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The 52 warships of the frigate fleet are patrolling around the Mediterranean Sea and the Strait of Gibraltar in the Atlantic Ocean. While collecting tolls, they are monitoring the fleets of Spain and Portugal. There are only more than 30 warships in Portugal, and there are some backward warships. The Spanish fleet hid In the northern port, there are about [-] or [-] remnants and defeated generals collected, and [-] main warships. The British will not replenish them, and they have lost their coastal defense.

During this period of time, with the equipment and machinery of the shipyard from the new Dingyangzhou of the new Qin State, the port of Malaga in Spain, the port of Tangier in the New China Kingdom, the port of Huceima, the port of Ceuta, and the port of Bensu were established. Seven shipyards, eleven repair plants, and an iron ore crushing plant, an iron ore primary refinery, an iron ore refinery, two steel mills, a naval gun factory, a field gun factory, and a Weapons factory, and at the same time carry out infrastructure upgrades in various parts of Morocco.

It cost a lot, and built 76 field warehouses, 27 naval warehouses, 33 granaries, and [-] transit warehouses for storage and transportation of goods and materials. The common people cultivated the land, went to schools, barracks, received education and recruit training.

The entire New China Kingdom is like a collection of towns and barracks. Because the site is not large, it is at most the size of two prefecture-level cities in China. Therefore, it is very fast and easy to transform. More than 50 British and Spaniards , plus the captives of foreign mercenaries from other countries, in just one year, while fighting and seizing the enemy's land, the defense project was completed and the military industry was built. At the same time, the people They also cultivated nearly 100 million mu of land and recruited 32 troops, almost everyone was a soldier.

"I will take 56 warships of the auxiliary fleet and [-] armed transport ships of the coast guard out. Lieutenant Colonel Baozi will follow me. Zhang Yuan, Yang Chao, Wei Yuanchao, Luo Zuo, you all guard your home. I guess the British will not be able to do it in the near future. They are here to attack you, but be careful of the Wunan Fleet in the Azov Islands, even though they have been transferred back to the central mainland, they are still white-eyed wolves, beware of them biting you."

After explaining to a few people, Zhang Siyuan set off with the main fleet and the transport and supply fleet.

A total of three mercenary brigades, two Han Chinese brigades, and one marine brigade, followed by 6000 army troops. Two regiments of the marine brigade were on the main fleet, and one regiment was on the transport fleet. In addition to transporting five The Army Brigade, a land brigade, also transports all the shells and artillery, supplies, horses, provisions, armaments, etc.

It took 21 days to cross the Atlantic Ocean, and it took a week to reach the coast of North America. During this period, it experienced three small-scale battles, sank three British warships, fifteen merchant ships, and captured three merchant ships.

After nearly a month of sailing and fighting, they approached the Strait of Florida. Then Zhang Siyuan dispatched twenty main warships to spread out, two ships in groups to expand the security circle, and it took three days to approach the British colony of Florida. .

At this time in Florida, the North American militia was fighting with the British. The two sides were engaged in a silent battle. The battle between the British colonial army and the British immigrants in North America and other immigrants was going on underground. One of the two sides was the regular army and the other It is a guerrilla army fighting against the British colonization. Among the thirteen states in North America, this is the most inactive state with almost no fighting, and it is also the state with the smallest population.

Most of the British colonial army is suppressing the rebellion or stationing in the above states. The two sides are playing a spy game, and at the same time they have to compete with the French for territory. The French and the Spaniards are competing for territory on the other side of North America. In other words, the French were fighting against the Spaniards. Because the Spaniards were restrained by the New Qin Kingdom and the New China Kingdom, the navy was not bad, but the army and the colonial army were not good at all.

After the defeat in the naval battle with the Kingdom of New China, the Spanish navy and army that competed for the Caribbean Sea were transferred back to the mainland, especially the army, and a lot of troops were transferred back, even armed with Mexicans, other Central Americans, and a lot of people from all over Africa. The colonial people formed an army to defend the homeland against the New China Kingdom. The Spanish domestic army has expanded to 15 people, and the colonial army has 35 people, and they are constantly getting more colonial troops from the colonies to return to the homeland to defend the homeland.

The British fought against the Spaniards in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. The Spaniards here have their most powerful fleet, which is about the size of the British super fleet, but they have easily stopped attacking without them. The Dutch and French breathed a sigh of relief, and they could fully deal with the two super fleets of the British, one colonial fleet, and four fleets including the North American colonial super fleet.

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Chapter 690 Seven Sneak Attacks on Miami

On the dark coastline, shadows of boats slowly drove towards the coastline. When the big ship could no longer go up two nautical miles away, the small boat was put down. A brigade of mercenaries and a battalion of Han Chinese cavalry It took three hours to unload to the shore with a small boat, and then quickly deployed, heading towards Miami, retracted the small boat, and the fleet also headed for the port two hours later.

The transport fleet stopped when it was fifty nautical miles away from the port, leaving six main battleships to protect them. The fifty main battleships lined up and moved slowly from bottom to top. At dawn, Miami Port appeared within the observation distance of the battleship.

The port has already found them, the red flag flying high and the golden dragon, telling the port who they are, as a British colonial port, it must be flustered, because even the new state of Qin with the blue golden dragon did not say that it is so close to the same When they come into contact, the fleet of the New Qin Kingdom usually goes around, at least [-] to [-] nautical miles away from the port, and the coastline can't see the sea sailing back and forth between Xindingyangzhou and Xindingzhou, or returning to the mainland. The new Qin State newly established the Yangzhou Fleet.

Immediately, the alarm bell at the port rang, and the whole port was in chaos. There were many merchant ships in the port. The fastest rushing was the sailing ship, followed by some small boats, tugboats, and then some warships that had not been turned off, followed by some burning ships. The vigilant warships, as for the crews of other warships, returned from the dock one after another, crowded the berth exit with those steam merchant ships, and drove out one after another.

The fact that the New Qin Kingdom and the New Huaxia Kingdom are good at attacking ports is obvious to all the British. Now all the warships are fleeing, and all the merchant ships are fleeing one after another, not wanting to be harmed by the fish in the pond. After the explosion in the open sea, Zhang Siyuan's fifty main warships lined up in a long queue. First, the main guns in front fired, bombarded the port, and then bombarded the fort, as they got closer and closer to the port.

The artillery shells changed from a chaotic state to a dense and accurate state. From seven or eight nautical miles away, they began to bombard port forts, docks, and port waterways ten nautical miles away. The panic is great, and the losses caused by the panic of the enemy are also great. People running around gather together, and a shell fired indiscriminately can take away 40 people, and there are still many goods and stalls on the pier. , shops, causing a fire.

Hundreds of shells turned the port into a hell, thick smoke and fire filled the air. Ships in the port collided with each other and sank a lot, but a large number of flexible boats and merchant ships escaped.

The escaped merchant ships and those small boats and the main warships had no time to deal with them. An hour later, under the firepower of the enemy's shore artillery, the fleet came to two nautical miles in front of the enemy's port, and bombarded each other with the enemy's shore artillery across the breakwater of the port. The coastal artillery fort is very powerful, but that's it. After all, it is not a big port, just a colonial port.

There are not many warships inside, but there are only 2000 ships, all of which are auxiliary warships of some colonial fleets. A dozen ships were quickly sunk, and a dozen ships were captured. There are still eight ships that are too damaged to be used. Simple repairs, use the captured enemy sailors, transfer a small team of troops from the Marine Corps to guard, and transfer a few Han officers and mercenary soldiers from the transport ship, and soon these warships will be owned by them. The transport fleet protects the transport fleet. After all, even if the transport fleet is modified and equipped with cannons, its speed is not fast, at most [-] knots, and its defense power is not flattering. It can carry more than [-] people.

The battle ended in two hours, and more than 30 enemy merchant ships were captured, but merchant ships from other countries were let go, leaving only a dozen merchant ships from the New Qin Kingdom, British and Spanish merchant ships.

After landing in Miami, the army was late and did not catch up with the internal and external battles. The marines of a landing regiment took control of the port, and the landing cavalry regiment and mercenary brigade continued to attack the other side of the entire island. Control the entire Florida, and then another mercenary brigade continued to land, marched in one after another, followed behind to receive the fruits of the battle, garrisoned the place, and at the same time wiped out the escaped British colonists.

Within three days, most of the island was occupied, and the warship blocked the strait, another strait, and the British wanted to enter the Gulf of Mexico, unless they detoured to the Spanish colonial strait in Port-au-Prince and detoured to the Cuban mainland, and they were still entering Mexico through Cuba bay.

This move blocked the British colonial fleet in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as the British colonial super fleet.

Because of the limited strength, the three mercenary brigades stopped after attacking 150 miles beyond the port, and then occupied the British colonial channel port in the Gulf of Mexico.

The British could be stuck on both sides, so the British quickly counterattacked. Sixty auxiliary warships from the colonial fleet attacked the ports in the Gulf of Mexico a week later, blowing everything up, but there was no How many people, there was only one battalion of defenders, and more were British colonial immigrants, and their immigrants were lost. More than 2000 people were killed that night, and the others fled, leaving an empty port.

Half a month later, the British fleet in the Gulf of Mexico turned around the strait and came to the sea off Miami. Zhang Siyuan and the others were preparing to meet the enemy's first attack. The British gathered 120 auxiliary warships, two colonial fleets, and a super fleet , about seventy main warships, headed straight for the port of Miami.

At the Port of Miami, Zhang Siyuan has long been ready for battle. Lieutenant Colonel Baozi led the capture of 56 steam engine battleships and more than a dozen enemy auxiliary battleships. The main battleships are the first generation of British ironclad ships guarding the port and protecting the transport fleet. Their 56 main ships Warships are fighting the enemy on the sea, and he has confidence in the [-] main battleships in his hands.

The Dutch over there also sent a main fleet to observe this side across the open sea. Although they knew that it was the New China Kingdom, they had no contact with the New China Kingdom. Although the New China Kingdom did not stop their caravans, But they still don't care too much about this group of people. A new Qin State is enough. They are also white people in Western Europe. They don't like the Han people. It's just that everyone has to work together to deal with the British, so they are just hidden allies. , but it is not necessary to come up to help.

The British also sent out an auxiliary fleet of [-] ships to guard against them, [-] main battleships, and [-] auxiliary battleships to face Zhang Siyuan and the others.

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Seeing that there were too many enemy troops, Zhang Siyuan ordered the fleet to form a wedge formation, with his flagship acting as a sharp corner, and the two main battleships on both sides serving as guards at a distance of 50 meters, and then two warships extending out every 50 meters, one by one, Just like the side of a triangle, there is a battleship 25 meters away in the middle, and the two battleships are also 50 meters apart, layered on top of each other. There is a space of about a few hundred meters at the end of the middle, which is conducive to the last dense battleship. Activities, the entire fleet stretches for one nautical mile, and the formation is dense and compact, quickly heading towards the enemy.

Lieutenant General Allen, commander of the British Caribbean Fleet, sneered, and his beard trembled a few times, "Only those who have never fought in naval battles play such a dense formation, and die quickly! The battle line is the perfect naval battle formation." "After speaking, he ordered the seventy main battleships to be divided into two rows, with 38 main battleships on one side, separated by one nautical mile from the enemy, and went around from both sides to attack the enemy's flank, and then let twenty of the sixty battleships in the auxiliary fleet The more advanced warships charged face to face, and the remaining auxiliary warships acted in their respective formations.

The warships on both sides were already under heavy fire with a nautical mile apart. Fifty warships fought against 140 warships, cutting through the enemy's formation like a broken blade. Good defense prevented the enemy from quickly opening up the formation of the fleet. The extremely powerful artillery, coupled with the turret artillery, made the British unable to start as if they had encountered a hedgehog. Instead, the artillery shells fired from the warships of the New China Kingdom in the formation kept hitting the main battleships of the British. , Blowing up so many big holes one by one for their main battleships.

Seven of the main battleships of the British were sunk very quickly, eleven of them were severely damaged, and they had to stagger out of the queue. After they left, the main battleships and auxiliary warships immediately made up their positions. The battle line still did not break. After three nautical miles, the British's battle lines crossed and changed positions. The auxiliary fleet behind them was pierced by Zhang Siyuan's formation. The 152mm artillery can only engage with the secondary artillery 120mm artillery. In one round, except for the dodged warships, all the warships in the front were sunk or destroyed and knocked away. Seventeen ships were lost, and other auxiliary warships were scattered. Fleeing in panic, three ships were also sunk.

They are like a group of frightened flies. This is everyone's evaluation of the British auxiliary fleet.

Although the casualties were reduced after the auxiliary fleet dispersed, their firepower did not do much damage to the main fleet of the New China Kingdom. After breaking through the enemy's formation, the main fleet of the New China Kingdom crossed the sea for a mile The long big circle turned around again and aimed at the two battle lines of the British main fleet that had just crossed positions, and gave up their position at the top of the ladder to the British. The British did not go to seize the top of the ladder. Instead, they separated the two sides and continued to flank Zhang Siyuan and his fleet with two lines of battle, but they didn't know that the main battleships on both sides of Zhang Siyuan's fleet were also battle lines, but they were just diagonal lines, and they were misplaced inside. The battleship is equivalent to the second and third battle lines. The thickness of the battle line is more concentrated and fierce than their thin battle line and long battle line.

In the second charge, the British finally opened their mouths. After all, there are many battleships in the two battle lines. Even if the warships of the New China Kingdom have high defense capabilities, they are not invincible. Finally, a main battleship in the middle was hit by a dozen enemy shells, broke and sank. Because the distance was close enough, the battleship behind hit it directly, not only crushing the sailor who jumped into the sea, but also crushing the battleship in front. Entering the sea, accelerated the sinking speed, and also had an impact on itself.

The bow of the ship was seriously damaged, the hull and stern were severely damaged by the impact, and the speed was reduced. Fortunately, they turned the rudder quickly and left the queue. Otherwise, the battleship behind would ram up at high speed, and they would implicate the next battleship.

This time, one battleship sank at once, and the two battleships also suffered impact damage due to passing by the shoulder. An enemy shell also caused considerable damage to the battleship. Zhang Siyuan watched and ordered the warships to distance themselves. 80 meters, which reduces the firepower density here, but also greatly reduces the accuracy of the enemy's firepower. It also reduces the chance of survival under the enemy's firepower here, and at the same time allows the ships to move around.

The battleships on the outskirts were also uncomfortable. Several battleships slowed down and were hit by the enemy many times. Fortunately, the defense was high, and many holes were smashed into the hull. Many places were damaged and the mast was broken, but luckily none of them fell behind. of.

The battle is still going on. After breaking through the enemy's formation for the second time, after severely damaging [-] enemy warships and sinking eight of them, three of their ships were severely damaged and three were sunk. Some couldn't hold it anymore. After all, there were wounded and the battleships whose speed had dropped after being hit could not keep up with the queue, so Zhang Siyuan sent five warships to protect the seven slowed down warships and the three severely damaged warships. Eighteen warships were missing at once, and the battlefield was divided into two battlefields.

On one battlefield, more than 20 main battleships of the enemy led more than 20 auxiliary warships to besiege fifteen warships that were inconvenient to move. The next time, Zhang Siyuan ordered to change the formation and divided into two battle formations, corresponding to the enemy's fleet of 38 main warships, and 25 auxiliary warships against more than 20 enemy ships.

When the battle lasted for four hours, both sides were exhausted. The enemy dispatched forty auxiliary warships guarding the Dutch to help. , lost [-] battleships, half of them were seriously injured, half were sunk, and the other battleships were still besieging the remaining [-] battleships with scars. Eighteen of the enemy's main battleships were sunk, and the remaining eleven main battleships of the enemy began to flee. On the other side, eighteen of the sixty auxiliary warships of the enemy were sunk, and the other battleships retreated while fighting. Eleven warships surrendered, and their remaining twenty were later forced to surrender by the Dutch.

The Dutch also helped them, but there was no contact between the two sides, because Zhang Siyuan and the others came here to fight and occupy Miami, which violated the interests of the Dutch, which was too close to the Dutch colony of Grand Bahama Island.

The two sides did not speak or communicate, just watched each other fight silently, forced the British warship to surrender, and then cleaned the battlefield and left.

The battle lasted until dusk. The main fleet of the Kingdom of New China annihilated the colonial fleet in the Gulf of Mexico in the Caribbean Sea and sank 68 auxiliary warships at the cost of seriously wounding nine ships and sinking seven ships. , Captured 41 auxiliary battleships, 33 escaped, the enemy's main battleship sank 24, captured 20 ships, and the enemy escaped [-], but the warships they escaped, whether auxiliary or main, were captured by the Dutch. More than [-] ships , except for a few warships that fled back to the port, the others were annihilated or captured by the Dutch and the New China Kingdom.

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Three days later, Zhang Siyuan watched about sixty warships leave the port. They brought the wounded in this battle, as well as prisoners, and the wounded warships this time, nine seriously wounded, eight moderately wounded, two slightly wounded, and The enemy's 23 seriously injured main warships and [-] seriously injured auxiliary warships were captured, escorted by a destroyer squadron, and returned to the Moroccan native shipyard of the New China Kingdom for repairs.

At the same time, there are also twenty armed transport ships loaded with seized materials, gold and silver treasures looted from Florida, various commodities, timber, salt, coal, steel, copper, flax, etc. , was escorted back to Bensu port by a Han regiment, a marine regiment, and a mercenary regiment.

The ten main warships and eighteen auxiliary warships that were slightly injured by the enemy were captured, plus a dozen warships that had previously captured the enemy's port to form the auxiliary fleet, with a total of 41 warships.

The dozens of auxiliary warships captured by the enemy were organized into the Gulf Coast Guard and stationed in Tampa, a port occupied by the New China Kingdom in Florida, on the Gulf of Mexico, and then a dozen armed merchant ships were on the side of the two ports behind Undertake the transportation task, while responsible for port security, the port of Miami here has [-] auxiliary warships as coast guard warships, and armed transport ships are incorporated into it.

The enemy's ten main warships were organized into a frigate fleet, with Lieutenant Colonel Baozi as the commander. When necessary, Lieutenant Colonel Baozi could gather these 41 auxiliary warships and all the remaining eighteen armed transport ships to form an auxiliary fleet to coordinate with the remaining 24 capital ships defended the newly captured colonies.

At this time, Zhang Siyuan thought of something. No matter how advanced his warship is, no matter how invincible he is when facing the enemy's warships several times larger, he will still lose. It will be different if he has escort fleet and destroyer fleet. They can entangle most of the enemy. Forces, so that they can take advantage of the advanced, strong defense and speed of the main battleships to hit the enemy hard. This time the loss is a bit big. He still doesn’t like the battleships that captured the enemy. The improvement of these British warships is really It's rubbish and not useful at all.

It can only be used as a destroyer, and the main battleship can only barely act as a frigate.

After defeating the British Gulf of Mexico Fleet, the British calmed down a lot and stopped making trouble.