"My lord, the number of sailors in Longshan is insufficient...... The red-haired ghost has rich experience and strong ships, how can five warships be able to defeat him? "It's not that Shen Yue retreated, the Daming warship at this time is not the opponent of the red-haired ghost at all.

The battleships of the red-haired ghost are generally equipped with dozens of guns.

The four hundred warships of the Ming Dynasty have only two Hongyi cannons, one at the bow and one at the tail of the warship, and the maximum range is ten miles, which is not worse than that of the red-haired ghost, but the number cannot be compared.

This is an era of giant artillery bombardment.

Whoever has more guns wins.

There are no precision strikes, no missiles, and even flowering bombs are rare, let alone armor-piercing shells or anything, otherwise Shen Yue would not want to put iron armor on the outside of his ship in order to protect himself.

"It's okay, we just need to get the traces of the red-haired ghost, and Guanhaiwei Town will mobilize sailors to encircle and suppress it. Western barbarians, how strong can the ship be? I don't know how many times I was defeated by my Daming Water Master back then! Xu Yaozong didn't think that the red-haired ghost's ship was very powerful at all.

It's not that he is arrogant and complacent, but he forgets that the largest 5,000 or even more powerful ships of the Daming Naval Division have gradually disappeared from the establishment of the Daming Naval Division since the beginning of the forbidden sea.

After the forbidden sea, the largest warships of the imperial court were all 400 materials, 17 zhang long, less than 5 zhang wide, more than 3 zhang high, and the draft was one zhang and two feet.

In order to obtain more powerful firepower, the Western colonizers have been constantly developing their warships to large-scale, which is diametrically opposed to the Ming Dynasty.

The red-haired ghost was indeed defeated many times by the Daming Water Master before, and the two sides retreated at the slightest touch, and there was no large-scale battle, which was already an old thing.

The Hongyi cannon of the Ming Dynasty is also a cannon imitation of the captured red-haired ghost, and the Western colonists have obtained huge wealth in the maritime trade, and the whole country has developed the maritime industry, and the development of a hundred years cannot be underestimated.

"My lord, if there is a huge warship when the Three Treasure Eunuchs went to the Western Ocean, the red-haired ghost is a disease of the slender. At present, the largest warship of my Daming Navy Division is only 400 materials, and the 1,000-material ship and 2,000-material ship cannot be manufactured. In the past few days, Shen Yue has learned clearly through Chu Qingqi and others that Daming's shipbuilding capacity has seriously deteriorated.

Daming Longjiang Shipyard originally had more than 400 skilled craftsmen, as well as a large number of military craftsmen and civilian craftsmen in service, mature craftsmen passed on their skills from generation to generation, and Longjiang Shipyard retained the manufacturing drawings of many giant ships.

Since the imperial court banned the sea after the Three Treasure eunuchs went to the Western Ocean, the imperial court ships were scrapped and no longer continued to be manufactured.

As a result, the later it gets, the worse the shipbuilding process becomes.

In addition, during the War of Resistance against Japan and Aid Korea from the 20th year of Wanli to the 26th year of Wanli, the frequency of naval battles in the Korea-Japan War was high, and 2,000 warships and troop carriers were manufactured under the huge financial expenditure of the imperial court, and the number was not much.

The two thousand material ships that Shen Yue got were old antiques at that time.

In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and Aid Korea, the Ming Dynasty paid more than 7.822 million taels of silver, and since then, the imperial court has stopped building large ships again, and the Longjiang Shipyard has been gradually abandoned, and the craftsmen have been lost, and they have been unable to build thousands of large ships.

Nowadays, if you want to rebuild, even if you have drawings, it is useless for a craftsman without rich experience to do it.

What's more, now the imperial court's finances can't support it, and even the money for the bandits, Emperor Chongzhen needs the eunuchs to save it and lend it to him.

To build dozens or even hundreds of ships of 2,000 materials, it takes tens of millions of taels of snowflake silver. The emperor would also be dumbfounded.

"Starting tomorrow, the warship will need to go to sea to carry out tasks while training!" Xu Yaozong didn't think so, he didn't feel that the red-haired ghost was much of a threat at all.

There are not enough soldiers in Longshan, and Lord Xu has more than 200 well-trained private soldiers in his hands, and he can barely use some of them.

"My lord, the ship of Longshan is ......" Shen Yue doesn't care about these things, it has nothing to do with him, as long as it doesn't affect his plans.

"Two ships are yours, and the other two can be transferred if you stop by the way." As soon as Xu Yaozong's words came out, Shen Yue was overjoyed.

"My lord, our warships patrol to the island of Taiwan, no problem, right?" Shen Yue asked.

Xu Yaozong nodded and did not speak.

Shen Yue was even more happy.

Now that the Dutch are here, it is impossible to have a huge fleet, and on the island of Taiwan, the Dutch should only have about ten battleships, and these battleships have to carry out blockade missions, and at the same time have to fight against Spanish and Portuguese armed merchant ships, so it is naturally impossible to act on a large scale.

That way, it won't affect his plans.

The Battle of Liuluo Bay took place near Kinmen, and the distance of thousands of miles from here would not affect Shen Yue's plan.

Shen Yue asked Xu Yaozong to ask the commander of Guanhaiwei Town to transfer twenty Hongyi cannons, but Xu Yaozong glared back with a direct murderous look.

All the cannon casting workshops in Longshan can be cast by themselves, Shen Yue immediately shook his head.

It's too late to say that the Longshan Institute has not cast a cannon for several years, and the cast heavy artillery may explode at any time, if you blow yourself up, who will you cry to?

Wu Dang could only increase the number of giant crossbows to twenty, and at the same time instructed Feng Zhenglun and Ma Liangyu to study and cast improved Hongyi cannons.

A Hongyi cannon weighs more than 3,000 catties, and it is inconvenient to operate on board.

It's best to make a cannon like the Red-Haired Ghost. Nowadays, however, the best thing to do is to find the Spanish armed merchants and get them the advanced artillery.

After returning home, Shen Yue began to select the family members who followed the Shen family according to the standards of the later generations of troops and established Minzhuang.

Shen Yue is a hundred households, but Xu Yaozong was unwilling to let Shen Yue divide his soldiers, so he directly waved his pen and gave Shen Yue a total of people's strength, far exceeding the number of soldiers that a hundred households can command.

Anyway, Shen Yue paid for it himself, and it was no problem for Shen Yue, who had already been commanded to make the adults nod and have official uniforms and seals.

Shen Yue did not tell the family that they had become a people's strong organization, but organized the family members who met the requirements and prepared for militarized training, thinking that they would be resisted, after all, good iron does not hit nails, and good men are not soldiers.

Unexpectedly, all the members of the Shen family enthusiastically responded to the young master's call.

Shen Yue didn't know much about the army, he had never eaten pork but had seen pigs run, and he needed to be at least eighteen years old to join his team, and he didn't want to be over forty years old.

Only 37 qualified personnel were selected from the household, which is a very high percentage.

"Young master, the Lord of the Thousand Households has given a total of five hundred people, and we only have more than one team, isn't it too few?" Shen Jiu was appointed as a clerk, what kind of official is the clerk, he doesn't understand, anyway, he is still doing errands for the young master.

Many people in the mansion were under the age of eighteen, or over forty, and were rejected by Shen Yue to enter the ranks of the people.

Women are even more impossible.

There are many people in the Shen Mansion, and the prime of life accounts for the majority of the Shen Mansion's family, after all, the family members are all in the prime of life, most of them have been in the Shen family for many years, and they are basically the children of the old servants of the Shen family.

It's reassuring to use, and they also believe that it's right to follow the owner.

If the skin does not have hair, will it be attached?