Chapter 1913： Repairing the Fort to Haiphong

Most of the Portuguese guns seized by Wang Mon were rescued and salvaged by the water ghosts from the burned shipwreck. Moreover, most of them are small cannons of two or three pounds. Although its power is not great, it is just suitable for land combat.

The kings in the Fujiang region rebelled against the rebels, but they were only guarding against danger, and they were most afraid of weapons like artillery. Moreover, there are many 12-pound guns and 6-pound guns on the Portuguese warships, which are more suitable for attacking.

Chen Jin obtained these more than three hundred artillery pieces, not to mention defeating the enemy. The sound when the gun was fired could scare individuals. In addition, the 1,800 musket guns were enough for Chen Jin to send out a powerful musket array, and he could definitely suppress Wang Gongxun's rebel army.

After making this decision, Liang Chu and Yang Yiqing suddenly began to tout the role of artillery, thinking that artillery is a super weapon to defeat the enemy. Moreover, the Humen Battery's deportation of the Portuguese warships was greatly appreciated by Liang Chu and Yang Yiqing.

Many ministers from North Korea and China seem to have been greeted in advance, so they strongly agree with the two. Then, the Minister of the Manchu Dynasty began to discuss the establishment of forts in various key ports along the southeast coast.

Zhengde opened his mouth and said nothing in the end. In fact, the entire rhythm was deflected by Liang Chu and Yang Yiqing. Originally, Zhengde still wanted to build several warships. As a result, Liang Chu and Yang Yiqing and other ministers of the Qing Dynasty completely ignored the warships. The problem of arranging forts everywhere ...

Zhengde wanted to intervene, but for many years he mainly thought about how to deal with Mongolia in the north. Moreover, what the ministers said is very reasonable. The southeast coast, where finances and taxes are important, must be strictly protected.

As for the eunuchs in North Korea and China, they control the eight innings and involve the casting of artillery. However, it does not involve shipbuilding. So, I heard that the ministers are going to cast artillery on a large scale, and these eunuchs have long smiled. Because, on the casting artillery, they can get their hands up and down and get a lot of benefits.

But for the shipbuilding and the like, these eunuchs don't care. This is because shipyards are generally located on the southeast coast or in the Yangtze River region, where the eunuchs in the palace are unmatched, and they have nothing to do with them.

Moreover, if you spend a lot of money to build a ship, there will be less money allocated to the casting ...

Therefore, at this time, Zhengde himself did not know how to intervene, and the eunuchs under Zhengde also supported casting and not shipbuilding because of interest issues.

In this way, both the Civil Service Group and the Eunuch Group support multi-repair fortifications, but not shipbuilding. The idea of ​​Zhengde building the fleet went out.

Jiang Bin and Qian Ning, who are not the eunuch's favorite, want to follow Zhengde. After all, the benefits of the inner eight rounds of casting cannons are not up to them. That is the eunuch's territory.

But the problem is that Qian Ning was born in Jinyiwei, and he didn't know anything about the sailor at all. Jiang Bin is an officer of the frontier army. He is more familiar with land and frontier forensic affairs and does not understand things at sea.

Therefore, the two of them did not bother about casting cannons or building ships. Instead, they encouraged Zhengde to go to the frontier areas to fight in order to bring them military power.

A few days later, the brokers sent by Kong Tai also found several eunuchs and gave them bribes. Then, Zhang Yong and Gu Dayong waited for the eunuchs, and they had nothing more to say. What they value most now is how to divide the benefits of the foundry. After all, the cast gun needs a lot of copper, and it has a lot of benefits in it.

Then, throughout the Daming Dynasty, a consensus was reached on "repairing turrets to ensure the safety of coastal defense". The civil servant group is purely because of the Confucian guiding principle of "Mutual Conservation" and prefers defense to offense. The castration party, purely for the benefit of casting guns, also vigorously supports the repair of forts.

Under the guidance of this kind of thinking, the Pearl River estuary outside Guangzhou had additional forts. Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Ningbo, Hangzhou and other major coastal towns have also made plans to repair forts. In addition, Chongming Island on the Yangtze River estuary, as well as the banks on both sides, also have plans to repair forts. Even Dagukou, the "Gate Portal", has plans to build a "Dagu Fort". In short, the entire Daming began to repair the fort, which was three hundred years before the Qing Dynasty began to repair the fort in the 19th century.

Moreover, unlike the Opium War, when the Opium War began, the artillery of the Qing Dynasty was actually behind. Because the Qing artillery was still a smoothbore gun, and the ratio and purity of gunpowder was not good. Although the caliber is large, the range is not as good as the British artillery. In the second Opium War, the British even made a rifled gun, the Armstrong gun, which completely crushed the Manchu turret.

In addition, the Qing army's battery design was not reasonable, and the ammunition depot was located on the surface, which was extremely dangerous. When the Eight-Power Allied Forces attacked the Dagukou Fort, the Krupp artillery of the Dagukou Fort did not fall down during the artillery battle. However, the ammunition depots of the North and South Forts were hit by the enemy ships, triggering martyrdom and defeated .

The fort designed by Marin clearly has no such defects. In the fort designed by Marin, not only does the fort have a "top cover" to prevent the enemy's shells from hitting the soldiers in the fort, but also the ammunition depot is strictly required to be located underground.

Of course, the shells of this era were separated by ammunition. And the heaviest, but it is iron ball. In order to prevent the gunner from consuming too much energy when carrying the iron ball, the ammunition depot designed by Marin is divided into a gunpowder depot and an iron ball depot.

Among them, the gunpowder warehouse is strictly located underground, and all gunpowders are sealed and packaged in moisture-proof oil paper and stacked in the underground gunpowder warehouse. At the start of the war, the soldiers responsible for transport took the bags of the ground fort. It feels like holding a bag of salt ...

The iron ball library where the iron ball shells are located is on the ground, parallel to the fort, and can be transported by a small cart, which is very convenient.

Under such a scientific and reasonable design, there would be no ridiculous thing that failed because the ammunition depot was hit.

...

In fact, apart from the fact that the Ming Dynasty used stone materials and the Beihai country used reinforced concrete, there was little difference between the Ming Dynasty battery and the Beihai country.

Of course, the only difference is also critical. This made the turrets of the North Sea State impossible to destroy by shelling, and the Ming dynasty had a very small chance of being destroyed by shelling ~ www.novelhall.com ~ However, in this era, I am afraid that no other country can destroy the Ming Dynasty with artillery. The sturdy stone fort is gone. After all, artillery technology in various countries is still very general and not powerful. Unless a large artillery such as the 68-pound artillery of the North Sea State is successfully developed, the fort of Daming Stone Fortress can be opened.

Before helping the Ming dynasty to repair the fort, the North Sea craftsman Hadover, under the instruction of Conthai, also taught him. At that time, among the artisans in Guangzhou repairing forts, there were master craftsmen sent by the Ministry of Industry.

Liang Chu directly summoned Lu Youcai, a master craftsman who had participated in the repair of the fort and received the guidance of Hadover, to the Hall of Supreme Harmony to introduce the design ideas of the fort.

These design ideas, even civil servants who don't know how to do it, nodded frequently after hearing it, which made sense.

The emperor Zhengde, who likes military affairs, also appreciates the design ideas of the fort.

Since then, "repairing turrets and protecting Haiphong" has become a basic national policy of Daming. Moreover, for a long time, because there was no way to break the fort, it turned out to be a very restrained Portuguese warship and pirate boat, and achieved good results ...