By the time the Ming Marines landed in Malacca, the battle was already simple. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In this era, there is no city gate that needs to be bombarded continuously with heavy rocket artillery like the Jubao Gate, in fact, let alone the city gate, the 2.5-meter-thick city wall of Famosa City can not withstand the explosion of 80 catties of gunpowder, six heavy rocket launchers are lined up outside the city, and then six heavy rockets drag the blazing tail flame out of the plane, and in the blink of an eye, the opposite city wall collapsed one by one in the earth-shattering explosion.

"Get on the bayonet, rush!"

The commander of the 1st Marine Brigade shouted with a finger.

However, the real battle began after the city was broken.

At the same time that groups of Ming soldiers with bayonet-loaded rifles poured into the city of Famosa through one gap after another, the remnants of the East India Company defenders and armed Dutch expatriates immediately met fiercely with their rifles loaded with bayonets.

These Dutchmen are not Kang Mazi's Eight Banners elite soldiers or the green battalion that is about to collapse at the touch of a button, but anyone who comes to the East to pan for gold, it is a real outlaw, this castle also has a population of more than 10,000, and most of them are young and middle-aged, can pick up arms at any time to participate in the battle, although they were killed by shelling, but there are still more than 4,000 people who participated in the battle against the Ming army, the gap between the weapons of the two sides in the narrow castle was greatly weakened, and the brutal hand-to-hand combat really began.

This was also the first real bloody battle encountered by the Ming army.

The colonists from the West and the warriors from the ancient empires of the East, screaming and colliding together, fiercely stabbed their bayonets into the chest of their opponents, deciding who was the ruler of the land in the splashes of blood, the whistling of bullets, the explosion of grenades, the corpses falling in the narrow streets, the blood flowing on the stone pavement.

This is a bloody battle, this is a contest of courage and will.

But soon the suspense was lost.

Because outside the city of Famosa, like most of the cities in Nanyang, there are also a large number of Chinese, and even those Malays, they will not miss this opportunity to beat the water dogs, the Dutch have been riding on their heads for more than 60 years, how can there be no hatred between the two sides, just when the Ming army entered the Famosa Castle, a large number of Chinese and Malays armed with various weapons also poured out from all over the place, flooding into the castle like a tide, joining the ranks of cruel street battles.

"Not bad!"

Just when the Ming army was fighting the Famosa Castle, their distant hometown, Yang Wangye, was standing on the dock of the Changguo Shipyard, looking at a new ship on trial voyage in the distance.

After years of continuous development, this shipyard has been quite large, although it has not yet set foot in the construction of warships, but the merchant ships built here have long been sailing on various routes, and last year even built a large ocean-going merchant ship with a displacement of more than 1,000 tons. However, because of the problem of domestic timber, the large ships built here still need to import timber from the South Seas, so the cost is relatively high, and the really popular ones are those small inland river and offshore merchant ships, and it is one such merchant ship that is now on trial.

Of course, the trial voyage of an ordinary merchant ship will not attract Yang Wangye, and there are more than 100,000 onlookers, because this merchant ship is different from others.

This is a two-masted sailing ship more than ten zhang long, like the vast majority of offshore ships, equipped with Chinese hard sails, which are far more suitable for the changing wind direction of China's coast than European-style soft sails, and are far cheaper than European-style soft sails, and the vast majority of civilian ships built by Changguo Shipyard are hard sails. But unlike other sailing ships, this one did not have a middle mast, but instead a towering chimney with billowing smoke, and on each side of the chimney, there was a waterwheel-like thing that was constantly turning, and under the drive of these two waterwheels, the wooden boat with the sail lowered actually ran on the sea as if it were a tailwind, which caused a wave of amazement on the shore.

"Twelve miles, even if you don't use a sail, you can run twelve miles per hour, if you add a sail downwind, it is estimated that you can run fifteen or even twenty miles, and you don't have to think about the wind direction at all, even if it is a positive and negative wind, you don't need to slow down the zigzag route. If you use this kind of ship, it is estimated that it will take less than six days to easily run from Changguo to Dagukou, no matter what the wind direction is, and you can also run against the current on the Yangtze River, if our ore ship and coal ship are all replaced by this, then the traffic volume will have to increase by at least three percent. ”

Shao Tingcai pinched his pocket watch and said.

"Then build more."

Yang Wang Ye waved his hand angrily and said.

"But then the coal is strained again."

Shao Tingcai said.

"Don't worry, there are big coal mines in Lunan, and they are really big coal mines, and there are also big coal mines in Xuzhou, don't worry about the problem of coal, we will not lack coal in Daming, and soon this canal will be opened, and you will have as much coal as you want." By the way, you also have to build a special steamer on the canal, this kind of boat itself does not need to be too big, and there is no need to think about any wind and wave resistance, but the steam engine must be large, and it can drag a string of old-fashioned sand boats in the back, like a horse pulling a cart. ”

Yang Feng said.

"This thing is good, we can also use it on the Yangtze River."

Shao Tingcai said in surprise.

"In addition, we lack timber suitable for building ocean-going ships in our country, even if we lay down the South Seas in the future, this kind of wooden ships have no future, the wood needs to dry for too long, and the felling of wood must also go deep into the forest, which causes high costs, so why not use steel?"

Yang Feng said.

"Steel ships?"

Shao Tingcai exclaimed.

"Yes, shipbuilding with steel, Tangshan Iron and Steel Plant will also be put into operation soon, and then steel production will increase sharply, and a new rolling mill is also under development, and the manufacturing problem of steel plates will be solved in the future, so why not use steel plates to build ships? You can study this first, and you might as well build a small boat to test it. ”

Yang Feng said.

"Alright, let's go check out another one"

Then he said.

Another of his is a locomotive.

From the location of the modern Zhoushan city in the east of Changguo to the military port in the west, there is a railway tens of miles long, which is still the most important military port and high-tech center in Yangfeng, and has what can be said to be the largest naval base in Asia. There is also the first steel mill of Warwick Steel, which now mainly produces high-grade steel, and the largest arsenal in Daming, which is still the largest, at least for now, although new factories are under construction in Nanjing and other places. In addition, it is also the largest foreign trade port in Daming, every day domestic and foreign ships continue to dock, the traffic volume is amazing, in order to solve the lack of carriage transportation force, the railway has already been laid here.

Of course, the same horse-drawn railway.

But today, a steel monster spewing smoke is dragging eight flatbed trailers behind it, and is galloping on the railway at a speed equal to that of a horse.

"Lao He, why are your legs shaking!"

Yang Wang Ye stood on the slab, holding on to the railing in front of him, and said with a smile to one of his subordinates beside him.

At this moment, the front of the car in front of him suddenly blew a whistle, and the subordinate almost sat down with a weak leg, and the other subordinates were all nervous, although they could ride their horses and gallop at the same speed, but standing on the more stable train, they were pale with fright, although the current speed was only sixty miles per hour.

Yang Feng built trains, of course, it was impossible to make those rudimentary things, this train, known as the Rocket, was actually a truly practical product, which could tow hundreds of tons of goods and travel at a speed of more than twenty kilometers on the railway. And now they are only standing on a train of people, they can run close to forty kilometers, in this era can be called galloping, after all, the war horse is generally at this speed when charging, but the war horse can not last a few minutes, but this train can keep running like this.

"This is not a big use in the south, and there are many rivers in the south, such a heavy thing ordinary bridge can not stand it, if you build a railway, you have to repair a large number of bridges, in terms of cost is not as good as the inland shipping of small steamers, but if you build such a railway between Qinhuangdao and Beijing with trains, we don't need to worry about the problem of canal freezing."

Shao Tingcai said.

However, his words were quickly blown away by the wind, and it was not until he repeated it again that Yang Wang Ye could hear it clearly.

"Is it just that simple?"

Yang Feng shouted amid the rumble of the train.

"What do you mean?"

Shao Tingcai said.

"How many people are in our car?"

Yang Feng said.

"Four or five hundred, right?"

Shao Tingcai said.

"What if it's four or five hundred soldiers?"

Yang Feng said.

Shao Tingcai was excited, a train pulled four or five hundred soldiers, ten trains are a brigade, and it is also a brigade with enough weapons, ammunition and even heavy artillery, and the speed of 60 miles per hour does not stop, theoretically it can run for more than 1,000 miles in one day and night, what kind of mobile combat capability is this? The mobility of the Mongols' westward expedition is simply scum compared to this, that is to say, as long as there is a railway, everything that originally restricted the Ming army no longer exists, in other words, as long as the railway is repaired, the Ming army can fight as much as it wants!

"Next, this king will build three railways."

Yang Feng said proudly: "One from Shanhaiguan to Beijing, one from Beijing to Zhangyuan, as for the third, I want to repair Kunshan from Luoyang, Hangu Pass, Tongguan, all the way to Xi'an, and then build a port in Haizhou from the port to Luoyang, and completely connect Jiangnan, Central Plains and Guanzhong." Then continue to repair to the west, to Longyou, to Hexi, to the Western Regions, to Central Asia, and all the way forward, to Rotterdam in the Netherlands. One year is not ten years, ten years is not twenty Chinese New Year's Eve years, this king will take the railway station on the north sea when he is alive, every inch of land that the king's train passes through will be planted with the flag of my Ming Dynasty, so that the sun will never set in the sky of Daming! (To be continued.) )