The manpower brought by Qi Zhengyan, except for the lack of force, was basically a regular army in formation.

That is to say, after the general trend has passed, they have retreated in formation.

There were three hundred and ninety-five men in all, twenty-five cavalrymen, most of whom were samurai; Each cavalry with one or two Lang party, four or five peasant soldiers, most of them are fully armed, forming the backbone of the battle, and the ship carries 12 horses and 14 pack horses.

Don't ask why horses are counted by the head, Chen Mu now feels that Mongolian horses are not low.

One hundred and ten Japanese sailors, rich and poor armor-piercing, and a few with complete armor, weapons ranging from spears, knives and knives to slings, bows and arrows, are also considered to be all work.

A general banner of the Ming army's iron artillery team, they used real iron cannons, Qi Zhengyan through the boundary merchant Xiao Xi Longzuo to purchase a very distinctive boundary iron cannon. It is characterized by fine workmanship, different lengths, and different calibers, but it looks good.

He even brought three heralds, which seemed to be stronger than three hundred households, because they could fight alone.

Limited to the strength of troops, large corps operations are certainly not possible, but scattered operations are their strength.

After contact with Long Junxiong and Liandou and the Japanese soldiers, it was confirmed that they were indeed defeated in Japan as Qi Zhengyan said, because he fled with him when he had a way, and now his future is uncertain, and he has no other ideas, just like other Japanese soldiers on Luzon, who want to work hard to eat.

But in the end, it is also a regular army over there, and its military quality is better than that of the gang of ronins under Liandou.

"This is the map, in the next war, the lord wants us to go to sea with Junxiong, and we may board a ship and seize the ship, and for each big war ship captured, we will be rewarded with 200 yuan." Qi Zhengyan spread out a sketch and showed it to the head of the naval army, Nasa, Nisuke, and the head of the military soldier who had been rescued by him, Hyokosuke, and said: "If there is no naval battle, only land battle, after victory, you will also be rewarded with good money." ”

There are good and bad money, such as Japan's own money and the Song money that is badly worn, it will be called bad money, and the Ming money has become the most good money flowing into Japan because Yongle Tongbao is the currency of tributary trade.

Qi Zhengyan said that the good money was 200 taels, in the Ming Dynasty, it was 200 taels of silver, and in Japan it was about 1,500 taels of silver, so Qi Zhengyan didn't directly say silver, it would be less.

"The lord never hesitates to reward, he fights with all his heart and achieves meritorious deeds, and the level of his official position and the amount of money and wealth are all based on the depth of loyalty."

Nasa Nippon Suke looked at Qi Zhengyan, who had the intention of giving orders, and was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "Heh, it seems that now we want to make Zhengyan a general-I understand, seize the ship and kill the enemy, and win Chen Shuai's trust!" ”

Here, you still have to rely on Qi Zhengyan!

The second day of August, Manila Bay.

Rumble!

There was a loud bang on the sea, and a Nanyang Weixin 500 shark ship crashed into a Fu ship that had been damaged in a previous typhoon, and the explosion angle blew up the fuku's hull to explode and open a hole, and the shark boat crashed into the hull along the gap without any hindrance in the sawdust sky, and almost the entire bow plunged into the Fu boat, almost like riding on it.

Chen Mu nodded slowly on the shore, put away the binoculars and said to Chen Lan beside him: "At this depth, the keel should be broken." ”

"It's broken, and it's a lot stronger than before." Chen Lan was still holding the binoculars, the expression on his face was a little dilemma, and said: "At this time, Nanyangwei sent such a weapon, it is inappropriate, how good would it be if there were such weapons thirty years earlier?" ”

Chen Mu nodded, very much agreed with Chen Lan's words, and said: "Although I know that the artillery battle at sea is stronger than the jump battle, it is inevitable that when I encounter a jump battle, I will specially prepare some boats to change the explosion angle, and when I encounter a jump battle, I will hit him hard." ”

Saying that, Chen Mu sighed with emotion: "Although Lao Guan made this thing a little expensive, it is very useful, eh!" It's sinking, isn't it? Sunk. ”

In just one impact, the explosion angle on the waterline broke through the hull, reducing the drag and making the hull of the same speed collide with greater force, directly hitting a slightly smaller lucky ship.

Chen Mu even believed that even if the enemy ship was bigger, this impact would sink the enemy ship, because the breach was too big, and the cracks and loopholes under the waterline could not be repaired by the shipwright temporarily.

This kind of power is because of the progress of Lao Guan's skills, the old man has been tinkering with things related to artillery and warships in Nanyangwei, Chen Mu brought back a large number of excellent techniques of the Qi family army from the north for him to learn, and at the same time served as a teacher in the arsenal of the Navy Lecture Hall, and accidentally tossed a new collision angle.

In fact, the ramming angle is not very useful to Chen Mu's fleet now, the larger hulls are mostly without oars, and more artillery, these big guys who are ready to go to the ocean are not very strong in the near distance, and he even plans to remove the obstructive thing of the ramming horn on the new warship after cleaning up the sea gang-jumping madman Spain.

But Guan Yuangu's idea is still very good, he used a metal semi-solid corner, put hundreds of catties of gunpowder in it, and inserted it into the existing short and long angle of the bow with a mortise and tenon joint to form an explosive collision angle, and there are two biggest technical difficulties.

One is to make the splicing stronger, and Nanyangwei's better metal rice processing plays a role; The other is the firing mechanism of the collision angle explosion, Lao Guan used Qi Jiguang's steel wheel to fire in the northern mines.

When the ramming angle hits something, the middle part will sink, and the sharp two sections will pierce into the hull, and the middle position will be squeezed and moved by the ship, pulling the internal bracket, and the steel wheel will quickly rub against the flint to ignite the gunpowder, and this firing mechanism determines that the fire will only start when the ramming angle penetrates the enemy ship, and then there is a loud bang.

Fourteen taels of silver burst open along with the hull of the enemy ship, and the crack would widen into a hole with the impact of the warship, and it could be stuffed into a hole in the bow of the ship.

In fact, this thing is more than fourteen taels, but the cost is indeed so high, because it only needs a lot of iron and gunpowder, and as for the wages - no, Chen Mu doesn't need wages, and now his craftsmen are all paid.

This idea is heavenly!

After Guan Yuangu experimented twice in Nanyangwei, he sent someone to bring two ramming horns and a new bow shark boat to him to try.

Chen Mu watched the Fu ship that was damaged in the storm earlier slowly sink, and was very satisfied, and said: "In the future, each fleet can prepare one such ship, five hundred shark boats, big ships and small boats can collide, and they can fight normally. ”

Chen Lan answered at this time: "It is true that the world is invincible, I have read the book of Xiyi naval soldiers, and I am far inferior to them in terms of jumping battles." ”

"It doesn't matter, a fleet of six boats, five of them are avoiding them, a shark boat crashes into them, they will definitely not think of it, as soon as it hits, they will send a boatload of people to feed the fish. And this method of firing should not be placed in the bow of the ship, but in the cannon, in the shell. ”

"Huh?"

Chen Lan turned his head in surprise, and saw Chen Mu looking at the sea with his arms folded, his eyes were full of wishful thinking written on his face.

"Bigger cannons, make a kind of pointed cannonball, fill it with gunpowder, mix it with small iron pellets, hit it and hit something, so that the steel wheel will fire and explode; On the ships in the rear, especially the ships with ramming angles, there is no need to use the palm of the mine, make eight or nine catties of explosives bundles, wrap a layer of iron pellets on the outside, use a long twist, hit it and throw it at the enemy ship, and blow it up even harder! ”