When Li Xuan saw the battleship design draft produced by the Navy people, he was a little dissatisfied. Although the Navy people said that they were going to deploy artillery in the battleships, they obviously did not understand the spirit of his previous instructions!
There need to be more artillery, higher mobility, and stronger defense!
However, the ships built by these people in the Navy are at best enhanced versions of civilian ships. The ships are too small, and they pay too much attention to the number of people on board, because they believe that in naval battles, although artillery is also very important, it is not as important in boarding battles.
It is more important, so a large number of people must be assigned to the ship.
They didn't even think about it. Their navy only had a few hundred people in total. How could they get so many people to engage in boarding battles?
Besides, in the war between the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, were they won by having more people?
No, they relied on more advanced and numerous firearms and developed corresponding tactics based on these firearms. This combination was the key to defeating the Ming army many times.
Compared with the Ming army in terms of numbers? Is the Tang Dynasty worthy?
Therefore, even the navy must have strong firepower, use naval guns as the main means of destroying opponents, have high mobility, and at least run to win when it cannot win.
The defense must be strong and able to withstand the situation of using less to attack more!
And these look like little guys at a glance, and they say that such warships are cheap to build, and their navy can build hundreds of them in one go. This is not in line with Li Xuan's idea of a warship, even if it is just a warship.
River battleships can't drop in price like this, it will bring shame on the Tang Dynasty.
Moreover, these warships reserved most of the space for personnel living, and in the end they could only carry a few warships with one or two ** artillery pieces. Rather than calling them warships, they were rather troop carriers loaded with limited self-defense forces.
Even more miserable than the battleships of the Ming Dynasty Navy!
The warships of the Ming Dynasty also had a large number of firearms, especially the large ships of their coastal navy, such as the Fu Ship, which were typical gunboats!
After seeing the navy's design, Li Xuan made an inner evaluation of the people in the navy: a bunch of bumpkins in the ravines!
However, Li Xuan can't blame the people in the navy. Most of the people in the navy are from the army. There are not many professional navy officers at all. Their understanding of naval warfare is basically based on group fights. A group of small boats rushed up.
, and then launch a boarding battle.
Compared with the Tang Army, which was at the forefront of the world in terms of equipment and tactics, the Tang Navy was still too naive.
Li Xuan felt that Biya had personally intervened in the development of the navy. Otherwise, the Tang Dynasty's navy would become a Marine Corps with hundreds or even thousands of small wooden ships.
So he did not hesitate to put an "X" on all these design plans, and then put forward his detailed requirements for naval warships in detail.
If he didn't know how to design battleships, he would have drawn a design drawing himself. Unfortunately, he knew nothing about battleship design, nor did he know anything about shipbuilding technology these days, so he could only make requirements. How to meet these requirements was the Navy's responsibility.
It's over.
Otherwise, why do we need them?
In order to avoid embarrassing things that they could not understand here, Li Xuan wrote the requirements for naval battleships in very detail!
First of all, he emphasized that the navy's warships must have strong firepower and be able to carry a large number of heavy artillery with a large caliber. As for how many specifically? What caliber should be? Naturally, as many as there are, it is best to install as many as possible. It is best if the firepower of a warship is
It can match the firepower of an entire fleet of the Ming Navy.
On the premise of ensuring firepower, maintain mobility and defensive performance as much as possible.
As for the ability to engage in boarding combat, part of the living space for personnel can be properly reserved. Besides, professional marines are not necessarily required to engage in boarding combat. Ordinary sailors and gunners can do it, so why do they have to leave some space?
So much cabin space for the Marines!
After receiving Li Xuan's feedback, the naval officers composed of those rubes were a little hard to understand. A group of people looked at Lieutenant Colonel Bao Yifen, the director of the Naval Department of the Privy Council and the leader of the Tang Dynasty Navy, who was sitting at the top.
Bao Yifen looked at everyone's expressions and felt quite helpless himself!
Bao Yifen, like most of the naval officers present here, has a serious Army background. After studying at the Martial Arts Academy, he first served in the First Infantry Regiment, and then while studying at the Imperial Academy, he
He went to serve as a staff officer in the Operations Department. At that time, the staff officer he served as was mainly responsible for river transportation. He was a logistics professional at most, but he definitely had nothing to do with the navy.
But later when the Tang Dynasty wanted to establish the Tang Navy, Li Xuan searched through the talent pool of the Tang Dynasty, especially the military, and was surprised that he couldn't find even a professional naval officer.
There was no way. When the Tang Navy was established, the Tang Dynasty was still limited to Liping Prefecture and Xingquan Prefecture. Although there were rivers such as the Lanjiang River in the territory, the Ming Dynasty did not set up a professional navy here, so the Tang Dynasty
It is also impossible for the dynasty to obtain the surrender of naval generals from the Ming Dynasty.
In the end, after much selection, I had to choose Bao Yifen, a staff officer of the Operations Department who was in charge of inland river logistics and transportation tasks at the time. He was only a captain at the time!
Bao Yifen was found and appointed as the director of the Navy Department under the Privy Council of the Tang Dynasty, and was promoted to the rank of major. Of course, in order to express the difference between the army and the navy, Li Xuan directly added a navy prefix in front of his rank, so
His major became a major in the navy, and at the same time, he was different from the major in the army.
When Bao Yifen took office, he also had great ambitions. He found a group of officers and soldiers from the Tang Dynasty who knew about ships, and then recruited some ship bosses and sailors from the people.
Finally, when the army marched south to Liuzhou, they successfully put up the airs of the Tang Dynasty Navy and established the Datang Navy in the Liujiang River Basin. It had several large and small ships and hundreds of personnel. During the siege of Liuzhou City, the two
During the month and in the matter of supplying the army's logistics, their navy contributed a lot, which can be regarded as a moderate contribution, so they were promoted to naval lieutenant colonel based on their merit, and they were also the highest-ranking naval officers in the Tang Dynasty.
The leader of the navy.
But even though he has climbed all the way to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Navy and has hundreds of people under his command, when it comes to designing a brand new warship, to be honest, he knows nothing about warship design. It is not just him, but also a group of naval officers under his command.
They don't understand these things at all.
After thinking about it for a long time, I felt that it was not enough for them to just build it behind closed doors. It would be better to consult with professionals, so Lieutenant Colonel Bao Yifen said: "As for the new battleship, we don't know how to design it ourselves. In this way,
Please cooperate with the Ministry of Industry. Didn’t they say they want to build a shipbuilding workshop in Liuzhou City? It is said that they have recruited many craftsmen and they know more about shipbuilding than we do!"
He was right. Stimulated by Xu Bingfu's door-to-door sales of ships and the fact that the Tang Dynasty had no shipbuilding workshop of its own and could only watch as it needed a large amount of silver to purchase ships, Li Xuan had personally ordered the Ministry of Industry to set up a large-scale
It doesn't matter if the Tang Dynasty's own shipyards can't build any big ships at first, you can always build small ships, right?
In the future, if you slowly learn and expand the scale, you will eventually be able to build big ships!
The shipyards at the Ministry of Industry had not yet begun to be established. The shipbuilding craftsmen recruited were idle and were immediately sent to the Navy to help the Navy design ships.
Anyway, the Ministry of Industry thinks that the Navy needs to build a lot of ships. Their workshops under the Ministry of Industry will definitely not be able to build large warships for a while, but there should be no problem with some small ordinary transport ships, and they will probably have to undertake a lot of them in the future.
of construction tasks.
Anyway, it will be designed in the future. It is naturally better to design it together with the Navy now. It will be simpler when the official start of construction later.
As a result, a very strange scene occurred in the Naval Department of the Tang Dynasty for several days in a row. A group of naval officers wearing navy blue uniforms and a group of shipbuilders wearing ordinary clothes argued and argued every day, which made the people next door argue.
My colleagues in the Army all feel that there must be something wrong with these people in the Navy. We, the elites of the Army, are ashamed to be in the company of the navies in the Navy!
It is not unreasonable for the army to think that these navies are rubbish. The army of the Tang Dynasty was so powerful. It had the best firearms in the world, and its artillery was not only the best in the world, but it was definitely the best in East Asia.
But the navy is full of pettiness. They only play with small sampans every day. Moreover, I heard that when His Majesty asked them to design a new warship, the designed warship could not even install a few guns. For this, His Majesty was severely punished.
I was given a meal of approval.
This made many people in the army laugh secretly in their hearts!
You deserve to be scolded by His Majesty!
Who told you navy bumpkins to change the color of our army uniforms and mistake them for navy uniforms!
Paralysis, forget about changing it, but you are still alive, just changed it from dark blue to navy blue, and also said that the colors of the military uniforms of the two branches are different!
Tell me what's the difference between these two colors? You can't tell them apart with the naked eye. In daily life, people regard these two colors as the same color. These days, the Ming Dynasty couldn't find a single programmer, but
No one cares that the two color codes end in 0 and b.
Of course, if you look closely and carefully, and observe repeatedly with a scientific research attitude, you will still find that the dark blue is darker and the navy blue is lighter?
But except for a very few specific groups, who will pay attention to this!
So people will see that the colors of the military uniforms of the army and navy of the Tang Dynasty, especially the military uniforms of the officers, are the same.
Many army officers want to file a petition and demand that the navy's military uniforms be changed in style and color. They are army elites and the core pillars of the Tang Dynasty. Army officers cannot dress the same as these navy bumpkins. They cannot afford to embarrass this person.