‘Boom, boom, boom…’

"The guys on the rocket ship have their eyes on the back of their heads. How can they bombard us!" Du Meng, who was on the Brave, cursed. He is now the commander of the Dragon Boat Team, and he was ordered to command the assault team in this battle.

According to tactical arrangements, the rear team of the Huihui navy was scrambled to launch fire after entering the range of the rocket. In order to isolate the enemy's rear and the central army, and delay their actions, so that the dragon ship could launch a collision. After they entered the attack position, they had launched an attack. According to regulations, in order to avoid accidental injuries, the rocket ship should stop launching or divert shooting. However, there were still explosions around the dragon ship. Although they were not hit, the ship was swung to the left and right.

"The rule is not the rocket ship that fires, but..." After Guantong hand issued the order to stop the rocket ship shooting, he responded that he had stopped shooting. After he observed again, he had not yet finished his return and suddenly fell from the watchtower.

"What's going on?" Du Meng on the podium immediately looked back and asked.

"Regovernment, Guantong was hit in the head and was killed!" The doctor on the ship immediately stepped forward to check and replied sadly.

"No, the slingshot is not as powerful as that, it should be a firearm!" Du Meng stepped forward and looked at it. He saw that Guantong's face was almost smashed, and an iron ball the size of an egg was embedded deep between his mouth and nose. He knew that some Mongolian Yuan archers were good at using crossbows to shoot iron balls to take lives, but it was impossible to almost smash a person's head at a distance of at least thirty. Then he immediately thought of the firearm. Not to mention smashing his head, it was possible to smash it.

‘dong,dong,dong…’ As he spoke, a series of critical strikes sounded from the hull.

"Report to the command, the enemy is shooting at us with short muskets, and the enemy's stone thrower is not shooting stone bullets, but iron bullets filled with gunpowder!" Another watchman upgraded the cabin again and then rushed to report.

"Your Majesty's worries really appear." Du Meng gritted his teeth, "Let the dragon boat team shoot freely with crossbows, alternately cover the column to withdraw from the battlefield, and at the same time report to the commander that the enemy has equipped firearms and asks for instructions on how to take action next!"

"Abide by the order!" Guan Tongshou risked his life and reported to the central army with flags. At the same time, the ships fired at the enemy warships with crossbows, suppressed the enemy, retreated quickly, gathered up the array two hundred steps away from the enemy's formation, and continued to shoot at the enemy with heavy crossbows.

"Report to the commander, the commander ordered our ship to quickly find out the types and range of firearms equipped by the enemy, and reminded us to be careful and not to take risks!" Guan Tongshou replied.

"Why should we be so cautious in the control?" At this time, the sailor leader Cao Denglin walked into the command cabin and asked in confusion. The dragon boat has always been a vanguard, only advancing but not retreating, but today he was only slightly hit and the entire army retreated. This is something that has never been done, and it is inconsistent with their tradition of never retreating.

"What do you know? This is Your Majesty's strict order. When encountering the enemy, you must be treated with caution. Obey the orders, and those who violate the orders will be punished strictly! "Since the formation of the Dragon Fleet, there have been few casualties. However, when the war started today, someone was killed. Du Meng said angrily. Then he called his watchman and upgraded himself to observe the enemy's situation.

"What's wrong with the rule today? Such anger!" Cao Denglin was scolded and complained in disbelief.

"Don't say more. The ruler is right. This is exactly the strict order that Your Majesty had been ten years ago." The gun and cannon leader Pan Yunqi pulled him aside and whispered, "At that time, you had not yet joined the army. I was just a gunner on the Warriors. When he was attacking Quanzhou, His Majesty was patrolling Jinjiang on a dragon boat and was shot by firearms on the way. His Majesty sent his troops to attack the enemy's positions at night and seized two bronze cannons. Although the cannon was simple, it was just gunpowder, otherwise its power would be extraordinary."

"So His Majesty ordered that when encountering enemy troops equipped with firearms, be careful not to underestimate the enemy, so as not to cause unnecessary casualties. The dragon ships built later not only thickened the gangway, but also laid iron plates, and the bottom of the ship was also wrapped in copper skin to enhance protection. But since then, this is the first time that an enemy troops equipped with firearms have encountered it."

"If you want to give up in this way, will you let the enemy escape?" Cao Denglin frowned.

"How could it be? You are just temporarily withdrawing from the battle. Once the situation is found out, you will start an attack again!" Pan Yunqi smiled.

"Why are you still chatting here? Get in place right away!" Du Meng said angrily when he saw that he was still talking here.

"Yes!" After hearing this, the two of them quickly took their posts and said.

"Reply to the commander, the enemy warships throw explosive bombs with stone throwers, adopt direct ignition form, with a range of about a hundred steps and a medium power. The enemy's muskets are similar to swellings, about two feet long. The caliber can be determined to be about seven points based on the size of the projectile. They can be fired with one hand, without a aiming device, and the effective range is about fifty steps. They are powerful and can cause death!" Du Meng said while asking Guan Tong to report to Zhang Hao.

"The commander ordered our team to kill and injure the enemy soldiers on the side of the ship and damage the enemy warships. Carefully adopt close-to-enemy collision tactics, pay attention to the ship's distance and keep a distance from large warships equipped with stone throwers. Use the tactics of dispersed assault to separate the connection between the rear and the central army!" Guan Tongshou quickly reported.

"Order each ship to form a group, cooperate in combat, disperse assault, and be sure to divide and eliminate the enemy!" Du Meng immediately conveyed the order to each ship, and at the same time ordered the rocket ships assigned to the combat to fire first to prevent the large warships sent by the central army from rendezvous with the rear army.

The "skinning" tactic has become a common tactic for dragon ships. At this moment, they joined hands and cruised outside the range of firearms of the Mongol warships. The front ship used the advantage of the fast fire speed of the crossbows to clear the warriors on the enemy's side, while the back ship fired solid bullets with heavy crossbows to hit the enemy's waterline. The proper tactics quickly achieved results. For a time, the enemy's rear troops were overturned. The warships waiting for the enemy to reinforce to arrive at this sea area and drove away the dragon ships. There were few warships floating on the sea surface. They either had overturned or sank to the bottom, and could only be busy salvaging the sailors who fell into the water.

The Dragon Fleet is like a ghost that is still in dispersed, and it quickly returns. After the battle just now, Du Meng had discovered the weakness of the enemy launching burst bombs with a stone thrower. Although their principles are the same as those of the crossbows, the different methods of use also determine that the inherent fatal weaknesses such as slow firing speed and low hit rate are difficult to overcome.

Du Meng also found that the explosion bombs used by the Mongol Yuan navy also had problems. The charging method he used was to fill gunpowder in the cast iron shell, but in terms of ignition method, they could not solve the problem of fuses, and they still used the method of burning red iron cones to ignite gunpowder. This caused uncontrollability. When the hand was slow, it would blow in his own hands, and when the hand was fast, the gunpowder fell into the sea and was annihilated before it ignited.

Du Meng suspected that this was when the Mongol Yuan was learning secretly, and he only knew one thing but not the other. He could not make a crossbow and had to use a stone thrower. This ignition method was fine on land. At least it would not be destroyed when it fell to the ground. At least it could explode, but it would not work at sea. If it exploded on a ship, the ship would be destroyed and people would die, so the gunners would tremble. Regardless of whether it was ignited or not, they would fire the shells immediately. At the same time, the uncontrollable explosion time often caused uncertainty. No one knew whether the shell would sound or land where it was, but this was scary enough.

In response to this situation, Du Meng directed the dragon ship to launch chain bombs during movement, first tearing the sails of the enemy ship into pieces to make it lose power, and then summoning the rocket ship to collect fire. Although the rockets are not very reliable, they have a long range and large coverage area, which is still a great threat to fixed targets...

Seeing that the imperial navy had dragged the Huihui navy and blocked the retreat of the Goryeo navy, Dong Yicheng rushed forward and began to further compress the formation. Seeing that the retreat was gone, the Goryeo navy had to face the challenge, but their strength was even worse. You should know that after Goryeo was conquered by the Mongol Yuan, it not only had to offer huge taxes every year, but also had to be recruited to send troops to fight for the Mongol Yuan. As early as the first Japanese conquest, Kublai Khan had already begun to prepare for the second Japanese conquest. Although Goryeo felt so painful, Kublai Khan still squeezed out soldiers and nearly 25,000 sailors from Goryeo, as well as 900 warships, and 100,000 stones of food.

Later, when the Mongols and Yuan Dynasty expeditioned Annan, Chameng City asked Goryeo to contribute money and work hard to build warships. Years of exploitation have made it less financially profitable. The endless wars have caused the people to be exhausted and the people are unable to recover, and the national strength has declined to the extreme. This time, the Koryeo navy was re-enlisted again. As for the quality, it was impossible to take care of it. It was a chore. It was impossible to raise enough food and grass for the way, so it could only grab it all the way.

The navy cannot do without warships, but we must also know that the navy has always been a big money-burning man since ancient times. In order to show his national prestige, Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty built a powerful fleet. But as soon as his son succeeded to the throne, he not only disbanded the fleet, but also burned the drawings and models of shipbuilding, because the national strength could no longer support the continued construction of shipbuilding, which also led to the thoughts of future generations.

Eighteenth and 19th century Great Britain was known as the country where the sun never set, and it could be regarded as the world's largest power at that time, but it was also very careful when it comes to shipbuilding. At that time, the price of a first-class battleship was a full million pounds, and the British royal family spent less than 40,000 pounds to buy Buckingham Palace, which means that a first-class battleship was equal to thirty Buckingham Palace.

In terms of size, a first-class battleship of two or three thousand tons is far less than the construction area of ​​180,000 square meters and the garden area of ​​1,500 acres. From the decoration, the second-hand house Buckingham Palace only cost 70,000 pounds and became a world-famous palace. The living conditions of the first-class battleships can only be said to be very shabby.

But when the North American War of Independence broke out, the British government's annual income was 14 million pounds, and only fourteen were built into first-class battleships. Until the steam warships began to appear, the British government's total fiscal revenue was 70 million pounds, and it was still necessary to make careful calculations to build sail battleships. So where did the money for first-class battleships be spent?

The first thing is to buy wood. Before the rise of the ironclad ships, the battleships were giant beasts that devoured top-level wood. In Nelson's "Victory", its keels were made of teak, and the other parts were all oak. The ribs of the entire "Victory" were more than half a meter thick, and more than 2,500 century-old giant trees were consumed in total, and it needed to cut down all the 240,000 square meters of forest area. Du Mu described the grand scale of the Afang Palace, "Six kings are gone, and one in the four seas is gone, and the Shushan is gone, and Afang is out", which is used on the British navy, which means "the forest is bald and the fleet is out."

During the Napoleonic War, Britain lost the import of timber from the European continent and had to use local timber. As a result, it cut off almost all the oaks from the whole country, and even the saplings were not spared. Fortunately, after the Battle of Trafalgar, the British Navy won maritime hegemony. In order to maintain the size of its fleet, they planted trees all over the world, wrapped all forests in Nordic and other places, and carried out decades of oak planting in Canada to alleviate the problem of wood shortage.

At this time, artillery was still popular. Even if not included, a warship was valuable. Zhao Bing did not dare to renew warships on a large scale for many years. Most of them could only use seized ships to transform and complete replacement. Even so, it was a considerable expense. Goryeo could only be regarded as a small country with limited national strength. It was built more than 2,000 warships in more than ten years, which was beyond their capacity.

Therefore, if you don’t think about it, the King of Goryeo had to use it as his pants and eat it. Then the quality of these warships can be imagined. They requisitioned domestic ships, whether they were sea ships or inland river ships, and repaired them to fill in the numbers and fooled the Mongols. So not only the Koryeo navy was afraid to fight, but they really had no confidence in their own warships.

Goryeo was so poor that he naturally had no money to equip them with "high-end" weapons such as catapults, giant crossbows, and poles, and they did not dare to collide with the hostile force. The tactics they could use were the most primitive jumping gang hand-to-hand combat. Of course, they still had an absolute advantage in terms of number of people. As long as they boarded the opponent's ship, they would be half of the victory. However, they didn't know that the Song army had already eliminated this tactic, playing with no contact with combat, but relying on long-range firepower to eliminate opponents.
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