Lord of Ming Dynasty

Now that the enemy is strong, Zhang Siyuan can't stand up to it. It's courting death. Even if the enemy's warships are not as good as theirs, there are so many of them, and the artillery can hit their warships. One shot may not cause damage, but ten shots, the battleship Ten guns are enough to wash the deck and kill all the personnel on all battleships. It's still a fart to fight like that.

When the transport fleet and the destroyer fleet turned to leave, they stopped at [-] nautical miles away to maneuver and confront the enemy. The British were also fooled by them over the years, and they dared not go up for a while. The British won the new Qin State The warship manufacturing process and steel technology, the two sides have narrowed the distance, the British also seized the telegraph from the New Qin State, plus the technology sold by the New Qin State, obtained the steam engine and railway technology from the Chinese Empire, it can be said that in In front of the powerful British, the Han people in the East began to fall behind again.

In short, the British did not play well this time.

The British and the main fleet led by Zhang Siyuan's New China Kingdom confronted each other for half an hour. The British might feel that something was wrong and began to attack tentatively. Eighty destroyers were dispatched to double flank, and the side began to retreat slowly. They had to hold out for half an hour. Hours, let the transport fleet retreat further.

Chapter 1729 The battle has to be fought at sea

At the same time, Zhang Siyuan sent a telegram to Yan Chao asking him to lead the main North American fleet to join the battle. There are still fifty main battleships, sixty frigates, and eighty destroyers. frigates, forty destroyers, and the remaining battleships can protect the coastline, at most a little loss, but they have to fight this battle.

After such a toss, it has been two days. Yan Chao's main fleet is divided into two, one part Yan Chao personally leads to support the landing fleet led by Rear Admiral Baozi, and the other part is led by his deputy flagship captain to support theirs. The main fleet of the New China Kingdom, the two sides separated about [-] nautical miles from the most important coastline of Xindingzhou.

The main fleet is still a day and a half away from Zhang Siyuan and the others, but both sides have telegrams to contact and join forces in the middle. The other supporting fleet has to be careful of the enemy's fleet returning suddenly or part of it to intercept, so it has to drive cautiously, and On the basis of the detour, speed up to the coastline of Xindingzhou.

Xindingzhou was already in jeopardy under the siege of the British, and their fleet was controlled by Xiao Nan. Although Xiao Nan resisted the British at first, his attitude became ambiguous. , or directly help the British, Jinlin needs the support of the fleet, and also the support of the Army of the New Kingdom of China.

Stabilizing the situation on the shore is the top priority. The Han Chinese brigade and mercenary brigade they control are in panic. If there is no reinforcements, the remaining mercenary brigade may also turn against them. Here is also thinking about getting rid of the exploitation and oppression of the British, or they cannot live in the West, or they are captured and have to be mercenaries of the new Qin and New China Kingdoms. Heart pressure, no matter how they say they are also Westerners, British and Spaniards, if they can enter the upper echelons of Spanish and British society through betrayal, it is not a way, not to mention that although the new Qin Kingdom and the New Huaxia Kingdom do it secretly , Great righteousness, the consumption of mercenaries and foreign civilians has been known to foreigners for so many years.

Under such circumstances, the big tree will fall, and they must be the first to jump out and rebel.

So now Xindingzhou has reached the most critical juncture. Baozi led the team to spend a day and a night to bypass the huge enemy fleet and come down from the coastline of Xindingzhou to attack the Picotown port in Xindingzhou. This is a saying The small port also avoided the main port and some military ports in Xindingzhou. It defeated the enemy's patrol fleet at night and bombarded the port fortress in the early morning. The Han Chinese Cavalry Regiment and Han Chinese Artillery Regiment were unloaded on the small pier. One brigade of Han Chinese was unloaded at [-]:[-] pm, and then attacked the port from behind. At [-]:[-] pm, the port attack was successful, and all the fleet unloaded their troops at the port.

At [-]:[-] p.m., all thirty destroyers of the destroyer fleet were dispatched to prevent reinforcements from warships near the enemy's ports. The marine brigades carried on the destroyers were unloaded in the second batch. Since there is going to be a war, the marine brigades cannot be allowed to stay on board. Otherwise, in naval battles, these useless marine forces would have died in vain. Only [-] marines were left on each battleship to suppress the mercenaries, sailors, officers, and most of the operators. They were also replaced by mercenaries, and the Han people went ashore to operate the several steam engine warships seized in the port, the coast guard, and the warships of the New Qin State to protect the remaining armed transport ships to unload troops.

The Han Chinese brigade who attacked the port stayed behind to defend the port, while the marine brigade, with the cooperation of the artillery regiment, expanded to the surrounding area and occupied the capital and largest city of this inland area, Sherbrooke City. It is guaranteed that the New China Kingdom will have a bridgehead when it lands in the future. It can be attacked and defended. It can also reorganize the Han troops here and suppress the mercenary troops here.

In one day, two mercenary brigades were unloaded, one Han Chinese land brigade and two Han Chinese brigades. After the troops came down, the two Han Chinese brigades added a mercenary brigade to occupy the port on the other side of the [-]-kilometer inland river estuary, and one Han Chinese land brigade The war brigade and a mercenary brigade went to occupy Sherbrooke City, and the Han Chinese brigade who landed earlier left two regiments to help guard the port, rest and unload supplies.

Unloading troops here is also a last resort. The main military port of the new Qin State is the port of Halifax, and there are other more important ports. However, the British on Nova Scotia occupied several small Ports, the navy of the New Qin State occupies an important port, and their warships still cannot touch the fleet of the New Qin State, nor can they touch the British fleet, although the British coast guards are all left behind. The battleships of the team, but that is also a large number, the current purpose is to send reinforcements to the island to help Jinlin suppress the mercenary rebellion, to help Jinlin stabilize the Han people, and at the same time resist the British land attack.

In the evening, the [-] frigates and ten main warships also arrived. At this moment, they are facing the siege of the steam engine warships and first-generation warships in several ports near the enemy British, and some new Qin Coast Guards have taken refuge. The British were sieged by coastguards driven by mercenary rebel sailors.

There were as many as two hundred ships, and the battle continued until the next morning. Thirty destroyers lost seventeen ships, eleven frigates lost one, and one main battleship sank. Seven ships were sunk, but they still covered the rest of the army and the surplus sailors and marines on the battleships went ashore. The troops that went ashore one after another included the remaining two mercenary brigades, a Han brigade, a marine brigade, and the navy Sailors, officers, and gunners have a force of about 1 people. This is because many redundant sailors and other crew members, officers, and injured personnel in naval battles on the transport ship were sent ashore. That is, the loss of ships after sinking warships in naval battles Most of the sailors left seeds for the fleet.

The naval personnel who went ashore were armed and took over the defense of the two ports that had been captured. The combatants who were transferred formed a group army to advance inland, bypassing an inland river, and advancing to a nearby large port to reinforce the previous two Han Chinese brigades. And a mercenary brigade, yesterday they had defeated the enemy's resistance near the port, incorporated part of the soldiers of the Han brigade of the new Qin State, and some Han people's militia, and continued to advance towards the port and surrounded the port. The steamed buns couldn't resist the enemy's large number of warships at sea, and maybe the fleet is also going to capture that port now.

After unloading the army, the naval battle became pure. By noon the next day, they faced even more difficulties, because Yan Chao and the others encountered reinforcements sent by the British North American Southern Fleet. When they meet up, they need to support until dark before Yan Chao and the others can lead the reinforcement army and naval fleet to arrive, and the enemy also knows that they have been tricked into diverting the tiger away from the mountain, so they dispatched some destroyers and frigates, as well as from the port where the new Qin State surrendered. Fleet support.

The first thousand and 730 chapters of the defeat

Through telegrams, Zhang Siyuan learned about Baozi and Yan Chao’s battle situation, and at the same time learned about Jin Lin’s predicament. Not to mention the navy, most of them betrayed the new Qin State, or a small part of them betrayed the new Qin State and invested in it. However, most of those who wanted to follow Jin Lin, the governor of the army, to the new Qin State had not many navies, or their combat effectiveness was not strong.

The main fleet has only [-] main battleships, [-] frigates, and more destroyers of the Coast Guard and some army personnel of the Marine Corps. South they have mastered, they can only wander around in the bay between the land and the island of Nova Scotia, the whole Xindingzhou was cut in half by the British, Nova Scotia and Breton Island, the enemy from North America When the mainland came up, the two islands were cut into two from the middle. Jinlin and the others were inside the inner bend of Nova Scotia Island, and most of the Atlantic ports on the outer circle were controlled by Xiao Nan and the others. Bian Breton Island is dominated by their navy, and is now being besieged by the New Qin fleet led by Xiao Nan.

Jinlin and the others control the shipyards and repair yards in the inward bend, while Xiao Nan and the others control the ports and military ports in the outer bend, as well as the shipyards, but generally speaking, they are not as good as the inward bend shipyards and have as many warships. They fought, and at the same time, they had to stop the army units that the British had cut across from the land, and they had to fight against the rebellious places and mercenary troops inside the island. It can be said that they were cut up in a mess. come less and less.

Facing the suzerain state of the new Qin State, with the name of righteousness, and the siege of the aggressive British army that dominates North America, it is really difficult for Jin Lin to carry it alone. Swee Tianlei has also been kicked into retirement recently to overdo it. , the new Qin State is in decline, but those courtiers have no less power and benefits, domineering, tossing this weak Han kingdom, tossing the Han kingdom that they rely on blood-sucking for a living, this is the Han sad.

After sending the telegram, Zhang Siyuan knew that the support fleet was about to arrive. Zhang Siyuan ordered to move closer to the support fleet. The main fleet consisted of [-] main battleships, [-] frigates, and [-] destroyers began to turn around and speed up to escape.

At night, they left suddenly. When the British pursued fiercely, the formation spread out. Zhang Siyuan and the others took the opportunity to sneak attack. After losing ten destroyers, they wiped out [-] enemy destroyers. After two frigates, they accelerated their escape again. In the past few days, they have not lost a single battleship, and they have already bitten a lot on the British, about [-] destroyers, [-] frigates, and also damaged three of the enemy's main battleships, and experienced the enemy's attack. The power of the new warships is known to be invincible.

In the dark night, Zhang Siyuan looked at the chaotic formation of the British warships following behind. Maybe the British used telegram coordination methods not very good, so it was a bit chaotic. They have been training and fighting for so many years, supported by veterans. The shape is not chaotic, and it is very handy to command.

Looking at the enemy fleet, Zhang Siyuan had a whim, and quickly called the first officer to convey the order. The main fleet dragged behind, while the destroyers and escort fleet continued to move forward. The fifty warships of the main fleet spread out to both sides, under the cover of darkness , Blackout, ready to attack the enemy's main fleet, other warships continued to lead the enemy's brigade in circles in the deep sea.

Two hours later, the main fleet had ambushed 100 nautical miles on both sides. The escort fleet and the destroyer fleet expanded their formation, giving the enemy a sign that the main force of the New China Kingdom was still fleeing. At dawn, the enemy's main fleet was about [-] A number of main battleships approached, [-] of which had already chased ahead, [-] main battleships were still dragging behind, and the forty main battleships in the middle followed suit. Zhang Siyuan sent a telegram to let the two main battleships Rendezvous with thirty main battleships attacking the final enemy.

Facing the suzerain state of the new Qin State, with the name of righteousness, and the siege of the aggressive British army that dominates North America, it is really difficult for Jin Lin to carry it alone. Swee Tianlei has also been kicked into retirement recently to overdo it. , the new Qin State is in decline, but those courtiers have no less power and benefits, domineering, tossing this weak Han kingdom, tossing the Han kingdom that they rely on blood-sucking for a living, this is the Han sad.

After sending the telegram, Zhang Siyuan knew that the support fleet was about to arrive. Zhang Siyuan ordered to move closer to the support fleet. The main fleet consisted of [-] main battleships, [-] frigates, and [-] destroyers began to turn around and speed up to escape.

At night, they left suddenly. When the British pursued fiercely, the formation spread out. Zhang Siyuan and the others took the opportunity to sneak attack. After losing ten destroyers, they wiped out [-] enemy destroyers. After two frigates, they accelerated their escape again. In the past few days, they have not lost a single battleship, and they have already bitten a lot on the British, about [-] destroyers, [-] frigates, and also damaged three of the enemy's main battleships, and experienced the enemy's attack. The power of the new warships is known to be invincible.

In the dark night, Zhang Siyuan looked at the chaotic formation of the British warships following behind. Maybe the British used telegram coordination methods not very good, so it was a bit chaotic. They have been training and fighting for so many years, supported by veterans. The shape is not chaotic, and it is very handy to command.

Looking at the enemy fleet, Zhang Siyuan had a whim, and quickly called the first officer to convey the order. The main fleet dragged behind, while the destroyers and escort fleet continued to move forward. The fifty warships of the main fleet spread out to both sides, under the cover of darkness , Blackout, ready to attack the enemy's main fleet, other warships continued to lead the enemy's brigade in circles in the deep sea.

Two hours later, the main fleet had ambushed 100 nautical miles on both sides. The escort fleet and the destroyer fleet expanded their formation, giving the enemy a sign that the main force of the New China Kingdom was still fleeing. At dawn, the enemy's main fleet was about [-] A number of main battleships approached, [-] of which had already chased ahead, [-] main battleships were still dragging behind, and the forty main battleships in the middle followed suit. Zhang Siyuan sent a telegram to let the two main battleships Rendezvous with thirty main battleships attacking the final enemy.

Facing the suzerain state of the new Qin State, with the name of righteousness, and the siege of the aggressive British army that dominates North America, it is really difficult for Jin Lin to carry it alone. Swee Tianlei has also been kicked into retirement recently to overdo it. , the new Qin State is in decline, but those courtiers have no less power and benefits, domineering, tossing this weak Han kingdom, tossing the Han kingdom that they rely on blood-sucking for a living, this is the Han sad.

After sending the telegram, Zhang Siyuan knew that the support fleet was about to arrive. Zhang Siyuan ordered to move closer to the support fleet. The main fleet consisted of [-] main battleships, [-] frigates, and [-] destroyers began to turn around and speed up to escape.

The first thousand and 730 chapters of the hearty ambush

Most of the enemy's warships following behind were brightly lit. The main fleet of the New China Kingdom who was ambushing gave directions. Zhang Siyuan contacted the 25 main battleships on the opposite side by telegram. The two sides continued to advance, maintaining an even speed, quietly advancing to the enemy's The flanks of the battleship accelerated faster than the enemy's front, and slowly closed the encirclement, forming an inverted figure-of-eight battle ambush battle line formation. The whole process was blackouted, and the speed began to slow down.

Five nautical miles away, the enemy didn't know they were surrounded, and they were still advancing at fifteen or sixteen knots. After three nautical miles, the enemy encountered a hidden reef and slowed down to twelve knots. At this time, the surrounding warships suddenly accelerated and approached the enemy. Go to two nautical miles, then reduce the speed and turn around. The two sides are moving, so there is no need to make such a big circle on purpose. Five to sixty meters is enough for the warship to circle slowly.

After the turn, the speed began to decrease again, just like the enemy, maintaining a slightly faster speed of [-] to [-] knots. When the enemy was about to meet and approached the enemy at [-] nautical miles, the enemy realized that the warships on both sides were not his own. The hand signaled, but no one responded. At this time, the watchman rang the bell and sounded the battle alarm. At this time, there were only bursting roars in the darkness on both sides.

A battleship has more than 40 guns on one side, and 25 battleships have about [-] guns on one side, and [-] to [-] guns on both sides. The main guns and auxiliary guns fire together. , even some [-]mm rapid-fire guns on battleships used to defend against enemy boarding can fire shells at this distance to hit the enemy.

What's more, the secondary guns of the main battleships of the New China Kingdom are all 120mm artillery, which is the main caliber artillery of the current battleships of the New Qin Kingdom. Among these cannons, two cannons on each battleship fired flares for night battles.

The flares made the British fleet fully visible. The first round of more than 1000 artillery pieces, nearly 2000 shells fell into the slender formation where the British were carefully passing through the reef area. The British fleet, which was attacked from both sides, panicked and dodged Dozens of warships with artillery shells either collided, ran aground in the reef area, or were hit and caught fire, and immediately illuminated the area about three nautical miles brightly.

Where they were brightly lit, the main fleet hiding in the dark crossed their bodies, slowly advancing with the sea water, and the speed dropped to only three or four knots. In this way, it would take about one hour to pass the British fleet here. In an hour, two more rounds of firepower could be fired. After being attacked for 2 minutes, the British people reacted and opened fire one after another. At this time, the fifty main battleships on both sides had already fired three rounds of shells.

Seventeen or eighteen of the enemy's warships have been shot and burned, and the other warships that have not been shot have also been washed by the water column splashed by the nearly missed bomb. Many people fell into the water on the deck. On such a night and under such circumstances, the number of people who fell into the water is very high. It is very dangerous, although the waves on the sea are not very big, but the warships fell in the dark, while the warships here are still moving forward, the warships on both sides fell into the water well, and they can quickly swim to the sea on both sides, avoiding the back The crew of the battleship in the middle who fell into the water could only be sucked into the bottom of the sea by their own battleship, escaped from their own battleship, and the battleship behind them rushed over by surprise, most of them were crushed to the bottom of the sea by the battleship of their own British fleet , the chances of survival are very low.

Those who escaped by luck were also set off again by the continuous artillery fire of the New China Kingdom, and died at high altitude, and their bodies fell into the sea. Like the fish that were killed by the bombing, they became food for other fish.

The battle was very fierce. When the side was rectified and ready to counterattack, the fleet of the New China Kingdom had crossed the top of their advance in the middle, bombarded in dislocation, and kept the speed at five or six knots, stopping them at the head. The battleship was seriously injured by the bombing. As long as the stranded warship dared to fight back, they would fire and suppress them, making them living targets.

Fighting for half an hour, seven or eight of the 55 British warships were stranded, fifteen were seriously injured, and two sank. The remaining warships wanted to break out, but were also reversed by the two separate main fleets of the New China Kingdom. The battle line was suppressed in that area again, unable to move.

In the end, only two warships broke through the encirclement and escaped from the side. Of the other warships, [-] were seriously injured, [-] sunk, and three turned around and fled to the rear. Five warships were sent to catch up. Zhang Siyuan and the others took half an hour to finish off the enemy. The delayed fleet spent another half an hour cleaning the battlefield and accepting captures. By the time the forty main warships in front of the British returned after receiving a telegram from the fleeing warship, it was already two hours after the battle started.

At this time, the main fleet of the New China Kingdom had fled the battlefield with the captured thirty seriously wounded enemy warships. Ten of the captured enemy's main battleships turned to the already controlled Xindingzhou port, and Zhang Siyuan led the remaining forty main battleships to join the escort fleet and destroyer fleet.

At dawn, the sky lightened slightly, and there were still stars hanging in the distant sky. When the sky was still gray and blue, Zhang Siyuan and the others led the main fleet to join the escort fleet, and defeated the New China Kingdom entangled in front of the enemy with all their strength. After forty destroyers in the destroyer squadron of ten, they joined the remaining destroyers thirty nautical miles ahead of the enemy.

After resting for an hour, the main battleships of the enemy's [-] main fleet came back aggressively under the cover of [-] destroyers and [-] frigates. The enemy delayed for nearly three hours.

In order to entangle the enemy, eleven destroyers and one frigate were lost here. There are only 32 frigates left, and only eighteen destroyers. The enemy also sank 56 destroyers during the pursuit and was seriously injured. 34 ships, plus the fifteen enemy destroyers, ten frigates, and thirty main battleships destroyed by Zhang Siyuan last night, plus the more than 50 enemy destroyers, more than 30 frigates, and a dozen main battleships that were eliminated a few days ago Now, the enemy may still have seventy or eighty destroyers, and only forty or fifty frigates. The main battleships were originally few, with more than 100 ships, but now there are only more than 70 ships seen in front of them.

Moreover, there are still many wounded warships in the enemy team. Those warships that have not arrived are probably either looking for their traces or escorting the wounded warships back to the port. All that remains are the battleships seen in front of us.

The first thousand and 730 chapters defeated the enemy's Northern Fleet

After the fleet rendezvous, the total force is only a little over a hundred, but the enemy has two hundred warships. Zhang Siyuan decided not to fight hard with the enemy, and fought while walking, but the enemy would not give him a chance. He just turned around and charged from another place. Thirty destroyers blocked their way firmly,

Then the enemy's escort fleet detoured to the other side, and the circle was not small, but it was not something they could break through casually, and then the enemy's main battleship also surrounded them. This time they could not run away, so they could only fight hard. It also seems to have won the dividends of wireless telegraphy.

Knowing that the fleet was mobilized by radio telegraphy, the scattered fleet was mobilized within a few hours on the escape route ahead of them.