Lord of Ming Dynasty

Today, Yan Chao and Song Qing came to ask for leave and applied to be transferred to the north bank to preside over the work of the navy. He could only come to ask Song Qing for instructions. From the leader to the superior, they still have to respect, even if they are the founding ministers of the New China Kingdom, but where the status of the Song and Qing Dynasties is, the nominal superiors must also respect them.

What's more, Yan Chaoyong dared not disrespect, Song Qing is Zhang Siyuan, please come back.

"What else is going on?" Song Qing asked, he has been building the coast guard, the coast guard in Xindingzhou and Maine, and helping Baozi maintain the coastguard. The foundation of the Huaxia Kingdom.

Yan Chao said: "In addition, the French warship was hit and sunk by Spanish merchant ships in the Gulf of Mexico. The French were very angry about this. The newly formed fleet of the French in the Gulf of Mexico has already marched towards the Spanish Cuban colony. However, they encountered a British caravan and went to war with the escorting British fleet. The British Southern Fleet then supported them. The fleet arrived later, and the French fleet also set sail from the mainland, and a big naval battle might break out.

Our fleet in the Gulf of Mexico has received orders from Major General Baozi to remain vigilant and not to go to sea, and merchant ships have also stopped operating, for fear of being involved in their naval battles, the Florida fleet is ready to intervene at any time.Jinling had sent him to Florida to lead the fleet. "

Song Qing rubbed his forehead, "How did the Dutch respond? Even the Cuban Sea is not far from the Strait of Florida, nor is it far from their Grand Bahama Island. Don't they have any reaction?"

Yan Chao smiled wryly and said, "Governor Jin Lin said just now that the Dutch fleet went to Xindingzhou for support. I heard that they were dispatched in full force, but they disappeared in the sea after walking for a few days, and their whereabouts are unknown."

Song Qing was dumbfounded. The Dutch colonial fleet is the main fleet of the Dutch. There are more than 500 warships in total, including 340 new Qin main battleships, 300 improved main battleships built by the New China Kingdom, and the British two There are more than 380 modern and improved main battleships, and the main battleships built by ourselves act as frigates. There are a total of 560 frigates, which is almost 400 ships. The rest are destroyers, most of which were sold to them by the New China Kingdom this time. There are more than 200 destroyers built by themselves, which are actually steam engine warships, and more than 500 advanced iron-clad ships. The boats are gone.

Even a random fleet of the New China Kingdom will feel a headache against such a fleet, because it is very likely that they will not win, and all the main fleets of the New China Kingdom must be gathered in two or three places to have the strength to compete with this fleet .

The Dutch have only more than 100 main battleships captured by the British and the main battleships purchased by the New Qin Kingdom and the New China Kingdom, as well as more than 800 ironclad and steam engine warships captured from Spain or purchased from the French. Their strength is only equivalent to that of the United Kingdom. A super fleet of the Chinese is a little more powerful. Maybe in a real fight, a super fleet of the British can defeat them. In this case, if the Dutch main fleet meets the local fleet, it will be for the British or the New China Kingdom. , then both countries will suffer heavy losses.

Westerners put their interests first, and the New China Kingdom dare not say that they can now be sure that the main fleet that suddenly disappeared from the Dutch was going to fight the British. If one of their fleets is to be attacked, each of their territories is separated by several Thousands of miles away, it must be too late for support. If you want to block it, you can only block the Dutch fleet that wiped out one of the fleets of the New China Empire and returned after laying down a piece of territory.

The problem is that if the Dutch are finished fighting, they don't care anymore, but now that the New China Kingdom loses a main fleet, it will be separated from the British, and now even a main battleship can't afford to lose it.

The first thousand 750 chapters and four Dutch plots

After learning about this, Song Qing and Yan Chao rushed to find Jin Lin. Jin Lin knew better than them, but there was no way. Calmness prevents the two sides from recuperating and developing. I want the two sides to fight ahead of time to reduce the pressure on them and the British. They can't completely stop fighting back, and the British won't let them go just because they don't fight back. Generally speaking, the strength of the British Still far surpassing the New China Kingdom.

The Dutch are competing with the British for the colonies in Africa recently. The two sides are at war. The British have rebuilt their fleets on the coast of the African colonies, but they are still very weak. At this moment, they are struggling to strengthen the strength of the African fleet. The Dutch will not look at the British After recovering its strength, although the New China Kingdom wiped out the British African fleet two years ago, Spain blocked the fleet, and defeated the British Huitong. Blockade, but now there is no strength, or I don't want to collide with the British prematurely.

In the decisive battle, the British did not want to have a decisive battle with the New China Kingdom. They have gained a lot of benefits in recent years. The Azores have been regained, and the New Qin Kingdom has become their colony. Of course, it is not a full-scale colonization. It’s just that the New Qin State is now almost like the corrupt dynasty controlled by the interests of the British in the later Qing Dynasty. The British are the suzerain and the boss in the New Qin State.

I don't want to fight in a big decisive battle. It doesn't mean that the British won't provoke wars locally. Anyway, they have a lot of fleets. The number of new warships that can be added from 8000 to [-] is far from the number that the New China Kingdom can only add [-] to [-] warships every month, [-] to [-] in half a year, and [-] in eight months. Far surpassed, crushed.

In addition, they still have the New Qin State to drive them. Since the New Qin State became a semi-colonial puppet state, the number of mercenaries in the fleet has increased, and they are mainly mercenaries. The Han fleet they can control in Wunan The number is getting smaller and smaller, the battleships and fleets of pure Han people are getting fewer and fewer, the number of Westerners in their country has increased sharply, and has reached 300 million, while the number of Han people is only 80, an increase of only 20 in a year. million, or mostly the number of newborn babies.

The New Qin Kingdom has built about [-] warships this year, and the total number of warships has reached [-]. Since the last battle, the main battleship has dropped to [-], and this time it has risen to [-]. It is still a new main battleship improved by the British.

It can be said that the pressure faced by the New Kingdom of China is not small at all. The pressure that the New Qin Kingdom has put on them over the past year has been greater than that of the British, because both sides are Han countries, and the warships are also in the same line. The British basically controlled the New Qin State. They didn't care about the New Qin State's fleet, but used the New Qin State as cannon fodder. Therefore, the New China Kingdom's main defense this year was the New Qin State.

The total number of warships in the New China Kingdom is only over 4000. Although the quality is better than that of the New Qin Kingdom and it is more advanced, it cannot be consumed because there is a more threatening British who has managed it carefully for a year. Will take the initiative to provoke a war with the British. At this time, the Dutch take the initiative to pour dirty water on the New China Kingdom. The British will definitely let the New Qin Kingdom challenge and hold them back.

This is also what the Dutch would like to see. Their colonial interests are mainly in the Caribbean Sea, and it will become more and more contradictory to the New China Kingdom’s new claim to take root in the North American continent. The Dutch will guard against and consume the New China Kingdom, and let New China The kingdom went to hold back the new Qin State, and at the same time hold down the warships of the British in other directions. They fought a decisive battle with the British and attacked the British. This is a possible plot of the Dutch.

It is not yet known that the Dutch are planning to fight the British there, but Zhang Siyuan knows that the Dutch are unlikely to win. It can only be said that part of the strength of the British is consumed. In this era, naval battles are still about numbers, and the British will fight. Strength, even if they lose a game, they can quickly recover, but the Dutch can't. Once they lose or win badly, they will be suppressed later. Moreover, the Dutch are not monolithic at home and want to reconcile with the British. There are many people who do not support, there are many people who are holding back, and those who will fight in the decisive battle are a minority. After this defeat, they will be devastated like the last time, and they will never recover.

While Jin Lin and the others were worrying and analyzing, fearing and making adjustments, Zhang Siyuan was also thinking about where to break the situation. He studied the chart, and finally his goal was the Azov Islands.

Where is the center of the entire Atlantic Ocean, where the British are pressing heavy troops. Over the years, they have successively built and increased many warships there. Within four to five hundred nautical miles, other countries cannot approach at all, and even the New China Kingdom had to detour The Atlantic Ocean in the south is sailing towards Africa, where it passes, and contacts Morocco and Xinxizhou in the Mediterranean, the original mainland of the New China Kingdom, and now the strategic location of the New China Kingdom in the Mediterranean.

Where there is one-third of the British naval power, about 2000 warships, five or six hundred merchant ships, distributed on various islands around [-] nautical miles.

The Dutch can attack a remote island at will, let the British continue to send warships to reinforce, first weaken the strength of the British, and then concentrate on destroying the British fleet reinforcements on the African coast, and then advance to the three main islands to fight with the British. If they win the decisive battle of the battleships under their command, they will take the initiative as long as they hold the place in the next two years, and communicate with the Caribbean colonies and the mainland of the Netherlands. With support, the blockade of the British in the North Atlantic has reduced the trade of the British. This strategy is the same as the strategy started by the new Qin State, and it is also similar to the strategy Zhang Siyuan wants to complete.

Just as Zhang Siyuan and the others were still thinking about how to deal with it, the Gulf of Mexico had become a mess, and the pace of war in the Caribbean Sea was getting tighter and tighter. The British mobilized thousands of warships to fight against the French and the Dutch in the Caribbean Sea. In the Mediterranean, the British forcibly broke into the strait. In order to chase the Dutch fleet that fled into the strait, the Azores fleet dispatched more than 400 warships to fight a decisive battle with the main fleet of the New China Kingdom in the Strait of Gibraltar in the Mediterranean.

Outside the main port of the Netherlands, the British home fleet fought a decisive battle with the Dutch home fleet, but the main force of the Dutch Caribbean Sea Fleet attacked the British on Welsha Island. At this time, the British already had wireless telegraphy, and the Dutch and the Spaniards It is also because the new Qin State has opened up the purchase of wireless telegraphy and has the third-generation wireless telegraphy machine, so both sides can mobilize their fleets from a long distance.

The British fleet in the Azores didn't know that the Dutch were the main fleet at first, but there were speculations, so they sent more than 600 warships to reinforce, but were ambushed by the Dutch halfway.

The development of the battle situation is exactly as Jin Lin, Song Qing and Yan Chao guessed.

The first thousand and 750 chapters and four damn Dutchmen

The war launched by the Dutch caused the New China Kingdom to end a year and a half of recuperation ahead of schedule and went into battle. The Moroccan fleet was attacked by the British. It was up to Song Qing and Jin Lin to decide that Yan Chao rushed to support Wei Yuanchao on the north bank of the Panama Canal in Xinding, Baozi rushed to preside over the Florida fleet, and Zhang Siyuan had to personally lead the main fleet here to support Morocco. The construction and defense of the Huaxia Kingdom were entrusted to Song Qing and Jin Lin.

Zhang Siyuan took away 150 main battleships, 150 escort warships, and 100 cruisers, and left the destroyers for Song Qing to mobilize to defend against the surprise attack of the new Qin State or the British, hundreds of destroyers, forty cruisers, 100 Many frigates and more than [-] main battleships are enough for Song and Qing to mobilize defense.

The news of the Dutch attacking the British-occupied Azores was a passing telegram from a merchant ship in the Kingdom of New China. After the ambush, there was no news about the merchant ship after that, either it was sunk by the Dutch or it was captured by the Dutch.

After several hours of deduction, Zhang Siyuan and the others inquired about the intelligence of Qiang Qiangwei and Wang Weiyun in Xinxizhou, as well as the information of Zhang Yuan and the others in Morocco. They concluded that the battle had already passed for a few days. Zhang Yuan and the others have fought several large-scale battles with two thousand British warships within a hundred nautical miles of the strait, and both sides suffered heavy losses.

The British invested 1000 combat warships in the mainland of Morocco, the Kingdom of New China, and invested more than 1000 ships to the Caribbean Sea, and invested more than 1000 ships to deal with the local fleet of the Dutch. One ship is in the Azores, and hundreds more have just been defeated by the Dutch, and the remaining more than [-] ships are distributed in other colonies and the South Fleet.

The Dutch have a big plan this time, but Zhang Siyuan also has to worry about the four thousand warships of the New Qin State coming out to attack Xindingzhou and Florida, but the most urgent thing now is to solve the British attack and destruction of Morocco. .

This time the Dutch mobilized the British, the New China Kingdom, and the Spaniards. It was a bit like the British mobilized fleets from various places to besiege the New China Kingdom and attack the New Qin Kingdom two years ago. The two sides waged a full-scale war.

The battle started from the Xindingyangzhou incident. It has been a month and a half. Morocco has also endured the British attack for half a month. It was only a confrontation at the beginning. Now it has entered the decisive battle of the destroyer fleet. The British have nearly 800 ships Destroyers and steam engine warships blocked the mouth of the strait for more than half a month.

The main warships of the two sides have not yet engaged in a decisive battle. Under the command of Zhang Yuan and the others, the New China Kingdom fought hard to keep the Mediterranean Sea, the mouth of the Strait of Gibraltar, and the port of Morocco. Even the Coast Guard joined the battle and fought hard. It lost 2000 coastal guard steamships and armed transport ships, 8000 destroyers, 3000 ports were destroyed by the enemy, 1 coastal guns were destroyed, and more than 6000 Han Chinese sailors, [-] mercenary sailors, and [-] land troops were lost. The soldiers and civilians of the war brigade lost more than [-] people, of which the Han people lost [-] people.

Seriously affected the development of the Morocco mainland of the New China Kingdom.

The British lost nearly 45 destroyers, [-] frigates, and [-] main battleships. The two sides fought half and half. The total force of the British fleet lost one-fifth, while for the New China Kingdom, it has already lost half. of destroyers and half of the Coast Guard.

This is because the main force has not come out. Zhang Yuan knows that he will definitely not be able to fight the British decisively now. The war provoked by the Dutch has been considered good so far. With such a big sacrifice, three ports, tens of thousands of troops, and hundreds of warships were lost. After the war, they had to be recovered from the Dutch, or would the Dutch benefit in vain?

Not using the main force is to tell the British that you are looking for the Dutch.

The two of them have fought well so far. Does the British want to fight two maritime overlords by themselves?

It would take half a month for Zhang Siyuan to reach the Strait of Gibraltar, which is thousands of nautical miles, and he would not be able to reach it all at once.

The Dutch attacked [-] British warships. After completely annihilating the British, they occupied the Grand Ribery Island. They also suffered heavy losses. Although they don’t know their losses specifically, the Dutch destroyers and other warships must have lost a lot Small, it is estimated that they have [-] to [-] warships left. The British are not so easy to fight, even if they ambushes, but after a few battles, half a month of battles, the Dutch must have lost a lot. It would take half a month to get there even if it was to mobilize combat power from other places.

The Azov Islands suffered heavy losses. The British lost more than 800 warships there. Before the British could react, more than 300 warships from the African fleet fought against the Dutch again. On the coast of Africa, some fled to another big island, and some fled back to the hero port. Then the Dutch did not respond for several days, and the two sides continued to send warships to investigate.

Knowing the strength of both sides, but the Dutch watched closely, and the British could not detect anything at all, so in fear, the British had to collect nearby warships, gathering about 300 warships, plus the remaining four in the port. There are hundreds of warships, and there are more than 700 to more than 800 warships.

But the British didn't dare to be too big, and they deployed more than 500 warships from the fleet attacking the Strait of Gibraltar for reinforcements. However, three days later, the bad news came and they were ambushed. Fleet, the British threw in more than 400 warships, and less than [-] warships fled back. Now the British are angry.

Under continuous blows, the British lost 300 warships, more than 100 steam engine warships, more than [-] merchant ships, and tens of thousands of people.

Over there, the Dutch relied on the local advantage of the local fleet, although they also lost a lot of coast guards, merchant ships, and local destroyers. A total of more than 600 warships, the British lost [-] warships, although the loss was not large, for the British Said, but overall, the British lost a total of [-] warships in these two months, almost half of the warships and troops.

It was mainly because the Dutch held back many British destroyers and steam engine warships in the Gulf of Mexico and New Dingyang, and there were more than 600 main battleships dragged there. Playing hide-and-seek with them, Xinding Yangzhou has Xinqin to help share the pressure, and the Spaniards are a nest of snakes and rats, tending to help the Dutch, so the British also have to guard against the Spaniards attacking them suddenly, so where the warships need to deal with the new The Yanchao fleet of the Huaxia Kingdom had to guard against the Dutch and deal with the Spaniards.

In short, the Dutch used a dozen warships and several merchant ships to provoke a large-scale naval battle between the British and the New Qin, the Spaniards, and the New China Kingdom.

Chapter 750 and Six of the French Naval Development

In this battle, the New Qin Kingdom did not take part in the war. Although the New Huaxia Kingdom participated in the war, the degree of participation was mostly not high. The participation of the British fleet and the Dutch colony of Grand Bahama Island is not high. It only fought with a part of the British reinforcement fleet in the open sea. The French and Spaniards did not participate in the depths of the Gulf of Mexico in the Caribbean Sea at other times. Battle and decisive battle with the British fleet.

No matter how small the loss was, the Spaniards, their battles with the British were only a limited battle against the British. There are still many pro-British nobles in the country who do not support, even oppose and obstruct, and attack, but they also lost them this time. Of the [-] warships that were newly purchased and searched for, [-] of them could be regarded as heavy losses for the navy.

It was the French who made a profit. They used a total of nearly 2000 warships and lost more than [-] warships. Other warships were scattered in ports such as the south coast of Panama and Mexico in Central America. It can be regarded as regaining some benefits, but the loss is out of proportion to the benefits. This is a major blow to the French who have just spent decades restoring their national strength.

Since the French mainly robbed colonies and ports on various continents and developed colonies all over the world, the main wars tended to be small-scale adventurer colonial army battles, which were land wars, and the navy was only a means of transportation for transporting troops, mainly It was for the French merchants to plunder resources in the colonies all over the world. At the same time, the French are a country with a large army. Therefore, although their naval development exported some warship technology when the new Qin State arrived, the French also seized the opportunity. The Spaniards entered the era of steam engines later, and surpassed the development of Spanish and Dutch warship technology, but their navy was still weak at that time, and they fought the Spanish War for another seven years, so their naval development was still not very good. good.