Lord of Ming Dynasty

This is the reason why Chinese people have been unable to expand outwards in their own circle of civilization and their seemingly large piece of land for thousands of years.

Maybe Confucius has seen through the conspiracy of the Jews. He invented Confucianism in order to let the Chinese and the Chinese nation protect themselves. As a result, the positive things in his Confucianism have not been learned by later generations, and the negative things But it was talked about by posterity.

And combined with the Western ideas successfully spread by the Jews, it became the idea of ​​surrender, the idea of ​​traitors, everything is good in the West, obviously Churchill said that between countries, there are only interests and no friends, but we say that everything is good for the West, The West is for us, we should learn from the West wholeheartedly, turn to the West without reservation, and give up all our things.

But the Western hypocrisy says, children, let’s keep it a little bit, such as equality between men and women, our thinking is that men and women can be equal, women can slightly exceed men, men can take care of others, women can also choose multiple men, in short, Ours is good, you can combine yours to create your own characteristics.

"Hello,"

A hand dangled in front of Zhang Qiang, and Zhang Qiang's eyes recovered from being out of focus.

"What's the matter, what's the matter?" Zhang Qiang asked.

"Your Majesty, we are only three nautical miles away from the enemy's battle zone." Zhang Qiang looked at Kodak and heard what he said to himself.

"Oh." Throwing down the towel, Zhang Qiang took over the telescope and carefully observed the sea surface.

Although Zheng Zhi is an ambitious man, he is after all a young master who was born in a family of pirates. He has around him what his father prepared for him, or some generals who are loyal to him he has recruited, those old pirates, or those under the old pirates. Young, young pirate generals who have experienced many naval battles, they still have a numerical advantage.

Therefore, the Fourth Fleet, which has experienced several catastrophes and hastily entered the battle, is almost one-third the number of the enemy, and is still beaten badly. Now they only have [-] warships left, and they have been severely damaged one after another. Shen, or the previously evacuated warships and warships are weakening the combat effectiveness of this fleet time and time again, and Zheng Zhi is leading the elite navy of the Zheng family that he only holds in his hands, so Zhang Qiang and the others lured the eldest prince away. After the fleet, the exhausted Fourth Fleet was still tightly entangled by Zheng Zhi's fleet, and then dealt heavy damage.

When Zhang Qiang and the others wiped out the eldest prince, Du Ge's fleet that was almost full of blood also pounced on it, so the Fourth Fleet has already sunk into the sky, or is in jeopardy.

Just as the Huaxia Fleet was sailing towards where they were, the flagship of the Fourth Fleet was hit and caught fire. They couldn't react for a while. The other warships lost their command and panicked, and three more warships were sunk. A hundred ton warship.

Most of the fleet led by Du Ge still has nearly 40 warships and warships, and Zheng Zhi has more than 20 warships and warships, and more than [-] small warships have been successively reinforced from Palawan Island. The boat came, so the enemy here is still more than our own.

Although Zhang Liwei temporarily led a team to support them, only twenty warships were still unable to turn the tide of the battle, so the Huaxia Navy was left with less than sixty warships and warships desperately resisting.

In front of Zhang Qiang, the three Huaxia ships that guarded the prince and their surrender fleet galloped to support, successively severely damaged three armed merchant ships of the enemy, and sank a 180-ton enemy warship.

Over there, Perrin's fleet relied on the remaining more than 30 warships to fight against the enemy's nearly fifty warships and warships. Those warships and warships were the battleships and warships of the Fifth Fleet of the Huaxia Navy nearly a week ago.

"Go straight to the core and destroy Zheng Zhi's fleet." Zhang Qiang coldly ordered Kodak beside him, and then ignored it. Commanding is the specialty of naval generals like Kodak. Zhang Qiang would not interfere with their command. He commanded naval battles, and he also fully delegated the authority to his captain and some generals to play freely within the framework he designated, and he did not interfere.

Chapter 823 Excellent Huaxia

"Enemy warship ahead,"

"180-ton warship,"

"The distance is 320 meters,"

"Four and a half knots,"

"The enemy is turning, fleeing,"

"Raise the muzzle, fast, three turns,"

"reading?"

"Sixteen point seven degrees, the upward float is adjusted to increase by [-] degrees,"

"direction,"

"North-southwest brightness, fine-tuning, reduce by [-] degrees per knot."

"Ammunition loaded,"

"Reset,"

"Check reading,","Still within range, reading unchanged,"

"Check Direction," "Direction Adjustment, SW Sheet North, Three Degrees,"

"Visual estimation," "Estimated shell advance is three meters, it can be six meters,"

"The enemy's distance," "The enemy's distance has been shortened to [-] meters,"

"Enemy speed," "Enemy speed up, almost five knots, feeling,"

"Ready to fire," "Two salvos,"

"Fire,"

"Boom," "Boom,"

Zhang Qiang was sitting three meters behind the gun on the bow deck. Fortunately, the crew had erected the baffle; The smoke from the joint artillery fire was blackened.

This is because standing here, he usually would not pretend to be a baffle in front of him. Even so, the baffle could not block the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke, which made his throat uncomfortable.

He coughed several times in a row, waved his palm and fanned it for a long time before the air became fresher.

A volley, using a flowering bomb and a solid bomb, the flowering bomb exploded on the enemy's bow, and the bomber was turning to flee. The enemy's front deck was in a mess. , so fell behind a few meters, and hit the ship's deck near the top mast at the stern, cut off a few cables binding the sails, and then hit the deck, pierced through the deck, and hit the cabin below, with huge kinetic energy hitting After passing through several decks, smashing a few frames, and finally stopped on a bag of grain placed in the ballast on the side of the cabin.

The huge kinetic energy and heat energy generated by the shells being fired by the gunpowder, coupled with the heat generated by the friction of flying in the air, made the grain start to burn in less than 2 minutes, and thick smoke floated out through several holes pierced by the shells.

From a distance, it looks like it has been severely injured. In fact, the effect of the first two shots is just to harass the enemy.

Twelve-pound shells look heavy, but facing a [-]-ton warship with a length of more than ten meters and a width of three or four meters, it is still nowhere to be seen, unless it can hit the steering wheel, the waterline, or concentrate the gunpowder barrels, the main mast , otherwise it is nothing more than opening a few holes.

It’s okay if there are too many more holes in the hull, making the structure unable to support the mast’s thrust from the wind, so the mast collapses and the hull falls apart. Generally speaking, one or two, or even a dozen or so are nothing more than mass destruction of the enemy’s personnel That's all, as long as you don't hit the nail on the head, basically nothing will happen.

However, the ship is controlled by humans, and the large number of deaths of personnel eventually affected the handling performance, so the ship in front wobbled until the mast was blown off, and the sails fell without anyone operating them, affecting the entire ship The balance, the speed became uncontrollable, and finally, in a salvo, was hit near the waterline in a side spin, and then the ship capsized and the men fell into the water.

The Huaxia warship, which was already close to 200 meters, went around 210 meters away from it, and fired a salvo of flank artillery to attack other ships. The cannons fired together, and the locked cannons moved along the slideway to the rear seat. After passing the 1.2-meter rear seat, they were blocked by the weak fur and wooden slots behind, and then the tension leather rope of the gun body was tightened again. After that, pull the cannon barrel back to [-] meters.

The artilleryman began to clean the gun bore with a mop-like cleaning rod. The error of the two sides was no more than ten seconds, and then put in the gunpowder bag, put in a silk-wrapped cork, put in the rifled shell, and carefully slid the shell into it. Tighten it with a silk bag, and the cleaning rod is wrapped in one compaction.

Well, this is a front-mounted smoothbore gun with a rifled gun. In fact, the rear-loaded gun is still a bit immature, so the Huaxia still uses a front-mounted smoothbore gun with a simple straight-line rifling.

In a series of auxiliary institutions, under the full action of the well-trained Huaxia Navy artillery, they can fire three shells per minute, which should be considered an excellent result compared to the Europeans of the same period.

The most important thing about the Huaxia is that it adopts the slender body of the British Galen ship, with low buildings, or almost no buildings. It does not consider comfort or how much cargo it can carry, but only considers how to improve combat performance. The whole ship is nearly 200 People, 780 tons, the girder is still made of century-old giant wood, the rest of the keel or skeleton is cast with Chinese steel, the main parts are still wood, the hull is hung with iron plates, and the bottom of the ship is made of copper rivets.

At the same time, the structure takes into account the excellent structure of the clipper ship, with a floating hollow bow and a sloping bow hull. The proportion of the body is more reasonable than that of the British Galen ship, six to one.

Mixing eastern hard sails and western soft sails, western square sails and western stern sails, the noose pulley lifts the sails, reducing the number and danger of sailors climbing up and down to manipulate the sails.

There were still net ladders to allow sailors to climb up and down, the height of the mainmast was raised, a lookout bucket was added, and a rotary steering gear was used.

The steering gear is mechanically controlled by torsion bar cast iron, so that the sailor can twist the rudder without so much force, change the direction, and improve the sensitivity of the steering gear.

The outer side of the inclined hull, the streamlined hull, reduces the resistance of wind and water, and reduces the adhesion of waves. With so many technologies, the speed of Huaxia can reach a maximum of [-] or [-] knots, and generally can reach a speed of [-] knots .

Ordinary cruising reaches a speed of eight knots, which is three or four knots faster than before.

In short, the Huaxia usually crosses the ocean at a speed of three to four knots in this group, and can reach a speed of twelve knots even in the strongest wind. At that time, it was the age of sailing that tested the strength of the hull structure, and it was considered a sky-high configuration.