The USS Southern Navy built the USS Virginia Iron Armored Ship and achieved remarkable results with it, but it does not mean that the Southern Army can really counterattack the Northern Navy from then on. The Northern Army's Surveillance Iron Armored Ship was built in only half of the time with the USS Virginia, which itself implies a strong message. The builders of the Surveillance Iron Armored Ship was full of confidence, although they were in danger in the storm on their way south.

The two heavyweights finally encountered the Hampton anchorage. At that time, the USS Virginia was approaching the Northern Army's main battleship, the USS Minnesota. The ship was severely damaged yesterday and the USS Virginia wanted to capture or sink it.

The Surveillance Iron Craft uses a turret structure, and its flexible rotation mechanism allows it to fire first. It blocks the Virginia to protect the injured Minnesota. Virginia hopes to get rid of Minnesota first, so as not to fall into a situation where it is two enemies and one.

Virginia is a big monster with a displacement of up to 4,000 tons, while its opponent's Watcher is only 900 tons, which is why the commander of the North lacks confidence in it. The large tonnage of Virginia also has a clear disadvantage - it cannot get close to the shallows. When the opponent hides in the shallows, it can no longer use its sharp impact angle to show off, and can only fire volleys at the Minnesota and Watcher.

At this time, the Surveillancer showed its advantages as an ironclad ship, and the Virginia's heavy artillery could not penetrate its armor, and its crew members were full of confidence. Finally, the Virginia had to concentrate all its efforts to attack its destined opponent.

The two guys fought for nearly 4 hours next time, and the most recent time it reached 50 meters. They were sometimes far away and sometimes approaching, and were both looking for each other's weaknesses. They each had their own lengths, the Monitor engine was excellent, the maneuverability was good, and there was also a turret that could rotate 360 ​​degrees. There was no shooting and destruction, but the gunners were not trained enough, because this was a new type of artillery, so the firing speed did not keep up. It took 8 minutes to load at one time, and the opponent had 10 cannons, which had a loading time of 5 minutes. If they encountered a king-level or white-level cruiser with a loading speed of 10 seconds, they would only be killed, but now, they were equally matched.

The Virginia once had the upper hand because they destroyed the other party's microphone line. This microphone was the main communication method for Captain Worden, who was watching the tower, to convey the shooting order to Captain Greene, the gun captain in the turret. In desperation, Captain Worden had to send two sailors to run back and forth between them for manpower communication. This made the shooting elements reported by Worden to Greene unable to be used in time and accurately, seriously affecting the accuracy of the naval gun shooting. There was no way, Greene had to observe the target himself through the narrow muzzle, and therefore often shoot in a hurry when he saw the target roughly clearly.

The sea monster Virginia was also at a loss, and it accidentally ran aground on the shallow. The Surveillancer took this opportunity to come forward, avoid the firepower of the Virginia and bombarded it in an endless stream. (Please visit the latest chapter) Just as he was about to fall into a passive situation, all the crews of the Virginia cabin immediately dispatched to fill all the combustible materials that could be found into the boiler to increase the power of the engine. After struggling for 15 minutes, the Virginia finally left the shallow with breathlessness and restored its freedom of movement.

Captain Jones, Captain Virginia, quickly came from the command table to the gun deck to check the shooting situation. He found that some gunners were sitting there and hurriedly asked why. The gun captain quickly replied: "Our shells have been shot very accurately, but they didn't work after a long time. Everyone was tired of fighting, so they were resting in shifts." In view of this, Jones, despite the fact that the Virginia horn had broken, decided to use the tonnage advantage of his ship tosnap the Monitor.

After nearly an hour of tactical maneuvers, Virginia occupied a favorable attack position. When Virginia rushed to the Surveillancer at full speed, the sensitive Surveillancer suddenly turned, and Virginia gently passed by Surveillancer. At this moment, the gunman of Surveillancer seized this excellent opportunity and fired two heavy guns flat on the Virginia turret at close range. As a result, the shell exploded violently in the rear gun part of Virginia, shaking blood in the ears and noses of the gunners in the turret.

This is a typical naval battle with equal strength. One side often needs to fight for several hours to eliminate one or two main battleships on the other side. This is also why the entire French Mediterranean fleet with two ironclad ships was wiped out to the entire world's military community. Now the British East India Company Navy has been named "the world's first navy" by some media.

The naval battle at Hampton's anchorage came to an end and the draw ended. The draw meant that the Northern Fleet had the upper hand because their shipbuilding capabilities were the upper hand. The improved ironclad ships would be built one after another, while the South had no ability to get another ship. The USS Vernia was transformed by a civilian ship, and was embarrassed to be unable to fight on the nearshore and effectively protect Richmond's strategic location. It also awkwardly lacked the ability to navigate and could not fight from the ocean, becoming a useless rib of the Southern Army.

The north could never be happy, because at this time the bad news came that the most important ally, the French Mediterranean Fleet, was invaded by dumplings by dumplings. According to the commander of the Northern Navy, even if the East India Company simply sold the captured French warships to the south, its number was terrifying enough to make the south suddenly become a naval power.

Tangning's attitude of intervening in the Civil War was very subtle. Although he was in a state of war, he had always restrained himself from fighting directly with the North and adopted a strategy that seemed to be a defensive counterattack. The South had been blocked by the North for a long time, and the inflation was very strong. He repeatedly requested the Panama fleet to go north but failed.

At this time, the East India Company had not yet gained any benefits from intervention, which was not like the actions of the big capitalists. When the Southern Army was in a disadvantaged situation again, the Panama Fleet finally made a request to find a breakthrough. In the name of the chaos in the financial order in the south, it hoped that the South would adopt the central bank system developed by the Bank of Zurich, and the Bank of Zurich led the establishment of the Financial Policy Committee of the United States. That is, the fifth country controlled by the Bank of Zurich after India, Malaya, Japan, and the Qing Dynasty. Italy is a constitutional monarchy and the emperor did not even have administrative power, so even if Downing was the Italian emperor, he did not control Italy's financial system.

This problem is much more difficult than giving slaves certain human rights, and it has caused a big problem for the Southerners. The importance of the central bank can be imagined. After the intelligence system in the north is learned, it will certainly exaggerate the wolf ambitions of the Windsor Consortium. The New York Times said that the American people who love freedom, regardless of the south or the north, will definitely not be able to accept the fate of being enslaved by ambitious people. Since the Mayflower came to North America, such spirit has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the American people.

The public opinion in the south argued that it was not that terrifying. Just as the Central Bank of Japan adopted the platform of Bank of Zurich, the decision-making power was still in the hands of the Japanese Congress. All members of the Financial Policy Committee must be approved by the president, and the policies of the committee can be rejected by the Congress. Judging from the operation history of the Central Bank of Japan, Bank of Zurich has well kept its promise of not making profits from its financial status, and the people of Japan are very confident in the operation of the bank. Moreover, Bank of Zurich provides good system switching capabilities so that when Congress proposes a distrust case, it can switch the controlled assets to any platform provided by the government in an open and transparent manner. In this process, the government and Congress will have representatives and members of the central bank to supervise the central bank at any time.

The financial difficulties faced by Southerners now make many people tend to restore order as soon as possible. Therefore, the Zurich Bank promised to include shares in the Panama Canal into its guaranteed assets, which will boost Southerners' confidence in the new central bank. The value of Southern banknotes is increasingly degrading.

Americans are indeed very sensitive to financial policies. The lawmakers are quarreling very fiercely about the "outsourcing" of the central bank. During their argument, Windsor turnover once again put forward an "Energy Policy Committee Plan", saying that if the Confederate does not want the central bank to adopt the Zurich Bank platform, it can use oil and gas resources that have not yet been determined in the southern states, and the East India Company will open up maritime channels for the south.

The most valuable commodity in the south is now cotton. It is so strange that the Windsor Consortium only needs the invisible oil instead of cotton, but as long as the oil is valuable in the eyes of the Windsor Consortium, the parliamentarians had no pressure on this plan and quickly agreed.

This plan allowed the Confederate to establish a cabinet-level Department of Energy, and the future "American Oil Company" nominated the Secretary of Energy. The president can veto the candidate for ministers, while Congress can still deny the energy policy issued by the Department of Energy. This plan is surprisingly friendly, so that Americans cannot make up the truth about what the Windsor consortium wants to do for this "fair name".

In any case, when the agreement was reached, Downing called President Lincoln, which was similar to "Now the navy is 800,000, and will hunt the Gulf of Mexico with the general." When everyone thought that the East India Company Navy would head north from Panama, the American Western Expeditionary Force composed of the French suddenly appeared in the waters near Los Angeles.

You read that right, it was the French. He captured so many French warships and sailors, and it was not Tangning's style that he did not make good use of them. So he came up with a way to turn them into treasure and gave French soldiers two choices, either being sold to the south to be slaves, or joining the East India Navy, and clearly stated that their warships were unique and radio-controlled large bombs would be installed. If there was a French warship rebellion, the whole ship would be in a bad situation, and their ships would not have lifeboats. There was a supervised warship nearby. If the enemy was sunk, the supervised warship would come forward to rescue them.

This fleet of French prisoners of war has a profound code name: the Forgotten Fleet.

This is a terrifying military innovation, which means that Tangning's navy will fight more and more, and the more battles will become stronger, and the enemy will be reduced and we will increase, which will effectively make up for the dilemma of insufficient troops. Unfortunately, it can only be used in the navy, otherwise it will be scary.

The Forsaken Fleet appeared in the Los Angeles waters to cooperate with the Southern Army's New Mexico plan. The Southern Army has been planning this westward plan for a long time, with the purpose of starting from southern New Mexico, exploring the westward journey to the port of California, and giving the south a way to the Pacific Ocean. Now with the cooperation of a powerful navy, they have full confidence in implementing the plan.

Los Angeles was a giant metropolitan area in later generations. Now, the entire California has a population of only 400,000, while Los Angeles is a small port town with less than 10,000 people. Los Angeles had a population of 75,000 at the end of the US-Mexican War. After the war, because it was very close to Baja California, which is still a Mexican territory, the racial vendetta between Mexican people and Americans was very powerful, and the murders were ten times higher than New York. Los Angeles became the most violent place in the United States. The California animal husbandry center, originally known as the queen of beef towns, plummeted and the population fled one after another. (http://.).

I chose Los Angeles because it was a must-rescue place for the federal army. Its port was very good. Once the East India Navy built a stronghold here, it would be quite unfavorable to the federal army in the entire California.

The US Navy did not expect Los Angeles to be the target. They thought that even if they wanted to attack, San Francisco, the largest city in the western United States, was the first to be hit. Because there was still gold at this time, it would be called... San Francisco.

The US Navy in Los Angeles had only a very little combat power. When the army attacked, it fled immediately. Without any decent resistance, the navy occupied Los Angeles and obtained an excellent port. This time, the telegram was not blocked, and the US government soon learned that from the escaped warship that the other side was coming with more than 50 warships, which seemed to be in the style of French warships. At this time, the Americans believed that they had stuffed the captured warships into their own sailors, but they did not expect that they were still the French sailors.
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