Chapter 1209 Qin Jun
The sky is blue and the sea is clear.
Qin Jun stood on the deck of Taiping, looking at this bay, which is even more beautiful than Jiaozhou Bay. He has not been here for a long time, but he has already fallen in love with it.
There are hundreds of people traveling on the Taiping. This ship is an armed merchant ship under the name of Qin Jun. It is a large multi-deck ship with a total length of 20 feet and a mast of 13 feet high. It has three masts and seven sails. There are not only rackets, but also small stone cannons, fierce fire oil tanks and twelve mortars.
This is a standard ship with three thousand materials.
Material is the general unit of calculation for ancient shipbuilding, and the imperial customs taxation on ships is also calculated in units of material. The material mainly refers to the volume of the ship, which is calculated by the parameters of length, width and depth. The imperial court's tax on ships is the length, width, and hatches.
It is to calculate the volume of the ship according to the length, width and depth of the ship, and then convert the number of materials and load capacity. Lisheng is the load capacity of the ship.
So Tang people had a relatively complete set of calculation formulas for this kind of calculation. Basically, every hundred materials is about one cubic foot, and one material is converted to about 0.33 tons of displacement.
For example, a multi-paddle river boat of 800 materials has a total length of eight feet and three feet and a width of two feet. Multiplying is 8.13 cubic feet, rounded up to about 800 materials.
The displacement is nearly 300 tons.
The Taiping is a heavy-duty ocean-going armed merchant ship in the Qin family's treasure ship. It is a standard 3,000-ton cargo ship with a displacement of nearly 1,000 tons. In this era, it is indeed a giant ocean.
Although there are giant Mulan boats carrying tens of thousands of stones on the Yangtze River, those boats are only inland rivers, and even can only run in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. , Baekje, Silla, and Wa countries usually carry court envoys. In the past, when the new king of the vassal state was enshrined, he rode on it, with the intention of demonstrating national strength and promoting national prestige.
This kind of closed ship is fifteen feet long, three feet wide, and one foot five deep. There are still several floors on the deck that have not been included in the depth.
It is actually relatively simple to convert materials into displacement, because one hundred materials is one cubic foot equal to 32.8 cubic meters, so one material is 0.33 cubic meters, and one thousand materials is about 330 tons of displacement.
How big is the displacement of 1,300 tons?
The **** rudder of my Tu 65 is only 1,200 tons, which is a warship of later generations, and the latest large drive is only 10,000 tons, which is already world-class.
In this era more than a thousand years ago, ships running on the sea were smaller than those on inland rivers, and those on deep seas were often smaller than those on coastal waters. This was because of the strong wind and waves at sea, and it was difficult for ships to resist wind and waves when they were bigger.
The treasure ship of the Qin family can be regarded as an epoch-making pioneer.
In history, Magellan successfully returned to Spain, and Victoria Galen the Great only had a displacement of 500 tons. In the era of great navigation, the British, Spanish, Portuguese, etc. established powerful navies one after another, and the number of ships continued to increase rapidly. Thousand tons or even five thousand tons of things are constantly being built.
But in this era, the treasure ships of the Qin family have already dominated the sea, and they are the best in the world.
Other ships do not dare to build too big because they are afraid of wind and waves, but the Qin family's ships can be built very large. The bigger they are, the better they can resist wind and waves, and they can increase the transportation capacity. The Qin family's treasure ships have too many advanced technologies.
Only one splicing keel technology saves a lot of shipbuilding costs.
The Taiping has multiple decks and a large number of cabins, not only can carry more cargo, but also the living space of the crew and sailors is also very comfortable. Not to mention, this is an armed merchant ship, and its firepower can run across the sea.
Not afraid of those pirate boats at all.
This boat was a birthday present from Qin Lang to Qin Jun when he was sixteen years old, and it can bring Qin Jun a lot of income every year.
In front of the Taiping, there is another ship, but it is the Wu'an. This is a flexible and fast frigate of 1,500 materials. Although the load capacity is not as good as the Taiping, it focuses more on speed.
The two ships sailed one after the other in the bay, reaching ten knots according to the speed unit knots used by the Qin Jiabao ship.
From San Francisco Port to Dragonstone Island, it was only thirty miles away, and it arrived in less than half an hour, which was surprisingly fast.
Longshi Island Longkou Port Wharf.
Cunxian Cunen had already discovered their arrival and came to greet them in person.
In Longkou Harbor, the ships of the Jiangwutang Naval Division stepped forward to greet them, and after confirming their identities, they personally guided them into the port.
Qin Jun went ashore and handed the letter written by his father on the almanac paper to the two righteous brothers.
Qin Cun'en was wearing a red military uniform, with the words "Longshi Island Lecture Hall" on his chest. He looked at it seriously with a solemn expression, and then handed it over to Cunxian.
Cun En's military uniform is neat and clean, and even his beard has been carefully trimmed. The beard on his chin is trimmed like a flat brush.
After Cunxian finished reading, he talked softly with Cun En for a while.
Qin Jun asked, "Where are you going?"
"Da Lang doesn't know yet?"
"I haven't read the letter."
"The next order is for the teachers and students of the Wu'an Hall to form a student army and pull them out for actual combat. Dalang will go with us, and some knights from Wu'an will also go with us."
Qin Jun didn't know until now, but he immediately became excited.
"Where are you going to fight?"
"More than a hundred miles to the southwest of us, there is an estuary called the Nasugbu River. This river basin is a good plain, and there are many natives around it. There is a good Tianliang Harbor at the estuary."
Qin Lang asked the martial arts hall to go to actual combat and train troops in actual combat. At the same time, he also carried out sports tactics against the natives. Since the natives gathered to attack New San Francisco, Qin Lang would defend the city while sending troops to take advantage of the shipping advantage at sea and go around them. Hit them from the rear.
This is a tactic of drawing salary from the bottom.
Qin Jun was very excited to hear that.
The mobilization of the martial arts hall was very quick, and all members were dispatched.
Longshi Island was originally a peninsula with a small area. There used to be some native tribes. After the arrival of the martial arts hall, with the help of the Qin Lang Guards, they launched an attack on the natives on the island.
Holding the natives to practice their hands and train in actual combat, the students in the martial arts hall grew rapidly. After more than a dozen battles, they defeated all the natives, captured or drove them away, completely occupied Longshi Island, and established a martial arts training center on the island. Hall campus, and began to reclaim wasteland.
Many students sent letters to summon their families to settle on the island, and the island was thriving at this time.
Qin Lang's order to the Martial Arts Hall was very simple, that is, to designate a direction of attack, the Nasugbu River area more than a hundred miles southwest of San Francisco. As for how to fight, it was completely up to them, Qin Lang just let them Bring Qin Jun along.
The Taiping and Wu'an brought by Qin Jun also joined the battle.
After a brief discussion, Cun En planned to send 5,000 troops.
As for why it is 5,000 people, it is because he thinks this is exactly the number of a brigade.
The brigade he was talking about was actually the establishment of an army of the Datang Field Army, which was equivalent to a small army. In the Sui Dynasty, an army consisted of 16,000 people, with teams and regiments as the basic units. Infantry and cavalry consisted of a team of 100 men, followed by a regiment of 20 infantry and a regiment of ten cavalry.
An army consists of four infantry regiments with 8,000 men, plus four cavalry regiments with 4,000 men, plus four engineering and transport regiments with 1,000 men, making a total of 16,000 men.
When Yang Guang conquered Liaodong, he adopted this kind of large army regiment system. Each regiment was a pure army. For example, out of 8,000 infantry, there were 4,000 heavy infantry with iron armor and spears, and the other 4,000 were light infantry. , The crossbowmen are also equipped with swords and shields.
Above the pure arms regiments, a mixed regiment was formed, with 16,000 people in each regiment. At that time, when the Sui Dynasty conquered Liao for the first time, dozens of regiments were formed. For example, Yu Wenshu later attacked Pyongyang, which was a super army composed of nine legions.
The formation of this large army in the Sui Dynasty was based on its strong national strength. Relying on excellent equipment and sufficient supplies to support it, it was a single word when fighting, overwhelming, with thousands of spearmen in the front row, There are countless crossbowmen behind, and there are also a large number of cavalry. The Sui Dynasty didn't play flower teams with you. They didn't have too many bows and too few guns and knives like the Song Dynasty. A general once wrote a letter saying that in the army, there are eight swordsmen and sixteen gunmen, and the remaining seventy or so are tied with bows and crossbows.
Song Jun likes to play flower teams, and the teams are mixed at the first level.
The Sui Dynasty liked to play pure soldiers, not only at the team level, but also at the regiment level.
Of course, in the Tang Dynasty, especially after entering Zhenguan, under the leadership of powerful generals such as Li Jing, Li Ji, Qin Qiong, and Qin Lang, the Tang Dynasty beat invincible opponents all over the world. Military thinking also began to change, and the structure and organization of the army began to be adjusted. .
The Sui Dynasty liked to fight with large armies, and when they arrived in Zhenguan, they began to focus on mixed and coordinated operations. It turned out that the army of the Sui Dynasty had 16,000 soldiers, and even as many as 20,000.
By the time of the Tang Dynasty, the army had already been downsized, and each army had only a few thousand people, but there were about 20,000 large armies above the army.
A large army group has seven armies under its jurisdiction, the central army, the left and right Yuhou armies, and the left and right Xiang armies.
The Tang army took fifty men as the basic tactical unit, with four thousand soldiers in the middle, two thousand soldiers, four hundred crossbowmen, four hundred archers, one thousand cavalry, five hundred jumpers, and five hundred odd soldiers.
A large army, a total of 14,000 horse infantry soldiers, a total of 280 soldiers, and another 6,000 people guarding the baggage.
In the past, there were regiments under the army of the Sui Dynasty, so they were called legions. The regiments were all pure arms. For example, the four regiments of cavalry were divided into two thousand heavy cavalry and two thousand light cavalry, four regiments of infantry eight thousand, four thousand heavy infantry and four thousand light infantry, and four heavy soldiers. Thousands, there are not only heavy soldiers, but also engineers and catapult artillery.
are all pure infantry combined into an army.
When it came to Zhenguan, it was changed. There was an army under the army. This army was equivalent to a mixed brigade. There were a thousand soldiers in the middle army, and only two thousand and eight soldiers in the Yuhou army. In the past, the Sui army fought in large armies, at least one army was a tactical unit.
(end of this chapter)