Chapter 65: Forming a Fleet
During the banquet in the evening, Lu Dujun pulled Zhao Yun to talk about homely things, and when asked about Zhao Yun's family, Zhao Yun directly used the Chinese in Europe to go up, as for the family! Or use the family of later generations, when the genealogy was repaired in later generations, Zhao Yun's family clearly recorded that there were relatives in Europe, who stayed there for business during the Qing Dynasty, after all, his family was a big family in Suzhou, and there were many celebrities back then. The reputation of this family, Zhejiang Lu Dujun and others have also heard of it, for this kind of same clan and different branches, perennial outside the door of self-reliance, after returning to the clan has not returned, there have been before. So he just sent someone to Suzhou to inquire about Zhao Yun's self-exposure of his home, and to check whether there was such a line, without too much entanglement.
As for the family in Suzhou who sent people to confront him, Zhao Yun was not afraid, when the family tree was repaired in later generations, every family paid for it, so naturally a few copies were indispensable at home. So for some special things recorded in some books, Zhao Yun, an otaku, has a general impression when he has read a travelogue. At most, when it's time to rank the seniors, make your seniority lower, and be a grandnephew!
As for talking about the family, this Zhao Yun could only bow his head and answer no, and sure enough, the eyes of Lu Dujun and the others were immediately wrong. It's a pity for such a good child. For the sake of Zhao Yun's eyes, no! No! Older Problem Youth!
Fortunately, the conversation changed to the issue of bicycles, and the atmosphere eased. I agreed with Zhao Yun that there is no limit to the number of 100 oceans, how much you can eat! Anyway, this can also be civilian, and if the army can't eat it, it will be transferred to the civilian, so Lu Dujun is not afraid that Zhao Yun's number is terrifying.
Then, Zhao Yun asked Lu Dujun for a small island in the Zhoushan Islands to build a dock for himself. This time, because there was no wharf, it was transported by plane, and if there was a wharf, it would be transported directly to the wharf.
Sure enough, Lu Dujun, with a big stroke, a small island called Yushan under the name of Daishan of the Zhoushan Islands was assigned to Zhao Yun's name.
His naval cause has finally taken the first step, Zhao Yun shouted in his heart.
The next day, Zhao Yun's peasants followed the Overseer's Mansion and sent personnel to this small island called Yushan in Hangzhou Bay.
A day later, Zhao Yun's men finally landed on the island.
It is said to be a small island, and it is a small black dot on the map of Zhejiang, and when I arrived, I realized that this is an archipelago called the volcanic island.
There are civil wharves, salt farms, and natural resources are very rich, and the first thing Zhao Yun ordered people to go to the island was to establish a wharf on the island.
In fact, the various technologies in the camp construction unit dock have been developed in Tianzi Lake, but there has been no suitable place to produce various surface military units. Now that there is a good opportunity, how can Zhao Yun miss it.
That night the first battleship of its own was produced, a wooden three-masted sail battleship, or the kind that fired ballistas.
With a length of 34 meters, a three-masted sail, and still wooden, the old warships of the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe, armed with only one ballista. This European-style sail warship, whose shape is incompatible with the surrounding fishing boats, attracted everyone's attention as soon as it appeared.
However, it is only eye-catching, there were still sail transports on the sea during the First World War, but now it is becoming less and less, not nothing, occasionally, there is a rare opportunity to see wooden transports from some European countries.
But I've never seen anything as big and so well worked.
All the people who followed Zhao Yun almost fell off their eyes when they saw this battleship cruising in the waters around this nameless island. They all thought that this was Zhao Yun's first foothold on the sea, and they would get some good things to put on a show.
Now that this kind of "antique" is used to show off, a group of people who laughed bent down.
"It's a miracle that this can still float on water!" After Lu Dujun heard the news for the first time, he also laughed for a long time, and finally used this sentence to summarize Zhao Yun's action.
Zhao Yun was very busy in the following days, and began to conduct a major inspection of the weapons of the Overseer's Mansion in Hangzhou, and found the lightning strike ship he had purchased for Lu Overseer, as well as four German-made "Fokker" fighters and two old British Tabloh seaplanes.
Then, Zhao Yun's movements made the people who followed him incomprehensible.
Needless to say, there were four-tube torpedo launchers on the mine-striking ship bought by the British, which were dismantled and borrowed by Zhao Yun, and returned them the next day.
Bicycles, Overseer's generators, telephones, and kerosene lamps were all borrowed and returned the next day. Within two days, the Overseers knew that a madman had moved in, borrowed everything, and returned it in one piece.
The "Fokker" fighter was quickly borrowed and copied by Zhao Yun in the name of research. Zhao Yun knew that there was a Pearl Harbor incident in World War II, and he also knew that it was a trend for planes to deal with warships. But not now, the only means of attack of the aircraft are machine guns, and the aerial throwing of torpedoes is basically inaccurate.
In order to keep up with the pace of the world, there is only one way to learn more new information. Therefore, Lu Dujun was specially invited to open up some information on foreign weapons to Zhao Yun.
First of all, Zhao Yun focuses on Japan. This neighboring country that has never stopped, in this era, whether Zhao Yun runs to Outer Mongolia or Zhejiang, they have their ubiquitous figure.
And last year, Japan launched a new ship in a noun, attracted Zhao Yun, aircraft carrier. Japan has built an aircraft carrier!
In 1919, Japan began construction of an aircraft carrier called "Hosho". The ship was designed and built as an aircraft carrier from the beginning, and Japan stepped up construction and finally completed and entered service in 1920. "Fengxiang" is 168.25 meters long, has a displacement of 7470 tons, a speed of 25 knots, and carries 21 aircraft. The ship has a through-type flight deck and an island-like superstructure, and is known as the world's first true aircraft carrier.
Japan has aircraft carriers, but what about other countries? Zhao Yun was anxious, he only knew that the aircraft carrier in World War II was powerful, but now that the first war is over, it is beyond expectation that there are aircraft carriers.
Soon, information on the aircraft carrier was also found in two other countries.
Kennyon Whiting, a U.S. naval officer, joined the British Naval Air Force during World War I and had a deep understanding of aircraft carriers. After returning home, he lobbied the naval authorities to convert the coal carrier "Jupiter" into an aircraft carrier. In March 1920, the "Jupiter" entered the Norfolk Naval Shipyard for a two-year refit. It has not yet been refitted, but the modified "Jupiter" will be renamed "Langley".
The old naval power, Britain, also realized that there must be aircraft carriers at sea. In April 1917, the British Admiralty secretly ordered an aircraft carrier in a large shipyard, named "Athletic", the ship has a total length of 182.3 meters, a displacement of 10,900 tons, a speed of 25 knots, 20 aircraft, a through flight deck, and an island superstructure on the starboard side of the middle of the deck, but the ship was built slowly and is still in the shipyard.
Some of these materials were left by the Germans, and I don't know how Duan Qirui got them, because Zhejiang was close to the sea, so they were all sent to Zhejiang. But the Lu Overseer Army never had the money to build a huge navy, and now it can only be cheaper Zhao Yun.
On the small islands west of Daidong Town and Yushan Township, farmers have built more than 20 arrow towers and occupied all the highlands on the islands.
As a guard on the seaward side of the wharf, work has begun on the construction of three wharves, a mill, and a hut on the island. And, of course, the most important siege weapons factory.
Two farmers are fishing by the sea and then sending their catch to the mill. A scene of paradise.
This is the small island assigned to Zhao Yun by Lu Dujun, it is really small, a whole township! There are springs and salt farms on the island, which is equivalent to sending Zhao Yun an important salt industry base. However, there was no other supplies, so I had to use a small boat to go to the surrounding city of Zhoushan to buy them.
Lu Dujun is actually still not worried about Zhao Yun, you kid has money and guns, in case you have land and people, how will Lao Tzu mix in the future?
Therefore, the restrictions on Zhao Yun are obvious.
But the farmers don't need food, they just need a nearby camp building to provide energy.
This is especially true of the wooden three-masted sail warship, which, unlike airplanes, is able to sail on the power of the wind. Airplanes are notoriously expensive, and the Sail Battleship consumes very little, which also indicates that it can sail farther.
At present, the weapons of wooden warships are only ballistas, which are enough to deal with fishing boats, but to deal with other warships, it is to find death. An old warship from the pre-Qing Dynasty can blast it to slag.
Zhao Yun had already thought about them, the torpedo launchers could be mounted on wooden three-masted sail warships, so that they could be turned into lightning strike ships when defending near the sea. Although it is a sail battleship, there is not much difference in its speed against the current and downstream. It will surely surprise its opponents.
And even if the torpedo launcher is equipped, the cost of each ship is only more than 800 gold and some wood, which has little impact on the monetary aspect.
Therefore, the bow of the ship is equipped with two British-made 533 mm torpedo tubes, and there is also a Machinke water-cooled heavy machine gun on the left and right, based on this modified one, ten more ships were built in turn for the defense of the surrounding seas, and batteries were also established on the high part of the island, and imitation 280 caliber guns were also moved to the island, but only two were arranged, and Zhao Yun stopped. After all, this is the gateway of Hangzhou Bay, just get some decorations and show off, if it is made into a fortress, it is estimated that Lu Dujun will not be able to sleep at night.
However, when Zhao Yun was busy in Hangzhou, something big happened in Langxi, and Wu Xiaoya sent troops to attack Pan Datou.
"This little girl, haven't I been gone for a few days? Why did you open fire? Suddenly received a report from Cui Sangou, and Zhao Yun was too late to blame Wu Xiaoya now.
Zhao Yun didn't want to think about it, he was busy before and after, and he had no concept of time at all, but now it's June, and he hasn't come up for a while, Wu Xiaoya is of course in a hurry! After rectifying the people of Shifoshan, they directly drove to Pan Village.
Wu Xiaoya also underestimated the defense of Pan Village, since Pan Datou annihilated most of Shifo Mountain outside the village, a large number of people and horses in Pan Village began training, and the original bird guns and muskets were all replaced with rifles.
Of course, because of Zhao Yun's repeated instructions, in the plan of Wu Xiaoya and "Bad Water Ma", they did not plan to capture Pan Village, as long as Pan Datou's men came to the rescue, they would surround the point and send reinforcements and solve it in Shifo Mountain.
After all, the newly formed large lifting bar team and earth artillery team in Shifoshan have also seen the scale of the day, the number of large lifting bars has exceeded two hundred, and the earth cannon has also exceeded fifty.