The way of building ships in Daming is different from other countries, the boat pond (dock) is excavated by relying on the river, lake and sea, and then the whole boat pond is closed by the greenhouse.

In other words, no one knows what people are doing, or what they have done, until the ship is launched.

As the saying goes: peers are enemies.

The Chinese nation has always been "passing on the daughter-in-law but not the daughter-in-law" for its own top-secret technology. The approximate meaning is: the daughter-in-law is her own family, and the daughter is always someone else's, so the fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders.

The master and apprentice still have three tricks, and this has become a generation that is not as good as the next.

The ancestral measure of enclosing the boat pond may also be regarded as a kind of protection measure for the shipbuilding family, but it is understandable.

However, with the strict measures of the imperial court for more than 100 years to prohibit the sea, as well as the strict defense of shipbuilding families, the shipbuilding technology has begun to slowly disappear.

The loss of shipbuilding technology is not the imperial court that is in a hurry.

Those Donglin Party scholars who control the government like nothing more than to compete for power and profit, and then get ahead and play some murderous games that are framed and framed, and they simply look down on such low-rate things as "kitsch and lewd skills".

The people who are really worried about the loss of technology are precisely those shipbuilders.

The experience and lessons summed up by the ancestors for thousands of years cannot be returned once they are lost, which is sorry for the ancestors and ancestors.

Xiong Chu collected the heirs of the twelve shipbuilding families in Taishan, Ningbo, Hangzhou, Ganzhou, and Huguang, and then got them to Manmo City, so that they could carry forward the skills of their ancestors and build a big ship to be cut off by the imperial court, which was a "gift".

For a shipbuilding family, it is a gift to be able to use the best wood without limits to build the big ship of their dreams.

The people of the Chinese nation are very simple, and the gratitude is a fine tradition and a simple feeling.

Xiong Chu first paid 100,000 taels of settling-in fees for each family, and firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea were all supplied free of charge, so that those big families were even more grateful.

Because of this, for the past four months, the shipyard has been desperately busy.

The Great Family knows very well that if there is no strong strength as a guarantee, it will not be able to gain a foothold here, let alone have a supreme position.

It is indeed the supreme position, because in order to be able to build his own warship, Xiong Chu stopped all the expenses, and the battle line was all stable in place.

"It will take us a year to build a fleet of sailors with a variety of ships, and it will take a year at the earliest, and the logging team, the blacksmith shop, the tung oil workshop, and the gypsum workshop must all serve us unconditionally. ”

This is the only request made by Xu Fengxian, the governor of the shipyard, Ke Mingji and Song Yaozu, who promoted the shipyard, to Prince Xiong, and it is also an almost unreasonable demand.

Go deep into the enemy's territory, and the advantage is to fight quickly.

It was a ruinous decision to bring tens of thousands of people to a standstill now. Everybody understands this and knows how powerful it is.

With almost no hesitation, Chu Xiong agreed to the request of the three of them.

One qiē for shipbuilding, one qiē for shipbuilding, this has not been seen in any dynasty.

The boldness of Prince Xiong to bear all the consequences on his shoulders finally moved the twelve shipbuilding families.

It's only been four months since the enemy came to the door, and of course the bear prince is a little worried.

If the shipbuilding program is forced to be suspended, or even causes huge losses in personnel, it will be a serious consequence that outweighs the losses.

To keep the enemy out of the country, we must not take half a step back.

The enemy has hit, this is a military secret, and the people of the ship yard and the entire city of Manmo do not know, and there is no need to know.

There were only four people in Manmo City who knew the news: Xiong Chu, Mandale, Zhang Yuxiu, Huo Lianshan, and then the front-line soldiers.

"When asked about my whereabouts, they said that they had gone to inspect the troops. ”

Xiong Chu wanted to rush to the Feilong Continent Water Division Base to take charge in person, and he would only fight back this time.

This was a new subject, as the enemy fleet had never been fought before.

The last time Master Wan Lian came to say that his Sima Cheng's camp had been bombed by enemy warships, and he had lost more than 100 people. It can be seen that the warship is extremely powerful, and it cannot be done carelessly.

However, at that time, there was no fort defense, and it was in a position of being passively beaten.

This time, when Wan Lian returned, Xiong Chu ordered Meng Fan, the evil sect Taoist, to transfer eight four-inch cannons to Wan Lian, as well as three hundred and twenty improved tiger squat cannons, so that the Kokang battalion of Wei Shiori could escort them all the way over, increasing the defensive firepower of Wan Lian and Xia Yun.

The Miadam Battery, a hill 60 zhang away from the river, has a vertical drop of about 30 zhang to the river.

"You are Huo Lianshan's personal soldier captain, what's your name?"

Seeing a seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man coming up, Prince Xiong had some impressions.

"Lord Qi: The last general, Han Cheng, has followed General Huo since the Black Dragon Temple. At that time, he was still a child playing with mud, and he had been working hard for more than ten years in the blink of an eye. ”

Xiong Chu smiled slightly: "I know the origin of this little guy of yours, some distant relative of Han Bingru, isn't it? You are in charge of the six forts in Jiangdong, this is the southern gate of the entire Manmo City, do you have the confidence to block the enemy?"

Han Cheng straightened up: "Lord Qiyu: Even if you don't use cannons, the last general will definitely not let a single piece of the enemy's plank pass through from the river." ”

"Are you blowing nonsense?" asked Mandeli with a grin, "Don't you use a cannon, do you use your waist knife to scare the enemy?"

General Man laughed, the Admiral didn't mean that. Han Cheng touched his head: "If the lord doesn't believe it, I'll take you to the Degang Fort in front to have a look." Because there is a jam bay there, you can see the river below your feet when you stand on it. ”

When the bear prince heard this, he was very surprised, so he rode his horse and rushed south.

The bay is the protrusion that leads to the middle of the river at the bend of the river.

Han Cheng was right, Xiong Chu dismounted and came to the very edge of the Bay, and found that the shore wall was inserted vertically into the river, and it was here that the Irrawaddy River changed its direction and then flowed straight to the south.

Logs and large rocks like a hill were piled up on the shore, and more than sixty sergeants were eating lunch in their tents.

"Han Chengna, well done!" Xiong Chu was very happy: "The enemy's warship is coming, you push these logs and stones down, you can really sink the enemy ship without artillery." ”

At this moment, a fast horse rushed over from the south shore, and the man on horseback had already shouted before he dismounted: "Captain Han, the enemy's seven warships are still twenty miles away from here, and it is estimated that they can arrive before the sun sets." ”

"However, we found that the enemy still had an army of elephants rushing along the shore, twenty war elephants and more than 600 infantry troops, probably about the speed of the warships. ”

Xiong Chu saw that Han Cheng's face turned pale with fright, but he deliberately kept silent, just to see how this little guy dealt with the new situation that suddenly appeared.

Because the bear prince knew very well in his heart that, according to the information said by the scouts, the enemy should have just crossed the town of Debegin in front.

The enemy came from the south, all the way uphill, and the speed was certainly not fast, and it would take a long time to cross the mountains and mountains for twenty miles.

In fact, in order to deal with this Degang fort, Huo Lianshan prepared another mobile force according to Xiong Chu's order, which was Yang Hu's Xiao cavalry battalion, and a captain of 360 cavalry was stationed in Mengmi Town, 20 miles to the east.

Xiong Chu thought that Han Cheng had nothing to do, and that he should immediately order the scouts to set off and rush to Meng Mi to bring in reinforcements.

However, different people have different ways of thinking, and people on the battlefield have even different ways of thinking. So as soon as Han Cheng gave the order, he surprised Xiong Chu.

"Now it's too late, you rush to the Miadam Fort to the north, and in addition to the forty-four gunners, the remaining seventy-six men have their own bird guns and run to the Tokuoka Fort to wait for orders. ”

The scouts rode their horses and galloped northward, and Han Cheng threw down Xiong Chu and Mandeli and the others and ran towards the Tokuoka Fort, shouting loudly as he ran: "Attention all: in addition to the forty-four gunners, the other seventy-six people immediately check the bird guns and prepare for battle!"

Seeing Han Cheng's nervous and busy steel fort, Mandeli said in a coquettish voice: "Childe, this guy has been a herald with Huo Lianshan since he was a child, and he is really brave. After a little nervousness, he was in order, and it seemed that he was ready to block the enemy's elephant army with more than a hundred men. ”

Xiong Chu smiled slightly: "I understand, Han Cheng's way of dealing with this kid is right." You think, he first prepared a large number of rolling logs and stones in the bay, which could be the first blockade of the river, so that the enemy's warships would not dare to be presumptuous. ”

"The most important thing is that our artillery has gun mounts, and there are gun carriages that can be moved. So I think Han Cheng will definitely use artillery to give the enemy elephant army a dismount. In this way, it is not dangerous for them to be condescending to more than a hundred people. So we don't have to worry about it now, just see how this guy fights this battle. ”

Soon, Xiong Chu realized that he had estimated correctly, and Han Cheng had divided the four cannons on the top of the Tokuoka Fort into two groups, two of which monitored the river, and the other two had been adjusted to face the path due south.

However, the development of things was far from what Xiong Chu imagined, and the way Han Cheng fought immediately made Xiong Chu gasp again.

An hour later, as the earth trembled slightly, the enemy's elephant army came into view. Although the distance was too far, the shaking of the ground caused by the twenty elephants trotting all the way still made the bear prince notice.

The four cannons on the Tokuoka Fort have a maximum firing range of more than five miles and a safe firing range of four miles. But the enemy's twenty elephants had already reached about three miles, and Han Cheng still didn't move.

When Xiong Chu thought that Han Cheng would not move, he suddenly shouted: "Open the cannon, spare twenty elephants, and strike at the enemy's infantry!"

Han Cheng divided the enemy's war elephant with a cannon, and it was really a good idea, and the Xiong Chu nodded again and again.

Regarding the more than 600 infantry troops arranged in a line behind the enemy, the more Xiong Chu looked at it, the more he frowned: "Dai Li, tell me, since the enemy wants to attack us, why did he come out with such a few people, this is too child's play, right? I heard that the king of Donghu, Talon, has nearly 100,000 men under his command. ”

Mandeli shook her head: "Childe, the Donghu Kingdom also has a history of more than a hundred years, and the bloody war has lasted for more than fifty years. There is only one explanation for this, Talon has not fully figured out what we are doing, and this time it should be a tentative attack. ”

It was the first time that Xiong Chu saw the rear-loading cannon fire, and the first cannon roared, and a round ball the size of a tea bowl flew out with a roar, directly breaking the four people in the middle of the enemy's marching team.

Before the enemy could react, the second cannon also roared, and the lead ball shell, which was bigger than a fist, smashed right in front of the enemy queue, and two more guys were smashed to pieces.

At the moment when the enemy's infantry was in a panic, the figure of five masts appeared on the river.

It seems that the enemy's water and land coordination is still relatively in place, and the speed is very good.

It was not long before the bear prince saw the first warship, and it was also the first time he had seen a real warship.

The battle of intercepting the river was finally inevitable.

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