Guo Wenying took a deep breath, the sea breeze with a strong salty smell rushed to the end of her nose, to be honest, she didn't want Shuangyu Island to be destroyed by artillery fire, so that the island was stained with blood. But sometimes violence is the root of the problem, and it is impossible to solve it peacefully, and Braun will not easily hand over Shuangyu Island.

She said: "Let's talk about this matter when we see Xu Hai." ”

When the ship docked and they were about to disembark, Guo Wenying said to Lu Yu: "If there is anything to do with the caravan in the future, just ask someone to send a letter to the governor." ”

Lu Yu was overjoyed, his eldest brother really made a good friend and climbed to the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and their financial path was much smoother. It's just that she's a woman, how can she be such a big official, it's really rare.

He wondered in his heart about the entanglement between Fang Yuntang and this governor, at this time Guo Wenying had already gotten off the boat, Xu Hai was already waiting, and Kite was also there, and the two saw her busy catching up.

Kite said: "Miss, you are back, and you are worried about death." ”

Xu Hai also said: "My lord, if you don't come back, we will die in a hurry." ”

Guo Wenying nodded, I saw the two of them pulling and pulling on the boat just now, and even the tone of speech was the same at this time, which was really a bit of a family.

She has always been too lazy to take care of other people's affairs, and said directly to Xu Hai: "Convene the generals and officials of the army to discuss the matter." ”

Xu Hai answered, and then went down to prepare.

The generals of the navy gathered in the conference hall, Guo Wenying discussed with everyone about sending troops, according to her wishes, the navy warships first besieged Shuangyu Island, and then changed the route to Yueming Island.

A general said: "My lord, this Shuangyu is just a place for foreign businessmen to entrench, don't get in the way." ”

Guo Wenying glanced at him, "Someone else occupies your house and doesn't give it back to you, do you say it's in the way?"

Another general said: "This Mingyue Island is very difficult to fight, and the navy can't capture it after several battles." ”

Guo Wenying crossed him, these generals and officers in the army are used to living a stable life, and they really have no blood at all. said that there was a war, but it hadn't started yet, and all of them were a little weak.

She frowned, and didn't bother to bother, and said to Xu Hai: "The warship will set off in three days." ”

The next day, Xu Hai came to her and said that he wanted to measure the distance of the four new guns. A few days ago, the navy purchased four Franc cannons to test the power of the artillery.

Guo Wenying was very interested in foreign artillery and followed him to the test track.

Xu Hai first asked people to be on the gun position and watch the gunner operate the gun to shoot on the shore. After two repetitions, he took over and fired two solid bullets, of which the pushing gun, charge, ramming, loading, and ignition were all tried by himself. The flat distance of the Big Franc machine was measured to be three miles.

He grinned at Guo Wenying, "My lord, this Franc cannon is not much stronger than our homemade artillery, and the flat firing distance is not enough." ”

Guo Wenying nodded, looked at the cannon body a few times, and also felt that the power of the Franc machine gun was not as much as imagined, and in the past, the Southern Qi Dynasty would fuck up as soon as it fought a naval battle, and a large part of the reason was that the artillery was not powerful enough. So I specially bought a Franc cannon to study, but it seems to be really similar at this time.

A while ago, she had developed a new kind of fire *** paper and handed it to the craftsmen to make, and it had been made into two, and its flat firing distance was two miles longer than this.

She said to Xu Hai: "Tell someone to try it at sea." ”

Xu Hai responded, and the head of the gun turned to the other side and fired at the sea.

Captain Zhang Da operated the cannon, Xu Hai personally led people to row a small boat to a distance of three and a half miles, and Zhang Da aimed at him and fired flat. As the cannon was fired, the shells exploded on the water, and the sparks splashed very loudly, and the power was really great.

Guo Wenying asked to bring out a homemade cannon to test, Xu Hai rowed four miles to stop the boat and wait, and Zhang Da blasted out. The cannonballs whistled in a cloud of white smoke and entered the water four hundred feet in front of the boat.

For some reason, this one still had a lot of momentum when it reached the surface of the water, and it bounced up again, and it rushed straight to Xu Hai in a vicious shape.

He screamed and jumped into the water.

In an instant, the shell exploded on the water.

Back to shore. A large group of old sailors gathered on the gun emplacement, and everyone guessed that the muzzle of the gun might have been lowered. Seeing him come up drenched, Zhang Da gestured a little apologetically, telling him that the starboard side was a little horizontal just now, and he was afraid that the muzzle of the gun would be raised, so he temporarily lowered it a little. But it's good that nothing happened, otherwise I'd have waited to see his body.

In front of Guo Wenying, Xu Hai was embarrassed to kick Zhang Da, but his eyes were a little vicious.

Zhang Da was also stunned, he didn't see it, and enthusiastically wiped the sweat on his face, and said with a smile: "General, you can do it." Xu Hai was so angry that he almost scolded his mother.

Guo Wenying frowned and thought for a while, and asked the sailors and gunners around him, "Is this kind of water drifting bomb common?"

An old gunner replied: "Not often." Only if the distance is very close, the flat shot will appear lower. The shells are round, greased, and fast ones will bounce once. ”

Xu Haidao: "My lord, what do you want?"

Guo Wenying touched her chin, "If it's a close fight, let's just aim at the opponent's waterline......"

"Good idea, good idea!" Before Xu Hai could react, Zhang Da immediately understood, and said with a smile: "My lord, if you coat all the solid bullets with butter and hit the waterline, the high ones will be on the middle and low sides, and the short ones will bounce." In a few clicks, you can open a few large holes to let the other party into the water. ”

Guo Wenying smiled, this Zhang Da usually looks stupid, and occasionally his brain will be bright, the Franc cannon has its own benefits, but their self-made artillery also has its own advantages, now it is difficult to say which is better or worse, and wait for the actual combat at sea to compare.

There is no wind on the sea today, and the sun is shining.

Zhang Da was a little jumpy to give it a try, and immediately found someone to try whether this method was suitable or not. So a large group of people went down to the cabin to oil the shells, while another group was busy lowering the muzzles. Some of the gun carriages couldn't get low, so they padd things at the tail of the gun. After settling a volley, each man stared at the unloaded shells of his own position, and six out of ten shells were ricochet.

"It's a useful trick. Zhang Da rubbed his hands excitedly.

Guo Wenying looked at the sea that had calmed down, and nodded slightly, so that they would have a chance of winning in the offshore battle. Although she didn't know what the weapons and equipment of Yueming Island were, Jiang Taiping put all his family resources on Yueming Island, and bought a large number of artillery for the Franc machine, and it was really difficult to fight this battle.

After two days of rest, on the third day, the two fleets of Xinying and Yanzhen were ready to go to sea from the port of Beizhu.

The New British Squadron consisted of four large ships and 20 small boats, and was equipped with more than 100 newly made artillery, and these two fleets were almost the strongest in combat effectiveness of the New Southern Naval Army.

The Xinnan Navy is the only naval force in the Southern Qi Dynasty, and the Xinying and the Yanzhen are the strongest ships, and this time they have almost exhausted everything in order to deal with Yueming Island.