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"W-How is this possible?" Zheng Du exclaimed, "Can the artillery of his fifty boats overwhelm two hundred Kaha?!" ”

Zheng Zhilong nodded, "What's impossible. If what I expected was correct, the Ming army would have built a plywood boat. ”

"Plywood boats?" Zheng Du was stunned, "Just like we imitated Hongyi's "Wei" warship? ”

The plywood ship is the name given to the Galen ship by the Ming people, because one of the most obvious features of this ship compared with Chinese sailing ships is that there is a special gun deck between the open deck and the bilge, as if one or two layers are sandwiched in the hull, hence the name. Of course, this is only in the waters of East Asia, where the naval powers of Europe have installed a large number of heavy battleships with three gun decks and a displacement of more than 1,000 tons.

Zheng Zhilong nodded, "The artillery fire is extremely fierce, and you can win more with less, I have thought about it repeatedly, there should be only this one possibility."

"If the Ming army really had three or four warships like "Longwei", and with proper command, it would not be impossible to defeat the Qiantang Naval Division of Kaha. ”

"They actually have three or four warships like the word "Wei"?! Zheng Du was shocked again. He Zheng worked hard for more than ten years, recruited craftsmen from Nanyang, and stole the patterns of Hongyi, which created the five "Wei" fonts. And when his father left Fujian, he took all the ships with him and set a fire in the shipyard, how could Zheng Sen build three or four in a few months?!

At this time, if someone told Zheng Sen that the Ming army sailors not only owned four plywood boats, but also were more powerful than the "Wei" brand built by his Zheng family, and that three or four others were working on the slipway day and night, I am afraid that his eyes would fall out in shock.

You must know that the "Wei" warship that Zheng Zhilong is extremely proud of is only 600 warships, that is, 2340 tons. This is not even comparable to the "small" ships of more than 300 tons, such as the Fuzhou and Jianchang of the Daming Naval Division, and more than twice as small as the 500-ton Shaowu, not to mention the 800-ton "giant beast" on the slipway in Yongbeili.

In fact, the Galen warship was definitely a completely new thing for the shipwrights of the East. If Zhu Linmiao hadn't been immersed in the "Steel Blood Forum" for many years, and there were many models of sail warships, he would definitely not have been able to draw detailed drawings of warships.

Rao is very familiar with the hull structure, but he also encountered many problems in the details of the specific construction. Fortunately, there were two Nanyang shipwrights that Zheng Zhilong had found in the past, and Pan Mingzhong, a master who was dug up by Jinyiwei from the Luzon shipyard, and thousands of Ming craftsmen worked together, so that the drawings could be successfully turned into real warships.

But Zheng Zhilong did not have the experience of later generations, and his eyes were completely black when he built the Galen ship. He tried and tested the length and width of the hull for three or four years, built no less than 50 tests of different proportions, and finally combined it with the drawings used by the Dutch repairman.

Similarly, the size of the mast, the assembly position of the front and rear masts, the thickness of the hull, the structure of the cabin, the structure of the gun carriage, the shape of the soft sails, etc., each of which had to be tackled from scratch. It was already a very fast speed that they were able to build five 200-ton Galen ships in just over ten years.

However, these problems are not a problem at all for Zhu Linmiao, who came from later generations. He even had in his mind many eighteenth- and nineteenth-century sailing techniques, such as clippers, schooners, heavy battleships, Ressa, etc., but they were limited to the shipwright's processing capacity and could not be realized for the time being.

If these types of ships can be built, not to mention the Daming Sea, even the traditional European maritime powers can hardly match!

But the Zheng father and son, who didn't know anything about Zhu Linmiao's terrifying knowledge reserves, were still living in their dreams.

"It must be those two Nanyang shipwrights who took refuge in Zheng Sen!" Zheng Du said angrily, "It's only because Uncle Chen didn't kill these two people when he left, which made Nanming make a plywood boat." ”

"Chen Hui is nostalgic, I shouldn't have let him deal with this matter in the first place." Zheng Zhilong shook his head a little annoyed, "But even with these two people, it is impossible for those craftsmen of the Nan'an Shipyard to build so quickly. ”

He didn't know that two shipyards in Fujian had used gantry cranes, a "big killer", and the speed of shipbuilding had been greatly improved. Coupled with Zhu Linmi's implementation of performance wages and process standardization among craftsmen, the efficiency of the entire shipyard has more than doubled compared to before!

Zheng Du was suspicious: "Then these ships ......"

"I'm afraid they bought it from Hongyi's ......hands," Zheng Zhilong frowned, "It's just that these Yiren people lived on ships in the era, and they valued warships, especially big ships, more than life." At the beginning, I promised to pay a lot of money, but I don't know what method the Ming people used to make them tempted. ”

He shook his head vigorously, as if he wanted to drive away all kinds of bad feelings, "Fortunately, the Nanming Sailor is still in its infancy." As long as our brigade of warships sails into Qiantang, even if it has a few plywood boats, it will be difficult to resist the heavy siege of our army! ”

Zheng Zhilong was a little confident when he said this.

In the year of Chongzhen, the Helan people tried in vain to monopolize the oriental trade, and teamed up with the Ming pirate Liu Xiang to plunder along the coast of China, and vainly tried to capture Nanao, Xiamen and other places.

The ambitions of the Helan people were seriously opposed to Zheng Zhilong, who essentially dominated the maritime trade of the Ming Dynasty at that time, and the Ming court ordered Zheng Zhilong, who had been in Zhao'an, to repel the Yi people who invaded the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, the Helan people had only five medium and large Galen warships and nearly ten small armed merchant ships, plus one hundred and ten Liu Xiang pirate ships.

Although the size of its fleet was not large, the fierce shelling of the Galen ship still caused Zheng Zhilong to suffer a lot of losses. However, Zheng Zhilong still relied on his skilled command and absolute numerical superiority to divide and surround the Helan people, and burned the Helan warship with a very fast arson ship, and finally won the battle.

At present, compared with the naval battle of Liuluo Bay, Zheng Zhilong has five more ferocious plywood ships in his hands, and at the same time, the number of Daming naval divisions is more than double that of the Dutch-Liu Xiang coalition army back then. Therefore, he was very confident that as long as his warship arrived in Qiantang, it would not be difficult to defeat the Ming army's sailors.

He proudly continued: "Just wait for Qiantang to be restored, and Lord Hong's 100,000 army will go south, and Fujian will be determined in less than a month." At that time, I will bring the merit of exterminating the Ming army and sailors, and please transfer to my hometown in Quanzhou to the imperial court, and the sea will still be surnamed Zheng! ”

It's just that he didn't think that the Daming Sailor was different from the Lan people who came violently and were eager to dominate the Eastern Sea, and before they were absolutely sure of defeating Zheng Zhilong's huge fleet, their main task was only strategic containment, so how could they give the Jianyu Sailor Division a chance to make a quick decision?

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