The soldiers had already learned the concept that the earth was round in their initial studies, and although the soldiers who had no cultural foundation did not quite believe that the earth was round, the chiefs said yes and yes, then it was certain. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info [Fengyun Novel Reading] They know the distance of one kilometer, but a circle on the screen in front of them represents a distance of ten kilometers, which is too illusory for them, and they always feel that there is a divine power behind them, but they dare not say it, and the elders always scoff at the power of ghosts and gods.

"And what is an AWACS? Heads! One soldier hesitated for a moment, but finally couldn't help asking, "What's the point?" ”

"AWACS ......" Gu Fulin was stunned, "That...... It is a flying radar station, flying in the air, which can monitor not only the situation on the sea and the ground downwards, but also the situation in the air. ”

"Why monitor the air? Do you have any enemies in the air besides us who can fly? The soldier made the most of his curiosity and continued to ask.

Gu Fulin sighed, "We can master the mystery of flight, and the enemy can also grasp it, and then we can be in a hurry, it is better to start having this ability now, so that we can grasp the initiative in our hands." ”

The early warning aircraft plan is still a dream, Gu Fulin is thinking about this problem, but Liu Yeqiang has already put this problem on the development agenda, compared with the bomber fighter, in fact, the difficulty of the early warning aircraft is lower, because the early warning aircraft has very strict requirements for the speed of the aircraft itself, and the slower the better within the safe possible range, so that small targets can be tracked with radar.

Liu Yeqiang's solution is to use the airship as an early warning aircraft, and now to solve the problem of the airship, there are nothing more than two, one is air tightness, which can already see the light of day after the chemical plant is put into production; The other is the gas filled inside, according to the experience of the old time and space, it is best to fill helium, and at present, there is only one way to obtain helium, which is to separate the helium in the air, which is not only less, but also very inefficient, and very uneconomical. Therefore, Liu Yeqiang suggested that it is best to use hydrogen for filling first to ensure its use.

Now there are quite a lot of things in the technical department, not only to cooperate with the heavy industry department to develop engines, but also to restore some important industrial manufacturing equipment in history to various departments, now Liu Yeqiang often brags to the veterans, the technical department has almost completed the mileage of thousands of years of human beings in half a year, whether it is a spinning machine, a loom or a steam engine, a diesel engine, it is necessary for the technical department to manufacture a prototype first, and then reverse imitation through the heavy industry laboratory, and then it can be promoted. There is now a small hard airship in Liu's lab, which is now using hydrogen as the main filling gas for testing. Once successful, the birth of the early warning balloon will inevitably be able to fill the defect of not being far enough to monitor the distance and play the role of clairvoyance.

In line with this idea, the radar station has now begun to train radar personnel, because the existing radar personnel are only Gu Fulin, and if we do not start training radar personnel immediately, then when the airship is developed in the future, the radar personnel will be insufficient. And Liu Yeqiang has led the veterans of the technical department to start the restoration plan of the old radar, although it is said that a large number of products such as tubes are very difficult to manufacture, so they now choose an alternative, replacing the tubes with multiple circuit circuits. However, in this way, a small electron tube will often have to expand by 10 to 20 times the weight, and Liu Yeqiang just estimates that the weight of this old radar will exceed that of the prototype radar by more than 10 times, and the volume will be expanded by more than 10 times. In addition to being able to be used on large hard airships, such radars can only be brought on board and installed at radar monitoring stations.

Gu Fulin was still not very disgusted with this radar personnel training at first, but as time went by, he felt more and more that these naturalized civilian radar soldiers were here to do against him, not only a simple question needed to be explained again and again, but it was not necessarily understandable, and no matter what term he said, people had to be curious three or four times, and they might not be able to explain it. The physical knowledge that the patriarchs from the old time and space knew had not been discovered and demonstrated at all in this time and space, not to mention that these people may have only started to learn to read and write three or four months ago, and they are simply playing the piano to the cow for the laws of physics or something, and among the patriarchs, he Gu Fulin has a good temper, but every day when he comes to the radar station, he has an urge to beat people.

"This is our ship," said Gu Fulin, pointing to several bright spots on the radar screen, which were moving towards the south, he took the telescope and walked to the window to look at the departure channel, "These are two capital ships and one cruiser. ”

"What about this? Heads! The soldier hurriedly pointed to a group of denser dots in the northeast direction and asked, "It just popped up." ”

Gu Fulin was stunned for a moment, "Just popped up?" As he spoke, he walked to the radar screen and looked at it, and sure enough, there were many light spots in the northeast direction that were flickering with the rotation of the radar, and he couldn't help scratching his head, "What is this?" As he spoke, he walked to the window again and went out to look at the radar antenna, and then looked at the northeast side, and there was no covering. Is it the enemy? He thought about it and quickly picked up the phone.

"There are suspicious targets in the northeast," Ston said, standing beside Yang Junbo, looking through a telescope at the flag signal on the top of the coastal fort. "The direction is three or five, and the distance is about thirteen nautical miles."

Yang Junbo nodded, and said to the flag soldier beside him, "Answer received, and at the same time wave the flag to the **, let the ** follow the Victory." ”

Now the two battleships of the Victory class have their exact names, namely the first Victory and the second **, to commemorate the victory in the defense of Vostochny Port and the ** of Vostochny Port. The two ships did not replace too many sail cable structures, and also used a large number of the original Meednor sailors, but the guns on them were replaced, and all the original bronze guns were removed, and now the battleship was equipped with ten spring guns and twenty machine guns on both sides. The spring guns were installed on the lower artillery deck, and the upper artillery deck was modified to no longer be an open-air structure, but a wooden fortress type with upper protection to prevent direct damage from the artillery deck by opposing shotguns. The upper gun deck was full of machine guns, and since the freeboard of the Victory class was higher than most ships of the same period, which had been confirmed by Ston and several other captains, the machine guns mounted on the upper gun deck were sufficient to strafe enemy ships in close proximity, and the spring guns were able to have sufficient visibility to suppress the enemy ships within seven hundred meters. In addition, each of the two ships carried a company of marines for broadside or landing battles, so the Victory class now has almost no defects except that its speed can only rely on the wind.

The captain of the ** ship is Lin Chuanqing, and he also stands next to the deputy captain Carnesto, unlike Ston, Carnesto almost does not need to train Lin Chuanqing in any ship command, Lin Chuanqing's experience in the sail warship is enough to meet the needs of commanding the **. Hearing the flag words reported by the flag soldiers, Lin Chuanqing nodded, and loudly ordered the whole ship to start turning and follow the Victory.

Thirteen nautical miles northeast of the Oriental Harbor, a small fleet was sailing downwind, most of the ships in this fleet were fortune ships and wide ships, and there were many sailors lying lazily on them, all of whom were in tattered clothes, and there were no special weapons at hand, nothing more than some sharpened bamboo poles and the like, and occasionally a few with iron knives were considered amazing. The lead warship was a three-masted warship, which looked like a Meedno, but the hull was worn and old, and it was covered with various wooden strips as patches, and the same was true for the sails, which were patched all over the place, making people look like a large beggar's pocket. However, this ship is clearly the most powerful ship in the fleet, as it also carries dozens of naval guns. These three-pounder guns can often play a very strong deterrent role in peacetime when fighting for supremacy at sea, especially when facing three or four enemy ships at the same time, they can often easily suppress the opponent's attack.

This fleet is hung with a flag "Zheng", the whole fleet is about sixty ships, but they are not Zheng Zhilong's fleet, but the pirate fleet under the South China Sea pirate Liu Xiang, some time ago a group of Medeno people negotiated with them, willing to rent their fleet at a price of five thousand taels to attack the port of the East, in order to distract the attention of the port of the east, so that the Chinese are too busy to take care of themselves, unable to take care of the defensive actions of the port of Zhancheng, thus forcing the Chinese to abandon the port of Zhancheng, Let the Medenor people seize the port of Champa and use it as a trading port.

If it was in the past, five thousand taels bought this fleet to attack Dongfang Port, Liu Xiang would not agree to this kind of thing at all, but now it is different from the past. Since the appearance of Dongfang Port, Liu Xiang's pirates have begun to have a hard time. In addition, Zheng Zhilong finally began to stretch out his hand to the South China Sea, during this period of time, the Zheng family fleet has traveled back and forth between Fujian Province and Dongfang Port many times, and the scale is generally relatively large, and they also collect money to protect other merchant fleets to go together, which directly and seriously compresses the activity space of Liu Xiang's pirates. In the past six months, Liu Xiang's shipowners have defected with their ships, some have switched to Zheng Zhilong, and some have washed their feet ashore, and directly bought land and settled on the shore with the plundered gold and silver, and even worse, they went directly to the Chinese...... For the Chinese in Dongfang Port, Liu Xiang and his subordinates have always been full of anger, if it were not for the Chinese suddenly rushing out and disrupting the balance of the situation in the South China Sea, how could it be possible for Liu Xiang's pirate group, who had just defeated Zhong Bin and was almost in the middle of the day, to fall into such a field?

According to the requirements of the agreement, the Medeno people provided them with a batch of pennants, which they hung on the mast to pretend to be the Zheng family's fleet. Not long ago, the Maidno people even went out in person, in the name of checking pirates at sea, intercepted two ships of the Zheng family, and then killed most of the crew on board, and then used Liu Xiang's people to go up and assign them high-quality Yaning muskets and bronze cannons, so that they could create a riot in Dongfang Port, and at the same time, Liu Xiang's fleet suddenly launched an attack and directly attacked Dongfang Port from the open sea, in order to let Liu Xiang's pirates have enough confidence, The Medenor even provided a decommissioned Medeno three-masted battleship for the Liu Xiang Pirate Group to use as a capital ship.

Liu Xiang was very satisfied with this transaction, they originally looked down on the Chinese in Dongfang Port, and it was quite good to be able to clean up the Chinese. Dongfang Harbor has long been an undefended city full of gold in their hearts, and if they are attacked like this, they will definitely be able to return with a full load. What's more, it is still the Zheng family flag that is hung, even if the Chinese are pursuing it, the basin is also buckled on the head of Zheng Zhilong, no matter what, they can't find themselves, in addition, the three-masted battleship sent by Medeno is simply too much appetite for Liu Xiang, and now even the flagship is no longer the previous Guangzhou ship, but this three-masted battleship, with this ship, as long as you don't meet the Medeno people on the South China Sea in the future, it is basically impossible to suffer losses. And this time the Meideno people were tied, and the Medeno people will have to sell their face in the future, and at that time, if they spend money to buy a few ships, they will naturally be able to get bigger and bigger, and the South China Sea will not be Liu Xiang's world in the future?

However, people are not as good as heaven, and it took several days for the Medenor to modify and capture a Zheng ship, delaying the battle plan, and in order to meet the surprise attack arranged by the Medeno people, they had to wait for a day at sea ninety miles away from the port of the East, without expecting to encounter a storm. When they came out of the storm and took inventory, two boats sank, and three others were missing, presumably on the run. Now Liu Xiang can't care about chasing those fugitive ships, so he can only make up his mind to drive directly in the direction of Dongfang Port, and take advantage of the chaos of Dongfang Port being attacked by the harbor as soon as possible, capture Dongfang Port in one fell swoop, so as to plunder the city to his heart's content, so as to make up for the loss of these five ships.

The sailors, who had just left the ravages of the storm and saw the sun, took the opportunity to climb up to the deck to bask in the sun, and to talk to each other, and to drink and have fun, and to talk with confidence in the upcoming attack on the port of Orient, and many pirates had begun to discuss how to divide the looted treasure, and the gambling pirates had even gambled on the deck with the treasure that had not yet arrived.

"What's the speed of the other party?" Yang Junbo asked the flag whisperers to wave the flag at the radar station. He felt that the sail power of the Victory under his feet was almost slowing down, and until now it had not exceeded six knots.

"Yang Junbo, who is meowing, can the speed of the ship in the new world exceed eight knots at the highest?" While explaining the flag from the radar station, the flag soldier carefully peeked at Yang Junbo's red face with anger, for fear of angering him. Yang Junbo snorted heavily and roared loudly, "Raise the full sail!" Burn the wind! ”

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