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The sail steam hybrid warship built by Baoshan Shipyard with the same size has soared to 8 knots when passing through the waters of Shanghai County, and then the fastest speed has reached 11 knots when entering the sea and driving at full speed downwind.

With such a speed, not to mention a warship, even if it is a light boat for only two or three people, it will not be faster than this when it is rushing down the river.

"It's really a thousand miles of Jiangling in one day!" Li Hongfei sighed.

Although it is a bit exaggerated, the speed of 11 knots is equivalent to 20 kilometers per hour, and according to this calculation, it can run 480 kilometers a day, which can be regarded as a thousand miles a day.

"Congratulations, my lord, the steam warship has been successfully developed, which not only surpasses all the current sailor warships, but is also on par with the light fast boat. In time, the Yangtze River Naval Division will definitely become the most powerful naval fleet in the Ming Dynasty! Yan Yingyuan said excitedly.

"Okay, this speed is good, but it still needs to be improved." Li Hongfei said thoughtfully.

Such a speed has not yet reached the peak of steamships, and if nothing else, with the power of today's steam engines alone, it is impossible to get on an ironclad ship.

At the same time, there are many places in the design of the Ming Dynasty naval warships, in order to meet the needs of inland navigation, and if you want to enter the sea, you still need to redesign the new warship.

Just when Li Hongfei was thinking about the warship, in the cabin next to him, Xiao Ling'er's eager voice suddenly came: "Princess, what's wrong with you, princess!" Don't scare the slaves! ”

Hearing that Zhu Yujiao had an accident, Li Hongfei didn't have time to think about it, he rushed directly into the cabin, and asked anxiously as he ran: "What's wrong, what's going on?" ”

"I ...... I'm fine, I just feel a little dizzy. Zhu Yujiao whispered.

Seeing Li Hongfei's eyes full of concern, Zhu Yujiao's heart couldn't help but become warm.

"It is estimated that it is seasickness, notify the sailors, reduce the speed of the boat, and we will dock at the dock in Shanghai County." Li Hongfei commanded.

The sea is not as good as the river, and the lapping of the waves makes the warship always shake and sway, and he begs for a living at sea all the year round, but he doesn't feel anything about it.

However, Zhu Yujiao has lived in the north since she was a child, and she is a pampered princess, let alone going to sea by boat, even if she crosses the river by boat, she has not experienced it a few times.

Coupled with the speed of the steamer, it was the first time to take such a fast ship, Zhu Yujiao was not used to it for a while, and it was normal.

Xiao Ling'er is Zhu Yujiao's personal maidservant, and any situation of Zhu Yuanjiao will directly affect her future and fate, so she made such a fuss that Li Hongfei thought something big had happened.

However, Li Hongfei didn't mean to blame Xiao Ling'er, after all, Zhu Yujiao is a princess, and there can't be any mistakes.

It has been half a day since he came out of the Baoshan Shipyard this time, and the basic performance of the steamship has been tested, and the rest is the test of endurance, which is not something that can be completed in a day or two, and Li Hongfei cannot always accompany the ship and wait for the results.

It means that you just need to prove that you attach great importance to this matter, and you only need to look at the statistical report at the end of the rest of the data test.

Perhaps it was fate, the steamship happened to be moored at the Huangjiawan Wharf in Shanghai County.............

"Master Situ, I'm really sorry to disturb you again! Princess Changping was attacked by the sea breeze and could only go ashore nearby, you are the head snake here, can you help invite Langzhong to come and have a look? Li Hongfei pleaded.

Situ Yan is now in front of outsiders, claiming that he is the hall master of the Shanghai branch of the Cao Gang, and Li Hongfei will naturally not debunk the other party, after all, in the past two years, the Cao Gang has provided a lot of information and help to Nanming.

Don't look at the two years that Haoge has been fighting hotly in Sichuan and other places, but the Jiangbei region guarded by Qi Hongying, where the forces of the Qing army overlapped, have always been peaceful.

In the past two years, there have been a lot of small fights between the Qi family army and the Qing army, but there has never been a battle of more than 10,000 people.

Nanming is now developing at a high speed and needs a relatively stable environment to complete the initial infrastructure construction, although Qi Hongying wants to fight, but in the end, under the persuasion of Li Hongfei, he resisted the idea of taking the initiative to attack.

After all, the Qi family army and the Suzhou New Army are ready, but Zheng Chenggong's Third Army, as well as Huang Degong and Ma Shiying's Fourth Army, still need time to adapt to the new tactics and tactics.

Qi Hongying did not take the initiative to provoke the Manchus, but the Manchus wanted to provoke the Qi army, but unfortunately the Qing army itself was also busy.

In the past two years, the Qing army has been busy suppressing the mob in the territory, and there is no time or so many troops to carry out three-front operations.

For the general attack of Nanming, it is necessary to have the division of Haogeban, and after freeing up his hands, he will gather the strength of the whole country and fight with Nanming.

And Nanming's rare opportunity for stable development in the past two years is also due to Situ Yan's Cao Gang.

Under the banner of not helping each other, the Cao Gang continued to do freight business in the territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and at the same time secretly engaged in smuggling business, and food, medicine, and munitions were continuously transported to the rebel army that was engaged in guerrilla sabotage in the Manchu backyard.

The equipment of the rebel army, from the initial shovels, flat poles, and hoes, to the later sabers, bows and arrows, and firearms, the weapons are becoming more and more advanced, and the ranks are getting bigger and bigger, which makes the officials in many areas have a headache, and they have asked their superiors for reinforcements to come and suppress the bandits.

The Qing army in various places was tired of coping, and how could they still have the heart to restrict the development of Nanming.

The Cao Gang helped Nan Ming so much, Li Hongfei naturally had to be polite to Situ Yan.

The princess is not feeling well, even if it has been determined that she is seasick, but just in case, she still has to ask Lang Zhong to come over and check it.

Just as everyone was waiting for Lang Zhong, Situ Yan also began to chat with Li Hongfei: "This ship that is still smoking behind the butt is the latest warship you have researched?" ”

"What do you think?" Li Hongfei asked.

The Cao Gang is a waterway runner, and he definitely knows more about ships than he knows about boats than he does for a layman.

You must know that the only method of water warfare that Li Hongfei knows is an ironclad ship and a giant cannon, and using an ironclad ship to fight a wooden sailing ship is simply an adult beating a child, even if the cannonball is not accurate, even if it collides with the enemy ship with a ramming angle, the ironclad ship has a huge advantage............

"It's fast." Situ Yan concluded.

She was on the dock before, and she had already seen the speed of the warship when it went out to sea, and even the small clippers of the Cao Gang were thrown far away.

"What else?" Li Hongfei continued to ask.

"Forehead........ It's weird. Situ Yan blinked her big watery eyes and said with a serious face.

Isn't it strange to add an extra chimney, as the peasants say, to burn their butts........

"I mean, what do you think of this kind of clipper, where does it fit?" Li Hongfei said.

"The women of the people are only shallow in their studies, how can they know what to march and fight? The women only knew that the speed of this kind of warship under the hands of the adults was very fast, and when the ships passed by earlier, many people thought that something had happened in the upper reaches, and the women wanted to send a boat to intercept them and ask for the specific reason, but they found that they could not catch up with the adults' ships at all. I have heard people say that the speed of this warship has surpassed that of warhorses, and in the future, it will be faster to ride a boat than to ride a horse! Situ Yandong talked a lot about each other.

"Tsk....... It's a shame that you don't know how to fight, but if you know how to fight, it's no problem to be a naval commander. Li Hongfei couldn't help but joke.

Although Situ Yan didn't seem to say anything, Li Hongfei still understood the meaning, this kind of extremely fast warship was definitely the best weapon to rush and kill on the battlefield and disrupt the formation of the enemy ship.

After all, its speed advantage is there, and the enemy's warships of the same level can't catch up, but if they can, they can't catch up with steamships at all.

In addition, due to its speed, it can be used as a fast troop carrier, as long as there is a river in the combat area, the steamship can use its speed advantage to transport soldiers to the designated landing site before the enemy can react, and deal a fatal blow to the enemy.

A warship that can't even catch up with a war horse, it is easy to win by surprise when it lands on the beach.

"The women don't want to be the governor of everything, they just hope that the world can be peaceful as soon as possible, so that the Cao Gang can do business with peace of mind." Situ Yan pointed out.

"Don't worry, it won't be long before the world will be peaceful." Li Hongfei said confidently.

Nanming's military strength has now reached its peak, and if it wants to continue to grow, it needs more territory and population.

How did these territories and populations come from?

Naturally, it was a battle with the Manchus to regain the previously lost territory bit by bit.

"There is intelligence that the entire territory of Sichuan is occupied by the Qing army, and Haoge's army will also return to the DPRK in the near future, and the final decisive battle may be coming." Situ Yan reminded.

The intelligence ability of the Cao Gang was really terrifying, and Haoge's army was indeed in early August, after leaving Wu Sangui to continue to attack the Yunnan-Guizhou region, he led all the Manchu armies back to Beijing via Shaanxi.

However, today is only the third day of the eighth month, that is to say, at this time, Haoge's army has not yet drawn out of the camp, and Situ Yan, who is more than 4,000 miles away, has already known this information.

Of course, the army must have this plan more than ten days in advance, and the key is that the Cao Gang listens to the news of the intelligence and the speed at which the intelligence is transmitted can be said to be very fast.

"The Manchu Qing Dynasty is righteous, and they helped us clean up the remnants of Li Zicheng, and now there is no obstacle, Changsha, Wuhan and other places should also be taken back. As for Wu Sangui, I really want to meet this Guan Ning fierce general! Li Hongfei snorted coldly.

Li Zicheng's Dashun Army has always been Zhu Youzhen's confidant, and it can be said that Zhu Youzhen hates Li Zicheng more than he hates the Manchu Qing.

Before Zhu Youzhen was incapable of what to do with the Dashun army, and then the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs and killed Li Zicheng into a defeated army, and after Zhu Youzhen took power in the south, he could be regarded as having the ability to conquer Li Zicheng's defeated army.

As a result, Zhu Youzhen's side did not make much move, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty actually started a war on both sides, and the troops pointed directly at Nanjing, it was obvious that it was impossible to fight Li Zicheng's peasant army, and the most important thing was to hold the existing territory.

The enemy of the enemy is the friend, and this saying makes a lot of sense.

Li Zicheng was chased by Wu Sangui all over the world and fled, and the last way he thought of was to "Lianming to resist the Qing Dynasty", although he failed to succeed in uniting, but those subordinates, after Li Zicheng's death, were very "resolutely" carried out this order.

They are not stupid, if they dare to go against Nan Ming at this time, it is estimated that there is no place for them in the whole world.

Zhu Youzhen, as the king of a country, must have the belly of the king, Li Zicheng is dead, the remnants of the Dashun army have asked for "joint resistance to the Qing Dynasty", although Zhu Youzhen is a hundred unwilling in his heart, but in order to win the hearts of the people, he has to give those people some benefits, to put it bluntly, it is a blank check.

Because the Nanming and Dashun armies were separated by the Qing army, the two sides could not unite, so Zhu Youzhen was also happy to be idle, and he could sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and borrow the hand of the Manchu Qing to eradicate the remnants of Li Zicheng who made him hate.

Second, Zhu Youzhen listened to Li Hongfei's opinion, kept his head in obscurity, and secretly accumulated strength.

After the Manchu Dynasty completely destroyed the Dashun Army, although it would not hurt the muscles and bones, but its own consumption was also very amazing.

You must know that the battle led by Hauge has been fought for a year and a half, and those Manchurians have already returned to their hearts, and no one wants to continue to stay in the southwest region and suffer?

"I heard that the Holy Lord gave Chen Yuanyuan to the adults in the first place, just to let the adults start a war with Wu Sangui, this war caused by women, I believe it will not be long before it will be staged." Situ Yan couldn't help but laugh.

After Li Hongfei became famous because of the Battle of Nanjing, the deeds of him and Chen Yuanyuan were also known to everyone in the streets and alleys of the people who liked gossip, especially the agreement made by Zhu Youjian to kill Wu Sangui was interpreted in various versions.

Since Wu Sangui surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the Guanning Iron Cavalry under him has not been defeated.

Similarly, Li Hongfei's Suzhou New Army is also victorious in every battle.

Therefore, in the hearts of the common people, they are full of expectations for the battle between Li Hongfei and Wu Sangui.

It's a pity that Li Hongfei has been stationed in southeast China because of the needs of his position, and Wu Sangui has also been relying on southwest China and refuses to move, and the two are too far apart, so they have never been able to fight.

There are even many ordinary people who think that Wu Sangui is admitted, after all, before leading the Qing soldiers into the customs, Wu Sangui in order to clear his name, but he advertised himself as a hero like "rushing to the crown and being angry".

Now the facts are there, his confidante Wu Sangui slept in Li Hongfei's bed, and Wu Sangui wore such a big green hat, but he had been lying in the southwest region and didn't dare to come out.

And some people even pointed out directly that Wu Sangui's surrender to the Qing Dynasty was not for confidante at all, but purely like the rest of the traitors, greedy for glory and wealth.