Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1834 The Sword Points at Japan ([-])
The Bachelor of Wenhuadian, the Minister of the Household Department, the Pingwa Jinglue, and the Hou Gaowu of Nanning took command again after a few years. Although they personally led the navy to set off, how could they not have a "personal soldier" to support them? scene?
The "soldiers" of the navy were taken over by the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance, and Jinghua and Jingnan Xungui each contributed about half, including one second-tier battleship, two third-tier battleships, and four first-tier cruisers. There are six second-class cruisers and 46 armed transport ships, a total of 3000 ships, including [-] professional warships.In terms of the number of crew members, it is about [-] people.

Professional warships are battleships and cruisers, all provided by the Jinghua Beiyang Fleet, accounting for nearly [-]% of the total number of professional warships in the Beiyang Fleet.Gao Yushi's flagship is the second-class battleship, named "Dongchang", which comes from the opening battle of Gao Yushi's Battle of Southern Liaoning: the Battle of Dongchang Fort.

The second-tier battleship is Jinghua's latest and largest professional battleship. There are only three ships built, two of which are in the Nanyang Fleet.

This class of battleship has a huge tonnage of 4000 materials. Although it is a two-deck gun battleship like the third-tier battleship and even the first-tier cruiser, it is equipped with more artillery. A single ship is equipped with 88 types of artillery, and the entire ship has a capacity of 580. People, excluding the Army or Marine Corps personnel that may be carried, the cost of a single ship also rises with the increase in tonnage, and it costs a full 35 taels of silver.

What is the concept of the unit price of 35 taels of silver?To put it simply, if this money is handed over to Chen Lin, he can build more than a dozen Dafu ships that will serve as the main force of the Ming army's navy.

Who is stronger and who is weaker in combat effectiveness between a "Dongchang" and a dozen Dafu ships?This question is not easy to answer.

If the Dongchang was fighting trapped beasts while being surrounded, then the Dafu ship would have a high probability of winning, and most of the results would be to capture the Dongchang;

If the Dongchang takes full advantage of its advantages—fast, hard and fierce, and adopts long-range bombardment with kites flying, it is possible that the Dafu ship can only be beaten from the beginning to the end, and the result will undoubtedly lose, but it is unlikely to be defeated. Annihilation.It's just that this style of play itself is quite expensive, and it is a test of whether the weapons it carries (gunpowder, shells, etc.) are sufficient, and it also requires extremely high physical fitness for the crew of the Dongchang.

In general, everyone still thinks that from the perspective of cost performance, building a Dongchang is not as good as building a dozen or so Dafu ships, or six or seven armed transport ships—that’s right, the cost of an armed transport ship is actually the same as a military Tai Fu ship nearly twice as much.In fact, this also reflects from the side that the warships of the Ming army navy at this time were not huge, and their armaments were limited. The idea of ​​building an army was to win by numbers.

Gao Yushi himself actually thinks that from the perspective of cost performance, a "large quantity and full control" Dafu ship or even an armed transport ship is more cost-effective than building a professional warship. In terms of combat effectiveness, it is not weak because Ming can afford "ship-to-sea tactics". But he still insisted on building professional warships.

A country's consideration of issues, especially a major country's considerations, must not just stay at the short-term tactical level, but must be based on strategy and long-term.

Now Ming can rely on more ships to win. The main ship types of the Ming army, such as the Dafu Ship, are relatively stronger than the Japanese Anzhai Ship, Kohayafune, and Guan Ship, but the enemy that Ming can face is only Japan?
Not to mention anything else, let's just say that the Spanish Great Treasure Fleet that the Beiyang Expeditionary Fleet faced back then, if it was replaced by the Daming Navy to fight, how large a fleet would it be?This has not yet said that the Daming Navy at this time wants to mobilize such a huge fleet to fight off the coast of Luzon, which itself may have serious problems.

From Gao Pragmatic's point of view, the reason why the navy will develop into a gold-swallowing behemoth in the future has its own internal reasons. The more specialized it is, the more efficient it is, and the more efficient it is, the more it can be called blue. Water navy, and Gao Yushi has always hoped that China must have the tradition of blue water navy in the future.

Undoubtedly, as the only second-class battleship of the Beiyang Fleet that has been commissioned, the Dongchang was originally the flagship of the Beiyang Fleet, and now it is the flagship of the Ming Dynasty Aid Korea Fleet.

The above are only the highly pragmatic "personal soldiers", and do not include the support for the North Korean Navy that Chen Lin has temporarily built over the past few years.By the way, Gao Wushi doesn't like the term "North Korea Aid Fleet" very much. He has already ordered Chen Lin in Brunei Prefecture to change the name to "Pingwa Fleet" when the two forces merge.

In addition to the soldiers of the navy or the navy, of course the army must also have soldiers, but with Gao Wushi's current special status and status, he is very reluctant to use his own servants, let alone mobilize the garrison in southern Xinjiang. Therefore, after much deliberation, he ordered Liu Ting's troops to be transferred from Sichuan via the Yangtze River waterway and sea transportation before departure-at this time, it is necessary to flashback the process of calming down the Bozhou Rebellion.

When Liu Ting took over to quell the Bozhou Rebellion, things didn't start well.Not to mention the two big defeats before, when he had just set up a net of heaven and earth according to the high-practical meaning, and only waited for his headquarters to be the main force to attack Huanglong, it suddenly came out that Guizhou had suffered an inexplicable defeat all the way.

The thing is like this, in February of that year, Yang Guozhu and Li Tingdong, the governor of Guizhou Jiangdong, were promoted to discuss matters.Jiangdong Zhidao: "Yang Yinglong has been rampant for a long time, and now Guizhou is also ordered to send troops to deter the rebels in Bozhou. Yang Dusi, in your opinion, how should we march to capture and kill Yang Yinglong and present it to the Holy One?"

Yang Guozhu was taken aback when he heard the words, and quickly said: "Reporting to the Fujun, I thought that it would be extremely difficult to capture and kill Yang Yinglong. Our army has only three thousand troops. Why don't we follow Admiral Liu's plan and win by surprise first, annihilating one part of the enemy and occupying one part of the enemy?" It is only necessary to block the southern passage of Banzhou at any time.

Under the bid, it is suggested to send troops to Feilian Fort. If this place is obtained, the roads between Chu and Guizhou can be kept smooth.Of course, after defeating the enemy at Feilian Fort, we can also chase down the remnants of the enemy for [-] miles to strengthen our momentum, and then guard the dangerous points, waiting for Admiral Liu's army to attack. "

Li Tingdong hurriedly asked for an order: "The final general agrees with the plan of the capital, so that our army can not only report victory to the court, but also avoid the danger of being wiped out by the enemy. At the end of this battle, the general is willing to be the vanguard and capture Feilian Fort. Army decision."

Jiang Dongzhi was not very happy, because in this case, Guizhou was nothing more than an extra head, and after the fact, it must be Liu Ting's all the way.It's just that now that the two generals said so, he, a civil servant who doesn't understand soldiers, really didn't dare to insist on a big fight, so he had to acquiesce, and ordered Yang Guozhu and Li Tingdong to lead [-] troops to march towards Feilian Fort.

However, the problem is that because Guizhou is very close to Bozhou, in fact, it was almost integrated earlier, so the infiltration of Guizhou by Bozhou is very serious, and Guizhou is a sieve in the eyes of Bozhou Army.As a result, news of the Ming army's march to Feilian Fort soon reached Yang Yinglong.

Yang Yinglong made a prompt decision and ordered Yang Chaodong, Yang Zhaolong, and He Hanliang to lead the army to Feilian Fort to meet the enemy. He was instructed to pretend to be defeated to lure the enemy to Tianbang to store up an ambush, and the three led the army to go.

The Ming army marched to Feilian Fort and saw Bozhou soldiers attacking. Yang Guozhu was surprised by the leak of the news, and Li Tingdong insisted on going to war.Yang Guozhu knew that if Feilian Fort was not captured, he would not only have no way to explain it to the Fujun, but also to the admiral Liu Ting, so he ordered the Ming army to form an army to meet the enemy.

Yang Chaodong, the son of Yang Yinglong, set up a banner and shouted: "Yang Chaodong is here in Bozhou. The Han soldiers will surrender quickly to avoid death!" The Ming army came to kill.

Yang Guozhu saw that there were not many soldiers in Bozhou, so he ordered the Ming army to shoot and fire to stop them.The southwestern Ming army had no more land than Nine Frontiers, and it was not their turn to change their costumes, so at this time, there were only a dozen old-fashioned tiger squatting guns, plus hundreds of magic arrow carts and old-fashioned gunmen.

But even so, the Miao soldiers' offensive was still blocked. After rushing for a while, there were many casualties, and the vanguard retreated.Li Tingdong saw the opportunity and immediately led the Ming army to charge. The Miao soldiers were in chaos and it was difficult to stop them. Yang Chaodong turned his horse and ordered to retreat.

Yang Guozhu was overjoyed, and immediately issued a strict order to capture Yang Chaodong alive.So the whole Ming army pursued, and Li Tingdong took the lead, covering up and killing Yang Chaodong all the way.

Yang Chaodong rushed to Tianbangtun and hurriedly met Yang Zhaolong and He Hanliang, explaining that the army was about to catch up and asked them to make preparations quickly.He Hanliang quickly placed haystacks and dry firewood all over the place, while Yang Zhaolong concealed his bow and crossbow. Yang Chaodong then selected his own soldiers as death camps to wait for the Ming army.

Li Tingdong leads the Ming army to chase into Tianbangtun, Yang Guozhu arrives later, the two sides start a bloody battle with the Bozhou soldiers, but Yang Chaodong is nowhere to be seen, Yang Guozhu inevitably feels uneasy.

The result of uneasiness on the battlefield is usually fulfilled. As expected, a fire suddenly broke out around Tianbangtun, and all exits were cut off.

At this time, for the Bozhou Army, He Hanliang and Yang Chaodong each led a unit on standby in case the Ming army broke through.Yang Zhaolong ordered the crossbowmen to shoot rockets all around, and the three thousand Ming troops in Tianbang were in a mess. Arrows rained down on their heads and they were burned in flames. Soon, more than half of them were killed or injured, and Li Tingdong was killed on the spot.

Yang Guozhu mourned greatly, and the Ming army continued to mourn. When the fire weakened, He Hanliang judged that the Ming army should be running out, so Yang Chaodong and He Hanliang led the army into Tianbangtun.At this time, more than a thousand members of the remnant of the Ming army were injured by arrows and burns, and all their firearms were destroyed. Facing the Miao soldiers' assault, they were powerless and the entire army was wiped out.

Yang Chaodong captured many officers, including Yang Guozhu, and ordered them to kneel down and beg for surrender.Yang Guozhu yelled: "Traitors! How can the court fail you? You will be punished by heaven for committing a rebellion and slaughtering officials and people! When Admiral Liu arrives, you will be told that there will be no bones left for the rebels in Bozhou! My head can be beheaded, This knee cannot be bent!"

Yang Chaodong scolded: "You stupid thief, you dare to be so presumptuous now that you are a prisoner. The two provinces of Guizhou and Shu covet my land of Bozhou. Over the years, they have repeatedly forced each other, picked quarrels and caused troubles, and secretly linked five divisions and seven surnames to Luo Zhi. , my younger brother Yang Kedong also died in the assassination, so now, what face do you have to pretend to be righteous!"

Yang Guozhu scolded: "Don't be sophistry against the thief! It is clear that Yang Yinglong's crimes are heinous and immoral, and you are acting as a minion and helping the evil, and the people of Bozhou have suffered greatly. The two provinces of Guizhou and Shu have been investigated many times, and Yang Yinglong's conspiracy has repeatedly escaped justice. You have no remorse for the crimes you committed! Your Majesty has forgiven you many times, but you have intensified!
In my opinion, Yang Kedong's death must have been God's will. The imperial court sent troops this time as a final warning. Now that the rebellion has been revealed, the day of the Yang family's demise in Bozhou is just around the corner! "

Yang Chaodong then ordered the beheading of all 13 captured generals including Yang Guozhu to pay homage to the souls of the Miao soldiers.The Bozhou army then assembled, returned to Feilian Fort, and plundered Guizhou. The guards in various places were vulnerable and the people were displaced.Governor Jiang Dongzhi of Guizhou was waiting for the response at the border. Seeing that the Bozhou Army had entered Guizhou and was unstoppable, Jiang Dong was terrified and escaped in a hurry.

However, the Bozhou Army also knew that the key to this battle was Liu Ting's way, so he withdrew from Guizhou soon after killing [-] soldiers and civilians.Jiang Dongzhi was so ashamed and indignant that he pleaded guilty to Shangshu.
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