Chapter 184: Hunting the Jurchen 4

Not to mention the noise outside, Sun Chengzong, who walked into the temporary governor's line, did not stay idle, and ordered the Jinyi guard with him to empty the entire governor's line, he came to the study, followed by Xiong Tingbi, who was escorted.

"All right, go down, stay outside, and don't let anyone come within ten paces." Sun Chengzong looked at the environment here, and after making sure that there was no place for people to eavesdrop, he turned around and said, Jinyiwei, who followed behind.

"My lord......" Jinyi Wei Baihu asked in a somewhat stunned voice, but before he could finish asking, Sun Chengzong's majestic eyes swept over and forcibly blocked the rest of his words.

"Yes, my lord, I will step down." Swallowing his saliva bitterly, Baihu hurriedly took people out and stayed outside, this is the emperor, if he is not good at serving, go back and say in front of the Son of Heaven, he is finished.

"Lord Xiong, do it." Sun Chengzong stretched out his hand, and went on like this, without asking anyone to serve tea, and sat down with a smile and looked at Xiong Tingbi with a confused face.

Xiong Tingbi looked puzzled, this is not like the attitude towards a prisoner at all, the other party's attitude is okay, it is not at all as selfless as before, and his face is cold, as if he was ...... just now It's like acting.

"Acting?" Xiong Tingbi's heart moved, as if he understood something, and after a little guess, his heart also settled down, and he rubbed his painful wrist that was scratched, and he did it with a butt. The crisp action is also a little free.

After sitting down, he did not have any restraint at all, picked up the teacup on the table, and brought himself a cup of tea from the pot, the tea was not hot, and he drank it all in one go. This is his Jingluo Mansion, and everything in it is naturally very familiar.

"Tell me, Lord Governor, what are the plans, and who are you going to show for?" After the cow drank a cup of tea, Xiong Tingbi wiped his mouth and said with a big grin. After more than a year of military career, his movements have become unrestrained.

Sun Chengzong glanced at the other party with interest, he could react so quickly, this Xiong Tingbi really has something extraordinary, he is worthy of being a person who can suppress the entire Jurchen breathless, if it weren't for Yuan Yingtai's unauthorized action, I'm afraid that the situation in Liaodong would not have changed so badly.

However, what made Sun Chengzong admire even more was His Majesty the Emperor, who suppressed so many impeachments and insisted that Xiong Tingbi stay in the position of Liaodong Economic Strategy.

"Lord Xiong is really capable, and he will penetrate the old man's style at once." Sun Chengzong said with a smile, "I was indeed acting just now, if there is a lot of offense, please Haihan." With a bow, he stood up and saluted.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's all for national affairs, and a little grievance counts as a ball." Xiong Tingbi didn't dare to hold it up, so he got up and saluted back, but his words matched with his actions, which made people feel ridiculous, and sure enough, literati who have been in the army for a long time will become literate hooligans.

"I don't know what the Governor's plans are." Xiong Tingbi asked again, he was really curious, what kind of plan did he need to sacrifice his Liaodong strategy to act and deceive his opponent.

"This plan was first proposed by the emperor, and then made a plan after the old man's supplement." Sun Chengzong stroked his beard, looked at the roof, and said with a little reminiscence, Sun Chengzong kept this state in the future, and told the things he discussed with the emperor one by one.

When he first arrived, he was blind to the affairs of Liaodong, and if he wanted the perfect implementation of the plan, he had to use Xiong Tingbi's insight and experience, which required him to explain the plan in detail.

"Lure the enemy deep, will hunt the Jurchen!?" Xiong Tingbi listened, and the more he listened, the more surprised he became, and his mouth gradually opened, and he couldn't close it anymore in the end.

Is this still the Ming Emperor in his impression, he was able to put forward such a bold but indeed feasible strategic plan, this kind of genius strategy of taking advantage of the situation and taking advantage of the enemy's weakness is breathtaking.

Although he couldn't figure out such a plan, with only the experience of Liaodong in the past year or so, as well as his understanding of the Jurchens, he could be sure that this plan would definitely succeed, but it was still debatable whether he could lure the enemy deep into Ningyuan, which His Majesty had appointed.

"Is it really necessary to give up Liaoyang? I have already sent people to lock up those hungry Mongolian people, they can't set off the wind and waves, so they just hold Liaoyang, isn't it good to slowly figure it out? Meng Lang acted like this, in case of failure, ......." The cautious personality and the military strategy style that has always been based on defending the emperor made Xiong Tingbi couldn't help but ask.

Seeing that Xiong Tingbi was a little worried, Sun Chengzong shook his head slowly, "Feibai, this strategic plan was approved by His Majesty, and it was launched, and no one can stop it." Feibai is Xiong Tingbi's character, and being called so shows that Sun Chengzong acknowledges him as a person.

"You don't understand, Your Majesty first ascended the throne, it was the time of ambition, and his mentality was like that of Emperor Xiaowu in the early Han Dynasty, who would not be unwilling to experience one or two failures. Let's take this meeting of hunting girls as a strategy for Ma Yi, even if it fails, I hope the emperor can learn from experience and grow up quickly. ”

Sun Chengzong said in a heavy tone, and after sighing, he got up and left, "Feibai will study what the old man said to you tonight, and I hope you can help the old man tomorrow." ”

"Ma Yi's plan!?" Looking at the back of Sun Chengzong's departure, Xiong Tingbi was a little stunned, "Then who will be Wang Hui?" Are you? When today, does Zi really have the posture of Han Wu? It makes you give so much. ”

Tianjin Port.

Countless four-wheeled carriages poured into here, immediately making this place prosperous, at this time when Zhu Youxiao issued a great decree, the port of Tianjin immediately prospered, and all the residents of the surrounding towns were concentrated here, gathered together, and became port workers.

At this time, Zhu Youjiao took two hundred cavalry and walked around the entire port of Tianjin. The planning of Tianjin Port is very large, even after thousands of people continue to expand for five years, it can only be able to complete one-tenth of the content, at present it is only a certain shape of the military port, and there is still a long time before the completion of the entire port.

The whole port is located at the mouth of the Haihe River, which was the place of Tianjin Xingang in later generations, and is now valued by Zhu Youxiao, established in advance, and a large amount of silt and fine sand was dug up and poured into gravel cement to tamp the foundation. The main body of Tianjin Port is under construction, and the surrounding supporting facilities have not stopped.

Dagu, Tanggu and other highlands are also expanding and reinforced, building forts, guarding the safety of the entire port, the artillery placed here are all newly developed eighteen pound cannons, thick and elongated barrels, flashing with a dark luster, just looking at it makes people feel the charm of the god of war.

One such artillery, weighing 2.5 tons and having a range of five kilometers, is really a god blocking and killing a god, and a Buddha blocking and killing a Buddha. These new guns were sent by Xu Guangqi when Zhu Youxiao was about to leave Beijing, saying that they were new products developed by his student Sun Yuanhua, and they were used to install them on the largest 2,000-material plywood ship.

Zhu Youxiao's naval gunboat adopted the classic double deck, with 42 guns on the left and right, divided into two layers, with 24 guns on the lower deck and 18 guns on the upper deck. According to his assumption, on that 2,000-material ship, the guns below should be heavier than those above, but unfortunately, the six-pound guns could not meet the requirements of firepower at all, and it was a waste to crash into the cannon ship.

Therefore, he originally planned to give up and was going to use all the twelve-pound guns, but now that he had temporarily made a sixteen-pound cannon, it was really suitable, and there was no need to modify the center of gravity of the ship.

Now that all the gunboats in the shipyard have been basically completed, they are waiting for the hoisting of their guns and perch, plus the previous Galen ship with a displacement of 400 tons and a flying clipper ship of 800 tons, the entire naval fleet will have twelve of the world's most advanced gunboats as soon as it is formed.

And all of them are professional naval warships, not converted from armed merchant ships, and this force is basically unmatched in the South Seas. The effect is huge, but Zhu Youxiao's cost is also very great, just in the fleet, he invested no less than two million taels before and after, this is because a lot of wood is confiscated, not counting money.

Zhu Youxiao walked around, after seeing the fort, he ran to the shipyard again, and looked at the gunboats in the ten dry docks, he almost couldn't help but want to laugh.

One large gunboat of 1,000 tons, three medium gunboats of 700 tons, five light gunboats of 400 tons, and a clipper ship of 800 tons. The 700-ton medium gunboat also had a double deck, while the light had a single deck. These are all finalized by Zhu Youxiao according to the information in his mind, and they are all classic layouts that have been handed down after hundreds of years of actual combat.

All the double-deck guns are all 18 close guns on the lower deck, 12 jin guns on the upper deck, and 6 jin guns are still a little weak for naval warfare.

As for the flying clipping ship, Zhu Youxiao only loaded three twelve-pound guns in the tail section, and the structure of the flying clipping ship was not destined to be suitable as a gunboat, but could only be used as a transport ship or reconnaissance ship for quickly transporting goods.

As for why it can't be used as a gunboat, Zhu Youxiao also wants to add a new flying clipper, this is purely to accumulate experience, Zhu Youxiao believes that there must be a balance between the powerful firepower of the Galen ship and the high speed of the flying clipper, if this balance is found, then a new type of gunboat will appear, and this requires a lot of experience accumulation.

Think about it, a gunboat with high speed and high firepower, this is simply an artifact of naval warfare.

After strolling around the shipyard, Zhu Youxiao went to the wharf of the port, where countless Dafu ships were carrying supplies, food, armor, medicines, weapons, artillery, gunpowder, and other materials to the ship. The ship still had a hard sail and was not replaced with a soft sail as Zhu Youxiao thought.

First, the mast is not high enough, it is better not to change it, and secondly, as a transport ship and civilian ship, the cost is the most important, and the speed is not so important, after all, the long sea journey, for the transportation of materials, more than ten days less than ten days is of little significance.

What's more, there are really urgently needed supplies, as well as extremely fast clippers, with clippers, there is little point in the transformation of old-fashioned lucky boats.