Chapter 215 Voyage

But not to mention putting down this new artillery, the application of rifles alone has once again achieved unprecedented improvement in the combat effectiveness of the army in China and North Korea.

After the new weapon was put into trial by the border army, the effect was extraordinary. The first to taste its power was a Mongolian tribe. A Mongolian tribe attacked the station because it was dissatisfied with the large, middle and North Korean troops occupying their pastures to build a military station. As a result, hundreds of Mongolian cavalry were attacking this small soldier. When standing, the defenders of less than 50 people in the station used this new Type 13 rifle to defeat them, which could even be said to be a massacre.

The people of this Mongolian tribe did not understand the power of this new musket at all. According to their old habits, they gathered at a distance where the previous smooth-blinder guns could not be effectively shot, and then launched an attack. As a result, during the assembly period, they were shot by the garrison of the Dazhong army at the military station. As a result, a large number of Mongolians, when Even if it was directly shot into pieces by the precise Minee bullet at the assembly site, there was even a situation where two people were pierced by one bullet.

These Mongolians, who did not know what to do, were immediately turned upside down. In a panic, they had to rush towards the military station. However, under the shooting of accurate rifles, without waiting for them to attack the bottom of the military station, they were killed and half injured. The rest of the eyes were not good, so they immediately turned around and fled, but The soldiers still opened fire behind their backs and knocked them to the ground from afar. After the battle, the tribe was almost destroyed, and it was not long before it was slaughtered by the whole family of reinforced cavalry.

With the increasing number of new rifle equipment, those forces that try to compete with the Dazhong and North Korea have increasingly experienced the strength of the Dazhong army, so in addition to showing submission, they can only be killed by batches, making the situation around the border more and more stable.

In the fourteenth year of Tianyuan, the Northwest Military Region of the Dazhong Army defeated a soldier of nearly 20,000 people in Turpan with only 3,000 troops, so that the Turpan Khanate no longer dared to fight against the Dazhong Dynasty, and completely announced its return to the Dazhong Dynasty. Since then, the northwest has been basically pacified, making the northwest territory of the Dazhong Dynasty completely It has expanded to the whole territory of Xinjiang in the old time and space, and even expanded a lot to the northwest.

In addition, in other industries, under the guidance of Xiao Tianjian, the Great Zhong Dynasty began to gradually establish many factories that were not available before after five years of Tianyuan.

Royal glass factories and cement factories have begun to be put into production. In addition to greatly meeting the needs of China and North Korea, with the continuous improvement and development of the glass industry, the glass products originally exported by Westerners to China have gradually become a thing of the past, and the glass industry in China and North Korea has become a very short time. It greatly exceeded the quality of Western glass products. The glass production process, which was originally regarded as forbidden by the Venetians, was quickly surpassed by China and North Korea. All kinds of glass products not only no longer need to be imported from Westerners, but also large-area glass mirrors have also begun to be produced and become new export goods to lower. The cheap price, which quickly replaced the Tunisian glass mirror, began to be sold back to European countries, and began to make more profits for China and North Korea.

In addition, the successful trial production of cement not only gave the construction industry a very good material, but also played a good role in the military.

With the cement, the construction of military stations in the border area of the Dazhong Dynasty is also much more convenient and faster. The strong military station fortresses are built with cement, and once solidified, it is unusually strong, which stabilizes the obedience of ethnic minorities in the border area to the Dazhong Dynasty, and greatly reduces the border of Dazhong Dynasty. Suffering from problems.

Therefore, after a large number of new Type 13 rifles and the establishment of a large number of border fortress stations, the control over the northwest border is getting stronger and stronger, and the combat effectiveness of the Dazhong army is also getting stronger and stronger.

For this reason, the Dazhong Dynasty no longer needed a large number of troops to maintain stability in the territory as before. Fourteen years after the Dazhong Dynasty, the mainland division of the Dazhong Dynasty was once again greatly abolished.

It turned out that the army division of Dazhong and North Korea had nearly 700,000 troops, but this time it cut more than 200,000 troops at once. The army division only retained less than 500,000 troops. In this way, the mainland and North Korea reduced a considerable amount of military expenditure. At the same time, it also made the National Defense Force of China and more capable, and the treatment of being a soldier was also greater. However, under the protection of advanced weapons, the combat effectiveness of the large and medium-sized army has not decreased. On the contrary, its combat effectiveness has been greatly improved because of the equipment of the new rifle.

In addition, after the simplification of the mainland division, the original establishment framework has not been abolished, but the original establishment has been reduced, and many elite backbones have been retained. Once there is a large-scale war and it is necessary to expand troops, the Dazhong and the DPRK can expand the recruitment at any time, and quickly make up for the missing members of the troops, in the backbone. Under the leadership, the combat effectiveness can be greatly improved soon.

But unlike the army, the navy did not carry out any downsizing, but just eliminated some old ships and replaced them with new warships.

At the same time, at this time, Xiao Tianjian drew on the methods of the British navy in the old time and space to reorganize the ships of the navy. He divided the ships of the navy into five types according to the displacement and the number of guns loaded, and set five types of battleships, cruisers, destroyers, frigates and patrol ships. The formation and tactics of naval ships have been improved.

In addition to the battleship sequence, transport ships (including personnel carriers and material transporters), supply ships, water replenishment ships and other ships have been added to clearly distinguish the uses of various ships.

In this way, the fleet of China and North Korea has also become much more capable, and its combat effectiveness has naturally been strengthened. It has vaguely become the strongest maritime force in the world in this era, and finally has the strength to compete with Western countries at sea.

In August of the fifteenth year of Tianyuan in the Dazhong Dynasty, Xiao Tianjian, the Dazhong emperor, suddenly set out from Beijing and arrived in Nanjing first. He participated in a grand ship entry ceremony at the Chinese Shipyard in Nanjing.

The ship launched this time is the latest first-class battleship built by the Dazhong Dynasty. The displacement of this ship is close to 1,500 tons, with a total length of nearly 70 meters, a width of nearly 15 meters, and a water catch of eight meters. The ship has three masts, and a displacement of nearly 2,000 tons. There are three layers of gun decks, which can be loaded with 110 artillery. There are so many doors that it can carry 800 crew members. Gunpowder alone can carry more than 30 tons, and shells can reach more than 100 tons.

Although for Xiao Tianjian, a man from the old time and space, such a ship is really not a big guy. Among warships, it can be regarded as a light frigate at most.

But in this era, such a ship can definitely be called a giant ship. Even compared with Zheng He's treasure ship in those years, it is no less in terms of displacement. More importantly, this kind of warship, loaded with a large number of artillery, has caught up with the most powerful battleship in Western countries. It is definitely a bully in the sea of this era. The existence of the main level.

What's more, the artillery technology of Dazhong and North Korea is far ahead of other countries. More than half of the ship is a 24-pound rear-loaded wire-loaded gun. If it encounters an enemy ship with a similar displacement at sea, the battleship of Dazhong and North Korea can definitely easily destroy it and will not give the other party a chance to fight back at all. Therefore, while it was in the water, it also declared the hegemony of the Great China on the sea.

However, the side effect of building such a large ship is the rising cost. Up to now, the cost of this ship has reached a staggering 400,000 dragon coins. If it hadn't been for the better and better financial situation of China and North Korea over the years, just building such battleships in batches would have bankrupted China and North Korea's finances. .

But it is now different from the early years of the Greater China-China DPRK. With the expansion of the maritime interests of the Greater China DPRK, the Greater China DPRK has now completely controlled the whole South China Sea and even extended its forces to the Indian Ocean and the east coast of Africa. A large number of sea ships have brought rich profits to the Greater China and North Korea, making the Greater China North Korea as Today's fiscal revenue no longer cares about such expenditure.

So with the successful trial production of this new battleship, the navy has placed 15 orders. If all of them are gathered and pulled to Europe, plus second-class cruisers and third-class destroyers, even the British navy, which has risen so now, and the Dutch of the old maritime power, to China and North Korea. The fleet can only be frightened, not to mention the declining Spaniards and Portuguese and the French who have just begun to develop. It is estimated that they can be scared enough.

However, now Xiao Tianjian is not interested in gathering fleets to go on an expedition to Europe and grab territory with European countries. Now he has more important things to do, and it is urgent.

The news brought back from the Maritime Trading Group Company, Xiao Tianjian learned that the Dutch and British in Europe are now fighting because of the frictions in maritime trade. Although it is not known that they have started because of the speed of message transmission, it can be expected that the two sides Now in a state of war, the attention is focused on the European Atlantic Ocean, and there is no time for Asia to find trouble between China and North Korea.

At this time, the sea is in a state of power vacuum. The Greater China and North Korea must seize more colonies as soon as possible. Otherwise, they will face a world war with the British Imperial Fleet in the future.

So Xiao Tianjian personally came to Nanjing and participated in this battleship entry ceremony. Of course, this time his southern patrol was not just to participate in this new battleship entry ceremony.

After Xiao Tianjian held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the battleship Longquan, Xiao Tianjian personally took the latest warship of the Greater China and North Korea and set sail at the Nanjing wharf to Ningbo Port.

When Xiao Tianjian arrived at Ningbo Port, it was already full of flags and flags. The warships gathered. He learned that the emperor had personally visited Ningbo Port, and the generals of the Southeast Military Region and the main generals of the North and Southern Fleet also rushed to Ningbo Port in advance, waiting for Xiao Tianjian's arrival.

The reason why so many military personnel gathered in Ningbo this time is not because the army, navy and army are going to launch a large-scale attack on the outside world, but because on this day, the DPRK will send a formation and start a long voyage again to explore what the Chinese had never known about the Chinese people in the depths of the sea. Land.

(Wow! Today's reward given by my old friend Rabbit is so awesome! Of course, we can't forget the reward of my old friend Song Kaixin. Thank you for the cold wind!)