Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 750
On the southern border of Xinzhang State, the camp of the Ming army.

Luo Sigong sat cross-legged in the handsome tent, staring at the map in front of him, frowning and thinking.

The ten teams of scouts he sent out have all returned, and he also sent these ten teams of scouts to the south to continue the investigation.

It took these scouts at least half a day to find the tribe in the southern jungle and rush back, and the longest even took nearly a day.

At this point, Team Ten still did not find a farm run by Portuguese colonists.

People from the primitive tribes in the south said that the Portuguese colonists opened many farms there.

In other words, the colony in the south is much larger than Natal, and it will definitely not take a few days for them to investigate the detailed situation there. It is very likely that he will have to wait here for ten days and a half months.

Can't be idle for such a long time!
He stared at the map for a while, and couldn't help but have an idea.

Perhaps, they can take advantage of this time to open a road leading to the sea, and then build a pier.

The pier doesn't need to be too big, as long as it can dock the Spike warship.

Because they are about five hundred miles away from Xinzhang City at this moment, although the road in the jungle has been opened, it is extremely inconvenient to transport timber and food.

Because the carriage can travel more than a hundred miles in a day at most, and it will take at least three or four days for them to bring the wood and firewood back, and the food and fresh fish from Xinzhang City are at least sent over. It also takes three or four days.

It takes seven or eight days to go back and forth this time, which is too time-consuming and a waste of manpower.

It would be much more convenient if a pier could be built on the east coast to transport timber and food with Spike warships.

Because the speed of the Spike warship loaded with supplies is not much different from that without supplies, it is no problem to travel five or six hundred miles a day.

In this way, not only can the time for transporting materials be shortened to two days, but also [-] young and strong North American Indian tribes and thousands of horse-drawn carriages can be saved, and there is no need to work hard to transport materials on land.

Thinking of this, he really said: "Come here, pass on the order to order the soldiers of Shenwuying and Xinzhang Guoqingzhuang to continue to open a road of about five feet to the east until it reaches the coastline."

Because there are mangroves everywhere near the coastline, they had no choice but to open their way in the jungle.

This time it was different. The mangrove forest was only about ten miles wide. Even if he ordered people to pave it with stones and wooden rafts, it would not take a few days.

If the pier for the Spike Warship can be built, the time saved will not be a few days.

Of course, there may also be sandy beaches near the coastline here.

That's even easier. They only need to lay a wooden platform one or two miles long across the beach, and then build a longer pier to go deep into the sea.

He was too lazy to send scouts to investigate the terrain. Anyway, no matter whether there was a beach or a mangrove near the coastline, he had to build this pier!
Moreover, they will be able to drive to a place more than ten miles away from the coastline in one day, and then they will know what is going on near the coastline at will.

Soon the tree-cutting machines started up again, and the five thousand soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion and tens of thousands of young people from the Xinzhang Kingdom also got busy.

After working hard for a while, Luo Sigong came to the top of the machine for sawing logs again, urging his soldiers with a majestic face.

With the machines for cutting trees, they can drive at least 30 miles of forest roads in one day.

In other words, on the first day they will most likely drive the road to the edge of the mangroves.

This mangrove forest is really annoying. Its seeds float in sea water. Once its seeds are pushed onto the beach by the tide, the beach will turn into a mangrove forest in a few years.

It is precisely because of this way of spreading and multiplying that the east coast of South America is almost full of swamp-like mangroves, making it difficult for people to move.

Luo Sigong almost spent the day thinking about how to pave a road in the muddy mangrove forest, but until the afternoon, the whole team was still in front of the towering jungle, and there was no low mangrove forest at all.

Could it be that they are so lucky that there is a beach in front of them?

Luo Sigong raised his binoculars and glanced forward for a while, then looked at the sky, and then said decisively: "The order is for everyone to rest and bury the pot for cooking. In addition, send a team of scouts to take a quick look at the coast with their horses. What kind of terrain is the edge?"

That day they had driven more than [-] miles along the forest road, and logically it was only about ten miles away from the coastline.

Moreover, the jungle here is not very dense anymore. The scouts rode forward carefully on horseback, and their speed should be similar to that of people running.

In other words, it took them about half an hour to make a round trip at most.

Sure enough, less than half an hour before dinner was served here, an elite scout of Jinyiwei ran out of the jungle with his young and strong horses, ran up to him and cupped his hands and said, "Report, my lord, the people here The coast is a cliff about ten feet high."

Zhangxu high cliff?

If it is an ordinary person, they should be desperate when they encounter this kind of coast. Falling off the cliff is not a joke.

Luo Sigong heard the words, but his face was full of surprise and he asked: "Is there any reef under the cliff?"

The scout shook his head without hesitation and said: "No, the sea is below, and there are no reefs in sight."

Oops, that's great!

This kind of terrain is very suitable for building a pier, as long as the stumps are knocked into the sea along the cliff, and then paved with wooden rafts, it will be a pier!
If the water under the cliff is deep enough, there is no problem even docking large fishing boats and armed merchant ships.

This is really help me too!
Luo Sigong was so excited that he didn't sleep much all night. Early the next morning, when he arrived at Mao, he ordered the soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion and Xin Zhang Guoqingzhuang to continue working and drive the road straight to the sea.

The thickness of the jungle was less than ten miles. At their speed of more than thirty miles a day, it would take at most two hours to drive through this jungle.

Sure enough, before the time came, the felling machine pushed the last few big trees behind, and the front suddenly opened up, revealing the endless sea.

Seeing this, Luo Sigong couldn't help but climbed off the roof of the car excitedly, ran to the beach and raised his binoculars to scan.

It really is a cliff here, and the cliff is quite wide. The mangrove forest is only four or five miles away to the north, and there is no trace of the mangrove forest in the south even with a telescope.

In other words, the cliffs here are at least ten or twenty miles wide.

He put down the binoculars again and went to the edge of the cliff to look down. At this moment, the sea surface was only about half a foot away from where he was standing.

This is normal, there are tides at the seaside, what the scouts came to see yesterday should be the scene when the tide is low, and now it should be the scene when the tide is high.

Generally, the change of the water level is about half a foot when the tide rises and falls.

Just like the spring tide of the Qiantang River is unusual. According to records, the tide of the Qiantang River reached five feet at its highest, and it is usually about three feet.

Such a violent tide is naturally not suitable for the construction of a port terminal.

The tide here is similar to that of Xinzhangcheng, so there is no problem in building a port.

Luo Sigong stared at the surface of the sea and thought for a while, then said decisively: "Find two with good water quality and go down to find out how deep the water level is."

Soon, two Jinyiwei scouts came over carrying two bamboo poles that were more than two feet long.

Several personal guards immediately wrapped the ropes they had prepared around their waists, and they threw the bamboo poles into the water without hesitation, and then jumped down.

In fact, it is not necessary to dive to test the water level. It is also possible to use bamboo poles or even ropes hanging stones.

After the two jumped into the water, they picked up the bamboo pole and inserted it vertically into the bottom of the water.

As a result, it was only inserted about halfway and then touched the bottom.

This means that the water level below the cliff is about one foot deep, even when the tide is low, it is nearly one foot deep. This water level is barely enough to dock the Spike.

The two scouts picked up the bamboo poles and swam forward for about a foot, and then inserted the bamboo poles down again.

This time, the bamboo pole was almost inserted before touching the bottom.

This means that the water level about one foot away from the cliff is more than two feet deep, and it is no problem to dock the Spike warship.

The two scouts picked up the bamboo poles and swam forward for about a foot, and then inserted the bamboo poles down again.

This time, the bamboo pole has not even entered the water, and has not touched the bottom.

The two had no choice but to dive into the water and push the bamboo pole down hard.

After a while, the two came out of the water and said loudly: "My lord, this place is already more than three feet deep."

well.

This place is indeed similar to that in Xinzhang City. It is estimated that as long as a large pier hundreds of feet long is built, it will not be a problem to dock the Emperor!

Luo Sigong thought about it again, and then said decisively: "Let's see if there are hidden reefs around."

As long as there are no reefs nearby, you can start building the pier.

They are not very good at building the pier. Even if they only use wood and nails, they can quickly build a pier for the Spike warship.

As long as the pier that can dock the Spike warship is built, it will be easy to handle later.

At that time, as long as the cement and steel materials are pulled over, they will have no problem building as many piers as they want!

(End of this chapter)