The wind roars and the waves roar.

The sea breeze is strong and the waves are high.

Liu Rengui is very satisfied with today's weather, which is full of advantages for the Dahua Navy's North Sea Fleet. Such weather is suitable for Dahua's battleships to carry out battle line tactics.

This year, the Dahua Navy Office classified the ships of the Dahua Navy.

The first-class warship serves as the flagship of each fleet, with three-layer gun decks, more than 100 artillery pieces, and a capacity of 900 people. The displacement reaches 2,000 to 3,500 tons, representing the warships as the emperor's ship, the Royal Nine-Headed Bird, which has a displacement of 3,500 tons, with a thousand crew members and 1,20 artillery pieces, and a cost of 180,000 gold coins. Generally, a first-class warship of 2,000 tons is as expensive as 100,000 gold coins.

It is equivalent to two million chunks. Because of this high cost, there are only eighteen ships in the entire Dahua Navy, all of which serve as flagships in each fleet.

The first-class warships are followed by the second-class warships. This type of warship is slightly smaller than the first-class warships. It has two layers of gun decks, with a gun of 64 to 80, a capacities of 49 to 720 people, and a displacement of 1,300 to 2,000 tons. This is also the largest number of main warships in the Dahua Navy. However, this type of warship also has a disadvantage, because the lower gun deck is relatively low, so in stormy weather, the gun doors of the lower gun deck cannot be opened, otherwise they will be poured back by the waves.

Now the Dahua Navy has more than 100 second-class warships.

The third-level warship is even smaller, with two-layer gun decks, fifty to fifty-six guns, a capacity of about 350 people, and a displacement of 1,000 tons.

The cost of each of these warships is about 25,000 gold coins, which is the flagship of the cruise fleet.

The first, second and third-level warships are equipped with a large number of artillery and have large ships and sails, which are suitable for naval artillery battles and are also called sail battleships.

These third-level warships are included in the battleships. There are also warships of level 4, 5, 6, 7, and 7 behind them. They are no longer the main warships, but are responsible for missions such as cruisers and escorts and communication reconnaissance. The ships are also small, especially with few or no artillery.

Dahua's investment in the navy was quite large, which was a great maritime strategy originating from the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty. With the continuous improvement of metallurgical technology, the front-mounted smoothbore guns became reliable maritime weapons, and the continuous development of maritime technology made it possible to build larger and larger ships, and sail with wind without relying on manpower. Therefore, during the Tang Dynasty, the navy had successfully developed leap forward.

Now, it has already possessed a brand new battleship and a matching line warfare tactic.

The smallest warships of the Dahua Navy now have a displacement of 300 tons. This unit is also a professional unit of the navy and shipyards. The 300 tons of ships have exceeded the ships of most other countries in this era, not to mention the 1,000 tons, 2,000 tons of Dahua's giant, and even the 3,500 tons of ship, the emperor.

Not to mention that countries do not have this technical level at all, even if Dahua is willing to build it for them, they can't afford it.

The first-class battleship cost each of which is as high as 100,000 gold coins, equivalent to 2 million guan. Then it is not a warship, it is simply a moving gold mountain.

The eighteen first-class warships in Dahua cost 36 million guan just to equip these.

Even the second-level warships cost nearly one million chunks, and Dahua has hundreds.

This is strength.

Only by having a strong country can such a strong military. The Navy now has four professional naval academies, specializing in training officers at all levels, and even on each ship, there are trained officers, non-commissioned officers, non-commissioned officers, and sailors in their teens.

This is a military with greater investment and more professional technology.

Dahua has an increasingly large and powerful navy, from the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea to the East China Sea, the Korean Sea, the Small Sea, to the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea, there are traces of them everywhere.

At sea, the Dahua Navy made the pirates frightened, and few pirates dared to rob ships under the banner of Dahua.

If you dare to rob Dahua's ships, Dahua Navy will chase them to the ends of the world and catch them, and then hang them in those ports.

Some officials have always suspected that Dahua’s naval budget is too high, but Zhang Chao has also insisted on developing the navy.

We even need to subsidize the navy every year because he knows that the era of great voyage has arrived, and many of the future interests of Dahua are overseas. Without a strong navy, how can we explore overseas interests and protect overseas interests?

All these investments will be rewarded.

Until today.

Dahua's navy has become increasingly powerful, and the warships have basically completed the dress-up to enter the era of sail battleships.

Liu Rengui's Beiyang Fleet has four first-class warships and fourteen second-class warships.

At this time, he led these eighteen battleships out of the port.

Liu Rengui's flagship, three-story cannon deck, seventh floor of the tail building, and the warship draught is nearly two to seven meters.

For the Dahua Navy, the sail battleship is not only stronger than the bigger ships, but also more sails. What he is stronger is that these warships are faster and mainly rely on equipped artillery to attack the enemy. Therefore, it has deviated from the traditional tactics of platoon-mounted battles.

Linear tactics rely on grabbing the upper hand, then using speed to open up the distance, and keep bombarding enemy ships at long distances.

The Dahua Navy's red and blue military flags are flying.

The flag bearer on the sail pole is passing the order.

Each ship will adjust according to the listening.

Facing the enemy side by side, a long line connected to the end is also the standard tactic of battleships.

In this way, half of the artillery can fire at the enemy, because Dahua warships have many artillery guns, and the artillery is concentrated on both sides, rather than relying on the few cannons on the bow and stern of the ship.

New weapons and new tactics are always closely related.

This set of tactics was taught to the navy generals personally by Emperor Zhang Chao.

Professor Zhang Chao and other generals, the Dahua Navy has entered the era of battleships, so when the naval battles are in the battleships, the battleships are the ones responsible for combat missions.

Warships below level three do not invest in major maritime tactics and can only serve as patrol and reconnaissance tasks.

Because the power of the fleet lies in the fact that the battleships are lined up in a coherent line, this is like an iron chain. If the connection part is weak, the power of the entire chain will not be too strong.

Therefore, in the maritime combat regulations issued by the Navy's yamen, the columns are clearly defined as standard queues for naval operations, and all warships of each squadron must try their best to keep the first-team forward with their squadron leader.

Zhang Chao taught Hai that the generals had a very simple combat method, which was to seize the upper hand, then lined up in a column, and bombarded the enemy from a long distance from side fire.

Because the strength of the Dahua Navy is actually more powerful than other countries, especially for small countries like Japan, although they are island countries on the sea, their navy is still at the level of transporting soldiers by ship.

Marine combat is the level of shooting arrows and platoon battles.

Therefore, it is actually very simple for Dahua to face them. Just seize the upper hand and keep a distance and bombard it.

If the opponent's strength is equal, then the battle between battleships will become very difficult. Often, naval battles will eventually turn into lengthy firefights between two fleets with parallel heading, and there will be no decisive results in the end.

In the sail era, the number of warships depends on the concentration of warships and the battle of artillery fire depends on the more to fight less.

Liu Rengui kept in mind the words of his teacher Zhang Chao.

However, the enemy navy, which is comparable to Dahua's strength, may not appear within a century.

At least now, the thousands of Japanese ships in front of him were just dishes in his eyes.

The wind blew harder.

The turbid waves in the sky.

The Japanese fleet gradually sailed in.

Looking at the eighteen lonely boats on the sea ahead, the Japanese couldn't help but feel a little confused.

Is the Dahua Navy so arrogant?

“Is there any fraud in this?”

A wealthy general asked Su Kurama Ryu, who was the commander of the fleet.

The Su family Kuramaru, a son of the Suwo family who was in power in Japan, was the Suwo family. This time, the Japanese gathered 100,000 troops and recruited soldiers from all over the country.

The generals leading the troops are those big and big families, and those soldiers are actually farmers or slaves under the wealthy families.

It is indeed not easy to gather these 100,000 people.

Su We, the Eagle, sent his younger brother to command the 50,000 troops in the early stage.

The first battle, Tsushima.

This is also Su I, Kuramaro, who thinks it is a springboard, and you can get the horse back first so that you can better enter Baekje.

"Eighteen ships are all legendary gunboats, but even if they are gunboats, what about the eighteen gunboats? We have more than a thousand ships, and wolves can kill tigers. As long as we surround them, we can kill them."

Su I, Kuramaro, had a glimmer of excitement flashed in his eyes.

Eighteen gunboats, since they dared to leave the brigade like this, wouldn’t they miss the opportunity if they didn’t eat them?

And if you can eat these eighteen gunboats, you will be able to take down the horse, and there will be no problem.

"Send the order, the whole army will attack!"

The rumbling drums resounded throughout the world.

The flag was issued on Suwo’s flagship.

Liu Rengui put down the Qianli Mile Mile Mile, "I was so scared that I thought I would scare the Japanese away. Unexpectedly, these Japanese were still a little brave enough to be afraid of our eighteen battleships. I really don't know whether they should be brave or stupid."

"Commander, these people are just ignorant. They don't know what sailing battleships are, what line warships are, and what giant ships and cannons are."

"Hahaha, ignorant and fearless, then let them taste the benefits of this giant ship cannon. Let us use artillery fire to announce the arrival of the era of giant ship cannons!"

near.

Get closer.

Enter range.

"Arson!"

The mast was raised with a bombardment.

All ships issued shelling orders, and the bells of shelling kept ringing in the gun deck compartment.

The gun window had already been opened, the gun was also pushed out, and the gunner ignited.
Chapter completed!