Chapter 179: Western Warships
"Mr. Chen, please!" Andrei made a gesture of please and gave way to the boat behind him. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
Chen Kun's eyes narrowed slightly, and the foreigner's ship at this moment is also a sailboat, but it is still a little different from Nan Chen's ship, compared to the ship of these foreigners, the captain is more than 20 meters, not to mention the height, and it also has the characteristics of a medieval Western ship on TV, with two tips upturned and a little concave in the middle.
"This ship is the 'Battle', the proudest ship I have on hand, and it is better than the 'Prince' before His Royal Highness William." Seeing that Chen Kun seemed to be very interested in the ship, Andre happily introduced it.
Chen Kun is naturally not clear about Andre's comparison, and he doesn't know much about the Prince, and even if he does, he doesn't know how this kind of ship is better or worse! After all, he wasn't a boatman.
So Chen Kun just nodded casually and boarded the boat. Chen Kun's expression was undoubtedly a blow to Andre, so Andre's eyes showed a trace of disdain intentionally or unintentionally, but he quickly changed it to a smile and chased after him.
"We're going to take a boat, we're going to get to the northeast of this island, and we're going to meet Jones!" After getting on the boat, Andre gave Chen Kun a rough description of their itinerary.
Chen Kun nodded, and then said in a rare way, "What do you generally rely on to provide the power of your ships?" ”
Chen Kun originally wanted to ask the steam engine directly, but he thought that he was afraid of giving the other party a hint, so Chen Kun simply asked this question vaguely.
Andre was stunned for a moment, then laughed, laughing loudly, "Our ships are generally powered by this sail, otherwise it is manual rowing, doesn't Mr. Chen know anything about this?" ”
"That's not it, mainly because I recently thought of a novel idea, and I don't know if it can provide power, so I want to see if your technology has anything to learn from." The corners of Chen Kun's mouth turned up slightly, and he said lightly.
"Really? I don't know what motivation you are talking about, can you say it, and I can make suggestions? Andre listened to Chen Kun's words, but he immediately became interested and hurriedly asked.
But Chen Kun smiled even more, and was still secretly happy in his heart, what he wanted was this result, but he said, "I'm just an idea, and the value of this idea must be very clear to the first mate!" ”
Andrei's face twitched, and he didn't immediately refute it, Chen Kun's words were more subtle, but he was not stupid, so he could naturally understand the meaning.
For a maritime empire like theirs, which dominates the seas and plunders resources to strengthen itself, a new, more efficient dynamic force is definitely a heavy weapon.
"By the way, can I take a tour of your artillery?" Chen Kuncai didn't bother to care about Andre's expression, he just needed to show as much unscrupulous as possible without making basic mistakes.
"Of course!" Andrei readily agreed.
They have already lost a chip in the musket, so Andrei can only find a way to win in other aspects, it can be said that the musket and cannon have always been their invincible weapons at sea, even if the musket has lost, but the cannon may not be.
The structure of the Battle is still relatively simple, perhaps like its name, it is really made for battle, its appearance is simple, but it is fast, as for the interior is the common upper and lower structure, the upper part is the deck, there is a duplex attic house, the lower part is also more cluttered, it is the place where the sailors live, and further down, it is the place where the gun emplacement is fixed and the place where the gunpowder is stored.
When Chen Kun came here, he covered his nose, after all, this kind of dark and damp place, and even sometimes the sailor's excretion is just below here, so the smell is really not good.
Andre was naturally immune to this, and walked straight over to Chen Kun and introduced, "This artillery is our most powerful artillery at present, not only is the diameter much smaller, but the range has also increased a lot, not to mention the lethality." ”
Chen Kun pursed his lips, noncommittal on this topic, after all, he didn't know what the previous artillery looked like, then again, in the past when there were fights on TV, didn't the artillery shoot a shell, and then the shell rolled out far away, and it fell when it hit someone? What is the lethality to speak of.
Thinking of this, Chen Kun remembered that he had been patronized by General Chen's artillery not long after he had only crossed over, and the shells of the artillery inside would also explode, not only that, but he was also injured! So, there are still a lot of things in this plane that are different from before!
As if seeing the doubts under Chen Kun's tightly locked brows, Andre specially asked people to prepare a fire, and then called Chen Kun over and tried to set off a shot.
Just listening to the "boom", about 100 meters away, a huge wave rose into the sky, forming a hole with a diameter of about four or five meters.
This made Chen Kun even more apprehensive, when General Chen Lao attacked the White Lotus Sect cottage, he first sent troops to surround it, and then slowly retreated, changing the artillery to exert power, and at that time the voice was really heard, and the distance between the artillery and him was not particularly far.
Chen Kun secretly estimated in his heart, he had never seen General Chen's artillery, but as far as the current situation was concerned, at least in terms of range and lethality, he had lost, and he didn't see that he and the Holy Maiden had escaped under the artillery?
So Chen Kun wiped the sweat on his forehead again, fortunately, this group of goods has not yet set foot on Nan Chen's land, and William and they were directly restrained, so they have never seen Nan Chen's true strength. Otherwise, with this group of goods, they would never dare to rush into Nanchen and burn and rob them.
This also makes Chen Kun even bigger, even if he can complete William's conditions on this trip to Huanzhou, William also gave him drawings, but the development level of Daliang and Nanchen is really worrying! And he has already set the girder of the slightly backward economic level......
"How?" Andre didn't pay attention to Chen Kun's distraction, he just thought that he was making an assessment of his artillery, and he couldn't say how bad his artillery was.
Chen Kun was interrupted by this sound, so he had to retract his thoughts, but his face remained calm, after all, at this time, he couldn't show a trace of panic, and then he said, "It's okay, but I don't know how accurate you are, and besides, the recoil of this artillery just now seems to be a little too big!" ”
After saying this, Chen Kun turned around and walked out, ignoring Andre's surprised gaze.
Anyway, these cannons are all set by him, why do you care about Andrei's demeanor? Do you expect to praise yourself and then grow the morale of others? (To be continued.) )