Great Ming National Teacher

After coming out of the telegraph office, the two took Zhu Cixuan to visit the navy. Yuan Chonghuan had already assembled the troops for inspection.

The Daming Navy used to be the number one navy in the world. It was originally the Chaohu Navy led by Zhu Yuanzhang. At the time of Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, it had 1000 ships, including more than 1000 patrol ships and more than 800 warships. There are also more than [-] large ships at the Nanjing Xinjiangkou Base, which are the main force of the South-to-North Grain Transfer. Zheng He's seven voyages to the West led only a part of it.

When Zheng He went out to sea, "When he came to a foreign country, the disrespectful kings of Fan were captured alive; the invaders of the barbarians were wiped out." It can be seen that his combat power is unprecedentedly strong. The Cape of Good Hope, the southernmost tip of Africa, entered the Atlantic Ocean, and another squadron passed through the Solomon Islands to reach the east coast of Australia. In the Strait of Malacca, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, the entire East China Sea, South China Sea, and even the Indian Ocean, all the authorities that challenged China were crushed. , and even broke through the royal city of Sri Lanka, captured the king of Sri Lanka alive and escorted him to Beijing for questioning. 36 countries sent envoys to express their surrender to the Ming Empire!

In the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty, the armaments were weakened, and the army and navy declined at the same time. However, during the Zhengde period, the Portuguese, who were about to turn Macau, China into a colony, were severely injured at the mouth of the Pearl River.During the Wanli period to resist Japan and aid Korea, the Daming Navy defeated the Japanese fleet in the Luliang naval battle.Even during the so-called darkest apocalypse year in the history of the Ming Dynasty, Fujian governor Nan Juyi personally took a boat to Kinmen and spent nearly a year beating off the Dutch and regaining Penghu.

Just the year before last, that is, in the sixth year of Chongzhen, the Dutch governor of Taiwan, Putmans, led thirteen Dutch warships to suddenly attack the coast of the Ming Dynasty, demanding that China stop trading with Spain, Portugal and other countries, and could only trade with the Dutch alone , Zhu Youjian and Li Yunya immediately ordered Cao Bianjiao to lead the newly built South China Sea Fleet northward, and cooperate with Zheng Zhilong's Fujian navy to beat the Dutch navy in the Taiwan Strait. The coachman suffered an unprecedented defeat in the East.

In the history without Li Yunya, this war also ended in the victory of the Ming Dynasty. Now history has changed, and there is an additional South China Sea Fleet led by Cao Bianjiao. The Dutch lost even more thoroughly. The Ming Dynasty ordered them to withdraw from Taiwan immediately and pay 1000 million taels of silver will be used as war reparations, otherwise, the Ming Navy will block the sea route from the Strait of Malacca to the Strait of Tsushima, not allowing any Dutch ships to appear, and not allowing any Dutch to set foot on the land of the Ming Dynasty !

The Netherlands sent people to Beijing to negotiate, negotiated several times, and talked for a year. Li Yunya and Zhu Youjian, because the north would use a large-scale military force, and the sea was unable to block all the coastal defense lines, they were mostly bluffing to scare the Dutch. People are bargaining, and in the end there will be a compensation of 500 million taels of silver. As for Taiwan becoming a legacy issue, it will be put aside for the time being, because there is still a Spain on the island of Taiwan. According to the strategy, the Ming Dynasty will solve the Taiwan issue after the north is settled, and the Dutch are happy to continue to trade with the Ming Dynasty.

The Dutch did not have enough silver in their hands, so they could only deliver the Chongzhen Tongbao they had earned from China over the years, as well as some gold, and francs made of gold and silver for payment.

The Chinese navy was still very strong at this time. Li Yunya began to build the East China Sea Fleet in the third year of Chongzhen, mobilizing excellent shipbuilders from all over the country, as well as various wood, steel and other materials needed, and continuously transported them to Tianjin Port.

The flagship of the East China Sea Fleet was improved and built on the original Fuchuan in the Ming Dynasty. The ship is 88 meters long, 16 meters wide, with a draft of more than five meters and a depth of more than 25 tons. It can withstand the bombardment of the red cannon. The main power is the steam engine developed by the Academia Sinica. There are [-] sets of boilers in total. It is close to [-] kilometers per hour under the condition of no wind and no ocean current. At that time, it could reach [-] kilometers per hour, which was relatively fast among the warships at this time.

There is a huge cannon on the bow deck, which is the most powerful firearm that can be developed by the Ming Dynasty. The cannonball can be fired close to the ground. It can explode and sink, and the smaller ones will be directly smashed.It took a lot of effort to install this cannon on the ship, mainly because the recoil force was too great. After firing a few shots without using the opponent's ship, he would fall apart first. Sun Yuanhua led Bi Maokang and a group of academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciences to study day and night. The stern of the ship is supported by a large number of steel skeletons, and the device for defusing recoil is continuously improved, so that the gun can be successfully deployed on the ship.

On both sides of the ship, there are two layers of muzzles, and 36 cannons are deployed on each layer. They use rifled guns and cannon shells with fins.

At the stern, a large iron box with a width of five meters and a height of three meters was installed. Li Yunya ordered people to study rocket launchers since the establishment of the military academy. At the beginning, due to the limitations of gunpowder and machinery, the ones made could only be set on fire. It was not used in several campaigns, but development continued.

The most primitive multiple-barreled rocket launcher is similar to the firework cannons of later generations. The gunpowder is smashed into the tube, the tube is put into a box, and then connected together with a lead wire, ignited and fired one by one. The original "swarm of bees" can shoot more than 100 rockets at the same time, and it also contains poisonous smoke mixed with gunpowder and horse dung, which can be called the earliest biochemical weapon.

The gunpowder technology and mechanical technology of the Ming Dynasty are far from comparable to those of the day. This rocket launcher can fire 24 bursts. Each rocket tube is more than two meters long. The front end is equipped with powerful explosives. The range is closer than that of the bow gun, but the firepower is concentrated. Specially condescending against approaching enemy ships, or used to attack dense enemy forces on the shore.

This kind of ship is called Xunhai Yacha, and only one ship has been built so far. It is the first ship of this type, so it is called Xunhai Yasha Jiazi type, because it is the flagship of the East China Sea Fleet, and the five elements of the East are still young, so it is also called The blue Yaksha, the second red Yaksha, the third black Yaksha, and the fourth white Yaksha have all started construction in the dock.

Accompanied by Yuan Chonghuan, Li Yunya and Zhu Youjian boarded the Qingyecha. The ship has five floors below the deck. The deck is surrounded by walls made of steel, and the deck is also covered with iron plates. The higher it is, the stern is the highest place in the whole ship, and the huge "Fire Dragon Nest" rocket launcher is erected on it. It has been developed to the present, and it is already a Bingyin type of Fire Dragon Nest. Translated into numbers, it is equivalent to Fire Dragon Nest 303. If it is condescending to shoot down here, the opponent will All ships have to rest, and it is estimated that the tortoise shell ships in the North Korean navy can carry them.

Zhu Cixuan was not taken on board the Qingyacha. Zhu Youjian was the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and Li Yunya was the chief of staff of the Ministry of National Defense. Boarding the ship was a matter of course. Zhu Cixuan could only be regarded as a family member of the commander and was left in the port.

A whistle sounded, the turbofan turned and sprayed water, and the huge battleship moved slowly, leaving the port, and the speed gradually increased. At the same time, all other ships in the military port set sail. He drove out of the military port without any fuss, and sailed to the depths of the Bohai Sea.

Standing on the control tower, Zhu Youjian looked into the distance with his hands on the railing. Under the blue sky and white clouds, there was a vast expanse of waves, boundless and boundless. Taking a breath of the salty sea breeze, his face was so excited that he couldn't speak, he suddenly turned around and asked Yuan Chonghuan: "When Chengzu sent the three treasure eunuchs to go to the West, is the treasure ship on it like this?"

Li Yunya answered: "Sanbao Gonggong's huge ship is 44 feet long and [-] feet wide, which is much bigger than our Qing Yasha, but his boat is too big and too stupid, and the sails and sculls cannot be used. It moves by sea wind or ocean currents, but being big also has great benefits. When fighting an enemy army, riding the wind crushes it is like crushing a praying mantis. But our Yaksha has a steam boiler that can be used, and it can walk without wind or against the current. It is incomparable to the former." Looking at the waves rolling in the sea, he opened his heart, "In the future we will build even bigger ships, [-]-ton, or even [-]-ton ships!"

The ancient Chinese often used volume to weigh things, such as a stone, a bucket, and a liter. The original description of the ship was material, one hundred materials, and five hundred materials. Such descriptions would cause great differences. For example, the same stone of wheat and corn, Or Fuchuan and Shachuan with the same amount of material are actually very different. After Li Yunya established the Academia Sinica, the weights and measures were unified across the country. Now when weighing heavy objects, tons are also used.

The fleet sailed into the deep sea, the rear coastline has disappeared from sight, and there are billowing torrents all around. The weather today is not bad, and the waves are also small—of course, it is only relative. There is no wind on the waves, and the river waves cannot match them Fortunately, Qing Yasha is relatively large, and the ups and downs are relatively stable, and Zhu Youjian only has a slight nausea.

When they arrived at the scheduled location, Yuan Chonghuan ordered the entire fleet to start a drill. First, there was a military parade. Ships slowly passed in front of Qing Yacha. Due to the sea breeze, Zhu Youjian couldn't get through when he was standing on the command tower. The navy officers and soldiers waved their hands, and then there was a burst of shouting long live. Zhu Youjian was so excited that tears filled his eyes. His dream of a strong army and his dream of a strong country are being realized step by step, as long as he follows the strategy specified by Li Yunya and him If the plan is carried out step by step, he will definitely be able to reach the level of standing shoulder to shoulder with Taizu and Chengzu. The Ming Dynasty will become the central state again in his hands. According to Yunya, let the Chinese stand on top of the world again!

With new weapons such as giant artillery, the East China Sea Fleet has also changed its fleet structure. Guarding the flagship are four thousand-ton frigates named killer whales, which are 54 meters long and nine meters wide. Each ship is equipped with a One hundred and eight smoothbore guns, they are specially used to protect Qing Yasha, the range of the artillery is relatively short, and the firepower is sufficient and fierce.

There are also eight destroyers named Sea Shark, with a tonnage of more than [-]. They are also huge ships at this time. They are responsible for guarding and destroying. In addition to the smaller Fire Dragon Nest of the Yishen type, each is equipped with two Wanli Qi Yunyan, which are new cloud-piercing rockets improved from the original Huolong Chushui secondary rockets of the Ming Dynasty, and can shoot as far as ten miles away.

These two types of ships are steel-wood hybrid skeletons, covered with armor, powered by both steam engines and sails, and destroyers are the fastest.

In addition to the thirteen main warships, there are also some small and medium-sized ships, some use soft sails, three-masted gunships imitating Dutch warships, some use oars to travel, and centipede ships imitate Portuguese warships, with belts on both sides. There are a total of 120 six ships with paddle wheels, some carrying only one cannon, some carrying incendiary rockets, and some responsible for laying mines. They perform drills around thirteen main battleships, listen to the flag number and gun number, and follow the ranks. advance and retreat.