"Seventy-one ships are equipped with bombardment guns?"

When Emperor Zhu asked, he frowned slightly.

If there were other options, he would not spread the bombardment so quickly. In fact, this weapon cannot be hidden for too long, because there are a large number of French and Dutch military advisers in the Ming Army, and they have already seen it

The bombardment cannon, the wooden bracket, the spent ammunition, and the wooden tube fuse - these things are just an idea, you can do it once you see it!

In addition, the Spaniards also saw the power of bombardment guns in naval battles. Not only did they see it in the Battle of Dinghai Anchorage, they also saw this kind of weapon in subsequent escort and engagement battles, and some even hit Spanish warships.

The wooden-supported shells did not explode and were picked up by the Spaniards - not to mention that the wooden-supported shells of this era would produce dumb bombs, even the industrialized production of artillery shells in later generations often produced dumb bombs, so as long as they are used, they will

Being picked up and taken back to the cottage...

Since there is no way to keep it secret, it might as well be used generously by Ming Dynasty!

Anyway, the upgrade of naval ships caused by the spread of this technology will not cause much loss to the Ming Navy, which originally did not have many armed Galen ships. However, it is a bit of a headache for the two naval powers of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands!

"That's right," Huang Binqing, the naval commander, said, "Seventy-one ships are equipped with... ranging from one door to four doors, all installed on the forecastle and stern of the ship.

Orbital, can fire in all directions."

Now it’s good, the whole world knows!

Zhu Cixiang nodded, "When can we set off? Who will be in charge?"

Huang Binqing said: "Now we are waiting for the wind direction to be right. The admiral of the coalition fleet will be Abel Jansson Tasman... He served as fleet admiral and captain in the Dutch East India Company, and he was also a naval academy student.

Deputy Chief, he is very familiar with the situation of our Ming Navy."

"What about the Marquis of Xiamen?" Zhu Cihong asked, "What does he do?"

"He wants to serve as deputy to Admiral Tasman." Huang Binqing replied.

"Very good!" Zhu Cixiang nodded, thinking: With Tasman, an old navy soldier, at his side, Zheng Jiangong can always make great achievements, right?

"Where is the army?" Emperor Zhu asked again, "How many troops are prepared to send?"

The Ming Dynasty has a Marine Corps, but the number is very small. There are only a few battalions. Two of the battalions are still stationed in Chenggong Bay. Only 1,500 people can participate in the Satsuma expedition. With these people, they cannot defeat the Satsuma Kingdom.

Those crazy martial artists have to mobilize the army.

"The Army has prepared a division," Wu Sanfu said, "a total of more than 13,000 people, ready to go at any time. Including the Marines, the total number is 15,000!"

"That's it?" Zhu Cixiang frowned, "Is it enough?"

"Your Majesty," Huang Binqing said, "we only have these few ships! One ship can carry one or two hundred troops for a cross-sea expedition, which is a lot... In order to transport these fifteen thousand people, the Navy Department has mobilized

Fifty-five big bird boats, there’s really no way we can do more.”

Thirty-six Galen ships plus fifty-five big bird ships, a total of ninety-one large-scale ships, which has already taken a lot of effort from the Navy Department—big bird ships and large bird ships operating along the coasts of Nanyang and Daming.

Of course, there were far more Galen ships than this number, but the Ming Dynasty needed to rely on these ships to import grain from Siam, Annam, the Jing Navy and the Jin Ou Army, so they could not requisition them all.

In addition, there is no wireless telegraphy on sea ships these days. As soon as they leave the port, the Ming Navy Department has no way to contact them.

"Is there any news from Japan?" Zhu Cixiang asked again, "The Tokugawa shogunate should also send troops to attack the Satsuma clan, right?"

Traffic with Japan has been cut off by Garcia's fleet. It's not that it's impossible to go, but it's extremely risky!

Therefore, the Navy Department of the Ming Dynasty was not willing to risk the precious Galen warships.

"There is no news yet," Huang Binqing said, "but the news we got before traffic with Japan was cut off shows that the shogunate is preparing for war!"

Emperor Zhu took a breath and was about to give an order when he saw Huang Xiaobao, the eunuch and eunuch Bingbi, the Superintendent of Ceremonies, trotting in from the outside with a memorial in his hand - obviously the urgent memorial he had just received, it should be

The officials who stayed behind in the cabinet or the commander-in-chief's office had people transfer them here.

Emperor Zhu didn't like secret memorials. Generally, only the Jinyiwei and the Metropolitan Procuratorate could bypass the cabinet and report secretly to the Generalissimo's house. Other memorials had to be forwarded by the General Affairs Department to the two offices, and after being read by the big bosses of the two offices, they were then

Report to Emperor Zhu. If the elders of the two palaces happen to be attending the imperial meeting when the memorial is delivered, then the officials left behind will read it. If the important news is delivered directly to the imperial court, it will be sent to the emperor.

Different from the styles of several wise emperors before the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Cixiang did not actually care about being deceived by the ministers below, and he was not interested in understanding the sufferings of the people - how could the primary stage of capitalism not be suffering? Where could colonialism come from if it was not suffering?

Therefore, Zhu Cihong's way of managing the country was to delegate power to the two governments, and his method of maintaining long-term peace and order in the country was to torment a bunch of generations. If these generations are not properly trained, the world will not last long.

If these people are educated well, at least after the death of Emperor Zhu, the world will not be in great trouble...

"Long live my lord, I was transferred from the handsome man's house." Huang Xiaobao said to Zhu Cihong.

"Sanfu, please read it." Zhu Cixiang was not too lazy to read it, but respected the "right to read memorials" of the heads of the two governments - he fully trusted them!

Wu Sanfu took the memorial and opened it, his face immediately lit up with joy.

"Your Majesty, good news!" Wu Sanfu said, "The Henan is back! It entered the Wusong River yesterday... They are back from the New World! And they have already established a stronghold in the New World!"

"Okay!" Zhu Cixiang nodded heavily, "I came back just in time... This is a good sign! The route to the New World has been opened. Now we just wait for us to defeat the Satsuma clan and control Kagoshima Bay, and then we can move eastward across the ocean.

The land of the American Protectorate has been restored!”

He used "restoration" rather than occupation...after all, northwest America has been owned by the Celestial Empire since ancient times!

He paused and asked, "How is the condition of the Henan? How is the situation of the crew? Can they participate in the Satsuma expedition?"

Letting the Henan participate in the Satsuma expedition is actually a reward, because the expedition fleet already has 91 warships and troop transports, which is so large that the Spanish fleet will not dare to resist it, so the naval operation is bound to win.

"The Henan is in good condition, and most of the crew members are in good health. After learning that the coalition fleet was about to go on an expedition, they all requested a fight."

"Okay!" Zhu Cixiang nodded, "Then we will incorporate the Henan into the expedition fleet... wait until they return from Satsuma Domain and discuss their merits together!

When the time comes, I will personally go to Shanghai to help them clean up their troubles!"

...

Shanghai, the most prosperous commercial city of the Ming Dynasty, has never been so crowded with warships! Including the Henan that just returned, there are now a total of 92 warships flying the sun and moon flags on the Wusong River (because they received money from Emperor Zhu

, so the ships of the four countries of Britain, France, the Netherlands and Portugal also hung the sun and moon flags) and formed two columns, arranged in sequence from Wusongkou, looking majestic!

The forts on both sides of Wusongkou are also on the highest alert! In addition to the 36-pound and 48-pound bronze long guns that have been installed there, many bombardment guns that can fire 24-pound wooden shrapnel shells have also been temporarily added.

Shanghai Port has become the most difficult seaport in the world... probably not one of them!

The 15,000 army and marines who will land on the land of Satsuma Domain in Japan have all boarded the ship. Their leader is Li Yuanyin, the admiral of the Japanese Conquest Army. He is also the main force of the Japanese Conquest Army and the commander of the Army's First Division.

This new generation of Ming army generals who rose to prominence in the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains is now standing on the deck of his command ship, a military-type Wanshi Big Bird ship, watching the buildings on both sides of the Wusong River slowly recede.

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The coalition expedition fleet is sailing out of Wusongkou!

Ninety-two warships, troop transports and 15,000 expeditionary troops will rush to distant battlefields!
Chapter completed!