Chapter VII Second-Hand Battleships
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Being exposed in front of someone, the bald uncle was so embarrassed that he couldn't even squeeze out a professional smile, he touched the big bald head in embarrassment, and said with a wry smile:
"Oh, I can't see you're an expert! Of course, this product is available, and in terms of price, it ......"
Raising his hand to stop the shipyard owner from continuing to talk to himself, Vina Dobov confidently patted her chest and said:
"You wouldn't want to sell a used shipment for more than a new ship, would you?"
Hearing the sound, he couldn't say a word by the half-elf beauty, and the bald uncle had no choice but to admit defeat, shook his head vigorously and sighed and said:
"Ahh Since you say so, there is no way to do it. (Please search Bayi Chinese Net, the fastest updated novel website!) Please come with me, we have a Yaling Tier 6 battleship, please come and inspect the goods first! ”
On the old world network, in the circle of military forums, the battle line tactics of the Navy and the queue shooting tactics of the 6th Army can be called one of the compulsory courses for invincible netizens to study modern military history. Luo Zhengdao didn't understand how the sixth-level battleships in the New World were defined and divided, but as soon as he heard the term battleship, he couldn't help but be excited. This is not a luxury yacht that the rich second generation of losers use to show off their status, with a real battleship, not a cheap handmade model, not a tearful game screenshot, a private battleship, really ** exploded, there is wood!
Tortured by the wind and sun, the hull of the ship faded to reveal the true color of the wood, like a miserable skeleton eaten clean by vultures. The so-called meeting is not as famous as famous, when Luo Zhengdao saw this long-dusty and dilapidated Yaling battleship in the dock, he immediately looked like a deflated ball, and he couldn't lift his spirit at all, no problem, his psychological expectations were too far from the reality.
Knowing that he was a layman, Luo Zhengdao also felt that he had the right to express his indignation as a consumer, and immediately turned his head to the shipyard owner with righteous indignation and complained:
"What kind of is this? The weapons are gone, even the mast has been removed, and only one hull remains. ”
Knowing that Luo Zhengdao is the local tyrant who is responsible for paying money in this business, it is estimated that he knows little about the specific technical details and performance parameters of the battleship, however, the more this kind of rich man who does not know how to do it, is the most unforgivable character in a transaction, and accidentally annoys him, it is ironclad that he will not succeed enough and lose more than he will lose.
Seeing this scene, the middle-aged bald uncle who was fat early peeked at the change in Vina Dubov's complexion, and didn't notice anything unusual, so he explained to Luo Zhengdao with a smile on his face:
"Rest assured, our shipyard offers a full range of boat refurbishment services, and you can be sure that there will be no problems."
In order to prove that he was not talking about it, so as to further bargain with the half-elf beauty, the shipyard owner trotted all the way back to the design room to get the design drawings of the Yaling battleship and the pre-prepared transformation plan, and introduced it to Luo Zhengdao and Vena on the spot:
"Please see, the design drawings and improvement sketches of this battleship are here, and the materials needed for the transformation have been prepared for a long time. With the 100-year reputation of Ambon Shipyard, if I have enough funds, I can refurbish it as well as a new ship in half a month, and the price is also very favorable! ”
Luo Zhengdao, who glanced at the thick stack of drawings and picked up a schematic diagram of the internal structure of the battleship, said suspiciously:
"Well, this battleship's firepower is a little worse!"
When it comes to other details, Luo Zhengdao may not be sure to interject, after all, he doesn't dare to say that he knows everything about the navy of the old world sail era, and he doesn't know anything about the ships of the new world, but he can still see the way out of things like the number of gun emplacements that ordinary people can see at a glance, and immediately complained.
The science and technology of the Old World differ from the dazzling forces of nature such as magic and miracles in terms of repeatability and the qualifications required of the user.
Natural forces and magic, although it is extremely magical, but there is an extremely picky threshold for the requirements of the user, and the effect that the exact same spell can be wielded in the hands of different users is not the same, which is a normal phenomenon in the natural realm. Saying a thousand things and ten thousand involves issues such as the so-called affinity, which can be boiled down to one sentence, saying that you can do it, and saying that you can't do it, you can't. Science and technology are diametrically opposed to the forces of nature, and as long as the conditions are met, geniuses and idiots follow the same steps, and the results of the test are not the slightest different.
In the design process of a ship, the interaction of many elements should be considered.
Designing a ship is a high-end technical job, and it is not something that can be tampered with by a casual layman, and the bitter lessons in this regard are numerous in the history of the old world. The most typical case was born in the Kingdom of Sweden in the Age of Sails, in order to build a class warship that overwhelmed all the competitors of the same period, the king who was so happy forced the warship designers to constantly revise the original design drawings, and increased the key numbers such as guns and hull lengths, and finally built a class battleship that was read as "Vasa", which is written as a tragedy. Due to repeated unwarranted interference from non-technical factors in the construction and design of the battleship, the design sketches of the battleship were changed several times, and the most basic navigation ability of a ship was lost on the day of completion.
There is no doubt that the Vasa was an unrivalled formidable battleship on paper and in appearance, and when it was launched, it capsized and sank in the Baltic Sea only after encountering a second-class breeze outside the harbor. It can be seen from this that the overwhelming will of leadership can indeed change the heavens and the earth, but it cannot change the objective laws of nature. Because of the old saying, although you spit hard into the sky, don't forget that it will always fall.
Knowing the stakes well, despite the profiteer's philistine side, there is still a bit of technical ethics, and the bald uncle, who is the owner of the shipyard, answers Luo Zhengdao's complaints with a professional smile, without any compromise.
Knowing that someone had already shown his timidity, the half-elf beauty secretly pulled Luo Zhengdao, hinting that he should stop talking nonsense, and then explained in a low voice:
"Our budget is only enough to buy this lowest-grade warship, if you are not satisfied, simply don't buy it."
Hearing this, Luo Zhengdao, who felt embarrassed, grabbed the maroon silk hanging from his forehead, and said distressedly:
"Ahh Well, according to what you said, let's buy this boat! ”
It was probably Luo Zhengdao who pretended to be too honest and well-behaved along the way, and his silent expression made the motherhood and sympathy of the half-elf beauty work together, so taking advantage of the free time when the shipyard owner went to contact the artillery workshop to order artillery, Vina Dubov cleared the New World battleship class for the unfortunate "amnesiac" traverser.
This standard sixth-class battleship, supervised by the Royal Admiralty of the Yaling Empire, may sound like a turtle, but it is also a double-deck battleship equipped with 54 8-pound to 12-pound guns. According to the common calculation method of the tonnage of ships in the New World, its loading capacity is about 6,000 barrels, and Luo Zhengdao has visually estimated the tonnage of this ship, which is conservatively estimated to be between 1,500 and 2,000 tons.
If a warship of this tonnage appeared on Earth in the Age of Discovery, it would undoubtedly be a capital ship qualified to participate in the decisive battle of the battle line, and Luo Zhengdao only knew that it was powerful after Vina Dubov's literacy, and in this new world where magic and natural forces are rampant, a mere sixth-class battleship is only an appetizer for the decisive battle of the fleet. Under normal circumstances, the commanders of the Royal Navy of Yaling would only put this kind of tonnage ship in front of the large fleet to undertake the task of finding the enemy and fire reconnaissance, once the location of the main force of the enemy fleet was determined, such as the fifth and sixth class battleships could only follow behind the capital ships and wait to make up for the enemy who had lost power, and only the navies of small countries would prefer this kind of low-level battleships with good cost performance.
Limited by its own tonnage, the hull strength and armor of the general low-level battleships, as well as the firepower projection ability, are difficult to take on the big task, and they can't withstand the salvo bombardment of high-level battleships.
Wu Dalang plays with night owls, who plays with what birds, only what suits him, that is the best. Now, the goblin pursuit fleet is in full pursuit, Luo Zhengdao, the earl who has just escaped with his life, is shy, and there is a distance from the real poverty and whiteness, and his economic situation is not optimistic. The pirate bands that roamed the Seven Seas could not even touch the side of the battleships, and were accustomed to wandering around the main routes of the Seven Seas with small and light ships such as cruisers and frigates, and even small knick-knets such as armed merchant ships and dhows.
Corsairs are equipped with long-range weapons such as cannons to scare their prey, and white-knuckle combat is their skill in hand-to-hand combat, which can be understood when you think about it, and the pirates made the choice to solve problems in close combat not simply out of indiscretion or recklessness, or because they were full of confidence in their own martial arts. The merchant ship was cleanly sunk from afar, and the goods carried on the ship were also damaged, and the passengers who could be used to tie up tickets in exchange for ransom were all dead, and the pirates had nothing to rob? Did they come all the way to pick up some broken wood on the surface of the sea and go back to make a fire?
Listening to Vina Dubov's on-the-spot guidance, Luo Zhengdao asked curiously:
"A sixth-level ship is so big, how big should a first-class battleship be?"
Hearing this, the half-elf beauty shrugged her shoulders and said with an indifferent attitude:
"Four-tier, or four-and-a-half-deck, carry 3,000 or more crews and sailors, armed with 24-pounder guns to 48-pounder guns, and the lower limit of the number of gun emplacements is 2oo guns, and there is no upper limit! If it is lower than this number, it can only be classified as a second-class battleship. ”
Hearing this, Luo Zhengdao filled the honeycomb hull densely covered with countless black holes and cannon muzzles on his own, and suddenly even saliva was about to flow down, and he couldn't help but praise and said:
"More than two hundred cannons? Isn't that a Mobile Fortress! ”
Luo Zhengdao's exclamation was only exchanged for a laugh from the half-elf beauty, she stroked the silk hanging down her forehead with intellectual beauty, and said to herself:
"Well, the cost of construction and maintenance of this top-of-the-line warship is also extremely staggering, and it is also known as a moving castle. This kind of giant battleship cannot be built without the financial resources of the state, and even if it is built, you will not be able to support it, and only the flagship of the king or the commander-in-chief of the navy will choose a first-class battleship. As far as I know, the Yaling Empire, which dominates the Seven Seas, has only sixteen first-class battleships in active service, and there are more than forty sealed in the dock. It is difficult for the third-level warships of the Yaling Empire to meet evenly matched opponents, and it is impossible to use such a powerful warship to fight pirates, unless the greenskins are determined to compete with Yaling for sea power, or if the Yaling Empire and the Elven Federation are at war, and the two large fleets supported by the state will fight each other, then it is hoped that the first-class battleships will be dispatched to face off. ”
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