Chapter 1677: Fire Attack

In fact, to fight against the Western-style fleet, it is not necessary to confront artillery with each other. Another ancient tactic is equally powerful. That is the fire attack.

From the time of the Three Kingdoms, the ancient Chinese people used fire attack for water warfare. This battle is too famous, that is the battle of Chibi.

Of course, fire attacks are limited. The success of the Soochow Fire Attack in the Battle of Chibi was based on Cao Jun locking the ships together with chains. If the ship is not locked, seeing the other party's fireboat coming over, it's a big deal that the ships are spreading out, and most of the ships will be lost.

In the original history, Zheng Zhilong, the great pirate of the Ming Dynasty, also used fire attack tactics against the Dutch and Liu Xiang's fleet in the Battle of Luowan. In that naval battle, Zheng Zhilong gave the most standard tactics of naval battle fire attack. The enemy fleet was anchored in the harbor, and when heading against the wind, he took advantage of the situation and rushed up with hundreds of fireboats ...

When the fleet was docked in the harbour, especially at night, many sailors were no longer on board, but went ashore for repairs. At this time, the fire attack was launched, and the opponent was too late to react.

In addition, if the harbour happens to be against the wind, it is difficult for the ship to rush out. Because, lack of power. The Chinese-style sails are better, you can use the wind from all sides. The Western-style sailing ship is miserable. In the face of headwinds, the power of the horizontal sail was very poor. It is extremely difficult to avoid the brisk fireboat. Therefore, Zheng Zhilong's fleet easily defeated the joint fleet of the Dutch and Liu Xiang.

Later, the Dutch also learned this trick and applied it to the Spanish. In the Battle of Downs six years later, the Dutch used the fireboat tactics they had suffered to deal with the Spanish main fleet. As a result, based on the destruction of 43 large Spanish warships, the Spanish Navy has since collapsed. After all, what the Spaniards lost was not the more than 50 small and medium ships lost by pirate Liu Xiang, but the main battleships with a displacement of more than 1,000 tons. The Spaniard suffered this loss, and since then lost the ability to suppress the Netherlands at sea, and was even forced to agree to the independence of the Netherlands. The Dutch "sea coachman" era only emerged after that naval battle. After all, the Dutch did not have the right to control the sea, only tortured by the Spanish fleet.

Malin thought left and right, thinking that even if he provided artillery to the Ming Dynasty, the people of the Ming Dynasty would not be able to use it. After all, the Ming people did not have the habit of using artillery and giant ships. It's like giving a black killer such as ak47 to an African black uncle. As a result, they shot in various poses, but they just couldn't hit ...

The fire attack method is different, this was originally the trick of the ancient Chinese people. Moreover, it is very in line with the ancient Chinese Confucian scholars' way of "breaking the enemy with a plan".

The military decline of the Ming Dynasty was very sad. The Confucian scholars in the Ming Dynasty, like the Confucian scholars in the Song Dynasty, believed too much in the tactics of literati and liked to take shortcuts.

As a result, the soldiers' basic skills were not solid during the war. And the civil servants who command the soldiers and horses are always thinking of using their own strategies to solve the opponents, rather than crushing the opponents with strong strength.

If you encounter an opponent with the same weak chicken, these strategies will naturally work. However, encountering Mongolian cavalry who far exceeds the Ming army in mechanical power naturally becomes a stupid ...

After all, this world depends on strength. Even if Marin likes to play conspiracies and tricks, the army of Beihai is trained according to the strict standards of later generations. With strategy, the Beihai team travels. If it is tough, the Beihai team will not be ashamed.

The civil servants in the Ming Dynasty were too mentally disabled, and they always wanted to solve their opponents by their own strategies.

Only Qi Jiguang realized the importance of the soldiers' own training level. Therefore, he trained an invincible Qi family army. Unfortunately, after Qi Jiguang's backstage Zhang Ju was falling down, Qi Jiguang was also implicated in the civil war and was forced to go to the field. His outstanding military thoughts were also abandoned by stupid civilians. The last Qi family army was even deliberately thrown to Liaodong to die.

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Marin estimated that even if the cannons and giant ships had correct ideas, those Ming officials would not adopt them. If they are willing to accept this idea, Liu Daxia will not hide Zheng He's nautical charts and treasure ship drawings.

Without him, developing the navy is too costly, and the maintenance costs are also staggering. But the finances of the Ming dynasty have never been better because Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang's pass has no limitation of vision.

When the court was short of money, these civil servants naturally opposed large warships and artillery. In particular, the 12-pound Napoleon gun offered by Marin uses a copper gun. On average, each gun requires five or six hundred kilograms of copper. For the Ming court, which was short of copper, if those civilians were willing to manufacture in large quantities, there would be ghosts.

But Marin could not let Ming Ting lose the battle with the Portuguese, because the current emperor is a militant of Zhengde!

If the water war fails, those civil servants have no ability to prevent Zhengde from developing the navy. If Zhengde had a strong navy, East Asia would not be able to settle down.

Therefore, Marin proposed the fireboat tactic ...

Fireboat tactics are very famous in the Ming Dynasty, because the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which is very popular in the Ming Dynasty, specifically mentioned "Fire Chibi". This story is too famous in the Ming Dynasty. It is estimated that in cities with storytellers, most people have heard of this story.

Marin proposed fireboat tactics, which not only made the Ming people familiar, but also very in line with the Ming Dynasty literati's "like to use resourcefulness" style.

After all, even Luo Guanzhong, who wrote the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, is actually a half-hanging literati. This product was originally assisted by Zhang Shicheng, but with the help of Luo Guanzhong's semi-hanging literati "militarist", Zhang Shicheng simply lost to Zhu Yuanzhang. Because, Zhang Shicheng was too superstitious about the military capabilities of the gang of literati. Unlike Zhu Yuanzhang, he has Xu Da, Chang Yuchun and other famous generals.

In the face of absolute strength, those little tricks are useless. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is nothing more than a storytelling book that entertains the public. We can see that the war scenes inside are very funny and domination, and actually went out to fight against people alone ... how much brain damage ...

Then, the ambush person simply described the enemy general as shouting "not good, the tactics", and then fell into defeat ...

To put it simply, the book "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" treats soldiers as npc, and eagerly overstates the role of generals ...

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But this kind of brain-dead book is of no use to the Ming dynasty where soldiers ca n’t. But ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ is useful for Jurchens who have strong soldiers' fighting power ...

Nurhachi, a semi-illiterate man, was heavily influenced by The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and began to like to fight by strategy.

Unlike the Ming army, Nuerhachi's Jurchen barbarians are already very stubborn. They are not the npc soldiers of the Ming army, but are similar to the "elite monster" in the game. The barbarians are not lacking in bravery, only the ingenuity of the coach. Although the ingenuity of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a bit naive, it was against the Ming Dynasty, a country that puts more emphasis on literary power. For Houjin, whose soldiers are all fierce and barbarian, those tricks are useful again. This is because the shortest "soldier ability problem" in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is not a problem on the Houjin side.

In this way, there was the back gold of the brave soldiers, plus the wisdom of the three countries, so there was the later Manchu ...

Of course, there are also a lot of luck factors for Manchu to enter the customs, such as the internal destruction of Li Zicheng. But the agreement between the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the situation of Manchu is also an important factor.

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Marin could not change the military ideology of the "over-reliance on strategy" of the Ming Dynasty's civilian officials, nor did he want to change it. But this time in order to deal with the Portuguese, he had to follow the Ming civil servants and defeat the Portuguese fleet in the most correct way in their opinion.

Even, this time Marin did not want to, to avoid angering the Portuguese.

Therefore, Marin had long planned to let Kong Tai select a Ming Dynasty scholar and rush him to present this plan to the military commander of Daming Marine Division as a counselor. In this way, even if the Portuguese lose, they can't blame Malin.

Moreover, Marin estimated that, due to the urinary nature of the Ming bureaucracy, even if the military commander knew that it was Marin ’s strategy, he would find ways to put credit on his head. Fortunately, Marin didn't even want to get credit, everyone just hit it off ...