The two-front operation of the 71 Navy
Five days later, in the royal palace of Copenhagen, Margrethe II listened to the news brought by the British messenger in the royal palace, and when she learned that the fleet of the Chinese Empire had only four battleships, but when she went to defeat the Anglo-Spanish alliance with more than 1,000 advanced warships, everyone had two words on their faces: "worry". Margrethe II first invited the English envoys to rest in the middle of the house, and then prepared to discuss the countermeasures in the royal palace.
Margrethe II was the first to speak: "Ministers, I think that if we send troops to help the British army, we will inevitably make enemies with the Chinese Empire. Tell me about it."
Schmidt is the chancellor of Norway and the Minister of the Navy, he is the most powerful to speak, and Schmidt is also a pro-China person. I saw Schmidt quickly stand up and say: "Your Majesty, if our country helps the British, we will start a full-scale war with the Chinese Empire, but our country is not the opponent of the Chinese Empire at all, and the war will be lost." If the Chinese Empire frequently succeeds on the Eastern and Western Fronts in Europe, and extends its tentacles to the vicinity of Vienna, it will soon reach a place close to our country, and if our country and the Chinese Empire are opposed, the next one to destroy the country must be our Norway, so I think that we should refuse the request of the British, and at the same time block the British ships at sea, strike at the Hamburg of the HRE on land, and attract European forces to the west, so that the army of the Chinese Empire can successfully defeat the incompetent coalition forces, and our country is a friend of the Chinese Empire. There will be no threats. ”
Margrethe II was originally a man of little opinion, and the person he relied on most was Schmidt, and now that Schmidt had said this, she continued to look at the other ministers, wanting to ask for their opinions.
War Chancellor Heller wanted to stand up and speak his mind, but suddenly he noticed that Schmidt was staring at him with a sharp gaze, and he swallowed what he wanted to say back into his stomach. Margrethe II waited for a long time, but did not see any ministers express their opinions, so she coughed twice and said, "That's it." According to Schmidt's opinion, send troops to help England and kill the messenger"
The main infantry of France were transferred to Central Europe to fight with the Chinese Emperor, France, China, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Portugal were fighting together with the Chinese Emperor on the road, and they were already enemies who did not share the enemy's hatred, so when the English messenger arrived, the kings of various countries expressed their willingness to send troops to gather in the English Channel to participate in the annihilation of the Chinese Imperial fleet.
In the course of five days, the "Daming" and "Zheng Sen" were not idle, cleaning up the black shells left on the ship, while bypassing Britain and heading straight for Scotland. However, their goal was not Scotland, but rather to bypass Scotland, pass Greenland, and then sail east to the Baltic Sea, where they could reach the Danish and HRE naval reinforcements.
After the "Li Long" and "Zheng Zhilong" cleaned up the battlefield, they were corrected near Normandy, during which they were also attacked by the French shore guns.
The armory on the battleship hastened to produce a batch of cannon ammunition, the ammunition of the ship's guns is too large to be produced on the battleship, and the nearest replenishment location must be to Constantinople. After five days of corrections, the formation of two battleships, the "Li Long" and the "Zheng Zhilong", began to move towards the English Channel.
"Woo, woo" The battleship emitted black smoke, sounded enlightenment, swore sovereignty over all of Europe, and then slowly sailed into the legendary English Channel. England is the strait that separates Britain from continental Europe and connects the Atlantic Ocean to the North Sea. The strait is 560 kilometers (350 miles) long and 240 kilometers (150 miles) wide, and at its narrowest point, the Strait of Dover, is only 34 kilometers (21 miles) wide. Dover in England faces Calais in France across the strait.
When the formation sailed into the widest part of the English Channel, suddenly the sky was stormy, and the sky was full of blood, and suddenly there was a rain of blood, although the heavy rain was like blood, but Lynn was not red on the battleship and on the people, as if God was telling the people of England and France that disaster was coming.
When the formation came to the strait, it was half past seven in the morning, and Zheng Zhilong climbed to the top of the bridge and used the high-powered telescope that could see 30 miles in the distance to check the situation. I saw sea water everywhere, and suddenly a mast appeared in Zheng Zhilong's sight, Zheng Zhilong adjusted the focus and watched carefully, only to see that there were countless rice flags, red cross flags, the Dutch flag with red and white and blue at the bottom, and the French flag with white on the left and white on the right and red on the right, Zheng Zhilong knew that the navies of various European countries had gathered and were ready to fight a decisive battle with the Chinese fleet. Faintly you can also see some huge Dutch warships, which are actually equipped with long-lost "monster artillery". It seems that this battle will be even more fierce. The loss of 25 people in the last naval battle was already very distressing to Zheng Zhilong, looking at the current posture, it is estimated that there are more than 25 casualties.
"Commander, a large fleet has been spotted to the south of our army, it seems to be the combined fleet of France and Portugal," the observer reported to the bridge with a walkie-talkie
"Okay, continue to observe, over" After Zheng Zhilong put down the intercom, he thought for a while and then picked up the walkie-talkie and said: "Zheng Zhilong is heading south to attack the combined fleet of France and Portugal." I will personally lead the Li Long to attack the combined fleet of France, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the HRE. ”
"Order the airship troops to rise into the air at once, fill them with explosives, go and bomb them first, and then tell me how many battleships the enemy has, how many men and horses?" Zheng Zhilong ordered
The four carrier-based planes on the "Li Long" immediately filled with hydrogen and began to take off, and now they were still 30 miles away from the enemy fleet, and the enemy could not detect the Chinese fleet at all, so the airship calmly took off and flew to the north.
30 miles is not far away, and the speed of the airship equipped with the new battery thruster has been greatly improved, from the original 30 kilometers per hour to the current 80 kilometers per hour. Ten minutes later, the four airships flew over the combined fleet of the four countries, looking down on the entire fleet from an altitude of 100 meters.
The entire fleet of the four countries was quite large, stretching from the beginning of the fleet to the end of the northernmost end of the fleet.20 The entire strait was covered with white sails, and it was impossible to count how many ships there were, or how many troops there were. The captain of the airship gave a rough estimate that the English fleet had about 200 ships, the Danish Navy had 1,200 ships, the HRE Navy had only 600 ships at its worst, the French Navy had about 1,500 ships, and the Dutch Navy had 6,000 ships at its strongest. There are more than 9,500 warships of the entire United Fleet. After checking the information, the airship aimed at the battleship below and dropped dozens of packs of explosives, and hastily withdrew from the sky above the Combined Fleet, regardless of whether it hit or not.
When the airship reported the situation to Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhilong laughed and said: "Mother's Geqiu, I thought that Western devils would gather tens of thousands of warships to besiege me, I don't want to have only so few, it's not enough for Lao Tzu to stuff his teeth." The herald formation was ordered to move north at full speed".
"Naval artillery preparation", the machine-driven naval gun quickly rotated the angle and aimed at the combined fleet group 10 miles away. Then there was only a "click", and the shell, which weighed a lot, was pushed into the chamber by the crane.
"No. 1 460mm naval gun ready"
"No. 2 460mm naval gun ready"
"No. 3 460mm naval gun ready"
"The fourth 460mm naval gun is ready"
"No. 5 460mm naval gun ready"
"No. 6 460mm naval gun ready"
"No. 1 155mm naval gun ready"
"No. 2 155mm naval gun ready"
The gunners reported their guns one after another, and then waited intently for the commander's orders.
"Let's start," Zheng Zhilong said lukewarmly
The commander of the "open fire" naval gun pressed the red flag in his hand down, and the naval gun control personnel immediately pressed the power button, and after the huge naval gun was energized, a spark was generated, and the power firing needle violently hit the tail of the artillery shell, and after the shell was stressed, it immediately made a loud "bang" of rage, and after a burst of white smoke, the machine loader continued to load the ammunition.
And the heavy shells that flew out of the ship's guns reached the dense group of the combined navy in a blink of an eye, and three battleships were sunk in one fell swoop. The first batch of warships sunk by the huge artillery bombardment belonged to the Dutch, and the Dutch admiral Putmans immediately ordered his fleet to start moving forward, Putmans was an experienced naval commander, and after being bombarded by a nameless shell, his first reaction was that the danger came from the south, so Putmans immediately ordered his Dutch fleet to move south at full speed, as close as possible to the enemy ships, and then use intensive artillery bombardment to attack the enemy ships.
The Netherlands has one of the largest shipbuilding industries in the world. There are hundreds of shipyards in the capital Amsterdam alone, and hundreds of ships can be built at the same time across the country. The Dutch shipbuilding technology is the most advanced in the world, and the cost of ships is 1b3 to 1b2 lower than that of the British. Many countries in Europe have ordered ships from the Netherlands. At its peak, the Dutch navy was almost twice as large as the British and French navies. They cruised the world's oceans, protected their merchant ships, and engaged in overseas colonial plunder. The powerful sea power once became the famous "sea coachman" at that time.
However, the good times of the "sea coachmen" were short-lived. From the middle of the 17th century, the Anglo-Dutch fought for supremacy on the seas, and later the French also participated. The Franco-Dutch War swept through the Netherlands and ended in a crushing defeat for the Netherlands. The Netherlands has been in a state of collapse ever since. In addition to the fact that five years ago, the Netherlands was defeated in the war against the Ming Kingdom in Asia, suffered heavy losses, and the national strength was even weaker, and the whole country could collect less than 500 warships, and finally added more than 100 armed merchant ships to the United Navy.
Although the Dutch navy was decayed, it was still stronger than that of Britain and France, and at the beginning of the union, the Dutch admiral asked to be the commander-in-chief of the combined fleet, but was vetoed by Howard, and finally the admirals of the countries decided that the countries should command each country and not interfere with each other.
And the second round of shelling hit the Danish Navy, Henry? Honoré? Giraud served as the commander-in-chief of the Danish Admiral, and when the Danish Navy was also shelled, his first reaction was also the result of an enemy attack, and then ordered the fleet to approach the enemy ships.
The entire Combined Fleet moved, and more than 9,000 warships attacked the formation of the Chinese Fleet with a thunderous momentum, and the artillery fire of the Chinese Fleet hit far away, and began to shoot non-stop from 10 kilometers away, and after the Combined Fleet lost 100 warships, it finally approached only 1,500 meters away from the formation, and the entire Combined Fleet was like crazy, and countless shells shot at the formation.
The fierce 21st century warships and the 17th century warships were staged again in the English Channel, and the combined fleet relied on the numerical superiority to constantly carry out saturation attacks on the small formations composed of two warships, and the "Phalanx" at which time the Academy of Science and Technology had not yet developed the technology of automatic tracking, so it was difficult to intercept the simultaneous attack of nearly 100,000 guns of 9,500 warships, and every 100,000 shells were always shot down by the "Phalanx" and fell into the sea. But thousands of fish that slipped through the net still caused a lot of damage to the team. Many soldiers were smashed by black shells, and their blood flowed to death.
As soon as the fallen soldier falls, a secondary shooter is added to take over the cannon, which ensures that the cannon fire does not stop. Almost every casualty of a soldier of the Imperial Chinese Navy combined fleet had to pay the price of ten warships, and the combined fleet slowly approached a distance of only 100 meters from the formation and entered the dead end of the ship's guns. Three three-pack 460mm naval guns and two three-pack 155mm naval guns temporarily stopped shelling. However, the cessation of firing from the naval guns did not mean that the attack stopped. More machine guns, machine guns, phalanx joined the battle.
The wooden battleships of the Combined Fleet were like papier-mâché, rotting at the touch of a touch, and suddenly pieces of broken wood floated in pieces on the English Channel, burning with fire. The ships of the Combined Fleet that had been hit by artillery fire or bullets were on fire, and the raging fire ignited the ammunition depot without extinguishing it, and the loud "boom" sound came after another.
The number of warships in the Combined Fleet became fewer and fewer, from 9,500 at the beginning to 8,500, and the commander of the Dutch fleet, who suffered the most losses at this time, Henry? Honoré? Giraud immediately ordered the Dutch ships to retreat.
The Dutch of the Tricolor were under heavy fire for a while, and the last of their spiritual defenses were completely torn apart, and after hearing the order to retreat, they turned their ships and headed north at full speed. When the Dutch battleships ran out of the range of the small group's naval guns, the entire Dutch fleet lost more than 600 warships and 60,000 killed.
With the Dutch fleet parting without saying goodbye, the Danish fleet and the HRE fleet also retreated to the battlefield and fled to the north, and the most unfortunate ones were the English fleet and the French fleet. The two fleets were at the forefront of the entire Combined Fleet, and while the Dutch and several other nations began to retreat, Britain and France were ready to retreat. But the Chinese fleet, as if it had an enmity with Britain and France, was not shooting at the fleets of several other countries. Instead, they pursued the British fleet of less than 50 warships and the French fleet at full speed.
The squadron pursued all the way to the Thames, sinking all the remaining 50 British warships in the Thames, and the French fleet also suffered unprecedented heavy losses, losing more than half of them. Less than 500 of the 1,500 warships returned to safe seas, losing 100,000 troops.
The entire English Channel was stained red with blood and turned into a Shura hell, where naval soldiers of various countries died and were wounded, floating above the English Channel. With the destruction of the English navy, bypassing Scotland that day, Greenland's "Zheng Sen" and "Daming" have come to the mouth of the Baltic Sea.
At this time, the Dutch naval fleet Shinra naval formation and the Danish naval fleet were retreating towards the Baltic Sea, and it happened that our northern line formation collided together. A big war is about to begin.
The Baltic Sea and the North Sea straits are the natural water systems connecting the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, and are the main shipping routes for the countries bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to travel with each other and to the world's major ports. Therefore, since ancient times, the Baltic Sea and the North Sea region have been the place of competition between feudal dynasties and imperialism due to their important strategic location.
Danish territory was on the Baltic coast, and when the retreat began, the Danes began to retreat unintuitively towards the Baltic Sea, while the HRE fleet and the Dutch fleet were still dozens of miles away. Henry? Honoré? Admiral Giraud was aboard the Danish Navy's Titis-class heavy cruiser, the flagship of the Danish Navy. The battleship is 112.3 meters long and 14.4 meters wide. With a full tonnage of 3,500 tons, it was the largest battle cruiser in all of Europe at that time. Armed with 96 Korfenlin guns and a crew of 1,300 people.
In the afternoon, the small formation of the northern line, with the "Daming" as the flagship and the "Zhengsen" as the joint strategic detachment, suddenly appeared at the mouth of the Baltic Sea. The sudden appearance of the Chinese fleet caught the Danish Navy by surprise, and it was thought that the pursuers had not yet caught up with Bruges, but they did not expect to catch up so quickly. Henry? Honoré? Admiral Giraud immediately divided the Danish Navy's 1,000 warships into 10 teams, and ordered six of the fleets to retreat to Aarhus at full speed, while the remaining four fleets were responsible for blocking the advance of the Chinese Empire.
400 Danish Navy from the opposite side, profitable? Honoré? Admiral Giraud's Vice Admiral Zess was aboard the Danish Navy's Titis-class heavy cruiser on a blocking mission. Vice Admiral Ziss ordered the fleet to approach the Chinese fleet at full speed. At this time, "the heavy shelling of two battleships of the Chinese fleet began."
The Danish Navy braved the naval guns of the Imperial Chinese Navy to charge at full speed "Bang, bang, bang" The triple guns in the bow of the three ships were the first to open fire, the battleship trembled slightly, and then continued to reload the shells, and the interval between the second round of shelling and the first round of shelling was less than a minute, and the second round of shells arrived, and immediately took the lives of two more warships. At the same time, the Danish fleet was gradually approaching the small detachment of the Chinese fleet.
When the Danish fleet approached to only 1,000 meters, 400 warships and nearly 10,000 Korfenlin guns pushed open the gun doors at the same time, and the black hole Korfenlin large-caliber guns immediately aimed at the flagship of the detachment, the "Zheng Sen". Suddenly, 10,000 cannons were fired in unison, and tens of thousands of cannonballs came overwhelmingly, instantly obscuring the sun, and the cannonballs hit the flagship of the detachment "Zheng Sen" like a dense number of flying hornets. The rough-skinned battleship showed no problems under the attack of 10,000 shells. On the contrary, at a distance of 1000, all kinds of machine guns, all kinds of anti-aircraft guns, and dense array fire, all of them broke out at once.
After the Danish navy of 400 warships received the intensive fire attack, it suddenly staged a scene of sea fire on the Baltic Sea, the sea burned, the broken wood was blown up everywhere, and countless soldiers were hit by high-pressure fire Sun Jian, and then were hit into the sky, and then fell into the sea with a scream.
The Baltic Sea is a famous fishing ground in Northern Europe, where there are countless large and small fish, many of which eat meat. At this time, the Danes, who had died in battle, suddenly became good fodder for the predatory fish in the fishing grounds. Countless carnivorous fish scrambled to eat human flesh, only to see a slightly larger carnivorous fish scurrying around with the head of a Danish seaman, followed by a large group of carnivorous fish chasing after the human head.
The battle on the sea became more intense, the Danish battleships bullied the battleships that rushed over to surround the small detachment, and more fierce artillery fire came from all directions, reproducing the scene of the "Battle of Midway", the situation when the Yamato was sunk by an American aircraft carrier was reproduced in the Baltic Sea three hundred years ago.
On the ship after 1,500 meters, Zess commanded the fleet to immediately use a suicide attack with a flag, and countless small and medium-sized warships stopped firing one after another, and instead ignited the gunpowder in their warehouses, and then rowed the battleships with the strength of everyone, and the first wave of the Danish battleship group on fire rushed up about 120 ships. 120 warships were divided into two shifts to attack the "Zheng Sen" and "Daming" respectively
Sixty Danish battleships, covered in fire, rushed toward the "Zheng Sen" from all directions, and Zheng Sen ordered machine guns and machine guns to intensify their fire to intercept the incoming enemy ships, and ,,,more than a dozen warships were shot within 200 meters of the "Zheng Sen" within 200 meters of the "Zheng Sen," and then sank into the sea covered in wounds. However, the breath of death did not crush the will of these Viking pirates, and they rushed towards the "Zheng Sen" one after another. The dense firepower of bullets formed an insurmountable obstacle for Danish warships, and all the warships that encountered this firepower net were shot and caught on fire, and then sank helplessly into the water with the fire all over their bodies.
"Bastard, you must rush over and blow up the warships of the Chinese Empire" Qi Si jumped angrily in the back, and immediately ordered the flag soldiers to attack it at all costs. Zes is not Henry, if it is Henry who can only fight, Henry will definitely order a retreat, retreat to Aarhus, rely on Aarhus's coastal defense artillery to make a last stand, and then Zess knows that he will use powerful explosives to blow up the enemy in front of him, and he has completely lost his mind. He wanted to recreate the era of the "kamikaze".
At 100 meters, the enemy ships approached to a distance of 100 meters, and the fire of the Chinese fleet was more fierce at this distance, and the power of ammunition was also stronger. Almost 20 cannon bullets can blow up a Danish battleship, and the Danish battleship has lost more than half of its distance before it can reach a distance of 50 meters. Even if Qi Si is an iron sweat, he can't help but shiver and have the idea of retreating, but now it is obviously too late to retreat, there are less than 20 warships close to the "Zheng Sen", if you turn around and retreat now, you will definitely be killed by the firepower of the pursuit, and you can only use the dead horse as a fire horse, rush, hoping to blow up the enemy ship.
The distance of 20 was very short, and in less than 1 minute, the remaining 20 battleships crashed into the hull of the battleship "Zheng Sen" at the cost of losing 5 ships, and 15 battleships loaded with tens of thousands of tons of black powder exploded under the battleship "Zheng Sen", and the hull of the ship was staggered by the huge explosive force.
The soldiers in the cabin of the ship "No. 1 is leaking, No. 1 bunker" suddenly discovered that there was a water leak in the cabin after the explosion, and reported to the captain while automatically plugging the leaking part
"Captain, the No. 1 compartment, the sixty-second compartment, and the thirty-eighth compartment are leaking due to heavy storage, and these three warehouses are currently closed, how should I instruct them below?" The first mate ran to the bridge to find Zheng Sen to report the situation. 、
After Zheng Sen knew the news that the "Zheng Sen" was injured, he did not panic, but took a very calm puff of cigarette, spit out a smoke ring and said: "It doesn't matter, my battleship has 108 cabins, and each cabin is independent. ”
The first mate immediately ordered the observer to carefully check the remaining number of the Danish fleet, and then came over and reported: "Report to the captain, the number of Danish enemy warships left is less than 100, and the sail is currently retreating"
Zheng Sen slammed his fist on the table and said angrily: "I punched several holes in my ship, it always costs money to repair the ship, damn it, let these dog mongrels take the money, sink them if they don't take the money, and chase Lao Tzu with full horsepower."
"Full speed ahead, full speed ahead" The first mate came to the wheelhouse to convey the order, and then the bow of the ship turned 90 degrees to the right, and headed straight for the defeat of the Danish fleet. While pursuing, the guns of the ship fired at the same time. For every shot fired, three or four warships bid farewell to the Baltic Sea forever and went to the Dragon Palace of the West Sea to sign up.
At that time, the west wind was blowing, and the Danish fleet, powered by the wind, suddenly sailed downwind, and the speed could reach 30 knots, far exceeding the approved speed of 27 knots of the "Zheng Sen" and "Daming". After 100 kilometers of pursuit, the Danish fleet finally disappeared from the sight of the Chinese fleet. Zheng Sen ordered the fleet to rest in place, and send out water as much as possible in the leaky part to replenish power and prepare for the next battle
When the results of the battle were counted, the chief of the operations section came to report to Zheng Sen: "In this battle, our army suffered more than 200 casualties, annihilated 385 enemy ships, escaped 15 ships, and destroyed 38,562 enemy soldiers, and our army won a complete victory!" In addition, our warship "Zheng Sen" was injured in three places, and "Daming" was injured in two places.
When Zheng Zhilong received the results from Zheng Sen, he had just finished fighting with the combined fleet of Portugal and Spain, destroying 58,000 enemies and sinking 600 enemy ships. The losses of Zheng Zhilong's squad were much more serious than those of Zheng Sen's squadron. During the artillery battle, one of the boilers of the "Li Long" was hit by more than 5,000 shells at the same time, and it was no longer usable, and the instruments in the bridge were also broken a lot, and the "Zheng Zhilong" lost 300 soldiers and more than 20 holes were blown out of the hull. After defeating the combined fleet of Portugal and Spain, he pursued for a while before landing in the port of Lisbon to rest, but was attacked by Portuguese army artillery and lost more than 20 soldiers, Zheng Zhilong ordered to retreat to the Atlantic Ocean and anchor.
After Zheng Sen received Zheng Zhilong's return, he was also glad that he was lucky, the fleet was only slightly injured, unlike the "Li Long", where one of the 12 boilers was completely blown up.
In the Jinluan Hall in Beijing, as soon as Li Long fell asleep, the guards came to report that there was a telegram, and when Li Long got the telegram sent by Zheng Zhilong, he pondered for a long time and was silent. He wanted Zheng Zhilong's fleet to retreat back and repair it at the Jiangnan Shipyard, but Lisbon was 40,000 miles from Shanghai, and the journey alone would take more than a month. If it was not withdrawn, Zheng Zhilong's fleet fought very hard this time, losing a lot of people and the hull of the ship was injured. At the moment the shipyards in Constantinople were just starting out and were not able to repair giant battleships of more than 50,000 tons. What to do? What to do?
Early the next morning, Li Long told the guards to report that the news immediately reached Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Sen on the European battlefield, and at the same time a secret army in Beijing set out from the port of Tianjin.
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