Wang Haitao expressed great satisfaction with this new type of naval gun and asked Fang Xiaoyue to modify another steel fishing boat in the next few days.
After all, a single gunboat cannot protect the sea outside Xinghai City.
After a gunboat has been sailing at sea for a period of time, it will need more or less maintenance. As for a gunboat, during its maintenance period, the navy is equivalent to having no gunboats at all. The impact on combat effectiveness can be imagined.
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However, for now, the number of modified gunboats that the Senate can allow is only two at most.
After all, in this modification mode, welding rods must be used.
Based on the current technological level and resources of Xinghai Kingdom, it is not yet possible to replicate the welding rods of later generations.
The welding rod is composed of a welding core and a coating. The welding core is wrapped with a coating and is the welding rod.
It's okay to say that the welding core can be made by the steel mill, but the coating can't be used.
The medicinal skins of later generations basically require the use of titanium dioxide.
There is no titanium ore in the territory that Xinghai Kingdom currently occupies.
However, there are titanium mines in Zhanzhou, which is close to Lingao. Unfortunately, in a short period of time, Xinghai Kingdom needs to consolidate its existing territory first, rather than sending troops to attack the territory.
In that case, the territory will be expanded, but the basic market is unstable. Once something unexpected happens, a big crash is likely to occur.
Well, that's how it is in Ma Tianfu's memory.
After those time travelers developed to a certain level, they couldn't wait to capture the entire island, then marched into Guangdong, destroyed Nanming, and directly faced the Qing army.
At first, the Qing army fled in panic, but after the Qing army mobilized its troops and formed an encirclement, the battle became difficult to fight.
After all, the firearms developed by the Time Travelers at that time were bronze cannons and flintlock guns.
Without Fang Xiaoyue, if you want to develop mercury fulminate and nitrocellulose, those technologies are still far behind.
Under the tactics of the Qing army's strong attack by large groups of cavalry, although the Chuanzhong army won a few battles, they suffered heavy losses.
As a result, the farther you go to the back, the smaller your army becomes, and eventually the entire army is destroyed.
No way, the Qing army at that time had captured half of the Ming Dynasty, and the number of Ming troops under its command alone was over one million.
Although many troops need to be stationed in various places to serve as garrison troops, the number of Han troops mobilized from the Eight Banners, Ming surrender generals, etc. alone totals three to four hundred thousand.
At that time, there were only five to six thousand troops trained by Chuan Chuanzhong.
In a battle involving tens of thousands of people, these five or six thousand fusiliers can be said to be invincible. However, when the order of magnitude of the battle increases to one hundred thousand, two hundred thousand, or three hundred thousand, these fusiliers cannot be completely defeated.
Dominate the battlefield.
What's more, the Qing troops mobilized later also had artillery.
The Eight Banners of the Han Army were known as heavy artillery in the Qing Army.
In fact, the Eight Banners of the Han Army were originally formed because the surrendered Ming Army cast and took control of artillery.
To put it simply, although most of the artillery of the Qing army at that time were small artillery such as the squatting tiger cannon inherited from the Ming army, there were also heavy artillery such as the red cannon, and there were a large number of artillery.
Therefore, although the bronze cannons of the Crossing Army are superior to the artillery of the Qing Army in terms of performance, under heavy siege, the number of enemy artillery far exceeds that of the Crossing Army, which reduces the combat power gap caused by the technological strength of the Crossing Army.
It was leveled directly.
In short, even if the elders of Xinghai Kingdom are enthusiastic and want to do radical things, Fang Xiaoyue will decisively dissuade them and will not let things repeat the mistakes in his memory.
However, before the technicians from the Ministry of Industry had finished modifying the second fishing boat, Chen Liuxiang, the commercial affairs committee member of the Xinghai State, received the news from Yu Da Commercial Bank.
The Ming army has sent troops!
This is a trading house that was originally just a small trading house. Among those trading houses in Qiongshan County, it can only be regarded as the second or third batch of people coming to look for food.
However, Yu Zegui, the boss of Da Da Commercial Bank, is a wonderful person.
Ever since he saw the glassware, soap, etc. produced by the Travelers, and saw the sailless and moving divine ship of the Travelers, he immediately tried his best to imitate the clothing and behavior of the Travelers, treating them as a trend.
noble.
For such indigenous businessmen, Chuanchuangzhong originally had some plans to win over them.
Therefore, in the past business transactions, Chen Liuxiang would give some preferential treatment to Yu Da Commercial Bank.
As time went by, the relationship between the two parties became close, and Chen Liuxiang would ask Yu Zegui to help find out some information from time to time.
Especially after Niu Hongxi took office as the security affairs committee member and established the security department, Yu Zegui even worked part-time in the security department and received a salary.
Because Yu Zegui was generous and hospitable, after he became successful, he developed many connections in the Gwangju area.
However, the Nanming government had no sense of confidentiality regarding the dispatch of troops, so that the governor Biaoying here could not withdraw the money. Over there, Yu Zegui received the news and immediately led his people to drive a speedboat to leave Guangzhou Prefecture.
, and headed straight for Xinghai City.
The sea voyage between Gwangju Prefecture and Xinghai City is almost more than 500 kilometers.
When Yu Zegui rushed to Xinghai City, Niu Hongxi counted the time. It was almost time for the Biaoying camp in Guangzhou Prefecture to board the ship.
This is the consequence of not having an office in Gwangju.
Initially, Niu Hongxi wanted to bury a nail in Gwangju Prefecture.
After all, with the existing communication distance of PHS, it is not a problem at all in Gwangju Prefecture.
But the question is who will chair this office?
As a member of the Security Affairs Committee, it is certainly impossible for Niu Hongxi to go to Gwangju Prefecture to run the office in person.
And the more than ten time-traveling veterans under him were unwilling to go.
Even the elders of the Ministry of Security Affairs were unwilling to go, and other elders were even less willing to go.
After all, compared to Xinghai City, which has modern living conditions, the current Guangzhou Prefecture is completely an ancient city.
There is no electricity, no running water, not to mention safety issues.
And if there is a problem with the office, Xinghai Kingdom will not be able to deploy its military power to Gwangju Prefecture for the time being.
The reason is very simple. According to the current firepower, a regiment of Xinghai Kingdom can defeat the Ming army's four to five thousand people in the wild until the entire army collapses. But if it is an siege, it is not that simple.
Even if the opponent has all-cold weapons, attacking a city will still cost a lot.
After all, the Star Navy does not yet have real heavy artillery.
The 12-pounder Napoleon cannon is great for field battles, but it is very difficult to use it for siege.
The city wall of Gwangju Prefecture is thick enough for cavalry to gallop on it. It is so difficult to blast through such a city wall with just a 12-pound Napoleon cannon. You can imagine it with your butt.
However, the governor's battalion all boarded ships and went to sea, and the previous plan to bombard Guangzhou was immediately postponed.