The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 101 Transporting Baggage

Now that the Daming Navy has an absolute advantage, how dare Jianlu refuse to accept it?But Zhu Linming immediately remembered that in less than two months, the King Lu regime in Zhejiang would be destroyed by Boluo.

At that time, most of Fang Guoan's huge fleet will fall into the hands of Jianlu.These warships will immediately turn against Ming.

In history, Luo Mingshou's fleet was burned, and Zheng Zhilong's rebellion, the Yangtze River waters originally controlled by Ming Dynasty became the world of Jianlu, and Nanming's Yangtze River defense line collapsed in an instant.

From then on, Jianlu could go south at any time, and at the same time mobilize troops along the waterway for supplies, while the Ming army was hard to defend against.

It was not until later that Zheng Chenggong took over the remnants of the Navy of the Longwu Dynasty and regained the right to control the river. But at that time, most of the south of the Yangtze River fell into the hands of Jianlu, and the natural danger of the Yangtze River had lost its effect.

Right now, it is impossible for King Lu's "big army" with no fighting spirit to block Boluo, but Luo Mingshou's warships were all saved.Although Luo Mingshou was no match for Fang Guoan's fleet, the boarding of the heavy artillery this time reminded Zhu Linming that with these heavy artillery that far exceeds Fang Guoan's firepower, and supplemented by advanced tactics, it may not be impossible to defeat those who have just surrendered. sailor.

Zhu Linmei said to Luo Mingshou: "If each of the large warships guarded by Ruo Luo is equipped with such a heavy artillery, are they sure to beat King Lu's navy?"

Luo Ming was taken aback for a moment, the large warships of the Zhejiang Navy were nearly twice as large as him, and it was really difficult to deal with, but he immediately remembered the power of the heavy artillery just now, and immediately said nonchalantly: "I will rely on the advantage of the artillery, Hit him from a distance, but his cannon can't hurt me, so I can beat him!"

Zhu Linming asked again: "Do you know the naval battle between Zheng Zhilong and the Helan people in the seventh year of Tianqi?"

Luo Mingshou nodded, and then shook his head again.He must have heard about this matter, but he knows very little about the details.

"The main force of the Helan people is five huge warships with a load of more than 5000 loads, a height of three and a half feet, and more than ten heavy guns of three thousand catties.

"And Zheng Zhilong's largest warship can only carry [-] loads and carry two cannons. He is no match for the Helan people in a frontal artillery battle. But he has four to five hundred centipede clippers filled with sulfur, kerosene, etc.

"After the war started, the Helan people's artillery fired together, looking majestic, but it didn't take long for them to be surrounded by a large number of fire-igniting boats. No matter how powerful the heavy artillery was, they couldn't destroy all these small boats at once.

"Soon, all the warships of the Helan people were burned down, and Zheng Zhilong won a complete victory."

Luo Ming scratched his head and said, "Your Highness, what you mean is that the water battle should be focused on igniting fast boats, and the heavy artillery of large ships is not suitable?"

"No." Zhu Linmi shook her head again, "The overlord of naval battles is definitely the giant ships and heavy artillery, but they must pay attention to the tactics."

Luo Mingshou thought that King Chen really had the true biography of the immortal, and he even dabbled in the method of water warfare, so he immediately listened attentively.

"Firing cannons on the water is often out of ten. If each ship shoots randomly, it will take a long time to hit the enemy ship. This gives the enemy a chance to ignite the boat to approach.

"So don't fire randomly. The main gunships should be connected end to end and arranged in a neat line to seize the wind. All ships must have a unified order before they can fire. In this way, every artillery salvo can form a dense shell barrage. Wherever the barrage is covered, the enemy ships will be destroyed! This is called battle line tactics.

"Warships are closely arranged and salvoed, which can not only increase the firepower, but also prevent the enemy's fast ships from being surrounded by our main ships. In addition, we need to arrange our small ships to cover in front of the battle line. If the enemy fire ships swarm , they will be blocked and gathered in a pile in front of our battle line. At this time, heavy artillery bombards them, and they can be quickly scattered.

"Using this method of warfare, Zheng Zhilong's fast boat igniting the fire will undoubtedly fail. Of course, if the enemy uses a scattered formation to shoot at me with artillery, it will be a defeat."

In fact, the navy's line-of-line tactics were born out of the army's line infantry tactics, and it is also the most popular tactic among European naval powers.

In half a century, it will spread to the Eastern world, and both sides of the Penghu naval battle have already adopted this method of warfare.But right now, Daming's water battles are still dominated by jumping gangs and fire tactics.

In fact, Zhu Linming also knew that the line of battle requires the main battleship to be equipped with a large number of artillery to increase the density of the barrage, and the artillery in Luo Mingshou's battleship is far from enough.But you can let him train in formation and salvo first, and the warships and artillery will be gradually strengthened in the future.

Luo Mingshou couldn't help squinting his eyes when he heard the words. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that Chen Wang's battle line tactics made a lot of sense. He also contacted the naval battles he had experienced before, and found that many of the battles he didn't win would be better if he used this tactic. , it can be reversed immediately!
He asked a lot of detailed questions. The more he knew, the more he felt that the battle line tactics were extremely sophisticated, and the more he admired Chen Wang.

Once the iron mold for the 24-pound cannon is made at the iron yard, the casting speed will be very fast later, but the iron yard's blast furnace's ability to tap iron has become a bottleneck at the moment.

A few days later, a total of seven 24-pound guns were loaded onto Luo Mingshou's warship.

At the same time, a large number of other weapons needed by the front line were also shipped to Nanchang.Among them, there are hundreds of sets of cavalry half armor and cavalry swords required by the Dragon Guards, more than 270 spring-wheeled short guns, and 900 newly produced Type II hunting guns.As well as more than 3000 eleven-coin heavy-duty bird guns and more than [-] new-style thunderbolts that Tiechang has produced for other Ming army troops in the past month.

In addition, there are [-] steel shovels, which Zhu Linmi specially prepared for Wanji and others when he discovered that Wanji and others liked to dig trenches very much when they were about to fight.This kind of steel shovel imitating the American engineering shovel of later generations is small in size and scientific in shape design. In addition, the edge of the shovel is made of high-quality crucible steel, which can increase the speed of digging trenches by several percent.

Although the weapons for these ships were self-produced and sold by Suji Iron Works, the cost alone cost Zhu Linmin more than 5 taels of silver.However, in order to defeat Boluo's main force of Jianlu and overcome the biggest difficulty of the Longwu Dynasty, even if he invested all his wealth, he would not hesitate.

During the few days waiting for the weapons to be shipped, Luo Mingshou was not idle, so he took his existing five large boats and a few small boats for transportation to practice battle line tactics on the Ganjiang River.

If he didn't practice, he didn't know that it turned out that it was extremely difficult to keep five boats moving end to end.Coupled with the small boats covering the battle line, if you don't pay attention, the entire fleet will become a mess.

Fortunately, Zhu Linmei followed the European sailing combat method in his memory to guide him. After five or six days of practice, Luo Mingshou was barely able to command the five white-bottomed boats in his hand to maintain a line of battle.

The military situation was urgent, and Zhu Linmi didn't dare to stay too long in Longnan. After completing seven 24-pound guns, she ordered Luo Mingshou to prepare to anchor and go to Nanchang.According to his estimation, these cannons are enough to blast through the city walls of Nanchang.

But before leaving Longnan, he has to arrange other things.

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