However, out of respect for His Highness, the two of them still expressed their willingness to hear the details.
"What do you think about sex?" Zhu Zhen asked first.
"It's cool." Liao Dingguo said gruffly: "When the cannon goes off, the mountains shake and the ground shakes. If you encounter a timid enemy, you will be scared out of your wits."
"It's definitely more powerful than bows and arrows." Yu Tongyuan nodded and said: "Especially in naval battles, sometimes a single shot can dig a hole in the enemy ship. The power is incredible! It's a pity that there are too few hits...
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"Then install a few more cannons, the large quantity will do wonders! I have seen your naval battles and your training, and found that although you are equipped with artillery, the number is too small and it will not have much effect."
Zhu Zhen asked again.
"The bow of the ship is so big, and it can't be opened even if we install two doors." Liao Dingguo said: "It can only be said that it is better than nothing."
"Why not put it on the side? It's much more spacious than the bow." His Royal Highness the King of Chu said with a smile.
"Blank?" The two men couldn't turn around for a while and asked: "Then how to fire? Will the one behind not hit the one in front?"
"That's why I asked you to face the enemy sideways." Zhu Zhen was convinced by these two guys' understanding.
"Hiss..." The two of them were confused and quickly apologized: "Your Highness, let us figure it out first..."
"With the brains you two have, you may not be able to figure it out even if it gets dark." King Chu waved his hand, and Gao Tie led someone to bring a few trays to the two of them.
The tray was not filled with food, but some ship models. Since the Tang Dynasty, shipwrights would make a ship model of the same proportions before building a ship. This would not only allow the shipowner to understand the ship type, but also test the advantages of the ship type and determine the various characteristics of the ship.
Dimensions of parts.
This is one of the magic weapons for the rapid advancement of my country's shipbuilding technology, and Bao Shipyard has naturally inherited it.
Yu Tongyuan and his two men had just seen the pond, and they could naturally recognize that the models in front of them were those battleship models.
But what is different from the real thing is that the two sides of these models are full of artillery.
Among them, the two largest four-thousand-material battleships have sixteen cannons on each side of the ship. In addition to the forecastle and stern tower, there are four cannons on each side. The total number on each side is twenty-four.
There are a total of forty-eight doors on the side.
On the two-thousand-material warship, sixteen artillery pieces were placed on one side, for a total of thirty-two cannons on both sides.
It becomes more intuitive with the actual object. It turns out that the muzzle of the gun is facing outward.
"It turned out to be such a broadside confrontation with the enemy." Yu Tongyuan complimented: "Your Highness is really a fantastic idea!"
"In this way, if ten warships are facing the enemy on the broadside, there will be 176 artillery pieces that can fire at the same time. The power will be increased several times?" Liao Dingguo was not as fancy as Yu Tongyuan and thought seriously:
"If it were like last time, with enemies on both sides and 352 cannons firing at the same time, it would be a spectacular scene..."
"Holy shit, it's true!" Yu Tongyuan was also excited by the scene described by Liao Dingguo. He wished he could immediately turn this unprecedented feat into reality.
"It is too rare to fire from both sides. Most of the time, only one side should fire." Zhu Zhen said with a smile: "Because this kind of tactics requires very high formation requirements. You have to maintain a long snake formation at all times to use all the firepower of the warships.
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"One word long snake formation? It's true!" The two of them were indeed experienced navy generals, and they instantly understood what His Highness meant.
"Come, I will teach you a war game again!" Zhu Zhen asked people to remove the cups and plates, put the model directly on the table, and placed it end to end in a line.
The two men were then asked to operate another part of the model to simulate an enemy attack. Now the power of the side artillery plus the long snake formation was clearly evident.
No matter how the two men controlled the warship, they were always under Zhu Zhen's concentrated broadside firepower. Both of them were veteran generals, so they naturally knew what kind of damage such a number of artillery pieces could cause.
After the two discussed, they changed their tactics and approached each other in a dispersed formation. Zhu Zhen's fleet then moved toward the northeast while fighting, always keeping a distance from the two men.
This was what the two of them had expected in advance. As long as they could withstand a certain amount of losses, they would be able to force the opponent to lose range, eventually leading to a tail-to-tail pursuit.
But unexpectedly, His Highness's Long Snake Formation suddenly turned around and headed west in the distance, once again maintaining perpendicularity with them, and struck them with firepower from the other side.
Zhu Zhen's fleet kept turning in a zigzag pattern, always keeping a distance from them, and attacking them in turn with firepower from both sides.
The fleet of the two men once again failed to even touch a hair, and was completely wiped out.
After seeing how powerful it was, the two of them began to pay attention to His Highness's new tactics.
"Your Highness is such a fucking genius..." After Liao Dingguo finished speaking, he realized that he had made a mistake and quickly apologized.
"That's all." Zhu Zhen was in a good mood and said without arguing with him: "Is this strategy still useful?"
"It is useful, it must be useful." Both of them were knowledgeable and nodded vigorously: "This kite-like fighting method is quite similar to the Mongolian Mangu evil fighting method. It can be invincible. Slowly
Wear the enemy to death."
"But our enemies are pirates. Their biggest characteristic is that they turn around and run away when the situation is bad." Liao Dingguo thought more deeply and said, "Your Highness's tactics are not conducive to pursuit."
"Don't be afraid of pursuit, just rush forward with a long snake and mount the bayonet on the cannon." Lao Liu said, pushing the battleship into the enemy's formation, shouting loudly: "This way, when others come to the side, we use the artillery to fight with the bayonet! Only by dealing with the face-to-face output can we hit
Extreme damage!"
"Really, this way we don't have to turn around." The two were immediately overjoyed, obviously this method of warfare was more to their liking.
Normally, naval battles in this era were still side-to-side battles, with hand-to-hand combat mainly relying on courage and close combat ability. The bravest man in a narrow encounter would win, regardless of military type.
So they prefer the latter fighting method of brave men.
Zhu Zhen struck while the iron was hot again and explained to them various naval battle essentials he had learned from a certain game, such as "Get the upper hand" and "Ding Zi Tou", which made the two of them excited!
"Have you decided?" His Highness looked at the two of them with bright eyes. "Will you change your tactics?"
"Change!" The two looked at each other. If it had been the past, even if His Highness gave the order directly, they would not agree. How could something as fundamental as tactics be changed so easily?
But in the process of switching from the river navy to the navy, they encountered tragic failures, and coupled with their desire to save people, they finally decided to take a difficult step.
The two of them nodded heavily and said: "If you don't change, you will still lose. Why don't you give it a try and win by surprise?"
"Okay, then it's such a happy decision." His Royal Highness the King of Chu showed a satisfied smile.
"Your Highness, where can we get so many artillery pieces?" Yu Tongyuan asked another practical question.
"Yes, in this case, the needed artillery will be lost to the sea." Liao Dingguo also said worriedly.
"Don't be anxious, I have already made arrangements." Lao Liu said proudly, "Let's go, I will take you somewhere."
"Yes." The two of them had no choice but to keep their doubts in their hearts.
