Wanli 1592

Chapter 164 Decision-making of new tactics
While comprehensively inspecting the weapons of the navy, Xiao Ruxun also brought a group of sailors aboard the ship himself, and experienced the feeling of firing artillery from the ship.

Then according to the actual situation, Xiao Ruxun judged how many large and medium Franglers No. [-] Fuchuan can carry, and how many large and medium Franglers can be carried by No. The artillery in his hand was allocated to the naval equipment.

In addition, Xiao Ruxun also saw that the strongest artillery of the Daming Navy at this moment is in full swing. This is a large artillery independently improved by Chinese craftsmen in the late Jiajing period on the basis of the Flang machine. It is cast in copper, and each weighs about [-] catties. It is so powerful that it is not only the absolute weapon of the navy of the Ming army, but also the strongest artillery that the land army can use, and it definitely does not belong to the artillery of the same period in Europe.

However, due to the miniaturization of ships in the mid-Ming Dynasty, they could not withstand the recoil of powerful artillery. Once such large artillery was used on a small warship, the huge recoil would even disintegrate the hull. This problem has not been well resolved.

Until the end of Jiajing and the early years of Longqing, the guerrilla general Peng Xingu invented the anti-recoil device for artillery, which used soft frames, wooden blocks and large ropes to suppress the recoil of artillery, and solved the technical problems of cannons on small boats. Increased firepower.

Even so, it is very cumbersome to load because it is too powerful. Generally, it is too late to load the second round in naval battles, and the bow is turned around to start shooting with the Franco machine gun on the hull. Greatly restricted, the firepower of the Ming army navy is still difficult to improve.

Xiao Ruxun could only use the ready-made Franc guns to enhance the firepower of Ming warships, ensuring that each main battleship had no less than fifteen cannons, so as to guide the Ming army navy to start out of the ancient tactical system of gang warfare , with firepower and range as the main pursuit, forget about jumping gang combat.

The Japanese navy had no shipboard artillery, so it was the best training target. Let the Ming army sailors see with their own eyes, under the threat of big artillery tactics, whether there is any meaning in the gang war.

The only thing worth worrying about is that if the Japanese army uses large-scale fireboat tactics, the main ships of the Ming army are only heavier than the Japanese ships, and their mobility is not very strong. troublesome.

Xiao Ruxun asked Li Sunshin about this point. According to Li Sunshin, the Japanese army seemed not very good at using fireboat tactics. They used the most basic gang-jumping tactics, hoping to defeat their opponents at sea in hand-to-hand combat.

That’s right, if the Japanese army had used large-scale fireboat tactics, it would have been impossible for Yi sun-sin to defeat the Japanese navy so many times. After all, the tonnage and size of the Korean naval ships were not lower than that of the Daemyung navy, and what they lacked was only firearms and equipment.

And Xiao Ruxun's words seemed to have touched Li Sunchen deeply. Looking at the fierce artillery, Li Sunchen began to think, if it was him, would he be able to deal with the enemy ships under such a firepower disadvantage?
Even the Ming Dynasty suffered losses in contact with Westerners, let alone North Korea, which can't even win against Japan?

Six days later, Xiao Ruxun rectified the situation of the entire navy, and when the rectification was almost complete, he announced that he would hold a sea drill, using [-] small rafts as imaginary enemies, and two No. The main force of the army, the two Fuchuan each have the firepower of fifteen artillery pieces.

With the standard water warfare tactics, the first is a volley of two big guns. This kind of formation really surprised Xiao Ruxun. After all, he had never seen a big gun before, but only read about it in the book.

Now that I have seen it with my own eyes, I know that the navy's main gun is really powerful. It has a range of two miles, and the lead weighs four catties. A wave of several meters was set off, which indirectly overturned the three boats.

The first firing of the ship's bow gun destroyed six wooden boats, and then the boat turned around and started to move from the side, aiming the gun holes on the side at the wooden boats, and the Francophone on the boat started to ignite and fire, a round After two rounds of salvo, a dozen lead bullets severely smashed these wooden boats. Before the second salvo, the enemy forces represented by these wooden boats were finished.

Since the Japanese pirate navy does not have artillery, the Daming navy can completely distance itself and attack them fiercely beyond the range of the iron cannon in the hands of the Japanese pirates. Then the Japanese pirates will definitely charge forward desperately to seek opportunities for close combat.

At that time, the navy of the Ming army changed its course according to the established strategy and bombarded it with sideways Fran cannons. If the Japanese navy could not be defeated in one fell swoop, the turtle boats under Yi Sunshin's command and the black boats of Daming were sent out to smash them into pieces. them.

The wooden house boats under Li Sunchen's command were incorporated into the main fleet, but Li Sunchen himself was appointed by Xiao Ruxun as the commander of the joint fleet of turtle ships and black boats. Li Sunchen had no complaints about this. Affirmation of previous achievements.

Xiao Ruxun also re-armed the only remaining seven centipede ships of the Daming Navy, making them directly under Chen Lin's fleet, and told Chen Lin that these are the real main battleships of the Daming Navy, and they can be dispatched when the situation is critical This fleet bombarded the Japanese warships indiscriminately. Don't be stingy with shells and gunpowder, just focus on bombing me until all the Japanese warships are sunk, and then I don't care if you salvage and behead them.

The navy also counts merit by decapitation rather than the number of enemy ships sunk, which makes Xiao Ruxun a little dumbfounded, so the Daming Navy also has an additional fleet dedicated to salvaging enemy corpses in the water and dragging them up for beheading, which is a bit funny.

Seeing the use of big artillery tactics at sea with his own eyes, Chen Lin's belief in traditional tactics was shaken a little. The sailors felt the blow under such firepower and thought about this kind of water warfare tactics that abandons gang warfare. Is it worth them to start applying it across the board, thinking about the pros and cons of doing so.

They did not participate in the first wave of Portugal coming east during the Jiajing period, and most of them did not catch up with the second wave of Holland coming east. They were in a relatively stable period, and it was during this relatively stable period that the power of the Western navy began to Greatly surpassed the power of the navy of the Ming Dynasty, and finally triggered the second maritime crisis in the east of the Netherlands.
After several battles, although the navy of the Ming army won, it was a disastrous victory. The Ming government was tired of dealing with the enemies at sea, so it had to recruit Zheng Zhilong, a sea merchant, and the political history of the Zheng family began from then on.

It is conceivable that this relatively stable period is the only chance for the Ming Navy to catch up with the Western Navy. Xiao Ruxun's plan includes using the stimulation of Japan's gold and silver trade to keep the Daming Navy alive all year round, and directly and at this time is trading with Japan. The Dutch made contact with them and tried every means to introduce some of the Dutch current maritime technology. After returning to China, they called craftsmen to finalize the technology of flintlock guns and heavy artillery, and began to upgrade the weapons of the Ming army.

The army took the route of flintlock guns and car guns, and the navy took the route of cannons and giant ships, and none of these could avoid the decision-making of the government or the decision-making of civilian officials. This was also the most troublesome point for Xiao Ruxun. Participating in power, all the proposals so far have been written by people like Song Yingchang and Ye Mengxiong, but it can't always be like this?

How to take back the power in ordnance from the civil servants is the biggest problem Xiao Ruxun is currently facing.

Only by taking these things back from the hands of the civil servants can the path of upgrading weapons and the institutionalization and industrialization of ordnance production be formed, and the Ming Dynasty can slowly get out of the quagmire of the Weisuo system.

PS: Let's throw all kinds of tickets here!

(End of this chapter)