The turbidity waves of the Bohai Sea in May are not a good season to go to sea, but in May of the sixth year of Chongzheng, there are countless ships gathered on the Bohai Sea, there are more than 20 zhang long, can carry more than 100 people Dafu boat, there are more than 10 zhang of the cangship, there are single sailing boats with oars bluffing boats and sand boats, count carefully and fear that there are thousands of ships, it is really a sail covering the sun, the canopy covers the sky, it is not spectacular.

At this time, they did not have a subordinate relationship with each other, and thousands of large and small warships did not gather together, but were divided into a total of five large and small, including the Denglai Navy in Shandong, the Jiangnan Navy in Nanzhili, and the Zhejiang Navy and the Guangdong Navy, the largest of which was the Fujian Navy after Zheng Zhilong's integration, with more than 1,000 large and small ships and nearly 80,000 sailors!

These are still not all of Zheng Zhilong's army, and the 40,000 elites under his command are guarding their son Zheng Chenggong in the Dongda Camp at this time. Of course, the protagonist of Dongdaying is not Zheng Chenggong, the prince of Zhennan, he is just a small follower, and the real protagonist is naturally Zhu Cijiong, the emperor of Chongzheng.

Although the first-class sail battleship has not been built, the naval guns have been successfully developed and officially put into production, and the shipbuilding technology of the Ming Dynasty is not bad, as long as there is no problem with the naval guns, the battleship is actually equivalent to the successful development, and it is only necessary to wait for the hull to be built and the naval guns to be installed.

The formation of a naval army is not something that can be completed in a day or two, and after the formation is completed, it will be equipped with weapons and unified drills, if the naval army is formed after the battleship is built, then I am afraid that it will take until this time next year for the Daming Naval Division to form combat power, Zhu Cijiong naturally does not want to waste so much time, so he decided to start forming a naval army now, equipped with weapons, and unified exercises.

At this time, Zhu Cijiong was standing on the seaside fort of Dongdaying to look at the warships on the sea, and he was followed by a large group of generals, including Shi Kefa, the chief general of the Second Army of the Praetorian Guard, Huang Long, the chief soldier of the Denglai Naval Army, and Zheng Zhilong's younger brother, Zheng Zhihu, the acting chief soldier of the Fujian Naval Division, and so on. Zhu Cijiong asked the generals next to him about the number of people on board, weapons and equipment, attack and defense speed and other basic information of various warships while looking, and after listening to the descriptions of the generals, Zhu Cijiong really had mixed feelings in his heart.

When Chengzu was the ancestor, there were dozens of hundreds of meters long giant ships, and the largest warship is only about 50 meters long, and the number of this kind of Dafu ship is not as much as Zheng Zhilong, who was born as a pirate, Zheng Zhilong's fleet has more than 500 such big ships, and the naval divisions of the four coastal provinces of Daming add up to more than 400 ships!

The Daming Sailor has an absolute advantage in the number of boats, Zheng Zhilong's sailors only have more than 600 boats, and the Daming Sailor has more than 2,000 boats! This is not so much an advantage, but a shame, this kind of low boat that can only carry a dozen people is super fast, eight oars rowed, plus the help of the sails, it is the same as flying, but this has to be offshore, if you go to the ocean, this kind of boat does not need to be beaten by others at all, and it may be overturned by huge waves in minutes.

That is to say, the Daming Sailors can also use the numerical advantage to maneuver with Zheng Zhilong's fleet in the coastal waters, once they go out of the offshore waters, they are not people's opponents at all, and the entire Daming Sailors together can't beat a pirate, which is really a great irony!

And their weapons, whether they are officers or pirates, are all bird guns and earth cannons, and even worse, there are even hooked sickles and hook locks!

Zheng Zhilong also bragged that even the Dutch were not his opponents on the southeast coast, maybe they were people's merchant ships, hundreds of lucky ships surrounded dozens of merchant ships, and they were indeed not opponents. If it were someone's regular navy, it wouldn't need too much, as long as forty or fifty battleships came, it would definitely be able to beat Zheng Zhilong all over the place.

After watching it for a while, Zhu Cijiong felt that he was uninterested, alas, he had to change everything, and he had to spend money. Zhu Cijiong has to rely on the sailors to compete with the great powers for supremacy on the sea, bird guns and earth cannons, forget it, this thing, all thrown into the small blast furnace and returned to the furnace, as for the hook sickle and hook lock, if they are interested, then keep it, at least when capturing merchant ships.

After a little estimate, Zhu Cijiong was distressed for half of his heart, and he was going to bleed heavily, all the lucky ships must be accompanied by at least one 618 howitzer as the main gun, and if time permits, it will be modified, and ten five-inch cannons will be installed on each deck on both sides, so that it is called a battleship, otherwise it can only be regarded as an armed merchant ship. These thousand or so ships alone will be equipped with more than 20,000 cannons, if calculated according to the price sold to Kong Dede, a cannon is 40,000 taels, and more than 20,000 are how much, thinking about the long list of zeros behind is really spurting blood!

There are also these thousands of small ships, it is definitely unrealistic to throw them all, and it is unrealistic to be equipped with artillery, in this way, in order to form combat power, it is necessary to equip the sailors above with well-equipped weapons, to say what is the most sophisticated individual weapon in the Ming Dynasty now, it is naturally the latest type of revolver semi-automatic rifle, nearly 3,000 small boats, even if there are only fifteen or sixteen people on each boat, it is nearly 50,000 revolver semi-automatic rifles!

In addition, Daifuku's ships must also be equipped with musketeers, and even if each ship is equipped with only fifty musketeers, it will require nearly 50,000 revolver semi-automatic rifles.

Zhu Cijiong was originally going to equip the cavalry on the Liaodong side with a revolver semi-automatic rifle first, but now that he thinks about it, it is better to give it to the sailor first, Sun Chengzong is now engaged in the fortress advancement on the Liaodong side, and the cavalry is actually not of much use, and it is the same to equip them when the sailor is finished.

There are still the remaining artillery, and they can't be left empty-handed, each person must always have a revolver to defend himself, plus the artillery on fifty sail battleships, at least 100,000 revolvers!

Of course, he can also not be equipped with such a good weapon, and directly use his life to fight with others, maybe he can win a detachment of only a few dozen battleships of the great powers. But, then, what to do later, this navy is not the army, especially the navy of this era, it is to control the sails, the general army is afraid that it will take several years of training to skillfully control the sails, is he waiting?

He can't afford to wait, so no matter how many guns and cannons there are, they have to match them, and now the entire Ming Dynasty has only 200,000 skilled sailors, and they can't afford to hurt at all, otherwise no matter how many sail battleships are built, no one will drive them, so what's the point.

After considering the issue of weapons and equipment, and then the establishment of the water division, Zhu Cijiong is ready to continue to use the establishment of the army and divide the 200,000 water army into two army corps, or two water divisions.

A naval army dominated by Zheng Zhilong, with an establishment of 100,000, equipped with 25 first-class sail battleships, 500 Fu ships, and 1,500 small warships, with the Fujian Navy Base as the main base, mainly responsible for coastal defense along the southeast coast, and at the same time responsible for protecting the Ming merchant ships in the Indian Ocean region, and transporting weapons, ammunition, and baggage for the overseas garrisons of the Ming Dynasty. As for the name, it is called Nanyang Sailor, Nanyang Nanyang, maybe one day, the whole Nanyang will be the world of Nanyang Sailor.

A navy based on the Ming Dynasty, not enough from Zheng Zhilong's navy, Shandong, Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong all gathered together, formed a 100,000-strong army, 100,000, equipped with 25 first-class sail battleships, 500 Fu ships, 1,500 small warships, with the east of Daying Xingang as the main base, mainly responsible for the coastal defense of the east coast, and at the same time responsible for clearing the pirates and pirates in the East China Sea, preparing for the colonization of Dongying, the name is Beiyang Naval Division, This name is a painful memory in a certain period of history, but in the Ming Dynasty, in the Chongzheng Dynasty, he will surely create a glorious history.

As for the admirals, Zhu Cijiong felt very helpless, and the Daming Navy was also the commander of the Denglai Navy Huang Long, who was useful, how did the other Zhu Cijiong look at it, how did he feel unreliable. is Zheng Zhilong's subordinates, Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Xing, Zheng Ming, Yang Geng, Chen Hui, Zheng Cai, etc., all of them are fierce and abnormal, and they are rare fierce generals at first glance.

In this case, if they are not reused because of their background, but instead reuse some unreliable Ming army generals, they will definitely have a mustard in their hearts. And once these unreliable Ming army generals are reused, the combat effectiveness will be reduced by a grade, the so-called soldiers will instigate one, will instigate a nest, Zhu Cijiong does not want the Ming Water Division to eventually become a tofu scum project, so he decided to boldly use the generals under Zheng Zhilong.

The so-called suspicious people don't need to be used, at least when Zheng Chenggong was in power, there was not a single traitor among these people, so it was enough. In the future, this water division was handed over to Zheng Chenggong to command, and they did not betray Zheng Chenggong in such a bad situation in Nanming, so in the Chongzheng Dynasty, when the situation was very good, it was even more impossible for them to betray Zheng Chenggong.

Since it was decided to reuse the generals under Zheng Zhilong, Zhu Cijiong no longer hesitated, and directly decided all the senior generals of the Nanyang Naval Division and the Beiyang Naval Division. He decreed on the same day:

mentioned Huanglong as the commander and the chief general of the Beiyang Naval Army, Yang Geng and Chen Hui as the general of the General Army, and served as the deputy general of the Beiyang Naval Division; Zheng Zhihu was mentioned as the commander of the Tongzhi and served as the chief general of the Nanyang Naval Army, and Zheng Xing and Zheng Ming were mentioned as the commander-in-chief and served as the deputy general of the Nanyang Naval Division.

As for Zheng Cai, he can only let him follow Zheng Chenggong first, mainly responsible for teaching Zheng Chenggong the knowledge of naval warfare, and also responsible for protecting Zheng Chenggong's travel safety, which is also the rank of general soldier, but he does not have 50,000 sailors under his command, Zhu Cijiong just gave him a thousand brocade guards, if Zheng Chenggong wants to come to the East Camp to learn naval drills, he will be responsible for accompanying and protecting.

Even if the sail division has been formed so far, although the sail battleship has not yet been built, the two major sailors can at least start unified training, and the lucky ship can also start to be refitted, as for the revolver semi-automatic rifle and revolver, when Wang Gongchang builds it, they can also be slowly equipped.

In view of the fact that there are no potential safety hazards along the coast of Daming recently, Zhu Cijiong simply ordered the Beiyang Naval Division and the Nanyang Naval Division to be stationed in Dongda Camp for training, while familiarizing themselves with the operation of naval guns, while renovating the Fu ship, and so on as soon as the sail battleship is built, the two major naval divisions will almost be able to form combat power, and when the time comes, Dongying and the Dutch invaders or something should be careful, Zhu Cijiong has long seen them unpleasantly, and Daming has endured them for a long time!