Different World Development Manual - Chapter 417

[Chapter 75 Campbell]

Aghanim Southern Continental Calendar, May 20, 7745.

The combined Ottoman fleet of 140 warships began to seek a decisive battle with Campbell’s fleet in the Vancome Sea.

Of the 140 battleships, 87 were refitted with Huaxia’s artillery, while the sailors were equipped with flintlocks.

The navy acted in a hurry. While sailing and training, they barely mastered the firing skills of the artillery on the deck, as well as the recognition of some series of artillery shells such as solid bullets, grape bullets, and chain bullets.

Whether it was artillery or flintlock guns, the artillery accuracy of the sailors was not high, but with Huaxia’s military advisory group there, these problems were not too big of a problem.

On 24 May, the Combined Imperial Fleet searched for a cruising Campbell patrol off Exe Island.

At the suggestion of Huaxia consultants, the United Fleet sent a formation of clippers to intercept Campbell’s fleet from the upper hand, and completed the first naval war of the Ottoman Empire with the formation of battle lines. .

Although the accuracy of the gunners was not high, once the battle lines were laid out and they entered the firefight distance, they could hit the local battleships without deliberately aiming.

Several salvos came down, and Campbell’s patrol fleet sank.

Immediately after, the Ottoman army landed on Aike Island under the cover of the navy.

Under the command of the Huaxia military advisor, the naval warships carried out a heavy artillery attack on Exe Island.

Even if the Campbell army on the island of Aike defended with a solid city defense, powerful artillery, and flintlock guns, it would not be able to withstand the fierce artillery fire from the Ottoman combined fleet at sea.

On 26 May, two days after the shelling continued, Campbell’s fortress on Eyke Island, Rum Fort, fell as the walls collapsed.

The flag of Ottoman fluttered over Aike Island once again after a lapse of hundreds of years.

On May 31, Campbell’s Eastern Fleet, which received a letter of help, arrived at Exe Island, but when they saw Exe Island, the flag of Campbell was no longer flying over Rum Fortress.

The commander of the Eastern Fleet immediately ordered the bombardment of the rum fortress to retake the island of Aike.

The onslaught of the Eastern Fleet soon began, but they did not notice that the combined fleet of the Ottoman Empire had already detoured behind them.

At the same time as the Eastern Fleet’s attack on Exe Island, the Combined Fleet launched a surprise attack on the Eastern Fleet.

The first firearmed naval battle on Aghanim Continent was launched.

Campbell, who has not received the baptism of firearmed sea warfare, although the number and quality of battleships equipped with artillery are more than the battleships of the combined fleet of the Ottoman Empire.

But Campbell was quite backward in naval battle tactics.

The boats, big and small, were huddled together, with no formation at all.

The fleet could not be deployed, and the firepower could not be fully displayed. Although it looked as strong as a muscle tyrant, it was only a small hammer in his hand.

The Ottoman Combined Fleet on the opposite side was much thinner, but with the guidance of Huaxia, it was like a guy who went crazy with a kitchen knife.

The entire Eastern Fleet was surrounded by battle lines, and the firepower was fully utilized.

In the first round of strikes, more than 10 warships of the Eastern Fleet were destroyed, causing some confusion in the Eastern Fleet of Campbell.

The naval battle that broke out in the waters off Eyk Island became the decisive battle between the Ottoman Combined Fleet and Campbell’s Eastern Fleet.

The battle lasted for half a day, and the entire Eastern Fleet was wiped out.

63 ships were sunk by the Combined Fleet,

76 ships were damaged, and 65 ships were captured.

The huge Eastern Fleet collapsed, causing Campbell to cede control of the Vankem Sea to Ottoman.

Although he won, Ottoman also lost about 40 battleships.

However, the Ottoman fleet was imposing, and the newly refitted warships in various ports were rushing to the combined fleet to join the main force.

Under the guidance of Huaxia’s military advisors, the Ottoman Combined Fleet is preparing to pull out another Campbell’s stronghold in the Vankem Sea.

On June 7, the combined Ottoman fleet arrived at West Ham and launched an attack on the wooden fortress on the island.

On 9 June, Campbell’s Northern Fleet, rushing to West Ham fortress, encountered a rare calm in the Sea of Wimmingson.

On June 11, the Northern Fleet encountered a ferocious southeasterly wind after getting out of the windless weather, causing the entire fleet to be blown to the northwest.

The Governor of Campbell, Maine, had to mobilize the scattered western fleets to come to the rescue.

But when the Western Fleet arrived near West Ham Island, they found that the wooden fortress had fallen, and the flag of the Ottoman Empire was showing off to the Western Fleet in a victorious manner at the top of the fortress.

On June 12, when the Western Fleet was preparing to attack the wooden fortress, it was also attacked by the Ottoman Combined Fleet.

However, the commander of the Western Fleet is a naval commander who has gone to China for further studies (watched movies and bought related books).

The two sides began to compete for the T prefix.

The United Fleet is guided by the Huaxia military advisor, and his foresight in naval battles is much stronger, and he grabbed the T prefix first.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the commander of the Western Fleet immediately ordered the Western Fleet to retreat after losing 24 warships.

Inside the Governor’s House, Campbell, June 16.

Governor Mann received the news of the defeat of the Western Fleet. He clenched the battle report in his hand fiercely and gritted his teeth: “Damn Chinese, this is endless.” The

Chinese celebrated Ottoman Sutan Ottoman IV. On the grounds of marriage, he presented Ottoman with a large number of military supplies as a gift.

With the end of the naval battle on Aike Island, Ottoman IV and Saladin together began to order a large amount of military supplies from China.

And Ottoman IV’s ambitious new army plan has also begun to be built, Ottoman IV even shouted the slogan “I want guns! I want artillery! I want gunpowder!”.

Maine finally understood what Zhang Lian meant by one month. If Campbell did not interrupt the Eastern Expedition that secretly supported the Holy See within a month, Huaxia would not mind cultivating one in the Central Sea. A powerful force to replace Campbell’s “overlord” status in the Central Sea.

What is even worse is that after the three trade ports in Campbell raised tariffs one after another, China’s goods were diverted to the Apennine waters and landed in the Merchant Republic of Wellaia at the mouth of the Pisaston River.

The emerging commercial republic took this opportunity to transform itself, and the whole country became a comprador.

The countries in the western part of the Great Plains that cannot buy Chinese goods have also begun to buy Chinese goods from the Merchant Republic of Wellaia in the northern part of the Great Plains.

A large number of gold coins that originally belonged to the middleman of Campbell, in the eyes of Maine, helplessly flowed into the pockets of the merchants of the Merchant Republic of Venaya.

One is the rise of the Ottoman navy, and the other is the commercial threat, forcing Mann to make a compromise with Zhang Lian.

Suspended the secret aid to the Holy See’s Eastern Expedition Coalition, canceled the high tariffs on Snyway, Yanage, and Lammy, and returned to normal.

It is a surrender to the Chinese people.

However, Mann’s operation naturally angered the domestic workshop owners. The congressmen representing the interests of the workshop owners began to attack Mann and exposed Mann for accepting bribes. My company was forced to resign because of the bad behavior of his company to seek benefits.

It’s just that the end of Maine didn’t end. The factory owners encouraged the unemployed workers in the bankrupt factories. They saw the slogan of overthrowing the Chinese lackey, Maine, and arrested the former Governor of Campbell, Maine.

After a brutal beating, he was finally hanged on Campbell’s pier.

The anger of the workshop owners immediately startled the domestic financial capitalists, and they repeatedly excluded those famous businessmen and political leaders in the country and began to appease these workshop owners.

However, both them and the workshop owners knew that Campbell simply did not have the strength to challenge Huaxia, so he could only swallow his anger.

Under the appeasement of the bosses, the anger of the workshop owners was temporarily quelled because of the death of Maine, the traitor who signed the traitorous treaty.

In order to preside over the situation, Parliament elected a politician representing the interests of financial capitalists as the new Governor of Campbell.

The first thing the new governor did when he took office was to visit China.

The new governor’s trip to China is not only to clarify to China the confused policy of that guy from Mann before, but it also has a certain impact on the relationship between the two countries.

At the same time, he intends to increase trade with China, and proposes to buy arms and hire military advisers from China to help Campbell carry out military reforms.

Since then, the war in the north of the Aghanim Continent has gradually promoted the military reform and arms race between the two great powers of the Aghanim Continent in the south.

And in the north of Aghanim Continent, the war of the Eastern Expedition continues…

[End of this Chapter]