Chapter 977 Zhenhai Keluo

The biggest gain of this naval battle is to know your side's connecting ability, which has become very powerful with the newly developed short-tube shotgun! Therefore, if you encounter large warships of the Spanish fleet in the future, it is not unacceptable to take overboard battles. With the new gunboat, you will no longer be afraid of the powerful Spanish fleet!

Zhang Fan most wants to tell Aken and the book demon about these naval battles, so that they can bring new naval battle ideas and new technologies to China when building a naval fleet in China. However, the newly developed light fast gunboat, due to the recoil of the artillery, caused the hull to shake violently during the bombardment, which greatly reduced the accuracy of the shelling.

This light high-speed gunboat has a hit rate of less than 60% when bombarding pirate ships at close range in Florida waters, and it is also the result of the control of Jack, the gunnery master. If you change to an ordinary gunner, the hit rate can be imagined. Zhang Fan estimated that there were only two solutions, one is to reduce the caliber of the artillery, and the other is to increase the hull.

However, after the hull increases, the speed and flexibility will definitely be worse. If the caliber of the artillery is reduced, the power and attack distance will be worse. Unless the updated rear-loading gun technology is used to improve the casting strength of the barrel. In this way, even if the gun's caliber and recoil are reduced, its power and attack distance will not be reduced.

Before arriving in Panama, I met Aken on the way. This guy let the giant turtle inhabit the Pearl Islands in the Gulf of Panama in the Pacific Ocean. Through the calculation of Qimen Dunjia, I learned that Zhang Fan's green wing was in danger, but it may turn into good luck. After calculating their exact sea route, they came to pick them up.

When the three partners meet again and experience the danger of life and death, they are particularly excited. Aken nodded after listening to the report of Zhang Fan, Katrina and Captain Hook. He has calculated the problem with the book demon of the light fast gunboat, but it is just a cheap test ship and has not had time to test sail.

At the coastal dock in China, he and the book demon have long improved this kind of gunboat. As Zhang Fan estimated, they enlarged the hull and improved the artillery technology. China's perfect shipbuilding and foundry industry system makes this task simple. Now the artillery casting technology in China has been two eras ahead of Europe!

And under the careful care of the book demon Aken, the careful patrol of the eight prefectures listed all weapons and shipbuilding technologies as important court secrets by Hu Zongxian. Even China's folk shipbuilding workshops were banned from understanding, let alone European fleets. According to the current progress of several of China's largest docks, the first large armed fleet will set sail for the Americas in two years! Three years later, a larger armed fleet will go directly to the Caribbean!

In five years, more Ming sailors will travel around the world. Hu Zongxian also promised to continue to write to the court and open the sea ban, which also seemed to be a little loose. Emperor Jiajing no longer seems to be so stubborn in this matter. This may have something to do with the boundary of the times. After all, Zhang Fan has experienced Europe ten years later, and the Daming Sea should have been banned at this time. Although the scene is staggered in order to improve the experience difficulty of Zhang Fan's team, history is also automatically correcting errors.

If the Ming Sea is banned and encouraged by Zhang Fan's team, the foreign colonial plan of the Ming Dynasty will be vigorously implemented, then China's rise world because of its huge population base will not be a problem! Then in the future, the development of world history will be greatly changed!

In the past two years, Zhang Fan's team has developed in a low-key way in the Caribbean, but with the help of the giant turtle's super escape, Aken has really earned a lot of wealth for the team! This wealth has allowed the team's base in the Caribbean to develop very rapidly. The business ability of Captain Baca and Wang Cuijiao is indeed extraordinary. Captain Baca's nest on the Haitian island has built the first five 300-ton gold teak ironclad gunships! There are also 10 newly renovated 100-ton light, high-speed and cheap pine wood gunboats. Such a force can already compete with the Spanish Caribbean Fleet.

These gunships and gunboats are monomast propeller sailboats, with double-loaded guns staggered with high and low central axis, and the artillery is the most advanced rear-loaded artillery imported from the China Artillery Factory! The barrel is high-quality high-strength gun steel! While the range increases, the gun body is light and the recoil is relatively small.

And all the crew are also equipped with a short-range killing weapon - short-bellied shotguns! However, Aken also selected a group of excellent shooters and equipped them with rear-mounted rifles that are relatively complex but have a long range. As snipers on the ship, each ship is equipped with more than 10 people. Each ship is also equipped with 10 Maori warriors who can dance, which can greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the crew, which has been verified in actual combat.

Two years later, the first ocean-going fleet of the Daming Marine Division set sail! In order to ensure the smoothness of this expedition to colonize, Zhang Fan personally led the 'Holy Sui' to lead the voyage! On this long voyage, the Daming Marine Division has a total of 150 large and small warships and transport ships! Among them, three propeller nine-masure boats! This largest treasure ship has four propellers, nearly 150 meters long and nearly 70 meters wide, and has a load of tens of thousands of tons! Compared with modern large ships, they don't fall behind!

There are five double-caliber cannons on the ship, called 'Zhenhai'! The gun is ten meters long, and the gun body is refined into a dragon body. The muzzle - contained in the dragon's mouth is very powerful! The cannon was placed on a huge cast iron gun rack on the central axis of the ship, which needed more than ten people to control, could rotate 360 degrees, and had a range of 10 nautical miles!

The casting of this kind of cannon is thanks to the fact that the book demon has greatly improved China's steelmaking technology by teaching the gun steel formula of later generations! Of course, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty also provided an economic foundation for this technology. There are also three smaller two-pack 'Krung' cannons on the treasure ship, one bow, two in the stern, six meters long, swallowing mouths, and a range of six nautical miles! The two- and three decks are also equipped with large long-bend guns 'Longyan' and dozens of light long-bend guns, with a length of four meters and a range of more than three nautical miles.

The fleet has 15 propeller five-masted large sailboats with more than 3,000 tons, three 'Zhenhai' cannons in two ships, and 30 long-tube guns on the two- and third decks of 'Longyan' and 'Jiaoyan' long-tube guns. Twenty thousand-ton propeller three mast-armed merchant ships, two double-loaded five 'knoc' cannons, and two decks have 20 'Longyan' and 'Jiaoyan' on two decks.

30 500-ton propeller triple-mout gunships, three cannons with two-packs, and ten "Longyan" and "Jiaoyan" on two decks. 50 300-ton two-mout gunships and five Longyan. The rest are 150-ton slinger fast light gunboats and 30 waiting ships, with three 'Jiaoyan'.

All the sails on the ship are still made of Chinese fan-shaped sails, like dragon fins. At a glance, it seems that there are countless dark red dragon fish on the sea! Such a large fleet gathered in Fuzhou, chose the auspicious day of the zodiac, commemorated the Dragon God, and headed for the Pacific Ocean!

This voyage, there are tens of thousands of sailors in Daming! The leading generals turned out to be Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayu! This time, they didn't have time to exert their energy in the fight against the pirates on the Chinese coast. It is estimated that the scene will make them overseas to make contributions. The Ming Fleet carried a large number of 20,000 craftsmen and immigrants of all kinds, which is enough to build several towns!

The departure is not smooth, although the 'Shengyi' and three 10,000-ton treasure ships have strong skills to suppress the harsh environment at sea. But as soon as he left the East China Sea, he lost a fleet in a super tsunami. About a quarter of the people and materials are gone!

This is probably the historical correction of the scene. Because China has never been colonized by ocean. Especially across the Pacific Ocean. It doesn't matter if you lose a fleet, but in this super storm, Zhang Fan even lost contact with his teammates. When the wind was calm, I contacted the book demon on another ship. But Aken disappeared...

Until the Ming sailor fleet arrived in the later California area, which is now a settlement of Indian tribes, and the landing site of the fleet is San Francisco in later generations. This is the Aken book demon who pointed out that this place is rich in gold! As soon as the fleet arrived, Zhang Fan received a summons from Aken. Unexpectedly, Aken appeared here first.

"I've been here for a week, and you haven't arrived until now." Aken put down the telescope, and the sea in front of him was still full of dragon sails. He cut a piece of fish from the bonfire and ate it pleasantly. Seeing his country's ocean fleet coming to America, he had a sense of joy of creation in his heart.

"Where did you go on a desertion?! It makes us worry blindly." Zhang Fan asked.

Aken laughed, "Hahaha! Do you remember the Daming Marine Corps? Hey hey, the storm blew us off the route and actually blew us to the Philippines. I simply led them to Melbourne, Australia! It is also a treasure land rich in gold. I am laying the economic foundation for China's overseas establishment in the future!"

China is a nation that is good at building and operating and can take root. Once they gain a foothold somewhere, they can create a civilization that is not plundering on this land.

Indians have no hostility to seeing white people who are also black-eyed, black-haired and yellow-skinned. Moreover, the farming technology brought by the Chinese people also benefits them. America is very large and has a lot of land. Moreover, the Chinese people are very kind, and Daming sailors are also very strong. These factors made Daming immigrants quickly gain a foothold here.

The advance team of Daming colonists, about 5,000 people, was left here to establish two towns. The fleet sailed for Panama. Along the way, at the request of Arkans, the Daming fleet also left a 3,000-strong colonist pioneer force in the narrowest Mexican region in the Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of Mexico in the Caribbean. When it develops in the future, it can quickly extend the power of the Ming Dynasty to the Gulf of Mexico.