Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 169 Ironclad Ship

"I spent 12 goldfinger coins for this ship, and I haven't even got the construction blueprints and part of the technology, but it's still worth it!" Bai Mingxiu said while stroking the mast of the big ship in front of him like a girl's smooth skin. emotion.

Before the system opened the discounted version to him, he had never seen an ironclad ship among the navy's convertible units.It is obviously a typical naval warfare unit in the steam era, but I don't know what kind of mentality the system has, and it has never opened any exchanges.

At any rate, after the new version was released this time, Bai Mingxiu saw the ironclad ship that he had admired for a long time in the navy exchange list.

The Donghai-class ironclad ship has a standard displacement of 8633 tons, a full load displacement of 8862 tons, a length of 113 meters, a width of 18 meters, and a draft of 8.5 meters.This is a ship with a hybrid engine and sail. It adopts a set of Chinese full sails. The main power is a multi-expansion reciprocating steam engine with 8000 horsepower, which can propel the warship to a maximum speed of 15 knots. The economic speed of the sail is 13.5 knots. .Armaments are equipped with protected shipside artillery, including 12 230mm naval rifled guns, 18 155mm naval rifled guns and 10 76mm naval rifled guns, all of which are rear-mounted artillery.

Bai Mingxiu's purchase of an armored ship is almost equivalent to his purchase of an infantry division.He couldn't even buy a pair because there was only one ironclad ship with such a large tonnage on the list.

It was a coincidence that he saw this thing, although he knew that the existing 30 naval warships of the Daming Rejuvenation Army Navy were quite enough, especially after the second naval battle dungeon, he compiled some first-class sailing battleships, But he still couldn't refuse this temptation, even if the cost-effectiveness of spending the money was not high, he could still enjoy full pleasure simply by looking at her.

This feeling is the same as men like to buy yachts or sports cars, except that Bai Mingxiu is more unusual, he can buy warships.

After some adjustments, the navy of the Ming Dynasty Fuguo Army now has 2 first-class battleships, 2 second-class battleships, 10 third-class battleships, 8 fourth-class battleships, and 8 fifth-class frigates, totaling 30 sailing warships.Bai Mingxiu still has a lot of large East India clipper merchant ships from the system, but they are not operated by the navy of the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army.In addition, the Zheng family also came to join more than 100 large and small ships. Bai Mingxiu didn't consider these ships as the main battleships at all, but they are now used for ordinary shipping work.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Navy of the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army is Sister Lion, and her official maiden name is Shi Ji (Lion Class).Sister Lion is also worthy of being a ship girl with extraordinary talents. She quickly put the construction of the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army Navy on the agenda and made deployments.

Under the adjustment of Sister Lion, the Daming Rejuvenation Army is now divided into four bases and a coastal defense area - Leizhou Base (Zhanjiang), Kaohsiung Base, Batavia Base, Yangon Base and the Australian Coastal Defense Area.Among them, Leizhou Base is the home port of the Navy.Sister Lion deployed most of the naval warships, including the most important two first-class ships, two second-class ships and four third-class ships, at the Leizhou base.The Kaohsiung base is newly built, and its main function is to control the East China Sea. The number of deployed ships is six.The other two bases are basically existing naval bases, where 2-4 warships are deployed from time to time to maintain trade routes and deal with possible European aggression fleets.As for the Australian Coastal Defense Area, it mainly conducts offshore defense, guarding the vast offshore waters from Aobei Prefecture to Xitianfu. In addition to the recent transfer of 2 third-class ships and 2 frigates, some smaller ships have also been recruited.

Although Bai Mingxiu didn't put much energy into the construction of the navy, Sister Lion still completed this task for Bai Mingxiu very well.Not only did she prepare for the construction of a new naval base, she also selected sailors from the original Zheng family for transformation and training, and also recruited new boat people from Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian as sailors.

Sister Lion fully understands the importance of sea power to Ming. Controlling the overall trade routes in the South China Sea and the East China Sea is the core element for Ming to maintain its dominance in the East and at the same time provide His Royal Highness with abundant trade resources.

Compared with Bai Mingxiu, who was as excited as a child when he saw the Donghai ironclad ship, Miss Lion didn't have much love for this ironclad ship.Probably she is a very powerful battleship herself, and outdated things like ironclad ships don't interest her at all.

On the contrary, Sister Shi still teased Bai Mingxiu with this: "Your Highness, when you got me, you never saw you so excited."

Bai Mingxiu waved his hands awkwardly, and said, "That's different."

Miss Lion tilted her head and said cutely: "What's the difference? Aren't they all boats? Aren't they all used to board?"

Bai Mingxiu was blushed a little by Miss Lion's deliberate pun, pretended to cough twice, and quickly changed the subject, he said: "This time we will only send two escort frigates, isn't it a bit thin?"

Sister Lion said: "Why, does Your Highness still think that we will encounter any challenges at sea? Now the entire East China Sea is just like our Daming's footbath. It's a rather boring place, but it's also thanks to our protection. Merchant ships have increased, most of them are shipowners under our control, most of them are maritime merchants in Guangdong, and there are private joint-stock shipping and trading companies transformed by us from the Zheng family, and the ships of the Spaniards and Portuguese are also very A lot. Because no one is asking them for protection money, the number of European merchant ships has surged, because they hardly need to worry about pirates anymore, so there are more European merchant ships going to and from Japan and North Korea. This is for us It is quite unfavorable, because they share our achievements in the East China Sea, but they don’t need to pay us a penny. If possible, we should take over the customs of Japan or North Korea and recover the cost in the form of tariffs.”

Bai Mingxiu smiled: "Are you in charge of the customs of Japan and North Korea? I like your idea. This can be implemented later. But now I have to conquer a city in the south of the Yangtze River within 20 days."

Speaking of this, Bai Mingxiu was full of sadness.He immediately prepared for mobilization, and it took only two days for his independent brigade to board the transport ship. At the same time, the naval warships were also ready. There are at least ten more days to take the next city.

Sister Lion suggested: "How about Ningbo? After all, Zhang Huangyan is active there. Although the number of troops is very small, they should still have a little foundation."

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