Sun Jingting's face was solemn, he had just inspected the ships in the inner harbor yesterday, and knew that as far as the warships were concerned, the eight Hutchison ships were mainly schooners and sail warships, which was a trick, the schooners accelerated quickly, changed quickly, and there was a place to take advantage of one-on-one raids, which was also the place that Dezhnev focused on when he came in the evening. And if the battleship could not retreat at will, whether it was the size and solidity of the hull, or the number of guns, it was far inferior to the opponent's Galen battleship. As for the sail paddle warship, the tonnage and artillery do not suffer, the steering acceleration is more flexible, and it is much cheaper than the Galen ship on the calm sea, but once the sail paddler is hit by the artillery, it may be instantly chaotic, causing the sail paddle ship to lose power all of a sudden, of course, Hutchison's sail ship is to absorb the strengths of everyone, there are mainsails and spinnakers, you can adjust the angle to go downwind or against the wind, but once many sail paddlers have suffered heavy casualties, Dezhnev is not sure, whether he can still maintain high morale, so that he can command Ruyi, The soldiers can continue to fight without fear of death and injury.

"I don't know what the mentality of the soldiers is now." There were no outsiders in front of him, and even Chang Wei, who believed in himself, couldn't help but mutter.

Li Pingzhi hurried over, and after hearing it, he raised his eyebrows and said: "Our merchant army, isn't it even that old Maozi who can't serve anymore, which sect and which one, aren't they boasting to the sky?" In today's battle, our army will win, and it will be a great victory without any suspense! ”

These words are really good, and even Sun Jingting and Zhang Xuwen, who came together with Li Pingzhi, cheered together.

Judging from the daily training, Hutchison's army has won praise from the Russians.

Needless to say, the usual physical fitness, queues, and military posture training are already the top of the world, and no one is qualified to be on a par with the merchant army.

There were not many standing armies in Europe at this time, and decades later, in Cromwell's time, Britain had a debt of two million pounds and tens of millions of taels of silver to raise Cromwell's 20,000 iron cavalry as a standing army. In any era, raising soldiers is a super expensive business, and at this time the largest accumulation of wealth in various countries was the Spaniards, so Spain became a Catholic protectorate, and there was no way, because the Spaniards had a large fist and the largest number of standing armies. Of course, this is also relative, more than a hundred years later, the Spaniards and the French poured their strength into the battle, and the combined military strength of the two sides did not exceed 100,000 people, and the scale of more than 600,000 people in France in the era of the Emperor is not comparable, and there is no way to compare with the casualties of more than one million people in the Battle of the Somme in World War I. Thinking about it, Hutchison is also a year with millions of dollars of silver to raise soldiers, and now a European country has taken out a lot of this money, but a country's expenses obviously cannot be completely used to support the army, there are many other expenses, and Hutchison is the standard first-army policy, and almost all the silver is used by the army, because at this time in the Ming Dynasty, there is no army, and everything else is all empty...... In the Netherlands, Zhang Han was able to form a company and smash out an Asian colony with silver, in Daming, is it possible?

In terms of the strength of the standing army, the Hutchison merchant regiment army has been recognized by Dezhnev and others, but after all, there are a considerable number of recruits in the fourth and eleventh regiments, especially the new army dominated by Liaomin, and they have not experienced the grassland war, and the early military war is still very difficult. Or in the pier, at most dozens of people, facing the pressure of tens of thousands of cavalry, there is no doubt that the psychology of the soldiers is the highest level of tempering!

Hutchison's artillery is still better than the Hongyi cannon of the Ming Dynasty, and the Russians' shoddy things are embarrassed, and they dare not compare.

As for the musket, the gap between the two sides is also huge, Hutchison has been fully equipped with flintlock pistols, and has almost completed the bayonet installation, which is half a century ahead of Europe, not to mention Russia, which has always lagged behind Western Europe.

The cuirass, iron scale armor, piercing armor, chain mail, cotton armor, leather armor, and Hutchison armor are also quite complete, and they are distributed according to the type of troops.

Hutchison's iron cavalry is also unique in the world, and if Europe wants to have cavalry with the same equipment and training level, it still has to be in the era of the emperor, and now, it is still very early.

Logistics system, military industrial system, welfare system, pension system, all of which are to leave Europe behind the boss, this is Zhang Han took the mature system after a few hundred years to change it to the Ming Dynasty to use, all of which are the crystallization of hundreds of years of wisdom, even if the Russians have the same confidence and pride as colonizers, they can only bow their heads here in Hutchison, and honestly admit that Hutchison's army can dominate the world when it comes to Europe.

Chang Wei and the others calmed down a little in their hearts, but the whole heart still couldn't help but hang, the army is the army, but the naval battle mainly relies on the navy and the navy, and it relies on big ships and giant artillery......

Everyone climbed the steps up the tower, the tower was empty, only the spiral staircase all the way up, the bottom was very large, the top floor was very small, and only less than ten people could watch at the top of the tower.

Except for the top floor, there was only one herald with a flag on the tower, Chang Wei stopped the other party's action of saluting, walked to the window by himself, and began to look forward to the left.

The Dutch fleet has been forced to a very close distance, looking at the bulging mainmast and huge sails, it is estimated that it will be able to sail to the sea outside the mouth of the river in half an hour at most, Chang Wei smiled silently, and some ships were parked in the harbor, but they were all small ships of fortune, and when the Dutch arrived at the sea outside the mouth of the stream, the face must have been very brilliant.

However, if you want to win a naval battle, you can't win it with these small tricks, what matters is the strength of your own side......

Chang Wei looked at the telescope to the left and the gun in front of the battery, now the sound of artillery has stopped, the army on land is Li Shouxin to preside over the defense, according to the drill in advance, Li Shouxin will preside over the army defense in the port area, must not put the Dutch on land, there is a large storage area, the shipyard area, no matter what, it can not be destroyed, if it is destroyed there, but the damage is much greater than the destruction of 10,000 acres of farmland, more than a million inventory goods, worth hundreds of thousands of millions of big ships under construction, if this is destroyed by fire, Taiwan has not been able to slow down for three or five years......

A large number of gray-robed soldiers and jumping soldiers in multi-layer iron armor were arrayed on the seawall in the port area, and the array was also quite familiar to Chang Wei and Sun Jingting and others, and they had seen it too many times.

In the middle of the phalanx are pikemen, the position and number of pikemen in each company-level phalanx are fixed, how many times the width and depth are particular, the Dutch have insufficient breakthrough ability, and there is not a single cavalry, so the pikemen stretched the array a little, expanded the width of the line, and reduced the depth, if it is an enemy dominated by cavalry such as the northern or eastern captives, it is necessary to narrow the front, deepen the depth, and prevent the enemy cavalry from breaking into the formation from the front, one company phalanx after another, in front of Chang Wei and others, More than 30 company phalanxes were set up one after another, and a super-large phalanx was completed.

In the middle of the pike, the two flanks and the front of the musketeers, and then the front of the jumping soldiers, to the left and right of the phalanx are artillery positions.

The super-large phalanx of more than 4,000 people was swinged, and it seemed as if not much time had passed.

That's what daily training does.

In addition to the phalanx in front of the port, there were forts along two streams and around the port, which were also strengthened, and two cavalry companies patrolled the fort area to prevent the Dutch from sneaking up and infiltrating from this side.

From time to time, there is the sound of brass trumpets, which is the communication between the various departments with the sound of trumpets.

In the center is Li Shouxin's big red flag, the words of the fourth regiment are in the middle of the red flag, Hutchison has no general flag, only a position, under the regimental flag of the fourth regiment is the supreme commander, under the regimental flag, the battalion flag, the company flag, the squadron flag, and the squad flag are all placed separately, and in the sound of the military trumpet, the departments began to recognize the flag.

Chang Wei looked at it and said, "Look at it, it really makes me feel at ease." ”

"I feel the same way." Sun Jingting said with a smile: "Every time I listen to the horn blowing and waving and the various departments start to respond to the flag, I feel that there is a rock giant tree in front of us to shelter us from the wind and rain." ”

Wang Yan's heart was full of pride and pride, but it was a pity that he, as a staff officer, had to explain the battle situation for these high-level military commanders and change the overall layout at any time, after all, the battle in front of him was not a pure army battle, otherwise Li Shouxin was the supreme commander, and Jiang Kui, the commander of another regiment, also had to listen to him, this war was both sea and land, and the land battle was in a secondary position, and it was possible to bring the enemy ashore if the naval battle was lost, and the Dutch were not stupid enough to go ashore, it was absolutely impossible to go ashore, as long as there were warships to block the coast, The Dutch just waited for the Taiwan marching division to sue for peace.

"Our warships are also starting to leave the port." Chang Wei pinched his eyebrows and said with a very solemn expression.

First, small boats, one after another, slowly sailed out of the inner harbor and adjusted their orientation at sea.

Hutchison's ships are above the Dutch, but more than half of Hutchison's merchant ships are small merchant ships of more than 100 tons, and compared with the Fu Ship Guangzhou ship sand ship, these soft-sailed Western-style merchant ships are not small, but the Dutch merchant ships are generally more than twice the size of Hutchison merchant ships, and the number of artillery guns is also twice as large, so the numerical advantage of five more merchant ships is completely offset, which is not enough to rely on.

As for the warship, it is eight against eight, the Dutch ship is superior in the height of the ship, the materials are exquisite, are the strongest oak for many years made of oak, in some places the knife can only chop a little sawdust down, bombardment up to break a little place, the Dutch and Spaniards and the Portuguese have colonized for more than a hundred years, from the first sail to sail away, the Western colonists have not stopped shipbuilding for more than a hundred years, and Europe has the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean, as well as the Atlantic, the history of navigation is also thousands of years, but was left behind by China in the Song Dynasty, and by this time China had been left far behind.