Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 346 Someone...

The news from Mingzhou reached Jinling on February [-].

The dragon looked up.

At noon that day, Zhu Yuan entertained Dai Sanchun's family who had just arrived in the mansion, accompanied by Sun Shouzhen, Minister of the Ministry of Medicine, but there were only three men at the table, and the women and children were dining with Xieyi in the side hall.

The topic was talking about the soon-to-be-completed medical temple, and news came from the palace.

Ask Zhu Yuan to go to the meeting immediately.

Faced with the questioning, because Sun Shouzhen and Dai Sanchun were also high officials of the imperial court, the messenger revealed a little in advance that it involved the military, and that something happened in Mingzhou....

Zhu Yuan hurriedly arrived at the imperial city and came to the conference room in the East Pavilion, where everyone else had already arrived.

After saluting, he walked to his seat and sat down. There was already a stack of pre-copied documents in front of him. Zhu Yuan glanced at the surveyor Tu Xiao who was personally drawing on a chart in front of the vertical board at the end of the long conference table, then looked away and browsed. Documents in front of you.

The first is the good news about the Dingxi Army's raid on Jiaxing and the navy's timely response to wipe out the bandits in Daiquyang.

The cause and effect of the matter are listed in great detail.

It even includes the process of Zhao Dingxi and Chen Ning going to the Wa country in the past year and developing rapidly.

And then this time.

Taking Murata's gatekeeper as the internal response, he arrived in Daming first, ran around in the name of a merchant, and quietly passed the news back.

Then, after Chen Ning persuaded Zhao Dingxi for revenge, he single-handedly planned the tragedy in Shimu Town, Haiyan, Jiaxing.

And then.

The attack happened in the morning. With Zhu Yuan’s one-year pyrotechnic signaling system, Mingzhou Naval Governor’s Mansion received the news that day. Hua Gao made a keen judgment and made a precise layout. In the afternoon, he blocked Zhao Dingxi’s troops in Dai Quyang.

A night battle.

Total annihilation.

After the battle report, there are other attachments.

In the first one, the navy captain Hua Gao took the initiative to admit his mistakes, frankly admitting that there were omissions in the first generation of coastal defense in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. He did not make enough arrangements for the Sheshan Ocean outside the Yangtze River Estuary and some of the inner Great Bay Ocean, so that the pirates drove straight into Hangzhou. bay.

Therefore, Lord Dudu asked the court to punish him.

The second one was Liu Lian, Deputy Envoy of Yinghai, who voluntarily admitted his mistake.

Liu Lian strongly reflected on his previous misunderstanding of not paying enough attention to technical secrecy, and even on the contrary, hoping that more relevant knowledge would be spread out.

At the same time, the navy and battalion sea division were also brought in.

Liu Lian believes that the two major departments... also don't pay enough attention to this matter.

As a result, a lot of knowledge taught by a certain young sea envoy last year was widely spread in Mingzhou, and even passed to the hands of pirates. As a result, this time, Zhao Dingxi's department used star-strapping instruments, telescopes and Mingzhou to spread the knowledge. The accurate charts that came out drove straight to Jiaxing with almost no errors.

It is conceivable that without these assistances, even if Zhao Dingxi's troops arrived in the coastal waters of Daming, it would be impossible to accurately find the target to attack, and it would be more likely to be discovered by the Ming army during the process of plundering and responding.

In summary, Liu Lian hopes that the imperial court will legislate as soon as possible to strictly control many navigation technologies... and even other sensitive technologies.

In Mingzhou, a certain person who considers himself guilty is willing to personally take charge of this matter within the scope of the Ying Hai Division.

After the two confessions, there are also some conclusions about the ship Zhu Yuan conceived last year played an important role in this naval battle.

Because the speed of the ship is fast enough, and it also has considerable flexibility in the battle, this makes this Daiqu naval battle, the commander of Zhenhai Zuowei makes Xia Hai's troops not only arrive at Daiqu Yangkou in time, but also block Zhao Dingxi's troops. Even with the serious disadvantage of the number of sea ships, Zhao Dingxi was still successfully entangled and unable to escape, creating time for the arrival of large troops.

How tight was the time?
If Xia Hai's troops were half an hour late and allowed Zhao Dingxi to enter the Daiquyang waterway, even if he could keep up later, it would be even more difficult to stop him.Once Zhao Dingxi's troops pass through the Daiquyang Waterway, which is only fifty miles away, and enter the sea off the Changguo Islands on the other side, it will be impossible to pursue.

Therefore, the navy hopes to build more new ships in the future as the navy's standard warships.

In addition to ships, another document also summarizes the use of firearms.

The matter is still related to Zhu Yuan.

Before leaving last year, Zhu Yuan left Huagao with the direction of training troops, which was to develop long-range strike tactics based on firearms as much as possible, and eliminate the enemy before they approached, instead of continuing the traditional gang jumping.

Varco clearly took the execution very seriously.

In the two stages of this naval battle, at the beginning, the reason why Xia Hai's troops led more than forty ships to entangle Zhao Dingxi was that they carried a large number of long-range firearms.

Otherwise, even though they brought 2000 people, because their own warships are not only too few but also generally too small, if they are approached by the enemy, let alone jumping into the gang, Zhao Dingxi's large ships only rely on pure impact. Can make one's own navy unable to parry.

Then came the second stage.

Entering the night battle, although the Ming army had the upper hand, traditionally, they were the most likely to be dragged into a state of melee by trapped enemies.

The reason why it can be avoided this time is that apart from Wu Zhen's excellent command, there is another point.

Still a firearm.

The Ming army only relied on firearms to blow most of the enemy ships trying to approach to collapse, avoiding close combat to the greatest extent.

Therefore, the Navy proposed that firearms, like ships, need to be paid more attention to in the future.

It also mentioned a sentence.

A young sea envoy who has resigned, and now Zhongshu Pingzhang Zhengshi, promised last year that he would personally handle firearms after returning to Beijing.

However, this matter, the movement...doesn't seem to be big enough?
Zhu Yuan quickly finished flipping through the stack of documents in front of him, and when he looked up, the left minister Li Shanchang, Pingzhang Chang Yuchun, Minister of the Ministry of War Fu Yu, and the right censor Deng Yu and others had also read it.

Immediately, Lao Zhu, who was at the top, spoke and signaled to a certain surveying and mapping envoy on the opposite side: "Tu Xiao, you can give everyone a briefing on this battle."

Tu Xiao has just drawn a complete military road map of the enemy and us on a map of the outer seas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. This is what my husband taught casually at the time. When he heard His Majesty's order, he respectfully agreed. Representing the enemy's blue line, he opened his mouth and said: "This battle started when the pirates under Zhao Dingxi, known as the 'Dingxi Army', set off from the country of Wa. It took 17 days to arrive in the outer seas of our Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. , Da Jiyang, and Wang Panyang came to Shimu Town, Haiyan, Jiaxing on the twenty-ninth day of the first lunar month."

When Tu Xiao said this, Master Zuo couldn't bear it anymore, and asked knowingly: "How can the pirates be so precise?"

This said, everyone in the conference room did not look to the left, but subconsciously glanced at someone beside Li Shanchang.

Someone came up with the concept of latitude and longitude.

Someone organizes a large-scale nautical charting survey.

Someone also taught a series of navigation-related knowledge from that 'wind direction' to 'ocean current'.

someone...

someone...

From the perspective of everyone, Zhu Yuan is just an old god.

In the strange atmosphere, His Majesty still favored his precious 23 grandsons, and said, "Didn't Liu Lian admit it all wrong? The sea envoy, and the naval governor's mansion, a bunch of idiots, should be kept secrets. If you can’t keep it and let the pirates go, what can you do?”

Everyone:"……"

Lao Zhu waved his hand again: "Let's not talk about it beforehand, Tu Xiao, you continue."

Tu Xiao also continued.

Next, basically everyone can see it in the battle report, but Tu Xiao demonstrated the battle on the sea chart in a more vivid way, so that everyone can see it more clearly.

After Tu Xiao finished speaking, he retreated to the end of the conference table and sat down. Old Zhu looked at everyone: "Everyone, tell me?"

Then, everyone in the conference room subconsciously looked at someone again.

This scene... there is really nothing to say.

If you want to speak, someone is quite suitable.

Because, the whole incident, from the beginning to the end, seems to have nothing to do with someone, but everything is related to someone.

Just like...

Why did Mr. Left Prime Minister say that sentence just now?
Who doesn't know that Prime Minister Zuo is narrow-minded.

Zuo Xiangna didn't want to implicate and blame at all, it was...

envy!

Seeing that no one spoke for a while, Lao Zhu directly called out: "Baishi, you speak first."

Lao Li: "..."

what did I say?

Could it be... I'm jealous?

You know, just browsing through the stack of documents in front of me, whether it is the battle report, the plea of ​​the two senior officials, or even various details afterward, among them... all of them frequently appear the shadow of a certain boy.

There are even quite a few sentences that directly ask for credit for the other party.

Li Shanchang didn't want to admit it, but, not with his conscience, but with his brain...

If it weren't for the coastal lighthouse system dominated by someone...

If it weren't for the ship someone proposed to build...

If it weren't for the long-range firearms strategy that someone asked to develop...

Anyway, without someone, it would be impossible for the navy to respond in time to this pirate attack, let alone a 'Dai Qu victory'.

Last month was the 'White Sea Victory', this time...

Ok.

wrong.

Calculating the time, the twenty-ninth day of the first month is still last month.

Two great victories in just one month, not to mention the current one, is the previous Baihai Great Victory. Tracing back to the source, it was the strategy of 'killing chickens to scare monkeys' proposed by someone.Therefore, even if Tanghe was responsible for the victory of Baihai, if you think about it in detail, a certain young man who was able to recover Gansu so smoothly must have contributed the most.

Li Shanchang believes that his master must keep all these in mind.

Let's talk now.

Li Shanchang wanted to be implicated based on the two confession documents, but he is not out of his mind, and his master is not a fool, as everyone present can see, although there is cause and effect, but if Zhao Dingxi's subordinates did not With those nautical skills, wouldn't it be possible to invade Daming?
Even if they did not attack Jiaxing, but went to Fujian or Guangzhou, or went north to Shandong, in the end, it would only be a catastrophe where they were prepared and unprepared.But in that case, the Navy is even more helpless.

After all, although the local coastal guards are under the jurisdiction of the navy, their naval combat capabilities... are really mediocre.

The core of the current coastal defense of Mingzhou is still the six guards of the Mingzhou Navy.

Zhao Dingxi's troops directly bumped into them, and were wiped out by the navy. In fact, they avoided more wars along the coast of Daming.

In short, if you want to make use of the problem, you will only make yourself boring.

However, Mr. Zuo Xiang is so narrow-minded, and he really didn't want to push the boat along the way. After a little deliberation, he came up with an idea. Instead of mentioning the relationship of this war, he said: "My lord, the battle report mentioned that the Dingxi army...[-]% are Japanese. , this can also be regarded as the invasion of our Daming sea by the Japanese country, I think we can't just let it go!"

Since your navy is so powerful, hum, let's add more burdens to you!
(End of this chapter)