I want to be emperor

Off the coast of Cadiz Port, more than a dozen warships lined up in twos and threes, and were fiercely bombarding important military targets such as the coastal defense batteries of Cadiz ahead.

Rumbling gunfire continued to ring out on the sea, among which the main artillery shelling of two large-tonnage battleships attracted the most attention.

These are the two battleships Guiyang and Kunming.

The [-]mm front-loading rifled guns equipped on them are the largest and most powerful rifled guns in active service in the Great Chu Empire Navy. The loading crane for loading.

Although it is troublesome to load, the rate of fire is very impressive. At the same time, because it is only an artillery strike against land, it does not need to be reloaded as fast as life. Therefore, these large-caliber main guns can only be fired in a few minutes.

However, this kind of huge cannonball, which can only be fired once in a few minutes, is extremely powerful!
When the high-explosive bomb is fired, once it hits, it can almost clean up the open-air living targets within tens of meters nearby.

It's better to hide in the artillery fortifications, but you have to be farther away, or hide in very thick fortifications.

If the fortifications are average and the distance is relatively short, the shock waves and shocks caused by the huge explosion can kill you alive, and ordinary civil engineering can also collapse you and bury you alive in it... There are two people on the left and right. die.

If it is a coastal defense fort, especially the coastal defense fort of Cadiz, Spain, which has been designed and processed with anti-howitzers a few years ago, semi-armor-piercing projectiles will be used if the effect of using high-explosive grenades is not great. , Directly relying on the powerful power of armor-piercing bullets, these so-called fortifications were directly overturned to the sky.

It doesn't take much, just one hit can overturn a fort!
The power of a [-]mm caliber cannon is no joke. Even if the shell charge is only black gunpowder, don't think that black gunpowder is less powerful.

Even during the Russo-Japanese War, in addition to the Japanese naval guns using picric acid as the ammunition charge, others including the Japanese’s own army artillery, and the artillery of the Russian land and sea armies, fired shells, and their internal charges were still All with black gunpowder.

But less powerful?

The fortifications built by the Russians in Lushun were cement and steel fortifications, and they still couldn't withstand the bombardment of the Japanese's large-caliber siege artillery.

Don't take the black powder produced by scientific proportions and crafts seriously, the explosive power of this thing is also amazing!

Now more than a dozen warships of the Great Chu Empire Navy are successively using hundreds of artillery pieces to continuously bombard the coastal defense guns in front of Gasland and the remaining warships in the port, and find the enemy's living targets and other military targets .

Under the calibration of the hot air balloon, their bombardment is precise and deadly, especially the two battleships that have been moored to the hot air balloon for observation and calibration. Their bombardment is very accurate and powerful, causing damage to the Spaniards on the opposite side a huge loss.

It effectively covered the large-scale landing of the army on the edge!

Several times, the Spaniards on the opposite side saw that the Chu army was about to land, and wanted to secretly send people around to counterattack on the beachhead, but they were bombarded by the Chu army's naval guns before they reached the predetermined position, and suffered heavy losses.

One of them also knew that the Chu army was bombarded heavily, so they only took a few artillery pieces secretly and relied on the cover of the woods, trying to get close to the coast, and then shelled the Chu army's landing troops on the beach.

As a result, it still failed to escape the sight of the observer on the hot air balloon!

These naval observers on hot air balloons are holding high-power naval telescopes... They are used to find and observe targets that are more than ten kilometers or even farther away on weekdays.

If it is only used to find targets that are no more than a few kilometers away, it is a piece of cake.

Under the favorable cover of the navy, the army dispatched a battalion under the third division which was the first batch to land, successfully completed the landing, and then consolidated the beachhead to meet more friendly troops behind.

Because the initial landing is more important, in order to avoid the first batch of landing troops being beaten back and causing trouble for subsequent landings, the Army simply did not let the cannon fodder troops of the Indian Third Division be the forward.

Instead, an infantry battalion of the third division was dispatched to act as a pioneer, using the absolute firepower advantage to land and stabilize the beachhead.

Although in many cases, the Chu army would use the Indian servant army as cannon fodder, but it was not used casually. For some combat missions that were not very risky and required relatively high firepower, the Chu army sometimes simply let the regular army come.

Only some messy combat missions that are more dangerous, expected to have greater combat casualties, or are more troublesome, or will get your hands dirty, will be more inclined to let servants like the Indian Legion do it.

Today's landing combat mission must not be missed, and there are more than a dozen naval warships nearby to provide sufficient firepower cover, the danger of landing is very low.

The main reason is that you may encounter some sporadic enemy targets after landing, but the overall threat will be very limited.

So simply the third teacher went up by himself!
After going ashore like an outing, the battalion of the third division did not rush forward, but built fortifications on the beach to cover the subsequent landing of troops.

Soon, hundreds more people successfully landed. After these more than 1000 regular troops, about a regular army with the size of a strengthened mixed battalion, successfully landed, the beachhead was basically stable.

Then the Indian Third Division began to land. This servant army did not stay on the beach after landing, but directly crossed the beach and advanced directly to the depth.

In the evening, the three infantry regiments, one cavalry battalion, one artillery battalion, and one supply battalion under the third Indian division had all landed. The total number of the division's total of more than 1 people was divided into two arrows on the left and right to quickly advance in depth .

As the evening approached nightfall, an infantry battalion of the [-]th Infantry Regiment under the [-]rd Indian Division encountered a line of Spanish infantry marching from the rear to Cadiz for reinforcements. Sexual confrontation.

Because the Spaniards' reinforcements were not many, less than 500 people, while the infantry battalion under the Seventh Regiment of the Indian Third Division had almost 800 people.

The generals on the opposite side of Spain were obviously not stupid, and they didn't get entangled for too long. They just withdrew quickly after a brief confrontation.

In this tentative confrontation, because there were no casualties on both sides, more than 40 Spaniards were killed or injured, and more than ten Indian servants of the Chu army were killed or injured.

But it is worth mentioning that this was a serious line duel. Both sides used front-loading muskets, and even the formation was almost the same. The three-row tactic used by Indian minions.

From the perspective of the Chu army, this battle was nothing more than a trivial matter, not even a major battle... After all, this was just a battle between a group of Indian servants, and there were no technical arms such as artillery and cavalry. The infantry lined up and shot at each other stupidly.

However, the Indian servant army has a very low position in the combat sequence of the Chu army, and its weapons, equipment and tactics are still at the level of ten years ago.

And the regular army of Chu State, who had already finished changing their costumes, had long since stopped playing this game.

However, this battle gave many generals in Spain a major misjudgment: the people of Chu are mediocre!

Although in this trial attack, the Spaniard's reinforcements failed due to insufficient equipment and too many troops, which eventually led to a retreat.

But they thought they had obtained a lot of information about Chu people from actual combat.

First of all, the orderliness of the Chu people's queue and the strict discipline impressed the Spaniards very deeply!
The Spanish generals were envious of the advance, left, and right retreats during the battle, and even the change of formation... They didn't know that it was just an Indian servant army, and the servant army was naturally trained to death. shot.

To be honest, the battlefield discipline of the soldiers in the Indian servant army is better than that of the regular army of Chu State.

The general of the state of Chu wanted to kill his own deserters, so he was a bit apprehensive...

Not to mention daily training, although the military laws of the regular army of the Chu army are strict, they cannot be shot at every turn... Any officer who dares to shoot soldiers at will will have to go to a military court tomorrow.

Even if it gets too big, it will cause mutiny and lose your life... Who is not a high-ranking Chu person, if you give you face, you are an officer, if you don't give you face, you will be shot!
But for the Indian servant army, there is really no concern. The officers of the Chu State often do not treat them as human beings... If you treat them as human beings, it will be difficult to use them as cannon fodder on the battlefield.

In addition to the strictness of the officers of the Chu State, in fact, the reason why the Indian servant army is so strict is because the indigenous officers in the servant army are more cruel... These indigenous officers who were promoted by the Chu people, in order to please Chu In other words, in order to stabilize their position, the Chinese are not merciless towards their compatriots. During training, it is common to beat, scold or even shoot indigenous soldiers who violate discipline.

However, these indigenous soldiers are basically of untouchable background... I am used to it, and there are not many people who really resist such a strict military discipline!
But their humble origins, coupled with the various abuses and harsh treatment they suffered after joining the army...caused that after going to the battlefield, they treated other people, whether they were other local indigenous people in India or local indigenous people in Africa. A kind of vindictive sadism, and it's cruel to do things.

Sometimes even many people in the Chu army feel that these Indian servants are somewhat perverted!
In terms of abnormality, among a large number of Indian servants, the Indian Third Division should be among the best... But such a servant army that looks deformed from soldiers to training to combat methods, in the eyes of the Spaniards But it has become an elite division with strict discipline and neat formation.

It’s not that Spain has never fought against the people of Chu, and there were also small-scale conflicts in Mexico every three days. But to be honest, Spain knows that the people of Chu are very strong, but they don’t know exactly how strong they are. clear.

Especially those small conflicts between the two countries in North America, in fact, most of them are scattered and informal battles between the militias of the two sides.

This time in Gasland, it was the first large-scale face-to-face confrontation between the two armies.

Leaving aside the desperate naval fleet of the Great Chu Empire Navy, and only talking about the army, the Spaniards were certainly amazed. , but not to the point of surrender.

As long as our own tactics are proper and the soldiers work hard, there is still hope to drive the Chu people away and keep their country and homeland!

Even though the opponent is strictly disciplined, although the smoothbore gun used is a better cap percussion gun, and there is a powerful artillery group that can fire grenades.

But they haven't stood still in Spain for the past 30 years.

They have also imitated and equipped with flintlock guns one after another. Although the firing rate of flintlock guns and cap percussion guns is very different, there is still no difference in combat methods.

Using these imitation flintlock guns, the Spaniards have also fully entered the line era, and their line infantry can be regarded as famous on the European continent, and they are not much weaker than the French army in the north.

In terms of artillery, the Spaniards also successively imitated several field artillery of the Chu army, equipped with six-pound and twelve-pound front-loading smoothbore guns as the main field artillery system, and they also imitated the wooden bullet holders of the Chu people. Made a disc fuze and made his own grenade.

Although the performance of the artillery and the power of the shells are poor, they are still usable.

And because of the influence of the Great Chu Empire, the military development speed of the European continent and West Asia far exceeded the original time and space history.

Today's European region has basically entered the era of line... Those arquebuses and spearmen in the 30 Years War have long been thrown into the garbage dump of history.

The linear era in Europe unfolded at least four or fifty years earlier than the original time and space history.

The help of the people of Chu is indispensable in this process... The Great Chu Empire has almost opened up the sale of various flintlock guns and smoothbore artillery to the outside world in recent years, and even grenades have begun to be sold outside. industry's big market.

A large number of flintlock guns and smoothbore guns are sold to Europe every year.

Not to mention anything else, even the Spaniards bought at least 200 smoothbore guns exported from Chu State, and more than [-] smoothbore guns for export.

Other countries have bought more or less. England not only buys guns from Chu people, but also buys sail warships from Chu people.

A few years ago, the Chu people sold many decommissioned pure sail warships to the British, so that the British were able to quickly replenish the large number of ships lost in the Anglo-Dutch war.

By the way, the Dutch also bought a large number of guns and sailing warships from the Chu people.

After the 20s, the people of Chu State put into service iron-ribbed wood-hull ships and steam ships on a large scale, which led to the decommissioning of a large number of traditional pure-sail wooden warships one after another. Quite a few of these ships were not directly thrown away, but simply refitted. It was sold to countries in Europe or West Asia.

Among them, the Jinling-class third-class sail wooden battleship built on a large scale in the early days of the Great Chu Empire. Although this thing is very tasteless to the Chu army after entering the steam age, it is still first-class to the navies of other countries. Good battleship.

The Jinling-class pure-sail wooden warships have been retired and sold to the outside world one after another. They are very popular among Europeans. The British alone bought six ships at one go... The Dutch, who were on the other side of the Anglo-Dutch War, bought ten ships successively .

The Dutch established their country by business, they are much richer than the British, and they are also generous in buying things... Relying on these ten battleships and more than 20 other Chu-made sailing battleships purchased, the British fought in the Second Anglo-Dutch War He didn't have any temper at all, and finally he was elated.

After the British were beaten, they turned around and went to the Chu people to buy more wooden warships with sails. They were all thinking of avenging the Dutch... But now the Chu people themselves have come to Europe, and they don’t know that the British have No chance for revenge.

After all, compared to the old wooden warships with sails from the Chu State purchased by Europe, the steel steam warships used by the Great Chu Empire Navy are the real weapons of war.

In the face of this weapon of war, Cadiz, which is considered to have perfect coastal defenses in the entire European region, and its strong coastal defenses, was beaten into ruins like paper.

After all, in front of a modern battleship like the Guiyang battleship with a full load displacement of more than 6000 tons, an ancient small port like Cadiz is not worth mentioning at all.

The battleship Guiyang and the battleship Kunming, which participated in the battle this time, are quite large ships even if they are placed in the Great Chu Empire, and they look very bluffing.

Moreover, part of the wrought iron armor is used near the waterline armor belt of the hull, and a lot of iron materials are also used for the superstructure other than the armor. Therefore, this class of battleship seems to be very similar to an ironclad ship in the traditional sense at first glance.

But it's not actually... In its core, it's actually a steam warship with iron ribs and a wooden shell.

If we really want to talk about pure iron-clad ships, in fact, the Jinling-class battleships currently under construction by the Great Chu Empire are considered iron-clad ships in the traditional sense.

The gun layout of the Guiyang and a series of sister ships is also different from that of many early ironclad ships in the original time and space. Still high freeboard design.

The high freeboard design allows this class of ships to have good ocean-going performance and not worry about being hindered by waves when firing.

However, this design also prevents ships of this class from deploying too many large-caliber heavy guns. After all, the deployment of too many heavy guns in a high-freeboard design will cause the center of gravity of the ship to be unstable. Only four [-]mm front-loading rifled guns can be deployed.

However, in order to make up for the lack of firepower, a total of 26 150mm rifled guns were deployed on both sides of the ship in the traditional way of side-by-side guns outside the two double-mounted open-air rotary platform turrets on the front and rear central axes.

So even though there are only four main guns, the firepower of this thing is still very fierce.

The overall design idea of ​​the Yingtian-class battleship is actually light protection, less main guns and more secondary guns, and attaches great importance to ocean-going navigation performance and endurance.

If this kind of warship was placed in the middle and late nineteenth century of the original time and space, it would have to be hanged on the battle line... If it was strangled to death, it would be the life of a colonial cruiser... Because the protection is too sloppy, and the number of main guns is small and the caliber is small. As a result, the damage to ironclad ships of the same level is limited.

Strictly classified according to performance, this kind of battleship was in the middle and late nineteenth century in the original time and space, and it was actually a colonial cruiser.

But why did the Great Chu Empire Navy design it this way?

Because the Great Chu Empire built it, it was originally used to deploy overseas to deal with the natives...

So what is needed is a long range and excellent ocean-going navigation performance. As for the firepower compared to a small number of large-caliber main guns, what the navy needs is a large number of 150mm naval guns with a moderate caliber... 150mm naval guns are cheap and the shells Also cheap.

It is also convenient to fight, and the gunner can directly load it manually instead of using a crane to load it.

The design of warships is mostly guided by actual needs. In many cases, it is not that the larger the ship, the larger the caliber of the artillery, the better.

And don't look at the Yingtian-class battleship that seems to be just a large cruiser, but its technical content is not low at all.

The combined steam engine equipped on it was the most advanced double-expansion high-pressure small water tube boiler steam engine at that time, and the failure rate was extremely low, allowing ships of this class to completely abandon sails and use pure steam engine power for long-term sailing.

As far as the technical level of this steam engine is no less than that of the original time and space in the 70s...

Not to mention the battleship Guiyang, even the many Baling-class frigates on the side seem to be just handymen, but the technical content is not low at all... It can make dozens of Baling-class frigates built by the Great Chu Empire in batches. Ling frigate, and guarantee a sufficiently low price, not much lower than the technical requirements for a [-]-ton battleship.

So a lot of things, just because they look ordinary at first glance, you can't think that the technology is not good... It's not like this.

Whether it is the two Yingtian-class battleships Guiyang and Kunming that look mighty and domineering, or the Baling-class frigates that look a bit petty, or the two Jinzhou-class cruisers that look well-behaved but have extremely beautiful lines. .

There are a total of more than a dozen overseas warships that appeared outside the port of Cadiz. No matter which one, they can use the square kite tactics to wipe out the entire European fleet one by one with sufficient supplies such as ammunition, coal, and fresh water. .

Of course, the Europeans are not stupid, they just don't know how to fly kites for Chu's navy.

They will run away... For example, the fleet in Cadizli has already run away... They can't stay in the port and wait to die, or go out and fight to die!
Some time ago, the Portuguese navy bravely went to sea to fight, and the news of the final annihilation of the entire army has already spread throughout Europe!

Even if you want to fight, you can't be so foolish and face-to-face with the Chu State Navy who has the absolute advantage!