Five days later, Mo Yulin and Ruan Juan set off on their own expeditions, one by land and one by sea.
Needless to say, Mo Yulin is just sending out troops normally. He has nearly 30,000 troops in his hands, which is almost equivalent to the entire force Zheng Song brought to Yi'an. Now he is only going to attack the weak cities on the western front. There should be no pressure as the main force is eyeing the Yingdu Prefecture of Yi'an Administrative Office.
Ruan Juan has something to say about this journey. This time the Eastern Route Army took the sea route, and the commander in chief was undoubtedly Ruan Juan. However, because Ruan Juan himself was a surrendered general of the Mo Dynasty, and the commander of the Jinghua fleet was Ding Gaojing, a close confidant of Gao Pragmatic, so when he was at sea, he This command authority is questionable.
Of course, Ruan Juan himself knew this very well. From the moment he boarded the ship, he treated himself as just a passenger and would never express any opinions on the voyage. In fact, he has attacked Nie'an and Hue by sea several times, and he is a double general who knows the navy well. However, he is very interested in Jinghua's armed transport ships. Although he doesn't ask too many questions, he has been observing them carefully.
In his opinion, these ships from Jinghua have a certain sense of Chinese and foreign integration, especially the sails, which are the most obvious. The sails of Jinghua are also typical Chinese hard sails, and the shape and format of the sails are also typical Chinese square sails. However, a triangle sail is added to the bow, and the sail winch used on these ships is unprecedented on other Ming ships. As you can see, it has a strong "Hongmaofan" meaning.
These gadgets are all products made according to Gao Pragmatic's guiding theory. They were not mass-produced at the beginning, because Gao Pragmatic was not sure at the time whether such a combination of Chinese and Western elements was easy to use. He just relied on his money to experiment. Just afford it.
Later, it was discovered that it was feasible to apply some Western navigation techniques on the basis of Chinese ship shapes and sails, and this was gradually promoted.
Whether it is a hard sail with a comb pole in the south or a hard sail with a dense pole in the north, the basic structure of Chinese-style sails is almost the same. Perhaps the sail is the fundamental difference between the Chinese style and the Western style. The advantage of a Chinese-style sail is that due to the effective support of several horizontal rods, the load per unit area of the sail is smaller. Even if a rupture occurs, it will not quickly spread to the entire sail surface, allowing the sailor enough time to sail at sea. Repair, and the material requirements for sail making are not high.
Moreover, hard sails can maintain their shape better regardless of wind conditions, have less efficiency loss, and will not be "bang" by the wind.
As for later generations, people believe that the biggest disadvantage of Chinese hard sails is that the structure is too heavy. This is of course a problem, but Gao Pragmatic solved this problem to a great extent by asking the great scientist Zhu Zaiyu to improve the winch, simplifying the structure and improving efficiency.
However, Gao Wuzhen is still a little dissatisfied because he learned through the maritime merchants in the Guangzhou private port that the warships of the Folangji people have the same "tonnage" as the warships of Jinghua - such as the Jinghua armed transport ship and the Tonghua armed transport ship. Comparing the tonnage of the Galen ship, the Franco's gun capacity is higher than that of the armed transport ship. The Galen ship has eight more cannons, four more on the left and right sides.
In other words, under the same tonnage, Jinghua's ship has fourteen cannons on one side, while the Folanji's ship has eighteen.
This is definitely a disadvantage!
However, it still depends on the guidance of the naval operations of both sides: Jinghua's side can run faster, control more accurately, and can adapt to various winds, but its firepower is weaker; the Galen ship of the Folan robot is not as powerful as Jinghua's ship. But the firepower is dominant.
As for the structure of the ship and who is more resistant to beatings, Gao Wuzhen doesn't know now. He will have to wait until the two captured Galen ships are thoroughly studied by Jinghua's shipwrights before he can make a judgment.
Although Gao Pragmatic is still dissatisfied with the current situation, he can barely accept it. Mainly, he felt that the stronger unit artillery fire of the Fo Langji could not change a key factor: the total amount of naval forces that Westerners could invest in East Asia was very limited, but he was highly pragmatic and could concentrate all his efforts!
So what if your unit of artillery delivery is a little higher than mine? I can crush you with quantity - wasn't this how Zheng Zhilong dominated the South China Sea trade back then? I have a lot of people on board, so I can drown you in a gang fight despite some losses. This is also a kind of strength.
Of course, generally speaking, high pragmatism does not recommend backward tactics such as gang warfare. The Spaniards are about to suffer from this. How can he, who is highly pragmatic, follow suit?
Before the emergence of aircraft carriers, the general development idea of the navy was extremely clear, just four words: giant ships and cannons!
Whoever has a bigger ship will have the advantage; whoever has a stronger cannon will win!
In order to understand certain two games, Gao Pragmatic read a lot of books about the era of sailing battleships. To refine the views in those books, they actually said these four words!
For example, the Spanish Armada was in a state of collapse. Encountering a storm was certainly one aspect, but the main problem was the artillery. England was taking the long-range heavy artillery route, which relied on its mobility and artillery range advantages to "fly kites" from a distance. ", the Spaniards have always wanted to get close to each other and fight - the Spanish Army is in its final moment of glory and can completely defeat England. However, the English do not let him get close, so he has no choice but to be beaten passively. , no one can stand this change.
Ruan Juan read it and thought about it slowly in his mind. Gao Jing saw it from the side, but didn't say anything.
Gao Jing is not worried about Ruan Juan stealing his disciples, because he comes from a maritime family and knows the difference between sea and land. On land, you can revolt. As long as there are enough people, there is a chance that "the ants will kill the elephant" . But it’s different at sea. Although people are important, you must first have a boat. The boat is the foundation of everything.
And to have a boat, you must first have money!
The armed transport ships they have now cost as much as 55,000 silver each. How much does sixty armed transport ships cost?
Three million three hundred thousand taels!
Ten years ago, this was the total income of the Ming Dynasty’s treasury in one year!
So what if Annan learned this stuff? Can you build such a fleet?
Not to mention that my boss is still asking people from the shipyard to design larger and more powerful professional warships. I heard that one of them costs 120,000 taels...
One hundred and twenty thousand taels!
It is estimated that even if the master is as rich as he is, he probably won't be able to build many ships. After all, it is still a ship that can only fight wars, and cannot usually transport cargo - in other words, it is a loss-making ship, unless he runs out to become a pirate. Otherwise, there is no ability to make money at all.
Ruan Juan observed carefully for a whole day and thought about it for a long time. Later, his face gradually turned ugly and he couldn't help but ask Gao Jing how much money a boat cost.
Gao Jing smiled and said, "I heard it's close to sixty thousand taels."
Ruan Juan was stunned for a while, then turned around and left without looking back.
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