From Propulsion City To Multiverse

After watching the production work of the artillery.

Zheng Sen came to Zhoushan Shipyard again. The work here was not in charge of Long Sha, but in charge of Bai Yulou, the head of the military department.

After all, Longsha couldn't use the avatar technique, and she was busy enough to set up the work of Zhoushan Chemical Company, Zhoushan Iron and Steel Company, and Zhoushan Building Materials Company.

Bai Yulou can only be responsible for the work of the shipyard. After all, they all have relevant information, and their hands-on ability and design ability can also meet the current needs.

Old Bai, how is your shipyard?

Bai Yulou pointed to three semi-enclosed dry docks, where three 300-ton Dafu ships were being built at this time.

Only Western clipper ships and Galen ships were not produced by Baiyulou.

Because the speed of the former is indeed fast, but the center of gravity is unstable, and the damage rate is very high when encountering severe sea conditions. When the flying shear ship was just emerging in later generations, the loss rate of this kind of ship once reached about 60%.

Although Baiyulou has a relatively mature flying shear ship design plan, the problem is that the cost performance is not high. If you have this leisure, it is better to directly research and develop steam turbines.

The same goes for Galen ships. .

It is not impossible to use Chinese-style hard-sail blessing ships, or the five-toothed ships built in the Sui Dynasty at this time.

Baiyulou absorbed many excellent improvement plans of later generations directly on the basis of Fuchuan.

Fuchuan itself has a watertight cabin design, but because of the watertight cabin design, the side ribs are not used, which reduces its own defense.

But the enemies of this era don't have artillery, and it doesn't hurt to be thin-skinned.

Baiyulou also adopts U-shaped bottom, bulbous bow, and copper-clad bottom, slightly elongated the hull, and uses steel connectors to enhance the overall strength of the keel.

As for the Western soft sail design, Bai Yulou did not adopt it, because the hard sail itself has many advantages, such as easy to operate, requires less manpower, can sail in multiple wind directions, and is resistant to blows.

As for the weight issue, Bai Yulou optimized the design of the hard sail and added a sail auxiliary lift at the same time.

I call this ship, named scientific class, with a full-load displacement of 360 tons, an empty load of 135 tons, a maximum load of 225 tons, 12 watertight compartments, and a manpower of about 180.

As for the speed, Baiyulou has no water, because it has not yet been launched for sea trials, and the limitations of sailing warships are there. He estimates that the maximum downwind speed is about 15 knots, and the daily speed is about 6-9 knots.

Are there six gun positions?

Bai Yulou nodded: Yes, I canceled the front and rear ship towers, and changed it to a central ship tower, with three cannons on the left and right sides.

This design change is mainly to enhance the utilization of the artillery.

Because the cannons on both sides are not completely parallel, and just staggered by a cannon position, the cannon positions in the middle ship building can only fire on their respective sides, but the other four cannons on the deck can be rotated .

In other words, if facing the enemy ship from the side, the science-class battleship can mobilize 5 artillery pieces to attack one side at the same time.

In case of siege by large-scale enemy ships, the front and rear four cannons can also launch attacks in all directions, avoiding the weakness that can only be fixed on one side.

Although Fuchuan-type warships cannot arrange multiple decks, the open deck is also beneficial.

What's more, the artillery of scientific-class warships is a modern artillery that uses smokeless powder, metal fixed shells, rear loading, and rifling. For the era of wooden ships, it is simply a dimensionality reduction blow.

With the speed of the ship and the range of the artillery, it is entirely possible to annihilate the enemy ship at a long distance through the kite-flying tactic.

Bai Yulou's tactical thinking is very simple, that is, long-distance decisive battles, avoiding boarding battles as much as possible.

As the saying goes, if you are poor, you will be tactically interspersed, and if you are rich, you will be carpet bombed.

Using artillery warships to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy is something that only fools would choose. It is the kingly way to directly fire and sink the enemy ships.

Zheng Sen asked, When do you estimate that these three ships will be completed?

About November, when the time comes, the artillery and shells will be enough to equip three main battleships.

Zheng Sen is quite satisfied with this speed.

The iron and steel factory can produce about 8 to 12 equal guns per month. The shell factory of the chemical company can produce an average of 270 75mm grenades per month. In a short period of time, this is the limit of productivity, mainly smokeless gunpowder and Insufficient steel production.

With the addition of more than 300 shells in stock, by the end of the year, it is estimated that there will be 1,100 shells in stock, which is enough to fight a medium-scale naval battle.

As long as the enemy's fleet size does not exceed 200 ships, the East China Sea Fleet can crush any enemy.

At this time, in the waters of East Asia, the power of 200 warships can be concentrated, perhaps only the crumbling Sui Ting can do it.

The warship here refers to an armed vessel with a displacement of at least 100 tons.

Those small ships with a displacement of less than 100 tons are not unusable. If you can gather hundreds of ships, load them with heavy fire oil, and use clusters and encirclement, they can still threaten the East China Sea Fleet.

After all, when the sea coachman of later generations fought against Father Zheng Sen, he was besieged by fire boats and finally defeated.

However, Bai Yulou is not a fool. The advantage of the scientific level is that it can resist wind and waves and can sail in open seas.

The small boats of this era are not capable of oceangoing navigation, and basically can only hover near the coastline.

And in the open sea, if you want to besiege the East China Sea Fleet, you may have eaten the heart of a bear and the guts of a leopard.

If the East China Sea Fleet has 10 science-class warships and 10,000 shells in its inventory, then no force in the East Asian waters can threaten the NRRL's maritime hegemony.

After the inspection in Zhoushan, Zheng Sen quickly returned to Hudouzhou by boat, and was on the returning boat.

Qin Mo was fiddling with a strange device in the cabin.

Inside the wooden box, there are copper wires, glass tubes, special metal sheets and the like.

On the other side is a large box made of glass containers. The glass container is square, and there are pieces of lead plates and light sulfuric acid inside. Obviously this is a lead-acid battery.

And that wooden box is a wireless telegraph, and it is still a wireless telegraph that uses electronic tubes.

There is also a hand generator.

Qin Mo listened attentively to the loudspeaker until a beep sounded, then he turned on the paper note puncher, and the signal from the telegraph machine was converted into holes on the special paper tape.

After a while, the telegram stopped.

He picked up a series of paper tapes, and through the cipherbook, he translated the content sent by the telegraph room in Zhoushan.

Then he sent a telegram back through the telegraph machine.

In this era, there is no complex electromagnetic pollution, and the technology is relatively mature, so the wireless telegraph technology is not difficult for the Human Revolutionary Union.

Even if it is an electronic tube with certain material requirements, Longsha can also extract a small batch of materials through electric current for temporary emergency use.

The control range of a force is often affected by organizational strength, traffic speed, and communication speed.

The emergence of wireless telegraphy will further strengthen the control of Zheng Sen and others over various places.

At present, the Zhoushan Industrial Zone only produces 8 sets of wireless telegraphs, 4 of which will be fixed in Huduzhou and Zhoushan, followed by 2 sets for the East China Sea Fleet and 2 sets for Heiyiwei.

The maximum communication distance of this wireless telegraph is about 800 kilometers, which basically meets the needs of the Governor's Mansion.

When Zheng Sen returned to Hu Douzhou, he called Hao Jian to prepare for the next step.

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