Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 541 Looking at the world
Li Jingjing nodded: "Their main purpose is to increase the range of the artillery. In sea combat, whoever has the longer range and greater power of the artillery will have the upper hand.

The range of our artillery is almost the same as that of the Yi people, but the ships of the Yi people are much stronger than our ships. Our artillery does not pose a great threat to the ships of the Yi people, mainly killing people, but when fighting , Most of the enemy's personnel are in the cabin, and it is difficult to cause substantial damage to them. In this way, the power of our artillery will be greatly reduced.

In fact, our artillery is mainly used to hit the sails of the enemy ship and disable the enemy ship.

However, destroying the sails of the enemy ship will result in the loss of the enemy's combat effectiveness. In large-scale naval battles, losing power to the enemy ship does not mean victory.Only by destroying the enemy's warships is the real way to win.

Now the barbarians want to manufacture larger caliber artillery. When their artillery range increases, our artillery will be completely useless.

We can learn from this kind of device. With this kind of device, the recoil force of the artillery can be greatly reduced. If we increase the thickness of the deck, we don't have to worry about the problem of the deck being pierced when the gun is fired, so that we can install a larger caliber artillery. "

Sun Chuanting was overjoyed when he heard the words: "Is the commander planning to build bigger artillery?"

Li Jingjing nodded: "It must be built. We must not be controlled by others in terms of weapons, so that we will not lose the wind in naval battles."

After a pause, Li Jing continued: "We need to build not only cannons, but also ships, warships that can compete with the warships of the barbarians. Our shipbuilding technology is too far behind the barbarians. We must catch up and surpass them. "

Sun Chuanting heard the words and sighed: "The commander-in-chief is really a man of great courage. It is really the greatest blessing in this life for Chuanting to follow the commander-in-chief."

Li Jing smiled: "Brother Boya, when our ship is built, you will take the Ming fleet to sweep the world and make all the barbarians submit to our strong ship and guns."

Sun Chuanting couldn't help being agitated when he heard the words, and after a while he said with emotion: "If there is such a day, Chuanting will really be worthy of this life."

Li Jing patted Sun Chuanting on the shoulder with a smile: "Brother Boya, if I am a soldier, if I don't have the courage to look down on the world, I'm not in vain."

The commander-in-chief is bold and dry, and the court will live up to the commander-in-chief's expectations. "Sun Chuanting said awe-inspiringly.

Li Jing waved his hand: "Brother Boya has been training at sea for several months. The officers and soldiers have worked hard. I will give you a few days off so that everyone can have a good rest."

Sun Chuanting turned around and looked at the officers and soldiers behind him, suddenly smiled and said, "It's rare for the commander to come to my boat, do you want to say a few words to the soldiers?"

Hearing this, Li Jing raised his eyes to look at the officers and soldiers on board, and seeing the eager eyes of everyone, Li Jing smiled and raised his voice and said: "I am not here to inspect everyone's training level this time, but to see the mental state of the brothers. So good, I am very pleased.

Mr. Sun asked me to say a few words to everyone, I have nothing to say, everyone is a real person, those clichés of defending the country are useless. "

All the officers and soldiers laughed lightly when they heard this.

After everyone laughed for a while, Li Jing continued: "Actually, my background is the same as everyone else's, maybe not as good as yours. I know what the purpose of the brothers' military service is to get the military salary and support the family.

But the salary of ordinary soldiers is not much, and they can only live the most ordinary life. If they want to earn more money, they have to kill the enemy on the battlefield and get promoted. Only when the rank is high, the salary will be higher.Therefore, in order to live a good life, everyone must train well, and only then will they be able to kill the enemy and make meritorious service on the battlefield, and then get promoted. "

Li Jing spoke the vernacular, and the officers and soldiers felt very cordial when they heard it. A small school bravely smiled and said: "Marshal, the purpose of our soldiers is to support our families, and the purpose of the Marshal's military training is to protect our families and the country. Open up the territory for the Ming Dynasty.

These two goals seem to be different, but as long as we obey the commander's military order and fight the enemy bravely, we are actually achieving the commander's goal. "

Li Jing laughed loudly when he heard the words: "That's right. In the end, it actually has a purpose. During this period of time, everyone has worked hard at sea training. Go home and have a good rest. In a few days, we will use troops abroad. I hope everyone will be brave fight.

Here, I promise everyone a reward in advance. One captured enemy soldier will be rewarded with three taels of silver, and one who is killed will be rewarded with one tael of silver.Don't think that the reward is too small. The weapons you have are far more advanced than the enemy. If the reward is too high, I'm afraid I will go bankrupt. "

All the soldiers laughed when they heard this.

The soldiers on Sun Chuanting's flagship were all brought over from Shandong, and they were equipped with new weapons.

These soldiers also knew that the weapons they used were many times more powerful than those of the original officers and soldiers. It was really easy to kill the enemy with such weapons.

These soldiers also knew that during land battles, especially when Cao Wenzhao's troops were fighting, Li Jing had never offered such a high amount of rewards. A soldier would only be rewarded one tael of silver for killing several enemies.

In fact, very few soldiers in Cao Wenzhao's troops were rewarded individually, and generally soldiers in one combat unit were rewarded at the same time.

Because Cao Wenzhao's troops fought big battles, and immediately after the battle started, the enemy army was blown up, and the scene was extremely chaotic. At this time, who can be sure how many enemies he killed?

Moreover, Li Jing stipulated that soldiers are not allowed to cut off the enemy's head during the battle, which will delay the opportunity of the battle, and can only be counted after the battle.

The result of this is that every combat unit will form a group, because the number of enemies killed is related to everyone's vital interests. If other units want to take advantage of it, I am afraid they will have to be beaten.

In fact, there is no army to rob the military exploits of brother troops, because if you can rob others, others will rob you, and in the end no one benefits.

Therefore, everyone abides by the rules when fighting, and it is clear which army is responsible for attacking which side. Without the order of the general, or without reinforcements from brother troops, few troops go beyond their own combat range. .

The reward method of Cao Wenzhao's troops is not a secret in the whole army, basically all the troops know it.

Cao Wenzhao did not hide this reward method because he fought the important battles of the Ming Dynasty in the past two years. If his troops received more rewards, it would inevitably arouse the jealousy of other troops.

In fact, the income of soldiers in the new army formed by Li Jing does not depend on rewards, but on military ranks. From recruits to third-class soldiers to non-commissioned officers, the salary increases step by step.

There are only two ways to improve the military rank, one is the promotion assessment twice a year, and the other is to kill the enemy and make meritorious service on the battlefield. As long as the military merit reaches the standard, you can be promoted.In fact, everyone knows that as long as there are battles to fight, the speed of promotion on the battlefield is much faster than the assessment.

The reason why Li Jing gave everyone such a high amount of rewards was because they were fighting at sea, and unless they were fighting on board, rifles would be useless.In other words, it is very difficult to kill the enemy with rifles in naval battles, mainly with artillery. In fact, it is difficult for artillery to cause too much damage to the enemy.

Because of the turbulent sea, the artillery's hit rate is already low, and the distance is too far, making it more difficult to hit the target. Therefore, in naval battles, the number of artillery can only make up for the low hit rate.

This is the fundamental reason why Sun Chuanting's fleet installed new artillery but still could not compete with Zheng Zhilong, because the court's ships were small, and the number of artillery installed was relatively much smaller.

However, when Sun Chuanting adopted Li Guozhu and Zhong Bin's suggestion and installed the artillery on the deck, the flexibility of the artillery was greatly improved, especially the elevation angle of the artillery can be raised higher, unlike when it is installed on the side, the adjustment The range is so small that it is basically a flat shot.

After raising the elevation angle, you can attack the sail of the enemy ship, because the area of ​​the sail is much larger than the ship itself, and it is much higher.If the artillery is installed on the side, if you want to attack the sail of the enemy ship, you need to get close to the enemy ship to achieve that angle, but if you are close to the enemy ship, you will undoubtedly have to withstand the fierce artillery fire from the enemy ship. , no one would take such a risk.

Of course, after the elevation angle of the artillery is raised, it will be more difficult to attack the main body of the enemy ship.However, in small-scale naval battles, as long as the enemy loses power, victory can be easily won.

In fact, the existing number of warships and artillery of the Ming army can only fight some small-scale naval battles.If the Dutch assembled those thirty warships to fight Sun Chuanting, Sun Chuanting might not be his opponent at all. Although Sun Chuanting now has more than 100 warships, most of these warships are small and medium-sized warships, and they are not fought at all.

Zheng Zhilong had nearly a thousand warships, and finally relied on wolf pack tactics, fire attack and boarding battle to win the final victory. Moreover, Zheng Zhilong only annihilated more than ten warships of the Dutch army at the cost of losing more than 100 small and medium-sized ships.

Zheng Zhilong can bear the loss of more than 100 ships, how can Sun Chuanting bear it?To Sun Chuanting, the loss of so many ships was tantamount to annihilation of the entire army.

But the Spanish troops stationed in Taiwan are obviously not as powerful as the Dutch fleet. Not to mention that they don't have that many warships, they don't even have that many soldiers.

The Spanish fleet stationed in Taiwan has less than 100 medium-sized ships, and Sun Chuanting has more than [-] ships, and he can deal with less than [-] ships. If this battle cannot be won, then he, the naval commander, may be the leader .

After talking with the soldiers, Li Jing briefly explained to Sun Chuanting about using troops against the Spanish in Taiwan. Sun Chuanting immediately understood Li Jing's purpose of capturing the captives, which was to build the Nantai Shipyard.

After waving goodbye to the soldiers, Li Jing took Sun Chuanting and other officials off the ship. After getting off the ship, Li Jing looked at the ship parked at the pier and suddenly asked, "Have Li Guozhu and Zhong Bin returned with you?"

Sun Chuanting said with a smile: "I'm back. I originally wanted them to take the ship to Quanzhou to rest, but when they heard that the commander-in-chief was here, they wanted to pay a visit to the commander-in-chief. I don't know what the commander-in-chief means, so although I agreed with them Come, but only let them stay on board first."

(Why not force it, the monthly pass is coming to the bowl soon!)

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