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Chapter 417 Battleship Blueprint
"The handsome and wise!"

Zhao Dashuan was very happy to hear about the double salary. What he cared about was not the money itself, but Fang Qiang's importance.

Man is a very strange animal. After eating and drinking, he will seek a social status.This is instinct, and the decisive factor is the need for self-identity rooted in the heart, and most people in this world are not exempt from it.

Fang Qiang knew what Zhao Dashuan was thinking, so he tried his best to be satisfied.In fact, this is also good for the rule of the territory.The people's sense of honor and self-identity are the basic conditions for a nation to become strong.

After chatting with Zhao Dashuan for a while, the old man seemed to really not want to go home, so Fang Qiang talked to him about business!
It's still a matter of shipbuilding. Fang Qiang went back to Earth two days ago and found many blueprints of classic warships, such as sailboats, lucky boats, Galen ships, etc...

These ships all represent the pinnacle of wooden sailing ships, and all once roamed the seas.Fang Qiang's purpose for finding these blueprints is obvious - imitation!
Even if you can't imitate them, you can learn from them. As long as you understand the principles and structures of these ships, it is not difficult to build more powerful ones.

"Old man, these blueprints are all materials I have collected from all over the world. There are many places in them that are worth learning from. Do you think we can make them?"

"These are the blueprints of battleships?" Zhao Dashuan just glanced at them, and surprise was written all over his ravine old face.He is an old boatman who has dealt with boats all his life!Even so, he still couldn't understand certain structures on the blueprint.Especially the links on the sails and the shooting holes on the side of the ship, all these structures are full of novelty!
Of course, there are also things he can understand, such as the placement of the keel, and the placement of the front and rear spears. In all fairness, what he can understand is the finishing touch!

A similar design will make the boat more stable and safer when sailing in the sea!

Zhao Dashuan was looking at the blueprints of these warships intently. He had devoted his whole life to shipbuilding, so these blueprints were very attractive to him.

But Fang Qiang on the side was a little impatient, so he tentatively asked: "How about it, old man, can these boats be built?"

"Ah? Ah!" Hearing Fang Qiang's question, Zhao Dashuan woke up like a dream, and said with a deep frown: "Marshal, we can make these ships, but some of the structures and functions are not at all. I understand, even if I make it rashly, I don’t know how to use it! In addition, there are so many blueprints for warships, we don’t need to do them all! Picking one or two with superior performance should be enough!”

"The old man is right, this is indeed the case!"

Fang Qiang nodded without hesitation. In fact, he also agrees with this statement very much. Although the above blueprints of warships are all classics, just choose one or two of the most powerful ones!
Wooden sailboats can never leave the sails, because this is the main driving force for warships to move forward at sea.

Fang Qiang also wants to research a steam engine or something, but this thing is not realistic in the short term.

After careful consideration, Fang Qiang decided to build the Zheng He treasure ship!
The speed of Zheng He's treasure ship is average, but this ship has one of its biggest characteristics-big!

Because it is big, it can load more artillery, so its combat effectiveness is also doubled!
In this era, there is no special secret to naval battles. It just depends on who has the most guns. If a battleship with only ten guns meets a battleship with 100 guns, the result can be imagined.

Of course, all of the above are Fang Qiang's own ideas. As for what kind of warship to build, he has to listen to the opinions of professionals.

"Old man, I think this kind of treasure ship is quite good. It has enough space, and it has obvious advantages in loading people and guns!"

"Hahaha..." Zhao Dashuan nodded and said, "The old man and the commander-in-chief thought about going together, but a fleet can't only have big ships, but also small ships, so we have to build other things besides treasure ships. Look at the sailing warship Victory. Although the deck is a little smaller, it can cooperate with the treasure ship. The most important thing is that it is extremely fast, and this advantage can just make up for the speed defect of the treasure ship!"

Hearing this, Fang Qiang picked up the design drawings of Fengfan, and at the same time, the service experience of this battleship appeared in his mind:
The Victory is a first-class sailing battleship of the Royal Navy. It was built in 1759 and completed in 1765. It consumed more than 2000 oak trees and 38 tons of iron.The displacement is 3556 tons, the length of the ship is 67.8 meters, and the width of the ship is 15 meters.There are 3 masts on board, the main mast is 62.5 meters high.

It has three artillery decks, with a total of 102 iron cast cannons and 2 giant short cannons.A salvo on the ship can fire half a ton of shells.

It took part in the Battle of Ashent and the Battle of Cape St. Vincent when the American Revolutionary War broke out, and defeated the Spanish navy.

She then took part in the Battle of Trafalgar during the Napoleonic period, during which she became famous for being the flagship of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson and smashing the combined fleets of France and Spain.

As the saying goes, practice is the only criterion for testing truth. The above proves that Victory is a very good battleship.

Although it will come out a century earlier than expected, this is precisely Fang Qiang's advantage!With his powerful fleet, he can gradually conquer the world!

Thinking of the great feat that was about to be completed, Fang Qiang took another look at the overall parameters of the Victory:
Displacement: 3556 tons (3500 tons)

Deadweight: 2176.4 tons (2142 British tons)

Gun deck length: 57 meters (186 ft)

Overall length: 69.3 meters (227 feet)

Beam: 15.8 meters (51 ft 10 in)

Draft: 8.8 m (28 ft 9 in)

Mainmast height: 62.5 meters (205 feet)

Foremast height: 55.4 meters (182 feet)
Mizzenmast height: 46.3 meters (152 feet)
Sail area: 5440 square meters

Speed: 8 knots - 9 knots

Crew: 850 people.

Armament: Gun Deck: 32 2.75-pound, 30-ton long guns.

Medium gun deck: 24 2.5-pound, 28-ton long guns.

Upper gun deck: 12 1.7-pound, 30-ton short guns.

First floor deck: 12 2-pounder medium guns, 68 2-pounder guns.

Rear deck: 12 1.7-pound, 12-ton cannons, [-].

This parameter is already quite powerful, but if Fang Qiang wants to put it into actual combat, he still needs to make some small changes!

Fang Qiang does not plan to cast cannons in a short time, so all the above cannons need to be changed to eight-ox crossbows!

The eight-ox crossbow is activated by elastic potential energy, so it needs more space, which also determines that the overall attack firepower will be reduced, but it will definitely not be less than 100 shooting points!

(End of this chapter)