The Grand Scholar of Wen Huadian, the Minister of Household Affairs, and the manager of the war against Japan, Nanning Hou Gao Yingshi once again took command of the expedition after a few years. Although he personally led the navy to aid Korea, how could he not have a "personal soldier" around him to support him?
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The navy's "private soldiers" are largely taken care of by the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance, with Jinghua and Jingnan each contributing about half, including one second-class battleship, two third-class battleships, and four first-class cruisers.
There are six second-class cruisers and forty-six armed transport ships, a total of sixty ships, including fourteen professional battleships. In terms of crew number, it is about 13,000 people.
Professional warships, namely battleships and cruisers, are all provided by Beijing Beiyang Fleet, accounting for nearly 40% of the total number of professional warships in the Beiyang Fleet. Gao Pragmatic's flagship is the second-class battleship, named "Dongchang", which is named after
The opening battle of the Battle of Southern Liaoning: the Battle of Dongchang Fort.
The second-class battleship is the latest and largest professional battleship of Jinghua. There are only three built in total, two of which are in the Nanyang Fleet.
This class of battleship has a huge tonnage of 4,000 tons. Although it is a two-deck gun battleship like the third-class battleship and even the first-class cruiser, it carries more artillery. A single ship carries 88 artillery pieces of various types, and the entire ship has a crew of 580
people, excluding the army or marine personnel that may be carried, the cost of a single ship has also increased with the increase in tonnage, costing a full 350,000 taels of silver.
What is the concept of the unit price of three hundred and fifty thousand taels of silver? Simply put, if this money is given to Chen Lin, he can build a dozen Dafu ships that will serve as the main force of the Ming Navy.
Who has the stronger combat effectiveness between a "Dongchang" ship and a dozen Dafu ships? This question is not easy to answer.
If the Dongchang was surrounded by a trapped beast, then the Dafu Ship side would most likely win, and the outcome would most likely be the capture of the Dongchang;
If the Dongchang takes advantage of its advantages - fast, hard and powerful, and adopts a long-range bombardment battle with kites flying, the Dafu ship may be beaten from beginning to end, and the result will be a loss, but it is unlikely to be defeated.
Total annihilation. However, this strategy itself is quite expensive. It also tests whether the weapons and equipment (gunpowder, shells, etc.) it carries are sufficient, and the physical requirements for the crew of the Dongchang are also extremely high.
Generally speaking, everyone still thinks that from a cost-effectiveness perspective, building one Dongchang is not as good as building a dozen Daifuku ships, or six or seven armed transport ships - you are right, the cost of building an armed transport ship is actually a military Daifuku ship
Nearly double. In fact, this also reflects from the side that the warships of the Ming Navy at this time were not huge, and the weapons and equipment were limited. The idea of building an army was to win in numbers.
Gao Pragmatic himself actually feels that from the perspective of cost-effectiveness, the "large quantity and full control" Dafu ship or even the armed transport ship is more cost-effective than building professional warships. In terms of combat effectiveness, the Ming Dynasty can afford the "ship and sea tactics" and is not weak.
But he still insisted on building professional warships.
When a country considers issues, especially when a big country considers issues, it must not just stay at the short-term tactical level, but must be based on strategy and the long-term.
Now the Ming Dynasty can win by having more ships. The main ship types of the Ming army such as the Dafu ship are relatively stronger than the Japanese Anzha ships, small morning ships, and Kanfune ships. But is the only enemy that the Ming Dynasty may face is Japan?
If nothing else, let’s just talk about the Spanish treasure fleet that the Beiyang Expeditionary Fleet faced. If the Ming Dynasty navy were to fight it, how large a fleet should be used to defeat it? This has not yet said that at this time
If the Ming Dynasty Navy mobilized such a huge fleet to fight off the coast of Luzon, there may be serious problems in itself.
From Gao Pragmatic's point of view, there are endogenous reasons why the navy will develop into a gold-swallowing behemoth in the future. The more specialized it is, the more efficient it is, and the more efficient it is, the more it can be called blue.
A blue-water navy, and what Gao Pragmatic has always hoped for is that China must have the tradition of a blue-water navy in the future.
There is no doubt that as the only second-level battleship in the Beiyang Fleet that has been commissioned, Dongchang was originally the flagship of the Beiyang Fleet, and now it has become the flagship of the Ming Dynasty's aid fleet to Korea.
The above are only Gao Jingshi's "private soldiers", and do not include the support Korea Navy that Chen Lin has built in the past few years. By the way, Gao Jingshi doesn't like the term "Korean Support Navy" and has already traveled to Brunei Prefecture.
Chen Lin ordered that when the two forces merged, it would be renamed the "Ping-Japanese Fleet".
In addition to the soldiers of the navy or navy, the army must also have soldiers. However, given Gao Wushu's current special identity and status, he is very reluctant to use his own servants, let alone mobilize the garrison in southern Xinjiang.
Therefore, after much deliberation, he ordered Liu Wei's troops to be transferred from Sichuan via the Yangtze River waterway and sea transportation before departure. At this time, it is necessary to recall the process of pacifying the Bozhou Rebellion.
When Liu Wei took over to put down the Bozhou Rebellion, the start was not good. Not to mention the two major defeats before, he had just laid out a dragnet according to Gao's pragmatic intention, and was only waiting for his headquarters to attack Huanglong as the main force.
, but suddenly it was reported that Guizhou suffered an inexplicable defeat along the way.
What happened was that in February of that year, the governor of Guizhou Jiangdong called the capital commander Yang Guozhu and Li Tingdong to discuss matters. Jiangdong said: "Yang Yinglong has been rampant for a long time, and now Guizhou is also ordered to send troops to deter the rebels in Bozhou. Yang Dusi, according to
In your opinion, how should we march to capture Yang Yinglong and present it to the Holy One?"
Yang Guozhu was stunned when he heard this, and quickly said: "Reporting to the Fu army, I think it is extremely difficult to capture and kill Yang Yinglong. Our army only has three thousand troops. It is better to follow Admiral Liu's plan to win by surprise, wipe out one part of the enemy, and occupy an area."
In case of danger, just block the southern route to Banshu.
It is suggested under the banner to send troops to Feilian Fort. If this place is captured, Chu can be protected and the road to Guizhou will be smooth. Of course, after the enemy is defeated at Feilian Fort, we can also pursue the remaining enemy for twenty miles to strengthen our momentum, and then guard the dangerous points to
Just wait for Admiral Liu’s army to advance and suppress them.”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Li Tingdong quickly asked for an order: "General, I agree with Dusi's plan, so that our army can not only report victory to the court, but also avoid the danger of being annihilated by the enemy alone. At the end of this battle
The general is willing to be the vanguard to capture Feilian Fort, and I also ask Fu Jun to make a decision."
Jiang Dongzhi was not very happy, because in this case the Guizhou side was nothing more than an addendum, and in hindsight the merits would definitely be attributed to Liu Wei. But now that the two military generals said so, he, a civil servant who did not understand the military, really did not dare to force
He insisted on fighting, so he had to acquiesce and ordered Yang Guozhu and Li Tingdong to lead three thousand troops to march towards Feilian Fort.
However, the problem is that Guizhou is very close to Bozhou. In fact, it was almost integrated in the early days. Therefore, Bozhou penetrated Guizhou very seriously. Guizhou was a sieve in the eyes of the Bozhou army. Therefore, the news of the Ming army's march towards Feilianbao was quickly announced.
Then the news reached Yang Yinglong's location.
Yang Yinglong made a prompt decision and ordered Yang Chaodong, Yang Zhaolong, and He Hanliang to lead their troops to Feilianbao to meet the enemy. They were advised to feign defeat and lure the enemy to Tianbangdun for an ambush. The three of them followed the order and left.
The Ming army marched to Feilian Fort and saw the Bozhou soldiers attacking. Yang Guozhu was surprised that the news was leaked, and Li Tingdong advocated a war. Yang Guozhu knew that if Feilian Fort was not captured, not only would he be unable to explain to the Fujun, but also to the admiral Liu Wei.
There was no way to explain, so the Ming army was ordered to form a formation to meet the enemy.
Yang Chaodong, the son of Yang Yinglong, raised a flag and shouted: "Yang Chaodong is here in Bozhou. The Han soldiers can surrender quickly to avoid death!" Yang Chaodong's words were just to show his power, but he did not expect any Ming troops to surrender after hearing this, so after shouting, he led the Miao soldiers to march towards
The Ming army came to kill him.
Yang Guozhu saw that there were not many soldiers in Bozhou, so he ordered the Ming army to fire and fire artillery to stop the attack. The southwest Ming army did not need the same land as Jiubian, and it was not their turn to change their uniforms. Therefore, at this time, there were only more than ten old-fashioned tiger squats on the position.
Cannons, plus magical arrow carriages, and hundreds of old-fashioned firecrackers.
But even so, the Miao soldiers' offensive was still blocked. After charging for a while, there were many casualties and the vanguard retreated. Seeing the opportunity, Li Tingdong immediately led the Ming army to charge. The Miao soldiers collapsed and were difficult to stop. Yang Chaodong turned his horse and ordered a retreat.
Yang Guozhu was overjoyed and immediately issued a strict order to capture Yang Chaodong alive. So the entire Ming army pursued him, and Li Tingdong took the lead, covering up and killing Yang Chaodong. He pursued Yang Chaodong and took advantage of the situation to seize the three hundred waterlogged land of Weng'an Monkey Farm.
Yang Chaodong rushed to Tianbangdun and hurriedly met with Yang Zhaolong and He Hanliang, explaining that the army was about to pursue him and asked them to prepare quickly. He Hanliang quickly laid out haystacks and dry firewood, while Yang Zhaolong concealed his bows and crossbows. Yang Chaodong then picked out his own soldiers.
It was used as a death camp to await the Ming army.
Li Tingdong led the Ming army to pursue Tianbangdun, and Yang Guozhu arrived shortly after. The two sides fought a bloody battle with the Bozhou soldiers, but Yang Chaodong was nowhere to be seen. Yang Guozhu was inevitably uneasy.
The result of uneasiness on the battlefield usually comes true. Sure enough, a fire suddenly broke out around Tianbangtun, and all exits were blocked. The fire was fast and violent, and the smoke was thick. The Ming army was trapped in it and it was smoky, but it was difficult to break out.
At this time, for the Bozhou Army, He Hanliang and Yang Chaodong each had one unit on standby in case the Ming army broke through. Yang Zhaolong ordered the crossbowmen around him to fire all their rockets. The three thousand Ming troops in Tianbang's hoard were in a mess, and their heads were rained with arrows.
Under the fierce fire, more than half of the casualties were quickly lost, and Li Tingdong was killed on the spot.
Yang Guozhu mourned greatly, and the Ming army kept wailing. When the fire weakened, He Hanliang judged that there were very few Ming troops left, so Yang Chaodong and He Hanliang led the army into Tianbangdun. At this time, more than a thousand of the remaining Ming army had arrow wounds and burns.
With all his firearms destroyed, Yang Guozhu was unable to stop the Miao soldiers' attack and the entire army was wiped out. Yang Guozhu wanted to draw his sword and commit suicide but was captured by Yang Chaodong.
Yang Chaodong captured many officers, including Yang Guozhu, and made them kneel down and beg for surrender. Yang Guozhu cursed: "Traitor! Why did the court fail you? You actually committed rebellion and massacred officials and people. You will be punished by God! When Admiral Liu arrives,
, I will make sure that all the corpses of the Bozhou rebels are gone! My head can be chopped off, but my knees cannot be bent!"
Yang Chaodong scolded: "You stupid thief, how dare you be so impudent now that you are a prisoner of the rank? The two provinces of Guizhou and Shu covet our land of Bozhou. Over the years, they have repeatedly forced each other to pick quarrels and cause trouble. They secretly conspired with Luo Zhi, the seven surnames of the five divisions."
, my brother Yang Kedong also died in the assassination, and now that things have happened, how can you pretend to be righteous!"
Yang Guozhu cursed: "There is no excuse for rebels! It is clear that Yang Yinglong's crimes are monstrous and he is rampant. You are working as tigers and helping Zhou to do harm. The people of Bozhou have suffered greatly. There have been many investigations in Guizhou and Shu provinces, and Yang Yinglong's secret conspiracy has repeatedly gone unpunished.
You have no regrets for the sins you have committed! The Holy Spirit has shown mercy many times, but you have only worsened!
In my opinion, Yang Kedong's death must be God's will. The imperial court's dispatch of troops this time is a final warning. Now that the rebellion has been exposed, the demise of the Yang family in Bozhou is just around the corner!"
Yang Chaodong then ordered Yang Guozhu and 13 other captured generals to be beheaded to commemorate the souls of the Miao soldiers. The Bozhou army then assembled, returned to Feilianbao, and raided Guizhou. The various guards were unable to fight and the people were displaced. The governor of Guizhou, Jiangdong,
Originally waiting for a response at the border, Jiangdong was frightened when he saw the Bozhou Army rushing into Guizhou with overwhelming force. He hurriedly evacuated and was almost captured by the Bozhou Army.
However, the Bozhou Army also knew that the key to this battle was still Liu Wei's group, so they quickly withdrew from Guizhou after massacring 20,000 soldiers and civilians. Jiangdong was so ashamed and angry that he went to Shangshu to plead guilty.
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