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Facing such a powerful fleet, the will of the British and Spaniards to resist was weakened. After sinking two first-generation ironclad ships, all the remaining twelve warships in the surrounded fleet surrendered and one escaped.

Zhang Siyuan was so happy, he immediately accepted these warships in an all-round way, and distributed them all into the third-level auxiliary fleet and the reconnaissance fleet. a little bit.

The strength of Zhang Siyuan's fleet was also enhanced by the enemy's food delivery operation. None of them were seriously damaged, so Xiu Yixiu continued to use them. Anyway, their fleet was all wounded warships.

He really wants to change a batch of warships from the mainland or Xindingzhou, but as an auxiliary fleet, their fate is like this, protecting the route and patrolling.

The main fleet led by Lu Fang has 49 main battleships, 20 cruisers, [-] frigates, [-] destroyers, and a total of [-] battleships. For those that have suffered heavy losses, basically those old battleships have been replaced by second lieutenants and temporary fleets. This is bad news for the British Caribbean Fleet, which has lost more than [-] warships.

Four lieutenants, nine second lieutenants, three sergeant majors, and twenty sergeants, this is his temporary officer mix,

The first thousand and 580 chapters and seven strengths increase again

The victory of several small islands was insignificant to Zhang Siyuan, and insignificant to Qin State. Lu Fang and Zhuang Lin didn't even look down on the captured warships, and directly allocated them to Zhang Siyuan.

Although the Dingyang Prefecture Fleet also suffered heavy losses, losing most of its auxiliary fleet, two enemy fleets in the Caribbean Sea, and its own main fleet also lost one-third of its combat power, but the mainland will soon replenish them. It's over, because they have to take care of the main combat direction of the Azov Islands and the Moroccan base in Africa, so they didn't get more main battleships, and there were other supplementary warships, but they restored the previous twelve main battleships, eighteen Cruisers, the original establishment of 35 Type IV improved ironclad ships.

Two more main battleships were added. Originally, two main battleships from Dingzhou and Dingyang were transferred to support the Azov Islands. The comparison of the strength of the super fleet.

After the destruction of the enemy's two Caribbean fleets, the enemy had already lost a lot in the Caribbean due to battles with the French and the Dutch. Even the auxiliary warships and transport warships in the super fleet lost one-third. People and Spaniards have been unable to take care of other places.

They only transferred [-] first-generation ironclad and steam engine warships from the large auxiliary fleet to protect other Caribbean colonial islands, which reduced the number of warships in their auxiliary fleet by another third.

The enemy's super fleet generally maintains 110 main battleships and 180 auxiliary fleets. Because there are many battles here, some warships are left, so their super fleet has [-] auxiliary warships, plus the Caribbean fleet, It can be said that the number of their warships is close to [-].

In addition to the more than 100 Spanish warships, the number of their warships is about [-].

However, the combined number of warships in the Caribbean Sea Fleet of the French and the Dutch is also quite large, about 400 in total. The two sides have confronted many times, and their total number of warships has dropped from more than 300 to more than 200. , the number of French and Dutch warships dropped from more than [-] to about [-] or [-].

Neither of the two sides broke out in a decisive battle, so the number of warships lost by both sides was not too much, at most only about one-third of the loss. The combined number of books of the French and the Dutch can still maintain pressure on the current British and Spaniards. After the Spanish Caribbean warships were continuously annihilated, the Spaniards can be said to have completely withdrawn from the battle for the Caribbean Sea.

Although they are increasing their troops, the increase will not happen in a short period of time. At least a few months, the British are also increasing their troops, and it will take a few months to mobilize.

Therefore, the Dingyangzhou Fleet is now the main force in the Caribbean Sea, and the Dingzhou Fleet is supplemented by the Atlantic Ocean. The remaining old Spanish warships dare not go to sea and stay in the port. The British have undertaken most of the Spanish ports and routes. In addition, they are still in constant conflict with the French fleet and the Dutch fleet. Therefore, the British super fleet did not come out to trouble the Panama fleet in Dingyang Prefecture.

Compared with the 2000 nautical miles long-distance replenishment of the British, it only takes [-] nautical miles to replenish from the mainland of Qin, and more than [-] nautical miles to replenish from Dingzhou. Therefore, the replenishment of the fleet in Dingyang Prefecture was completed quickly, and the fleet recovered. fighting power.

The overall number of warships in the British super fleet has dropped to more than 120, and half of the warships must be used to suppress the Dutch and French fleets, keeping equal or slightly surpassing the sum of the two, or slightly less, so they also No more warships can be assigned to fight the Qin Dingyang Fleet. If so, they must be careful of the containment and harassment of the Dingzhou Fleet, which is only more than 500 nautical miles away from them. Maybe they will be locked down just after they go south. The State Fleet copied it.

The situation is so delicate, Dingyang Prefecture has obtained a supplementary opportunity, Zhang Siyuan's fleet can safely bully the Southern Spaniards and the British near Venezuela, a series of islands in the Caribbean Sea near Puerto Rico, so in the next consecutive month, Annihilated the enemy fleet hiding on these islands, and added a captured enemy British first-generation ironclad ship to his main fleet, and the main battleship of his second-level auxiliary fleet became sixteen.

His third-tier auxiliary fleet added five British steam engine battleships, two Spanish steam engine battleships, plus the original six Spanish steam engine battleships, plus their four captured first-class armed battleships, nine Quasi-ironclad ships, good guy, the number of battleships in the third-tier auxiliary fleet is directly higher than that of the main fleet, with a total of 26 battleships, although they are all outdated old battleships.

If you count the original [-] merchant ships and the captured enemy [-] merchant ships, the third-tier auxiliary fleet is no longer worthy of its name.

His reconnaissance fleet has also been upgraded, with six fast steam engine battleships, plus five armed steam engine merchant ships from Tim, plus a British thousand-ton fast ironclad ship, plus a Type I Qin ironclad ship, two There are two Type II ironclad ships, and the total force has reached fifteen.

In view of this, Zhang Siyuan requested the establishment of a transport fleet, and dispatched a reserve warrant officer who had just recovered and was seriously injured and was still recuperating on the island as the commander of the transport fleet to separate the merchant ships from the third-level auxiliary fleet. For the low-level fleet, a reserve warrant officer is sufficient, and he has merit, and soon the approval from Lu Fang arrived, allowing the establishment of a transport and supply fleet.

A second-level auxiliary fleet like his is a bit beyond the standard, but now it is a special case, and now Lu Fang has no time to care about them, just ask about the rewards and the deployment of personnel and materials.

So Zhang Siyuan's fleet became a fleet that was said to be a first-level auxiliary fleet, but it was not close to it, because its combat effectiveness was not good, and the warships equipped did not meet the standards. It was said to be a second-level auxiliary fleet, but its personnel and configuration exceeded the standard. But the numbers and structure have changed.

His fleet swept the islands off the coast from Puerto Rico to Venezuela, wiped out the Spanish and British colonies, and made him quite rich in combat experience, but he was not at ease, because he seemed to feel that he was still free to control these operations. Skills, and these seem to be very familiar, just use combat to verify or find a little proficiency.

He is looking forward to a bigger challenge.

The first thousand and 580 eight chapters conspired in Port-au-Prince

However, because he had no orders and insufficient troops for plotting against Port-au-Prince, although 2 captives were withdrawn one after another, there were more than 4000 captives left. These people consumed a lot of food every day, so their There were not many troops, and the wounded were transported back to Xinding Yangzhou for recuperation one after another. In addition to the retired and vacationed officers and soldiers, there were five mercenary regiments, two Han Chinese regiments, three marine regiments, one cavalry regiment, one artillery regiment, and one shore artillery regiment. The strength of the regiment looked quite large.

But when they landed and seized the island, they lost at least 200 troops, and each regiment allocated at most [-] to dozens of people, but the defensive operations and naval battles that followed for nearly a month and a half caused the loss of one of the three marine regiments. Half of the regiment's strength, the five mercenary regiments lost one and a half regiments, the shore artillery regiment was almost wiped out, and the cavalry regiment lost a battalion of strength.

The next landing on the Virgin Islands lost a battalion of a mercenary regiment. Two mercenary battalions were allocated to defend the Virgin Islands, one Han battalion and one marine battalion.

The two regiments of the Han were dismantled and added to the Marine Corps, which restored the strength of the Marine Corps to two regiments. The Han Corps also supplemented the shore artillery regiment and the mercenary regiment that suffered heavy losses. They served as officers and the main force in it, and recruited from captives. The manpower can only supplement the strength of the mercenary regiment of 1000 people.

His fleet is expanding. Because there are too many ships, he can't use other people. He can only recruit some former sailors and fishermen from the mercenary regiment and the Han Chinese regiment, and temporarily train some army troops to serve as sailors.

It is necessary to make up for the loss of the marine regiment, the loss of the shore artillery unit, and the loss of the naval gunner, so after some adjustments, he currently has only two mercenary regiments on the island to guard the prisoners. It was only after adding some surrendered captives that it was barely enriched, reaching the full number of two mercenary regiments.

A mercenary regiment kept the minimum loss and minimum replenishment of personnel, but it also had to protect the ports of Puerto Rico and San Juan, and also dispatched a battalion to guard the two main islands of the Virgin Islands.

Artillery Regiment and Shore Artillery Regiment, there are only two battalions left in the Shore Artillery Regiment, each of which was transferred to the Virgin Islands for defense, and most of the artillery regiment was transferred to the shore artillery regiment and boarded the ship as fleet gunners, that is to say, the artillery The regiment survived in name only, leaving only a regiment headquarters of about dozens of people.

That is to say, almost all the troops have been transferred and adjusted. The current remaining establishment is three mercenary regiments, two marine regiments, one cavalry regiment with two battalions, and the shore artillery regiment is less than the two battalions of the establishment.

It can be said that at least three-fifths of the troops have been lost, and two-fifths of the troops are left to move around, one carrot and one battalion. Although there are still some wounded, it is only 1000 troops. After the battleship, all these wounded were sent on board and became the strength of the navy.

In other words, his biggest difficulty is that even if he deploys two supplementary mercenary regiments, he will not have the strength to capture Port-au-Prince. If the enemy does not have the support of battleships, the infantry does not have the strength to capture an island as large as the enemy, and even if it captures it, there is not enough troops to defend it. The battleships have no opponents. Maybe they can bully the enemy's shore artillery defense and blow up the enemy's port facilities. The fleet is here. is of little use.

With the clearing of several small islands in Venezuela, he arranged a platoon to a company and a large battalion to defend each island. Even the strength of the remaining three mercenary regiments was exhausted. He was sent to the island for defense and stationed, and now there is only one marine regiment left in the fleet scattered on the battleships he entered into hundreds of ships, serving as soldiers to protect the battleships.

In a word, Zhang Siyuan has no troops here, and although all the army units here are under his control, he needs the consent of the army division in New Dingyang Prefecture, Panama, to mobilize them for combat.

He can use it, and the capture of those small islands is just a subsidiary plan for them to take Puerto Rico. He is just perfecting the plan, so it is not a problem to mobilize troops to attack or garrison. It is enough to report after the event is completed. If the loss is lost, it will be responsible. , This is his current situation, because his main task is to ensure that caravans traveling to and from the Caribbean have access to the sea, not to attack cities and seize territories, which is beyond his authority.

As the commander of a second-level auxiliary fleet, a captain who used to be able to decide major events in a region, under the current situation, he is just someone else's subordinate and cannot make decisions on his own. His direct boss is not Lu Fang, but The commander of the first-level auxiliary fleet in Macaibo Bay, with the rank of major, he belongs to one of the three second-level auxiliary fleets of others, and is assigned to other people's dispatch.

And just when he had a headache plotting Port-au-Prince, but he didn't have enough troops and command authority, he ordered his main fleet to attack to support a Dutch fleet in Dortnit. The pursuit of a squadron of the super fleet separated by the British is currently struggling there. Five warships have been lost, and the remaining eight warships are sailing in the direction of Port-au-Prince in an attempt to return to the island of Greater Hanama through the Port-au-Prince Strait .

A reconnaissance fleet from the main fleet discovered the Dutch fleet, and as an ally, the Dutch asked the reconnaissance fleet for help, but the reconnaissance fleet would not fight, unless they cooperated with the main fleet, they were not allowed to fight. Their main task It is investigation.

Why do you have to run so far to investigate, because Xinding Yangzhou needs to keep abreast of the movements of the British super fleet, so the investigation is essential. If it reaches the door, the caravan and escorting auxiliary fleet will suffer heavy losses, and In terms of overall strength, the Panamanian fleet does not have an advantage, so it is necessary to be vigilant against the enemy at all times.

It can be said that the main fleet of the New Qin State in Panama also encountered the same problem as Zhang Siyuan. Without orders, they could not take the initiative to attack, and they could not take the initiative to provoke without the enemy's situation, because their strength was not superior.

They have to act according to the battle situation and enemy situation, as well as the strategy of the new Qin State.

The new Qin State will not take the initiative to attack, because their warship replenishment is not as fast as the British. It was originally expected that the British would cease to replenish warships in five years, but they replenished them in two years, and they also upgraded their warships and expanded a super fleet. , It also helped Portugal and the Spaniards to form a local fleet, making the fleets of the two countries even stronger than before the war.

The order must be carried out. Zhang Siyuan immediately ordered the reconnaissance fleet to cooperate with the main fleet to attack. At the same time, four first-class battleships were recruited from the third-level auxiliary fleet below as troop transport and supply warships to follow the main force of the reconnaissance fleet. Returned from the Virgin Islands to Puerto Rico to take command.

The first thousand 580 nine chapters dormant at sea

Perhaps the Chinese Empire created by Zhang Qiang had the blood of expansion from the bone marrow, and a character that was uncomfortable fighting against enemies. Zhang Siyuan felt that he also had an often inexplicable urge to take Port-au-Prince into his hands.

The island of Puerto Rico is too small and has no resources, and its planting is not as attractive as Port-au-Prince, which has a large land area. Their coal and various resources need to be supplied by Panama, and the food is not enough for tens of thousands of people. Therefore, Taking over the big island of Port-au-Prince, planting food, vegetables, fruits, and ensuring food and drink is what she is eager to do now.

Why didn't the Spaniards and the British have this problem?

One is because there are a lot of merchant ships coming and going, and just leaving a little bit is enough for thousands of people to eat. The other is that there are generally not many immigrants and local aboriginals on these islands, and their fleet is only 5000 people. Ten thousand people is considered a large population. After all, the population of the West has never skyrocketed. Their population has always been tense, but they occupy countless colonies around the world due to the tense population, causing the population to become more dispersed.

A place with tens of thousands of people is already considered a prosperous city in their minds. With millions of people, they can almost lay a foundation for a hundred years. They are envied by other countries. Seeing that they have a city with millions of people, countless talents Concentrated in that city, and in the Huaxia Empire, tens of thousands of people, it is so desolate, it is just a small town at most.

The reason why there are not many immigrants and troops stationed on each small island of the enemy is that in the face of a huge fleet and a huge landing force, even if the enemy knows that he is sandwiched between Puerto Rico and Venezuela, he cannot be angry and rebellious. Baozi's fleet It's like going on a cruise, firing two shots, and then the mercenary regiment and the marines landed, and those small islands surrendered after two resistances. Facing a powerful enemy, Westerners will never raise their hearts to resist.

After receiving a telegram from his superiors, Zhang Qiang organized the team while thinking about how to operate, and then he called Baozi who was temporarily in charge, "You use the cover of night to send part of the troops to the enemy's island every day. Port-au-Prince Island is It’s a big island. The Spaniard’s forces are only on the coast and Port-au-Prince, mainly in the direction of the port, as well as inland towns and villages, but they are scattered. You send a small group of troops to land, then hide them, and give them the second batch Send weapons, ammunition and food supplies, and then send a group of people up, land at more points, look for the enemy's loopholes to land, and some are small beaches that the enemy can't take care of.