Chapter 140 Historical Mystery

Yu Xiaotian's decree to Meng Fei was to give him two years to destroy the Japanese state. Meng Fei was obviously a general and faithfully performed his duties. He led the Dazhong army and the North Korean-fresh servant army. It took him nine months to conquer Kyoto, Japan, and was regarded as the emperor of light by the Japanese as a god. Captured alive, the Dazhong army set fire to Kyoto.

Tokugawa Iemitsu finally gathered all the remaining Japanese troops, and gathered all the peasants who could participate in the war. In the summer of Chengtian's sixth year, he launched the last counterattack against the Dazhong Army.

The two sides launched a fierce battle and fought fiercely for four days. Although the Japanese army did a backwater battle with the intention of breaking the net, the Japanese army composed of these temporarily recruited civilians, whether in morale, combat skills or equipment quality, is completely comparable to the Dazhong army, even even It is completely the same level with those Korean sticks and Japanese traitors who claim to be cannon fodder. They can only swarming up with the last cavity of blood and courage. Such a battle can no longer be called a battle. It can be said to be a one-sided massacre. In seven days, hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops have been temporarily put together became corpses. There is a sea of corpses and blood on the whole battlefield, and even those elite generals of the large and medium-sized army who have been fighting for a long time feel a little uncomfortable looking at such a tragic situation in front of them.

Seven days later, the whole Japanese army finally completely collapsed. The remaining Japanese fled in all directions like an avalanche, and the Tokugawa family saw that there was no possibility of turning the tables and committed suicide when they were defeated.

So far, the resistance of Japan has disintegrated, leaving only sporadic local armed forces still struggling to death, but under the encirclement of the middle army and the North Korean servant army, they were gradually hanged.

And Japan was completely destroyed.

The whole battle of the Eastern Expedition against Japan, including the purge of various places in the later period, took a total of two years. The whole country was basically not under the full control of the Dazhong army. It can be said that all parts of the country of Japan were killed by corpses. In desperation, Meng Fei ordered to reduce killing and send people to avoid the spread of the epidemic to the army. Zhuang went to various battlefields to collect corpses, and a large number of corpses were directly dug out of the pit on the spot to bury them, and the corpses near the seaside were directly put into the sea to feed fish.

Later historians have investigated the battle of the Eastern Expedition. At that time, the total population of Japan had reached nearly 50 million, but after the end of the war, it is said that less than two-thirds of Japan was left, and the total population was about three times less than ten.

Just before the end of the Eastern Expedition to Japan, in the sixth year of Chengtian, Yu Xiaotian left the capital and personally went to Dalian Shipyard to participate in a ship launching ceremony.

This ship is not very large, with a displacement of only more than 1,000 tons, but the shape of the ship is extremely beautiful, the port is low, and the superstructure is very low.

The whole ship is completely separated from the type of the Galen ship that is currently being built by various powers on the sea, which can be said to be a completely new type of ship.

This novel sailing ship has a length-to-width ratio of almost greater than 6:1. Its underwater shape is designed as a small resistance body, but maintains a certain horizontal resistance profile, resulting in a particularly beautiful waterline part. The first waterline surface is concave, and the long and sharp curved scissor-shaped first column is suitable for racing. Potential, it can split the waves at sea to reduce wave resistance,

The first column also extends the length of the hull, and a slash along the outer part of the first column can hang some more supporting triangular sails in the first part, which is conducive to expanding the capacity of the sail;

What's more strange is that the bow of this ship should be a hollow bow, which is completely different from the previous Galen ship. The hollow bow makes it easy to lift its head in the waves and improves its stability in the waves.

The inclined water line that gradually changes the rear body transitions harmoniously to a narrow round tail, which is harmoniously integrated with the beautiful bow pattern.

This ship has three masts, which can hang a very large sail, and the mast is very high, which can basically reach three-quarters of the total length of the ship. It is a standard high mast, and because the proportion of the hull is long, the interference between the three masts will be relatively small, and the cross mast is very wide, much beyond the hull. The width.

However, the ship does not seem to be armed. There are only two layers of artillery decks, which is also because the ship has a low stem and cannot arrange three layers of artillery decks at all. Even if two layers are arranged, it can be said to be forced, so the ship can only load about 30 artillery at most, divided into two Layer configuration.

The lower layer can be loaded with more than a dozen 24-pound long guns, and the upper artillery deck can be loaded with more than ten 12-pound long guns. On the shipboard deck, a small number of light artillery can also be arranged, so the force is not very strong.

Although this ship has not yet been shipped, the first impression of this ship is that it must be a very fast ship, which must be very suitable for high-speed sailing.

When Yu Xiaotian saw the boat, he was also very excited. He walked a few steps to the dock, stopped and began to look carefully at the ship in front of him. His eyes showed a gentle look like looking at his son, revealing a doting look.

"Good! It was finally made! Very good! Basically, it can be said that it was built according to my design! Haha! OK! OK! OK!"

Yu Xiaotian couldn't hide his excitement and said a few good words.

At this time, the director of Dalian Shipyard gently walked behind Yu Xiaotian and said to Xiaotian, "This ship was copied and enlarged according to the drawings and ship models sent by the emperor. Before that, the ministers had built five small test ships and carried out at sea. The trial voyage is extremely fast, far more than the speed of all the ship types we can build at present, and even more than twice the existing ship types!"

Yu Xiaotian nodded and smiled, "Well done! This kind of ship was originally born for high-speed navigation. Of course, it runs fast. If it can't even catch up with other ship types now, then what's the use of it!

This kind of ship can be used as a fast transport ship and a high-speed gunboat. It is even more suitable to act as a private ship! After having this kind of ship, we will start from Qingdao and go to Australia. If the wind direction is more favorable, we can arrive as soon as a month!

If you go to the Americas, you can sail with the wind and reach the Americas as soon as three months! Although I have never seen this ship launch for trial, according to my estimation, the speed of this ship can reach at least 30 miles per hour, which can be said to be as fast as a horse!"

After hearing Yu Xiaotian's words, the naval officers who came to pick up the ship showed a shocked look.

If Yu Xiaotian said it well, then this kind of ship is really a super weapon. Think about it, this ship can enter the battlefield at twice the speed of the enemy's speed, and it can be more convenient than the enemy to seize the wind direction. If the enemy ship is too powerful to sink it, then drive If you sail this kind of ship, you can quickly leave the battlefield.

This will change the mode of naval warfare, so that the party with such a ship can completely grasp the initiative of the battlefield.

Although the firepower of this ship is not very strong, it can rely on its speed to fight and leave, turn around, and continue to attack the enemy until it completely drags down.

If it is used as a plundering ship, it would be even better to hunt down the enemy merchant ships on the sea. As long as they are targeted by such ships, no one can run away. Except for being captured, there is almost no possibility of escape.

If it is used as a transport ship, it is also an artifact, which can reach the destination twice or even twice as fast as any ship. If it competes with business rivals, the party with this type of ship will seize the market at the place, and the competitors will come late. I'm afraid I can't even eat a mouthful of hot shit.

So the naval officers came over and asked Xiaotian, "So dare to ask Shengs, what type of ship should this kind of ship be called?" Please give me your name!"

Yu Xiaotian glanced at the ship in the dock and waved his hand with a smile: "This kind of ship is called a flying scissor ship!" In the future, this ship will become the fastest ship, and there is no one to surpass it! All right, stop talking nonsense! Cut the ribbon quickly! Open the dock door to release water and put the ship into the water. I haven't been on the ship for a long time. Today, I must be the first to board this ship and personally command the trial!"

After Yu Xiaotian cut a red cloth with a golden pair of scissors and smashed a bottle of wine into the bow, a boatman immediately knocked on the dock door and slowly lifted the dock door with a winch.

The sea immediately rushed into the dock and soon began to submerge the bottom of the ship, gradually providing buoyancy to the ship. As the sea water in the dock became deeper and deeper and the buoyancy became larger, the scissor ship gradually began to float from the shelf. Everyone stared at the ship nervously and observed its stability. Qualitative.

The result is very satisfactory. The craftsmen of the shipyard controlled the balance of the ship very well. The ballast stone was placed in place. After the ship floated, it swayed a few times and was stabilized. Basically, there was no lateral or backward tilt.

So everyone breathed a long sigh of relief. Suddenly, the gongs and drums were loud, and the firecrackers sounded together, and they came forward to congratulate Yu Xiaotian.

After the dock door was opened, Yu Xiaotian watched the ship being dragged out of the dock, then moved to the nearby trestle and docked next to the trestle. The craftsmen immediately boarded the ship and began to do the final retention inspection to confirm the construction quality of the ship and check the leakage in the cabin.

After a day of inspection and final repair of leaks, as well as the mooring test on the dock, the first officially built space-cutting ship of this era basically has the ability to test sail.

Yu Xiaotian urgently rejected the dissuasion of the ministers, insisted on being the first to board the flying-cutting ship and personally directing the sea for the first trial.

In the end, the ministers could not stand Xiaotian's insistence, so they had to let Yu Xiaotian board the ship and ordered the guards to take good care of Yu Xiaotian to avoid danger.

But Yu Xiaotian immediately laughed and scolded them, "Do you guys not trust that the ship I designed can float on the sea, or do you not trust the craftsmanship of the craftsmen of our shipyard?

I can guarantee that this ship will definitely make you stunned! And there will never be any problems."

The ministers certainly dare not say that they don't trust Xiaotian's design. Now no one knows that their emperor is an all-talent, especially good at ship design. Nowadays, many ships used by the navy are basically from his design, making the large and medium-sized navy now the most powerful navy in the world. Whoever dares to say that Yu Xiaotian can't do it, then I'm afraid there is no one in the world who can do it.

Under the command of Xiaotian, this flying-cutting ship, which was painted with milky white, slowly sailed out of the dock, and then sailed outside the port. The accompanying personnel boarded several other ships and escorted the new ship out of the harbor and entered the wide sea.

"Rising the sail, 30 degrees to the right rudder!" Yu Xiaotian stood on the siding and gave the order in person.

The temporary sailor immediately repeated his order, and the helmsman followed the order and began to quickly manipulate the steering wheel. The ship turned to a state of downwind and sailed towards the southeast sea. Under the skilled operation of the sailors, the sailors began to be raised.

The ship then rushed forward and began to accelerate. In front of everyone's eyes, it began to accelerate towards the wide sea like a run-out wild horse.

In the end, the speed of the ship was raised to a jaw-dropping level, cutting waves on the sea and sailing towards the distance like a sharp arrow.

All the people who participated in this sea test stared at the ship that was leaving. It took a long time before someone shouted, "Good ship! So beautiful! Long live the Holy Spirit..."