Chapter 61: Galleys Catapult Battleship

Under the supervision of Liu Ye, the original owner of the Shouchun Wafu Lake dock; Now Yuan Yao's craftsman Zuo Sun Lu, leading the original team to finally build the prototype of the oar-sail catapult battleship, it is expected that it will be launched tomorrow for water testing, Yuan Yao has prepared the catalogue and is waiting to receive it at any time, whether the system will include it or not is in this move, if there is no problem, you can order the clone to start construction, and mass production will be achieved immediately.

Yuan Yao couldn't imagine what it would be like to appear on the Yangtze River in 195 AD!

The test ship that Sun Lu built in Shouchun before finally couldn't get to Lujiang. Because the Wafu Lake and the Yangtze River waterway are not passable, unless you open from the Huaishui to the sea, and then go around the coastline to bypass Guangling County and then go south into the Yangtze River, and finally go around a big circle to come to the waters of the Lujiang River, which is obviously unrealistic. Regardless of whether it succeeded or not, it took enough time for Yuan Yao to build it from scratch, so Yuan Yao finally gave up the ship and ordered someone to dismantle it in order to prevent leaks.

In order to let the system include the oar-sail catapult battleship, Yuan Yao could only count on Sun Lu to build a new one, or he would put down everything in Lujiang and run back to Shouchun with the catalog, but that was impossible, because the dozen or so warships built in the dock were now inseparable from him at all, and he couldn't lose a big one.

According to Yuan Yao's shipbuilding plan, according to the efficiency of producing 14 clones per day, at this time, the schedule of 10 fighting ships and 10 three-seat galleys has all been completed, and the last step is to start building the ship with all its might, until all the wood for the ship is used up, or the Yangtze River has been crossed, otherwise the ship will not stop. However, because of the construction of the turret for the water village in the past few days, the clones need to help build the ballista, so the plan to start construction of the warp has been delayed.

Now that the galley catapult battleship is about to be completed, Yuan Yao is more looking forward to building a bunch of battleships than building a bunch of warships, even if this so-called battleship is only equipped with backward ballistas rather than artillery; The stone bullets fired were also stone-polished, not solid steel-cast bullets, and it was unlikely that there would be any high-end goods such as armor-piercing bullets and flowering bullets, but despite this, Yuan Yao was still excited about this kind of thing that had never appeared in history, so he was considering whether to change the shipbuilding plan, but the premise was to see if this new warship could be included in the system.

Since getting the news that the galley battleship was about to be completed, Yuan Yao kept running to the slipway he had been looking forward to several times, although this behavior was meaningless, he just couldn't help it, until it was dark and everyone was done, he reluctantly left the water village to go back to rest, and then looked forward to the arrival of the next day.

The next day, Yuan Yao came to Shuizhai early, first held his mind and arranged the coordination of clones and craftsmen, and then went straight to the slipway of the "battleship" non-stop.

This slipway was not built with the clones, but near the area where ordinary craftsmen processed wood, which was the site of the dock where the shipwrights of Lujiang itself built their ships.

These people are the shipwrights recruited by Liu Xun for the construction of the naval army after he took up the post of Lujiang Taishou, but because these people can't do anything with the clones, and their efficiency is slow, they only built a ship and launched a total of ships during this time, so it is unlikely that they will work with the clones.

Of course, a warship is also a ship, it is better than nothing, and there is no need for Yuan Yao to worry about it, the shipwrights who built battleships from Shouchun can play with them, so Yuan Yao arranged them together. As for leaks, there is no need to worry, because they are all official personnel now, and they all have an obligation to keep secrets.

Now this dock is small in scale, with only three slipways erected, and construction is underway on two ships and the oar-sail catapult battleship of about the same size, and Yuan Yao came to welcome this battleship into the water.

When Yuan Yao came here, three tracks had been built between the slipway and the riverside, the so-called track was made of three smooth logs, and then put rolling wood as a transmission device, which looked quite like the railroad of later generations, but instead of two parallel rails, the number of tracks was determined according to the width of the launching ship, and the built ship was put on the rolling wood and pushed into the water along the track to complete the launching work.

This launching process is also a test of the ship's structure, if the ship can't help its own weight on land and causes it to fall apart or disintegrate, then there is no need for the ship to be launched, otherwise it will be shaken apart by the waves in the water, so Yuan Yao is still very nervous at this time, for fear that the long-awaited battleship will collapse into slag in front of his eyes, so he will even have the heart to die.

A long rope was tied to the boat, and a large number of people began to gather on both sides of the track, and then someone began to direct everyone to pull up the rope and prepare to drag it into the water, and a group of people began to push it with manpower behind the boat, and in the sound of everyone's horn, everyone worked together, and the work of launching the new ship began.

There was a creaking sound, and the huge ship was pushed up by the weak manpower, listening to the sound of the wooden structure rubbing, Yuan Yao straightened up uncomfortably, but he still held back the discomfort and continued to stare at it, for fear that something would go wrong and cause an accident that would not be able to load the hull, although he knew that this would not help anything.

Yuan Yao has seen the launch of the new ship twice, and it is the launching of a fighting ship that is bigger than this, but it was the launching work of the clone organization, the whole process was dull and silent, and he pulled the boat into the water without saying a word, he didn't feel nervous at all, at most he would only feel depressed, how could so many people shout like this now, so that Yuan Yao's heart also rose and fell with everyone's horn, trembling.

As the hull of the ship moved, the sound of wood grinding from above was much louder than when the fighting ship was launched, which proved that the structure of this new ship was not as strong and tight as that of the fighting ship, which made Yuan Yao feel even more nervous.

No matter what Yuan Yao felt, the new boat was still moving slowly and orderly towards the water, and slowly the person pulling the rope at the front began to walk up to the simple dock built by the river, which means that the boat is getting closer and closer to the water's edge, and it is impossible for so many people to go to the water to pull, so it is necessary to build a water platform that can be borrowed.

In this way, under Yuan Yao's nervous gaze, the new ship finally reached enough water depth, swaying and floating on the water in a cheer, and finally completed the test of launching, the whole process took nearly an hour, which was about the same time as a movie in later generations, and this movie still has only one plot and one action, that is, the launch, but despite this, Yuan Yao also watched it intently, and finally sat on the ground with a very ungraceful ass and gasped, The hanging heart was finally put down......