Founded less than 2 years ago, Ding Haijun, with the promotion of science and technology beyond this era and sparing no effort to promote funds, already has the heritage of a real super city, with a population higher than that of Bianliang, and the per capita output value is many times that of Bianliang.

In feudal society, the value generated by people is determined by farmland production, so that only the basic value of commodities is played, and there are also some high value-added products, but the volume of such products is not large, and there is no difference.

Industrialization, from the very beginning, is completely different from the feudal agrarian society, no work is not rich, this is almost everyone in the new era, even the most basic industry, as long as there is a market, there is sales, the value he generates, is far more powerful than agriculture.

An industrialized city is also very different from a city with more capital and military capacity, and this is the difference between the current one.

Now everything in the Ding Navy is still hidden below the surface of the water, even if it has monopolized the supply of iron in the Privy Council, and even most of the equipment related to iron in the entire Northern Song Dynasty can also be produced by the Ding Navy, but the low-key Ding Navy makes all this unimportant.

When the power of the whole city is inclined to one direction, the power that was born is very terrifying, and it turns out that the project that may take more than ten days to complete is completed immediately within three days.

In 3 days, the boat, which was still a shelf, was immediately renewed, and even the tung oil had been brushed again.

In terms of quality, this ship is very hasty, far from reaching the level of being able to be launched, but due to the leading technology and the premise that the performance in all aspects is very good, there should be no problem in going to sea.

Working overtime, this ship was even completed a few hours ahead of schedule, and took advantage of a little time to launch a wave of seaworthiness.

Even the most stubborn shipwright has to admit that this battleship has great advantages, as long as the sails are aligned with the wind direction, under the premise of full sail, this speed is at least 50% higher than that of Chinese sailing ships, and there is no worry that the ship will roll over.

Ocean captains, they may not understand that on a sailboat, what is the theory of physics, but a stability or something can be felt, the sharp bow breaks the waves, the narrow hull allows the resistance to be reduced to the minimum, and the power is at this moment, the utilization rate reaches the maximum.

In fact, this is also the reason why the sail warship overwhelms the Chinese sailing ship, the maximum speed of the Chinese sailing ship is seven or eight knots, which is about 12 knots compared with the sail fleet, and occasionally can break through the speed of 14 knots, which is not a little bit worse.

Coupled with stable seaworthiness, headwind speed, and survival rate under high sea clearance conditions, this is the fundamental reason why the sail warship overwhelms the East.

The Chinese sailing ship of the Northern Song Dynasty is far from being developed to the limit, and its overall performance cannot be compared with the Chinese sailing ship that has developed to the extreme in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but what Zhao Xin took out was the strongest sailing ship integrated on the basis of the Spanish sailing ship and the Galen boat, even if the volume was reduced, only about 300 tons, which was not comparable to the Chinese sailing ship of this era.

Not only is the performance in all aspects complete, but also the speed is the key to which one is the most eye-catching.

The key to water warfare is speed, why in the water war, to seize the upper hand, to smooth the wind, the reason is that the flexibility of the smooth wind and water is greater, placed on the naval battle, there may be other constraints, but at sea, there is no constraint, as long as it is not island warfare, generally at sea, that is a huge plane, can seize the point from all aspects, then a flexible control of the sail warship, the effect can be played, is much higher than other ships.

Early in the morning, the sky has just dawned, the sun has not fully risen, at this time Ding Haijun, is still immersed in silence, even if it is an industrialized city, the moment to really wake up, is after 7 o'clock, now it is only less than 6 o'clock, from the city's liveliness, at least one hour, at this time in the city, only some cleaners, cleaning the streets.

Most of the people in the whole city are either eating breakfast or simply falling asleep and have not woken up.

In the No. 3 port, the most inconspicuous port of the Ding Navy, almost all the top officials of the Ding Navy were there, and they personally saw off the officers and men who went on the expedition.

Encirclement and suppression of pirates, this is a very small matter, a pirate island is just a pirate island, perhaps, at most, it is the appearance of seven or eight hundred people, such a force, in any patrol battalion in the Northern Song Dynasty, can not be called a big obstacle, compared to the Ding Navy, it really cannot be called insignificant.

This is the first battle of the navy, the Ding navy is located on the island, from the beginning of its establishment, industry is only a foundation, the navy is the key to maintaining them.

Ding Haijun supplied the steel of the entire Privy Council, and also supported more than 9 percent of the steel of the entire Northern Song Dynasty, and the steel mill produced 2 million tons per year, and more than 6,000 tons of steel every day, which represented the old era, that was tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of armor.

In the same way, the relationship between the formula of steel, now Ding Navy, the popularization of 6.3 strong steel, may be difficult, 5.9 and 6 or so, is not a problem, such armor and weapons, for the promotion of soldiers is quite obvious.

Although Ding Haijun is a person, whether it is an old man or a child, he does not refuse and can be included casually, but most of Ding Haijun are here to work, most of them are between 20 and 40 years old, and most of them are adult men.

This part coincides with the conditions for soldiers, that is to say, the population of the Yiding Navy is now close to 1.6 million, and if the army is fully conscripted, the number of draws will definitely exceed the average ratio of the Northern Song Dynasty, and it may not be impossible to reach ten to one.

Ten to one, this is a more common number of troops drawn in later generations, but when this ratio flourished in the world, it was in the era of World War I or modern warfare.

It is only in an industrialized society that there can be a 10 to 1 number of soldiers, you know, according to the half of men and half of women, half of the young and the elderly, and half of the adults, the proportion of adult men in the entire population can reach more than 30%.

Ten to one draw, on behalf of adult men to draw one-third, which is unacceptable for agriculture-based agricultural society, feudal society, a household to draw a ding, is harsh and chaotic, not to mention ten out of one, only into the industrial society, agriculture in the whole society, the proportion of the proportion is reduced, the same woman also occupies a certain labor force under the premise, ten out of one, will not affect the entire national strength too much.

Ding Haijun is already close to an industrialized society, with a huge production capacity and almost no agricultural population, in this case, not to mention a whole army of 160,000, 100,000 is no problem.

But this proposal was directly rejected by Zhao Xin, Zhao Xin's reason is also very simple, Ding Haijun is already quite rich, all kinds of business, has occupied a considerable share of the Northern Song Dynasty, the same, Zhao Xin's own identity, the identity of the royal family, destined to make him unable to do it without scruples, at this time, to get out of 100,000 elite troops, that is not to be criticized.

This view has been supported by everyone, and up to now, the entire Ding Navy's regular army, that is, the regular army of about 4,000, and the semi-militarized militia of almost 6,000 people.

The two add up to 10,000 people, even if it is 10,000 regular troops, for a border military state like Ding Navy, it is not much, not to mention, the Northern Song Dynasty just looks at 4,000 people on the surface, these people, no matter how elite they are, are nothing.

At that time, the root cause of Zhao Xin's persuasion was on the sea, and the army on land, no matter how well it was hidden, at best, it could only hide about half, that is, if Zhao Xin wanted to get 100,000 troops, at least 50,000 people would be placed on the surface, which would cause turmoil in the government and the opposition

The Navy is different, except on ships, on land, the Navy can't see anything, uniformity has never been the focus of the Navy, technical and unique handling performance, is.

In this way, the navy can be completely hidden, even if there is an outbreak of 100,200,000, on the surface, it is just a large number of ships, and ships are not considered an army until they realize the important role of ships.

Ding Navy, there is only such a big place in total, even if it is hidden, where can it be hidden, with the size of the Ding Navy getting bigger and bigger, the split is certain, the Ding Navy is too small, only by occupying Taiwan, and then adding many islands in the open sea, can everything in the Ding Navy be hidden.

This battle is simple to say, but it is the basis for the expansion of the entire Ding Navy, even if all preparations are made, there are some apprehensions.

In the port, this is not perfect, there are not even cranes and tower cranes in several ports, after a night of intense loading last night, all the supplies and personnel have already been on board, this is a fleet.

In front of the entire Ding Navy hierarchy was a huge ship in front, while on the other hand, 12 much smaller ships were guarding the surroundings.

300 tons, converted to nearly 9,000 materials, cannot be regarded as the largest ship in the entire Northern Song Dynasty, but it seems to be larger than some ships with more than 10,000 materials.

The reason is very simple, the sail, and the Chinese sailing ship is different from the layout of the sail, so that the whole ship seems very incongruous, compared to the Chinese sailing ship higher hull, above, is a layer, like a cloud, the layers of sails, dense layer after layer, and quite high, in short, it looks quite mighty.

The other ships, the largest of which is 1,500 materials, look like only one-tenth of this at most, and in front of it, like a baby.

Some of the high-ranking officials of the Ding Navy still saw this ship for the first time, they didn't know much about the navy, and they didn't know much about it, but it was a small pirate, and even the Ding Navy had not come to attack and disturb it since its establishment, so you can imagine the strength, this time, the Ding Navy was like an eagle fighting a rabbit, and used all its strength.

In addition to sailing ships, 12 ships are currently in the best state of the Ding Navy, and they are also the largest, with the highest tonnage of 1,500 materials, and the lowest one, almost 1,000 materials, which does not sound big, and the sea ships rarely start with 1,000 materials, but these are all warships, which are bought directly from the patrol battalion.

Previously, due to the lack of capacity of the Ding Navy, these ships were slightly refitted, or directly used as transport ships, but now, they are all converted in a few days.

As Zhao Xin's bodyguard and the top of Ding's navy, Sun Ji was not on the shore, but on the ship, he was leading the attack force, but he was not the commander.

Sun Ji is an excellent general, with first-class personal qualities, and he can be regarded as good for leading the army, but he does not understand water warfare, let alone naval warfare.

In fact, in the Ding Navy, there are not many people who know naval warfare, but it is not impossible to find out, and this time the captain who is also responsible for leading the team is also the captain of such a sailing ship, and he is one of them.

The captain of this sailing ship is Zhang Zhonghe, because of his outstanding performance last time, as well as the high rating in the entire Dinghai Navy, he was appointed as the captain of this sortie, he controls the sail warship, is the captain of the detachment, at sea, he has the right to decide and command, and the orders he gives will be passed to other ships through the flag, and other ships must cooperate with him to act.

This sail battleship was completed urgently, and it has not even been completely completed, and it is difficult to say how much power it can exert in the middle.

The entire navy has even stopped sea trials, and all the skilled hands have filled this fleet, especially the flagship.

Ding Navy, because of industrialization, the transportation team is very large, and the shipping was built later, but because of the waving copper coins, there are many who are willing to come.

If it is a fleet of Chinese-style sailing ships, let alone 13 ships, even if it is more, it can be made up, and the fleet of pure sea ships, the Ding Navy already has as many as 100 ships.

But the sail, this is a completely new thing, there are many simple ways to control, fortunately, before the Ding Navy, the training of warships, at least for a long time, put the sailors of those projects together on one ship, and then with some skilled ones, finally let this ship fill the battalion.

A real sailboat, not the previous one, a half-sailboat, its control, needs the help of many people, only perfect control, can really play the sailboat's pass, the most important thing is speed.

The speed of the wooden oarboats can reach almost 6 knots, which is not comparable to the speed of the sailing boats at full strength.

This sailboat, with enlarged sails, can almost reach speeds of more than 10 knots under the premise of tailwind, but once there is no wind, or the wind is light, the speed will fall.

Choosing to attack this pirate island, this initiative is on the side of the Dinghai Navy, he can start a war in a more suitable place, in this way, they should be in a windy advantageous position, and they can play the full role of the sailing ship more perfectly.