Seagulls have very thick voices, and when they call over the barnacle-covered breakwater, their high-pitched voices are full of provocation.
"Come on! Come on!" When Ling Yunyi was walking on the Dagu Pier, the birds with gray and white feathers were hovering above his head, seeming to be calling like this.
Seeing Ling Yunyi, the top commander of the Navy, Deputy Privy Envoy and Commander of the Navy, his brows furrowed. The soldiers next to him drew out their muskets from their waists and fired a shot at the group of seagulls hovering in the air.
After a loud bang, the seagulls screamed and dispersed, and the pier immediately became quiet. Everyone who was accompanying them saw it. Although they secretly criticized Ling Yunyi for being so powerful and his own soldiers making a fuss, they all laughed and scolded them on their faces.
That seagull is annoying.
Standing next to Ling Yunyi was an old man with white hair and white eyebrows, wearing a green cocoon robe in the color of the people's uniform. He said nothing and frowned slightly.
Although Ling Yunyi was domineering, he did not dare to take action in front of the old man. He scolded the soldiers: "Mr. Xu Jiang is here, who did you tell when you fired the gun? Go down and get twenty military sticks!"
The old man still frowned, bowed slightly and said: "The commander's words are serious, it doesn't matter. Dayou is old and dim, and his ears have long been unable to hear clearly, so it doesn't matter."
Ling Yunyi came to Dagu to inspect this time, just to make arrangements for Yu Dayou. After hearing this, he was willing to let it go lightly, but finally sent the soldier away, and then walked side by side with Yu Dayou.
Yu Dayou has a skinny appearance. Although he wants to straighten his back, time has not spared him, and his back is still a little bent. Three years ago, he resigned from the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Left Army of the Navy Governor's Office of the Privy Council. After handing over his errands, he worked as a professor of martial arts in Nanyuan for three years.
Year——This year, his body was really unable to support him, so he was released by Zhu Yijun.
Before he left the capital and returned to his hometown, Ling Yunyi invited him to Dagu to learn the tactics of fleet command. After all, Yu Dayou was the only one who had actually commanded Ming warships in combat in recent years.
Ling Yunyi took over from the post of Governor-General of Guangdong and Guangxi after the military reform in the tenth year of Wanli. He has been to sea several times in the past two years, but he always studied with the army - there is no one who is not open-minded about pirates and Japanese pirates.
The Ming Navy got it right.
As the top commander of the navy, he could not put aside his dignity to learn from his deputies and junior naval officers. He could not convert the hard theory of martial arts learned in Nanyuan into actual command ability. Although he tried his best to find time to communicate with Yu Dayou in his busy schedule
However, it was not until Yu Dayou reached old age that he made up his mind to let Yu Dayou accompany him on board the ship for a coaching class.
Although Yu Dayou had not boarded a ship for three years, he always paid attention to the construction of the Ming Dynasty navy in Nanyuan, and also led the teaching and research team to conduct in-depth research on new naval warfare tactics. At this time, Ling Yunyi dragged him to Daku, and he was also happy because
He heard that the Dagu Shipyard produced a new type of warship and that the Ming Navy was about to enter a new era of reform.
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During the Yongle period, the largest treasure ship during Zheng He's Seven Voyages to the West was twenty-three feet long, five feet wide, and had a displacement of nearly three thousand tons—basically the limit of wooden sailing ships. [Note 1]
However, more than 150 years later, at the end of the Jiajing period, the main ship of the Ming Navy was the Fuchuan, with a displacement of less than 100 tons. Even such ships were not many, and the remaining ships were sand ships, small sentry ships, flaming ships, net ships, etc.
Small boats that can only carry one or twenty people account for 96% of the navy.
The reduction of naval power reduced the maritime rights and interests of the Ming Empire to nothing. During this period, Zhu Wan and Hu Zongxian experienced naval battles when they fought against the Japanese. As opponents, the Japanese pirates were also rookies. When the two sides fought each other, the Ming navy often lost troops and humiliated the country.
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All changes occurred in the second year of Wanli, when Zhu Yijun unearthed a complete set of ship drawings and information from Zheng He's voyages to the West from the old papers in the capital. He immediately sent a lieutenant general to supervise the construction of new ships at government-run shipyards such as Longjiang Shipyard.
The focus is on training craftsmen using orders.
Although Zhu Yijun attaches great importance to it, the shipwrights who can build large ships have long since died of old age, and the Ming Dynasty has a serious lack of shipbuilding experience. Moreover, although the treasure ships are large, their speed can no longer keep up with the speed of Portuguese warships - the difference is about double, or even
Meet Zhu Yijun’s requirements.
Therefore, although the Zhongguan who was in charge of supervising the shipbuilding at that time used various means to win over some "senior citizens" from private shipyards and caused some troubles, it was still extremely difficult to build a ship that could reach a speed of eight knots.
Zhu Yijun gritted his teeth and persisted in investing. Until Yu Dayou took over in the fifth year of Wanli, only more than twenty large ships that met the requirements were trial-produced, and the largest displacement was only 500 tons. Even so, in the eyes of the people at the time, they were already at the "giant ship" level.
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Now that there are ships, what is more important is to train the navy. What Yu Dayou was ordered to do is to train the navy and explore tactics. Since the river-to-sea transfer from river to sea in the fourth year of Wanli, Yu Dayou has been preparing to build the navy with the support of Zhu Yijun. Because of his status as a military commander
, Zhu Yijun was afraid that he would not be able to convince the masses, so he sent a letter to the governor's office of his rear army, and also served as the commander-in-chief of the canal guard army. The command post was located in Dengzhou.
Although Yu Dayou had fought naval battles, most of his opponents were Japanese pirate boats. Over the years, he and Zhu Yijun exchanged letters, and Zhu Yijun tried his best to put forward some new ideas based on new ships, which all required Yu Dayou to practice at sea and summarize his experiences and lessons.
In the fifth year of Longqing's reign, the Battle of Lepando between the European Union Fleet and the Turkish Fleet used artillery placed on the bow of the ship on a large scale and achieved amazing results.
After the Battle of Lepando, only British warships went all the way and began to study broadside artillery for non-contact operations. Including the Spanish Armada, warships around the world still limited the use of firearms to bow artillery, and the rest of the crew
Using caltrops and matchlocks, ramming and broadside battles are still the mainstream of naval warfare.
Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty in this time and space has travelers. Even more fortunately, Qi Jiguang organized and invented the anti-recoil device for naval guns in the 39th year of Jiajing, and applied small artillery on the Qi family's ships.
superior.
When Qi Jiguang reported the naval gun anti-recoil device to Zhu Yijun, Zhu Yijun's eyes were moist. Although Qi Jiguang had been knighted by Jing Haibo in this time and space, Zhu Yijun knew that what he had given was far from enough - with Qi Jiguang's words alone
This invention is worth a marquis.[Note 2]
With the time traveler's new tactical ideas and the device to solve the artillery recoil, the birth of the "sail battleship" and the corresponding tactics was a matter of course. The arrival of the Roman mission in the ninth year of Wanli allowed the Ming Dynasty's navy to completely intervene.
On the wings of soaring - the shipwrights of the Ming Dynasty have restored 50% to 60% of their craftsmanship. After learning the manufacturing skills of the new Galenic soft sailing ship, the Ming Dynasty's warships have finally made up for the last shortcoming.
This time Ling Yunyi took Yu Dayou to Dagu to receive the first new naval battleship Fubo. The keel of this slender and beautiful three-masted sailing ship is three and a half times the width of the ship, and the bow is sharp and sharp.
Long, the foresail is as big as the mainsail on the mainmast, and a jib is used on the mizzenmast.
It should be pointed out that the concept of the spinnaker was proposed by Zhu Yijun, and it has been widely adopted on the new ships of the Ming Dynasty. In fact, most of the non-professionals’ views of the large sailboats of the European era came from "Pirates of the Caribbean": Far from it
The sprit protruding from the bow of the ship and the wind-filled jib. Apart from that, Zhu Yijun knew as much as Yu Dayou.
But after all, the emperor had his own means of looking after things - the Royal Gewuyuan. After the establishment of the Gewuyuan, theoretical research on sailing ships was also put on the agenda. The results of their research include three: First, adding "sail bones" to the sails
, so that the Ming Dynasty ships at this time had the advantages of both hard sails and soft sails. Another result was to add multiple trusses to the mast and cut the large sail into small pieces, so that when the wind was against the wind, after complex maneuvers, the sailboat
It can still maintain a certain speed.
The most important thing is that after painstaking research, the Daming Academy finally placed the rudder on the front deck - turning it into a wheel rudder. In the Galenic sailing manufacturing technology brought by the Holy See, it found an overcoming problem for the Daming Fu Ship.
The disadvantage of the ship's rudder is its huge manufacturing process.
After a long period of hard work, the Fubo has finally been finalized and will be built simultaneously in ten shipyards including Dagu, Linqing, and Longjiang. The first test ship and training ship will serve as the flagship of the Ming Dynasty's navy to Japan.
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Ling Yunyi, deputy privy envoy and naval commander, will lead the first large-scale fleet of the Ming Dynasty to Japan to convey the emperor's anger at the Japanese king for calling himself emperor. But before that, he must study Yu Dayou's martial arts.