The wind is howling and the waves are choppy.
The sea is very windy and the waves are high.
Liu Renliang is very satisfied with today's weather, which is full of advantages for the North Sea Fleet of the Dahua Navy.
Such weather was just right for Dahua's battleships to carry out battle line tactics.
This year, the Yamen of the Dahua Navy conducted a classification of the ships of the Dahua Navy.
A first-class warship, which served as the flagship of each fleet, had a three-tier gun deck, more than 100 guns, and a capacity of 900 people.
With a displacement of 2,000 to 3,500 tons, the Royal Nine-Headed Bird has a displacement of 3,500 tons, a crew of 1,000, 120 guns, and a cost of 180,000 gold coins.
Generally, the cost of a 2,000-ton first-class warship is as high as 100,000 gold coins.
It is equivalent to two million guan, because of this high cost, so now there are only eighteen ships in the entire Dahua Navy, all of which serve as flagships in each fleet.
The first class of warships is followed by the second class of warships, which are slightly smaller than the first class of warships.
With two gun decks, 64 to 80 guns, a capacity of 49 to 720 men, and a displacement of 1,300 to 2,000 tons, this is also the largest number of capital warships in the Dahua Navy.
However, this kind of battleship also has a disadvantage, that is, because the lower gun deck is relatively low, so in stormy weather, the gun doors of the lower gun deck cannot be opened, otherwise it will be flooded by the waves.
Now the Dahua Navy has more than 100 second-class warships.
The third class warships were smaller, with two gun decks, 50 to 56 guns, a crew of about 350 people, and a displacement of 1,000 tons.
The cost of each of these warships also reached about 25,000 gold coins, which is the flagship of the cruising fleet.
The first, second and third class warships, because they are equipped with a large number of guns, and the ships have many large sails, are suitable for naval artillery battles, and are also known as sail battleships.
These three class warships are all included in the list of battleships.
There are also fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh-class warships in the back, which are no longer the main warships, but serve as cruisers, escorts, communications, reconnaissance and other tasks, and the ships are also smaller, especially with few guns or no artillery.
Dahua's investment in the navy is quite large, which is derived from the great navigation strategy of Datang Zhenguan.
With the continuous improvement of metallurgical technology, the front-loading smoothbore gun became a reliable maritime weapon, and the continuous development of navigation technology made it possible to build larger and larger ships to sail with wind power without relying on manpower, so the navy had successfully developed by leaps and bounds in the Tang Dynasty.
Today, it has a brand new battleship and a matching line battle tactic.
The smallest warships of the Dahua Navy now have a displacement of 300 tons, and this unit is also a professional unit of the navy and shipyards, and the ships with a displacement of 300 tons have surpassed the ships of most other countries in this era, not to mention the 1,000 tons, 2,000 tons, and even the emperor's 3,500 tons ship.
Not to mention that countries do not have this level of technology at all, even if Dahua is willing to build it for them, they can't afford it.
First-class battleships, each costing as much as 100,000 gold coins, equivalent to 2 million yuan.
Where is a battleship, it's simply a moving mountain of gold.
The Dahua eighteen first-class warships, just to equip these, cost 36 million.
Even the second-class warships, each cost nearly one million yuan, and Dahua has hundreds.
That's strength.
Having a strong country is why we have such powerful armaments.
And the Navy now has four professional naval academies that specialize in training officers at all levels, and even on every ship, there are those teenage midshipmen, non-commissioned officers, and sailors.
This is a more invested and more skilled unit.
Dahua's navy, which is getting bigger and stronger, can be found everywhere from the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, the Korean Sea, the Small Sea, and then the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and the Mediterranean.
At sea, the Dahua Navy terrified those pirates, and few pirates dared to plunder ships under the Dahua flag.
If you dare to rob Dahua's ships, the Dahua Navy will chase them to the ends of the earth and catch them, and then hang them in those ports.
Some officials have always questioned that Dahua's navy budget is too high, but Zhang Chao has always insisted on developing the navy.
He even asks us to subsidize the navy every year, because he knows that the era of great navigation has come, and many of Dahua's future interests are overseas, and without a strong navy, how can we explore and protect overseas interests.
All of this investment will pay off.
Today.
Dahua's navy has become more and more powerful, and the warships have basically completed the refitting of the era of sail battleships.
Liu Renliang's Beiyang Fleet has four first-class warships and fourteen second-class warships.
At this time, he led these eighteen battleships out of the port.
Liu Renliang's flagship, with a three-story gun deck, a seven-story tail building, and a battleship draft of nearly two zhang and seven feet.
For the Dahua Navy, the sail battleship is not only stronger than the ship, nor more sails, but also because these battleships are faster, and mainly rely on the equipped artillery to strike the enemy, so it has departed from the traditional tactics of the port battle.
The line tactics relied on grabbing the upper hand and then using speed to open up the distance and shell enemy ships from a long distance.
The red and blue flag of the Dahua Navy hunted and flew flying.
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The flagbearer on the sail is giving the order.
Each ship will be adjusted according to the listen.
Facing the enemy in a long line from the flanks was also a standard tactic for battleships.
In this way, half of the guns of each battleship were able to shoot at the enemy, because the Dahua battleship had many guns, and the guns were concentrated on both sides, rather than relying on the guns in the bow and stern.
New weapons and new tactics are always relevant.
This set of tactics was personally taught to the admirals by Emperor Zhang Chao.
Zhang Chao taught these generals that the Dahua Navy has entered the era of battleships, so when fighting at sea, it is the battleship that is responsible for the combat mission.
Warships below the third class are not engaged in the main maritime tactics and can only be used for such tasks as patrolling and reconnaissance.
Because the power of the fleet lies in the long and coherent formation of battleships, which is like an iron chain, if the connecting part is weak, then the strength of the whole chain will not be too strong.
Therefore, in the maritime combat regulations issued by the Navy Yamen, the column is clearly set as the standard queue for naval operations, and all warships of each detachment must do their best to maintain a first-line line with their detachment commanders.
Zhang Chao taught the sea generals a very simple way of fighting, seize the upper hand, and then line up in a column and bombard the enemy from a long distance with flank fire.
Because the strength of the Dahua Navy actually exceeds that of other countries for several generations, especially for a small country like the Wa Kingdom, although it is an island country on the sea, their navy is still at the level of transporting troops by ship.
Naval warfare, that is, the level of firing arrows and engaging in broadside warfare.
Therefore, Dahua is actually very simple when facing them, just directly seize the upper hand and then keep a distance and bombard.
If the opposing side is of equal strength, then in fact, the battleship engagement will become very difficult, and often the naval battle will eventually become a lengthy exchange of fire between two fleets on parallel courses, and the battle will not be decisive in the end.
In the era of sails, it still relied on concentrating the number of warships and concentrating artillery fire, and relied on fighting more and fighting less.
Liu Renliang kept in mind the words of his teacher Zhang Chao.
However, the enemy navy of an enemy country with the same strength as Dahua may not appear for a hundred years.
At least now, the thousands of boats in front of him are nothing more than a plate of vegetables in his eyes.
The wind blew harder.
Turbid waves.
The Japanese fleet gradually sailed in.
Looking at the lonely eighteen boats on the sea in front of them, the Japanese people couldn't help but be a little puzzled.
Is the Dahua Navy so arrogant?
"Is there any fraud in this?"
A wealthy general asked Soga Kuro Maro, who was in command of the fleet.
Su Cangmaro, a son of the Soga family who was in power in the Wa Kingdom, and his brother is Soga Ezo.
This time, the Wa Kingdom gathered 100,000 soldiers and horses, and recruited the soldiers of the wealthy families from all over the Wa Kingdom.
The generals who lead the troops are those big and small wealthy families, and those soldiers are actually farmers or slaves under the wealthy families.
It is indeed not easy to raise these 100,000 people.
Of the 50,000 troops sent in the early stage, Su I Ezo, specially sent his younger brother to lead and command.
The first battle, Tsushima.
This was also Sogakura Maro's idea, thinking that this was a springboard to recapture Tsushima first, so that he could better enter Baekje.
"Eighteen boats, all of them are legendary gunboats, but even if they are gunboats, what about eighteen gunboats, we have more than a thousand ships, and wolves can bite tigers to death, as long as we surround them, we can kill them."
Su Ikura Maro's eyes flashed with excitement.
Eighteen gunboats, since they dare to break away from the brigade like this, it would not be a missed opportunity not to eat them.
And if you can eat these eighteen gunboats, then you can take Tsushima, and there will be no more problems.
"Order, the whole army attack" The rumbling drums of war resounded through the heavens and the earth.
The flagship of the Soga clan issued a flag.
Liu Renliang put down the clairvoyant mirror, "I was scared to death, I thought it would scare the Japanese people away."
Unexpectedly, these Japanese people are still a little bold, and they are not afraid of our eighteen battleships, I really don't know whether to say that they are brave or stupid. ” "Commander, these people are just ignorant, they don't know what a sail battleship is, they don't know what a line battle is, and they don't know what a giant ship cannon is."
"Hahaha, ignorant and fearless, then let's let them taste the benefits of this giant ship's cannon.
Let's use artillery fire to announce the arrival of the era of giant ships and cannons."
Approach.
Closer.
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Into range.
"Shelling" The mast raised the flag for shelling.
Orders were given for the shelling of all ships, and in the gun deck cabins, the bells of the shelling rang incessantly.
The gun window had already been opened, the gun was launched, and the gunner ignited.
One cannon after another roared, and orange fireworks flashed one after another, like blooming flowers. t1706231537: