Most of the Portuguese artillery captured by Wang Feng was rescued and salvaged by the water ghosts from the burned shipwreck. Moreover, most of them are small cannons of the two- or three-pound class. Although it is not very powerful, it is just right for land warfare.

And the Wang Gongxun rebel army in the Fujiang area is only defending according to the danger, and it is precisely the most afraid of sharp weapons such as artillery. Moreover, there were many 12-pounder guns and 6-pounder guns on Portuguese warships, which were more suitable for attacking fortifications.

Chen Jin obtained these more than 300 artillery, not to mention using it to defeat the enemy, just the sound of the cannon firing can scare a person to death. In addition, the 1,800 arquebuses were enough for Chen Jin to send a powerful musket array, which could definitely suppress Wang Gongxun's rebel army to the point that he couldn't raise his head.

After making this decision, Liang Chu and Yang Yiqing suddenly began to tout the role of artillery, believing that artillery was a super weapon to defeat the enemy. Moreover, the deeds of the Humen Fort in repelling the Portuguese warships were also greatly appreciated by Liang Chu and Yang Yiqing.

It seems that many ministers of the DPRK and China have also been greeted in advance, so they strongly agree with the opinions of the two. Then, the Manchu ministers began to discuss the establishment of forts in all the key ports on the southeast coast.

Zhengde opened his mouth, but finally didn't say anything. In fact, the whole rhythm was deviated by Liang Chu and Yang Yiqing and others. Originally, Zhengde was still thinking about building a few warships, but as a result, Liang Chu and Yang Yiqing and other ministers of the Qingliu in the DPRK completely ignored the warships or something, and directly discussed the issue of casting more "Pingyu cannons" and sending them to various places for artillery deployment......

Zhengde wanted to interject, but for many years he mainly thought about how to deal with the Mongols in the north, and he didn't understand naval warfare and couldn't interject. Moreover, what the ministers said is also very reasonable, the southeast coast, the important fiscal and tax areas, must be strictly protected.

As for the eunuchs in the court, they controlled the eight innings of the inner game, which involved the casting of artillery. However, shipbuilding is not involved. Therefore, when they heard that the ministers were going to cast artillery on a large scale, these eunuchs had already smiled. Because, casting artillery above, they can get a lot of benefits up and down.

But for shipbuilding or anything, these eunuchs don't care. Because, shipyards are generally located on the southeast coast or the Yangtze River, which is beyond the reach of the eunuchs in the palace, and has little to do with them.

Moreover, if a lot of money is spent on building ships, there will be less money allocated to the casting of cannons......

Therefore, at this time, Zhengde himself couldn't interject because he didn't know how to interject, and the eunuchs under Zhengde also supported cannon casting and did not support shipbuilding because of interest issues.

As a result, both the civilian clique and the eunuch clique supported the repair of more forts, but not any shipbuilding. Zhengde's idea of building a fleet was extinguished.

And Jiang Bin and Qian Ning are not the favorite ministers of the eunuchs, but they want to follow Zhengde. After all, the benefits of casting cannons in the eighth innings are not their turn, and that is the territory of eunuchs.

But the problem is that Qian Ning was born in Jinyiwei and doesn't understand the affairs of the water master at all. Jiang Bin, on the other hand, was born as a border army officer, and was more familiar with land and border affairs, but he did not understand maritime affairs at all.

Therefore, the two of them did not bother with the matter of casting cannons or shipbuilding, but encouraged Zhengde to go to the border area to fight in order to take them to gain military merits.

A few days later, the brokers sent by Conté also found a few eunuchs and offered bribes. Then, Zhang Yong and Gu Dayong and other eunuchs had nothing to say, and no one opened their eyes to mention what shipbuilding. What they pay the most attention to now is how to divide the interests of the cannons. After all, casting a cannon requires a lot of copper, and the benefits are still very lucrative.

Then, throughout the Ming Dynasty, a consensus was formed to "repair forts to ensure the safety of coastal defense". The civilian-bureaucratic clique is purely because of the Confucian guiding ideology of "moderation and observance", preferring defense to offense. The eunuchs, on the other hand, were purely motivated by the interests of cannon casting, and also strongly supported the repair of the fort.

Under the guidance of this thinking, additional forts were set up at the mouth of the Pearl River outside Guangzhou. And Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Ningbo, Hangzhou and other important coastal towns have also set plans to repair forts. In addition, Chongming Island at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and the shores on both sides, also have plans to repair forts. Even, even the Dagu Pass, the "gateway of the Beijing Division", has a plan to build the "Dagu Fort". In short, the entire Ming Dynasty began to repair the forts, three hundred years earlier than the Qing Dynasty in the 19th century.

Moreover, unlike in the Opium War, when the Opium War began, the artillery of the Qing Dynasty was actually backward. Because, the Qing Dynasty artillery was still a smoothbore cannon, and the ratio and purity of gunpowder were not as good as others. Although the caliber was large, the firing range turned out to be inferior to that of British artillery. In the Second Opium War, the British even developed rifled guns, the Armstrong cannon, which completely crushed the Manchu batteries.

In addition, the design of the Qing army's batteries was also unreasonable, and the ammunition depot was located on the surface, which was extremely dangerous. When the Eight-Nation Allied Forces attacked the Dagukou Fort, in fact, the Krupp artillery of the Dagukou Fort did not fall behind in the artillery battle, but the ammunition depots of the north and south batteries were hit by enemy ships, causing a martyrdom, and they had no choice but to be defeated.

And the turret designed by Marin obviously has no such flaws. In the turret designed by Marin, not only does the turret have a "roof" to prevent the enemy's shells from smashing into the soldiers in the fort, but the ammunition depot is also strictly required to be located underground.

Of course, the shells of this era were separated by ammunition. And the heaviest, but it should be the iron ball bullet. In order to prevent the gunner from exerting too much physical energy when carrying the iron ball, Marlin designed an ammunition magazine that was divided into a powder magazine and an iron ball magazine.

Among them, the powder magazine was strictly underground, and all gunpowder was sealed and packaged in moisture-proof oiled paper and piled up in the underground powder magazine. When the war began, the soldiers in charge of transporting them took bags of ground batteries. It felt like holding a bag of salt......

The iron ball hangar, where the iron ball shells are located, is located on the surface, parallel to the fort, and can be transported by a small cart, which is very convenient.

Under such a scientific and rational design, there will be no such ridiculous thing as a helpless failure because the ammunition depot is hit.

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In fact, except for the difference between the stone used in the Ming Dynasty and the reinforced concrete used in the Beihai Kingdom, the difference between the Ming Dynasty forts and the Beihai forts is basically not big.

Of course, the only difference is crucial. As a result, the batteries of the Beihai Kingdom could not be destroyed by artillery strikes, and the Ming batteries had a small chance of being destroyed by artillery strikes.

However, in this era, I am afraid that no other country can use artillery to break the strong stone forts of the Ming Dynasty. After all, the artillery technology of various countries is still very average, and the power is not great. Unless a giant cannon like the 68-pounder cannon of the Beihai Kingdom is successfully developed, it can blast open the turret of the Ming Stone Fortress.

When he helped the Ming Dynasty repair the fort before, the Beihai craftsman Hadofu was also taught by Kong Tai under the instruction of Kongtai. At that time, among the craftsmen who repaired the fort in Guangzhou, there were master craftsmen sent by the Ministry of Industry.

Liang Chu directly summoned the master master Lu Youcai, who had participated in the repair of the fort and had received the guidance of Hadofer, to the Taihe Hall to introduce the design ideas of the fort.

These design ideas, even civil officials who don't know how to do it, nod their heads frequently when they hear it, and feel that they are very reasonable.

And Emperor Zhengde, an emperor who likes military affairs, also appreciates the design ideas of the fort.

Since then, "repairing forts and protecting coastal defense" has become a basic national policy of the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, for a long time, because there was no means to break through the forts, it was very good to restrain the Portuguese warships and the Japanese boats......