Chapter Eighty-Five--The Fierce Soldiers
The fifteenth day of the first month of 1867. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The Lantern Festival was originally a happy time for the whole family, but today in the deep-water port near Sanya, hundreds of wooden-hulled warships are moored!
Zhang Yun and a group of high-ranking officials of the Patriotic Army also boarded one of the largest warships, and after months of preparation, those shipwrights finally built nearly 100 wooden-hulled warships.
In this way, the war in Zhang Yun's mind can naturally be started!
That is, to recover Taiwan, and blockade the entire southeast sea area, completely end the Qing government, and obtain arms from overseas, so that you can close the door and slowly clean it up!
This kind of wooden-hulled warship was specially copied by Zhang Yun from later generations, and of course, in order to combine the war mode at this time, some modifications were also made.
After all, Zhang Yun didn't need a front-loading gunpowder cannon as its main weapon.
What Zhang Yun needed was a sturdy vessel that could carry 130 cannons and 155 cannons to the ship.
In this way, according to the appearance of Zhang Yun's instructions, the wooden-hulled warships built were naturally different from the popular ships at this time.
However, for Zhang, as long as it can be used, after all, compared with the front-loading gunpowder cannon still in use in this era, the advanced nature of the 130 cannon and the 155 howitzer is naturally more than 100 years ahead of them......
Therefore, all Zhang Yun needed was a wooden ship that could carry the recoil of two types of artillery, and he didn't need how advanced it was!
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The rumbling sound of artillery is resounding in the sea near Sanya, and at the same time, the soldiers are being trained in water, and tens of thousands of soldiers are driven to the sea by the officers like ducks......
You must know that this is the water of the first lunar day, even in an area like Sanya, the water of this month is not hot.
What's more, add the wooden boat deck, a distance of four or five meters to the sea...... This is sour!
Of course, Zhang Yun doesn't want to deal with these things, since being a soldier must look like a soldier, Zhang Yun is very happy to see the officers under his command and train the soldiers to the death.
What's more, not to mention how to fight Taiwan this time, after conquering Taiwan, Zhang Yun also needs to temporarily form a naval army to help him blockade the entire southeast sea area and completely besiege the Manchu government!
So they will still have to fight in naval battles in the future!
At least until the ironclad warships are built, they need to patrol the entire southeast coast, clearing out the pirates while blocking the claws of the Western powers to the entire East.
Zhang Yun doesn't plan to take care of other places, but in the whole of Southeast Asia, Zhang Yun regards it as his own backyard, and after the ironclad ships are built, Zhang Yun wants to forcibly draw them into his own territory, of course, from now on, they will blockade the Western powers, and they can't let the Manchu government give them blood transfusions......
"Bang Bang ......"
Jumping into the sea from a deck four or five meters high, that thud...... It kept reaching Zhang Yun's ears, which is why Zhang Yun was willing to give up, watch the construction process of the tractor being made, and come to the beach to watch them perform!
Of course, Zhang Yun didn't just let them practice this, although the navy needs good water resistance, but it is just a standard, and it also needs other control techniques, such as artillery and so on......
Each wooden battleship can carry one or two thousand people, such a perverse thing! Only Zhang Yun can come out!
When this batch of old-fashioned wooden warships was built, those Fujian shipwrights said in advance that this batch of ships could not be used for naval warfare, but at most could be used as transportation supplementary ships......
But Zhang Yun was unmoved, Lao Tzu's ship is not used often, the most important thing is that the main attack force of this ship is not the black powder front artillery of this era, so it will create such an inexplicable ship!
After watching the training of the native soldiers for a while, Zhang Yun turned around and left, leaving only one sentence, letting Lu Yongwang, who had made great contributions in the last war, become the commander of the navy.
The original commander of the 11th Integrated Army Corps was appointed by the original chief of staff, and Zhang Yun could be regarded as an explanation of the battle in Zhumadian in Henan.
The clear distinction between rewards and punishments is itself the way of slavery!
On the way back to the factory area, Zhang Yun pondered that now that the navy has been established, although it is a navy that cannot be put on the table, even their warships are not very reasonable.
But none of this matters, no matter how unreasonable the battleship is, as long as it is paired with modern artillery, then in this era when there are still wooden-hulled warships, it can also be domineering!
Although because its design is not very reasonable, the ship cannot sail to the ocean, but Zhang Yun does not need them to sail to the ocean and attack others.
Just as a watchdog, Zhang Yun thought that this batch of warships with modern artillery should be able to handle this task.
Of course, this is also from the point of view of intelligence, the current Manchu government of Taiwan, there are no outstanding figures, and there are not many troops stationed on it.
And it's also funny to say that the current prefect of Taiwan, Ye Zongyuan, was appointed as the prefect of Taiwan in 1863......
And it was also this year that Zhang Yun traveled here from the afterlife......
Recalling Ye Zongyuan's information in his mind, Zhang Yun could only sigh, this Nima is really too much of a coincidence, of course, even if it is a coincidence, Zhang Yun still doesn't want to let him go.
After all, Ye Zongyuan's hometown of Jiangxi was still under the control of the Patriotic Army at this time, and he was born in a landlord family.
Therefore, in the previous intelligence investigation, Zhang Yunyu found out that the Patriotic Army actually had a hatred of exterminating the family and stealing the family with Ye Zongyuan, the prefect of Taiwan!
By the time Zhang Yun found out about this, it was already too late, after all, Zhang Yun didn't want to attack Taiwan now at the beginning.
So I didn't pay much attention to this intelligence, and even before that, I didn't know that the prefect of Taiwan was Ye Zongyuan.
After the Patriotic Army unified the three southeastern provinces, including Jiangxi, it carried out a bloody suppression of many landlord classes......
Therefore, even if it is absolute, accept Ye Zongyuan's doorway, which makes Zhang Yun a little regretful!
After all, it takes dead people to land on the beach, especially now, I am afraid that there are still Western powers who have put their hands into Taiwan.
Therefore, Zhang Yun felt that the Kaohsiung landing battle this time would not be so calm, and other powers would not talk about it.
Britain, which has great interests in China, may not be satisfied for a long time, and the Patriotic Army has seized the eight southeastern provinces, because this will block their financial route.
As early as after Zhang Yun seized the entire eight southeastern provinces, he once issued an order to completely ban opium, which can be regarded as offending the huge empire of the sun never setting to death.
That is, Britain was not ready, so Zhang Yun was allowed to succeed in one fell swoop, and this time, Zhang Yun built ships on Hainan Island, making it clear that he wanted to attack Taiwan, and Zhang Yun believed that the British would not let go of this God-given opportunity......
This is also the reason why Zhang Yun regretted it very much and did not win over Ye Zongyuan in advance, otherwise, if there is a powerful inner body on the island of Taiwan now, I don't know how convenient it will be?
Although the two major spy organizations are constantly operating on the island of Taiwan, they want to buy ...... But so far, he has not bought anyone with status, and it is because of this that Zhang Yun reminds him of Ye Zongyuan again.
"Hey......"