Dragon map of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1662 The battle of unification is about to kick off!

Mujing looked at the hopeful eyes of the two, smiled lightly, and said, "I want you to come back to discuss your duties, and I have a few things to discuss with you!"

He paused, his expression became serious, and he said things in a low voice: "First, I want to know what is the current strength of your navy!"

Both the Jingping Navy and the Violent Bear Navy are floating overseas. With Qiongzhou Island as their base, they cover the entire South China Sea territory, and their strength is increasing every day.

Just looking at the data alone, it doesn't feel very obvious. He needs to listen to the report from the two main generals himself, but it has a more three-dimensional impression.

"Your Majesty, at present, the Jingping Navy has doubled its warships and troops, and has traveled several times in the South China Sea last year, stabilizing a lot of waterways!"

Gan Ning spoke first, and he spoke confidently.

"Can your warships withstand the voyage?" Mu Jing's eyes lit up. Although he also hoped to start the era of great navigation, but the craftsmanship couldn't keep up, the warships couldn't travel far, and he didn't dare to force it. , A wave of waves came over, maybe the whole army was wiped out.

Gan Ning quickly said: "Your Majesty, don't worry about this problem. Back then, we built a lot of docks in Qiongya, Jiaozhou, Rinan, and Jiuzhen. These dockyards are currently building warships. We will let the Ministry of Industry continuously provide us with craftsmen, and through the cooperation with the Academy of Science and Technology, we will improve the current sea-going ships to make them more suitable for sea-going!"

Speaking of this, he became a little elated: "Actually, we have always thought that the boats are the same, no matter whether they face the open sea or the inland river, they are not far from each other. It is nothing more than a larger scale and a smaller scale. But only after sailing can we feel it. There is a big difference between sea ships and inland warships. Inland warships need to be more refined and have more advantages in flexibility, but they are insufficient in scale. Ships are very suitable, but the Wuyalou ship is much clumsy. It has a huge scale, but it cannot display its real combat effectiveness, and many materials used on the hull must be much more precise.

Sea-going ships, relatively speaking, are not quite the same. First of all, sea-going ships need to be larger in order to gain a foothold on the sea. , deeper, as long as the quality is good and strong enough, the draft can be deeper, and the scale can also be larger. For example, the ordinary Wuyalou ship is already a large warship in the inland river, but it is a drop in the ocean at sea. The largest sea ship is the double five-tooth warship! "

"Shuangwuya?" Mu Jing was a little puzzled.

He didn't seem to have heard of such a warship. Why didn't he report it for a new warship?

"Your Majesty, this is the newest ship at present. It was launched last month. There are only two ships. Although both are five-story building ships, they are double in size and made of strong materials. They also use some iron sheets and wood materials. Important The most important thing is that we have changed some driving forces. Although the draft is deeper, the seawater is deeper. As long as the drainage is done well, there is no big problem in this regard, and there are more people who can carry it. If there are no other things planted, at least it can carry the load. With [-] soldiers, the relative safety is relatively high, and ordinary wind and waves can't shake this double five-toothed warship!"

Zhuge Liang picked up Gan Ning's words, and began to analyze them shyly.

"Your Majesty, in fact, this double-five-toothed ship is a warship that Kong Ming and several shipbuilders from the Academy of Science and Technology jointly improved. He has contributed a lot!" Gan Ning personally asked Zhuge Liang for credit.

"So it's your credit?" Mu Jing was a little taken aback when he heard the words, but he came to his senses and felt that it was reasonable. He is a talented person and an inventor. He has a special liking for crafts. He is also deeply involved in the study of Mohism. Wooden cows and horses are his outstanding masterpieces. It is the era and environment that make his thinking It has been developed, and such things have been created.

In Mu Jing's heart, Zhuge Liang was still a good inventor. If he hadn't been too talented in military and political affairs, he couldn't help but wanted to throw him to the Academy of Science and Technology.

"I just provided some ideas, and it is due to the researchers of the Academy of Science and Technology. They have a deep understanding of the so-called mechanics. I have never been exposed to this kind of knowledge before, so I am very touched by it! "

Zhuge Liang said softly.

He has more and more admiration for those people in the Academy of Science and Technology. Of course, he admires Mujing even more, because he knows that it is Mujing who only taught these things to the Academy of Science and Technology.

"If you have time, go to Hongdumen to learn it, or take all their textbooks back and read it yourself!" Mu Jing said softly: "These are just, I taught Hongdumen, Hongdumen's biography When it comes to the world, this kind of mere can be used in many daily places, if you want to learn, then learn it hard, it will be good for you!"

"Yes!"

Zhuge brightened his head.

"Then how is the combat power of the Violent Bear Navy recovering?" Mu Jing asked Zhuge Liang.

"Compared to the Jingping navy, it is slightly insufficient, but the combat power has been rested, and the expansion of the army has also increased the size of the warship by about one-third, but the number of troops has not increased much, because the navy officers and men The training is not so simple!"

Zhuge Liang smiled wryly, and he wanted to sue: "General Gan has already eaten up all the recruits, and our Violent Bear Navy can't even drink a mouthful of soup!"

"Kong Ming, don't you feel bad about what you said!"

Gan Ning stared, and said: "I said to give you half, you don't want it yourself, can you blame me!"

"Gan Xingba, if you say this yourself, don't you blush!"

Speaking of this, Zhuge Liang stared and blew his beard.

He claimed to be smart all his life, but he was tricked by Gan Ning, a reckless man, and he almost capsized and fell into the gutter.

"I don't blush!"

Gan Ning Shi Shiran said.

"Come on!"

Mujing glanced at the two of them, but didn't say anything. It's no good for him to know about this kind of thing. If he can be confused, he should be confused. Anyway, as long as they don't go out of line, they still have to fight where they should.

Even if he didn't ask, he should know that the two should have a dispute when the recruits didn't join the camp, and Gan Ning did not know why this time he plotted against the extremely clever Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang may not be reconciled in his heart, so he wanted to put eye drops on Mu Jing in front of him.

Anyway, it's all muddled accounts, he doesn't care.

"Your own account, go home and close the door to decide. I don't care if you go to the Privy Council to seek justice!" Mu Jing waved his hand and said to Zhuge Liang: "Just tell me, what is the current combat effectiveness of the Violent Bear Navy?"

"Invading the East China Sea is no problem. During this period of time, we have been stationed in the eastern part of the South China Sea. Against the Jiangdong navy, we have the ability to fight against the Jiangdong main force. If we add the Jingping Navy and sweep the East China Sea, there will be no problem!" Zhuge Liang said softly.

"Does the new type of warship have artillery?" Mu Jing asked.

"There is only one door, and it is amazing to be able to carry one door!" Zhuge nodded. This is not a secret. Although the Artillery Army seems to be a secret, many people in the Privy Council know that the navy is naturally unwilling to lag behind. Gan Ning and Zhuge Liang both It has been applied, so the Ministry of Industry and the Privy Council have already approved it last year, but the effect is still unclear.

"During the armistice, did you fight with the Jiangdong navy?" Mu Jing asked after thinking about it.

"Last winter, I fought a battle with He Qi. It was right next to Nanhai County. He Qi wanted to lead a navy to cross the border to sneak attack. I made a plan and fought back. He went all the way to the East China Sea and almost killed him. Entered Kuaiji, but He Qi is very capable. At the beginning, he was not very familiar with naval warfare, so he lost consecutive battles. But later, he gradually grasped the core of naval warfare, and he was able to fight against the Violent Bear Navy. Up and down, if there is a gap, it is the gap between the construction of warships and weapons and equipment. We can strike accurately from a long distance. Catapults and long-range bed crossbows are much stronger than them. Although the new artillery has not been used against them, but this It is the core weapon, and once it is fought, it will definitely not be a trivial matter!"

Zhuge Liang said.

The two naval forces stationed in the South China Sea are not for the purpose of competing with Jiangdong. The Jingping Navy is more to open up joints in the sea route, while the Violent Bear Navy is guarding the territory of the East China Sea and fighting against the Jiangdong Navy.

"If you are asked to suppress the Jiangdong navy and put their main force, and even the main force of the Wu army in their territory, on the front of the East China Sea, can you do it?"

Mu Jing asked in a low voice.

"This one……"

Zhuge Liang and Gan Ning glanced at each other, then pointed arrows quickly, and said in a low voice, "We can do it!"

The battle between two naval forces is enough to suppress the Jiangdong Navy in the entire East China Sea. The army is overwhelming and lands at any time, which directly maintains a kind of suppression.

If you don't go ashore, but as long as you go ashore, Jiangdong Wu will have to consider the issue of increasing troops.

"very good!"

Mu Mu nodded, expressing his satisfaction.

"The second thing!" Mu Jing continued: "There is food in the South China Sea, right?"

"Ok!"

Gan Ning nodded: "After the air route is established, we have rice fields overseas, and many indigenous people help plant, exchange, and plunder. Every time we go to sea, we can bring back a lot of food!"

"Think of a way to use waterways to transport grain northward, so as to ensure that the Ming army will have enough grain and grass for the upcoming battle!"

"This..." This time, Gan Ning hesitated.

"Your Majesty, unless we open up the East China Sea and transport grain from the Yangtze River, it will be difficult to go north!"

Zhuge Liang shook his head.

"Then you can only transport food by land?"

Mu Jing frowned.

In fact, he also knows that the only way to enter the South China Sea is the Pearl River waterway, but the Pearl River waterway and the inland waterway are not very connected at present, so there is no way to do it.

"If you want to go north, that's the only way, but the road is rough. Even if we build the road, if we want to transport food north, the loss will be great!"

Zhuge brightened his head.

"Even if the loss is huge, we still have to do what needs to be done!" Mu Jing smiled wryly: "Our grain and grass are not guaranteed enough. Even if we lose more money and waste it on the road, we still have to transport some northward. How much can you send northward by assisting the Zhengshitang? , give as much as you want!"

"promise!"

"The third thing!"

Mu Jing narrowed his eyes, and there was a deep light flickering in his eyes: "My hope for you has always been greater than that of any army. I hope that you can open up a new era for Daming, so you have to be more careful, such as the waterway. To open up, you must not only go east to west in the South China Sea, you must have the spirit of adventure to open up a new world. Also, every place has its own characteristics. I need you to share these Local plants, crops, whatever can be brought back, I need to use things from other places to enrich the crop production of our Daming!"

He is very eager to sail to the Americas and Europe, bring back those high-yield crops, and completely solve the food crisis in Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty was not established for a long time. Although it was stable to a certain extent, the food crisis still existed, so the abundance was just a state of being full and hungry, and not dying of starvation.

In today's war, those common people need to save money on food and clothing, but even so, they already feel very grateful, because it keeps them from starving to death.

According to what Mu Jing knew, other places in the Central Plains were more tragic than those within the Ming Realm. Once a war broke out, food must be requisitioned. Under the requisition of food, countless people died of starvation.

This is the tragedy of the times.

Unless the backwardness of this era is completely changed, this kind of war will still continue, and it will still make countless people unable to eat.

"Yes!"

Gan Ning and Zhuge nodded their heads, and there was great confidence in their eyes.

"His Majesty!"

Gan Ning suddenly asked, "Has the war to unify the world already started?"

Mu Jing said so much, if they haven't felt it yet, then they shouldn't be sitting in such a position.

"Correct!"

Mu Ding nodded: "This time I asked you to come back for a briefing, and I also want to tell you that the South China Sea is preparing for war. Your navy's combat effectiveness, except for the warships that are sailing, must be ready for battle at any time. Once a war starts, you must obey the military orders of the Privy Council at all times. !"

He walked in front of Yutu: "If there is a war, Jiangdong Wu will have a huge influence on Daming, and only the navy can suppress Wu!"

"We are willing to fight for His Majesty, to fight for the unification of the Ming Dynasty, please give your Majesty an order!"

Zhuge Liang and Gan Ning knelt down and bowed their heads one after another, clapping their hands together and asking for a fight.

Even though their vision is getting wider and wider, the Central Plains belongs to them, and they can still stir their hearts. They never doubt whether Da Ming can dominate the world, but as long as they can participate in this battle, it is an honor to them.

"it is good!"

Mu Jing laughed loudly: "It's very good to be so energetic. With such a brave general as you, he will conquer the world for the Ming Dynasty. How can the Ming Dynasty overthrow the old order and establish a world of peace and prosperity!"

War is finally coming.

(End of this chapter)