Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 182
Jingjiang.

Ruan Jin, Liu Kongzhao, Zheng Cai, Zhu Chenggong, Wang Shixun and other naval generals came to greet them.

"Flower horse Liu escaped in anticipation of the wind, and has retreated to Taizhou. The five tiger generals under his command, dragon, phoenix, tiger, leopard, and peng, all dare not fight, so Taixing surrendered."

Zhu Yima has also heard of Liu Liangzuo, the flower horse. He was originally a military household in the Shanxi Guards, but later rebelled. Like Gao Jie, he was a subordinate of Li Zicheng. All the way to the general army.After the fall of Beidu, it became one of the four towns in Jiangbei by virtue of its support.

He once supported one hundred thousand soldiers and was very famous. He liked to ride a fancy horse, so he was called the flower horse Liu.However, this person, like Zuo Liangyu, Liu Zeqing and other military leaders, has all kinds of bad habits of warlords, but he will only bully the weak and fear the hard when he really fights.

The warlords that Chongzhen can't move, except for recruiting strong men to expand soldiers and horses everywhere, are looting people everywhere, and none of them are useful in real wars.

The Qing army went south, holding 80 troops and surrendering without firing an arrow, just like Zuo Liangyu, who guarded Hubei and claimed to have sent [-] troops south to the side of the Qing emperor.

They also showed their ability to fight against the peasant army who were alone.

This kind of person has no blood in his bones. When they meet the Northern Expeditionary Army of Lu Jianguo who went north, they are not willing to fight at all, and they dare not fight. They only think about how to protect themselves wisely and preserve their strength. care.

Zhu Yihai also saw through these people long ago, and let them follow the Qing army to win the battle, one by one was more fierce than the other, but if he let them fight alone, he would immediately coward one.

Even Li Chengdong, who later claimed to be able to fight, was actually famous for his achievements in suppressing the people of Susong, and later going south to Guangdong and Guangxi to fight against the Sanliu Ming army in those places, and even later counterattacked the Qing army and won many victories, but he did not fight the Eight Banners. It is mainly the green battalion adapted from the local surrendered Ming army.

"Don't pay attention to these people. I think Jingjiang can be used as a transit point. We have to hurry up and take down Chongming first. Chongming's several sandy islands occupy the mouth of the Yangtze River, connecting the sea and the river. The location is very important. We must take it as soon as possible. Boluo and Duoduo is surrounded, we can't be careless."

"Please rest assured, Your Highness, our navy division has already drawn up a battle plan to take down Chongming, and we can easily capture it." Ruan Jin is very conceited. This conceit is not only because he underestimates the enemy, but because he is a famous pirate at sea. He is highly skilled in combat and was born as a boatman and helmsman. No one is more familiar with sea ships and naval battles than him.

What's more, he has a strong army now, especially the batch of advanced warships added by Fujian Zheng's, which makes him even more powerful.

"Your Highness, please look at these warships. The largest of these is the Big Bird Ship, which is fifteen feet long and two feet six feet wide. After improvement, it has a double deck. With several cannons, it can be said to be invincible in the Yangtze River."

These big bird ships were improved on the basis of the bird ships by the Zheng family of Fujian after learning lessons from the sea battles with the Dutch, Spain and other foreigners. The original bird ships had watertight compartments and a single deck, and cannons could not be installed in the cabins. The deck could not accommodate too many artillery positions, so another layer was added to the deck to form a double deck.

The lower layer is heavy artillery, the upper layer is light artillery, and the bow is equipped with artillery.

Especially the heavy artillery on the lower level is completely the same as the naval cannon on the Dutch battleship. It is heavy but powerful. The improved bird ship is called the big bird ship, which is still a hard sail, although it is far inferior to the super battleship of the Dutch. But it is already the strongest in Ming Dynasty.

The warships of the Western Navy are classified at this time. Large ships of the first, second and third ranks are called battleships, the fourth ranks are cruisers, the fifth and sixth ranks are ordinary gunboats, and the sixth ranks and below are unrated warships.

Generally, the first-tier battleship has three decks and is equipped with more than 64 artillery pieces. The second-tier battleship also has three floors and is equipped with more than 74 guns.

Class A cruisers also have double decks and are equipped with more than fifty guns.

Even the fifth and sixth ranks have at least 24 to forty guns.

According to their classification, Fujian Zheng's most advanced big bird ship actually only has 36 guns, which is not even qualified for a fourth-tier cruiser.

But this kind of big bird boat is not all useless. If it is in the coastal waters, especially in inland rivers like the Yangtze River, the hard sail big bird boat is more stable and flexible, and its firepower is also sufficient.

Back then, Cheng used the terrain and tides of the bay to attack with small boats and fire, and he was able to defeat Western sailing warships as well.

However, although there is a big gap between the big bird ship and the sailing warships of the red-haired fans, at the mouth of the Yangtze River at this time, it is indeed as Ruan Jin said, it is invincible, and there is no stronger one.

The Qing army now has no navy at all.

Even the ships of Ming Dynasty navy divisions such as Huang Fei and the others were mainly small boats such as Zongchuan and sandboats. In fact, they can only be regarded as improved civilian ships, not real warships at all.

Both the zai boat and the boat were originally Fujian merchant ships. The zai boat was seven feet three feet long, and the thickness of the board was two inches.

The double canopy boat is six feet long.

In addition, the rice boat battleship improved by the Guangdong transport ship also has three models, large, medium and small. The rice boat is nine feet five in length, the middle length is eight feet six, and the small one is seven feet six.

The Zheng family also has an improved Tong'an Shuo boat, the large one is seven feet long, the medium one is sixty-four, and the small one is five-foot-nine. There is also an improved version of the Tong'an Shuo, but the length is only eighty-six.

The big bird ship was the only one over ten feet long.

In contrast, the most famous sailing battleship in the West, the Holy Trinity, is 61 meters long, has 140 cannons, and has four decks. It is a super first-class battleship with a displacement of 950 tons and a full crew of 50. Zero [-] people.

And the sixth-level sloop warship, with a gun deck, also has more than 20 artillery pieces, has about [-] crew members, and has a displacement of about [-] tons. Calculated, it is actually stronger than the big bird ship.

However, Zhu Yihai is quite satisfied with these ships. After all, it depends on who he compares with. At this stage, he has nine big bird ships, which are already very strong against the Qing army without a formal navy.

Ruan Jin defeated more than 200 enemy ships at sea with a chasing boat. Now that he has such a luxurious fleet, he is naturally confident in fighting Chongming.

Compared to Huang Fei's wandering fleet, which claims to have tens of thousands of ships, most of them are made up of fishing boats and sampans. In waters like the Yangtze River, which are not particularly wide, your tens of thousands of small fishing boats are crowded there. , It's hard for others not to set fire to it.

"Your Highness, please see King Yiyang." Liu Kongzhao has a good relationship with Tian Yang. At that time, Tian Yang was able to recover a criminal official, and he quickly became the governor of Huai'an, the governor of water transport, and the governor of Huai'an.

"Call!"

Zhu Yihai only replied one word.

(End of this chapter)