Chapter 277 Aiding Korea and Fighting Japan (8) Aiding Korea and Preparing the Japanese Navy Admiral
In Zhu Yijun's mind, Japan was originally one of the Ming Dynasty's "non-conquest countries", and there was no military embargo on it earlier, so it was in trouble, but the Sea Trade Alliance was not to blame.
When it comes to doing business, if you didn't have regulations saying it was not allowed before, then it must be freedom without prohibition. There is no way to go back and investigate this matter, otherwise the person responsible would become the great ancestor? So now we can only consider making amends.
"The imperial court will issue an edict on this matter, strictly prohibiting the subsequent sale of military-related products to Japan. After you join the cabinet, you will first submit a proposal and list the specific projects." Zhu Yijun said seriously.
"Yes, I obey the order." Gao Pragmatic didn't say much, and he didn't even say anything like "I won't be able to do the job after you join the cabinet" - that was originally meant to be seen by others, but the emperor
Doesn't count others.
They are both monarchs and ministers, and in fact they are also political allies. There is no need to criticize the well-known Gao Pragmatic's entry into the cabinet. It can be said that the very naive little Zhu Yijun had this "goal" as early as twenty years ago.
Even after twenty years, nothing has changed. It can even be said that the goal has become more determined.
"Besides..." Zhu Yijun mused: "Since the main force of the Japanese navy was created for them by the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance, you must be very clear about their weaknesses, pragmatically?"
"I do know something. It can even be said that...I have deliberately led my navy astray." Gao Pragmatic answered with his hands raised.
"Oh?" This answer really surprised Zhu Yijun, and he asked: "How to go astray?"
Gao Pingshi said: "Your Majesty, you know that Yu Xujiang (Yu Dayou) is good at naval warfare. He has made a sharp judgment on water warfare: naval warfare is nothing more than defeating small boats with big ships, defeating small guns with big blunderbuss; defeating small blunderbuss with many ships.
To defeat a few ships, use many blunderbuss to defeat a few blunderbuss."
"Well, I've seen this sentence before. Yu Dayou himself wrote it in his inscription, and the Ministry of War also expressed a similar view." Zhu Yijun nodded and said, "What, is he right?"
"Of course." Gao Pingshi smiled and said, "The only thing that naval battles rely on is strong ships and powerful cannons."
"So?" Zhu Yijun hesitated and said, "The warships you built for the Japanese country were not deliberately made weak for them, right?"
"That's not the case, and it's very difficult to do so. After all, Japan is an island country. Although its navy has limited shipbuilding capabilities, it still has the ability to judge whether the hull is strong or not." Gao Pragmatic shook his head.
"Then how can we lead astray?" Zhu Yijun was very puzzled.
"First, Jinghua itself does not sell original ship-borne artillery to them. If they want to install artillery, they must modify it themselves."
Zhu Yijun still didn't understand and asked: "This is just a matter of extra effort. Didn't you say before that there are other people who quietly sell cannons to them - even if they are old cannons, they can still be used, right?
"
"But Chen secretly provided the Japanese with some craftsmen they could recruit privately in advance to 'guide' them in the renovation." Gao Pragmatic smiled and said: "The method of installing artillery provided by these craftsmen is flawed - simple
In other words, it is not strong enough to support a full-side salvo."
"What is a full-side salvo?" Zhu Yijun was stunned for a moment. He didn't know these specialized tactical terms.
Gao Pragmatic said: "In current naval battles, a tactic that is commonly used and that both sides strive to use is called 'side salvo', which means that all the artillery on one side of the warship fire at the same time. And full-side salvo refers to the artillery on both sides."
Even the cannons on the bow and stern of the ship fire at the same time, which usually only occurs when being surrounded and engaged in a trapped beast's fight."
Zhu Yijun thought for a while and asked: "If we are surrounded, it seems that there is no good way to think of. Although this 'cross-road' is useful, its scope of application is not large. Besides, what will this 'not strong enough' lead to?
result?"
Gao pragmatically said: "At the least, it causes the artillery to break away from the gun position and cannot continue to be used; at worst, it cracks the artillery deck, causing serious chaos in the battleship's artillery layer, and even affecting the safety of the ship itself."
Regarding the scope of application, Gao Pragmatic also added: "In addition, although the Japanese navy has more warships than North Korea, its scale cannot be compared with our Ming Dynasty, so this means that when they fight the Koreans, although they are not large
The above problems may occur, but as long as our Ming Dynasty navy joins the war and the Japanese navy is surrounded, the possibility of inducing the above problems will greatly increase."
Zhu Yijun thought deeply and said: "In other words, once I join the battle against the Japanese navy, I should go to surround the Japanese pirate navy and cause problems with their warships. This can greatly speed up our army's defeat of them. Yes
Bar?"
"That's probably true." Gao pragmatically said, "But this is just one of the things I arranged."
"Is there anything else?" Zhu Yijun was a little surprised and asked, "What else is there?"
"The largest warship of the Japanese navy is actually the Jinghua armed transport ship with the cannons removed." Gao pragmatically said: "According to the Japanese tradition, at the same time, I asked the Jinghua craftsmen in Japan to think of some ideas, and successfully allowed the Japanese to use these warships.
The modification idea has also gone astray: reduce artillery and strengthen defense."
Zhu Yijun was very happy to hear it at first, but when he heard the last sentence, he was very puzzled: "Reducing artillery is definitely disadvantageous, but why is strengthening defense a wrong approach?"
Gao Pragmatic raised his eyebrows slightly and replied: "Because it is impossible for the armed transport ship purchased by the Japanese country to have a major change in the size of the hull, which means that the premise of the modification is that the hull remains unchanged. So, under the current technical conditions, the firepower
In fact, these two items, armor, cannot have their cake and eat it too.
The original Jinghua armed transport ships were actually the most balanced design layout. Those sold to Japan had been cut by about half or more because they did not originally carry artillery, and the sources of their artillery were very complicated, and the quality of the artillery they received was uneven.
There are many ship-borne artillery, but the remaining spare load is used to strengthen defense.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The emperor may think that since it is a spare load, it seems understandable to strengthen the defense, but in fact it is not. Ship design is a very complex project, and the center of gravity of the ship
It is calculated at the beginning of the design, and later modifications can easily affect it, causing a shift in the center of gravity, which in turn affects the seaworthiness - simply put, the ship will be difficult to drive.
It is difficult to sail the ship, which will further reduce the artillery hit rate and affect the combat effectiveness. Moreover, the sailors on the ship will also cause many problems due to these changes in the center of gravity, such as the bumping of the ship, affecting daily rest, affecting combat efficiency, etc. In short, there will be a series of
All in all, the trouble is even worse.”
"That's it!" Zhu Yijun nodded with satisfaction. In fact, he didn't actually understand how serious these impacts were because of Gao Pragmatic's explanation, but he understood Gao Pragmatic's personality. Since Gao Pragmatic dared to say it, then these things must be
It has quite an impact.
However, Zhu Yijun also had his real focus. He paused and asked: "Since the Ming Dynasty did not have a military embargo on the Japanese country, why did you come up with so many tricks against them in advance?"
Gao Pragmatic had already anticipated that the emperor might ask this question, so he answered without hesitation: "If you are not of my race, your heart must be different. I am the person in charge of the Sea Trade Alliance, and I need to consider the profits of the alliance, so
Some things that should be sold must be sold; but I am a minister of the Ming Dynasty. Whether the things sold will cause a serious threat to the Ming Dynasty, I naturally need to consider clearly.
Even though this possibility seemed very difficult to become a reality at the time, I still had to take precautions and take precautions to prevent anything from happening in the future. I would be ashamed of my father, my colleagues, and my people.
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"If they were all like you, my court would have less trouble. Alas." Zhu Yijun sighed, but soon remembered something again, and said pragmatically to Gao: "By the way, when it comes to naval battles, the naval battle you recommended
Division Admiral Chen Lin made one - or rather two... very interesting requests."
After all, Gao Jingshi just arrived in Beijing today. Although he was well-informed, he did not know everything in detail. For example, Gao Jingshi had not yet received the news about the request made by Chen Lin mentioned by the emperor, so he was stunned for a moment and asked
Said: "What request?"
Zhu Yijun raised his eyebrows slightly and said: "He proposed to resign from the post of admiral of the Japanese navy, but expressed his willingness to serve as deputy. At the same time, he also asked the imperial court to appoint another distinguished minister from Beijing as the admiral of the navy."
Gao Pangshi's heart was moved, but before he could reply, Zhu Yijun continued: "If not, then he will ask the imperial court to give him authority and allow him to recruit "sea ships of this province" in Guangdong to go north to meet the enemy, and ask "this province
Sea-going ships are not allowed to refuse recruitment, and any violation will be regarded as resistance to the order."
Seeing Zhu Yijun's obviously teasing smile, Gao Pragmatic had to smile bitterly, and said helplessly: "This guy is quite brave, and he actually brought his idea to me."
Zhu Yijun laughed loudly, pointed at Gao Pingshi and said: "What, you didn't expect that, did you? Ha, the person you recommended turned against you, how do you feel?"
Gao pragmatic sniffed and said: "Although it seems that he did not do this properly, it also shows that he still has an accurate judgment on the general trend, and will also use the existing conditions of the court to achieve strategic goals."
Zhu Yijun still smiled and asked: "Then how do you think I should approve it?"
Gao Jingshi said angrily: "This is what you, the emperor, should judge. How dare I overstep my authority?"
"Let's talk about it, you are going to be the elder of the pavilion. Isn't it natural to discuss politics?" Zhu Yijun chuckled and said: "Should the Beiyang Fleet contribute, or the Nanyang Fleet contribute?"
Zhu Yijun's words clarified Chen Lin's thoughts. His two requests were actually very simple. The former was to let the Beiyang Fleet contribute, and the latter was to let the Nanyang Fleet contribute.
In the former case, since the admiral of the Navy has been replaced by a distinguished minister from Beijing, this person must be a member of the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance. If he wants to go on an expedition, it is impossible not to consider his own safety, so he will definitely bring at least his own fleet with him.
Among the nobles of the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance, there is no one who is worthy of being the naval admiral this time. Not to mention asking the entire alliance to borrow some strength, even if we only consider our own fleet, there are at least a dozen or twenty Beijing armed transport ships.
Moreover, it is the original and genuine one, which can completely serve as the core force of the fleet.
With the existence of this group of forces, coupled with the warships that the Ming Dynasty could mobilize, the winning rate in the battle with the Japanese navy would naturally increase.
In the latter, if the imperial court allows Chen Lin to recruit "provincial sea-going ships" in Guangdong to participate in the war, it means that he can recruit a large part of the Beijing-China Nanyang Fleet. In fact, he can even recruit more Beijing-made armed transport ships from the private sector——
This point has been explained in the previous article. Jinghua sold ships in the Ming Dynasty on a standard basis, especially armed transport ships.
As the core part of Ming Dynasty's Southeast Asian trade, Guangdong has a large number of private fleets in the Pearl River Delta region such as Guangzhou Port. Whether it was Gao Pragmatic's expedition to Annan or Huang Zhiting's later expedition to Burma, Siam, Guangdong and other places, there were many maritime merchants.
people participate in it.
So it can be said that not only are their hardware capabilities strong enough, they even have actual combat experience. As long as the imperial court allows Chen Lin to recruit them at will, he even dares to boast: "As long as I take the Guangdong recruitment fleet to the north, I can
Defeated the Japanese Navy."
However, there is an issue here that Zhu Yijun did not pay enough attention to, that is, Chen Lin was only focused on the idea of Jinghua, but did not care much about the Ming Navy. Does this mean that the Ming Navy is not worthy of mention?
It's not that bad, but compared with the ships built by Jinghua, it is indeed a bit behind. At this time, the equipment of the Ming Dynasty's navy was mainly based on Fu ships, which were born on the coast of Fujian.
The general term for the ship type, which is broad at the bottom, wide at the bow and stern, and upturned at both ends. The building materials are mainly pine, fir, camphor and nanmu from Fujian, and there are six models in total.
The lucky ships used in naval battles refer specifically to No. 1 and No. 2. According to what Qi Jiguang said when he was in Zhejiang that year: "The lucky ships are as tall as a city and cannot be driven by human power. They rely entirely on the wind. Japanese ships are always as short as my little cang boat.
Therefore, the lucky ship rides the wind and presses down, like a chariot crushing a praying mantis. The ship's strength is compared with that of the manpower." His views on naval warfare are basically consistent with Yu Dayou's, and of course they are also basically consistent with Gao Pragmatism.
According to the "Military Bei Zhi": "Using firearms and the undulations of the waves may not necessarily hit the thieves. Even if they do, it will not be much, but they can be used to frighten the enemy's heart and ears. There are two things to rely on: shooting Buddhas
It's a good idea. But if you don't hit it, no ship will be smashed. The first is. Use a fireball or something like a fireball on the bow of the ship. When they meet, throw it down from a height. The fire will set off and the pirate's ship will be burned."
It can be seen that compared with the Japanese navy, the Ming Navy also has obvious advantages in large ships, high freeboard, and the ability to ram into close combat situations. However, compared with the Jinghua armed transport ship, due to the lack of artillery power,
It is still equipped with the old-fashioned Franco machine gun and is slightly behind.
Among these great fortune ships, No. 1 is called the Great Fortune Ship. It has three turrets, is wide at the top, and is high at the bow and stern. It can accommodate a hundred people. "The draft is too deep, starting and stopping are slow and heavy," and its maneuverability is relatively poor. No. 2 is called the Fortune Ship and is more maneuverable than the No. 1 ship.
Slightly smaller, "suitable for common use" - common use is actually mainly due to financial considerations.
The Fu Ship is as tall as a building and can accommodate a hundred people. It is wide at the bottom, the bow is raised and spread out, the stern is high, and the draft is about 3.5 meters. The bow is equipped with a head gun, and the sides are equipped with 6 thousand-pound Folang machines and bowl-mouth blunderbuss.
3, 20 thunder cannons, 60 nozzles, 10 fire blunderbuss, 500 crossbows, 10 gunpowder crossbows, 300 rockets, 100 fire bricks, and thousands of cold weapons. 64 crew members, 9 sailors,
55 soldiers.
According to the description in "Weaponry Chronicles", this kind of giant ship has three floors above. The sides are guarded by boards, protected by thatch bamboo, and stand up like a wall. It has two sails and masts. There are four floors in the middle. The lower floor is equipped with ballast stones.
The third floor is where the fresh water tank is placed, and the second floor is where the soldiers live. The top floor is a terrace, which needs to be climbed up from the ladder on the third floor. The wings are used as railings on both sides, and people lean on them to fight. The arrows, rocks and artillery are all overlooked.
Hair is actually a weapon in naval warfare.
The floors here are different from the Western terminology used by Jinghua. For example, Jinghua's so-called "two-deck gun" refers to the two decks that can fire artillery, and does not include the deck below.
However, the common shortcoming of these two types of great fortune ships is that they have poor maneuverability. "They are as tall as a city and cannot be driven by human power. They rely entirely on favorable winds and tides. However, it is inconvenient to maneuver back. Moreover, their drafts are deep, so they can only benefit from the vast ocean. In the Caspian Sea,
If the glue is too shallow, we must follow the sentinel ship to help." ("Tongkao of continued literature")
Because the latter types of Fukusen are generally not used for long-sea operations, there is no need to go into details here. However, several problems can be seen from the above alone: the most important of which is that the Jinghua armed transport ship is larger than the Daifuku ship, but it is not as maneuverable.
Good question, it can be seen that the ship model developed by Jinghua is better than the Fu ship after being compatible with the advantages of Western warship design. The crew and armament on board are also stronger.
As a Guangdong general, Chen Lin certainly saw these issues clearly, so he made those two requests.
Since the emperor insisted on letting Gao Jingshi choose, Gao Jingshi had no choice but to choose one. He thought for a while and said: "In this case, it is better to choose one person from among the honorable ministers to be the naval admiral for this battle - Beiyang, after all,
Being close makes it easier to dispatch."
This did not surprise Zhu Yijun, so the emperor nodded in approval and asked: "Who do you think is better?"
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