Troubled Times: Start with 800 Dead Soldiers

"Brother Ling Zhen, how far can the cannon you build now go?"

"It can shoot up to fourteen or five miles, but the accuracy is too poor. Among all the cannons I developed, the Golden Wheel Cannon and the Wind Fire Cannon can shoot farther and have good power. However, these cannons have no accuracy, but the double-deck cannon is quite accurate. , but the power is relatively small. "

Ling Zhen is a man who tells the truth.

Su Xia likes this very much. It is unknown how far the cannonball can fly and whether it can hit the target.

After all, Ling Zhen's artillery had neither coordinates nor observers. Whether you can hit it or not depends entirely on intuition and luck.

Watching Ling Zhen keep drawing something on the drawing, as if he was designing some new weapon, he placed flint and saltpeter in a paper tube and moved it up and down.

Su Xia asked: "What are you doing?"

"General, I'm wondering if we can rely on rocket thrust to combine rockets and explosive shells, and use the principle of rocket launch to propel the bomb. It's a bit similar to the sky-piercing monkey in our firecrackers. You can understand that I am building a large piercing shell. Sky monkey."

(The rocket principle mentioned by Ling Zhen: the upper end of the airtight cylinder is closed and the lower end is open. After ignition, the gunpowder burns in the cylinder, producing a large amount of gas, which is sprayed backward at high speed. In the eighth year of Kaibao (975), the Northern Song Dynasty army used this rocket As an important weapon to defeat the Southern Tang Dynasty, it was further improved and developed after the Ming Dynasty.)

Su Xia nodded, listening to Ling Zhen's explanation, and thought of the rocket launcher she had used during her service.

He said: "The sky-piercing monkey in the firecracker has no launcher, and it has no accuracy. If you want to design this kind of thing, you might as well wrap the propellant with an iron cylinder, but the barrel does not need to be as thick as other cannons, it just has the effect of Adjust the shooting direction and reuse it.”

Ling Zhen slapped his thigh: "My lord, that's great. I'm still thinking about how to control this direction. If you say so, I have an idea."

"In a few months, I will organize the navy to fight against the Japanese pirates. I need new cannons like yours. In addition, I will build more cannons. All Pinghai Navy ships will be equipped with artillery. ."

"Don't worry, my lord, I have ordered people to work overnight to make mature twin-comb cannons. In one month, thirty twin-twin cannons will be produced."

Su Xia nodded with satisfaction. The navy must win the first battle. He did not intend to directly fight the Japanese pirates!

After all, although the imperial court has been trying to defeat the Japanese pirates outside the Dengzhouwei waters for many years.

However, these pirates did not appear near Salmon Island, and they were far away from Dengzhou Guard. They only occasionally harassed them. It was only this year that incidents of robbing border residents occurred frequently, which attracted the attention of the court.

As the largest naval force in Dengzhou Guard, it is also the Forbidden Army directly under the imperial court.

The Ping Navy suffered repeated defeats in battles with the Japanese pirates. Not only did they fail to completely annihilate the Japanese pirates, but they instead created a situation in which they were afraid of the Japanese pirates.

Over time, a tacit understanding was formed with the pirates, and when the pirates came, Although the Pinghai Navy has an absolute advantage in strength and weapons, it will still retreat.

Only when the force ratio reaches 10:1, the Pinghai navy will be dispatched, while the pirates will retreat knowingly.

Now, the cannon problem has been solved by Hongtian Lei Lingzhen, but the ship problem must be repaired and some new warships built before fighting against the Japanese pirates.

If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools!

The propulsion method of ships equipped by Pinghai Navy is that there are wheels on both sides, and when necessary, they can be pushed and turned by manpower. Although the ship was large and equipped with guns, its steering was cumbersome.

On the contrary, most of the Japanese pirates' boats were multi-oared boats that relied solely on rowing. There were no more than 20 people on each boat, so they were very light.

For this reason, Su Xia personally planned a sketch of the new ship and handed her own design version to Li Gaosheng for further design.

Thinking of the problem of gunpowder used in Ling Zhen's artillery, Su Xia handed over Ling Zhen's needs to Sun Sihe. As the King of Medicine and a descendant of Sun Simiao, the inventor of gunpowder, it would be perfect for him to help make gunpowder. . ‘

Of course, the battle starts from far to near, from weak to strong!

In this first wave, we are preparing to destroy the pirates near the sea near Dengzhouwei.

Then use the built strong ships and cannons! Blow up these stupid Japanese pirates!

......

When Su Xia raised this issue with Li Dong, Xiong Hui and others in the meeting hall of Salmon Island.

Xiong Hui first said:

"Sir, as far as I know, the most famous pirate near Dengzhouwei is Jiang Haifeng, nicknamed Water Flying. He does not have the largest number of men, only 40 people, but they come and go without a trace. They specialize in robbery. The officers and soldiers encircled and suppressed the passing passenger ships several times, resulting in many casualties and they no longer dared to encircle and suppress them.

"Has he ever fought against our Salmon Island?"

Zhao Wenhui on the side quickly added: "This has never happened before. Last time I brought the masons who were transported to the island with my brothers, and I met them face to face, but they didn't take action. I heard... "

Su Xia quickly asked: "What have you heard of?"

"I heard that Jiang Haifeng and his gang were not afraid of the poor people who were passing by. They only targeted rich businessmen. However, there was another group of pirates with a bad reputation. The leader was called Du Kang, the bridegroom of Ye Ye, and the deputy leader was nicknamed Dwarf Tiger Wang Ying. These two There are hundreds of people under them, and they have robbed and occupied many women and harmed many eldest daughters. They have about 200 people under them. "

Su Xia was shocked: "Who did you say the deputy leader was? Dwarf Tiger Wang Ying?"

"Yes, my lord."

After hearing the affirmative answer, Su Xia frowned: How could a person like Dwarf Tiger Wang Ying go to Shuibo Liangshan to be a hero? He was a coachman in his early years. After killing his boss, he went to the mountains to become a bandit, robbing people's hearts and souls. Stealing people’s wives is not uncommon!

Such a scumbag, Song Jiang even promised Hu Sanniang to him!

When I think of the heroic Hu Sanniang being fucked by Wang Ying!

After thinking about this, Su Xia felt an unknown fire in her heart!

Navy Vice Admiral Li Dong: "General, I have also heard about these two people. They say that these two men have a lot of people. They sometimes appear on land. Zhang Ence's soldiers have fought against them during regiment training." Twice, but the record was a total defeat."

After hearing Zhang Ence's record, Su Xia couldn't help but snorted:

"Can the soldiers under Zhang Ence, the commander of the Dengzhou regiment, be considered an army? Their combat effectiveness is no better than that of the local soldiers. How can they fight?"

(Soldiers: armed personnel in local administrative agencies. They are not soldiers. They bear some responsibilities similar to today's police, but they are not considered police either.)

Despise the enemy strategically and value the enemy tactically.

Su Xia said this about Zhang Ence, which made the generals present laugh.

In fact, none of them took Zhang Ente seriously.

But Su Xia couldn't ignore Zhang Ence at all. Zhang San, the "street rat" who came back from Tokyo's Xiangguo Temple, had been arranged by him and was ready to infiltrate Zhang Ence's internal affairs to do "internal response."