Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 410 Chain plan
The Daming Navy is about to go on an expedition.

This time it is a real expedition, an expedition of thousands of miles or even tens of thousands of miles across the sea!
Their first goal was Batavia, the largest stronghold of the Dutch in the Far East and the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company.

If you look at the "Kun Yu Wan Guo Quan Tu", the straight-line distance between Batavia and Daming capital is more than ten thousand miles.

What's more, the route from Daming to Nanyang is not a straight line. If calculated according to the winding route, it may be more than [-] miles.

Such a long distance, even if the ship sails at full speed, it will take at least half a month to catch up!
On the wharf of Wubei City, above the flagship, Taichang and the generals of the navy stared at the "Complete Map of Kun Yu Wan Guo" on the table, frowning and meditating.

With such a long distance, most of the routes are in the vast ocean without any islands, and it seems that only giant ships can sail there.

This is not their guess, it is the fact.

When the Dutch came to attack Daming twice, they drove huge ships, and the Spaniards' ocean-going fleets were all huge ships of more than a thousand materials.

Because small and medium warships with less than a thousand materials can't withstand the storm at sea.

Once a storm broke out at sea, the waves would be at least one or two feet high, and a huge wave would probably not even be able to hold the Spike.

What's more, when there is a storm at sea, hundreds of miles or even thousands of miles are covered with huge waves. If you slap it once, it's just scratching, and if you take dozens of shots, it's light. If you want to go through the storm at sea, you need to do at least Prepare to be photographed hundreds of times.

What would be the result if the Spike warship was shot hundreds of times by the monstrous waves?
I'm afraid it's possible that all of them will be overturned.

This is no joke either.

The Mongolian and Yuan expeditions to Japan three times, and the Spanish Armada's five expeditions to England are all ironclad facts.

The results of their expedition are incomprehensible.

Will Mongolian Yuan fail to beat Japan?

They were the overlords of Eurasia at that time, an invincible existence that swept across Eurasia.

Will Spain beat England?
At that time, they were well-deserved maritime overlords, and England had just started with pirates.

As a result, they all lost.

The reason is very simple, that is, we have encountered sea storms, and we have encountered sea storms every time.

They were not defeated by the enemy, but were overturned by the sea storm!
no way.

There is no way to predict sea storms these days!

How to do it?

If you only count the number of huge ships with more than a thousand materials, the Daming Navy does not actually have much advantage.

Because at this moment, the Daming Navy has a total of 21 Aegis ships and 66 Dragon Tooth battleships, and there are only 87 giant ships with more than a thousand materials in total.

This number can't even keep up with the number of armed merchant ships of the Dutch East India Company. Although the firepower of their armed merchant ships is not as strong as theirs, they have bastions as their backing!
Gao Wenlu made it clear that the cannons in Batavia's bastion are all big ones, including 24-pound and even 36-pound cannons.

How big is that cannon?
Not to mention that cannonballs are as big as washbasins, there are definitely some that are as big as watermelons, and they are still as big as the kind of big watermelons that need both hands to hold them.

With such a large shell, the Dragon Tooth Battleship probably couldn't hold it at all, and the Aegis Ship probably couldn't eat a few rounds.

That is to say, if they rashly drive dozens of Aegis ships and dragon tooth battleships, they may not be able to take down Batavia.

They still have to believe in this evil.

The Dutchman was beaten twice by Da Ming just because he didn't believe in this evil.

No matter in history or at this moment, it has been turned over twice.

It is because people don't believe in evil, they just think that if there are large boats and gunboats, they are invincible, so they are beaten like dogs. This is the case in history and now.

Although Taichang is a bit crazy, he is not mentally ill, he still believes in evil.

Therefore, he wanted to bring the Spike Warship there as well, and as much as possible.

The question is, how to bring the Spike warship there.

Large fishing boats seem to be an example.

Because at this moment, Daming's large fishing boat has four wheels tied to both sides.

Can this method withstand sea storms?

To be honest, Taichang didn't know either.

He frowned and pondered for a while, and then said cautiously: "How about we try to tie two Spike warships to each Aegis ship and Dragon tooth warship?"

Unexpectedly, Sun Chuanting was the first to shake his head and said: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid this is not possible, because the warship can still move when tied to the giant ship. If there is a storm at sea, the warship will be thrown by the huge waves and hit the giant ship. It probably would have been smashed under the impact. Wei Chen has already carefully asked the manager of the Western Company and the fishermen on which big fishing boats, and if there is a storm at sea, they would not dare to go out to sea with their wheels."

Although he was not a professional naval commander, most of the art of war strategy also has the method of water warfare, so he is not completely ignorant of water warfare.

He has studied some water warfare methods, coupled with his meticulous thinking, good at exploring, and paying attention to details, Taichang will choose him to take over as the commander of the navy.

During this period of time, he has also studied a lot of military books on water warfare, and he has also learned about the actual situation at sea with many sailors and veteran fishermen at sea. Therefore, he is not in vain as the commander of the navy. .

Naturally, he had already thought about the method of tying the boat to the sides of the giant ship. After all, there were examples of large fishing boats there.

The problem, after a careful study, he found that it was impossible to do so.

Hearing this, Taichang couldn't help frowning and said, "The question is that it's a little unsafe for us not to bring the Spike warship. How can we win the battle if the Dutch rely on the bastion fort to resist?"

This result is really hard to say.

Perhaps, they can win, but even if they win, they will definitely suffer heavy losses.

The watermelon-sized cannonballs are not a joke. Why don't the Spaniards dare to attack Batavia, and why don't the Dutch dare to attack Manila? They don't want to suffer heavy losses!

Sun Chuanting thought about it again, and then said cautiously: "This humble minister has been thinking about it for a long time, and I think that the series of tricks offered by Pang Tong in the Battle of Chibi can be tried."

What he is talking about is the most famous plot in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Kan Zemi presents a letter of deceitful surrender, and Pang Tong cleverly teaches a series of tricks.

This story is quite famous, and Taichang knows it too.

That is to say, Pang Tong tricked Cao Cao to connect all the warships with iron rings, and then nailed them to death with wooden boards, so that the boats and boats were as stable as land, and even horses could run on them!
Because most of the soldiers in the army were from the north, Cao Cao suffered from seasickness, so he caught his trick and connected the boats.

In the end, Zhou Yu burned her to the ground!
This appears to be a typical case of failure.

However, Taichang understood what Sun Chuanting meant.

Sun Chuanting's meaning is naturally not to connect the ships and let others burn them, but Sun Chuanting means to connect the ships to resist the storm at sea!

He said with great interest: "Bo Ya, you mean to fasten the Spike to the sides of the Aegis and Dragon Fang so that they cannot move, so that they won't be damaged?"

Sun Chuanting nodded repeatedly and said: "Your Majesty is wise, this humble minister has exactly the intention, but we had better not nail it to death. Isn't there a screw now, we can use the screw to tighten it, so it is easy to disassemble the warship. Moreover, we can also line up the Spike warships and firmly fix them on both sides of the Aegis and Dragon Fang battleships, so that we can bring all the Spike warships on board."

OK!

Taichang originally thought that it would be good if he could bring more than 300 Spike warships there, because at this moment, there are only 87 Aegis ships and Longya warships of the Daming Navy, and each giant ship brings four Spike warships It can also bring more than 300 ships.

And now there are thousands of Spike warships in the Daming Navy!
He originally thought he couldn't carry half of it, but now it's all right, he can carry all of them without any problem.

As for how to firmly connect warships with warships, Cao Cao, a landlubber in the Three Kingdoms period, could do it, and they could naturally do it too.

At this moment, it is actually quite simple to connect the Spike warships together. There is no need to make special large iron rings, and there is no need to nail wooden boards. It only needs to use the original structure of the ship and add a few thick iron boards.

As soon as Wang Zheng heard the request from Taichang and Sun Chuanting, he immediately thought of the simplest and fastest way.

What method did he think of?

(End of this chapter)