The news of the Ming Navy's victory over France in Malacca spread around the world in an instant, and it no longer affected the world, but hit the world with a strong momentum. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The gradual retreat of the French army on the battlefield in Vietnam did not cause a shock to the whole world, because it was reasonable, the French army was at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, and it was not surprising that the French army had retreated, and the French army was never dealt a devastating blow by the other side, which had proved the superiority of the French army.

However, the navy is different, not to mention that the combat ships of the two sides are on equal footing, just from the emotional point of view, it is very stimulating, the French navy has long been second only to the British navy, ranking second in the world, in addition to suffering losses in front of the British, the French navy is also the master of the world.

If the French army was suddenly defeated by the Russians, or even by the Germans, everyone would only laugh at the French army's hypocrisy. But the French Navy, which is now the second largest in the world, lost head-on to an Eastern country. It's unbelievable. Even if the Ming Navy, due to the desperate construction of ships before the war, is already the third largest navy in the world on paper, no one can accept that the Ming Navy is strong enough to defeat the French army.

In fact, it is just that over the centuries, the advantages laid by white people are too great, so that they have long developed a racist psychology of white supremacy, and Japan's defeat of Russia in history has also formed this kind of impact in the West, generating strong "yellow peril" concerns.

However, unlike the Western world that felt the threat of the rise of "alien races", the common people of the Ming Dynasty rejoiced, they did not regard the defeat of a white country as something earth-shattering, and did not think that it was a subversion of the white world order, because the Ming Dynasty was founded too early, and the sense of humiliation of the common people in the late Qing Dynasty was not strong. The main sense of humiliation in history was caused by Japan, and when everyone saw that a Japanese who had been despised by themselves for hundreds of years, he was able to trample the Qing Dynasty under his feet, and the shock and shame completely exploded.

Defeated twice by the hands of Britain and France, it did not make the people of the Ming Dynasty awaken, because the pride of the Chinese nation has long been not woven with martial arts, and the British and French forces were not also driven out of Guangzhou by Zhu Jinglun, and the British and French forces were just a foil for the emperor's great martial arts.

But the common people are happy from the bottom of their hearts.

On the one hand, it is due to the education of the Ming Dynasty, although universal education is the learning of the West, but in this era, the education of Western countries is a kind of nationalist education without exception, even the United States on the other side of the ocean, in the school to constantly instill in students what an excellent nation the Americans are, but they have not considered whether they are a culturally independent national concept, trying their best to inculcate the best part of the nation repeatedly, and later generations of China still repeat this set of education methods.

Under the cultivation of nationalist education, a large number of people with a strong sense of nationality have emerged.

On the other hand, it is the plot of a big country buried deep in the bottom of my heart. Although the martial culture in Chinese culture has been weak since the Song Dynasty, the culture has begun to become secular and utilitarian, which is the trend of secular society. Therefore, after being defeated by the Yangyi, the common people still despise them and do not feel ashamed of being defeated by the Yiren. Because China is no longer the China of the Han and Tang dynasties, after being conquered by nomads many times, everyone can only maintain cultural pride by not caring about martial arts. To put it mildly, it's just a hard mouth. But in fact, once their country shows its majesty, they are happier than anyone else, why do they like all countries to come to court, and really think that the literati are showing benevolence and righteousness? Everyone knows that only when you are strong, others will come to congratulate.

Under the nationalist education, under the inherent feelings of the great power and the country, the people of the Ming Dynasty sincerely cheered for the victory of the country, and the joy of this victory further nourished the nationalism and the feelings of the family and the country, and after the war, the sense of national identity of the Ming people was greatly strengthened.

Unlike the common people, it is impossible for the high-level of the Ming Dynasty to cheer, rejoice, enjoy, and satisfy the victory of a battle, and the high-level needs to consider more.

The outcome of the naval battle was already clear, even the newspapers reported in detail, and the defeat of France was assured.

The Ming fleet pursued the French fleet into the Strait of Malacca, and caught them before leaving the strait, not because the French warships were slow, but because they were huge troop carriers escorting fleet, many of the troop carriers were temporarily requisitioned civilian ships, and the speed was very slow, in order to protect these civilian ships that had little resistance, so as not to let hundreds of thousands of French troops become prisoners without letting go of a shot, and even being directly shot into the sea to feed the fish, the French Navy showed their sense of honor, six ironclad ships, one cruiser, and twelve old wooden warships, all remained.

The two sides fought another large-scale naval battle in the middle of the Strait of Malacca, the result of the naval battle did not appear a miracle, the French army was defeated again, they desperately damaged the two ironclad ships of the Ming fleet, but they paid the price of four ironclad ships, the wooden battleships were all destroyed, the only remaining cruiser was also buried at the bottom of the sea, and only four wounded French ironclad ships survived.

The naval battle lasted until the evening, and the four ironclad ships escaped from the Strait of Malacca under the cover of night, and the Ming army had no strength to pursue at this time, and also ordered to return.

The military department has completely investigated the reasons for the victory in the naval battle, mainly because the quality of the French warships is not good, not because the French are not good at technology, but because there is a problem with their design ideas.

Even a group of warships that were urgently launched before the war are already behind the times, and the models are very complex, and it is difficult to unify the formation in naval battles, such as the cruiser Cosmo, which should have been launched in 1889, with a displacement of only 1954 tons, which is far from meeting the requirements of large-scale naval battles. The cruisers of the Ming army were generally more than 3,000 tons. And the ship also has three inclined masts and two chimneys, the design of the mast is indeed convenient for driving on the sea without base support, but it makes the deck narrow, and the high flagpole also makes the warship more susceptible to bullets, and the trigger shell, although it hits the mast, the explosive shrapnel can kill and injure a large number of sailors.

The Cecil, which was supposed to be launched in 1890, was also built ahead of schedule, and the warship was the second largest cruiser in the French Navy. The ship is relatively advanced, and the hull is all steel. But the design of three masts and three chimneys is still used, and the load capacity is 5,932 tons.

Another typical example is the cruiser Dubdioi, with a displacement of 3760 tons, which is the mainstream tonnage. The ship was built from 1880, it was built only in 1885, and it entered service only last year in 1886. It was also one of the newest warships in the French army, but even such a new ship was a wooden cruiser with a wooden hull and armor, which was invented by the French, and their first ironclad was a wooden ironclad.

But the British have been pushing for all-iron ironclads, and the French are not unaware. Unfortunately, this is more economical than building ships with iron, and France, which has lost Alsace and Lorraine, has limited steel resources, and needs to use France's valuable steel and industrial resources for the production of ironclad ships, so before the war, France still built a large number of wooden warships, especially cruisers, almost all of which were wooden.

Sails and wood, these technologies that were clearly outdated with the times, caused the defeat of the French Navy, although this full sail and beautiful flying scissor bow column pushed the elegance of the style era to the peak, but for actual combat, it was completely meaningless.

After the victory, the top of the Ming army held a celebration banquet and entered the intense work again, defeating the French escort fleet is a big victory, which is worth celebrating, but how to achieve the next victory is the most important thing. Now a great danger is in front of the Ming Navy.

Almost annihilated the French Navy escort fleet, sank one, and severely damaged five French ironclad ships at the same time, he also paid the price of five ironclad ships losing combat effectiveness, which made the Ming army realize that the French Navy is not bad, especially the regular ironclad ships with sufficient materials, it can be said that they do not lose a cent in the exchange of fire with the Ming army, and the reason why the Ming army was able to basically annihilate the French escort fleet and sink one and severely damage five French ironclad ships at the cost of five heavy losses is mainly because the number of Ming ironclad ships has an absolute advantage, Striking the opponent with a two- or three-fold superiority in firepower, and twice as many main guns as the multi-side, should have been victorious.

But this time, the Ming Navy only faced ten main French ironclad ships, and the main force of French ironclad ships was actually in Da Nang, and there were as many as twenty of them. Therefore, the simple main force of the French army still exists, and it is too early to say that the Ming Dynasty gained sea control in the first war.

The most serious thing is that after the situation of the naval battle in the Strait of Malacca Da Nang Fleet knew, the result was as expected, the Da Nang Fleet really all went south, at first it may still be the purpose of rescuing the escort fleet, when they sailed to the waters of Singapore, they knew that the Ming had defeated their escort fleet, at this time they were a new force, and the Ming Navy was a tired division after a hard battle, and the warships were somewhat damaged, and the ammunition was exhausted, at this time with the main fleet of the French army, it must be a huge crisis.

Therefore, when the people celebrated the victory, the Ming high-level instructed the diplomats around the country to carry out the action, Britain was hindered by the neutrality law, can not allow the Ming fleet to enter Singapore to rest, although Siam knew the news of the victory in the naval battle, more resolutely on the side of the Ming army, Bangkok is open to the Ming army at any time, but Bangkok lacks equipment to repair warships, so the soldiers can only be rested.

How to make the main fleet return safely and enter the Daming shipyard to repair and restore combat effectiveness is a strategic issue that the top management needs to consider.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs took the initiative to propose to Britain to mediate and let the Ming and French sides negotiate in Singapore.

Daming told the British envoy that since the French reinforcements had been intercepted, the French army had completely lost the possibility of counterattacking in Cochinchina, and the defeat was a foregone conclusion, and Daming was willing to negotiate for France to withdraw from Cochinchina with dignity.

Britain was looking forward to the end of the war at this time, so that the Ming army could withdraw north to block Russia and actively mediate.

The French also saw a great disadvantage, and after the naval battle, their cabinet fell again, and it took time to reorganize the government, accept British mediation, and be willing to negotiate.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty made a proposal, hoping that during the negotiations, the two sides would stop all military operations.

France said it accepted the Ming proposal and was willing to stop all military operations during the negotiations.

Through diplomacy, the Ming created an opportunity for the fleet to safely move north.