Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 484, it's coming
"Ahead is the Zhoushan Islands. I heard that there is a group of extremely powerful pirates in the Zhoushan Islands. The leader even calls himself the King of the Sea. All ships traveling north and south must pay tribute to the King of the Sea to be safe and sound."

On the bow deck of the 'Taishan', Lin Shuhong looked through the binoculars at the islands in the sea ahead, and said to Taipinghou Du Mingen with a smile.

"Neptune?"

Hearing this, Du Mingen raised his eyebrows slightly, smiled and said: "Our Ming Dynasty has always imposed a sea ban on the outside world, giving these pirates and Japanese pirates room to live. Some people have a few ships, and a few people dare to be kings and hegemons. Really I don’t know the heights of the sky and the depths of the earth.”

"I also learned about the pirates around our Ming Dynasty. The pirates in Zhejiang and the East China Sea are mainly Fang Guozhen, who is known as the king of the sea. He uses the Zhoushan Islands as his base and collaborates with the pirates from the Japanese country."

"Wang Zhi and Matsuura Takanobu who were killed by Li Yuanshan and the others last year are also well-known big pirates and Japanese pirates in this area, but they are still mainly engaged in business, and they specialize in routes to North Korea and Japan."

"Further to the south is the pirate group entrenched in Zhejiang, Fujian, and Ryukyu. Their leader, Sun En, is known as the sea spirit. This Sun En, is a pirate and a maritime merchant at the same time. From time to time, I will also go to the Nanyang region."

"The pirates in Guangdong, Guangxi, and Qiongzhou, the biggest pirate leader is Wang Zhi, who is known as the King of the Sea. This Wang Zhi's favorite thing to do is to rob other pirate groups. In addition, he is ruthless. As long as the sea-going ships encounter them, if they are obedient, they can still survive, but if they are a little disobedient, they will be killed immediately."

"So in the areas of Guangdong, Guangxi, and Qiongzhou, if this Wang Zhi is wiped out, the pirates in this area will basically be wiped out."

"If you go to the Nanyang region, the indigenous shipbuilding technology in the Nanyang region is not good, so the biggest pirate in the Nanyang region is still our Daming. His name is Chen Zuyi, he is known as the overlord of the seven seas, he dominates the entire Nanyang sea area, and he often travels between our Daming and Nanyang. area to do business.”

Lin Shuhong seemed to be very familiar with all these things. Obviously, for this trip to Nanyang, he had put in a lot of effort, and had already investigated these things clearly in advance.

"Sea King, Sea Essence, Jing Hai King, Seven Sea Kings... I hope they all come to trouble us. If we clear them all at once, the sea will be much safer. In the future, our merchant ships will not have to worry too much when they go south. too much."

Du Mingen also smiled after hearing this, and didn't care about these pirates at all.

"Clang~clang~"

At this moment, a bell rang from the mast, and at the same time the lookout said loudly to the people below: "There are pirates, there are pirates~"

When Du Mingen and Lin Shuhong heard this, they immediately regained their energy and quickly took out their binoculars to look at the ocean ahead.

I saw that the water and the sky met, and under the blue sea and blue sky, I could vaguely see a huge fleet lying across the sea. The number was very large, and there were hundreds of ships. The ten boats are all big blessing boats.

On the ships, pennants fluttered, and pirate-specific flags were raised. At the same time, pirates holding swords and shouting could be seen on these ships.

"Sea King Fang Guozhen's Banner~"

"Sea Spirit Sun En~"

"King of the Sea, Wang Zhi~"

"Chen Zuyi, Overlord of the Seven Seas~"

"There is also Otomo Zonglin from the Japanese pirate group~"

Lin Shuhong looked at groups of pirate ships on the sea, and quickly recognized the flags and characters on these pirate ships.

"They're all here, they're all here, all the pirates and Japanese pirates from the entire Southeast Asia region are here, it's unbelievable~"

Lin Shuhong said in disbelief, the whole person was a little dumbfounded.

Isn't the invisible force behind this too strong? To be able to gather all these well-known pirates and pirates here is a bit terrifying.

"It's best to come with all of them. We'll search for them on the ocean after saving money~"

Du Mingen put down the binoculars and said with a sneer.

Then he gave the order without any further hesitation: "Prepare for battle~A-character combat plan~"

Following Du Mingen's order, a red flag was immediately raised on the 'Taishan', and then on the mast, the semaphore soldiers began to wave their flags over and over again to convey Du Mingen's orders to other ships.

"Clang~clang~"

On the ships, the rapid bells began to ring continuously, and the news of the pirates and Japanese pirates' attack was also conveyed to each ship in the first time.

"It's really here~"

On the 'Hui Shanghao', Zhu Benduan was a little dumbfounded. He didn't expect to meet pirates and Japanese pirates. Then he said anxiously: "What should we do?"

"How to do?"

"Just wait and watch the show. Didn't you see that our ship is changing teams?"

Feng Xiang looked very calm, as if he was ready to watch the excitement.

On the surface of the sea, the ships quickly began to deform. The ships of Tianjin Ocean Trading Co., Ltd. were outside, and the ships of other trading companies were in the middle. It is a big ship of Tianjin Ocean Trading Co., Ltd.

Although the people on each ship were panicked and frightened, the captains all graduated from Tianjin Maritime Academy. In Tianjin Maritime Academy, semaphore and following orders are the most basic courses.

So when Du Mingen issued an order, regardless of whether it was a ship of Tianjin Maritime Academy or not, they all quickly completed the change according to the semaphore. This is the benefit of unified teaching.

If it weren't for the existence of Tianjin Maritime Academy, these hundreds of ships would have become very chaotic due to the arrival of pirates and Japanese pirates. At that time, they would be like a pan of loose sand, and then they would be smashed one by one by pirates and Japanese pirates.

Now it is different. Under the command of Du Mingen, all the ships strictly follow the requirements, forming a huge formation, facing the pirates and Japanese pirates in a menacing manner like thousands of troops on the sea. rushed over.

"Let you have a taste of the new cannon made by our Miyun Iron Works~"

Du Mingen looked at the fleet that had completed the transformation behind him, and nodded with a full face. The students who graduated from Tianjin Maritime Academy are good at this. Everyone on the sea, as long as there is someone commanding, everyone can unite and act according to the command.

At this time, on the dozens of large ships of Tianjin Ocean Trading Co., the gates of the rows of gun holes have been stretched out. The cannons this time are different from all the cannons in the past.

Liu Jin has tens of thousands of skilled craftsmen under his command. These skilled craftsmen don't do anything, but specialize in various machinery, technology, etc., and some of them specialize in guns.

The flintlock was researched by these people under Liu Jin's prompting. Similarly, Liu Jin also attached great importance to artillery. He also expressed the concept of artillery technology in later generations, and then developed a new type of artillery. The new cannon was named 'Miyun Cannon. '

The biggest difference between Miyun cannon and traditional artillery is that it adopts a design similar to that of later artillery shells.

For a long time, the gunpowder is loaded first, then the gunpowder is compacted, then the shell is loaded, and finally the shell is pushed out by the huge impact force generated when the gunpowder burns.

In such a way, the loading of the artillery is very troublesome, and the artillery of later generations is all loaded by the method of rear-loading shells, and the speed is naturally very fast.

The Miyun cannon is also a rear-loading artillery, and the ammunition and projectiles are also made into shells. You only need to load the shells in and ignite the fuse.

The appearance of the rear-boring artillery did not appear until the 18th century, because the appearance of thunder mercury produced the rear-loading artillery, which greatly accelerated the loading speed of the artillery.

Now that Liu Jin has not produced thunder mercury, naturally there is no way to produce the mature artillery of later generations, but it is similar to use a fuse to ignite it.

The most important thing is the casting technology of the artillery. The Miyun Iron Works not only produces steel, but also manufactures armor weapons, firecrackers and artillery. There are special people to study these things, and Liu Jin exchanged them from Goldfinger. Technology, on the contrary, has produced this excessive product.

Although it is an excessive product, it is definitely an epoch-making technology for the artillery technology of this era.

Traditional artillery is too troublesome to load, and the rate of fire is actually very slow. It usually takes a few minutes to shell once, but Miyun Iron Works is completely different, because the shells are all pre-made, and the rate of fire increases linearly.

"The distance is 18 miles, the wind speed is level 4~"

On the big ships, the crew members who graduated from Tianjin Maritime Academy held pens and papers in their hands, and kept writing and drawing on them, and began to calculate the distance, speed, wind direction and so on between the two sides.

These are extremely important design parameters. Once the gun is fired, they can constantly adjust the angle and direction of the bombardment according to these data, and then carry out precise shooting.

On the other side of the sea, many pirate leaders were also looking at the huge fleet on the sea ahead. When they saw that the fleet had completed the transformation in a short period of time, it became a triangular formation and moved towards them. When rushing over.

Sea King Fang Guozhen couldn't help taking a breath.

"I've heard for a long time that these northerners' sailing skills are very good. I saw them today and they really deserve their reputation. It's really amazing to be able to change hundreds of ships in such a short period of time!"

He is a veteran at sea, and this expert can tell if there is a move at a glance. It is just a change of formation, and he has to admire it. At the same time, he also frowned, with a vague premonition.

　There is another chapter~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)