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Chapter 1652 Ironclad Ship vs Ironclad Ship

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    Last year, in November of the sixth year of Wanli, the Coast Guard fleet made a comeback, and the two sides encountered each other again at the mouth of Mujin River.

    When they saw the Ming warship coming this time, Jiugui Jialong and his navy were all stunned.

    Big, really fucking big!  So big that it blocks out the sky and the sun!

    They thought their armored ship was the largest warship in the world.  I never expected that these Ming warships were more than twice as big as them!

    And one, two, three, four, five a total of twenty ships came!

    Looking at the densely packed gun muzzles on those battleships, the hair on Jiuki Jialong¡¯s body stood up.  Only then did he know what a real coast guard battleship looked like

    But at this point, timidity has no effect. He could only bravely shout to his subordinates: "Don't be afraid, it doesn't matter if they are big, we are an unbreakable iron-armored ship!"

    "Sir, they seem to be armored ships too" his subordinate reminded him timidly.

    "Nani?!" Jiugui Jialong heard this and took a closer look. Sure enough, the hulls of those huge battleships shone with a metallic luster in the sun, as if they were covered with a layer of iron oh no, like steel armor.

    "It must be a lie! It takes hundreds of refinements to make steel. No matter how rich the people of the Ming Dynasty are, they can't put steel armor on such a big warship!" Jiugui Jialong screamed strangely: "Don't be afraid, it must be painted with silver paint.  !¡±

    Regardless of whether they were afraid or not, those Ming warships, which were as huge as mountains, lined up in a horizontal line and charged forward with full sails.

    "Go forward at full speed and meet us!" Jiugui Jialong immediately drew his sword and roared an order.  Ironclad ships are meant for rampage, so let¡¯s see whose ship is stronger!

    A moment later, the warships of both sides crashed into a ball on the sea.  Four of those seemingly indestructible iron-clad ships were knocked over.  Hundreds of sailors on board instantly covered the sea with screams.

    Those armored ships that were not hit were shrouded in dense artillery fire close at hand.  The two sides are almost face to face. At this distance, whether it is the Hongwu cannon, the Yongle cannon or the Hongxi cannon, they can easily penetrate the thin layer of iron on the armored ship and smash all the fragile wooden hulls and even more fragile human bodies inside.  pulpy.

    In just one meal, the remaining six armored ships were shattered into honeycombs and completely lost their combat effectiveness.

    Then, those Ming Dynasty giant ships distanced themselves from them, rushed up at full speed again, and knocked over the six armored ships one by one.  Let Kuki Yoshitaka and his Oda navy all sink into Osaka Bay

    It seems that Jiuki Jialong was unlucky. He actually caught up with the Coast Guard strategic fleet stationed in Nanyang and went north to Jiangnan Shipyard to install steel plates

    As I said before, after the converter steel workshop in Tangshan was put into operation, the group can finally mass-produce steel.  The first thing that Zhao Hao thought of was to give his precious battleship a layer of steel armor.

    This is not Zhao Hao¡¯s whim. In another time and space, the British and French navies conducted many experiments on whether they should add iron armor to their sailing battleships.

    The final conclusion is that the displacement of the sailing battleship increased due to the additional layer of armor laid.  In order to ensure the speed, a gun deck must be eliminated.

    ?That is, the price of adding a layer of iron armor is to cancel a layer of artillery.  Before the invention of explosive bombs that could pose a fatal threat to oak hulls, the gains outweighed the losses.

    But the problem is that for the sake of safety, the coast guard warships designed by Yang Fan all adopt a watertight cabin design at the expense of the lower gun deck.  That is to say, the Portuguese can install three layers of artillery decks on a ship of the same size, but the Coast Guard warship only has two layers of artillery decks.  The artillery deck was originally eliminated!

    In addition, because the watertight bulkhead is closely connected with the hull, it plays a role in strengthening the hull.  It not only increases the overall transverse strength of the ship, but also replaces the process of adding ribs, greatly reducing the weight of the hull.

    So even though the hull seems to be the same size, the Coast Guard's is more than one-third lighter than the Portuguese's.  In order to keep the hull stable, a lot more ballast iron must be added.

    So why not install the ballast iron outside?  This was Mr. Zhao's original intention when he was willing to sacrifice a layer of forts instead of using water-tight cabins!

    According to Yang Fan¡¯s calculations, adding steel plates of no more than 20 mm to the sides and sterns of Coast Guard battleships and cruisers will not affect the speed at all.  And it will greatly enhance the strength of the hull and its ability to withstand wind and waves!

    After testing it on two newly launched battleships and finding that there was indeed no problem, Mr. Zhao immediately ordered the strategic fleet to be sent to the Jiangnan Shipyard in batches for modification.

    As a result, just when the first batch of modifications was completed and the second batch had just arrived, news came that the Japanese had built an ironclad ship.  The navy police officers immediately went crazy and screamed for??Tamp them down.

    However, the strategic fleet needs an order from the commander-in-chief himself before it can be put into battle.  The report reached Young Master Zhao, and Zhao Hao ordered the refit to continue as planned, but did not allow the first batch to return to Luzon.

    The reason is simple, typhoon season is coming.  Although the group has established a relatively complete typhoon early warning system, it can basically ensure that the fleet on the route enters the port in time to avoid the typhoon.

    But when warships are in combat, there is no guarantee that they will follow a fixed route step by step, so during the typhoon season, Zhao Hao is not allowed to put the strategic fleet he has spent a lot of money to build into combat.

    As a result, it was not until October that the typhoon season passed and the second batch of warships were installed with iron hulls that Zhao Hao ordered them to go to Osaka Bay to relieve Ishiyama Honganji Temple.

    So the eight battleships and twelve cruisers, which had been suppressed for a long time, and accompanied by a group of destroyers and frigates, headed towards Japan

    It turned out that they were using too much force.

    The so-called iron-clad ships of the Oda Army were just a few millimeters thick iron sheets added to the Anzha ships.  Japan's shipbuilding craftsmanship is not even as good as that of the Li Dynasty. It can only build a few things over and over again.  Therefore, the structure of the ship has not changed at all. It is still an ordinary ship carrying a huge castle. There is even a castle on the castle

    And because of the addition of iron armor, the top-heavy problem became more serious, so it could only bully those small boats. When it encountered one with a tonnage much larger than them, it would capsize as soon as it hit it.

    Seeing that the legendary armored ship was so vulnerable, the strategic fleet that came to take advantage of it was inevitably disappointed. It felt like wearing graduation equipment and going back to the Novice Village to kill chickens. I could only comfort myself, saying, "You also use a dragon-slaying knife to kill chickens."

    In order to get the money back, they attacked the Oda army besieging Honganji Temple.  Because the military flag with Yongle Tongbao printed on it is so eye-catching

    Because the distance was a bit far away, the fleet did not fire cannons, but fired a thousand Oda City bombs, burning Oda Nobunaga's military camp to ashes.

    Unexpectedly, this actually played the role of proposing for the eldest nephew Zhao Shizhen.

    ??~~

    Oda Nobunaga was shot by a rocket from Oda City and fled in panic. He escaped for several miles in one breath before recovering from the shock.

    Now he finally stopped being crazy. He knew that even if he lost his capital, there was no chance of defeating the Ming Navy. So he immediately changed his strategy wisely and offered 100,000 taels of gold to the Coast Guard through Sakai Sho Co., Ltd. to sue for peace.  , and asked both parties about the conditions for alliance.

    Sakai Sho Co., Ltd. is nominally subordinate to Oda Nobunaga, but is actually a company under the Jiangnan Group.  The president, Sen Rikyu, quickly conveyed Nobunaga¡¯s message to Mr. Zhao.

    Zhao Hao breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the news, not for anything else, but for his nephew's lifelong event Zhao Shizhen is already twenty-six years old, and he is still a member of the pistol team.

    He is handsome and talented, and is also a high-level member of the group. He is Mr. Zhao¡¯s nephew. If he wants to marry his daughter to his wealthy family, he will almost cross the threshold of the old Zhao family.  However, this stubborn guy would not marry anyone other than Oda City, and he was almost going crazy.

    Over the years, Zhao Shouzheng asked Zhao Hao, "Uncle, when will you give me Oda City?"  This made Mr. Zhao avoid him.

    However, due to the conscience of heaven and earth, Zhao Hao never expected that he would have to wait for so many years before he had the chance to accomplish this.

    Zhao Hao originally thought that after clearing up Nobunaga¡¯s navy three years ago, he should sue for peace.  The coast guard fleet will obviously not land to compete with him for hegemony, so there is no reason to be so stubborn.

    However, he still underestimated the ambition of a man of the world, because Oda Nobunaga¡¯s ambition was to unify Japan and form a large fleet to conquer the world!

    How can you do nothing at sea?  What's more, if we can't break the blockade of the coast guard fleet, how can we attack the Kyushu and Four Kingdoms and unify Japan in the future?

    So Oda Nobunaga spent a lot of money and asked Kuki Yoshitaka to build ten armored ships.  As a result, the real main force of the Coast Guard was recruited

    The bloody reality made Nobunaga completely give up the idea of ??ruling the roost at sea, and then he honestly asked Mr. Zhao for peace.

    Zhao Hao does not intend to irritate Oda Nobunaga too much, because the group's strategic direction is to go south, and Japan in the east is not the focus of his efforts.  What's more, Japan is still a land country. No matter how powerful its navy is, it will be difficult to interfere in the battle for hegemony on the main island.

    After heroes like Motonari Mouri, Shingen Takeda, and Kenshin Uesugi withered one after another, no one in Japan could challenge Oda Nobunaga.  Zhao Hao asked Tamra Chamber of Commerce and Sakai Sho Co., Ltd. to take care of Ishiyama Honganji Temple, just to replace the defunct Maori navy and provide backup to Ishiyama Honganji Temple so that Xianru would not surrender in advance.  So as not to affect the historical process of Japan's main island.

    For a powerful hero like Oda Nobunaga, it would be more peaceful if he died.  If everything goes normally, his death will be three years later. If Nobunaga escapes the incident at Honnoji Temple because of Zhao Hao, it will be more of a loss than a gain.

    So Zhao Hao only put forward three conditions. First, he asked Nobunaga's sister Oda to be his wife.

    Second, the Oda family recognized the "Three No-Forbidden Foreign Orders" and promised not to rebuild the Navy.

    Third, give Honganji a way to survive.  On the premise of Xian Ru's promise not to be enemies of the Oda family again, Osaka was set up as a demilitarized zone.  There should be no military presence and no military operations taking place in the DMZ.

    After hearing the news, Nobunaga agreed to these three conditions without much entanglement.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)Just three years later, if Nobunaga was able to escape the Incident at Honnoji Temple because of Zhao Hao, it would be more of a loss than a gain.

    So Zhao Hao only put forward three conditions. First, he asked Nobunaga's sister Oda to be his wife.

    Second, the Oda family recognized the "Three No-Forbidden Foreign Orders" and promised not to rebuild the Navy.

    Third, give Honganji a way to survive.  On the premise of Xian Ru's promise not to be enemies of the Oda family again, Osaka was set up as a demilitarized zone.  There should be no military presence and no military operations taking place in the DMZ.

    After hearing the news, Nobunaga agreed to these three conditions without much entanglement.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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