Ming Zuo

Chapter 492 Harvests and Questions [Recommend bonus points for extra monthly tickets! 】

Compared with the fishing company's harvest, the navy's harvest can be said to be a great joy.

"Commander, this is the map we surveyed and drawn."

The map, a huge map, fully covered a five-meter-long table.

There are many things densely marked on it, and you even need to hold a magnifying glass to see clearly.

This is a chart of the entire south of Shandong, along the Yellow Sea all the way to Songjiang Prefecture, and it was completed by the Surveying and Mapping Department of the Staff Department.

Among all the functional departments of the New Army, the Surveying and Mapping Department of the General Staff is the largest, with a total of [-] people.

When marching and fighting, the map is definitely the most important tool.

In many cases, an accurate map may be able to determine the outcome.

Although there are maps in this era, there are many top-secret maps.But obviously, the map of this era does not satisfy Zuo Menggeng.

Therefore, since the Houying era, Zuo Menggeng has paid great attention to the acquisition and drawing of maps.

The first batch of surveyors and mappers were basically taught by him.

Their level of surveying and mapping is definitely an unsurpassable ceiling in this world.

Every time the new army goes to a place, every time it fights a battle, the surveying and mapping staff and scouts accompanying the army will map the local topography and landforms and become part of the map library reserve.

Among the map library of the new army, the map of Shandong is the most comprehensive and detailed.

After all, most of the area has been controlled by the new army, and complete penetration has been achieved.

And the Yellow Sea, with the navy's sailing this time, has become the second area controlled by the new army.

Zuo Menggeng lay down on the map, checked it carefully, and couldn't help sighing.

Fortunately, I have been insisting on field surveying and mapping, and I have not been superstitious about the map information of later generations.Otherwise, there might be some troubles in the future.

It is also through the map drawn by the Surveying and Mapping Department that Zuo Menggeng has a deep understanding of the saying "Chang Hai Chang Tian".

In just a few hundred years, the terrain along the coast of the Yellow Sea is very different.

For example, Xiangshui, Binhai, Sheyang, Dafeng, Qidong and other places in later generations are all soaking in sea water now.

Funing, Yancheng, and Dongtai are all coastal towns.

As for the later generations, it is more than [-] miles from Funing to the sea.

It can be said that with this chart, warships and merchant ships will have guidance in the future, and they can move unimpeded in this sea area.

"We not only sailed along the coast, but also sent a small team to go deep into the far sea. As a result, it was as clean as a mirror, and there was nothing there."

E Hong briefly described the situation of the voyage, and Zuo Menggeng discovered the blind spot.

"Did you find any other merchant ships, or Zheng Zhilong's warships?"

Everyone shook their heads, indicating that they hadn't seen anything.

Zuo Menggeng was puzzled by this result.

In fact, this is his misunderstanding.

The history books of later generations say that the entire ocean of East Asia is Zheng Zhilong's territory.Any ship that wants to sail and trade here must be supervised by the Zheng family.

This is true, but in fact it is mainly concentrated in the East China Sea and South China Sea centered on Taiwan.

On the contrary, the area around the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea does not belong to Zheng Zhilong's sphere of influence.

In other words, this area does not belong to anyone's sphere of influence.

Because this area is very barren and unprofitable, naturally no one wants to control it.

Most of the ships passing through this sea area are going to North Korea for trade.

How much can there be?

Moreover, these boats have already been collected by the Zheng family in the East China Sea, so naturally there is no need for the Zheng family to go to the desolate Yellow Sea to collect money again.

E Honglue and others went south all the way, and the farthest they went was only north of Chongming Island, and they didn't really set foot in Songjiang Mansion, so they didn't arouse the Zheng family's reaction.

In fact, as long as you go further south, you will be in the sight of the Zheng family when you reach the waters of Zhoushan.

Zuo Menggeng didn't understand the inside story, he was amazed, but also keenly aware that this kind of power gap seemed to be very lucrative.

First of all, the Zheng family doesn't care about the Yellow Sea, so it will be much more convenient for the ships from Shandong to connect with Songjiang Mansion.

And the vast sea area here can completely become a training ground for the navy.

In a short period of time, as long as the navy does not go south, there will be no conflict with Zheng Zhilong, and it can expand northward wantonly.

"The other fleet led by General Zhang is heading north. I don't know where they sailed for the time being. I believe they must have gained a lot."

This time the navy sent out two fleets.

A group led by E Honglue sailed south and detected the route of Songjiang Prefecture.

The other branch, led by Zhang Keda, sailed north, bypassed the Jiaodong Peninsula, and entered the North Yellow Sea.

The second harvest of the navy's trip is about naval guns.

"Dean Sun, I have to tell you sadly that our current warships cannot withstand your naval guns at all. You see, our ship almost died in the sea."

During this trip, the naval guns newly developed by Sun Yuanhua and others were installed on several main Fuzhou ships for testing.

The result is very unsatisfactory.

After actual inspection, it was found that things were a bit big.

"The recoil of this kind of naval gun is very strong, even if the wooden ship plank is thicker, it can't bear it."

E Honglue pointed to the broken plank, his expression still terrified.

Although the construction of Fuchuan is different from that of European warships, it also considers the issue of sturdiness, so it is strong enough and heavy.

Unexpectedly, when the new naval gun fired, the wood was actually broken.

"The thickness and hardness of this kind of ship board is almost the same as that of Europa's warship. In other words, if the new type of naval gun is installed on our new type of warship, the effect will not be much better than this."

"The blocking rope doesn't work either. We fired a shot, and the rope broke. If the gunner didn't hide quickly, he should have received an urn at home."

Although he was joking, Yi Dedong, the leader of the naval gun test team, still had lingering fears.

The artillery on the battleship, in order to avoid slipping out and causing chaos after firing, will be fixed to the bulkhead with two ropes.

When firing, the cannon retreats and is pulled back by the two ropes.

E Honglue, Yi Dedong and others thought that the recoil of the new naval gun would be very strong, so they thickened the rope on purpose.However, it was useless, and was still torn apart by the huge recoil of the artillery.

Sun Yuanhua crouched next to the cannon, faintly breaking down.

When I first came here, I thought this task was very simple.But it was only today that he realized that he seemed to have fallen into a pit.

Just this one cannon almost sank the ship. If it is really like what Zuo Menggeng said, a ship is loaded with forty or fifty cannons...

Well, he couldn't imagine it anymore.

For these problems, Zuo Menggeng is also a little tricky.

The only thing he could think of was the problem of the rope.

"Since hemp rope doesn't work, use steel cables. You go to the steel factory and ask them to cast steel cables. Will the steel cables still be torn?"

This idea made everyone in the Navy shine, and they were more or less less frustrated.

What is unexpected is that the steel cable idea he put forward actually opened up everyone's thinking.

Yi Dedong tried to suggest: "When we tested the artillery, we found that the reason why the recoil of the artillery would cause damage to the deck is that most of the recoil of the artillery is downward. Is there any way to change the direction of the recoil of the artillery?" ? Make it parallel to the rear, won't it cause so much damage to the deck?"

Zuo Menggeng looked carefully.

He found that the gun mounts of the naval guns developed by Sun Yuanhua and others were basically the same as the European naval guns of this era.

The gun barrel is placed on a wooden gun mount, and there are four front and rear wooden wheels underneath.

In doing so, the recoil of the artillery has been greatly reduced.However, the gunpowder explosives used in the new naval guns are too powerful to offset more.

"Can you lay an extra layer of steel plates on the lower deck of the gun positions?"

Zuo Menggeng thought of a way.

(End of this chapter)