Chapter 728： Expeditionary fleet

There was silence in the living room. Carlos and Francesco hadn't spoken for a long time, and neither of them knew what to say.

It was just such a coincidence that their previous efforts were vanished.

"Your Excellency, what are you going to do next?"

After a long time, Carlos asked.

No matter how outrageous Francesco is, they are always in the same group.

So, at this time Carlos was still thinking about Francesco.

"Up to now, we can only request domestic troops to support it. On the other hand, we can ask Dahua for peace. If they want to keep the Ceuta stronghold, they can only resolve it with us at the negotiating table."

Francisco said.

In the Philippines, their strength is not worth mentioning in front of Dahua.

However, in Ceuta, Spain's strength can also crush Dahua's stronghold.

Francisco wants to take advantage of this, so Dahua has some scruples.

"No, no, Lord Governor, this time you can't involve the mainland, you bear everything yourself. You don't understand Dahua's national conditions. If we dare to attack Ceuta, they might officially declare war on us.

Just a Dahua, perhaps we can still rely on distance to resist. But if Dahua and the French collude, we will face a disaster.

Nowadays, the conflict between the mainland and France is getting deeper and deeper. At this time, no more enemies can be made. "

Carlos resolutely opposed Francisco's proposal to threaten Dahua with Ceuta. Today's Spain is no longer the former Spain.

Being bullied by England on the sea and France on the land, this time to provoke a great Chinese again, this day cannot pass.

Carlos’ words disappointed Francisco. They were colonizing outside the country and constantly conveying wealth such as raw materials to the native land, hoping that the native land would provide some support when they encountered difficulties.

But now, when encountering a strong enemy, the local people actually want to separate the relationship.

That being the case, why do you want to recognize the Spanish royal family?

The atmosphere was embarrassing for a while, and finally, in order to appease Francisco's emotions, Carlos said that he would try his best to go to Nanjing to help deal with it.

After breaking up, Carlos began to return.

He was going to make the final attempt, but it was not enough, and he had to separate Francesco from Spain.

Western European countries are not stupid, they attach great importance to the relationship with Dahua.

On the one hand, I want to maintain trade relations and make money together.

On the other hand, I also want to build a good relationship with Dahua, and then obtain Dahua's advanced technology.

In short, it is absolutely impossible for Spain to be hostile to China for a Philippine colony.

Like the Philippines, there are still dozens of them in Spain.

When Carlos returned to Nanjing, the people who escaped from the Philippines also reported the situation in the Philippines.

So far, no one cares about Carlos.

If it weren't for Carlos' clarification in time, saying that Francisco's personal behavior has nothing to do with Spain, and Spain would not intervene, Dahua would have expelled Carlos.

However, even if he is not expelled, his life will not be better in the future.

The British Embassy, ​​the French Embassy, ​​and the Dutch Embassy in Nanjing were all snickering, and even instigating discord in the middle, jumping up and down.

In mid-July, the UOB Navy departed from Shanghai and headed straight for the Philippines.

As for Francesco's request for peace, Dahua directly ignored it because of lack of sincerity.

It's not that easy to spend some money to quell Dahua's public anger.

With strong strength to support, the current big Chinese also appear to be very combative.

Needless to say, the military wants to have war every day, so that they can get all kinds of additional funds and opportunities for military merit.

There are not many main battleships in this expeditionary fleet, only ten, six of which are semi-iron armored ships, and the others are wooden ships.

Divided by type, there are four Hong-class battleships, three Huang-class cruisers, and three Huang-class frigates.

The battleship is the main battle warship, with large tonnage, many artillery, and very powerful firepower.

The two main guns, using cannon technology, can fire armor-piercing shells.

Dealing with wooden boats can basically solve them in one shot.

However, these battleships are slower, consume a lot of coal, and have poor endurance.

That is to say, they are only needed in the decisive battle, and they are usually not available.

Therefore, after the UOB Navy had battleships, it built some cruisers.

The tonnage of these cruisers is much smaller than that of battleships, basically about 500 tons, and the firepower on them is poorly equipped, with only some small-caliber artillery.

This type of cruiser is generally used for some secondary missions.

For example, in normal maritime patrols, cruisers are used.

No way, the construction of the navy needs to consider a cost issue.

The cost of a battleship is equal to four or five cruisers. If all the more powerful battleships are built, then the military expenditure will not cost much.

Dahua’s coastline is so long, there are many places where warships are needed, and a sufficient number of ships must be guaranteed.

In Dahua's navy, there are much more cruisers than battleships.

And the frigate, compared with the cruiser, there is not much difference in firepower, but the endurance is poor and the speed is faster.

This kind of warship is not suitable for patrolling, but it is suitable for driving away the enemy, as well as reconnaissance, pursuit and other tasks.

According to the needs of various maritime missions, Dahua has now evolved these three main battleships.

The other ships are auxiliary ships.

And only among the main battleships, some were semi-iron armored ships and some were wooden ships.

And those auxiliary ships are all wooden.

Although there were only ten battleships in this battle, there were as many as thirty auxiliary ships.

Among them, there are ten troop carriers, five coal carriers, ten equipment and material carriers, and several other communication and security boats.

In order to increase the transportation capacity as much as possible for these ships specially used for transportation, almost no artillery is installed and they need to rely on the protection of warships.

Without the protection of warships, they are just some fat sheep.

A total of more than forty ships, with a total tonnage of about 20,000 tons, form a fleet with independent combat capabilities.

This fully equipped fleet is capable of almost any maritime mission.

And like this fleet, Dahua has a total of three.

One is in Shanghai, one is in Zhoushan, and the other is in Hong Kong.

Either one of them can easily level an agricultural country with a population of one million and defeat an agricultural country with a population of five million.

This is not bragging. After all, in addition to being invincible on the sea, the fleet is also equipped with a Marine Corps of 5,000 men.

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