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Chapter 439: Protect the ship and defeat the enemy, the enemy is in Mexico!
Chapter 439: Protect the ship and defeat the enemy, the enemy is in Mexico! (Please subscribe, please vote)
The small auditorium where a high-level military meeting was held in the General's Mansion was now filled with high-level officials from the Ming Dynasty's army and navy, as well as a few big bosses from the Shangshu Province and the Council of Ministers who could be involved in military affairs.
Most of the generals and bosses were sitting in solemn silence, looking at the copy of "Prince Gong's Memorial" and thinking hard about it.Li Zhongshan turned his back to them, looking at the huge world map hanging, motionless.
Outside the window, there was the garden of the General's Mansion. It was bright and green in spring, and the sun was shining in. But inside the solemn atmosphere of the auditorium, it became a bit cold.
The "Prince Gong Memorial" was Kang Mazi's battle plan that Shang Shuying brought all the way to Nanjing. Although it was only a rough outline, it also made the generals and bigwigs participating in today's meeting feel a little troubled. .
If there is only "one country defending one city" or "Japanese pirate tactics", it is actually not difficult to deal with it.A country defends a city. In other words, destroying a city is equivalent to destroying a country!Historically, the Khitan people used Yanjing as a city, and the Dangxiang people used Lingzhou as a city. Both of them made the Song Dynasty suffer defeat and lost troops and generals.
But the current Ming Dynasty is not the weak Song Dynasty. The current Ming army has extremely strong field combat and siege capabilities. It is a bit similar to the Beifu Heavenly Soldiers under Liu Yu who devoured mountains and rivers in the past. There is no need to pile up a large army on the attack spearhead, so it can A large number of troops can maintain logistics lines, and can also expand to both sides along the logistics lines, control more territory, and perhaps collect a large number of civilians and food in the former Qing Dynasty.
After all, it is impossible for Kang Mazi to clear the country from Shandong all the way to Beijing. At most, it can only be carried out within the territory of Beizhili. Moreover, it is impossible to clear the entire Beizhili to the point where there is no grass left, and it is impossible to clear the two hundred south of Beijing. It will be good if it is thoroughly cleaned.
Therefore, as long as the total strength of the Ming army is sufficient and the layout is light at the front and heavy at the back, it will not be difficult to break through Kang Mazi's heavily defended Beijing city.
And the "Japanese pirate tactics" cannot defeat the current Ming Dynasty.It’s the same reason. The Ming Army’s army has strong combat effectiveness!
Moreover, the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty were harmed by the coastal relocation policy of the Qing Dynasty, so the residents there are all Chinese military households who moved there after the restoration of the Ming Dynasty - roughly equivalent to the warriors of the Ming Dynasty, but these warriors of the Ming Dynasty all carried flintlocks. !If the Japanese pirates came less, they would be shot to death. If more Japanese pirates came, they could hold on to the fortress, light beacon fires, and wait for reinforcements.
Now we just need to allocate some money to let the coastal towns seize the time to build some forts and beacon towers. There is no need to build any bastions. Ordinary civil forts are enough and they don’t cost much. And many of them have a strong sense of crisis. The township capital has already repaired the fortress and prepared for battle.
But if this "one country defends one city" and "Japanese pirate tactics" are combined, it will not be easy to deal with.
If the Ming Dynasty wants to deal with the Qing Dynasty's "one country defending one city", it must pile up a large number of troops on the logistics line, which means that the main force of the Ming Dynasty army must be dispatched!
At the same time, we cannot relax our defense in the direction of the Great Zhou Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty are now in a state of despair!Therefore, Wu Yingqi is very likely to send troops to cooperate with the Qing Dynasty, so the Ming Dynasty must have enough reserves deployed in the direction of Huguang and Henan.As a result, there will not be many armies that can defend the sea territory of thousands of miles.
If the Spanish, Dutch, English, Portuguese and Japanese invaded from the sea at this time, there would be big trouble!
The source of this trouble is the lack of strength of the Ming Navy!
Although in recent years, Ming Dynasty has invested heavily in naval construction and built four major shipyards. It has built 1500 dry docks that can build battleships with an unloaded displacement of 40 tons, and 8 of them can also build empty ships. Large sailing battleships with a carrying capacity of more than 2000 tons. If you include the slipways used to build battleships of less than 1000 tons, and if they can all be operated at full capacity, theoretically the four major shipyards of the Ming Dynasty can launch a Dutch navy in two years!
However, shipbuilding capabilities and naval strength cannot be completely equated.The combat effectiveness of the navy these days largely depends on its people. Only a sufficient number of excellent naval officers and key sailors can allow those first, second, third and fourth level battleships to fully exert their power.
If shipbuilding alone could solve the problem, then the Spanish Armada would not always beat the Dutch and British to death, and Louis, the French Sun King, should also be able to successfully land in England.
But can the army generals understand this?Can General Li Zhongshan understand?
Li Zhongshan kept his hands behind his back and said nothing. The air pressure in the auditorium became lower and lower.Liu Guoxuan, the naval director in charge of the navy general's office, just felt that the army's eyes were constantly looking at him, and the eyes of Ma Jun director Li Laishun, a country bumpkin, were full of blame - you navy, you need to know your shame!After spending so much money, why did you give up at the critical moment?
Liu Guo The main fleet will fight with the Spanish Armada on the ocean. After the naval battle is won, the army will send troops northward, and they will get full success!"
There was a solemn atmosphere in the auditorium. The bosses and generals sitting on both sides of a long table all turned to look at the suddenly angry Navy Director. There was both suspicion and expectation in their eyes.
Li Zhongshan slowly turned around, with an expressionless face and piercing eyes, looking at Ming Dynasty's most capable naval general: "Sightseeing, are you really sure? The navy's warships can be built in large quantities, but it can sail soft sailing ships across the ocean. But it is not easy to train good seamen, and good captains and first mates are even rarer. If they are all lost, it will take several years or even ten years to recover. Do you think we can take a gamble like this?"
Liu Guoxuan's face suddenly turned red, and his chest heaved violently: "General! The so-called Spanish Armada now cruises along the coast of our country from time to time. It often creates troubles, robs our merchant ships, and bullies our fishermen. Everyone in the navy is furious. I only wish to fight against the Spanish Armada!"
For more than a year, the Spanish Armada has behaved very rudely, repeatedly harassing merchant ships and fishermen along the coast of Ming Dynasty even though Ming Dynasty and Spain did not declare war.Due to its lack of strength, the Ming Navy could only swallow its anger and did not dare to fight to the death.
Under this circumstance, the call for a quick fight within the Navy is getting louder and louder, especially since a large number of fourth-level battleships began to enter service in the eighth and ninth years of the Republic - that year, the annual output was seventy or eighty. A battleship of level four and above is only the theoretical maximum production, and there is still a process to reach production.However, the Ming Navy now has more than 30 fourth-class ships in service!
The quality of these fourth-level ships may not be as good as those made in Britain, the Netherlands, or France, but they are still capable of fighting.
Li Zhongshan looked at Liu Guoxuan coldly for a while, and finally shook his head: "The navy is not strong enough and cannot easily ask for war. Otherwise, once the navy is defeated, the Northern Expedition will be postponed for several years or even ten years, and Ming Dynasty's plate in Nanyang and the New World will be postponed." It will also collapse.”
Zheng Jing, the political leader, also nodded and said: "Shikai is right, it's okay to postpone the Northern Expedition for three to five years. The plates of Nanyang and the New World cannot collapse!"
Zheng Jing was Liu Guoxuan's "eldest brother". As soon as he spoke, the navy boss couldn't say more. He could only sigh and slowly sit down.At this moment, Li Zhongshan suddenly spoke up: "Sightseeing, how many fourth-level ships are available in the Navy now? King Yi, how many armed Galen ships are available in your Nanyang Company?"
Liu Guoxuan quickly resumed his standing posture and replied: "General, the Navy currently has a total of 31 fourth-level warships available, 75 of which are under construction, and 22 of them are being outfitted."
Zheng Jing did not stand up, but sat down and replied: "Shikai, there are already a few armed Galen ships now, Nanyang Company has more than 50 ships, and Guangdong Company has more than 20 ships, but these ships are all transporting cargo. Up to 30 ships can be selected to fight with the navy."
This is the strength of the country with the largest handicraft industry!
To be honest, the shipbuilding industry these days is also a handicraft industry. It relies on handwork, and the foundation is carpentry.
The total number of carpenters in the Ming Dynasty, even those engaged in the shipbuilding industry, is not comparable to that of countries like the Netherlands with a population of 300 million, England with a population of 700 million, and Spain with a population of 600 million.
Britain, the Netherlands, and Spain together only had 1600 million, while the Ming Dynasty alone had 6000 million. Three times that is 400 million more!
Moreover, the Ming Dynasty's shipbuilding industry did not start from scratch. In Zheng Zhilong's time, armed Galen ships began to be built. Later, although Galen ships were not built neatly, old lock ships using Galen hulls and hard sails were still built. of.
Therefore, before the "nothing is difficult" Leibniz became the general adviser of armaments and the general adviser of Jinling University, the Ming Dynasty's shipbuilding strength was not weak. Ripe.In addition, due to the comprehensive recovery of maritime trade and the Ming Dynasty beginning to gain a stronghold in the Jiulong River Basin and the Pattani Sultanate, Siam, which was caught in the middle, also began to get closer to the Ming Dynasty and provided a large amount of high-quality teak to the Zheng family's Nanyang Trading Company. , thereby solving the raw material bottleneck of a large number of dumplings for shipbuilding.
Under the guidance of Leibniz, the four major shipyards of the Ming Dynasty all built dry docks that are rare in Europe (they are expensive and require labor to build). A group of shipbuilding engineers who are proficient in geometry and mechanics, After receiving personal training from Leibniz, he went to work in various shipyards.Although these people had constant conflicts with the shipbuilding masters, they eventually improved the efficiency and quality of shipbuilding.
However, these fourth-level ships built by the four major shipyards are completely different in the hands of the Ming Navy and the Dutch Navy.
"31 plus 30, plus the Liaodong, that's 62 soft sailing ships!" Li Zhongshan nodded, "Can it be ready before June this year?"
"That's no problem." Liu Guoxuan replied, "General, with these 62 soft sailing ships, the navy can at least have a [-]% chance of winning!"
Li Zhongshan shook his head: "Sightseeing. Don't talk about a decisive battle! The two to three thousand naval officers and key sailors on these 62 ships are the foundation of our Ming Navy. They were gathered with great difficulty."
The seafarers are also divided into backbones and odd jobs, and odd jobs are easy to get. Maritime powers like the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, which are "honesty-based" and "observe the rules", will even go to taverns in coastal cities in various countries to "cheat" people!
Oh, if we talk about kidnapping, that’s fine too!
Just get people drunk, then put their fingerprints on the overlord contract, and carry them directly to the ship. When these unlucky guys wake up, they are already floating on the ocean. They can't escape, so they can only give it to the British and The Dutch worked as coolies, and this was a coolie with a high mortality rate.
But the key crew members must be supported with high wages and must be well protected. Every one of them is a talent!
Therefore, equality is not very important on sea ships around the world. Senior crew members are paid higher than ordinary seafarers. Because of the high salary, they are more likely to eat food containing vitamins. They are also less likely to suffer from scurvy and have a lower survival rate. Naturally, it’s also high.
Of course, what Ming Dynasty lacks most is these core crew members.At the same time, the level of the core crew of Ming Dynasty is also much lower than that of their counterparts in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Spain.
However, they are still extremely precious and cannot be sacrificed lightly.
"Traveling," Li Zhongshan said to Liu Guoxuan, "we must learn to protect the ship and defeat the enemy!"
"Protect the ship and defeat the enemy, this..." Liu Guoxuan didn't know what to say.
But Li Zhongshan said plausibly: "By keeping the ship, we can sail across the four seas. As long as we can sail across the four seas, the Spanish Armada will be controlled by me. I have thought over and over again and come up with a strategy to defeat the enemy. Now I will tell you about it. listen."
General, has he thought of a solution?
That's it!
The atmosphere down there immediately became visibly relaxed - as long as the general thought of a way, everything would be fine!
Li Zhongshan smiled and said: "Our navy is still very weak and we cannot easily fight a decisive battle. We must protect our ships and defeat the enemy. But where is this enemy? In my opinion, this enemy is in Mexico!"
"The enemy is in Mexico?"
“Isn’t Mexico in the New World?”
"General, do you want the navy to attack the New World?"
The generals and bosses below were a little shocked.
Li Zhongshan said: "Everyone, the reason why the Kingdom of Spain is fighting with us is actually because we exported republicanism to New Spain and supported the republican city-state in the port of Acapulco, which made the Kingdom of Spain feel their financial resources—— The gold and silver mines of the New World were in danger of being destroyed by the republican revolutions in the New World that we supported.
If Spain loses all its gold and silver in the New World, then their Armada is nothing to worry about and we don’t have to take action. Louis XIV can destroy the Kingdom of Spain! "
Everyone understood it immediately!
Li Zhongshan is trying to drain Spain's salary from under the cauldron!Aren't they able to maintain such a huge army and navy only by relying on the gold and silver mountains of the New World?Without the money from the New World, how many soldiers could Spain with a population of 600 million support?It would be great if the Armada could support an army of tens of thousands to protect itself.
"Shikai," Zheng Jing asked hurriedly, "are you going to use 62 soft sailing ships to transport troops to the New World? If each of these 62 soft sailing ships can carry 200 infantry, that is 12400 plus the troops already in Acapulco. , maybe even a 30000-strong army can be pulled out!"
Li Zhongshan nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, with 30000 troops, are we afraid that we can't take Mexico? Once Mexico belongs to us, even if the Spaniards don't lose the gold and silver in the New World, they will still be in chaos! By then, their Can that invincible fleet still stay on the coast of our Ming Dynasty? We must return reinforcements. For sightseeing, don’t fight them when the time comes, just lead them in circles on the Pacific Ocean. They are soft sailing ships, and we are also soft sailing ships. The speed on the ocean should be about the same, right? If we want to run, will it be difficult for them to catch up? This is called protecting the ship and defeating the enemy! How about it? Sightseeing, can you do it? "
Liu Guoxuan smiled and said: "Yes! The Pacific Ocean is so wide! Can we run away? Besides, we also have a treasure to prevent scurvy! They don't have this treasure!"
The pursuit battles at sea in this era were affected by various factors, among which scurvy was an important factor.If one side can overcome scurvy, one side cannot.Then the party that can overcome scurvy can last longer at sea, while the party that cannot overcome scurvy has to seize the time to chase the enemy. Generally, two or three months without docking is already the limit. .
For sailing ships, unless they are sailing along the coast, they will not be able to dock whenever they want. If a fleet sails into a dangerous sea area like the windless area of the Equator, it is not uncommon for a fleet to drift for two to three months. ?
In this case, the party who cannot overcome the scurvy is very likely to be completely wiped out by the disease.
(End of this chapter)
The small auditorium where a high-level military meeting was held in the General's Mansion was now filled with high-level officials from the Ming Dynasty's army and navy, as well as a few big bosses from the Shangshu Province and the Council of Ministers who could be involved in military affairs.
Most of the generals and bosses were sitting in solemn silence, looking at the copy of "Prince Gong's Memorial" and thinking hard about it.Li Zhongshan turned his back to them, looking at the huge world map hanging, motionless.
Outside the window, there was the garden of the General's Mansion. It was bright and green in spring, and the sun was shining in. But inside the solemn atmosphere of the auditorium, it became a bit cold.
The "Prince Gong Memorial" was Kang Mazi's battle plan that Shang Shuying brought all the way to Nanjing. Although it was only a rough outline, it also made the generals and bigwigs participating in today's meeting feel a little troubled. .
If there is only "one country defending one city" or "Japanese pirate tactics", it is actually not difficult to deal with it.A country defends a city. In other words, destroying a city is equivalent to destroying a country!Historically, the Khitan people used Yanjing as a city, and the Dangxiang people used Lingzhou as a city. Both of them made the Song Dynasty suffer defeat and lost troops and generals.
But the current Ming Dynasty is not the weak Song Dynasty. The current Ming army has extremely strong field combat and siege capabilities. It is a bit similar to the Beifu Heavenly Soldiers under Liu Yu who devoured mountains and rivers in the past. There is no need to pile up a large army on the attack spearhead, so it can A large number of troops can maintain logistics lines, and can also expand to both sides along the logistics lines, control more territory, and perhaps collect a large number of civilians and food in the former Qing Dynasty.
After all, it is impossible for Kang Mazi to clear the country from Shandong all the way to Beijing. At most, it can only be carried out within the territory of Beizhili. Moreover, it is impossible to clear the entire Beizhili to the point where there is no grass left, and it is impossible to clear the two hundred south of Beijing. It will be good if it is thoroughly cleaned.
Therefore, as long as the total strength of the Ming army is sufficient and the layout is light at the front and heavy at the back, it will not be difficult to break through Kang Mazi's heavily defended Beijing city.
And the "Japanese pirate tactics" cannot defeat the current Ming Dynasty.It’s the same reason. The Ming Army’s army has strong combat effectiveness!
Moreover, the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty were harmed by the coastal relocation policy of the Qing Dynasty, so the residents there are all Chinese military households who moved there after the restoration of the Ming Dynasty - roughly equivalent to the warriors of the Ming Dynasty, but these warriors of the Ming Dynasty all carried flintlocks. !If the Japanese pirates came less, they would be shot to death. If more Japanese pirates came, they could hold on to the fortress, light beacon fires, and wait for reinforcements.
Now we just need to allocate some money to let the coastal towns seize the time to build some forts and beacon towers. There is no need to build any bastions. Ordinary civil forts are enough and they don’t cost much. And many of them have a strong sense of crisis. The township capital has already repaired the fortress and prepared for battle.
But if this "one country defends one city" and "Japanese pirate tactics" are combined, it will not be easy to deal with.
If the Ming Dynasty wants to deal with the Qing Dynasty's "one country defending one city", it must pile up a large number of troops on the logistics line, which means that the main force of the Ming Dynasty army must be dispatched!
At the same time, we cannot relax our defense in the direction of the Great Zhou Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty are now in a state of despair!Therefore, Wu Yingqi is very likely to send troops to cooperate with the Qing Dynasty, so the Ming Dynasty must have enough reserves deployed in the direction of Huguang and Henan.As a result, there will not be many armies that can defend the sea territory of thousands of miles.
If the Spanish, Dutch, English, Portuguese and Japanese invaded from the sea at this time, there would be big trouble!
The source of this trouble is the lack of strength of the Ming Navy!
Although in recent years, Ming Dynasty has invested heavily in naval construction and built four major shipyards. It has built 1500 dry docks that can build battleships with an unloaded displacement of 40 tons, and 8 of them can also build empty ships. Large sailing battleships with a carrying capacity of more than 2000 tons. If you include the slipways used to build battleships of less than 1000 tons, and if they can all be operated at full capacity, theoretically the four major shipyards of the Ming Dynasty can launch a Dutch navy in two years!
However, shipbuilding capabilities and naval strength cannot be completely equated.The combat effectiveness of the navy these days largely depends on its people. Only a sufficient number of excellent naval officers and key sailors can allow those first, second, third and fourth level battleships to fully exert their power.
If shipbuilding alone could solve the problem, then the Spanish Armada would not always beat the Dutch and British to death, and Louis, the French Sun King, should also be able to successfully land in England.
But can the army generals understand this?Can General Li Zhongshan understand?
Li Zhongshan kept his hands behind his back and said nothing. The air pressure in the auditorium became lower and lower.Liu Guoxuan, the naval director in charge of the navy general's office, just felt that the army's eyes were constantly looking at him, and the eyes of Ma Jun director Li Laishun, a country bumpkin, were full of blame - you navy, you need to know your shame!After spending so much money, why did you give up at the critical moment?
Liu Guo The main fleet will fight with the Spanish Armada on the ocean. After the naval battle is won, the army will send troops northward, and they will get full success!"
There was a solemn atmosphere in the auditorium. The bosses and generals sitting on both sides of a long table all turned to look at the suddenly angry Navy Director. There was both suspicion and expectation in their eyes.
Li Zhongshan slowly turned around, with an expressionless face and piercing eyes, looking at Ming Dynasty's most capable naval general: "Sightseeing, are you really sure? The navy's warships can be built in large quantities, but it can sail soft sailing ships across the ocean. But it is not easy to train good seamen, and good captains and first mates are even rarer. If they are all lost, it will take several years or even ten years to recover. Do you think we can take a gamble like this?"
Liu Guoxuan's face suddenly turned red, and his chest heaved violently: "General! The so-called Spanish Armada now cruises along the coast of our country from time to time. It often creates troubles, robs our merchant ships, and bullies our fishermen. Everyone in the navy is furious. I only wish to fight against the Spanish Armada!"
For more than a year, the Spanish Armada has behaved very rudely, repeatedly harassing merchant ships and fishermen along the coast of Ming Dynasty even though Ming Dynasty and Spain did not declare war.Due to its lack of strength, the Ming Navy could only swallow its anger and did not dare to fight to the death.
Under this circumstance, the call for a quick fight within the Navy is getting louder and louder, especially since a large number of fourth-level battleships began to enter service in the eighth and ninth years of the Republic - that year, the annual output was seventy or eighty. A battleship of level four and above is only the theoretical maximum production, and there is still a process to reach production.However, the Ming Navy now has more than 30 fourth-class ships in service!
The quality of these fourth-level ships may not be as good as those made in Britain, the Netherlands, or France, but they are still capable of fighting.
Li Zhongshan looked at Liu Guoxuan coldly for a while, and finally shook his head: "The navy is not strong enough and cannot easily ask for war. Otherwise, once the navy is defeated, the Northern Expedition will be postponed for several years or even ten years, and Ming Dynasty's plate in Nanyang and the New World will be postponed." It will also collapse.”
Zheng Jing, the political leader, also nodded and said: "Shikai is right, it's okay to postpone the Northern Expedition for three to five years. The plates of Nanyang and the New World cannot collapse!"
Zheng Jing was Liu Guoxuan's "eldest brother". As soon as he spoke, the navy boss couldn't say more. He could only sigh and slowly sit down.At this moment, Li Zhongshan suddenly spoke up: "Sightseeing, how many fourth-level ships are available in the Navy now? King Yi, how many armed Galen ships are available in your Nanyang Company?"
Liu Guoxuan quickly resumed his standing posture and replied: "General, the Navy currently has a total of 31 fourth-level warships available, 75 of which are under construction, and 22 of them are being outfitted."
Zheng Jing did not stand up, but sat down and replied: "Shikai, there are already a few armed Galen ships now, Nanyang Company has more than 50 ships, and Guangdong Company has more than 20 ships, but these ships are all transporting cargo. Up to 30 ships can be selected to fight with the navy."
This is the strength of the country with the largest handicraft industry!
To be honest, the shipbuilding industry these days is also a handicraft industry. It relies on handwork, and the foundation is carpentry.
The total number of carpenters in the Ming Dynasty, even those engaged in the shipbuilding industry, is not comparable to that of countries like the Netherlands with a population of 300 million, England with a population of 700 million, and Spain with a population of 600 million.
Britain, the Netherlands, and Spain together only had 1600 million, while the Ming Dynasty alone had 6000 million. Three times that is 400 million more!
Moreover, the Ming Dynasty's shipbuilding industry did not start from scratch. In Zheng Zhilong's time, armed Galen ships began to be built. Later, although Galen ships were not built neatly, old lock ships using Galen hulls and hard sails were still built. of.
Therefore, before the "nothing is difficult" Leibniz became the general adviser of armaments and the general adviser of Jinling University, the Ming Dynasty's shipbuilding strength was not weak. Ripe.In addition, due to the comprehensive recovery of maritime trade and the Ming Dynasty beginning to gain a stronghold in the Jiulong River Basin and the Pattani Sultanate, Siam, which was caught in the middle, also began to get closer to the Ming Dynasty and provided a large amount of high-quality teak to the Zheng family's Nanyang Trading Company. , thereby solving the raw material bottleneck of a large number of dumplings for shipbuilding.
Under the guidance of Leibniz, the four major shipyards of the Ming Dynasty all built dry docks that are rare in Europe (they are expensive and require labor to build). A group of shipbuilding engineers who are proficient in geometry and mechanics, After receiving personal training from Leibniz, he went to work in various shipyards.Although these people had constant conflicts with the shipbuilding masters, they eventually improved the efficiency and quality of shipbuilding.
However, these fourth-level ships built by the four major shipyards are completely different in the hands of the Ming Navy and the Dutch Navy.
"31 plus 30, plus the Liaodong, that's 62 soft sailing ships!" Li Zhongshan nodded, "Can it be ready before June this year?"
"That's no problem." Liu Guoxuan replied, "General, with these 62 soft sailing ships, the navy can at least have a [-]% chance of winning!"
Li Zhongshan shook his head: "Sightseeing. Don't talk about a decisive battle! The two to three thousand naval officers and key sailors on these 62 ships are the foundation of our Ming Navy. They were gathered with great difficulty."
The seafarers are also divided into backbones and odd jobs, and odd jobs are easy to get. Maritime powers like the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, which are "honesty-based" and "observe the rules", will even go to taverns in coastal cities in various countries to "cheat" people!
Oh, if we talk about kidnapping, that’s fine too!
Just get people drunk, then put their fingerprints on the overlord contract, and carry them directly to the ship. When these unlucky guys wake up, they are already floating on the ocean. They can't escape, so they can only give it to the British and The Dutch worked as coolies, and this was a coolie with a high mortality rate.
But the key crew members must be supported with high wages and must be well protected. Every one of them is a talent!
Therefore, equality is not very important on sea ships around the world. Senior crew members are paid higher than ordinary seafarers. Because of the high salary, they are more likely to eat food containing vitamins. They are also less likely to suffer from scurvy and have a lower survival rate. Naturally, it’s also high.
Of course, what Ming Dynasty lacks most is these core crew members.At the same time, the level of the core crew of Ming Dynasty is also much lower than that of their counterparts in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Spain.
However, they are still extremely precious and cannot be sacrificed lightly.
"Traveling," Li Zhongshan said to Liu Guoxuan, "we must learn to protect the ship and defeat the enemy!"
"Protect the ship and defeat the enemy, this..." Liu Guoxuan didn't know what to say.
But Li Zhongshan said plausibly: "By keeping the ship, we can sail across the four seas. As long as we can sail across the four seas, the Spanish Armada will be controlled by me. I have thought over and over again and come up with a strategy to defeat the enemy. Now I will tell you about it. listen."
General, has he thought of a solution?
That's it!
The atmosphere down there immediately became visibly relaxed - as long as the general thought of a way, everything would be fine!
Li Zhongshan smiled and said: "Our navy is still very weak and we cannot easily fight a decisive battle. We must protect our ships and defeat the enemy. But where is this enemy? In my opinion, this enemy is in Mexico!"
"The enemy is in Mexico?"
“Isn’t Mexico in the New World?”
"General, do you want the navy to attack the New World?"
The generals and bosses below were a little shocked.
Li Zhongshan said: "Everyone, the reason why the Kingdom of Spain is fighting with us is actually because we exported republicanism to New Spain and supported the republican city-state in the port of Acapulco, which made the Kingdom of Spain feel their financial resources—— The gold and silver mines of the New World were in danger of being destroyed by the republican revolutions in the New World that we supported.
If Spain loses all its gold and silver in the New World, then their Armada is nothing to worry about and we don’t have to take action. Louis XIV can destroy the Kingdom of Spain! "
Everyone understood it immediately!
Li Zhongshan is trying to drain Spain's salary from under the cauldron!Aren't they able to maintain such a huge army and navy only by relying on the gold and silver mountains of the New World?Without the money from the New World, how many soldiers could Spain with a population of 600 million support?It would be great if the Armada could support an army of tens of thousands to protect itself.
"Shikai," Zheng Jing asked hurriedly, "are you going to use 62 soft sailing ships to transport troops to the New World? If each of these 62 soft sailing ships can carry 200 infantry, that is 12400 plus the troops already in Acapulco. , maybe even a 30000-strong army can be pulled out!"
Li Zhongshan nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, with 30000 troops, are we afraid that we can't take Mexico? Once Mexico belongs to us, even if the Spaniards don't lose the gold and silver in the New World, they will still be in chaos! By then, their Can that invincible fleet still stay on the coast of our Ming Dynasty? We must return reinforcements. For sightseeing, don’t fight them when the time comes, just lead them in circles on the Pacific Ocean. They are soft sailing ships, and we are also soft sailing ships. The speed on the ocean should be about the same, right? If we want to run, will it be difficult for them to catch up? This is called protecting the ship and defeating the enemy! How about it? Sightseeing, can you do it? "
Liu Guoxuan smiled and said: "Yes! The Pacific Ocean is so wide! Can we run away? Besides, we also have a treasure to prevent scurvy! They don't have this treasure!"
The pursuit battles at sea in this era were affected by various factors, among which scurvy was an important factor.If one side can overcome scurvy, one side cannot.Then the party that can overcome scurvy can last longer at sea, while the party that cannot overcome scurvy has to seize the time to chase the enemy. Generally, two or three months without docking is already the limit. .
For sailing ships, unless they are sailing along the coast, they will not be able to dock whenever they want. If a fleet sails into a dangerous sea area like the windless area of the Equator, it is not uncommon for a fleet to drift for two to three months. ?
In this case, the party who cannot overcome the scurvy is very likely to be completely wiped out by the disease.
(End of this chapter)
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