Chapter 140: The Sailor
At the same time that Wang Zhong was rushing to repair the defense line in Daze Mountain, Yang Biao was also rushing to repair the defense line in Laizhou City.
It's just that Laizhou is in ruins, and the progress of repairing the city wall has not been fast.
Fortunately, Tianqi Mountain Kiln Factory has produced cement, and there is cement to repair the city wall, and the progress of the city wall repair has been improved a lot by using the effect of cement rapid prototyping.
In addition, the people in the city were already afraid of the eastern captives, and in order to protect their homeland, everyone scrambled to be the first.
The scarred city walls, urn cities, horse faces, battlements, and arrow towers that were originally bombarded by Kong Youde's artillery were all filled with cement, but Yang Biao was still not at ease, and ordered people to follow Gao Yang's example and increase the original three-zhang high city wall by one and a half feet.
The original 16 general cannons of the Jingbei Army and the 28 artillery pieces captured in Jinan were also deployed on the city wall.
The people in the city brought a large amount of stones and timber from the nearby Tianqi Mountain and Yunfeng Mountain, which were used to make rolling wood and rolling stones.
By the twentieth day of the first month, Su Guodong's sailors also arrived at Diaolongzui, north of Laizhou.
Dengzhou as a coastal defense fortress, from the beginning of the Jiajing period, the Ming court has been committed to the development of Dengzhou Naval Division, to the first year of the Apocalypse, Dengzhou Naval Division has been expanded to Dengzhou Naval Division a total of five battalions and ten outposts, with nearly 200 large and small warships, more than three officers and soldiers.
According to the establishment of the Ming army, each battalion is divided into two sentry posts on the left and right, each sentry has one sentry officer, each sentry is equipped with two Fu boats, one Haicang, two ships, and the rest of the sand boats, chain ships, fire dragon ships, and Cangshan ships are more than 10 ships.
Due to the Leiden Rebellion that began in the fourth year of Chongzhen, most of the warships of the Dengzhou Naval Division were borrowed by Kong Youde or went to Liaodong, and the Mingdenzhou Naval Division existed in name only, and it was not until the eleventh year of Chongzhen that the three battalions were reorganized, but the number of ships was limited.
Su Guodong's sailors only had two fortune boats, three sea cangboats, three ships, and the rest were all small boats such as sand boats and chain boats.
Su Guodong was originally a guerrilla of the Dengzhou Navy Division, after Kong Youde's rebellion, he swore not to surrender, due to the cut off of land supplies, he had to retreat to Liugong Island, after Kong Youde evacuated Dengzhou, the court discussed Su Guodong's loss of the division and abandonment of the ship, and he wanted to resign and behead.
Wen Tiren, who was the first assistant to the cabinet at the time, overrode public opinion, believing that Su Guodong had few soldiers and weak ships, and in the case of Leiden's rebellion, he was able to retain some sailors, which was already dedicated to his duties, and Chongzhen retained his official position and made meritorious contributions to his crimes.
This time, Su Guodong had the intention of making meritorious contributions, and after receiving Li Xingzhi's order, he led the fleet to the sea and went straight to Laizhou.
Li Rui was still full of expectations for himself to be the commander of this water division town, and after Li Xing gave the order, he gathered more than 1,000 fishermen who were familiar with water, but after seeing Su Guodong's fleet, his heart was half cold.
This fucking is called a sailor, and at a glance, there are only five or six big boats, and the rest are no different from those fishing boats that go out to sea to fish.
It's just that the two big ships are really big, and they look like moving walls.
Su Guomei introduced to Li Rui with a fluttering face.
"General Li, how about you see that those two lucky ships are the flagships of the last general? Majestic enough! ”
Li Rui didn't know what warships were, and looked at the few big guys who were constantly shaking in the wind and waves with a confused expression.
The real name of the Fu ship is the Fujian ship, tall as a city, its bottom point, its upper width, the bow of the ship is up, equipped with more than 20 guns, the enemy has a condescending advantage, if you encounter a smaller enemy ship, you can sink it, and the enemy is difficult to attack on the back, the sharp weapon of the Cheng naval battle is also, but because the draft is very deep, can not be docked, personnel need to be connected through the sentinel ship.
The Haicang ship is actually a fortune ship, but it is much smaller than the fortune ship, similar to the sentinel ship, with a draft of about seven or eight feet, and a strong maneuverability, mainly to cooperate with the fortune ship. It is equipped with four thousand-pound Buddha machines, three bowl-mouth guns, six Lumi guns, fifty spray cans, eighty cigarette cans, ten artillery pieces, fifty fire bricks, two hundred rockets, six medicine crossbows, and one hundred crossbow arrows. The crew was fifty-three, nine sailors and forty-four soldiers.
The stern is an attack ship wrapped in cowhide, with strong defense, carrying dozens of brave sergeants, suitable for broadside combat.
The sand boat is a kind of flat ground transport ship, of course, it can also be used as a combat ship, but it is more convenient for landing operations.
The rest of the serial ships and fire dragon ships are all used for arson in naval battles, so I won't introduce them one by one, you can check them yourself, otherwise there is a suspicion of making up the number of words.
In fact, after Su Guodong came to Laizhou, he received Li Xingzhi's appointment of Li Rui as the general of the water division town.
This will also be to use his own warship to annoy Li Rui's prestige, where did he think that Li Rui turned out to be a layman who knows nothing about water warfare.
Li Rui looked at it in a daze for a long time, that is, Ai Ai said: "General Su, this water war, the general also does not understand, although the general was ordered to preside over the water division, go to Huang County, and then use the water division to control the glue and cut off the retreat of the Tartars, this specific command matter, you are still in charge." ”
"This? I'm afraid this is not very good, Li Shuai has a general order, how can he be good at the end of the general! ”
Su Guodong didn't expect Li Rui to give up commanding the water division, as the only few remaining generals who are familiar with water warfare in the northern maritime frontier of the Ming Dynasty, although Su Guodong is conceited, but he is not ignorant of advance and retreat, the Jingbei Army controls Laizhou and Dengzhou, and his own supplies are all supported by land, if he offends Li Xingzhi's henchmen, I am afraid that the future life of this naval division will not be easy.
Li Rui didn't think about it so much, waved his hand and said: "General Su, the marshal is unavailable, this is the general who controls the Shuishi Town, as long as the general blocks the road to retreat from the east and west this time, the marshal will inevitably show the court the merits of General Su, with the relationship between our marshal and Su Gelao, the day of the general's promotion is not far away!" ”
After all, Su Guodong is an outsider, Li Rui naturally won't talk to him too much, and going to Huangxian now is the last word.
"Li Shuai wants to fight the Dongyu, the last general will naturally lead the army to help the war, if it weren't for the lack of ships at the end, we would have killed Liaodong and bombarded the Tartar nest, but the upper reaches of the Jiao River are wide and the lower reaches are narrow, our big ships will definitely not be able to enter, if General Li does not dislike it, you can go to Haicang Island at the mouth of the Jiaohe River by sea with the last general, and when the Donglu crosses the river, we will block the waterway with a boat division."
Li Rui was already curious, and he was overjoyed to hear that he went to Huangxian by water, although he had heard that the sea was high and rough, and if he went to sea rashly, it was easy to get seasick.
However, he thought that he had lived a life in the Baiyangdian area, and it was an offshore voyage, and Ye County was only more than 100 miles away from Huang County, so if he took the waterway, it would be a day or two, and he followed Su Guodong on the boat at the moment.
Clinker, when the fleet set sail, Su Guodong's flagship began to shake, not only on one side, but on the whole ship, back and forth, left and right. There were even waves surging at the bottom of the boat.
After only two hours of sailing, Li Rui had vomited six times, almost vomiting out the yellow bile water in his abdomen, which would lie on the bed on the ship, unable to move.