Zheng Zhilong's shipyard and Li Guodong's shipyard were launched at the same time, and imitation Western merchant ships suitable for ocean navigation were continuously launched. These ships were all unified armed merchant ship types, and were imitation Spanish sailing ship types.

Because the Ming Dynasty lacked oak, timberwood needed to be imported from the South China countries, and mahogany was also a rare commodity. Therefore, precious oak, mahogany and timberwood were used to produce real warships. These imitation Spanish sailboats were made of fir common in the Ming Dynasty. The hardness and resistance to strike by fir were definitely not as good as high-quality wood such as oak, timberwood and mahogany. Therefore, these imitated ocean sailboats were all styles of Chinese and Western styles.

The shape of the hull adopts the style of a Spanish sailboat, but the hull has a compartment of a Chinese ship, and the hanging sails are also Chinese-style hard sails.

Hard sails cannot eat enough wind like soft sails, and their speed must be slower than Western soft sails, but Li Guodong has no choice. There are very few people who know how to operate Western soft sails. Western sailors hired from Nanyang and other places with high salaries will have to serve on warships in the future, so transport ships can only use traditional hard sails.

This kind of armed merchant ship that combines Chinese and Western cultures has a displacement of about 800 tons, and is equipped with thirty-four-pound red cannons, eight thirty-two-pound short-barrel wing cannons and two 64-pound mortar cannons. This ship can carry 800 passengers at a time, and the stern has a luxuriously decorated captain's room with a large space. In front of the captain's room is a high-end crew restaurant, and under the captain's room is a high-end passenger cabin.

Although the speed and ability to resist strikes are not as good as those of Western-style armed merchant ships, these ships have fierce firepower and use the latest cork-rolled flowering artillery shells, which allows cannons to fire flowering shells and incendiary shells. The cannonball trajectory with cork-rolled shells is like a badminton, and the accuracy is much higher, so this kind of ship will not suffer when encountering Western-style armed merchant ships.

However, the steady Li Guodong did not let one or two ships go to sea. Instead, when the number of ships was larger, he would once again dispatch a large fleet of 40 or 50 ships to avoid the typhoon season. After the autumn, he sailed north along the Pacific Ocean and past the Japanese archipelago and Sakhalin Islands. He would first go north and then along the Aleutian Islands to the east to reach the North American coastline, and then sail south along the North American coastline and land on the North American continent.

Forty or fifty armed merchant ships protect each other, and ordinary pirates dare not approach them at all. Even if they encounter about ten formal warships, they can still deal with them.

In fact, this kind of ship is very cheap because it is built with fir, and can be produced like dumplings. It is a cheap ship like the victory wheel and the Freedom wheel of the United States during World War II. The only valuable thing about these armed merchant ships is the artillery on it, but the artillery can be dismantled and equipped with the newly built warships, so it can be ignored.

The money for making ships and cannons was all out of Wang Chengen's inner treasury. Anyway, the Ming Dynasty treasury now has money. For the sake of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Chengen would not be stingy with these money. If there was no Li Guodong, let alone the money, he and Chongzhen's family would have lost their lives at this time. When Chongzhen died, Wang Chengen could still persevere, just to welcome the prince one day, and he would still serve the queen mother and the princess at this time.

While the Ming Dynasty was preparing for the voyage, the first batch of weapons Li Guodong reinforced to the Daxi Army were delivered. With these weapons, there were also titles given by the Ming Dynasty. Sun Kewang was named Xingqin Hou, Li Dingguo was named Jinyang Hou, Liu Wenxiu was named Xichuan Hou, and Ainengqi was named Dingbei Hou.

After Wang Quan read out the imperial edict, he opened the list and read to the list: "One thousand sets of excellent iron armor, 15,000 sets of bamboo armor, 10,000 bird guns, 1,000 turtle dove-foot guns, 3,000 self-generated muskets, 500 self-generated muskets (rifted guns), 500 self-generated god muskets (rifted guns), 100 twelve pounds of mortars, 10,000 mortars, 20 twelve pounds of mountain howitzers, 50 thirty pounds of field guns, 10,000 bows, 5,000 crossbows, 5,000 grain, 1,000 stews of rice knives, 1,000 iron shields, 1,000 steep faces, 1,000 spears, and 1,000 gunpowder..."

Li Dingguo was overjoyed: "General Wang, thank Duke Chu for me. You treat us so well, I should be so heartbroken as the Duke!"

Over the past year, the Daxi Army resisted tenaciously and defeated Zhao Liangdong's encirclement and suppression. When the Qing army attacked, they retreated into the mountains and used the terrain to deal with the Qing army. Due to the introduction of crops such as sweet potatoes and corn, the Daxi Army has obtained a lot of food in the past year and has strengthened its own strength.

Crops such as sweet potatoes and corn can be grown in mountains and on barren land. The reason why Li Guodong did not provide potatoes to the Western Army was because the potatoes in this era were too small, had too low yields, and were toxic. Later potatoes were potatoes obtained after repeated improvements.

Today, the Daxi Army has returned to a scale of about 200,000 people. The weapons provided by Li Guodong are only for a small number of elite troops, and most of the troops still use the original weapons of the Daxi Army.

"With these new weapons, we can counterattack Chengdu." Li Dingguo said.

Wang Quan must have supported the Daxi Army to regain Chengdu. Li Guodong gave these weapons to the Daxi Army in order to allow the Daxi Army to repel the Qing army in Chengdu.

But Sun Kewang said worriedly: "When we fight the Tartars, will the pseudo-Emperor of Yongli attack from behind us?"

Wang Quandao: "The terrain from Yunnan to Sichuan is dangerous. As long as you leave a few people to watch the pass, the army of the Yongli pseudo-Emperor will not be able to attack."

Zhao Liangdong took Hong Chengchou's approach to dealing with the Daxi Army, set up fortresses at various intersections and passes, cut off the scope of activities of the Daxi Army, which was good at mobile warfare, and gradually arranged heavy troops to encircle and suppress them; he carried out a solid wall around Chengdu, concentrated the people to manage them, and raised wooden fences around him, dug trenches, and set up fortresses at four corners to guard the people within a fixed range, so as not to obtain food from the people.

The Qing army occupied all the fertile fields, and would rather let the fields be deserted than let the people grow grain and provide them to the Daxi Army, in order to cut off the Daxi Army's food source.

Fortunately, the sweet potatoes and corn provided by Li Guodong allowed the Western Army to obtain enough food. Not only did it not starve to death, but the scale expanded several times.

After obtaining the weapons, the first target that the Daxi Army wanted to attack was a Qing army bastion located in Liuchashan, Jiading Prefecture. This Qing army bastion is a brick-and-wood bastion with 500 Qing troops stationed in it. Before, the Daxi Army did not have heavy artillery, so it was helpless to face this castle.

"Now we have ten heavy sky-rushing cannons that can blow this castle." Wang Quan said.

The sky-rushing cannon is a mortar cannon, but the Western Army does not know how to use this weapon. The Western Army lacks experienced gunners, and they still know how to use it with direct guns. If this high-ballistic curved cannon wants to accurately hit the target, it needs to calculate the trajectory and aim according to the charge amount and the angle of the muzzle. Inexperienced gunners cannot operate at all.

However, Li Guodong provided the Western Army with ten mortar gunners and twenty howitzer gunners. These gunners could help the Western Army adjust the artillery elements so that the Western Army could use mortar guns to attack the enemy. These gunners would also teach the Western Army how to use these mortar guns step by step. When they went back in the future, the Western Army's gunners could also be proficient in operating these mortar guns.

The Western Army approached Liu Chashan, and ten mortars used to carry out the mission of bombarding the castle were set up.
Chapter completed!