Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 485 Ships
Xiao Yi said with a smile: "Nephew knows that Grandpa Shen just sent you more than 100 heavy artillery pieces and more than 300 small artillery pieces. Let us distribute these artillery pieces to some of our brothers! With these weapons, nephew can guarantee the stability of the jurisdiction."

"According to what you say, if I don't give you weapons, you won't be able to defend the jurisdiction?" Sun Meng stared at Xiao Yi and said.

"Uncle Sun, Zheng Zhilong's boat has cannons, and my nephew doesn't have cannons to counter him, isn't that just getting beaten?" Xiao Yi asked hastily.

Sun Meng pondered for a while: "That's reasonable. That's fine. I'll give you fifty heavy cannons and one hundred small cannons. If not enough, I'll go with your Uncle Liu."

"Your grandma, old Sun Tuo is also stingy, bargaining with the eldest nephew. I won't lose this person, I will take care of the rest." Liu Er cursed in a daze.

After finishing speaking, Liu Erlen picked up a pen from Sun Meng's desk, wrote two letters and handed them to Xiao Yidao: "One is for dispatching troops, the other is for carrying weapons. Take the letter and get out of here!"

"Thank you, Uncle Liu!" Xiao Yi said happily.

Seeing this, Sun Meng shook his head with a smile, and wrote two letters, then called his own soldiers, and led Xiao Yi and others to dispatch troops and get weapons.

After Xiao Yi and others left, Liu Erleng and Sun Chuanting chatted with Sun Meng for a few words before leaving, not wanting Zong Chao and Luo Yangxing to visit together.

Liu Er was stunned to see the two, and immediately smiled and said, "After you two guys arrived in Fujian a month ago, you only took one photo and then disappeared. Why did you come here together today?"

Zong Chao and Luo Yangxing looked at each other and smiled, then cupped their hands at Sun Meng and Sun Chuanting, then Luo Yangxing said with a smile: "As General Liu noted, Luo often went to and from the premises of General Liu and Governor Sun because he wanted to instigate rebellion against Zheng Zhilong's troops. As for the mansion, I am afraid that Zheng Zhilong's people will find out the clues, so I dare not meet with the two adults."

Liu Er nodded in a daze, oh, and then waved: "Come, come, please sit down. Come, let's have some tea."

After hearing this, Sun Meng smiled wryly and said, "Er Leng, this is my Governor's Mansion, not your chief envoy, Si Yamen, why do you regard my place as your home?"

"Fuck, what is the governor's mansion, the chief envoy and the yamen, do you need us to distinguish so clearly?" Liu Er laughed blankly.

Sun Mengwen rolled his eyes for a while, and smiled helplessly at Zong Chao and Luo Yangxing: "Er Leng is like this, he never treats himself as an outsider. Come, come, please sit down!"

Zong Chao said with a smile: "Based on the more than ten years of friendship between the commander-in-chief and General Liu, there is really no need to make such a clear distinction. If it were someone else, General Liu might not come to the door."

Liu Er was taken aback and laughed loudly: "Did you hear that, did you hear that, Yong Chao said so, Lao Sun, you have nothing to say now, right?"

Sun Meng smiled and said, "Okay, then you can treat this place as your own home."

Liu Er laughed blankly: "That's up to you to say, I've never treated myself as a guest when I came to your place."

Everyone burst into laughter when they heard this.

After Zong Chao and Luo Yangxing sat down, and the soldiers brewed tea and left, Sun Chuanting asked, "Isn't Master Luo's trip going smoothly?"

Luo Yangxing nodded with a smile: "Li Guozhu and Zhong Bin have already been persuaded by our people, so Luo Mou came here to announce the good news to the three generals."

Sun Chuanting was overjoyed when he heard the words: "Did the two of them say when they would bring the boat over?"

Luo Yangxing said: "It depends on what General Sun wants. Whenever General Sun wants them to come, they will come."

Sun Chuanting nodded, looked at Sun Meng and Liu Er in a daze, and said, "Governor Sun, General Liu, I think it's better to wait for Zheng Zhilong to turn his back on the court before letting them deal with each other. That will definitely damage Zheng Zhilong's morale hit."

Sun Meng nodded: "I think it's ok, but I guess Zheng Zhilong's rebellion will only be in the next few days, so let the two of them be careful."

"How dare Commander-in-Chief Sun conclude that Zheng Zhilong will rebel in the next few days?" Zong Chao wondered.

"Hahaha!" Sun Meng and Sun Chuanting burst out laughing when they heard this.

After laughing for a while, Sun Meng recounted the content of Liu Erleng's letter to Zheng Zhilong, and then recounted the fact that Gao Qi dispatched Li Jing's bodyguard to take over as guard.

After speaking, Sun Meng unfolded the map and drew an arc along the coast of Fujian: "Look, Dongshan, Zhangpu, Simingzhou (now Xiamen), Jinmen, Jinjiang, Tong'an, Hui'an, Putian, Fuqing, Changle, Fuzhou The defense of these key places along the Ning coast is now all in the charge of our people.

You know the importance of these places better than the few of us. If we occupy these places, it is equivalent to strangling Zheng Zhilong's neck. Adding Er Leng's letter, do you think Zheng Zhilong will be against it? "Sun Meng laughed.

Zong Chao was surprised for a while when he heard the words, and he sighed after a long time: "General Gao is really a big hand. The defenses of these ten places were basically bought by Zheng Zhilong. Removing these people and replacing them with ours is exactly like General Sun's. Saying that is tantamount to strangling Zheng Zhilong's neck, which Zheng Zhilong will never tolerate."

Speaking of this, Zong Chao hesitated and said: "I'm afraid that the guards of the commander-in-chief will not be able to subdue the local soldiers. If they can't, it may be useless to defend with an empty guard."

"Hehe, Mr. Zong, don't look at the young guards of the commander in chief. These people are very clever. They each asked for [-] elite soldiers from General Sun and General Liu, and also asked for ten heavy artillery pieces and twenty guns. Small cannon. With so many soldiers and weapons, are you afraid that you won’t be able to defeat the local soldiers?” Sun Chuanting laughed.

Zong Chao laughed and said: "What about the soldiers trained by General Sun and General Liu? Comparing the local soldiers with the subordinates of the two generals, wouldn't that insult the two generals? If these people are disobedient, It is estimated that he could be killed by the subordinates of the two generals."

Sun Meng and Liu Er Leng laughed at the same time.

Although the subordinates of these two people have not participated in actual combat much, they have been trained more hard than Cao Wenzhao's subordinates. If it is a real war, due to lack of experience, these people may not be the opponents of Cao Wenzhao's subordinates , but if the soldiers simply compete with each other, they must be better than Cao Wenzhao's subordinates.

After laughing for a while, Zong Chao took out a letter from his bosom, handed it to Sun Chuanting and said, "Commander-in-Chief, this is the information that the subordinate officials sent to Taiwan to inquire about, please take a look."

Sun Chuanting took it and looked at it seriously. After watching, Sun Chuanting's face suddenly became serious.

After Sun Chuanting finished reading the information, his face suddenly turned pale.

"What's the matter, grandson?" Liu Er asked in a daze.

Sun Chuanting smiled wryly, handed the information to Liu Erleng and said, "Let's take a look."

Liu Er took it in a daze and read it, then handed it to Sun Meng.

Sun Meng looked at it for a while, and his face became serious.

After Sun Meng finished watching, Sun Chuanting smiled wryly at Sun Meng: "If the Dutch have such ships, we are really no match for them."

Sun Meng nodded silently.

The information sent by Zong Chao is about the Dutch army stationed in Taiwan. It can be seen that the spies sent by Zong Chao must be very careful, and many secret information have been found out.

Dutch ships are generally larger than Ming's ships. The main battleship is more than [-] meters long, more than [-] meters wide, with a displacement of more than [-] tons, a crew of more than [-] people, and more than [-] cannons on both sides. (Note: It is more intuitive to use modern units of measurement.)
The main warships of the Ming Dynasty (Zheng Zhilong) were generally about 30 meters long and six or seven meters wide, but they were far smaller than the Dutch warships in terms of volume.

In addition, the ships of the Ming Dynasty used hard sails, which were generally woven with thin bamboo grates or cattail leaves.The advantage of a hard sail is that it has high overall efficiency, can rotate around the mast, and can even use wind from all directions.Compared with soft sails with the same area, hard sails use much more wind than soft sails.

However, the disadvantage of hard sails is also very obvious, that is, the weight is too heavy, the larger the sail, the more manpower is required, and a large ship requires dozens of people to control the sail, and hundreds of people are required to lift it when installing it. get up.

However, the Dutch ships (Western ships) use soft sails. The disadvantage of soft sails is that the comprehensive utilization rate is low, so the mast must be built very high to increase the area of ​​the sail.However, if the mast is too high, the strength of the mast must be increased, so a lot of ropes must be tied on the mast to fix it on the ship.Obviously, with so many ropes tied, the manipulation of the sail is also very troublesome, not as convenient as a hard sail.

When the wind is down, the utilization rate of the soft sail and the hard sail of the same area is the same, and the advantage of the soft sail is reflected at this time, because the area of ​​the soft sail of the western ship is much larger than the hard sail of the Ming Dynasty. , then the thrust obtained by the soft sail is more than that of the hard sail, that is to say, when the wind is down, the speed of the soft sail is much faster than that of the hard sail.

In addition, compared with Western ships, the ships of the Ming Dynasty differed greatly in their hull strength. Because the ships of the Ming Dynasty used watertight compartment technology and rarely used ribs, the sinking resistance of the ships was better than that of Western ships. However, because ribs are not used, the lateral strength of the hull is not enough, and it cannot bear the recoil when a large amount of artillery is fired.

In order to enhance the strength of the hull, western ships used a large number of ribs, almost one by one, which provided good protection for the hull. Therefore, western ships installed far more artillery than Ming Dynasty ships.

In addition, the ships of the Ming Dynasty were V-shaped ships with a small bottom area, and the sides were not suitable for installing artillery, while the urban U-shaped ships of Western ships had a wider bottom than the upper deck, so that a large number of artillery could be mounted.

Compared with the Dutch ship, Sun Chuanting's only advantage is artillery technology.

At this time, the whole world used front-loading artillery, that is, loading from the muzzle.

The Dutch cannons in red are about three meters long and weigh more than four thousand catties. The shells they fire weigh more than ten catties and have a range of three or four miles.There is no doubt that when such a long distance is reached, the accuracy is basically gone.

The artillery designed by Li Jing used the artillery technology of later generations. It was also a heavy artillery, and it weighed less than one thousand catties (it would be useless to make it bigger), less than two meters in length, and its caliber was much smaller than that of the Franc machine gun.Accuracy is enhanced due to the small caliber.

It is said that the power of the shells will be reduced if the caliber is small, but Li Jing uses a new type of gunpowder, which increases the power of the shells.In addition, this kind of artillery is extremely lethal to people, but much less destructive to ships.

(End of this chapter)