Reborn in the Water Margin as emperor, built tanks to level the world

When Zhao Ji and Zhong Shidao discussed the candidates for sending troops.

The entire Song Dynasty army began to be busy with the attack on Japan.

As for the Ministry of Industry, ever since it received the order to send troops, it has been working overtime to manufacture various weapons for the soldiers who are about to go out.

The Ministry of Revenue has also been keeping statistics on how much money this troop dispatch will cost.

As for the soldiers in the military camp, they are also practicing various enemy-killing techniques and formations day and night.

Only ten days later, the Song Dynasty made all preparations to send troops.

Originally, the Ministry of Rites suggested that Zhao Ji hold a very grand troop dispatch ceremony for this troop dispatch.

But such a plan was directly rejected by Zhao Ji.

Because according to his idea, the more secretive the better for this large-scale attack on Japan.

If you can quietly send most of your own troops and horses into the enemy's territory without alerting the enemy.

That's the best.

In this way, the enemy can be caught off guard.

Furthermore, in Zhao Ji's view, it is completely unnecessary to talk about martial ethics to those Japanese Japanese.

If we could use lightning speed to cause Japan and Japan to suffer huge losses in just an instant...

That is the most ideal state!

Right here, Zhao Ji was actively doing all the preparations for sending troops to Japan.

In the middle of the division, he also started his troop deployment plan.

Because there are far more soldiers, horses, generals, tanks and chariots to be deployed in the division than there are in Zhao Ji.

Therefore, when he started making such preparations, his speed was inevitably much slower than that of Zhao Ji's army.

Until Zhao Ji led more than [-] troops, several large loach ships and more than a dozen tanks and chariots, and slowly advanced to the seaside.

The pre-war preparations in the planting division are only halfway through.

Zhao Ji set off from the seaside after making all the preparations.

Its target was directly at the Japanese Islands located to the east of the Song Dynasty.

Eight large loach ships powered by steam engines moved forward at high speed once they entered the sea.

Its speed is much faster than ships and warships driven by sails or even human power in this era.

Most of the generals and soldiers on board the loach ship had never built such a loach ship before.

Only a few months ago, led by craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry, I had experienced this kind of loach boat several times.

At that time, most of the time was spent getting familiar with the various control methods of this loach boat.

As for long-term boat travel, it has never happened once.

And this time, it undoubtedly gave those soldiers and generals an opportunity to enjoy the driving pleasure in person.

At this time, the soldiers came to the cockpit from time to time to look and touch here and there.

Occasionally, I would run to the deck and look at the blue sea and sky, as well as the various offensive and defensive weapons mounted on the ship.

Especially those small naval guns that have been trained by the Ministry of Industry and Ling Zhen and others have become extremely rare in the eyes of those soldiers.

At this time, I would touch left and right and take a look. From time to time, I would slap the barrels of those small naval guns with my palms and put my ears in front of the muzzles to listen for the echo.

I always feel that there are extremely curious people everywhere.

As for this kind of ship-borne naval gun, it was not developed from scratch by the Ministry of Industry or even Ling Zhen and others.

It was just a miniaturized transformation based on the original cannon in Ling Zhen's hands.

From a distance, it looks like a round and thick cannon barrel between a pair of carriage wheels.

It's just that the two wheels are indeed deeply embedded in the hull deck with various craftsmanship.

At the same time, a rotating shaft is also designed in the middle of the bottom of the two wheels to allow them to rotate left and right.

As for the thick barrel in the middle, it can use the longitudinal rotating shafts embedded on both sides and the horizontal rotating shaft at the bottom.

This enables free steering in four directions: up, down, left, and right.

In order to achieve multi-angle artillery fire coverage.

Next to each ship-borne cannon, there are four large iron baskets.

What's inside are some round, black cannonballs that are slightly larger than an adult's fists put together.

At this moment, it is wrapped in oilcloth.

In this way, it not only meets the waterproof requirements, but also facilitates the soldiers on the ship to load it into the gun barrel at any time to defend against foreign enemies.

As for ship-borne cannons like this, each Loach ship is equipped with ten of them.

From a bird's eye view, there are four doors on the left, four doors on the right, and one door on the front and rear.

It can be said that it is really tight with sufficient firepower.

As for the arrangement of the four ship-borne cannons on the left and right, the designs designed by Shen Kuo, Ling Zhen and others are also very interesting.

According to Zhao Ji's way of thinking, the four cannons on the left and right sides should be discharged in a horizontal position.

The four ship-borne cannons on its left and right should be at the same horizontal position.

In this way, the overall appearance can be more tidy and beautiful.

After all, the decorative layout on the left and right sides of every loach boat is symmetrically designed.

If the positions of those naval guns are designed to be uneven, it will inevitably have the feeling of destroying the overall beauty.

However, after various discussions between Shen Kuo, Ling Zhen and others, they decided to break the symmetrical design.

The four cannons on the left and right sides were installed at staggered positions.

At first, Zhao Ji was quite puzzled when he saw this kind of ship-borne cannon.

The mounting position of such an offensive weapon on the ship is designed to be so asymmetrical.

Looking from a distance, how ugly does it look?

However, after Ling Zhen, Shen Kuo and others personally demonstrated the ultimate effect of this arrangement for Zhao Ji.

But Zhao Ji immediately told him personally that he would design it this way.

Don’t change it again!

The reason is very simple.

Zhao Ji's previous idea was to place four naval guns on the left and right sides of the Loach ship.

In this way, whether the enemy comes from the left side of the ship or the enemy comes from the right side of the ship, simultaneous attacks can be achieved.

But what if the naval guns on the left and right sides are staggered?

If enemies come from both sides of the ship in the future, the left and right sides can attack at the same time.

But what if there are ten enemy warships coming just on one side of the ship?

But it can also make the ten ship-borne cannons on the ship turn their muzzles in the same direction and pour out firepower together, dealing a devastating blow to the enemy.

It is precisely because the naval guns on the left and right sides are staggered.

Therefore, no matter how much fire is fired, the naval guns located at the rear cannot hit the naval guns in the front.

In this way, the battleship's attack system maximizes battlefield attack benefits.