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On the fifth day of December, the fleet, which had been awaited for three years, finally arrived at the port.

These ten sail warships (two 74-gun and eight 64-gun third-class ships) and 600 large and small guns cost Wu Zheng 190,000 pounds sterling (about 1,300,000 taels of silver).

The huge body of the battleship almost obscured the entire sea as far as the eye could see.

The ship was accompanied by 200 seafarers who had studied abroad for three years and 300 foundry craftsmen who had studied in Western Europe.

Looking at the five hundred faces that had faded from childishness, Wu Zheng had a kind of sword in his hand, and asked who was the hero's heroism in the world.

The port is crowded.

Almost all the people who heard the news were rushing to the port.

Looking at the diorama, this is one of the few entertainments of the people at this time.

But when I really saw these behemoths, the shock and awe in my heart rose uncontrollably.

At that moment, the port of tens of thousands of people, was silent.

But when the flag of the Northern Expedition was raised, the moment the ten warships were raised, the pride surging in the hearts of the people burst out in an instant.

"Long live the Great General's Mansion!"

"Long live the King of Huiji!"

"Long live the Northern Expeditionary Army!" ……。

In the earth-shattering cheers of the people, Wu Zheng had a strong regret in his heart, if there was a national anthem, and a military band, it would be even more wonderful.

At the ceremony to welcome the fleet back to China, Wu Zheng announced the first day of the new year, and held the first military parade of the General's Mansion in front of the General's Mansion, on the street at the junction of Renhe and Yuxian counties, and 3,000 soldiers were selected by the military academy to participate.

The Zhoushan Water Division was divided into two, Wang Chaoxian was still the chief soldier of the Zhoushan Water Division, and Zhang Mingzhen was ordered to form a new water division - Wusong Water Division, and was appointed to become the first general soldier of the Wusong Water Division.

Seeing these huge warships, Zhang Mingzhen was so excited that he could barely speak, he knelt down on one knee in front of Wu Zheng, and cried: "If you can't defeat the enemy, you will have no shame to see the prince, and you can only die." ”

Wu Zheng stretched out his hand to support him, and said angrily: "This king already has military law, and soldiers are no longer allowed to follow the old kneeling salute, are you knowingly committing a crime?!" ”

Zhang Mingzhen hurriedly explained: "The humble heart was excited, and he lost his temper for a while, and asked the prince to punish the crime. ”

Wu Zheng patted the back of his hand and said, "Work hard, one day, you will become a generation of famous generals." ”

Zhang Mingzhen pursed his lips and nodded vigorously.

He has seen giant ships, and the predecessor of the Daming Water Division was the Chaohu Water Master at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

As the name suggests, he is really a naval division, and he has nothing to do with the navy at all.

But after Zhu Yuanzhang competed with Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang for the world, he discovered the benefits of the sailor.

As a result, Daming had a real sailor, and when Zheng He went to the West, he reached his peak.

Zheng He's number of people on each trip to the West was more than 27,000. Quite five guards of the Ming Dynasty army, and the personnel were mainly from the coastal guards.

But there were not many battles, mainly twice, one was to fight the coastal pirates, when Chen Zuyi was entrenched in Malacca for nearly 20 years, gathering 10,000 people and 100 warships. Dominating the seas of Japan, Taiwan, the South China Sea, and the Indian Ocean. They plundered 10,000 passing ships and attacked more than 50 coastal towns.

Originally, Zhu Di didn't plan to deal with Chen Zuyi, but what made Zhu Di unbearable was that Chen Zuyi not only robbed the ships of the small Western countries, but also the ships of the Ming merchants, and later robbed the ships of the imperial court. Moreover, his methods are extremely bad, and he implements the three-light policy, grabbing the light, killing the light, and burning it all.

So, Zhu Di, who was furious, offered a reward of 500,000 taels of silver for the arrest of Chen Zuyi.

In the end, Zheng He completely annihilated nearly 5,000 Chen Zuyi in a battle at sea, and after escorting Chen Zuyi back to China, Chen Zuyi was beheaded in public for public display.

And the real foreign war of the Ming Dynasty's sailors, that is, the one in Ceylon when Zheng He went to the West, but that time was nothing more than a passive defensive war, although it was victorious, it was not representative of naval warfare, and it was basically a land war.

However, the tactical thinking of the generals of the Ming Dynasty was still relatively advanced.

They did not look at naval warfare with the tactical thinking of land warfare.

Yu Dayou, a famous anti-Japanese general, believes that "naval warfare is nothing but a big ship defeating a small ship, and a big gun defeating a small gun; Many ships are better than few ships, and many guns are better than few guns. ”

Qi Jiguang also thinks, "The fortune boat is as tall as a city, non-human can be driven, and it depends on the wind, and the widow boat is as short as my small cangboat, so the fortune ship is pressed down by the wind, like a car running over a praying mantis." Fighting boat power is not fighting manpower. ”

The warships of the Daming Navy Division are mainly Fu ships, supplemented by centipede ships, three-masted gunboats, and Haicang ships.

The capital ship of the Fu Ship has two masts, three floors of cabins, a building on the deck, and a guard plate next to it. The bow of the ship is equipped with large-caliber tribute guns, six thousand-pound Franc machines, three bowl-mouth guns, 20 thunderbolt guns, 60 fire oil spray cans, 10 gunpowder guns, 800 crossbow arrows, 10 gunpowder crossbows, 300 rockets, 200 fire bricks, and thousands of cold weapons.

The three-masted gunboat imitates the Dutch warship, the tree is three-masted, the main mast is four zhang high, the length is twenty zhang, the cabin is five layers, it can accommodate more than 300 people, with eight red cannons, and forty thousand catties of Franc machines.

At the peak of the Daming Naval Division, there were about 5,000 warships in the coastal area alone, and there were more than 20 kinds of warships, in addition to the fortune ships and the existing building ships, Mengchong, fighting ships, sea falcons, boats, yachts, etc., there were also sealed boats, centipede boats, Haicang boats, red dragon boats, Cangshan boats, wheel boats, eagle boats, chain boats, sub-mother boats, fire dragon boats, net shuttle boats, catching boats, 400 material battle boats, 400 material patrol boats, Jiujiang-style sentinel boats, rowing boats, etc.

The world shows that the dynasty is decaying, but the real Ming Dynasty, whether in military, politics, or culture, is incomparable to the Qing Dynasty.

The world says that Huaxia invented gunpowder and developed it into firecrackers and fireworks, but in fact, the Ming Dynasty reached its peak in the middle and late stages of the use of gunpowder in war.

For example, time-delay mines, tripwire mines, tiger squat guns, nine-company guns, twenty-four guns, two-stage rockets, and so on.

And these achievements were ahead of the West, and remained until the appearance of yellow powder, during which there were two hundred years.

Because black powder and yellow powder are two completely different things, the appearance of yellow powder actually has nothing to do with China at all, and it is necessary to compare the two together, just like the comparison between the steam engine and the internal combustion engine.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty was lucky to win the world, and most of them inherited the historical heritage of the Ming Dynasty, until the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War at the end of the Qing Dynasty, most of the Ming artillery and muskets used by the Qing army.

If it is said that the firearms and casting at the end of the Ming Dynasty were only one or twenty years behind the West, then it can be said that the nearly 300 years of rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty lagged behind the West by 200 years in terms of weapons alone.