five knots, the distance between the two sides has reached ten nautical miles.

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The panicked enemy quickly let the transport ship, the steam engine battleship, and the sail warship go first. It took the two fleets to turn around for nearly 10 minutes. How did the British think about sending such a slow transport ship to transport, implicating the steam engine battleship and sail warship.

Seeing that the two fleets were so disappointing, the enemy's main battleship and frigate five main battleships and seven frigates slowed down and followed to escape, while turning to prepare for the battle, and began to maneuver to gain the upper hand.

Even the frigate and destroyer here have accelerated to a speed of [-] knots, which is of course a galloping speed.

Let’s introduce here first, the composition of the current battleship fleets of various countries, and the comparison of forces. Generally speaking, the combat effectiveness of the British’s main battleships is smaller than that of the cruisers. Fast, long range, fast firepower delivery, the main battleship has high defense, and the speed is a little higher than the enemy's main battleship, the second-generation improved warship, only two knots, and sometimes even a little over a knot Speed, but amazing defense.

The main battleship of the British is an improved second-generation ironclad ship, the frigate is an improved first-generation warship, and the destroyer is an unimproved first-generation ironclad ship.

The main battleship of the Spaniards is the improved first-generation ironclad ship of the British, the frigate is the first-generation ironclad ship that has not been improved, and the destroyer is the first-generation ironclad ship imitated by the British, or other steam engine battleships they own. Sometimes they even Using the old-fashioned Type [-], Type [-], and Type [-] of the New Qin State as destroyers or frigates, the Type [-] New Qin State has not been sold to the Spaniards, because the current warships of the New Qin State are all developed from Type [-] ironclad ships.

The main battleship of the new Qin State is a battleship with strong defense, firepower upgraded to 120mm artillery, armor-piercing bombs, incendiary bombs, and medium-tonnage warships. However, cruisers, as a type of warship that can fight alone in the ocean, generally do not join the battle fleet, but sometimes in the main fleet, and now it has become a standard configuration. As the main battleship, the auxiliary battleship follows the main battleship and protects the main force. Warships, for long-range firepower projection against enemy fleets.

Calculated in this way, the British were actually thrown away by the warships of the New Qin State again, but the British would not let it go. What they now propose to the New Qin State is that science has no borders. They want the New Qin State to general The shipbuilding technology was transferred to the British, Spaniards, and Portuguese for free, and even for the right to speak, they also recruited the French and the Dutch to artificially create enemies for the new Qin State. It has to be said that the British lost.

If Li Ya was still in power, this kind of voice would not appear at all, and it is impossible for the British to have such thoughts, because everyone is a sworn enemy, and there is no need to say more, while Wu Kejing, the king, and the crown prince want to integrate into the West and do not want to die like this I went down and wanted to change, so this is the same as some countries in later generations gave up nuclear weapons under the persecution of the British. The price of weakness is to be crippled in the end.

The enemy will not pull out your flesh-eating teeth for yourself, and stop attacking you if you can attack the enemy's claws, but many people can't figure out this truth, and always want to ease the current situation, compromise, and then compromise.

In the end, it was turned into a colony by the enemy, the actual colony, and the wealth created was easily taken away by the enemy.

Having said that, when the cruiser here accelerated to [-] knots and was still accelerating, when it broke away from the fleet and went around to intercept the enemy's main battleship, the escort fleet had already surrounded the enemy's seven frigates, and the two sides were separated by two nautical miles. They began to fire, suppressing the enemy's momentum and interfering with the enemy's navigation, while the two destroyer teams quickly circled the battlefield and quickly chased after the fleeing enemy transport fleet.

The enemy fleet fled quickly, and both sides chased each other. In 15 minutes, the frigate squadron caught up with the enemy frigate. The two sides fought at about eight nautical miles from where they met. After 9 minutes, three cruisers stopped the enemy's five main warships. At a distance of two nautical miles, the two sides fired while half approaching. Unknowingly, after 15 minutes, the four fleets were about ten nautical miles away from the battlefield just now, while the destroyer team was still chasing the enemy's transport ship and other escorting warships. , but it was too fast. Finally, after 45 minutes, the destroyer team caught up with the enemy within an hour of its voyage, that is, about 10 nautical miles away from the battlefield, and sailed another [-] nautical miles. Minutes later, the enemy's transport fleet was outflanked.

Half an hour after the battle, the first result was brought by the destroyer. Facing the five steam engine battleships of the enemy, a destroyer used the only three main guns on the battleship to engage the enemy, and at the same time attacked the enemy with secondary guns. The transport ships, those merchant ships, in front of the 75mm improved turret artillery that used to be the main gun, the enemy's transport ships that are not much armed are just crispy.

Twelve cannons on one side hit a transport ship in a row, and a raging fire erupted immediately on the transport ship. Many enemy sailors began to jump into the sea. The violent explosion caused the transport ship to disintegrate, and many soldiers flew out of it, screaming and falling into the sea. It seems that this transport ship not only has shells, weapons, but also transported personnel, and there are many, at least hundreds of people, several Hundreds of people were thrown into the sea, the situation was very spectacular.

The spectacular scene made the fighting destroyer squad and the enemy's escort warships stop fighting at the same time. Everyone looked at the transport fleet, and the other warships in the transport fleet also suddenly stalled and looked there in a daze. About 30 seconds later, The enemy's transport fleet was in disarray, and they fled in panic.

When escaping, the fleet disbanded, but they were very close to each other, so collisions inevitably occurred. Three or four warships collided with each other and stopped there. Other transport ships fled in all directions, while the destroyers of the New Qin State Squad, leave eight ships to deal with the enemy's escort fleet, and at the same time take care of the transport ships that did not go far. The other destroyers scattered to find the direction where the enemy gathered. Often one can take care of five or six enemy ships, and one will give up. not worth it.

The battle over there was in full swing, and the three battleships of the cruiser were also inextricably fighting against the enemy's main battleship. At the beginning, the enemy still took advantage of their large numbers and rushed up to fight against the cruiser commanded by Zhang Siyuan. The transport ship was beaten aggressively. After the explosion, the enemy's main battleship immediately faltered, looking for opportunities to escape.

Without the fighting spirit, the enemy's firepower is messed up. After more than a dozen rounds of artillery fire, none of the shells hit this side, not even a near miss. The firepower here is very powerful. Three ships 72 main guns, that's not food, one salvo, one of the enemy's main battleships became wandering, the speed dropped to [-] or [-] knots, and the firepower was not small.

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Now the battles between the New Qin State, the British and the Spaniards are all fought in this way. Destroyers fight destroyers, frigates fight frigates, and main battleships fight main battleships. They always fight on different battlefields.What's interesting is that no matter the battle, the number of enemies is always greater than that of the New Qin State, sometimes as high as three times the number. Now facing the enemy's 35 ships, it is actually the first time that the New Qin State has more warships. Be with each other more.

In order not to injure himself and prevent problems with the aging machinery, although the cruiser commanded by Zhang Siyuan has fierce firepower, it always circles outside the enemy's range, using its own firepower advantage to attract the enemy, and does not make any major maneuvers.

Although the frigates seem to be of comparable strength, the warships of the New Qin State are a little more advanced than the British warships, and they are good at guerrilla warfare and good at fighting more with less, so the winner was quickly determined in less than 45 minutes. Sinking two of the enemy's first-generation improved warships and severely damaging one, the other warships surrendered helplessly surrounded by seven frigates.

The frigate squad captured the enemy's three first-generation improved warships and frigates. Of course, this kind of cargo is equivalent to a Type [-] ironclad ship in the destroyer fleet of the New Qin State. It may be a little behind. a little.

So the frigate squad won the victory, leaving two ships to clean the battlefield and collect the prisoners, while the other five turned around to besiege the enemy's main battleship, facing the enemy's main battleship with similar firepower, speed, and higher protection. , I am not very willing to fight with them, bullying people, 8 warships besieging five warships, what a big deal.

However, the more unlucky thing was yet to come. Fifteen minutes later, the cruisers here fired a salvo, and the three cruisers aimed at the enemy's flagship. As many as five 15 armor-piercing bullets penetrated below the enemy's waterline, and the enemy's flagship violently After the explosion, it began to sink slowly. The enemy commander had just boarded the small boat and was about to evacuate to a nearby warship when he was sent into the sky by the secondary guns of a frigate. The small boat exploded, and the enemy commander The official died in the line of duty.

When the five destroyers surrounded them, the remaining main battleships of the enemy also surrendered, and the eighteen enemy warships were far beyond what they could do.