Huo Lianshan is not a person who can keep his duty, and he is not prepared to do his duty.

Huo Lianshan thinks: Anyway, his master is to ensure that there are no problems in the west, as long as he does things around this goal, he should be almost the same.

Now this hellish place is all hilly plains, and all the way to the west.

The plains are covered with a network of rivers, numerous lakes, and abundant water and grass, which is the most suitable area for cavalry activities. If the enemy has a cavalry unit that suddenly appears, it is dangerous.

After weighing it, Huo Lianshan decided that leaving Meng Dawei's 800 men, plus 360 men from the two forts, should be enough to control the Surman River Valley.

In this way, the main force of Naliburai, more than 3,000 people, should come in handy.

With this in mind, Huo Lianshan gave an order, and Naliburai led more than 3,200 people of the invincible battalion to continue westward, with the aim of completely taking the town of Sylhet and controlling the east-west corridor of the northern plains.

At a time when the Britons might have come over, Huo Lianshan made this bold decision because when they came all the way, the so-called Mughal Empire did not have any decent army at all.

According to Naliburai's report, after they came out of Manmo City, they fought a total of three battles and annihilated more than 2,000 enemies, which was not even as good as the slave soldiers on the side of Mengyang who saw the courtyard.

In Naliburai's eyes, the Mughal Empire was not called an army, it was just a group of ignorant farmers, even similar to savages.

Although these people are not afraid of death, it is estimated that the woodcutters in their hands cannot even kill wild beasts. Because of this, the three battles in which more than 2,000 enemies were annihilated were all carried out by Meng Dawei's 800 cavalry.

Naliblay led the main force to follow, and all they saw were the corpses of the enemy, not a single living person.

Huo Lianshan's decision to advance the defensive front to the west for three hundred miles, leaving himself with a wide margin for maneuver was certainly not harmful for the future.

This guy started from the grassland, and later galloped across the Hexi Corridor, and his temperament has long been wild.

Later, Xiong Chu decided to go south, and all the places he passed were mountains and rivers, and Huo Lianshan was really suffocated, and now he saw the plains, of course.

Naliblay grew up on the grasslands, and the environment here was more in line with what he was more accustomed to.

Therefore, after Huo Lianshan explained the goal of the battle, Naliburai immediately led the team to set off.

"We can't stay here either, and continue to advance along the river to the southwest, keeping the enemy as far away as possible. ”

Huo Lianshan, of course, would not be idle, and ordered Meng Dawei to open the way in front, and he led the artillery carriage to follow.

It was precisely because of a sudden thought for a while, so for the next month or so, Huo Lianshan did not appear in Wangse Town, and the result was naturally that Bulgud, a Mongolian man, had to deal with the Dutchman Vira alone.

The Dutch are not a very strong race, and they are completely "bent and stretched".

The reason why Verya was able to "prefer to die rather than give in" in front of Burgud was that Burgud did not exert pressure at all.

Not to put more pressure on Verya, certainly not in the character of Bourgud.

However, the evil Taoist Meng Fan, the three giants of the shipyard, Xu Fengxian, Ke Mingji, and Song Yaozu, did not agree to treat Verya rudely, so Bourgud could only be patient and quarrel with Verya.

The evil Taoist Meng Fan, the three giants of the shipyard, Xu Fengxian, Ke Mingji and Song Yaozu put pressure on Burgude at the same time, of course, there are deep reasons.

After pondering the Portuguese warships, Xu Fengxian and the others had already had great doubts.

Now seeing the larger warship of the Dutch, Xu Fengxian and the others are even more puzzled.

If you want to solve the doubts in your mind, it will take time. The person who can buy time is, of course, Bourgud, who is in charge of ripping off.

The first reason for their doubts was the question of the sails.

The warships and merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty have always used hard sails, and the hard sails are generally woven with fine bamboo strips or pampas leaves.

At that time, Zheng He went to the West to shock the world, and all the warships were hard sails.

There is no doubt that hardsail is an extremely well-established craft that has been used for hundreds of years.

However, whether it is Portugal or the current Dutch warships and merchant ships, people use soft sails.

Why don't foreigners use hard sails, but all soft sails?

For the twelve families who take shipbuilding as their own responsibility, if this problem is not clarified, they will not want to sleep in this life.

As an expert in shipbuilding, it is really a shame that I can't find the mystery.

Admiral Zhong Guozhu, after arriving here, he didn't care about everything, because what he was most concerned about was the logbook, chart, azimuth compass, and globe of all the ships.

A batch had been captured on the Portuguese ships, and this time the Dutch had been obtained, and they had just returned to Holland from Batavia, and then from Holland to Burma.

This latest logbook and chart route should be the most precious trophy, and it is also the main reason why Zhong Guozhu can't wait to come over.

At the very least, he couldn't read the logbook, but after the explanation of the local interpreter, Zhong Guozhu first found Burma, Batavia, Colombo (known as Gao Langbu), Goa, India, Portugal, Spain, Britain, and the Netherlands on the charts and globes.

It turned out that the territory of Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, and Britain was not as large as that of the Ming Dynasty.

Countries the size of a little finger ran around the world, and even forcibly occupied the Penghu Islands of the Ming Dynasty, and caused wind and rain in Guangzhou, Annam, and Burma, Zhong Guozhu was even more indignant.

After coercion and temptation, Zhong Guozhu found people in the vicinity who could barely know Portuguese, Dutch, and Britannica, especially from the temple to find a group of people to translate the logbook.

After a month of careful analysis, Zhong Guozhu finally discovered the essential difference between his own warship and the Westerner warship after he commanded his subordinates to gradually familiarize themselves with the Dutch warship.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please forgive me for being rude. This kind of linen soft sail of Westerners does have its subtleties. It is because they use this soft sail that their ships are more than twice as fast as ours, and they are much more agile in maneuvering, which is no small matter. ”

"If our current ships were to fight against these three Dutch ships, we would surely be annihilated. This is a matter of great human life, and I hope that you will be able to understand the difference between a hard sail and a soft sail, and then renovate and improve our own special boat. ”

"In addition to the sails, my lords are afraid that you will need to think about the shape of our ship. Presumably the adults have already noticed that the Admiral is about the same size as my Dangkou-class battleship, and they have a total of four layers of artillery. ”

"The first layer is full of large-caliber guns over five inches, and there are as many as thirty-two, which is a full double the number of our Dangkou-class warships. This shows the size of the ship, which makes it easy to install more guns on both sides. ”

"The second floor is full of guns over four inches, and there are still thirty-two, eight more than us. The third layer is full of three-inch guns, or thirty-two, which is twice as many as ours. There are also dozens of small-caliber guns of about an inch on the deck. In this way, such a warship is equivalent to our three Dangkou-class warships. ”

Zhong Guozhu finally said: "The issues that you are arguing about happen to be our two Achilles' heels: the speed is more than half slower than others, and the firepower is twice as weak. Once we fight face to face, we will not have a second result at all, except for the total annihilation. ”

Soldiers and craftsmen look at the problem from different angles, because Zhong Guozhu's first thought is the life of thousands of people under his command, so he quickly found a breakthrough in the survivability of the battlefield, and the fatal problem was suddenly placed in front of everyone.

With a specific frame of reference, Xu Fengxian, Ke Mingji, and Song Yaozu, the heads of shipbuilding families, suddenly realized that they had formed a unified conclusion on the advantages and disadvantages of the two types of warships.

Our own warships were mainly born out of the Fubun structure, and the cross-section was a triangle, that is, the bottom of the ship was the narrowest and the top of the side was the widest.

We use hard sails, which also have two advantages: they can withstand the wind from all sides, and we are able to borrow as much wind power as possible. There is no need for tall masts, so the material strength of the zuò mast is not required.

The advantage of this kind of ship structure is that it has the best stability and average seaworthiness.

The Achilles' heel of this Fuchuan structure is twofold: it is as fast as a snail and cannot outrun the enemy. Because the underside of the hull was too narrow, a large number of artillery pieces could not be installed on the first and second floors, and the firepower of the guide was very weak, and the enemy could not be defeated.

The cross-section of the hull of the Westerners is a combination of the triangle of the bottom of the ship and the mouth shape of the hull, and the hull is generally thick above and below, which has the advantage that the spacious gun deck at the bottom can be arranged with more guns, and the caliber and weight are reduced in turn layer by layer.

Of course, the Westerners' hulls have shortcomings, mainly in two aspects:

First of all, the stability is slightly worse, and the straight hull needs a heavier ballast stone to lower the center of gravity.

The second is the use of soft sails, which is not efficient enough to use the wind power, which requires a huge sail and thus a higher mast.

The length of the main mast of Westerners is generally more than three-quarters of the length of the wear, so the main mast of ordinary warships is more than 20 zhang.

Such a long mast would certainly not be possible with a single piece of wood, and in fact, Westerners' masts were all three-section structures. This requires a very tall bow and stern to connect the mast and ensure the strength of the mast.

The overall evaluation shows that our ship-shaped structure has good stability and slow speed, which is more suitable for use as a merchant ship rather than as a warship.

The advantages of a hard sail are its high overall efficiency, it can rotate around the mast, and it can fully utilize the wind from all sides.

However, our hard sails are made of bamboo strips and cattail leaves, which are very heavy, and once the sail area is increased, no one can lift it at all, let alone a cable that can withstand it.

Although the ship type of Westerners is slightly less stable, because the linen curved soft sail is very light, it can be made very large, dozens of times larger than our hard sail. This makes up for the lack of wind power, and it is extremely fast.

In addition, Western ships of the same size can be equipped with more guns, so their combat effectiveness is outstanding, and our warships can only be beaten passively.

In this way, when Westerners build a warship, they save a lot of materials and reduce a lot of costs compared to us, and their combat effectiveness has increased exponentially.

Although we are not short of high-grade timber now, if we enlarge the warship indefinitely, the speed will become slower and slower, and finally it will become a living target for the enemy and be sunk, which is really a self-defeating approach.

Like the Westerners to learn from the skills of the Westerners in order to control the enemy, we must completely change the inherent concept of building warships, which is the final agreement reached by Xu Fengxian, Ke Mingji, Song Yaozu and others.

However, how to thoroughly understand these techniques of the Portuguese and Dutch is a new problem.

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