Please ask me to be the emperor

"Charge, charge!" More than a hundred shuttle boats gathered on the coast near Dagukou.

One by one, like fish, they shuttled through the waves, densely occupying the entire sea surface.

These net shuttle boats rushed towards the shore quickly with the help of the sea breeze and the desperate paddling of the oarsmen.

Soon, these shuttle boats rushed to the shore and then ran aground on the beach.

However, the soldiers on the boat were not worried at all. Instead, they jumped out of the boat one by one, one foot deep and one foot shallow, and rushed to the shore through the sea water and the sand on the shore.

As soon as they stepped onto the shore, the soldiers formed a small three-talent formation in units of three before continuing to charge.

The soldiers who were stranded on the ship also raised their blunderbuss and shot at the targets on the shore. The sound of killing was loud for a while.

"It still doesn't work!" Seeing the soldiers quickly seizing the fortress on the shore, Zhao Lizi, who was watching from a high place, couldn't help but shook his head and said.

"Ah? I think this is pretty good, right?" Zhao Liangdong, the commander-in-chief of Tianjin, couldn't help but be surprised.

"How is this good?" Zhao Lizi pointed to the team, "First of all, we don't have the equipment."

"As a naval warfare exploration ship and a pleasure ship, the shuttle boat has too deep a draft and carries too few people."

"Not only did it run aground before it even got close to the shore, it could easily crash the ship, but it could only carry four people, not even a corps of soldiers."

"The training of all our soldiers is carried out with the corps as the basic unit."

"Without Wu's organization, everything would have to be started from scratch. Now the battle in Dongjiang Town is imminent. If we start from scratch, how can we make it in time?"

"Look at these soldiers. After landing, the soldiers did not know the generals, and the generals did not know the soldiers. They became a mess."

"If we meet Hou Jin's elite soldiers, wouldn't they be killed in one fell swoop?"

"Uh... General Zhao, you are so strict in your military training!" Zhao Liangdong couldn't help but laugh awkwardly when he heard this, and he couldn't help but murmur in his heart.

No wonder the Ming army couldn't defeat King Shun's soldiers. If all the generals under King Shun were trained to this standard, I'm afraid the one or two thousand men under my command would be no different.

It turns out that most of the naval landing operations in this era chose uninhabited places to land ashore and then conduct operations.

This is not consistent with the forced landing combat method envisioned by Zhang Shun, so there are no suitable ships in the Tianjin Navy.

The only ships that can slightly meet the needs of this kind of landing operation are the shuttle ships and shuttle ships equipped by the Ming army.

Among them, the rushing boat is a large-scale blessing boat, which is divided into two types: large and small. It can carry a load of between 1,500 and 1,000 stones.

The medium-sized shuttle boat, also called the Yangzhi boat, was the basic shape of the maritime transport ship in the Ming Dynasty.

Nowadays, the rebels have finally established routes between the Dongjiang River and Tianjin, and they are trading grain and wood. There is also a serious shortage of sailing ships and ocean-covering ships.

Therefore, after Zhao Lizi's repeated applications, two troop transport ships were allocated to serve as the Marine Corps.

The boat is shaped like a shuttle, with bamboo masts and wooden sails. The draft is only seven or eight inches deep. It carries three or four people and is equipped with two or three shotguns. It can travel easily in small harbors and narrow rivers, and can be towed to the shore with the strength of two or three people. The net shuttle boat was also recruited by Zhao Lizi for use as a landing ship.

It's just that this shuttle boat is good in all aspects, except for one thing, it can't accommodate a group of people, which causes a lot of trouble for Zhao Lizi's command of the operation.

"How about you apply to Zhang Zizhou again and ask him to help you develop a warship specially used for landing, and return this shuttle ship to me first?" Zhao Liangdong pondered for a moment and couldn't help but start another topic.

"Are you kidding? That Zhang Zizhou is extremely busy. Even if he is busy, he will mainly make bird boats. How can he build this boat for me?" Zhao Lizi shook his head.

"I finally understand that if we want to complete this landing operation, we must use a punt!"

It turns out that although this shuttle boat is small, it is still a sharp-bottomed sea-going ship because it is used at sea.

Although this type of ship is conducive to traveling on seas, inland rivers and lakes, it is easy to run aground and is not conducive to landing operations.

"Flat boat? Isn't that a sand boat?" Zhao Liangdong was stunned when he heard this, and couldn't help but have a flash of inspiration.

"Hey, don't tell me, Shachuan is really suitable!" Zhao Lizi couldn't help but slap his thigh when he heard this, and he immediately reacted.

It turns out that this sand boat is a sand-proof flat-bottomed wooden boat used for navigation in ancient China. It has the characteristics of a square head, a square tip, a flat bottom, and a shallow draft. It has the advantages of a flat bottom that can sit on the beach, is not afraid of running aground, and is relatively less affected by the tide.

"It's just that this sand ship can't go far into the ocean!" Zhao Liangdong saw that Zhao Lizi was serious and couldn't help but remind him quickly.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I have a way!" Zhao Lizi pondered for a moment and couldn't help laughing.

"any solution?"

"Big boats carry small boats, take boats in deep water, and release boats in shallow water!" Zhao Lizi pointed to the boating channel on the sea.

It turned out that after this experiment, Zhao Lizi also had his own ideas.

It is naturally difficult for these landing boats to cross the ocean. However, according to Zhang Shun's idea, the Marine Corps cannot be hanging around in front of the house. What should we do?

Well, since the ship can carry people, it can also carry ships.

In this case, why not take it on a big ship and sail across the ocean?

As soon as Zhao Lizi said this, Zhao Liangdong couldn't help but his eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but praise: "Good idea, good method!"

"Ship, ship, big ship!" Just as the two were talking, a soldier suddenly warned.

"Huh?" The two of them were stunned when they heard this, and quickly looked into the distance, only to see a mast protruding above the ocean.

"Good guy, a big guy is here!" Zhao Liangdong, who has quite a lot of experience at sea, couldn't help being shocked when he saw this, and ordered quickly.

"The navy is preparing to go to sea to intercept. As for the land, we can only leave it to General Xiao Zhao!"

Zhao Lizi experienced a sea battle for the first time, and he couldn't help being excited and nervous. He quickly ordered his soldiers to drag the shuttle boat to the shore, and ordered other soldiers to line up and wait.

When Zhao Lizi finally finished his work, he looked up and saw that the big ship was already more than half above the sea level. Zhao Liangdong also led a Fu ship, two Haicang ships, and four Cangshan ships to greet it.

However, when the two sides slowly approached and negotiated for a long time, for some reason they slowly sailed towards Dagukou Port.

"General, the order to lift the alert has been issued on the ship!" At this moment, the flag bearer reported to Zhao Lizi.

"Wait a minute!" Zhao Lizi was thinking carefully, fearing that Zhao Liangdong had other agendas, so he didn't dare to move lightly.

After finally waiting for a group of boats to approach, Zhao Lizi couldn't help but look shocked and was speechless for a long time.

Why?

It turned out that the incoming ship was actually an extremely large ship. It was not only decorated with literary touches and quite luxurious, but also had five masts and eight sails, spread out like bird wings.

The ship was more than twenty feet long from front to back. The hull was as tall as a building, and the masts on the ship were even more towering, giving Zhao Lizi a feeling of great oppression when he was standing in front of him.

Although Zhao Lizi has lived on the bank of the Yellow River all year round, he has never seen such a huge ship, and he did not recover for a while.

After finally regaining his composure, Zhao Lizi looked at it carefully again, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

It turned out that while Zhao Lizi was shocked, he also discovered that although this giant ship was extremely large and luxurious, it had a broken mainmast and its firepower was not very strong. Judging from the muzzles exposed on the side, it only had ten guns. It's just a thousand-pound machine.

Of course, the most important thing is that such a huge ship has no other ships to protect it.

If a conflict breaks out between the two sides, Zhao Lizi is confident that he can use his soldiers to climb forward and seize the ship.

Just as Zhao Lizi was thinking about himself in his mind, the giant ship had already been moored in the port.

Not long after, Zhao Liangdong, the commander-in-chief of Tianjin, got off the Fuchuan warship and immediately led a group of people over.

"This is..." Zhao Lizi looked at Zhao Liangdong with a puzzled look on his face and asked.

"Hey, you didn't expect it. This is the Fengzhou giant ship that His Highness was going to transfer back from Fujian a few days ago!" Zhao Liangdong also looked up and down at Fengzhou with a shocked expression, and couldn't help but explain to Zhao Lizi.

"At first, everyone thought that this matter was undoubtedly a fantasy, but they never thought that the governor of Fujian actually sent someone to deliver it."