Chapter 681 - Occupation of Gibraltar in the Mediterranean
The seventeenth century of this world is very different from the original history.
The world's oceans are fluttering more of the "Ming" banner of the Ming Empire.
And along the land along the coastline, there are also scattered Chinese inscriptions.
It doesn't cost much to erect a monument anyway.
found an island with abundant water and grass, and set up a monument to declare that this was the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and no one would come to theorize.
The footsteps of the Han people have spread all over the world, and the Han civilization has also spread everywhere with the routes of ships.
The ancient Ming Empire was no stranger to the sea.
Even though Zheng Chenggong and his command of the Ming ironclad ship "Zhongshan Wang" sailed on the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of East Africa, they could see the noble vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty who had come to these places to venture out their territory and fight with the natives with spears with rifled guns.
It is still the natives who have suffered a fiasco, and even the Western colonizers can not help reverse this outcome.
And the Daming African Fleet doesn't even have to intervene.
These private armies of the Ming vassal kings are like daughter cells separated from the mother cell of the central court of the Ming Dynasty, devouring other civilizations on this earth.
Some ways are more gentle, only killing their leaders and not slaughtering their people.
Some of them are very cruel, slaughtering their people regardless of men, women, old and children.
The empire doesn't care about them.
The laws of the empire do not control them.
Because from the very beginning, the Ming Emperor Zhu Youzhen had given them everything here, and they just came to get back what belonged to them or to dispose of what belonged to them.
The vast road of Africa is characterized by the "fusion" between human civilization and human civilization.
At this time, the Han civilization was strong enough to defeat other civilizations in terms of both soft power and hard power.
On the ground after being baptized by guns, Confucianism began to be built, and Confucianism was gradually shelved in the Ming Dynasty, and gradually became a prominent school overseas.
"At the beginning of man, nature is good", became the first Chinese sentence of the indigenous society that was subdued by guns.
Chinese buildings with heavy eaves have sprung up like mushrooms growing in the mountains after rain, and many of the bricks and stones used in these buildings are part of former Western churches.
Boom Boom!
Boom Boom!
Boom Boom!
The ironclad ship "Zhongshan King" continued to sail in the Atlantic Ocean with a fleet of battleships.
This blue sea, which was once only a Western battleship, is now being ravaged by the "Zhongshan King".
Thick smoke poured out, and the iron towers and turrets condensed the crystallization of the imperial machinery industry, and they were also hundreds of years ahead of this era.
Zheng Chenggong was dressed in a python robe, looked at the Strait of Gibraltar, and couldn't help but say: "This outlet to the sea will belong to my Ming Empire from now on, is the stele ready?" ”
"Back to the Governor, it's all ready!"
A naval staff officer replied.
"Very good, give the order to go down, speed up the voyage, enter the Strait of Gibraltar, the cabinet of cowards, was beaten home by a small Franc machine only know to cry and look for Your Majesty, today we can't come to the cabinet in vain to find face, this Strait of Gibraltar outlet must be in our hands, he Franc machine country to give it also has to give, not to give it also to give!"
Zheng Chenggong smiled coldly as he spoke.
And not long after, Franc also sent his invincible fleet, and a hundred battleships appeared in front of the Ming African fleet like a mountain of seas.
But the ironclad ship "Zhongshan King" is still half a head taller than them.
The armada of the Francophone was still in a battle line position.
This was a tactic invented by the Netherlands back then.
It is the most typical and pinnacle tactic of sail warships, and the firepower line formed by hundreds of battleships forming a battle line is a very huge destructive force.
But the Ming ironclad ship "Zhongshan King" is your battle line.
"Fire!"
The huge cannon in the central turret was like a nimble fat child, easily pushing out the huge cannonball weighing 65 pounds from a long distance, and the cannon pierced through the sky and exploded directly in the form of a parabola on a first-class battleship of the Franc machine.
The sail warship of the Franc machine could not withstand the bombardment of nitrate, and in a moment the sawdust flew sideways, and the whole ship was like an exploding balloon, spraying flames on the surface of the sea.
The battleships of the Francophone also fired cannons, and the barrage formed by hundreds of invincible battleships smashed into the sea area in front of the ironclad ship "Zhongshan King", forming a brilliant white rain curtain.
At the moment when the sound of water slid into the sea, the second course shells of the Daming ironclad ship "Zhongshan King" were sent over again, directly blowing up the second Franc fighter battleship.
The Franc Machine's Armada is still resisting, after all, behind them is their territorial sovereignty.
They continued to fire shells.
But it can only be like a show for Zheng Chenggong, creating a romantic rain curtain on the sea.
And.
The sight of the ironclad ship "Zhongshan King" was not affected in the slightest, and it still continued to destroy the battleship of the Franco.
The commander of the Franc Machine Armada may have realized that he could not hurt the Ming ironclad ship, and directly changed direction and pounced on the ironclad ship "Zhongshan King" like a pack of wolves.
But the Ming ironclad ship "Zhongshan King" is a tiger, not a sheep.
The powerful Daming ironclad ship "Zhongshan King" was directly facing it, and the close one collided directly, and the hard ironclad knocked over the fragile Franc battleship like a rock.
In the distance, a cannon shell hit, and even if it didn't explode directly, it would break the mast and break the cabin.
Even if there were skilled Franc battleships that were close to the wall and did not collide with them, and when they attempted to engage in broadside battles, the intensive machine gun strafing and chain fire could still annihilate all the officers and men of these Franc battleships.
The entire intact Franc battleship floats in the Atlantic Ocean like an empty haunted house.
The Armada began to retreat.
They admitted that they really couldn't beat it, and fled directly.
At this time, the ironclad ships of the Guards directly chased after them, and the Ming battleships behind also chased after them, and they beat one to death when they caught one.
It was not until in the Strait of Gibraltar that the Ming African Fleet stopped pursuing, and the ironclad ship "Zhongshan King" came to the port of Gibraltar, which was what the Ming really wanted.
The Ming Dynasty also opened its battle line, dozens of warships capsized hundreds of shells near the port of Gibraltar, and most of the Western ships in the port of Gibraltar were destroyed.
The Ming ironclad ship "Zhongshan Wang" crashed through a mountain of wood chips and anchored at a pier in Mirleia in the port of Gibraltar.
Other battleships also docked one after another.
Five thousand Marine infantry, five hundred cavalry, five hundred machine artillery went ashore.
Zheng Chenggong then landed under the escort of the 300 guards, and when he saw a church with Gothic architectural features standing in front of him, he ordered: "Bomb it first!" Declare your sovereignty! ”
Three howitzers were pushed over and began to adjust their orientation, aiming their muzzles at the ornate and towering church and the cross above.
(End of chapter)