The battle with the French fleet is actually a bit dangerous.

In this era, the French had two fleets in the East.

One is the Indochina Fleet led by Vice Admiral Courbet, with 11 warships and a total tonnage of 2.26 tons;

One is the Far East Fleet commanded by Rear Admiral Lespis, based in Yokohama and Hong Kong, with 6 warships and a gross tonnage of 1.28 tons;

This time it was mainly Lespis' Far East Fleet that participated in the battle against Japan.

The Ming Dynasty North Pacific Fleet has 15 warships with a gross tonnage of 1.65 tons, and 12 warships with a gross tonnage of 1.46 tons participated in the battle.

In terms of total tonnage alone, the Daming Navy does not have an obvious advantage.

However, considering the equipment gap, things are not like this.

The main force of the French warship was the Semiramis, a wooden sail battleship equipped with steam power.

It weighs nearly 6000 tons, has two decks, each deck is equipped with 9 heavy guns, and a total of 36 heavy guns on the left and right sides. (I can't find the original picture, only the 90-gun battleship of the British, as shown in the picture)

Two years ago, it was this huge ship that sailed into the waters of Edo that completely convinced the shogunate samurai, and has been mooring in Yokohama under the pretext of protecting the Christians ever since.

In addition to this wooden sail battleship, the Far East Fleet is also equipped with 5 colonial gunboats.

The so-called colonial gunboats are small gunboats specially designed by Western powers for colonial plunder during this period.

The main characteristics of this kind of warship are extremely small tonnage, high firepower, and average speed, but top-notch cruising ability. It can even cruise for more than half a year with just one replenishment.

Because the purpose of their design is to patrol the distant colonies in the vast seas of the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and other places.

And in this era, as long as the ship can sail into Tianjin Bay, Tokyo Bay (referring to the capital of Vietnam), and Yokohama Port, it basically means victory in the war.

Mr. Peng said, "The history that imperialism can conquer a country and a nation by setting up a few cannons in the East is gone forever." The history referred to is the present era.

These colonial gunboats are the easiest and quickest way to set up a cannon.

Therefore, the combat effectiveness of this kind of thing is basically negligible, and whether it can break the defense of "Infinite Loyalty" is a problem.

In contrast, Daming's "Yangzhou-class" gunboat, after refitting, is closer to a miniature frigate, and its combat capability is far stronger than that of the colonial gunboat.

The real threat to the Ming Dynasty North Pacific Navy is the French main heavy artillery flagship Semiramis.

Purely in terms of firepower, the Semiramis with 36 heavy guns is more powerful than the two main flagships of Ming Dynasty, Liaodong and Infinite Loyalty combined.

But these are false.

The development trend of the navy has become very clear after the middle of the nineteenth century.

The number of artillery that can be carried by warships has become less and less, and the saved load has been replaced by thick armor and large-caliber naval guns.

Anyone who has played League of Legends should know that for the same money, armor is always more cost-effective than output.

A wooden-hulled ship facing an iron-clad ship is equivalent to an ADC sticking to the face and hammering a heavy warrior, who is naturally restrained.

In fact, the French did not have iron-clad ships. They not only had iron-ribbed wooden-shell ships, wooden-core iron-clad ships, but also the most advanced iron-clad ships built entirely of wrought iron.

As the second largest navy in the world, the French Navy has at least 10 6000-ton Provence-class ironclad ships available for use.

However, these ships were deployed in Europe to counterbalance the navy of the British Empire.

It cannot be seen in the Far East.

Therefore, the scene of the Mingfa Xiaguan naval battle is probably the scene of Galen with a plate armor and a black cut chasing a split bow and an ice knife with an electric knife.

In the eyes of the puppet soldiers of the shogunate who were rowing the old-fashioned Japanese boat, the situation was very strange.

The visual effect of the French wooden hull ship looks much larger.

After all, the negative pressure parts that an I-beam can bear are much thicker made of oak.

Although they had ordered two iron-clad ships from the Americans, the sailors of the shogunate did not understand these at all. They only knew that Fatai was obviously thicker, but they did not know that Ming was the hardest!

The result gave them a blow in the face.

There is an old saying that an army lasts ten years and a navy lasts a hundred years, but this is not necessarily the case.

For example, the German Navy came from behind and achieved better results than the British in the Battle of Jutland.

Although the British had the last laugh strategically, the Germans did win the naval battle in terms of the battle loss ratio alone.

Naval artillery in this era is definitely a technical job.

It can even be said to be a ecstasy for homeworkers.

In the Battle of Jutland, the Germans hit 3.08 percent of the field against the British 2.75 percent.

This is the so-called victory on the podium.

Although the artillerymen of the Daming Navy have not received elementary school education, they are at least top students in the short-term mathematics training course of the Navy University Hall.

East Asians have an unparalleled advantage in mathematics, with a high success rate.

Although the French Navy has a more complete naval tradition, it is naturally not an ace force that was kicked to the Far East.

In the end, Daming Marine Division crushed Faji's 1.52 hit rate with a hit rate of 1.24%, and handed over a satisfactory answer to Principal Zhu, the father of imperial mathematics.

Of course, this is just a hit rate.

Since the French have more naval guns than the navy, the number of shells that the two sides actually hit each other is almost the same.

At this time, the advantage of high armor is reflected.

The puppet army of the shogunate in Luezhen was horrified to see that Fadi's shells hit Ming's battleship, at most it caused a burst of confusion and small-scale damage.

However, Daming hit Faji's wooden boat with a cannonball, and the ammonium nitrate explosives and combustion accelerant immediately sent these remnants of the old era and their broken boats to the bottom of the sea to feed the bastards, and it was too late to even raise the white flag.

As for the wrecked ships of the shogunate puppet army, Daming didn't care, and let them flee back to Yokohama.

After all, they are still useful.

Chapter 304

Xiaguan, or Maguan, is a term that makes every Chinese feel mixed feelings.

It guards the western exit of the Seto Inland Sea and has important economic and strategic value.

This place is very nice.

But it belongs to Daming now!

"I respect my relatives, Maori, congratulations to Daming, congratulations to my emperor, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

On the pier, Maori Keiki saluted Daimyoko who had landed in the posture of Dogeza.

At this moment, he was also full of emotion in his heart.

If it is said that when Maori Jingqin, who recovered from tuberculosis, raised the banner of reverence and rebellion in Xiaguan more than four months ago, he had more or less kept in his heart the ambition of being the king of Japan. Maori Jingqin had already extinguished such unrealistic fantasies in his heart.

Facing the direct intervention of the foreign powers and fighting against the regular French troops, Maori Jingqin realized that the so-called Shimonoseki War was actually because the Westerners did not take themselves seriously at all, and fell down by themselves without any effort up.

The few Napoleon cannons that he worked so hard to sell and cobble together, once killed the shogunate coalition forces and ruined them for thousands of miles.

After shrinking Shimonoseki, these cannons were used to replace the old-fashioned cannons on the fort.

Although it sank two Westerners' armed merchant ships and achieved Japan's highest victory against the Westerners, everything became a cloud after the French fleet's heavy artillery washed the ground.

The invincible fleet led by the giant ship with 36 heavy guns!

Faced with such a dimensionality reduction blow, I am afraid that all the ships in Japan will be vulnerable together!

But who would have thought that such an invincible fleet would be defeated by the Daming Navy in just three hours, and never dare to show up again?

Even the most optimistic Changzhou people would not dare to think about such a thing.

There is only one exception.

That is Maori Laoemon.

He once traveled across the ocean with Mao Lilan to Fengdu to congratulate the Son of Heaven.

During this period, he was invited to visit some of the docks of the Royal Second Dockyard.

There, Youemon saw one giant ship after another with its keel laid and under construction.

He even saw the Infinity Loyalty under construction!

There is a saying in the strategic circle that the so-called secrecy is always a secret kept behind.

Truly advanced, cross-age weapons and equipment are usually not kept secret, but are actively displayed as a deterrent of force.

Zhu Fugui felt that this sentence was a bit too arbitrary, after all, the story of Princess Ribbon was vivid in his memory.

Of course, compared to Midi, Ribbon Princess is indeed not a cross-age.

However, ironclad ships are definitely epoch-making for Japan, and there is no possibility of imitation.

So Zhu Fugui showed it to Youemon along with the car.

Therefore, Eemon has been deeply aware of Daming's horror from a long time ago.

On the contrary, since Beichuan Jingzi's information has been cut off for a long time, other people in the Fan Hall's understanding of the Daming Navy is still at the level of the core value class transport ship.

Although these ships also have a tonnage of more than 2000 tons, they are only transport ships after all, and they are basically made of wood or a mixture of wood and iron.

In the eyes of the vassals, although Daming had a lot of ships, they were certainly no match for the 6000-ton French ship.

Only Youweimen resisted all opinions and insisted on continuing to fight against France, waiting for the rescue of the Great Ming Dynasty.

"Lord, all lords can surrender, but the king cannot surrender!"

He shouted loudly at the meeting to discuss the strategy.

Several vassals retorted.

Shinsaku Takasugi, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly became violent, and hacked to death the three vassals advocating peace and compensation with a Japanese sword.

"Your Majesty the feudal lord, Jin Zuo has lost his loyalty. You should cut your belly to clear your mind, but respecting the Ming and fighting the barbarians is the only way out for Changzhou. Don't forget the king and don't make mistakes..."

As he spoke, he swung his knife to scratch his stomach.

Boom!

Maori Jingqin stood up speechless, and smashed a porcelain cup to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, a group of Jinyiwei dressed in red and black flying fish uniforms leaped in through the doors and windows with a murderous look.

Youemon saluted to Jinyiwei Qianhu Wu Yanzu, and then quickly explained to Takasugi Jin.

Today's meeting is the Hongmen Banquet, a situation set up to eliminate the disloyal and disloyal people in the feudal clan.

As long as Master Maori throws a cup as a sign, there will be soldiers from tomorrow to arrest those traitors.

I didn't expect to be destroyed by the reckless man Shinsaku Takasugi.

That's right, as early as a few days ago, Youemon received a letter of appointment from Jin Yiwei.

If Taro Mishima was here, he would be very familiar with this letter of appointment.

I hereby appoint ( ) as the chairman of the Anti-revolutionary Committee of the Washima Duhufu ( ) area of ​​the Ming Empire.

After completing the letter of appointment, Uemon has become the chairman of the Anti-Rebellion Committee of the Shimonoseki Area of ​​the Imperial Guard of Washima Island.

The reason why Uemon was appointed as the chairman of the Cheka was mainly because the Changzhou Domain was the first dog to defect to Ming Dynasty, so the treatment was naturally different.

With him as the chairman of the Cheka, most of the gentry in Changzhou will naturally be preserved.

This is also the goodwill released by Zhu Fugui, referred to as throwing bones.

However, if he doesn't kill people, can he still be the chairman of the Cheka?

Therefore, Emon’s KPI still has to be completed.

He finally came up with a plan for the Hongmen banquet, and was disturbed by Takasugi Shinsaku.

Being frightened by him with a dagger, how can any potential traitor dare to show his face?

How could Da Ming's father be satisfied with only killing three traitors?

……

Throwing out the extremely funny face of Eemon at that time in his mind, Mori respectfully prostrated himself on the ground.

Out of the corner of his eye, he could barely see the boots of the young emperor.

Just as he was considering whether to step forward and kiss the emperor's boots, and if he would be shot dead by the imperial guards on the spot, Zhu Fugui's jade voice rang out: "Mao Shaobao, get back down!"

"Shao Bao?"

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