Denglaishui City, the Navy Governor's Office.

Taichang stared at the huge map on the table and frowned.

This is the southeast coastal coastal defense map prepared by the newly promoted Navy Governor Yuan Keli, which is the layout map of the Dushiwei station on the coast of Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong.

There are not many coastal defense centers in the picture, and there are even more Thousand Houses guarding stations independent of the garrison stations.

From the Jinshanwei at the junction of Nanzhili and Zhejiang Chengxuan Zhengzhi Department to the south, Hainingwei, Linshanwei, Guanhaiwei, Changguowei, Haimenwei, Songmenwei, Panshiwei, Jinxiangwei, Zhendongwei, Pinghaiwei, Yongningwei, Zhenhaiwei, Jieshiwei, Nanhaiwei, Guanghaiwei, etc.

There are more than twenty coastal defense stations in the three southeastern provinces alone, and there are even more Thousand Defensive Houses along the coast.

The Ming Dynasty did work hard to implement the maritime ban. There were coastal defense stations or Thousand Houses in almost every prefecture and county along the southeast coast.

Question, why can pirates still rob and rob everywhere if they enter a no-man?

Taichang frowned and looked at it for a while, then said in a deep voice: "Liqing, this time the incident is quite strange. So many pirates came ashore to rob, why didn't there be any one who encountered the coastal defense center and the Qianhu Station? What do you think is going on?"

Uh, this is hard to say!

Yuan Keli secretly glanced at Taichang and then said carefully: "Your Majesty, the pirates on the southeast coast are different from those on other places. They can be said to be pirates or maritime merchants. Originally, they were all violating the strategy of secretly selling private goods, so they thought they were maritime merchants. However, the imperial court called them pirates whether they were maritime merchants or pirates. This time, the emperor opened the maritime ban, and they had no huge profits in selling private goods. The ministers thought that this was the fundamental reason why they went on ashore and plundered wildly."

He seemed to be a little irresponsible, but Taichang understood.

The reason why these pirates did not encounter the sea defense center and the guardian Qianhu Station was because they had their inner support on the shore!

Because they also need to purchase channels for selling private goods!

There has never been any pirates raiding ashore before, at least not in the past few years.

This proves that their private goods were not stolen, but bought them from some people along the coast.

When Taichang heard this, he frowned and pondered for a while, then asked in a deep voice: "Who do you think their inner person is, the tyrant squire along the coast?"

Yuan Keli nodded repeatedly and said, "The tyrants, gentry, merchants, local officials, and even those who guard the Thousand Houses of the Coast have the possibility."

This is really troublesome!

It seems that he needs to understand why pirates always appear on the southeast coast.

Taichang frowned and pondered for a while, then sighed slightly, "Forget it, let's not talk about this for now. Do you think we can safely defeat the pirate ships of all sizes and sizes in the hands of those pirates?"

Yuan Keli and Shen Yourong looked at each other, and then said carefully: "Your Majesty, I really can't say it. This depends on whether these pirates are good at naval battles.

Duke Xiang of Yu Wu said that the way of naval battle is nothing more than using large ships to suppress small boats, using large guns to hit small guns, and using the crowd to hit few.

Now, although our number of artillery is relatively large, the large ships have not formed an overwhelming advantage, while the pirate warships have an absolute advantage in number.

If Wei Chen commanded seven or eight hundred or even thousands of warships of all sizes to besiege a Dragon-toothed warship and a hundred Wolf-toothed warships, the chance of victory would be very high."

No need to watch, these pirates must be good at naval battles.

Historically, Zheng Zhilong was an invincible existence on the southeast coast and even the South China Sea. How could this guy not be good at naval battles?

Alas, this guy doesn't know how to persuade him to surrender.

I originally wanted to give him a warning first, but I didn’t run over and was attacked by someone else!

Taichang said a little depressedly: "What do you mean, with the current strength of the Ming Navy, may not be able to beat these pirates, right?"

Yuan Keli pondered for a while, then bowed and said, "Your Majesty, the reason why I commanded seven or eight hundred or even thousands of warships of all sizes to besiege a Dragon-toothed warship and a hundred Wolf-toothed warships is very likely to win.

They simply rely on the large number of warships, and they seized the opportunity to fight around them.

Because no matter how powerful the artillery is, it must have a certain distance to play its advantage. If it is surrounded by other people's warships to fight closely, then it cannot be bombarded randomly. In that case, the random bombardment will even bombard your own warships together.

Moreover, ships of all sizes are made of wooden and are afraid of fire attacks. Once you are stuck on them, they will definitely be covered with rockets, tinders, torches, firewood, gunpowder tanks, etc., and no ship can withstand this kind of fire attack!

The Dragon Teeth Warship is not good, and the barbarian tower ships and gunboats are not good either."

Upon hearing this, Taichang couldn't help but see the scene of thousands of warships fighting in chaos.

The scene was so terrible. It was covered with warships, and I couldn’t tell the difference between the enemy and us at all. No matter how many artillery there were, I couldn’t bomb it randomly!

If you really want to surround yourself with others, you have to kneel down on the cannon boats!

There is no need to doubt this, because in history, the Ming Navy defeated the fleet of the sea overlord Dutch by using this tactic.

Thinking of this, Taichang couldn't help but sigh: "What do you think of? Should we wait for the first half of the year and wait until the first batch of Dragon-Tooth warships are built, and there are enough wolf-Tooth warships. Then we will encircle and suppress the pirates?"

Yuan Keli shook his head and said, "This is not the case. Weichen thinks that the chariot ships can also be used. We only need to bring two hundred chariot ships, then match enough navy soldiers, and then match enough muskets to the navy soldiers. Even if there are really thousands of warships of all sizes, the pirates will not be able to surround us."

This is no problem!

Taichang nodded without hesitation and said, "Okay, just transfer two hundred wheels and boats to come over. How many muskets do you think you need?"

The number of navy soldiers must be enough now, because Yuan Keli has mobilized 20,000 navy soldiers to practice here. If more than 10,000 navy soldiers were added, there will be 30,000 navy soldiers in Lai Shui City.

For muskets, it’s easy to say that he originally wanted to equip the imperial guards with enough muskets first and then equip the naval soldiers, because he believed that naval battles were still dominated by artillery.

Now that Yuan Keli said he needed muskets, it would be the same for the navy soldiers to equip them first.

Yuan Keli thought for a while and then calculated carefully: "If you want to guard the periphery of the wheel boat, each wheel boat must be equipped with at least twenty musketeers. If the Wolf-Tooth Warship needs to prevent people from approaching, it is best to be equipped with thirty musketeers. In this way, there will be nearly eight thousand navy soldiers and 5,500 musketeers in total."

It turns out that there are less than 10,000 muskets in total.

Taichang said without hesitation: "Then give each navy soldier a musket to save the enemy warships from getting closer, and the navy trainers who control the artillery can only stare at him."

Upon hearing this, Yuan Keli couldn't help but bow and said, "The emperor is wise, so we will have a greater chance of winning."

Taichang nodded slightly and said, "Okay, mobilize two hundred wheels and boats as soon as possible. I ordered Wubei City to send the muskets tomorrow. We will set off in three days."

this.

Yuan Keli couldn't help but advise: "Emperor, the naval battle is dangerous. I dare to ask the emperor to stay in the capital. I just lead the navy fleet over."

Alas, you don’t know, this time the surrender of Zheng Zhilong is the key, otherwise, these pirates would have been able to be wiped out for ten years!

Taichang shook his head slightly and said, "No need to say this. I must go this time, so you can prepare quickly."
Chapter completed!