"Student Lu Feng, a person from Xinghua Mansion, passed by here on a study tour, and learned that the deputy envoy was preparing to exterminate the thieves, and it happened that the student had some experience in water warfare, so he took the liberty to come to offer advice, please don't blame the deputy envoy!" After speaking, Lu Xiucai made a gesture.

Wang Feng was worried about how to deal with the Francois bandits, although he didn't have much hope, he was still willing to listen to Lu Feng's thoughts as a reference. So, he waved his hand and said:

"Lu Sheng doesn't have to be polite, sit down and say. This official happens to have a headache about exterminating the thieves, if Lu Sheng has a clever plan, but it doesn't matter. If it can help to exterminate the thieves, this official will definitely help you ask for credit from the imperial court! ”

After Lu Feng found a small stool and sat down, he presented Wang Feng with a plan designed by Ma Lin......

"Fire attack? Lu Sheng can know that those big ships of the Francophone are all rampant on the sea, how can the fireboats get close? They'll hide. Wang Feng frowned, feeling that Lu Feng was a little unreliable.

Lu Feng said confidently:

"Lord Vice-Envoy, the thief's ship is difficult to approach all year round. But my lord, the thief's warship also has to rest on the shore at night! If there is any important anchorage, the adults will inquire into a good place, and when the thieves have gone ashore to sleep, in the middle of the night, they can send a hundred small fireboats, loaded with sulfur, saltpeter, and fire oil, to rush into the anchorage of the enemy ships, and burn many of them. The thieves came from afar, and it was difficult to repair the ships, and if many ships were burned, it would be difficult to continue, so they had to retreat......"

Now Wang Feng is interested:

"You mean sending fireboats into the enemy's anchorage in the middle of the night? In the middle of the night, it's a little difficult to sail on the sea......"

Lu Feng nodded:

"That's right, Vice-Chancellor. If it's dark at night, it's hard to sail at sea. But what if there is moonshine? Those experienced old boatmen are also able to operate the boat at night. ”

The students suggested that a group of boatmen who were good at night could be recruited, with more than a dozen people per boat, to operate the sails and oars, so that the fireboats could rush towards the enemy ships. When they get close to the enemy ship, they light the boat and then jump out of the boat and swim away. ”

"Of course, not only should there be moonlight that night, but it would be better to blow the south wind. In this way, the fireship can rush into the enemy ship with the wind and burn the enemy ship......"

Wang Feng stroked his beard and thought for a while, then clapped his hands and said:

"Wonderful, if the fire ship can really stick to the enemy ship and burn it, the enemy ship will not escape the end of burning. But what if the enemy ship escapes? After all, the enemy ship is not a chain of ships tied together in the iron locks in the 'Burning Red Cliff'. Seeing the fireboat rushing over, the boatmen of the thieves will definitely desperately operate the boat to dodge......"

Then, Wang Feng said that he planned to send water ghosts to scuttle the boat. After hearing this, Lu Feng shook his head and said:

"My lord, if the thieves only have two or three ships, it is naturally feasible to send someone to build ships. After all, as long as one or two ships are scuttled, the enemy will be greatly damaged. ”

However, when the students heard that the thieves had twenty or thirty warships, it was a little difficult to scuttle them all. After all, the axe chisels and chisels the ship, and the thieves can hear it as long as they are not fools. If you can get two or three ships, it's not bad. After all, thieves don't watch water ghosts scuttle boats. ”

"As for the problem of enemy ships hiding when they see fireboats, I have a good idea below......

"Oh, come on!" Wang Feng also became interested.

Lu Feng took out a piece of paper and explained while drawing with the carbon rod he carried with him:

"The students have been to Dongfan Island this time, and they are fortunate to see the Beihai Guoyi ship on Dongfan Island. And the Franc machine, like the North Sea Country, is from Taixi, and the ships are probably similar to the structure of the ship......"

Wang Feng nodded, agreeing with Lu Feng's opinion. Lu Feng continued:

"When sailing on the sea, in addition to relying on the power of the sails, it is to rely on the tail rudder to control the direction. If a fireship rushes into the harbor where the enemy ship is stationed, if the enemy ship wants to avoid it, in addition to raising its sails and setting sail, it must also pull the rudder and change its direction......" After speaking, Lu Feng also drew a sketch.

Wang Hong's eyes suddenly lit up:

"What does Lu Sheng mean is to destroy the stern rudder of the enemy's ship, so that it can't avoid the fireship?"

Lu Feng nodded, and shook his head again:

"Yes and no......"

"What do you mean?" Wang Feng asked puzzled.

"Since the lord has arranged for the water ghost to scuttle the boat, if he starts in the middle of the night, it will be silent at night, and the sound of the boat will definitely attract people's attention, and it is easy to arouse the vigilance of the Franc thief. Therefore, it is not advisable to scuttle a boat in the middle of the night......"

"But if the enemy ship wants to avoid the fireship, it can't do without the tail rudder to control the direction. So, if you want to make it impossible for an enemy ship to avoid a fireboat, you don't need to scuttle the ship, you just need to destroy its tail rudder......"

"How?" Wang Feng asked.

Lu Feng first drew the most popular crowbar control tail rudder system in Europe in this era, which was also the system used by Portuguese ships to change direction.

"This is the rudder, which is connected to the transverse axis above through a main shaft. The sailor uses a crowbar to pry the transverse axis on it, and the rudder blades can swing from side to side to control the direction of the ship......"

"The meaning of the students is that there is no need to send someone to scuttle the bottom of the ship, but only to let the water ghosts carry sharp weapons such as large iron nails and blades before the fire ship attacks, dive into the tail of the enemy ship, and use iron nails or sharp blades to mix into the cracks of the rudder blades so that they cannot rotate......

Wang Feng frowned and said:

"Wouldn't it be okay for the thieves to send someone underwater to clean up these things? It doesn't affect the thieves' ships to escape and avoid the fireboats......"

Lu Feng smiled and said:

"Vice-Ambassador, it's time! By the time the enemy had sent sailors to find out the problem, the fireships would have rushed to the front and burned brightly, even with the ships of the thieves......"

Wang Hong's eyes suddenly lit up:

"What Lu Sheng means is that there is no need to destroy the stern rudder of the enemy ship, just make it temporarily unusable, and wait until the fire ship approaches and burn the enemy ship?"

Lu Feng nodded and said:

"Yes, sir. It takes a long time to dig the bottom of a ship and destroy the rudder, and it is easy to detect. After all, it was quiet in the middle of the night, and whether it was chiseling the bottom of the ship or destroying the tail rudder, the noise was loud. However, if we only insert sharp objects such as iron nails into the gap of the rudder so that they cannot rotate for a short time, our goal will be achieved! Moreover, it is done very quietly, and it is not easy to attract the attention of the enemy on the shore......"

"In this way, our water spirits will be able to make problems with the rudder of the enemy ship as quickly and silently as quickly as possible. Before the enemy ship could react and send someone into the water to repair and get the ship back on fire, our fireboat rushed over......"

Wang Feng slapped the table excitedly and said:

"Seconds, so unwittingly that its rudder is out of order, and it is impossible to escape. When the fire of the fireship burns the ship of the Franc man, we will win! ”

"Lu Sheng, if this battle can be successful, I will definitely ask the court for credit for you, and the court will not bury a talent like you!"

Lu Feng waved his hand indifferently and said:

"The adult is overrated, and the student has just fulfilled his duty as a scholar......

Actually, what Lu Feng was thinking about was MMP, which was not the strategy I thought of. If you want to have that ability, Lao Tzu would have been a strategist of a certain bigwig's family a long time ago......