The original creator of the Futuristic Boryeong-class battleship is, of course, Zhu Pingjian, the wise, wise, and omnipotent.

However, Zhu Pingjin only put forward the idea that the specific ship structure design would be completed by experts from all walks of life convened by the Ship Research Institute affiliated to the Chuanchu Group.

In the design, the experts of the Ming Dynasty set the basic design indicators such as firepower, speed, self-sustaining force, and the number of people and goods carried according to the future combat area and combat style.

The specific ship type and structure draw on the experience of the construction and use of centipede ships, and also integrate some of the advantages of the four major ship types of Sha, Fu, Guang and Bird in China, as well as the Yiren sea ship that stopped in Yiling to bask in the sun.

Therefore, the final product has both the shadow of the lucky boat and the rowing boat, and the consistent uniqueness of the creativity of the Shu Palace.

However, all experts, including Zhu Pingjin's wife, did not know that when Zhu Pingjin sketched the original line diagram of the Boryeong-class with charcoal, what came to mind was a 20th-century full-center knapsack artillery frigate.

After the Boryeong class was launched, two systematic tests were carried out on the Yangtze River and Xiaoxihu Lake (Note 1) in Qianwei County.

According to the test results, the Boryeong-class freeboard has a high freeboard, good stability in complex hydrological conditions, and is not easy to go up waves.

The stern uses a fixed perforated single rudder with a large slewing torque and fast turning.

The conditions for observation, communication and command in the steering position are good. The rudder rotation is controlled by the steering wheel and assisted by pulleys, which is simple and accurate.

The lifting and turning of the sails also use pulley assistance, which can theoretically be operated by two people, which greatly saves manpower.

In addition, the ship has many cabins, strong storage capacity, and living conditions are far better than those of centipede warships, with self-sustaining power of more than 20 days without replenishment, and a crew of up to three platoons.

In addition, the Boryeong class also has the characteristics of strong firepower and strong survivability. Due to its large size and load, it has a wide range of uses. It can not only be used as the main warship to fight for the right to control water, but also can be used for the transportation of personnel and materials to carry out various combat missions.

Of course, the ship also has the disadvantages common to all large ships with a pointed bottom, one is the draft. The draft is estimated to reach one zhang when fully loaded, and there is a danger of overturning when navigating rivers with shallow water and sandbars;

Second, the speed is slower. In the windless environment, even if the number of oars is temporarily increased by double the quota, the average speed of the oars alone can only reach half an hour and twenty miles. This speed was about six knots, comparable to the speed of an infantry march, much slower than a centipede ship of thirty miles on average, but much faster than a flat-bottomed square-headed sand ship carrying five hundred stones.

As soon as the Boryeong class entered service, the 1st Brigade took it upon itself to join the tactical exercise. In the eyes of He Gui and other naval generals, the Boryeong-class is not only the supply warehouse of the centipede fleet, but also the fire fortress and command center of the centipede fleet.

This point coincides with the thinking of the prince Zhu Pingjin.

The reason why Zhu Pingjin built the Centipede III warship in batches and built this kind of large warship that returned to tradition and broke through tradition in an all-round way was that he first took a fancy to its huge body.

As the saying goes: fat people have a lot of oil and water in their stomachs.

Only by upgrading and refitting the potential brought about by the large-scale ship type can the naval force truly undertake the mission of the strategic service. Of course, no one knows how significant the device that the Boryeong-class battleship will first install is in the history of human development!

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Zeng Ying, the newly appointed commander of the Naval Guard, stood on the foredeck of the Boryeong, silent and thoughtful.

The round wooden turret of the front main gun was empty, leaving Zeng Ying with an infinite space for reverie.

Zeng Ying quietly questioned several sailors, but no one could tell him the secret of the main gun.

However, it is certain that the front and rear main guns will never be the fifteen-pound short-barreled cannons that have been installed on the Cipedede Type 2 and Type 3 warships, otherwise they would have been on board the ship a long time ago. Judging from the diameter of the turret alone, the caliber and power of the main gun are definitely much greater than that of the fifteen-pound short-barreled gun.

The ship's side side gun looks mysterious from a distance, and when you think about it up close, it is a well-cut version of the Furlong machine. The Furlong machine has several shots, and the sub-cannon is loaded into the mother cannon from above the rear, and then wedged tightly, and the mother and child can be fired as a whole. With the help of the split structure of the Furlong machine, one mother has five to ten sons, and the sub-cannon can be loaded in advance, and the Furlong cannon has a much higher rate of fire than ordinary front-loading guns.

Also because of the split structure of the Furlong machine, there is a serious problem of air leakage and deflation, so the range power and more deadly safety of the Furlong cannon are far inferior to the ordinary front-loading guns, so they are being gradually eliminated by the general cannon.

However, the new Furlong cannon uses sophisticated craftsmanship and key structural improvements to make up for the shortcomings of the old Furlong machine to a large extent.

The new Furlong machine uses fine copper instead of cast iron, and the outer diameter and inner chamber of the mother and child cannon are all polished and smooth. The mother-child junction is exceptionally precise, not only with a tapered interface instead of a flat interface, but also with several annular grooves staggered in each.

The hammer-hammered wedge device of the sub-cannon is replaced by an ingenious screw clamping device, and there are two spring grappling hooks in the front section of the jacking device, which can be pulled out of the belly of the mother gun by the way when the screw is released.

The subcannon also has a handle and a fire hole for the firing gun. But Zeng Ying got accurate information that in the future, all naval guns of the navy will use pull and send letter tubes instead of the traditional method of pouring medicine and firing guns.

What is a lafa letter tube, Zeng Ying has never seen it. However, the message said that expensive glass was used for pulling the letter tube!

In addition, the gun mounts of the new Furlong are very flexible. In wartime, it can rotate up, down, left and right, threatening enemies in all directions. When not in use, it can be locked with a wrench on the gun mount to prevent the gun from shaking and hurting people in the wind and waves.

"No wonder Wang Xingjian said that the son of the world is clever and different from ordinary people! Bronze cannons and glass are all silver with white flowers. It's all gold and silver! Zeng Ying sighed silently as he climbed the gangway.

Zeng Yingneng became the commander of the navy of this escort, and immediately after the big parade, he took office on the ship, and was honored to inspect the Firearms Bureau with the driver, unlike those army generals who first entered the Military and Political University to stand in a military posture, and his resolute statement in Lingyan Temple played a great role.

When talking in the meditation room, Zeng Ying ranked third in order.

During the conversation, Shizi clearly pointed out to him that the Yangtze River waterway is the bloodline connecting the three provinces of Sichuan, Chu and Jiangxi and Nanzhi. Whoever can control the Yangtze River can control the three provinces of Sichuan, Chu, Jiangxi and Nanzhi, and whoever can control half of the rivers and mountains south of the Yangtze River. Therefore, the navy is not a vassal of the army, but a strategic arm on a par with the army. However, at present, the water protection army is still very weak, and the prestige of its troops and equipment and generals is far from that of the army.

When Zeng Ying heard this, he immediately understood that his opportunity had come.

He immediately made a clear statement, he discussed with Li Zhanchun, Yu Dajiang and other battalion generals, this time to Meizhou, whether it is themselves or the soldiers under their command, they are completely at the disposal of the prince!

In the past, the imperial court was in arrears for a long time, and the ships were in serious disrepair. In order to survive, he and the sailors had to work with the gentry of the Chongqing government to earn some money to raise the army. If the prince does not allow it, he will stop it immediately, and he will never do it again in the future!

The prince immediately agreed, which made Zeng Ying happy for a while.

But Shizi's subsequent reply, the first half almost made him collapse on the spot, and the second half made him ecstatic:

The Sichuan Navy Division ships are redundant and need to be streamlined. Now that Sichuan salt has entered Chu and Chu people have entered Sichuan, it is a good time to rectify the water division.

Since the sailor is willing to listen to the dispatch of this son, it is better to hand over all the old ships of the sailor to the Minsheng Shipping Company, and the redundant soldiers and the weak who have been laid off will be converted into civilian nationality, and they will be paid as errands in the Minsheng Company, without worrying about having no food......

As for the elites who remained, they were mixed with the ** water division into two deputy regiment-level water division brigades.

The second brigade immediately went to Jiazhou to receive the new large warships Baoning and Luzhou;

The three teams first entered the Songlin Mountain base for training, and then received five newly-built Centipede III warships.

As for Zeng Ying himself, he was appointed as the deputy brigade commander of the ** Water Army!

The Navy Protector had no experience in operating large warships in the past, so Li Ding, the guerrilla of the Navy Guerrilla Yu Dajiang and the Naval Division, was appointed as the first captain of the Boring and Luzhou ships, and the supervising troops were Wang Zuyi, the former deputy captain of the First Brigade, and Bai Er of the Boryeong Garrison Regiment.

The Baoning ship and the Luzhou ship together form the second brigade of the ** Naval Force. The captain of the brigade and the supervisor of the brigade were concurrently served by Dajiang and Wang Zuyi, respectively. The crew of the ship was selected from the Sichuan Navy Division and the Navy Protector Division, and the crew of each ship was increased by 50% according to the fixed number, totaling about 300 people.

Zhang Tianxiang, the commander of the Naval Division, was the captain of the Third Brigade, and led the remaining 700 people of the Sichuan Naval Division to report to the Songlinshan Base for basic military training. After the completion of the military training, some of the personnel formed the third brigade, and some of the personnel were stationed in the fourth brigade of Huguang as seeds. Li Zhanchun's department also selected more than 100 elite people to form an independent naval and marine company, which was temporarily under the command of the Third Brigade.

"The navy must not only control the Yangtze River, but also hold the mouth of Kuimen Gorge. With such a heavy task, there are only five soldiers, two large ships, and ten centipede ships. How can this be warn? Could it be that there are still treasures in the firearms bureau that we have never seen? ”

Zeng Ying walked to the door of the cab, and finally connected the many questions in his head with the inspection of the Firearms Bureau by the prince.

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The cockpit of the Boryeong is not large, less than seven feet long and wide, and there are heavy wooden doors on the left and right sides. Outside the door is a suspended springboard with a fence, which can lead directly to the front and rear secondary gun platforms.

The cockpit has portholes on three sides, and the view is very good from a condescending glance. Outside the window there are thick wooden window panels lifted up, and there are cross-shaped ones on the window panels? Look at the seams. In wartime, the thick window panels can be lowered to shield the bow and arrow, and to maintain observation.

The most conspicuous feature in the cockpit is the rudder standing in the center. This thing is the same as the three types of centipedes, and it is completely the style commonly used on Xiyi ships.

To the right of the rudder is a compass with a compass mounted on which a compass can be rotated to indicate the direction.

Between the rudder and the compass, two brass tubes droop from the roof of the cabin, and the mouth of the tube expands into a horn, which is exactly the height of the person's mouth when standing.

The rear wall of the cockpit is a framed doorless passage that connects to the so-called command cabin. The command module was flanked by a small round porthole, with large maps nailed to the back wall, as well as a rectangular table and several stools.

Zeng Ying walked into the cab slowly, and immediately saw Shizi sitting in front of the bright window at the front, his right eye approaching a large telescope, and he didn't know what to look at in the distance. Cheng Xiangfeng, the great secretary of the prince, and Zhang Wei, the eunuch who accompanied him, were both wearing gray cloth military uniforms, with smiles on their faces, and they didn't know what to say on the left and right of the prince.

The captain of the ship, Yu Ojiang, stood between the helmsman and the compass, and shouted loudly from time to time at the brass horn. The helmsman turned the rudder according to Yu Dae's orders. The sailman under the mast will also hear the rudder command synchronously through the brass pipe, and then rotate the sail according to the wind direction and course to maintain the best wind angle.

A group of young naval officers who had not been on duty wore new crimson uniforms and stuck to the back wall of the cockpit, exchanging their feelings and experiences in the quietest language.

It seems that everyone has found a feeling under the command of the prince, except for the contemptible people!

Zeng Ying ignored the greeting glances of the officers, straightened his chest, and walked straight to the prince in front of the window.

Note 1: In Wutongqiao District, Leshan City, it was once the training base of the national rowing team.