Chapter 636 The thicker the better, the longer the better monthly pass)
Dai Liliang was also deeply moved when he saw navy officers and soldiers driving a shabby ship that could sink at any time onto the beach!
Although these navies were timid and cowardly before the war, they still fought tenaciously and were full of sacrifice. Moreover, he quite agreed with the navy's actions of rushing to the beach and not giving up the ships easily.
Because it doesn't matter if the ship is in tatters, it doesn't even matter if the hull is irreparable, because for the Tang Dynasty Navy, or the Tang Dynasty, the hulls of these armed merchant ships converted from civilian ships Although it is not cheap, it is actually nothing to the Tang Dynasty.
The Tang Dynasty did not dare to say that it would have as many civilian ship hulls as it wanted, but if necessary, it could recruit a dozen or twenty ships from the private fleet for modification at any time.
The hull of a civilian ship and the hull of a warship are two different concepts!
What really matters is actually the navy officers and men driving the ship and the artillery on the ship!
These two things were extremely scarce in the Tang Navy, or in other words, the entire Tang Dynasty.
If the damaged warship can be successfully beached and stranded, then no matter whether the hull can be repaired or not, the artillery on the ship can be saved. After the war, people will be sent to remove the artillery and reinstall it on a new civilian ship. Then The Tang Navy was able to obtain a new armed merchant ship in an instant.
After losing an armed merchant ship, there are only five ships left in the Second Squadron, and most of them are scarred!
Therefore, they were forced to turn again and then began to break away to avoid being attacked from the front and rear by the Franconian ships!
After the Second Squadron began to break away, the Folangji on the opposite side seemed to want to continue the pursuit. However, at this time, more than ten small boats appeared on the sea. These were still small river boats of the Xijiang Squadron.
Although these boats look inconspicuous, they are all loaded with gunpowder and even gunpowder!
Seeing this, the Folangji people who had just suffered a loss on these fireships and lost two large ships in succession seemed to have no intention of continuing to fight. Instead, they let go of the pursuit and began to salvage the two ships. Because the fire was too large, in the end, The sailors who were forced to abandon the ship also sent small rowing boats to pick up the sailors on the big ship that had its mast broken and turned into a dead fish.
While they were hurriedly salvaging and responding to personnel, more than a dozen small boats from the Tang Dynasty Navy were about to arrive at the battlefield. At this time, the Folangji decided to retreat decisively.
Hao Jing has been lost, and there are a large number of wounded on their ship. Now they are eager to leave these and return to Malacca. As for revenge, that is for sure, but not now.
Who knows how many small boats loaded with fire starters from the Tang Dynasty pounced on us!
Although the Navy of the Tang Dynasty lacked large ships with hundreds of tons, it could catch a lot of small ships with only a few tons or more than ten tons!
Watching the Folangji people begin to sail away, leaving only two burning ships on the sea and one ship that was slowly sinking after they opened the sea valve themselves.
Dai Liliang lamented that the navy's artillery was still a little small and missing!
If today's Navy's Second Squadron had a large enough size and a sufficient number of artillery pieces, the results might not be as good as this!
It is a pity that today's battle was almost a deliberate and long-planned sneak attack and interception operation. In addition, they seized a favorable position before the war and successfully launched an active naval battle. In the end, it ended with a loss for both sides.
There weren't even many casualties on the Fo Langji side, they just lost three ships!
As for the Tang Dynasty Navy, it lost dozens of small boats before and after, and then lost one ship. The other ships were also scarred, and the casualties were also considerable. The artillery of the Folangji was quite fierce, even before
Six ships of the Tang Dynasty besieged the three ships of the Folangji people, but in fact they could not suppress the artillery fire on the three ships of the Folangji people.
Today's battlefield and sea battle, in Dai Liliang's opinion, cannot be said to be a victory, at most it is a loss for both sides!
However, the strength of the navy is so weak, so it is good to be able to fight like this. The navy has tried its best!
At this time, the Navy's Second Squadron also began to turn around, and then moved closer to the ships left by the Fo Langji people. Those small boats began to salvage the drowned personnel of both the enemy and ourselves on the sea. Of course, the Tang Navy's
In fact, there were not many people who fell into the water. The main reason was that the Folangji were in a hurry to recover the people who fell into the water. A lot of Folangji could still be vaguely seen floating on the sea.
In addition, he also saw the sailors of the Tang Navy beginning to board the three ships abandoned by the Fo Langji people. However, the fire on the two burning ships was relatively large, and he did not know whether they could extinguish the fire and rescue them.
However, another large Flemish ship whose mast was broken is slowly compensating, but if the rescue is timely, there is still a high chance of being rescued.
Soon, a large number of sailors could be seen boarding the three large ships left by the Francois, extinguishing the fire, closing the sea valves, and at the same time towing the three ships, which had almost completely lost power.
Start returning to Haojing Pier.
About an hour later, Dai Liliang also saw Captain Zhou Zhifeng, commander of the Second Squadron, who had just boarded the dock!
When they first met, Dai Liliang said to Zhou Zhifeng: "Congratulations to the navy. This time your navy has achieved a lot. You have captured three big ships. I think these three ships are probably three to four hundred tons."
Bar!"
Zhou Zhifeng also had a look of relief on his face: "The two smaller ships weigh more than 300 tons, and the big ship with a broken mast is probably more than 400 tons. Once repaired, it should be almost 500 tons!"
Dai Liliang said: "Five hundred tons? It's so big! I remember that the largest ship in your navy is only more than three hundred tons. Now there is an extra five hundred tons ship. And I think the damage is not big. Let's repair it.
It will be ready for use, and maybe it will be able to serve as the new flagship of your navy!"
Zhou Zhifeng said: "It's not a flagship. After all, this ship is not our ship, and although this ship is a bit bigger, it is an ordinary Galen merchant ship from those foreigners. It has a large tonnage, but its speed is too slow, and it has additional artillery.
Not much, I estimate that all the artillery on this ship will be dismantled and used on the Wuzhou!"
Wuzhou is the first professional warship under construction by the Tang Navy. The name of the ship is taken from the armed merchant ship Wuzhou that sank in the Battle of Qiongzhou. It adopts a Western-style soft sailing ship layout as a whole, but it also adds many Chinese-style sailing ships.
, it can be said that it is a professional warship in this era that combines the advantages of both Chinese and Western ship types. At the beginning of the design, the core design idea of the ship was: all tonnage should serve maritime operations, which many warships in this era will have
A lot of space is used for transporting cargo and the like, and it's not at all.
However, although the hull is under construction, the naval guns expected to be carried on the Zhenhai, especially the main naval guns, are still missing, because such a professional warship is prepared to carry eight nine-pound (12-pound) artillery pieces. Eight
Seven-pound cannon and four five-pound cannon.
Secondly, there is the third-class cruiser Lianzhou under construction. Its name is also taken from the armed merchant ship of the same name that sank in the Battle of Qiongzhou. This professional warship with a design displacement of 550 tons also does not have any
The tonnage of one ton is used for other purposes, purely for maritime battles. The main artillery that the ship is expected to carry is four fourteen-pound (18-pound) cannons, followed by ten nine-pound (12-pound) cannons.
pound) artillery, as well as twelve seven-pound cannon and four five-pound cannon.
However, for the two warships under construction by the Tang Navy, the seven-pound and five-pound cannons they need, as well as the shotguns that are not included in the statistical tables, are naturally easy to solve, but the nine-pound or even fourteen-pound cannons,
But it is not so easy to solve. It turned out that I was counting on buying it from the Folangji people, but both sides started fighting. As long as the Folangji people are not stupid, they will not sell such a weapon of war, especially if it can be used against themselves.
Large-caliber artillery that poses a huge threat.
However, in the three Folangji warships that the Tang Navy had just captured, a large number of large-mouth naval guns were found, including fourteen-pound cannons and even more nine-pound cannons.
So if nothing goes wrong with these artillery pieces, it is very likely that they will be put on the decks of these two professional warships!
And this is why Captain Zhou Zhifeng issued a death order to bring these three ships back. Even the upper decks of two of the Folang robot ships were burned to the ground, and the hulls were severely cracked.
There was a lot of water in, but Zhou Zhifeng still dragged them back, and in order for them to come back smoothly, the Datang Navy also sacrificed several lives and injuries in the process of putting out the fire.
The navy is short of artillery, especially large-caliber naval guns. Dai Liliang also knows that, not to mention the navy's lack of large-caliber artillery, the army is also in short supply!
Nowadays, the Ming army is becoming more and more clumsy in fighting, and most of the time they hide in the city. This makes the Tang Army have considerable ability to deal with large-caliber artillery, especially large-caliber artillery that can directly blast through city walls, that is, heavy siege artillery.
Urgent need!
Some time ago, the Army also issued a new bidding plan to the arsenal under the Ministry of Industry, requiring the arsenal under the Ministry of Industry to provide a large-caliber super artillery. There are no requirements on weight or range, but only on power.
Demand, what demand? Blow down those damn city walls!
If the artillery is heavier, it will only be transported slowly at worst. If the range is shorter, it will be carried out at a distance of three to four hundred meters for bombardment. However, its power cannot be reduced no matter what. Heavy siege artillery that cannot break the city wall will not be used by the army.
What is it used for?
In short, the thicker the barrel, the better, and the longer the barrel, the better!
Coincidentally, the Navy also needs such large-caliber artillery!