Lord of Ming Dynasty

More than 30 officers of the original mercenary regiment have their own [-] guards and a Han Chinese guard team, and except for those officers who have been promoted and reused after outstanding performance, the treatment is the same, the guards of other officers are generally five, And then their other guards are that force they lead.

As for the other brigades, except for Mo Lin, the sailor brigade, and the captains of the brigades, the other squadron leaders, squad leaders, and team leaders are mostly alone or they find their own troops to lead a few people to protect them. Equipment, after all, the strength of the army is limited, the manpower is limited, and if you can't develop a few confidantes in the army, then your leadership ability is worrying.

After Sweeper left, Li Ya sent someone to find Mo Lin, who was training the sailors of the fleet, "It's spring, is your fleet ready? The enemy may come soon, maybe this time the enemy is the bottom of the box." All the effort has been taken out, maybe it is crushing for us. What are you going to do?"

Mo Lin sat down, drank steaming tea, thought for a long time, and then said: "This is an unsolvable matter. After all, it is the United Kingdom that defeated the Dutch and the Spaniards. Throwing out a few ships, all stronger than us, so I think we need to get the fleet out, and then see the opportunity, and then give them a cold shot.

Immediately retreat back and come up again when you find an opportunity. After all, the enemy is 3000 to [-] nautical miles away from here. Weigh it. "

Li Ya shook his head, "It's not an option to confront a big maritime power. We can't spend their money. The British have become even more powerful since they acquired the technology and market of our Chinese Empire. There are many colonies in China, and there are many colonies along the coast of Africa. Their ships are probably terrifying. Even sailing ships can consume us to death.

They don't need their own people, they can just find a few ships from a few small colonies to kill us properly. If necessary, we may have to compromise with them in the future, or they will be able to kill us in a fit of anger. Kill us, and we can't fight back. "

Mo Lin disagreed, "They have so many places, so many ships, and they have things to do. It is impossible to transfer them all at once, unless they don't want anything. They are not without enemies. At sea, they still have battles, and there are also Frenchmen, who have too many enemies to guard against.

And to be honest, we only captured a peninsula here, a place the size of a fingernail. Even if we take the Avalan Peninsula, it is only the size of two fingernails. How much will they pay for this value?

They also need to be measured, so I think that by consuming them and hurting them, we can at least withstand a wave of their attacks.When another wave of attack reaches winter, they have to go back, otherwise they will go to North America to spend the winter, they will not be able to fight us at sea for a whole winter, and we will have a winter buffer time.

Isn't the relationship with the Huaxia Empire eased now?We can buy ships, manpower, and supplies from the Huaxia Empire, and we can come here in one winter.As our mother country, it is impossible for the Chinese Empire not to help us, because we are still valuable, at least whichever emperor thinks it is valuable, this is our capital.

With the favor and help of His Majesty the Emperor, we can at least resist two waves of enemies. After the two waves, do they have to devote so much energy to this small island?Their largest military leader on the island, Colonel James, has been captured by us, and maybe they will negotiate next.

In terms of negotiations, we have a lot of bargaining chips. Nearly [-] British immigrants and a dozen of their officers have garrisons and ships in other places. If they want us not to attack, they can only negotiate with us, otherwise they will I can't afford it, two waves of reinforcements, if we can resist, I think this is the biggest capital they can pay.

No matter how much, even if the colony of this small island is lost, they will not care about it. Of course, our hostile relationship is certain. "

Li Ya looked at Mo Lin talking eloquently, and looked at him with a smile. After a while, Mo Lin, who was talking, was suddenly touched by the strange atmosphere, and then stopped, looking at Li Ya who was smiling, and smiled awkwardly. "Well, I'm just talking about my personal opinion. The rest is up to you."

"Then do as I said just now. Send several thousand-ton steam warships and several sail warships to harass the enemy, try to attract the enemy's attention, and send warships under one thousand tons to help the army bombard the enemy's ports and coasts. Help the army take down the enemy's fortress, block the enemy's main communication channel with the main island. In addition, block the enemy's surrounding sea area, and defeat the enemy's fleet if possible." Li Ya said to Mo Lin.

"Okay, I will carry out your order, leader." Molin stood up and left.

Chapter 250, we must build a ship

After Mo Lin left, Tang Yaweng came.

Because it is possible to deal with the British's spring offensive and counterattack at the same time, Tang Yaweng has been very busy these days, because he has to allocate materials, coordinate the production of various workshops below, and allocate captives to do things. work, so Li Ya hasn't seen him for almost half a month.

Tang Yaweng usually communicates with Wu Kejing, because Wu Kejing and his management are overlapping, and Wu Kejing is the county magistrate, he needs to report to Wu Kejing on many things, and needs to cooperate with Wu Kejing in doing things.

As the county magistrate, Wu Kejing is not only in charge of the overall situation, but also collects intelligence, contacts with Zhao Shuai, and domestic affairs, so he is also very busy.

Because of intelligence matters and domestic liaison matters, Wu Kejing actually walked with Zhao Shuai and the others most of the time, so people might not be able to see him for a long time.

After Tang Yaweng came over, he said to Li Ya: "Chief, I don't know why you summoned me? They have already set off to sweep the sky mines, and the fodder of the cavalry squadron has to travel dozens of miles to reach the front line, and then it will be escorted by the supervisor brigade Continue to move forward and follow the main force. In order to prevent the enemy from attacking the front line when the main force is leaving, I have been wandering around the front line every day these days, helping to manage the front line troops."

Li Ya waved his hand impatiently, "Okay, don't complain, I want to ask you something, this matter is not more difficult than going out to fight, but it is equally important."

Tang Yaweng sat down and took a sip of hot tea, "What is so important, is there anything more important than defeating the British?"

Li Ya nodded, "Compared to defeating the British, this matter is actually to defeat the British. According to the information gathered recently, the British are now very weak in Newfoundland. As long as we land We have done a good job on Newfoundland, so only our family has the final say on the island of Newfoundland. We can quickly eliminate the British, but everyone knows that the British are also an island country. How can they be strong?

Yes, it is a ship, they have countless ships, they have hundreds of years of sailing experience, hundreds of years of sea combat experience and a strong fleet, and we are also an island country, but unfortunately, our fleet is still very small, even It’s just pieced together out of tatters, all refitted from captured enemy ships or civilian ships. Compared with our original Chinese Empire, it’s nothing compared to the big witch. The Chinese Empire is much stronger than us if it’s taken out casually, but the Chinese Empire Come and help us.

This is impossible, even if they come to help us, they will be exhausted because of the long distance and not enough supply points, and they may not be able to beat the British. "

He scanned the hands of the people gathered in the Juyi Hall. These people were already sitting here waiting when Tang Yaweng arrived.

When Tang Yaweng came in, he also found out that there was the squadron leader of the supervisory brigade in charge of logging, the supervisor in charge of material procurement and storage, the civil supervisor in charge of the shipyard, and the directors and technicians of various shipyards.

Tang Yaweng moved his body and was also thinking, yes, these ships were captured by the enemy. The refitted merchant ships of the Huaxia Empire and the steam engine experimental ships of the Huaxia Empire that they brought over earlier were actually immature. Many places are made of wood, and the armor is very limited. Only the main parts and the captain's room, the command platform at the bow, and the turret are armored, and most of the other places are made of wood.

For most of the western or eastern sailing warships, solid bullets are still the main type of bullets. No matter how thick you are against the wooden hulls, you will definitely hit a hole, and the wood chips that can't be pierced but can be hit are flying across. , at least hit vulnerable.

The deck is also made of wood, and the enemy's solid bullets can fall from the air and penetrate the teak board on the deck, and then enter the cabin below, burning supplies, or injuring artillery and combatants.

And the new steam engine battleship of the Chinese Empire, which is the next generation of steam engine experimental ship, has begun to be immune to solid bullets, because they have wrapped the entire hull with iron sheets and connected them with rivets. If there is no long-term hit and bombardment If so, the iron plate will not fall.

The deck is also paved with armor plates, and the lower layer is a thick teak board. The two layers can block most of the enemy's heavy solid bullets, and because there are fewer sails and masts, the damage of the enemy's chain bullets is also reduced. If they don't fight in densely populated deck areas, they will only destroy some facilities, at most one or two three-legged cat soldiers will be injured.

These are some measures taken by the Chinese Empire Navy when Li Ya left. It is said that the entire battleship was covered with iron bones and iron skins. Although the weight of the battleship has increased and the speed has slowed down, it is resistant to fighting, and the artillery firepower is extremely high. The upgrade makes the whole ship an iron turtle with the firepower of a hedgehog. Few people can beat the naval ships of the Chinese Empire.

"Because our ships are all captured and built by ourselves with wooden sails, only through transformation can we obtain a maritime combat capability similar to that of the surrounding European countries, but these are not enough to face the enemy's regular navy. It is far from enough. Compared with the European navy that has been to Egypt, the British navy is even more invincible after learning and stealing from our navy. Therefore, facing such a warship that is about to be sent over, we may fight but.

Even if we have seized many large-tonnage ships from the French and the British, we have no chance of winning. The only thing that can give us combat power is the two [-]-ton ships that followed the group of four princes who found them. warships, but the condition of those two warships is quite bad. Even if we have repaired them, they are still not good. The first batch of fleets, but absolutely unable to beat the second batch of fleets sent by the enemy, so we must improve and transform the ships.

Even building our own ships.Our own ships, our own battleships, our own fleets, fleets of strength.The reason why an island country maintains our security is because of its powerful fleet. "

Tang Yaweng raised his hand. Li Ya stopped, looked at him, and signaled him to speak. Tang Yaweng coughed, paused for a while, and organized his words: "The only thing we can do now is reform. The leader means that we have to Transform other steam engine battleships into the same ships as the two Chinese Empire steam engine battleships we got?"

Chapter 260 Land Attack

"Yes, at present, we can only transform ourselves. We seized a [-]-ton warship from the French and two from the British. The British are easy to transform, because they are almost the same as the ships of the Chinese Empire, because they are all It is learned from the Chinese Empire, but the French are not easy to reform, because many places are very different.

Before this, we have grouped and strengthened all the ships, but this is far from enough, not enough. We not only need to add a lot of iron plates, but also need to increase power, and remove the sails and masts above, and then replace them. to our own mast.

At the same time, the power must be replaced. Let's build some boilers now, and then modify the boilers and pipelines to barely increase the combat effectiveness.

I have asked Mr. Zhao to send a report back, hoping that the Chinese Empire can provide us with some steam engines, steam engines used on ships, and then we can modify some ships, such as those two [-]-ton French ships, and we will have seven A powerful steam engine battleship.

At least the tonnage is not bad.In terms of speed, if the British did not come with a high-tonnage, powerful steam engine warship this time, then the war that we might win in the first battle, the second battle would be a bit mysterious, and the enemy would definitely send a powerful warship. "

Tang Yaweng continued to ask questions: "Then how should these warships be modified? Add armor plates? That will reduce the mobility even more. The British artillery is very sharp, even the French artillery is also very powerful. Not enough to deal with the enemy."

Li Ya said excitedly: "Yes, we can only do this for now. We will buy some domestic products in the future, but there is a problem with transportation. It is thousands of miles away. Maybe Turkey will not allow us to transit."

"So we need to send some people to bring these things back, and we are not safe at sea, because for the sake of war, the British will definitely not let us bring these things back."

After the meeting, Li Ya and Tang Yaweng walked together, and Li Ya said to Tang Yaweng: "Stop some slaves, the original Indians and Iliads, these people are porters, and some Spaniards and Russians, Turkey People, these are used as camouflage, and then I will send an officer and a navy officer to lead the two teams to go there. You also need to find some people who understand steam engines from among the prisoners and our craftsmen, you know Our Huaxia Empire is big now, and we have everyone, especially those bureaucrats, others, they lied to us, it was the empire that supported us, and both the empire and us paid for it."

"Well, what do we pay for? Does the empire do all the business here?" Tang Yaweng asked a little puzzled.

"Yes, they have brought the business to us. When we came out, we brought the seized assets of the French and the British on the island, a lot of gold coins, and a lot of jewelry. We took these and bought them in China. Some steam engines, of course, are connected by the Military Intelligence Department, otherwise we have no connections at all, even though I am an officer of the Guards, but it is a pity that I am one step away, and I will not have access to those high-level things and lines."

It can't be said how advanced or advanced it is, but it is absolutely convenient.

And with the increase of R&D personnel, it is mainly because the Huaxia Army has added other industry exams on the basis of the imperial examinations, 360 lines, and there are exams for all walks of life. Low-level personnel can get a government-certified industry qualification certificate. With these certificates, you can engage in research in related industries, and sell the research results to the government, and the government pays a certain amount of money to buy the research results.

This is the qualification certificate for all people in the industry. It is an honor to have this certificate, just like a scholar who has been admitted to Tongsheng. In the village, you can also get the reception of the village head, the head of the security, or the head of the township, and let everyone look at you highly. In these low-level administrative positions, you can also get a good income and a basic monthly salary.

People in the village read a letter, recognize a character, or build something, find an authority to authenticate it, and they will come to you, or the price of what you come up with is higher than the price of other people who have not been authenticated. I have to find you when dealing with the government.

Zhang Huangyan walked all the way, passing through the countryside, and learned about these things through the mouth of the young guide who led the way.

Low-level certification does not require you to be literate or have read books, as long as you can get something in the industry and get government approval.

And can get the qualification to go to adult night school for free. If you graduate from the night school, that is to say, you know ten Arabic numerals and more than one hundred characters, you can take the qualification certification level two examination.