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    The herring is not unique to the Netherlands, but the small herring gives the Netherlands a small knife. More specifically, the Netherlands' trade competitive advantage relied on a small knife to move from the lower level of European countries to the forefront of the world.  At that time, the difficulty of storing fish greatly limited the distance of transportation.  The Dutch have mastered a technique. They use a knife to cut open the belly of the herring, take out the internal organs, remove the head, and then pickle it with salt, so that it can be preserved for a long time.  In this way, the Netherlands gained the advantage of exporting herring.  Immediately afterwards, the Netherlands improved its shipbuilding technology, or to be precise, improved the hull design. First, it boldly removed the armed system on the cargo ship. The ship price was only half that of other European countries, but the cargo capacity was greatly increased.  The design of the pot-bellied boat further illustrates the cleverness of this nation. At that time, the tax paid on cargo ships depended on the width of the deck. The Dutch specially made the pot-bellied boat with a small deck, so the taxes paid were also saved a lot.  With this invention, the Netherlands' competitiveness has greatly improved.  In this way, Holland started his carriage journey step by step.  And the Catholic coalition forces looked at the Ming Dynasty and saw that those ships were ships they had never seen before. Instead of three-masted ships, they were simply five-masted ships.  Moreover, the mast is ridiculously high, and some even look at the displacement. The displacement is definitely over a thousand tons. There are very few cannons on the full ship, only two or three.  Instead of placing them on the sides of the ship, they placed them on the bow.  The sides are full of bed crossbows and the like.  The structure of these ships in the Ming Dynasty made Zorn feel a little reassured. The more reason was that there were few guns.  Today's naval battles rely on ships with many cannons. The Ming Dynasty's ships are good for big ships, but without cannons, the threat is much less.  There are more than 20 or even 40 cannons on each of your warships or merchant ships.  And they are all placed on the side.  After firing once, swing the rudder to the other side to keep the firepower going.  The shooting range of the cannon is about five or six miles. Even if the two or three cannons of the Ming army are the same as those of his own ship, and he is ten times more powerful than him, this kind of number will crush the Ming army to death.  Without cannons, no matter how big a business is, it is just a bigger target. It only needs a few or dozens of cannons to hit it.  If one point is exposed, the ship will face sinking into the sea. ????????????? And those crossbows and the like have a range of about two miles at best. No matter how many there are, they have to be within the shooting range to be powerful.  Sure enough, it is still the cold weapon approach of archers with broadswords and spears, nothing has changed at all.  "Zorn couldn't help but sneer when he thought of this.  Confidence in this battle has doubled.  "Commander Zorn, the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty this time is Yuan Keli, who is quite skilled in the navy. Before 2000, he was the governor of Leiden. At that time, the Leiden Navy was very famous, and there was no one in this sea area.  Not convinced." Jin Nige couldn't help but remind him.  "But because of Wei Zhongxian, the Ming Dynasty destroyed the Great Wall, captured Yuan Keli, and the Leiden Navy dispersed. Unexpectedly, it took less than a year for Yuan Keli to resume his official post, and the Ming army could organize such an army in such a short period of time.  Many ships are coming." Jinnige looked at it with his telescope for a long time.  I originally thought of catching An Ji off guard, but I didn't expect it.  There were so many ships here in the Ming Dynasty, indicating a naval battle.  This gave him a bad feeling.  "Yuan Keli's name has been well-known to me for a long time, and many Hainanese who travel to and from the South China Sea have mentioned it many times in the past few years. His sinking Yourong also fought with me in Penghu, but it was just because of the large number of people on the shore and stubborn resistance. The combat effectiveness was insufficient.  Fear." Zorn's worship of cannons prevented him from listening to Jinnige's advice.  The power of the cannon can destroy the Ming army from a distance.  This is the royal way. How could Zorn have any fear of the cold-weapon Ming Kingdom?  "Father Jinnigo is overly worried. Even if they are prepared, it doesn't matter," Luo Paul said with a smile. "Our Western maritime tactics are mainly based on broadside salvos and rushing in from the bow. This tactic has already been used to some extent.  Outdated. The Ming Dynasty only had two or three cannons on board. I thought that their real strength might be their invisible firewood boats.  It is used to set fire. Once that kind of boat gets close to our ship, it will be immediately ignited and set our warship on fire. This is a common trick used in Chinese water warfare. Because the ship itself is made of wood, once it is hit by a firewood boat, it will be destroyed.  It's a disaster." Luo Bao has done a lot of homework. Although Portugal cannot compare with the Netherlands on the ship, he does not want to be underestimated.  After all, as a soldier, he was one level higher than Zorn, the fleet commander, even though they belonged to different countries.  "No defense, I have seen those firewood boats before. They are just small boats and the speed is not too fast. As long as you don't let them get close or shoot the person operating the boat, the plan will be destroyed." Zorn knew as soon as he heard that it was just a firewood boat.  It is a small boat like a lifeboat. In a large sea battle, its limitations are too great to be considered.  A small boat is floating in the sea.How ridiculous it is to come up and then get on the big ship and start setting fire to it.  Zorn had also heard the allusion of burning Red Cliff in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The old man who pretended to surrender at that time relied on this kind of boat to burn the enemy.  Zorn didn't even understand. Was that a pig that was burned?  Apart from anything else, aren't there any poles on the boat?  Can't it hold up the boat?  Can't we also use a boat to drag it with an iron rope and pull it aside?  The trebuchet has stones There are too many ways to deal with a slowly approaching target, especially on the sea. What kind of small boat can have such a good sense of direction? Just kidding!  "Commander Zorn is indeed experienced. In this case, there is no need to worry about the Ming army's fire attack plan. Looking at the bed crossbows, it can be seen that the Ming army's tactics are still based on gang jumping. The Ming Dynasty ship  The long and thick ramming horn on the head is also one of their strengths. Thinking about such a large mast, the wind force must be quite strong, and the speed will not be much lower, so they think about collision, fire, crossbow, etc.  Fighting in gangs, these should be the combined tactics of the Ming Dynasty. But in front of such a dense artillery of our army, how can these few tactics be enough?" Luo Bao analyzed complacently, trying his best to convince everyone.  The listeners nodded their heads one by one, praising the soldiers for being extraordinary, but the effect was indeed not great.  "Luo Bao's analysis is indeed thorough, and the Ming Dynasty's cunning team is indeed extraordinary. But the range of crossbows and cannons are obviously not on the same level. Our army's advantage lies in artillery. Think of us with hundreds of ships and thousands of cannons, as long as  How could the Ming army be undefeated if they kept their distance and defeated and sunk them with artillery? "This statement couldn't be more correct. No matter how you change and use your tricks, you can be killed from afar.  There is nothing you can do.  Crossbows, trebuchets, bows and arrows, and a small number of cannons are important features of Ming ships.  These are basically within a thousand meters. Even talking about a thousand meters is to praise the Ming Dynasty. What Zorn admires is cannon. With the range of the cannon, he can suppress a large number of the Ming army. With the power of the cannon,  In terms of quantity, as long as you keep a certain distance between ships in this battle, there will be no suspense.  Zhu Youxiao boarded Yuan Keli's flagship, the Leyden Navy's pro-army, and finally found his 'backstage boss', the master of the pro-army.  Using a telescope, he looked at the opponent's three-masted warship bit by bit. The sails of this Galen ship looked superior to the sails made by Song Yingxing on the cement ship. Zhu Youxiao had to admit this.  "First officer, please introduce to me the types of warships facing us." Zhu Youxiao said. He knew the names of the warships but didn't know why. It would be best to bring Zheng Zhilong with him as an advisor.  "It's the Emperor. The warships opposite are divided into two types, one is a warship and the other is a merchant ship. The warship is a Galen ship, which was first developed by Spain and then developed by many Western countries. This battle  Most of the ships are three-masted warships, but there are also four-masted warships. The two masts in the front are hung with sails and the two masts in the back are hung with triangle sails. " "And those ships that lack the forecastle and stern tower to join the fort are the new type of Queen-class battleships.  Compared with other Galen boats, the boat has a flat stern design, which can utilize the sail area, speed and flexibility. The speed and maneuverability of this boat are obviously better than the Spanish 'Gallen'.  "They were essentially all sailing warships built of wood, sometimes sheathed in copper below the waterline, powered by sails, and armed with muzzle-loading cannons that fired round projectiles for destroying the hull and anti-personnel shotguns.  , chain bombs that destroy sails. " "The ship's seaworthiness and firepower requirements are the overriding conditions in order to seize a favorable position during battle and exert superior firepower.  , multiple such ships lined up in a long row to take advantage of the firepower on both sides, and the power and range of a single ship's artillery was not enough to cause effective damage to an enemy ship, so the battle line (the arrangement of all combat warships) gradually formed.  "The name battleship came with the changes in naval tactics in the Anglo-Dutch War of 1655-1667). Multiple battleships fired salvos in a short period of time to destroy the opponent's fleet with a hail of shells."  The weapon is a cannon with limited range and accuracy. It is mainly installed on the lower deck, at right angles to the keel, and fires outward through the side gunholes. This is the side salvo. The wind direction has a great impact on its combat performance.  During the battle, communication between warships was also very difficult due to the noise and smoke. "And those big-bellied ships are armed merchant ships, which are unique to the Netherlands and are used for tax evasion. The same is true for other merchant ships.  , but all have artillery as their main combat power. Generally speaking, there are about 20 artillery pieces." Zheng Zhilong pointed at the fleet in the distance and said that for him, this is indeed a platform for performance.  Because I have lived experience in the Dutch fleet, I know these warships and merchant ships very well.  What's more, he has his own shipyard, and the ships and weapons he builds are all linked to the West.  Regarding the study of Western ships, he said that heHe is the second person. At present, no one dares to say that he is the first.
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