Chongseong has become a place where business travelers gather, and it is impossible to completely eliminate other scouts. The scouts sneaked in as business travelers, and the mobilization and preparations for sending troops to Jeju Island were all carried out in Heseong.
In mid-December, a large number of soldiers and war preparation materials were gradually assembled in Hecheng through land and water channels.
Including most of the Guards Battalion of the Infantry Army Division, the Second Water Battalion of Jinghai of the Navy Division, and part of the Cavalry Battalion of the Horse Army Division, more than 6,000 regular soldiers, and more than a thousand helmsmen, sailors and other auxiliary troops, in December
The assembly in Hecheng was completed before the 19th.
War preparation materials, including 30,000 stones of rice and grain, were gradually loaded into ships in Hecheng.
Compared with the beginning of the year, when Lin Fu took the sea route north to Jinhai, there were only five Jinhai-class warships with a load of more than 5,000 stone in Chongzhou. Now the Jinghai Second Water Camp has five Jinhai-class warships, in addition to
There are more than fifty other medium-sized naval warships, including eighteen Jiyun-class warships.
Because of the competition and threats from the She family in the East China Sea, among the many affairs in Chongzhou, shipping management was developing the fastest.
After the kiln drying method matures, the material preparation time is shortened from the traditional two to three years to six months.
In the past year, the long-sea shipping capacity of Heishui Ocean Shipping Company has increased by nearly 100,000 dan, and each stone's increase in shipping capacity has almost provided Guanyintan Shipyard with a profit of one tael.
In addition, the shipyard also provides a large number of warships for the Jinghai camp; coupled with the previous investment in the shipyard by the Sun, Zhou and other maritime merchants, the Chongzhou Guanyintan shipyard invested nearly 400,000 taels of silver within a year, and the total shipbuilding scale reached
Two hundred thousand stones.
In shipbuilding, in addition to the large-scale use of iron nails and rivets, Guanyintan Shipyard even began to use large-scale iron castings.
In Lin Fu's impression, an iron sailboat with the same load is heavier than a wooden sailboat. Actual calculations show that a steel sailboat with the same load is even 20 to 30% lighter than a wooden sailboat.
It is necessary to build a steel-hulled sailboat. A thousand-stone ship requires 100,000 kilograms of good iron, which is not what Chongzhou's steel production can bear. The low-cost steel plate manufacturing technology needs to be mature. There are not several generations to accumulate technology. I am afraid that
No, but using iron castings to manufacture key components of seagoing ships can make the ship structure stronger, the technology is less complicated, and the cost is tolerable.
The first iron-making blast furnace modified by Sun Dalu's double-furnace stirring method increased the steel-making efficiency by nearly three times; when the three blast furnaces are modified, Chongzhou's refined iron production will increase to 300,000 kilograms per year.
Three hundred thousand kilograms of fine iron, equivalent to 150 tons, would be just a small iron workshop in a village in later generations, but in this world, it is a quite formidable figure.
The iron smelting workshop affiliated to the Jiangning Ministry of Industry produces only 200,000 jins of refined iron every year.
However, there is still a huge gap between Lin Fu's goal. Lin Fu planned that Chongzhou's refined iron production could reach one million kilograms in the twelfth year of Chongguan.
Then more money needs to be invested to build a higher and larger iron-smelting furnace.
In addition to the work and supply camps, the Huaidong Army's number of soldiers and soldiers has reached more than 28,000.
Although the generals of the Huaisi Defense Line and the Shengsi Defense Line can receive food and salary subsidies from Huai'an, Hailing Prefecture and Haiyu County, apart from civil affairs and the construction of sea-defense levees, military expenditures still overwhelm the Huaidong Army.
Si couldn't breathe.
The military department can no longer spend more money to support the expansion of many factories, and has even begun to extract profits from various factories to maintain huge military expenditures.
If iron smelting and other factories want to obtain money to expand their production scale, they must earn high profits by selling high-quality armor and other goods to Kyushu, Honshu and other Fuso feudal states.
"You can't spend this Chinese New Year in Chongzhou. When you go to Jeju, you have to take care of yourself..." Gu Junxun followed Lin Fu to Hecheng to bid farewell to Lin Fu, and helped Lin Fu tie up his scarlet cloak in the house.
"You should be careful in Chongzhou..." Lin Fu held Jun Xun's little hand. She had a happy pulse last month and was pregnant. Although the weather was sunny, the wind blowing from northwest to southeast was dry and cold.
. He didn’t want her to come to Hecheng to see her off, but he couldn’t overcome her temper even though she had to endure this hardship. He also wanted her to be the mistress, so that she could show her face more, move around more, and take on more tasks in Chongzhou.
Lin Fu tightened his cloak and glanced at Yingxiu who was standing next to him. All his words were understood at a glance, then he opened the door and walked out, preventing them from going out to enjoy the breeze.
Song Jia was wearing a Confucian shirt, a sheepskin fur coat to keep out the cold, and a fur hat with a folded brim. She looked like a handsome youngster. She went to sea with Lin Fu, but She Mingyue did not follow her this time.
When Lin Fu and Gu Junxun said goodbye, she endured the cold and stood outside the corridor waiting. As a concubine, Xiaoman had to stay in Chongzhou this time and abide by the rules. However, she was a Neidian Shu and wanted to go to Jeju with Lin Fu.
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I really don't know what Gu Junxun thinks about this matter, so Song Jia honestly hides outside and doesn't annoy others.
Qin Chengzu stayed in Chongzhou to provide support. Those who accompanied Lin Fu eastward were Zhou Pu, Zhao Hu, Ge Cunxin, Lin Jingzhong and Ge Changgen in Jezhou. Lin Fu lacked a counselor who could negotiate at any time, so he could only take Song Jia with him.
The northwest wind is strong, and there is a sea current going south along the coast, but the speed is not very fast, which does not prevent the fleet from breaking through the waves to go eastward. There are yellow sand ridges in the sea east of Hecheng, which is not conducive to the passage of large ships, but there is an opening in the Langshui Ocean to get out.
The tidal channel in the sea east of Chongzhou. Except for the old fishermen of the time, no one else knew about this deep-water channel.
We went out to sea from Hecheng at noon, and saw the lighthouse of Changshan Island twinkling in the distance when the moon reached midday.
This section of the sea was shallow and silty, so we had to take the tidal waterway, which was slow. But after passing Changshan Island, we rode the wind and waves and used a star board to measure the Big Dipper. We traveled eastward as fast as a horse, and on December 23
At dawn, I saw the outline of the west coast of Jeju Island.
Jeju Military Fortress is located in the southern section of the west coast. A lighthouse has been built long ago to facilitate night navigation and docking. It is even easier to recognize at this time. A raging fire is burning there, burning the dim eastern sky in the morning light dark red...
It had only been half a month since Lin Fu received Ge Changgen's request for reinforcements in Chongzhou. He didn't expect the Koreans to organize a fourth wave of attacks so quickly. Judging from the scale of the fire, this wave of offensive was quite fierce.
The fleet turned off the lights and kept silent, moving forward on the sea with only faint morning light. With more than ten miles left, they could already clearly observe the combat situation around the Jeju Fortress.
Both the east and south of Jeju Fortress were besieged by Korean troops. The dock west of Jeju Fortress had been occupied by the Korean navy, and several ships were set on fire. It is not clear whether Ge Changgen took the initiative to abandon the ship and send
The limited forces were concentrated on the shore to wait for reinforcements, but the Korean navy at Jeju Fortress was completely annihilated by the Koreans. The Korean navy began to attack from the opposite shore of Wugang, and fierce fighting began on the beach inside Jeju Fortress...
Although there are people in the fleet who are often familiar with Chongju and Jeju routes, they are not familiar with the water around Jeju Fortress.
The infantry brigade could not bypass Jeju Fortress and landed on other beaches to attack the Koreans at Jeju Fortress from the side and rear. However, they saw that the size of the warships of the Goryeo Navy was quite limited. There were only a few warships comparable to the Jiyun-class.
Four ships were able to suppress the strength of the Jeju Navy. They probably did not expect the reinforcements from Chongzhou to arrive in such a timely manner.
The relief fleet slowly unfolded on the increasingly bright blue sea, divided into three distinct stepped attack formations, with one Jinhai-class warship and four Jiyun-class warships as the main ones, forming a cone-shaped array, heading towards
The Goryeo navy gathered outside Jeju Fortress swooped over; the second array was dominated by two Jinhae warships and six Jiyun-class warships, forming two wings spread out. Lin Fu was at the back of the third array, watching the battle.
situation.
The Goryeo navy and others were concentrating their forces and wanted to land from the inside of Wugang to form a pincer attack on the defenders of Jeju Seri. They did not expect that a navy would emerge from the early morning haze and attack behind them. They were almost at a distance.
After less than five or six miles, he suddenly became alert.
All kinds of naval warships in the Jinghaihai camp are equipped with large oars. They use sails to borrow wind power for long voyages. When fighting, they use both sails and oars, and they are as fast as galloping horses. The five or six miles of water travel only takes one stick of incense.
The Korean naval forces blocking the port of Jeju had no time to adjust their formation. They were caught off guard and became even more chaotic. A narrow waterway in the inner and outer harbors formed on the headland, and several ships collided with each other in a chaotic mess.
The dozens of Korean warships in the outer harbor were at a disadvantage in terms of size and number when facing the first wave of attack array from the Second Water Camp of Jinghai. Before they could even dock, the Koreans suffered from more than twenty warships.
The crossbows fired fiercely, and when they got closer, crossbows and clay pots filled with kerosene came at each other. By the time they reached the side of the ship, more than a dozen Korean warships in the outer harbor had been defeated and fled in panic.
More Korean warships crowded the inner harbor.
The inner harbor is surrounded by long promontories branching out from the coastal hills. The inner and outer harbors are more than 200 paces wide. First, several Korean ships collided into a group, blocking the harbor. The Korean warships in the inner harbor were even more numerous.
Can't get out.
Ge Cunxin let go of several Korean warships that were fleeing in panic in the outer harbor, blocked the inner harbor, mobilized medium-sized warships that were good at near-side combat, broke into the harbor, and completely annihilated the Korean navy trapped in the inner harbor.
There were about 4,000 Korean infantrymen surrounding Jeju Fortress from the east and south on land, but they were unable to help in the fierce battle at sea. Seeing that their navy was defeated, the Koreans on the shore knew that they could not attack Jeju Fortress, so they gave up.
Attack, shrink back, and withdraw troops to the east...
At about noon, the battle in Sewu Port of Jeju ended with the surrender of more than 200 Korean navy troops.
The inner harbor was full of wreckage of warships, and the waterway could not be cleared in a short time. A large number of ships were anchored in the outer harbor. Lin Fu changed boats from the outer harbor and boarded Chang Cape to look at the situation inside and outside the Jeju Fortress.
In the history remembered by Lin Fu, the Yuan Dynasty conquered Japan twice and were defeated with superior military strength. During the period of British colonial expansion, the most important thing was to take advantage of the high profits from overseas trade, regardless of cost.
Building naval bases around the world. This can probably be regarded as a lesson from both sides.
In the past year, a considerable part of the proceeds from the trade between Jeju and Goryeo, Kyushu, Honshu and other places was intercepted and used to build Jeju Fortress. This time it will play its due role. Otherwise, he would lead a large army and land in succession.
There is no place to stay.
Without a base and unfamiliar with the local water, they rushed across the sea. Even with superior troops, the Yuan Dynasty's Eastern Expedition to Japan would be defeated in advance.