Who on the water would dare to disagree? At present, the Daming Water Master has an absolute advantage, how dare Jianyu disagree? But Zhu Linmiao immediately remembered that in less than two months, the Lu Wang regime in Zhejiang would be destroyed by Bolo.

At that time, most of Fang Guoan's huge fleet will fall into the hands of Jianyu. These warships will immediately turn against the Ming Dynasty.

In history, Luo Mingshou's fleet was burned, coupled with Zheng Zhilong's rebellion, the waters of the Yangtze River originally controlled by the Ming Dynasty became the world of Jianyu, and the Yangtze River defense line of the Southern Ming Dynasty collapsed instantly.

From then on, the Jianyu could move south at any time, and at the same time they could mobilize troops along the waterways for supplies, while the Ming army was overwhelmed.

It was not until Zheng Chenggong later collected the remnants of the Longwu Dynasty Water Division that he regained the right to control the river, but at that time, most of the Jiangnan fell into the hands of Jianyu, and the Yangtze River natural danger had lost its effect.

At present, it is impossible to want the "army" of King Lu to block Bolon, but Luo Mingshou's warships are all saved. Although Luo Mingshou was unable to defeat Fang Guoan's fleet, the heavy artillery on the ship this time reminded Zhu Linmiao that with these heavy artillery with far superior firepower to Fang Guoan, supplemented by advanced tactics, it may not be impossible to defeat those sailors who had just surrendered to Jianjiao.

Zhu Linmiao said to Luo Ming: "If every large warship garrisoned by Luo is equipped with a heavy cannon of this kind, can you be sure that you can defeat King Lu's sailors?" ”

Luo Ming was stunned, the large warships of the Zhejiang Navy Division were nearly twice as large as him, and it was really difficult to deal with, but he immediately remembered the power of the heavy cannon just now, and immediately said indifferently: "I will take advantage of the artillery and bombard him from a distance, but his cannon will not hurt me, I will definitely be able to defeat him!" ”

Zhu Linmiao asked again: "Do you know the naval battle between Zheng Zhilong and the Helan people in the seventh year of the Apocalypse?" ”

Luo Mingshou nodded, and then shook his head again. He must have heard about it, but he knew very little of the details.

"The main force of the Helan people is five giant warships with a load of more than 5,000 loads, as high as three and a half zhang, and more than ten 3,000-pound heavy guns.

"And Zheng Zhilong's largest warship can only bear two thousand quintals, loaded with two cannons, and the frontal artillery is not the opponent of the Helan people at all. But he had four or five hundred centipede clippers loaded with sulfur, kerosene, and so on.

"After the battle, the roar of the Helan artillery was majestic, but it was soon surrounded by a large number of fire-initiating ships, and no matter how powerful the heavy artillery was, it could not destroy them all at once.

"It didn't take long for the warships of the Helan people to be burned down, and Zheng Zhilong won a complete victory."

Luo Ming scratched his head and said: "What does Your Highness mean that water warfare should still be based on igniting fast ships, and large ships and heavy artillery are not applicable?" ”

"Definitely." Zhu Linmiao shook his head again, "The overlord of naval warfare is definitely a giant ship and heavy artillery, but it has to pay attention to tactics. ”

Luo Ming said in his heart that King Chen had really obtained the true legend of the immortal, and he even dabbled in the method of water warfare, so he immediately listened attentively.

"When firing artillery on the water, it is often one out of ten misses, and if each ship fires indiscriminately, it will take a long time to hit the enemy ship. This gave the enemy the opportunity to fire the boat closer.

Therefore, it is important not to fire indiscriminately. The main gunboats should be connected end to end, lined up in a neat line, and seize the upper hand, and all ships must have a unified order before they can fire. In this way, each artillery salvo creates a dense barrage of shells. Where the barrage is covered, the enemy ship will be created! This is called the battle line tactic.

"The close salvo of warships not only increases firepower, but also prevents enemy clippers from shuttling and encircling our main large ships. In addition, it is necessary to arrange our small boats to cover the front of the battle line, and if the enemy fire ships swarm, they will be blocked in front of our battle line and gather in a heap. At this time, the heavy artillery bombards it, and it can be quickly dispersed.

With this tactic, Zheng Zhilong's Clippers' tactics of igniting the fire will undoubtedly fail. Of course, if the enemy were to engage in artillery fire with us in a scattered formation, it would be even more defeat. ”

In fact, the navy's battle line play is the line infantry tactic born from the army, and it is also the most popular tactic among European naval powers at present.

In another half a century, it will spread to the eastern world, and both sides of the Penghu naval battle have already adopted this method of warfare. But at the moment, Daming's water war is still dominated by the tactics of jumping gangs and igniting fire.

In fact, Zhu Linwei also knew that the battle line style required the main battleship to be equipped with a large number of artillery to increase the density of the barrage, and the artillery equipped with the warship in Luo Mingshou's hand was far from enough. But he could be trained in formation and salvo fire first, and the ships and artillery would be gradually strengthened in the future.

Luo Ming couldn't help but squint his eyes when he heard this, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that King Chen's battle line tactics made a lot of sense, and in connection with the naval battles he had experienced before, he found that many battles that he hadn't won could be turned around immediately if he used this kind of tactics!

He asked a lot of detailed questions, and the more he knew, the more he felt that the tactics of the battle line were extremely exquisite, and the more he admired King Chen.

Once the iron fan of the twenty-four-pound cannon was made on the iron side of the iron yard, the casting speed behind it was very fast, and now the ability of the iron blast furnace in the iron yard to produce iron has become a bottleneck.

A few days later, a total of seven twenty-four-pounder guns were loaded onto Luo Mingshou's warship.

At the same time, a large number of other front-line weapons were also loaded and shipped to Nanchang. Among them, there are hundreds of cavalry half-body plate armor and cavalry swords required by the Dragon Guard, more than 200 reed wheel short guns, and 270 newly made Type 2 Chasseur guns. As well as more than 900 11-money heavy bird guns and more than 2,000 new-style earth-shaking thunderbolts that have been made by other Ming troops in the past month.

In addition, there are 3,000 steel shovels, which Zhu Linmiao specially prepared for them when he found that Wan Yuan Ji and others were very fond of digging trenches when they were in battle. This kind of steel shovel imitating the American army engineer shovel in later generations is small in size, scientific in appearance design, and good crucible steel is used on the shovel edge, which can increase the speed of trench digging by several percent.

Although these ships of munitions were produced and sold by Su Ji Iron Yard, the cost alone cost Zhu Linmiao more than 50,000 taels of silver. However, in order to defeat Bolo's main force and survive the biggest difficulty of the Longwu Dynasty, even if he invests all his net worth, he will not hesitate.

In the past few days waiting for the weapons to be loaded, Luo Mingshou was not idle, so he took his existing five large boats and a few small boats for transportation to practice the battle line tactics on the Ganjiang River.

He didn't know that it was extremely difficult to keep the five boats moving end to end at all times. Coupled with the small ships covering the battle line, the whole fleet will be a mess if you are not careful.

Fortunately, Zhu Linmiao was guided by the European sailing methods in his memory, and after five or six days of practice, Luo Mingshou was barely able to command the five white-bottomed boats in his hand to maintain the posture of the battle line.

The military situation was urgent, and Zhu Linmiao did not dare to delay too long in Longnan, and after completing the seven twenty-four-pounder guns, he let Luo Ming be anchored and go to Nanchang. According to his estimates, these cannons were enough to blast through the Nanchang city wall.

However, before leaving Longnan, he still had to arrange other things.