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Chapter 1081 Confronting the Caribbean (First update, please subscribe)
What is Ming's ultimatum?
Sima Zhao's heart is well known to passers-by.

What about the future of Cuba, what about sending investigators, in fact, everything is for one purpose, which is to occupy Cuba.

Even without waiting for Daming to issue an ultimatum, the United States took the lead in responding—it sent four battleships "New York", "Minnesota", "Ohio", and "Pennsylvania" to "visit" Havana. In this way, the United States also transferred two of the four combat ships of the Pacific Fleet originally planned to be transferred to Hawaii to the Atlantic Ocean.At the same time, the British Royal Navy also reluctantly sent two battleships to Havana.

It was precisely because of the support of the United States and Britain that the Spaniards arrogantly and rudely rejected Ming's "ultimatum". At this time, the main force of Ming's Atlantic Fleet was sailing from the Huizhou Bay base to Havana.

However, before that, the Imperial Caribbean Squadron, which used the Mexican port as its home port and cruised in the Caribbean Sea all year round, had already sailed to Havana at full speed.

Although the Caribbean Squadron, the main force is only one old ironclad ship-the second-class ironclad ship Rio de Janeiro.

Isn't this amazing? Brazil perished and the place name was changed, but the warship named after its place name is still in service with the Imperial Navy. The "Brazilian War" began with the air attack of the Ming Float Force on the Brazilian Navy Fleet in Montevideo.That air raid overturned the history of naval warfare in the world. The Imperial Brazilian Navy was almost completely wiped out in the air raid. One of its main "Riachuelo"-class ironclad ships sank and three ran aground.After the Imperial Army occupied Montevideo, naval technical officers inspected the three "Riachuelo" class ironclad ships that were stranded, and finally came to the result that the three ships were still worth repairing. The number of warships was insufficient at that time. The Imperial Navy is a powerful addition.

A year later, the newly restored Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Aquidaba joined the Imperial Navy successively, and then joined the Caribbean Squadron, Imperial East African Squadron, and Dongying Squadron respectively.

The Rio de Janeiro became the capital ship of the Imperial Caribbean Squadron.

Compared with the four mighty capital ships of the US fleet, the 6800-ton Rio de Janeiro is not enough to look at, but even if it is just a thousand-ton fast gunboat (lightning ship), as long as it hangs the lower half of the Imperial Navy It is the Suzaku flag with horizontal blue and white stripes, as long as he hangs the sun and moon flag of the empire.Behind him is a powerful empire.

At this time, when the Imperial Navy fleet headed by the battleship "Youzhou" was sailing from the mainland to Havana at full speed, in Havana, the silent confrontation had already begun.

Overnight, Havana, Cuba became the focus of the world.

In the berthing area outside Havana, the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Navy on the "Rio de Janeiro" all stared angrily at the American fleet in the distance, and the American fleet was also looking at them.

"see it?"

Ma Han, who was on the "Pennsylvania", pointed to the flagship of the Ming Dynasty, and said to the officers and school students around him.

"Who can tell me the name of their flagship?"

"The Rio de Janeiro! Sir."

"Yes, it's the Rio de Janeiro. Although this city has been named "Huizhou" by the Ming Empire, the "Rio de Janeiro" has been kept in their navy. Do you know why?"

"Of course it is to show the military might of the Ming Empire. The reason why many place names in the Ming Empire have not been changed is also to show their military exploits."

Place names...it is a silent military exploit. Perhaps the old name will evoke people's memories, but it will also make the conqueror feel proud.

It is also because of this that the current empire is no longer as obsessed with changing its name as it was in the past. Of course, this is also because of the completion of the Chineseization of the empire itself.In the past, the population was small, the territory was large, and the confidence was insufficient!

Now...it's different!

It is only a matter of time before millions of Europeans are "integrated" by a large number of Chinese. In this way, they will naturally be free and less entangled in changing their names, just like Florida and California occupied by the US imperialists, or even Even Mexico has to add a "new".

The original owner sounds disgusting!
But for the conqueror, isn't this a mighty military might!

Now, in the berthing area outside the port of Havana, the "Rio de Janeiro", a symbol of victory captured by the Brazilian Imperial Navy, falls into the eyes of the officers and soldiers of the United States Navy, allowing them to feel the aggressive posture of the Ming Empire Navy and at the same time feel the imperial navy's strength. arrogance.

Of course, this kind of arrogance is not the kind without any foundation. Their arrogance is based on victory and the shame of the loser.

"This is the bragging of the victor!"

Looking at the warship that symbolized the humiliation of the Brazilian Empire and the glory of the Ming Empire, Mahan said in a rather emotional tone.

"This is the world, the winners can wantonly trample on the losers, and even trample their dignity."

Stare at the famous warship that was defeated without firing a single shot.These U.S. naval officers looked up into the sky almost subconsciously, lest they let Da Ming's floating troops steal the way.

But it's not that easy to get on the road - in the United States fleet, there is also a "Langley" aircraft carrier.

Three years ago, after the Ming Dynasty transformed the world's first floating carrier with fast immigration ships, countries such as Britain, the United States, and France also successively transformed the floating carriers with coal carriers and cargo ships. What is a floating carrier?
It is an airship mother ship that can take more than a dozen combat airships. The combat airship is an aerial killer that resists air attack by airships.

After the Montevideo air raid, how to protect the navy's warships worth nearly one million pounds from air raids has become the primary issue for all naval countries. Kong was born, and two months later, the British Helicarrier came out. The British stole conceptual information including the Helicarrier and the combat airship from Ming Dynasty a few years ago. It is almost another world. Familiar PPT shipbuilding and boatbuilding concepts.

However, for a shipbuilding powerhouse like the Winning Empire, as long as they have a PPT, a plan, and a draft, they can build the ship.

Soon they built the floating carrier, and then triumphantly used the flying carrier and combat airship in the exercise, successfully intercepting the airship force's sneak attack on the fleet.

The Helicarrier became famous overnight.After all, before this, in front of the airship, the battleship was almost powerless to fight back.

So the flying carrier became the most fashionable warship in the 1880s. The "Langley" sent by the United States this time is the first flying carrier in the United States. It can take 16 small combat airships.

At this moment, there are 4 small combat airships patrolling back and forth above the fleet. It is because of them that the Americans feel a little more at ease.

Sometimes, the airships of the United States flew over the Ming Fleet on purpose, and took photos of the warships of the Ming Empire Navy Fleet with cameras. Of course, they were more of a demonstration there-to show the Ming Empire that we also have airships, and It's still the kind that can use Gatling to hit Molotov cocktails.

This is a proper air assassin!
With these combat airships, what else can your airship do?
However, regarding the demonstrations by the Americans, the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Caribbean Squadron headed by the "Rio de Janeiro" completely turned a blind eye. Following an order, the training continued. Ships, directly using US warships as "targets", conducted simulated lightning strikes at sea.

For a moment, the chimneys of the warships on the sea were spewing smoke. While sailing at high speed, they launched "lightning strikes" to the US fleet again and again...

(End of this chapter)