Chapter 149: The Initiative to Attack (12:00 noon)
Chapter 149 The plan to take the initiative (updated at 12:00 noon)
Author: Fat Bird Goes First
Chapter 149 The plan to take the initiative (updated at 12:00 noon)
Lin Xianyang's face was full of embarrassment. After seeing Su Ze, he said:
"The magistrate asked me to go back to the guard because he wants to ask Changning Guard to send troops to relieve the siege of Sha County."
Sitting in the ancestral hall of the family temple, everyone looked at Su Ze. Unknowingly, everyone regarded Su Ze as their backbone.
"Can't go."
Su Ze expressed his thoughts frankly.
Su Ze said to Lin Mojun: "Hundred households, the reason why King Lu allowed the Japanese pirates to land is to disrupt the defense of various guard posts. Our Changning Guard has a total of only more than a hundred troops. If they are really mobilized, then
I am passive."
Su Ze said to Lin Xianyang: "Brother Xianyang, go back and tell the other magistrate that the Japanese pirates have no siege weapons. Shaxian City is different from Jianyang. The city wall is too tall for them to attack. The Japanese pirates made this noise just to disrupt the government."
Make arrangements, surround the points and call for reinforcements."
Jianyang's prosperity relies on the printing industry, but it has been captured by Japanese pirates several times because of its excellent economic development.
There are many printing workshops outside Jianyang City. As the scale expanded, the squires in Jianyang City demanded that the city walls be demolished to make it easier for workers to enter and exit.
The Jianyang County magistrate finally listened to these squires and demolished some of the city walls.
As a result, when the Japanese invaders came, Jianyang County had no city walls to defend. The county magistrate committed suicide and the printing workshop outside the city was burned to the ground.
Shaxian was two days away from the Changning Guard march, and the roads were not good, so it was impossible to bring the Fo Lang machine gun.
Changning Guards, on the other hand, had no information about the geography or geography near Shaxian County, so they sent them there to fight against the Japanese pirates.
At the same time, in the back house of the magistrate's office, Fang Ruolan also said to the angry magistrate:
"Dad, my daughter thinks Changning Wei should not be allowed to go to Sha County."
"If Sha County can be defended, but the Japanese pirates are making trouble everywhere, won't the Changning Guards be forced to die?"
"Moreover, the terrain for fighting outside the county is impassable. If we are ambushed, people in the mansion will be panicked."
Magistrate Fang was originally anxious, but after being persuaded by Fang Ruolan, he calmed down a lot. Fang Ruolan continued:
"Every county in Yanping Prefecture knows how powerful the Japanese pirates are, so they will definitely not go out of the city to fight the Japanese pirates. As long as they stick to the city wall, there will be no problems."
Magistrate Fang nodded.
Fang Ruolan added: "This time the Japanese rebellion still depends on the sea side."
"What does this mean?"
"The Japanese pirates who broke into our Yanping Prefecture are just here to disrupt the situation in Fujian. Some of them are not even Japanese pirates, but are bandits and refugees abducted by the Japanese pirates."
"To really make the Japanese pirates retreat, we only need to defeat King Lu at sea."
The prefect Fang also understood this truth. As long as King Lu's fleet was still at sea, the Japanese pirates on land would have nothing to fear. After all, they would retreat to the sea after robbing enough.
Moreover, King Lu controlled the sea area, so these Japanese pirates roamed freely in the coastal areas, and they could recruit more Japanese pirates to come to Fujian to rob.
If King Lu does not retreat, there will be an endless supply of Japanese pirates on land.
The prefect Fang naturally understands this truth, but the prefect Fang really has no hope in Fuzhou Prefecture.
There was silence in the mansion, and then the prefect pinched his temples and said:
"I also asked Lin Xianyang to persuade Changning Guard to send troops. If Changning Guard refuses, the matter will be dropped."
Sure enough, Lin Xianyang returned from Changning Guard the next day and brought the reason why Changning Guard refused to send troops, which was the same as Fang Ruolan's analysis.
There was only one combatable force in Nanping County, the Changning Guards. The prefect still relied on the Changning Guards. He did not reprimand Lin Xianyang, but asked him to lead the barracks to continue preparing for the Japanese.
Two days later, news came from Shaxian County that the Japanese pirates had been besieging the city for several days, and then spread out like birds and beasts, spreading to other counties.
The prefect breathed a sigh of relief and ordered all counties to defend the city wall, and also asked the government's barracks and workshops to send people to reinforce the Nanping city wall.
In the midst of the storm, Changning Guard was also filled with an atmosphere of tense preparations for war.
The military system of the Ming Dynasty was a small drill every two days, and a big drill every ten days.
Changningwei has a small exercise every day and a big exercise once every five days.
In addition to the previous cannons, Su Ze also collected more than a dozen cannons from the New World. Now he has compiled a fifty-man cannon team and practices marching, stepping and turning every day.
Lin Mojun also selected a hundred military remnants from the Changning Guards and incorporated them into the army, forming two hundred-man regiments to practice the mandarin duck formation.
Among them, there are sixty people who can board ships and fight. These are the elites of the original Changning Guard. They can fight on land and on ships and fight at sea.
Then there was the secret weapon gunpowder boat. During this period, Su Ze led a group of apprentices to start making the clipper-style clipper boat he designed, while Lin Xianzong built a flat-bottomed Yong boat according to the traditional method. The two parties agreed to compete for speed after the boat was launched.
Higher or lower.
The Yong boat is a small civilian ship that was first made by shipbuilders in Ningbo, Zhejiang. This kind of ship sails at a good speed and can carry more cargo. It is very popular among merchants along the coast of Zhejiang.
The clipper designed by Su Ze is a type of clipper designed based on the clipper ships of the 18th and 19th centuries.
A clipper ship is a type of high-speed sailing ship. This type of ship is very fast. It can reach a speed of more than ten knots driven only by sails. It was the last glory of sailing ships before steam replaced sails.
However, Su Ze had no blueprints for the complete version of the clipper ship in his mind, and could not build it with current technology.
Although the principle of the clipper boat is actually very simple, it is to reduce the volume of the hull under water, use more reasonable bottom streamlines to reduce resistance in the sea, and maximize the use of sail power.
But in fact, a complete clipper ship requires a bump-resistant hull structure, scientific stress analysis, and complex sails.
Not to mention the Changning Guard, not even Spain and the United Kingdom can build such a ship.
But Su Ze does not need a complete version of the clipper ship. He only needs a sail-driven clipper ship that can be filled with explosives and rush to the Japanese pirates' fleet to explode.
Su Ze built this small flying shear boat to accumulate relevant data and accumulate technical experience for building real flying shear boats in the future.
The shipbuilding industry is an industry that requires a lot of capital and time. Only by constant trial and error and adjusting various parameters step by step can we develop new ships.
This is a long-term investment process, and because of this, the shipbuilding industry is full of opportunities for overtaking in corners.
A country with a large fleet can only continue to reach the end of this technical route, and it is difficult to overturn the previous accumulation and change the technical route.
The rise of the Dutch and British navies, on the one hand, was due to the development of financial resources and productivity, which dragged Spain into bankruptcy. On the other hand, they were overtaking in a corner and using new technologies to surpass the bulky and huge Spanish fleet.
Su Ze regretted a little. When he chose the carpenter level 5 passive skill, why not choose the shipbuilding carpentry level +1 passive skill.
However, shipbuilding is not just carpentry, the textile industry is also an important part of the shipbuilding industry.
Waterproof and durable canvas is all woven on textile machines. Britain's developed textile industry is also an important reason for its rise on the sea.
After asking the apprentices to make the hull according to the drawings, Su Ze took a sail removed from the New World and found Mr. Lu who was weaving in the ancestral temple.
"Sister-in-law, can you weave this kind of cloth?"
Mr. Lu took the canvas, carefully checked the thread ends and routing, and then said: "We can weave, but this kind of cloth takes too much material, and weaving this kind of cloth requires thick silk. Let me see, there is hemp in it."
, no wonder it’s so strong.”
Su Ze had discovered that the grandpa's daughter-in-law, Mrs. Lu, was very talented in weaving. Sure enough, after Mrs. Lu touched the canvas, she analyzed the weaving method of the canvas.
"Mr. Su, let me try."
Su Ze quickly said: "Sister-in-law, feel free to try. Just let me know what materials you need."
While Su Zewo was building ships at Changning Guard, King Lu attacked again and attacked a coastal guard post.
The guard station that was attacked was only a hundred miles away from Changning Guard, and it was also a thousand-household station. After snatching away the two ships of this guard station, King Lu walked away.
After hearing the news, Lin Mojun clenched his fists and continued to inquire about the information about King Lu from the Keti people living on the boat.
On September 5th, Lin Mojun had figured out the details of the Lu King's fleet that was raging in the southeast.
According to Su Ze's request, Lin Mojun drew a detailed sea chart, made a scaled sand table, and made a ship model of King Lu's fleet.
Su Ze and Lin Mojun were discussing ways to deal with Japanese pirates.
"The news in the past few days is that every time the Japanese pirates go out to fight, they will fire the cannon first. With such a large amount of gunpowder consumption, it is impossible for Lu Dawang to bring so much gunpowder with the ship. He must have set up a gunpowder depot on Dong'ao Island."
Su Ze looked at the sand table and placed a symbol representing a powder keg on Dong'ao Island.
Lin Mojun also nodded and said: "You mean, we are going to change our plan and attack Dong'ao Island?"
The original plan was to lure King Deer to attack Changning Guard, and then use an ambush of gunpowder ships to attack King Deer's fleet.
But now Su Ze has a better plan, which is to directly attack Dong'ao Island and find a way to detonate the deer king's gunpowder magazine.
Su Ze nodded and said: "Gunpowder needs to be transported frequently. The Deer King would never think that someone would attack his lair, so the gunpowder depot must be located on the dock."
"If our gunpowder ship can detonate the gunpowder magazine, it will definitely cause a bigger explosion. Without gunpowder, the artillery and bird guns will be useless."
Su Ze's thinking became clearer and clearer, and he continued:
"To attack Dong'ao Island, it is too far to start directly from Changningwei. We also need a small island to temporarily settle down, and use this island as a stepping stone to attack Dong'ao Island."
Lin Mojun heard what Su Ze meant. She raised her head and said, "Are you going to Dong'ao Island?"
Su Ze nodded and said: "At least go and have a look around Dong'ao Island. You must understand the arrangement of King Lu on Dong'ao Island."
Lin Mojun nodded and said: "I understand, those Keti people and Lu Dawang have some deals. They will send food to the island, and I can take their boat to find out the news."
Su Ze said firmly: "I want to go too."
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