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This new type of battleship by Luo Zhengdao has many differences from the traditional wooden sail battleships popular in the New World, and in terms of sail fitting, the four independent mainmasts are replaced by traditional soft sails in favor of hard sails with bamboo strips and stiffeners, and the spinnaker remains the same. This fishbone sail with a skeleton structure is a shipbuilding technique that the predecessor of the Traveler popularized in the New World, which not only saves materials but is easy to maneuver, greatly reducing the number of sailors required. It's just that everything has advantages and disadvantages, this typical Chinese style hard sail is not very good for wind sailing, and it is not too fast, small fishing boats and offshore merchant ships prefer hard sails, and naval warships are still dominated by soft sail styles.

In the stern part of the design of the new warship, a protrusion resembling a multi-barreled gun can be clearly seen, and the rocket motive of the seaplane has been seen, and there is no need for Luo Zhengdao to go into details, and Faul Chopin can guess the purpose of this device.

Another striking feature of the design is the hull of the ship, which can be clearly distinguished from the diagrams drawn in the shape of a square. Those who are more familiar with shipbuilding know that due to the natural size of the wood, it is impossible to cut the planks used in shipbuilding into squares, and it is a great waste to have to do so, and these special structures obviously refer to something else.

Old Fuer, who was experienced in seafaring, could not help but pout and muttered as he could not help but understand what these squares meant:

"Lord Earl, with so much iron armor, do you think this ship will not sink when it goes to sea?"

Everything is easy to see flowers and difficult to embroider, and those laymen who don't know how to pretend to understand like to do what they like to do the most is to pat their heads to interfere in specific affairs, and finally pat their butts irresponsible. For example, when they are involved in the design of a warship, the most common mistake they make is to desperately pile up weapons and armor, causing the ship's hull buoyancy reserves to be unbalanced. This kind of outright appearance is extremely powerful on paper, but it is a pity that the toys out of imagination are only suitable for storing in dreams, and it is okay to shake the majesty on the slipway, and the original form is immediately revealed as soon as you get out of the water, and you don't need to encounter any strong winds and waves to go directly to the bottom of the sea.

Although Will Needham, the son of the aristocracy, has no education in ship design, Luo Zhengdao, who is a traverser, is a half-expert, even if half a bottle of water makes him unable to catch up with the power of Ma Linxi, similar to the low-level mistake of one plus one equals many, he will not knowingly make it.

Immediately, Luo Zhengdao smiled slightly, and said confidently to Faure Chopin:

"Don't worry! I have already calculated, increase the amount of sea driftwood by one and a half times when building ships, and the seaworthiness of this ironclad ship is fine. ”

Considering that the growth area of sea driftwood is extremely wide and the amount of felling is not low, it is difficult for this major ship timber species in the new world to be monopolized by a certain country or chamber of commerce, so it cannot be said that it is expensive in terms of price, and the additional cost of the ironclad ship to consume more sea driftwood actually does not cost a few dollars. However, compared to oak, teak, mahogany and other fine hard woods, sea driftwood is not satisfactory in terms of strength, and the use of sea driftwood means that it must be strengthened in terms of hull structure to avoid a decrease in strength and difficulty in resisting strong winds and waves. This disadvantage does not seem to constitute much of a defect for the ironclad ship, the hull shell can be covered with ironclad, can it be said that the keel and rib parts cannot be increased with metal?

The source of the iron needed to build the ironclad ship was also revealed, and Zola Hegel drove the gray dwarf slaves to dig tunnels under Wake Reef in an effort to expand the living space underground, digging day and night.

Tofwick Reef, a dry land beneath the Gobi Desert, lives up to its name, and it is so dry that there is no shadow to be found in the aquifers that are commonplace elsewhere, and no matter how you dig down, you will encounter either sand or stones, which can be regarded as avoiding many dangers for the gray dwarf miners.

Inspired by the whip, these hard-working creatures have found a small iron mine, in addition to digging out many pitch-black tunnels that can be used to grow crops in the dark regions such as mushrooms and edible moss. Even if the ore grade is not high, in the new world where metals are relatively scarce, any metal can be mined and smelted into a valuable strategic resource. As a result, the industrious Zola Hegel made another effort to "convince" the gray dwarves to cooperate, and Luo Zhengdao then obtained nearly 10,000 pounds of raw pig iron. The construction of ironclad ships on these metals alone is certainly a drop in the bucket, and after all, it will be able to relieve some of the economic burden, and this iron mine will be produced in the future, which will fill the huge black hole of financial expenditure in a certain way

"When! While! Boom! Boom ......"

persuaded his important people one by one, Luo Zhengdao spent a lot of effort to settle the dissenting opinions from within, and the ironclad ship project had to start construction on the horse, which immediately became the number one secret project on Wake Reef, and Luo Zhengdao had to go to the dock every day to supervise the progress. When he walked into the shipyard, the nearby construction site was in full swing.

A wrought iron rivet the size of an adult's fist was placed in the furnace and heated to a cherry red color, and then the waiting workers took it out of the furnace with large iron tongs and stuffed it into the hole reserved in the hull of the ironclad ship as quickly as possible. On the other side of the hull, a group of workers hurried to secure the rivets with tools such as iron pliers. Immediately, the workers on both sides alternately picked up sledgehammers and smashed them at the red-hot rivet, striking while the iron was hot, and it was right to firmly combine the armor plate with the supporting metal frame before the metal cooled and hardened, otherwise the so-called ironclad ship would be a knock-and-scatter stall.

In the shipbuilding process, riveting is not the most ideal way, similar to electric welding, can be fused with metal alchemy in the new world of many tricks, among which the more high-end technology, even two completely different characteristics of the metal perfect welding into one, on the metal surface will not even leave a trace of processing, as if nature is like this.

These alchemy techniques are widely used in the processing of precious metal ornaments, the manufacture of precision instruments, and the production of magical curiosities, and are not classified as secret technologies.

Luo Zhengdao considered whether to use alchemy directly to build ironclad ships, but he lost his enterprising spirit before the price of the expense was superficial, and regretfully announced that he would temporarily abandon the alchemy welding technology and replace it with the seemingly clumsy riveting technology. The fundamental reason for reversing his mind is still cost, the so-called money is not everything, but no money is absolutely impossible. The price of using alchemy on a large scale is ridiculously expensive, if you weld three or five iron plates, this small amount of money is nothing, and if you add up the welding amount of up to thousands of iron plates on and off the entire ironclad ship, even Luo Zhengdao, a traverser who doesn't value money very much, will have a headache.

The oracle of Bane, the god of war and conquest, is still in my ears, and the longer the Second Goblin Empire delays, the more it proves that they have a great plan, and so far the goblins show no signs of action, and the reasonable explanation is that they are preparing for the attack that will eventually be fierce and unimaginable.

Luo Zhengdao knew very well that time waits for no one, the first ironclad ship did not have time to slowly debug and improve its performance, and if it was built from scratch, it would not be able to catch up in time, so he chose a compromise plan. A battleship under construction lying in a dock was rebuilt from the inside out after a cumbersome structural reinforcement and transformation, eventually making it the first ironclad ship in the New World.

The Yaling battleship often chooses bronze or brass to cover the bottom of the battleship, so as to prevent the battleship from being eroded by pests such as maggots in the water environment, and by the way, it is also convenient to enter the dock to clean up barnacles and other parasites, and it is also common to wrap white iron on the side of the battleship. However, to protect a battleship from beginning to end with metal, even if the designers could conceive it so whimsically, such an extravagant idea could not be approved by the financial department of any country.

You know, the price of metals in the New World is even more exaggerated than in the Old World before the Industrial Revolution, for example, in the old world news program, I suddenly heard that a second-hand loser was planning to tile the Great Wall; to the Yellow River fence; repairing elevators for Mount Everest; For the Yangtze River to make seepage and waterproof.

Assuming that in the face of such a cost-lavish and unpromising project, it is estimated that the stunned expressions of the audience in front of the TV set will be very similar to the expressions of the listeners who heard that someone had built an ironclad ship in the new world, and they will also be embarrassed to the point of no return. Frankly speaking, this can no longer be said whether engineering technology can be done, it is a matter of IQ!

As we all know, Will Needham, Earl of Froe, is a fish that slipped through the goblin knife, he is a thorn in the side of the second goblin Empire, and the goblins will want to get rid of it as soon as possible.

Faced with such a justified reason for war, the bosses of the Goblin Second Empire couldn't contain the excitement in their hearts, gathered the remnants of the navy at hand, and couldn't even wait for the time when the new warships built to make up for the losses of the previous Invincible Armada would be launched in a few weeks, and roared towards Wake Reef. In the eyes of the bigwigs, the biggest threat to the human aristocracy in exile is that they collude with the human slaves of the Lord 6 to incite slaves to rebel, or use that damn prophecy to find an opportunity to engage in sabotage. To say that relying on real military power to subvert the Second Goblin Empire, or even counterattack the main 6, this ridiculous idea is really not a picture that ordinary people can imagine in their minds.