Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 422 The black technology of the Ming Navy
Chinese fleet? ! !

Are the Chinese crazy? !

"How many ships do they have?!"

Dais could not help but ask the adjutant beside him immediately.

The answer was a frightened and overwhelmed face.

Thanks to the recent “yellow peril” propaganda.

The image of the Chinese has successfully become characters such as Cyrus, Saladin, Attila, Genghis Khan, etc. in Western Europe.

Two or three hundred years after Europeans ascended to European hegemony, they recalled the fear of being dominated by the iron hoof from the East.

Oh.

This time it's not just Ironhoof.

And battleships!

Ironclad!
Dais himself felt like he was falling into an ice cave.

He boarded the bridge and looked at the sea to the east with his binoculars.

Soon I saw a black smoke column emerging on the sea in the distance.

Streams of black smoke floated into the sky, forming a black cloud in the distance.

soon.

Under the black smoke, one warship after another began to appear.

"Capital ship! It is the Chinese capital ship!!"

The hands holding the telescope were shaking, and Dais couldn't help but screamed.

"1, 2, 3, 4"

"Eight Zhen-class ships and eight Hong-class ships are the Chinese Eighth-Eight Fleet! The entire Eighth-Eight Fleet!"

Dais's mind went blank.

An Eighth-Eighth Fleet appeared in the Indian Ocean. They definitely couldn't be here for tourism! !
A word came to Dyce's mind: World War!

The world war is about to begin!

This thing is really too scary.

Dyce is just a small person, and his goal in life is to live comfortably at the Naval Headquarters in London until he retires.

He never thought about it.

He will become a witness and experiencer when a world war begins.

"Major! We need to report to the Indian Ocean Fleet headquarters!"

his deputy reminded.

"Yes! Turn around! Turn around!! Return to the Maldives at full speed!"

Desire's back was covered in cold sweat.

He took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down.

Holding the telescope, he continued to explore in the direction of the fleet: "A fleet of eight or eight, and there are also several frigates. There may be a huge landing ship group behind them!"

As he spoke loudly, an officer next to him was writing furiously in his notebook.

"The damn Chinese are really coming!"

"The World War is about to begin!!"

"Enemy patrol ship found!"

The atmosphere on the battleship Zhenwu has reached a very tense moment.

Zhu Yixian stood on the command tower, holding a telescope and looking ahead.

Of course, it was impossible for his eldest brother, the prince, to appear at the Zhenwu level in person to participate in this battle.

after all.

For the Ming Empire.

The importance of the prince is far more important than the victory of this naval battle.

The stability of the imperial heir means the stability of the future of the Ming Empire.

No one dared to let the prince take risks on the battlefield.

Indian Ocean Fleet Commander Zhang Bao and Chief of Staff Chen Huacheng were in the flagship command room in the cabin at this time.

The ships are contacted through the latest radio technology - a technology that was just born last year.

Thanks to a contribution from a mysterious person.

After the Electric Power Research Institute of the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Ming Dynasty developed the world's first wired telegraph, it quickly developed radio technology - historically, wired technology began to appear around the 1830s, and the world The first telegraph machine appeared in 1837.

And now in this time and space.Because of a "tip" from a mysterious person.

Telegraph technology appeared more than 20 years earlier.

At the same time, radio technology was also mentioned - in history, the discovery of radio had to wait until the 1860s.

But that's how science works sometimes.

Discovery is harder than application.

And now.

On this fleet.

There is a radio communication link between the captain of each fleet and the fleet commander.

But unfortunately.

Long-distance radio communication is still a difficult problem to solve.

Actually.

Radio communications on the fleet are sometimes limited by distance.

However, this is already a thing that transcends the times.

In the command room of the Zhenwu, the staff can maintain communication with each ship through radio, achieving far longer-distance communication and more complex and flexible command than semaphores.

"Wind direction, southeasterly, wind speed 4."

"Order the fleet to move north and cut into the northwest of the Maldives Islands from the north!"

Zhang Bao issued the order.

"Will they fight?" He looked at his chief of staff, Chen Huacheng.

"Definitely! Don't they have a tradition of fighting an enemy when they see it? What's more, they have more battleships than we do!" Chen Huacheng said.

Zhang Bao nodded: "Our artillery are all explosive shells. It is difficult to sink the opponent, but we only need to damage it. If we can destroy a few opponent's capital ships, we can sink the enemy ship." record."

"The power has been knocked out. Wouldn't it be a waste to sink them again?" Chen Huacheng said with a smile.

"That's right." Zhang Bao nodded. He never thought that the current naval battle would turn into what it is now.

Since they are all solid ironclads and do not have reliable explosive armor-piercing projectiles, it is not easy to sink an ironclad.

In the past more than ten years, a head-on confrontation between naval powers has not occurred.

But in Europe, some naval battles still occurred.

There are some examples of battles between ironclads and traditional sailing battleships.

The wooden-hulled sail battleship was hit by an ironclad ship with solid armor-piercing bullets for more than ten times without sinking. In the end, it was directly hit and sunk by the ironclad ship.

Based on this example.

Many Western navies think so.

In the age of ironclads.

The power of the artillery is reduced by the thickness of the armor.

If you want to sink enemy ships, you have to revisit some of the naval methods of the classical era - such as ramming.

Therefore, the ironclad ships of the navies of the British Empire, the French Empire and other countries are now optimized for collision and equipped with strong ramming angles.

But the ironclad ships of the Ming Navy did not have any collision angle design from the beginning.

It showed a disdain for the tactics of confronting the enemy with the bow and sinking the enemy ship.

From the perspective of the traditional naval powers of Britain and France.

This is due to the conservative thinking of the top brass of the Ming Navy, who still use ironclad ships as sailing ships.

Just now.

In the telescopic vision of Captain Zhu Yixian of the Zhenwu, the tall bows of British warships appeared one after another.

"The British show up!!"

Zhu Yixian suddenly put down the telescope in his hand.

I couldn't help but feel excited.

even though.

in military exercises.

The Ming Navy adhered to the principles of "facing the enemy from the side", "column tactics", and "quick artillery pursuit of damage", etc., which have been proven to be sufficient to form an advantage over the ironclad ships of Western navies.

But
This is all a matter of practice.

What actually happens in practice.

Who can know?
(End of this chapter)