My life skills in Daming Liver

Luzon is the largest island in Java, and Manila is located on Luzon.

However, Lin Mojun did not drive directly to Manila. Instead, he rested at another small port on Luzon Island and replenished fresh water and food.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Mojun sent people to contact the Chinese in Manila, and then sent small boats along Luzon Island to collect hydrographic and wind direction information, and quickly collected the situation on the battlefield.

In Su Ze's words, naval warfare is a precise mathematical game.

As the most experienced naval commander in the Southeast, Lin Mojun deeply understood what Su Ze was talking about.

Fighting at sea involves countless parameters and calculations, which is why the Navy values ​​officers the most.

Because a good commander can really decide a lot of things.

Sailors in the navy are different from soldiers in the army. Their main job is to obey orders and control the sailboat. They are only effective during boarding battles.

But by the time of the battle, it was already the end of the war.

On a ship, from commander to officer, then to gunner, and finally to sailor, the navy's hierarchy is much stricter than that of the army, also because the navy needs officers more than the army.

It takes time to train a group of naval officers. Su Ze relied on the accumulation of Fuzhou Naval School to finally gather so many commanders.

This is also the entire property of the Southeast.

Lin Mojun was well aware of the heavy burden on him. After obtaining the information, Lin Mojun also believed Su Ze's words. The Spaniard was indeed a formidable opponent.

Today, the only combat record of the entire Southeast against the West is the Battle of Tuen Mun.

The opponent in the Battle of Tuen Mun was still the Portuguese, the Portuguese who were the most arrogant among all European colonists.

In the Battle of Tuen Mun, the Portuguese only dispatched two large sailing ships, and the rest were armed merchant ships. Even so, Mingjun paid a huge price and won the victory by using fire attacks from small boats.

This time the Spaniards arrived with six Galese warships and fifteen armed merchant ships in one go.

This Calaisian battleship is now the most advanced battleship of the Spanish and even the entire European continent.

The Calais battleship is a special kind of sailing ship. Lin Mojun frowned as he looked at the sketch of the battleship drawn by the intelligence personnel.

Before the expedition, Su Ze introduced this kind of warship to Lin Mojun.

Lin Mojun recalled that when he met Su Ze, Su Ze drew the appearance of the Calaisian battleship with his own hands and explained the origin of this kind of battleship to Lin Mojun in detail.

"The emergence of the Galese battleship was due to a naval battle, which was a series of naval battles that took place in the European Mediterranean thirty years ago. The Mediterranean naval battle was led by Ottoman Admiral Barbarossa Hayreddin."

"This legendary naval marshal of the Ottoman Empire, during his tenure as the Ottoman Empire's naval marshal, once led a fleet across the Mediterranean, plundered European countries, defeated many fleets including France and Spain, and achieved maritime hegemony in the Mediterranean .”

"And Barbarossa. The battleship used by Hayreddin is a galley."

"The speed of galleys sailing in the ocean is naturally not as good as that of sail warships, but in the calm Mediterranean, galleys have unparalleled maneuverability and speed advantages. After the defeat, the Spaniards also began to think about the direction of their operations, so they built The Calaisian battleship, a battleship that combines a galley and a sail."

When Su Ze drew the picture of the Calaisian battleship, Lin Mojun was still doubtful. She had never seen such a strange sailing ship.

Installing sails on a galley, and Su Ze had no contact with the Spanish at all, where did he get the drawings?

But Su Ze completely drew the appearance and even the internal structure of the Galaisai battleship to Lin Mojun, which made Lin Mojun have to believe it.

This is why Su Ze improved the [Shipbuilding] skill to level 10, and then got the blueprint of the Galaisai battleship.

After reaching level 10 of shipbuilding, Su Ze gained a blue skill.

[Blue Passive - Sail Master]: When building a sail battleship, gain +3 carpentry rating.

At the same time, Su Ze also obtained drawings of many classic sailing battleships of this era.

Su Ze also knew that in this era, Spain used strange sailing ships like the Galese battleship.

Different from the impression of later generations, when talking about the Age of Discovery, everyone thinks of sailboats.

But the Ottoman Hayreddin, relying on his superior naval combat skills, forcefully dragged the direction of European shipbuilding into another direction.

In order to fight against the Ottoman navy, the Spanish had to take into account the two needs of Mediterranean warfare and ocean navigation when building sailing ships.

The Galese battleship is the product of such a compromise.

This is equivalent to a real-time strategy game. Everyone knows that the high-level units produced by climbing technology are the most powerful. However, in order to prevent the opponent's fast attack when climbing technology, it is necessary to produce some low-cost, mid-level and low-level units. Make a transition to military defense.

This is the background for the creation of the Galese battleship.

A smile appeared on Lin Mojun's lips. The information obtained by her reconnaissance ship was the same as the battleship drawn by Su Ze, which meant that she had already mastered the enemy's battleship data before the war started.

As early as the opening of the sea in the Southeast, Su Ze had already dispatched surveying and mapping personnel from the Southeast to conduct detailed mapping of the area near Manila.

Moreover, Lin Mojun had already detected the location and battlefield information of the enemy fleet, but the enemy knew nothing about her.

At this moment, Lin Anzi, the flagship captain of Lin Mojun, walked in.

"Baihu, enemy ships have appeared in the waters off Manila!"

Lin Anzi was Su Ze's earliest disciple in Changning Wei's health school. Su Ze once wanted to transfer him to the government system for training, but Lin Anzi had no intention of pursuing an official career.

In the end, Lin Anzi chose to join the navy and became the captain of Lin Mojun's flagship.

The enemy fleet had appeared off the coast of Manila. Lin Mojun stood up from the cabin. She had prepared the battle site.

"How is the bait prepared?"

Lin Anzi said excitedly: "It's ready."

Lin Mojun said: "Tell me, what are our advantages?"

Lin Anzi knew that Lin Mojun was testing himself and training himself, so he immediately concluded what he had already thought about:

"Our main warships are purely sail-powered. They are fast and resistant to bumps when sailing in the open sea. However, the opponent can use oar power when in harbors and inland seas, so they are more maneuverable and flexible. So we have to choose the decisive battle in the open sea."

Lin Mojun nodded and asked, "What else?"

Lin Anzi continued: "The Spanish fleet has a relatively high cabin. Due to the presence of oarsmen, there are more sailors than us, so my subordinates guess that they will find a way to get close to us and use their superiority to engage in boarding battles. .”

Lin Mojun nodded. This was also the Spanish method of warfare that Su Ze told her before setting off.

In this era, due to the power of artillery, boarding warfare was still a combat method that could determine the final outcome.

In order to facilitate boarding battles, the ships of the Galese battleships will be built relatively high. This is to facilitate the sailors to jump from their own side to the other side's deck when the two ships are close together, achieving rapid speed. The delivery login.

This is also the ship structure that the Spaniards concluded after suffering losses from the Ottomans.

Similarly, this taller hull structure also makes the Galaxian ship bump more violently in the open sea, which in turn weakens its ability to fight in oceans.

Lin Mojun asked again: "Is there any more?"

Lin Anzi thought for a long time, and finally shook his head.

Lin Mojun said: "There is also the structure of the Galese battleship. Because people need to row, the deck of this battleship is occupied by one layer. But for the firepower of the artillery, the Spaniards placed more on the negative deck. Lots of muzzles.”

"So from the data point of view, the number of artillery pieces on the Galaisai battleship is the same as ours, and the standard is fifty artillery pieces."

"But in fact, our artillery is distributed on two decks, while their artillery is concentrated on one deck."

"So their artillery is more crowded, which will inevitably lead to a slower reloading speed."

Lin Anzi quickly understood this truth.

Just like the army, if the artillery is too concentrated, it will affect the efficiency of loading.

Not to mention the Spanish artillery, which originally lagged behind the southeastern bore guns in terms of performance. That is to say, with the same number of artillery, the southeastern artillery can fire more shells per unit time.

Lin Anzi suddenly understood.

Lin Mojun continued: "To sum up, we should try our best to use the advantages of artillery range and rate of fire on the open sea to fight enemy warships at a relatively long distance, and try to prevent the enemy fleet from escaping. Harbors and Inland Seas.”

"So when fighting, we have to choose the time when the wind direction blows to the open sea. When fighting, we need to seize the upper wind first. We also need a part of the fleet to block the port and block the enemy's retreat route back to the inner port."

"Distribute the combat plan to each ship. According to our meteorologist's prediction, tomorrow will be such a suitable weather for combat."

"This battle was named by the Grand Governor himself."

"Operation Barbarossa."

Lin Mojun always felt that the code name of this battle was weird. This must be Su Ze's bad taste.

Lin Anzi immediately became excited, and he immediately took Lin Mojun's order and ordered all ships to repair immediately.

At the same time, the Spanish fleet discovered a fleet full of cargo off Manila.

When the Spanish fleet commander saw this fleet, he was immediately attracted.

General Kazan, the commander of the Spanish fleet in Mexico, was ordered to capture Manila.

When the Spanish were in South America, they often plundered other countries' ships.

In fact, in this era, there was not much difference between the official Western fleet and pirates.

General Kazan immediately ordered to give up entering the port for the time being and to rob some people first.

The Spanish fleet immediately turned around and began to sail to the open sea.