Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 289 New Acropolis
In two days, Taichang returned with a full load of 60 shi of grain.

However, he did not go to Penghu, because Yuan Keli invited him to disembark when he arrived at Dongfan Zhongwei.

Yuan Keli wanted to ask him to decide how to build the Acropolis of Dongfan Zhongwei.

After all, Dongfan is going to build five acropolises instead of one acropolis. As the first acropolis built by Dongfan Zhongwei, it is a template for the other four acropolises. Yuan Keli is really hesitant.

If it were built on the scale of an ordinary frontier defense city, the city wall would be only a few miles long, and each side would only be more than one mile. The scale is extremely small, and more than a thousand guards and their families can live in the acropolis.

This kind of small acropolis is built quickly, but its defense is not very strong, and it can defend against ordinary attacks of thousands of people.

This so-called ordinary attack does not include the attack of muskets and artillery. The Dutch have muskets and artillery.

In other words, such a small acropolis may not be able to withstand the attack of the Dutch.

To be honest, Yuan Keli couldn't even imagine what kind of attack the Dutch used.

Because Ming has never had a large-scale battle with European barbarians equipped with guns and artillery.

However, judging from the Spanish gunboats, he felt that once the Dutch launched an attack, it would definitely not be an ordinary attack.

If people approached the building, boats and gunboats and bombarded them, how could this small acropolis withstand it?
Therefore, he didn't dare to make his own decisions and ordered people to build an ordinary acropolis indiscriminately.

Just in time, the emperor brought the food from Bengang, so he took the opportunity to invite the emperor to disembark, and asked the emperor to decide how to build the acropolis of Dongfan Zhongwei.

At the moment, the acropolis of Dongfan Zhongwei has not yet been seen, and the [-] garrison guards have already been transported over, but they just found an open space near the harbor to pitch their tents. temporary.

Taichang looked at the tents with a radius of several miles, and then at the blueprint of the ordinary border defense city, and shook his head slowly.

This kind of ordinary acropolis is definitely not good, not to mention that 2 people can't be stuffed in, even if 2 people can be stuffed in, it is still a target in the face of the attack of the building, boats and gunboats. The Acropolis must have suffered heavy casualties.

So how was the Acropolis built?

Taichang looked at the surrounding terrain, thought about it carefully, and then asked, "Li Qing, do you still remember the fortresses in Poseidon Port?"

The construction of those fortresses is really different, and those who have seen it will never forget it.

Yuan Keli nodded without hesitation and said, "I remember."

Taichang nodded slightly, then murmured: "From now on, our battles with those European barbarians will be dominated by guns and artillery, and the attack methods of guns and artillery are completely different from swords, guns, swords and halberds.

In an ordinary city, the city wall can be built several feet high at most, which is actually useless for guns and artillery.

Therefore, we should focus on guns and artillery when we build cities or fortresses.

We not only have to consider how to defend against other people's muskets and artillery, but also how to give full play to our advantages, so that we can give full play to the advantages of muskets and artillery when defending the city.

Not to mention muskets, the traditional city walls and arrow stacks can actually give full play to the advantages of muskets.

In other words, what we mainly need to consider now is how to give full play to the advantages of artillery.

The advantage of artillery is, to put it bluntly, the range.

If we want to take advantage of the artillery, we must build a multi-layered city according to the terrain, and try to mount the artillery at a high place to increase the range of the artillery.

In this way, it will be difficult for the enemy to bombard us with artillery, but we can bombard them casually. "

Yuan Keli looked at the tens of feet high hill next to the temporary pier, and couldn't help but suddenly said: "Your Majesty, do you mean to put the artillery on the hill?"

Taichang nodded slightly and said: "Yes, we will build a two-story or even three-story acropolis relying on that hill.

This kind of acropolis does not have to be built in a square shape. It can be completely based on the terrain around the hill. It looks exactly what it was originally, and it doesn't matter if it is zigzag.

Moreover, the bottom city wall does not need to dig a deep wall foundation, let alone build a thick city wall.

We only need to level the slope of the hill, and then lay bricks and stones around it according to the situation of the hill.

In other words, the platform at the bottom is actually the wall of the city wall at the bottom, and only a circle of female walls and arrow stacks need to be built around it. "

This is much simpler to build.

To be honest, it took a lot of work to build a city wall several feet high from the flat ground. It would be much easier to just rely on the mountain to build a circle of bricks and stones like a wall.

Moreover, the defensive power of the city fortress built by relying on the mountain is quite amazing, and its height of tens of feet alone can make people despair.

These days, even the most advanced building boats and gunboats can't raise their gun horns and blast them to the top of a mountain tens of feet high!
The artillery erected on the top of the hill can easily blast the gunboats below.

A city and fortress with this structure is simply the nemesis of the building boat gunboat!
Yuan Keli just glanced at the hilltop for a while, and then at the Longya warship docked beside the temporary pier, and he immediately understood.

He directly put together the ordinary acropolis blueprint that was spread out in his hand, and said decisively: "Your Majesty, you mean that our first step is to level the hillside, right?"

Taichang nodded without hesitation and said: "Yes, you just need to look at where to start digging to find the largest bottom platform according to the mountain situation."

This is simple, Yuan Keli took out his binoculars and looked carefully at the hillside next to the temporary pier, and then he recruited a group of guards, pointed at the hillside, and confessed.

Soon, those thousands of guards nodded their heads and left.

After a while, [-] elite guards swarmed up with hoes, shovels, shovels, axes, bamboo baskets, etc., cutting and digging around the hillside.

The trees on the hillside can be cut down directly as timber, and piled up on the dug out flat ground for later use.

The boulders dug out of the hillside can also be pushed down directly to be the foundation or even the body of the first wall.

The [-] garrison guards started their actions with extraordinary speed. The hillside was becoming bald and flattened at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the first floor of the city and fortress gradually revealed its embryonic form.

Taichang held up the binoculars and looked at it for a while, then waved his hands with great interest: "Liqing, let's go, let's go to the flagship, watch and draw, plan carefully, and see what the best way to build this acropolis is."

Upon hearing this, Yuan Keli quickly followed him to the flagship.

After a group of people boarded the flagship, Taichang immediately ordered people to move the tables and chairs, and took the four treasures of the study, and placed them on the deck at the top of the three-story gun building.

Yuan Keli wrote the pen, and Taichang led a group of generals to help check it. Soon, the outline of a city was outlined.

Of course, it is impossible to build a city in one day. Even if 2 people work together, even if it is built on the basis of mountainous terrain, it cannot be completed in a day or two.

Taichang also attached great importance to the construction of this first new type of acropolis, so he directly ordered the flagship to dock here, stay here, and not leave.

On the third day, news came from Penghu Wei that the southeast wind was blowing, and the sailboats of the Beiyang Navy and Nanyang Navy could set off to return to continue to pick up people.

This cross-sea migration has already come once, and everyone has some experience, so naturally there is no need for him to direct it.

He directly ordered Zhang Yuanfang to go back with the Spike warship and the wheels, but he continued to stay here, keeping an eye on the progress of the construction of the new acropolis.

To be honest, the progress of the construction of the Acropolis dug out in this way is quite fast.

In a few days, the bottom platform more than ten feet high was almost dug, and at this time, as long as enough artillery was installed on the side facing the port, the defense of the new acropolis would be quite amazing, not even What walls need to be built!
This speed is really amazing.

Taichang made a decision immediately, and the future Acropolis will be built according to this model, just find a suitable hill to dig!

This kind of acropolis can't be built too fast. As long as the bottom platform is dug out and enough artillery is installed, the defense is already there.

Next, as long as the top of the mountain is dug up, the entire Acropolis will basically take shape.

As for the supporting facilities such as the city wall and barracks at the back, it is no problem to build them slowly. Anyway, the defense is already enough, and there is no need to rush the rest of the progress.

(End of this chapter)