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Sometimes a dozen or so warships are used for line patrol and caravan escort with some warships of the coastal defense fleet, which means that the number of warships they usually station here is only about 47, [-] to [-].

From the perspective of Zhang Siyuan, this number is nothing, but from the perspective of other countries, it means that the new Huaxia Kingdom has already sunk into the sky.

In addition, with the transfer of some battleships in the main fleet, especially those over ten years old, to the coast guard, the coast guard has been enriched, but most of the main fleet has dropped to around [-] or [-] warships. The number of warships has decreased, but the expenditure is small and the tasks are reduced. All tasks, such as patrol, coastal defense, escort, and route protection are handed over to the Coast Guard.

In Zhang Siyuan's view, this is like the combat mode of later generations. The main fleet only undertakes the main combat tasks, such as fighting the enemy at sea, attacking the enemy's fleet, destroying the enemy's sea power, destroying the enemy's squadron and main fleet, etc. .

The main fleet is only equipped with three types of ships: main battleships, frigates, and cruisers, which are convenient for command and cooperation.

Cruisers are responsible for patrolling the periphery of the fleet, breaking attacks, and reconnaissance of the enemy fleet, while frigates protect the main battleships for operations.

After the war, the new state of Qin was blocked, and it could only conduct overseas trade on the land of the Spaniards, and it could only conduct colonial land trade with the Spaniards. Because they betrayed the traditions of the Han people of the Chinese Empire, the routes to the Chinese Empire on the Pacific Ocean It also stopped, and their maritime trade with the Chinese Empire could not be traded because of the boycott of the Chinese Empire.

Even though there are already many contradictions within the Huaxia Empire, the Han people pay great attention to tradition. Under the influence of Zhang Siyuan, some people may want those profits, but they can't bear any kind of things that betray their ancestors, so even if It's a matter of water, and many merchants of the Chinese Empire disdain to trade with them.

The New Qin State escaped 13 Han people via land in one month, and fled to the opposite New Dingyang Prefecture of the New China Kingdom. The friction between the two sides on the border is increasing. Those who can tolerate the provocation of the new Qin State, one assault, thirteen mercenary rates, and two Han Chinese elite brigades, will push the New Qin State deep into Colombian territory. The original Spaniards gave up, but the New Huaxia Kingdom did not want to conflict with the New Qin State. , The land that was not occupied was taken back by the new Qin State step by step, and the land with a radius of more than one kilometer occupied by weapons was taken back.

At the same time, about 10,000+ foreign natives of the New Qin State were captured, 10,000+ Western Han Chinese people who came here from the New Qin State, and [-] to [-] Spanish colonial troops who were organized as mercenaries of the New Qin State. These people were originally foreign mercenaries and descendants of mercenaries who betrayed the New Qin State, and so many people were abandoned by the New Qin State.

Although the New Qin State launched several tens of thousands of mercenary counterattacks, it only consumed these captured mercenaries. The family actually consumed the original power of the New Qin State, and there was only one foreign mercenary here. In fact, the temporary mercenary brigade that was also being compiled was broken up, causing heavy casualties. Others suffered a slight loss, but for New China For the kingdom, there is no need to report this loss to the superiors, because it is a power that can be consumed.

After receiving so many blows, the New Qin State's living supplies and population decreased, and troops deserted every day. At the same time, the external environment deteriorated, which made the new Qin State's court also quarrel endlessly. Shuai and their descendants initiated impeachment, internally fought for power, and externally blocked for three months, from sea to land.

The Spaniards took the opportunity to close the land trade channel, blackmailed many things, and hoped that the New Qin State would sign many treaties. The New Qin State was once again besieged and blackmailed by Western countries. He's not a good person either, he's a shit-stirring character, and taking the opportunity to blackmail him is easy.

In less than a few months, the new state of Qin once again became a colonial country of the Spaniards and the British, the taxation was taken over, the shipyard was taken over, and the system was reformed, the noble council was established, Zhao Shuai and his descendants entered the noble The Parliament, and the House of Commons was also opened below. The British and Spaniards sent a joint fleet to break through the blockade of the New China Kingdom. A half-year naval blockade against the new Qin State.

During this period, the New China Kingdom sank 170 large and small warships of the New Qin Kingdom's fleet that were trying to break through the blockade, which reduced the number of New Qin Kingdom's main fleet from more than 700 to about [-] ships, and the Coast Guard was established and destroyed. Lost.

The loss of the New China Kingdom was only dozens of frigates and a dozen frigates. The cruisers were responsible for the main sabotage mission. Except for injuries, none of them were sunk or captured.

The first thousand and 850 six chapters of Britain and France have not eliminated their hatred

The British and Spaniards came to save the new Qin State and gain benefits. Although Zhang Siyuan didn't care, he didn't let them have a good time. From time to time, he asked Zhuang Lin to send a fleet to harass the joint fleet of the two countries, and at the same time, he blocked the business of the two countries in the Strait of Gibraltar. The caravans of the Spaniards and the Dutch were stuck, so that unless the whole of Europe traded on land, it could only go to the Mediterranean ports of the French and Spaniards to enter the sea and trade in the Mediterranean.

The Mediterranean Sea was also intercepted by Jin Qishun's Morocco and Xinxizhou fleets. The maritime trade between the two countries was rough and rough. The two countries sent many pirates, but in front of the fleet of the New China Kingdom, many pirates were eliminated. Many pirates finally became They took captives, planted trees in the Sahara desert, ate yellow sand, and drank the northwest wind. Life and death are a matter of life. After many pirates were released by chance, they spread the news. The number of pirates who attacked for a while decreased greatly. in the desert.

The joint fleet of the two countries consumed nearly 130% of the old warships in the New Dingyang Prefecture of the New China Kingdom, but lost nearly [-] warships. This is for the Spanish fleet with only [-] ships, and for the current efforts to increase the number of warships. The British who have just arrived with a thousand ships, although most of the ships sent by the two countries are old warships from the last war, they still cannot bear such losses.

So the New Qin State, the British, and the Spaniards lost fifty, thirty, and eighty warships again within a period of time. The British lost the least, and the Spaniards lost fifty warships. The warships that had previously fought lost another 300 warships, and now there are only more than [-] warships.

The main opponent of the British is actually the French. With the support of the New China Kingdom, the French have restored more than 1000 warships. One frigate was launched, and in more than half a year, it was enough to build two batches of destroyers and one batch of frigates, so the French quickly added more than 800 low-level warships under the rapid replenishment of their own construction and the construction of the New China Kingdom. , High-end warships like the cruisers of the New China Kingdom that just performed well in the battle against the New Qin Kingdom, the French bought half of the existing inventory of old cruisers in the three New China Kingdom's overseas territorial fleets, eighty ships.

The three states of Cuba, Florida, and Xindingyang in the New China Kingdom still don’t need cruisers, so half of the cruisers they originally owned were sold. The French got these [-] cruisers, plus their previous Some first-generation cruisers were also imitated, and the new Qin State also bought cruisers, filled up [-] ships, and formed a cruiser fleet.

Raiding and cruising between the vast colony and the local route, many merchant ships were intercepted on the route of the British and the caravan route. The main battleship was sunk.

The British are really rebellious, there is no way, they have a powerful opponent, the Han Kingdom from the New China Kingdom in the east, this scourge of their Eastern colonies, and then their Western colonies, and the Han Kingdom of the local navy, hateful but There is no way to take them.

The main opponent of the British is not the Han Kingdom, because the New China Kingdom has developed peacefully in the past ten years, has not fought large-scale naval battles, and has continuously reduced its own warships, from more than 5000 to almost 900 now. At this point, the French increased their number of warships by leaps and bounds. There were more than 800 low-level warships such as destroyers and frigates, more than 100 cruisers, and more than 300 main battleships. Their strength was twice that of the British.

After two rounds of battles with the French and the Dutch, the British's low-level warships have been fought from more than 8000 ships to only more than 800 ships. In recent years, the construction of main battleships has been increased, and there are only more than 400 ships. Rush into the ranks of thousands of warships, and they have used this action four times in the past five years, from thousands of ships being knocked down to the mortal world, and then after two years or a year of development, they rushed to more than 1000 ships , and then either the Dutch came to attack them, or the French came to attack them, or the New Qin State or the New China Kingdom harassed them, and then their number of warships dropped to less than 1000, and the status of maritime supremacy was lost by New China. The kingdom was taken once, and twice by the French.

Zhang Siyuan blindly helped the French not without purpose, but to let the century-old hatred between Britain and France encourage the French to suppress the British, and use the power of the French to overshadow the British, the former maritime overlord.

The French are nothing to worry about. No matter what they say, they are still mainland countries with the idea of ​​​​continental nation-building. They cannot compete with the New China Kingdom on the sea. As long as the New China Kingdom holds the right to speak at sea, they will be invincible in the West.

Zhang Siyuan even thought of establishing a Chinese empire that included the Atlantic Ocean into the scope of the entire kingdom and became the hegemony of the kingdom's inner sea.

But this is unlikely. After all, Westerners now have an estimated population of [-] million. After many wars and reductions, the population has still increased a lot and has not decreased. People's living standards have improved, the birth rate has risen, and the benefits brought about by the decline in infant mortality, but this is not a good thing for the Han people of the New China Kingdom to gain a foothold in the West. If they cannot occupy the general trend in terms of population, they may be eliminated.

The population of France has reached 4000 million, the population of Britain has reached 2000 million, and the population of Spaniards and Prussian German lands has reached more than 3000 million. This has given Europe and the West a stable growth foundation.

Finding ways to consume the population of the British and French is the focus of the New China Kingdom.

The New China Kingdom now has a population of just over 2000 million including foreign nationals, and a Han population of over 300 million. The foreign population and the newly immigrated Han population who are not included in the nationality of the New China Kingdom are only 900 million. The overall increase It sounds like a population of just over 2000 million.

Provoking another colonial war between the British and the French is the main purpose of the New China Kingdom. At sea, they just tried to fight the New Qin State, and it was just a state in Xinding Yangzhou that fought independently. Most people will see New China The reduction in the number of warships in the Kingdom, but some countries that have a deep understanding of the New China Kingdom do not see it that way.

A state's fleet can destroy a country after several reductions, so what is the overall strength of the New China Kingdom with so many states and four or five overseas territories?

Therefore, despite the decline in the number of warships in the New China Kingdom, enemy navies such as the French, the British, and the Spaniards who understand New China still dare not easily bully the New China Kingdom.

They dare not bully the New China Kingdom, and they want to develop, so they can only find a sense of presence in other countries. The British choose the French, and the French choose their biggest enemy, the British, as it should be.

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Chapter 850 Seventh British and French naval battle again

In 7 years, when the New China Kingdom was established for 30 years, and when the New Qin Kingdom was established for more than 80 years, the French cruiser fleet blocked the coast of North Carolina, the only North American outlet for the British.

The British fleet fought back, and 130 warships fought against more than 80 French cruisers. With sufficient firepower and fast speed, the French cruisers beat the 130 British warships, and the British only had [-]. The battleship fled to the Azov Islands, and the rest were either captured or sunk, and some even turned to the Americans.

The French mobilized their navy and army at the same time to attack from both sea and land. One week after defeating the British fleet at sea, the French were using destroyers to send people to the beach to seize the colonies and fight against the British army on land. At the same time, tens of thousands of colonial troops were mobilized, all of them black, and under the command of the French, they fought inextricably with the British colonial troops and mercenaries.

On land, they came from the colonies on the West Bank and mobilized hundreds of thousands of French colonies and Americans. Indian tribes attacked the British colonies. Colonial adventure teams and local militias, the French burned villages and mountains where the French passed, and the British immigrants in the North American colonies fled to the American territory one after another.

The French operation lasted for three months. During this period, hundreds of thousands of colonial troops clashed with local militias. Humans were exterminated by the Indian tribes in the French colonies or fled to the territory of the New China Kingdom or the American territory, and then fled to Central America through the territory of the New China Kingdom.

It can be said that the French attack caused catastrophic losses to the five remaining British colonial states. The population on them was almost uprooted, but the British were helpless and could not land at sea. The French fleet was too powerful. The cruiser fleet The reinforcement fleet that attacked the British within [-] nautical miles was dispersed, and at the same time the French main fleet also arrived.

Across the sea, if the British want to snatch the North American colonies, they can only fight the French. Now the British are hesitating whether to fight the French again. Because of the heavy losses in the last war, they filled in more than 2000 warships If it weren't for the support of the Spaniards and Portuguese, they wouldn't even be able to keep the three or four hundred warships in the local fleet.

But the British are the British, and soon the British fooled the Spaniards, the Portuguese, the Dutch, and the new Qin State dispatched warships, and then they also dispatched part of the warships. After waiting for three months, the three parties gathered more than 2000 ships at sea. Battleships, after the French basically included the remaining British colonies in North America, the British gathered their battleships and arrived.

The British sent 210 warships, all of which were main battleships and frigates. The Spaniards sent 180 main battleships, frigates, and destroyers. The Portuguese sent 230 main battleships, frigates, and destroyers. The Xinqin sent 340 main battleships. , [-] frigates, [-] destroyers, a total of [-] ships, and a total of more than [-] ships sent by several companies.

After rendezvous at sea, several companies rested in the Azores for a week to maintain warships, deploy personnel, and supply supplies. They are elite sailors and officers from several companies.

In addition, Prussia, Sweden, Poland, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Turkey, and Russia have sent more than 30 military observation fleets, which will accompany the British fleet to investigate large-scale operations at sea.

And the French also concentrated all the cruisers to scout the interaction between the British and other countries and the mobilization of their warships. There are often cruiser formations. Three cruisers appear in the Azores, which is the place where the French focus on defense. , and appeared in the waters near the UK at the same time. The cruiser is fast and has strong firepower. It is really difficult to compete with it without a main battleship, and it is really difficult to catch up with it without a frigate.

The United Kingdom has long wanted to study cruisers, but the New Qin State did not open cruiser technology to them for a while. The last time the British attacked Newfoundland, the original homeland of the New Qin State, the British did not grab the cruiser technology and talents. The French did. .

With the cooperation of the New China Kingdom, the French can also imitate the cruiser. Although the model is old, they have it. As for the new cruiser developed by the New China Kingdom, even some middle-level personnel of the New China Kingdom Navy do not know it. People know, some people don't know, the New China Kingdom is so secret, who can know that the new China Kingdom's series of old cruisers are wrapped with big killers and new cruisers.

When the two sides were preparing for the battle, the Kingdom of New China also sent cruisers, frigates, and main battleship formations to watch the battle. The people who watched the battle were led by Song Qing, and most of them were new generation admirals.

The two sides met on a commercial route about [-] nautical miles away from the North American continent. This route leads to the Azov Islands. In the decisive battle at sea, there is generally no conspiracy, just a fight for strength.

Thousands of warships are sailing on the sea, it is very spectacular, coupled with the white gas and thick black smoke from the steam engine, it is really blocking out the sky, you can see the sky above the sea from dozens of nautical miles away Thick black clouds overwhelmed the top.

The two sides approached tens of kilometers before starting to maneuver. All the destroyers and frigates came out together to test the opponent's reality. The main battleship was protected by some frigates behind and continued to sail forward.

The battlefield was about [-] nautical miles from the beginning without contact to the final contact. The destroyers of both sides were in the middle of a dozen nautical miles, constantly maneuvering, and constantly looking for fighters.

The battle was quite fierce. The observation teams of both sides unanimously hung their respective flags high, and then, about [-] nautical miles away, under the clear weather, they tried their best to find the battleships of both sides in the smoke of gunfire and watch the battle between the two sides. The position of the ship and the tactical actions carried out, as well as the maneuvers of both sides, learn the advantages of both sides, check the shortcomings of both sides in naval battles, and find a theoretical basis for future battles.