489 The Secret Passenger on the Pirate Ship
The brand new Sagala Dragon King sailed out of Nanjing Shipyard late at night. The Ming Dynasty would not let the people know the relationship between the Sagala Dragon King and the Ming Dynasty. Even if everyone understands that this ship cannot be made by people outside the Ming Dynasty, and such a ship cannot be built in other places.
This ship can be said to be the pinnacle of the Ming Dynasty shipbuilding industry and is called the ship of miracle.
After Bai Minghe took over the Nanjing Shipyard, he chose the best boatman and built such a boat with the best materials.
Generally, the 2,000-material warship is no matter how complex the Nanjing Shipyard is, it can guarantee that it will be launched within five months and put into battle. This one was built for fifteen months. Originally, this ship was replaced by the White Shark as the new flagship of the White Crane, but before it was marked as the White Shark, it became the Shagara Dragon King.
A true maritime overlord class warship.
The material is selected from the thousand-year-old ancient trees in the Siam Primitive Forest and processed with special treatment methods. The shipmaker believes that the hull is stronger than iron. The largest main material is nearly one meter thick and weighs 80 stones. Just transporting this main material alone secretly calls a small fleet and dragged it back to the Nanjing Shipyard from the water.
The hull is streamlined, combining the Ming, Byzantine and white cranes' understanding of modern ships.
The length of the ship is thirty-six zhang, which is more than 100 meters in modern times and six feet in width. The three main sails are the largest main sail from the deck, which is as high as twelve zhang, which is thirty-six zhang. The designed displacement of this ship is 40,000 stones, but in fact it is 36,800 stones, and can carry a load of 12,000 stones.
The rest were given to crew members, artillery, ammunition warehouses, etc.
The artillery is the most amazing part of this ship. There are 128 artillery pieces in the whole ship. As long as the ship dares to receive a volley on this side, even the White Shark can be smashed into pieces.
The hull with red paint, the black main sail, and the black-backed golden faucet on the flagpole with a bloody rose, representing the Shagara.
Light load, full sail, full speed, and 18 knots are calculated at modern speeds. Only Huaiyu's steamship can run faster than it. Bai Minghe believes that this ship is located in Southeast Asia. One ship is enough to destroy the enemy and a fleet. Even if the main force of the Ming Dynasty encounters this ship, it will be difficult to defeat it without paying enough price.
Because of the emergence of this ship, the Daming Wooden Ship Manufacturing Technology has also taken a brand new level.
In the new style of sailing design, the three-sail battleship craftsmen are confident that they can exceed this one, but not too much. After all, the use of wind has reached the extreme. It is no point in increasing the number and size of the sails unless the structure of the hull is changed.
At dawn, when the sunlight jumped out of the sea level, the black mainsail Shagala whispered the flag, paid tribute to the patrol fleet guarding here, and accelerated across the sea outside Yidao.
Six new ships of dark fleets with speeds of about fifteen knots per hour were sailing from Keelung military port and heading south with the Shagara!
"Good ship!"
The old general who was leading the patrol nibbled a cigar and shouted at the sea.
His daughter was the first mate on this ship, and the Shagala had 700 crew members. In addition, the total number of combatants exceeded 1,000. Being able to work on such a ship is worthy of pride for the rest of his life.
The ship sailed across the coast of Taiwan, and at another sunrise, Li Huamei ordered in the captain's office: "Full speed, Dongsha!"
The six ships behind received the flag verbs and continued to maintain their current speed, continuing to move south to meet outside the sea of the Babuyan Naval Division, three hundred miles north of the Lavag Military Port.
In the Dongsha Islands, a fleet of more than 30 ships is separating, and the flagship is heading east alone.
The crimson giant ship sailed through the wind and waves. The black main sail with its back facing the sun shone with strange light.
"Good ship!" Deng Hailong, standing at the bow of the boat, shouted, starting with a sailor and devoted his life to the Ming Navy. Deng Hailong knew very well what a good ship was. He ran fast, strong, and could withstand the wind and waves. The most important thing was to have enough combat power. The sixty-two cannons on this crimson ship represented a kind of arrogance.
A kind of arrogance that dares to challenge any ship in the world.
The two ships began to slow down at the same time and were preparing to join the ship. After the speed slowed down, more than ten cables flew over to each other, and each of them had crew members holding the cables and tied them to their own ships.
Deng Hailong did not use the hanging basket used to save people and goods when connecting the board, but instead swung himself over with a long rope.
"Old Deng, you are still good at it!" Bai Minghe walked onto the deck with a folding fan in his hand, wearing a blue-white long gown and a very ordinary Confucian scholar's crown.
"Xiaobai, if you give me such a boat, I can be ten years younger!" Deng Hailong smiled and clasped his fists to greet him. When he saw Li Huamei coming out immediately after Bai Minghe, Deng Hailong clasped his fists again: "I have long admired Daming, General Li!"
"Hello General Deng!" Li Huamei performed a military salute from the Ming Dynasty very regularly. Behind Li Huamei, the crew members with responsibilities also saluted Deng Hailong. In terms of identity, Deng Hailong was calling his uncle in front of them, and the younger even wanted to call him grandpa.
What's more, the name of Deng Hailong's Dragon King in the South Sea had been spread throughout the Ming Navy when they were children.
Behind them, Deng Hailong was the Ottoman Navy that had destroyed the powerful Byzantine Empire under the rumor, and they dared to rush forward in the fire of artillery. Deng Hailong means that the navy had no defeat.
Deng Hailong's current full name is the General Military Officer of the South China Sea Admiral, the abbreviation of the Admiral, who is truly a first-rank military officer. This official position is believed to be a substantial reputation for Deng Hailong.
In Land War, Yu Qian and Deng Hailong, the Navy, have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. These two people represent life!
Only by living can you go home and enjoy glory!
Bai Minghe and Deng Hailong walked to the bow of the boat, and everyone retreated to the distance, even Li Huamei was no exception.
"Xiaobai, can you give me a solid foundation to Lao Deng? What do you want to do? What do you need Lao Deng? Waiting like this makes Lao Deng feel uneasy. You always have to do something to make people fall asleep peacefully!" Deng Hailong said earnestly.
Bai Minghe inserted the folding fan on the back collar and took out a piece of paper from his pocket.
This is a world map.
"Old Deng, here is the earliest Roman Empire. Now there is a pope here, Garys III. We don't care about how much he did, but there are two things that make Long Live unhappy, and they are very unhappy. He added a small country that is not as big as our Fujian, and called the small country in Portugal the maritime overlord!"
After hearing Bai Minghe's words, Deng Hailong pointed to his feet with a heavy face, and then pointed to his flagship: "What do you mean is that my Ming Navy is not strong enough?"
"Whether you are strong or not, you will naturally have a conclusion after you fight. Long live this matter, and attacking Portugal, you are the best choice for the commander of the Zhengyin. Of course, there is another reason!"
When Bai Minghe said this, he suddenly tore up in half with the map.
"Old Deng, there is also an emerging naval power there. They will have a fleet, known as the Invincible Fleet. Of course, I don't doubt that they can defeat Portugal in the future because they are indeed strong enough. In fact, Mo Long's injury was done by their fleet. This is not a big deal, but the real big deal is this!"
The white-known crane shook the map in his hand: "The pope ordered that this half belong to the emerging power Spanish Invincible Fleet, and this half belong to the sea overlord Portugal."
Deng Hailong took the map torn in half from Bai Minghe's hand and took another look, then folded it up and put it in his arms, and said very seriously: "Long live reporting this matter, just say I... I understand."
"Yeah!" Bai Minghe also nodded. "Safe, if you really fight, it will take at least five years later. At most two years, your new flagship, Qinglian Dragon King, promises to give you a surprise." Bai Minghe finished speaking and gave Deng Hailong two books: "This is the same book, one in Byzantine and the other in our Chinese!"
Deng Hailong took it and wrote "Marco Polo's Travels in the East" on the cover of the book.
"Old Deng, I am a white-famous crane, so I don't want anyone to treat my Ming Dynasty as a dish on the table. I don't want our descendants to be treated as a dish, and I want them to look good!"
"Don't worry, there is Old Deng here!" Deng Hailong responded to Bai Minghe with a smile.
Bai Minghe then took out another map, Southeast Asia map.
"Old Deng, there is enough wealth here. They will transport these wealth back one by one, and then slowly grow their navy. What they do is like what I did at the beginning. Temasek is the throat of our Ming Dynasty to the Tianzhu Sea. Now I will find a way to seal it up, in five years, ten thousand warships."
Bai Minghe nodded solemnly.
Deng Hailong also nodded solemnly: "There is Old Deng!"
When men talk, when they say this, it is equivalent to giving their lives to the other party. There is no need to make any promises, which is enough.
Deng Hailong also understood what he would encounter in the next five years, and also knew what Bai Minghe wanted to do.
Deng Hailong did not doubt Bai Minghe's words. Bai Minghe would not talk nonsense about such things. As for how Bai Minghe knew, it was not his concern. He was just looking forward to how strong the sea overlord was, who was named by a pope, and how strong the so-called invincible fleet was?
Deng Hailong went back, and Bai Minghe returned to the ship warehouse.
The two ships separated, and the Shagala rushed away at an extreme speed of eighteen knots.
"Old Deng, is that the new White Shark?" Several commanders surrounded him and Lao Lei asked anxiously.
"That's the Sagara Dragon King. Xiaobai wants to do something shameful. And we just double the training of the navy. Xiaobai plans to increase the navy to 10,000 warships. In less than five years, we will face two fleets from afar, one of which has been named the overlord of the sea, and the other is called the Invincible Fleet!"
After Deng Hailong finished speaking, a hint of sneer appeared on his face.
There was a lot of curses in the ship warehouse. These two names seriously stimulated the generals of the Ming Navy. In their eyes, they had these two names in front of the Ming Navy, who were already unimaginably powerful, and they were really crazy. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!