Chapter 397 Tainan Heliao Port Quanxu has absolute confidence, because the infantry of the whole family army has not been idle in the past two years or so, they are professional soldiers, and they are all professional soldiers.The daily work is training, studying, drilling, summarizing, after more than four years, this ninety percent of the illiterate old and rough people have been trained by Quanxu to be able to read and write "intellectuals".In addition to physical fitness and discipline training, the equipment of the whole family army has also been improved a lot, the most direct point is the artillery, in addition to the replacement of the new 105 field artillery, the light 105 cannon has also been sawn off and made shorter.The gun wheel, the tail tip of the gun, and a steel base were eliminated, although the mortar gun was not successfully manufactured, but the two kicks similar to those of later generations were made, and the whole shell was almost the same as the shape of the rear-loading 105 mm smoothbore gun, all of which were cylindrical, and the shell was divided into two parts, the front part was the explosive part, and the rear part was the launch part.Light the shell, quickly put it into the barrel, use gravity, slide the shell into the chamber, at this time, the fire of the firing part begins to explode, the explosive impact of the gunpowder, push the shell out of the barrel, after about three to five seconds of flight, the shell will explode.The biggest problem with such a mortar is that the shooting is too short, about 500 to 600 steps, and the key is that the rate of fire is very fast, faster than the rear-loading field artillery, but the power is far less than the rear-loading 105 field artillery.Almost the same principle of operation as later mortars, the difference is that NTN and mine mercury are not used, but with the advent of this primitive version of the mortar, the formation of the whole army also found a change.For each infantry artillery, an artillery division is added, and the artillery division has two artillery flags, each flag has six guns, a total of 12 mortars, and a support flag.Since then, each regiment of the whole family army has three infantry combat divisions, one baggage division, one artillery division, plus a communications flag, a guard flag, and a military discipline picket flag, and the whole regiment has about 820 people.Even if such a whole family army faces the Eight-Nation Coalition Army two hundred years later, it will not necessarily suffer, let alone the current Dutch?
A few decades later, British lobster soldiers would be shot in line with muskets to teach the Dutch how to behave.Under the heavy artillery fire of the current whole family army, they will be very miserable.At this time, the improvement of the whole family arms unit is not very large, but the automatic lighter device has been added, and the paper shell ammunition is also the direction of research and development, and the next one to two years, especially after the complete success of the thunder mercury, the breech-loading rifled rifle will be initially realized.For Quanxu, Taiwan is a must-win.The Dutch have occupied part of Taiwan for more than a decade, during which time they have built a large number of port facilities and defenses, such as the tall port lighthouse.Every night, the lighthouse in the harbor is lit up like a torch that illuminates the entire harbor's shipping lanes.In the eyes of the uncivilized Gaoshan and Yamei aborigines, this is an extraordinarily magnificent spectacle, so every time they see the fire light on the lighthouse illuminating the open sea, they will regard it as a god and worship it.And the Han people's emotions towards this lighthouse are not amazed, but cursed, because this lighthouse was built on their bones, and in order to build it, how many Han laborers were exhausted, starved to death, and abused to death!
At this time, the people in Taiwan have been boiling with resentment, and the whole family army will come to Taiwan as a savior, defeat the Dutch colonists, and recapture Taiwan.Of course, since then, Taiwan is no longer Zheng's Taiwan, nor is it the Taiwan of the Ming Dynasty, but the Taiwan of Quanxu.Through Taiwan as a springboard, it radiates the entire Southeast Asia.With the increase in production capacity, Quanji's industrial products also need to find a dumping place for pro-products, and at the same time, Quanxu is thinking about whether to start the development of steam engine projects.As long as he completes the first industrial revolution and leads the world, with the manpower, material and financial resources of the Ming Dynasty, he will form a real empire on which the sun never sets.Seeing Lu Xiangsheng frowning and thinking, Quan Xu pulled Lu Xiangsheng and said: "Lord Lu, the heart of the Ming Dynasty will not die, as early as the second year of the Apocalypse, we will start to invade the coastal areas of Fujian, our Ming Dynasty is now in internal and external difficulties, and we are unable to start a war on two fronts, the only way is to be ruthless at one time, unscrupulous means, beat them painfully, scared, and beat them so that they dare not provoke the Ming Dynasty again"!
Lu Xiangsheng looked at Quan Xu and said, "How did you defeat the Dutch fleet?"
”Lu Xiangsheng thought that he was a man who knew the soldiers, and he could not think of any method that Quan Xu could use to defeat the Dutch, who were quick and sharp.Helena had already pricked up her ears and listened carefully to Jeon Xu's explanation.Quan Xu shrugged: "Lord Lu really wants to see it?"
”"Look!"
Helena was the first to speak."
Okay!"
Quan Xu smiled and said, "Then come with me!"
”In that camp, because more than 600 cannon fodder had died, in order to worry that the suicide ship would not be able to meet the needs, Quanxu's shipyard temporarily dispatched craftsmen to build this kind of suicide ship one after another.After three days of construction, more than 300 more suicide boats appeared in the camp's water harbor.It was the first time Helena had seen the suicide ship up close, even though it was very small, even smaller than a normal fishing boat.There is no way, even the smallest fishing boat has a load capacity of hundreds of thousands of stones, but the load capacity of this suicide boat is five or six hundred catties.The weight of an adult plus two hundred pounds of gunpowder is all alive."
Such a small ship?"
Lu Xiangsheng was even more incredulous: "I'm afraid that if a big wave hits, such a small boat will sink, right?"
”"That's right, it's going to sink!"
In the suicide attacks of the dwarfs, many ships were not actually sunk by the enemy, but the shock wave of the explosion of the suicide boat, forming a huge wave that directly overturned this kind of boat, according to incomplete statistics, at least nearly 20 of this kind of boat sank."
Lord Lu, please look, this is the collision angle, the collision angle Quan Xu did not think about concealing Lu Xiangsheng, this is a poor man's weapon, once the eight thousand large ships in Liaodong are put into service, this kind of suicide ship will be less used, and fortunately Quan Xu is a local operation, this kind of ship can only be used as a lifeboat, hanging on the ship to the ocean, because they do not have the ability to go to the sea."
Can you sell us this kind of ship?""
Yes!"
Quan Xu smiled and said, "One hundred taels of silver!"
”This kind of suicide attack ship, in fact, is like carrying an explosive bag to blow up a tank, which itself does not have scientific and technological content, but is flesh and blood, and overcomes the problem of lack of steel.When our army did not have enough tanks, this method was adopted to fight tanks.For example, on the European battlefield, the infantry would not snipe and equip the troops, because it would almost send the infantry to death, but China did not have tanks at that time, so it could only block it with flesh and blood.Helena: "I'll buy ten!"
”Lu Xiangsheng wanted to say that Helena was crazy and spent a hundred silver to buy a broken ship that was not worth twenty taels of silver.In fact, the wood in Liaodong was abundant and cheap, and the cost of manufacturing this kind of suicide ship was less than ten taels of silver, and the most expensive part of it was canvas.Of course, if you count the cost of gunpowder, you will get fifty or sixty taels of silver.Lu Xiangsheng finally understood that there was such a small boat loaded with gunpowder, which crashed into the big ship of the Dutch, and then died with the big ship.Quan Xu used more than 600 suicide ships to fight out more than 100 warships of the Dutch and Zheng fleets.In Lu Xiangsheng's mind, this is definitely not as easy as Quan Xu said, the whole family army's compensation for the fallen soldiers is very high, that is to say, for this naval battle, Quan Xu surrendered at least tens of thousands of taels of silver.Of course, Lu Xiangsheng didn't know, in fact, Quan Xu's dead soldiers were very cheap.…… Tainan, Heliao Port, the originally prosperous Heliao Port seems to have a somewhat strange atmosphere.The Dutch, who were eager to spend forty-eight hours a day, watched over the work of the slaves day and night with whips or sticks, cutting down thorns, draining swamps, building barrage dams, and cultivating vast tracts of rice paddies and sugar plantations, so that for the first time this wild land showed a strong momentum under their whips.The Dutch East India Company was thrilled and felt that it had found a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for growth.However, at this critical juncture, a powerful and almost terrifying army across the strait was about to fight, and various reclamation and infrastructure plans could only be temporarily suspended.Therefore, for several days, the lighthouse of Heliao Port was not lit again, because it was afraid that the Ming army would use the lighthouse to guide the way and enter Heliao Port at night to attack Chichicheng.There is no way, Taiwan is too big, although there are more than 10,000 people in the armed forces of the East India Company, but the colonies they occupy are too large, and when they are sprinkled on the entire Southeast Asian colonies, it is about the same as the amount of beef in beef ramen.What's more, this time the Dutch East India Company originally wanted to rob the fruits of Liaonan's victory, but more than 4,000 elite soldiers and more than 50 warships were almost completely wiped out.More than 6,000 people went to sea, only to return less than 200 people, and more than 5,800 people were thrown into those seas of death.When the news came to Taiwan, the entire Taiwan Governor's Office panicked.Prepare for battle.They armed Dutch colonial officials, family members, women and even children, but they still couldn't defend against it.The Dutch soldiers guarding the lighthouse stayed bored in the dark lighthouse, muttering curses to the damned Ming Empire.In their eyes, this empire is really so hateful, even though it already has such a vast territory, it still clings to every piece of land that can have the slightest relationship with them, even if it is a lonely island overseas!
Will you die if you give up Taiwan to us?
You have never put in the effort to manage this land, those farmlands, those roads, those water conservancy facilities, we have worked so hard to get them!
Now that our business in Taiwan has become quite large-scale, you have to call over and eat ready-made, how can there be such a cheap thing!
Unbeknownst to the soldiers guarding the lighthouse, death had befallen them while they were complaining.