Lord of Ming Dynasty

In order to repay them, Zhang Siyuan bought a large number of mercenary families and foreign populations, especially Spanish captives, immigrants left by the Spaniards, British captives and British North American immigrants, as well as Xindingzhou. In two months, after the transport fleet made several trips, there were 30 more mercenary family members and foreign civilians in the African Morocco base, as well as the families of those Han troops. The total population reached 50 people.

Standing on the shoulders of giants, the development is always so fast. With the help of Xindingyangzhou, the state with the largest foreign population in the new Qin State, Zhang Siyuan quickly acquired his own people and a basic population to gain a firm foothold. There are also shipyards, shipwrights, Han population, and enough Han troops.

Although it will take several months to convert these populations into tax revenue and industrial production capacity, how can Zhang Siyuan have the strength to challenge the new Qin State, the British, and the Spaniards.

The front line against the British in the first thousand, 640 and nine chapters

The rest of more than two months was precious. After more than two months, the British began to replenish the African colonial fleet one after another. First, they dispatched 100 main battleships from the super fleet stationed in Spain to supplement the African colonial fleet. The Caribbean colonial fleet deployed [-] main battleships to supplement the fleet, allocated [-] main battleships from the mainland, and deployed more than [-] auxiliary warships from other main fleets to supplement the African fleet.

This is based on the information obtained by Lu Fang and the others from the Intelligence Division of the New Qin Army, which means that the African fleet, their main enemy, is being replenished in the third month, with 100 main warships and more than 43 auxiliary warships. When he received the information, the African fleet had been supplemented by 100 main battleships, plus the remaining [-] main battleships that were seriously injured and [-] auxiliary battleships that were injured and fled back. After one and a half months, it has [-] main battleships and [-] auxiliary warships. At the same time, it is replenishing [-] main battleships and more than [-] auxiliary warships from the mainland in the second half of the third month.

Zhang Siyuan dispatched 35 main battleships, [-] cruisers, and [-] frigates led by Zhang Yuan and Lu Fang to continue to destroy the enemy's African fleet. Thousand-ton warships and a dozen or so small-tonnage warships were completely wiped out, the port was occupied, and a mercenary brigade took over the port that the British had just repaired.

The mercenary brigade sent a regiment to attack along the coastline. Here, a Chinese cavalry regiment, an artillery battalion, and a mercenary brigade were sent from the port of Bensu to attack on both sides. The British lost all the ports on the African coast of the channel mouth , Zhang Siyuan's new forces controlled the port at the narrowest part of the strait from the port of Tangier to Bensu, and from Bensu to Al Hoceima, the narrowest part of the strait, that is, it controlled the entry and exit here for a long time right.

This is not the purpose of the fleet, this is to beat the hare. By the way, their purpose is the remnants of the British African fleet stationed in the port of Asila on the African coast of the Atlantic Ocean. They cannot restore the enemy's strength and destroy the enemy. The enemy will have to adjust their deployment, and it will take at least two months to react.

And their main purpose is to keep the sea and land leading to the South Atlantic Ocean open for a longer time. They need to get more supplies from Xindingyang Prefecture. Su Port, they not only obtained the Spanish port and colony, but also obtained more money, Spanish gold coins, about more than 300 million, occupied those middle Spanish colonial ports along the way to Al Huceima Port, not only gained population And captured many captives, and also obtained about 100 million Spanish gold coins. In addition to intercepting the Spanish Mediterranean trade fleet with other countries in the previous six months, they obtained no less than 3000 million Spanish materials and no less than 1000 million Spanish gold coins , or the supplies and money of the British, at the same time, Lu Fang and the others brought not only the fleet but also about 1000 million Huaxia Yuan this time.

If the money is converted into the current Huaxiayuan calculation, it is about more than [-] million Huaxia yuan, so Zhang Siyuan and the others can have money to buy materials and ship parts in Xinding Yangzhou, as well as some mercenaries, foreign people, and enrich their own population and resources. Obtain a self-supporting family property in the future.

Previously, Lu Fang brought them more than 100 warships, transport ships, and merchant ships, which were also their family property.

Including: 35 main battleships, 45 cruisers, 55 frigates, 120 destroyers, and 8000 transport ships, bringing three mercenary brigades, one Han Chinese brigade, one Mexican brigade, and one Colombian native brigade , a marine brigade, half Han Chinese, half mercenaries, the mercenaries are mainly Mexicans, Spaniards and North American immigrants, a total of 1 people, so many naval warships, there are 8000 sailors alone, There were [-] captives, and the captives were mainly Colombian indigenous people, plus some indigenous Han people.

In addition, there are 35 technicians and engineers of various types, mainly shipbuilding and ship repairing. In addition, the transport ship also brought steam engines, boilers, pipes, parts, food, weapons and equipment for as many as [-] warships. Supplies, these made Zhang Siyuan, who had just fought against the British African fleet, full of blood overnight, even stronger than before. There were only four cruisers in the past, but now there are not only eighteen cruisers, but also [-] main battleships. These are richer than all the previous family properties, talking about the fleet's family property.

In the past, they were at best the strength of a third-rate New Qin Squadron, but now they have become the main force that is only inferior to New Dingyang Prefecture in terms of potential. In the duel, we have already won staged victories, but it is a pity that the new Qin State is too concerned about comfort, thinking too much that I will not fight others, and if I put down my weapons, others will treat me well. Trouble, I always think that peace is the most important thing. If I can't beat it, I try my best not to let the gangsters get angry and kill me. In the end, I was wiped out by them. Bloody lessons can never wake up future generations.

Now Zhang Siyuan is here to correct their results. Zhang Siyuan is actually a time traveler, Zhang Qiang, the former emperor of the Chinese Empire, and Zhang Qiang, the time traveler in 2017. A player who is a code writer, this is his second crossing, or is it a continuous crossing, and he doesn't know why he crossed. Now he knows after thinking about it. It turns out that the new Qin State is the continuation of his crossing mission, but there is a Mistakes, the Han people of the new Qin State, who were supposed to embody the glory of the Han people and the vanguard of invading the West, were not the opponents of the British, and they were about to be defeated by the British.

So he was sent to save the new Qin State, but now it seems that his task is to save the endangered Western Han people, the people of the Huaxia Empire.

And he got off to a good start. After quickly gaining a relatively high status in the New Qin State, he became a representative of the new Han forces on his own. Now the New Qin State is no longer fighting alone. The situation in the country is not good now. The high-level military officers, especially the governors, have different ideas. The native island of Newfoundland is engaged in a power struggle. As the frontier of the new Qin state against the British, the Azov Islands should have played a more important role as a Moroccan base. However, due to the sudden change in Wu Nan's mind, it became the key to the current situation of the New Qin State, which made the British break through the stable defense of the New Qin State.

Next, Zhang Siyuan predicted that his place would be under the key care of the enemy, and Xinding Yangzhou would also have to take care of it, because they would not be hit by the new Qin State, the British, the Spaniards and other parties.

Zhang Siyuan was worried that Xinding Yangzhou would not be able to handle it.

The first thousand and 650 chapters build their own warships

Worrying is worrying after all, what he has to worry about is this side.

Zhang Yuan took the fleet out for a week and returned with the fleet today.The fleet lost not much, three frigates, one main battleship, and one cruiser, a total of five battleships were sunk, nine battleships were seriously injured, and the others were injured, but the success was good.

All 43 British warships were destroyed, the port of Elasi was destroyed, and more than 30 auxiliary warships were completely destroyed.

Among them, five main battleships of the enemy were captured, 400 other warships were captured, and [-] people were captured. Countless steel, coal, copper, tin iron, gold, silver, and various African foods and grains were captured.

Then Zhang Siyuan ordered Zhang Yuan to take the remaining personnel of the main fleet to station at the port of Tangier, leaving the cruiser fleet and frigate fleet to himself. What other captured British main battleships and other auxiliary warships were they taking away at the same time? The equipment here is complete, and it is a British ship and British repair equipment.

Although a few warships were lost, Zhang Siyuan was not in a hurry, because the Spaniards and the British had good maintenance equipment, and after a little modification, they put them in their own shipyards, and then they could start building warships in their own shipyards.

Because of having a large territory, and bringing in too many captives from Luo Zuo's Colombia, and constantly capturing captives on my own side, as well as captives from Xindingyang Prefecture, the construction of various places is advancing rapidly.

Almost when Zhang Yuan came back in the third month, they completed the construction of six shipyards and repair yards, three each, 53 simple beach docks that can be used for repairs, and 33 docks that can be used for more complicated repairs A shipyard and repair yard were built in none of the occupied ports, but except for Huceima, Ceuta, Bensu, and the port of Tangier are large shipyards and repair yards, the others are simple Repair yards, and small shipyards that can build some small-tonnage transport ships.

Some minerals purchased from the African continent were successively transported to the ports of Al Huceima, Bensu, and Tangier, and then steel factories were built deep in the inland of these ports. Zhang Siyuan’s steel factory construction model is still the Chinese Empire Because he used to be the emperor of the Huaxia Empire after all, the iron and steel smelting technology of the Huaxia Empire is much higher than that of the new Qin State.

Because of the development and practice decades in advance, the steel smelting technology is very advanced, and Zhang Qiang paid more attention to this at that time, so the steel plants and smelting plants under his guidance are better than those of the new Qin State. It is advanced and more refined, but it is not yet possible to produce advanced steel, and it will take time to build it. The equipment and machinery left by the British and the equipment and machinery supported by Lu Fang and the others are used. The two types of machinery must be integrated and used. It is also a big trouble, but now it can only be used as waste.

The iron ore shipped from various places was smelted in the ports of Huceima and Ceuta, and then transported to the steel factory for reprocessing. After nearly a year of fighting, there were many shipwrecks in the surrounding waters, and their steel was sent to the steel factory , to carry out re-smelting, and in the fourth month, the shipyard laid down the keels of six main battleships and began to build the main battleships of the new Qin State.

Ready-made craftsmen, ready-made engineers, and a large number of Han boatmen who built ships, as well as a large number of captive heavy laborers, all things developed relatively smoothly without any hindrance.

Other shipyards mainly carry out some minor modifications to existing warships, because the times are advancing and the enemy is progressing. The suggestion for modification is to conduct research every month in the new state of Qin, and use the results of the research to carry out research on existing ships. Modification is equivalent to continuously improving the performance and combat effectiveness of warships.

And when Zhang Siyuan and the engineers were discussing, Zhang Siyuan began to use his ability as a traverser. After asking everyone, he found that it was completely possible to replace the main gun on the battleship with a 128mm gun. The gun is heavier and the lethality is greater. Because of the successful experience of 120mm, plus the expansion of some calibers, and the experience of speed bonus of 152mm rapid-fire guns, and the experience of the power of artillery shells, he boldly proposed Go directly to the 150mm gun, because the tolerance is very large, so he proposed the 150mm gun, which is calculated in this way, that is, the [-]mm gun.

This kind of naval gun at sea has not yet fallen into the artillery with a longer range and more combat effectiveness.

However, this needs to be studied. The first batch of warships built now can only be built using the model of the previous warships. The purpose is also to supplement the source of troops and equipment of the main fleet that Zhang Yuan and the others lost when they attacked.

If the enemy comes with more than 100 warships, Zhang Siyuan has to weigh it. If the enemy comes with 40 main warships, Zhang Siyuan will let Zhang Yuan go to work without even thinking about it. Sure enough, the enemy has more than 30 main warships, more than [-] It took Zhang Yuan and the others a week to solve the auxiliary battleship.

After being tempered, the current navy of Zhang Siyuan's power is even more capable than the navy of the Chinese Empire that has not fought for a long time, and it is much more powerful than the Spanish navy that has declined.

With nearly [-] backbone sailors and officers who have gone through two wars as the skeleton, the new Qin State sent by Lu Fang, who has also experienced battles, is willing to follow Zhang Siyuan and their Han sailors and mercenaries as the foundation. Zhang Siyuan's fleet has now been completely reborn Now, it is not just a sub-fleet that can only assist the main fleet of the New Qin State in combat, but the strength of a main fleet that can alone fight against the enemy's super fleet.

But now they have to face not only one super fleet of the British. In the future, the British may send two or even three super fleets to retaliate against them. The British will never suffer. They are very arrogant. The reason why there has been no retaliation for four months is because there are still many naval officers in the new Qin state who insist on being hostile to the British. The British are still unable to tear themselves apart. The situation of the British, otherwise they will be completely useless and will be kicked out soon.

Mo Lin is not Wu Nan. He is in charge of the navy now. Although he doesn't want to fight for power, but for the sake of his navy, he has to persevere, but he doesn't express his position, he doesn't speak, and he still supports it at critical moments, even though he is also tired. , I also wanted to ease the relationship with the British first, which led to the current situation. The British were unable to withdraw the three super fleets that surrounded Wunan and the others. In fact, there was an African fleet, but it was wiped out by Zhang Siyuan and the others.

The British have seven super fleets, one local fleet, six super fleets stationed in various places, one in North America, one in the Caribbean, one in Spain, one in Africa, and one stationed in another sea area of ​​the mainland. Defending against the French, one is stationed in India, defending the Chinese Empire, and there are also colonial fleets all over the place. They are all fleets composed of main battleships eliminated from the original six super fleets. There are almost six in total, but the Caribbean fleet was eliminated Lu Fang and the others were wiped out, the African colonial fleet was wiped out by Wu Nan and the others, and the North American colonial fleet was crippled by Song Qing and the others.

The first thousand and 650 chapters of the battleship built by myself 2

The fleets of the British fleet have their own roles in each place. To mobilize, you need to send ships to convey orders. It will take months for the ships to leave, and then mobilize and assemble. It will take several months, and the reaction is better than new The fleet mobilization of the Qin State and the Huaxia Empire was much slower. Later, there were telegrams, but some transoceanic fleet mobilizations had to telegraph to some ports on land, and the ports sent ships to transmit orders across the ocean, and then from the land there. It takes a month to send the report, layer by layer, and pass it on. In short, their efficiency allows Xin Qin and Zhang Siyuan to have a few months of rest.

Taking advantage of this time, they will annihilate some of the British warships they mobilized in batches. According to the information obtained earlier, the enemy's warships coming again may be 100 main battleships and more than 30 auxiliary warships. If the more than a dozen warships of the enemy and the enemy's two batches of fifteen warships, plus the rendezvous of more than [-] main battleships this time, it may be difficult for them to annihilate the enemy at once. It is not difficult at all to block the port with a fleet stronger than the enemy and slowly blow up the warships inside.

In the end, the enemy had to surrender. Zhang Yuan and the others seized a large amount of supplies, including intact warships, and returned with a full load. These things are not to mention very important to Zhang Siyuan now, but they are also urgently needed supplies, and it is a little bit more powerful.

Now that half of the enemy's main force has been wiped out, according to Zhang Siyuan's thinking, the remaining half of the enemy's main force is impossible for the British to come. If they want to come, they will use all their strength to encircle them and mobilize at least two super fleets to attack them.

He is now preparing for the attack of the enemy's two super fleets. As an emerging force, he must make it possible for the fleet's warships to be replenished, and he will build them himself instead of relying on capturing the enemy's warships. However, the captured enemy's main warships may be powerful, but in the face of the enemy's superior numbers, they are the ones who suffer the most.

In this day and age, there is no strong power in the West, and they all survive under the wings of the British and the Pope. Of course, there is also France, this proud iron rooster. It is not time to dominate the world. When Napoleon is born, it will be the most brilliant time, but it is still too early.

Now France is competing with Spain for the North American colony of Louisiana and other surrounding colonial states. The war between the two sides began when Zhuang Lin was also the governor of Xindingyang Prefecture. It has been fighting for many years. The current situation is , the Spaniards were entrapped by the British, strongly resisted by the New Qin State, oppressed by the French and constantly attacked by the military, and basically withdrew from Louisiana and other surrounding North American territories. The Spaniards have only a few messy colonies lingering there, and the two sides have entered the negotiation stage.

The French are very powerful in North America, but they have aroused the dissatisfaction of the British. The two sides are still at war. Originally, the two sides have been fighting and stopping. They have never said to stop the war for a hundred years, no matter from sea or land, on land. The French are obviously stronger than the British and have many advantages. At sea, the British are powerful. A Caribbean fleet and a super fleet squeezed by the French fleet in the Gulf of Mexico are difficult to survive, and they have suffered heavy losses. This time I asked Xin Qin State to buy warships.

The new Qin State does not need obsolete warships, so destroyers and warships below destroyers have basically been sold to the French for nearly [-] to [-] ships, and their obsolete warships are taken back by themselves except those sunk by the British. The dismantled ones were basically sold off, which is why when Zhang Siyuan and the others were in Xindingzhou, as the second fleet of the Coast Guard, the main battleships in their fleet turned out to be cruiser-level battleships. The destroyer is the third type of improved warship, the fourth type has no improved type of warship, and there are more than a dozen frigates. It is because there are no old warships in the new Qin Dynasty, and some are sold to merchants for refitting. Armed merchant ships.

The warships of the New Qin Kingdom are basically new warships with good quality. There may be three types of improved warships in the Coast Guard, but the destroyers in the main fleet are the last of the original fleet main battleships. After Lu Fang and the others sent so many warships, the warships and destroyers in the main fleet of the New Qin Kingdom are all the last improvements of the Type [-] improved ones, and the Type [-] ironclad warship series will withdraw from the battle order of the New Qin Kingdom in the future.

The total size of the warships in the new Qin State is about 500 ships, the main battleships are about 600 ships, the cruisers are about 500 ships, the frigates are more than 1000 ships, and the destroyers are more than 800 ships. The rest are warships of the Coast Guard. , Where can they see the improved warship of the Ironclad Ship III.

This is also the reason why the British do not want to move the New Qin State. As mentioned above, when we talked about it this time, the New Qin State also built ships frantically during this period, more than 500 more than the last statistics.

The coast guard has been strengthened, the main battleships have been enriched, and more frigates have been produced.

With the containment of the new Qin State, and the war and friction with the French, the British are not just an enemy of Zhang Siyuan and the others, which is why the British are slow to respond.

The British build about five or six hundred warships every year, and the New Qin State causes the British to lose seven or eight hundred warships every year. The people who came out of nowhere have knocked down about [-] British warships so far. Although the main battleships are only about a hundred, the other auxiliary warships are also painful for the British. Their huge base of warships Inside, most of them are these auxiliary warships and old warships, so Zhang Siyuan will definitely be more powerful when the British come next time than when they attacked the neighboring peninsula at that time.

"We can replace the 150mm guns on the main battleships and cruisers with 120mm main guns, but maybe the turrets can't be done like that. At most, the turrets on the main battleships can only have three double-mounted 120mm guns. Artillery, that is, six 120mm guns, but we can replace the secondary gun 75mm guns with 120mm guns, but it is impossible to make it into a double installation, we can only make it into a single gun, that is, we can Get twelve single 120mm artillery turrets, so that we can ensure that the number of our firepower will not drop much, but the density may be reduced a little, and the speed of the main gun may be slower, two rounds per minute and a half, single The cannon fires once every minute, but the accuracy can be increased by about 1% because of the slow speed.”