Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 195 We Win!It's hard to win!
"The main force of the Britons is out to sea!"

The flagship of the Ming Indian Ocean Fleet.

On the ironclad battleship Weiyuan.

Zhu Wei, commander of the Ming Indian Ocean Fleet, and Li Changgeng in the deputy command room had a serious and solemn face.

Zhu Xi took out a silk scroll and held it high in his hand.

"This is the imperial decree of my emperor's long live, and now I will read it!"

This statement came out.

The staff officers present and the captains of each ship stood in silence.

Zhu Xi opened the imperial edict covering the imperial seal of the Ming emperor.

Zhu Daohua's declaration of battle was read out.

".The sea is not just the ocean of the Western barbarians. Where the bandits can go, so can I! This battle will completely end the monopoly of the Western barbarians on the sea. You are the warriors of Ming Dynasty and the heroes of China. China will open up the living space and let all the nations of the world know who is the real master of this world!"

A passionate declaration of battle made the naval officers present shout loudly.

"Long live my emperor!"

"Kou can go! I can go too!"

"Mother who lost the closet!"

"Fuck his mother!"

"Hold on a few dicks!"

Most of Ming’s naval officers were from Guangdong and Fujian.

They all know that if Daming wants to get rich, he must control the sea.

Now is the climax of the age of great voyages, the climax of the Europeans dividing up the world.

With strong ships and guns, Europeans traveled across the world, plundered and colonized everywhere.

It is precisely because of the accumulation of wealth plundered from all over the world that quantitative changes have caused qualitative changes, allowing European civilization to take the lead in crossing the hurdle of agricultural civilization and industrial civilization.

The European civilization, which first entered the industrial civilization, rose to the top in the competition among the world's civilizations, and suddenly occupied an absolute leading position.

They have now occupied most of the world's land, most of the market, and have begun to extend their tentacles to the East.

Just waiting for an opportunity for the weakening of the Eastern Empire.

Cannons were erected on the eastern coastline, and gunboats ran rampant, completely evacuating the wealth accumulated by China through trade advantages for hundreds of years through various treaties, indemnities, and the dumping of cheap industrial products.

From the end of the Ming Dynasty to 1840.

China is a surplus country.

A large amount of precious metals such as silver and gold poured in from all over the world through Western ships.

The land of China was originally poor in precious metals, but due to the influx of a large amount of silver for hundreds of years, China once became a rich country in precious metals.

But after more than 100 years of looting.

In the 1930s when the country was lost.

Precious metals in China basically flowed overseas.

War reparations are part of it.

The bigger reason is that with the loss of tariff sovereignty and the influx of a large number of overseas industrial products, the national industry cannot be protected. The big comprador regime supported by the big powers has no willingness and ability to support the national industry, which makes the country further impoverished and accumulated. weak.

And the reason that led to this.

It was because the Qing Dynasty, which was originally on the edge of Chinese civilization, won a world war.

The Manchus, who were lucky enough to be in charge of China, put most of their minds on defending against the Han and fooling the people.

The border was moved and the sea was banned, and the government opened trade.

He voluntarily withdrew from this struggle among civilizations—of course, this cannot pin all the blame on Man Qing.

After all, even if a Han regime wins the world, it may not be able to win this civilized war, and there is a high probability that it will lose.

But there is a high probability that you will lose a little less.

And now.

Zhu Daohua didn't want to lose.

Can't lose!
He is going to win!
Not just to win Huaxia Xia.

Let Huaxia win the world.

Let Chinese civilization defeat Western civilization and become the number one civilization in the era of industrialization.

Let Chinese civilization divide the world order.

The total population of all the so-called developed countries in later generations is 11 billion.

This high probability shows that the productivity of future generations can only support more than one billion people to enter this developed living state.

Didn't the president of a certain country say that?

It would be a disaster for the earth (the West) if the Chinese lived the same life as the people of a certain country.

The truth is so straightforward and cruel.

That being the case.

The competition with Western civilization means a zero-sum game, which is related to whether future generations can eat meat, whether they can afford to live in a big house, and whoever takes 996 days off a year can still take three days off a week without working overtime , Whoever wants to work overtime at 1 to turn screws and open sweatshops can only get [-]% of the gross profit of the industrial chain!

It is also related to whether the ruling class of the Ming Empire can sit safely in a high position, transfer all the exploited industries abroad, and coax the domestic "middle class" by exploiting the foreign proletariat, so as not to be accidentally caught by the revolution. up.

The life and wealth of the family are all related to this competition.

win!Must win!

Zhu Xi and Li Changgeng knew.

With twelve Wei-class ironclad ships, it is impossible for the British wooden ship to reach a top speed of 18 knots. It is equipped with a 10-inch caliber main gun with a range of nearly 4 miles. The thickness of the armor above the waterline is 4 inches, and the armor below the waterline The opponent of the steel monster with a thickness of 3 inches and a turret armor thickness of 4 inches.

Don't say anything else.

It is impossible for the old wooden nail head bullets of the British to leave any marks on the armor of the Wei-class ironclad ship, let alone the nail head bullets can be firmly nailed to the steel armor.

(1 inch=33.3333333333mm)

at the same time.

Off the coast of the eastern waters of the South Asian subcontinent.

The Union Jack of Great Britain fluttered on the top of the masts of warships, waving in the sea breeze.

The blue sea and blue sky, the sea breeze is just right, and the wind direction is also downwind.

The speed of the British Eastern Intervention Fleet is much faster than that of the Ming Fleet mixed with civilian ships.

At this time, if someone can overlook the Indian Ocean from space.

Maybe you can see two huge fleets heading towards each other.

After discovering that the Ming Fleet had left the Strait of Malacca.

The British Eastern Intervention Fleet kept sending reconnaissance clippers to keep a close eye on the movements of the Ming Fleet, looking for the rules of the Ming Fleet's voyage, judging their possible destinations and intercepting them on the corresponding route.

However, the scout ships of the British Eastern Intervention Fleet had not yet discovered the location of the main force of the Ming Fleet.

A piece of news that stunned the Governor's Office in Calcutta came.

The French Republic bought some fragmented French Indian colonies located in the eastern waters of the South Asian subcontinent to the Ming Empire!

All of a sudden, the Calcutta Governor's Mansion, which had already made preparations to defend against the Ming army's landing operations, was caught off guard.

It is too late to send an army south to attack French India.

If the Eastern Intervention Fleet can't destroy Ming's fleet at sea.

Then the Ming army will directly get a safe place to land and hoard troops. If all the more than 7 Ming troops sent to India complete the landing in India, can the British Army fight against the Ming army in the South Asian subcontinent?
This is probably a deadly threat to the British Indian colony!

So now there is a first-class battleship "Victory", twelve second-class battleships, forty third-class battleships, and all of them have completed the "rocketization" transformation of a powerful main fleet, and at the same time there are 81 flying shears Type light fast bombardment gunship, such a fleet in Europe can be regarded as the "Invincible Fleet" of the Destroyer class.

The firepower is also quite terrifying.

The first is those battleships equipped with the secret weapon "Congreve Rocket".

Historically, due to the unsafe nature of the rocket itself, those who proposed the idea of ​​putting the rocket on the battleship were ridiculed as "crazy".

As such, Congreve rockets have historically been widely used as army weapons, most often for attacking forts and castles.

And in this day and age.

In an era when expensive battleships were being rendered obsolete by the quick-bombers of the Kullies.

The idea of ​​a large battleship combined with the range of a rocket to overwhelm a light bombardment gunship was put into practice.

On board the battleship Victory, the flagship of the British Eastern Intervention Fleet.

Standing on the deck, Vice Admiral Nelson of the British Navy and his assistant Collingwood were actually a little nervous.

To know.

Rocket launchers have been installed on the gun bays and decks of the uppermost artillery of the sea fortress, which has three layers of gun bays and is equipped with 108 guns.

In order to prevent the rocket tail flames from igniting the deck and gun bays, these launchers are installed on the ship boards with fireproof materials, and a drainage tube for the rocket tail flames was also invented to avoid accidents when the tail flames erupt.

The upper gun bay, which could have installed thirty twelve-pound guns, and the upper deck, which housed six twelve-pound guns and two 64-pound fortress guns, have all been emptied. The upper gun bay is used to store rockets. On the open deck, a rocket launch platform is installed.

Three rocket launch platforms on the front deck and one rocket launch platform on the rear deck form a firepower dump that can launch 96 Congreve rockets with a range of more than five kilometers in one salvo.

So many rockets are piled up on the upper deck, even if iron plate armor is installed on the upper deck cabin and the deck board, if something happens, the power of hundreds of rocket explosions can still easily send the Victory to the ground. God.

It can be said.

Now these two generals of the British navy are standing on top of a pile of powder magazines that use sugar and gunpowder mixture as rocket propellant.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is pulling a ship of explosives out to sea.

"If the rocket bomber ship can win this naval battle, maybe the soldiers of the navy in the future will all go to sea on this dangerous ship."

Nelson shook his head.

Anyway, he didn't expect that one day, even if he was on a sea fortress like the Victory, he would have to worry about his personal safety
"Horatio, what are you worried about? We are victorious!"

His assistant, Rear Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood laughed.

"They don't know that we have rockets with such a long range, we can strike their fleet from five kilometers away, and we can launch thousands of rockets in an instant, as long as one of them concentrates on their gunboats. Scrapped a gunboat! In terms of range, experience in naval battles, and the quality of sailors, we have an absolute advantage. I really can't think of what else we can lose this war for?"

Collingwood said.

"The Chinese are too arrogant. They think that they can build a powerful navy in a short period of time with their numerical advantage and strong national power, but they ignore one point."

Collingwood looked at the vast sea ahead.

"It took us hundreds of years to acquire the maritime supremacy of Britain, and it took us hundreds of years to have a strong navy."

"In a short period of time, the Chinese may be able to create a huge fleet, but they cannot have a powerful navy!"

Nelson took a deep breath: "You are right, I am too worried, we have no possibility of losing this war, no matter from all aspects!"

"However, we can win this naval battle, but it does not necessarily make His Majesty the Great Emperor of the Ming Empire succumb to it. War is not an end, but a means. This victory is only for us to obtain at the future negotiating table. It's just the biggest bargaining chip."

The two British admirals had a clear understanding of this naval battle.

This is the battle for sea power in the Indian Ocean.

The party that wins this battle can get what it wants with the power of the Indian Ocean.

(End of this chapter)