Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 596 Sea Scorpion
Bai Mingxiu decided not to let Wang Kai continue to cheat without reason, but he also paid enough attention to the issue of Indian Ocean pirates, so Bai Mingxiu said: "I will provide a batch of ships to the Navy's Indian Ocean Fleet for anti-piracy. You can transfer the capital ships of the Indian Ocean Fleet to the Atlantic Fleet to deal with possible naval battles. Although, strictly speaking, the Atlantic Fleet is strong enough now."

The Atlantic Fleet has 9 battleships and 4 aircraft carriers. Such a lineup will not be a problem for any country's navy. It is even said that the combined navies of all European countries cannot compete with such an Atlantic Fleet.The navy always yells that it has no advantage in numbers, but in terms of tonnage, any fleet is the sum of the tonnage of other countries' navies.

"What ships does His Majesty plan to provide to the navy?" Wang Kai was also curious about this.

In fact, Bai Mingxiu has not directly purchased the ships listed in the system's mercenary list for the navy for many years. After all, after the system's prices soared, he was also very economical and did not dare to waste money.Most of the time, he is buying related drawings and technologies, and then handing them over to the shipyard to manufacture them himself.

It's just that the ships that Bai Mingxiu is going to build this time are not worth Goldfinger coins, especially not long ago when he won the Mughal Empire, he got a lot of Goldfinger coins for killing enemies and doing tasks, and he doesn't mind a little Splurge.

"Sea scorpion

Source: Red Alert 2
Ship type: anti-aircraft gunship

Tonnage: 180 tons

Speed: 35 knots

Weapons: One 57mm twin-mounted, three 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns

Price: 10000 Gold Finger Coins"

In terms of tonnage and firepower, the little guy like the Sea Scorpion is not enough.The original version only had one anti-aircraft gun in the game, but Bai Mingxiu was equipped with a double-mounted 57-gun fast gun.Although it looks terrible in terms of caliber, in practice, this small sea scorpion can actually do a lot of things.

First of all, although this type of anti-aircraft gunboat is called an anti-aircraft gunboat, its attack targets are not limited to air, sea and land. Its dual-mounted 57 fast guns have a high rate of fire and dense firepower, and are very effective against lightly armored targets.Moreover, the sea scorpion has a very shallow draft, can enter inland waterways, and can run at a high speed of 35 knots, which is simply incredible for ships of this era.

Of course, one of the advantages that Bai Mingxiu cares most about is that the sea scorpion anti-aircraft gunship is equipped with radar.

I don’t know if it’s because Red Alert technology has always been relatively dark, but the measured detection range and accuracy of the Sea Scorpion anti-aircraft gunboats are not even inferior to those newly developed by Ming Dynasty and deployed on battleships and aircraft carriers.Bai Mingxiu also ordered someone to dismantle the radar on a sea scorpion for research, to see if it could improve the level of Daming's radar manufacturing.

Bai Mingxiu was unambiguous, and bought 30 Sea Scorpion anti-aircraft gunboats in one go, and deployed them directly to the Indian Ocean.Although the gunboats with small tonnage are at a disadvantage in terms of voyage, and it is not easy to resist high sea conditions, but after all, the ships used by those pirates are also small boats. Wherever they can go, sea scorpions can also go.

Although Wang Kai wanted to get more funds to purchase more ships for the navy, both the Taiping Palace and the Council of Governors showed a "serious anti-fraud" attitude and refused to give the navy more opportunities , Wang Kai can only take thirty sea scorpions to masturbate.

Several capital ships of the Indian Ocean Fleet also began to be transferred to the Mediterranean Sea. Their route was to pass through the Suez Canal and directly enter the Mediterranean Sea.The Ming Navy has many anchorages in the Mediterranean Sea. In addition to the Gibraltar base guarding the gate of the Mediterranean Sea, the Ming Dynasty also has the Crete Naval Base guarding the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.When Turkey collapsed, Ming and European countries supported the independence of Greece. In order to thank Ming, Greece gave Crete to Ming. Now it is an important military hub controlled by Ming.

However, as Bai Mingxiu said, compared with the army, the Xiqing navy is really not enough, so the navy is unlikely to encounter any kind of threat.The army stationed in Europe is very nervous, ready to go to the battlefield, even with the disadvantage of fewer enemies and more enemies, while the navy is like a holiday, cruising the Mediterranean regularly every day, and even occasionally launching on the deck. BBQ party or something.If it weren't for the strict military discipline of the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that these naval officers and soldiers stationed in Europe would have produced a bunch of mixed races.

In fact, Bai Mingxiu hasn't recruited mercenaries from the system for a while, and now he recruits good talents and develops some technology every day.After all, for a long time, the army that Da Ming recruited and cultivated by himself has been enough, and there is no need for Bai Mingxiu to do anything more.

But now the situation is changing, and Bai Mingxiu feels that he needs to start recruiting his own mercenaries again.

Most of the mercenaries in the system are nothing special, they come from some military history games that Bai Mingxiu knows or doesn't know, and their actual combat power is sometimes not as good as the regular army troops that Da Ming is currently armed with.Bai Mingxiu was not surprised by this, because the Ming army was built according to extremely high standards, and the weapons equipped were basically some weapons from the peak period of World War II, even after World War II, and the early Cold War. Xiang's army units in the game really can't compete with the Ming army.After all, the Ming Empire behind the Ming army is a country with such a strong strength.

Even in terms of soft factors such as soldier quality and discipline, the soldiers of the regular army of the Ming Dynasty were better than the system mercenaries.Bai Mingxiu is also very proud of this, which shows that Da Ming's progress and system are successful.

With the military progress of the Western Qing Dynasty, Ming's preparations for war have also entered a new stage.

Bai Mingxiu has also visited several military factories of the Ming Dynasty in recent days, and he can't help but be impressed by the majestic industrial power of the Ming Dynasty and the beauty of the industry.

In the Daming Shenyang Aircraft Manufacturing Factory, which covers an area of ​​over 2 hectares, thousands of workers are in full swing on the production line to manufacture Daming's latest aircraft, the J-[-] jet fighter.

Daming made the first jet flight a few years ago, and has continued to accumulate technology.At that time, even the J-1 that had just entered service was relatively new, not to mention the manufacture of jet aircraft, so the relevant technologies were still being perfected.But the war was about to break out, and the Ming Air Force finally placed an order for a new type of fighter plane, as a killer weapon and an excellent weapon to intimidate the enemy. The first batch ordered 1000 planes.

Now the Shenfei Manufacturing Plant can produce 3 J-2 aircraft every day, and they are still producing other types of fighters at the same time.

No one really understands or understands how powerful Ming's industrial strength is. All this is just the tip of the iceberg.

(End of this chapter)