When the news came that the Dongping Island Navy had repelled the Dutch fleet, Hu Dexing, the governor of Shandong, also breathed a sigh of relief.

However, after learning the specific course of the battle, Hu Dexing's worries still did not dissipate.

This time the Dutch retreated on their own initiative, which was not a defeat in the real sense, and the losses of the Dongping Island Navy were also not small, and the Shandong Navy Division was also abolished.

Here we have to mention that Dai Yongchao, the admiral of the Shandong Navy Division, after seeing the battle between the Dongping Island Navy and the Dutch, realized that a brand new door had been opened, and found Hu Dexing several times, asking to enter the Dongping Island Navy, and even offered to give up the post of Admiral of the Navy and give Feng Xiang, the commander of the Dongping Island Navy, a subordinate.

Hu Dexing did not dare to agree to this, after all, although the Dongping Island Navy was ostensibly part of the Shandong Naval Division, it was actually a private army of Liu Juntao, and it was impossible for outsiders to rush in.

Hu Dexing thought about it for a while, and then came up with a countermeasure.

In this war, the threat of the Dutch was still not alleviated, and after Hu Dexing reported to Liu Juntao, he once again played Emperor Chenghua, asking the imperial court to mobilize various sailors to gather in Shandong and jointly clear the Dutch fleet.

After this recital was sent out, Hu Dexing found Dai Yongchao, explained his intention to ask the imperial court for reinforcements, and said that he would arrange for Dai Yongchao to go to Nanzhili to serve in the water division, and he could also take care of Shandong in the future.

Dai Yongchao also understood that it was not realistic for him to enter the navy of Dongping Island, so he thought for a while, and then said: "Governor Xian rest assured, obey the arrangement, and after arriving in Nanjing, he will definitely do his best to assist Governor Xian and contribute to our Shandong!" ”

"Good!"

Hu Dexing said with a smile: "With your words, I am relieved." ”

On the same day, Hu Dexing held a banquet for Dai Yongchao in the Governor's Palace, which was regarded as seeing him off in advance.

Capital.

After Emperor Chenghua received the joint signature of Hu Dexing, the governor of Shandong, and Zhang Xiaojun, the chief military officer of Shandong Town, he clearly knew the process of the Shandong Navy Division facing the Dutch, and was also very angry at the audacity of the Dutch.

However, Emperor Chenghua still did not treat the Dutch as a big trouble, after all, at this time, the naval fleet of the Ming Dynasty was still powerful, and in the Daming Sea, as long as the imperial court was serious, the Dutch would only be exterminated!

Therefore, for this naval battle, Emperor Chenghua only regarded it as an attack, and he was not very worried.

At this time, the biggest hidden danger in Emperor Chenghua's heart was the two rebellions in the south, regardless of whether they were shanty people or Yao people, they were the two tumors of the Ming Empire, and Emperor Chenghua had the intention to completely dig out these two tumors through this counterinsurgency.

As for the Jiasi Lan who had already led the army to kill outside Jiayu Pass, Emperor Chenghua was not very worried, after all, there were Dingxiang Marquis, the military department Shangshu, and Liu Juntao, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, and the 300,000 army led by him, it was only a matter of time before the good news spread!

But this idea of Emperor Chenghua was soon changed by a letter from Liu Juntao, in which Liu Juntao believed that although the Dutch lived far away and the troops were very weak, the Dutch state was very strong, and once the court despised the Dutch, it was only the Dutch fleet that won the sea dominance, allowing the Dutch to occupy the open sea of the Ming Dynasty, not only could arbitrarily block the Ming ships to go to sea, but also could gather a fleet to attack the coastal provinces of the Ming Dynasty at will.

"At that time, the coastal provinces of the Ming Dynasty will be full of smoke, and the prefectures and counties will be completely exposed to the strong ships and cannons of the Dutch.

How serious is the scourge of the Wokos? Emperor Chenghua knew that for this reason, the Ming Dynasty also prepared hundreds of thousands of reserve soldiers in the southern provinces, which cost a huge amount.

If the danger of these Dutchmen is really like this, the court must plan ahead of time, otherwise it will be a disaster!

Emperor Chenghua took Liu Juntao's letter and read it for two whole days, and finally made up his mind, and ordered the Nanjing sailors stationed outside the quarry rock to immediately rush to Shandong, and temporarily transferred to the command of Hu Dexing, the governor of Shandong.

At the same time, Emperor Chenghua gave Hu Dexing a decree, ordering Hu Dexing to immediately rectify Shandong's coastal defense, defeat the Dutch fleet within half a year, and stabilize coastal defense.

Hu Dexing, who received the holy decree, finally breathed a sigh of relief, and squatted in various shipyards for more than ten days in a row, and kept running to Bibo Hall, eager to whip Feng Xiang with a whip, urging him to hurry up and prepare for another battle.

"Your Majesty has only given me six months, and I will only give you a month to prepare, and then I will fight the Dutch again!"

Hu Dexing roared a little excitedly: "Your Majesty has sent the treasure ship fleet in Nanjing, this time we will join forces, if we can't annihilate the Dutch again, there is no need for Your Majesty and Hou Ye to punish us, let's jump into the sea together to feed the fish!" ”

Feng Xiang looked at Hu Dexing, who looked like he was drunk, and he was also excited, and immediately promised that he would be ready to go to sea within a month, and repeatedly asked when the treasure ship fleet would arrive at the Dongping Island Naval Base.

Hu Dexing smiled excitedly and said, "It's coming, it's just a few days!" ”

At the same time, in the northwest thousands of miles away, Liu Juntao led the soldiers of the Tiance Army to attack, and the iron cavalry soldiers attached to each department continued to surround and annihilate the Tartars' sentinels and small groups of soldiers and horses, and at the same time, the various departments of the Tiance Army coordinated and cooperated, like a huge city wall, advancing forward, and the 100,000 Tartar army did not dare to fight a decisive battle easily at this time, so they could only be forced to retreat, and finally stopped at a narrow mountain pass and re-encamped and defended.

The urgent report of Hu Dexing, the governor of Shandong, was delivered almost at the same time as the Tang newspaper of the military department, and Liu Juntao was slightly relieved to learn that the Dutch had been temporarily repulsed, and then he was very interested in the Nanjing naval division mobilized by Emperor Chenghua to go north to Shandong, so he asked Liu Zi'an to inquire.

Regarding the situation of the Nanjing Navy Division, the Ministry of Intelligence was naturally also concerned, and Liu Zian talked to Liu Juntao.

"Bingxian, according to the record of "Yingya Shenglan", there were 62 treasure ships of the Three Treasure Eunuchs Sailing Treasure Ship that year, the largest was 44 zhang long and 18 zhang wide, the ship generally has four layers up and down, the nine masts on the ship can hang 12 sails, the anchor weight is several thousand catties, and it takes 2 or 300 people to set sail."

The mast sail of this treasure ship is generally a longitudinal sail layout, a hard sail structure, and the sail canopy surface has a reinforcing effect equivalent to a rib. The ocean-going ship type of the 2,000-material ship adopts the structure of "sharp bottom and wide top", with a high bow and a high stern. The hull structure is equipped with multiple transverse bulkheads, and the whole cabin is divided into multiple small cabins according to the purpose, with 28 cabins for more and 23 cabins for less......"

Hearing this, Liu Juntao also secretly admired: "This kind of watertight cabin is unique to me in Huaxia, which not only has the effect of strengthening the structure and sub-compartment watertight anti-sinking, so that the ship is likely to develop to large-scale, but also conducive to dividing the compartment and classifying the cargo to meet the requirements of different functions, it seems that Huaxia's shipbuilding technology is still very advanced at this time!" ”

“…… Nowadays, the shipbuilding of Daming is also the same as in those years, and the treasure ship technology of the Nanjing Navy Division has developed to the present, with shovel nails, shovel nails, shovel nails, leech nails and other things to reinforce, so that the complex wooden structure can be easily put together, hung and reinforced together by various ship nails, so as not to "fall apart". The basic type of the 2,000-material treasure ship is a lucky ship, with a small square head and a wide flat stern. The architectural form belongs to the building ship, with a deckhouse in the middle of the main deck forming a midship, with bulwarks, a stern with three sterns, and a two-story permeable bow at the bow. From the bilge to the deck, it is divided into five levels......"

Liu Juntao said secretly: "If it is transformed according to the design of the military department, the artillery that this treasure ship can carry is also very considerable, and it can also form several layers of gun decks like the West!" ”

“…… There is a mighty tiger head relief on the front of the bow, a solemn dragon relief or painted in the front of the two sides, a phoenix painted in the rear, and a Dapeng bird with wings ready to fly above the stern plate......"

“…… The warships of the Nanjing Treasure Fleet are divided into several types of warships according to their uses, such as treasure ships, grain ships, water ships, horse ships, boarding ships and warships. According to the size of the battleship, it can be divided into: treasure ship, 2,000 material ship, 1,500 material ship, eight oar ship and other ......"

“…… Horse boats are large ships that are used for both water warfare and transportation; Grain ships are mainly used to transport the food and logistical supplies needed by the fleet; The boat ride is also called the "battle boat", which is also a large warship; Warships are specialized ships that serve as escorts; Water vessels are specially used to store and transport freshwater ......"

"It is said that when the Three Treasure Eunuchs went to the West, there was a kind of large treasure ship divided into eight layers, which was more than two circles larger than the ordinary treasure ship, but I don't know if there is such a warship in the Nanjing Navy Division now, after all, the Intelligence Department is only collecting some peripheral information, and the specific can only be known by entering the naval camp...... In order to ensure the stability of the ship, the bottom layer of the large treasure ship is all placed with sand and gravel, commonly known as ballast. This kind of large treasure ship needs tens of thousands of catties of large stones just for ballast stones, and it is the flagship of the entire sailing fleet. However, there is only one gun deck, and this one floor has twenty gun emplacements along each side of the ship, and the firepower is not very ......"

“…… The flagship command of the entire fleet was in the rudder of the stern of the large treasure ship. This rudder has four floors, the first floor is the helmsman's house and the medical officer's infirmary; The second floor is called the official hall, which is the place where middle and senior officials such as the eunuchs of the Three Treasures and envoys from various countries live and work; The third floor is a shrine dedicated to the gods of Mazu and is managed by four yin-yang officials. At the top of the helm tower are the command, meteorological observation, signal liaison and other venues. In addition to the guns and sail winches, a huge space has been set aside on the deck between the front and rear buildings, which is specially used for the practice of sailors and soldiers......"

After listening to Liu Zi'an's introduction, Liu Juntao was also very interested in this kind of large treasure ship, and said: "After the Nanjing Navy Division and the Dongping Island Navy converge, they will fight the Dutch as soon as possible, and I really hope to see the grand occasion of the fierce battle!" ”

At this time, Liu Juntao's heart was already swaying, and his thoughts flew to the sea east of thousands of miles.