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On January 20, 1875, the mother country of the Pacific Fleet of the Ming Navy, Kure Gungang, Japan. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The sky was just dark, and the terrible sirens sounded throughout the naval base! The previously silent fleet was like an armored beast that had suddenly woken up, and it shot out a dazzling searchlight - it was the light of an electric light! The electric light has of course been invented, and it was Henry Brown, a foreign engineer at the Royal Research Institute of the Ming Dynasty. Works of Goebbels. Of course, in the process of improving the electric light, the engineers of the Royal Research Institute also received a contribution from a mysterious person.

By the way, in order to recognize the contribution of these "mysterious scientists" to the progress of science in the Ming Dynasty, the Royal Foundation, the owner of the Royal Research Institute of the Ming Dynasty, also set up a "Royal Science and Civilization Award" to reward those who have made outstanding contributions to the progress of human science and civilization......

At the same time as the fleet lights up, the black plumes of smoke began to gradually rise from the towering chimneys like a forest, from light to thick, straight into the sky. This is the warships in the harbor igniting their boilers. In this era, coal-fired boilers and steam engines had a process of pre-igniting hot fires, and only when the boilers boiled could the ships start.

At the same time, all the barracks in the military port were brightly lit, and the assembled military trumpets were one after another, and the brigade of soldiers with fully armed backpacks poured out of the barracks and set out in formation in the open space in front of the barracks. Some of these officers and men were officers and soldiers of the Ming Marine Corps wearing blue sailor uniforms, while others were wearing gray military uniforms. They were officers and soldiers of the Ming Army. For this sortie, the Generalissimo's Office not only mobilized all the main forces of the Navy - the 10th Fleet! And also mobilized a whole infantry corps and a marine division! To transport these forces alone, the Navy has called up more than 300 large transport ships. Now inside and outside the Wu military port. It's like a thousand boats are already racing!

On the long wharf of Wu Jun Port, one after another large steam sailing ships have also been raised and ignited. These ships are as small as four or five thousand tons, and the big ones even have tens of thousands of tons! Except for a small number of the navy, most of them were recruited from various shipping companies in the Ming Dynasty. The current Ming Empire not only has the world's largest shipbuilding capacity, but also has the world's largest merchant fleet. Every year, 4 million immigrants are shipped out of the densely populated East Asian regions and countries such as the Ming Dynasty, Korea and Japan. After nearly 30 years of "coolie trade", Daming's seafarers and shipping capabilities have been trained. Don't look at the concentration of 300 large transport ships this time. Accounting for only about one and a half percent of Daming's maritime capacity, considering that the supply of the shipping market has been somewhat surplus in the past two years. Such mobilization has no impact on the economy at all.

The command building in Wu Jungang is also brightly lit now. Admiral Tong Haifeng, commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet, was the commander-in-chief of the entire expeditionary operation. Liu Mingchuan, commander of the 10th Army of the Army, is the deputy commander-in-chief. The crown prince Zhu Guoxiong personally sat in Wugang to supervise the battle.

Zhu Guoxiong walked quickly into the operational city where he was stationed at the headquarters of Wu Jungang, where the headquarters of the Pacific Fleet was usually located on the flagship, and the capital ship "Guangfu" was now serving as the flagship.

However, Admiral Tong Haifeng, commander of the Pacific Fleet, Vice Admiral Lu Maofeng, chief of staff, Major General Ding Ruchang, commander of the 1st Marine Division, and the commander and chief of staff of the 10th Army Corps, as well as a number of staff officers of the Army and Navy have not boarded the ship, but have been waiting here for a long time.

Seeing Zhu Guoxiong walk in, everyone hurriedly stood up and saluted. The eldest prince nodded slightly at everyone. The successor of the Ming Dynasty looks a little haggard these days, because of this war, Zhu Jishi became the shopkeeper. just gave a few simple orders, and threw a lot of specific things to Zhu Guoxiong. Zhu Guoxiong knew that this was the old man testing him! But the problem is that he is not the Zhu Juan who kills people without blinking, he is Zhu Guoxiong who studies law. When it comes to governing the country according to law, ten juans can't compare to him, but if it is a war. Even with a large number of military experts to help command, he was still a little frightened and couldn't sleep!

Of course. He is not afraid of the Spanish Philippines. Juan has taken the Spanish Duchess Maria of Manila. Morality. Princess Lapas brought Da Ming. That's a name! How could the Philippine governor of Spain oppose a duchess sent by the Queen of Spain? In the past two days, news has come from Europe, the Franco-German army has marched into Spain, and the rebels in Madrid will not have much time at all, at most a month, Isabella II will be restored. How could the Spanish governor and army in the Philippines remain loyal to the Madrid government and fight against the Ming Dynasty?

But this time, the target of the Ming Navy was not the Spanish Philippines! Since the Duchess of Manila, Maria. Morality. Lapaz is almost in Hong Kong, where is there any need to send such an army? It's a big deal to wait until Isabella II succeeds in the restoration of Spain, and then pay a little pound to buy it...... Isabella II returned to the country with Mathilde's thick legs, and the belonging of the Philippines is not a matter of the female regent's words?

When he walked to his seat, Zhu Guoxiong had already restrained his mind and said, "The emperor's edict ordering us to wait for the attack has been issued. As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and took the copy of the telegram handed by the adjutant, Zhu Jishi issued a telegram, and there will be a formal edict delivered later.

All the officers stood upright, and the crown prince Zhu Guoxiong, who was dressed in the uniform of the marshal, also straightened his waist and began to read the edict. The will is written in the literary language, and it sounds laborious to chew the words. However, the meaning is clear, that is, to send 60,000 Ming officers and soldiers and a large number of weapons and baggage to the islands codenamed "Nail", and at the same time be ready to go to war with Britain at any time. If the British fleet dared to stop the landing of the Great Army, the Navy could fire the first shot! And it has to win!

After reading the edict, Zhu Guoxiong slowly glanced at everyone: "The emperor's meaning is very clear, you can fight, but you must be able to win!" Are you so sure? ”

Tong Haifeng, commander of the Pacific Fleet, reacted the fastest, and he snapped upright: "The Pacific Fleet is completely sure that it can defeat the British Pacific Fleet!" ”

This is not bragging. Just three "Emperor" class ships are enough for the British to drink a pot! Although the "Ravage" class and the "Emperor" class are simultaneous 10,000-ton capital ships, and the caliber of the latter's main guns is still larger than that of the "Emperor" class, it has reached. But in terms of defense and rate of fire of the main gun, the "Emperor" class has a clear advantage. Moreover, the chemical industry of the Ming Dynasty has always been very leading, there are many explosives with excellent performance, and in the past two years, the engineer of the Admiralty Ijiin Goro has also developed a fuse with high sensitivity, which has made the cannon power of the Ming Army and Navy to a higher level. Although the blasting projectile using the trigger fuse cannot penetrate the armor belt of the capital ship, it is extremely destructive to the deck and superstructure, and can easily cause enemy casualties.

As for the British "ravaged" caliber cannons, insiders in the Ming Navy did not take it too seriously. Because at the moment, the armor-piercing shells of various countries are solid bullets, which are just big iron bumps, and they will not explode at all. It is very difficult to sink a capital ship with excellent sinking resistance with such a large iron bump. And, as a rule, the larger the caliber of the gun, the more cumbersome it was to load, and the slower the rate of fire naturally. Tong Haifeng even suspected that the British "ravage" class cannon could not fire a few rounds throughout the battle. At present, the hit rate in naval artillery is extremely low, even for well-trained gunners, at a distance of five or six thousand meters, the hit rate is at most more than 1%. Therefore, in the Ming Navy, there have always been two factions: "fast artillery" and "artillery". The latter believed that the use of large cannons with too slow rate of fire was limited in naval warfare, and that it was better to be equipped with more small-caliber fast guns.

"So, does the Ming Navy have the ability to defeat the entire British Navy?" Zhu Guoxiong frowned and asked again.

Hearing this question, Tong Haifeng shook his head slightly and said, "Your Highness, there is no way for the minister to answer this question. Because both the Ming Dynasty and Britain are big countries, and they are both industrialized countries and maritime powers, their shipbuilding capacity and reserves of naval personnel are extremely rich. Moreover, the two countries are far away from each other, and once a war starts, the victory or defeat cannot be separated by the navy at all. However, once the nail is in hand, the initiative on the ocean is in my hands, and the odds of winning should be more than seventy percent! ”

Crown Prince Zhu Guoxiong nodded, and said in a deep voice: "General Tong, your opportunity this time is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, you must firmly grasp it and pull out that nail in one fell swoop!" (To be continued)