The experience, materials, and cost of shipbuilding all combined to create the Dutchman's majestic eight large warships.

At the forefront, the flagship was the Batavia, with a displacement of more than 600 tons, and in Asia, this ship was already quite large, and the small fortune boats used by the Chinese to cross the river were just enough to hang on the side of this big ship as an emergency boat.

After Batavia is the House of Cruninsing, which is also an old acquaintance, in recent years, the Dutch are mainly these large warships on this side, its capital ships are six, sometimes with armed merchant ships, a fleet of more than a dozen ships can deter one side, the last time and the Ming Fujian Navy Division war, this is the trick used, but when the Daming Naval Division, the Dutch did not requisition the merchant ships or warships passing to the European mainland, and its capital ships are as many as eight, all of which are warships of the same level as Batavia, There were two ships of a larger model than the Batavia.

Of course, most of the Dutch ships at this time were two decks, the first layer was more than ten guns, and the corresponding sides were nearly thirty guns, and the hammocks under the deck were the space for guns and ammunition, and then down were cargo and ballast.

Hutchison's coastal defense force is not weak, each of the mountain stone as the base, masonry as the body of the battery is placed on a few heavy guns, after the start of the artillery to send out the alarm, the artillery crew members have been ready to prepare, there are at least 15 or 6 batteries along the coast, each interval is about a mile, the sea around the port is more than ten miles within the defense of the coastal battery...... The forts were all 24-pounder or 36-pounder guns, all of which were huge cannons painstakingly forged by the Hutchison Firearms Bureau, with new guns, good workmanship, and improved gunpowder, with an effective firing range of about three to four miles.

With these coastal defense batteries, of course, it is also an effective support for the fleet, Sun Jingting and Chang Wei looked at the inner harbor on the right, and the sail warship over there also came out, and a sail warship raised the flag, obviously Dezhnev had already announced that he had taken over the command on the ship.

There should be no resistance to Dezhnev's command of Hutchison, after all, whether it is shipbuilding or sea training for such a long time, the daily command is the Russians helping Hutchison to slowly get on the right track, and the Portuguese hired are far less concerned than the Russians, after all, the Russians have an alliance with Hutchison, and when they can go depends on whether their results are good or not, unlike the Portuguese, foreign monks ring the bell, knocking a day is a day, knocking a day to receive a day's silver, there is no need to be too serious, too serious.

Under the flag, the eight battleships gradually gathered together and lined up in the center, all the battleships were lined up in a neat column, and they had not yet entered the battlefield, so the battleships were not swinging in the direction of the side.

The sailing operations of this era are still quite clumsy, and the headwind state can only adjust the angle of 60 to 70 degrees, once the formation is set, it is difficult to make maneuver adjustments, even the most experienced boatswain sometimes have a headache, and if you want to use the wind to adjust the direction of the battleship at all times, the most experienced people may not dare to pat this chest.

Sixteen small merchant ships were also gradually put into place, and the whole fleet was a large horizontal formation, straddling the turquoise sea.

"It seems that Dezhnev is going to use a two-ship tactic." Chang Wei couldn't help but get nervous, but he looked at Sun Jingting with an ignorant expression, and still explained to him: "Naval warships are mainly used to suppress the enemy by shelling, if the shelling is successful, causing heavy casualties to the enemy ship and losing control of the warship, then approach to continue to kill with firearms, and then get close to the gang, control the enemy ship, or scuttle the enemy, or capture the enemy ship." Generally speaking, if you want to capture an enemy ship, it is mostly one-on-one, at most it is a small chaos of several warships, and in a large melee of dozens or hundreds of warships, it is too difficult to capture the enemy ship, and it is generally scuttling.

"The enemy ship is no more than ten miles away." Wang Yan observed the Dutch fleet for a while, and said, "They have no tactics, that is, nineteen ships come in order, with the small ships in front and the big ships behind. ”

Chang Wei laughed dryly, his voice sounded hoarse, and he said: "It will take half an hour to fight, we haven't eaten breakfast yet, do you want someone to send some up?" ”

As soon as the cannons and drums sounded, everyone ran to the center of the marching division, who could still take care of eating, wouldn't it become a rice bucket.

Only then did I remember that this naval battle was different from land warfare, and the land battle was almost ready to start when he saw the enemy. Moreover, land warfare generally begins to prepare at dawn, and then the main forces step forward one after another, and the enemy is the same, when the two sides can see each other, it is almost about to start a battle, first a small army is tentative, and then the main force fights on the right battlefield...... Unlike the naval battle, the Dutch ship was discovered about twenty miles away, and then the alarm was loud here, and everyone was very nervous, and when they went up to the high platform and watched for a long time, they found that the Dutch ship was still ten miles away......

Li Pingzhi explained to Sun Jingting in a low voice at this time: "My lord, the speed of the warship is about half an hour and ten miles, and according to the distance between the Dutch ship and us, it is estimated that it will take an hour to reach the sea surface of the port area, and our ship will be able to catch up." ”

Sun Jingting felt that this young man deliberately wanted to get closer to him, but he didn't stretch out his hand to hit the smiling person, so he nodded and said, "I see." ”

Chang Wei said to Sun Jingting at this time: "The Dutch people do not have a sea warfare, the small boat in front is to let the boat eat the cannon first, if the flagship is hit in front of a few cannons, and has to be repaired behind or withdraw from the battlefield, it will be a big loss, so as long as it is a large fleet with many ships, it is generally an ordinary merchant warship sent to the front to charge, and it is difficult to fire at each other when the battlefield turns to the side, and it is difficult to fire at the hull of the ship before it can be fired, even if the waves shake left and right when the cannon is fired, it is easy to hurt the gunner, and there are too many things to kill or kill their own people." Therefore, the best way is to anchor and fix the hull, so that when you fire, it is more powerful, and you don't have to worry about hurting your own people. ”

Sun Jingting only had a feeling of opening up at this time, and he said sincerely: "No wonder it is said that the knowledge of naval warfare is also deep, it turns out that there are these Taos in it." ”

Chang Wei nodded and said, "It's really very knowledgeable...... The method of column and horizontal salvo fire mentioned by the adults is indeed relatively advanced, and Dezhnev said that the Europeans are also engaged in this thing, but it is still on paper and has not been put into practice. Even if you use the battle line method of battle, how to enter the battlefield is also learned. The Dutch swarmed in this way is a way, and there is also the possibility of first setting up a horizontal formation, longitudinal when moving forward, and then using the spinnaker to turn the rudder to engage on the side of the battlefield, which has the disadvantage of being easy to be attacked by the enemy first when swinging away. There is also the two-ship combat method, the two ships are forward in a column, and the large fleet is divided into a number of small fleets, whether it is to open the side or forward, the two ships can ensure that all ships are not attacked by the enemy at the first time, and they can also use the method of two ships to flank the enemy to have more enemies and fewer enemies...... I think Dezhnev is using the two-ship method against the enemy. After all, although our ship is small, it can outnumber and few. ”

"Also," Li Pingzhi added, "there are also T-shaped tactics, horizontal team tactics, and two-ship tactics, which are the most commonly practiced maritime tactics in recent times." ”

Chang Wei said: "This is all the eldest brother personally drew the atlas, in addition to the horizontal team, the T-shaped battle method and the double ship battle method are the big brother's idea." ”

Sun Jingting was a little puzzled and said: "I also know your eldest brother, and he is also a soil leopard who has never seen the sea in his life like me, how can he even know this." ”

Chang Wei laughed and said, "I also asked him, and he said that he saw it from a book." ”

"That's." Sun Jingting didn't mean to save face for Zhang Han at all, and scolded with a smile on the spot: "I can go in and turn around many times in the study of Xinpingbao in his house, and I don't know how many times I have looked for the secret cabinet in the corner, just to find out what tricks and tricks there are, and see what kind of books the gods gave to the Zhang family in Xinpingbao, so that Zhang Wenlan is smart and God-granted, and he knows everything in the world and knows everything." As a result, he searched and searched, but he found a gray face, except for the four books and five classics, the idle books and notes added up to less than fifty books, which were left by his father and ancestors, Zhang Wenlan himself did not buy a single book, even now, he has not seen a few books as an adult. Oh, by the way, what Water Margin, Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West, Tang Legend, Xiaolin Guangji and other words and idle books, he read it with relish, I see him, even children may not be able to pass the test, it's really strange, there are really people in the world who are smart and gifted, amazing, strange! ”

If you want to talk about the whole Hutchison, except for Li Shenming, that is, Sun Jingting dared to laugh and scold Zhang Han so disrespectfully, this is a friend, a boss, and a friend.

At this time, someone came up with breakfast, of course, there is nothing to eat in this condition, just a few pots of water, a few white-flour steamed buns rolled with stewed slightly rotten braised pork, Sun Jingting took it, Chang Wei said with a smile: "This is really slow, but the situation in front of me can only be like this, fortunately, Brother Xiaozheng has always been not particular about eating and drinking......

Sun Jingting said with a smile while eating: "You just have delicacies from the mountains and seas, and I won't change them with you...... It's strange to say, we northerners just like to eat pasta, eat noodles all year round, to the south these days are all to eat rice, no matter how good the food is not the appetite is not good, do not eat a few steamed buns always as if you are not full, eat rice after an hour to be hungry......"

Chang Wei laughed when he heard this, Li Pingzhi and Zhang Xuwen are also Wan'er, of course they and Sun Jingting feel the same, it is indeed difficult to eat rice and be full, even if they are full for a while, they will be hungry soon after, only this kind of steamed bun in their hands, even if it is kneaded with miscellaneous grains, it tastes much more fragrant than rice.

"It's weird." Zhang Xuwen said with a smile: "Brother Wenlan likes to eat rice, it's weird. ”

"Wen Lan is very human," Sun Jingting said, "We can only be regarded as laymen." ”

"The military secretary has planted a lot of rice fields on the grassland." Chang Wei said: "I knew after I heard about it, this must be what the eldest brother needs." ”

"Not really." Sun Jingting said: "Your eldest brother is not such a greedy person. Besides, how much he can eat in a year, and what kind of rice he can't buy when he sends people to buy in Beijing, Zhangjiakou also has it. Rice planting is an experiment done by the Department of Agricultural Administration, and the selection of excellent rice seeds to the Kuandian side, where the land is fertile, the water source is abundant, and the yield of rice is much higher than that of wheat, and the profit is much stronger than planting only one season of wheat and then planting some miscellaneous grains. ”

"I see." Chang Wei was relieved when he heard this.