Lord of Ming Dynasty

The French tried their best to block and counterattack. As a large number of warships were dispatched to participate in the battle, the British coast was also in flames. Destroyed ruins can be seen everywhere.

Both sides are exhausted from fighting, and they don't want to fight anymore, but the pace of war has started, how can it stop.

The two sides still dispatched troops. The British dispatched warships from all over the colonies, as did the French. They not only accelerated the production of warships in the shipyard, but also accelerated the pace of conscription. All fishermen and sailors who were able to move were recruited. Familiar with the battleships, they were driven to the battleships, and then formed to patrol the coast, and then sailors and officers were transferred from the coastal fleet to join the combat fleet, using human lives and the number of battleships to fight for a victory.

The British are also collecting warships everywhere, sending diplomats to the Spaniards and other places, and European countries are recruiting mercenaries to buy warships to supplement the losses. In a short period of time, they have collected [-] warships and are rushing to the British home island day and night. Join the battle.

They fought so anxiously that the battle between the New Kingdom and the British Azores fleet over there had come to an end.

After losing 370 warships, the fleet of the New Kingdom successfully defeated more than 100 warships of the British Azores fleet and chased them around. In the dark night, the warships dispersed and chased the British within a radius of [-] nautical miles. People escaped from the battleship.

Zhang Siyuan left He Qingyun's fleet of fifty warships to protect him, and Zhang Yuan took the rest to chase the fleeing British warships. This time they also lost a lot, only more than 700 warships remained More than 390 warships, and about [-] warships returned to the small islands they occupied in the Azores for simple repairs or rest, and then were towed by tugboats back to the mainland for repairs.

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The dilemma caused Zhang Siyuan a headache, and the sea breeze made it worse.

750 warships are already the largest force that the New Kingdom can dispatch. Each territory needs to be guarded. Each overseas territory must retain at least 130 to 150 main battleships. At least two states, Xinxizhou and Morocco, must maintain [-] warships; Dingyang Prefecture must maintain [-] warships; Cuba State must maintain at least [-] warships, and Florida must maintain at least [-] warships. In this way, with the cooperation of Cuba State and the addition of [-] warships in the Coastal Defense Fleet, they can continue When the enemy attack comes, you have the ability to protect yourself and persist until reinforcements arrive.

The Home Fleet must take care of Newfoundland, suppress the Americans and prevent the British from raiding the coasts of the mainland New Jersey and Maine. Therefore, it must maintain three hundred warships, support other states, and the Coast Guard must maintain a hundred or so. The coastal defense fleet must maintain at least a hundred ships. When the enemy's large fleet sneaks up, at least [-] main battleships and cruisers can serve as the backbone and resist the enemy's attack with the cooperation of the coast guard and coastal defense fleet. , to preserve vitality for future development and re-emergence.

Say [-] to [-] warships. Although the performance of the warships is good and the combat power is strong, they still suffer from insufficient numbers. Their total number of warships is only about [-] warships. , The coastal defense fleet also has about a thousand ships, but most of those warships are decommissioned warships, and they can only be used to maintain the safety of the coastline stretching thousands of nautical miles. There are also some coast guards in the mainland. It is the fleet of the Navy Recruit Battalion. The official Coast Guard has long since handed over its functions to the Coastal Defense Fleet. All other states have only the Coastal Defense Fleet and no Coast Guard.

The main fleets retained by the states add up to nearly 700 ships. This time the attack also mobilized troops from the coastal defense fleet, dozens of warships, and the coastal defense fleet was also responsible for protecting the route and blocking the British, Spaniards, and Dutch breakthroughs. The task of the South Atlantic, as well as the task of protecting and preventing the British from breaking through the Strait of Gibraltar, generally speaking, more than [-] warships are not enough.

But there is no way now. To win the Azores, you must confront the Azores with artillery, and you must defeat the Dutch fleet. Since the Dutch have come, they have to find a way to defeat them.

Zhang Siyuan was unwilling to leave like this, the Azov Islands were so close, it seemed completely undefended.

"Deploy [-] main fleet warships and [-] coastal defense fleet warships from the mainland, let them come immediately, dispatch a total of [-] ships from the Morocco and New West Island fleets, and [-] warships from their coastal defense fleet, from the surrounding blockades Two hundred warships from the Coastal Defense Fleet and the fleet on the route are here. Let them set off immediately. I need to see them in the Ribery Islands in three days. We will go to the Great Ribery Islands to fight the Dutch. "Zhang Siyuan quickly spoke out the order, and the staff officer beside him wrote down the order, and then He Jing took Zhang Siyuan's order and turned around and ordered the following staff officer to send a telegram.

The warships deployed this time are mainly warships of the coastal defense fleet. The main fleet has deployed 280 warships, but it is estimated that only about 180 ships can come over when the battle starts, but the coastal defense fleet on the route will definitely be able to come over. Because the fleets on all the routes are not far away, in three days, if they travel at a speed of 400 knots, they can cover more than [-] nautical miles.

In this way, they have about 900 warships, and their strength has returned to the strength they had when they fought against the British Azores fleet. If the main fleet can dispatch troops to arrive in five days, they will have more than [-] warships , close to a thousand warships, taking the Azov Islands and defeating the Dutch is just around the corner.

But it will take time. Now we can only temporarily give up attacking Hero Port, the largest archipelago island in the Azores, and turn around and go to the Big Ribery Island to make a fuss. A nail to force the British to submit, keeping a fleet, so that the British will not be so unscrupulous in intercepting their merchant ships going to New Zealand and Morocco, reaching the Strait of Gibraltar, and the Mediterranean Sea.

In this way, their merchant ships can save nearly [-] nautical miles to reach the Strait of Gibraltar, which saves an unknown amount of costs for ocean trade. At the same time, if the sea weather is not right, the merchant ships and escort warships of the New Kingdom can greatly increase the cost. The islands are sheltered from the storms at sea.

The retreating fleet relieved the British on the Hero Port of the Azov Islands. They have escaped with more than 100 warships, but most of them are wounded warships. There is no way to stop the fleet of the New Kingdom. The New Kingdom's fleet of more than 300 warships covered the sea, dotted with dots. Looking at it in the dark, it looked like a huge fleet coming to attack.

After daybreak, Zhang Yuan led the fleet to appear in Hero Port first, and then turned to the Grand Ribery Island. Behind them were about a hundred captured enemy warships, and around two hundred warships gathered around them, all this time. Out of the warships, Baozi's fleet was cruising around. They still had more than 50 warships left, and the others were taken over and led by Zhang Yuan. While guarding the captured warships, he served as the main force to protect the fleet.

The British basically understood the number of warships in the New Kingdom. At this time, the British fleet could no longer support them. They had already lost [-] warships. There was no main fleet in the mainland that could intercept the French fleet. .

The scattered warships returned one after another, but they still wanted to withdraw more than 100 warships here. The French lost more than 2000 warships, but they still had more than 1000 warships in the colonial fleet. threaten.

The British hope to gather back the warships that were scattered this time, so that they will have the strength to compete with the French. At least they can gather more than 600 warships to protect the mainland.

Just when Zhang Siyuan waited for Zhang Yuan's returning fleet and was about to launch an attack on Ribery Island, Zhang Siyuan received two telegrams at the same time, one open, a clear code sent by the British on Ribery Island The telegram hopes to negotiate, and the other is from a scout ship cruising outside, and the Dutch fleet has already come directly towards them.

The Dutch fleet is only [-] nautical miles away from them, that is to say, if they are sailing at a speed of [-] knots, they have less than a day to talk to the British or capture the Grand Ribery Island, and then guard and wait for deployment fleet to support.

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There is not much time left for the New Kingdom to solve the problem with the British, and it is estimated that it will only take ten hours. The problem is that the time for Grand Ribery Island to reach Porto Heroes and other islands is at least ten hours, and the longest is four days. , It took them one night to get here, and the speed has increased to [-] knots, about seven or eight hours, that is, to return to Hero Port, they may not have enough time.

That is to say, it only takes ten hours for the Dutch to chase them. Two hundred nautical miles, if the speed is ten knots, it will be twenty hours, and if it is sixteen knots, it will be about thirteen or four hours. Will engage the Dutch after dark, or confront the two sides.

If the Dutch do not attack at night, they will be given another ten to twelve hours to adjust.

"Major Thomas, do you mean that you want to withdraw all the warships and take over Ribery Island peacefully with us?" He Jing asked the commander of the British fleet stationed on Ribery Island who came to negotiate on behalf of Zhang Siyuan.

"Yes, Your Excellency General, we hope to hand over this place peacefully. You also know that we have coastal artillery here and at least thirty warships. If we want to resist, you will need at least one day to occupy this place. At this time, you can't say that there are no losses, and you can't say that the losses are great, but after all, there are losses. You just fought with our main fleet. I know that your losses are not small. Given the current conditions and If you want to fight the coming Dutch fleet, you must reduce your losses."

Sitting on the side, Zhang Siyuan agreed with the other party's point of view. This is their current reality. Even if their warships are relatively strong, they may have a one-to-three advantage against the Dutch warships, but now the warships are not in good condition after a big battle. Maybe this advantage will be reduced a lot, maybe a one-to-two advantage, more than 300 warships, in order to capture the enemy's fleeing fleet, they lost dozens of warships, and the captured enemy's warships are all half-blooded or half-blooded , They can only send these battleships back when they allocate manpower.

If you go to a meeting, you have to be escorted by warships, so the wounded warships and some slightly injured warships on their side have to go with them. If there are more than 300 warships, 1000 or [-] warships will have to go, so there are only [-] warships left. There are too many warships, which means that they are likely to use [-] to [-] warships to fight the full-blooded Dutch with more than [-] warships, a ratio of one to five troops.

Such a ratio of numbers can already hit them hard, not to mention that they not only have to capture the Grand Ribery Island, but also have to clean up Port of Heroes when they go back. At that time, there will be other island groups to capture, and the British warships of other island groups here are at least Three hundred warships, and at the same time they have to deal with the remaining [-] shore artillery of the British, as well as the attack of the army artillery on land. If they are defeated in this way, they may have to go home after they finish fighting the Azov Islands. No, because there are more than a hundred warships, with a force ratio of one to three, it is impossible to fight the Dutch fleet.

"Okay, Major Thomas, I promise you, you can go back and prepare, I will give you three hours, after three hours, we will take over the entire island of Ribery Grande, Major, is that okay? Do you have any more requests? Now Bring it up, but I want to remind you, don't play any tricks, our current fleet is enough to kill you ten times."

Major Thomas smiled slightly and bowed, "As you wish, my lord, we will leave as soon as possible and will not cause you any trouble."

He Jing sent the British Major Thomas away. Ten minutes later, the lights on the island of Ribéry were brightly lit, and the figures shook. The warships began to fire up. Small-tonnage warships left the port one after another. and transport ships out of port.

Sitting on the side, Zhang Siyuan agreed with the other party's point of view. This is their current reality. Even if their warships are relatively strong, they may have a one-to-three advantage against the Dutch warships, but now the warships are not in good condition after a big battle. Maybe this advantage will be reduced a lot, maybe a one-to-two advantage, more than 300 warships, in order to capture the enemy's fleeing fleet, they lost dozens of warships, and the captured enemy's warships are all half-blooded or half-blooded , They can only send these battleships back when they allocate manpower.

If you go to a meeting, you have to be escorted by warships, so the wounded warships and some slightly injured warships on their side have to go with them. If there are more than 300 warships, 1000 or [-] warships will have to go, so there are only [-] warships left. There are too many warships, which means that they are likely to use [-] to [-] warships to fight the full-blooded Dutch with more than [-] warships, a ratio of one to five troops.

Such a ratio of numbers can already hit them hard, not to mention that they not only have to capture the Grand Ribery Island, but also have to clean up Port of Heroes when they go back. At that time, there will be other island groups to capture, and the British warships of other island groups here are at least Three hundred warships, and at the same time they have to deal with the remaining [-] shore artillery of the British, as well as the attack of the army artillery on land. If they are defeated in this way, they may have to go home after they finish fighting the Azov Islands. No, because there are more than a hundred warships, with a force ratio of one to three, it is impossible to fight the Dutch fleet.

"Okay, Major Thomas, I promise you, you can go back and prepare, I will give you three hours, after three hours, we will take over the entire island of Ribery Grande, Major, is that okay? Do you have any more requests? Now Bring it up, but I want to remind you, don't play any tricks, our current fleet is enough to kill you ten times."

Major Thomas smiled slightly and bowed, "As you wish, my lord, we will leave as soon as possible and will not cause you any trouble."

He Jing sent the British Major Thomas away. Ten minutes later, the lights on the island of Ribéry were brightly lit, and the figures shook. The warships began to fire up. Small-tonnage warships left the port one after another. and transport ships out of port.

Sitting on the side, Zhang Siyuan agreed with the other party's point of view. This is their current reality. Even if their warships are relatively strong, they may have a one-to-three advantage against the Dutch warships, but now the warships are not in good condition after a big battle. Maybe this advantage will be reduced a lot, maybe a one-to-two advantage, more than 300 warships, in order to capture the enemy's fleeing fleet, they lost dozens of warships, and the captured enemy's warships are all half-blooded or half-blooded , They can only send these battleships back when they allocate manpower.

If you go to a meeting, you have to be escorted by warships, so the wounded warships and some slightly injured warships on their side have to go with them. If there are more than 300 warships, 1000 or [-] warships will have to go, so there are only [-] warships left. There are too many warships, which means that they are likely to use [-] to [-] warships to fight the full-blooded Dutch with more than [-] warships, a ratio of one to five troops.

Such a ratio of numbers can already hit them hard, not to mention that they not only have to capture the Grand Ribery Island, but also have to clean up Port of Heroes when they go back. At that time, there will be other island groups to capture, and the British warships of other island groups here are at least Three hundred warships, and at the same time they have to deal with the remaining [-] shore artillery of the British, as well as the attack of the army artillery on land. If they are defeated in this way, they may have to go home after they finish fighting the Azov Islands. No, because there are more than a hundred warships, with a force ratio of one to three, it is impossible to fight the Dutch fleet.

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"The enemy is close enough, why didn't Zhang Yuan and the others fight back?" He Jing looked at the sea with a telescope in doubt.

The Dutch warships on the sea have turned around and are at a distance of about six nautical miles. This distance is quite close, about ten kilometers, which is more than 1 meters. Maybe the distance at sea can only be fried fish. But to bombard ports and land, shells don't need to be so precise, just cover bombing. However, compared with shore artillery with a relatively stable base on land, a battleship will die if it is so close.

"The Dutch must know that our reinforcements are coming soon, and they will take us down in a short time based on the damage, so they get so close, improving the accuracy of the shelling, and increasing the firepower The scope of coverage, the Dutch people are not small, they also want to cover our other main warships deep in the port, and want to block us in the port." Zhang Siyuan said leisurely.

"That depends on whether they can succeed or not. Our firepower is very strong in the West as a whole. Although many warships have been injured, many artillery can't fire, but our existing artillery can completely torture them." He Jing was very impressed. Said confidently.

Zhang Siyuan smiled, He Jing's words are good, aside from the enemy's superiority in numbers, their advantage in artillery is definitely not small, and there are nearly 700 coastal artillery support, compared to the [-] artillery pieces mentioned earlier It refers to the entire Azov Islands, not to the number of shore artillery on an island group of Grande Ribery Island. As the second largest island group, there are more than [-] artillery pieces here. However, in the previous battle between the British and the French, All the shore artillery near the sea were destroyed.

After a few days of renovations, the British moved the previous shore cannons forward for a while, and added a lot of shore cannons. Only now there are [-] shore cannons. Sometimes the accuracy rate is much higher than that of warships at sea. This is why it is so difficult to attack an island. Battleships are inherently incomparable with shore artillery.

The Dutch widened the distance between the warships, which would prevent the warships from colliding when evading, or avoid shore artillery fire. At the same time, the Dutch had already approached another nautical mile, and this distance was simply too difficult.

The Dutch warships shuttled back and forth around the island, and the shore guns on this side began to exert force. Amidst the roar, water jets appeared around the Dutch warships on the sea.

The Dutch also began to counterattack, the artillery roared, the warships galloped, the sky was full of smoke, and the battlefield was filled with gunpowder smoke.

This kind of battle consumes shells. When the shore artillery roared, the wounded warships in the waterway on the edge of the port lay on the side of the waterway and began to fight back violently. The two sides came and went. The artillery battle lasted for half an hour. They didn't hit anyone. The Dutch were on the sea and had high maneuverability. Although the shore artillery had an advantage in hit rate and other aspects, they had to fight ahead of time, and it was not as convenient to operate as the battleship artillery.

However, there are more injuries on land, because the land cannot move, and many places have been plowed by the artillery on the battleship. Some casualties were caused by the shore artillery, but there was no damage to the shore artillery. After all, there are fortifications. The Dutch invested a total of Three hundred warships, main battleships, frigates, and cruisers are all high-mobility battleships and high-defense battleships.