While conducting a comprehensive inspection of the naval army weapons, Xiao Ruxun also took a water general to board the ship and felt the feeling of firing cannons on the ship.

Then, based on the actual situation, Xiao Ruxun judged how many large-scale flaming aircraft and medium-scale flaming aircraft the No. 1 blessed ship could carry, and how many large-scale flaming aircraft and medium-scale flaming aircraft the No. 2 blessed ship could carry, and transferred the navy equipment from the cannons in his hand according to proportion.

In addition, Xiao Ruxun also saw the strongest artillery of the Ming Navy at this moment. This was a large artillery that Chinese craftsmen in the late Jiajing period independently improved on the basis of the Folang machine. It was cast in copper. Each of them weighed about 500 kilograms and was extremely powerful. It was not only the absolute killer weapon of the Ming Navy, but also the strongest artillery that the land army could use. It was by no means an European artillery of the same period.

However, due to the miniaturization of ships in the mid-Ming Dynasty, they could not withstand the recoil of powerful artillery. Once such large artillery was used on small warships, the huge recoil would even disband the hull, and this problem would not be well solved.

Until the end of Jiajing, the early years of Longqing, the guerrilla general Peng Xingu invented the artillery anti-recoil device, using soft frames, blocking wood and large ropes to suppress the artillery recoil, solving the technical problems of small boats to build cannons, and improving the ship-based firepower of the Ming Dynasty Navy.

Even so, because of its power, it is very complicated to load. Generally, in naval warfare, it is not time to load the second round, so it directly turns the bow and starts shooting with the Franchis gun on the hull. The practicality of the shooting is greatly limited, and the firepower of the Ming army naval division is still difficult to improve.

Xiao Ruxun could only use the ready-made Franchise guns to enhance the firepower of Ming warships, ensuring that each main warship had no less than fifteen artillery pieces, so as to guide the Ming army navy to begin to get out of the ancient tactical system of jumping gang battles, with firepower and range as the main pursuit, and forget to jump gang battles.

The Japanese navy did not have ship-based artillery, which was the best target for training. Let the Ming sailors see with their own eyes whether the jumping gang battle existed under the threat of the big artillery tactics.

The only thing worth worrying about is that if the Japanese army uses large-scale fire ship tactics, the main ships of the Ming army are only heavy and have less power in action than Japanese ships. If the carrier-based artillery cannot accurately sink the Japanese fire ships, then it will be a little troublesome.

Xiao Ruxun asked Li Shunchen about this. According to Li Shunchen, the Japanese army seemed not very good at using fire ship tactics. They were the most basic jumping tactics, hoping to defeat their maritime opponents with hand-to-hand combat.

Yes, if the Japanese army used large-scale fire ship tactics, Li Sun-sen would not have defeated the Japanese pirates so many times. After all, the tonnage and physique of the Korean sea ships were not inferior to the Ming Navy, and all they lacked was firearms and equipment.

Xiao Ruxun's words seemed to have a deep feeling. Looking at the fierce artillery, Li Shunchen began to think, if it were him, could he deal with the enemy ship under such a firepower disadvantage?

The Ming Dynasty suffered losses in contact with Westerners, let alone North Korea, which cannot even beat Japan?

Six days later, Xiao Ruxun rectified the entire naval army's situation. After almost the rectification, he announced that a maritime drill would be held, using thirty small rafts as imaginary enemies, and two No. 2 Fu Ships were the main force of the Ming army. The two Fu Ships each had the firepower of fifteen artillery.

With standard water battle tactics, the first thing is the two big-haired volleys. This formation really surprised Xiao Ruxun. After all, he had never seen big-haired volleys before, but had only read it in the book.

Now that I saw it with my own eyes, I knew that the navy's main gun was indeed very powerful, with a range of two miles and a lead weighing four kilograms. One of the guns was accurate. When they went down, they directly smashed a ship, and then made waves of several meters on the water surface, indirectly overturning three ships.

The first launch of the first gun of the ship destroyed six wooden ships. Then the ship turned its course and started to move from the side, aiming the gun hole on the side at the wooden ships. The Franchis gun on the ship began to fire, with one volley and two volleys. More than a dozen lead bullets shattered these wooden ships. Before the second volley was fired, the enemy forces represented by these wooden ships were finished.

Since the Japanese pirates did not have artillery, the Ming pirate could completely distance themselves and attack them fiercely outside the range of the iron cannons in the hands of the Japanese pirates. Then the Japanese pirates would definitely rush forward desperately to seek an opportunity to get close to the battle.

At that time, the Ming army's navy changed its course according to the established strategy and bombarded hard with sideways Fran machine cannons. If the Japanese pirates could not defeat the Japanese pirates in one fell swoop, they would let the turtle ships under Li Shunchen and the Ming wu ships dispatched and smashed them hard.

The plaque boats under Li Shunchen were incorporated into the main fleet, but Li Shunchen himself was appointed by Xiao Ruxun as the main general of the close-killing turtle ship and black ship joint fleet. Li Shunchen had no complaints about this. In his opinion, this was Xiao Ruxun's recognition of his previous achievements.

Xiao Ruxun also re-armed the only seven centipede ships left by the Ming Navy, making them Chen Lin's direct fleet. He told Chen Lin that this was the real main warship of the Ming Navy. When the situation was critical, he could dispatch this fleet to bomb the Japanese ships. Don't be stingy with shells and gunpowder, and bombard me with all your heart until all the Japanese pirate warships are sunk, and then you can salvage and behead me.

The navy also relied on beheading and recording merits rather than sinking the number of enemy ships to record merits, which made Xiao Ruxun a little amused. Therefore, the Ming Navy also added a fleet of ships specifically responsible for salvaging enemy corpses in the water and dragging them up to behead them, which was a bit funny.

He witnessed the use of large artillery tactics at sea with his own eyes. Chen Lin's belief in traditional tactics was shaken a little. The water generals felt the blow under such firepower, wondering whether this water war tactic that abandoned the jumping gang war was worthy of their full application, and thinking about the gains and losses of doing so.

They had not participated in the first wave of Portugal coming from the east during the Jiajing period, and most of them did not catch up with the second wave of the Netherlands coming from the east, and were in a relatively stable period. In this relatively stable period, the power of the Western navy began to greatly surpass the power of the Ming Dynasty navy, and eventually triggered the second maritime crisis of the Netherlands coming from the east.

After several battles, although the Ming Navy won, it was a terrible victory. The Ming government was exhausted from dealing with the enemy from the sea and had to recruit Zheng Zhilong, a sea merchant. The political history of the Zheng family began.

It can be imagined that this relatively stable period was the only opportunity for the Ming Navy to catch up with the Western Navy. Xiao Ruxun's plan was to use the stimulus of Japan's gold and silver trade to keep the Ming Navy alive all year round, and directly contact the Dutch people who were trading with Japan at this time. He tried every means to introduce some of the current Dutch maritime technology. After returning to China, he summoned craftsmen to finalize the flintlock rifle and heavy artillery technology and began to renew the weapons of the Ming army.

The army took the route of flintlock rifles and cannons, and the navy took the route of cannons and giant ships. All this could not be avoided by the government's decisions or the civil servants' decisions. This is also the most troublesome thing for Xiao Ruxun. He is a military general and has no power to participate in the government. All the proposals so far have been asked by Song Yingchang and Ye Mengxiong to write and report on behalf of others, but we can't always do this, right?

How to regain the power of military ordnance from the civil servants is the biggest problem Xiao Ruxun is currently facing.

Only by taking these things back from civil servants can the road of renewal of weapons and the institutionalization and industrialization of ordnance production be formed, and the Ming Dynasty can slowly walk out of the quagmire of the Weishu system.
Chapter completed!