"This clipper is so beautiful."

Zhu Youxiao was pleased to see that he had spent a lot of effort in front of him to knock on the works that had been built, and he had a faint sense of satisfaction

"It's a pity, in a few years, after the technology of the steam engine is fully matured, the pinnacle type of this wooden sailing ship will also be eliminated by the torrent of the times."

Indeed, this kind of flying clipping boat is not timely for Zhu Youxiao.

Daming Royal Research Institute, Sun Yuanhua has taken all the talented craftsmen to successfully develop two types of steam engines, and is doing various experiments, and the finished product will come out this year.

With a full-fledged steam engine, it was possible to build ironclad ships.

As soon as the steam ironclad ship came out, no matter how good the clipper ship was, it would not be of much use.

However, with the speed of the clipper ship, it is not worse than the ordinary steam ironclad ship, and it can be used as a fast transport ship, and it can also be used as a high-speed warship, which is even more suitable as a plundering ship for the Royal Navy.

After having this kind of boat, depart from Jiaozhou Bay in Shandong Province and go to Port Arthur, if the wind direction is more favorable, you can arrive at most one!

Although you have not yet seen this model of the clipper ship launched for sea trials, according to His Majesty's estimates, if it is a complete version of the speed of the clipper, it can reach at least about 140 miles every hour, and it can be as fast as a galloping horse!

No, faster than a galloping horse!

After all, horses get tired after a short run, and clippers can sail for ten and a half months before they need to be overhauled.

The soldiers of the Guards Scouts who came with them all looked shocked after hearing what the emperor had said.

If the emperor is good, then this clipper is really a super naval weapon.

This kind of warship can easily gain the upper hand over the enemy when it enters the battlefield at twice the speed of the enemy's ship.

If the enemy's firepower is too strong to sink it quickly, then you can quickly get out of the battlefield and easily avoid the enemy's blows by piloting this clipper.

This will change the pattern of naval warfare today, create a precedent for naval guerrilla warfare, and enable the side with such warships to completely grasp the initiative on the battlefield.

Although the firepower of this kind of battleship is not very strong, relying on its speed, it can hit and leave, and then turn around and continue to harass the enemy until the enemy ship is completely collapsed.

It would be even better if it was used as a smuggling ship to hunt down enemy merchant ships on the sea.

As long as they are targeted by this kind of warship, then no one will want to run away easily, and those slow merchant ships have almost no possibility of escaping except for being captured by the naval officers.

If used as a transport vessel, the clipper is also a super transport ship, reaching its destination twice or even twice as fast as any other type of vessel at the moment.

If this is to compete with commercial rivals, the party that owns this clipper will arrive at the destination in advance and seize the market, and the competitors will be too late, and I am afraid that there will not even be soup to drink.

The displacement of this truly mature clipper designed by Zhu Youxiao is more than 2,000 tons, which is enough to kill the vast majority of current merchant ships and transport ships in seconds.

If you run faster than others and pretend more than others, what else will people use to fight you?

What's more, this flying clipper ship looks like it only has eight guns, and its attack power is not large.

However, don't forget that these eight guns, but the new Franc rapid-fire gun, still fire flowering shells!

In the naval warfare of this era, the most powerful and practical one is undoubtedly the flowering bomb.

And at this point in time, all countries in the world have not yet matured flowering bombs, where can they still compete with the Royal Navy of the Ming Empire?

As long as the construction of this clipper ship, like a dumpling, quickly formed a scale.

The Ming Empire's domination of the seas in the future is still quite expected.

At this time, the generals of the various guards came over, and Hao Shaoqi grinned and asked Zhu Youxiao: "Your Majesty, what should this kind of warship be called?" ”

Everyone has been secretly complaining about His Majesty's ability to choose a name.

Look at those mutant big dogs, battle chickens, and mutant big golden eagles, what are the strange names: T34...... F1…… Daikin, Kim ......

Among them, there are only the names of the three mutant golden eagles, which is quite normal.

Therefore, Li Dingguo and the others are now worried that Zhu Youxiao will give this flying clipper boat a more bizarre name.

Zhu Youxiao glanced at the model of the battleship in the dock, and waved his hand: "This new type of battleship will be called the Daming Royal Leopard Cruiser in the future!" ”

"It will be the fastest of all the sail warships in the future, and there is no one else like it!"

Hey? This time, His Majesty is finally a little more normal.

The name of this clipper ship is called the Royal Leopard Cruiser, which sounds very good, quite good, and the meaning is reasonable.

Li Dingguo and Hao Shaoqi glanced at each other, and they were relieved.

Everyone touched their foreheads and wiped away a trace of cold sweat.

There is no way, this new type of clipper will inevitably shock the ocean in the future, if the name is not good, it will make people laugh off their big teeth, and it will be famous in history.

When the time comes, what will the countries of the world think?

What will the people of the world say about it?

This is a very important and serious matter!

I can't help but be nervous.

Otherwise, you will lose face in the future and go to a foreign country!

Zhu Youxiao didn't care what everyone was thinking, what he wanted to do most now was to immediately launch this model of the battleship and try it out.

If you really find any problems, you can correct them in time.

Today's Ming Empire, in terms of exploring the ocean, has lagged far behind the rest of the world, and must catch up as soon as possible, and then surpass them

"Alright, stop talking nonsense! Quickly open the dock door and release the water, let this battleship model be launched, I must be the first to board this battleship and personally direct the sea trial! ”

As Zhu Youxiao used a pair of big scissors to cut off a piece of red cloth tied to the bow of the ship, and brought a jar of wine, and smashed it to the bow position, a shipwright next to him immediately knocked on the dock door and slowly lifted the dock door of the temporary dock with a winch.

The ceremony of the first voyage of the battleship is very important.

It is reasonable for a ship to sail on the sea, no matter what way it is used to seek good fortune, and the power of nature cannot be awe-inspiring.

The river immediately poured into the dock, and soon submerged the bottom of the ship, gradually providing a huge buoyancy to the model of the battleship.

As the river in the dock became deeper and more buoyant, the new cruiser gradually began to float from the makeshift slipway!

Zhu Youxiao stared at the model of the battleship with some nervousness, carefully observing its stability.

The result was very satisfying, with a stable center of gravity and a good control of the balance of this battleship model.

The ballast stones were well placed, and after the ship floated, it swayed a little and stabilized, and there was basically no indication of roll or forward or backward tilt.

Everyone breathed a long sigh of relief, Zhu Youxiao waved his hand, and everyone stepped forward one after another and looked around.

After the dock door was fully opened, the ropes were dragged out of the makeshift dock and moved to the nearby Grand Pier trestle.

The new battleship docked next to the trestle, and Zhu Youxiao immediately boarded the ship and began to do the final mooring inspection to confirm the quality of the battleship model and check whether there was any water leakage in the cabin.

After nearly half an hour of inspection and final repair and plugging, as well as the completion of the mooring test on the dockside, the first officially built clipper ship in this era basically has the ability to conduct sea trials.

The generals will certainly not distrust His Majesty's design, and who of the current soldiers does not know that their emperor is omnipotent?

His Majesty the Emperor is wise and martial, and has always been an all-rounder, and he must also be an expert in ship design.

This model of the new battleship, which was painted milky white all over, slowly sailed away from the dock under the command of Zhu Youxiao.

Then, everyone hoisted their sails and prepared to sail towards the outside of the pier, Li Dingguo and the others quickly boarded the model of the clipping boat, and after a while, they entered the wide river outside.

"Wow wow!" ……

With bursts of cheers, everyone shouted, and began to clumsily maneuver the model of the flying clipper, slowly accelerating, and gradually disappearing into the distance.

The reason why everyone is so bold is because all the Boy Scout generals here are all strong swimmers and supermen, and even if the boat capsizes in such a small river, there will be no danger.

Everyone fiddled with this type of battleship back and forth, and the longer they lived, the more skilled they became, and they gradually became more proficient, and they also played tricks, and the more excited they became.

For a time, in this section of the river, these baby soldiers and generals chanted, sang, and shouted slogans, which was extremely lively.