Chapter 52: The Three Oars Warship

Yuan Yao led everyone to a slipway, the shape of the ship on the slipway had been basically completed, and the appearance of the fighting ship next to it was indeed very different, and everyone couldn't help but be surprised when they saw it.

Yuan Yao turned around and introduced: "This ship is the three-oar warship I mentioned, you have also seen, the hull of this ship is narrow and long, the width is only half of the fighting ship, it is about three layers, but the length is almost sixteen or seventeen zhang, the most important thing is that this ship has three rows of oars in the upper, middle and lower rows, the number is three times that of the fighting ship, so the fastest speed may reach about five times that of the fighting ship." ”

"Shhh Everyone suddenly felt a toothache when they heard this value, and the data Yuan Yao said was not groundless, but the maximum speed of the fighting ship displayed in the system was only 2 knots; The maximum speed of the three-seater galleys is 10 knots. Yuan Yao didn't know if the speed difference between the two ships in reality was so big, but at least the clones made of the boat were like this, but just looking at the ship type can be deduced one or two, the size of the fighting ship is too fat, the maximum number of people that can be carried is more than twice that of the three-oar warship, but the number of oars is only one-third of that of others, and the speed will naturally be much slower.

"This warship is so fast, if it is inconvenient to turn, it is easy to rush to the shore and run aground!" Lu Su said with emotion on the side.

This is exactly what Yuan Yao is worried about, the width of the Yangtze River cannot tolerate a ship rampage at a high speed of 10 knots. The speed of 10 knots is 10 nautical miles per hour, 1 nautical mile is equal to 1.852 kilometers, and the widest part of the Yangtze River against Liu Miao may not be as wide as 1 nautical mile, not to mention the speed of 10 nautical miles per hour, and it will hit the opposite bank in less than five minutes.

The most important point is that the three-oared warship did not have a stern rudder to control the direction, because the West had not yet invented the rudder when this type of warship was invented, and ironically, the batter, which was five times slower than him, was equipped with a rudder, because China had already invented this tool during the Yin Shang period.

Another thing that is disgusting is that the clones will obviously install tail rudders on the fighting ship, but the three-oar warship in the system does not have it, and they will not install it for you, because they have no wisdom, they will not be flexible, and they will only do things according to the program, which is another problem that cannot be explained to others, so Yuan Yao is inconvenient to say anything, so he can only ask other craftsmen to find a way to install a pair of tail rudders after the ship is built, and if it doesn't work, he simply doesn't want it.

Everyone circled around this strange ship, and when they came to the bow of the ship, they found a thick and sharp bronze impact angle under the waterline, which was more than a foot long, and under the reflection of the sun, the light emitted by the metal made people feel like a thorn in the back, and at a glance they knew how difficult this ship was, if it was hit from the side, then any solid hull would be knocked out of a big hole that could not be repaired, and it was still below the waterline, and the turbulent river or sea water must have swallowed the warship within a few minutes, and everyone couldn't help but sigh, such a high speed, coupled with the ferocious ramming ability, isn't this ship invincible?

"With such a narrow hull and no buildings on the upper floor, I'm afraid there aren't many soldiers to load, right?" Sun Ce looked around and then held his chin and groaned.

"What Bo Fu said is good." On the side, Yuan Yao heard Sun Ce's doubts and answered: "This ship needs 174 oarsmen, all of them are in the oars room below the deck, and the area above the deck can stand dozens of people, so if you have to fight a battle with a fighting ship that can carry hundreds of soldiers at every turn, I am afraid it will definitely lose." However, because the hull is long and narrow, if you only defend, you still have the advantage of 'one man is the pass, ten thousand people are not open', but it is definitely beyond the power to attack the enemy ship, so I think the role of this ship is like the heavy cavalry on the shore, rushing! Breakthrough! Don't fight with the enemy, the battle for the purpose of sinking the enemy ship is the most suitable for this kind of warship, and the pursuit of the enemy is even more inescapable, similar to the role of the cavalry on the road, of course, the final use depends on the entire tactical layout, which has to be seriously considered by Bo Fu. The boat will be launched in about 20 days, so you can train and see for yourself. ”

Sun Ce said with some excitement when he heard this: "This ship is really eye-opening, and it will definitely be trained in person at the end of the day, and I believe it will definitely give Liu Xuan's navy a big surprise." ”

"That's the best!" Yuan Yao responded with a smile.

After taking everyone to see the fighting ship, and then the three oars warship, Yuan Yao finally brought everyone to the half-completed building boat, and several people just stood under the building boat, raising their heads and silently looking up for a long time No one spoke, as if they would wake up the giant beast in front of them as soon as they made a sound.

Even if Yuan Yao would come here every day to take a look, but in fact, until now, he can't accept the existence of such a thing as a building boat in the world, if the building boat is a living thing that can speak, Yuan Yao really wants to ask it: "What do you mean by a river warship that is twice as big as other people's sea warships?" ”

At this time, although the building ship is only half completed, the general ship type has appeared, at least the length and width have been finalized, covering an area of two basketball courts, and the system shows that the length of the building ship is 25 zhang; width 10 zhang; 8 zhang high. The ratio of length, width and height of the entire hull is about 2:1:1, which is typical of tall and thick. The proportions of the fighting ship are about the same as those of the building ship, except that the ship is slightly slimmer, because it was designed with speed requirements at the beginning, and it is to be used as the main engine power, but it is still fat in terms of the ratio of nearly 8:1 in length and width of the three-oar warship, which makes it impossible to look at directly. However, because of this, the slightly smaller stern carried more personnel than the three-oared warship, and the combat effectiveness of the receiver was even stronger.

In short, in this era, Western ships are higher than Chinese ships in various data such as collision, speed, and stability, and the only thing is that there is a huge difference in the amount of personnel transferred, so the same level of broadside combat may not be fought three-on-one.

"Manpower is really infinite, such a behemoth is actually the accumulation of human pairs of small hands, if you don't see it with your own eyes, it's really unimaginable!" Liu Ye couldn't help but sigh after looking at the building boat for a long time, and also pulled everyone's thoughts back to reality.

Thinking of a Chinese corvette that was more than 100 meters long in later generations, Yuan Yao couldn't help but say to Liu Ye: "Ziyang, your life will be very exciting, I promise you!" ”

Sun Ce and Chen Wu are martial artists, their minds are not so delicate, and they didn't care after listening to what Yuan Yao said, until Lu Su, Bu Qi, and Liu Ye all understood the meaning, and they couldn't help but have a little more expectation in their hearts.

A few people watched for a while, and Yuan Yao led them out of the camp, and they saw almost everything they should understand, and it was better to see less about what they shouldn't understand, after all, the behavior of cloning people was too abnormal.

"Lord, if your subordinates think of something, I'm afraid we have to arrange it earlier, otherwise we may be caught off guard and cause unnecessary losses." Out of the camp gate, Lu Su suddenly said to Yuan Yao with a serious face.

Seeing that Lu Su was cautious, Yuan Yao didn't dare to ask lazily, "What did Zijing say?" ”

Lu Su turned around and pointed to the camp in front of him and said: "The subordinate observation of the lord's arrangement can be seen that the confidentiality of shipbuilding is very important, but now there are fighting ships launched, and they will launch 5 ships in a row in just half a month, such a movement will definitely not be able to hide Liu Miao on the other side, just like the number of Liu Xuan's sailors can not hide us, after all, we have to drive the warship out for cruising and training, and Jingzhou Liu Biao does not know how to feel when he finds out our shipbuilding ability, we have to guard against these, unless the lord puts the built warship on the shore and does not launch it." , and after it is built, it may be possible to surprise it when we go down together, but whether this will affect the training is still up to General Sun. ”