Lord of Ming Dynasty

Except for the loss of some warships in the Mediterranean Sea, the Dutch did not lose much this time. They are more cunning. They did not have many warships after the last sea battle. Only two hundred warships were lost in the final decisive battle.

Their strength is still good, there are many low-level warships, and there are a lot of them. They have not lost much in this war. At most, they lost 600 warships before and after the total, and there are more than [-] warships.

Britain and France each lost more than 1000 warships. They were the main force in this war. The British, French, and Spaniards lost the most in this war. The others were soy sauce.

Compared with the largest loss of more than 1000 warships for the coalition forces, the loss of the New Kingdom is even greater. They and the coastal defense fleet only have more than 7000 warships and nearly [-] ships.

The coastal defense fleet lost a lot this time, nearly 900 warships, and the main fleet lost more than [-] warships.Among them, there are nearly [-] warships lying in the port waiting for repair.

It can be said that in this battle, all the warships of the two states and the warships previously reinforced were wiped out, and the coastal defenses of the two states were also undefended.

This kind of loss makes the New Kingdom tremble now, because the enemy still has 5000 warships that have not been dispatched. Even if the thousands of warships guarding the colony are thrown away, the enemy still has more than [-] warships.

The enemy also sent 900 warships to intercept more than 3000 warships reinforced by the New Kingdom, so the enemy still has more than [-] or even [-] warships mobile.

In this way, nearly 2000 main warships of the New Kingdom were restrained, and they dared not dispatch them.The mobilization was cautious, but nearly [-] warships were assembled in the Azores Islands, which could support various places at any time. At the same time, there were nearly [-] warships of the coastal defense fleet, where the most powerful force of the New Kingdom was almost concentrated. fleet of battleships.

If the French and the British come to fight here, even if they come with [-] warships, they will not be afraid. At the same time, they can also send warships to support the two sides, the Atlantic Ocean, one in North America, and the other in Morocco and New West Africa.

So now Morocco is repairing warships, repairing one and launching one, and gradually increasing the number of fleets. Now the coastal defense fleet and the main fleet are mixed and formed to defend the strait mouth and the strait line of several hundred nautical miles along the coast of Morocco.

On land, the reorganized naval personnel returned to the warship one after another, while some important meritorious personnel were summoned to the Governor's Mansion to receive awards from Qiang Wei, who had not recovered from his injuries, and Zhang Yuan, who came over.

"Colonel Tang Kefeng, because of your bravery and outstanding achievements in battle, His Majesty granted you the Gibraltar Strait Defense Medal and armband, and you are now the commander of the seventh formation of the main fleet. Oh, yes, you Now that you are the captain of the official main battleship of your battleship, you have skipped the position that many people need to hold for a year or even three years."

"At the same time, I also congratulate you on officially taking over the position of commander of the seventh formation of the main fleet. I hope that you will continue your previous wisdom and bravery in this position, and create new glories for the navy of the New Kingdom."

"Thank you Governor and Commander. I will do my best to defend the sea and territory of the New Kingdom from the enemy, and leave the port to attack the enemy at any time." Tang Kefeng was hale and hearty, and his salutes were sonorous and powerful, not at all like a 48-year-old veteran.

After the promotion ceremony, Tang Kefeng went back to organize the fleet. The new commander arrived and he had to report.

And Zhang Yuan and Qiang Wei counted the losses of this battle.

This time the loss is really big.

Nearly all suitable sailors and officers were drawn from both States, Army officers were on board, many sorties were made, and many replenishments were made, with Army gunners serving as second-shooters.

Maybe Britain and France will send a lot of cannon fodder warships to attack the coasts on both sides, and then the main battleships will bombard the forts behind. If you can shoot blindly, then the British and French will be able to tilt their ammunition by virtue of their numerical superiority and knock down a fort, that's one.

It has begun, and the real battle has begun. British and French warships, Spanish warships in the Atlantic Ocean, and Portuguese warships gathered at the mouth of the Strait of Gibraltar. There are as many as four thousand warships, which is already all of the Spaniards. All of them, one-third of the British, the French did not send many, but two hundred ships, because they knew that the next big battle had not yet started.

The battle at the mouth of the Strait of Gibraltar was just a warm-up.

The French had other ideas.

Tang Kefeng returned to the captain's room, where his past honors and his family were hung. If he was a naval officer who grew up in the new Qin State, when Zhang Siyuan was a second lieutenant of the Marine Corps, he He is already the third officer of the frigate of the New Qin State, and has the rank of lieutenant.Later, he surrendered to the New Kingdom with the fleet of the New Qin Kingdom. At that time, he was 35 years old, a major, and Zhang Siyuan was already His Majesty the King of the New Kingdom.

More than ten years have passed, and Zhang Siyuan, who is younger than himself, has developed stronger than himself, and he is still fighting for the position of captain of the main battleship of the New Kingdom. Sometimes people's opportunities are really unpredictable.

The first thousand 980 chapters benefit after doubt

Defeating the British and French navies was a victory, but Zhang Siyuan and the others had to consider the loneliness after the victory. The development of the New Kingdom without war was much more difficult, and the war brought them too many dividends.

Although there were a lot of expenses during the war, and the entire kingdom was in a trade island, there were many benefits after the war.

Let’s not talk about how much the enemy has been weakened, let’s just say that the warships they captured were not used by themselves, but they were sold to the Russians, the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire again, and they obtained the right of passage in their territories to benefit them a lot.

At the same time, he served as the deputy commander of the coastal defense fleet in the Strait of Gibraltar, responsible for logistics coordination, coordinating the decommissioning and exchange of warships between the main fleet and the coastal defense fleet, and supporting tasks.

The arrival of the reinforcement fleet has greatly supplemented their previous battle damage, allowing the main fleet to recover to [-]% of the number before the war, and those injured warships have been repaired, and after some simple repairs to the battleships have been basically completed, they have all been destroyed. Sent down and joined the coastal defense fleet, making the coastal defense fleet reach [-]% of the original fleet's number of warships, barely supporting coastal defense and limited offshore patrol missions, which can't do everything like before. and the umbrella of the strait.

After accomplishing such a task, the repair and maintenance work is divided in half, and one fifth of the warships have entered the maintenance berth for maintenance work, completely replacing the damaged parts, replacing the gun barrel, replacing the turret, and everything in the early stage of operation. Among them, the part lost in the battle, because the enemy still has the possibility of attacking, can only be repaired briefly, replace the barrel and correct the parts that need to be replaced, so that the battleship can go to work with injuries. Now that the situation has basically eased, we have to Give the battleship a new look to cope with the possible next big battle.

And those damaged warships are also undergoing comprehensive repairs, not just being able to operate. One-third of the artillery that can fire on them is good, so they dare to send them out to perform missions. Now they all have to be replaced. Only in a state of combat effectiveness.

After this operation, at least two hundred warships will be assembled, all of which are main battleships. Of course, they are the main battleships of the coastal defense fleet. The coastal defense fleet is more needed than the main fleet at this moment, because they can finally protect the coastline and fight against the enemy at sea. Fighting, every fleet of the coastal defense fleet is more powerful than the main fleet of the Dutch, and slightly inferior to the fleets of the French and the British. After all, those warships are outdated or the new warships are not equipped enough.

The enemy will never be allowed to break through the coastline and reach the shore to bombard villages and shore artillery facilities on the coast.

"Fire,"

The main battleship had four turrets, and twelve artillery guns fired in one direction in turn. The three enemy destroyers that were outflanking were immediately enveloped in twelve nearly lost shells of 250 [-]mm artillery.

Although it missed, a near-miss bomb exploded 13 meters away from the enemy destroyer, causing a huge wave as high as 30 meters high. The shrapnel from the explosion flew to the destroyer, blowing up at least a dozen people and hitting a double-linked enemy ship at the same time. The base of the turret, this base immediately lost the function of rotation, the artillery was stuck in front of the chimney and the turrets of the secondary guns on both sides, and at the same time swept the mounts of the two 120mm secondary guns.

At the same time, the enemy's main fleet also fired countless shells at this side, and the shells coming and going from both sides could fight in the air.

In the first round, in the second round, the losses in the first round were the enemy frigates and destroyers intercepted by the low-level warships in front of the enemy, as well as some cruisers. The artillery shells and the neatly arranged formations were smashed by dense secondary artillery, or torn apart by the shells. In addition, their purpose was to entangle the warships of the New Kingdom in front of them, so they could not go away.

If you can't walk away, you can only be hit, and after you hit it, you can only sink, and become part of the losses in the naval coalition forces of the West, Britain, France and other countries.

The battle started in preparation. There are more than 1000 warships here, plus the low-level warships of the coastal defense fleets in various ports. The main battleships have been dispatched to charge ahead or cover both sides of the main fleet. This time we must go all out to try to block the enemy's attack.

The combat power I have exploded at this moment, but the enemy's fleet has too many warships, and they are too close together. Within half an hour of the enemy's main fleet fighting with the main fleet here, there are destroyers and speedboats that have slipped through the net. It broke through the defense lines of all the warships of the New Kingdom here, rushed to the rear of the fleet, and rushed to the coastline.

Near the coastline, the destroyers and fast warships that were cruising immediately came to intercept them. These are the warships that the coastal defense fleet put behind to defend the port and the shore, and even the old ships and merchant ships in the port were transformed into the last line of defense, and patrols were added. The army is here.

How many such warships are needed for a coastline of hundreds of nautical miles to intercept the enemy's warships breaking through the blockade.

So many warships, let’s talk about how many broke through the blockade, and were quickly submerged under the artillery fire of the swarming destroyers and fast battleships patrolling the coastline, without even a wave.

As the battle continued, the New Kingdom lost 150 warships in an hour's battle, all of which were low-level warships and some main battleships of the coastal defense fleet charging ahead. In order to stop the enemy on both wings, they tried their best. After all, their warships were Old or damaged warships, because only those warships can be decommissioned into the coastal defense fleet.

After a fierce battle, running back and forth two to three hundred nautical miles away, they should have entered the shipyard for maintenance, but now they still have to fight. With the collision of the main fleets of the two sides, their task is to intercept the enemy from the two sides. It is a warship that is trying to infiltrate near the coastline with a large number of people and ships, attack the coastline, and cause damage to the coastline of the New Kingdom.

They retreated, but opened their own defense line, so that British and French warships, especially low-level warships, relied on their speed advantage to continuously pass through their defense line and penetrate into the formation of the main fleet, resulting in the firepower of the main fleet. They have to be intercepted, and they have to be prevented from passing through, but because there are too few battleships.

The enemy has more than 4000 warships. The New Kingdom has only about 2000 warships on the front line. The rest of the coastal defense fleet has hundreds of warships and hundreds of warships that have been transformed into merchant ships. There are more than 4000 warships in total. The successive attacks of multiple warships made more and more enemy warships slip through the net.

There is no way to deal with this kind of Tang Kefeng. Even if he commands, even if His Majesty Zhang Siyuan comes down, he also thinks that under such circumstances, on the wide sea of ​​fifty nautical miles, it is really impossible to stop the enemy's attack. Infiltration, although it is constantly retreating, the formation is shortening the distance, and the defense area is getting smaller and smaller. From fifty nautical miles to 45 nautical miles, and finally more than 30 nautical miles, there are more and more enemies to be intercepted.

The first thousand 980 chapters sell more goods

Harvesting a lot of British and French colonial trading rights and trade dividends in various places, and forcibly snatching a lot of land is a manifestation of the New Kingdom's greater benefits from this battle.

At the same time, the goods accumulated in the country in the past few months have all been sold to the colonies of Western countries, making the economies of Western countries that have not recovered from the failure for a while even worse.

And began to truly respect the opponent of the New Kingdom. Now the people of the western countries no longer treat the New Kingdom as an outsider from the East. What they admire is force and powerful strength.

At the same time, he served as the deputy commander of the coastal defense fleet in the Strait of Gibraltar, responsible for logistics coordination, coordinating the decommissioning and exchange of warships between the main fleet and the coastal defense fleet, and supporting tasks.

The arrival of the reinforcement fleet has greatly supplemented their previous battle damage, allowing the main fleet to recover to [-]% of the number before the war, and those injured warships have been repaired, and after some simple repairs to the battleships have been basically completed, they have all been destroyed. Sent down and joined the coastal defense fleet, making the coastal defense fleet reach [-]% of the original fleet's number of warships, barely supporting coastal defense and limited offshore patrol missions, which can't do everything like before. and the umbrella of the strait.

After accomplishing such a task, the repair and maintenance work is divided in half, and one fifth of the warships have entered the maintenance berth for maintenance work, completely replacing the damaged parts, replacing the gun barrel, replacing the turret, and everything in the early stage of operation. Among them, the part lost in the battle, because the enemy still has the possibility of attacking, can only be repaired briefly, replace the barrel and correct the parts that need to be replaced, so that the battleship can go to work with injuries. Now that the situation has basically eased, we have to Give the battleship a new look to cope with the possible next big battle.

And those damaged warships are also undergoing comprehensive repairs, not just being able to operate. One-third of the artillery that can fire on them is good, so they dare to send them out to perform missions. Now they all have to be replaced. Only in a state of combat effectiveness.

After this operation, at least two hundred warships will be assembled, all of which are main battleships. Of course, they are the main battleships of the coastal defense fleet. The coastal defense fleet is more needed than the main fleet at this moment, because they can finally protect the coastline and fight against the enemy at sea. Fighting, every fleet of the coastal defense fleet is more powerful than the main fleet of the Dutch, and slightly inferior to the fleets of the French and the British. After all, those warships are outdated or the new warships are not equipped enough.