The greater the number of guns and the larger the caliber, the stronger the attack power of the new Fuship, but the weight of a large number of guns and the recoil when firing will also put a heavy burden on the ship, so it is necessary to find a suitable balance in the middle. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

If you want to design a suitable Fu ship, you must first know the specific parameters of the artillery, Feng Youhua after listening to Yang Guang's request, recommended him the same famous "Napoleonic cannon" in history.

This kind of artillery shined in the American Civil War, with strong mobility, fierce firepower, and extremely simple manufacturing and use, almost the pinnacle of front-loading gun technology.

Moreover, Feng Youhua also said that the Northwest Industries Group can further improve it and replace the bronze originally made of this kind of artillery with cast steel produced by modern industry, so that the cannon barrel wall is thinner, and the weight of the whole gun is greatly reduced, but it will not affect the use effect at all.

According to Feng Youhua's calculations, a 12-pound cast steel cannon should not exceed 600 kilograms, which is the same as the 8-pound cannon in history, and the power is definitely not a grade.

Since the Napoleon cannon can fire a variety of shells including solid shells, explosive shells, and shotguns, it is enough to deal with any situation with only such a caliber of artillery, which reduces the logistical pressure a lot.

In addition, if necessary, it was even possible to load the guns mounted on the ship on wheels and move with the army. With enough horses to tow, the weight of more than 700 kilograms will not have much effect on the speed of the march.

Yang Guang thought carefully about the artillery recommended by Feng Youhua and felt that it completely met his needs, so he made a decision on the spot and asked Feng Youhua to report the detailed parameters as soon as possible, so that Fan Gong could design the drawings of the new ship accordingly.

In the next few days, Yang Guang and Fan Gong have been struggling with a problem, that is, how many guns to install on the Fu ship. It stands to reason that the weight of the cast steel gun has become lighter, and it is possible to place a few more guns to enhance the attack power, but the recoil of the 12-pounder gun has not decreased, and the structure of the Fubune cannot withstand the placement of too many guns on the side side. Speaking of which, it goes back to the original question.

The engineer surnamed Fan gave two options, either to increase the hull or to reduce the number of guns. Neither of these can satisfy Yang Guang. As the Fu ship grows bigger, it needs more sailors, and it also needs ships to escort it, and Yang Guang does not have the idea of forming a sea fleet for the time being, and he does not have enough forces to realize this idea.

In Yang Guang's imagination, such a Fuchuan gunboat can at least suppress several times the number of Franc machine ships, or more than ten times the number of other Fu ships, and if necessary, it can even attack small and medium-sized ports, and after the number of artillery is reduced to the safe number given by Fan Gong, it will not be able to occupy an absolute advantage in such a battle, which does not meet Yang Guang's expectations.

Yang Guang thought carefully all night, and finally adopted the design plan that had been abandoned at the beginning, not only keeping the original tonnage of the Fu ship unchanged, but also retaining the original number of 54 guns.

In this design, 8 guns were installed in the bow and stern of the ship, and the rest were all in the cabin, but the 38 guns were not evenly distributed on both sides. When the ship is about to shell from the side, some of the guns on the other side can be moved, so that the number of guns on one side of the ship can reach 28.

This design was once a proud work of Fan Gong, but he had to give up it when considering the recoil of the 12-pounder gun. Now hearing Yang Guang say that he actually chose this design again, Fan Gong objected almost without thinking: "This is impossible." In the event of a salvo from the side guns, the hull will not be able to withstand it. Even if the frequency of artillery fire is reduced, a prolonged shelling will also bring irreparable damage to the hull! ”

Yang Guang dared to use this design, naturally he had already thought of a solution, as a mage, he could use a large magic array to reinforce the hull, and there was no need to reinforce the whole ship, only local reinforcement was needed in the parts that were easy to damage, and the difficulty was not very great. It's just that there is no way to explain this to Fan Gong, so he can only say vaguely: "It's okay, if it's broken, it's better to build a new one!" ”

Fan Gong still wanted to speak, but was pulled hard by Liu Gong beside him, so he closed his mouth a little reluctantly. Liu Gong saw Yang Guang looking for Feng Youhua, so he whispered to Fan Gong: "You care so much!" This thing is nothing more than a rich man's toy, maybe after playing with it a few times and throwing it aside, how can it be possible to wait until you hit hundreds of artillery rounds to affect the hull structure? ”

"54 12-pounder guns? No problem, everything is ready-made, but the mold takes some time, and if you work overtime, you will definitely be able to get it out in half a month. After listening to Yang Guang's decision, Feng Youhua patted his chest and said.

"That's not in a hurry, as long as it is transported to Jiangzhou before they build the boat on their side." Yang Guang shook his head and said that there was no need to rush so much: "When the time comes, I have to trouble you to install it." By the way, can you provide black powder and shells? ”

"How much do you want!" Of course, Feng Youhua would not refuse Yang Guang's request, he said nonchalantly: "An old antique like this has long been eliminated, who will bombard the RPG-7 with a Napoleon cannon?" That is, rich people just collect it. However, when it comes to delivery, we will use two companies. Artillery and ammunition are separated"

After getting the ships and artillery, Yang Guang finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then he sat in Malaysia, slowly accepting the goods sent to him by his subordinates, and when the space-time gate was recharged, Yang Guang went to Yangzhou in the Ming Dynasty with a large number of supplies.

When leaving, Yang Guang asked Zhao Wu to continue training the 30 family members, after such a long time of training, these people can already accurately complete a few simple orders, Yang Guang decided to take them to RB to see how these people will react.

Previously, Yang Guang had funded Shi Bin to participate in Enke, although the latter worked hard but finally lost his name to Sun Shan, Shi Bin did not complain, but decided to go out to earn money to support his family like Fang Shan.

Since he didn't have much experience before, Shi Bin could only start from the most basic guys, Yang Guang felt that it was too wasteful for a scholar like this to take this road from scratch, so he simply took him and Tian Yihu with him and went around RB together.

Converged with Ye Zongman and others, Yang Guang set off to the beach again, this time he didn't need to say more, Ye Zongman took the initiative to arrange everything, so that Yang Guang could take out the goods in the space-time gate and put them in the warehouse without constraints, so that Ye Zongman only needed to arrange sailors to carry them to the ship the next day.