Valley Emperor

In the face of the army's request, Chen Pengming also knew that the army's request could not be refused. After all, he couldn't really sit back and watch these Portuguese dismantle all the artillery of the fleet and move them to the solid Malacca castle.

In that case, when the army is attacking the city, there will definitely be heavy casualties. At that time, the army's top management will probably go crazy, and the government and the opposition will be turbulent. I don't know how many people will join him and ignore the overall situation!

It is very possible to even expand the spearhead to the entire navy, saying that the navy is selfish, and then undermines the overall strategic situation of the navy!

After all, although the competition between the army and navy of the empire is fierce, His Majesty seems to be watching the competition between the army and navy, but this is all based on the situation that does not affect the overall strategy of the empire.

Today's battle of Malacca is the first time that the army and navy have cooperated in such a large-scale battle since the founding of the Tang Dynasty. This battle is not only a key battle for the empire to completely control the South China Sea, but also to convey the message to the court and the public. One piece of information is that although the army and navy have accumulated competition, they still have the overall situation in mind. At critical moments, whether it is the army or the navy, they can put aside their prejudices and work together for the empire's global cause.

Regardless of the reason, this Malacca battle has attracted the attention of the court and the public. Almost every few days, or when the situation changes significantly, there will be special fast communication ships to pass the news back to the country.

In order to be able to establish a fast connection between Malacca and Jinling City, the Datang Navy and the Postal Service have cooperated to establish a fast communication channel from Jinling City to Malacca.

From Jinling City to Shanghai, the information transfer in this section will be carried out by train transportation of letters. Since the large-scale use of trains, it has also replaced the expedited letter transmission business of the postal company to a certain extent.

After all, the speed of the train can already reach 30 kilometers per hour. Even if the time for adding coal and water is included, it only takes one day to reach Shanghai from Jinling City, and this speed is higher than that of three years ago. It's tripled!

It's not that the speed of trains has tripled. In fact, the speed of trains today is still between 30 kilometers and 40 kilometers.

When the speed of the train cannot be increased temporarily, the railway company shortens the overall time by saving the time for adding coal and water.

To this end, they specially designed a larger-capacity coal and water transport carriage, so that the train can continue to run longer distances without adding coal and water in the middle, and it is also continuously improving the speed of adding coal and water in the railway station. , through a large number of mechanical equipment, to speed up the speed of adding coal and water to the train.

With such continuous improvement, the railway company as a whole has shortened the time required for a one-way trip from Jinling City to Shanghai from two days to one day.

In addition, the current railway company is still considering whether to use night driving to further improve the speed and efficiency of train operation. However, the risk of driving at night is too great and uncontrollable, so it is just considering, no Dare to do it.

After three years of continuous improvement, it is now possible to start from Jinling City at dawn and reach Shanghai at the limit speed in the evening!

The increase in the speed of the train has also greatly undertaken the transportation task of the Postal Service along the Jiangnan Railway. The speed of running more than 300 kilometers a day is faster than the 500-mile rush of the Postal Service.

From Jinling City to Shanghai, messages are delivered by train, and from Shanghai to Guangzhou, letters are transported by express mail ships set up by the Postal Service.

From Guangzhou to Malacca, letters are transported through the Navy's own rapid communication ship.

Regardless of whether it is the express mail ship of the postal service or the rapid communication ship of the Navy, they all refer to the same kind of ship, which are both equipped with a steam engine and adopt a new type of sailing clipper ship. This kind of ship is running a steam engine. And in the case of a tailwind, the limit speed can run more than 20 knots, even the average speed can reach more than 15 knots.

In today's world, there is no ship that runs faster than it.

Of course, this kind of ship is also notoriously bumpy, and it is normal for ordinary people to lose half their lives in this kind of ship.

Through trains and fast communication ships, the news of the Malacca battle can be quickly transmitted back to the country. Although it has to be delayed for many days, it is at least much better than the previous months to get the news.

If Chen Pengming messes with him, after ten days and a half months, Jinling City will be able to know the news, and I'm afraid it won't be so good when he ends.

In addition, although Chen Pengming is an admiral and the commander of the Indian Ocean Fleet, he is also the supervisor of military affairs in Southeast Asia and other places, creating better conditions for the army to land and siege the city.

Besides, being able to ask the army to ask the navy is something that makes a navy general very happy!

Immediately he nodded and said, "Please rest assured from the army side. Our navy gathers a large army in Malacca today. Naturally, it will not let the Portuguese clowns like the jumping beams smoothly hinder the army's operations."

Immediately, Chen Pengming ordered a squadron to quickly approach the port and prepare to bombard the Portuguese fleet in the port.

At this time, he was not ready to rush into the port and fight the Portuguese, he just wanted to contain the Portuguese.

Therefore, it is only the Second Mobile Squadron that performs this task. This is a mobile fleet composed of one cruiser and five frigates. The force is not large, but it is enough to make the Portuguese dare not have any act rashly.

As the Second Mobile Squadron raised its sails, rushed into the port with black smoke, and then began to shell the Portuguese fleet in the port with artillery from a distance.

It is also announced that this Malacca battle has officially kicked off!

Although the Datang Navy has installed steam engines on most of its capital ships, and converted the previous pure sail warships into sail warships, this has not greatly affected the tactical development of the Datang Navy in recent years.

On the one hand, the use of steam-engine warships is still too short. Even from the nineteenth year of Xuanping, the twenty-two years of Xuanping are only three years. During these three years, the navy has been While refitting, experimenting with the tactics of using steam battleships.

However, it is limited by the short time, and the power of today's steam engines is still insufficient. Most of the sail warships equipped with steam engines are actually difficult to rely on steam engines for high-speed sailing alone.

Generally speaking, in order to obtain a relatively normal speed, it is still necessary to rely on sails, and steam engines are used as auxiliary to increase the speed by using both sails and sails.

If you simply use steam engines, most of the modified warships often only have a speed of about four or five knots, and this speed is too slow even for contemporary naval operations.

The speed of pure sail warships is faster than this, even if it is only an average speed, it can reach about six or seven knots, and if it is a tailwind, it can even reach more than ten knots.

Because the Datang Navy currently uses steam engine power, it is more used for auxiliary purposes. For example, when the wind is down, when the sail is used as the main power, the steam engine is used to further increase the speed.

In addition, it is more important to use steam engine power as the main power to seize a more favorable wind direction and position when there is light wind, no wind or simply the wrong direction of the wind.

This is the main application of steam engine power by the Datang Navy at present. As for relying solely on steam engine power for daily navigation and combat, steam engine technology has not yet reached this level.

Even if it is newly built, the battleship Jiangnan, which was designed as a steel steam battleship from the beginning, will not work.

At the same time, there is also a great technical limitation that the current artillery technology is still in the era of sailing warships!

The naval guns equipped by the Datang Navy today are actually not much different from the naval guns equipped by the Portuguese and Spaniards. They are all very typical front-loaded smoothbore guns.

Although Datang relies on advanced steel technology and processing capabilities, it has already adopted large-scale steel forging artillery, especially large-caliber naval guns that consume a huge amount of copper.

Only the nine-jin and five-jin field guns of the Army continue to use bronze casting guns in order to ensure the life of the barrel and other performances.

However, this has not fundamentally changed the performance of the artillery. Compared with more than ten years ago, the current artillery has improved accuracy and higher effective range, but it is extremely limited.

Five hundred meters, UU reading www.uukanshu.com This is almost the limit of naval artillery battle distance. Shelling beyond this distance will basically not cause any threat to the enemy's moving warships, and even a splash is basically impossible. Splash on enemies.

Although there have been innovations in artillery shells, and grenades have begun to be used on a large scale, this is limited. The bomb type is also quite impressive for the lethality of wooden warships of this year.

The limitations of artillery technology and steam engines have also led to the fact that the tactics of the Datang Navy have not changed much in the past ten years. When fighting, they still rely on ships to form battle lines, and use broadside artillery in the battle. Attack enemy ships at a distance of about 300 meters.

And it is still difficult to completely sink the enemy ship. Most of the time, it relies on killing the enemy's living strength and destroying the enemy's sail system, or simply setting the enemy ship on fire to force the enemy ship to lose its combat effectiveness. As for those who want to fight It is still quite difficult to completely sink enemy ships through artillery bombardment.

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