Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 132 Prepare for War!
However, Ke Zhiming's next words gave these bosses who were already feeling headaches a feeling that their heads were about to burst.

"According to the information provided by the brothers of the Tiandihui, Zhu Zhongqu is just a puppet emperor pushed by the Ruan, Huang, Mei, Dai, and Xu families, and the real power is basically in the hands of these families.

"Of course, this is not the key point. The key point is that most of these companies have the manufacturing drawings and documents of the treasure ship."

"In addition, the ban on seas before the Qing Dynasty failed to completely ban the smuggling business at sea of ​​these companies, so there is no shortage of shipbuilding technology and timber used for shipbuilding in the hands of these companies."

"From this point of view, our navy of Ming Dynasty is extremely disadvantaged, because neither the Denglai Navy nor the navy under Fujian Lin Shuangwen currently have any warships capable of fighting the treasure ships."

"The problem now is that we don't know when they will launch the treasure ship. Jin Yiwei and the brothers from the Tiandihui are trying to find out more information."

In fact, the news that Zhu Zhongqu's subordinates might possess treasure ship manufacturing technology gave Zhu Jinsong, the traveler emperor, a great headache.

As an old net worm who has been on the forum for many years, Zhu Jinsong has already guessed that the old dog Qian Deaf burned the blueprint document of the treasure ship and planted it on Liu Daxia. Thinking that Qian Deaf and the old dog would be such a waste that the blueprints and documents of the treasure ship would flow into the public.

Of course, it would be easier to talk about Ruan, Huang, Mei, Dai, and Xu if they only had blueprints and documents. After all, it is impossible to build a treasure ship with blueprints and no high-quality wood prepared in advance.

The key point is that Ruan and Huang's family actually still have pre-prepared shade-dried wood in their hands, which is terrible.

During the Qianlong period, the treasure ship was almost an unsolvable existence.

Regardless of the fact that the technology of the treasure ship was in the Yongle period, more than 300 years have passed since the time of Qian Deaf and the Old Dog. However, even if it has been more than 380 years, almost 400 years, the treasure ship is no better than the most advanced England "Victory" at that time. How bad is the battleship.

The Victory was started in 1759 and completed in 1765. It consumed a total of more than 2000 oak trees and 38 tons of iron, with a displacement of 2162 tons, a length of 67.8 meters, and a width of 15 meters. 102 short heavy guns.

In 1405, the treasure captain who sailed to the West for the first time was 44 feet four feet long, 140 feet wide, about 150 meters to 56 meters long, and about 20 meters wide. The treasure ship No. 2000 has a displacement of more than [-] tons.

According to the character of the people in the Central Plains who are good at learning (copycats), the Ruan and Huang families will never honestly manufacture treasure ships according to the blueprints of treasure ships, but will 100% learn the advantages of the Europa battleship they have seen.

In advance of retaining the water compartment and the large hull, a large amount of steel is used, artillery is added, the artillery deck is divided, and even equipped with special weapons such as Frang machine, tiger gun, fire dragon out of water, etc., long-distance combat cannons, close-combat... According to the treasure ship Due to its size, it is estimated that few ships are willing to fight with it, because the advantages of being condescending and having a large number of people are too great.

Anyway, that's what Zhu Jinsong himself planned.

Therefore, if Ruan, Huang, Mei, Dai, and Xu were allowed to build the treasure ship first, Zhu Jinsong, the emperor of Ming Dynasty, would probably die of pain.

It's not impossible.

Ever since Qian Deaf old dog played the shrinking tactic, Ruan, Mei, Dai, and Xu, who occupied Zhejiang, started the mode of making a fortune in silence. Who knows if they started building treasure ships in advance.

What's even more damning is that the Denglai Navy and the Fujian Navy have no warships that can fight against the treasure ships at all. The "Victory" class warships ordered from Howard are estimated to take a few years to arrive. Most of the existing warships are It is a small boat used by my Daqing Denglai navy, and it cannot beat the treasure ship at all.

As for making it yourself...

Zhu Jinsong, the emperor of the time traveler, can produce grenades and improve flintlock guns. Even the machine tools of this era can't help Zhu Jinsong, but Zhu Jinsong can't produce real warships.

Whether it is the "Militia Training Manual" or "Friends of Military and Local Dual-Purpose Talents", there is no way to build warships, and Zhu Jinsong can only provide ideas to the masters to the maximum extent.

Even if the treasure ship is manufactured according to the drawing documents of the treasure ship, there is no hope, because shipbuilding not only requires skilled craftsmen and the preparation of wood and steel in advance, but also takes years as a unit.

Among other things, the first is the requirement of wood. Not all trees can be used to build ships. Second, after the logs are cut, they must be soaked in water for two to three years, and then dried naturally in the shade for three to four years. Note that they should be dried in the shade, not dry.

However, Zhu Jinsong's site does not have so much soaked and dried wood that can be used for shipbuilding.

After all, since the beginning of Kang Mazi, my Da Qing has moved borders and forbidden seas crazily. There are almost no places in Shandong that need shipbuilding, so naturally I will not reserve the timber for shipbuilding in advance.

After scolding Qian Deaf old dog and his eighteenth generation ancestors in his heart, Zhu Jinsong looked at the big bosses and said: "It doesn't matter if Zhu Zhongqu has a treasure ship in his hand, anyway, our Daming doesn't have one now, and Xiang It is estimated that the warships ordered by Howard will not arrive until half a year at the earliest."

"That is to say, within this period of time, we are very likely to suffer from Zhu Zhongqu's navy at sea. The reason why we brought the big guy here is to hear if the big guy has any good opinions. ?”

The navy is completely different from the army-it may only take ten years to build a tyrannical army in the era of cold weapons, and it may take less time in the era of hot weapons. However, whether it is the era of cold weapons or the era of hot weapons, The time required to build a powerful navy is almost calculated in decades or even centuries.

Therefore, since Daming's current navy may not be able to do better than Zhu Zhongqu's navy, we can only find another way first.

After Zhu Jinsong's voice fell, all the big shots present frowned.

Yes, in theory, there can be artillery on the shore to defend against these warships, but don't forget that these warships also have artillery, which can carry out counter-bombing with the artillery on the shore. The only difference lies in the range and the amount of ammunition. Moreover, the battleship can be moved, but the artillery on the shore is fixed on the gun position and cannot be moved.

As the saying goes, only a thousand days can be a thief, how can there be a thousand days to guard against a thief?

There is no navy capable of fighting, and they want to rely on artillery on the shore to defend the long coastline.The manpower and material resources required to invest in this is definitely a desperate figure.

Of course, besides building a navy, there is another way to defend the long coastline, and that is to imitate Qian Deaf's grandfather Kang Mazi's operation and directly move to a forbidden sea to evacuate all the people along the coast to the inland , Empty the vicinity of the long coastline, and hold the critical pass.

In this way, even if Zhu Zhongqu's naval forces were to conduct a landing operation, Zhu Jinsong's army could deal with it calmly.

However, the crux of the problem is that after Zhu Jinsong occupied Shandong and Fujian, he had already lifted the sea ban and allowed the people to live and fish on the seashore. Now there are a large number of fishermen living in both Denglai and Fujian seashores.

It is no problem to evacuate the people in the event of a naval battle, but to follow the example of Kang Mazi and move the border into the sea, not only does it need to invest a lot of people and material resources, but it may even cause turmoil.

After being silent for a while, Liu Erniu, who is in charge of the Zuojun Governor's Mansion, said: "Denglai Navy, even if there is only one soldier left, Zhu Zhongqu's army will never let the troops under Denglai Navy break through the Denglai Navy. line of defense."

Zhu Erdan also opened his mouth and said: "Before Zhu Zhongqu's treasure ship is ready, I will take people to Fujian."

Although most of the soldiers of the Denglai Navy are from the original Denglai Navy of our Taqing Dynasty, after the transformation, the current Denglai Navy has been reborn, and it is said that it can fight to the last soldier. You can really fight to the last soldier.

The Fujian navy is basically veterans who rebelled with Lin Shuangwen from the Great Liuqiu, and the entire Fujian navy is under the management of Lin Shuangwen, so Zhu Erdan didn't dare to make any promises rashly, so he had to go there in person. Look at the current situation of the Fujian Navy.

However, Zhu Jinsong shook his head and said, "You basically don't know anything about sea battles, so what if you go to Fujian? Now the Fujian navy is under the control of Lin Shuangwen, and Lin Shuangwen fought sea battles with the Qing soldiers. On the contrary, he is more knowledgeable than you." Be more reliable."

"The most important thing is that since Zhu Zhongqu and the others want to join forces to attack our Daming, they must use the land route as the main route, supplemented by the sea route."

"Twenty-odd allied forces, with so many troops, our Daming's troops will almost dispatch all of them, except for the Rear Army Commander's Mansion to guard against the Taqing's troops in the north."

Speaking of this, Zhu Jinsong took another deep breath and said, "Although Zhu Zhongqu and the others started the war first, we must not sit in Shandong and wait for them to lead their troops to attack."

"In addition, since these rebels are all gathered together, it means that they will not have too many troops behind. This is also our opportunity. We have to find a way to burn the flames of war to their territory."

And as Zhu Jinsong's words fell, all the bigwigs present fell into a strange silence again, even Liu Huaiwen who was clamoring for a fight just now fell silent.

It is easy to say that all the troops will be dispatched to burn the flames of war to the territory of those rebels, but the money and food that will be spent behind it is definitely an astronomical figure.

And no one knows whether the bastard Qian Deaf and the old dog will take the opportunity to send troops south.

After struggling for a while, Zhu Erdan simply stood up and said, "I will lead the former military governor's mansion to attack Anhui directly. I want to see if the anti-thief allied forces can work together to deal with our attack on Anhui. .”

Geng Rui, who was in charge of the Governor's Mansion of the Right Army, also stood up and said, "I will go to Shaanxi and lead the soldiers of the Governor's Mansion of the Right Army to go directly south from Shaanxi. To Hubei."

"Just like what Erdan told Uncle Huaiwen, since we are going to fight, we will fight directly. I don't believe that their patchwork coalition forces can work together."

Zhu Jinsong nodded and said, "Then do this! Get ready to go to war!"

……

The Ming court under Zhu Jinsong was like a huge and sophisticated war machine.

When Zhu Jinsong, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, issued the order for war, the "Daming Newspaper" was the first to take action. Zhu Jinsong directly published an article in the newspaper, saying that when the war started, it was up to Zhu Zhongqu and other ambitious people to decide. It was up to Da Ming to decide to end the war.

At the same time, various local governments under the Ming Dynasty also began to prepare supplies, and the government and peasant associations in places like Denglai and Fujian began to evacuate the people along the coast.

Immediately afterwards, the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion also began to recall veterans who had retired in the past two years. The current five armies of the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion directly expanded to the size of six armies.

(End of this chapter)