Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 214 Set sail
This time Taichang was going to lead the army to go to sea to build a port on the peninsula south of the Jurchen tribe in Haixi, and it seemed that it still had to rely on the sailboats of the navy.

Because the Haixi Jurchen Department is already the territory of Jiannu, they are likely to be attacked as soon as they land, so he has to transport all [-] soldiers of the Shenji Battalion and their equipment at one time to be safe.

Although he has ordered the transformation of more than 2 wheel ships, it is impossible for more than [-] wheel ships to carry all [-] horses and equipment at one time.

Because a 50-material wheel can hold a maximum of about [-] jin of goods, and if it is full of people, it can hold a maximum of [-] people.

The sailboats in the navy are different.

For example, a Haicang ship with about [-] materials, although the cargo load is only about [-] catties, but the Haicang ship is large in size, and generally, the Haicang ship has three-story cabins, and it is impossible to transport a hundred people casually. question.

As for the Fuchuan with thousands of materials, it is even more powerful. Its size looks like a city tower, and its cargo capacity exceeds 20 catties. If it is only for carrying people, it will not be enough to transport two or three hundred people casually. question.

Taichang sent a special blessing boat from the south of the Yangtze River as the flagship of Yuan Keli's navy. Unfortunately, the big blessing boat couldn't move at all when there was no wind.

He stood on the Dafu boat as tall as a city tower, looked at the masts standing like a forest all around, and couldn't help but secretly sighed, it would be great if all these sailboats were turned into ships.

There is no way, even if the two hundred or so wheels are full, they can transport at most [-] soldiers of the Shenji Battalion to the construction site of the port at one time, and these [-] soldiers can only carry waist knives and muskets, what kind of long guns? , artillery, ammunition, and tanks cannot be brought.

This is definitely not the case in the past. Ten thousand soldiers of the Shenji Battalion are not enough to resist the Jiannu cavalry with muskets and waist knives.

Therefore, he had to let the large sailboat under Yuan Keli's command take the remaining [-] Shenji Battalion soldiers, spears, artillery, ammunition, chariots, etc., and transport them all at once, so as to be safe.

However, there is no wind at this time. All the weapons and equipment of the Shenji Battalion have been loaded on the ship, but there is still no wind.

In fact, Rajin Port is only more than three hundred miles away from the place where the port was built. If the wind is smooth, it will take less than two hours for the sailboat to pass by.

The problem is, if there is no wind, it will not be able to survive for two years!
Alas, everything is ready and only the east wind is owed!
Looking at the weathervane on the top of the mast, Taichang couldn't help sighing, "It would be great if there was wind at this time."

Sometimes things just happen by chance.

As soon as his words fell, the huge Ming character flag on the mast moved with the wind and flew up.

It's windy, and it happens to be from the northwest!

This!
Seeing this, Taichang couldn't help being dumbfounded.

Seeing this, Yuan Keli clasped his hands excitedly and said: "The emperor really speaks words like a god, we can finally set off!"

Like a god?

it is good!
Taichang decisively ordered: "General Qi, quickly order the soldiers to board the ship."

When Qi Jin heard this, he waved his hand without hesitation, and the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion who were already ready to go near the pier immediately formed a long queue, ran up the pier quickly, and boarded various warships, large and small.

In less than half an hour, [-] soldiers of the Shenji Battalion had all boarded the boat.

Seeing this, Yuan Keli hurriedly cupped his hands to Taichang and said, "Your Majesty, you can go now."

Taichang nodded without hesitation: "Okay, let's go right away."

When Yuan Keli heard this, he immediately waved his hand and said loudly: "Sail, let's set sail!"

"Wow!", the sails were slowly raised, and the huge ship slowly left the port.

Soon the sails were full and swelled against the wind, and the speed of the building boat was getting faster and faster, and it was almost catching up with the speed of the wheels.

At this time, more than 200 wheels have already left the dock one after another, rushed up, and guarded the sailboat.

A huge fleet of six or seven hundred warships set off like this, and the sea was densely packed with shadows of ships.

This scene is really spectacular!

Excitedly, Taichang glanced through the binoculars, and then asked solemnly: "Li Qing, has the pier over there been ready?"

Yuan Keli hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I sent a fast boat to transport hundreds of vanguards and wooden stakes for building a temporary pier yesterday. At this moment, the scouts over there are densely covered, and the wooden stakes have already been laid in the shallow water area. As long as the wooden raft is put on it, the goods and people can be unloaded."

Taichang thought about it carefully, and asked again: "Did Jianu ever find out?"

Yuan Keli slowly shook his head and said: "Probably not, after all, the speed of the fast boat is too fast, and the coast is full of mountains along the way, there is no way for the slave cavalry to catch up with the fast boat, and it is impossible for the infantry to catch up with the fast boat in a day." Within three hundred miles, we ran across the mountains and ridges to find the place where we built the pier."

Well, it looks like it's ok.

This should be the first time for Taichang to set sail and set sail across the sea. Because of the large size of the fleet, in order to avoid accidental grounding of peripheral ships, the fleet is more than ten miles away from the coastline, and the flagship in the center of the fleet is farther away from the coastline. It is as far as twenty or thirty miles away.

At this time, there is no telescope that can see such a long distance. Even if he holds up the telescope, he can see the vast sea around him.

How can I say this feeling?

Ordinary people may feel a little sense of novelty or fear after watching it.

Taichang looked at it, but what he thought of was the magnificent battle for supremacy at sea.

One day, he will lead hundreds or even thousands of buildings and gunboats to overthrow the European powers and conquer this endless ocean!

Now, he has taken the first step.

As long as this port is built, the resources of Spain's American colonies will be continuously transported over. At that time, Ming can start building ships and gunboats!

Of course, it is not so easy to take the first step, because the place where they built the port is the former place of Haixi Jurchen, which is equivalent to working under Jiannu's nose. If Jiannu comes to make trouble, I don't know how troublesome it will be Woolen cloth.

He just looked at the endless sea and meditated all the way. In less than two hours, sporadic small islands finally appeared in front of him.

At this time, following Yuan Keli's order, the command flag was waved on the flagship mast, and the fleet immediately began to gather in the middle, slowly forming a group with a radius of less than ten miles.

The place where they built the port was about to arrive. From the map, they crossed these scattered islands and passed through a large island, which was the place they chose.

And the distance between these islands and the coast is only more than [-] miles, so the fleet must be gathered together to prevent the two sides from hitting the bottom and running aground.

The fleet traveled for about a quarter of an hour, and finally a huge island appeared in front of the right, and their destination was about to arrive.

At this time, following Yuan Keli's order, the fleet began to change again, turning into a long snake formation dozens of miles long, heading straight for the narrow entrance behind the island.

The entrance is probably only one or two miles wide. After going around it, there is a small bay extending northwards, going deep into the peninsula behind.

This is the place they chose to build the port.

Taichang couldn't help but took out his binoculars and looked at the small bay ahead.

This is really a good place. The small bay extending all the way to the peninsula is a natural sheltered bay, and the flat land on both sides of the bay is enough to build a large city.

After the flat land there are continuous mountains, and the entrance is a narrow passage by the coast. It is too simple to prevent the Jianshou cavalry from raiding. In that narrow passage, hundreds of chariots lined up can completely Blocked.

At this time, the lightest centipede boat in the fleet had already formed a long queue and pulled the wooden raft to a shallow water area, where rows of wooden stakes had already been nailed, and there were already dozens of people on the wooden stakes. Standing there, holding the hook and lock, ready to hang the raft.

With a burst of smooth operations, several simple docks were quickly formed, and then one after another, wheel boats and small paddle boats continued to approach the docks, and the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion rushed down like flowing water.

Soon, several temporary piers were full of soldiers from the Shenji Battalion, while the emptied boats turned around and picked up the chariots, artillery and other supplies from the big boats, and kept carrying them back and forth. The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion were sent to the pier, and the entire harbor was filled with orders and bustling.

In less than an hour, thousands of soldiers of the Shenji Battalion set up a solid line of defense consisting of chariots and artillery at the narrow entrance to the north.

This is all right, even if the Jiannu cavalry rushed over immediately, it would be useless.

(End of this chapter)