Chapter 224: Warship 2

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Xinjing Shipyard and Xinghe Shipyard are located in Xinjing and Xinghe County (Joinvia).
The two shipyards were originally shipbuilding equipment imported from Prussia and were established in two civilian shipyards in early 1869.
In February 1872, two shipyards were upgraded to military shipyards, and one shipyard was relocated from Xinjing to Xinghe County.
In April 1873, with the help of French shipmen such as Dalman, Xinjing Shipyard successfully built a gunboat with a displacement of 760 tons. Three months later, Xinghe Shipyard absorbed the experience of Xinjing Shipyard and also built A gunboat.
Xinjing Hexing and the two shipyards shared shipbuilding technology and unifiedly built warships of the same level.
The research and construction of gunboats and small iron armored ships are carried out simultaneously. The technical requirements of gunships with a displacement of less than 1,000 tons are relatively low and can be built in a short time. Small steel armored ships with a displacement of more than 1,000 tons have higher technical requirements and take six years to build Success is also within Li Mingyuan's acceptance.
The first self-built small iron armored ship reached the technical monitoring standard. The Han Navy's iron armored ship was about to reach six, and its strength was restored to the level before the second battle against the Brazilian navy.
Among the six iron armored ships, one self-built small iron armored ship with a displacement of 1350 tons is excluded. Two iron armored ships with a displacement of 3,200 tons are still in the French Mediterranean shipyard. They need to be sent by the Chinese navy. The remaining three warships, one is Captured from the Brazilian Navy, a large iron armored ship with a displacement of 6,270 tons, and the other two were medium-sized iron armored ships with a displacement of 3,500 tons that were customized from the United Kingdom in the early days.
Referring to the classification of warships in Western countries, Li Mingyuan initially divided the Han navy warships into four levels: battleships, cruisers, light cruisers, and gunboats.
Battleships with a displacement of more than 5,000 tons are battleships.
Cruisers in the range of 2500 to 5,000 tons, light cruisers in the range of 1,000 to 2500 tons, and gunboats in the 1,000 ton range.
According to the level of warships divided by the displacement, the Han Navy has a total of one battleship, four cruisers, one self-built light cruiser, seven self-built gunboats, nine gunboats, and twenty-five auxiliary ships with thirty displacements exceeding 30. One thousand tons of wooden steam carrier.
Gunboats have a smaller tonnage than gunboats, and their displacement is generally around 200 tons. They are mainly used for inland river and offshore patrols, and have limited effects in large-scale naval battles.
After the construction of the first gunboat at Xinjing Shipyard, the Navy gradually replaced gunboats with larger tonnage and superior performance gunboats. Except for some of the gunboats that were eliminated, they were arranged into the inland water fleet, and most of the remaining gunboats were arranged in Close to the transit points of the Natuna Islands, Songkhla, Kismaayo, Mtwara, etc. near the immigration route.
The migrant fleet departing from Nanyang initially docked at bases controlled by the United Kingdom, France, Portugal and other countries to supply supplies. Later, as the number of Chinese immigrants increased, it was difficult for the British and French trade bases established on the African coast to provide the fleet. Sufficient supplies, starting in April 1872, the migrant fleet first searched for suitable ports on the east coast of Africa, and then bought selected land from the local chiefs with muskets, tea and other commodities as the supply base for the migrant fleet. .
Small gunboats have lost their usefulness in South America, but in the coastal areas of Africa, Chinese sailors stationed at transit points rely on gunboats to play a significant role.
I personally waited for the ironclad ship to inspect it. While Li Mingyuan was observing a row of gunboats docked in the port, Li Han opened his mouth and introduced, "His Royal Highness, the last nine gunboats are planned to serve for four months and retire. The leader of La's stronghold applied to the Navy to obtain six of the nine gunboats to support them against the local black pirates. "
"Six months ago, they didn't report that they killed five small black pirates. Why are there new pirates now?"
Li Mingyuan asked.
"Most of the pirates in the waters near the two places were cleaned up in the blow six months ago.
However, a new batch of pirates appeared in the Kismayo waters a few months ago, and their number is much larger than the number of pirates that were besieged originally, and the person in charge of the Kismayo base reported that the new pirates Weapons and equipment are more advanced than local pirates. They not only have muskets and small artillery, but also a small gunboat.
The person in charge of the Kismayo base believes that these pirates are likely to be active pirates in the Djibouti waters. They escaped the French siege of the Djibouti pirates launched by the French some time ago and dispersed into the Kismayo waters. "
"The speculation of the person in charge of the Kismayo base is very reasonable. After the Suez Canal opened, pirates around the east coast of Africa have flocked to the Red Sea. In recent years, more than a dozen merchant ships from various countries have been hijacked by pirates in the Red Sea. Ship. "
The Suez Canal is the most important artificial canal of strategic importance in the nineteenth century. Compared with the Cape of Good Hope, the canal is shortened by 5,500-8009 kilometers from the European Atlantic countries to the Indian Ocean; it is shortened by 8,000-10,000 kilometers from the Mediterranean countries to the Indian Ocean; for the Black Sea coast, , It was shortened by 12,000 kilometers.
Due to the important strategic position of the Suez Canal and the economic benefits of greatly shortening the distance of ocean-going vessels, the construction of the Suez Canal has caused competition between the two European powers, Britain and France.
In 1859, the Suez Canal was first excavated by French companies. Later, the British government used its strong national strength to force the French government to share the management authority of the Canal with the British. As a result, the British government gradually squeezed the French government's power over the Suez Canal. After the Franco-Prussian War, he gained control of canal affairs.
The Suez Canal was built with huge investment by commercial companies supported by the French government. In order to maintain the expanding overseas interests and restore France's status as a European power, the French government switched to control after competing with the British for the Suez Canal management. At the estuary of the Red Sea, military forces were deployed in key areas such as Djibouti to control British control of the Suez Canal.
Under the guidance of this strategy, France first included Djibouti in the French sphere of influence, and did not allow other countries to dye their fingers, and then regularly cleared pirates in the waters around Djibouti to strengthen France's maritime control over the Red Sea estuary and the Gulf of Aden.
The French's actions against piracy did not hurt Han's interests on the east coast of Africa, but as the French government continued to strengthen its presence in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, the impetuous Italian colonial forces were very vulnerable to Kismayo Big threat.
Although the Western powers did not clearly define the sphere of influence of their respective countries in Africa, according to tacit understanding among countries, in Somalia and the Red Sea estuary, Eritrea belongs to the sphere of influence in Italy, Djibouti in the west of Somalia belongs to the sphere of influence in France, and Somaliland in the north belongs to The British sphere of influence, as for the central and southern Somalia, Britain, France, Italy and other countries are intertwined and intertwined. For the time being, they have not clearly belonged to a country.
To the north of Kismayo is the Italian-controlled Marka. In 1876, the Italian colonists at the Marka base attacked the Kismayo stronghold on the ground that they did not recognize the occupation of Kismayo by the Han country. The actual battle in the Smayo conflict was less than one day. After the Italian army stormed the stronghold during the day without success, it was defeated by Chinese soldiers attacking the city at night. The 400 Italian army that died in the battle killed 21 people, injured 45, and was captured. More than 300 people.
The Kismayo conflict was the first battle between the Han and Western countries. The Chinese soldiers in the Kismayo stronghold played their due combat effectiveness, while the Italian army performed poorly.
After the battle in Kismayo, the Chinese troops in the stronghold took advantage of the emptiness of Marca's forces ~ EbookFREE.me ~ to occupy the Italian stronghold in the ship overnight, and then in the subsequent negotiations, the Han country returned the captured prisoners. The condition of the soldiers and the withdrawal of Marka received the Italian government's recognition of Han's occupation of Kismayo.
Although a formal agreement was signed with the Italians, it is clear that the characteristics of the Italians during World War I and World War II were not clear. Li Mingyuan has not relaxed the vigilance of the Italians. The current Han government has no ability to occupy a large area of ​​land in Africa, but Several transit bases near the immigration route are of great significance for immigration operations, and Li Mingyuan will not easily give up the bases already established in Han Dynasty.
Thinking of the Italian threat from the issue of African pirates, Li Mingyuan felt the need to strengthen Han's military strength in Kismayo and Mtwara.
"Without waiting for four months, six gunboats can now be deployed to them, and three months later, Kismayo will be supported by two gunboats and a hundred soldiers. Remind them on my behalf to besiege the pirates. Can't relax, I don't want a migrant ship to be sunk by the pirates, and to let them pay attention to the actions of the Italians, and not let the Italians get into the air and penetrate the power into the Kismayo region.
"His Royal Highness."
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