Lord of Ming Dynasty

If the British's North American colonial fleet is dragged down, and the Caribbean Sea is dragged down by the Dutch and French, Lu Fang's situation of being surrounded will be lifted, and they will be able to assist them, and the British's siege will be solved.

Now should be the time for the British to have a headache.

Then the British fleet here will be isolated and helpless. If you can think of a way to nibble or destroy them as soon as possible, the British's military advantage in the Atlantic will disappear.

But in the end, we still have to fight. The enemy's military superiority is unsolvable.

The enemy's main warships have been inspected during these days, and there are about 180 ships. The Baltic Super Fleet, the local fleet supported [-] warships, and the auxiliary warships reached [-]. Now they will come down and crush them immediately. Part of it was lost, probably because the British were tense with the Dutch, and they didn't care about their side. If they were provoked, then the British would come out with all their strength, and they would not be able to beat them.

Now the 26 warships under construction of the new main battleship will take seven months to complete. They also make some small changes every time they build, and each change increases the completion time. Now even if there are two shifts, three shifts It would take six months to complete the construction even if it was rushed, and some parts of the construction could not be completed by human beings.

Now all the places are riveted with rivets. Although Zhang Siyuan has used his knowledge beyond the times to change the technological process, and some places can be poured as much as possible, there is still nothing that cannot be completed in eight months. The more advanced and complex the warship is, the more complex it is, the higher the combat effectiveness. The higher the combat effectiveness, the higher the quality of the personnel that needs to be trained, and the longer the training time. This is not just a sailor who can swim, float on the sea, and pull it over. The time to be able to do it.

In the early morning, Zhang Siyuan led the [-] main warships to go out on patrol as usual. This time he planned to go farther. These days, the British have not moved much. Besides, the patrolling British fleet is also an auxiliary warship. They dare not confront them head-on. They have already understood Knowing that this is a new type of warship of the New China Kingdom, they follow them as soon as they are far away, and run away when they are close. When the number is insufficient, they dare not go head-to-head with Zhang Siyuan and his patrolling main fleet.

The remaining 21 main battleships Zhang Yuan commanded, as a support, Zhang Yuan would know by telegram if there was a situation, and then led the remaining [-] main battleships and [-] frigates to support them.

So Zhang Siyuan didn't run far at all, about 100 nautical miles, sailing along the coast of the Spaniards and Portugal. Although they were close, the Spaniards dared not come out at all, and there were no warships if they wanted to come out. All the warships that landed hid in further ports and did not dare to come out. They had more than [-] old warships left in total.

Although warships are still being built, the British have given up hope for them, and the Spaniards don't want the British to consume all their warships, so most of the warships that can be fought are dispatched to the colonies separately. Under the coercion of the people, let them be cannon fodder to fight with the New China Kingdom or the New Qin Kingdom. The Portuguese are a little tougher. They only provide port stationing, and they have signed an agreement with Zhang Siyuan and the others. Provide some supplies and food to supplement the New China Kingdom, so that Zhang Siyuan and the others will not attack the British warships in the Portuguese port, and the British will also make trouble for the more stubborn Portuguese. Ambush the British across the Portuguese coast.

In the misty sea fog in the distance, eighteen warships lined up in a long snake formation, with an interval of more than 50 meters, slowly crossing the coastline of Portugal, and then entered the territorial waters of the Spaniards, where the enemy's patrol warships appeared one after another , sometimes one, sometimes a few merchant ships, sometimes seven or eight, but none of the large fleets.

It was still far away from the port of Real after the attack. Zhang Siyuan turned the fleet around and returned from the deep sea. He could not go forward. Once the enemy was mobilized, his [-] warships would not be able to defeat [-] to [-] ships. Even if the enemy's warships encounter a fleet of forty or fifty main battleships, they will have to suffer losses before they can escape.

However, when he sailed a hundred nautical miles and was about to return to the Portuguese territorial waters, several patrol ships suddenly appeared in front, and then there was a burst of thick smoke behind the patrol ships. Depending on the situation, there were many enemy warships. When they could see clearly, the enemy jumped out from below the sea level. When the sea fog had cleared, the number of the enemy fleet was quickly found out. There were about 28 enemy main warships, fifteen auxiliary warships, and There are also about [-] transport ships, depending on the situation, these people are the supply fleet that has just returned from North America or the Caribbean Sea.

Zhang Siyuan frowned. They were blocking the front, and they were the enemy again. The number and strength of the British warships were obviously more than theirs on the surface, at least double the combat power. Fighting, but the other party has ordered the transport fleet to turn to the Portuguese coast, and must be looking for a port to anchor.

And the rest of the warships rushed towards them.

"Send a telegram, let Zhang Yuan come to support," Zhang Siyuan was in a great headache, this battle is inevitable, with so many enemies, they will definitely not be able to solve it for a while, and if the enemy sends a telegram from the port of Portugal, the port of Real or nearby The other enemy auxiliary battleships in the Spanish port will arrive soon, and it will take less than an hour, while the enemy's main battleship will definitely come in two hours.

So he decided to retreat while fighting. It will take at least four hours for them to go back from here, and they have to fight the enemy, so it will take at least six hours. The enemy's main fleet and even all the British warships in the port of Spain have long been He rushed over, so it was impossible not to call for reinforcements.

Even if they are fighting against the enemy, they can get rid of the enemy by virtue of their high-speed performance, and they still have to call for reinforcements. If they are entangled, reinforcements can still be rescued.

Chapter 680 This is an ambush by the British

Since the enemy was blocking the way back, Zhang Siyuan ordered the fleet to change course and go to the deep sea. With the speed of his own fleet, he could circle for half an hour longer and bypass the enemy. The mouth of the Strait of Gibraltar moved, and it was nearly an hour away from the mouth of the strait. Zhang Yuan and the others could come to meet them an hour earlier. When they saw the fleet to meet them, the enemy would definitely leave without a fight. This happened many times.

The British have never dared to touch them, because the British know the strength of the new main warships of the New China Kingdom. Generally, fifty or sixty warships may not be able to stop them. Once they hide in the port, the British will have to pay three or four times The loss outweighs the loss, and it is necessary to prevent warships from other ports from coming to support. The British have no confidence in being able to wipe out a fleet of a port or occupy a port under the firepower of three mutually supporting New China Kingdom port warships. .

They made a detour, but the 28 main battleships and more than 20 auxiliary warships of the British rushed towards them. The distance between the two sides was close, going back here and coming over there. Left and right, it has been running for about ten nautical miles, and then a crosscut on this side is going to go around them, and now the return distance has been shortened by ten nautical miles. By going around, they are another ten nautical miles closer to home.

However, the enemy rushed over unswervingly, and charged closer and closer. Depending on the situation, they hoped to bring them into the rhythm of close combat and hold them back.

When the two sides approached one nautical mile, the team on the other side had already dispersed and rushed over in multiple lines. On the other side, Zhang Siyuan ordered a high-speed movement to rush over. They were seven or eight nautical miles closer to home. The two sides entered a nautical mile. The enemy has already opened fire But Zhang Siyuan and the others kept dodging, because Zhang Siyuan knew that if they couldn't rush over, or were entangled by the enemy, the shells they brought would not be enough for a tragic battle, and this war would definitely become very long.

The enemy is determined to stop them, and the result of the constant movement is that although Zhang Siyuan and the others have left the battlefield just now and are getting closer and closer to the port of Tangier, they are still nearly 120 nautical miles away from the port of Tangier. , and it was the distance of the deep sea. It would take at least [-] nautical miles to cut from here, so he ordered the warships approaching the enemy to fight back while urging the warships to move on.

For two hours, in the distance, I have seen the faint battleships rushing out of the enemy's coast, emitting thick black smoke in the air. Now is the era of steam engines. The steam engine battleships with thick chimneys are slightly worse than coal, and the smoke emitted The thick smoke makes the sky above the sea level visible from [-] nautical miles away on a sunny day. Unless the boiler is suppressed and the smoke is slowed down, the smoke emitted by ten warships will be far away from the enemy. will be able to see.

Only five or six warships that were too close to the enemy and left behind opened fire to suppress the enemy, while the enemy chased, and at the same time sent warships to speed up and go around, continue to intercept in front, and from time to time use artillery fire to drive the enemy away. In the nearly three hours of battle between the two sides, not a single shell hit the other side, but a lot of shells were spent, especially the enemy fleet.

They moved forty nautical miles in three hours, and had cut to Tangier port for eighty nautical miles, and were still advancing along a diagonal line. However, the enemy's main warships and destroyers couldn't keep up with their speed, so their interception went bankrupt. , but they are still closely chasing this side, the distance is getting bigger and bigger, from less than one nautical mile before, to five or six nautical miles later, to the last seven or eight nautical miles, but there is always a limit to the speed, they chase after Seven or eight nautical miles away, the eighteen warships following Zhang Siyuan and the others returned.

It has moved to the depth of 60 nautical miles off the coast of Portugal. When it broke away from the coastline of the Spanish, another fleet was launched from the side of the coastline of Portugal. The number of enemy warships is very large, depending on the situation, there are at least [-] ships. Depending on the situation, the enemy rushed along the coast for a while before turning to the deep sea to intercept them.

In the fifth hour, the two sides almost met, and the distance was only five or six nautical miles. There were many enemy warships, so the area spread out was large. They ran more and more into the deep sea, farther and farther away from the port of Tangier.

You can see more and more enemy warships behind you on the sea in the distance, almost everywhere are enemy warships, and five or six nautical miles ahead, the enemy's warships are densely packed and lined up, like enemy cavalry preparing to charge Troops, fanning out.

And at this time, Zhang Siyuan received a telegram from Zhang Yuan, they are here, too, it has been almost six hours, and it took only five or six hours to reach Port Real along the Portuguese coast and the Spanish coast, and now they have arrived It certainly won't take three hours here, and the rest must be the time to gather warships, leave the port, and scout out the enemy's movements.

The enemy's rear flags were flying, and this time Zhang Yuan brought eleven destroyers from the coast guard, thirteen armed merchant ships and transport ships, eighteen frigates, and eighteen main battleships.

It may not be able to wipe out the enemy's fleet of more than 80 ships, but it will definitely dilute the enemy's strength. It will not be too difficult for them to go home, but the armed merchant ships and armed transport ships they brought are destined to It's cannon fodder, because those warships in such a big battle not only lack speed, but also lack firepower. They are targets, just to dilute the enemy's strength. He has already used telegrams to tell him that he was being targeted and surrounded by the enemy. Zhang Yuan, in view of the fact that the New China Kingdom has no new warships, so he must have brought these warships for sacrifice.

In addition to the main battleship, several other warships and even the frigate frigate were used to sacrifice, because several warships were captured enemy warships, and their performance and operation would not be very good. In order to keep their main battleship, Zhang Yuan and Zhang Siyuan can sacrifice anything. As long as they have the main battleship, they will have the capital to turn the cards. In the future, sneak attacks will still be fought against the enemy, and they can defeat the enemy through cannibalism. There is definitely no chance. The enemy will not give them eight or six months to wait for the completion of the construction of the 26 new warships. As long as the main battleships here are all destroyed, the enemy will attack the port regardless of the cost. His main battleship was wrecked on the berth.

Seeing the chaos in the enemy's rear, and a large number of enemy warships being dispatched to deal with it, Zhang Siyuan ordered the fleet to speed up, rushing across the enemy's intercepting surface at a speed of one hour, and joining Zhang Yuan's fleet.

The power of the first thousand and 680 chapter-style main battleships

The two sides are moving on the sea, and the [-] warships there are not all main battleships, there are about [-] main battleships, and the rest are some first-generation warships, and the second-generation warships have no improved models. Although they look very good, some The combat effectiveness is much worse than the main battleships here, and their second-generation improved main battleships are still two or three generations behind here, which shows the gap between them and the New China Kingdom.

So Zhang Siyuan has the confidence to fight a bloody road from here. What's wrong with forty ships, but there are about ten main battleships, and about thirty warships are too far apart, just like the battleships of World War I and the iron ships of the sail age. One battleship can clean up their fleet. Of course, as long as the enemy has artillery in reality, the gap will not be too big. In terms of protection and firepower, the gap between these battleships is too far, but when the number of enemies is large, Even if you throw a few grenades here, they can cause damage if they land on the battleship. If there are too many grenades, it may cause a fire, or it may damage a battleship-level battleship. It may not sink, but sometimes it will cause serious damage. A warship does not need to be sunk, eliminate personnel, destroy the propeller blades, or the shells jam the steering gear, making it impossible to turn, and it can only turn around in the sea. This is why some seemingly weak battleships can severely damage or even capture battleships. s reason.

For this reason, although Zhang Siyuan's eighteen main warships must charge close to the enemy's warships, they all cover one by one, and the two form a fire-focusing team. Shoot concentrated fire to deal with the enemy ship, and try to break through the enemy's blocking line with the least loss.

The enemy fleet following behind was still following six or seven nautical miles away. There were about fifty warships. .

Seeing that the situation on the other side was really bad, Zhang Yuan frowned, ordered seven armed transport ships to attack from the side, and then attracted some of the enemy's warships to run to the coast of Africa, and ordered eight armed transport ships to attack from the other side to attract the enemy. Some warships went to the deep sea of ​​the Atlantic Ocean, and the two teams quickly attacked and each attracted seven or eight enemy steam engine auxiliary warships. The enemy's force was reduced from more than 80 ships to more than 60 ships.

Then Zhang Yuan ordered the destroyer fleet to attack again and attracted some of the enemy's warships to run behind him. The enemy commander was obviously very proud. He was probably transferred from the British mainland. Although he had heard of their reputation, he didn't know their cunning. , sent more than 20 warships to pursue, including ten main battleships and a dozen auxiliary warships, chasing a dozen destroyers.

The remaining enemy battleships are not many, although most of them are main battleships, more than 40 ships, but they don't know and don't look at them, there are eighteen frigates here, eighteen main battleships, and Zhang Siyuan and the others over there There are eighteen main battleships in China, and they are already redundant in terms of strength.

Previously, the frigate hid behind the main battleship so that the enemy did not find it. Seeing that the enemy's troops were sparse, Zhang Yuan ordered the frigate to move to the flanks to tear open the enemy's opening, and then he led the remaining main battleships to rush to meet Zhang Siyuan and the others.

Zhang Siyuan and the others had already exchanged fire with a dozen of the enemy's main warships, and seven or eight enemy auxiliary warships circled around to attract their firepower. Use more than [-] main battleships to fight here, and use more than a dozen main battleships and a few auxiliary battleships to deal with the remaining main fleet of Zhang Yuan and his support.

The surrounding enemy was fighting with the destroyer fleet, two transport ships and armed merchant ships, and the frigate force also attracted more than a dozen of the enemy's [-] ships, so the huge enemy force was torn apart, resulting in partial damage. Especially on the main force here, in terms of the number of enemies and the combat effectiveness, the enemy is much smaller. There are less than forty British main warships, which are like confronting the main warships of the New China Kingdom. The confrontation with the main battleship is okay, but it is courting death to confront the main battleship of the New China Kingdom.

Accuracy, defensive power, and speed are not superior to them, so it is a tragedy. Within 10 minutes of the battle, even if the fifty warships of the enemy behind them are approaching two nautical miles, Zhang Siyuan and the others still attack the enemy blocking the way in a leisurely manner. battleship.

In 1 minutes, the enemy lost three battleships. Eighteen main battleships, a total of nine groups of firepower units, fired together, causing three British main battleships to be sunk, three ships severely damaged, and one auxiliary battleship slightly injured. Only one battleship here was slightly injured.

Six warships were blown up in a row. The major general led by the British was stunned. Before he could react, several main battleships and other auxiliary warships attracted by the escort fleet behind him were also blown up. Although they were all auxiliary warships, But the enemy lost eleven warships in less than 5 minutes, six were sunk, five were severely damaged, and lost their combat effectiveness.

The eighteen main battleships led by Zhang Yuan showed their power again. They faced each other one by one. In less than 15 minutes, several main battleships of the enemy who fought with them were slandered, and several auxiliary warships were injured. They all sank, and then there was no barrier between them and Zhang Siyuan. As soon as the main forces of the two sides joined together, they immediately displayed different combat effectiveness.

At this time, more than 50 warships chased by the enemy also participated in the attack, but after the 36 main battleships here joined together, the enemy's warships were destroyed or injured every minute. In less than half an hour, more than 1 main warships of the enemy There are only more than 60 ships left, and the other dozen main battleships were injured and unable to move, half of which were explained, and the frigates were upgraded from the main battleships of the former New Qin Kingdom, and their strength was equivalent to that of the main battleships. The enemy's more than 20 auxiliary ships hit by the frigate also caught fire and sank like the main battleship.

The British suddenly realized at this time that they were fighting the main fleet of the New China Kingdom, but they had no possibility of retreating. In an hour and a half, there were more than 130 British interceptor fleets. At this time, [-] main battleships Captured, [-] auxiliary battleships were captured, and the other battleships that were scattered all escaped.

"Clean the battlefield," Zhang Siyuan ordered the destroyer fleet and the frigate fleet to clean the battlefield before the battle was over. The main fleet began to repair the battleship while covering the surrounding area.

This battle was fought too easily, and an enemy's ambush unintentionally turned into a cannibalization battle for them to lure snakes out of their holes.

This time it was the artillery of the main battleship that made the contribution. At close range, it was not only accurate, but also ruthless. Is it powerful? One cannon and one cannon are a bit exaggerated, but three cannons and one cannon are appropriate.

The British warships, old and new, could not withstand the bombardment of their main battleships, and even if two ships were bombarded together, no British warship could withstand the bombardment.

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