While comprehensively inspecting the weapons of the navy, Xiao Ruxun also took a sailor general to the ship in person, and felt the feeling of firing artillery on the ship. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Then, according to the actual situation, Xiao Ruxun judged how many large and medium Franc machines the No. 1 Fu Ship could carry, and how many large and medium Franc machines could be carried by the No. 2 Fu Boat, and allocated the equipment to the sailors from the artillery in his hand according to the proportion.

And Xiao Ruxun also saw the strongest artillery of the Ming Navy Division at this moment, which was a large artillery improved by Chinese craftsmen in the late Jiajing period on the basis of the Franc machine, cast in copper, each weighing about 500 catties, with great power, not only the absolute killing weapon of the Ming Army's naval division, but also the strongest artillery that the land army could use, and it definitely belonged to the European artillery of the same period.

However, due to the miniaturization of ships in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, they could not withstand the recoil of high-powered guns, and once such large guns were used on small warships, the huge recoil would even disintegrate the hull, and this problem has not been well solved.

Until the end of Jiajing and the early years of Longqing, the guerrilla general Peng Xingu invented the artillery anti-recoil device, which used soft frames, retaining trees and large ropes to suppress artillery recoil, which solved the technical problems of small boat frame cannons and improved the shipboard firepower of the Ming Dynasty navy.

Rao is so, because the power is too strong, so the loading is also very cumbersome, the general naval battle is too late to load the second shot, directly to turn the bow with the hull of the Fran machine gun to start shooting, the practicability of the hair is greatly limited, the firepower of the Ming army sailors is still difficult to improve.

Xiao Ruxun could only use the ready-made Franc machine gun to enhance the firepower of the Ming warships, ensuring that each main battleship had no less than fifteen guns, so as to guide the Ming army sailors to start to get out of the ancient tactical system of gang jumping warfare, with firepower and range as the main pursuit, and forget about gang jumping operations.

The Japanese naval division did not have ship-borne artillery, which was the best training object, so that the Ming sailors could see with their own eyes whether there was any meaning in the gang jumping battle under the threat of large artillery tactics.

The only thing worth worrying about is that if the Japanese army uses large-scale fireship tactics, the main ships of the Ming army are heavier than the Japanese ships, and the action force is not very strong, if the shipborne artillery cannot accurately sink the Japanese fireboats, then there is still a little trouble.

At this point, Xiao Ruxun asked Yi Sunsin, according to Yi Sunsin, the Japanese army did not seem to be very good at using fireship tactics, and they were the most basic gang-jumping tactics, counting on hand-to-hand combat to defeat their opponents at sea.

Yes, if the Japanese army had used large-scale fireship tactics, Yi Sunsin would not have been able to defeat the Japanese naval division so many times, after all, the tonnage and physique of the Korean sea ships were not below the Daming naval division, and all that was lacking was firearms and equipment.

And Xiao Ruxun's words seemed to make Li Sunsin have a deep feeling, looking at the fierce artillery, Li Sunsin began to think, if it was himself, would he be able to deal with the enemy ship under such a firepower disadvantage?

The Ming Dynasty suffered losses in contact with Westerners, not to mention Korea, which even Japan could not win?

Six days later, Xiao Ruxun put the situation of the entire naval army in order, and when the rectification was almost complete, he announced that he would hold a sea exercise, using 30 small rafts as imaginary enemies and two No. 2 Fu boats as the main force of the Ming army, and these two Fu ships each had the firepower of 15 guns.

With standard water battle tactics, first of all, the salvo of two big hairs, this kind of formation really surprised Xiao Ruxun, after all, he had never seen big hairs before, he had only read about them in books.

Now that I have seen it with my own eyes, I know that the main cannon of this naval division is indeed very powerful, the range must be two miles, and the lead weighs four catties.

The first firing of the ship's bow gun destroyed six wooden boats, and then the ships turned their course, began to march from the side, and aimed the side gun holes at the wooden ships, and the Franc machine guns on the ships began to ignite and fire, one salvo and two salvos, and a dozen buckshot smashed the wooden boats fiercely, and before the second salvo, the enemy forces represented by these wooden boats were finished.

Since the Japanese Sailors did not have artillery, the Daming Sailors could completely pull away and scold them fiercely outside the range of the iron cannons in the hands of the Waikos, so the Waiko would definitely desperately rush forward to seek an opportunity to engage in close combat.

At that time, the Ming army's naval division turned its course according to the established strategy and bombarded it fiercely with sideways Fran machine guns, and if it could not defeat the Japanese naval division in one fell swoop, let the turtle ships under the command of Li Sunsin and the black ships of the Ming Dynasty dispatch and smash them fiercely.

The Itaya ships under the command of Yi Sunsin were incorporated into the main fleet, but Li Sunsin himself was appointed by Xiao Ruxun as the chief general of the combined fleet of close-quarters turtle ships and black ships, and Li Sunsin had no complaints about this, in his opinion, this was Xiao Ruxun's affirmation of his previous achievements.

Xiao Ruxun also re-armed the only seven centipede ships of the Daming Naval Division, making them the direct fleet of Chen Luan, and told Chen Luan that this is the real main battleship of the Daming Naval Division, and when the situation is critical, you can dispatch this fleet to bombard the Japanese ships indiscriminately, don't be stingy with shells and gunpowder, and bombard me with one mind until all the Japanese warships are sunk, and then you can salvage and behead me at will.

The sailor also relied on the decapitation to remember the merit rather than the number of enemy ships sunk, which made Xiao Ruxun a little crying and laughing, so the Daming sailor also had an additional fleet dedicated to salvaging the enemy corpses in the water and dragging them up for decapitation, which was a bit funny.

Seeing the use of large artillery tactics at sea, Chen Luan's belief in traditional tactics was shaken a little, and the sailors felt the blow under such firepower, thinking about whether this kind of water warfare tactics that abandoned gang warfare was worth their full application, and thinking about the gains and losses of doing so.

They did not participate in the first wave of Portuguese eastward arrival during the Jiajing period, and most of them did not catch up with the second wave of Dutch eastward arrival, and were in a relatively stable period, and it was in this relatively stable period that the power of the Western navy began to greatly exceed the strength of the Ming Dynasty sailors, which eventually triggered the second maritime crisis of the Dutch eastward.

After several battles, although the Ming army and naval division won, it was a disastrous victory, and the Ming government was tired of dealing with the enemy at sea, so it had to recruit Zheng Zhilong, a sea merchant, and the political history of the Zheng family began.

It is conceivable that this period of relative stability is the only opportunity for the Ming Navy to catch up with the Western Navy, Xiao Ruxun's plan is to use the stimulation of Japan's gold and silver trade to keep the Ming Navy alive all year round, and directly contact with the Dutch who are trading with Japan at this time, try to introduce some of the current maritime technology of the Netherlands, and after returning to China, gather craftsmen to finalize the flintlock pistol and heavy artillery technology, and begin to upgrade the weapons of the Ming army.

The army takes the route of flintlock pistols and cannons, and the navy takes the route of artillery and giant ships, and all of this cannot be bypassed the government's decision-making, and the decision-making of civilian officials, which is also Xiao Ruxun's biggest headache, he is a military general, he has not participated in the political power, and all the proposals so far have been written by Song Yingchang and Ye Mengxiong, but it can't always be like this, right?

How to take back the power of ordnance from civilian officials is the biggest problem Xiao Ruxun is currently facing.

Only by taking these things back from the hands of civilian officials can the road of upgrading weapons and institutionalization, industrialization and sophistication of ordnance production be formed, and the Ming Dynasty can slowly get out of the quagmire of the guard system.

PS: Let's smash all kinds of tickets!