Chapter 376: Set Sail
For example, the formula has been handed over to Li Shimin, and this time it can be regarded as an incendiary tank used to test the effectiveness of naval warfare.
This thing is really touched, and it hurts when touched, even if it is only a little contact with the enemy ship, it can bring huge damage to the enemy ship like a maggot on the tarsal bone.
Who let the sea ships at this time still use tung oil to maintain, brush with tung oil over and over again, in order to better waterproof and anti-corrosion, but at the same time make them extremely afraid of fire.
Even if these incendiary canisters do not fall directly on the enemy ship and fall on the surface of the sea, they can still spread a sea of fire and restrict the movement of the enemy ship.
Under Lin Sen's transformation, even if these dangerous guys collide during transportation, they will not explode, and they will only be detonated if they ignite the fuse, which also contains hydrocarbons.
Combining such a large killer similar to a flowering bullet with a bed crossbow or ballista will have the same effect as the artillery that once dominated the sea in later generations, and it must be a nightmare for the enemy.
If you don't want to cause too much damage, mainly to capture the other party, there are also pepper bombs that have shown their terrifying effects, or mustard bombs that Lin Sen made on a whim, you can choose from, a few shots, you can let the enemy of a ship disarm the combat effectiveness.
These are long-range weapons, if the distance is a little closer, the enemy who can be hit by the bow and crossbow and Zhuge Lian crossbow is suspicious, and it is basically enough to end the battle before the broadside battle.
Even if it really comes to hand-to-hand combat, most enemy ships can be dealt with by colliding.
Although this new flagship is nominally just a big toy for Lin Sen, he is the supreme military commander in charge of the security of the Guangfu side, and some of these weapons cannot be put in the beak.
After seeing everything inside and out with great satisfaction, Lin Sen felt that it was time to set sail, and he planned to personally participate in the maiden voyage of this new flagship, so as to feel for himself what it was like.
Judging from the current situation in Panyu City, if he leaves for a while, there should not be much change, not to mention that he will leave all the elite soldiers behind and continue to perform his original duties.
With the help of the adjutant, Lin Sen will also leave some guards to continue to be the leader, and he can't change the sky if he thinks about it.
As for the sailors of the new ship, it is obvious that they will not be concurrently served by these people, they are all elite soldiers from the north, but they are almost landlubbers when they get to the sea, at least driving boats and boats is definitely not their strength, and there is no need to hone them into sailors, Lin Sen naturally has the right people to use.
In terms of the background of the Lin family, except for those villagers, there is naturally no additional strength, but don't forget that Lin Sen also has Li Shimin, a big backer, this new sea ship is not Lin Sen alone, Li Shimin is also a supporter behind it, otherwise those top shipbuilders would not have gathered in such a little-known shipyard for no reason, and waited for Lin Sen's dispatch.
Using a similar method, without attracting the attention of others, a group of the top sailors, or sailors, gradually gathered next to this new flagship.
Nominally, they are just a normal flow, and they don't seem to have much to do with the Datang official, but in fact, it is obviously not possible to do it with Lin Sen's current influence.
If there are outsiders who are familiar with the major merchant fleets here in Guangfu, they will also find that those experienced and good players who seemed to have evaporated from the world before, or thought that they were normal flows, are actually here.
Of course, Lin Sen did offer them conditions that they couldn't refuse, which attracted them to join, such as new routes full of business opportunities, and their own lives. So even if others notice this, everything seems to be very reasonable on the surface.
After arranging all kinds of possible matters during his absence, telling them to pay attention to protecting those super rice, cumin and peppers, and of course the safety of the shipyard, and then telling Guangzhou Thorn Shi about his plan to sail, it was a report, Lin Sen took part of the guards, and stepped on this new flagship, which he also named "Ping'an", and officially set sail.
There was no cheering and no send-off crowd, just silently, rushing towards the goal of this trip.
However, instead of heading north to his ultimate goal, the Iwami Ginzan of Wakoku, the Heian chose to go south in search of the fabled Spice Island.
The profit margin of this thing is high enough to make many people take risks, and it can also break the monopoly of the big food merchants in this regard, and it is also the one that is most likely to attract many forces to the south, the kind with fatal temptation.
Of course, this certainly means inevitable danger and fighting, and those big food merchants would never mind playing with anyone for such a lifeline.
However, this is also the easiest way for Lin Sen to achieve his goals at the present stage, to disrupt the situation in Lingnan, and to strengthen exchanges and ties between the North and the South.
In addition, huge risks often mean huge opportunities and profits, which is undoubtedly a good opportunity for Lin Sen to rise quickly.
The markets in the north and all kinds of money-making businesses have basically been carved up by the major forces, which is also an important reason why Lin Sen has been developing many things that people have never seen before.
It's not that he doesn't want to join in, it's that there are too many predators crowded over there, and he doesn't have a place to put his feet.
If he hadn't been a great contributor to the conquest of the Turks, and he would have been famous on that steppe, after the caravans of other families began to take that route, I am afraid that the Lin family would have been squeezed out.
And at present, the navigation route has become a fast way for him to quickly grab profits, and in a short period of time, he does not have to worry about those old forces, and the emerging nobles are also squeezing in to get involved, or even leave him alone. This is also an important reason why Lin Sen is so interested in taking the initiative to participate in the first voyage.
Although Lin Sen is not a person who is unprofitable and cannot afford to be early, he is obviously not a selfless dedicating guy, which time it seems that there is less benefit behind the simple contribution to Datang.
Thinking of this, Lin Sen stood on the bow of the boat and happily threw a prickly pear into his mouth, smashed it a few times and felt that it tasted good, and threw a sour jujube, hey, don't say it, it's as sweet in your mouth as in your heart.
It's not that Lin Sen's sense of taste is wrong, but that Lin Sen ate a mysterious fruit before, this cute little guy is just as the name suggests, and it has the mysterious effect of changing the taste of the human body and turning sourness into sweetness, so Lin Sen will be delicious when he eats those things again, but he doesn't like to eat sour.
Isn't it easy to get scurvy because the ship can't get contact with green vegetables for a long time, in fact, it is a lack of vitamin C, and prickly pear, a small thing that doesn't look good, has more than ten times the vitamin C content of kiwifruit, and the content in 100 grams is three or four thousand milligrams, and eating a prickly pear is better than a vitamin C lozenge.
Naturally, a lot of sour jujube seeds and other things are prepared, and they can be eaten as snacks for sailors on weekdays, but these things are not cooked too thoroughly anyway for the convenience of storage, so the mysterious fruit comes in handy.