Chapter 1608
After recent years of construction, the Navy has now taken shape. However, the navy’s battle strength is definitely not as strong as the army.
Even with the same armor and equipment, the navy relies more on warships. The quality of warships cannot surpass the era, and the navy’s battle strength cannot surpass the era.
No matter how sophisticated the armor and equipment are made of gold yuan alloy, people will still die after the ship is destroyed.
In Ying Yi’s in mind, the importance of the navy is not inferior to that of the army. But if the shipbuilding technology can't get the breakthrough, the navy's battle strength can hardly reach the level of Ying Yi's in mind.
For this reason, Denglai Liangfu Yingyi plans to build it as the first center of the shipbuilding industry-the shipbuilding industry of metal warships based on the high-quality material of Jinyuan Alloy. But this will not be a breakthrough for a while-in the original history, the metal shell warship was developed after the appearance of the steam engine.
In Ying Yi, the steam engine is too inefficient. And it is not in line with Great Xia, which takes the Origin Qi program as the foundation and development direction of civilization.
As a power source, Ying Yi has a better choice, which is Origin Qi, which is the Bafang Pagoda. However, if Origin Qi is used as an energy source and integrated with the warship, it will certainly not be possible in a short period of time.
So the navy ships are still old-fashioned guys.
The shipbuilding industry in the Ming Dynasty was not technically inferior to the Western shipbuilding technology at this time, and the technology for the construction of giant warships surpassed Western civilization at this time.
But the navy’s first opponent was not Western civilization at this time. But Zheng Zhilong.
Zheng Zhilong, who started as a pirate, has great influence on the sea. There are thousands of warships and tens of thousands of people. They are experts at sea. Compared with the naval warfare skills, Ying Yi's newly built navy is probably far behind.
Now Zheng Zhilong pulls his fleet from the sea area of Fujian to the Yangtze River. He looks at peace with the former officials, and Ying Yi is doomed to attack him.
Actually, even if Zheng Zhilong did not make peace with the former court officials, Ying Yi would not let him go. This person has too much power on the sea, and he is self-reliant and tyrannical, and he does not listen to the announcement. This is intolerable.
While the War Zone in the east of Liaoning and the War Zone in the northwest were both moving, the navy stationed in Denglai also frequently began to move south.
Yangzhou Prefecture, Jiangdu.
Fujun Wangyuan is patrolling the riverside highlands.
Wang Yuan has served as Yangzhou Fujun for more than three months. He was originally a student from Gyeonggi and a native of Baoding. King Xia swept across Hebei, and he was recruited as an official. Because of his outstanding ability, he served as the county head. After the Mountain and Sea Trial, he was able to care for the people and made outstanding humanitarian contributions. He became the head of Yangzhou. He took office before March.
After taking office, Wang Yuan calmed the hearts of the people, encouraged farmers, straightened out business, and worked hard until Zheng Zhilong sailed to the Yangtze River.
Yangzhou is across the river from Zhenjiang, Changzhou, and Suzhou. Nanjing Yingtian is on the west side of Zhenjiang. After Zheng Zhilong arrived on the Yangtze River, he harassed Jiangbei for months, especially Yangzhou, which made Wang Yuan Extremely angry.
After the Jiangnan War Zone stationed in Jiangbei, confronted Nanjing Yingtian and established the Yangtze River front, this situation was alleviated.
Then the Jiangnan War Zone sent a letter requesting that governments from all over the Yangtze River cooperate with the Jiangnan War Zone to build fortresses along the Yangtze River. The Yangzhou government was one of the key points.
Wang Yuan attached great importance to this, and personally went to the riverside to command.
"The river capital is on the waterfront, and the thieves and navy divisions can reach it directly, and the hidden dangers are extremely serious. Now there are forts along the river. If the thieves come again, they will definitely give him color."
Wang Yuan is all capable. Jinpao, walking on the construction site on the high ground along the river. The audience are all workers and craftsmen, one group in a frenzy.
"The monarch is afraid that he won't be able to do what he wants." On the side, the Secretary of Civil Affairs of the Yangzhou Prefecture said with a smile: "From the War Zone in the south of the Yangtze River to the river, the water bandits have suffered a lot of losses. How dare you come to Jiangbei? Harassment?"
Wang Yuan said with a laugh: "Whether you come or not. There are fort guards in the river, and commoners can feel at ease. This is better than anything."
The construction of the fort along the river seems to be to defend against Zheng Zhilong's naval division, but for deeper reasons, Wang Yuan also knows well-he has received news from the Ministry of National Security at noon, asking him to prepare to meet the Eastern Mountain at night. The arrival of the Sea Army-the fort along the Jiangbei River, the ultimate goal is to cooperate with the Eastern Sea Army to block Zheng Zhilong's navy in the Yangtze River estuary, in a spurt of energy!
Zheng Zhilong's navy is very good at naval battles. If Zheng Zhilong's navy's battle strength is in the Peak state on a wide sea, it will not be easily defeated. But now Zheng Zhilong is making peace with the old officials of Ying Tianfu and pulling the navy to the Yangtze River. For Ying Yi, this is an excellent opportunity.
In the narrow estuary of the Yangtze River, with the aid of the fort set up on the north bank, there is a greater chance of annihilating Zheng Zhilong's navy in one fell swoop.
Returning from patrolling the river, Wang Yuan is ready to welcome the navy. At night, Wang Yuan, together with a certain general in Jiangnan War Zone stationed in Jiangdu, went to Tong Prefecture to greet Zheng Wu's Admiralty.
Zheng Wuhui's division started from Denglai, went south along the coastline, bypassed the Shandong Peninsula, passed through Huai'an and Yangzhou, and entered the Yangtze River estuary.
The Yangtze River Estuary is not calm and tranquil. Zheng Zhilong was stationed on Chongming Island with a fleet of 50 warships. However, the situation here has long been ascertained. Even the military deployment of the enemy on Chongming Island is clear to Zheng Wu-the influence composed of the old officials of Yingtian in Nanjing can be described as a sieve, leaking from all sides. Besides, there are countless people who are looking forward to surrender, just ask a few words, they know everything.
The navy who Zheng Zhilong stayed on Chongming Island was headed by his son Zheng Sen. Zheng Sen, whose name is Ming Yan and Da Mu, is also the national hero Zheng Chenggong in the original history.
Zheng Sen just turned 20 years old. Before that, he went to school with celebrities in Yingtian. After Zheng Zhilong arrived in Nanjing, he was given a thousand men and fifty battleships to garrison him on Chongming Island.
Zheng Sen can be described as the origin of family learning-for water warfare, he has been fascinated by his childhood, and has abilities far beyond ordinary people.
Of course, Zheng Zhilong moved Zheng Sen away from Nanjing not only because he believed his son was capable, but his purpose was not so simple. Nanjing is now a big vortex, Zheng Sen is Zheng Zhilong's eldest son, and Zheng Zhilong is now the backing of the old Nanjing minister. It is inevitable that Zheng Sen was plot against, and Zheng Zhilong dismissed him.
But unfortunately, Zheng Zhilong miscalculated. He originally thought that Zheng Sen was placed on Chongming Island. No matter what happened to Yingtian, Zheng Sen could go out to sea directly from Chongming Island and escape the danger. But he didn't know that Ying Yi had formed a navy.
How do you say the intelligence system of the old ministers in Nanjing? At least half of them are from the National Security Department of Ying Yi.
Zheng Zhilong did not know that Shandong has a War Zone establishment with a naval force of 48,000 people. Therefore, he did not know that Chongming Island was in the first danger sequence.
Of course, this time the navy is not coming out in full force. Only eight hundred warships with 20,000 and four thousand people. But against Zheng Sen on Chongming Island, he was as easy as blowing off dust.