Chapter 21: Buying a Battleship
After a month's hard work of more than 100,000 people, the inside and outside of the city were cleaned up, and the damaged and leaky houses were also repaired.
During this period, Sun Hao also found that these women from the Wuji Continent stretched out their hands one by one, and the houses several meters high jumped up with a jump, which was simply like those masters who flew the eaves and walked the wall in ancient times. Even those men who lack hands and feet are not bad, but their movements are slower, just like the light skills described in martial arts novels, but they are not so exaggerated.
After seeing this, Sun Hao was secretly overjoyed in his heart, the people who no one wanted in the Wuji Continent were completely treasures in his own place!
After the entire city was cleared, Sun Hao estimated that even if the city lived in 300,000 to 500,000 people, it would not be a problem. Sun Hao found the record of this city, the plane of the whole city is rectangular, 4523.6 meters long from east to west, 3654.7 meters wide from north to south, each city wall has 3 city gates, except for the south main gate that the city wall is 4 small gates, a large gate, the rest are 3 city gates, a large and two small pattern.
After cleaning up the city and disinfecting it, Sun Hao let everyone move in and distribute utensils.
More than 100,000 people, it is necessary to build an army, Sun Hao selected 20,000 skilled women from 100,000 women, and prepared to train them into army units. As long as he has troops, he can not only defend the city, but also attack, and strive to unify the islands of Papua as soon as possible.
At the same time, Sun Hao also selected 5,000 people as logistics troops, and the loser transported materials for foreign operations in the future. After the training of these 5,000 logistics units is completed, they will be assigned to serve in various units.
The army is there, and the navy is also very important, and Sun Hao selected another 10,000 people to form a naval force.
As for the other women, Sun Hao distributed them to those natives, as long as they were not elderly men or children, they were all given five, and as for the five thousand disabled men given by Wang Bo, Sun Hao also arranged five for each of them, so that they could live together and have offspring.
Only about 2,500 natives are eligible to receive five women, plus 5,000 disabled men from the Wuji Continent, a total of 37,500 women from the Wuji Continent have been arranged.
There are 20,000 army units, 5,000 logistics troops, 10,000 navy, and 36,500 women are single, which is sad Sun Hao, where are these 36,500 women going to find men to live with them?
As for buying from Wang Bo? Even if Wang Bo gives away his disabled men for free. Now that the experience has been consumed, there are only hundreds of thousands of experiences left, how can this be implanted into the Chinese system? Sun Hao couldn't think of any good way to arrange this 36,500 single woman for a while.
In addition, Sun Hao also bought women to use as instructors, and this experience is not enough to implant the experience of the instructor program.
After the matter of the troops was finalized, Sun Hao thought about what type of warship he would buy. The navy was an extremely complex army, and the fleet before World War I generally consisted of battleships, cruisers, destroyers, patrol ships, gunboats, and supply ships. World War II also only increased aircraft carriers, aircraft, submarines and other equipment.
Since you want to form a navy, you have to form a powerful fleet, and as for aircraft carriers, the First World War has not yet begun, so there is no need for that thing. You can now build a fleet of battleships, cruisers, destroyers, supply ships, gunboats, and submarines.
What kind of battleship to buy? Yamato? The battleship Iowa? The battleship Bismarck? All three battleships were powerful. It's a pity that the Iowa was born in history, and the other two warships died before they could get out of the army, which made the heroes cry. These two powerful warships were born at the wrong time, and they were buried on the icy bottom of the sea without any room to play.
However, after Sun Hao thought about it, he felt that these warships were too powerful to appear too early, otherwise he would become the public enemy of the world. In addition, in the future, it will be the world of aircraft carriers, and these powerful battleships will not be able to dominate the situation of victory or defeat in the navy.
Before the First World War began, everything had to be forbearance. Taizu said, "Dig deep holes, accumulate grain, and slowly become kings." These quotes speak volumes about the importance of forbearance.
At present, although it cannot be equipped with powerful warships of World War II, it can be equipped with ultra-dreadnought warships of World War I.
The super dreadnought battleship is that with the battleship's main gun caliber increased to 13.5-15 inches, the effective range of the gun continued to increase, the main gun turret was arranged on the horizontal longitudinal central axis of the hull, the main turret of the amidship was reduced or eliminated, and the displacement increased to more than 25,000 tons.
The British Orion-class battleships, Queen Elizabeth-class battleships, Germany's Bavaria-class battleships, the United States' Nevada-class battleships, the Kouguo's Fuso-class battleships, and their successors can all be regarded as typical super dreadnoughts.
Thinking that the navy should be equipped with super-dreadnought battleships, Sun Hao discussed with Li Gang which type of battleship to buy.
At Li Gang's suggestion, Sun Hao eventually purchased 10 Queen Elizabeth-class battleships.
The Queen Elizabeth-class battleship has a total length of 196 meters, a width of 27.4 meters, and a draft of 9.2 meters.
The standard displacement is 29,150 tons, and the full load displacement is 33,000 tons.
The power plant is 24 sets of 3-cylinder boilers, 4 turbine steam engines, 4 main engine of propeller shafts, with an output of 75,000 shaft horsepower and a maximum speed of 25 knots.
It has a range of 8,600 nautical miles at 12.5 knots and 3,900 nautical miles at 21 knots
Armor protection: main armor with amidships 6 inches-13 inches (152-330mm), stern 4 inches-6 inches (101-152mm),
Upper main armor belt 6" (152mm)
Main deck armor 2.5"-5" (63.5-127mm)
Front transverse armor 6" (152mm)
Longitudinal waterproof compartment partition 4 inches-6 inches (101-152mm)
Turret armor 13 inches (330 mm) front, 11 inches (279.4 mm) sides,
Top 4.5" (114.3mm) Turret Armor Upper 7"-10" (178-254mm),
Lower 4" - 6" (101-152mm) secondary gun armor 6" (152mm)
, Commander Tower Armor 11 inches - 3 inches (279.4 mm - 76 mm)
Armament: 8 twin 15-inch/42-diameter MKI. guns
12 single-mounted 6-inch/45-diameter BLMkXII secondary guns,
2 x 76mm/50x diameter QFHAMKI guns (12-pounder),
4 underwater torpedo tubes of 21-inch caliber.
The Queen Elizabeth-class battleships not only served in World War I, but were later modernized and served until the end of World War II. In this era, the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship is definitely one of the most formidable battleships.
Sun Hao was also very satisfied with the Queen Elizabeth-class battleships recommended by Li Gang, so he ordered 10 in one go. Originally, Sun Hao planned to order two ships for training, but the more Li Gang said, the cheaper the price, so Sun Hao had to order 10 ships in one go.