Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 995 Their ship has magic!
The 1 cavalry of the Chaohua Department have been stationed on the other side of the Sancha River ferry in the north of Dongchangbao for three full days.

In the past three days, Chaohua Taiji's mood has never been better for a moment, and the current and behind-the-scenes news made him very annoyed.

The current resentment is understandable. After all, Chaohuataiji has nothing to do with the "Ming Army Navy" who can't reach it in the Liaohe River, but it shoots it at every turn. Although it seems that their number is limited, at most It looked like twenty or thirty ships, but the ship was really big, and the key was to have guns and cannons. Forcing them in front of them would definitely be a dead end.

In addition to the "current", there seems to be trouble in the "behind", that is, Tumen was sweating profusely all the way. It was said that the distance between the two armies was only a day's journey, but I waited here for this guy for three days. The Khans still didn't show up. If it wasn't for the fact that the messengers from both sides kept coming and going, and you could keep track of each other's whereabouts, you might have to think that the Khan of All Mongolia was so frightened that he shrank back to Chahanhot.

But in fact, Tumen Dahan really kept walking, but it was as slow as Ming army infantry, and he was still half a day away.

"It's no wonder that Tumen suffered such a big defeat in Tumot. He doesn't even understand the principle that soldiers are expensive and fast. If you don't suffer defeat, whoever will suffer defeat!"

Hearing my Taiji No. 13 swearing this sentence, the soldiers at the gate of the big battle all rolled their eyes helplessly, looking at each other speechlessly.

And at the same time, more than forty miles to the north, Tumen Dahan not only didn't sneeze, but was talking to Brihatu with a smile on his face.

"Is the news true? That Qin Deyi was really forced to send troops by Zhou Yong and Han Guang, the lackeys of the Zhu family, and he was urged to send troops three times a day to reward him. He just refused to go south decisively?"

Brihatu smiled and said to the Tumen: "Congratulations, the news is absolutely true. This shows that Qin Deyi, Li Chengliang's direct subordinate, does not have the slightest intention to go south, and his attitude must be Li Chengliang's." manner."

Tumen nodded again and again, and laughed loudly: "That's right, how dare Qin Deyi dare to make up his own mind for such a major event? Naturally, he was instructed by Li Chengliang, and he is quite far from where Li Chengliang is now, and Li Chengliang is in the mountains. Communication is already inconvenient, and there is no time for communication... It can only be said that Li Chengliang knew that there would be this step early in the morning, so he greeted Qin Deyi in advance. "

Brihatu smiled and said: "So sweaty, can we speed up? Judging from the messenger's return, Chaohua Taiji has already remembered to make a mouthful. We are all descendants of Dayan Khan, so it's not easy to let us go." He was so tortured."

Tumen snorted softly, obviously disapproving of the statement that "they are all descendants of Dayan Khan".

Of course, it’s not his fault. After all, Al Da is also a descendant of Dayan Khan, but forced the Chahar tribe to move eastward, and Hannaji, who is also a descendant of Dayan Khan, even dared to meet him in battle, so that His strength was damaged again, and his prestige plummeted.

However, whether it is Dayan Khan's descendants is not important, but after all, Chaohua still has a certain strength, and he needs to be wooed. Moreover, this time the troops will be sent with his strength, so it is really not good to completely ignore his ideas .

Therefore, Tumen Da Khan nodded at this moment, and said: "Although this guy Chaohua has no skills, and he was forced to cross the river by a few boats of Ming people, he is still a loyal subject of this Khan, Ben Khan It’s true that he can’t be chilled, so let’s speed up and discuss with Chaohua Taiji how to cross the river.”

Tumen profusely said that he would speed up when he said that he would speed up. Originally, he would have to walk for half a day at the previous speed, but now he finished the journey in just over an hour.

Chaohuataiji was overjoyed and went out to greet the Great Khan in person. The two sides said a few words of intimacy in front of each other's soldiers, so that the Mongolian cavalry who didn't know the truth thought that the two of them were really brothers.

After Chaohua ushered Khan into his big tent, the smile on his face like a warm sunshine immediately turned into a frowning face, and he sighed and said to Tumen Khan: "Khan, I really didn't know at first, but now I don't know. The navy of the army is so troublesome! I have been sweating profusely for three days here, not doing nothing. I once deliberately divided up the troops to make a raid in order to find out the speed of the opponent's navy, but the opponent's The speed is far beyond my estimation, almost not much slower than cavalry, what do you think should be done?"

This news was a bit unexpected, not only the Tumen were stunned when they heard it, but even Brihatu frowned immediately.

However, Burihatu was like a military adviser after all, he frowned and asked in a blink of an eye, "Zhaohuataiji, are you dividing your troops downstream or upstream?"

Chaohua Taiji widened his eyes and said: "Am I so stupid that I can't even understand this point? Divide the troops downstream, and they can flow down the river. The speed is naturally fast. How can I not know that? But the problem is, Even if I divide the troops upstream, their speed is still not slow, which is why I feel like a ghost, I suspect that their ships have black magic!"

Now, Brihatu also fell into doubt.Due to his limited background, his understanding of navy is of course not much better than that of fried flowers. How can he know the way to do this?
There are actually two reasons for this problem.

One is the ship itself. The Gao family's ships are "hybrid". Let the masters join in the design.

Theoretically speaking, the two sets of power systems will definitely have greater requirements on the size of the ship, and most of the time it will also affect the cargo capacity. However, the ships of Jinghua are big ships, so this effect does not matter, and the habit of high pragmatism is "The faster the transport ship, the higher the transport efficiency", so a little burden on manufacturing costs does not actually matter-as long as the business can't be completed, it must be more profitable.

But two sets of power alone are not enough, because if the wind is headwind, it is almost difficult to use the wind energy. Even the Chinese-style hard sail can "eat eight winds", but it can't do anything when the wind is completely headwind.

However, if you open the map, you can see that in autumn, the westerly or northwest wind has begun to blow in Liaodong—that is, the so-called Siberian cold current and the wind brought by the West Siberian cold current in later generations.

If this kind of wind is fed by Western-style soft sails, the efficiency loss will be great, but the utilization rate of Chinese-style hard sails for this kind of wind energy that is not completely downwind, but "roughly downwind" is still worth mentioning.

It is because of these two points that the Jinghua fleet is almost no slower than the Chaohua cavalry in the upstream.
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