Chapter 729: The Waves of the North Atlantic

Compared with Chen Xie's busyness, Zhu Cihong's life has become more leisurely and colorful, and it is actually very cool to be an emperor who doesn't care about things. Although there will be many people who are disappointed in him, for himself, sleeping in flowers and willows every day and living with the woman he likes is actually very good.

Chen Xie has no opinion on this, and the matter of handing over the country to a teenager is a very irresponsible thing in itself. But those who say to the young people that the future of the country is yours, what you are going to do and so on, it is up to you to save the world. This kind of person, everyone must be careful, because people who can talk like this must be fooling.

Is it possible for the future of a country to be handed over to a group of young people with little social experience? In history, who is young and ambitious, who is in a high position, which one has a good end? Fighting with a group of old foxes, I don't know how to die. Don't believe in inspirational objects such as Ganluo, young people who believe in this often do not have good results. One must be used as a gunman, absolutely!

Lin Zixin has passed the age of being used as a gunman, and the things he took out are more practical, and he sees the problem more clearly. This is what Chen Xie admires about him, and immediately threw him a form for him to fill out. Lin Zixin glanced at it and was confused, what is this? Chen Xie laughed and patiently explained: "This is an organization, and I call this thing a political party. Broadly speaking, we are all comrades from all over the world who come together for the same purpose. In a narrow sense, this is the main body of overseas alliance politics in the future. The situation of the Ming Dynasty will not be replicated in overseas alliances, and any group that has been in power for a long time will breed many problems. For example, bureaucracy, such as corruption, and so on. Therefore, in the Overseas Alliance, what I advocate is the election of the political party, but also the political party and the political party. Of course, it is unrealistic to do this at this stage, step by step, this is a general trend. ”

Chen Xie didn't say much, the Fuxing Society was originally a crude political group, and many things could not be taken out yet. As one of the main executors in the future, Chen Xie had the patience to explain to him. The other members of the Renaissance Society believe in nationalism and Chen Xie's ideas. Whatever the idea, it is born according to the need. What Chen Xie needs now is to expand externally, and he must not miss this round of plundering that has lasted for 500 years, and there is no fear of aggression and plunder in this era.

Let's put it this way, Chen Xie is reluctant to stay in Daming for more, and the big Cheng dù is that Daming's internal affairs are too complicated, and if you want to go all out to straighten it out, it will be too time-consuming. can only let Da Ming improve himself, and Chen Xie can promote his policies outside with peace of mind. When the time comes, when you see the benefits, you will naturally rush to it. At the same time, the overseas alliance is still a politically independent region, that is, the nominal territory of the Ming Dynasty, which Chen Xie will never give up.

After Lin Zixin filled out the form in a daze, Chen Xie took the form with a smile and said, "From today onwards, you will be a member of the Fuxing Society." In our group, we are all comrades. Our purpose, you can understand as expansion, continuous external expansion, as long as the sun shines, there should be our territory. ”

This piece of pie was painted, and Lin Zixin was directly stunned, feeling that what he wanted to do was so great.

An ideal is an ideal, and reality is a reality. The political reform of the six years of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, under the leadership of Chen Xie, passively moved forward slowly. But the other group could not slow down, because they had already entered the North Atlantic.

The North Atlantic, where the wind is high and the waves are strong, is the most naval place, and when the cold sea water flies with the waves and falls on the face of the fleet commander Li Heng, this rear admiral, who is not yet forty years old, has a resolute and calm expression on his face, and keeps giving orders one by one. The entire expeditionary fleet, the senior commanders were all Chinese, not a single European. It's not that Chen Xie is discriminating, but a necessity. Without its own fresh blood, the hegemony of the Imperial Navy is just an empty word.

"From the charts, it will be two days to get to Lisbon, Portugal. It then crossed the English Channel, then the Strait of Dover, and finally reached the Netherlands to complete the expedition. "Knight, as the cargo owner, has been on the flagship Xinghai. The Xinghai, which has only been in the water for three years, looks no different from ordinary warships, all in the shape of a sail warship.

On this battleship, he followed all the way to Europe, and Knight really realized the special nature of the Ming Navy. The Xinghai, with a displacement of 2,500 tons, actually has only ten guns, who will believe it? Why there were only so many cannons, Knight answered him every question he asked, and even he and other Europeans couldn't get close to the location of those cannons.

Because there are fewer cannons, the comfort of the battleship has been greatly improved, which is gratifying, but he is still very confused. According to his careful observation, a total of ten warships were equipped with the same equipment as the Xinghai, all of which were ten guns, not only at the front and rear ends, but not the traditional structure of opening guns on the side of the side.

The road was also smooth, with only one or two minor storms, and the test for the fleet was not too severe. The only thing that tested the fleet was the boring and boring rhythm of life brought about by long-term sailing. Therefore, at each place of supply, the fleet would rest for a week, allowing the sailors to go ashore separately to vent. Strangely enough, these sailors never had to deal with those dirty diseases, which was the most difficult thing for Knight to understand.

"Spotting the fleet ahead! Fifteen degrees to starboard! "The phone rang, a message from the signalman on the mast.

Li Heng has not received too many tests along the way, this fleet is too powerful, not to mention overseas colonies, even in Europe, they are armed forces that can destroy the country. After entering the Atlantic, everything is different. The wind and waves are trivial, the key is that this place is someone else's territory, not those backward natives, it is a relatively advanced Europe, and it is the place that opened the Age of Discovery. Li Heng has three tasks, the first task is to establish supply points along the way, and this task has been completed. The second task is to visit Europe and show off its military strength by the way. In this day and age, nothing is more convincing than artillery. The third character is to escort the goods, and these are the most minor tasks in Li Heng.

It can be said that the entire fleet is uncomfortable, and they all want to find an eyeless guy to clean up. No one dared to provoke the fleet along the way, and it was difficult to say when it came to Europe. Anglo-Dutch relations aside, the cargo brought on board alone was enough to drive pirates across Europe insane.

"The flotilla was also spotted on the port side!" Another good news came, Li Heng bared his teeth and was happy, it was not easy to finally wait for the Lord who was not afraid of death. The telescope is not a boat or two, the weather today is really good, and you can see the full sails in the distance, which are constantly approaching.

The head clipper has already caught up, this kind of boat is fast, not to think about comfort, and the firepower is two 75 mm guns. The industrialization of the Ming Dynasty has borne fruit in Liaodong, and the navy has been constantly replacing backward artillery. In the case of the Xinghai, there were a total of ten guns, six 75 cannons, and four 105 caliber cannons. At this stage, this cannon is still a relatively primitive rear-loading gun, but the charge is different, not black and gunpowder, but modern explosives and drugs in the real sense, nitrate, acid, sweetness, oil, or the Nobel version. This thing was very unstable at first, but the Daming technology personnel who opened the gold finger didn't have to bother to find the stabilizing agent by themselves. Coupled with the development of industrialization, after solving the problem of metal shells, other problems will not be difficult to solve.

The flags raised by the flying clippers did not receive any response, and at this time it gradually became clear that a total of more than 100 sea ships came, from the left and right ends, pounced on the entire fleet. Who is the enemy? Only skeletons were seen on the flag, no doubt a fleet under the flag of pirates.

There are very few navies in the whole of Europe that are not pirates, and there are no navies that have made cameo appearances as pirates, so are you embarrassed to say that you are a navy? Seeing this formation, Li Heng was so happy that he immediately ordered to hang up the battle flag and prepare for battle.

Knight watched quietly as the entire battleship was busy, and didn't speak at all, he had been waiting for an opportunity. Today's weather is very good, and the pirates seem to be unlucky, which is not difficult to judge from Li Heng's smile.

The two cannons placed on the foredeck, at this time, the gun jacket was taken off, standing more than ten meters away to look at these two cannons, how can I feel very special. The barrel is very long, it seems, the caliber is not very large, and the brazier has not been found, isn't it a pattern of igniting the fuse?

"The enemy ship is two thousand meters away and goes into range." Zhao Guangde, chief of staff of the fleet commander, reminded him, and Li Heng sighed twice: "It's a little far, but there are too many enemy ships, don't take risks." Give the order to fire! ”

Knight, who had a Chinese translator by his side, had already listened to it stupidly. I've fought with the Ming Navy before, and I know that their cannons have a long range, but I've never played such a long way to fire, right? It's between 500 and 800 meters. Now how can you fire from a distance of two thousand meters, in fact, the range of the cannon is far more than that, the key is that it is useless to hit far away, you can't hit the target in vain. After being equipped with the new rear gun, the entire fleet conducted repeated drills and came to the conclusion that the 105-caliber cannon could hit 5 or 6 percent at a distance of 2,000 meters. The firing range of the 75 gun is more than two thousand meters, but the most suitable distance is still about one thousand meters.

The pirate fleet continued to rush forward violently, and at this time the flying clipper patrol in front reacted, not firing their guns, but turning around, making a turn from one side and quickly escaping to the side. There are only ten clippers in total, and naturally they are not used to hit the front. Naval battles in the sail period were often fought for two or three days, which was decided by the battleships and artillery. R1152