The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 322 Want to go to Nanyang
Zhao Shimin took his flagship and two new thousand-ton main warships to sea for more than a month. The four new warships under construction in the dock were also completed and launched one after another. The master shipbuilder started the construction of the next batch of nine warships. put up.

Huang Sheng knew the direction of the world, and the development of the navy was the only way. As long as he had a large number of advanced warships, he would be invincible at sea, even if a main warship cost 5 taels of silver.

It is worthwhile to go bankrupt because of the continuous construction and more than one year. With a strong navy and the island as its base, the Huang family will be invincible, and can also accelerate development with the huge profits of sea trade.

I will not fail, my strength is increasing every day, no matter what opponent I am, sooner or later, we are not in a hurry to take our time, the empire on which the sun never sets is worth looking forward to.

The Huang family also specially built nine sentry horse boats. Such fast boats are too easy to build, only about ten steps long and three steps wide. They started training in the spring, and this time they all went to Japan.

A four-pound smoothbore gun that can flexibly rotate 13 degrees is installed on the bow of the sentinel ship. It has a total of [-] crew members, one high-powered telescope, three telescopes, and four new-style guns.

The thirteen crew members are all-rounders, everyone can operate the sail, raise the gun, fire the cannon, and load. When necessary, four or eight people can step on the pedals to manually drive the propeller to make the clipper faster.

The captain, the first mate, and the second mate know semaphore, understand the light code, and are issued double-barreled short guns.

Such a new type of sentinel boat can completely enter the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and some large inland rivers, and it can also enter the Grand Canal. It is very suitable for transmitting messages and long-distance reconnaissance.

Although the sentinel horse boat is small, its combat effectiveness is not weak. It is impossible for a small boat like this of Ming Dynasty, which is not as big as No. [-] Fuchuan, to install artillery, at most it is equipped with a gun.

However, the bow of Huang's sentinel horse was actually covered with white copper plates, and it was equipped with a four-pound gun. Such a fast boat can completely defeat the single with four to eight guns in a slow and willing way. No. [-] Fuchuan.

And it will remain invincible. Compared with the sentinel boat, the speed of the blessing boat is like a race between the tortoise and the hare.

After several months of drills, it has been proved that the new sentinel horse ship is not weak in combat effectiveness and is very cost-effective.

Zhao Shimin also had such a plan. The cost of one main battleship could produce more than a dozen sentinel ships, but in a real fight, ten sentinel ships could easily destroy a single main battleship.

Zhao Shimin is still trying to increase the use of white copper plates and iron decks, and strives to successfully build an all-iron armored warship as soon as possible. The production of I-shaped steel keels that are more than ten steps long is already a child's work with the technology of Huangjia Iron and Steel Works. Close seam riveting technology is not yet foolproof.

He plans to build an iron-clad sentinel ship first to see the effect, and then build a large ship after accumulating experience.

It is of great significance for the Huang family to go to the South China Sea to open up trade routes this time, and they can only win but not lose.

Huang Sheng decided to dispatch all warships, and the new main warships were the main strike force. In order to remember the shame of the Han people, Huang Sheng named the new main warships after the Daming city that was slaughtered by slaves in his memory. It hasn't happened yet.

The family left all the cavalry and five hundred heavy infantry.Only bring all the brave heavy infantry to fight with the fleet.

All the musketeers, grenadiers, and field artillery, as well as the [-] educated young artillerymen who had just started their practice, all set off with the ship as marines.

Originally, there were [-] sailors and gunners in all the warships and the Fuchuan and horse boats preparing to transport goods. Now, with the addition of temporary supplementary troops and logistics support personnel preparing for land battles, there are a total of more than [-] medical personnel.Because Ruan Dan, Shang Muming, Li Guixiang, and Li Ximing all brought their students to the south with the army.

The total tonnage of all the sea-going ships dispatched this time exceeded [-] tons. The [-] horse boats used to transport goods and people and the [-] No. [-] Fuchuan had no combat effectiveness and could barely defend themselves.

The warships include nine sentinel ships, 24 straw boats, twelve upgraded No. [-] Fuchuan-class warships, six new main warships and the flagship "Liaodong" as the main attack force.

This time in Yangwei South China Sea, Huang's family had 140 ships of all sizes that had been strengthened and speeded up to participate in the operation.

In the first month of the sixth year of Apocalypse, we took millet from the fire on Juehua Island. We selected more than 300 good ships and rescued thousands of sailors and gunners. In autumn, we fought against pirates and obtained eight Zhuyin ships of the same level as the No. [-] Fu Ship. Three ships rescued hundreds of sailors and gunners.

Due to the harmonious relationship with the Liaodong Economic Strategy, the warships added by Daming, Huang Mingli, a mere water battalion, and Qian Zong unexpectedly mixed in nine straw boats, more than thirty horse boats, and some small warships.

With such a fleet, the Huang family can already fight any Nanyang pirates, as well as the Dutch, Spaniards, and Portuguese. After all, they have limited warships in the Far East and are far away from their motherland.

If Li Guozhu is dispatched in full force, there should be no less than the number of warships that went to Edo Bay to show off their power last time.It shouldn't be a problem to teach Zheng Yiguan a lesson. It's impossible to annihilate him. The South China Sea is so big. If they suffer a loss and hide, where can they find it?

Those left at home are small warships that are not suitable for long-distance voyages, cargo ships with negligible force value for transportation, and work ships that produce canned and dried sea fish.

Now it is not entirely Huang's fishermen and fishing boats that are used to fish with these working boats. Too many fishing boats of Liaodong and Denglai fishermen have been hired by Huang Jialian's crew.

Many of the Huang family's fishermen have become sailors, and the Denglai fishermen actively accept the selection every time they see the Huang family's recruitment. After all, fishermen who go fishing in this era are going through the wind and waves, and they are precarious and have no income.

These people are not afraid of fighting in the army at all. The death rate of fishing in the sea these days is no different from that in the army.

Becoming a sailor of the Huang family has become a member of the Huang family. He has a stable military salary, and the whole family can earn income to ensure food and clothing.

Recruiting fishermen to become sailors is of course more effective than half the effort, but it's a pity that we don't need too many people now. After all, the proportion of sailors and gunners in the Huang family's large-scale acquisitions is too high. There are still many people who haven't got the opportunity to return to their old jobs. There are vacancies Posts always have to deal with them first.

Among the migrants in Dongjiang Town who worked on Huangjiashan Island, many had worked as gunners and sailors. Mao Wenlong's artillery was limited, and it was impossible for them to drag their artillery to Liaodong when they fought guerrilla warfare.

Too many former Ming army gunners and sailors from Liaodong fled to Dongjiang Town. Their combat effectiveness and physical strength are not as good as hunters, lumberjacks, and miners. Therefore, these people have become a burden to Dongjiang Town and are treated as landless farmers. The immigrant came to Huang's house.

Knowing how to shoot a gun does not mean that you can shoot well, but as a smoothbore gunner on a warship, being bold and careful and quick in action can make up for everything.

During naval battles, both warring parties will bombard each other sideways at close range. It is a job that is more ruthless than technology. Fast reloading, more artillery, and larger calibers are basically guaranteed to win.

Therefore, the new generation of educated young artillerymen are trained to operate field artillery and rifled artillery. After they accumulate experience, they will gradually become artillery commanders, and then hold study classes to retrain the old artillerymen. Everyone in the family is learning culture.

(End of this chapter)