Chapter 378: The Unsinkable Ship
The prediction of Pang Jun, the veteran of the Dengzhou Naval Division, was indeed not wrong, with the invention of the second batch of Fuzhou Naval Divisions that arrived at the base of Lianshan Island, it was indeed not the main force, but the size of its fleet reached an astonishing scale of four 5,000 warships, ten 3,000 warships, and dozens of other auxiliary warships.
With the influx of a large number of soldiers, coupled with the various lantern technicians who came with the ship, the construction of the Lianshan Island base was immediately completed at a rapid speed, the army has always been the most effective machine, coupled with the sense of crisis of the Fuzhou Navy Division, it made them rush to work day and night, and strive to build the Lianshan Island base before the arrival of the war.
When he saw the battleship that covered the sky and appeared in front of him, Black Eagle Yuangang couldn't help but be dizzy, the strength of the other party made him tremble, and it also made him happy, glad that he was already one of them, and the family letters of the original Lianshan Island pirates brought by Song Ming also made these bandits who were originally a little helpless willingly join this hot collective, if nothing else, for their families finally have a piece of land of their own, a room, and more importantly, has an innocent identity.
"Liang'er is in school!" Yuan Gang looked at the letter in his hand repeatedly, and he knew from the letter that his wife was now enjoying the treatment of the family members of the middle and senior generals of the Fuzhou Navy Division, and his son had even entered the local school, and when he saw the crooked signature at the end of the family letter, Yuan Gang's mouth smiled crookedly.
Song Invention brought Li Qing's instructions and a series of orders from Deng Peng, the commander of the Navy, Lianshan Island will become the most important material reserve base of the Fuzhou Naval Division on the Heishui Ocean, and will be used as the starting point of the Fuzhou Naval Division's conquest of the Heishui Ocean.
"Li Dashuai said that he wants to build Lianshan Island into an unsinkable ship on the Black Water Ocean!" Zheng Zhiyuan's tone at the mobilization meeting was sonorous and sound, "In order to complete Li Dashuai's order, let's work harder!" The names of you, the first batch of officers and soldiers of the Fuzhou Navy Division to arrive here, will always be recorded on Lianshan Island. ”
Wide wharves, sturdy water docks, tall fortresses, every day, even the mountain island is undergoing drastic changes, large areas of mountain rocks are mined out, transported to the seaside, turned into a solid breakwater, hideous fortresses, muddy mountain roads have been opened up into a gallop road for several war horses to drive side by side, on the excavated open space, a soldier dormitory made of stone or giant wood, material warehouses have risen from the ground, and now Lianshan Island, even Yuan Gang, who has lived here for most of his life, feels completely unfamiliar.
The military station and the warehouse are hidden in the dense woods, only the tall watchtower will show half of its head above the tip of the treetops, from the sea, in addition to the dockside, Lianshan Island is still lush, every time he returns from the sea patrol, looking at the green, Yuan Gang is a little sighed, the craftsman in charge of the overall design on Lianshan Island is a perfect hunter, in order to hide those terrifying murder weapons, he even spares no effort to dig up a giant tree from the mountain and transplant it.
The exposed docks, docks, and fortresses of Lianshan Island were actually just the tip of his iceberg, but the real weapons of attack came from between the patches of woods and the high cliffs on the other side.
Yuan Gang swore that he had never seen so many stone throws densely arranged in the woods in his life, and what made him feel even more outrageous was that the ten giant trebuchets, generally speaking, the stone cannons fired by the trebuchets in order to pursue the range were about ten catties, and it was very rare to grind the stone projectiles into round balls in order to pursue the efficiency of the strike like Dingzhou, but the stone bullets fired by these ten giant trebuchets were more than 100 catties, and at the same time nearly fifty soldiers were required to work, and the firing speed was also super slow, Other trebuchets fired five shots, and he fired at most one shot, but Yuan Gang knew very well that if this trebuchet really hit the ship, just one hit would be enough to break through a large ship of 3,000 materials, causing irreparable losses. As a weapon to defend the island, these ten giant trebuchets are tailor-made for the Lianshan Island base, and they are calibrated to Zhuyuan, that is, their strike targets are determined, and the soldiers don't need to aim at all, just launch.
Seeing the places where those trebuchets were aiming, Yuan Gang knew that Zheng Zhiyuan, who had just been promoted, had already laid a trap for the Southern Sailors, just waiting for the other party to step in.
Zheng Zhiyuan's means Yuan Gang has fully understood, Yuan Gang is now afraid and admires him, and at the same time makes him even more in awe of Deng Peng, the commander of the water division who is above Zheng Zhiyuan, who can train such a capable person, this Deng commander is only afraid that it is really the stars in the sky.
Today's Yuan Gang is the Zhenwu captain of Fuzhou Water Volume, and his two hundred subordinates were dismantled and assigned to the entire fleet after training, and the Black Hawk led by Yuan Gang and the small ships it is attached to, the original brothers are no longer one in ten, for this, Yuan Gang has nothing to say, which is also in his expectations, originally worried that the sailors assigned to him could not be compared with his old brothers in terms of skills, but after getting along for a while, Yuan Gang completely relieved his heart, these sailors are not only skilled in water, Moreover, with a discipline that his former brothers could not match, Yuan Gang was now able to command as he pleased, and he feared that because he was a pirate and a general, the idea that he could not convince these sailors would also disappear over time, and his orders were fully carried out. Now his task is to patrol, patrol within a hundred kilometers around the base of Lianshan Island, and monitor, especially for the direction in which the three major naval divisions of the Southern Army may attack.
Zheng Zhiyuan has been promoted, and now he is the deputy general of the Fuzhou Water Division, and his boss Deng Peng is now the head of the Water Division, General Xuanwei. As the supreme commander of all the Fuzhou naval divisions that had arrived at the base on Lianshan Island, he decided to fight a beautiful victory and lay the foundation for the unsinkable ships on Lianshan Island before General Deng arrived, but his goals were circled two at once, and he wanted to fight these two goals together, and he wanted to fight beautifully, for this purpose, he had been meditating hard for half a month.
"Everyone!" Zheng Zhiyuan's face was flushed, a flawless plan had taken shape in his mind, and today, he officially announced his battle plan to the officers under his command.
Looking at the eager eyes of his officers, Zheng Zhiyuan was very satisfied, all along, Li Qing invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the Fuzhou Naval Division, but in the war of the Dingzhou Pingding Grassland and the Murwei people, they could only play a supporting role and the role of the captain of the transportation brigade, and they could only watch the army brothers make achievements one by one, and they were complacent, and they could only be spectators and they finally looked forward to the opportunity.
The Fuzhou Navy Division, which has spent a lot of money, has always had considerable controversy within the Dingzhou power group, and quite a lot of powerful figures think that it is better to vigorously develop the army than to spend so much money to raise a naval division, this kind of voice not only makes Deng Peng, the head of the naval division, but also Li Qing under considerable pressure, and now, it is an opportunity for them to correct their name, and next, it will be the stage of the naval fleet.
In the middle of the command room of the Izumo Zheng Zhiyuan, there is a huge sand table model, and the army's sand table work has also been completely transplanted by the sailors, but the back has been replaced with turquoise. Right now, a group of officers of the Sailor Division are sitting around this sand table.
"Colleagues!" Zheng Zhiyuan held a wooden pole in his hand and pointed to an island that resembled the terrain of Lianshan Island: "We are in this position now, here, is Lianshan Island." ”
All the officers came up, and Yuan Gang also opened his eyes wide, looking at this small island, this is the place where he has lived for half his life, compared to the vast black water ocean, Lianshan Island is too insignificant.
The wooden pole in Zheng Zhiyuan's hand walked along Lianshan Island, pointing to a series of small islands and said: "According to the instructions of the marshal, the specific deployment of General Manager Deng, we will establish a series of bases along these islands, forming a deep-sea chain, at present, we have completed the first step, that is, the construction of the base of Lianshan Island, and next, we are about to start our second step of the journey." ”
"From the second step, we are likely to be as smooth as before, Lianshan Island has easily gained a good foothold because of the deep understanding of Captain Yuan Gang and the negligence of the Southern Sailors, but this kind of good thing ends here!" Zheng Zhiyuan nodded slightly to Yuan Gang, Yuan Gang couldn't help blushing, General Zheng is very face-saving, what is the deep righteousness, he was robbed without success, and he was forced to do it! But Zheng Zhiyuan said this, but it made him feel better.
"Captain Yuan has been patrolling hard for nearly a month, and he has discovered the sudden expansion of the patrol range of the Bozhou Naval Division, and their voyage has entered the Black Water Ocean 200 kilometers away, why would they suddenly make some moves? I think everyone understands that our whereabouts have been exposed! When we first came to Blackwater, a storm caused us to lose two warships, presumably the wreckage of these two warships or the remains of the dead soldiers were found by the other side. Zheng Zhiyuan said.
"But that's fine, although the other party knows our whereabouts, they don't know the size of our fleet, let alone the details of Lianshan Island, which gives us the opportunity to beat them hard. Here's my plan. ”
Zheng Zhiyuan's wooden pole first pointed to a small island hundreds of miles away from Lianshan Island, Volcanic Rock Island!
(To be continued)