Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1080 Cannon, Fleet, Bastion
Annan, Golden Port.

This place, which was originally called Da Nang in later generations, has embarked on the fast track of vigorous development hundreds of years in advance since it was favored by Gao Yushi.Just over two years later, on the coastal plain where there were only a few small fishing villages, a new city of Jingang, which is second only to Thang Long in Annan and even larger than Thanh Hoa in area, has been miraculously established.

"Recommended" by Jinghua Group and formally appointed by the Annan Metropolitan Commander, Gao Mengnan, the commander-in-chief of the three towns of Nghe An, Hue, and Guangnan, held a grand military parade in Jingang today to welcome the Annan Deputy Metropolitan Envoy and Vietdong Township Envoy The arrival of Huang Zhiting.

The important figures of the three towns who participated in this military parade also included Gao Wuqin, the deputy commander of the three towns, Gao Jing, the commander of the Annan Squadron of Jinghua Nanyang Fleet, and others.

The troops participating in this military parade are divided into two parts: land and sea.

In terms of the army, the Jingang Garrison gathered 7000 troops to participate in the military parade, of which [-] were from the part that was about to follow Huang Zhiting to southern Burma;

In terms of the navy, all members of the Annan Squadron, which has just been temporarily strengthened, are participating. At the same time, the Ming and Annan civilian armed ships willing to participate in this expedition are also concentrated.

Among them, the fleet belonging to Jinghua has a total of one first-class cruiser with 2400 materials, three second-class cruisers with 2000 materials (according to the previous explanation in this book, 2400 materials is equivalent to a displacement of 1200 tons), and 84 armed transport ships; The number of civil armed sea-going vessels in China has also reached 39.

Since the amount of guns carried by civilian armed sea ships is not fixed, so I will not count them here for the time being. I only calculate the fleet that Jinghua belongs to. The investment in this expedition can be called shocking:
According to the standard of Jinghua Shipyard and fleet, the first-class cruiser has two deck guns, 52 guns of various sizes, and a crew of 346 people. The cost of a single ship is as high as 16 taels of silver;

The second-tier cruiser has a deck of guns, with 42 guns of various types, and each ship has a capacity of 288 people.This time, three ships were dispatched, with a total tonnage of 3000 tons (6000 materials), 126 artillery pieces, and 864 personnel.The cost of a single ship of this class is 12 taels of silver, and the total of three ships is 36 taels.

Jinghua's armed transport ship is 800 tons (1600 materials), with open-air deck guns, each with 28 artillery pieces of various types, and a crew of 180 people.The total tonnage is 67200 tons (134400 materials), 2352 large and small artillery pieces (the No. 15120 and No. [-] heavy guns are less, and the No. [-] gun is the main one), and the crew is as high as [-].

The cost of a single Jinghua armed transport ship is cheaper than the previous two classes of serious "warships", but because they are positioned as "quasi-warships" by high pragmatism (this is the trend of this era), the cost of a single ship is still as high as 5000 Taels of silver, the total cost of the 84 ships here is astonishing, as high as 462 million taels of silver, which is more than half of the wealth accumulated by Jinghua Maritime Trade in the past ten years of development.

[Note: The above cost includes the purchase of artillery, hiring sailors and other expenses. This data refers to the cost of naval ships in the Kingdom of England at the same time, and takes into account that Ming Dynasty has cheap human resources, and has high practicality. Guangxi and Annan have low The price of high-quality wood, as well as the price and maintenance advantages of the "high-level practical version of hard sail" are the result of an appropriate reduction. ]
If the number of civilian ships with different data is added, the number of sailors participating in the Jinghua Expeditionary Fleet alone exceeds 2, which is more than the landing force that Huang Zhiting will lead.

And the fleet has more than 3500 large and small artillery pieces. Even though the ship-borne light artillery can only be used to fight pirates at this time, the strength of Jinghua's own fleet is already strong enough: one of the heavy artillery There are more than two hundred pieces, and the No. 3000 heavy artillery has more than three hundred pieces-these five hundred heavy artillery pieces of this period alone require almost [-] people to operate them.

Although Gao Jing is still going out in the name of "Commander of the Annan Squadron of the Nanyang Fleet" this time, in fact, the fleet under his command already accounts for [-]% of the combat effectiveness of the entire Nanyang Fleet. Financial resources have to vomit three liters of blood.

After all, this is a super expedition with a cost of more than 500 million taels for the fleet alone.

Gao Pragmatism even suspected that the Ming fleet might not be able to meet the cost when they sailed to the West, because the shipbuilding in Zhu Di’s time was different from him. It was a political mission, and it was not popular to equip so many expensive artillery and wood at that time. It may even be directly requisitioned, and there is no money to be made below, so the total cost must be much cheaper.

And Jinghua's shipbuilding is basically a commercial shipbuilding, even if the Jinghua fleet orders ships in Jinghua's own shipyard, the purchase price is not much discounted.

From a highly pragmatic point of view, shipyards must of course be profitable, otherwise how can they continue to develop?Self-responsibility for its own profits and losses is the driving force for development and sustainable competitiveness.

As for where the Jinghua fleet's purchase money comes from, of course it is the income from the transport fleet's maritime trade!The reason why Jinghua’s armed transport ships are dozens of times more than first-class and second-class cruisers is because armed transport ships are ultimately a tool for making money. As for their "armament", it is a special product of this era, and it is used to deal with maritime forces. Threatening.

All countries in the world, especially Western navies, are almost in the same development mode at this time-even Spain cannot afford many pure "navies", and the same is true for poorer England. Everyone has to rely on armed transport ships.

England even issued "private certificates" to its own pirates in exchange for being able to enlist them to fight for the country when fighting.

Of course, Gao Yu’s situation in Nanyang is different from England’s “breakers”. He is more like the state of the Spanish Navy in Europe at this time. He is the first vested interest, so he has always focused on attacking pirates. , Incorporation as a supplement, there is absolutely no possibility of issuing a private plunder certificate.

It is also because of this that Jinghua will have as many as 39 civilian armed sea-going ships actively follow in this expedition. Jinghua has always rewarded meritorious service. There are not many timid people who eat in Haitian. When they heard that there was such an opportunity, of course they sharpened their knives and rushed to the pigs and sheep.

Even now in the Annan Squadron, the ones who most hope to have a big fight with the Franc Robots are not the people from Gao Jing or the Jinghua Fleet, but the bosses who each have one or two armed ships.

Huang Zhiting and the [-] troops under her command appeared outside Jingang City on time. Gao Mengnan and Gao Wuqin greeted the "Vice Commander of Annan" according to the scheduled etiquette.

After a short greeting, Huang Zhiting's army set up camp at the designated location, and she herself first watched the shelling and volley display of the Jingang Garrison.

Artillery includes a series of tactical actions, such as rapid transfer of artillery teams, rapid formation and positioning of firing angles, artillery salvo coverage, and layer-by-layer artillery advancement.

The infantry display almost ignored the confrontation of cold weapons, and mainly carried out exercises in platooning guns, including the new "three-stage attack" that I don't know whether it should be Gao's or Qi's, bayonet platooning hollow phalanx (with artillery), car Battalion hollow phalanx (pure exercise, almost no tanks in this dispatch), platoons of guns approaching, etc.

They even gathered a small number of cavalry in the Jingang Garrison, and conducted a joint combat exercise in which a platoon of guns approached the attack and the two wings of the musketeers surrounded and covered the battlefield.

On the whole, at least it still looks decent.

As a real front-line general who commanded the Battle of Liangshan, Huang Zhiting naturally has her standards.In her opinion, the tactical literacy of Gao Yushi's "Family Army" is sufficient, but she doesn't know whether it is Gao Yushi's own tactical settings or the nature of the army itself. She always feels that they seem to be better at defensive operations , offensive or more bluntly aggressive is not enough.

Huang Zhiting asked Gao Mengnan and Gao Wuqin in private, but it turned out that these two didn't know much about soldiers. Gao Wuqin even said that "as a garrison, naturally the first priority is to defend the place", Huang Zhiting almost rolled his eyes.

Fortunately, Gao Zhang, who came along with him, finally saved some face for the "Gao Family Army", saying that this situation itself was what Gao Yushi expected. That is, the "intensive amount of projectiles released per unit time". In this way, to make it take advantage of it requires a solid and dense front, so that soldiers can reload and shoot at a high speed calmly. Therefore, whether it is the Golden Port Guard or the advanced Most of the training of the Dragon Garrison focuses on ensuring the stability of the front line as the top priority."

"I see." Huang Zhiting nodded her head to express her understanding, and then asked, "Is there any arrangement for the city defense drill I requested earlier?"

"Yes, yes." Gao Mengnan immediately said: "Because Golden Port is a free port set by Qiuzhen himself, there are not only Daming people, Annan people, but also many foreigners in the port, so in order to ensure that military secrets are not leaked, On my own initiative, I changed the location of the show to twenty miles south of Golden Harbor."

Huang Zhiting said: "Commander Gao is very worried. Although these foreign people are here to do business, it cannot be ruled out that there may be a possibility of meticulous work... But is there a city in this place you mentioned that can practice defending the city?"

Gao Mengnan said: "That place was originally called Thy Sn in the population of Annan, which means 'water mountain', and it is a mountain on a plain. Although this mountain cannot be said to be tall and majestic, it is enough to overlook the surrounding area in that area. We can even vaguely see Golden Harbor from the top of the mountain, so we built a fort there as the outer defensive stronghold of Golden Harbor, and I think it should be able to meet the needs of this exercise.”

Huang Zhiting nodded secretly, thinking: Although the brother Gao Lang used in the three southern towns does not know military affairs very well, it can be seen that he has put a lot of thought into it, not to mention that he basically completed the Golden Port in just two years. City construction, it can be seen that he is better at government affairs, as the general of the three towns, it is enough to describe it as an excellent performance.

Originally, Gao Mengnan also arranged a reception banquet, but Huang Zhiting declined the kindness on the grounds that the military situation was urgent, and the group rushed to Shuishan non-stop, preparing to watch the defense drill that had been prepared. Even lunch was served under Huang Zhiting's leadership. I can make do with eating dry food right away.

Huang Zhiting had a good impression of Gao Mengnan, and Gao Mengnan was also secretly amazed at this legendary female general who now seemed likely to become his sister-in-law.

Originally, according to his previous thinking, although Huang Zhiting commanded the bloody battle in Liangshan, the command belonged to the command, and most of them just sat in the army like Gao Yushi.But today, seeing with his own eyes this female general, who has become the vice capital of Annan, walking forward on the horse, eating naan bread to satisfy his hunger without any discomfort at all, he realized that he really underestimated people.

After finishing the twenty-mile journey, Gao Mengnan admired him even more.

Since he came with the army this time, there were no Taiping horses to ride, and everyone was riding army horses. As a result, he rode here in a thin casual suit, and he was very bumpy. It felt like his bones were about to fall apart. After taking two bites, I quietly hid it.

And Huang Zhiting, who was wearing a full armor, not only ate all the naan bread, but also looked good when she dismounted, and she didn't seem to be in the slightest discomfort - the key point was that she had already driven for several hours in the morning.

Gao Mengnan couldn't help but sigh in admiration: It is said that wolf soldiers are easy to raise and capable of fighting. It seems that it is not bragging. A young girl's family suffers more than a man. In fact, she is born like a local emperor, so it can be seen that the wolves under her command The fineness of soldiers.

It’s no wonder that after Brother Qiuzhen took control of the Cen and Huang families, even Annan, who had been struggling for decades in the heyday of the Ming Dynasty, dared to fight. Although Qiuzhen has confidence in his political skills, who would dare to fight? Are you saying that you can trust the fighting power of the wolf soldiers?Don't you see how Cen Ling earned the title of King of Hades?The Cen clan's wolf soldiers are like this, and the Huang clan can be as famous as the Cen clan with a slightly weaker force, so naturally it will not be inferior.

Gao Mengnan was distracted, but Huang Zhiting didn't notice him. Instead, she looked at the fort on the mountain with interest for a while, then suddenly turned her head and asked, "Commander Gao, this fort was built quite interestingly. It looks a lot like Gao Lang...uh, the kind of bastion Gao Gaocheng mentioned to me?"

Gao Mengnan came back to his senses, pretended not to hear the word "Gao Lang", and seemed to turn a blind eye to the two red clouds that quietly rose on Vice President Huang's face. , this Shuishan Fort is indeed a bastion."

Seeing that he didn't notice her momentary slip of the tongue just now, Huang Zhiting breathed a sigh of relief, returned to the business, and asked a little surprised: "But Gao Gao Cheng told me that he only had a general understanding of the structure of the bastion. , I haven't had time to think too much about it yet. Here... I mean, this Shuishan Fortress doesn't look like it was built recently. No matter how you look at it, it has been built for at least a year. What's going on here? "

Gao Mengnan didn't know much about military affairs, and he didn't know that Huang Zhiting actually judged from the dark moss in some of the building gaps in Shuishan Fort that it was built for no less than a year. He just nodded after a burst of surprise: "Vice President As far as the eye is concerned, this Shuishan Fort has been built for a year and a half - when only one city wall was built in Jingang City, the twelve outer forts of Jingang City, including Shuishan Fort, had already been built, because our construction ideas at that time It’s about safety first.”

Huang Zhiting nodded, but did not interrupt Gao Mengnan's words, because he obviously hadn't finished speaking.

Sure enough, Gao Mengnan paused for a moment before continuing: "As for why these fortresses were built with bastions... In fact, Qiuzhen told us about the bastions earlier. I didn't know what a bastion was at that time, but I still remember Qiuzhen's description of the Bastion.

I don't know if the Vice President knows, there is a priest Luo Mingjian who visited Qiuzhen in Annan more than two years ago?But Qiuzhen talked about some cooperation with him, including recruiting various talents from Father Luo Mingjian's hometown.This priest Luo Mingjian still had some contacts in his hometown. Many Westerners with high noses and deep eyes came to Jingang one after another. I uphold the will of seeking truth at that time, and after properly selecting and comparing these people, most of them are I hired them, especially the construction talents. These bastions were built with their suggestions, but they were also shocked by the cement of Jinghua, and asked me how I could understand the lost secrets of Rome in the past... "

Huang Zhiting doesn't have much interest in the history of cement. She only cares about the structure of this bastion now. She watched it intently for a while and said, "Commander Gao, after the rehearsal, I want to take a good look at this bastion. In addition... Excuse me, if Commander Gao is not familiar with the structure of the bastion, can I find a master who knows how to build the bastion to explain it to me?"

The ruler is short and the inch is long. Gao Mengnan didn't feel offended, and said with a smile: "It's not difficult. There are no less than 20 architects from Italy in Jingang. I will send someone here to invite them." A few come over."

Huang Zhiting was very satisfied, she thanked her with a smile, and said in her heart: Wonderful!It seems that I can take a few "architects" who can build bastions to Bagu this time. As long as this thing is as powerful as Gao Lang said, then even if Mang Yingli goes south, I can still deal with him well. It's been dealt with...the national power of this thief chieftain must be exhausted.
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