These high-volume, standard-built ships can be subdivided into five models – regardless of the optimisation and fine-tuning carried out by the manufacturer. But they all have the same mission: to free the world from the trade yoke of the Bilunar Church and unleash its true productivity and potential.

Therefore, they are unanimously named: liberation wheels.

This is not to parody the Liberty Wheel, but to allow the ships to pass through the portal, and like the Liberty Wheel, the only way to transport them by train to the port of Elta for assembly. If you want to expect the best conditions in the port of Hirzi to start shipbuilding from an open-hearth, it may not take ten years.

Ten years may be said to be very short, and the Elta people may be able to afford to wait, but the Chinese cannot afford to wait. At the beginning of the Age of Discovery, the social progress brought to Elta and the rest of the continent was not something that could be achieved with a little cost and risk. The earth's former Age of Discovery allowed the Europeans' cognition to expand from the Near East to the whole world, and allowed the Europeans to occupy the vast New World in advance and have the ability to integrate the excellent cultures of the East and the West, while the Oriental dragon, who refused to embrace the ocean, could only sadly let the former "Xiyi" kick the country.

This kind of shame has long been completely forgotten by the Europeans, who are the initiators - they are not committed to understanding the outside world like their predecessors, but they close themselves off and think that the continent is still the center of the world, and the world still revolves around the continent: they can arbitrarily point fingers and comment on the human rights of any country they want, and it is even more common to interfere in internal affairs, and even directly use force on several occasions to stir up in ethnic disputes. What's even funnier is that the descendants of the shrewd Europeans can even stir themselves up all over the, and what's even funnier is that they can still raise their heads with on their faces and claim that they are the final victors, just like Ah Q who has perfected the spiritual victory method.

Now that a pure blue ocean is directly in front of China, the unknown value of this piece is self-evident - no one knows where the second Persian Gulf will be hidden, or the Gulf of Mexico or the North Sea? What's more, there may be a secret of the true god hidden on the other side of the sea, so that the earth can easily break through the pre-existing physical barrier and directly improve basic science by several steps?

These temptations have made the Chinese side unable to wait - in fact, even if Doniva does not nod, the Chinese side will take a political risk and directly rely on the stabilized Hilqi to start the ocean exploration plan, and the so-called rupture of the trade chain of the Bilunar Church and the seizure of sea supremacy are actually just a reasonable and legitimate excuse.

It's a pity that the Elta Continental Transboundary has not been opened at all - these highly-anticipated prefabricated parts of the Liberation Ship can only be transported away little by little by barge. These include a single keel component with a weight of more than 100 tons; Marine internal combustion engine and gas generator units that need to be transported as a whole and cannot be assembled by shipyards at this stage; Shafting that has been embedded in the bottom of the boat...... The starting point for all of this is really just a trade-off made by Elta's conditions.

That's right, from the 500-ton dual-use offshore type, to the 5,000-ton near-equatorial short-range route type, to the 12,000-ton high-sea state suitable for the global type, as well as the 4,500-ton military high-speed type to break the cross-section, and the 2,000-ton bow-opening LST type, all the technical details of the liberation ship are designed close to the actual situation of Elta. For example, the combination of a gas generator and an internal combustion engine was used on board the ship, considering that Elta now has no proven oil reserves, and building oil storage institutions and fuel reserves from scratch is not only costly, but also unreliable, and the various types of coal that are not sold on the international market are not only low in price, but also have low and reliable storage conditions.

Although the old steam engine has long disappeared in the long river of history, there is almost no hair left, and even the coal-fired and heavy oil dual-purpose boiler is left - so much so that the crew of "Titanic" actually went to the surviving freeship in the New York Bayou to find the last glory of the steam engine giant ship. But that doesn't mean that coal can't get the liberation wheel moving. The gas generator can use the waste heat of the exhaust gas of the heat engine to fuel the coal burned under the condition of lack of oxygen, so that it can be converted into carbon monoxide-based gas, which is the power source for the internal combustion engine to start.

The gas is fed into a low-pressure vessel, from which it is transferred to the intake of the combustion engine and mixed with air into the cylinder for work. Of course, this vessel and pipeline are all equipped with corresponding safety valves and at least three or more self-inspection circuit breaking measures, all of which are designed for carbon monoxide, after all, the safety of the engine room is the first.

Even the equipment in the crew's cabins, the liberation ship strives to be common in size. No matter how big or small the liberation ship is, the cabin of the ordinary crew is the same as a standardized four-person retractable iron bed, and all the electrical circuits and heating, water supply and drainage pipes are placed according to the same standards.

From the point of view of hull technology, all ships have basically given up their long-term use due to the level of construction of the Elta shipyard, and the service life is limited to less than 20 years - in other words, once the 20-year limit is reached, they will either be invited to the museum to spend their old age, or they will have to return to one of the shipbreaking yards in Elta to be reheated by molten steel.

Among them, the 500-ton dual-use offshore type is the most produced model, and the major advantage of this liberation ship compared with inland barges is that the draft is slightly deeper, and the depth reaches about 3.5 meters. Therefore, it is said that it is used offshore, in fact, it is already possible to go to the Erta continental shelf with good weather and sea conditions to pull the net fishing, but the ultimate use of this liberation ship is to be responsible for the construction of the entire Elta coast with the Minerva estuary as the center, and the land transportation of bulk goods at this stage is really not easier than water transportation.

Considering that it only operates in the offshore waters, that is, in Elta's future "exclusive economic zone", and that the other liberation ships and radar networks are almost completely capable of controlling the security of this sea area, the dual-use offshore version is only equipped with a general-purpose machine gun emplacement in the bow of the best ship in the shooting range, and is ready to install a general-purpose machine gun with a shield. Although it may seem a little cold, this bit of firepower is more than enough to deal with the sampans and pirate galleons on the coastal islands, so you don't have to spend extra weight on installing weapons.

As for speed, the maximum speed of the offshore Liberation reached 15 knots during sea trials. However, in the offshore, the top speed is only a backup option for escape and emergency rescue, and most of the time the 500-ton offshore liberator will sail at an economic speed of about 9 knots to carry out trivial tasks in the calm waters off Elta.

The 5,000-ton near-equatorial route liberation ship is the main force for the implementation of the bulk cargo in the direct round-trip transportation route from the far sea of Elta in the future, so the seaworthiness and range and speed have been fully improved, especially the voyage - after all, considering that the coal burning is very likely to be replenished only in Elta itself, that is, the one-way coal burning will be able to afford the round-trip voyage, so the liberation ship from this level has paid special attention to the problem of self-sustainability, and the tonnage has also been deliberately adjusted.

At the same time, the gas generator-driven generator on the 5,000-ton Jiefang is much larger than that on the 500-ton Jiefang, which is enough to support a complete fresh freezer in one of the ship's cargo compartments - rather than just meeting the power supply needs of the ship's crew cabin.

At the same time, the abundant power supply brings a leap in the multi-function of this type of liberation wheel. It can be installed with an upper boom to carry out marine construction and salvage shipwreck services, or it can directly dock to provide power support for local forward construction points, and it can also directly install a movable dump boom on the hull, becoming a seemingly ordinary bulk carrier that can show its skills on the dock.

The 5,000-ton Jiefang ship has also derived two more subdivided models, one is naturally the most classic bulk carrier type, and the other is a ro-ro type with multiple openings and closed the top deck. However, there is basically no difference between the two in a few nautical miles, the chimney and the main bridge are exactly the same position, and there is no difference in even armament when you get close - they are scheduled to install a Type 87 double-barreled 25mm anti-aircraft gun in the bow and stern, which is used to sink the main transport ship of the Bilunar Church, and it does not even need armor-piercing shells - in the test, The double-barreled anti-aircraft cannon, which relied on smoke agents and tracer rounds for visual inspection, easily tore to shreds the waterline of a Bilunar Church cargo ship that had been stranded in the port of Hirzi with high-explosive grenades.

Machine gun mounts were additionally installed on the walkway parapets on both sides of the bridge to combat sampans and enemies in case they boarded, and this configuration was already standard even on the Earth's side of the People's Navy and the North American Federal Navy, except for the 500-ton offshore Liberation Wheel, which was not equipped with the other Liberation Wheels. Among them, the 12,000-ton liberation ship, which is the core of the new Grand Voyage Program, is even equipped with multiple machine gun mounts in front and back of the bridge, and at the same time, a part of the Elta Army soldiers are transferred to the Navy and Marine Corps soldiers to accompany the ship and be responsible for the security of the whole ship.

It is not for nothing that the 12,000-ton Global Liberation ship has been treated as over-specified. Its tonnage is completely contemptuous of everything that the bilunar planet now knows, moving on water. ALTHOUGH IT WAS MAINLY ARMED WITH TWO 4-BARRELED 25MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS, ITS ECONOMIC SPEED OF MORE THAN 12 KNOTS AND ITS RESISTANCE TO SINKING ALLOWED IT TO SIT BACK AND RELAX IN THE FACE OF THE SIEGE OF THE BILUNAR CHURCH FLEET AND THE GENERAL HIGH SEA CONDITIONS - WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? Lao Tzu has goods on him and doesn't fight with you, and Lao Tzu runs fast, you can't catch Lao Tzu! You guys are waiting, I can call ten broken liberation ships with a phone call! There is a kind of continuous follow-up! The real Age of Discovery is to be so domineering!