In order to equip the battleship of the Orr Kingdom with rear-loading naval guns, the Orr Kingdom has spent a lot of money, not counting other additional expenses, just to purchase and assemble the ship's rear-loading rifled naval guns, it cost more than 1.5 million Hengyuan.

And later attracted Lin Ziran with a bigger order!

So much so that even if the situation of the reunification war was more difficult and there was a certain threat at sea, Lin Ziran did not detain the warship, but delivered it after it was completed.

Who makes the family rich!

From last year to now, the total amount of orders for various warships and weapons in the Orr Kingdom has exceeded 50 million Hengyuan, and such a large sum of money is enough for Lin Ziran to keep his promise and deliver it on time.

The Luohai Shipyard and the defense industry system behind it can even build a 10,000-ton ironclad ship like the Orr Kingdom, and it is naturally not a big problem to build an 8,000-ton armored ship with a smaller tonnage.

And this 8,000-ton armored ship will still adopt a new hull design and firepower layout, in order to maximize the power of large-caliber rear-loading rifled guns.

After seeing the design drawings and simple models of this type of ship in the shipyard, Lin Ziran expressed his expectation and hoped to see the ship start construction one day earlier and enter service as soon as possible.

For this reason, when the ship had not officially started, Lin Ziran named the ship on the spot.

The name has a great political meaning: Unification!

The Unification armored ship, which is still in the stage of design drawings, will be a large warship with a standard displacement of more than 8,000 tons, and will have a full-waterline armor belt, although the armor belt is still wrought iron composite armor (wrought iron and wood planks are formed after multiple layers are superimposed on each other), but the processing technology and thickness of the armor are enough to keep up with the contemporary first-class level, and the protective efficiency will not be weaker than the wrought iron composite armor of other naval powers.

In addition to the standard waterline armor belt, steel plates were used in many parts of the hull.

Steel began to be used on a large scale on the hulls of warships as materials for the hulls and superstructures, which was also the experience gained by the Daheng Unification Army in the construction of the previous cruiser Luohai.

Of course, it is still to follow the example of other naval powers, and some of the unprotected warships of many contemporary naval powers use iron-ribbed wooden shells, while some have already used iron-ribbed steel shells, which are generally quite thick, which can effectively resist small-caliber shells and protect personnel.

The cruiser Rohai was the first iron-ribbed steel-hulled cruiser built by the Rohai Shipyard, but it also adopted a dome armor design inside, which was different from the cruisers of other naval powers.

The protection design of the Unification has basically reached the limit that the Daheng Unification Army can do, and as a whole, it should be able to reach the first-class average level of the navies of various countries in the same period, which is slightly better than the Orr Kingdom built for the Orr Kingdom before, and better than the previous Pingbo.

However, the armor alone does not reflect the protective design concept of the Unification, because the Unification is not a shipside gun ship in the traditional sense, but a ship with a new gun layout.

The ship's firepower layout follows the main gun layout of the Luohai's front and rear amidships.

A twin-mounted main gun is deployed in the front and rear, and it is expected to be equipped with a steel breech-loading rifled gun of 250 mm and 25 times the caliber.

At the same time, a large number of 150-mm secondary guns were deployed in the amidships.

Its biggest feature is four 250 mm 25 times the caliber of the rear-loading gun, while still using a rotating gun mount, but according to Lin Ziran's suggestion, in order to strengthen the protection, the original open-air semi-open gun mount has become a closed turret to strengthen the frontal protection of the turret.

How to say it, when Lin Ziran put forward these suggestions for the layout of the front and rear main turrets, he directly referred to the warships on the earth, but whether it is suitable for the contemporary navy of Blue Star, in fact, it is difficult to say.

But it's always right to pile up as much caliber and as long barrel as possible.

Therefore, this time, we will prepare to equip the 250 mm 25 times main gun that is still being developed and tested by the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau.

At the same time, if the development of the main gun does not go well, there are alternative 200 mm 25 times the main gun available, and this main gun Nanzhou Machinery Bureau is still continuing to develop and upgrade, preparing to build a 30 times the caliber or even 35 times the caliber of the main gun.

As for the larger caliber 300 mm caliber main gun, this is actually also developed, but the research and development progress is slower, although the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau has rich experience in artillery, but it is all the experience of front-loading smoothbore guns, even front-loading rifled guns, in fact, they have only been playing for a few years.

This time to step on the breech-loading rifled gun, it is not easy to carry out synchronous research and development, as for the challenge of the long-barreled main gun with a caliber of more than 300 mm, to be honest, this is a bit difficult, and it will be a little difficult for a while.

On the whole, the firepower layout of the Uni-President is very similar to that of the Luohai, both of which use the front and rear main guns and the auxiliary guns of the amidships.

Because to a certain extent, in fact, the Unification armored ship is an improvement from many design concepts of the Luohai dome cruiser.

Change the dome armor to the waterline armor belt, increase the caliber and number of main guns, increase the number of secondary guns, and then make such a thing.

For the unification armored ship, Lin Ziran still has great expectations, which is an important part of rebuilding the Daheng Navy.

Although the Daheng Unification Army has not yet completely unified Daheng, whether it is Lin Ziran or other people in the system, they have already begun to think about many affairs after the reunification.

For example, the design and start of construction of the armored ship Uni-President is a product of this kind of thinking, and the construction period of such a large warship, plus sea trials, will take at least two or three years.

And after two or three years have passed, it is estimated that the situation of Daheng is different, maybe at that time, Lin Ziran did not unify Daheng, but was already destroyed by the seven northern states.

This also means that the armored ship Unification will most likely not be able to participate in the unification war, and it is still the Pingbo armored ship, the Luohai dome cruiser and two sister ships and a number of old warships that can really participate in the unification war and are expected to play a relatively large role.

In addition, it is estimated that some small and medium-sized warships under construction must be counted, which are some small-tonnage warships with a relatively short construction period and an obvious temporary nature.

These are the main warships participating in the war of reunification now and in the future, not the armored ship Reunification.

But even so, in fact, the navy of the Daheng Unification Army, both in terms of scale and strength, is enough to compete with the navies of the northern feudal towns.

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