A few days later, Zhang Qiang came to a port near Jinhai County, where there is a shipyard of the Huaxia Military Naval Division, this shipyard is not particularly large, but this is the nearest shipyard of more than 600 tons, the naval fleet and shipyard of the Huaxia Kingdom, all things related to the sea are actually concentrated in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong, which is the fate of the Huaxia Kingdom that cannot be escaped.

The shipyard is currently building a 650-ton Galen ship, and as soon as the keel was laid, Zhang Qiang arrived here with a group of men.

Listening to some old craftsmen in the shipyard explain the various parameters of this ship, Zhang Qiang knew that this was a warship prepared for the First Fleet.

The First Fleet and the Yangtze River Naval Division Garrison suffered relatively heavy losses because of Zhang Qiang's support for Xinlu Mansion and the Third Prince, as well as the sale and purchase agreement with Zheng Keshuang, as well as several arms transport operations with Japan, the Third Prince and the Great Prince, and the pursuit of the Taixi people at sea to support the Japanese.

Needless to say, the garrison of the Yangtze River Naval Division has only 20 1,300-ton 1,300-ton 5-year-old 1,000-ton warships, no 800-ton warships, 30 or so 600-ton warships, and the remaining 100 or so 300-ton warships, which are distributed in various large cities along the Yangtze River, with only five or six ships in each city, and most of them are 180-ton and 60-ton ships, and the total number of ships has been reduced from 1,000 to about 300.

The main force of the First Fleet is only about 200 ships, and there are as many as 1,000 other supporting ships, and in these few incidents, the ships of the First Fleet and the Yangtze River Naval Division Garrison are mainly sold, so there are less than 100 main ships left in the First Fleet, so they dare not sell them again, and if they sell again, they will not be able to maintain their combat effectiveness.

The First Fleet is now very scattered, where is the great prince of Lu Province stationed 20 warships of 1,300 tons, more than 100 warships of various types ranging from merchant ships to 800-ton warships, Xinlu Province, Shikoku Island, Amami Island, Jinling Province, Dengzhou, Laizhou, Jinhai County, Hangzhou Province, these important strongholds within the patrol range of the First Fleet have ships stationed.

If you sell it again, there are no ships stationed in some places, mainly because there are no large 1,000-ton warships.

The entire Yangtze River can rely on 20 thousand-ton warships to suppress the formation, but there are no 1,000-ton battleships on the coast of nearly 1,000 miles, so something will happen.

The commander of the naval division, Nguyen Jin, meant to gradually replace the ships below 1,000 tons, and then replace a batch of 1,000-ton warships stationed at one location, and then another batch next time.

These warships were produced by various shipyards, and after the production was completed, the officers and men of the naval division gathered in one place and sailed over together.

Since the idea of replacing more advanced warships was still in Zhang Qiang's mind, the naval division of the Huaxia Kingdom carried out according to the previous plan of the Ministry of National Defense, first replacing the old ships, first transferring the old ships with other ships to a stronghold, gathering them, and waiting for the new ships to pass the acceptance, and then replacing these ships with other sub-fleets to replace the slightly shorter ones, and then returning to replace them again.

But now Zhang Qiang doesn't want these old ships, he wants to dispose of these old ships to the coastal garrison, and the Navy Division Garrison is the renamed organization of the Municipal Shipping Division.

And the naval division garrison does not need so many ships, and also needs ships with too large tonnage, 600 tons as the main force is already considered a high configuration, and now there are no pirates in the waters of the Huaxia Kingdom, even if there are, they are also hiding and hiding, and they are not in the climate, and it is their ability to get a 60-ton traffic ship. A 600-ton warship, in the face of a 1,000-ton transport Daifuku ship, can easily take down the kind of extremely slow old man-style ship.

The size of the Canton ship is small, 180 tons may be able to run a speed of eight or nine knots, ordinary warships really can't catch up, but there are also special 180-ton warships in the fleet, it is very easy to catch up with them, and the firepower is definitely stronger than that of pirates.

Therefore, the naval division garrison is equipped with more than a dozen 600-ton warships, the main force is 300-ton warships, and the auxiliary ships are only 180-ton ships. It is not enough to ask the fleet of sailors to be dispatched.

Those below 600 tons were equipped with the Navy Division Garrison, and those above 800 tons were handed over to the Navy Division Branch of the Military Academy for training, and the rest Zhang Qiang wanted to sell them, or dismantle the wood that could still be used as shipbuilding materials for new ships.

The Yangtze River Naval Division Garrison was originally a shallow river division established for the landing war, so the number was huge, and this sale was basically sold its ships, two times a total of 400 Zheng Keshuang were sold, and at the same time, 100 were dismantled and sent to the Jinhai Shipyard, and the rest were sold to the merchants of the Huaxia Kingdom to do the armed merchant ships of the sea trade.

The first fleet was the second fleet with more lost ships, with three hundred, large and small ships.

Thirdly, the Fourth Fleet dispatched a total of 200 small ships and merchant ships, which did not hurt the muscles and bones, which was equivalent to a normal metabolism.

The ships currently being built here are to replace the old ships lost by the First Fleet, but most of the shipbuilding tasks are assigned to the shipyards in the various southern states of the Navy, and only two 600-ton ships are allocated here.

As the king, of course, Zhang Qiang could not come alone, accompanied by Ruan Jin, the director of the naval division, and Zhao Siyang, the director of artillery.

Some things were reported by Ruan Jin, the director of the water division, and some things were learned by Zhang Qiang from the intelligence.

At present, the director of the naval division is talking about this new warship of 680 tons and 600 tons.

The ship was nearly fifty-five meters long and about six meters wide, with five masts, three of which were tall masts, the one behind and the one in front were relatively low, the back was hung with a triangular maple, and finally there was a sail pole at the stern with some small sails hanging on it.

The upper and lower three decks are connected, the front bow is basically buried in the hull, and a section is moved out to the middle of the hull, not completely trapped in the bow, the middle deck is not straight, the middle deck is empty, and the second deck can be seen directly, although there is a deck in the back, but where is the warehouse below, and then there is a warehouse below, and then there are some stern towers that are higher than the bow tower, the stern is relatively tall, the lower floor is the storehouse, the second floor is the crew's housing, and the top floor is the captain's and first mate's housing.

The captain's quarters were the most spacious, equivalent to an office and a rest room, and the captain's storeroom, with a cubicle inside.

The most aft part is the highest, there is a platform, on which a twelve-pounder cannon is secured, and an eighteen-pounder cannon is also placed on the upper deck space vacated by the first part, and the sailors of the Huaxia Army have a rule that cannot be avoided, one should be placed in the stern and the capital of the ship, at least one cannon, used to shoot forward and backward, otherwise at sea, when there is no angle, when the guns on both sides cannot fire a salvo, Zhang Qiang is worried that the enemy will take the opportunity to turn to the front and rear to form a T-shaped head on his ship, with a cannon, at least there is the possibility of returning fire, If you don't have a single artillery, you can only be beaten, and you can't fight back.

Some European galleons actually had no bow or stern guns, and some had small guns of several pounds, which were mainly used to sweep the decks of approaching enemy ships. Zhang Qiang planted a heavy artillery gun in preparation for sinking the enemy.

Especially now that the Huaxia Army has relatively safe conditions for flowering shells, it has become possible to sweep the enemy's deck or sink the enemy.

After a while, after Ruan Jin finished his introduction, he said to Zhang Qiang: "Your Majesty, this is the situation of this ship. ”

(End of chapter)