Chapter 46: The Launching of the Battleship

The chances of an accident on a wooden sailing ship in the Age of Discovery were relatively high, and once an accident occurred, the sailors would put their last words in wine bottles and drift in the wind, hoping to be picked up. Later, when the new ship was launched, the wine bottle would be smashed on the bow of the ship, which means "the drifting bottle will never be used again", which is a deep blessing for the newly launched ship.

"Bang! ——”

As the champagne in Chen Zeyu's hand slammed into the bow of the ship, the electric buttons in the dock were suddenly opened by the workers, and the 16 water filling holes in the entire floating dock began to fill the bottom of the dock at the same time.

At the same time, the same ceremony was taking place in two other dockyards in the shipyard.

The workers of the surrounding shipyards immediately cheered one by one, and they were infected, and many political axe officials who came to visit also hugged each other and high-fived, and everyone fell into a joy.

When the water level reached the predetermined standard, as another button in the dock control room was turned on, the "Xiangshan" ironclad battleship, which had been slowly lifted up in the water, slowly opened the open gate of the dock.

After the three "Luzon" class battleships were launched one after another, they gathered on the sea surface and lined up in a neat column, which looked more and more magnificent.

This class of "Luzon"-class ironclad battleship, originally influenced by Chen Zeyu, the shipyard's design team abandoned the traditional vertical bow, but adopted the inward inclined flying scissor bow pushed by Chen Zeyu.

In addition, the high-freeboard design, inherited from the "Taiwan" class and which has long been proven to be effective, is also applied to the warships of this class. As a result, the main deck of the battleship reached a staggering 5.3 meters above sea level, and this design proved to be able to withstand the equivalent of a 7-level wind and wave in the bow.

The ship was no longer susceptible to waves, its hull was naturally more stable, and the overall shape of the ship was designed to be extremely modern.

In terms of appearance, the three "Luzon"-class ironclad battleships still use the traditional livery of the Seris Navy, and the entire hull presents the unique silver-gray color of the Republic.

Cold-applied zinc anticorrosive coatings specially developed by Avalanche Chemical Group for shipyards are also able to protect these brand new Seris naval vessels. In addition to ensuring that your warships are stainless all year round at sea, this silver-gray livery also reduces the long-range visibility of your naval warships, and while improving the survivability of warships, it also uniquely forms another kind of cold style that is different from the gorgeous Victorian livery of British royal ships.

The hull with a slight hint of silver-gray in the white color not only makes the battleship look very beautiful as a whole, but also the color of the painting carefully chosen by Chen Zeyu is also the color of the intersection of the sea and the sky.

This livery will be a good camouflage color when the entire battleship is sailing on the surface of the water.

In addition, the guns of this class of battleships also adopt the twin layout of later generations, and the front chimney zigzags backwards and merge with the rear chimney to merge into one place, making the hull look very smooth and simple from the outside.

The facilities of the mast and bridge in the front mast expansion make the entire battleship hull very close to the modern warships of later generations, and it looks very beautiful, compared to most armored ships of this era, the layout of the hull of the own warship is unusually compact and reasonable.

In addition, the biggest feature of the hull on the side of the ship is that it is different from the soft hull curve of Western warships.

In this way, it is naturally far inferior to the warships built by their own welding technology, and the time-consuming and laborious rivet beating process also greatly increases the unnecessary weight of the battleship's hull, which can be used for armor or naval artillery armament.

It is precisely because the Avalanche shipyard of the Republic gradually replaced a large number of original riveting links with welding processes in the process of building these warships, so that these warships of the Seris Navy can be equipped with more weapons and power systems while ensuring that the armor thickness is not inferior to that of Western warships.

Chen Zeyu looked at another open-air slipway not far from here, which had just been newly built.

It was there that the keel part of the first updated Ryukyu-class battleship of the Republic, the "Dreadnought", was also built, and now it is in the process of intense construction of the battleship's hull.

When the construction of this "Dreadnought" battleship is completed and launched, all the naval warships of various countries sailing on the sea in the world will become obsolete.

Turning his head to look at the "Luzon"-class ironclad battleship undergoing sea trials on the sea not far away, Chen Zeyu hummed the song of his previous life happily.

Due to the fact that from this class of Luzon-class battleships, the shipyard design department has begun to adopt the central axis armament layout suggested by Chen Zeyu on the warships, and the overall simple and compact hull is completely a reduced version of the British Dreadnought class in the previous life.

The layout of the central axis, which is different from that of other countries, coupled with the wide firing range specially designed by the ship, allows the warship of this class to concentrate all six 305mm huge naval guns on the ship at the same time to fire in the same direction when fighting at sea.

Like the Dreadnought being built at the shipyard, the last three Luzon-class ironclad battleships abandoned the secondary guns of the mid-caliber in favor of a large number of mini-guns to deal with future torpedoes and small ships.

In addition, because of the improvement of the battleship's sighting equipment and firing command system, the three twin-mounted main guns distributed on the battleship can not only be aimed at their respective targets in different directions, but also use the new firing command system to make the three twin-mounted naval guns shoot at the same time using a calculated ballistic angle.

In particular, the power of the latter when firing in a concentrated manner, because the firing curve is the same, the metal heat flow bombarded by the main gun of the battleship will be able to walk within a relatively concentrated target range, so that the long-range hit rate of the battleship's guns will be greatly improved, and the importance of this to modern naval warfare is self-evident.

When Chen Zeyu was secretly proud, he also deeply felt that his Republic Navy had a first-class "monster" warship that was different from the development trend of the original navy ships. Strictly speaking, the "Luzon"-class ironclad battleship in front of us should be called an epoch-making new type of battleship.

Shaking his head, no longer imagining how this class of warships would bully the enemy's navy in future naval battles, Chen Zeyu called Sheng and Wu beside him to get into the carriage that was already waiting on the side.

Today's trip is on the one hand to celebrate the launch of the last three "Luzon" class warships, and on the other hand, it is also to cheer up Sheng and Wu, who are about to return to China. Let them know that their republic has not only the belief of invincibility, but also the overwhelming power over the countries of Asia.

Sheng Xuanhuai, who has been taken under Chen Zeyu's command, Wu Tingfang and Wu Tingfang of course returned to China with a purpose.

In addition to Wu Tingfang, who is a family member, will continue to go to the United States as his counselor to the United States, the main role will still be Sheng Xuanhuai, the minister of supervision of Beiyang Customs.

In the Ming Dynasty, there will be two Seris freighters laden with arms to go to the Qing Kingdom with this grand man.

In addition to the 50 base 1,000 special 305mm artillery grenades that can be used for the Beiyang Navy Division and the Zhener Ship of the Qing Dynasty, there are also a large number of 150mm small-caliber rapid-fire naval guns that can be loaded on warships and their corresponding ammunition of 2,000 bases. And these are not the most important things, the arms on the other ship are the focus of Sheng Xuanhuai's trip.

"You bring this person first, he is equipped with the latest individual radio communication equipment in our country. When the time comes, the Navy will have a training ship dedicated to your relay station, and our intelligence officers in North Korea will contact you when needed. ”

Chen Zeyu gave Sheng Xuanhuai an order to see an opportunity to hand over the arms on the ship to a North Korean force called "Dong Hak-do". Their leader is called Jeon Junjun......

Although Sheng Xuanhuai and the others were very troubled by Chen Zeyu's order, they still agreed.

Regardless of their doubts, Chen Zeyu's Seris Republic will not do anything harmful to the Qing State in a short period of time, and even the opposite side of the Republic will appropriately strengthen the weight of the Qing State.

Naturally, it is Chen Zeyu's long-awaited battle of the Qing Dynasty!

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