Eighteen-year-old Zheng Yiguan is young and old.

In the face of a local general of such a level as the Fujian General Army, he did not show any inferiority, and he was very confident in his heart.

No matter what is discussed, the court will agree to its request.

Because at this time, the Dutch had been blockading the port of Zhongzuo for several days, and the losses were huge for such an important port for trade and commerce.

With the current ability of the Fujian naval division, they can't repel the Dutch fleet alone, and there is no one else who can help them in the short term except for their own Zheng family.

Yu Zhigao was helpless, so he could only nod in agreement and said:

"Since it is cooperation, I will ask Fu Taishang Shu to ask His Majesty to allow the Zheng family to do business in the southeast sea."

"But..."

Zheng Yiguan nodded confidently, and after hearing these two words, his face changed, and then he asked, "But what——? ”

"The rest of the ships are okay, but there are three warships about twenty feet long among them, with many heavy guns on the left and right sides, and the range is extremely long, I don't know what kind of new ships they are?"

"Hehe..."

Zheng Yiguan knew it as soon as he heard it, sneered a few times, and seeing that he was so confident, Yu Zhigao also quickly pricked up his ears and listened carefully:

"I also know some about Western ships, so it doesn't hurt to tell Yu Shuai."

reached cooperation, Zheng Yiguan's title also changed, and he began to call Yu Zhigao "Yu Shuai".

After a short time, Zheng Yiguan was sent away, and although Yu Zhigao's face was solemn, he was much less worried than before.

From Zheng Yiguan's mouth, he understood.

This three-masted galleon has an unexpected name - "Galen ship", I don't know what it means.

Galen ships were not only used by the Dutch, but also by the Spaniards, the Portuguese, and almost all of the West.

And it didn't take long for Westerners to popularize the Galen ship, just in between these decades.

Therefore, if one of these Galen ships can be captured and imitated now, it will be completely possible to catch up with the footsteps of the West.

In the early years, the blueprints for the construction of the powerful treasure ship had long been burned, and none of the craftsmen would be able to do it.

Today, the establishment of the Fujian Navy Division is mainly three kinds of ships.

First, the Cangshan warship, which is the main warship commonly used by the national naval division, including the Fujian Naval Division.

Cangshan ships are generally equipped with two jack Buddha machines, three bowls, four guns, forty nozzles, sixty chimneys, thirty fire bricks, one hundred rockets, four heavy crossbows, and one hundred crossbow arrows.

Second, the dragon ship.

The fire dragon ship is a small assault ship, which is generally used to forcibly engage enemy ships and grab melee use, and has the advantage of being fast.

As for the disadvantages, it is that there is almost no long-range firepower, except for the firearms held by the sailors on board.

Third, there are many [567 Chinese] net shuttle ships.

This kind of boat, it is more appropriate to say that it is a boat, because it is too small, and it is a common fishing boat used by coastal fishermen.

The net shuttle boat is generally composed of two to four officers and soldiers of the naval division, each of whom is equipped with a firearm, and the combat method is to surround and go up, cooperate with the fire dragon boat, and use wolf pack tactics to destroy the enemy.

In addition to these three kinds of warships compiled by the Fujian Naval Division, the imperial naval divisions in some areas were also equipped with a small number of large and small fortune ships.

The Fu ship is the most advanced ship of the imperial court sailors today.

The manufacturing and maintenance costs of the Fu ship are extremely expensive, and now the armaments in various places are slack, and the imperial court has no money.

As for the combat effectiveness, it turns out that the Cangshan ship is completely different from the main Western warship "Galen ship" in terms of size and loading firepower.

However, the Denglai Naval Division, since Yuan Keli became the governor, began to vigorously build the Dafu ship to replace the Cangshan ship and serve as the main warship.

The Dafu ship of the Denglai Sailor is built in strict accordance with the standards and belongs to the top combat power of the Imperial Court Sailor today.

As far as Yu Zhigao knew, the Denglai Naval Division currently owned twenty-three Dafu ships.

The length of this large fortune ship is only nine zhang, which seems to be a little shorter than the Galen ship, which is nearly 20 zhang.

However, the length does not fully represent the combat effectiveness, and although the length of the Daifuku ship is abandoned, the height has steadily increased.

Dafu ship, tall as a building, can accommodate 100 people, the bottom tip is wide, the bow is raised and opened, the tail is towering, the draft is about two zhang, extremely mighty.

When Qi Jiguang resisted the Japanese, the fleet was mainly based on the Dafu ship, supplemented by the Cangshan warship and the fire dragon ship, and fought against the Japanese and won a hundred battles.

As for the firepower equipped with the Daifuku ship, it was not inferior to the Galen ship, but it was slightly insufficient in intensive shooting.

According to the description of "Wu Bei Zhi", this kind of giant ship is only nine zhang long, but it builds three floors on the top, all of which are guarded by the board, protected by thatched bamboo, erected like a wall, and has a total of four floors.

The lower floor is equipped with ballast stones, the third floor is where fresh water cabinets and cold weapons are placed, the second floor is where soldiers live, and the top floor is a terrace, which needs to be climbed from the ladder on the third floor.

Both sides of the Daifuku ship are made of plate wings as railings, people lean on it to fight, and the arrows and stones and artillery are all overlooked, which is really a sharp weapon for naval warfare.

The Daifuku ship is equipped with a heavy Hongyi cannon with the most powerful firepower at this time in the bow of the ship, and six thousand-pound Buddha Lang machines and three bowl-mouth guns are installed on the left and right sides.

Three floors up, there are 20 thunderbolt cannons on the left and right sides, and the firepower is more than ten times that of the Cangshan ship.

In addition to these cannons, the officers and soldiers of the naval division were equipped with 60 Hudun guns, 10 guns, 5 heavy crossbows, 500 crossbow arrows, 10 heavy fire crossbows, 300 rockets, and 100 fire bricks to increase firepower at medium distances.

As for cold weapons such as knives and guns used in melee combat, there are thousands of them in a lucky ship.

Although the Daifuku ship is not inferior to the Galen ship in terms of firepower, the power of the guns on it is not the same level as the guns loaded on the Galen ship.

The most powerful firepower on the Daifuku ship was the heavy Hongyi cannon and the thousand-pound Franc cannon, but to be precise, the only one that could achieve the same power as the guns on the Dutch Galen ship was the heavy Franc machine.

It's like a god with a group of pits, hundreds of guns, and the only one that can shoot at the Galen ship at the same distance is the heavy Furlong machine in the bow.

The range and power of the artillery were not enough, and the remaining hundreds could only stare at the Hongyi cannon continuously and uselessly.

In addition to the heavy Hongyi cannon, even the projectiles fired by the thousand-pound Franc machine at the same distance could not touch the Galen ship.

As for the large number of bowl mouth cannons and tiger dun cannons, it is even more of a younger brother.

The three galleons outside the center left are not completely military warships, but improved military and commercial ships, and their firepower is not at all the same as that of fully military Galen ships.

It is such a dual-purpose military and commercial ship, and it is also equipped with nearly 40 single-deck broadside cannons, which can easily give the Fujian Navy Division a full head.

Even if the Daifuku ship is dispatched, the Dutch may be scared at first glance, but the paper tiger will burst as soon as it is poked.

The Fu ship and the Galen ship have their own merits, but the quality of the guns loaded on them is very different, even if the ship's problem is solved, there is no advanced firearms will still be pressed.

The Dutch are not fools.

As soon as you start fighting, they will immediately know that you only have enough range for one cannon on your side, and at that time, they will not play with you at mid-range.

If the Dutch played tactics and fought and walked, Fufune could only be beaten passively, and the rest of the boats, even if they went up, would be taken away by a round of shooting.

In this way, the price of taking a Galen ship is not enough for any sailor anywhere at the moment.

Yu Zhigao and Zheng Yiguan chatted for a long time, and found that the main purpose of this battle was no longer to drive the Dutch out of Penghu.

Rather, it was to capture their entire Galen ship and study what was worth learning from it.

So in response to Zheng Yiguan's request, Yu Zhigao also mentioned a little.

If the Zheng family wanted to obtain official trading permission from the imperial court in the southeast seas, it was not enough to help the Fujian sailors repel the Dutch.

The Zheng family had to capture a whole Galen ship and hand it over to the Fujian sailors, and if there was a little less object, the court would not allow the Zheng family to do business.