Lord of Ming Dynasty

A round of hundreds of shells blasted the entire port into flames, causing great damage, and the water column soared into the sky. The enemy's battleship had not yet set fire, and many people on the beach got out of the barracks. During the attack that the battleships on this side were pushed forward by the surging waves, they ran to the port and their own battleships one after another. While untying the cables, they yelled and sailed. It takes at least three hours to start the fire, and only after the pressure is full can the propellers be pushed to do work and the battleship set sail.

Even if the enemy does a good job, has experience, and usually presses the fire, when needed, it can usually be boosted and acted in two hours, or an hour and a half, and it will take at least half an hour to panic. At war with the Kingdom of China and the Kingdom of New China, the fleets of the two countries have precedents of sneak attacks from time to time. They just kept the furnace warm so that the warships could be launched within half an hour, but it took more than 40 minutes to an hour. , they can't do anything except counterattack with naval guns.

I have to say that the quality of the British navy is still good. After 10 minutes, when the fleet approached the port at 200 meters, the British artillery counterattack had already begun, and the shore artillery blasted the sea around the fleet wave after wave. Yes, the water column was all over the sky, and in less than 10 minutes, the enemy in the port turned the battleship around with a small tugboat, and the artillery fire on the battleship began to counterattack.

But that's all they can do. Except for the two British destroyers who came out and more than a dozen patrolling warships who returned to join the battle, all the main battleships were blocked in the port, causing chaos. After 10 minutes, this After more than a dozen rounds of artillery attacks, the enemy was finally severely damaged. An enemy's main warship, approaching the periphery of the port, was the first to turn, and driven by the speed of the tugboat, his own speed also increased. He untied the tugboat cable, Just after firing a round, the hull was hit by armor-piercing shells from the 150 [-]mm artillery of the new main battleship of the New China Kingdom.

The hull shook, retreated more than three meters, a hole three meters wide and two meters deep exploded on the side of the hull above the waterline, and severely damaged the mount of a main gun, two secondary guns were blown away, and the battleship swayed repeatedly It took two or three minutes before the water flooded in about ten tons before it stopped, and then the enemy's main guns counterattacked, causing the battleship to sway, sideways, and move, making the battleship still unable to calm down. , Let the enemy's cabin below the deck be burned crackling, as if it might be swallowed by the fire at any time.

With the first ship, there will be a second ship. Once the first shell hits, the second shell will hit. Previously, because of the high wind and rough waves, we were fighting in the dark here, and we were still maneuvering in the sea. It’s not an exaggeration to describe it as bad, but as time went by, the accuracy gradually improved. The enemy’s shore artillery was pulled out one by one, and many auxiliary battleships in the enemy’s harbor were damaged. They were chaotic and ran around. The waves created by the shells pushed the warships and bumped them back and forth. Many warships were damaged or severely flooded.

An hour later, the escort fleet surrounded the enemy's battleships outside, the main fleet fought against the shore artillery and the port exit, and the new main battleship bombarded the port, the port wharf was destroyed, the auxiliary battleship was sunk, and a raging fire ignited in the entire port , It’s as bright as day, and now you can see the enemy’s appearance clearly without firing flares, know the situation inside, and know where to fight.

. _Mobile version reading URL:

The first thousand and 660 eight chapters wipe out the African colonial fleet

Surrounded and bombarded by more than 60 warships, the small Vishal Island could not bear such firepower at all. In less than an hour and a half, it had been reduced to ruins, especially in the port, where the rocks were almost blocking the port. Many of the warships moored in the port have capsized, and there is not much firepower to fight back. After one o'clock in the evening, the attack has stopped here, and the warships in the port are burning and capsizing.

Zhang Siyuan ordered half of the sixteen frigates to clean up the dozens of auxiliary warships patrolling the enemy outside to be on alert, and half to enter the port to clean up the battlefield.

Surrounded by people, unable to turn around, and unable to exert proper firepower because of the wrong angle of the artillery, the British African colonial fleet was wiped out by them for the third time.

The cleaning of the battlefield did not end until after 8000 o'clock in the morning of the next day. More than 1 British sailors and officers were captured, and 1000 British African slaves on the island were captured, and the Han Chinese who were previously captured by their fleet were rescued More than 3000 officers and soldiers, more than 900 mercenary sailors and officers, more than 1000 mercenary marines and army soldiers, more than 3000 British prisoners who were used for the previous warships were recaptured, and more than 2000 British soldiers were killed , more than [-] people were injured.

At the same time, seven auxiliary battleships, eight main battleships, and three other transport ships were captured, and the seriously injured ones were sunk again, because they were too tiring, and the speed could not keep up. It is impossible to take those ships to cross the enemy's blockade.

All the captured warships were controlled by the rescued Han officers and soldiers, reorganized the rescued New China Kingdom mercenaries, and then assigned these people to the newly captured warships, and then stuffed all the captives into these warships, organized An auxiliary fleet, with two wounded frigates and a wounded main battleship, appointed a major rank officer among the captured Han officers as the commander, and a major officer on the wounded main battleship as the flagship Commander, assist this Han officer in managing the fleet.

One rested until 21:33 noon before returning to the fleet, [-] new main battleships, [-] main battleships, [-] frigates, eight captured enemy main battleships, seven enemy first-generation ironclad auxiliary battleships, and three transport ships , fully loaded with tens of thousands of people, returned to Tangier port at a speed of [-] knots.

Veshal Island was abandoned.

The returning fleet lined up in two formations, with captured warships and wounded warships in the middle, 21 new main battleships behind, 33 main battleships in front, and frigate fleet running ahead, because this is the custom, frigate The fleet is now responsible for the mission of the destroyer fleet, scouting and patrolling, opening the way, and providing early warning for the main fleet.

After sailing for half a day and one night, when we were about halfway back, less than [-] nautical miles away, a fleet suddenly appeared in front of us. It looked like the Wunan Fleet with the flag of Xinqin. The fleet was not big. Ten main warships, thirty auxiliary warships, most of the auxiliary warships are not fast, and you can still see traces of battles on them. It seems that the New Qin Wunan Fleet has not been replenished recently, or their supplementary warships have not been launched.

"I found the enemy ship, 170 to the southwest, [-] nautical miles away, the enemy is changing formation, they are coming towards us, the enemy is forming a battle formation——"

The words of the lookout post were continuously transmitted through the signal flags, one after another to the lookout of the flagship of the main fleet. The lookout kept translating these words, and then the words of an officer who sent orders were relayed, and they sounded in the control tower.

"However, there are only [-] main warships, [-] auxiliary warships, and a fleet that has not been replenished. Why is the enemy so arrogant, thinking that they can defeat us with these warships? Or hit us hard? With the current weather conditions, two Ten nautical miles can basically see the scale of our side. The commander of the fleet of the new Qin State is crazy, right? Don’t you know that our strength is several times theirs? How dare you attack us like this? "New main battleship , a lieutenant colonel of the flagship captain said with a frown.

Because the New China Kingdom was founded, various systems still adopted the system of the New Qin State. The captains of the main battleships of the main fleet are all lieutenant colonels, the captains of cruisers are also lieutenant colonels, the captains of frigates are majors, and the captains of destroyers are all lieutenant colonels. It is a captain. Commanders at all levels can be at the same level or one level higher, but those at the same level must be superior to the captain of the main battleship in at least one aspect in all aspects, such as seniority He must be tall, deep, or have outstanding contributions and achievements over the captain, and be recognized and appreciated by the superior officer, only then can he be promoted.

At present, the New China Kingdom is divided into two types of fleets, the main fleet and the Coast Guard Squadron. The Coast Guard Squadron is equivalent to the auxiliary fleet, which takes care of all the support or transportation for the main fleet, or guards the local ports.

"They want to entangle us and wait for other fleets to intervene. I don't know if this is their special purpose, or they encountered us by accident. If it is unintentional, we can forgive it, but if it is a special Yes, it proves that we have entered a state of war with the new Qin State. Work hard, soldiers, we have a compatriot opponent, are you afraid?" Zhang Siyuan asked seriously.

"Don't be afraid, our situation is much better now than when the new Qin State first came here, and we are stronger than them." The officers of the New China Kingdom in the command tower shouted loudly.

"The enemy is waiting for the British fleet, so we can infer that the British are not far from here. Otherwise, they will definitely go far away with this little force, and they will definitely not fight us." Zhang Siyuan said.

"But how did the new state of Qin inform the British, and how did they know that the British were there? I don't think they are close enough to inform each other of their location. The reason why the two fleets accompanied the action." Zhang Siyuan was thinking, and suddenly he had a flash of light in his mind. In a blink of an eye, could it be that Britain has a wireless telegraph?

This is possible. I remember when they attacked the port of Tangier, it seemed that the Spanish fleet came out to interfere, and then the British also came out. If it wasn’t for the help of Lu Fang and the others, they might have been beaten by the British that time. Get down, it seems that the British and Spaniards had wireless telegraphs at that time, otherwise how could they contact the British on the sea, and the people who gave them the telegraphs were probably from the new Qin State.

While Zhang Siyuan was making various guesses here, the distance between the fleets of the two sides was only five or six nautical miles, and the sixteen warships of the frigates were only two nautical miles away from the enemy. Zhang Siyuan ordered half of the main battleships to escort the captured fleet to continue towards Dan The port of Gil returned, and the other warships turned back to fight.

The first thousand 660 chapters and nine Xiao Nan's abacus

Facing the sixteen frigates, Xiao Nan fought with confidence. He dispatched thirty auxiliary warships. Although those auxiliary warships were all damaged and repaired warships, they were all Type 30 and Type [-] ships. The first generation of warships produced by the British and the Spaniards did not have improved warships, but there were so many that the enemy could not take care of them. Besides, although the frigates of the New China Kingdom were the second-generation improved warships captured by the British, there were also improved Type IV ironclad ships. , but after all, they have also experienced a long time of fighting and were injured several times. At the same time, because of the age of the ship, the combat effectiveness is not so strong, so the two sides fought half a catty and a half. It is only because the frigate is more advanced, so it is still More than [-] auxiliary warships of the new Qin State were blocked.

"Block them for at least three hours, and we will win. Our allied British super fleet has set sail from Spain, and now it is only [-] nautical miles away from us. Annihilate the traitors and let us integrate more into the Western world. We Now it is a western country, our high-class westerners are no longer inferior orientals, we are now equal regardless of whether we are foreigners or Han Chinese, we are people of the free western kingdom!" Xiao Nan said loudly shouted the leading officers, and his speech was broadcast throughout the fleet by signalmen.

Originally, Xiao Nan was only because he disagreed with Zhang Siyuan and the others. When he served as the civil affairs chief of the Morocco base and the land supervisor, he still contributed a lot to the new Qin. After the state of Qin changed its policy, he was constantly influenced by Wu Nan, and finally when the new state of Qin announced that Zhang Siyuan was a traitor, he began to rebel against Zhang Siyuan, rebelled, and was finally suppressed.

The Spaniards intercepted the main fleet of the New China Kingdom that was attacking the port of Tangier and returning home. He told the Spaniards in the port of Bensu through a telegraph line, and the Spaniards sent a fleet to intercept when they were suspicious, and passed the matter through small boats. They crossed the sea and informed the Spanish fleet at the port of Malar, and the Spanish fleet informed the British through the telegraph line on land, so Zhang Siyuan and his main fleet rushed to the African colonial fleet and were almost completely wiped out.

But he knew that only Wu Nan knew about this matter, and Zhang Siyuan didn’t know it until now. It was just because he was an officer of the New Qin State, and he knew that he was not on the same side as them, but on the compromise side, but he was still an officer of the New Qin State and should be dealt with by the New Qin State, so he was brought back to Xinding. Yangzhou, in the end he was brought back to the mainland by the people of the New Qin State Army Intelligence Department. Later, the situation developed too fast, and the entire New Qin State fell to the British. Wu Nan's adjutant, the land supervisor of the Azores.

Now he has completely turned to the capitulation faction, thinking that there is no result to fight with the British, so he is now a general of the capitulation faction. A while ago, Wu Nan promised that if he performed well, he would recommend it to the prime minister. , Let him be the acting governor of Xindingzhou. Wunan knows that the Azov Islands are strategically important, but they have no money, no people, no room for maneuver, and they are far away from the center, which is not conducive to their own development. After so many years He is also the governor of the Azores.

After Xiao Nan came back, he had someone he could use, so he recommended Xiao Nan to Xindingzhou, so that he would have a place to develop, and that was the place where the struggle with the British was the most intense, surrounded by the British colonies.

Because of the war with the Spaniards, the French colonies were devastated, so they had to sign an agreement with the British to resell the colony near Xindingzhou to the British. They could not beat the British on the sea, and they could be regarded as winning on land. A kind of progress, having obtained such a large territory in Louisiana, the French wanted to stay away from the British colony and develop with peace of mind.

As a result, Xindingzhou is now surrounded by British colonies on all sides. The two sides fought fiercely before. After the capitulation faction gained the upper hand, not only did the two sides not ease the relationship, but because this is the sphere of influence of the army, and the army faced the capitulation faction. Very tough, I don't care how you mess with the navy, but you want to target our army, Swee Tianlei uses his qualifications and credits to control the entire army, he will not compromise, Zhao Shuai and Wu Kejing have long wanted to replace him, They even wanted to replace Jin Lin, but they couldn't grasp Jin Lin's tricks. The army's old fritters had experienced decades of struggle, and each one was very slippery.

But fortunately, the new Qin State is an island country dominated by the navy, so although Jinlin is currently ruling Xindingzhou, he is constrained by the navy. Jin Qishun and Song Qing have declined, and they have been replaced by Zhao Shuai with various reasons Now, Mo Lin has also reached the age of retirement and doesn't want to take care of things anymore. Wu Nan wants to further seek the naval commander, transfer Xiao Nan to control the navy of Xindingzhou, and act as the governor, so that he can control Xindingzhou and the Azov Islands. In that way, his position in the new Qin State will be very stable.

Now Xiao Nan can be said to be full of energy. Although the Azov Islands fleet has won the battle, it has lost a lot. That is because the new Qin Kingdom has not been replenished. Now that the Surrender faction is in power, of course it is full of support for Wu Nan. For the new Qin State, as long as it can control the navy, the army will not be able to make any troubles. With the support of Wu Nan, a general who controls the naval military power, the surrender faction in the mainland can be in power safely. It can be said that Wu Nan will spare no effort in supporting him. .

It has already agreed to deploy [-] main battleships and [-] auxiliary warships from the New Qin Kingdom's local fleet to supplement the Azov Islands fleet. Although there are not as many warships as there were in the heyday of the Azov Islands, these warships are [-] to [-]% new. There are even some new and improved warships, so that the combat effectiveness of the Wunan Fleet can be much improved than before.

It took five or six years to accumulate more than 400 warships in the Wunan Fleet. Many of the warships were Type I and Type II warships that were eliminated before, and most of them served in the Coast Guard. The destroyers of the fleet are all Type III and Type IV ironclad ships, the frigates are all improved Type IV battleships, the cruisers are also the original cruisers, and the main battleships are also battleships that have been used for five or six years. It is a good thing and a strategic requirement that the British dare not fight even though the British actually have so many warships in a super fleet.

Now, after friction with the British, most of the Type [-] and Type [-] warships have been lost, and the number has dropped to [-]. They have also fought several auxiliary warship battles against the British and the fleet of Zhang Siyuan, the predecessor of the New China Kingdom. , and through two wars, the Wunan Fleet of the Azov Islands of the New Qin State could not even gather a hundred of these old-style warships. Nothing, will be restocked soon.

So Xiao Nan was very proud.

Chapter 670 Handling of Han captives

Sixteen frigates are enough for the fleet commanded by Xiao Nan of the New Qin Kingdom. Although there are thirty auxiliary warships, they do not have the strength to entangle the sixteen frigates. Most of the sixteen frigates are operated by mercenaries. The combat power is not inferior at all. They have been in continuous battles and have experience in several sea battles. In comparison, the sailors on the auxiliary battleships are all novices who have no operational experience over the years.

In the last two wars, the Wunan Fleet of the Azores also lost a lot of sailors, especially mercenary sailors and Han Chinese sailors. Many people were captured in the first time. Although not many people were captured in the second time, they captured a lot. The mercenary sailors and Han Chinese sailors of the New China Kingdom always lost a lot of experienced sailors. This time, they had to let those mercenary sailors and some mercenaries who had rested on the island for two years join the fleet .

Han people also joined the fleet, but because the Azores Islands captured too many Han Chinese and British a few years ago, the number of Han people and soldiers was gradually reduced. The population of the Azores Islands has not increased much due to the British blockade. For the New Qin State, there are many foreigners, so most of them are dominated by foreign mercenaries. The Han people are only guarding and monitoring to stabilize the rule of the New Qin State in the Azores. There has been a rebellion, and other enemies are reducing the amount of mercenaries, but the Azores are increasing the amount of relying on mercenaries, because many mercenaries have been dispatched here from Xindingzhou, the mainland, and Xindingyang Prefecture.

It can be said that apart from Xinding Yangzhou, which is destined to exile and recruit foreign mercenaries and civilians, the largest foreign state, Azores is the second largest state, and Xindingzhou has successfully reduced a lot of mercenaries, because that time It was their mercenary rebellion. Due to the previous policy and mercenary rebellion, the mainland has long been a place where the Han population is larger than the mercenary and foreign people.

At present, there are 60 Han people in the new Qin State, and only 20 foreign people. The status of the Han people has long been established. Although the capitulation faction came to power later, foreign people came from Xindingzhou and other Western countries, especially the British. The dispatch or liberation of British captives increased the foreign population to as many as 30, but it was still based on the Han people, and the foreign people did not have many privileges there, but it was easier to check, freer, and their status improved than before.

Since the capitulation faction came to power in the New Qin State, it has not banned and cleared those foreigners very much. In the past, they had to rely on and prohibit them. Now they are given more and more power, so it is estimated that the New Qin State will soon become a future generation. Countries like Singapore and Australia, where Han people are the main body, actually discriminate against and suppress Han people, even suspect and bully Han people arbitrarily. Han people have no freedom and power in their countries. Even Han people who have rights eventually become anti-Chinese. The lackeys of the Han people in the West and the British bully their compatriots when they are in power, and their policies are more vicious than the British and Westerners. Now the new Qin State is slipping into that abyss. This is not Zhang Qiang’s original agreement to assist the New Qin State. idea.

Although he was no longer in power in the Huaxia Empire back then, his influence was still there.Therefore, what was formulated for the son was to squeeze the living space of Westerners by population and gradual encroachment, just like Westerners squeezed Easterners and Asians, and encroached step by step. The new Qin State was just testing the waters and succeeded.

But that's because there are people like Li Ya who escaped from the Chinese Empire after being wronged, but they still have feelings for the motherland. Although Wu Kejing and the others are also descendants of the Han people, they are also old courtiers who followed him to conquer the world. Descendants, but they are, after all, the third generation, or even the fourth generation.Therefore, Zhang Qiang’s strong hatred of the West from later generations is different. What they want is the recognition of the West, the need to integrate into the West, and hope that they will be in power. He tried his best to fulfill Zhang Qiang's last wish, ambition, and ideal.

Wunan and the others also degenerated or lost their ambitions in such an environment.

Not to mention Xiao Nan, he was born in Siberia, the third generation at the end of the third generation who had not experienced the difficulty of the rise of the Chinese Empire, and was closer to the fourth generation, and the fourth generation is now It has long enjoyed the dividends of peace in the Chinese Empire for decades. There have been no wars in many places for decades, only commercial interests and power dividends.

Although he is said to be the descendant of Zhang Qiang's confidant, but it is already a branch.

The two sides were fighting on the sea, a dozen main battleships blocked the attack of all Xiao Nan's twenty main battleships, and there were more than a dozen main battleships here separately to outflank and block more warships from the New Qin Kingdom. With the addition of new main battleships, the fleet led by Xiao Nan was soon retreating steadily. Even the serious injuries could not withdraw from the battle. The auxiliary battleships quickly surrendered. Nineteen ships were sunk, eight were seriously injured, and only seven or eight battleships finally depended on the situation. No surrender.

They sank a total of three frigates of the New China Kingdom, seriously injured two frigates, and the frigates of the New China Kingdom sank a total of ten of their auxiliary warships, seriously injured two, and the others were the main force newly added to the battlefield Battleships and new capital battleships were sunk.