463 The collapse of the anti-Han League
After clearing the Allied fleet on the periphery, the Dingyuan, Zhenyuan, and three first-class sail battleships gradually began to shrink the encirclement.
Even in the billowing smoke, the encircled Confederate frigates felt a sense of crisis.
It didn't take long for the ironclad ship's slaughter of the Allied fleet to spread to the inner circle!
The naval battle lasted from early morning to dusk, and the Taiping army used a division's transport fleet as bait to successfully gather and annihilate the main force of the Allied fleet group.
Of the thousands of Allied fleets, less than 300 warships eventually escaped, and all of the slow-sailing and huge sail battleships were sent to the bottom of the sea by the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan!
For this reason, the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan used up all the main gun shells, and even the secondary guns and ordinary small artillery shells were almost gone!
The combat area is full of burning wreckage, and the lethality of the blasting bomb to the wooden-hulled battleship can be called devastating, just like a lighter lighting a flammable torch, as long as it hits, it will be scrapped properly!
After the First World War, the Allied fleet completely lost the ability to compete with the Taiping Army, and of course, the Anti-Han Alliance would not let the sail wooden warships go to death after learning that the guns on the two strange iron-hulled battleships of the Taiping Army were so fierce!
When the British government learned of the results of the naval battle, it immediately halted the construction process of the Sea Monarch and cut the production of the pinnacle of this sail battleship.
In front of the ironclad battleships of the Taiping Army, the first-class sail battleship is just a large target, at most it can resist a few more shells and burn at sea for a while......
Naturally, the British will not spend huge sums of money to build a living coffin at sea!
The most important thing is that in the naval battle, the heads of government of the Anti-Han League found that their sail warships not only lagged behind the ironclad ships in terms of firepower, defensive armor, and artillery range, but even their most confident speed was thrown off by the two Taiping ironclad ships eight streets!
The Zhenyuan and Dingyuan, which were powered by mature steam engines, could easily catch up with the sail-powered wooden warships and send them into the sea.
Less than 300 of the thousands of sail warships came back, because after the collapse of the Allied fleet, the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan carried out a long-distance pursuit, as long as they were targeted by two ironclad ships, none of the sail warships could escape the guns of the ironclad ships!
However, at the same time that the Taiping Navy fleet achieved great results, the main force of the Taiping Army of the division that was transported was also completely disabled, with more than eighty percent of the casualties.
Not many transport ships sank, but under the repeated bombardment of a large number of anti-Han League fleets, the Taiping troops on the transport ships were massacred in a large area for several hours, and blood soaked every deck crevice of the transport ship!
This is war, and decoys come at a price!
Of course, compared to annihilating the main force of the anti-Han Allied fleet and shocking the results of the Allied Navy, this loss is completely acceptable to Hong Tiancheng!
Since then, even if the Allied fleet wants to attack the transport fleet with losses, it will not be possible to break through the firepower network led by the two ironclad ships.
Of the less than 300 wooden-hulled sail battleships remaining, none of them are of battleship class!
The main forces of the hostile forces of the Atlantic and Mediterranean navies were almost eliminated by the Taiping Army in World War I!
Naturally, the Taiping Division, which suffered heavy losses as a decoy, would not land on the British Isles again, but returned to the port of Brest under the escort of the Taiping Army's ironclad ships, which were on the verge of running out of ammunition.
According to the tradition of the Taiping Army, this disabled Taiping Army division was broken up and supplemented into other divisions and regiments, and the remnants of thousands of people were scattered into the 12 main divisions of the Taiping Army, which did not cause much turmoil at all.
When the Taiping Army reorganized its landing force to carry out a larger-scale landing battle, the British Isles had a 180-degree reversal of the situation of the war because of the outcome of the devastating naval battle.
Even the most hard-line main battle faction no longer believes in the outcome of letting the Taiping army shed blood in the British Isles, and the 300,000 British regular troops are even more panicked, even if they have received the best training of this era and are fully equipped with muskets, they still can't suppress the panic in the army!
The British Royal Navy is no longer reliable, and the huge Confederate fleet has collapsed!
Although the main battle voice of the British regime had not disappeared, the anti-Han alliance ushered in a real collapse, and the Spanish regime in exile, which suffered heavy losses, and the Portuguese regime in exile separated from the British government.
They believed that after losing the trench in the English Channel, the British Army would not be able to stop the landing operation of 100,000 Taiping troops at all!
Whether it is the fighting spirit of the armies on both sides, or the weapons used by the soldiers, both sides are not on the same level!
75mm rapid-fire guns, grenadiers, and Makqin heavy machine guns, these three weapons formed a firepower network, which was enough to kill all the enemies in front of them, and the only thing that constrained the Taiping Army's offensive pace was logistics and transportation.
With two invincible ironclad ships to escort them, the Taiping Army's logistical ammunition transportation was not a problem at all, at least not a problem to hit the British Isles, which were not too far away......
Thus, the Spanish regime-in-exile and the Portuguese exile took the remnants of their fleets and left the British Isles for the colonial bases that Spain and Portugal had developed in South America, intending to survive there.
As for the French regime in exile and the Dutch regime in exile supported by the British, they existed in name only when the Allied fleet collapsed.
The Dutch navy was left with only two or three small boats in that war, and it was quickly annexed by the British, and the Dutch regime in exile became a formal empty shell, and the French regime in exile was treated similarly, and even the French capitalists who were dependent on the British fled to North America with their funds.
Naturally, the French regime in exile also became extinct in name.
The few French, unwilling to surrender to the Han Chinese, fled to the Indian peninsula and joined the French Bourbon dynasty.
The anti-Han alliance was now a real disbandment, and only one English kingdom was left barely holding on to the façade.
However, at the end of 1688, when the Taiping landing army was ready, the main members of the British royal family fled to the British colonies in North Africa with the Janissaries who finally became royal, established a temporary capital, and remotely commanded the defense of the British Isles......
Even the British royal family is pessimistic about being able to hold the British Isles!
The capable aristocracy and wealthy capitalists of the British Isles once again fled, some of them following the British crown to the relatively well-developed colonies of North Africa, while others fled to the more distant colonies of North America.
The British royal family did not flee to North America, mainly because it was not yet fully developed.