Chapter 30 The Great Han Class 5 Battleship

Gangzi's military fuchuan reform successfully passed the test with a perfect score, but this transformation did not cause a strong sensation like the last speed reinforced dhow. Most people just talked about the magical Oriental Kid who once again made it to senior designer with a perfect score, and after being amazed at this high-speed upgrade, he gradually forgot about him.

However, within the Plymouth Ship Architects' Guild, the appearance of the military ship reform caused a strong earthquake, while the appearance of the speed-enhanced dhow did not have such a tremor.

No matter how strong a speed-enhanced dhow is, it is still a sloop, and it will never replace the position of a brig on the ocean.

However, the military ship is different, it is a hard sailing ship to transform a battleship, a warship with strong oriental characteristics, and it also represents the emergence of a warship system that is not mastered by the British Ship Designers Association. Since Gangzi can change the military fortune ship, with the successful experience, he can turn the Daifu ship into a battleship, and then climb the hard sailing ship technology tree one by one, and finally restore the giant treasure ship.

At that time, a maritime power that could confront Britain would appear on the other side of the Eurasian continent, which was definitely not good news for Britain, the maritime hegemon.

"Since the emergence of warships in the Eastern system cannot be stopped, then↗ we must get the design of the Gangzi military Fu ship reform, with this design we can add watertight warehouse technology to our warships while maintaining firepower, so that our warships are still better than the military Fu ship reform in terms of transformation potential, and the military Fu ship reform has been completely malleable by Gangzi, our warships can firmly occupy the market of the shipbuilding industry with this point, and the military Fu ship reform has no market and no capital return, It can't support the research that follows. ”

The top directives of the Plymouth Ship Architects' Guild were quickly communicated. In Sir Gardner's study, Gangzi was faced with a multiple-choice question, which was different from the last time he was promoted to intermediate naval designer. The two options he faced this time were "a to publish the detailed transformation drawings of the military ship to the Plymouth Ship Designers Association, so that a two-masted hard-sail battleship named after Gangzi would be added to the basic shipbuilding drawings, and at the same time, for every such warship produced in the world, Gangzi would get a certain share; b. Cancel the results of the Senior Naval Architect Examination, and the Naval Architects' Guild of the United Kingdom and the British friendly countries will not agree to Gangzi's application for promotion. ”

cao！ Forced to buy and sell, shameless enough!

Fortunately, my brother was originally "the Grand Duke is selflessly ready to make this drawing public, otherwise you will be forced out of the Great Aunt!"

Sir Gardner is also very dissatisfied with the domineering of the Plymouth Ship Designers Guild, especially since the object of their hegemony is still their own disciples, but the Plymouth Ship Designers Guild can really do it if they want to ban Gangzi, although Sir Gardner is the chief designer of the Plymouth Shipyard. But it has not yet reached the point where it affects the entire British ship design industry: "I don't know how to innovate myself, I only know how to snatch the results of other people's research, and now British ship designers are arrogant and not a little aggressive, and it seems that it was a mistake for me to persuade you to give the speed-enhanced dhow to the Plymouth Ship Designers Guild, and instead of giving them any help, it only increased their laziness that they only want to take shortcuts." My disciple, you must leave Plymouth immediately, even if you use the Advanced Ship Design Skill Book to advance, with your talent you can make the giant treasure ship reappear. ”

"No!" Gangzi said. "Sir, you can tell the Plymouth Ship Architects Guild that I am willing to make the details of the design of the military ship public."

"Why did you make such a decision? Producing military fugitives won't make you much of a profit, and they'll upgrade your technology for existing brigs. To squeeze the market for military ship reform. Sir Gardner was very puzzled by his disciple's decision.

Gangzi replied: "In the future, I need a large number of military ships to equip my fleet, but the cost of the military ships to be converted into a modified warship is too high and not suitable for large-scale installation." I need the Plymouth Ship Architects' Guild to characterize it as a universal warship, as for the market? I believe that the future brig will not have much impact on the transformation of military ships. ”

Now that Gangzi had decided to make the design of the military fortune ship public, Sir Gardner did not dissuade him again. Under his certification, Gangzi submitted the design details of the military Fuchuan converted warship to the Plymouth Ship Architects Association, and Gangzi was successfully promoted to senior ship designer with a perfect score.

"As the designer of a general-purpose warship, you have the right to name this new type of warship."

"What's it called? Let's call it a Dahan fifth-class battleship! It corresponds exactly to the British battleship class. ”

So Gangzi renamed the military fortune ship as the Dahan five-class battleship, which fully demonstrated his ambition in the manufacture of warships.

After the Plymouth Ship Designers Guild got the design drawings of Gangzi, they couldn't wait to produce a Dahan Class 5 battleship as a physical object for the study of the watertight warehouse. Then, after thinking that he had mastered the technology, he remodeled a brig according to the design of Gangzi's hull.

There is nothing to test in terms of speed, storage, and defense, and the people involved in the transformation of this brig are all master designers, and they can guess the data of a ship at a glance. The key performance of this brig battleship transformation ship is to see whether the sparse ribs of this ship can withstand the salvo of 20 guns after adding watertight compartments under the waterline.

"The design drawings of the Dahan V-class battleship are not too unique in terms of hull structure, and I really don't understand how such a hull can withstand the pressure generated by a salvo of twenty guns."

"Gangzi's speed-enhanced dhow, we also didn't understand why a simple hull adjustment could make a dhow show such speed? It seems that this battleship still continues the mystery of Gangzi, so we don't need to argue about the rationality of this design, the success of the Dahan V-class battleship is obvious to all, and we only need to replace the upper part of the Dahan V-class battleship with our brig, as for its principle, we can study it slowly. ”

"Don't speak, the artillery test is about to begin, this time we have upgraded the brig, which is a pioneering feat for the entire world navigation community, all the brigs of all countries are eliminated at this moment, and when the new brig is finalized, we will arrange a large number of personnel to learn, because we will usher in orders from all over the world."

The upgraded brig slowly drove into the artillery test area under the watchful eyes of the minds of the Plymouth Naval Architects Guild. In order to better reflect the importance that the guild attaches to this battleship, the testers also set up two target ships, one on the left and one on the right.

The artillery was ready under the loading of the crew's sailors, and the lookouts raised a red flag to inform the spectators on the shore that the gun tests were about to begin. To show the competence of Plymouth's naval architects, to make the world remember this moment. The Plymouth Ship Architects' Guild invited a large number of celebrities to watch, and even the British Admiralty Chancellor came to watch the birth of a warship of the past era.

Battleships are the foundation of the British nation, and the importance of a good warship to this country is self-evident, although the brig is the fifth class warship in the British battleship system, but due to the comprehensive functions of the brig, it is also the most produced warship in the United Kingdom.

At the signal of the British Admiralty, the flag bearer on the shore informed the upgraded brig in the language of the flag that the upgraded brig could be tested.

The gunners on the battleship had already completed their calibration, and with the order to open the guns, the fuses of twenty guns were ignited at the same time.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The neat sound of artillery barely audible intervals, and then ......

"Click! Click! ……”

A large crack in the deck was opened, two openings in the hull of the ship were opened, and the sea poured in, and the battleship sank to the bottom of the sea before it saw it.

There was silence on the shore.

Everyone looked at the heads of the Plymouth Ship Architects' Guild, "What's going on?" Are you going to replace all the V5 warships in service with such ships? ”

The British Admiralty's face was already red: "If you call me from London to Plymouth just to watch a farce, I admit that the scene just now is very joyful, and if you take the money that the British Empire gives you every month to study only this kind of, you have tarnished the honour and tradition that Plymouth has always had, and I will state to Her Majesty what has happened today, and you would better prepare a reasonable explanation, and now you shall send someone to rescue the sailor who has fallen into the water, They shouldn't have sacrificed themselves on that jigsaw, the canoes made by the natives of Equatorial Guinea are stronger than the warships you make! ”

The minds of the Plymouth Ship Architects' Guild hurriedly arranged for someone to rescue the overboard, and the crowd on the docks let out all sorts of taunts.

"Why this happens, we completely use the hull structure on the rigid design drawing."

"Harder to have a problem with the blueprint?"

"Nope! If the design drawings given by Gangzi are different from the structure of the military Fuchuan reform, then his design drawings will not be recognized as general-purpose, this is a recognized drawing, and a warship for combat can be produced by building according to the drawings. ”

"But why can't the brigs we built according to the drawings withstand the pressure of twenty guns?"

"Let's drive the Dahan fifth-class battleship we built out and test it."

The Dahan V-class battleship produced by the Designers Guild was driven out of the harbor for gun tests.

After a round of artillery salvo, the Dahan fifth-class battleship fell apart.

This is a battleship produced by the blueprints of the recognized Dahan Class 5 battleship, without any modifications, it's too brittle! (To be continued.) )

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