The Red House starts from Liaodong

Chapter 60 Good News
When the boat from Dengzhou Prefecture was transferred to Donghai Camp, Tang Qing'an was directing people to install firearms on the sand boat.

In fact, Tang Qing'an wanted the black boats from Guangdong more, but it was too late, and the black boats were too expensive. One official silver boat would cost 800 taels of silver. At the same price, five sand boats could be built.

In the original time and space, until Zheng Chenggong regained Taiwan, the black boats still served as naval warships, but at that time, because they had begun to imitate the Dutch plywood ships, the black boats gradually withdrew from history.

But now Dazhou is most suitable for warships, which are expensive black boats. He needs to show his achievements in order to make the court willing to spend a lot of money on himself.

Without cannons, we can only carry "rockets" such as "swarms of bees" and "fire dragons out of water" on board, and sand ships can only use these firearms. If we really use cannons, sand ships cannot withstand the recoil.

In the end, 22 sand boats were transferred from Shandong, plus two ships from Donghaiying, a total of [-] sand boats, and more than [-] other large and small fishing boats.

With so many ships, it is no problem to transport eight or nine thousand soldiers.

As for the 800 soldiers of the Donghai Battalion, plus the original [-] soldiers of the Donghai Fort of the second brother Liu Chengmin, more than [-] soldiers have been newly recruited recently, and the whole battalion only has [-] soldiers.

The reason why so many boats are needed is that Tang Qing'an is to increase the transportation capacity. He knows how many people will be gathered in the future, and these boats are far from enough.

But compared with the only four boats that Mao Wenlong went to sea, it was a huge change.

How many people can Mao Wenlong transport with these four ships?So he was passive in many things, including the Liao people defecting to him.

Even so, the Dongjiang Town established by Mao Wenlong had at most gathered about a million Liao people. For example, when Shang Kexi joined Houjin, he once said.

"Since the opening of Phi Island, there have been no less than a million Liao men and women who have fled to the islands."

This number is actually correct. Why do many historical records record that the population of Dongjiang Town is only a few hundred thousand?

Because these hundreds of thousands are only the population staying in Dongjiang Town, and there are hundreds of thousands, some of them flowed to Shandong, and some of them entered North Korea.

Mao Wenlong started with too little capital, so he couldn't use these powers in the early and mid-term, and he was unable to deal with logistics alone.

Ten percent of the energy is spent on how to feed these people.

This life is different, starting with [-] soldiers, more than [-] large and small ships, supported by the Liaodong Economic Strategy in the local area, supported by the Nine Provinces in the frontier, and supported by the Jia Mansion in the imperial court.

This confidence is not comparable to Mao Wenlong.

After training the fleet orders, Tang Qing'an was full of confidence, and led more than [-] ships, large and small, with [-] shi of rice, and set off from Donghai Fort.

All the way along the coastline, after crossing the Sancha River, they have already entered the enemy's territory.

The north of Liaohekou was defended by Zhou soldiers, and the south was garrisoned by barbarians. Seeing the fleet off the coastline, the generals in the camps of both sides were alarmed.

The barbarian general led people to watch from the shore. It was the first time he saw so many ships.

The battalion soldiers on the boat also looked at the shore nervously, and the three parties just looked at each other quietly.

"Whoosh whoosh."

A few arrows fell into the sea, and a little splash disappeared without a trace.

Mounted archery has less range than the infantry bow.

The maximum lob shot for riding shooting does not exceed [-] steps, and the direct shot is about [-] steps. If you can hit this distance, you are already a marksman.

But the step bow can reach 150 steps, and the direct shot with armor-piercing heavy arrows is only [-] steps.

However, these distances did not pose the slightest threat to the fleet a mile away from the coast, so no one avoided them when they saw someone shooting arrows on the shore.

These arrows are very powerful.

The heavy faces of the soldiers on the ship disappeared, followed by sarcasm, and the uneasy atmosphere before going to sea disappeared with these few arrows.

"It's not rude to come and go."

Tang Qingan was on the deck, seeing that the morale was available, he directed the sergeants to set up the "Fire Dragon Out of Water" on the ship.

Relying on the convenience of the Gunpowder Workshop, what he lacks most now is firearms.

The soldiers were ordered to raise the flag, and seeing the semaphore from the flagship, the generals of each ship came to their senses and began to prepare one after another.

As the flag fell, the sand boat shone with constant flames.

How to describe the fire dragon coming out of the water? Tang Qing'an thinks it is more like the "Sky-Speeding Monkey" played by later generations, but it's just a bunch of pretending.

Under the dragon's head and on both sides of the dragon's tail, there is a gunpowder barrel weighing half a catty each, and the four rocket fuzes are put together and connected to the rocket fuze in the belly of the fire dragon.

Ignite the four gunpowder cartridges installed on the dragon, and after the first-stage rocket burns out, it will automatically ignite the rocket in the dragon's abdomen, which is the second-stage rocket.

After shooting, increase the range to hit the enemy and use it for water attack. The range can reach 1.5 kilometers.

A total of hundreds of firearms emanating from these aerial rockets made a frightening whistling sound with their flames.

The barbarian soldiers on the shore ran away in fright, and the general was surrounded by people to avoid him, and the sky was like rockets dancing among demons, falling everywhere.

"Crackling."

The people who bombed were shouting and jumping, and those who were unlucky were hit by the bombing on the spot, lying on the ground with bloody heads and rolling around.

"it is good!"

Seeing this scene, the morale of Zhou soldiers on the other side of the river was greatly boosted, and they applauded one after another. Many pointed to the boats on the sea, shouted, jumped and applauded.

Some people looked at the miserable situation on the other side of the river, seeing the barbarians in such a mess for the first time, they were incoherent in surprise.

"Where did all these ships come from?" General Zhou asked curiously the people around him, who shook their heads and said they didn't know.

"It doesn't matter where he came from, it's good to be able to beat up the barbarians."

The reason why Tang Qing'an led the fleet through here was to get off to a good start, and his goal was to boost morale.

It doesn't hurt many enemies, but it works well.

The other party did not dare to stay on the shore, and only stopped after retreating two miles, because the terrain was unobstructed and both sides were still visible.

Seeing that the ships on the sea did not continue to attack, the barbarian general sent people to rescue the wounded soldiers on the spot, frowning and looking at the sea.

This matter should be reported to the banner owner as soon as possible, this group of enemies is quite tricky.

Hit the ground running.

He didn't know what the barbarian generals were thinking, even if he knew, Tang Qing'an immediately wrote a good report on the ship, knowing that there were not enough ships, he still sent a ship back to Guangning to report his merits.

"Thirty to forty barbarians were killed, and three to four hundred barbarians were wounded."

Shi Nai is not a fool, after reading the report sent by Tang Qing'an, of course he knows that this military report is full of water, and it is not small.

But it doesn't matter.

It was sent at the right time, and this good news was sent to all places in western Liaoning immediately.

Soon, a military report came from the mouth of the river, saying that a fleet of ships had injured the barbarians and boosted their morale.

In contrast to the two, Shi Nai was finally willing to allocate some of the supplies Tang Qingan asked for, and at the same time urgently asked Shandong to continue to move the ship.

Shi Nai polished up this first good report and sent it to the imperial court.

(End of this chapter)