Daming Crazy Emperor

The Canary Islands are actually very close to the west coast of Africa.

The islands in the middle are only four to five hundred miles away from the coastline, and the two big islands in the east are only two hundred miles away from the coastline.

Taichang is currently investigating around a big island in the east of the Canary Islands, and he also found a pretty good place.

There is a huge flat land here, and it is definitely no problem to build a city with 10 people, and the hills on both sides are not very high, so it can be completely transformed into a three-story bastion.

What's even more ingenious is that the edge of this flat land is surrounded by several rows of coral reefs that are more than ten feet high.

This terrain is really quite ingenious. As long as the port dock can be built between the flat land and the coral reef, even thousands of ships docked inside will not be visible to people outside.

The question now is whether the bay between these rows of coral reefs and the flat land is deep enough. If it is not enough, then it is impossible to build a port wharf.

The warships they led were all the most cumbersome Aegis ships, and they couldn't go in to test the water depth at all. If they accidentally ran aground inside, the Aegis ships would be useless.

How to do it?

Taichang frowned, and then said decisively: "Yuanfang, send an Aegis ship to the opposite coastline to find the nearest port and wharf, and ask the soldiers of the West African Kingdom to come over with ten Spike warships, preferably one It’s the kind with a crane.”

Zhang Yuanfang quickly ordered people to raise the flag, and an Aegis ship left the team quickly.

Taichang continued to lead the fleet to investigate around the island.

The area of ​​this island is not very large. If calculated according to their voyage, this island is not half the size of the main island.

However, there are definitely hundreds of square kilometers, and it is not a problem to station 10 people.

Moreover, it is only about two hundred miles away from the coastline, so it is very convenient to replenish food, grass and supplies. There are faint streams on the island, and the water source is not a problem.

Taichang took the fleet around again, but found no other places suitable for building large cities.

He had no choice but to lead the fleet back to the waters outside the flat land and wait.

At this moment, he regretted that he didn't bring some Spike warships. For this kind of island that has never been explored, the Aegis ship is really not as convenient as the Spike warships.

It seems that at this moment, they can only stop a few miles away from the coral reef and wait, not daring to approach at all.

Fortunately, they waited for about two hours, and the Aegis ship that was sent out returned with ten Spike warships.

After Taichang thought about it, he still ordered Zhang Yuanfang to raise the banner, let the ten Spike warships approach first, and asked the generals who led the troops to come up.

The leading general ran up to have a look, then quickly kowtowed on the ground and said: "The last general will see the emperor."

Taichang raised his hand with a smile and said: "Mianli, get up, do you know me?"

The leading general said excitedly: "Yes, Your Majesty, the last general was rescued by His Majesty from America."

Oh, it turned out to be the Black God Army from America, no wonder the official words of Daming are so good.

Taichang nodded slightly, and then asked again: "What's your name, and where do you live now?"

The leading general quickly introduced himself: "The last general was originally called Ma Ting, but later changed his name to Daming's name Ma Ting. He is now a general of the No. 16 Battalion of the Black God Army and is responsible for guarding the nearest port." …

The Black God Army imitates the formation of the Lighting Army. There is a battalion for every 10 people, led by a general, with two generals and ten guerrilla generals.

This kid is a general, and he has 5 people under his command, so he has a lot of power.

Taichang nodded slightly, and then asked again: "Did I let the 20 people mobilized by Zuma come here?"

Ma Ting quickly explained: "Our Majesty the King has issued an order. 20 people are rushing to the last general's station. It is estimated that they will be there in three days."

Three days is still too late.

Taichang nodded slightly again, then pointed to the coral reef in front of the flagship and said, "Look, there are several rows of coral reefs, and the water behind the coral reefs is about a mile or two wide.

You take the Spike Warship and find a place in the gap between several rows of coral reefs to see if the water inside is suitable for building a port wharf.

My plan is to build a large port that can dock [-] Spike warships and [-] armed merchant ships. Of course, it would be even better if Dreadnoughts and Aegis ships can be docked inside. "

Ma Ting hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "The general will understand."

Taichang nodded slightly again, then waved and said, "Go."

Ma Ting hurriedly bowed and left.

Soon, he took ten Spike warships and headed straight for the rows of coral reefs that were more than ten miles wide.

The gaps between the coral reefs seemed to be unable to pass through the Spike Warships. Ma Ting took ten Spike Warships around the coral reefs for half a circle, and finally went in from a place where there were no coral reefs in the north.

It was very easy for the ten Spike warships to go back and forth in the harbor surrounded by coral reefs, which proves that there must be no problem in building a pier to moor the Spike warships, but I don’t know if there is any deep water area where armed merchant ships can be docked. .

Ten Spike warships probed inside for about half an hour and finally came out one after another. Ma Ting took a sketch drawn in charcoal and quickly boarded the flagship, came to Taichang, bowed his hands and said: "Your Majesty, After the detection, the water area inside looks like this."

Taichang took the sketch and took a look. Good guy, the water area inside is so big. Judging from the labels on the sketch, the water area inside is more than ten miles long and two to three miles wide.

He looked at the sketch carefully, and then asked, "How is it? Is there a deep water area where armed merchant ships can dock?"

Ma Ting quickly pointed to the sketch and introduced: "Yes, look, your majesty, this is the big opening for us to enter. The area around this big opening until four or five miles inside is a deep water area. The water depth is more than ten feet. The dreadnought There is no problem driving in with the Aegis ship.

The waters in the area about ten miles behind are not very deep. Some places are only about two feet deep, and the deepest place is less than four feet deep. However, there is still no problem with docking the Spike. "

Great, here it is.

Taichang smiled slightly and said: "You go and lead the way ahead, I will go in and have a look."

Ma Ting hurriedly bowed and left.

Soon, ten Spike warships set off, and Taichang ordered Zhang Yuanfang to command the flagship and forty Aegis ships to follow.

Soon, the fleet came to the natural harbor behind the coral reef.

Taichang turned the binoculars and glanced around, then couldn't help nodding and said: "This place is really wonderful, Mingshi, you see, we only need to build two three-story bastions on the hills on both sides of the flat ground, and then build a bastion at the entrance. It’s almost enough to build a dense fort. …

This place doesn't even need to build too high a city wall, as long as the entrance is blocked, enemy ships can't get in at all. "

Zhang Mingshi also nodded again and again: "This is indeed a good place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. If we plug the gaps in those coral reefs with reinforced concrete and paint them in the same color as the coral reefs, the enemy will not even know what is behind them." There is a large port and city."

Well, pirate lairs are all about secrecy.

If there were only two three-story bastions exposed outside, the enemy would probably think that this was a stronghold established by the West African Kingdom, and they would never have thought that this would be a pirate lair.

Perhaps it is possible to directly send [-] black gods to garrison the three-story bastions on both sides.

In this way, not only can the fleet of the Continental Alliance be paralyzed, but Prince Condé can also be warned at all times to keep this guy from being mischievous.

Taichang thought for a while, and then ordered decisively: "Yuan Fang, order Ma Ting to build a temporary dock here first, and in addition, send an Aegis ship to take over all the personnel and supplies of Prince Kong Dai's men, and ask him to leave 1000 people first. It’s enough for people to be stationed there.”

Prince Condé did not expect that the Canary Islands would have such a hidden natural harbor.

There was a look of disbelief on his face when he boarded the flagship.

Seeing this, Taichang couldn't help but smiled slightly and said, "How is it, isn't the place I found for you not bad?"

Prince Kong Dai nodded repeatedly and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, this place is simply wonderful."

Taichang nodded slightly, then pointed to the outside and introduced: "Look, we only need to build two three-story bastions on the hills on both sides, and then build a circle of city walls about ten feet high, and then build a wall at the entrance. The fort, which is full of forts, is impregnable here."

Well, that's true.

The problem is that these three layers of bastions, forts, walls and forts are not so easy to build.

If they are allowed to build it, it is estimated that the construction of the city wall and the barracks, factories, and residences inside will take at least half a year.

Prince Kong Dai thought for a while before carefully asking: "Your Majesty, do we want to build so many things?"

Taichang looked around and added: "By the way, you still have to build a row of docks to transform warships.

Your battleships have too few artillery pieces, and the standard of the artillery pieces is not the same as that of our Daming, and the ammunition is not universal.

These cannons must be dismantled and recast. You must equip each battleship with at least thirty cannons. "

Uh, even the battleship needs to be remodeled!
Prince Kong Dai looked at the small temporary pier, and couldn't help being confused.

He was stunned for a while, and then carefully asked: "Your Majesty, when will we start to cut off the waterway?

If warships were to be remodeled, one year might not be enough time! "

What time of year?
Taichang shook his head slightly and said, "It doesn't take a year, it's almost a month."

what?
a month?

How can it be!

Then it's time to witness the miracle.

After Taichang let the people on the two hundred armed merchant ships ashore on the Spike warship, he ordered Ma Ting to go back with one hundred armed merchant ships, and brought some materials for the construction of the wharf and 1 horses. …

The next day, Ma Ting led people to start building a large pier.

They built the ports and wharves on the west coast of North Africa, and their experience in this area is simply not too rich.

The speed at which they built the wharf was frighteningly fast, and the ten large wharves were taking shape at a speed visible to the naked eye.

As for the people under Prince Kong Dai, Taichang didn't let them do anything else.

These people must be inexperienced, and they probably won't be able to do the work that is too professional. Taichang directly ordered people to draw a big box according to the roughly planned city area, and he sent all the people under Prince Kong Dai to dig. The wall foundation is gone.

No way, he couldn't transfer the large excavator here at the moment, so digging the foundation of the wall was the most time-consuming job.

Originally, Prince Kong Dai thought that his men would have to dig for at least ten days to dig the foundation of the wall.

Who knows, in the past two days, the forty Aegis ships took turns to sail out, directly bringing over 20 black mercenaries.

This group of guys dug the foundation of the wall so fiercely, the foundation of the wall was dug in less than three days.

Then they started digging the foundations in the surrounded city according to the plan, and in less than three days, they finished digging the foundations of the city.

Prince Kong Dai looked at the large and small squares all over the floor, and was really confused.

The footings of the city wall and the foundation of the city have been dug. The question is, how to build the city wall and houses?

Unexpectedly, less than a day after the foundation was dug here, two hundred armed merchant ships came with a huge amount of supplies and a thousand Spike warships.

It was only at this moment that Prince Condé knew what speed was. The city walls and houses rose from the ground like building blocks, and the pier and shipyard even popped out miraculously.

In less than a month, the city, docks, docks, and various houses were miraculously built.

Immediately afterwards, the 20 soldiers of the Black God Army were divided into two and began to build three-story bastions on the hills on both sides.

The officials of the Ming Empire led their craftsmen to disassemble the artillery in the dock, preparing to transform the warship.

What is strange is that the two hundred armed merchant ships that were transferred at the beginning were also dismantling the artillery, sawing the gun door and so on.

When Prince Kong Dai saw this scene, he couldn't help but ran over and asked Taichang, "Your Majesty, do you want to transform the two hundred armed merchant ships?"

Taichang nodded without hesitation and said: "Yes, you have too few ships, the two hundred armed merchant ships and one thousand Spike warships are all given to you by me.

However, the armed merchant ship must be remodeled so that people can't see that it was built by our Ming Dynasty.

As for the artillery, they had to be replaced with unified front-loading ammunition city anti-aircraft guns, so that it was convenient to equip ammunition, and the people of the European Continental Alliance would not suspect us, Daming.

Don't worry, the artillery is already on its way, and in a few days you can lead the fleet to rob. "

What a bargain, it turned out that these ships were all given to him.

Happiness came so suddenly that Prince Condé felt that he was so excited that he was about to faint.

He used to have hundreds of garbage warships, but now he has directly turned into more than 300 ships!