The fifth volume destroys the barbarians and sweeps the world

The doppelganger lacks skills, indeed, Qin Haoming has also felt this way recently.

With the gradual increase in the number of men and horses, there is no longer enough generals under his command. The original guards have all been released, but it is still not enough, and the expansion of the team is too powerful.

Rubbing his face and signing the official duties sent by the chamberlain, Qin Haoming decided to meet a few Portuguese shipbuilding technicians invited from Macao.

It should be said that up to now, the Portuguese are no longer the same as when they first arrived in Daming, relying on Macao under the pretext of drying fishing nets.

During the Apocalypse, they established the Central Fort, the Mazu Pavilion Fort, the Dongwangtai Fort, several warships, and two cathedrals, and garrisoned the army in Macao to collect taxes and preach, and to raise Ming slaves.

When the Dutch attacked Macao in 1623, the Ming servitudes played a big role.

The Ming court even reprimanded local officials because the Portuguese kept Ming slaves.

However, nothing has changed.

Because at this moment, the Ming court had a great demand for cannons and other sharp weapons in Macao, and it became demanding.

Of course, Qin Haoming has his own ideas about Macau, but it's too early to say this, let's learn technology first!

Since it took a few days to see the Portuguese group and others, their faces were very unsightly.

Although there is enough wine and meat in the past few days, no one talks to them about business, and they are still invisibly left out.

But when I saw the attendants and special service personnel around me, they were all heavily armed and fierce, and they didn't even dare to let out a fart.

"Garcia, Murridge, O'Do...... It's an honor to meet Lord Qin! ”

The Portuguese name is the longest in history, and in general, the name of an ordinary citizen is often composed of fifty or sixty letters.

In addition to the father's surname and the name given, the mother's surname, the godparent's name, and the grandparent's name must be added up, which makes people speechless.

"Call Herrera here."

Qin Haoming directly ignored this translation and went straight to the topic.

These Portuguese have been in Daming for many years, and they speak Daming dialect with a unique tone of devils, and Qin Haoming is very unaccustomed to listening to it.

"I don't know what the strategic purpose of Lord Qin's shipbuilding plan is?"

It is estimated that Wang Senfeng of Mawei Shipyard has communicated with him, Herrera asked politely.

"Our future opponent is the Dutch!" Qin Haoming looked at him and said, "Master Ben doesn't want to use Da Ming's boat to defeat them by setting fire or jumping into the gang.

That would require a large number of troops and relevant personnel to ensure logistics, as well as a lot of training and actual combat.

What Ben Marquis wanted was a bigger warship than the Dutch, better and more artillery, and he could defeat them at sea. ”

Herrera exclaimed in a low voice, "Dutchmen, sea coachmen, we Portuguese can't even think of it. ”

The situation in China's southern waters is complicated, and there are forces from all countries.

Not to mention Zheng Zhilong's navy, the most powerful is the Dutch East India Company established in Batavia, which has more than a dozen large warships and a large number of merchant ships.

Then there were the Spaniards, whose maritime supremacy was gradually dying out after the fall of the Armada.

But at this stage, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the Spaniards can still make a lot of profit from the ship lines from South America to Luzon to China.

It's the Portuguese again.

Qin Haoming smiled and said, "Mr. Herrera, our Daming has a large number of talents suitable for naval warfare, which is far different from your reserve of maritime talents......

Lord Ben knows that the gentleman is an outstanding shipbuilding and seafaring talent, but do you Portuguese ordinary sailors have enough reserves? ”

That's the advantage of the population!

However, it lacks the advantages of technology!

The Zheng family's warship only had one bow gun, and at most a few small guns, and this kind of warship could not be compared with the Dutch Galen battleship with dozens of guns.

Thankfully, naval warfare also had to take into account various complex factors such as wind speed and waves, and the artillery of this era was not very powerful after all.

There are too many examples of a naval battle in which the ships on both sides were hit by dozens of bullets and then staggered home for dinner.

The naval battles between Britain and Spain were mainly gang jumps and broadside shooting, and artillery was of course useful, but it was not as big as expected.

If you have many experienced and advantageous sailors, the elite sailors who can jump into the gang to do war, in fact, are enough to run rampant for decades without engaging in large warships.

It's never too late to defeat the enemy first, and then slowly make up for it.

It's just that Qin Haoming can't wait!

Because, although the Portuguese navy is weak, it has the technology that Qin Haoming covets, that is, sail warships.

Of course, its peak was still two hundred years later, when the casting technology of artillery and gunpowder and shells caught up, and naval warfare began to become extremely dangerous.

The loser is often the death of hundreds of people on a ship, unless the enemy has mercy and rescues them at sea.

However, this kind of chivalry on the sea is rare after all, and most of the sunken side ends in tragedy.

When the steam-and-sail warships appeared, it was a naval battle on another level, and at that time, hundreds of years had passed since the white-skinned men of Europe set sail in the sea.

In the past, the Zheng family's sailors defeated the Dutch by using a large number of small boats, small gunboats, arson boats, and a large number of experienced sailors to jump into the gang.

But jumping on the sea is not as simple as thought, the two ships collide together, and they have to jump over the moment they grab the side of the ship.

On the other side is an enemy who wants to tear you to pieces, and under your feet is the boundless sea of wind and waves, and it is impossible for an inexperienced or courageous soldier to carry out such a combat mission, and it is impossible to win at all.

If Qin Haoming wants to have tens of thousands of excellent sailors, he will have to operate for at least two or three years.

Sailors are not like land divisions, and they can be trained and fight two battles.

Without the experience of living at sea and fighting wars, it is impossible to train a good navy by training.

If there are top shipbuilding talents, plus sailors who are accustomed to the wind and waves at sea, and train a group of qualified gunners, they can compete with a maritime power like the Netherlands in the South Seas, which is nothing more than throwing silver!

After all, East Asia is not the center of Dutch interests here, and now the Dutch and the British are at war in Europe.

It took decades for the two sides to go from tentative shots to big fights.

If the Dutch sent their 20,000 merchant ships and a large number of warships to East Asia, Qin Haoming would have no choice but to wash and sleep.

Of course, Qin Haoming would not say these things.

"Then please ask Lord Qin to look at this first...... This is the design we got from the Dutch......"

Herrera's words were still hard to hear, and he held a large stack of ship blueprints in his hand to show Qin Haoming.

It doesn't matter what Lord Qin says, the most important thing is to have silver, they have traveled thousands of miles across the ocean, isn't this just for this?

"Well, it's not a sailboat?"

"Of course not...... Herrera said, pointing to the drawings, "It's just a concept now, and I don't plan to build it in Portugal."

In the Netherlands, there is only one two-masted model ship, and if such a ship could be built, it would be able to sail much faster than an ordinary galleon.

The effect is very strong, I think Lord Qin will understand it when he thinks about it. ”

Qin Haoming smiled slightly, this foreign devil, do you still want to test yourself at this time?

He didn't think about it for too long, the sailboat on the drawing in front of him had a long hull, but the bow and stern did not have the bow design and stern of a sailboat, and they were not sails.

It simply consists of a small spinnaker and a two-masted shouker, so its lightness and the multi-faceted force of the sail make it lighter and faster.

The ship is a representative of a light sailboat, but Herrera's blueprints also include the location of the guns.

There are more than a dozen guns on both sides combined, and this number and thin hull will definitely not be used to compete with serious warships, so its role is obvious.