Yejier only had half a day to inspect Huangcheng Island.
It’s not that there is nothing to see on Huangcheng Island, but Huangcheng Island is located in the sea. Once the Huaidong Navy warships smell the fishy smell and attack, and the Emperor Tianming and all the princes and ministers are trapped on the island, this joke will be
Turn it up.
It was because of Ye Ji'er's repeated insistence that Nah Xiongqi reluctantly agreed to lead a group of princes and ministers to visit Huangcheng Island. However, once the navy escorted Emperor Tianming and the princes and ministers to the sea, how could there be little movement?
Huaidong could not hide it from the secret room in Dengzhou. In order to prevent the news from spreading and causing Huaidong's warships to attack, after arriving on the island, Ye Jiduo and Nahe Xiongqi repeatedly urged the Emperor of Heaven to leave the island.
Ye Ji'er looked up at the sky and called Ye Ji Duo Dy. Na He Xiong Qi and other places urged him impatiently, so he said: "Go to Iron Mountain!"
Nahe Xiongqi and Ye Jiduodi looked at each other and saw that the Emperor of Heaven was determined in his decision, but the other princes and ministers probably knew that dissuasion was useless, so they had no intention of dissuading them. He could only follow the order and make arrangements.
The safety of the sea journey does not mean how many escort troops are needed, but that the journey must be fast so that the Huaidong Navy warship formation cannot capture the fighter planes - Yejier decided to go to Tieshan, and Nahe Xiongqi was half an hour away.
We made arrangements, sailed across the sea, and sailed into Tieshan Port at dusk.
Tieshan, also known as Tieshan Island, is actually two semi-outlying islands close to the cliff on the inner side of Liaodong Point. When the tide is shallow, the mud bed will be exposed. The north and south Tieshan Mountains face each other across the water, forming a deep
It comes from seven or eight miles of water, and the mouth of the water where it enters is opposite to the headland. The mouth is only four miles wide, and there is a small headland called Caotuozi on the mouth of the water four miles wide.
Nahe Xiongqi chose Tieshan to build the water village at the northern end of the sea defense line because Tieshan resembles a natural sea city and has a terrain that is very conducive to defense. The east wing of Tieshan is Laolong Ridge, which traverses the entire eastern tip of Liaodong. The terrain is majestic and steep.
, easy to defend but difficult to attack; at the northern foot of Laolongling is Jinzhou City, the tip of Liaodong.
Beiyan deployed a total of more than 20,000 elite water infantry and horse troops at the eastern tip of Liaodong. From Jinzhou City to Tieshan Village, the cities and villages were connected. They used the terrain of the eastern tip of Liaodong to do their best to consolidate the danger and reach far and wide, like a swimming dragon.
Dangerous as a deep prison.
Starting from the eleventh year of Chongguan, the most important government-run shipyard in Beiyan also moved to Tieshan three years after Yongxing.
When inspecting the Navy, Yejier could see the Navy going out to sea to practice operations in Dengzhou on the other side. There was no need to make a special trip across the sea to Jinzhou; he wanted to see the Tieshan Shipyard.
Beiyan Shipbuilding was established in the 11th year of Chongguan and went through three stages of development in nine years.
In the eleventh year of Chongguan, the Northern Yan Dynasty forcibly recruited more than a thousand craftsmen from Goryeo, set up shipyards, and established a naval army.
The original shipyard was built in the Qingnang River, an inland river on the north side of Jinzhou City, in order to block the river mouth at any time to prevent invasion by the Dengzhou Navy and Huaidong Navy at that time. The Liaodong tip is tens to more than a hundred miles deep.
No matter how deep it is, it will naturally not be able to develop many deep and wide streams. The Qingnang River Shipyard is shallow and narrow, so large ships cannot be built.
Although Beiyan's early shipping administration did not enable it to directly form a naval force that could compete with the Dengzhou Navy at that time, it also laid a certain foundation for the construction of Beiyan's shipping administration and navy.
After the Qingzhou War, Beiyan controlled most of Shandong. In particular, Chen Zhihu cooperated with Liu Yefei's plan to mobilize the tigers away from the mountains and lured the main force of the Dengzhou Navy to land for encirclement. After nearly 10,000 people of the Dengzhou Navy were surrendered, Beiyan was able to
The conditions for establishing a navy army are truly met.
Ye Jier first used Chen Zhihu to also lead the navy, and appointed Liu Yuanlong, the rebel general who killed the general Zhao Zhen and forced everyone to surrender to Yan, as deputy governor to actually preside over the construction of the navy; later, he used Nahe Xiongqi to govern the defense of Qing, Deng, and Jin.
In addition to building a sea-locking defense line, Nah Xiongqi moved the shipbuilders and shipbuilding facilities that Yuan Yue had evacuated from Denglai to Liaodong, and built a brand new shipbuilding yard in Tieshan.
After the shipyards were moved to Denglai, Tieshan Shipyard had as many as 4,000 craftsmen, capable of building 2,000-stone watertight ships. It had almost completely mastered the contemporary northern shipbuilding technology.
At that time, ships were traveling from the south to the north; it was precisely because of demand that the north was good at building cars, while the south was good at building ships. Even Goryeo was facing the sea on three sides, but was blocked by pirates and was trapped in the offshore sea, unable to sail far, and it was not good at building large ships.
Based on the inheritance of shipbuilding in the north and Korea, Tieshan Shipyard was able to successfully build a two-thousand-stone watertight cabin ship in just two or three years after its completion. Although it is far from being comparable to Huaidong, its performance is already quite impressive.
When Lin Fu appointed Sun Dalu, a blacksmith, as a supervisor in Chongzhou, he caused a storm in the city. More than ten years before that, when Ye Ji'er first ascended the throne, he promulgated the "Edict for Seeking Talent" in Liaodong, claiming that "
It is not limited to traders and foot soldiers, but to peasants. Anyone who has a skill and presents it to the government office will be given the title of an official." - Speaking of Northern Yan's emphasis on craftsmanship, pragmatism and innovation, it was earlier than Huaidong.
Its rise in Liaodong has its own merits and is not accidental. If Huaidong had not emerged from the sky, it would have been difficult for the Yuanyue court, which was weak and full of internal contradictions, to stop the Northern Yan from invading the Central Plains.
The third great development of Beiyan Shipbuilding is inseparable from the Battle of Jingxiang.
Although the Battle of Jingxiang resulted in a huge defeat for Beiyan, with a loss of nearly 300,000 soldiers and horses, it was not all a gain. In the Battle of Jingxiang, the most important gain for Beiyan was the nearly 20,000 soldiers donated by the She family.
Southern Craftsman.
Almost after the Nanyang War, these craftsmen moved north one after another and merged into the government-run factories in various places controlled by Beiyan. Among them, the nearly 3,000 shipbuilding craftsmen who were most in short supply in Beiyan were brought to Tieshan Shipyard after moving to Jinzhou.
All the shipbuilding technologies mastered by the She family.
Only then did we know that Beiyan generals had a deeper understanding of the gap in shipbuilding technology between the north and the south. After the merger of Shejia Craftsmanship, Tieshan Shipyard quickly acquired the ability to build ultra-large ships, and began to build them simultaneously at the beginning of the year.
Six large ships of 5,000 stone each.
The defeat in the Battle of Jingxiang forced Beiyan's strategic focus to shift to the Eastern Front, changing strategic offense to strategic defense. And the strategic focus shifted to the Eastern Front, and the situation changed from offense to defense. The naval force was necessary for Beiyan.
A link that needs to be strengthened.
If the Huaidong warships cannot be blocked from the Bohai Sea, even if Beiyan's defensive troops on the eastern front are doubled, it will be doubly difficult. Just like the She family in eastern Fujian, the Huaidong Navy will gradually encroach on the consumption.
A bad situation of weakness. Beiyan can turn the southeastern part of Shandong and the entire southeastern half of the Shandong Peninsula into a wasteland and seize control of Huaidong, but it cannot turn Yanji, western Liaoning, and the area facing the Bohai Sea in eastern Liaoning into a wasteland!
The simple Daoyu Village, Miaoshan Island, Huangcheng Island and Tieshan Village, no matter how impregnable they are, cannot form a sea-locking defense line without the cooperation of a naval force above the water and the ability to fight offshore.
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Yejier did not expect to build a naval force that could compete with the Huaidong Navy in the East China Sea in a short period of time.
It is not impossible for the city island and Tieshan Village to block the Huaidong Navy warships from the mouth of the Bohai Sea.
This tactic is the same as the city-based battle in land warfare.
Simply fighting warships on the sea cannot defeat Huaidong. It is still possible for warships to rely on dangerous islands that are fully prepared for combat and each control a sea area of 30 to 40 miles in depth.
Of course, in front of the Huaidong Navy, it is definitely not a simple matter to build a navy that is not far behind, but above the standard. Everyone walked into the heavily guarded Tieshan Shipyard gate, and they were faced with a
It was a huge ship with half of its planking removed, exposing its ribs and keel.
Ye Ji Baishi looked at it and was secretly shocked, thinking: So the rumors are true, then He Xiongqi really dismantled this ship and left it empty in the open space of the shipyard?
This is a Tsukai-class warship built by Chongzhou Shipyard. It was purchased from the Hojo clan by Nahe Xiongqi with heavy investment and several turnovers. The Hojo clan obtained this warship from the Irie clan.
Grab it.
The Irie clan succumbed to the pressure of the Hojo clan and transferred the Tsukai-class warships sold to them by Huaidong to the Hojo clan, but lied about it hitting a rock and sinking. This was Lin Fu's final decision to give up on the Irie clan and acquiesce to the Saga clan, and Omi was divided into the Irie clan.
An important reason for this.
Lin Fu would not help Adou who could not help him. What Lin Fu needed in the Haidong region at this time was some forces that could help him.
This warship indeed epitomizes Huaidong's highest shipbuilding technology. Just looking at the giant ship's bones made of fine iron and its dark metallic luster is daunting - Huaidong has such a warship with an unusually solid structure.
A ship can use the turbulent ocean to directly collide with an enemy ship, and it will be detrimental to the enemy.
Before this ship sailed into Tieshan Shipyard, it accidentally touched a rock to avoid the wind and waves. However, only one of the thirteen watertight cabins was destroyed, which did not even affect the navigation. How can it not be surprising?
Such a warship was built with great effort and cost hundreds of thousands of taels of gold and silver. Instead of being incorporated into the navy, He Xiongqi was asked to cut half of it open and place it in the open space of Tieshan Shipyard. Many people were very surprised.
They were puzzled and looked quite ugly.
Ye Ji'er stepped forward, stretched out his hand to touch the cold fine iron skeleton, and looked at Na He Xiongqi standing behind him: "Su Tingzhan, is this the iron skeleton of Huaidong?"
During the Battle of Jingxiang, Su Tingzhan fled without fighting. In the end, instead of punishing him, Ye Jier granted him the title of Gaizhou Bo and transferred him to Yanjing to advise on the naval affairs, intending to use him to supervise the navy.
Su Tingzhan was not unaware of Huaidong's power and invincibility, but in such a vast world, where could he find a place for him?
Although She Yuan, the envoy of She Wenzhuang, instructed them to go northwest and leave this wrong place, the Qiang people in the northwest are fighting for supremacy and it is also a bloody place. How can weak foreigners be allowed to get involved? She Yuan obeyed She Wenzhuang's wishes and refused to leave.
Guanzhong, moved to Tianshui as a general, Su Tingzhan thought about it again and again, and finally chose to enter Yanjing to meet Emperor Tianming.
Su Tingzhan stepped forward and saluted: "Your Majesty, this is indeed a Huaidong iron-framed ship."
"Mindong seafarers have been traveling on the sea for generations, and their shipbuilding skills should be good. Please tell me, what kind of person is Lin Fu? He actually thought of using fine iron to cast ship bones?" Ye Ji'er stood up and asked the generals.
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Zhang Xie secretly thought to himself, what was Chen Xiyan's mentality that made him call Lin Fu a swineherd? He didn't believe that Chen Xiyan's eyesight was really wrong.
Su Tingzhan kept his words unsaid: Huaidong made the chariots covered with iron plates in the Battle of Jingxiang and became an invincible armored chariot on the battlefield. Based on this, Huaidong can even cover its warships with iron armor.
Why was Shi competing with the Huaidong warships at sea? He hid his words, not for any other reason, but because he was afraid of further damaging the confidence of the Northern Yan generals.
Yejier asked Nahe Xiongqi: "Have you ever asked a craftsman to estimate how much iron this ship consumes?"
"A rough estimate," Na He Xiongqi said, "the refined iron consumption for the ship's bones alone should be more than 120,000 kilograms..."
When He Xiongqi said this, many people present gasped.
The price of refined iron is comparable to that of copper. One hundred and twenty thousand kilograms of refined iron is worth twenty thousand taels of silver. This ship was acquired from the Hojo clan at a cost of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. It is really not unfair at all - it was controlled by Beiyan.
The iron yard only produces one million kilograms of fine iron a year. It does nothing else but only builds ships. It can't even build eight or nine ships a year!
In the shipyards in Huaidong, Chongzhou, Mingzhou and Jiangning, forty Jinhai-class merchant ships and warships can be built in a year; Lin Zhengjun-class warships and merchant ships with even larger hulls can be built in a year.
Build ten ships...
Even if only one-third of these ships were iron-framed ships, the amount of refined iron consumed would most likely be as high as three million kilograms.
Yejier entrusted Nahe Xiongqi to set up the Xijian Temple in Dengzhou to collect all kinds of information about Huaidong. It said that Huaidong's annual output of iron materials exceeds 30 million kilograms, and it is constantly looking for iron mines to set up sites.
At that time, all the princes in Yanjing City were dismissive, thinking that under the control of Nahe Xiongqi, the spying of Xijian Temple was exaggerated. However, after several cross-checks, the truth was really unacceptable.
"Xiong Qi dismantled this ship and put it here. It's good, but it's not good enough. It should be placed in front of the Jinluan Palace, so that all the princes and ministers of Dayan can open their eyes and take a look! 'Yan has thousands of horses and is invincible in the world.'
The era has passed; don’t think that if you still occupy half of the country, everything will be fine - if you don’t wake me up, it will be too late!” Yejier spoke word by word, and every word seemed to hit the audience present.
In the hearts of the princes and ministers, after he said these words, he seemed to have exhausted all his strength, coughing uncontrollably, and his back was bent like a shrimp. Concubine Yu hurriedly stepped forward to help him, rubbing his back to slow down his breathing, but she looked behind her
The iron boat bones were everywhere, and I couldn't help but think: What kind of man is Lin Fu, who makes King Khan so jealous?
She married Ye Ji'er as her concubine at the age of fourteen, and it has been fifteen years now. In her eyes, Ye Ji'er is an unparalleled hero in the world who can unify the world. However, the defeat in the Battle of Jingxiang made her so famous.
She realized that the man who was once known to the world as the swineherd might be stronger.