Chapter 564: Preliminary Preparations

Zhao Xin in the current Dinghai, it can be said that he is full of words, among the people who are fighting for the Ryukyu below, there are only a few people who really understand the meaning of this Ryukyu, and under his forcible order, this order was quickly passed.

Among the four people, Xue Yu is just an envy, Sun Ji's ability is stronger than him, and his ability in government affairs is the same, if he can only choose one, Sun Ji is the best choice.

Wang Xue is a little unhappy, from the beginning of the arrival of the Dinghai Navy, Wang Xue and Zhou Zhong are the first batch, standing out from the crowd, the innate foundation, plus talent, let them come to the present.

The port area and the industrial area, it cannot be said that the area is more important, they are all about the same.

I thought that the difference was like, if he worked hard, maybe he could overtake in a corner, who would have thought that it would be like this.

Of course, there is no way to change what Zhao Xin has decided, Wang Xue knows this very well, and next, only by doing his duty, maybe, what opportunities will Ryukyu have?

Zhao Xin brought everyone together, in addition to discussing such a Ryukyu matter, the other thing was also a preparation for war.

Although there is no news of the actual attack, after encountering the natives, it is almost certain that the war with the natives will be inevitable, how big the war will be, and what kind of impact it will have on the situation of the navy in the future, but they must be fully prepared.

This is not the first battle of the navy, but it is a war that spans 2,000 miles away, there are too many uncertain factors, if a large number of sail warships are completed, it will be better, but now, these sail warships have not been completed at all, then there are variables.

The Chinese sailing ship, in the past time, has been basically determined, showing very good results, coming out of the Northern Song Dynasty and unifying the navigation industry of the whole of Asia, but it does not mean that it is the most suitable.

Why, even the South Seas, Arabia, and Africa, which are far away from the ocean, can be visited, but the Ryukyus, which is close at hand, were only recovered by Zheng Chenggong after the Dutch occupied and developed.

The longer the voyage, the greater the danger that may occur, and the Yuanmeng swept across the world, making the Europeans call the existence of the Yellow Peril, but instead, the fleet attacking Japan was capsized by a strong wind.

At the end of World War II, when fighting with the United States, the kamikaze agents who had no choice but to appear were desperate, on the other hand, it was not this kind of implication, hoping that the kamikaze of the year would appear again to save the precarious Japan.

The Sea of Japan, close to the open sea, has a large wind and waves, and a little energy convergence will produce huge wind and waves, but this is the Taiwan Strait.

Although there will be a tropical storm passing by, which is also one of the causes of the alpine people, it will be after April, after the temperature has increased significantly.

This is not the time when tropical storms are frequent, and there are very few well-documented tropical storms in history during this period.

This is one of the reasons for reassurance, Zhao Xin doesn't want to see it, he has concentrated a lot of energy, and the army sent out to fight against the great power of nature is not an order of magnitude of energy at all.

The Dinghai Navy is now very large, from signing orders with the Privy Council to now, a huge business team, all over the Northern Song Dynasty, from the Dinghai Navy all kinds of products, is subtly changing the entire Northern Song Dynasty, money and production, which is not a problem for the Dingjun.

Soldiers are the biggest problem, and the relationship between the previous and the sea is that the navy is only cautiously increasing the number of troops on the original basis.

There are almost 7,000 soldiers in the entire Dinghai Navy, of which more than 3,000 are immobile, and they are guarding the fortresses scattered all over the Dinghai Navy.

A huge island, that is, with a big killing weapon like a fortress, can use such a small number of people, and the guards are impregnable, but when the number of personnel is reduced to a certain extent, it can not be less, if it is rotated, 3000 people, it is already very low.

Among the remaining 4,000 people, some of them need to help the navy to make sea attempts, and there are scattered consumption in other aspects, and the entire navy can be mobilized, that is, between 2,000 and 3,000 people.

Turen, what kind of state is it, in the information sent back before, I haven't seen the news about the invasion of the Turen, but even if the natives of the whole island are in place, 2000 regular troops are enough to solve all the problems.

This point, not only Zhao Xin knows, but also the people who are responsible for the expedition to Sun Ji Zhou Zhong and others are also very clear that with the current level of armament of the navy soldiers, even the elite of the Liao army can be one-to-many, not to mention that there are no natives even with iron tools.

But what bothered them was not the problem of combat effectiveness.

War is not a simple number of combat effectiveness, if we really want to compare numbers, look at the number of armies on both sides, look at the weapons and equipment of both sides, and we can get results.

It is not for nothing that hundreds of thousands of troops are coming, and they are finally defeated by tens of thousands, in addition to the tactical operation, supply and logistics, are the most important.

Even if it is an army of hundreds of thousands, under the premise of losing logistics, the other party, even without attacking, as long as it takes two or three days, they are so hungry that they can't walk, they will take the initiative to surrender.

In the past, in the Ryukyus, with the efforts of the transport forces, under the hunting of those reconnaissance teams, there was enough food for the Ryukyus, enough for 400 people, to eat food for three months, which sounds like a lot, but when 400 people become 2,400 people, this number will be greatly reduced, it will be reduced to 15 days.

Ryukyu is not anywhere else, and it takes a month to travel back and forth once, and if there is a problem with one ship, these vanguard troops are in danger of running out of food.

Previously, there were only 400 people, and on the Taipei Plain, which was rich in natural resources, with the grain accumulated before, as well as some of the income from hunting and gathering, they could hold on to the basin.

However, with 2,000 people in place, the total number of people suddenly increased from 400 to 2,400, an increase of almost 6 times, and the time that can be supported is less, and there is not enough food in the Taipei Plain.

Compared with arable land, grazing is a very low carrying capacity of work, to feed a person, the need for more land than good land, and compared with grazing, it is even more insufficient, even in some wild animals in the mountains, to support the life of hundreds of people, let alone more than 2,000 people.

This is an unprecedented large-scale troop transport, and it is also a large-scale transportation that cannot be transported through Quanzhou, or in other words, most of them cannot be transported through Quanzhou.

In the past, one of the more important cooperation between Dinghai and Quanzhou was to lease a huge piece of land and build a large warehouse and port in one of the ports in Quanzhou.

The former is no problem, as long as you buy land, the latter, is rejected, from buying to renting.

It seems that the simple change, for the Dinghai Navy, the impact is very large, there is no independent port and warehouse, there is no way to secretly transship, Ryukyu involves many things, at present, even if the construction speed of Ryukyu is reduced, it must be kept secret, it is because of this.

In a few months, at a certain rate of development of the navy, even if you are not a professional, as long as you have enough support, you can already complete the construction of various houses and accumulate more things.

Unfortunately, there are only 4 ships that carry out the transportation tasks here, and not only do they transport less things each month, but they are also very susceptible to other influences, such as the summer monsoon.

This time it was an expedition, the army was sent, and there were a large number of supplies, except for some simple, invisible, military civilian supplies, such as food, such as some timber vehicles, etc., which could be transferred through Quanzhou, and the rest, from soldiers, weapons, to some sensitive things, must be shipped directly from the Dinghai Navy.

This is a very high requirement for transportation, sometimes, Zhao Xin can't help but sigh, this time point is too coincidental, if you wait for a month or two, all aspects of the construction of the Ryukyus will be completed, even if it is encountered, it is better than not considering the rescue, because at that time, there are at least more than 2,000 people in the Ryukyus, and in the same way, after a month or two, the completion of a large number of sail warships can also provide huge protection for direct shipping.

Many things, there is no if, Zhao Xin knew that it would be like this, it was not as good as at that time, when the first batch of personnel was dispatched, he took the risk of sending more than 3,000 people, and 3,000 people plus some tools of the fixed quota could complete these buildings in a short period of time.

The thought of regret just turned quietly in Zhao Xin's heart, and then dissipated.

The current Zhao Xin is the envoy of the Dinghai Navy, he is not the one, the little prince who was hunted down, he is the one who controls more than 1 million people, the huge Dinghai economy, and he deals with many things every day, and he has no time to sigh that he did something before, will he regret it.

It's not terrible to do something wrong, it's terrible to cry and grab the ground, as long as you find the reason and change the problem in the right way, it's okay.

The current situation in the Ryukyus is far from deteriorating to the extent that nothing can be done, and the reinforced concrete buildings, even if they are like the Northern Song Dynasty, have siege equipment, have heavy infantry, and have considerable siege advantages, are not able to be captured in a short time.

The reinforced concrete walls, which are stronger than the city walls, are more than 15 meters high, and these two have already added a lot to the defense of the city, not to mention the windows that can shoot arrows.

Under the premise of the iron bar ban, although the angle of shooting is small, it can also be shot, this area, it seems to be a loophole in the entire building, but there are not many people who can really take off the iron bar, after being reinforced by screws, forcibly taking it off, no less than taking off a piece of iron from another piece.

300 elite warriors, as well as the premise of preparation, there is no shortage of water and supplies in all aspects.

In the relationship of long distances, a large number of things such as food are relatively restrained, but in terms of ordnance, they are complete.

The most important thing for the longbow is the longbow, and the only thing that is transported from the Dinghai Navy is the arrow and feather, and the problem of the arrow shaft is easy to solve.

Among the various trees common in the entire Northern Song Dynasty, select some as alternatives, and then through a special machine, you can easily complete the processing, not to mention tens of thousands a day, but in four or five months, even if only some people specialize in this, more than 1 million long arrows are stored.

300 people, 1 million long arrows, can shoot almost 3,000 rounds, even if the battle is fierce, it can support a long time.

The longbow is somewhat similar to a thermal weapon, relying on range attacks and coverage, such an attack is very combative, but the hit rate is often not high, unless it is a real elite shooter, otherwise, all personnel of the longbow team must follow the order to carry out a covering attack.

In this way, the hit rate will not be very high, but even if 50 arrows kill one person, 1 million arrows, it is enough to kill 20,000 people, as long as it is not the kind of thing, completely suppress the Dinghai Navy in it, so that he can't get out, there is no problem.

It seems that 1 million arrows, based on the current relatively low hit rate, is almost 3-5%.

With such a hit rate, in a battle, at least 30,000 people may be killed, and the number of natives will be even higher, and the natives of the Ryukyus will at least have more than 100,000, or even two or three hundred thousand.

The huge land and the richness of the mountains make the population multiply very quickly, even if it is this provoked native, conservatively estimated, there are at least more than 10,000 people.

If you shoot an arrow, you consume an arrow, and the result is of course like this, the quality of the long arrow is quite high, and the average long arrow, if it doesn't hit the bone, or the stone, such a super hard thing, shot in the soil, on the tree, basically, can be recovered, as long as the war continues, the power of these weapons to burst out, very terrible.

Under Zhao Xin's order, the entire Dinghai Navy, like a clockwork machine, began to operate, this unprecedented expedition, and the materials were secondary.

The huge Dinghai Navy's current industrial production capacity, commercial operation capacity, and logistical supplies for 2,000 people have even increased by 10 times, and they can be scraped together in a short period of time, and even a little more.

But the 2,000-mile voyage, some of which was in the ocean, not in the coastal waterway, transporting a large number of military fleets, far from the harbor, but far from the harbor, what if something went wrong?

This is a huge test for the transportation of the Dinghai Navy, not only the need to select a ship that is reliable enough to safely transport this group of soldiers to the Ryukyus, but also the work of secrecy, which is not an easy problem to solve even for the current Dinghai Navy.

As long as the problem arises, work towards this problem, and always find a solution, under Zhao Xin's forcible order, everything moves forward in an orderly manner.