At the Taihe Gate of the Forbidden City, Shi Lang, Yang Fu, Lin Xingzhu, Luo Shizhen, He Yingyuan, Liu Pei, Zeng Cheng and a group of Qing army sailor generals wore the blue-black official uniforms worn by the court and knelt in front of the steps. The little emperor of the pen "Fun" Pavilion sat on the dragon chair www.biquge.info looked at this group of pillars of the Qing Dynasty with satisfaction.

"The system said, Ershi's is the general army of Fujian Tong'an...... Shi Lang was ordered to be the governor of Hunan and the commander of the water division, and Zeng Er was the prince and the prince! Cao Xi read the decree aloud.

"Obey! Long live thanks! Shi Lang knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly.

"The system said, the Erlin clan was originally Zheng against Haikou, and returned to the imperial court...... Today, the waterway Hunan Governor Biao Yuezhou General Army! Zenger is the captain of the cavalry! Cao Xi read aloud.

"Minions thank the emperor! Hooray, hooray, hooray! Lin Xingzhu kowtowed again and again.

Hearing Lin Xingzhu call himself a slave, Shi Lang was very unhappy: Why are you just Lao Tzu's general, you can call yourself a slave, but Lao Tzu is not qualified to call himself a slave?

This slave and the minister are very different, they don't have a certain status, and they have no way to call themselves slaves! Lin Xingzhu was trusted by the Heilongjiang general outside the Guanwai, became the general's minion, and was carried into the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, so he was qualified to call himself a minion! As for General Shi Lang? But what qualifications does a man and a barbarian have to be a slave?

A group of Qing army sailor generals were all crowned officials and rewarded with silver.

Kangxi looked around: "I have troubles inside and outside the Qing Dynasty, don't live up to my expectations, go to the south, make contributions to the imperial court, and kill thieves well!" Chop off a few more heads of thieves for me and come back! ”

Shi Lang took the lead and knelt on the ground: "Emperor Xie!" The minister will definitely live up to the emperor's high expectations! ”

After being crowned an official, Kangxi summoned Shi Lang in the Palace of Nourishing Hearts. Due to the high expectations for Shi Lang, Bumu Butai also came to the Heart Cultivation Palace.

"Shi Aiqing, go south to level the thief, what are your chances of winning?" Bumu Butai asked.

Shi Lang knelt on the ground: "Back to Lafayette's words, the puppet Ming Haikou has been rampant along the coast in recent years, nothing more than relying on the strength of the ship and the artillery!" If we rely on the coastline and the rivers to fight, the thieves and sailors can ensure the transportation of baggage, and our army has no chance to attack the rear line of the thieves, and the cavalry cannot play a role in the water network area. However, when the thieves entered Hunan, the Lingqu could not pass through the large warships, and the thieves only entered the Xiangjiang River with a number of small boats! Wechen can guarantee that as long as Wechen leads the sailor from Dongting Lake to the Xiangjiang River, he will definitely be able to annihilate the thief and the sailor! Let the thieves lie in wait for thousands of miles, and the blood will flow like a river! ”

Cao Xi, who was standing on the side, said: "General Shi is a pillar of water warfare!" Since the death of Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Sen, I'm afraid no one is General Shi's opponent, right? How about that Liu Guoxuan? ”

Shi Lang arched his hand and said: "Liu Guoxuan is a defeated general under the minister, and it is not worth mentioning at all!" ”

"Good!" Kangxi smiled and nodded, "Shi Aiqing went to Hunan, behave well!" I believe in your ability to fight water! ”

Shi Lang replied: "Your Majesty, Weichen will go and prepare, and he can leave tomorrow!" ”

"Is Shi Aiqing going after the New Year?" Bumu Butai asked, "Your family and uncle are all in the capital, so it's not too late to spend the New Year with them and then go to Huguang." ”

Shi Lang said: "Thank you Lafayette for your love!" In the past few years, Wechen has celebrated the New Year with his family every year. Now that the Qing Dynasty is threatened by anti-thieves, Weichen should take state affairs first! It's better to go to Hunan early and celebrate the New Year with the soldiers! ”

Early the next morning, Shi Lang left the capital with a group of loyal ministers and good generals of the Qing Dynasty, either on horseback or by car, and rushed to Hunan non-stop.

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In Yiyang, the cannon outside the city rumbled, the city wall had been bombarded with holes, and the corpses of Qing soldiers were piled up on the city.

"Kill the dog!" Countless Ming soldiers shouted, carrying improvised moats and improvised ladders, and rushed to the city wall. The birdmen and archers who followed behind stepped up and kept firing arrows at the head of the city to suppress the firepower of the city.

The Ming soldiers put the improvised trench bridge on the moat, carried the improvised ladder, and rushed across the moat with a shout.

At the head of the city, from time to time, Qing soldiers archers and bird gunners poked their heads out and shot at the city in the rain of bullets.

The arrows rained down into the moat like projectiles, making a splash. Constantly Ming sergeants were shot by arrows and fell into the moat screaming.

Hundreds of turtledoves were erected, the Ming soldiers pulled the trigger, the fire rope was pressed into the medicine pool, the large-caliber turtledove feet spewed out a ball of fire, the shotgun hit the city, and the Qing soldiers who shot arrows and released birds were shot one by one, and fell on their backs at the head of the city.

"Kill the dog!" Under the cover of the fire under the city, the Ming soldiers set up a simple ladder at the head of the city and climbed to it.

Huge stones fell from the head of the city, wolf tooth beats and yaksha slammed down, lime bottles and oil cans fell under the city wall, white smoke filled, the fire soared into the sky, one after another cloud ladders fell, and the Ming soldiers who were besieging the city fell from the cloud ladders one after another, falling in the moat.

"Cast!" There was a loud roar from under the city.

Hundreds of sword players wearing rattan armor and holding rattan cards have advanced under the city walls, raising their hands and throwing grenades.

The swirling grenade flew more than ten zhang away and landed on the city wall more than two zhang high. With a series of violent explosions, the Qing soldiers and people who were defending the city at the head of the city fell in a large area in the billowing smoke.

"Kill the dog!" The hand-to-hand combat soldiers of the Ming army, adapted from the Guangdong army and the Fujian army, finally reached the head of the city, and engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat with the Qing soldiers who were still stubbornly resisting at the head of the city.

The gate of Yiyang City was opened, the green flag of the Qing army on the city tower was torn off, and a red Daming flag was raised.

"Kill the dog!" The earth-shattering shouts of killing soared into the sky, and groups of Ming infantry and cavalry poured into the city.

Yiyang City was broken, after the Qing court county order burned down the warehouse, he committed suicide in the county office, and the remaining more than 200 green battalion Qing soldiers and more than 1,000 people surrendered, and Yiyang City fell into the hands of the Ming army.

If it hadn't been rainy a few days ago, the Ming army would have attacked Yiyang a long time ago. It rained, so that the Ming army's firearms could not play normally. After waiting for several days, the Ming army finally waited for the good weather to be clear, and the Ming army attacked. In less than three hours, Yiyang City was taken down by the Ming army, and the Ming army's own losses were only a few hundred cannon fodder soldiers.

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Guangzhou, in the former Pingnan Palace, Wang Xinyu, who had just returned from Dongfan, sat in the middle of the hall.

In addition to his personal soldiers, Wang Xinyu also brought back a batch of fine oak from Dongfan, which were all Dutch cruisers that had been sunk in Edo Bay, because they were seriously damaged and could not be repaired after being salvaged, so they were simply dismantled and turned into timber and shipped to the Singapore shipyard, and some timber was sent to Guangzhou.

Admiral Liu Guoxuan of the Inland River Division, Admiral Zhang Yukun of the Beihai Fleet, Admiral Albert of the Nanyang Navy, and Vice Admiral Wu Haodong sat in the hall.

At present, Wang Xinyu already has three fleets at hand, and the North Sea Fleet is responsible for the north of the Yangtze River estuary, all the way to Jeju Island, Dongying, Sakhalin Island, and the North Pacific route, cooperating with Zheng Xi to transport and fight, mainly transport ships. The Nanyang Navy is the main force of operations, and all cruisers and fast gunboats belong to the Nanyang Navy, and the captured Dutch battleships and battleships under construction also belong to the Nanyang Navy.

As for Liu Guoxuan's inland water division, it was equipped with various inland river warships and transport ships, mainly to ensure the safety of the Ming army's logistics and transportation lines during the Northern Expedition, and also to bear the heavy responsibility of annihilating the Qing army's Yangtze River and Hunan water divisions.

The Ming army, which has a very high proportion of firearms and a good level of military food, has particularly large requirements for the transportation of logistical baggage. That is, because of the advantages of the naval division, fighting in the south, the Ming army did not have to worry about its logistics transportation lines and warehouses being attacked by the Qing army, which could ensure the needs of front-line operations.

Although Liu Guoxuan defeated the Qing army's Hunan Naval Division in the Hengzhou area, Dongting Lake, which has a vast water area, has become a checkpoint stuck in the Xiangjiang River and enters the Yangtze River. Fighting in Dongting Lake, where the hydrological conditions are stable, there is almost no way to rely on external forces such as water currents to completely compete with whose boat is bigger, who has more boats, and whose firepower is more fierce.

"The Ling Canal has not yet been completed, and the large warships of our army cannot enter the Xiangjiang River. And the rebel general Shi Lang will also come to Hunan! The Tartar Hunan Naval Division is already stronger than us, if Shi Lang comes to Hunan again, the battle of Yuezhou will not be easy to fight! Liu Guoxuan said.

Chen Python asked: "Do we give up water transportation, increase the number of people and auxiliaries, and go by land?" ”

"This clan is not at ease to go by land!" Wang Xinyu shook his head and said, "On land, the Tartar Eight Banners cavalry come and go freely. They were helpless against our infantry in formation, and our baggage was transported by water, and the Eight Banners cavalry had no chance to attack us. But if we abandon the water routes and go by land, we will put our convoys under the threat of Tartar cavalry. We could strengthen the convoys, but how much would that disperse us? ”

"Look for an opportunity to fight a decisive battle and annihilate the Tartar cavalry!" Wang [Fu] ministers.

Wang Zihao also arched his hand: "Marshal, there is a way to humble your position: we use a group of auxiliaries and Minzhuang to pretend to be a baggage team, and the cavalry will set up an ambush nearby, and lure the Tartar cavalry out and kill them all!" ”

"What if I miss it? It is very difficult to completely annihilate the Tartar cavalry, and this domain does not fight risky battles! Moreover, if you go by land, the pressure on logistics is too great, how many more auxiliaries and civilians should be recruited to transport? Now the key is how to destroy the Tartar sailor in Dongting Lake! Wang Xinyu said.

"Do you want to drive the battleship of the red-haired ghost in?" Liu Guoxuan said with a smile, "If the battleship can enter Dongting Lake, don't say that Shi Lang is coming, or Zheng Zhilong himself will come, and the last general will be able to sink them all to the bottom of the lake to feed the fish!" ”

"Don't think about battleships, cruisers can't enter the Xiangjiang River! Even if we can change the Lingqu to be able to pass through cruisers, can we take cruisers in the upper reaches of the Pearl River? No matter what, it can only be through small gunboats. Wang Xinyu shook his head and said.

Liu Guoxuan suddenly came up with a solution: "Dashuai, we can transport the wood removed from the red-haired ghost ship to Changsha!" Just build a ship by the Changsha River! It's enough to build a few cruisers! ”

"That's right! Coup! As long as the cruiser enters Dongting Lake, where is our opponent for the Tatar sailors! Zhang Yukun also agreed.

"Ship a boat by the Changsha River?" Wang Xinyu lowered his head and thought about this question. Suddenly, it occurred to him that shipbuilding does not need to build a cruiser for use at sea, but a giant ship for inland rivers!

"There it is!" Wang Xinyu thought of a kind of boat, "We can build a car and a boat!" Great Song Cars and Ships! With this kind of inland river weapon, you will be able to easily defeat the Tartar sailor! ”

The car and boat, is the main warship of the Yangtze River and lake water division of the Song Dynasty, this kind of ship does not need to rely on the wind and water flow, the speed is extremely fast, fast on the water like flying, but the disadvantage is that the structure is complex, can not enter the sea, and the car and ship because it is a mechanical gear transmission, the wood gear wear is very fast, the life is short, the new car and ship run like flying on the water, but the old car and ship, because of the wear and tear of the wood gear, the transmission efficiency decreases, and the speed can not catch up with the oar rowing.

However, compared with the oars rowing boat, the new vehicle boat obviously has the advantages of high speed, flexible control and large tonnage.

"Is it possible to build a pedal propeller boat?" Wang Xinyu took this issue into account.

Propellers are more efficient than paddle wheels and can be faster. However, the propeller itself is a high-tech technology, and it is necessary to solve not only the problem of the shape of the blades, but also the problem of propeller leakage. The shape of the propeller used in the air is completely different from the propeller used in the water, and the propeller blades used in the air are narrow, the shape is not so complicated, and there is no need to consider the problem of waterproofing. However, the propeller used in the water has a wide blade and complex shape, and the shaft must be waterproof.

It is estimated that the difficulty of building a foot-operated propeller ship will not be lost to the difficulty of building a steam engine.

After thinking about it, I finally gave up on the difficult propeller boat.

In the end, Wang Xinyu settled down and imitated the cars and ships of the Song Dynasty.

"Cars and ships? I'm afraid no one will make it anymore. Liu Guoxuan shook his head.

From the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty, the technology of shipbuilding has been declining. On the basis of eating the old books of the Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty also had Arab ships coming in, and the shipbuilding industry was relatively developed. By the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang's sailors were very developed, and the shipbuilding industry was very advanced.

After Zhu Yuanzhang dominated the world, in the era of Zhu Di, the Ming Dynasty, received a large number of shipbuilders from the original Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang, and the shipbuilding technology in the early Ming Dynasty was on the rise.

Later, however, shipbuilding technology began to decline, and ships became smaller and smaller. As for the cars and ships that the Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty once had, they have long been lost, and the Ming Dynasty's own treasure ships have also been lost, and by the end of the Ming Dynasty, only about 200 tons of ships could be built, and the ships that could build the maximum limit were only 400 tons.

Through the comparison of various data, the data of the treasure ship must have moisture, but there is no moisture, and the displacement is between more than 1,000 tons and 2,000 tons.

According to the description of the Battle of Liuluo Bay, the red-haired ghost battleship was a giant ship more than 30 zhang long, and according to the Dutch's own information, it was between 40 and 50 meters long. The length of the Daming treasure ship is more than 50 zhang, so it is estimated that the length of the treasure ship is about 60 meters to more than 70 meters, that is, the displacement of more than 1,000 tons to more than 2,000 tons.

But with that displacement, it's already a great ship.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention a large ship of more than 1,000 tons, it was reluctant to build a ship of 3 or 400 tons.

"The car and boat, the domain can make a sketch, and then hand it over to the shipwright to design the specific design." Wang Xinyu said confidently. (To be continued.) )