Chapter 1081 Confrontation with the Caribbean (First update, please subscribe)
What is Ming's ultimatum?
Sima Zhao's heart is known to everyone on the road.
Talking about the future of Cuba and dispatching investigators, in fact, everything is for one purpose, which is to occupy Cuba.
Even before Ming Dynasty issued an ultimatum, the United States took the lead in responding - it sent four combat ships, the "New York", "Minnesota", "Ohio", and "Pennsylvania" to "visit" Havana.
In this way, the United States also transferred two of the four Pacific Fleet combat ships originally planned to be transferred to Hawaii to the Atlantic Ocean. At the same time, the British Royal Navy was unwilling to be left alone and sent two combat ships to Havana.
It was precisely because of the support from the United States and Britain that the Spanish arrogantly and rudely rejected the Ming Dynasty's "ultimatum". At this time, the main force of the Ming Dynasty'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 all year round, had sailed towards Havana at full speed.
Although the main force of the Caribbean Squadron is only one old ironclad, the second-class ironclad Rio de Janeiro.
Isn’t it amazing that Brazil was destroyed and the place name was changed, but the warships named after it are still in service in the Imperial Navy. The “Brazilian War” started with the Ming Dynasty’s air force’s air attack on the Brazilian Navy fleet in Montevideo
.That air raid overturned the history of world naval warfare. The Brazilian Imperial Navy was almost completely wiped out in the air raid. One of its main "Riachuelo" class ironclads sank and three were stranded. After the Imperial Army occupied Montevideo
Later, naval technical officers inspected the three stranded "Riachuelo"-class ironclads, and finally concluded that the three ships were still worthy of repair, which was a powerful supplement to the Imperial Navy, which was short of warships at the time.
A year later, the repaired Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Achidaba joined the Imperial Navy one after another, and then joined the Caribbean Squadron, the Imperial East African Squadron and the Japanese Squadron respectively.
The Rio de Janeiro became the main ship of the Imperial Caribbean Squadron.
Compared with the mighty four battleships of the U.S. fleet, the 6,800-ton Rio de Janeiro is simply not enough to look at, but even if it is just a thousand-ton fast gunboat (thunder strike ship), as long as it hangs the lower half of the Imperial Navy
It is the horizontal blue and white striped Suzaku flag, and as long as it is flying the sun and moon flag of the empire, there is a powerful empire behind it.
"This is how the winner shows off his power!"
This kind of arrogance is certainly not the kind without any foundation. Their arrogance is based on victory and the shame of the loser.
At this time, when the Imperial Navy fleet headed by the battleship "Youzhou" was sailing from the mainland to Havana at full speed, a silent confrontation in Havana had already begun.
Place names... they are silent military merits. Perhaps the old names will evoke people's memories, but they will also make the conquerors feel proud.
"Who can tell me the name of their flagship?"
After the Montevideo air raid, how to protect the navy's warships worth nearly one million pounds from air attacks has become the primary issue for all naval countries. Just as countries are arguing endlessly, Ming's floating carrier
Kong was born, and two months later, the British floating carrier also came out. The British had stolen conceptual intelligence including floating carriers and combat airships from the Ming Dynasty a few years ago, which was almost like a human in another world.
Familiar PPT shipbuilding and boatbuilding concepts.
Now...it's different!
In the docking area outside Havana, the Imperial Navy officers and soldiers on the "Rio de Janeiro" were all looking at the US fleet in the distance with indignant expressions, and the US fleet was also looking at them.
"Yes, it is the Rio de Janeiro. Although this city has been named "Huizhou" by the Ming Empire, the "Rio de Janeiro" has been retained in their navy. Do you know why?"
"Of course it was to show off the might of the Ming Empire's military. The reason why many places in the Ming Empire were not renamed was also to show off their military prowess."
Because of this, the current empire is no longer as obsessed with changing its name as it was in the past. Of course, this is also because the empire has completed its local Chineseization. In the past, the population was small, the territory was large, and the confidence was insufficient!
Soon they built an air carrier, and then proudly used the air carrier and combat airship in the exercise, successfully intercepting the airship force's sneak attack on the fleet.
But it's not that easy to find a way out - there is also a floating carrier "Langley" in the United States fleet.
"The world is like this. The winner can trample on the loser and even trample their dignity."
Mahan looked at the warship that symbolized the humiliation of the Brazilian Empire and the glory of the Ming Empire, and he said in a rather emotional tone.
As a result, the floating carrier became the most fashionable warship in the 1880s. The "Langley" sent by the United States this time was the first floating carrier in the United States. It can carry 16 small combat airships.
Mahan, who was on the "Pennsylvania", pointed at the Ming Dynasty flagship and said to the officers and school students around him.
Now, in the outer berth area of Havana Port, the "Rio de Janeiro", a symbol of victory captured from the Imperial Navy of Brazil, fell in the eyes of the officers and soldiers of the United States Navy, making them feel the aggressive posture of the Ming Empire Navy and the imperial navy's power at the same time.
Arrogant.
The original owner sounds disgusting!
But for a conqueror, isn't this a great military power?
Three years ago, after Ming Dynasty transformed the world's first floating carrier using a fast immigration ship, Britain, the United States, France and other countries also used coal ships and cargo ships to transform floating carriers. What is an floating carrier?
It is an airship mother ship that can carry more than a dozen combat airships. Combat airships are aerial killers that can resist airship air attacks.
Overnight, Havana, Cuba became the focus of the world.
Staring at the famous warship that was defeated without firing a single shot, these American naval officers almost subconsciously looked up into the air, fearing that the Ming Dynasty's floating troops would get in the way.
"see it?"
The floating carrier has become famous overnight. After all, before this, battleships had almost no power to fight back in front of airships.
"Rio de Janeiro! Sir."
It will only be a matter of time before millions of Europeans are "integrated" by the massive Chinese. In this way, they will naturally be free and not so entangled in changing their names, just like Florida, California, and even the U.S. occupied Florida.
Even Mexico needs to be “new”.
However, for a strong shipbuilding country like the Winning Empire, as long as they have a PPT, a plan, and a draft, they can build the ship.
At this moment, there were four small combat airships patrolling back and forth above the fleet. It was because of them that the Americans felt a little more at ease.
Sometimes, the airships of the United States flew over the Ming Dynasty fleet and used cameras to take pictures of the warships of the Ming Empire's navy fleet. Of course, they were more of a demonstration there - to show the Ming Empire that we also have airships, and
Still the kind that uses Gatling to fire incendiary bombs.
What a perfect aerial assassin!
With these combat airships, what else can your airships do?
However, the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Caribbean Squadron, headed by the "Rio de Janeiro", completely turned a blind eye to the Americans' demonstrations. Following the order, they continued their training, and the lightning strike originally disguised as a fast cruiser gunship
The ship directly used the US warship as the "target" to conduct a simulated lightning strike war at sea.
For a time, smoke was spewing from the chimneys of the warships on the sea. While sailing at high speed, they launched "lightning strikes" on the US fleet again and again...