please make me king

Chapter 1605 Encountering an Enemy at Sea
The sea breeze is hunting, and the waves are surging.

It was golden autumn in October, and the weather was already cold, but the sea outside Dagukou was very lively on this day.

"Boom, boom, boom!" Accompanied by the sound of rumbling war drums, two two-masted and three-flared bird boats were galloping through the wind and waves, sticking to the surface of the sea, like flying arrows.

"It's too fast, this ship is too fast!" The sailors and soldiers on board shouted against the sea breeze while they were busy with their work.

It turns out that although these two bird boats are still in the shape of bird boats, they are quite different from ordinary bird boats.

Its entire bow is floating outward, but the top of the bow is a sharp point, and the whole boat looks like a sharp-billed seabird soaring with its wings.

Just behind these two "seabirds", left far behind are several Cangshan boats of almost the same size.

"Haha, this time we are still running fast!" Although it is the same type of ship, there are differences between them.

Among them, the boat with a big red letter A written on the sail was obviously faster than the boat with a letter B written on it, and it had surpassed several positions.

"It's so strange, I didn't expect this nose to be really useful!" Zhang Zizhou, director of Tianjin Shipyard, looked at the bird ship that was left behind and said in disbelief.

It turns out that these two new bird ships are new experimental ships built by Tianjin Shipyard. The only difference between the two is that one has a "boat nose" installed and the other does not.

This so-called "boat nose" is actually what Zhang Shun called the bulbous bow in his previous life, which is installed on the underwater part of the bow like a ram.

After installing this thing at the beginning, the effect is actually not good.

Neither can improve the speed of the ship, but also be unfavorable for the docking of the ship.

However, after many adjustments, Zhang Zizhou gradually discovered that a specific shape of the "boat nose" can increase a certain speed.

As a new and mature ship type in this era, the bird ship already sails very fast.

As a result, according to Zhang Shun's idea, after changing the bow from "inward buckling" to "outward floating", the speed of the ship has increased a lot.

Now with the addition of the "boat nose", the ship is like flying.

Thinking of this, Zhang Zizhou couldn't help but ordered: "This experiment is considered complete. When we go back, press the other six bird boats that we just built onto the 'ship's nose'!"

"It's a good relationship, but the bird boat has been changed so much that its mother doesn't necessarily recognize it, so why not call it a bird boat?" The left and right laughed.

"That's true. What good ideas do you have?" Zhang Zizhou was amused when he heard the words, and couldn't help asking.

Immediately, some people said it was called "Sharp-billed Bird", some said it was called "Flying Arrow", and there were various names for a while.

And just when everyone was offering their ideas and suggestions, someone suddenly said: "This boat is launched by Your Highness, why don't you ask Your Highness to name it?"

Zhang Zizhou was taken aback when he heard the words, and then suddenly realized: "How can I forget this, I am so stupid!"

And just as everyone was joking, the watchman on the mast road suddenly shouted: "There is a boat ahead!"

"But our navy returned it?" Zhang Zizhou asked indifferently.

"There are nearly a hundred ships coming!" Unexpectedly, the watchman reminded loudly again.

Zhang Zizhou was taken aback when he heard the words, and suddenly his whole body felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave.

Except for the small boats, the rebels only had [-] or [-] ships in total, and where there are nearly a hundred warships available, they must be enemy sailors.

"What should I do, factory manager?" Everyone was startled when they heard the words, and shouted one after another.

"The other ships retreat for a while, and the other six bird ships will be transferred to meet the enemy." Zhang Zizhou hesitated, and couldn't help but said.

"Let's lead these two bird ships first, and go to deal with them."

"This is too risky!" Hearing the left and right, he couldn't help but turn pale with shock.

With only two warships, you dare to face more than a hundred other warships. Are you sure this is not looking for death?

"Don't be afraid, this ship was built under the supervision of the official himself, and I have a plan in my heart." Zhang Zizhou couldn't help but believe it when he heard the words.

"That's fine!" Seeing that Zhang Zizhou was also on the boat, he must have a reason for daring to order such a thing.

Following Zhang Zizhou's order, the half-hanging hard sail slowly rose under the twisting of the sailor.

Then according to the wind direction, constantly adjust the direction of the sail.

The sails were full of wind, and began to push the ship forward strongly.

This bird boat was originally configured with a light front and a heavy rear. After this push, it immediately lifted its bow like a speedboat of later generations.

And the sea water blocked by the bow also began to flow backward along the sides of the hull, forming two waves like white dragons.

The bow of the original bird ship is a typical forward-sloping bow, and more seawater is diverted to the lower part of the hull.

The new type of bird boat improved by Zhang Shun's suggestion adopts a bulbous bow.

This kind of bow adopts a special streamline shape, which not only can separate more sea water, but also is more conducive to the stability of the hull.

Therefore, under the condition that other conditions remain unchanged, the new type of bird boat has faster speed and more flexible maneuvering, which is also the source of Zhang Zizhou's confidence.

"Look, there are two boats ahead!" Just as the two bird boats of the Rebel Army were approaching quickly, the exploration boat of the Denglai Navy also spotted the movement of the Rebel Army.

"Oh? It must be the 'thief''s exploration ship, which was sunk by me!" Huang Sunmao, the deputy military preparation officer, couldn't help but ordered after hearing the words.

In this attack, he led a total of [-] warships and [-] sailors, and bullying a dilapidated Tianjin navy was not easy.

Following Huang Sunmao's order, Deputy General Bai led seven or eight boats to meet him.

Among them are a Haicang boat, two Cangshan boats, two bird boats and three sand boats collected from the people. They carried a total of 300 people, five or six cannons, and twenty or thirty bird boats.

In terms of quantity alone, it is enough to crush the two "monster ships" of "Shun Thieves".

"Good time!" Seeing Zhang Zizhou, he couldn't help laughing, and quickly ordered his soldiers to bring the horizontal boat over and fire at the opponent.

The combat formation of the Ming army's navy in this era was still transplanted from the land formation, with the flagship as the core, and then surrounded by ships, battleships, fire ships, and exploration ships.

In fact, it is to adapt to the combat formation of using ships as soldiers and adopting close combat methods such as burning and jumping gangs.

Although this kind of formation is quite satisfactory, it has not been further developed in view of the fact that there are not enough threats at sea.

However, the navy of the rebel army is different. Because of Zhang Shun's tiny memory, he first proposed the "T-word strategy".

The so-called "T-style tactics" can also be called horizontal team tactics.

It means that when warships are fighting at sea, use the side of the fleet to face the enemy, and pour as much ammunition as possible on the opponent's ship.

In the original history, this method of warfare continued until the aircraft carrier was used in large-scale naval warfare, and then it gradually withdrew from the stage of history.

Of course, Zhang Shun didn't understand the "T-word tactics", but based on his experience of playing the game "Great Voyage" in his previous life, he believed that this way of fighting would best take advantage of the artillery on board.

"Boom, boom!" Seeing Lieutenant Bai rushing over with seven or eight boats, the rebels took the lead in shelling.

Originally, the bird ships of the Rebel Army were loaded with four cannons each.

Among them, there is a [-]-jin red cannon at the head and tail, and two [-]-jin Flang machines are installed in the ship.

When the two bird boats approached one side, there were four red cannons and two Fron machines that could be used at the same time.

"Bang bang bang!" With the sound of water, iron bullets splashed water jets one after another in the sea.

"This 'thief' thief's artillery is really strong!" Although he didn't hit anything, he still shocked Lieutenant General Bai.

He still adopted the traditional water battle formation, and the warships under his command could only point their bows at the rebels.

That is to say, although he has five warships with two five-hundred-jin Hongyi cannons and eight thousand-jin Franglers on them, in fact, each warship only has one cannon at the bow.

"Boom, boom!" Following Lieutenant Bai's order, the warship of the Ming army was shaken and spit out five iron bullets.

However, due to Franji's poor hit rate, it obviously couldn't hit the rebel's bird ship.

For a while, the two sides came and went, and a fierce artillery battle started with these few ships.

(End of this chapter)