Daming's new round of ship-building frenzy has officially begun. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

And not just battlecruisers.

After Yang Feng threw power to the generals of the navy, and the latter won enough budget from the cabinet, the new generation of battleship plans also began to be implemented, and the Dingyuan class will build ten, there are already six, and there are currently four shipyards under construction, after the completion of the construction of this battleship, the construction of this battleship will be stopped, and a new generation of larger, also with a range of 10,000 nautical miles will be built, and the five-inch gun will no longer be used as the main gun, and the latest seven-inch gun will be used directly.

That is, a caliber of 224 mm.

It was also developed on the basis of the shore defense gun of Longya Gate.

The new generation of battleships will have a terrifying displacement of 30,000 tons, that is, 18,000 tons of European standards, and the gun layout is similar to the Dingyuan class, but it has become eight seven-inch guns, and the head and tail axis guns have become turret guns.

This is still a cannon cannon.

As for the armor, it is still the same steel-surfaced wrought iron as the Dingyuan level, and even the thickness is the same, and no one can penetrate this thickness anyway.

This battleship is named Hongwu class, all named after the next year, and the future is ready to build the Ming Dynasty, this battleship is not untargeted, because at this time the British have also begun to manufacture their own large-caliber rifled guns. In the absence of a steel-making furnace, they used a large crucible to melt the cheap steel barrel purchased from the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty still prohibits the export of steel that can be used for weapon manufacturing, and European countries in the case of limited crucible steel production, are to buy a large number of cheap smoothbore gun melt to obtain high-quality barrel steel, or directly pull rifling to make rifled guns, which also makes those Ming private arms factories make a lot of money. These molten barrels were cast into thin-walled barrels, which were then drawn out using rudimentary rifling techniques, and wrought iron was wrapped around the outside, and finally a complete cannon was made. According to intelligence, the largest shell has reached sixty-eight pounds, and is currently climbing to the level of a hundred pounds, as for the power is unknown, and because it is too heavy to be used on battleships, it can only be used as a shore defense gun.

However, this kind of cannon is still very amazing, after all, purely in terms of the weight of the shells, it has already caught up with the four-inch cannon of the Ming army.

Such a solid shell, there is still no pressure to penetrate the steel plate outside the cruiser, as for the dome armor inside, this is really hard to say, after all, the dome armor of the Ming army has not evolved to the Harvey carburized steel plate, the battle cruiser dome armor in the design is just a layer of nickel steel plate that is not thick, if the four-inch gun solid bullet is made of steel, then whether it can be penetrated can be tested later, but it can still be said that the British have the ability to threaten.

Especially if their 100-pounder cannon is built, it will definitely be very threatening.

This is still battleship insurance.

In addition to the Hongwu-class battleships, there are also Qi Jiguang-class battlecruisers named after the ancient Ming Dynasty generals, and then there are large landing ships specially used for amphibious operations, which are also indispensable, after all, the main work of the Ming Navy in the future is actually to do this, and naval warfare is just a sideline, even if the British began to build a primary version of the steam engine at this time, it is impossible to evolve to the era of steel battleships, as far as their wooden sail battleships are just a target for the Ming army.

Landing operations are the main business.

This landing ship was proposed by Emperor Yang and then realized by his subordinates.

However, this landing ship is not the same as a landing ship in the real sense, the difficulty of the latter is too high, especially since he does not have a high-power diesel engine, and it is difficult to add the complex set of water injection and retreat devices when he can only use a piston steam engine. Therefore, Yang Feng's landing ship is just a flat-bottomed transport ship, with a displacement of more than 1,000 tons, and a draft of less than one meter, similar to a large river gunboat, which can reach the coast without a dock, but it is definitely not possible to rush to the beach, but there is a hatch that can be closed in the bow of the ship, and there is a special wooden springboard, which can allow the infantry to rush out and then wade to the shore to avoid rowing a small boat to eat bullets.

Of course, this landing ship is slow and seaworthy, and it is impossible to carry out a landing operation in the open ocean, that is, from Alexandria you can play on the Mediterranean coast.

But that's enough.

It is an exaggeration to take a landing ship to land on the coast of the North Sea, even if a modern landing ship is not so simple to play this, what Yang Feng wants is to cross the Mediterranean, and then land in Italy or Marseille, to land in Rotterdam, this kind of thing is not within the scope of the plan at all, Europe is that little depth, how much time can it take to land in Marseille and then fight France?

Battleships, battle cruisers, cruisers, landing ships, large transport ships, in short, the whole Ming Dynasty quickly set off a ship-building frenzy, from north to south, all shipyards are at full capacity for production, steel mills, huge shipbuilding steel plates, hydraulic presses, huge structural parts, steam hammers, huge parts, a steady stream of shipyards, and then assembled and riveted by shipbuilders and even welded, steel giants continue to form, Waiting to begin the expedition to Europe.

Although this day is still far away, it will come eventually.

For this point, whether it is the monarchs of European countries, or the people of insight within the Ming Dynasty, it can be said that they know that the Ming Dynasty has basically conquered Asia, although there are still some immeasurable little praying mantis in the corner of the stubborn resistance, but their fate has been doomed, so how can Emperor Yang let go of this planet, the last land that has the ability to challenge the Ming Dynasty, this is the general trend, even in the Ming Military Academy, some students have shouted the slogan of the Rhine sword pointing at the British.

"Horse on the Rhine, I like it!"

Emperor Yang was very satisfied with this, the Ming soldiers had to have this kind of courage, an army that did not invade and expand was not a good army, and they didn't even have the courage to mix in a universe, how could they be worthy of the sun and moon above their heads.

Of course, this is just some private remarks, and has nothing to do with His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire and his government, just like the more and more Huang disaster theories in Europe now, they are just a small number of people, and the vast majority of the people in Ming Europe still love peace and embrace each other friendly.

Peaceful development is the mainstream.

Just as the Suez Canal was dug to make the communication between the East and the West more convenient, and the railway was built to Europe only to reproduce the glory of the Silk Road, and it had nothing to do with aggression or anything Mao, all the exaggeration of these two projects as a threat to Europe is a rumor with ulterior motives and ulterior motives.

"According to the current progress, at most five years can be completed with the railway from Suzhou to this side of the construction, as long as the iron bridge is completed, and then there will be only the watershed tunnel group, other places are easy to construct, and the railway from Suzhou to the west, at that time it is estimated that it can almost be connected with the railway built to the east of Luntai, their biggest obstacle there is the wind and sand, the desert area is simple to lay tracks, but how to ensure that the roadbed is not buried or hollowed out by the wind and sand is the most difficult."

The director of the Xijing Railway said excitedly standing in front of Yang Feng.

This problem is actually not serious, this is not more than two hundred years later, the population of Xinjiang at that time is five million, and at this time, the combined population of Beiting and Shannan has just exceeded one million, which is mainly because of the construction of Longcheng, otherwise the two provinces together are only hundreds of thousands. Therefore, the environment of the Western Regions is much better than that of modern times, for example, the current Lop Nur or Daming map marks that Puchang Lake is still a decent big lake, even if it is not much better than Taihu Lake, in fact, the whole Ming Dynasty is like this, for example, the Horqin Sandy Land is now a fertile prairie.

"Difficulties are temporary, I believe in you!"

Yang Feng patted him on the shoulder and said.

Then the Lord Steward was so excited that he fell on the ground and wept.

They are at the construction site of the Yellow River railway bridge in Lanzhou at this time, this bridge is the most important bridge to the west of the railway, after crossing the Yellow River, there are only a few small ditches left along the way, but there are still Wusheling or the current name watershed tunnel group, but even if it is exaggerated in five years, it is no problem to complete the connection with the railway built to the east in Suzhou in six or seven years, at this time the steel plant in Suzhou has also been put into operation, although the current output is only one hundred tons per day, but time will solve the remaining problems.

Anyway, this steel plant is used to build roads, and there are basically no other uses for the time being.

The Luntai Iron and Steel Plant is also about to be put into operation, relying on this steel plant, the same will also build railways to the east and west, so that when the Lanzhou to Suzhou section is connected, the Luntai to Suzhou section is basically the same, and the Yili Iron and Steel Plant is under construction, and this steel plant will also play like this after the completion of the steel plant, so from three points, at the latest seven years, he can take the train to Longcheng.

And the construction of Dragon City has also begun.

At least 20,000 workers, as well as 20,000 garrisons and 50,000 slaves, were sweating for the construction of Dragon City.

And blood, of course.

Seven years later, seven years later, the tentacles of the Ming Dynasty will really penetrate deep into Central Asia, and even into Siberia.

Because the railway extending from Ili is not only to the east, there is also a branch line that will go north, and then all the way to the bank of the Irtysh River, and a port city will be established there, the city has been named Xinjin, Beijing's Tianzi Jindu is Tianjin, Nanjing itself is a river port, and Xijing, of course, also has its own Tianzi Jindu, and this is Xinjin, where a shipyard will also be built, and the future Emperor His Majesty will take a train from Xijing, Go to Xinjin and change to a steamer and go along the Irtysh River to the distant Arctic Ocean.