Zhao Shimin went to sea for more than a month with the flagship and two new 1,000-ton main warships, and the four new-style warships under construction in the dock were also completed and launched one after another, and the shipbuilder began the construction of the next batch of nine warships. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Huang Sheng knows the direction of this world, the development of the navy is the only way, as long as there are a large number of advanced warships, invincibility at sea is just around the corner, even if a main warship costs 50,000 taels of silver.

It is worth it to keep building and more than one year after another, and it is worth breaking the bank, with a strong navy based on the island, the Huang family will be invincible, and it will be able to accelerate its development with the windfall profits of sea trade.

I won't fail, my strength is growing every day, no matter what opponent will be finished sooner or later, let's not rush to take it slow for a while, the empire of the sun never sets is worth looking forward to.

The Huang family also specially built nine whistle horse boats, such clippers are too easy to build, only more than ten steps long and three steps wide, and they began training in the spring, and this time they all followed a trip to Japan.

The Sentinel Horse was equipped with a four-pounder smoothbore gun that could flexibly rotate 300 degrees in the bow, with a crew of 13 people, a high-powered telescope, three telescopes, and four new guns.

The thirteen crew members are all-rounders, each capable of handling the sails, lifting guns, firing guns, loading, and if necessary, four or eight people pedaling to manually drive the propellers to make the Clipper faster.

The captain and the first and second officers will know the flag, understand the lighting code, and be issued with a double-barreled short gun.

Such a new type of sentry horse ship can completely enter the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and some large inland rivers, and it is also completely possible to enter the Grand Canal, which is used to transmit information, and long-distance reconnaissance is too suitable.

Although the sentry horse ship is small, its combat effectiveness is not weak, and it is impossible for a small ship like this to be equipped with guns, at most, it is not possible for a small ship like this to be equipped with guns.

And the bow of the Huangjia sentry horse was actually wrapped with a white copper plate and equipped with a four-pounder gun, so the clipper used the mangu style of play, and it was completely possible to defeat the No. 2 Fuchuan equipped with four to eight guns in a slow and willing way.

And it will be invincible, and the speed of the lucky ship is a bit like a tortoise and a hare race compared to the whistle horse ship.

After several months of drills, it has been proved that the combat effectiveness of the new sentry horse ship is not weak, the cost performance is very high, the cost is cheap, and the cost price will not exceed 3,000 taels of silver after mass production.

Zhao Shimin also has such a plan, the cost of a main battle ship can make more than a dozen sentry horse ships, but if it really starts, ten sentry horse ships can easily defeat a lone main battle ship.

Zhao Shimin is still trying to increase the use of white copper plates and iron decks, and strive to successfully build an all-iron armored warship as soon as possible, and the production of more than ten steps long I-beam keel is already pediatric with the technology of Huangjia Iron and Steel Plant, but the dense seam riveting technology between iron plates is not foolproof.

He plans to build an ironclad sentinel ship first to see the effect, and then build a big battle ship after accumulating experience.

It is of great significance for the Huang family to go to the South China Sea to open up trade routes this time, and they can only win and not lose.

Huang Sheng decided that all the warships were dispatched, and the new main warships were the main striking force, and Huang Sheng in order to remember the shame of the Han people, the new main warships were named after the Daming city that was slaughtered by the slaves in his memory, although those massacres have not yet happened.

The family left all the cavalry and five hundred heavy infantry. Only the heavy infantry of the whole brave and 100 soldiers fought with the fleet.

All the musketeers, grenadiers, and field artillerymen, as well as the 200 intellectual young artillerymen who had just begun their apprenticeship, set off with the ship as marines of the Marine Division.

Originally, there were 3,600 sailors and gunners on all warships and ships ready to transport goods, but now there are more than 7,000 medical personnel who are temporarily supplemented with men and horses and logistical support personnel who are preparing for land battles. Because Ruan Dan, Shang Muming, Li Guixiang, and Li Ximing all took the students to the south with the army.

The total tonnage of all the seagoing ships dispatched this time exceeded 50,000 tons, and there were 80 horse-drawn ships and 15 No. 2 fortune ships used to transport goods and people, and they had no combat strength and could only barely defend themselves.

There are nine sentinel ships, 24 grass skimming ships, 12 renovated and upgraded No. 2 Fuchuan-class warships, as well as six new-style main warships and the flagship "Liaodong" as the main attack force.

This time, Yang Wei Nanhai, the Huang family has a total of 147 large and small ships that have been strengthened and accelerated to participate in the operation, which is completely the result of these years of ingenuity and recklessness.

In the first month of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, he took millet from the fire on Juehua Island, selected more than 300 good ships, and rescued thousands of sailors and gunners, and in the autumn, he fought pirates and obtained eight Zhuyin ships of the same level as the No. 2 Fu Ship, and three No. 2 Fu Ships, and rescued hundreds of sailors and gunners.

Due to the harmonious relationship with the Liaodong Economic Strategy, the warships supplemented by the Ming Dynasty, a water camp in Huang Mingli District, were actually mixed with nine grass skimming boats, more than 30 horse boats, and some small warships.

With such a fleet, the Huang family can already fight against any group of South Sea pirates, and they can also wrestle with the Dutch, Spaniards, and Portuguese, after all, they have limited ships in the Far East and are far away from their homeland.

If Li Guozhu is dispatched, there should be no less than the number of warships that went to Edo Bay last time to show off their might. It shouldn't be a problem to teach Zheng Yiguan a hard lesson, it's impossible to annihilate him, the South China Sea is so big, if they suffer a loss and hide, where can they find it?

Those who stayed at home were small warships that were not suitable for long-distance voyages, cargo ships with negligible force value for transportation, and work boats that produced canned and dried marine fish.

Now it is not entirely the fishermen and fishing boats of the Huang family who are fishing with these working boats, and too many fishing boats of fishermen in Liaodong and Denglai have been hired by the Huang family with their boats.

Many of the fishermen of the Huang family have become sailors, and the fishermen of Denglai actively accept the selection every time they see the Huang family recruiting, after all, the fishermen who go out to sea to fish in this era come and go, and there is no income in the future.

These people are not afraid to fight as soldiers at all, and the mortality rate of going out to sea to fish in these years is no different from fighting in the army.

When he became a sailor of the Huang family, he became a member of the Huang family, and he had a stable military salary, and the family could get an income, and he would definitely work to ensure food and clothing.

Recruiting fishermen as sailors naturally gets twice the result with half the effort, but unfortunately there are not too many people now, after all, the proportion of sailors and gunners in the population of the Huang family has been too high on a large scale several times, and there are still many people who have not been able to return to their old jobs, and they must be solved first if there are vacant positions.

Many of the immigrants from Dongjiang Town, who worked as laborers on Huangjiashan Island, had worked as gunners and sailors, and Mao Wenlong's artillery was limited, so it was impossible for them to drag their artillery to Liaodong when they were fighting guerrilla warfare.

There were too many former Ming gunners and sailors in Liaodong who fled to Dongjiang Town, and their combat effectiveness and physical strength were not as good as hunters, lumberjacks, and miners, so these people became a burden to Dongjiang Town, and they were treated as landless peasant immigrants to the Huang family.

Being able to shoot a cannon does not mean that you can fight well, but as a smoothbore gunner on a warship, as long as you are bold and careful, you can make up for it quickly.

In naval warfare, the warring sides will shell each other at close range, which is a job that is no more ruthless than the skill of the other, and the fast loading, more artillery, and large caliber are basically won.

Therefore, the new generation of knowledgeable young artillerymen is trained to operate field guns and rifled guns, and they will gradually become artillery commanders after accumulating experience, and then hold study classes to retrain the old artillerymen, and these old artillerymen are also slowly growing, because everyone in the Huang family is learning culture.