Chapter 10 Designing Warships

When Chen Jin returned to his residence, he pondered for a long time. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Although Chen Jin is a doctor of mechanics, he is not a god after all, he doesn't know everything, he has only heard of ships and something, and he has never been exposed to it at all, so there will be some trouble in the next design. That's right, what Chen Jin is going to design this time is a warship, which surpasses modern warships in terms of size, speed, and sturdiness.

Now the most powerful warship in Wu should be a five-story ship, which can accommodate 3,000 soldiers. Because the building ship is built on the ship, it is called the building ship. The bow of the building boat is square, there are many oars on both sides, there is no sail, the appearance is majestic and mighty, there are arrows lost on the ship, far can be meritorious, close can fight. But you have it in Dadongwu, and people in Jingzhou have fought with you for so many years, and people have it. That's why we need a more powerful ship.

What Chen Jin wanted to design was Yang Su's five-toothed ship in the Sui and Tang dynasties. The five-tooth ship has five floors, more than 100 feet high, can accommodate about 800 soldiers, has six rows of poles, is 50 feet high, each wooden mast is tied to the top of a large stone, and a roller is set underneath, and when the enemy ship is approaching in battle, it can be quickly used to put down the big stone and damage the enemy ship. If you miss a hit, you can quickly retract it and put it back. If the enemy ships are surrounded on all sides, they can also strike at the same time, and the combat effectiveness is strong, which can be seen in general.

The five-tooth ship was a great achievement in the Sui Dynasty. In 588 AD, the Sui army of more than 500,000 people, advancing by waterway, attacked Chen on a large scale. The navy army in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River led by Yang Su set sails from Yong'an. In Yanzhou, the Chen army launched a decisive battle, the Sui army attacked the enemy position with four five-tooth ships, sank more than ten warships with a row pole, and captured more than 2,000 enemy soldiers.

Although Chen Jin can't design a five-tooth ship now, Chen Jin can ask someone to design it, there is always no shortage of talents in this Three Kingdoms era, and now it is in Soochow, and there will be no shortage of shipbuilding experts. However, if you want to do things quickly, you can't reach it, and this matter has to be discussed in the long run, so let's talk to Kong Ming tomorrow and see what Kong Ming pays attention to, because there are too many powerful relationships involved, and by the way, you can also let Kong Ming come up with ideas for the design of the five-tooth ship, after all, Kong Ming is also a master of machinery now.

On the second day, without waiting for Chen Jin to go to Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang came to see Chen Jin first. As soon as Chen Jin saw Zhuge Liang, he said: "Kong Ming came just in time, I have something to look for you." So he told Zhuge Liang what he thought yesterday. After hearing this, Zhuge Liang also said that he also came for this matter. Zhuge Liang said: "Our army is now stationed in Eastern Wu, and everything is exposed under Sun Quan's nose, let alone such a big thing as shipbuilding." Also, we also need the help of Soochow to make the five-tooth ship, manpower, material resources, and financial resources are indispensable, rather than us manufacturing, it is better to let Soochow make it, so that Soochow will buy us a favor, and this is still a great favor. ”

After hearing this, Chen Jin was not interested, and said to Zhuge Liang: "I just need to design the five-tooth ship, you can do the rest yourself, since you want Dongwu to build a big ship, you can borrow a few shipbuilding masters from Sun Quan, I think he will still be very happy." Sure enough, after Zhuge Liang proposed this matter to Sun Quan, Sun Quan immediately agreed, and then all kinds of green lights were given.

Chen Jin has been very busy lately, and he is still tired of being a dog. It is necessary not only to ask the shipbuilder about various matters and precautions, but also to write and draw every day and do experiments repeatedly. Especially when writing and painting things, Chen Jin complained very much, what kind of things are these, as soon as they are written, they will be broken as soon as they are painted. Later, Chen Jin also specially made many smooth wooden boards and wrote on them. When people are busy, time flies, and before you know it, more than ten days pass in the blink of an eye, and the five-tooth ship only sees the prototype, and I don't know how much time it will take to succeed. Sun Quan and Liu Bei naturally couldn't just count on the Wuya big ship, but also needed to think of another countermeasure.

In line with the principle that three stinkers are better than one Zhuge Liang, Sun Quan summoned all the civil and military generals who could be summoned, and of course, this real Zhuge Liang is even more indispensable. Sun Quan first said: "Kong Ming has the ability to be unpredictable, Gongjin has the opportunity to hide heaven and earth, and Zi Jing has the talent to pass through the heavens and latitudes, and this anti-Cao plan is all up to three people." Kong Ming arched his hand and said, "It's a matter of duty." Zhou Yulu Su came out of the column to salute and said to Sun Quan: "I am willing to share the worries of the Lord." Sun Quan said to everyone again: "This time to resist Cao, we must work together, those who have meritorious service will be rewarded, if anyone slacks off, the punishment will be doubled!" The crowd applauded.

So everyone in the council hall began to talk about it, but no one could pay a single attention. At this time, I don't know who was discouraged: If only the Jingzhou army didn't help Cao Cao. The speaker was unintentional, the listener was intentional, and suddenly Zhuge Liang thought about it. So Zhuge Liang came out of the column and said to Sun Quan: "Cao's army has lived in the northern dry land for a long time, and there is no water, if there is no Jingzhou army to help, our victory rate will be greatly increased, I am willing to secretly go to the enemy army and persuade Cai Mao." When Zhou Yu heard this, he suddenly came to his senses: "I don't know how sure Mr. Kong Ming is." And Lu Su said at this time: "Kong Ming must not be reckless." Zhuge Liang laughed: "There is Lao Zijing, I will come back with good news." Zhou Yu laughed and said, "If this is the case, Cao Jun will be broken." It turned out that Zhou Yu had already thought of a way, but because Cao Jun had Jingzhou Army by his side, he had not been able to implement it, and now when he heard Zhuge Liang's words, he couldn't help laughing. Then he asked Zhuge Liang excitedly: "How did Mr. convince Cai Mao?" Zhuge Liang shook the feather fan lightly and said: "Cao Cao is suspicious by nature, and now that he occupies Xiangyang, the old master will become a trouble, and Cao Cao will get rid of it." Zhuge Liang stopped speaking when he said this. All the ministers understood, but some generals were still confused. Lu Su said: "Even if this is the case, it is enough to send someone else, why should Kong Ming go in person."

"Because I went, I was 100% sure," Zhuge Liang said confidently.