The turbid waves in the Bohai Sea in May are not a good season to go out to sea. However, in May of the sixth year of Chongzheng, countless ships gathered on the Bohai Sea, including big blessed ships that are more than 20 meters long and can carry more than 100 people, and blue ships that are about ten meters long, as well as single sailing ships with oars and sand ships. If you count them carefully, you will be afraid of thousands. It is really a sail covering the sun, and the masts and oars covering the sky. It is so spectacular.

At this time, they had no unity between each other, and thousands of warships of all sizes did not gather together, but were divided into five large and small pieces, including the Denglai Navy in Shandong, the Jiangnan Navy in Nanzhili, the Zhejiang Navy and the Guangdong Navy. The largest of them was the Fujian Navy after Zheng Zhilong integrated, with more than 1,000 ships of all sizes and nearly 80,000 water soldiers!

These are not all of Zheng Zhilong's Shui Army. The 40,000 elite troops under him were guarding their prince Zheng Chenggong at this time. Of course, the protagonist of Dongdaying is not Zheng Chenggong, the prince of Zhennan. He is just a small follower. The real protagonist is naturally Emperor Chongzheng Zhu Cijing.

Zhu Cijiu came to Dongdaying this time to form a navy. Although the first-class sail battleship has not been built, the naval gun has been successfully developed and officially put into production. The shipbuilding technology of the Ming Dynasty is not bad. As long as there is no problem with the naval gun, the battleship is actually a successful development. Just wait for the hull to be built and the naval gun is installed.

The formation of a navy army cannot be completed in one or two days. After the formation is completed, it must be equipped with weapons and unified training. If the navy is formed after the battleship is built, it may have to wait until this time next year to form a combat power. Zhu Cijiu naturally does not want to waste so much time, so he decided to start forming a navy army now, equipped with weapons and unified training.

At this time, Zhu Cijing was standing on the fortress in Dongdaying, looking at the warships on the sea. Behind him was a large group of generals, including Shi Kefa, the commander of the Second Corps of the Imperial Guards, Huang Long, the general of the Denglai Navy, and Zheng Zhilong's younger brother Zheng Zhihu, the acting general of the Fujian Navy, etc. While looking, Zhu Cijing asked the generals next to him about the number of people carrying, weapon equipment, offensive and defense speed and other basic information. After listening to the descriptions of the generals, Zhu Cijing felt very mixed feelings.

At that time, the Ming Navy had a huge ship of hundreds of meters long and dozens of ships. The largest warship of the Ming Navy was only about fifty meters long. Moreover, the number of such great fortune ships was not as large as Zheng Zhilong, who was born into a pirate. Zheng Zhilong's fleet had more than 500 such large ships, and the total number of navigators in the four coastal provinces of the Ming Dynasty was only more than 400!

The Ming Navy has an absolute advantage in the number of small boats. Zheng Zhilong's naval boats have only more than 600, while the Ming Navy's boats have more than 2,000! This is not so much an advantage, but rather a shame. This low-sized boat that can only carry about ten people is super fast. Eight oars are rowing, and with the help of sails, it is like flying. However, this must be near the sea. If you reach the ocean, this kind of boat will not need to be beaten by others, and it may be overturned by huge waves in minutes.

In other words, the Ming navy can use its numerical advantage to deal with Zheng Zhilong's fleet in the nearshore. Once it leaves the nearshore, it is no match for others at all. The entire Ming navy can't beat a pirate together. It's a great irony!

And their weapons, whether they are the official army or the pirates, were all bird guns and earth cannons, and even some were even those with hooks and sickles and hook locks!

Zheng Zhilong is bragging that even the Dutch is not his opponent on the southeast coast. Perhaps it is someone else's merchant ship. Hundreds of lucky ships surrounded dozens of merchant ships, but they are indeed no opponent. If it were someone else's regular navy, it would not be too many. As long as they came to forty or fifty battleships, they would definitely be able to fight Zheng Zhilong all over the ground.

After watching for a while, Zhu Cijing felt unhappy. Alas, everything needs to be replaced, and it has to be spent. Zhu Cijing had to rely on the navy to compete with the great powers for maritime hegemony. Forget it, throw all of this thing into the small blast furnace and return it to the furnace. As for hook sickle and hook lock, if they are interested, keep it, at least use it when capturing merchant ships.

After estimating it a little, Zhu Cijiu felt a little distressed and was about to bleed again. All the lucky ships must accompany at least one Type 618 howitzer as the main gun. If time permits, it must be modified. Install ten five-inch cannons on each deck on both sides. This is called a warship, otherwise it can only be considered an armed merchant ship. These thousand lucky ships alone must be equipped with more than 20,000 cannons. If calculated based on the price sold to Kong Dede, a cannon costs 40,000 taels and more than 20,000 cannons. Thinking about the long list of zeros behind, it is really blood-blooding!

There are also thousands of small boats, and it is definitely unrealistic to throw them all, and it is also unrealistic to equip artillery. In this way, to form combat power, the waters above must be equipped with well-equipped weapons. To tell what the most exquisite individual weapon in the Ming Dynasty is now, it is naturally the latest revolver semi-automatic rifle, with nearly 3,000 small boats. Even if there are only fifteen or sixteen people on each boat, it is nearly 50,000 revolver semi-automatic rifles!

There are also Dafu ships that need to be equipped with musketeers. Even if each ship is equipped with only fifty musketeers, it will require nearly 50,000 revolver semi-automatic rifles.

Zhu Cijing was originally planning to equip the cavalry in Liaodong with revolver semi-automatic rifles, but now I think it's better to equip the navy first. Sun Chengzong in Liaodong is now promoting the fortress. The cavalry is actually not very useful. It's the same for the navy to equip them after it is finished.

There are still remaining artillery soldiers, so they cannot be left empty-handed. Each person must have a revolver to defend himself. In addition, the artillery soldiers on fifty sail battleships must be equipped with at least 100,000 revolvers!

Of course, he can also not be equipped with such good weapons and directly fight with others with his life. Perhaps he can win a squadron with only dozens of battleships in the great powers. But then, what should I do later? This navy is not an army, especially the navy of this era, which needs to control sails. Generally, the army may have to train for several years to master sails. Can he wait?

He couldn't afford to wait, so no matter how many guns and cannons were, they had to be equipped with them. Now the entire Ming Dynasty had only about 200,000 skilled naval troops, and they could not afford to be injured at all. Otherwise, no matter how many sail battleships were built, no one would drive them, so what's the point?

After considering the issue of weapons and equipment, the navy was organized. Zhu Cijing was planning to use the legion to divide the 200,000 navy troops into two legions, or two navy troops.

A navy chiefly of Zheng Zhilong, with a 100,000 rank, equipped with 25 first-class sailing battleships, 500 lucky ships, and 1,500 small warships. The Fujian Navy Base is the main base, mainly responsible for the coastal defense of the southeast coast, and also responsible for protecting the Ming merchant ships in the Indian Ocean region, transporting weapons, ammunition and supplies to the Ming overseas garrisons. As for the name, it is called the Nanyang Navy, the Nanyang South Ocean. Perhaps one day, the entire Nanyang will be the world of the Nanyang Navy.

A navy chief of the Ming Dynasty was not enough to make up for it from Zheng Zhilong's navy. It gathered all the navy from Shandong, Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong together to form a 100,000 army, organized 100,000, equipped with 25 first-class sailing battleships, 500 Fu ships, and 1,500 small warships. Dongdaying New Port as the main base, mainly responsible for the coastal defense of the eastern coast, and at the same time, it was responsible for clearing out pirates and Japanese pirates in the East China Sea area and preparing for colonization of Japan. The name is the Beiyang Navy. This name is a painful memory in a certain period of history, but in the Ming Dynasty and in the Chongzheng Dynasty, he will surely create a brilliant history.

As for the navy general, Zhu Cijing felt helpless. Huang Long, the general of the Ming Navy, was only used by the Denglai Navy General. No matter how Zhu Cijing looked at it, why did he feel unreliable? However, Zheng Zhilong's subordinates, Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Xing, Zheng Ming, Yang Geng, Chen Hui, Zheng Cai, etc., were all extremely fierce. They were obviously rare generals.

In this case, if they do not use them because of their origins, but instead use some unreliable Ming army generals, they will definitely feel a grudge. Moreover, once these unreliable Ming army generals are reused, their combat effectiveness will be reduced by one level. As the saying goes, one timid soldier will be a timid, Zhu Cijing did not want the Ming Navy to eventually become a tofu project, so he decided to boldly launch the generals under Zheng Zhilong.

The so-called doubters are not used, and people are not used. At least when Zheng Chenggong was in power, there was no traitor among these people, which was enough. In the future, the navy was handed over to Zheng Chenggong to command. They did not betray Zheng Chenggong under such a harsh situation in the Southern Ming Dynasty. Then, in the Chongzheng Dynasty and under the good situation, it was even more impossible for them to betray Zheng Chenggong.

Since he decided to reuse the generals under Zheng Zhilong, Zhu Cijing no longer hesitated and directly decided on all the senior generals of the Nanyang Navy and the Beiyang Navy. He issued an imperial edict that day:

Huanglong was promoted to the admiral and magistrate, and served as the chief general of the Beiyang Navy, Yang Geng and Chen Hui were general, and served as the deputy general of the Beiyang Navy. Zheng Zhihu was promoted to the admiral and magistrate, and served as the chief general of the Nanyang Navy, and Zheng Xing and Zheng Ming were general, and served as the deputy general of the Nanyang Navy.

As for Zheng Cai, he could only follow Zheng Chenggong first, mainly responsible for teaching Zheng Chenggong's naval battle knowledge, and also responsible for protecting Zheng Chenggong's travel safety. He was also in charge of the general rank. However, he did not have 50,000 naval troops under his command, and Zhu Cijing only assigned him a thousand royal guards. If Zheng Chenggong came to Dongdaying to learn naval army training, he would be responsible for accompanying and protecting.

Even if the navy was formed at this point, although the sail battleship had not been built, the two major navy could at least start to practice uniformly, and the lucky ship could also be modified. As for the revolver semi-automatic rifles and revolvers, they can be slowly equipped when they are built by Wang Gong Factory.

Given that there are no safety hazards on the coast of Ming Dynasty recently, Zhu Cijiu simply ordered the Beiyang Navy and the Nanyang Navy to station in Dongdaying for training. While familiarizing with the operation of naval guns, they transformed the blessing ships. Once the sail battleship was built, the two major navy will almost form combat power. At that time, Japan and the Dutch invaders will have to be careful. Zhu Cijiu has long disliked them, and the Ming Dynasty has been tolerant of them for a long time!
Chapter completed!