After arranging the preparations for the war, Yang Fan announced that he would go out to patrol the sea for two months.
According to historical records and current intelligence analysis of Jiannu, large-scale Jiannu operations are estimated to take place in November. There happened to be a window period, and Yang Fan planned to go out to sea for inspection.
One is to look at the construction of Jeju Island. Review the naval fleet. Inspect the naval shipyard. In addition, he also plans to visit Vladivostok. It has been under construction there for more than a year. See what's going on over there.
Jiannu wants to enter the customs to cause trouble, and Yang Fan is also preparing to cause some trouble for them behind them. So Yang Fan decided to go to Vladivostok to see it in person. Contact the savage Jurchens in the Wusuli River Basin. Sauron people in northern Heilongjiang. There are 30,000 households living in the forests of the Greater Khingan Range and the Lesser Khingan Range.
The Tumen River basin is just to the east of Jiannu's lair. Very convenient for sneak attacks on their rear.
Now Mao Wenlong is gone. Jiannu was no longer restrained. Yang Fan did not intend to make it easy for them. Yang Fan planned to let the people in the Vladivostok colony use various living supplies to seduce the savages and let them use the heads of the slaves in exchange for the supplies.
These savages are far more savage and ferocious than the slaves. The slaves were also afraid of them. Jiannu were actually a completely civilized group of people. They can play mainly because they are on the rise. But these savages are semi-civilized or even uncivilized.
The control of the slaves over these savages was also very loose. It was just a matter of appointing some native leaders as officials. As long as there are enough benefits, they will immediately turn their guns and attack the slaves. It just depends on who can afford the price.
Obviously, Huang Taiji would cry to death when he compared supplies with Yang Fan.
Yang Fanyi announced that he would go out to patrol the sea. Madam Tuan'er immediately became excited. Because the master promised them to take them out to sea. It was postponed before due to pregnancy.
Only Lin Yueru and Chen Xi had gone to sea. The rest have no chance to get out. They have long wanted to see the sea.
This time it was a long voyage, going to sea for two months.
Chen Xi also came over after hearing the news and asked to join. Her reason was to examine the stability of the steam engine and transmission system. On long-distance voyages, it is best to bring engineers, designers, and maintenance workers with you.
This reason is very valid, because Yang Fan's fleet has never conducted large-scale formation voyage training. If you really sail continuously for two months, you can definitely see the problems with the ship and machinery.
At the same time, it also poses a severe test to the navy's training, command, and management. It is a thorough investigation of the navy.
Yang Fan has always planned to let the navy conduct a circumnavigation. After all, he now has a cruiser of more than a thousand tons, with sails, steam engines and propellers. There are also complete nautical charts. Modern meteorological data about this era are also available.
Yang Fan had already built the sextant and navigational clock.
If you want to sail around the world, you must be able to know the precise location of the ship at any time, that is, its longitude and latitude. Plus complete nautical charts. Some of the meteorological data of this era and the meteorological experts on board the ship can basically realize a global voyage.
A long time ago, using coordinates of longitude and latitude to mark any place in the world has been put into practice, and latitude is relatively easy to measure. By observing the height of the sun above the horizon at noon through devices such as a sextant, relatively accurate angle and distance figures can be measured, but the measurement of longitude cannot be measured very accurately. .
In 1707, the British fleet ran aground and sank near the Isles of Scilly due to incorrect chart markings, resulting in the complete annihilation of the entire fleet. This tragic accident made the British Admiralty realize the importance of longitude measurement.
In 1714, during the reign of Queen Anne, the British government passed an Act of Parliament offering generous rewards for finding accurate methods of measuring longitude.
Under heavy reward, there will be a breakthrough. The path was quickly found, and the theory is very simple.
The moon is a celestial body that moves at high speed relative to the stars, rotating once a month. GMT can be calculated by correcting the lunar angular distance by comparing the stars to the lunar surface and the times they would occur. When you know the time and place of Greenwich, you can then deduce the longitude.
Measuring time with accuracy requires a clock. This clock is a marine clock, also called a marine astronomical clock. Yang Fan has now made it
come out. With these devices, Yang Fan's navy can know the precise location of its ships on the earth at any time.
Now Yang Fan's navy is still a typical yellow water navy. Didn't go to the deep ocean. To put it bluntly, the navy was raised in a bathtub. Compare this to those European fleets crossing the Atlantic at this time, and the Spanish fleet of galleons crossing the Pacific from South America to Luzon. Navigation ability is still far behind.
A single clipper ship has only gone as far as the Indonesian Islands to buy spices. Most warships only operate in the Yellow Sea and the eastern part of the East China Sea. They mainly sail between Jeju Island, Nagasaki, Vladivostok and Beitang Pier.
Yang Fan decided that this winter, in addition to launching an attack on the Tangnu Ulianghai and Zhasak Tuhan territories and the Great Lakes Plain, the navy would also begin to enter the western part of the East China Sea and the South China Sea. Carry out pirate eradication missions. Let’s practice with pirates first.
At this time, Yang Fan was sitting cross-legged on the floor of Ningxiang Xiaozhu. There were more than a dozen models of sailing battleships in front of him. These models are precisely made at a 100:1 scale and can be disassembled layer by layer. See the structure inside.
Xiao Niangpi, Lin Yueru, Chen Xi, and Mei Xiang sat around, playing with the models curiously.
"Master, these ships are so beautiful." Xiao Niangpi picked up a model of a 1,500-ton cruiser and said fondly.
These ship models can be launched into the water. In the past, when Yang Fan and his wife were taking a bath, Lin Yueru would play with a plastic big yellow duck, and Yang Fan would put the newly received ship model in the water to observe its seaworthiness.
Every time a boat is launched, Yang Fan will receive a ship model here. After Yang Fan saw these ship models, he put them in his study as decorations. So far, we have accumulated more than 30 ships of various sizes.
Yang Fan opened a box and took out a large ship hull with a length of one meter, three or four meters. The outside of the boat is painted in white and blue, which looks very nice. Yang Fan installed the mast, locks and sails. Finally put it on the stand. Watched with great satisfaction.
"Sir, what kind of ship is this? It looks so beautiful and so big. It doesn't look like the previous cruiser." Chen Xi asked in amazement. She had never seen such a beautiful and huge sailing ship.
"This is the Royal Clipper cruise ship I bought. It is the largest sailing ship in the world today." Yang Fan said showily. Soon he gained the stars in the eyes of the girls at home.
"This time, we formed a fleet, including this cruise ship and six cruisers. There are also two supply ships. Two Marine troop carriers. A total of eleven ships. We will go to sea on this cruise ship. This ship But it’s very comfortable.”
