Lord of the House

Chongcheng has become a place where business travelers gather, and it is impossible to completely prevent scouts and sentries from other families from sneaking in as business travelers. The mobilization and preparations for sending troops to Jeju Island are all carried out in Hakcheng.

In mid-December, a large number of soldiers and combat readiness materials were successively assembled to Hecheng through land and water channels.

Including most of the Infantry Division's Guard Battalion, the Navy Division's Jinghai Second Water Battalion, and a section of the Horse Army Division Cavalry Battalion, more than 6,000 main soldiers, as well as more than 1,000 helmsmen and sailors and other auxiliary soldiers, in December Before the nineteenth, the assembly in Crane City was completed.

The war preparation materials, including 30,000 stone rice grains, have been loaded on ships in Crane City one after another.

Compared to the beginning of the year, when Lin Fu went north to Jinhai by sea, there were only five Jinhai-class warships in Chongzhou with a capacity of more than 5,000 stone. Today, there are five Jinhai-class warships in the Jinghai Second Water Battalion, and more than 50 other medium-sized naval warships including 18 Jiyun-class warships.

Due to the competition and threats of luxury families in the East China Sea, among many affairs in Chongzhou, shipping management is the fastest growing.

After the kiln drying method is mature, the preparation time is shortened from the traditional two to three years to six months.

In the past year, the shipping capacity of Heishuiyang Shipyard has increased by nearly 100,000 shi, and the increase in the capacity per shi has almost provided Guanyintan Shipyard with a profit of one tael.

In addition, the shipyard also provided a large number of warships for the Jinghai Camp; together with the previous capital injection by the Sun, Zhou and other marine merchants to the shipyard, the Chongzhou Guanyintan Shipyard invested nearly 400,000 taels of silver within a year, and the total scale of shipbuilding reached Two hundred thousand stones.

In shipbuilding, in addition to the large-scale use of iron nails for riveting, the Guanyintan Shipyard even began to use large-scale iron castings.

In Lin Bie's impression, an iron sailboat with the same load was heavier than a wooden sailboat. According to actual calculations, a steel sailboat with the same load is even 20-30% lighter than a wooden sailboat.

It is completely necessary to build a steel-hulled sailboat, and a thousand-stone ship needs 100,000 catties of good iron, which is not enough for Chongzhou's steel production. Low-cost steel plate manufacturing technology needs to mature, and there is no time for generations to accumulate technology, I am afraid it will not be possible, but using iron castings to manufacture key components of sea-going ships can make the ship structural strength higher, the technology is not complicated, and the cost is also low. Tolerable.

The steelmaking efficiency of the first iron-making blast furnace transformed by the double-furnace disturbance method of Sun Dafu has been increased by nearly three times; when all three blast furnaces are transformed, Chongzhou's refined iron output will increase to 300,000 kilograms per year.

300,000 catties of refined iron, equivalent to 150 tons, will be left in later generations. It is just a small iron workshop run by a village, but in this world, it is quite a formidable figure.

The iron smelting workshop affiliated to the Jiangning Ministry of Industry produces only 200,000 catties of refined iron every year.

However, there is still a huge gap from Lin Fu's goal. Lin Fu plans to Chongguan for twelve years, and Chongzhou's refined iron output can reach one million catties.

Then you need to invest more silver to build higher and larger iron furnaces.

In addition to the workers' battalion, the Huaidong Army has more than 28,000 soldiers.

Although the generals of the Huaisi Defense Line and the Shengsi Defense Line were able to obtain food and salaries from Huai'an, Hailing, and Haiyu County, except for civil affairs and the construction of the Hanhai Embankment, military expenditures still overwhelmed the Huaidong Army. Si was out of breath.

The military commander has been unable to spend more money to support the expansion of many factories, and even began to draw profits from various fields to maintain huge military expenditures.

If iron smelting and other factories want to obtain the money to expand the scale of production, they must obtain high profits by selling goods such as fine soldiers and armor to the Fuso feudal countries such as Kyushu and Honshu.

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"This New Year, you can't spend it in Chongzhou. When you arrive in Jeju, you have to take care of yourself..." Gu Junxun followed him to Hecheng to give Lin Fu a trip, and helped Lin Fu tie the scarlet cloak in the house.

"You have to be careful about your body in Chongzhou..." Lin Bie held Jun Xun's small hand. She had a happy pulse last month and was pregnant. Although the weather was sunny, the wind from northwest to southeast was dry and cold. . He didn't want her to come to Hecheng to send him, but he couldn't resist her temper. I also want her to be the mistress, and let her show her face more, move around more, and move around, so that she can take on more things in Chongzhou.

Lin Bie tightened his cloak and glanced at Yingxiu who was standing beside him. All the words were in sight, and he pushed the door and walked out, preventing them from going out to blow air.

Song Jia was wearing a Confucian shirt, a sheepskin fur to keep out the cold, and a folded-brimmed fur hat, looking like a handsome young man. She went out to sea with Lin Fu, but She Mingyue didn't follow her this time.

When Lin Fu and Gu Junxun parted, she stood coldly and waited outside the corridor. Xiaoman, as a concubine, will stay in Chongzhou this time, abiding by the rules, but she is an internal scripter and will go to Jeju with Lin Fu.

I really don't know what Gu Junxun thinks about this matter, Song Jia honestly hides outside and doesn't bother people.

Qin Chengzu stayed in Chongzhou and responded in the middle, and followed Lin Fu Dongdu to Zhou Pu, Zhao Hu, Ge Cunxin, Lin Jingzhong, and Ge Changgen in Jeju. Lin Fu lacked a counselor who could negotiate at any time, and could only bring Song Jia with him.

The northwesterly wind is strong, and there are currents heading southward along the coast, but the flow rate is not large, which does not prevent the fleet from breaking the waves and heading eastward. There are yellow sand ridges in the sea east of Hecheng, which is not conducive to the passage of large ships. Except for the old fishermen in the world, no one else knows this deep-water seaway.

We set out to sea from Hecheng at noon, and saw the lighthouse of Changshan Island twinkling in the distance from the moon to the midday.

This part of the sea area is shallow and silted, and it is necessary to take the tidal waterway. The speed is slow, but after passing Changshan Island, riding the wind and waves, using the star board to compare the Big Dipper, all the way east, as fast as a horse, on December 23 At dawn, see the outline of the west coast of Jeju Island.

The Jeju Military Fortress is located in the southern part of the west coast. A lighthouse has been built for a long time, which is convenient for navigation and mooring at night.

Lin Bie received Ge Changgen's request for help in Chongzhou, and it had only been half a month. He didn't expect the Koreans to organize the fourth wave of attacks so quickly. Judging from the scale of the fire, this wave of attacks was quite fierce.

The fleet turned off the lights and was silent, advancing on the sea with only faint morning light, and when there were still more than ten miles, it was already able to observe the combat situation around Jeju Fort quite clearly.

In the east and south of Jeju Sai, there are Korean troops besieged, the dock port on the west of Jeju Sai has been occupied by Korean naval forces, and several ships have been set on fire. It is not clear whether Ge Changgen voluntarily abandoned the ship and concentrated the limited forces on the shore to stand for help, or whether the navy of Jeju Sai completely annihilated the Koreans. The battle begins...

Although there are people in the fleet who are often familiar with the routes of Chongju and Jeju, they are not familiar with the hydrology and geography around Jeju.

The foot brigade could not bypass the Jeju Fortress, landed from other beaches, and besieged the Koreans in Jeju Fortress from the side and rear, but saw that the scale of the warships of the Korean Navy was quite limited. Four ships, capable of suppressing the strength of the Jeju Saishui Army, probably far from expected that the reinforcements from Chongzhou would arrive so timely.

The aid fleet slowly unfolded on the gradually bright blue sea, and was divided into three tiered attack formations, with one Jinhai-class warship and four Jiyun-class warships as the main ones, forming a conical formation. The Goryeo Marines gathered outside Jeju Sairi swooped in; the second formation consisted of two Jinhai warships and six Jiyun-class warships, forming two wings. Lin Fu was at the back of the third group, watching the situation of the battle.

The Goryeo navy and the others were concentrating their forces and wanted to land from the inside of the dock to attack the defenders in Jeju Seri. They never expected that a navy would emerge from the thin mist in the morning and attack them. It was less than five or six miles away before I became alert.

All kinds of naval warships in Jinghaihai Camp are equipped with large sculls. A long voyage uses a sail to borrow the wind, and when engaging in a battle, the sail and turret are used together, as fast as a galloping horse. Five or six miles of water travel, and only one stick of incense takes time. The Koryo naval forces crowded in Jeju Saigang have no time to adjust their formation. It was caught off guard, and even more chaotic, forming a narrow waterway in the inner and outer harbors on the headland, and several ships collided together and made a mess.

The more than a dozen warships of the Koreans in the outer port faced the first wave of attack arrays from the Jinghai Second Water Battalion, and the size and number of warships were at a disadvantage. Before they could catch the boat, the Koreans were shot at by more than 20 crossbows. No matter how close they were, the crossbows and the clay pots filled with kerosene came from each other. When it was time to pick up the ship, more than a dozen warships of the Koreans in the outer harbor had already collapsed~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and fled in panic.

There are more Korean warships crowded into the inner harbor.

The inner harbour is surrounded by a long promontory protruding from the coastal hills, and the inner and outer harbours are more than 200 paces wide. There were Koreans first. Several ships collided, blocking the port, and the Korean warships in the inner harbor were even more unable to get out.

Ge Cunxin released several Korean warships that had fled in the outer port, blocked the inner port, and mobilized medium-sized warships that were good at close-quarters combat to break in from the port, completely annihilating the Korean navy trapped in the inner port.

There were about 4,000 Goryeo soldiers who surrounded Jejusai by land from the east and south, but they were helpless in the fierce battle at sea. Seeing that their navy was defeated, the Koreans on the shore knew that they could not capture the Jeju Fortress, so they gave up the attack, retreated, and retreated to the east...

At about noon, the battle in Jeju's Saiwu port ended with the surrender of more than 200 Korean naval forces.

The inner port is full of wreckage of warships, and the waterway cannot be cleared out in a short time. A large number of ships were moored in the outer port, and Lin Bie changed boats from the outer port to board the long cape to see the situation inside and outside the Jeju fortress.

In the history that Lin Fu remembered, the Yuan Dynasty went eastward to Japan twice and was defeated by its superior forces. During the period of British colonial expansion, the most important thing was to take advantage of the high profit income from overseas trade and pay no heed to the cost. Build naval bases around the world. This may be regarded as a positive and negative lesson.

In the past year, a considerable part of the trade income of merchants from Jeju and Korea, Kyushu, Honju and other places has been withheld for the construction of Jeju Fort, and it has played its due role at this time. Otherwise, he would come with a large army, and he would not even have a place to land.

Without a base, unfamiliar with the local hydrology and geography, and rushed across the sea, even with superior troops, the Yuan Dynasty’s defeat in the eastward expedition to Japan would not be staged in advance. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter