On the surface of Chaohu Lake, a fleet of sailors is training.
On the flagship, one command after another was issued, and all kinds of ships quickly outflanked, divided, intercepted, and relied on the imaginary enemy in accordance with the commander's orders.
Solid ramming angles, dense cannon muzzles, bowl guns, thunder cannons, fire dragon spray cans, crossbow arrows, rockets, and fire bricks naturally cannot be wasted and fired at will, but from those braggling actions, people can also feel how much damage they will cause to the enemy once they are put into actual combat.
Another fleet came in the distance, it seemed to be returning from a military exercise in the depths of the lake, and the giant ships came one by one, without the slightest intention of evading, and the young military general on the flagship frowned slightly, and quickly issued the general, and the battleship team that had already set up an encirclement attack formation immediately shrank and made way for the other party.
The fleet that had returned far looked even bigger than the one that was being rehearsed.
Almost all of these warships were large ships that could accommodate 100 people at the smallest, as tall as a building, with a high bow and a towering stern, denser weapons, and guarded plates on the sides.
The sails puffed up and pushed the lake to stir up waves several feet high.
Walking closer, you can also see that the ship has disappeared in the official equipment of the Ming army's sailors, the momentum of the rod is hung with boulders, as if a grinding disc that has expanded several times, but its top is round, but the bottom is sharp, such a huge stone just naturally falls The power is already amazing, if you use the lever to increase the force, a small boat can be smashed almost at once.
"Haha, Yifeng, I'm training your sailor again, don't say it, the movements are quite dexterous, if you dodge slowly, my brother's big ship can't stop, and your boat will be smashed to pieces."
As the largest of the ships passed by the flagship of the navy, the master of the battleship shouted loudly to this side, and before the words could be spoken, there was a roar of laughter from the ship.
The face of the main general on this flag was slightly annoyed, but he did not squeak.
The ship passed by, and the waves shook his battleship for a while, and it looked like it was indeed vulnerable.
The fleet that has just passed is the sailor of Yu Zhenglong, the grandson of Nan'an Hou Yu Tongyuan, but what is being practiced at this time is the fleet of Li Yifeng, the son-in-law of Princess Jinhua of Changfang.
Princess Jinhua is the daughter of Yu Tingyu's eldest son Yu Tonghai, Yu Tonghai has no son, Zhu Yuanzhang took pity on this veteran, and after calling him emperor, he immediately named his daughter a princess, treated her like a princess, and personally presided over the wedding for her.
Because of the royal favor, the status of the princess Yu's long house has never been shaken, but sometimes the status is not proportional to the power.
Princess Jinhua can't command the sailor, her husband Zhou Dajiang is a salt merchant, Yu's fleet of the long house has declined, and when Princess Jinhua's son grows up, because of his weak body, his surname is not a person who likes to dance guns and sticks, so he still failed to revitalize the sailor left by his grandfather, and he is more interested in business.
Princess Jinhua can't do anything about this baby son, fortunately, her son is not angry, she still has a daughter, she recruited a good son-in-law for her daughter, it is this Li Yifeng.
The Li family followed the Yu family to raise troops and defected to Zhu Yuanzhang, and has always been a general in the army, but it has always been within the system of the Yu family's sailors.
Princess Jinhua recruited this son-in-law, which is equivalent to taking the power of the Li family into her own hands.
However, even if it was in line with the sailors left by his father, coupled with the power of the Li family, it was not enough to compete with the powerful sailors in the hands of the second and third rooms.
If you want to be able to speak in the family, you must have a power commensurate with your status, Princess Jinhua has put a lot of effort into the sailor of her own room, and uses the large amount of silver earned by her husband as a salt merchant, and strives to develop the sailor of her own room to the fullest.
But her son-in-law is very strange, he actually has a lot of differences with the warships and tactics handed down by his ancestors, and insists on making some changes to his sailor fleet, and I don't know how he persuaded his mother-in-law, Princess Jinhua actually agreed and let him toss.
As a result, he tossed and turned, and a large amount of gold and silver was invested in the Yu family's house, and his fleet did not expand, but became smaller and smaller.
For this reason, Li Yifeng was often laughed at by the people in the second and third rooms, but he still did not change his original intention and stubbornly insisted on his opinion.
Traditional naval warships have always believed in winning the small with the big and the many over the few, so the shipbuilding is always as big as possible, and the stronger the force on each ship, the less, but Li Yifeng has come up with a new cut and carried out a very complicated transformation of his fleet.
The traditional large ship is extremely combative, but the speed has also become extremely slow, to drive such a large battleship, the only power is the wind, and it cannot be moved by rocking.
Li Yifeng saw this as a huge flaw, he was not capable of inventing a more powerful power system, so he tried to abandon the giant warships, and in his battleship group, the large warships remained only a very small number.
At that time, most of the sailors and generals were most concerned about whether the ship was strong and huge, whether the weapons on the ship were strong, and few people regarded the power system as an important combat factor, but Li Yifeng just raised it to a very high level, which was naturally ridiculed by the descendants of the Yu family who adhered to traditional tactics.
In order to strengthen the flexibility of the ship, Li Yifeng's battleship group did not install a clapping rod, the power of the clapping rod is indeed not small, but its length is larger than the strength arm, it is not easy to make, after a beat, it must be pulled back to the original position of the ship, before it can be cast again, so there is a pause and preparation time between the two casts.
Li Yifeng thought that the destructive power of retaining the slap rod to the enemy ship was far less harmful than the sluggishness brought to his own ship, so his battleship had already dismantled all the slap rods.
In addition, although the traditional warships also have a simple division of labor for attacking, expelling, charging, and reconnaissance, most of the time there is no special classification of warships because of these divisions of labor, usually a ship is multi-functional, except for the reconnaissance and unified use of the extremely fast centipede speedboat, other functions are undertaken by the same type of warship at any time according to the commander's order.
Li Yifeng also made bold reforms on this point, and his warship group had a particularly detailed division of labor, reconnaissance ships, landing ships, destroyers, assault boats, and main warships, and according to different functions, the ship types and weapons on board were also different, which also aroused a lot of criticism from the veterans.
However, the Yu family's sailors are actually divided according to the differences of Yu Tingyu's three sons, as long as Princess Jinhua does not object, and others are too lazy to intervene, this allows Li Yifeng to reform at will without encountering too much resistance.
It's just that there has never been a suitable opportunity to prove himself right, and even in his team of sailors, more and more people have begun to have questions.
Yu Zhenglong's fleet passed mightily, and Li Yifeng could see that his team was a little unable to lift his spirits because of this disturbance, so he had to sigh helplessly and order the troops to be withdrawn.
Chaohu, Tangshan.
In an open-air hot spring bath, two women are bathing in a hot spring pool.
One was a soft, fair-skinned woman, who looked only about forty years old, but in fact it was only because she was well-maintained, her real age was in her early fifties, and this woman was Princess Jinhua, the head of the Yu family's room.
The other, but it is a little girl like a flower, with graceful limbs, tight skin, full of youthful vitality, compared with the skin of Princess Jinhua, her skin has a translucent texture, which is full of moisture and youthful vitality, exuding a charming luster.
It's just that although the spring water is clear, it is a pity that the mist is clear, and it is looming that now hides her delicate body.
There are two springs on this soup mountain, one cold and one hot, the highest temperature of the hot spring can almost boil eggs, the two springs are neutralized, but it is suitable for bathing, lying in it, the body and mind are comfortable, and the fatigue of the journey all the way is swept away.
The entire pond, and even the entire stream that winds down the hot springs, are all mist curling with green smoke, so that the whole Tangshan is like a fairyland on earth.
This young girl is naturally the county lord of Ming'er, when approaching Chaohu, Xia Xun slowed down, while she sped up and arrived at Chaohu Lake a day earlier than Xia Xun.
"The will of the imperial court has been transmitted, because there is no designation of who will go to war, and who will lead the fleet to the battle, my Yu family has not yet decided.
Hearing what the county lord said, the Duke of Fuguo came here to select the fleet."
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The two of them relaxed and lay quietly in the hot spring for a while, and Princess Jinhua opened her eyes and asked.
Ming'er also opened her eyes, and the pretty face of the clear soup noodles was stained with a few drops of crystal water, as if she was out of the water hibiscus.
"Yes, princess, the prince of Fuguo and my third brother have a good relationship, I came this time to do him a favor, you know, the widows are difficult, so I want to ask the princess to help and send the strongest fleet to help in the war."
Ming'er and Princess Jinhua are old acquaintances, when Zhu Yuanzhang was still alive, Princess Jinhua, as a righteous daughter, had to go to Beijing two or three times a year, and whenever Zhu Yuanzhang did his birthday, New Year's Day and other major festivals would appear, Ming'er who was messing around in the palace all day long was naturally very familiar with her, but Ming'er was still young at that time, although she knew Princess Jinhua, after all, the age difference was too big, but there was no friendship.
"Oh" Princess Jinhua's eyes flickered, and she smiled: "The county lord Wuchen family, I should know the most about my Yu family's water master, which water division of my Yu family does the county lord want to transfer?"
Ming'er thought about it very seriously, and said with a smile: "It's best to have the fleet of Marquis Yue Song's room."
However, two years ago, Marquis Yue Songhou had just died in Baigou River, and now he wanted the people of the third room of the Yu family to go out and help the heroes of the Jingnan faction to fight, and the descendants of the Marquis of Yue Song's house were only afraid that they would have a pimple in their hearts.
In this case, the fleet of Nan'anhou can also be used. ” Princess Jinhua smiled angrily: "Does the county lord think that my Yu family's room and the sailors of the Duke of Yu have all been changed to salt merchants, and the battle is no longer vulnerable at all?"
"Yikes" Ming'er said that she missed her mouth, hurriedly stuck out her tongue, and said embarrassedly: "Where can I be, the princess is too kind."
I think it's going to kill people in a war, and besides, if you lose, how bad your face looks to be close, my Xu family and the Yu family are the closest, of course I'm like a princess."
Choosing Yu's family room was Ming'er's plan, but after Xia Xun learned the details, he thought of a trick to "want to catch the old tense", so Ming'er thought embarrassedly: "Alas, this is really marrying a chicken with a chicken, marrying a dog with a dog, who asked me to marry a big liar, I have to learn to deceive people."
To be continued: