1825 My New Daming

Chapter 429 The vast ocean is a casino, and Emperor William has a trump card (seeking subscription, monthly ticket)

Portsmouth naval port.

Several luxury carriages slowly drove into the heavily guarded port area.

The officer guarding the gate of the port area looked at the two groups of Gurkha riflemen guarding the front and rear of the carriage, and immediately thought of something, and hurriedly shouted: "All. Stand at attention!"

The listless guards cheered up all of a sudden, all raised their chests, and saluted the carriage with their guns raised.When the carriage drove into the gate, the officer guarding the gate rushed back to the sentry box, picked up the phone and informed his superiors that "Emperor William is coming".

The convoy drove directly into the port area and stopped in front of a building full of high-ranking officials in the uniform of the Royal Navy.The door opened, and Emperor William and the Duke of Wellington came out from inside.The senior officers waiting on the pier stepped forward to salute Emperor William. Emperor William also wore a navy uniform today, and he also raised his hand to return the salute to the group of officers, and then he and the Duke of Wellington walked towards the building Go to a warship outfitting area.

Located in Portsmouth Naval Port, this outfitting area is shared by several major shipyards such as Bath Shipyard, Armstrong Shipyard and Royal Dockyard in the UK.There are 6 piers stretching out to the bay, each of which is paved with rails. These rails are directly connected to the dense English railway network. Through this railway network, the shipyard in Portsmouth Naval Port can cooperate with supporting factories all over England. connected.

On these six outfitting piers, giant steel ships are being completed bit by bit by the hard-working hands of English workers who are as busy as worker ants, revealing their hideous appearances.Due to the urgency of the war, there are as many as a dozen warships outfitted in the outfitting area of ​​the Portsmouth Naval Port, all of which are large surface ships with a standard displacement of over 24 tons.In order to catch up with the work, the outfitting area was clanging 997 hours a day.All the shipbuilders have turned on the "[-] mode", working in two shifts, and even changing their worship to the church in the military port.

In today's England, there are too many factories that have opened the "997 model" like the outfitting area in Portsmouth Naval Port, and there are tens of thousands of them at the least—even though the industrial strength of the United Kingdom is far inferior Daming, but it is also an industrial country with a complete range of categories and a complete system.It has the ability to independently build all kinds of large warships and all kinds of equipment and ammunition for the navy and army.

If there is no such strength, how can the UK pull the two "silly sons" of the United States and India together to fight against the Great Tomorrow Dynasty?

However, Emperor William was still very aware of the fact that although the industry of the British Empire was systematic and relatively complete, compared with the industrial system of the Great Ming Dynasty, the industrial system owned by Britain was not only small in scale, but also relatively backward in technology. This made it very difficult for the British Empire to win the final victory in a long-term attrition war with Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the British Empire has been making quick decisions since before the start of this war.Specifically, they want to take advantage of their early preparations for war and the fact that the shipbuilding industry is larger than Ming's two advantages, so as to defeat Ming in a short period of time and force the other party to seek peace.

But as the war between the two sides entered its third year, Emperor William had already made it clear that the British Empire had lost the possibility of a quick victory. Several contests that took place in the Strait of Malacca, the Indian Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean have clearly shown that the Ming Dynasty The empire's war preparations are very well carried out, and their complete and powerful industrial system can better adapt to the wartime situation.

In addition, the fighting spirit of the Japanese cannon fodder found by the Ming Empire is completely different from the Indian cannon fodder of the British Empire.The combat efficiency of the former is at least ten times that of the latter!
Fortunately, after the Ming Empire won the naval battle, it seemed that it was not in a hurry to attack India.For over a year after they seized the Strait of Malacca, it was mostly just breaking engagements in the Indian Ocean.

Although they sunk and captured hundreds of British and Indian civilian ships and escorting warships, and won several naval battles caused by escort and breaking diplomatic relations, they did not take advantage of the victory to enter India-by During the peace talks in Vienna, the British also found out a little about Ming Dynasty. They had no intention of occupying India, but just wanted to dismember this country unified by the British into twenty or thirty countries.
This "stupid son" was about to be dismembered, and he didn't know how to fight to the death, which really left Emperor William speechless!

And the United States, another "silly son" of the British Empire, is much more powerful than India, and it is also enough to crush Mexico, another helper of Ming Dynasty.However, by supporting the Japanese in Texas and supporting the independence of Florida, Ming Dynasty has already taken the lead in the American battlefield.Even if President Jackson launched a general mobilization and organized an army of millions, it would inevitably be protracted.

More recently, U.S. forces in North America have suffered heavy losses in front of Mexican-Japanese trench defenses in the Florida swamps and Texas.It is said that the Mexicans and Japanese are equipped with a squad machine gun that can follow the infantry to move quickly, and have an overwhelming firepower advantage in infantry engagements!Americans are now looking crazy for individual guns that can shoot continuously
"Duke, what do you think of the current situation?" Emperor William suddenly turned his head, as if listening to Duke Wellington's thoughts.

"Let's make peace with war!"

Looking at Emperor William, the Duke of Wellington frowned, thinking like an accountant, "The goal of the Ming Dynasty is obviously to weaken the United States, dismember India, and seize Australia. And Pearl Harbor is not only the home port of the Pacific Fleet, but also their support for North America. The logistics transfer center on the battlefield, if we can destroy the facilities at Pearl Harbor and the large number of merchant ships anchored there, it will have a great adverse effect on Da Ming's operations in North America. At that time, we may be able to take advantage of this victory and cooperate with Da Ming The empire reached some sort of compromise."

"Yes! But I want to leave the Indian Empire, a country of 2 million people, intact to Victoria." Emperor William smiled slightly, and stopped in front of several huge warships that had been completed in the center of the outfitting area.

Emperor William's eyes suddenly lit up at this time, and he no longer discussed with Wellington the terms of the peace talks with Ming Dynasty, but turned his attention to those huge warships.

A total of 6 warships appeared in front of Emperor William, 2 of which were battleships, and 4 were stitch monsters—half armored cruisers and half aircraft carriers!

Among them, the two battleships are a pair of sister ships, exactly the same, that is, the battleship "William IV" and the battleship "Queen Elizabeth" that Emperor William placed high hopes on.

跟随在威廉皇帝和威灵顿公爵身边的乔治.义律马上开口介绍道：“皇帝陛下，威廉四世级的标准排水量达到了2.9万吨，满载排水量达到3.5万吨！它的主装甲带厚度达到了343-203毫米，水平防护76毫米；炮塔正面457毫米；司令塔正面406毫米！

它还拥有10门14英寸45倍径的主炮，21座5英寸的高平两用炮，21座1磅高射炮和21挺高射机枪。它还有12台煤油混烧锅炉，和2台总功率高达3.15万匹马力的蒸汽轮机，双轴推进，最高航速可达20.5节！”

Emperor William nodded and said to George Elliot: "Lieutenant General Elliot, I will now hand over these two battleships and the other four aircraft-carrying armored cruisers to you and General Baga. The British Empire looks forward to your victory. !"

"Your Majesty, our Australian Grand Fleet must do our best!"

(End of this chapter)