Lord of Ming Dynasty

Previously, it was clearly stipulated that it was the navy, but just like the 5000-year history of China, the wheels of history are far taller than the human body and brain, just like the wheels of the tall 250-ton dump truck on the mining industry. When two big men are stacked together, at least the height of two big Russian men stacked up is enough. When such a tall wheel runs over a person's body, it is the wheel of history that is rolling over, so the habit and the inertia of history, It was still in the era of the eldest prince. After more than ten years of the eldest prince's ruling period, the habit of the Chinese Empire's navy was completely changed, and it was called the navy instead of the navy.

The loss of a destroyer caused the enemy's three main battleships to withdraw from the battle. The loss of three cruisers here prevented two of the enemy's battleships from participating in the battle. How easy it is, at least you can handle it.

However, the situation over there is not good, and the situation of the remaining seven destroyers and frigates is not much better. After all, they have been fighting for nine hours, there are not many shells, the speed has dropped significantly, and the protection is not much. The fourteen main battleships are still a mountain that they can't breathe, and Zhang Siyuan can't help them, unless there is a new victorious army joining, it has to be here.

The first thousand 640 chapters and six reinforcements arrived

After the frigate squad paid two injured frigates, and the destroyer squad paid two more destroyers, the injured five main battleships among the enemy's fourteen main battleships finally sank unwillingly.

Now there are still six frigates left in the frigate squad, five destroyers left in the destroyer squad, and the enemy still has nine main battleships in good condition. After the cruiser over there sank one of the enemy's main battleships, it also suffered When the heavy damage happened, an enemy's main battleship rushed towards them frantically. The cruiser, which was already slow to only ten knots, was very unwilling to be hit by the enemy, but fortunately, the enemy's main battleship After hitting the cruiser, I was seriously injured. After retreating, the bow of the ship was seriously flooded, and it plunged into the sea, and the sailors on it jumped into the sea one after another.

The bow of the ship here is also in dilapidated condition, nearly a hundred tons of water has entered, and the speed has only dropped to a pitiful five knots.

There are still two turrets, four artillery pieces, three turrets on the left and right, and three 75mm artillery pieces on the left and right. The remaining main battleship of the enemy did not come up, so he turned around and ran away, looking for the remaining nine enemy ships over there. The main battleships have rendezvoused.

At the last juncture of the battle, whoever can persevere will win, but the British are still timid. The nine main battleships retreated while fighting. After successfully damaging a destroyer and sinking a frigate, Two more main battleships were severely damaged, and the two enemy main battleships shamelessly surrendered.

The remaining eight main battleships of the enemy faced five frigates, four destroyers, and a seriously injured cruiser. They fought back while running, but how could the red-eyed Zhang Yuan let them go? Trying to overtake the enemy's fleet, the four destroyers under the command of Lieutenant Baozi also chased after them, while Zhang Siyuan's battleship could only stop to receive two surrendered enemy main battleships. The reason for the surrender is that the enemy knew that he could not escape, so he surrendered.

The wounded and sailors who fell into the water rescued more than 1000 people. Because of the long fighting time, although this is the coast of Africa, no one can stand it for nine hours in sea water. Many people froze to death in the sea. Otherwise, it will be eaten by sharks and other fish.

At dusk, the watchman reported that a large fleet was coming ahead. Zhang Siyuan was shocked. He rescued people here for two hours. Unexpectedly, the enemy fleet came again. With hundreds of tons of seawater and more than 1000 wounded, how to run?

I don't know what happened to Lieutenant Baozi and Zhang Yuan who were chasing them.

But if you can't run, you have to run. The battleship turned around and headed towards the port of Ceuta with great difficulty. At least there were shore artillery and field artillery to support it when it arrived at the port.

An hour later, after running for more than four nautical miles, they saw a destroyer that was not very fast and was covered with scars coming to them at a speed of twelve knots. This was their destroyer, and the destroyer brought good news .

Lu Fang and their reinforcement fleet finally arrived, with 35 main battleships, 45 cruisers, 55 frigates, 120 destroyers, and 8000 transport ships, bringing three mercenary brigades, one Han Chinese brigade, and one Mexican The brigade, a Colombian native brigade, and a marine brigade, half Han Chinese, half mercenaries, the mercenaries are mainly Mexicans, Spaniards and North American immigrants, a total of 1 people, so many naval warships, sailors alone There were 8000 people, and there were [-] captives. The captives were mainly Colombian indigenous people, plus some indigenous Han people.

In addition, there are [-] technicians and engineers of various types, mainly shipbuilding and ship repairing. In addition, the transport ship also brought steam engines, boilers, pipes, parts, food, weapons and equipment for as many as [-] warships. supplies.

Back at the station in Ceuta port with Lu Fang, Zhang Siyuan heard a piece of news that was bad news for him. His son and grandson, Wu Kejing, and his own citizen Wunan actually opened Except for myself, now I am no longer the admiral of the navy of the Moroccan base of the major of the New Qin State, and the commander in charge of commanding the entire base, but a traitor to the country. loss, and let the troops below arrest him.

In other words, as early as a month ago, he was declared a traitor by the new Qin State.

I have nothing to do with the new Qin State now.

But why did Lu Fang and the others help themselves?

He looked at Lu Fang.

Internal repression, exploitation, oppression, external compromise, and then compromise. When they come to other people's places, they want to integrate into other environments as soon as possible. These people don't even have the blood and backbone of those foreigners. Why do their own people always have to be in their own hands? After taking power, everything you do is not good for the country?

Zhang Siyuan didn't understand, but he stood with Lu Fang and Luo Zuo clearly and supported him. Although they couldn't betray the new Qin country because of their feelings for the new Qin country, they still helped him one last time. Those who are bloody and conscientious, still have a sense of justice, are still good Han people, and are still bloody Han people. Zhang Siyuan looked at Lu Fang gratefully. They certainly cannot fight against the entire New Qin State by themselves. The gift they sent this time is the entire main fleet of the entire New Dingyang State of Panama.

Lu Fang patted him on the shoulder, "The new state of Qin depends on you, that's all we can help you with, maybe someone from Zhao Shuai's military intelligence department will arrest me soon after I go back, but I don't regret it, we Can’t compromise with the enemy, stand up to die or kneel to live, our real Han people definitely choose to stand up to die, those who live kneeling are not our Han people, if something happens to us in the future, I hope you don’t let those kneel down live , we need bloody Han Chinese, not kneeling Han Chinese.”

Zhang Siyuan is very grateful to Lu Fang and the others. There is no way to do this unless he starts a new stove, and now he has been forced to start a new stove.

After receiving these things, Zhang Siyuan conducted a mobilization internally and asked them to choose. Fortunately, there were not many remaining personnel in the two port bases. Most of them were army personnel, and most of them were Sudanese natives. More than half of those Han people wanted to return to the New Qin State, and many of them had their families in the New Qin State. They couldn’t return. There was also a list of 300 people. The corpses came back, and some of them couldn't even find the corpses. There was also a list of 3000 or [-] mercenaries, and most of their families were in the new Qin State.

So this time, a total of 300 people died, more than 1000 Han people were alive, and more than 1000 mercenaries boarded Lu Fang's returning fleet and returned. The rest followed Zhang Siyuan's loyalty. Or the officers and soldiers with deep affection, including those mercenaries, and some people without families, it doesn't matter, and they don't want to run away, so they follow Zhang Siyuan and the others.

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The first thousand 640 seven chapters start a new bloody road of the Han people

Before Lu Fang left, he also took away the former army supervisor Xiao Nan, the former adjutant of Wu Nan, he was obviously not in Zhang Siyuan's camp, and keeping him would be a disaster, or it would be useless, like this Zhang Siyuan asked Zhang Yuan to do it, and Zhang Yuan made it clear his loyalty to him. Zhang Siyuan had worked with him for two years, and the two got along pretty well, so he promoted him to be his deputy.

After Lu Fang and the others left, the ports of Ceuta and Al Huceima were deserted. There used to be more than 2 people in the two places, but now the total population is less than 3000. There are hundreds of thousands of people.

But the port of Ceuta was too small, so Zhang Siyuan ordered the mercenary brigade to march to the port of Bensu. The mercenary brigade was all veterans who had tossed around in Peru, Venezuela, and Colombian depots. They all had friendship with Zhang Siyuan before, because Zhang Siyuan Served as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps on the depot line, and at the same time served as a second lieutenant in naval logistics, and at the same time led the Marine Corps stationed there, and fought alongside them.

In Bensu Port, Wei Yuanchao, the head of the cavalry regiment originally stationed in Al Huceima Port, is leading the mercenary brigade, the cavalry battalion in Al Hoceima Port and the artillery battalion in Ceuta Port to attack Bensu Port.

The specific identity of Wei Yuanchao is unknown. As a Han Chinese who arrived in recent years, he was promoted to the rank of major commander of the cavalry regiment, which proves that his ability is still good. A man in his thirties is as strong as Tengger, with a full face. Also piled full of whiskers.

As for how to fight the land war, as a veteran who fought for several years, he knew very well, and quickly came up with a plan, and then a mercenary brigade with [-] foreign soldiers, a regiment of Han Chinese cavalry, and an artillery regiment. Advance while fighting, cut off internally and externally, and made an extraordinary attack on Zhang Siyuan's fleet, Bensu, the colonial port of the Spaniards, soon fell.

Leaving a regiment stationed at the port, the artillery regiment received the shore artillery fort, and quickly restored the combat effectiveness of the shore artillery fort, rearranged the defense of the shore artillery according to their deployment, and did these things. As the artillery regiment, the Huceima base The artillery regiment, after supplementing some Sudanese soldiers and some new Han soldiers, most of them were originally from the shore artillery regiment of the Houthima, and now they are familiar with the road.

It only took one morning to hit the port of Bensu. In fact, the Spaniards in Bensu all know their affairs. Some high-ranking officials and some rich people fled away when Zhang Siyuan and the others reorganized the fleet. Those who remained had no chance to escape. The low-level soldiers and immigrant people, of course, at this moment, all these people have entered the prisoner-of-war camp. As an emerging force, there is no emerging force with a name, Zhang Siyuan quickly put himself out as Zhang Qiang's set in China up.

These prisoners of war are the free labor they developed. Now the British and Spaniards have not contacted him as a force, and the British have released some Han captives and mercenary captives after signing the agreement last time. Some British people have also been released here. Except for some officers and some British soldiers, there was basically no exchange of prisoners of war between the two sides for 20 years. The treatment in Western Han countries is different from that in Western countries. One is that everyone is not familiar with it, and the other is that serious antagonism makes There was no communication, so there was no exchange, no exchange of captives, especially among the British.

In the UK, Han people are two-legged sheep, they are slaves, and they can generate income. The same is true in Spain and other countries. Most of them are sold to make up for the losses of each war. Most of the money goes into several countries. The pockets of the ministers or the officers below, it seems that the East and the West are the same in this matter.

In the Huaxia Empire, the New Qin State, and Zhang Siyuan, the captives are free labor. Apart from giving food, they may provide a source of soldiers for the mercenary regiment, which is of no use. In fact, everyone has always promoted the talents of Westerners, but according to Zhang Qiang and Zhang Siyuan, most Westerners are also illiterate, especially soldiers, especially Western soldiers who did not reach the nineteenth century. Like the Chinese soldiers during the Anti-Japanese War, most of them were illiterate farmers.

Therefore, it is really difficult to select some skilled or knowledgeable talents from among them, so they can only do coolies, but those captured priests who accompanied the ship or the army, the priests are indeed like the kind of recognized people in later generations. Most of them are literate, know various crafts, have several skills, or at least one technical talent specialized in one skill, or other talents, so Zhang Qiang, among the foreign people who received preferential treatment in the new Qin State , There are more priests and priests of this kind, and most soldiers, even military officers, are actually a group of poor, crazy illiterates, whoever has money will serve as a soldier, and rich people have always been protected by others.

Taking Bensu, 10 people are finally settled. Although most of them are soldiers, Bensu is simply a huge barracks. The port of Ceuta is a naval port, and the navy is all there. Two destroyer squads are sent here to guard. Huceima sent a frigate squad and a destroyer squad to guard, and there are people from all over there, Han people and mercenary retirees, of course they are all disabled, or old and weak, otherwise they cannot retire now Yes, Zhang Siyuan's power was first established, and it is impossible to implement the retirement system, and all the people are soldiers.

Because it is a new force, Zhang Siyuan's first task is to change the telegram password, telegram frequency and call sign of his own force, and then send people to the Huaxia Empire to buy new telegraph machines, and hire the Chinese Empire's wireless and wired telegraph talents, shipbuilding and Ship design talents, all kinds of talents, and at the same time send personnel to European countries to search for all kinds of talents. The warships sent by Lu Fang and the others cannot survive in the current era. They must have their own shipyards and their own weapons and equipment production plants. , must have its own source of raw materials, must establish its own Han Chinese collection agencies in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Chinese Empire, Africa and other places, intelligence bureaus, etc., a series of busy things made him very tired.

However, it finally stabilized. The British did not come to cause trouble for a month and a half, and the Strait of Gibraltar fell into their control. The remaining African fleet of the British retreated to another colonial port 120 kilometers away, the port of Tangier. It can't be used anymore, only a few small-tonnage patrol ships come in and out, and large-tonnage warships can't get in at all.

It can be said that where it is paralyzed, it cannot be repaired in three or four months, and it cannot be used at all in four months or the British send a fleet from other places, which means that he has at least two months of rest without being harassed by the enemy. , to restore power.

The first thousand 640 eight chapters expand the new power territory

The distance from Bensu to Al Huceima is 150 kilometers, about 82 nautical miles. After occupying Bensu, the area of ​​the territory has expanded, and the road to the outside African continent has also been opened up. All the ports and inland rivers in between, the six towns in the middle and one estuary were quickly occupied by the fleet. Zhang Siyuan decommissioned all the warships that participated in the last battle and captured enemy warships.

About three frigates, one cruiser, seven destroyers, plus some armed merchant ships and transport ships, formed a coast guard patrol team of about [-] ships. Lieutenant Baozi was promoted to the commander of the coast guard and let him lead this team. The fleet is stationed at the port of Al Hoceima and patrols these six ports at the same time. In fact, together with the ports of Bensu, Ceuta, and Al Hoceima, Zhang Siyuan, a Han Chinese force, now controls ten ports on the African Mediterranean coast of Morocco.

Although the width of the controlled territory is only about 45 to [-] kilometers, it is a long and narrow coastline. Of course, due to the influence of mountains, rivers and dense forests, the actual controlled territory is about [-] kilometers wider, but there is not much defense in those places. And practical value, that is to say, these ten ports are roughly like a string of candied gourds bent on the bottom of a pot, dotted with ten ports and towns, fishing villages, and inland river estuaries.

This is much wider than the Moroccan base. The Moroccan base is only [-] kilometers wide, and about a dozen kilometers are the deserts and oases of the indigenous people. The deserts of the indigenous people are relatively wide, about [-] kilometers, but no one will go there. Going to play in the desert, the oasis is also reserved for the natives of Sudan. Zhang Siyuan is not interested in going there, or sending troops to occupy it. He can only deliver food to the enemy, or in case the natives of Sudan betray that day, those people will be given to the Spaniards He was not so kind in the "voting certificate".

Occupying so many territories, Zhang Siyuan will not put all the people in these places on average. The army has the most people in these places. The enemy's people in these places have not been expelled, and they are still allowed to live. There are taxes, a power, and the most important finances are still supported by taxes.

Because it is a continent, it can trade with other places on the African continent, so the tax is good, and it can also conduct port trade with merchant ships from other countries. Although there is no horoscope yet, Zhang Siyuan thinks far and there is no regulation What kind of Han people or foreigners, there is no regulation on who these people are. Now it seems that there are a lot of people. The Han people are not an absolute population, and they cannot form absolute opposing emotions. It really can’t be done like the Chinese Empire here. We can only adapt. Slowly eliminate the influence of Westerners.

Under such circumstances, Zhang Siyuan had his own main battleship for the first time, but he knew that if he couldn't build the main battleship, then these things would soon be the same as before, because they were accidentally sold out with the British, and the same as the British. The battle showed him that using British warships to fight against the British really cost a lot. The sad thing is that the loss of sailors and population is huge, but the combat effectiveness is really not good. Fighting with the same force as the enemy can only exert [-]% of the combat effectiveness, so It is true to insist on owning your own battleship.

The enemy's main warships are not many, and they have retreated so far. Now they can't threaten them at all. The key is that the enemy is now in an empty period in the south of the Atlantic Ocean. Trade over there, use some minerals and items in Africa, as well as some veterans and disabled soldiers who fought here, in exchange for more machinery and population over there.

Dozens of dry docks have been built in the ports of Bensu, Ceuta, and Al Huceima. At the same time, a large shipyard for repairing ships, a shipyard, and more iron ore, copper ore, and Purchased dozens of wireless telegraphs, even more than a dozen of the previous three generations of wireless telegraphs. Although the new Qin State has declared him a traitor and arrested Zhang Siyuan, but because of Lu Fang and Luo Zuo, As a result, Xinding Yangzhou and Xindingzhou did not strictly implement this order, which gave Zhang Siyuan the opportunity to crazily grab supplies.

All the shipbuilding equipment was robbed, and the personnel were also robbed. In two months, of the 120 transport ships that Lu Fang and the others gave them, except for 55 that joined the Coast Guard, the other 5 transport ships Under the cover of 1000 destroyers, the British African fleet was almost completely wiped out. The entire African coast, when the British power in the South Atlantic was blank, nearly [-] people were robbed from these two states of the New Qin State. Nearly [-] million Chinese yuan in various materials.

And because Lu Fang and the others have their own shipyard, they can replenish from Xindingzhou, and soon their main fleet recovered. Accounts, scrapped or sunk, and other false reports have completed the main battleships and other warships of the fleet previously given to Zhang Siyuan and the others.

In comparison, in fact, the main battleships for Zhang Siyuan and the others are all main battleships that have been in service before, and the age of the ships is three to five years. At most, what they got was a second-hand warship. Lu Fang and the others disposed of the second-hand warship to him, and then built a warship to make up for it. They have supplemented their main fleet by various means, but it is far from the new Qin State's desire to increase their strength. They have expired for various reasons in the New Qin State, and those New Qin States on the Newfoundland Peninsula high level.