Lord of Ming Dynasty

Zhang Siyuan and his engineering staff are working in the shipyard to study the construction of a new type of main battleship. The faster it is finalized and built, the higher his strength will be.

Now there is no country in the world that adopts such a large-caliber artillery, but for Xinqin and Zhang Siyuan, this is not a problem, because he is a traverser who has experienced 100 years and is an emperor traverser who controls the overall situation. He has enough theoretical and practical experience reserves.

650 Chapter [-] Fleet Adjustment and Upgrade

As a traverser, Zhang Siyuan knew that the larger the caliber of the artillery, the more powerful it was, and he also knew how to research it. He had relevant research experience and technical conditions, so his research was advancing rapidly.

However, the external situation will obviously not wait for his research to be successful before making trouble. First, the British Spanish super fleet went south. The enemy bypassed the strait with a radius of 120 nautical miles. Zhang Siyuan's maritime patrol line went south to the African port. As a result, there were at least [-] auxiliary battleships and more than [-] main battleships. The main battleships of the British were still the second-generation improved ironclad ships.

The world will not enter the republic until the beheading of Louis XVI and the outbreak of revolution in France.

It's not time yet, but the British immigrants in North America are very restless. France defeated the Spaniards. In addition to the war that lasted several years, it also caused a lot of depression in North America. The British squeezed these North American immigrants even more. From time to time, resistance and riots, robbers and robbers abound.

The British were troubled by it, and continuously deployed troops to encircle and suppress these rebels. The North American continent continued to fight, and the British were also struggling to cope.

That is to say, the opponents of the British who want to become the hegemon are not only Xinqin and Zhang Siyuan, but many others. At this time, the super British fleet from Spain was sent south to the coast of Africa. It is very fast, and this is almost the fifth month It's time.

Lieutenant Baozi's coast guard has been changed. Originally, there were only a dozen destroyers and frigates of the New Qin State that were injured and repaired in the port, as well as a first-generation ironclad ship captured by the British, plus twenty armed merchant ships. More than 30 Coast Guard patrol vessels.

Lieutenant Baozi now has three coast guard squadrons.

The First Squadron is stationed in the port of Tangier, defending a defense area of ​​about [-] kilometers from the port to the port of Bensu.It has twelve destroyers sent by Lu Fang and the others, and three types of improved ironclad ships.Why do you say that these ironclad ships are all Type III ironclad ships?Because Lu Fang and the others have to explain to the New Qin State, after all, they are also the admirals of the New Qin State, and they cannot give Zhang Siyuan and the others the new Dingyangzhou Fleet of the New Qin State, even though they are very concerned about the New Qin State Cabinet and the Privy Council. Dissatisfied with the royal family, but you can't give all your capital to Zhang Siyuan and the others, right?They still have reservations.

As I said before, the New Qin Kingdom has long upgraded the warship model of destroyers. Originally, the destroyers of the New Qin Kingdom were Type [-] ironclad ships, and later they were upgraded to Type [-] improved ironclad ships. The model used when he served as the flagship captain of the New Dingyangzhou Squadron in Macaibo Bay. When he was transferred to the Second Squadron of the New Dingyangzhou Coast Guard, all the warship models of the New Qin State had undergone an upgrade.

Destroyers have become Type [-] Ironclad Ships, frigates have also become improved Type [-] Ironclad Ships, cruisers are basically enlarged versions of Type [-] Improved Types, and main battleships are cruisers that are smaller in size but not much less in tonnage. Version.

The size of the cruiser is in terms of firepower, speed, and endurance. The main battleship is reflected in defense, heavy firepower and powerful power. Regardless of the speed, the cruiser is not as good as the cruiser. The endurance is not as good as that of the cruiser. The secondary gun is 75mm, and the secondary gun of the main battleship is a 128mm single heavy gun, but the speed is slow, so it needs a second secondary gun 75mm to make up for it. The 37mm and [-]mm rapid-fire guns make up for the short-range firepower. It is said that the main battleship is a firepower fortress.

Today's new Qin State has no intention of adjusting and developing, and is still at this stage. However, at this stage, the British will not be able to catch up for a while if they want to catch up. They can only win with a numerical advantage because they have many opponents.

Today, what Zhang Siyuan is thinking about is to completely eliminate the three improved destroyers that were eliminated by the new Qin state, and replace the destroyers with four improved iron-clad frigates, which are higher than the adjustment of the new Qin state, and capture the enemy in the future The first-generation warships can only be sent to the Coast Guard, and the second-generation improved main battleships are sent to the frigates. This type of frigate is similar to the new Qin State's fourth-type improved warships, but slightly stronger in some aspects. That's all.

As for the frigate, Zhang Siyuan is thinking of changing the main battleship currently used by the new Qin State into a frigate. The main battleship they got is actually the front main battleship model equipped with 75mm guns. The artillery is actually an enhanced version of the main battleship of the active fleet of the main fleet of the New Qin Kingdom.

Lu Fang and the others sent a total of 55 destroyers, some of which were improved Type [-], some of which were Type [-], and most of which were Type [-]. Zhang Siyuan is now assigning these destroyers to Lieutenant Baozi's Coast Guard.

Twelve of the strongest Type 100 improved ships, which are equivalent to frigate-class destroyers, have entered the waters of Tangier Port where they may conflict with the enemy. Of course, there are more than these. The Coast Guard needs a lot of ships, such as pilot boats, patrol boats, and camouflage ships. Ships, and transport ships, these auxiliary vessels.These auxiliary ships were allocated from more than 43 transport ships, as well as from captured enemy warships. A coast guard squadron has twelve main battleships and [-] auxiliary warships.

The second squadron is stationed in the ports of Bensu and Ceuta. The main task is to lock the narrowest part of the strait. There are also twelve main warships here, more auxiliary warships and fewer auxiliary warships. The auxiliary warships are all captured by the British. There are also about twelve steam engine warships with the Spaniards, and about 36 auxiliary ships.

The third squadron is from the port of Ceuta to the port of Al Huceima. There are 26 destroyers, plus the original dozen warships, about 35 warships, and about 36 auxiliary ships. This is the headquarters of Lieutenant Baozi. Of course They need more troops. At the same time, they have to patrol and intercept the sea routes in the Mediterranean Sea, and at the same time pay attention to and attack the Spanish ports, and guard against the Spanish fleet in the port of Marga, so there are more warships.

Zhang Siyuan divided these destroyers and transport ships, and the fleet size dropped to only about 35% of the original. 45 main battleships, 34 cruisers, and 42 frigates, throwing away the three frigates, one main battleship, and one cruiser that Zhang Yuan and the others lost in attacking the port of Elasi, a total of five battleships were sunk, and nine battleships were lost Seriously injured, then there are still [-] main battleships, [-] cruisers, and [-] frigates left. The seriously injured battleships have been repaired in the past few months.

But with these warships, Zhang Siyuan has the ability to fight against the enemy's super fleet going south. He will definitely not foolishly go to the main force and let the enemy have more than 100 main battleships and more than 400 auxiliary battleships. Look for death, play slowly, the enemy goes south, and their auxiliary fleet must patrol and escort, so let the 42 warships of the escort fleet fight them.

What Zhang Siyuan is watching is whether the enemy will create another super fleet in Spain. The British have a lot of warships, with a total of more than 3 ships. In the past few months, they can produce hundreds of warships. warships, which means that their sinking speed cannot keep up with the speed of others' production.

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The first thousand 650 chapter three loose encirclement

Half a year of fighting, half a year of enemy replenishment, and the fact that the new Qin State did not make any big moves in half a year was something that scared everyone out of their eyes.

For half a year, New Qin didn't care about Lu Fang's collusion with the enemy, and didn't respond to the British encirclement. Since the Morocco base lost contact, New Qin suddenly didn't know what to do.

However, half a year later, after the British super fleet stationed in the Spaniards went south, the wind direction changed suddenly, and the mainland no longer replenished warships to Xindingyangzhou. None of the fleets were intercepted by British warships. The British fleet in Xindingzhou added warships to the North American fleet, and the super fleet also added warships. It became difficult to communicate with Xindingyang and Xindingzhou. It also became difficult for Zhang Siyuan and the others in the Strait of Gibraltar to contact them.

A British super fleet stationed in the British mainland began to move to the Caribbean Sea, and the pressure on the mainland of the new Qin State and the Azov Islands suddenly decreased, but in the telegram from Lu Fang and the others to Zhang Siyuan, the mainland was still crying out for the British Due to human pressure, the Azores also asked Xinding Yangzhou to reinforce warships, because the warships in the Azores also had to be supplemented by Xindingzhou and local warships, and they only had the ability to maintain, not build and develop. After all, it is the front line.

According to the description of the Dutch merchants in the Caribbean Sea, the British have the Caribbean Sea Fleet, two super fleets and the support of the North American Fleet and the super fleet stationed in North America. The days of the Netherlands and Spain in the Caribbean Sea are getting more and more difficult, although the British The main opponent is the French Gulf of Mexico Fleet, but as a natural enemy of the British, the colonial fleet is also compressed to the port and some colonial islands, and cannot sail far. They cannot beat the British at all, but everyone can see it now. Two super fleets and a colonial fleet are going to deal with the French and Xinding Yangzhou at the same time.

It seems that they don't care about anything over there. They threw away Zhang Siyuan and his little people and unimportant places, and sold Xinding Yangzhou to the British. Yangzhou sent transport ships and escort fleets to the British to die. This is really damaging. If Xinding Yangzhou does not implement their orders, it will be a mutiny.

According to the recent investigation of the Azores, the British have relaxed the siege of the Azores. The Azores have been able to sail unimpeded with the mainland. The British have withdrawn the blockade facing the United Kingdom and the North Atlantic , the Azov Islands are still within the encirclement of others, but they have received special treatment. Now they are almost allies, and they are still in the rear. The front faces Xindingyang Prefecture and Xinding Prefecture. And the Azores are guarded, watched from a distance.

Obviously, this place has been neglected by everyone. This is even better. Zhang Siyuan and his new warships have begun to enter the shipyard to start construction. There are fifteen warships in total. The battleship gap lost due to attacking the enemy's port.

In response to such a situation, the side that obtained information from various sources tried to reduce the burden on Xindingyang Prefecture, and at the same time paid attention to the Azov Islands. Maybe there will be an unpleasant event such as a crusade against rebellion in Wunan.

In fact, Zhang Siyuan hates this very much. He pins his own safety and way out on the pity of the enemy, gives up resistance, blindly compromises, and waits for the enemy's handouts. Unless he really has no resistance, he will linger on and look for Opportunity, otherwise the advantage of doing this is that the enemy will save a lot of energy and spirit to attack you, and the enemy will look down on you.

But now he doesn't have the mind to think about those things anymore, he just thinks about how to enhance his fighting power all day long, it should be said that his group's fighting power, everyone didn't know before that he was regarded as a traitor by the new Qin State, this is Xiao Nan What a mess, if Xiao Nan hadn't posted black posts to Zhang Siyuan many times in front of Wu Nan, Wu Nan would not have a good impression of Zhang Siyuan, and he wouldn't have become a traitor to the new Qin State just because he didn't follow orders.

As more and more rumors spread, many people from Xinding Yangzhou who were unwilling to stay here spread more and more rumors against him in the territory controlled by Zhang Siyuan. For this reason, Wei Yuanchao ordered a thorough investigation, but still Unable to contain this trend, Zhang Siyuan finally called a meeting of all the officers above the second lieutenant and announced the current situation of the Morocco base. Now everyone is still an officer and soldier of the Morocco base of the New Qin Kingdom, although many senior officers, people above the captain Knowing the purpose of Lu Fang's selection of them to come here, most of the people below were selected, and they didn't know that they had transformed from the people of the New Qin Kingdom to the traitors of the New Qin Kingdom.

After ordering the arrest of some people and adjusting the entire officer class, such rumors went underground. Zhang Siyuan strengthened his control over the troops, and at the same time left the design room, and began to inspect various troops to let everyone know and know himself.

Most of the troops sent by Lu Fang didn't know who they were loyal to. Now Zhang Siyuan wanted to let them know that they were loyal to him, and Zhang Siyuan named his force the New Huaxia Kingdom, continuing the new Qin Kingdom. Most of the systems, and some of the systems of the Huaxia Empire were added. After another month and a half of inspections, visits, and various contacts with soldiers at the bottom, after thinking that I basically controlled the team, Zhang Siyuan returned to the port of Ceuta. At that time, the six main battleships of the New Qin State that were previously experimentally built had already been launched for trial voyage.

With these six warships, regardless of how much combat power has been added, the key is to prove two points. First, they have risen to the same status and strength as Xinding Yangzhou, at least in terms of building warships and continuously producing warships. , They can gain a firm foothold in the Atlantic Ocean. Without warships in the Atlantic Ocean, they will not be able to gain a firm foothold.

Secondly, they can build the main warships of the new Qin state. They no longer rely on the new Qin state, and they have the ability to stand on their own.

This is a very important thing. The New Qin State has already trained him, or he has grown up by himself with the help of the New Qin State, and has a certain strength to challenge the British and the New Qin State.

It took four months to build the six main battleships this time, which is even faster than that of the new Qin State. One is that the engineers and boatmen have already built more than a hundred main battleships, and they are proficient. Standardized their process of building warships. From the time they started building, he taught them how to standardize the production process. Many unnecessary links in the production were canceled or merged, and all of them were made by skilled workers. operate.

Those who are not skilled workers go to build small transport ships or steamships. After they are familiar with the process of building ships and are familiar with all types of work, they come here to work again. After a batch of warships are built, they are basically skilled workers. up.

The first thousand and 650 chapters and four news from China

After the six main warships joined the fleet, the strength of the fleet recovered, and the fifteen warships under experimental construction immediately added six more. Because the six docks were empty, six more were built, and the total number of new warships built was 21. .

It's not that the British didn't see them or didn't want to pay attention to them, but they just don't care about them now. In fact, the New Qin State is the most important opponent in Britain's heart. People became the new targets of the British. While cooperating with the new Qin State to suppress these people, they dispatched a super fleet to blockade the opposing Xindingyang Prefecture, and at the same time infiltrate and surround the ambiguous Xindingzhou , prevent.

A super fleet stationed on the North American coast, two super fleets stationed in the Caribbean Sea, and a super fleet stationed on the African coast, as well as the North American colonial fleet, the African colonial fleet, and the Caribbean Sea colonial fleet. The six fleets constituted a blockade of the two overseas territories of the New Qin State. Among them, the super fleet that replaced the African colonial fleet was on guard against Zhang Siyuan and the others.

It's not that the British and the New Qin Kingdom don't know much about this side. They know that Zhang Siyuan's New China Kingdom, which just finished the war, is very weak. The new main battleships of Xinding Yangzhou are not new warships. Those are the main battleships of the original Xinding Yangzhou, but this is also very good. It is not bad to have a main fleet of overseas territories.

They knew they were weak, so they were not in a hurry to kill Zhang Siyuan and the others. Although they were very annoyed, the most injured were not the British, but the Spaniards. The Spaniards lost the Mediterranean fleet, and the local fleet suffered heavy losses. Maritime trade has been cut off again, and the Spaniards are now struggling.

However, the Spaniards started as pirates after all, and they were also a country of merchants. Soon privately, the maritime trade with New China was in full swing. With the patrols and guards of three maritime coast guards, their business was very prosperous.

All materials from Spain are transported to Africa through the Mediterranean Sea. At the same time, businesses from other countries are now allowed to be sold in the territory of New China, provided that taxes must be paid.

After Spain was controlled by Zhang Siyuan and the others in the Mediterranean Sea, although there was still an Atlantic coast, it was not as convenient as the Mediterranean Sea. Most of the land countries came from the Mediterranean Sea, and most of the main countries of their trade were in the Mediterranean Sea. The Mediterranean Sea is the civilization of Western Europe. The cradle is not an exaggeration, so the loss of the Spaniards is still very heavy. After learning that Zhang Siyuan and the others have been expelled from the new Qin State, the Spaniards sent envoys to negotiate peace, but the people who came did not use good strategies. Blackmailed to scare Zhang Siyuan, who had been expelled from the New Qin State International, but Zhang Siyuan chopped off his head directly, and then asked his followers to take him back. The negotiation broke down, and the Spaniards continued to be hostile to Zhang Siyuan's New China State.

In this way, Zhang Siyuan's New Huaxia Kingdom has to continue to trade with the merchants under the Spaniards in private, but Zhang Siyuan and the others are happy to do this, so that the Spaniards cannot be allowed to collect taxes on the Mediterranean Sea, and they can continue to suppress the Spanish fleet. Can't get out of the port.

Under such circumstances, Zhang Siyuan sent troops to the Chinese Empire to enter the Chinese Empire through Turkey, Persia and other places. At the same time, he hoped to inherit the route that the new Qin State’s Han population in Central Asia, Turkey, Russia and Eastern Europe reached the West. He wanted to Get this route and make this route work for him.

The New China Empire captured 4 to 8 people, 4 to 8 mercenaries and foreign civilians, 30 to [-] Han Chinese, about [-] Spanish immigrants, and more than [-] local indigenous people. The Han people are all soldiers and their families The same is true for mercenaries, that is to say, the land they occupy is nearly [-] people. In fact, their total population is more than [-] people, which are still soldiers and family members. The rest are Spanish immigrants and local indigenous people.

Although many Han immigrants from Eastern Europe came one after another, there were only a few thousand people, and the proportion of the population was still insufficient. Zhang Siyuan also thought that it was all his own country.

Maybe it was to get rid of the burden. The Colombians and Mexicans they brought in accounted for 30% of the foreign population, and the captives accounted for 50% of the captive population. They dumped a large number of these people to them, so their population was more than It was [-] people, not [-] people.