Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1529 Help Them

"Installing armor?" Gao Wushi frowned slightly, then shook his head expressionlessly: "Mentally retarded behavior, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's understanding of the navy, it seems that's the case."

Liu Xin was surprised and said, "Pretending to be armored is mentally handicapped? Why do you say that?"

"The high-speed reconnaissance ship 'Left Wing Hussar' that shined brilliantly in the naval battles off the coast of Luzon, you should have seen it very familiarly in the battle reports, right? What is the biggest feature of that ship?" Gao Wushi asked with his head tilted. road.

"Of course the biggest feature is speed!" Liu Xin replied, and then said: "But speed alone can't guarantee victory in naval battles, can it? Adding iron armor can also improve defense and make it more durable. More vulnerable to losses?"

"To some extent, war is indeed like a spear and a shield, a contest between offense and defense. However, whether the spear is sharper or the shield is stronger between the spear and the shield is not an eternal thing. In Both will vary greatly depending on the level of scientific development and the different financial support of the two sides in the war.

I can understand why Toyotomi Hideyoshi would want to add iron armor to the gunless transport ship, because there are two objective facts:

One is that at present, Japan does have the technology and habit of adding iron armor to ships, and Kuki Yoshitaka has this technology in his hands, but Japan's own largest warship is nothing but the so-called 'Ataka ship'.As far as its shipbuilding level is concerned, not to mention the professional warships in the two ocean fleets, they are much smaller than armed transport ships.

Therefore, if Toyotomi Hideyoshi wants to build his own "main fleet", then it is definitely the most suitable choice to directly use the gunless transport ship I sold to him.But he knew that I would not sell it to an armed transport ship with guns, so he could only buy one without guns. I thought he would choose to add the guns obtained by smuggling, but who knew he chose to add iron armor;
The second is that even though Japan is an island country, so far their rulers have not really paid attention to the development of the navy.Although they were defeated by the Tang army navy when they fought against the Tang Dynasty in the past, the Tang army did not attack the Japanese mainland after all, which gave the Japanese a great illusion that they would not be attacked across the sea.

Later, the Yuan Dynasty considered conquering Japan across the sea. Unfortunately, the Mongolian landlubbers were not good at "playing with water". Instead, they made Japan's reputation as a "kamikaze", but it also made the Japanese more convinced of the safety of the sea at home.

So that in the end, the so-called navy of the Japanese is almost obtained by recruiting pirates from all walks of life... I remember that in some games I played, there were more than a dozen pirates with names and surnames, which were called so-and-so navy.

Among them, Kumoni Yoshitaka and his team were originally called the Kumano Navy. This navy, or pirates, was named the Hachiman Pirates because they used to raise the white flag of "Hachiman Daibodhisattva".In the second battle of Kizukawaguchi, Kuki Yoshitaka smashed the water army of Murakami Takeshi, a subordinate of the Mori clan, by building an iron-clad ship. Because of this achievement, he was granted a territory of 35000 shi. Pirate name.

Since Kuki Yoshitaka is the so-called "admiral" trusted by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and he became famous by fighting on iron-clad ships, it is understandable that Toyotomi Hideyoshi made this arrangement. "

"So, why do you despise iron armor?" Liu Xin asked, "Because you think speed is more important than defense?"

"Hiss..." Gao Wushi felt a bit of a headache, thought for a while, shook his head and said, "You're asking this, but I think it's mainly because I don't understand the real situation of the Japanese navy or its water power, the level of his iron-clad ship... Forget it, I’ll give you an example.”

Gao Wushi recalled it for a while, and said: "It is said that in 1571, Oda Nobunaga put forward an unreasonable request to build a new city on the temple grounds of Shishan Yufang. After a series of fermentations, it finally triggered the Shishan War. In this war , The Maori family supported Ishiyama Honganji Temple and opposed Nobunaga.

On July 1576, 7, due to Nobunaga's army encircling Ishiyama Honganji Temple, the land transportation line was completely cut off by Nobunaga's army, and only the sea route was available. Therefore, Ishiyama Honganji asked the Maori family to send troops to help deliver supplies for support.The Mori family sent the Murakami Navy to deliver supplies. If you have watched "The Battle of Mingliang", the big villain Mr. Laijima was one of the leaders of the Murakami Navy at that time.

Of course, Nobunaga couldn't just sit back and watch, so he sent Kuki Jialong to lead the navy to intercept.In this battle, the Murakami Navy had a total of 800 ships of various types-of course, there were many transport ships in this number; Kuki Yoshitaka had 300 warships.Considering the combat effectiveness of the Murakami Suijun, it is estimated that the number of warships in the Kuki Yoshitaka fleet should exceed that of the Murakami Suijun.

However, in this battle, the Murakami navy took advantage of the roasted fire jade, and there are many stick fire arrows, that is, large burning arrows fired from large cylinders.As a result, the warships of the Nine Ghosts Navy were burned to the ground and returned in defeat.Although Nobunaga still has the advantage, this defeat is really embarrassing. "

Liu Xin suddenly reached out her hand to stop it, and asked, "Let me interject to ask, what are those baked fire jade, stick fire arrow, and big tube?"

Gao Wushi said: "Burao is a kind of clay pot in Japanese, and Baker Fire Jade is a clay pot filled with gunpowder. This thing...you can simply understand it as a kind of incendiary bomb. Although it is relatively primitive, it also has certain Strike effect. The origin of this thing is said to be because the grenade-like bomb was called "iron branded cone" in "Wu Jing Zong Yao" in the Northern Song Dynasty, so Japan followed this name and became "Baked Brand Jade".

Stick fire arrows are similar to Daming rockets (I mentioned this earlier in this book, Daming has rockets, and the military has equipment, but Jinghua is still researching and improving, and has not been put into actual combat yet), they are said to be based on China’s 'Flying Vulcan Crow' came.Although their weapons have a very short range, their ships are also small, so they can be used within Japan with some effect.

As for Datong, this is what the Japanese call artillery. Similar is that they call guns iron guns. Although there are many Chinese characters in Japanese, their descriptions of many things are different from those in China.It's like we referred to aircraft carrier as aircraft carrier at that time, but they called it aircraft carrier, it's just a different way of saying it, and there is no difference in essence. "

"Oh, I see, you continue." Liu Xin nodded.

"Well... Nobunaga was almost invincible on land at that time, but he lost so badly at sea, which is of course unacceptable. In this case, Nobunaga ordered Yoshiro Kuki to build a warship that is not afraid of being burned.

It is said that Yoshitaka Kuki came up with the idea of ​​installing thin iron sheets on the general Yakura of the Antaka ship. After the thin iron sheets were installed, the Ataka ship was called an iron-clad ship.This is like putting armor on a warship, so the main purpose of Jiugui's iron-clad ship is to prevent fire, and enhancing armor protection is actually not the main purpose-of course, this is more or less an additional benefit. "

Gao Wushi paused for a while, and then said: "I checked the relevant qualifications when I was playing games. According to the records in "Duowenyuan Diary", the length of Kuki Jialong's iron-clad ship is about 23 meters, and the width is close to 13 meters, but—— There is a problem with this data!

Such an aspect ratio is not in line with Japanese shipbuilding habits. The same book also records the large ship built by Niwa Changhide with a length of 55 meters and a width of 12.7 meters.

So some people later thought that the width recorded here should be the maximum width of the total arrow compartment, not the width of the hull. At that time, Japanese ships were quite strange, and their total arrow compartment was wider than the hull because of the arrangement of scull beds.

However, according to the records in "Damenin Diary", the captain of the iron-clad ship is much shorter than the big ship of Niwa Nagahide, because the aspect ratio is too small, so the sailing performance is not good.And this creates a contradiction... But I will discuss this issue later. "

Liu Xin said with a smile: "I vaguely guessed that you might say that the iron-clad ship will affect the sailing performance?"

"I'll talk about it later, I'll talk about it later." Gao Wushi waved his hand and continued: "For Nobunaga's shipbuilding, Yoshitaka Kuki was responsible for building six iron-clad ships, and Kazuyoshi Takikawa also helped build one. But I would like to talk about two data first: first, the later generations verified the iron armor of the Kuki Yoyo iron-clad ship, and the mainstream view is that it is only 3 mm thick; The warships they built for Oda Nobunaga only carried six guns—that is, six large cylinders.

Under such circumstances, the Second Battle of Kizukawaguchi broke out. On December 1578, 12, more than 4 warships of the Murakami navy of the Maori family entered the Seto Inland Sea eastward and invaded Osaka Bay. Nobunaga's Kuki navy intercepted again, but this time Nobunaga only used these 600 armored ships The ship goes to war.

It is said that because the iron-clad ship can effectively resist the blows of stick fire arrows and roasted fire jade, the projectiles of iron cannons cannot penetrate the iron plate, and the iron-clad ship itself is equipped with more cannons than the Murakami navy, supplemented by iron cannons, so it is It caused great damage to the Murakami navy, and as for the small early ship, the iron-clad ship was directly hit and sunk.

In addition, Nobunaga's navy concentrated artillery fire to destroy the opponent's flagship, causing the opponent's command to fail and morale to be frustrated, and the remaining ships flinched.The final result is that Oda's Kuki navy won an overwhelming victory. "

"The record is good, but I may have already guessed what you want to say." Liu Xin spread her hands: "That 3 mm thick iron armor is not bulletproof at all in your opinion, is it?"

"Yes, you are also the leader of the troops. You should be very clear about the power of Jinghua's artillery, and the two ocean fleets don't rely much on incendiary bombs in fleet decisive battles-of course we are stepping up research on rocket bombs, but our The purpose is not just to burn with gunpowder, but to have the ability to 'break armor and ignite shipbuilding wood'.

Judging from the No. [-] and No. [-] long heavy guns currently equipped by the Liangyang Fleet, the so-called iron armor of Kuki Jialong has no defensive ability at all. The solid iron bullets that should be smashed can still be smashed, and that point is aimed at the fireproof function of incendiary bombs It doesn't make sense to us.

I even estimate that if we use the fireboats that the Ming army and navy are accustomed to attack, his iron armor might cause serious trouble.The fire boat may not be able to burn the iron armor, but when the iron armor encounters high temperature...it will be a hot cage, and the people on board may become teppanyaki. "

"Pfft..." Liu Xin couldn't help laughing, then forced her smile back, and said, "I actually couldn't laugh out loud about such a cruel thing, sorry, sorry."

Instead, Gao Wushi smiled with her, and then continued: "However, the uselessness of iron armor is only one aspect of the problem. In fact, adding iron armor in this era, especially at the level of the Japanese, is still useful. Another problem, this one is probably bigger and more serious."

"Oh?"

Gao Wushi nodded and said: "In "Freud's History of Japan", it is mentioned that Toyotomi Hideyoshi continued to build several large iron-clad ships for his expedition to Korea, but the foreigners who wrote this book also discovered other aspects of this iron-clad ship. One weakness is that due to the lap joint method used in Japanese shipbuilding, the hulls are very fragile, and the final result is that the hulls of several ships ruptured and sank directly."

Liu Xin was stunned for a moment, hesitated, and pondered: "The Japanese man-made ship is not very good, so the hull is fragile. The big ship sank after adding iron armor, but the hull of Jinghua's armed transport ship is not fragile... If you say that, Isn’t it wrong that Toyotomi Hidekichi installed iron armor on these ships?”

"Whether an armed transport ship without guns will sink because of the addition of iron armor, I don't know, maybe it won't, but you have to know that shipbuilding is a very scientific and systematic project. Jinghua has recruited a large number of shipbuilders. After several years of research and testing, the standard armed transport ship was launched.

This means that the current state of the armed transport ship is almost the most stable state under the existing technology.The Japanese are completely in a state of "not knowing why" why this ship is designed in this way. No one knows what problems they will cause when they use it to refit it.

I actually mentioned just now that the easiest way to refit these ships is to directly install the Jinghua artillery obtained by smuggling by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, because this will definitely have the least impact on the weight ratio of the hull.However, if the iron armor is added, since Jinghua itself has not considered it at all, I don't even know if they will cause these ships to have balance problems such as top-heavy, which will probably affect the sailing performance.

And I just gave an example of the importance that the two ocean fleets attach to speed. You must know that before the advent of guided missiles, the faster the speed, the less likely it is to be hit.Moreover, in the age of sail, the faster the speed, the more advantage it has to seize the limelight. This advantage is huge, and the naval battle off the coast of Luzon has fully demonstrated this point.

But when we were focusing on the speed, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was using iron armor to slow down the speed of his main battleship, and the iron armor had no defensive effect on our main combat weapons, which means that they may only have Get beaten. "

Liu Xin laughed and said, "It seems that this news is not only not bad news, but also good news?"

Gao Wushi nodded immediately and said affirmatively: "Yes, this is good news, so I think...not only should we not stop it, but we should even give Longze Shiyang a credit and let him go to Toyotomi Hideyoshi's battleship Add some ingredients."

In the final analysis, Longze Shiyang is Liu Xin's subordinate, so she immediately became interested and asked, "How do you say?"

"Let's say that he heard the news and remembered that he knew one or two craftsmen in Jinghua Shipyard. He could find a way to find Toyotomi Hideyoshi and help ensure the stability of the ship after adding iron armor... Then, I will let The craftsmen cooperate with Jiugui Jialong, give them a good hand, and try to add more weight to their ships-but we can still ensure the penetration of the iron armor."

"You're such a villain, the out-and-out kind." Liu Xin brushed the hair from her temples and shrugged: "But I like this idea very much."
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