The third prince is busy scheduling, Zhang Qiang has returned to Jinling Mansion, he is really not in a hurry about what Jeju Island will look like, the troops withdrawn from Shikoku Island can rest and train where the newly recruited Han militia team is stationed, and then mobilize the troops behind to enrich the strength where, now Kong Youxing has broken through Hiroshima County and hit the line of Okayama, although it is half of the Chinese island, it can also cover Shikoku Island on the flank, at least on the land border, the development of Shikoku Island does not have to worry.

There are also some sailors on Shikoku Island itself, which were mobilized later, and there are not many troops, only 30 warships, plus some fishing boats and merchant ships that were originally hidden in the inner bay of Shikokufu, there are also nearly 100 ships, and some armed merchant ships transporting soldiers and horses behind have also been temporarily left there, and there are nearly 200 ships.

The general operation is okay, they resist for a while, and then the naval division detachment of Xinlu Province and the patrol fleet of the First Fleet will soon arrive there, and the enemy will not dare to land from anywhere.

As long as Shikoku Island holds the line of defense against Japan, then there is no need to worry about safety.

Now it is Kong Youxing who is confronting Japan, Xinlu is busy developing, and Shikoku is defending against the enemy while rectifying order, guarding prisoners and receiving immigrants.

There's basically nothing going on here.

Of course, the affairs of the three princes still need to be worried, they fought with the Qing Dynasty in the battle of Jeju Island in full swing, both sides have more than 100,000 soldiers and horses on the island, more than 100,000 people and servant troops, and the Zhongbao can manage 600,000 people, such a small place, 600,000 people, just supply will kill both sides.

However, now the main battlefield of the two sides is at sea, since Shi Lang annihilated a detachment of the other party's fleet patrol a few days ago, both sides have been much quieter, the losses of the Qing Dynasty are actually greater than the three princes, the naval warships of the Qing Dynasty are relatively backward, the tonnage is small, the artillery fire is less, but the number is large, but this also makes them feel distressed to lose a loss, and the last time they lost more than 300 warships of various types.

The troops who landed on the island were hungry and had to dig fortifications desperately to defend the positions on both sides to three sides, and the same was true for the three princes, the Qing Dynasty occupied the county seat of Jeju facing Goguryeo, and they occupied the county seat of Namgun of Jeju in the south, facing each other across the complex mountainous terrain in the center of the island, they needed to guard against the enemy from attacking from the beaches on both sides, and also to guard against the enemy attacking from the front, desperately building fortifications and deploying troops.

Both sides are eager to dig their trenches under each other's noses, and then pull out daggers to fight each other hand-to-hand.

The soldiers on both sides are across the trenches, shooting at each other with bows and arrows, of course, it is impossible to hit each other, both sides use arquebuses to shoot, the casualties are about the same, but compared to the Qing army occupies some cheap, after all, the comprehension ability of the Han people, the ability to be obedient is higher than that of the Japanese and indigenous cannon fodder, these Qing soldiers are soldiers who have fought with Dajin and the Kingdom of China for more than ten years, even some newly recruited Han army flag soldiers, have been trained for more than a month, even if they have no combat experience, It is also much stronger than the cannon fodder who has only participated in hand-to-hand combat on the other side.

Now although Shi Lang is desperately sending reinforcements ashore, their sailors still can't compete with the sailors of the third prince, small boats and small cannons, even if their Daifuku ship has the same tonnage as the three princes' Ryukyu Kingdom sailors, but without the same artillery position, how can the Daifuku ship withstand the recoil of dozens of guns firing together?

Many Daifuku ships did not cause casualties to the enemy, they fell apart first, and then no one dared to load many guns on it, only thirty guns, and had to be afraid, once the command was not good, which artillery opened fire indiscriminately, the keel under the gun carriage was cracked first, and the consequences were basically the same as being hit by enemy artillery, even if these Fuku ships had a good watertight compartment separation, they immediately became a big ship target floating on the sea, and then fired, it had to sink.

Shi Lang has tried his best, he is now taking the continuous production of sailor warships to deal with the sailors of the Ryukyu Kingdom, but it is only circling, unable to achieve any results, the Ryukyu Kingdom from the Huaxia Kingdom of the sailors is too powerful, after the replenishment, the sailors will come out casually are five thousand-ton warships, next to a large number of 100-ton warships escort, the 1000-ton battleships are equipped with more than 80 guns, and one side salvo fires more than 40 guns, which can sink how many covered boats.

The two sides had already fought several times around Jeju Island, and they eventually lost 1,000 fishing boats, 800 small warships of more than 10 tons equipped with a three-pound gun, 200 90-ton Gwangs, 100 brigs of armed merchant ships, 50 Daefuku, 30 Daeguang ships, and 17 300-ton armed merchant ships sold to them by the Taisi, and two 600-ton warships bought from the second prince.

The losses were huge, and they had lost the water division that had been re-established by the Great Clear Water Division, which had been destroyed by the Huaxia Kingdom last time.

He had in his hands only one Dutchman Caravel's 300-ton armed merchant ship, two Portuguese 180-ton armed merchant ships, an Englishman's 300-ton galleon, and five 180-ton Spanish galleons, plus less than 100 medium-sized fortune ships, careful fortune ships, and small cantons.

This time they once again covered more than twenty centipede ships to deliver food to the island, most of the food on the island was sunk in the water by the sailors of the Ryukyu Kingdom last time, and the officers and soldiers on the island could not maintain enough food, and their morale was low, and they could not fight.

For this reason, he could only secretly send a small amount of food.

However, they were not lucky this time, and they encountered the Portuguese warship sent by the third prince, who went to attack the harbor of Bohai Bay.

In a naval battle, Shi Lang once again abandoned many warships and ships carrying grain and fled, and the Portuguese ships did not pursue, but directly hid in the darkness and headed for the port of Bohai Bay.

The final tonnage weight of 780 tons, after removing the six guns again, a total of 75 guns, made the speed of the ship speed faster by half a knot, and the speed of the ordinary wind can also move forward at a speed of six knots, and the slightly stronger wind can push the ship forward at a cruising speed of 8.5 knots.

In a tailwind, it can move at a speed of 13 knots, and in the fastest strong wind, it can reach a speed of 14 knots, and the normal combat speed can also reach a full sail of ten knots.

"According to the final model for me to produce, the Jinling Shipyard must produce two such warships for me within three months, the Hangzhou Shipyard also produces two, and each shipyard of other shipyards learns and manufactures at the same time, and in four months, I need at least two and a half ships from each shipyard, and at most four and a half months, I need at least thirty-six such warships.

At the same time, the personnel of the shipyard that had been studied were dispatched to study the 200-ton reinforced type of clippers, and they studied it for one month, and built it for two months and then went on sea trials, and when the 36 new-style warships came out, they must have two 200-ton escort ships plus ships with communications and patrol functions in each fleet, and such ships must be one to two knots faster than our new-style warships.

When completed, the new fleet will have twelve new warships and two multi-purpose escort ships, for a total of fourteen ships. ”

(End of chapter)