Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 1041
How dare the British send a fleet to North America to plunder?
Don't they know how powerful the Ming Empire is?

Don't they know that the Indian tribes in North America are protected by Ming Dynasty?

Don't they know that Ming's naval fleet is stationed in the West Yindu Islands?

Of course they all know this.

However, when colonial bandits want to plunder other countries, they don't make sense or logic.

Just like the Netherlands in history, they sent a dozen warships to defeat the then overlord of the Far East, Daming.

This is a historical fact. The Dutch East India Company really thought about it and did it.

A dozen or so warships rushed towards Daming without hesitation, regardless of whether they rushed up and fought.

No matter how declining the Ming Dynasty was at that time, it was still the overlord of the Far East with a population of hundreds of millions, and Zheng He's voyages to the Western Seas were still there, and the Daming Navy could still gather thousands of large and small warships.

But the Dutch dared to send a dozen warships to attack Ming Dynasty.

There is no other reason, just because they want to plunder Ming and even colonize Ming.

People don't talk about logic or strength, they just want to grab.

The same is true for many descendants of colonial robbers in later generations. Forget about the beautiful country, the descendants of robbers like Australia with a population of just over 2000 million dare to show off their power in front of us.

You think they are mentally ill, but they think you are a bully.

Although the British are not the ancestors of the colonists, they are the ancestors of the robbers, and they are naturally very courageous.

Another characteristic of colonial robbers is that as long as whoever goes up first, a large number of them will follow.

They never make any sense, they just want to rob you anyway, just want to bully you.

Cromwell led the fleet so confidently and set off. While they were still on the road, [-] Spanish armored warships and more than [-] combined ships from France and the Netherlands began to sail in the Bay of Biscay. assembled.

When Wallenstein received the news, he led an army of 200 million without hesitation and went straight to the south of the Ural Mountains.

Tsarist Russia even dispatched an army of 30 troops that had already assembled, and rushed directly to the vicinity of Wuzhong City, Wubei City, and Wunan City.

The colonial robbers rushed forward like a pack of wolves, and a world war broke out in such a way.

On the east coast of North America, 250 Aegis warships and [-] Spike warships were waiting in battle, and [-] Flying Dragon warships were also cruising in the sea thousands of miles away from the coastline. The Ming Empire was preparing to deal a head-on blow to the British.

Cromwell didn't know that there were so many warships and warships waiting for him ahead.

At the moment his mind is preoccupied with plans for the robbery.

There is no need to think about how many shares the fleet is divided into.

Because this was decided in advance, all ships in the entire fleet were allocated according to this.

There's no need for him to be fussy and waste time messing up the queues and reassigning them.

The key question now is how to go ashore to plunder, how to rob after landing, how long to retreat after robbing, and other specific operations.

He thought about this journey for more than [-] days, and when he was about a thousand miles away from the east coast of North America, he finally summoned [-] commanders in charge of the squadron to the flagship, and began to arrange specific tactics or looting plans up.

It is not so simple for them to gather people to hold the flagship at sea. All the ships have to stop, and the commanders in charge of commanding the squadron have to carefully command the cars to approach the flagship in turn, then release the hook lock, and climb up the flagship with great difficulty. deck.

It was such a hassle for them to go from one ship to another at the moment.

No way, their steel materials are not up to standard, and they can't firmly fix the small warships on both sides of the warships, so they can't take the small warships with them when they go out to sea.

They can only board another battleship like this.

Cromwell actually had some thoughts on this.

Although they can't fix small warships on both sides of the battleship, they can build some paddling boats, tie them directly to the sides of the battleship with ropes, or directly fix them on the deck of the battleship.

In this way, it will be much more convenient for them to land on the beach or convene people to discuss matters.

Anyway, the small rowing boat is not heavy, and it is very convenient to hang it up and down.

Of course, they had already crossed the ocean to the east coast of North America at this moment, and it was too late to build the paddle boat.

Even if he came up with a solution, he could only implement it after returning this trip.

Maybe he thought there was no danger this trip, but he was still thinking about what would happen after he went back.

Don't you know that at this time, there are already several dragon warships on the periphery of their fleet staring at them from a distance, and there are still many dragon warships gathering here.

When Zheng Hongkui saw all the warships gathered in a pile, he really wanted to fire an incendiary bomb immediately and set them on fire.

With such a dense group of ships, the effect of incendiary bombs hitting them is the best. It is estimated that a few incendiary bombs can ignite a ship.

However, he was not impulsive.

Because their goal is not to repel the enemy or scare the enemy away, but to annihilate the enemy.

If he hits a fire bomb, he can ignite hundreds of ships.

The problem is, people will run away in all likelihood after being burned by him suddenly.

If people really ran away, the loss outweighed the gain.

He could only order people to go back to send a message, and at the same time ordered all the warships to stare at them from a distance and not to approach them.

At this time, people must be preparing to spread out to land and plunder. They don't need to worry at all, they just need to keep an eye on it.

Cromwell's tactics were actually not complicated. Anyway, he divided the fleet into 21 units and headed to the east coast of North America at the same time.

When you see a dock without a city or a fortress, go up, and if you see a dock with a city or a fort, change places.

As for how long the looting will last, it depends on the reaction of the Ming Empire.

He deliberately selected forty ships and warships from each fleet, and sent these ships and warships to guard the southern waters.

If the fleet of the Ming Empire rushed over, these warships would hurry back to find their own fleet and notify everyone to retreat.

If the Ming Empire's fleet doesn't come over, they will keep rushing for ten days first!

He felt that they would be able to snatch it for at least ten days this trip, and the commanders of the plundering fleet also screamed in excitement.

It didn't take long before their fleet began to disperse and attack.

Zheng Hongkui counted carefully from the side and rear, and could not help but frown slightly.

They were actually divided into 22 shares!
This number is a bit difficult to allocate ships for interception and containment.

Fortunately, the flying dragon battleship is fast, and he can still rush back to discuss it with Zhang Yuanfang.

After thinking about it, he still ordered the other Flying Dragons to keep up with the separate raiding fleets, while he himself took several Flying Dragons straight to the port where Zhang Yuanfang was.

Why did Cromwell divide the fleet into 22 shares?

He is also selfish about this.

Originally, what Charles I and the Earl of Stratford had agreed was to divide into [-] shares, but he felt that it was not pleasant to mix with others to grab it.

Therefore, he had already changed the distribution plan.

He divided the entire fleet into 21 groups. The other fleets consisted of [-] ships, and the remaining nearly [-] ships followed the flagship to form the largest group. Moreover, the nearly [-] ships on the The commanders are also the generals of the parliament.

This is stealing money, food, and things. Although this time, whoever snatches it will be the one who owns it, but there is definitely no problem in hiding something private.

With such a good opportunity, he naturally wanted to take these cronies to plunder it.

At this moment, all the ships have been replaced with pirate flags, and all the British soldiers are very excited.

It's a pity that the wind on the sea is not strong, and the speed of the sailing ship cannot be increased. It will take at least two days for them to rush to the east coast of North America.

In the afternoon of the next day, just as Cromwell was holding up his binoculars and eagerly looking at the sea ahead, a row of black spots suddenly appeared on the sea.

He couldn't help but be taken aback.

Because he was thinking that the coastline was approaching, and what appeared in the telescope should be a black line.

Who ever thought that what appeared in the telescope was a row of black spots.

Obviously, this is an enemy ship.

Fortunately, the number of black spots is not very large, there are only forty or fifty in total, and they have nearly two hundred warships.

There's nothing to say, go ahead and do it!

This is about to rush to someone's house, how could he be scared off by the mere forty or fifty ships in this area.

Zhang Yuanfang couldn't help sneering as he watched the enemy ship rushing straight towards him.

"There is a way to heaven if you don't go, but there is no way to hell you break into!"

Naturally, there are more than forty or fifty ships under his command. What Cromwell saw were forty Aegis ships, and another 480 Spike warships were waiting for more than twenty miles to the left and right. Cromwell Naturally invisible.

For more than a day, Zheng Hongkui's Flying Dragon battleship has already been investigated clearly. The other plundered fleets have only a hundred ships, but this fleet has nearly two hundred ships. Needless to say, the enemy's flagship It's in this fleet.

Therefore, Zhang Yuanfang decided to personally bring forty Aegis ships and 480 Spike warships to intercept.

As for the forty steamships and warships running all the way to the south, Zheng Hongkui led forty dragon warships to annihilate them.

In this way, the other plundering fleets were intercepted by thirteen Aegis ships and more than a hundred Spike warships, and these plundering fleets were followed by ten Flying Dragon battleships to prevent them from escaping.

Cromwell thought that at most [-] or [-] ordinary warships were intercepting them. When the fleet approached, he saw clearly that there were forty ironclad warships ahead!
This time, he was really dumbfounded.

Didn't the Ming Empire only have three or four hundred armored warships in total?

Why was he so unlucky that he just ran into forty ironclad warships?

Of course he knew the power of iron-clad warships. Even if it was an iron-clad warship imitated by the European Continental Alliance, it would not be a problem for one to overwhelm a dozen ordinary warships. What's more, the iron-clad warships of the Ming Empire had stronger defense and more fierce firepower.

What to do at this time?
Escaping seemed to be the only option.

The problem is that both sides are advancing at full speed, rushing toward each other, and the distance between them is shortening at a speed visible to the naked eye.

He ordered the fleet to turn around and run away at this time, so he would be a target for adults.

No way, even if you can't do it, you have to shoot a volley.

He could only gritted his teeth and ordered: "Order, all ships are loaded with ammunition and ready to fire on the left side."

Soon, the distance between the two sides was shortened to about five miles.

He ordered without hesitation: "Order, all warships turn left, fire a round salvo, then turn around and retreat."

Well, there is nothing wrong with his command, but unfortunately, the performance of their warships is too poor.

They were still desperately turning the rudder to the left, but the forty Aegis ships on the opposite side had already drifted beautifully, and all of them made a left turn, and then there was a violent roar of artillery.

"Swish, whoosh, whoosh", more than two thousand shells whizzed and smashed over, and nearly two hundred ships were smashed into sawdust.

Fortunately, even without iron armor, it is impossible for ordinary warships to be sunk by a few shells.

More than two hundred warships still completed the deflection, and a broadside salvo came.

They fired thousands of shells in this round of broadside salvo, and their power and power were incomparable with forty Aegis ships.

As for the effect, it is even more incomparable.

The forty Aegis ships seemed to have not been hit by shells, and there was no damage at all.

Then it was time for the performance of the Aegis ships. Zhang Yuanfang commanded the forty Aegis ships to turn left and right, firing shells non-stop, and kept approaching the enemy ships, as if it didn't take time to load the shells.

At this time, Cromwell was completely dumbfounded, because he was surrounded by soaring water jets and bursting sawdust, and the enemy's shells would rain down on him, and he couldn't see the situation of the entire fleet at all.

After an unknown amount of time, the Aegis ship, which had poured more than [-] shells, finally stopped shelling, and the sea in front of them was already piled with sawdust, and almost all the enemy ships were sunk by them.

When more than 400 Spike warships approached from both sides, it was only left to hunt people.

The good news soon spread to the capital of Western Yin. Taichang couldn't help smiling when he saw the telegram.

It's hard to blame them for being cruel.

Within a few days, newspaper sellers in continental Europe suddenly received a large number of free newspapers.

There was only one topic in the newspaper, and that was that the British fleet was the first to launch an attack on the Ming Empire's vassal states in North America.

The Ming Empire couldn't take it anymore and decided to declare war on the Continental Union.

(End of this chapter)