Five days later, Mo Yulin and Ruan Ti set out separately, one land and one sea.

Mo Yulin's side doesn't need to say much, it's just a normal dispatch, he has nearly 30,000 troops in his hands, which is almost equivalent to the entire force that Zheng Song brought to Yi'an, and now he is just going to fight the cities on the western front with weak troops, and there should be no pressure when the main force of Gao Pragmatic is eyeing the Yingdu Mansion of Yi'an.

Ruan Ti has something to say along the way. This time, the Eastern Route Army took the sea route, and it stands to reason that the main commander will be Ruan Ti, but because Ruan Ti himself is a general of the Mo Dynasty, and the commander of the Jinghua fleet is Ding Gaojing, a high-level and pragmatic confidant, so when he is at sea, his command is doubtful.

Of course, Ruan Ti himself is well aware of this, and from the moment he got on the ship, he treated himself as a passenger and never expressed any opinion on the voyage. In fact, he had attacked Nghe An and Hue by sea several times, and he was a double general who knew the navy, but he was very interested in Jinghua's armed transport ships, although he didn't ask much, but he had been carefully observing.

In his opinion, Jinghua's ships have a sense of Huayi combination, especially the sails, which are the most obvious. Jinghua's sail is also a typical Chinese hard sail, the shape and system of the sail are also a typical Chinese quadrangular sail, but the bow of the triplet is added, plus the sail winch used on these ships is unprecedented in other Ming ships, and it has a strong "red hair" meaning.

These things are all products made in accordance with Gao Pragmatic's guiding theory, and they were not manufactured in batches at the beginning, because Gao Pragmatic was not sure whether such a combination of Chinese and Western was easy to use, he just relied on his money and could afford to experiment.

Later, it was found that on the basis of Chinese ship types and sails, it was still feasible to apply some Western navigation techniques, which gradually spread.

Whether it is a comb bar hard sail in the south or a dense bar hard sail in the north, the basic structure is almost the same, and the sail may be the fundamental difference between Chinese and Western styles. The advantage of the Chinese sail is that due to the effective support of several crossbars, the load per unit area of the sail is smaller, and even if it breaks, it will not quickly spread to the entire sail surface, which can leave enough time for the sail to be repaired at sea, and the material requirements for sail making are not high.

Moreover, the hard sail retains its shape better regardless of the wind conditions, with less efficiency loss, and will not be pumped by the wind.

As for later generations, people believe that the biggest disadvantage of Chinese hard sails is that the structure is too heavy, which is of course a problem, but Gao pragmatic by inviting the great scientist Zhu Zaiyu to improve the winch, to a large extent to solve this problem, simplify the structure and improve efficiency.

However, Gao Pragmatic is still a little dissatisfied, because he learned through the maritime merchants in the private port of Guangzhou that the Franc man's warship is in the same "tonnage" as the Jinghua warship - for example, compared with the Jinghua armed transport ship and the Galen ship of the same tonnage, the gunload of the Franc man's mann is higher than that of the armed transport ship, and the Galen ship has eight more guns, and four more guns on the left and right sides.

That is to say, at the same tonnage, Jinghua has fourteen guns on one side of the ship, while the Franco machine man has eighteen.

This is definitely a disadvantage!

However, it still depends on the guiding ideas of the two navies' operations: Jinghua is faster, more accurate in control, and can adapt to all kinds of winds, but the firepower is weaker; The power of the Franc man's Galen ship is not as good as that of Jinghua's ship, but the firepower is superior.

As for what kind of ship structure and who is more resistant to beating, Gao Pragmatic doesn't know now, so he has to wait for the two captured big Galen to be thoroughly studied by the shipwrights in Jinghua before he can make a judgment.

In this situation, although Gao Pragmatic is still dissatisfied, he can barely accept it. Mainly, he felt that the strength of the Franc Man's unit artillery did not change a key factor: the total amount of navy that Westerners could invest in East Asia was very limited, while he was pragmatic and could concentrate his full efforts!

What if your unit shell output is a little higher than mine, I can crush you with the quantity - wasn't Zheng Zhilong so he dominated the South China Sea trade back then? There are a lot of people on my ship, and I can drown you in the jumping gang battle with some losses, which is also a kind of strength.

Of course, in general, Gao Pragmatic does not advocate the backward tactics of jumping gang battles, and the Spaniards are about to suffer in this regard, how can he Gao Pragmatic follow the convulsions?

Before the appearance of aircraft carriers, the general development idea of the Navy was unusually clear, just four words: giant ship artillery!

Whoever has the bigger ship will have the upper hand; Whoever has the best guns will win!

In order to play two games, Gao Pragmatic read a lot of books about the era of sail battleships, and the ideas in those books were refined, in fact, these four words were said!

For example, the Spanish armada was deflated, and the storm was of course an aspect, but the main problem was the artillery, England was taking the long-range heavy artillery route at that time, that is, relying on the advantage of mobility and artillery fire range to "fly kites" from afar, and the Spaniards have always wanted to rely on the past to fight the jump gang war - the Spanish Army is in the last highlight moment at this time, and it can completely beat England, but the English do not let him approach, he has no choice, he can only be beaten passively, which no one can stand it.

Ruan Ti watched while remembering it in his heart and pondering slowly. Gao Jing saw it on the side, but he didn't say anything.

Gao Jing is not worried about Ruan Ti stealing a teacher or anything, because he is from a maritime family, and he knows the difference between the sea and the land, you can revolt on the land, as long as there are enough people, there is a chance to "kill the elephant with more ants". But the sea is different, although people are also important, but you must first have a boat, and the boat is the foundation of everything.

And to have a ship, you must first have money!

The cost of each of the armed transport ships under their feet is as high as 55,200 silver, and how much is 60 armed transport ships?

Three million three thousand taels!

Ten years ago, this was the total income of the Ming treasury for a year!

What if you learned this thing Annan? Can you build such a fleet?

Not to mention that his master is still asking the people in the shipyard to design bigger and stronger professional warships, and I heard that one thing costs 120,000 taels......

120,000 taels!

It is estimated that even if the old man is as rich, the ship may not be able to build much, after all, it is still a ship that can only fight, and it is not possible to transport goods in normal times - in other words, it is a loss-making cargo, unless he runs out to be a pirate, he has no ability to make money at all.

Ruan Ti carefully observed for a whole day, and thought about it for a long time, and then his face gradually became difficult to look at, and he couldn't help but ask Gao Jing how much silver this boat costed.

Gao Jing smiled: "I heard that it is close to sixty thousand taels. ”

Ruan Ti was stunned for a while, then turned around and left without looking back.

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