Lin Baiguang lived very comfortably in the post house in Anping, although it was the property of the government, it was actually equivalent to the Zheng family's sī business. , more maintenance costs are naturally much more generous than the emperor. Not only is the house clean and tidy, but the officer's spirit is not bad, and he is courteous to this "distinguished guest" of the Zheng family.

It's just that the echo of the Zheng family is like a stone sinking into the sea, and there is no news. From the fact that people are in the courtyard where they stay every day, they are watching to see if there is an envoy from the Zheng family outside. Except for the post guards and librarians who took care of them back and forth, there was no one.

His followers were all naturalized citizens, and they all became anxious, for fear that they would be detained by the famous sea lord of the sea together with the "chief", and their lives would not be guaranteed.

Lin Baiguang is not in a hurry at all, it is impossible for the Zheng family not to swallow this yòu bait, even if they know that it is poisonous, they can't refuse, Zheng Zhilong's "gamble" mentality is very heavy, relying on "betting" in just ten years, he has changed from a small guy under his uncle to a village owner under Yan Siqi, and Zuihou has become the overlord of the Southeast China Sea.

Just as Zheng Zhilong was kidnapped by the Qing army in the camp a few decades later, it was not the first time for him that he had been kidnapped by the Dutch governor of Taiwan, Natz, a few years earlier, and forced to sign a trade deal and pay a ransom to Natz. But when the Manchu Qing Dynasty came to him with the king of ripping soil, Zheng Zhilong once again took the bait.

From this point of view, the Great Library believes that it is completely feasible to do business with Zheng Zhilong to buy and sell salt - as long as it is business, everything is easy to discuss.

However, although the Standing Committee of the Senate and the branch committee did not know how to solve Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xiang, it was clear that ambitious sea lords like Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xiang were bound to be eliminated. Their group was too large to accept the adaptation, and even if it did, the leaders of the Zheng family and the intertwined leaders and cronies below made it difficult for the group to be quickly absorbed by the Navy and the Ministry of Commerce.

Moreover, the main groups of the sea such as Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xiang are quite harmful to the maritime trade along the coast of China, and they pursue a monopoly effect. After Zheng Zhilong defeated Liu Xiang. The sale of the right of passage for international trade at a high price, and the annual price of a flag is 2,000 taels, in fact, completely blocks the possibility of ordinary merchants and ship owners who are not financially strong to participate in ocean trade. Before the death of the Ming Dynasty, the Zheng Zhilong group had actually monopolized the Hirado trade with Japan. A quarter of the ships of the Chinese country that arrived in Hirado were Yasukai ships under his direct control. And their struggle and monopoly in the coastal areas of China have also seriously affected the domestic maritime trade along the coast.

The Senate wanted to seize supremacy at sea and build "peace at sea under the rule of the Senate." The purpose of achieving hegemony is not only to obtain excess profits, but also to promote maritime trade and the need for the development of coastal industry and commerce. If the profits of trade are monopolized by channel dealers, except for necessities and luxury goods. Sooner or later, traders and retailers will have to be forced out of the business system. Excessively high prices can also shrink or even eliminate consumers' spending power.

"The monopoly of the sī people means reaction." At an enlarged meeting of the Executive Committee, Ma Qianzhu set the rules for the sea owners to "be backward and hinder the productive forces of the old things." ”

"Hindering productivity" is a very serious sentence - roughly the same as a death sentence.

Therefore, it was completely defeated and the remnants were the only choice of the Executive Committee, which had become a consensus among the veterans who had access to the core secrets.

The main purpose of his coming to Anping was not to show favor or paralyze Zheng Zhilong - this was only incidental. The Ocean Fleet and the Transport Ship Regiment didn't care about Liu Xiang or Zheng Zhilong's sea liliang. The Senate's fleet was basically an oceanic route, and unless Zheng Zhilong had radar and radio, it would be difficult to accurately capture the fleet. Even if he's lucky enough to catch the fleet, or wait for the fighter at some location. The outcome of the battle of Jiāo was also not in his favor.

The navy had conducted a number of war games in Mayu to simulate the various hostile activities that Zheng Zhilong, Liu Xiang and the Dutch might have carried out. Under all kinds of harsh conditions, these three shili are still completely defeated.

Take Zheng Zhilong Group as an example. Zheng Zhilong wants to do something to the engine combat troops, not to mention the main force of the first fleet and the second fleet, even if he wants to intercept the transport fleet, it must be the main force of the whole army to deploy in the Penghu area, and the commander of the transport team must be stupid // no pop-up windows and no ads // crash into his ship formation. Once Lingao knew that he was in Penghu, the return of the nine spy boat squadrons would be enough to crush Zheng Zhilong.

If Zheng Zhilong's fleet is hiding on the coast, then it can be regarded as a relative guarantee of its own advantage, after all, it is in the shallow sea area where the harbor is crisscrossed and the beach and reefs are all over the place. The light ships that make up the lion's share of his fleet have great flexibility, and they also have a chance of success attacking ships with fire. The transport route of the engine operation generally does not go to the near shore of the mainland.

It is unlikely that Zheng Zhilong will take the initiative to attack and intercept the Senate's ship group on the ocean route.

The traditional navigation of China relies heavily on maritime landmarks. Because China does not have the concept of latitude and longitude in development, even if there is a compass. There is still the problem of not being able to locate the ship. Traditionally, stargazing is a way to approximate one's position based on the position of the stars.

But the more common and convenient way to do this is to use a maritime landmark. In the traditional navigation map "needle road book", the geometry of the needle road to a certain place and the direction of the course are clearly recorded. When the rudder changes course, the landmarks in the sea are used as navigation signs. Therefore, ships generally sail along the coastline or islands and beaches in the sea as navigation markers.

Due to congenital deficiencies, Zheng Zhilong's ocean-going combat capability is actually very weak, except for the Dutch, neither Liu Xiang nor Zheng Zhilong has the ability to conduct search operations on the vast ocean. In fact, his battles with the Dutch, as well as other sea lords, took place almost exclusively in the coastal bays and near the islands.

As for the Dutch, there were nine squadrons of spy boats alone, and thirty-six large ships and ships, and none of these thirty-six ships were inferior in firepower to the large warships of the Dutch, but the number was far exceeded.

Although Zheng Zhilong claimed to have hundreds of warships, there were only thirty or fifty full-time large warships, and the combat effectiveness of a single ship was far inferior to that of spy boats, and even the small schooners and schooners of the Dutch could fight against Zheng Zhilong's fleet with fewer strikes. Even if Zheng Zhilong gathered all the warships, he would not necessarily be the opponent of the spy boat squadron.

The Navy used a computer program to test a simulated jiāo battle at sea, on one side of the typical large armed merchant ship of the Dutch: the NEWBANTAM, with a deadweight of 800 tons and a maximum displacement of more than 1,200 tons, which is the largest class in the East Asian Seas. The ship's firepower was 7 mén 18-pounder snake cannons and 16 mén 12-pounder and a half serpent, and these were all the guns that could enter the artillery battle. Since the guns were divided into two ships, the amount of fire fired from one port was only about 150 pounds.

Not only was the NEWBANTAM defenseless against the Lichūn Class and Type 901 - the rifled guns were god-like in the face of early smoothbore guns. ACCORDING TO SOFTWARE CALCULATIONS, THE DESTRUCTIVE POWER OF THE 130MM DALGREN RIFLED GUN WITH SOLID SHELLS, INCENDIARY SHELLS AND GRENADES, EVEN IF IT IS A FAIRLY CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE, CAN COMPLETELY DESTROY THE COMBAT AND NAVIGATION CAPABILITIES OF THE NEWBANTAM WITH A MAXIMUM OF FIVE OR SIX HITS. In a software simulation shè hit, there was even a solid bullet that directly penetrated the hull of the ship and hit the fire yào library to blow up the whole ship.

Even in the face of spy boats without rifled guns, the top ships of the Dutch had no advantage at all.

When facing a spy boat equipped with a 48-pounder smoothbore cannon and a 68-pounder caron cannon, not only did he throw shè fire liliang inferior to the spy boat, but he was also completely no match for the spy boat in terms of shè range, penetration, and shè hitting.

On a typical Canton-type spy boat with a standard displacement of about 200 tons, the 48-pounder cannon alone has 6 mén, plus 4 68-pounder Caron guns. A single sideship fire could drop a shè 280-pound shell, almost double that of the NEWBANTAM.

Not only that, but the snake guns and semi-snake cannons on the Dutch battleships had a small single weight and weak penetrating power. The Snake is far worse than the 24-pound cannon, and according to French artillery, an 18-pounder cannon during the war was less capable of penetrating 100 yards than a 24-pound cannon at 300 yards. A 24-pound shot is more destructive than two 18-pound shots. Not to mention the 48-pounder gun. With the haode gun mount, the 24-pounder gun shè was also much faster than the snake and half snake.

As for the 68-pounder Caron cannon, the PBshè is 270 yards, the snake cannon is only about 330 yards, and the 5-degree elevation shè Cheng caron is even higher than the snake cannon. Moreover, the snake cannon generally needs about 100 yards to kill the Galen ship, and 68 pounds, on the contrary, the penetration is too strong, and it is far away. In the case of a confrontation, the two sides will bombard each other at 300 yards, and the snake cannon can certainly destroy the Fu ship, and the 68-pound can even bomb the armed merchant ship into slag.

AS FOR THE HARMONY SHIP, WHICH HAS LESS FIREPOWER, ALTHOUGH IT IS INFERIOR TO THE NEWBANTAM IN TERMS OF SINGLE-PORT FIREPOWER, EVEN WITHOUT THE ESCORT OF WARSHIPS SUCH AS SPY BOATS, THE HARMONY SHIP SAILS IN A GROUP IS STILL THE MOST FORMIDABLE FLEET IN THE EAST ASIAN SEAS. A convoy of five ships with enough firepower to withstand a fleet that the Dutch were able to dispatch at once.

You must know that in order to deal with the Dutch fleet, Zheng Zhilong must assemble the main force every time, and he must fight in the coastal sea to win.

No matter how they calculate and deduce, as long as they don't rush headlong into the narrow sea to fight, whether it is Zheng Zhilong, Liu Xiang or the Dutch, it is not a problem. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )