Chapter 373: The Three Buddhas are coming

On the sea, Chen Buqun reported to Zhao Xing with a large number of staff: "Taiwei, we currently have more than 300 warships, including 112 Class A gunboats and 60 Supply ships. The rest are some small firepower support ships, Class B ships, and Class C ships.

According to the adult's intention, we do not prohibit merchant ships from following them in order to obtain supplies from the merchant ships. Now there are about 700 merchant ships following behind the fleet, and the supplies they carry are enough to fill 100 warships. Now we have left the Humen Fort, and there is a ocean in front of them. Please give instructions on what to do with the caravans following behind us, and do we need to train them into groups?"

Zhao Xing nodded gently: "Put the flag and tell them to recommend the head of the system by themselves, compile a few squadrons, follow the fleet, and walk slowly, and do not rush into our fleet. Those who dare to mess with our team--no, all those who approach our fleet will be sunk."

While agreeing, Chen Buqun ordered his subordinates to expand the chart and asked: "Teacher, which sea area do you think is suitable for a decisive battle?"

Zhao Xing replied lazily: "To prevent their arson ships, we need to find an open sea area; to train the coordination of various ship types, we need to find a small country to practice... Just Huruna, give us this dynasty to sacrifice our swords."

According to Zhao Xing's meaning, we should start with Sanfoqi and Zhenla first, but the purpose of the war sometimes depends on the wishes of the investors. The merchants who paid to sponsor this expedition all thought that the two small countries, Sanfoqi and Zhenla, were obedient to the Song Shang. On the contrary, several small countries in India needed Zhao Xing to bombard the country's gates with artillery shells. In this way, the goal of the first battle became Huruna (Sri Lanka) near the Bay of Bengal. After obtaining this small island, the Song Dynasty navy could gain a foothold in the Bay of Bengal, and then, if they wanted to fight, the expedition was no longer alone and deep.

This was the first time that the Song Dynasty navy carried such a huge fleet south. In particular, this was the first time that the Song Dynasty navy began to pay attention to the coordination of various types of ships. Although it had been trained along the road for more than a month, the cooperation between the warships was still not very skillful. Chen Buqun led his men to select the battle types, and then unfolded the sea chart and began to calculate the fleet formation on the chart.

Zhao Xing came from an era of explosion of information. He occasionally obtained some information. It was because people in this era spent hundreds of years to imagine and could not find the correct result. The staff members set up their formations, and Zhao Xing pointed out with a memory look: "When the fleet is in battle, it seems that the T-type array is the most suitable, the so-called T-type array..."

Zhao Xing drew a modern heart-shaped sign on paper, explaining: "Each ship is grouped and enters the battlefield from the tail end of the T-shaped. Then turn the rudder and face the enemy ship with the side side. The artillery wheel is launched in turn. After the launch, turn the rudder again. Rearranged at the tail end of the T-shaped and enters the battlefield in turn. During this period, it is a process of artillery cooling and reloading. This time, the ship enters the T-shaped head, and should turn the rudder in the opposite direction as last time - for example, last time I face the enemy ship with the port side, this time I have to strive to face the starboard side and fire the gun from the starboard side.

In this way, warships entering the battlefield from the T-shaped tail end will travel in two directions at the same time, so as to ensure our maximum firepower output and ensure that there are many ships on the battlefield, but not crowded..."

Chen Buqun looked at Zhao Xing’s drawing of the terrestrial navigation map and couldn’t help but exclaim: “The teacher’s picture is like a blooming flower, with petals spreading to both sides. The boat was sailing while spitting flames. This way, the scene must be very good.”

Chen Buqun was a mistake of the Song people's preference for elegance. Zhao Xing nodded and agreed: "Then. This is a flower of evil, which spits out the flames of hell and the roar of Thor. It brings disaster to our enemies and takes them to hell!"

Chen Buqun couldn't sit still: "Disciple will go for a drill, order the fleets to line up and get familiar with the tactics."

Zhao Xing waved his hand: "No hurry, we have practiced the flag along the way. Along the way, we must continue to practice the flag so that all fleets can familiarize themselves with the instructions of the flag..."

In ancient times, warships were usually driven by drums and gongs, but in the age of cannons, drums and gongs were no longer suitable for command objects. On the one hand, because the sea was vast, hundreds of warships were lined up, and some warships were already at both ends of the horizon. At this time, relying on drums and gongs, the command goal was not achieved at all. On the other hand, once the drums and gongs were started, the drums and gongs were obviously not as loud as cannons, and they would be drowned in the rumbling cannons.

The Guangnan Fleet has long been adapting to identifying flagship commands through flags, but some newly joined fleets still seem clumsy, especially the number of ships. In order to avoid the accident of warship collisions, the ships are very open, and some ships are slow to receive commands and cannot complete the tasks assigned by the flagships again and again, which makes Zhao Xingya itchy. At this time, he hated this world without radio a little.

Zhao Xing deduced the formation with the staff in the cabin. In the merchant ship behind, the merchants looked at the huge fleet ahead with envy. The scene at this time was a bit similar to the scene of the Battle of Midway. If you look down from the air, you will find that the masts of the warships meandered outward from the beginning of the horizon and spread to the tail end of the horizon. The warships in front were still slightly neat, while the merchant ships behind were not in formation. The masts followed by the masts, and the decks were vocals, and the noises were heard in the decks. The busy sailors climbed up and down, and nervously controlled the ships. All the decks were full of merchants. They held telescopes specially issued for this battle. While observing the majesty of the Song Dynasty fleet, they praised: "Since the beginning of the third generation, my China has never been so powerful in the ocean. This is really..."

The merchants felt that they could not find a suitable word to praise the power presented by this fleet. In the flagship cabin, the dialogue has entered the next stage: "There is another formation, which I call 'Ruanbo'. It means that the fleet is lined up in a straight line, crossing left and right through the gaps of the enemy fleet. During the journey, the gun position is adjusted in time, the port is finished, reloaded, and then fired from the starboard side to maintain continuous pressure on the enemy."

The war at sea is different from the war on land. Zhao Xing has been wandering in the maritime business for three years and has been thinking about how to engage in naval battles. He has thought about the classical tactics of later generations. He just mentioned that the war technique of earth is also a famous classic tactic of naval battles in later generations.

In land combat, it is impossible to cross the enemy's gaps. But it is different on the sea. On the sea, the wind is constantly blowing, and each combat unit is constantly moving. Even if the warships and warships are separated by a small speed difference, the speed difference is very small. When the enemy ships are approaching, the ship cannot avoid it just by trying to hide, or if it is to speed up and fill the gaps to complete the ground.

Therefore, if the commander in the sea war is quick-witted and good at capturing fighter jets, he can complete some incredible tactical actions on land and achieve his goals. Passing through the enemy's two ships and starting work left and right to attack the enemy is a classic way of fighting with less and winning in chaos.

"There are many ships in the enemy, especially the arson ship, which is very troublesome. The teacher's style of fighting can make us disrupt the enemy's formation and completely disrupt the enemy's competition steps - this is a typical way of bullying the weak." Chen Buqun looked at the picture drawn by Zhao Xing and couldn't help but admire: "The enemy is all small boats, and there are no powerful weapons. Our gunboats bombarded us with one shot. Can those small boats continue to float?

This is a good way of playing. We are not afraid of being beaten by the enemy, but the enemy is afraid of being beaten by us. As long as we are brave, we will hit the enemy formation and rely on our powerful firepower to name the enemy ships one by one. I guess that the sea we pass by will only be left with a piece of broken wooden boards."

Broken wooden boards, this statement is a bit exaggerated. Zhao Xing asked back: "You have used the artillery ship several times. How powerful does it feel?"

"Okay, it's so powerful," Chen Buqun praised it in a series of praises.

In this era, the most powerful attack method on water was to cast the cart and rods, or to lean the boat up and engage in hand-to-hand combat on the deck. The artillery field completely eliminated the catapult. Chen Buqun talked about his cannon, which was definitely a praising word.

However, the power of artillery is not as exaggerated as shown in modern movies. Zhao Xing seemed to remember that in the 18th century there was a large-scale naval battle, with thousands of warships participating in the war between the two sides. One day, the fierce battle was exhausted, all the shells and gunpowder were exhausted, and they had to both withdraw from the battlefield. However, the record of that naval battle was - sinking one.

In order to keep the warships strong, there are so many hard objects to make. The power of black gunpowder is not as powerful as people imagine. The accuracy of sea shells is also questionable. Fighting with low accuracy and suspicious power of gunpowder is carried out. Even if the shells hit an enemy ship, most of the time the shells are like a visiting guest, gently knocking on the door, and then the shells gently fall into the sea. If the shells do not hit the gunpowder deck on the deck in a naval battle, it is impossible to cause fatal damage to the enemy.

So, can it work if it is replaced with more powerful explosives? Zhao Xing remembers that the British had done this experiment, but the final conclusion is: it is best to use black gunpowder on wooden ships. If it is replaced with other powerful gunpowder, the recoil generated during launch will make the warship a disposable item. Because the wooden boards of wooden warships are all fixed with nails, the tremor caused by the powerful gunpowder will loosen the boards, causing the nails to break, and then the ship body will disintegrate.

It was not until the appearance of the armored ship that the navy's desire to replace it with new gunpowder became a reality. In the era of black gunpowder, the most powerful one was - "fire bomb!" Zhao Xing said thoughtfully: "Our ground shells are not powerful enough. You mentioned the arson ship just now, which reminded me whether we can heat the shells, burn the iron lumps red, and then use the cannon to shoot them out. In this way, the hot shells fell on the wooden boat...hehehe."

Chen Buqun's eyes lit up: "Yes, burn the shells red and then put them into the cannon and shoot them out. The technical difficulty seems not high. I'll let someone test it. The ships are made of wood, and there are many ignition objects on the arson ships. Even if they are not arson ships, in order to prevent water seepage, the wooden ships were soaked in tung oil. As long as one Mars can ignite, we will send them Mars."

Zhao Xing was never stingy in training. The Song Dynasty Navy took the rumbling sound of canoes all the way, and occasionally used canoes passing by the island as targets to train. Poor the natives on the island, they escaped the search of the Song Dynasty slave hunting team and planned to vent in the vast sea and find a way to survive. Unexpectedly, they became toys of this huge fleet. The Song Dynasty Navy used them as training targets and practiced various formations in turn. When they entered the Three Buddhas, the cooperation between the ships had already become roughly the same.

When the Sanfoqi King saw such a huge fleet staying outside the port, he was frightened and frightened. The palace sent a high-standard envoy to visit. Chen Buqun looked at the simple shorts and vests on the envoy in disgust, and his eyes were on the other party's head. He couldn't help but say to Zhao Xing: "Teacher, do these people not even wear clothes? There are so few cloth heads on their bodies. There are only a little more cloth wrapped around his head... Oh, he is still wearing silk, my Song Dynasty silk."

Zhao Xing absent-mindedly listened to the speech of the envoy of the palace, and he explained to his students: "Do you know why he had such a long cloth wrapped around his head? This is an imitation. He imitated the Han people. In the Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms were in chaos, and many Han people fled south to Baiyue. They brought advanced culture. The local people admired them very much. Therefore, some of their characteristics became symbols of local nobility and fashion.

The Han people all have long hair. The local people cannot afford to keep long hair, or they think it is too troublesome to take care of long hair, so they use Baotou instead. The local habit can be seen from Baotou. The class of a person can be seen from Baotou. The more powerful and rich a person is, the more cloth he will wrap on his head. The silk wrapped around the head of the person in front of him is afraid that he will have 10 feet of silk. In the local area, such people are also one of the top figures in the country."

The tongue man stopped translating and couldn't help but praise him: "The Taiwei is very knowledgeable, not bad. This guy is the king's uncle and commander of the Three Buddhas and Qi army. He is also one of the best figures in their country."

Zhao Xing chuckled and asked the tongue man: "I think there will be no permanent navy in the Three Buddhas, right?"

The man didn't translate anymore and answered Zhao Xing's question: "Sir, the Three Buddhas are a small country, and there are only 30,000 serfs in the country. A few elephants, who are not rich in state affairs, can they raise a standing navy?"

Chen Buqun was surprised and interrupted: "Teacher, I remember you said that Sanfoqi had fought the No. 1 naval battle in Asia not long ago. The two sides who participated in the war used more than 5,000 ships, and maybe even tens of thousands of ships. Why didn't they even have a small fleet in their middle school?"

Chen Buqun followed his teacher and also learned Zhao Xing's division of the mainland. With the world map published by the Maritime Newspaper, the entire Song Dynasty began to call the mainland where he was located "Asia" and "Europe". However, some Confucian scholars were not satisfied with the title of "Asia". They believed that the continent where they were located could not be called "Asia", but should be called "Crown" and "Crownzhou".

This is the case where the tongue speaks and speaks with authority. The tongue often goes to and from Sanfoqi. When he knows that story, he grinned and said, "It has been almost a hundred years since the naval battle that the Taiwei said. Yes, the warships that participated in the naval battle covered the sky and avoided the sun. Afterwards, the number of warships that a few kings of the country helped fight was over three thousand. But lord, the full-time navy like the adults, is the only one in Asia that I can raise in the Song Dynasty. These Sanfoqi have no formal navy, and there is not even a coastal anti-smuggling team. In that naval battle, the king of Sanfoqi has been preparing for three years and recruited fishing boats from all over the country. It can be said that he has transferred all the floating sampans in the country, and then fought that battle..."

Others only look at the number, but Chen Buqun also wanted to sarcastically say that relying on the sea battle between folk fishing boats, you can imagine the low level of the war, but Zhao Xing saw the essence: "A fleet of such a large number can gather on the battlefield after going to sea, without any trek. It seems that Sanfoqi has a lot of experts in ship handling."

Chen Buqun was frightened and shocked. He looked at Zhao Xing with concern, and Zhao Xing shook his head gently.

Shipping on the sea is not like boating on the rivers. The sea surface is affected by the wind speed of ocean currents, so it is impossible to ensure that the formation of warships is not messy. King Sanfoqi actually brought a huge fleet of small sampans to the battlefield intact, which shows that Sanfoqi fishermen have a great ability to control boats and land at sea and their ability to identify directions.

The look that Chen Buqun just handed over was because he was worried about the huge number of sailors in Sanfoqi. With these sailors, it was inevitable that the King of Sanfoqi would carry forward the means of ants killing the elephant and grab the ship. In addition, Chen Buqun was also worried that after the fleet entered the port, the sailors would reveal the secrets on the warship, so his look was to remind Zhao Xing, and Zhao Xing's return look said he didn't have to care.

The Sanfoqi Uncle was just paying tribute to Zhao Xing according to local etiquette, and he mentioned his request in a long and long way. Halfway through the translation, he chatted with Zhao Xing. The Sanfoqi Uncle Uncle could not understand everyone's conversation, and only heard the Sanfoqi repeatedly mention it during the conversation. He knew that this living person was talking about their country, so he quickly said something and made bad demands: "Dear adults, our country cannot receive such a huge fleet. Our requirement is that your ship can enter the port in batches, buy water from us, and conduct fair trades with us, while the rest of the ships can only park outside the port and wait to enter the port in sequence."

Chen Buqun was furious and scolded: "It seems that they don't know how powerful we are, so we will show them a trick."

Zhao Xing had a simple smile on his face, staring at Uncle Wang, but said to Chen Buqun: "Don't worry, our primary strategic goal is the Indian Ocean, this is our way of retreat. Smile and smile at them. As long as they are not overdoing it, we might as well knock on their national door with a smile."

After Zhao Xing finished speaking, he stared at Uncle Wang and ordered the tongue man intently: "For him, we are going to go to Lion City to replenish supplies, where there is our supply station. This time we arrived at Sanfoqi, we also replenish fresh water for the caravan. Our warships did not enter the port, but the dignity of the warships cannot be offended. Tell him, ask him to restrain the domestic fishing boats, because we will sink all the fishing boats that are close or attempted to get close."

The tongue man began to translate for Uncle Wang. Zhao Xing kept a simple smile on his face and stared at Uncle Wang, but ordered Chen Buqun: "Aren't you going to teach them a lesson just now? You haven't ordered the Class A warships to anchor and the Class C warships to patrol the periphery, telling each ship that they can freely shell any fishing boats that they intend to approach, or they think they want to approach."

It is a man who likes to play with swords, guns, and this is a man's hunting nature. The cannon with its great power makes sailors love it. Zhao Xing's order is equivalent to opening the ban, allowing sailors to fiddle with their beloved weapons at will. As soon as the flag on the flagship was issued, the ships immediately remembered the rumbling cannons. Even if there was no target approaching, the sailors liked to fire a few cannons at the illusion target to practice their hands.

This rumbling, thunder god's roar changed the color of Uncle Wang.
Chapter completed!