Chapter 19 The South Seas Strategy

Gangzi enthusiastically pulled down Bucknar and asked, "Uncle Bucknar, is there a way for you elves to make the ordinary ribs of the hull more resilient and able to withstand greater pressure." ”

"Yes."

What a comfortable answer, my brother just rode a donkey to find a donkey, and let the masters of tree transformation not use it, and changed it on the transformation map by himself, but did not change a decent one.

"Then you gather all the elves on Black Sail Island, I have a major task for you."

In the Jimo Shipyard, all the ships are occupied by the construction of various ships, most of which are dhows or show modifications, and these speed-enhanced dhows will be directly supplied to the White Shark Fleet and the Archangel Fleet. In addition, there are several brigs for the construction of galleons, and since Gangzi has not widely disclosed the capacity of Jimo Port to build brigs, the order is limited to the Jiuzhuo merchant group and the four major fleets of the Han Dynasty.

The construction of these ships occupies only part of this shipyard, and the other half of the space of the shipyard is occupied by seven semi-finished three-masted battleships. At this time, the hull of the three-masted battleship had been built, and the superstructure did not take much time, and Gangzi did not rush to build the seven three-masted battleships and leave the factory, but suspended the construction.

Since the champions of this "King of Navigation" are all from the Sky Fleet, the six people who participated in the competition were strictly required not to disclose the news of the three-masted battleship drawings in the reward to anyone after receiving the reward, so no one in the entire game knew about the existence of these seven three-masted battleships except for Huacai and Gangzi.

Gangzi's Jimo Port has always been closed to players and has good confidentiality. Moreover, Jimo Shipyard is a high-class shipyard that can manufacture three-masted battleships, so these seven three-masted battleships are entrusted to Gangzi to be responsible for construction and storage.

This time, Gangzi entered the shipyard with a group of elves, and the elves frequently looked at the seven huge three-masted battleships with adoring eyes. Gangzi took them to a shipbuilding station.

It was a military ship being remodeled, and the superstructure had been lifted to reveal its inner workings.

The renovation of the wave resistance of the hull has been completed, and the angular hull of Fukubune has been replaced with various curves. Positions below the waterline are separated by sealed compartments. In this case, if there is water in one place, as long as the sailor closes the hatch in time. The sea will not spread to other compartments. This design greatly increases the sinking resistance of the Fukuship.

But it is precisely the design of the watertight silo that reduces the rib material used by the Fu ship. If it is used as a merchant ship, this defect is harmless, but once the guns needed for the battleship are placed, the sparse ribs can easily be crushed by the instantaneous recoil of the guns, and the ship is likely to break in two by itself.

The difficulty in turning a military ship into a warship is how to install the guns needed by the warship while maintaining a watertight warehouse.

Gangzi, on the other hand, hopes that the elves can play an important role in this process.

"I need you to use the power of nature to strengthen the toughness of each rib, but the toughness should not be too strong, otherwise the stiffness of the ribs will not be able to support the hull. Luckily, we have enough material for you to experiment. ”

After the first modified Fu ship passed the toughness of the elves' hull ribs, Gangzi personally drove and assembled the military Fu ship to go out for sea trials. After determining that all other performances were similar to those of the brig, Gangzi ordered an artillery test.

Under the orders of Gangzi, the sailors on the military ship were to charge all the twenty guns on board to the maximum and fill them with shells.

After seeing the gun commander signal that the artillery was ready, Gangzi gave the order to open fire.

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

"Inspire!"

"Boom, boom!"

"Whoa......

The hull of the military ship was scattered.

The toughness was too much, the rigidity was not enough, and the excessive bending of the ribs under the pressure of the gun caused the deformation and cracking of the hull, and finally fell apart. Gangzi floated on the sea holding a plank, while calling the following boat to rescue the sailor who had fallen overboard. While sending back to Jimo, the transformation of the second military fortune ship began.

As one after another military Fu ships are scrapped during testing, the cost of military Fu ship drawings, the cost of retrofitting drawings, the cost of ship construction, and the cost of transformation. There is also a degree of application of sail equipment, especially twenty fine iron smoothbore guns, so many gold coins all enter the sea after a test failure.

Fortunately, they all built themselves, and a large part of the gold was saved, but even so, it was not a small amount, no different from throwing gold into the sea, and it was scattered basket by basket.

The brother who also lost money now has a big business and a big net worth, otherwise how can he withstand such a toss. Do not say. I don't want to think about it, I don't look at the cost figures. It's really going to cry.

Fortunately, the elves lived up to their expectations, and they gradually mastered the strength of toughening the ribs of the military fortune ship in the failures again and again.

The military Fubune was finally able to withstand a salvo of twenty guns. But that's just a good sign. In the high-intensity continuous firing, the military fortune ship sank into the sea again. It was already a good sign to be able to hold out for a few salvos, so Gangzi continued to return to Jimo Shipyard with confidence to carry out the transformation of military ships.

The elves have mastered the general strength of the rib toughening, and the following is to fine-tune this strength to find the best range. In the not simple shelling test, the hull of the ship was under pressure for longer and longer.

And finally reached the standard of a brig.

It's not easy! Gangzi was able to raise his intermediate ship design proficiency to the full level in such a short period of time, which shows how many drawings he produced and how many ships he built during this time. Now if the various brig drawings in his hands are put on the market, they can definitely feed the thirsty brig market in the entire game world.

Of course, my brother won't do this, and he will make a lot less money.

After determining the final model of the military Fu Ship Reform, Gangzi built four more military Fu Ship Reform. These five military ships will follow Sun Tiezui's Pacific-Atlantic caravan to the United Kingdom, which is enough to test the comprehensive performance of the military ships on the way. If the performance of the military ship is intact during this voyage, Gangzi decided to redesign the ship that was promoted to senior ship designer in Plymouth this time, and he will use the military ship to change it.

During this time, when Gangzi was in retreat and throwing money to play, the speed-enhanced sloops ordered by the Archangel Fleet and the White Shark Fleet had all been delivered. The addition of a large number of speed-enhanced dhows made these two fleets quickly lay a large escort network in the South Seas, and the pirates of the South Seas began to converge, and the safety of the Han players in the South Seas was improved.

In contrast, the number of South Sea players and merchants encountering pirates began to increase, and of course it was self-evident what role the two major fleets of the Han Dynasty played in it.

Nanyang players accused the Han escort warship of changing the pirate flag at any time to rob the Nanyang players. The Archangel Fleet and the White Shark Fleet denied such accusations, and demanded that the Nanyang players hand over video evidence to prove that the Han escort fleet changed its flag and robbed.

"Of course they can't hand it over, after our escort warships found the merchant ships of the Nanyang players, they all notified the escort warships in the nearby uninhabited waters to change their flags, and no one will take a video, even if they are photographed, we will not admit it, 'This is obviously a false accusation!'" PS, the technology is still so poor. ’”

The war of words could not solve the current dilemma of the Nanyang players, so the Nanyang players began to ask the anti-hegemonic alliance to escort the Nanyang waters.

So Gangzi has to rush to produce a large number of orders, "neighbors first, and orders from the Americas will be slowed down first." ”

As the anti-hegemonic alliance also carried out escort protection in the waters of the South Seas, friction inevitably began to occur in the waters of the South Seas. The escort warships of the two sides, which were already hostile, met together, first with mouth artillery attacks, and then with the threat of firing artillery, but everyone was a battleship, and no one was afraid of anyone, and when they blushed, they turned into live ammunition.

A skirmish, along the respective escort nets spread rapidly, the warships of both sides chased after each other on the sea, or two ships fought alone, or a group of ships fought each other, and if they could not fight, they called for nearby friendly ships to support. For almost a day, the entire South Seas were a battlefield of speed-enhanced sloops.

The two sides accused each other of making the first move, and the war of words on the forum was round after round, and their respective trolls swarmed out and opened fire on all sides, in a vain attempt to completely overwhelm each other in public opinion.

Above the sea, the speed-enhanced dhows of both sides were evenly matched, and a large amount of consumption was consumed in the battle. As a result, a large number of orders were transmitted to the headquarters of Hangzhou Jiuzhuo Business Group.

Qian Duoduo issued a public statement: "We regret the ongoing conflict in the South Seas, and hope that the two sides can take a step back from each other, give up friction, and return calm to the South Seas. ”

After making a statement, Qian Duoduo asked Gangzi beside him: "The Archangel Fleet and the White Shark Fleet are fighting with the organization of the South Seas Anti-Alliance, and it is not good for us to sell the Anti-Alliance warships, right?" ”

Gangzi said indifferently: "This is the strategy formulated by the four fleets, and if we want to completely break the blockade of the anti-alliance against us, we must disintegrate the anti-alliance, and the strategy of dealing with Nanyang and dealing with Fusang is also different." The mass base of the Nanyang Anti-Alliance is very weak, basically supported by a few large legions and guilds, and the lower-level players are not only not hostile to our Han merchants, but welcome us very much in order to make money, so for the Nanyang countries, we must try not to attack their homeland, so as not to arouse the hatred of their lower-level players, and turn to support the anti-alliance organization. Therefore, our strategy against the Nanyang anti-alliance is to fight for money. ”

A little more money is passed, and he realized: "I said why the two fleets in the south do not use the main force, but use the speed-enhanced dhow warships to fight with the Nanyang Anti-Alliance, it turns out to be a gold coin, then the Nanyang Anti-Alliance really can't fight us." ”

Gangzi said with a smile: "When the Nanyang Anti-Alliance runs out of money, the Archangel Fleet and the White Shark Fleet can use speed-enhanced dhow warships to control the entire Nanyang, and if the Nanyang Anti-Alliance wants to survive, there are two ways, the first is to negotiate and agree to our conditions to withdraw from the Anti-Alliance; The second is the decisive battle of the fleet, the Southern Fleet has our support, and the Southern Fleet has no possibility of winning. (To be continued)

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