In fact, Yang Qing's converter is still just an experiment...

This thing is too limiting.

Ore must be low phosphorus and low sulfur, such only Hainan Island, the whole Ming is almost no second place, although Anshan is also good, but the grade is much worse than Hainan Island, the only advantage is that the manganese content is high.However, Hainan Island's iron ore must be shipped to the south, because the monsoon and ocean current restrictions, mainly in the spring and summer season to be transported in large quantities, in addition to a small number of schooners in autumn and winter, it is difficult to really maintain transportation.

In fact, his power is also very nervous.

Because the most important thing in his fleet is not to transport iron ore, but to transport guano, which is more important than iron ore, after all, the steel of Daming is not too nervous, but the grain is not too sloppy, with the north to take over, the relief to the hungry there has almost drained his granary.

Bird droppings are important.

Of course, this problem will be solved with the use of new steamships.

But before that, the furnace will not bring about real change.

Because the same quality of steel, can also be made out with the crucible method, and even better quality, the steel of the converter is not as good as the crucible steel, the advantage is only that the smelting speed is large.As for the low-end, the mixing method has been very mature, and in fact, it can also produce almost the quality of steel, and the mixing method has low requirements for iron ore, even if the ore of Taichung and Maanshan can be used.In short, the real changes brought about by the new steelmaking furnace are limited, it only increases the supply of low-carbon steel, but the short-term formation of the foundation of the Daming steel industry is still those that use the wrought iron ore of Da metallurgy and Maanshan Iron Ore.

However . . .

It brought victory to the Damien Navy.

The mountain.

On the middle-armed artillery deck of the battleship Hongwu of the Daming Navy...

“Casting steel flowering bomb!”

Yang Qingtao said to Zheng Cai with a ball-shaped shell with a wooden bullet.

“This thing is expensive, isn’t it?”

The Southern Marine Master was amazed.

It is obvious that his mind is still in the era of crucumber steel, three hours thirty pounds of crucive steel is very expensive, plus raw iron charcoal smelting, stirring the mature iron, forging into high-quality wrought iron, and then the wrought iron and then cut and remelt this set of cumbersome processes down, and finally refined a shell, the cost is almost the same weight of copper.

The rich don’t dare to play like that.

“It’s cheaper now!”

Yang Qing said with a smile.

Pour the pig iron water directly into the converter, ten minutes can make a ton of new steelmaking furnace, so that the cost of this shell plummeted.

“Come in and see!”

He said.

Zheng Cai immediately took the cannonball, the next subordinates handed over the fuse, several artillerymen at the fastest speed of a twenty-four pounds of short artillery loaded with firing drugs, Zheng Cai will be loaded with fuses directly into the gun port, take the putt rod to the end, the gunner in the back loaded with the gunners, and then the rope hands to their commander...

Look at Yang Qing.

“Don’t worry, it won’t explode!”

Yang Qing said.

The Navy did not dare to use flowering bullets before, because the cast iron flowering shells could not withstand the pressure of the short heavy guns, and it would break in the firing moment, and the charge inside would be directly detonated in the cannon, and then the whole cannon was crushed together.The army used only the moth and mountain howitzers, which were only slightly longer than the moth guns, and killed a few artillery pieces on land, but the blasting on the warship was over.The whole cannon deck is almost straight through, and all the cannons have spare gunpowder, and the power of the explosion will sweep everything in this small space, igniting all the gunpowder that can be ignited, and the whole warship will become a spectacular sea firework.

But cast steel cannonballs will not.

In fact, the original history of the Bessame to study the power of the converter, is because the British flowering bullets can not withstand high pressure.

“Target the target ship!”

He immediately shouted.

The artillery quickly took the gun, which was actually a thirty-two-pounder calon, aimed at a floating target ship two hundred paces away.

“Let it go!”

He immediately pulled the gun rope.

The ignition machine hit quickly, and the ignition of gunpowder immediately detonated the gunpowder to launch the drug, and the huge force pushed the shells with wooden bullet holder to fly out, while igniting the wood pipe fuse.

The throttle instantly broke.

Cast steel with incendiary fuses is in the middle of the target ship at the moment...

Everyone was staring at the target ship.

The flames that exploded suddenly came out of the hole in the target ship, while also spraying up with the blown-up planks, and when the smoke spreads, the sea water has been poured into the cracks that have been cracked.Soon, as the hull sank sharply into the water, the hole that had been blown several times larger began to fall into the waterline, and the target ship could be declared sunk in just two minutes in the eyes of everyone.

Take a deep breath.

"With this artifact, who can fight against our great-mighty warship at sea!"

He said excitedly.

At the same time, the sailors cheered.

“Then conquer the South!”

Yang Qing said with satisfaction.

Zheng Cai came to receive the 11th and 12th battleships of the Nanyang Marine Division, and the same is the largest two, as the flagship of the future Nanyang Marine Division, named after Hongwu and Yongle two years, three-layer artillery deck battleship with 90 cannons.This is also the first three-layer artillery deck of the Daming Navy, and the previous six 74-gun battleships were two artillery decks, which is actually two standard first-class ships of this era.

It is also the largest two battleships in the entire Indian and Pacific Oceans.

In second place were the six seventy-four gunboats.

In the Pacific and Indian Oceans, whether it was the British or the Dutch, plus two teeth and the French Denmark, there was no seventy-four guns.

The Dutch East India Company is actually armed with merchant ships, and over the years, in response to the rise of the Daming Navy, it has built six battleships, but all of them are three-class ships with forty or fifty guns.After all, they are just a company, everything is based on the pursuit of interests, it is impossible to play any arms race in the East and Daming.They built battleships only to prevent the Ming army from attacking Java, but although the Dutch navy was strong, it was impossible to come here.

In fact, their navy can not say how powerful.

It’s hard to say there’s a navy.

In fact, the Dutch Republic has five navies belonging to five provinces, which are under the command of the respective provincial councils, and although they have a large number of warships, they are not strong.For example, Tromp's flagship, Emilia, had only fifty-seven guns at the Battle of Downs, and the Battle of Tromp in the First Anglo-Dutch War, Brederderod, had only fifty-four guns.During the Anglo-Dutch War, although the two sides invested in hundreds of warships, the vast majority were thirty or forty guns, and the single-ship combat power was not much stronger than the Ming Army cruisers.As for the Sea King, which only frightens people, it did not have much success, and the famous warship was loaded with too many cannons to the top of the heaviness, and although it was Admiral Black's flagship, the admiral was accustomed to changing ships quickly as soon as he fought.

The father of the Royal Navy does not like to sit.

However, immediately after the First Anglo-Dutch War, the two sides immediately began to upgrade their fleets, and by the time of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, it was the United of the seventy-three-gun unit that bombarded the eighty-ton-gun Royal Charles.

But now they are not much better than the current Damon navy.

At least the same level.

At this time, the British also had only one class ship, leaving a pile of forty or fifty guns, not even seventy-four gunboats, and the Dutch did not even have a first-class ship, if there was a Dutch fleet expedition to the East, the result was also to be fought by the Daming Navy at home, the end will not be much stronger than the Russian fleet during the Russo-Japanese War.

Of course, none of them will come to the East.

According to the time, the war between the Netherlands and the United Kingdom has begun, but the news of the distance has not yet arrived, and this war, which has lasted for nearly two years, is the national war between the two sides.So the expedition of the Southern Ocean Mariners was, at best, the six battleships facing the Dutch East India Company, and a large number of armed merchant ships.But Zheng Cai's fleet had twelve battleships, including two de facto first-class ships, and he had fifty cruisers, so that the Dutch would not have the courage to provoke in the face of such strength.

If they dared...

Then go to Batavia and destroy it together.

“Please rest assured, Her Majesty the Queen, that the Master and the Master of the Water will sweep away all their courts.”

Zheng Li said.

“I trust you!”

Yang Qing said.

Daming Navy's South Ocean Marine Division, with his flagship and another ship of the same class, so they sailed away from Zhoushan...

The oath is not necessary.

In fact, the main force of the Nanyang Marine Division is currently preparing to sail on Hainan Island, and the fleet must also use the wind and ocean currents to the south, which is February, and the wind direction has not changed.Coastal currents from north to south still control the flow of seawater, and this cold current from north to south runs through the Taiwan Strait and south-west toward Java to the equator, although the flow rate is not fast, it is an important help for sailing in the sailing era.But by April and May, as the wind shifts, the warm currents on the South China Sea will push the seawater northward, so the fleet of expeditionary lobsters will try to sail from Hainan Island to the lobster gate in these two months.

As for their fight...

That does not need Yang Qing worry, Zheng Hongyi and Zheng Cai are the core of Zheng family, they are more familiar with Nanyang than Yang Qing, a powerful fleet plus a whole army of the army, and then can not solve this small matter, it is really sorry for his preferential treatment of Zheng family.

And next...

Then his fight should begin.

“Fight with heaven, fight with the earth, fight with people, and its joy is endless!”

The Protector looked at the two huge ships that had gone far.

“Come back and fight with them!”

Then he turned around and said.

The guard in the back quickly handed him the reins of an Andalusian horse, and the escort quickly left the dock and returned to Nandu, and also ran to his battlefield...