In March of another year, the willow green apricot blossoms in the south of the Yangtze River are red.

Renault stood by the dock, watching the launch of the first Nanhai-class battleship, his mood was slightly agitated, this was his fifth year in the Great Chu world.

In the middle of last year, the first fleet landed in Hongzhou, and in two months and eighteen days, the second fleet landed in Wuyangfu. One month and eight days, Raft Island invaded Hanzhang and Dali, and on the twenty-first day of a month, the Third Fleet reinforced Wuyangfu.

Before coming here, he had just received the latest battle report, the remnants of the fourth Austrian fleet, and arrived in Wuyang Mansion.

Don't look at the menacing Austrian army, in fact, the pressure on Da Chu is not great, only a few months apart so a dozen to hundreds of thousands of Austrian troops landed, with Da Chu's familiarity with the Austrian army's combat methods, 1 million military horses, can no longer bring more pressure to Da Chu.

Of course, the situation in Great Chu is still very bad, with the reinforcement of the two fleets, the battle line of Wuyangfu has expanded outward for 300 li, more than 600,000 Austrian troops, and nearly a million Great Chu coalition troops across the river, and countless battles every day.

With Wuyangfu as the center, it has become a veritable meat grinder, causing two continents with a population of hundreds of millions to bleed.

Although the first fleet of the Lei Army brought enough grain, grass and ammunition, after nearly a year of consumption, it was already the end of the crossbow, not only suffered heavy casualties and retreated back to Chunjiang Mansion, but also because of the strategy of clearing the wilderness of the Great Chu Fortified Wall, it was difficult for the Austrians to be replenished.

In the Eastern Theater, the number of coalition troops has been reduced to 300,000, and they can still easily suppress the Lei army, and according to the prediction of the Ministry of War, at most, the Austrian army can be annihilated in three months.

The real trouble came from the Austrian Raft Island, where the pressure on the Great Chu coalition army was ten times greater than that of the Austrian army, which was bare hands and a large number of Austrian civilians.

Nature is the best sieve, burying all the old and weak and those who are not strong-minded in the sea, and all who can land are outlaws.

In the eastern Liaodong region, millions of troops have already sunk, and the attitude of the military department is still quite pessimistic. Because after those two raft floating islands, four more raft floating islands landed in Hanzhang.

The total number of people on the floating island, known as the Okujin Sea Min, is more than 7 million, which is close to the total population of Hanjangji. The problem is that the vast majority of these more than 7 million Austrians are young and strong.

Nowadays, the Great Chu Military Department's understanding of Hanzhang is also extremely limited, and the secret spies cannot enter and exit Hanzhang, so they can only rely on airships to reconnoiter at high altitudes, and in a few months, the number of airships lost exceeds 50.

It is said that Hanzhang is like hell, looking down from the air, there is countless smoke, and blood flows like a river. Compared with the regular battlefield where Great Chu advanced and retreated to a certain extent, it was like the end of the world, there were no rules, laws, and even human nature disappeared.

Renault speculated that the Austrian reconnaissance fleet was wrong, and the real ocean current should have drifted to Hanzhang Island. After all, when the Austrians opened up the sea route, they used fast boats, and they would use sails to explore the currents, and rafts floating islands were really fateful and could only drift with the currents.

Shaking his head and looking at the Nanhai-class battleship in front of him, a trace of pride rose in Renault's heart, he only took five years to build a hundred-meter-long ironclad ship, which was enough to be proud.

In fact, to have such an achievement, it is not Renault who has contributed the most, but the four people who are craftsmen Xiaoman, Mozi, Zhang Tan, and Luo Ning.

What Renault can tell them is only the right direction, and it is these four people who really implement it, as well as the artisan camp laboratory, nearly 100 experimental research groups.

Compared with the ironclad ships of the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan classes, the Nanhai class has changed a lot. Hull construction, self-balancing structure, watertight tank structure, split deck, center of gravity adjustment, power room, fuel tank layout......

From Renault's point of view, this first Nanhai-class battleship has reached the level of World War I, not only the battleship itself, but also the naval guns on it have reached a similar level.

"Sir, please name the first Nanhai-class battleship. The four of Zhang Tan came to Renault with a red face, this battleship is full of their hard work, from the first experimental ship to now, it has been a year and a half.

Renault adopts a rotational construction strategy, constantly building docks, constantly building new ships, as long as manpower and technology can keep up, as many as there are. After all, guarding the Shengong City, there is no need to worry about the materials, and now the area of the Shengong City has been expanded again and again, and the straight line length of the city wall is more than three miles.

"Who has contributed the most to this battleship?" asked Renault, who had already been on board to see it, and although it was still rudimentary, it had already satisfied him.

As long as the Austrian fleet and the raft island can be effectively intercepted on the sea, the Austrians who have landed in several places, even if the number has reached 10 million, they can be wiped out sooner or later, and the fear is that the Austrians have endless backup.

The Austrians are ruined, the Austrians have a reason to fight hard, and the Great Chu coalition army is far from being as strong as it seems, and there is no pain in the skin, who wants to fight to the death?

"Xiaoman. Mozi said, in fact, he and Luo Ning also contributed a lot, but Zhang Tan, because he was old, it was far less time and energy than them.

"Then it's called Xiaoman. "Renault's name is still as bad as ever.

"Yes. "Xiao Man's face is happy, this kind of glory can only be found in Shengong City, and the Ministry of Industry will not care whether you are a god craftsman or not, all the credit belongs to Shangguan, and you have a hairy relationship with a craftsman?

"How many ships are under construction in the Nanhai class?" Renault asked.

"A total of 28 dockyards were built at the same time, and nine ships were built, and the rest waited. "Xiao Man is a shipbuilding master, and he is responsible for the dry dock and shipbuilding.

The so-called main construction refers to everything that is ready and is being built. Shipbuilding is the highest level of Dachu's industry, although Dachu's technology tree is still far behind, and the Nanhai-class warships are still simple, but compared to wooden ships, they are much stronger.

Renault has prepared sufficient manpower and materials, and has been working day and night in three shifts, and it is fast to launch a Nanhai-class ship in half a year.

Using the method of wheel building is also a last resort, Renault knows that Da Chu needs a large number of ironclad ships, and he has no time to improve the battleships better.

No matter what level of ironclad ship it is, it is actually the same, the hull, cabin, power cabin, weapons, in Renault's opinion, such a battleship, rough excessive, absolute three no products, according to the laws of the dynasty, who would dare to let it go into the water?

Renault can't manage so much, as long as it can go into the water, as for the leakage, slowly make up for it, if the problem is too big, change it while using it.

Nanhai-class battleship with a displacement of 5,800 tons, three boiler power systems, three main guns and twelve secondary guns.

This is a real cannon, using split ammunition, with a caliber of 120 mm for the main gun and 80 mm for the secondary gun. The main gun has a range of 20 miles, and the secondary gun has a range of 12 miles.

"Three days of sea trials, if there is no problem, the supplies are full, and immediately support the Lan Bing fleet. Renault said that in the past six months, Renault has added eighteen Zhenyuan-class and thirty-two fat men to the Lan Bing fleet, so that the Lan Bing fleet has nearly 30 warships and more than 50 supply ships.

Not only could it ensure the supply of the Tiger King Army, but also began to carry out a sea blockade, carried out the task of attacking the Austrian fourth fleet, destroyed and sank hundreds of Austrian warships and more than 300 transport ships, until the shells ran out, and had to leave.

Relying on the ironclad ship with fine iron, Lan Bing ventured forward and fired at close range a mile away, so that on average, a few shells could sink an enemy ship and deal a heavy blow to the Austrian Fourth Fleet. Almost half of the troops were wiped out on the sea.

Seeing such a result, Chu Ren was of course tempted, almost all the shipwrights he could find were sent to Shengong City, and hundreds of dry docks had been built on this coastline, but unfortunately there was still a shortage of manpower.

Of course, Chu Ren also wanted to make the Ministry of Industry build ships, but it was useless, not only did he lack technology, but he also did not have so much fine iron, and now seventy percent of the armor weapons used by the front-line soldiers came from Shengong City, and the Ministry of Industry could not even do anything to make armor, let alone use fine iron to make warships.

"Sir, General Shi's airship has arrived. Huya said softly.

"Well, let's go, we'll meet this General Shi. "The news that Schroam is coming, Renault knew about it a month ago.

The Shengong Navy has destroyed countless enemies, and there are ironclad ships across the sea, how could Da Chu not know about such a big thing? What Chu Ren thinks in his heart Others don't know, Shi Luohua, the general of the South China Sea Navy Army, thought about it for more than ten days, but he still couldn't help but come to the door in person.

The Southern Navy lost more than half of its losses in the naval battle last year, and it has lost its ability to fight in the sea. If it weren't for the Austrian fleet rushing to escort more Austrians to land, more than half a year would have been enough for them to wipe out the southern navy.

As the general of the Southern Water Army, Shi Luohua really couldn't help it.

Dingguo Gong, General Jinghai, and General Shi Luohua of the Southern Navy Army, his face is white and beardless, and he looks like he is about forty, but in fact, he is over seventy years old, don't think that this age is very old, just the opposite, as a grandmaster, seventy years old is the right age.

"Please, Lei Shi'an. ”

"Please Song Xian'an. ”

Don't look at Shi Luohua has a large list of titles, he holds a heavy army in Da Chu, he is a first-class real power figure, and in front of Chu Ren, he has a lot of weight. But in front of Renault, it was quite polite.

This kind of politeness is no longer like the hypocritical politeness of Renault when he was in Los Angeles, after all, at that time, Renault had nothing worthy of respect except for the name of a secret master.

You're a secret master, you're amazing, as long as I don't offend you, there's nothing to ask you for anyway.

Now it's different, Lei Shi is not only a secret master, but more importantly, Shengong City, Lei Shi is the master of Shengong City, and he is a man of his word, although he never speaks, as long as he says a word, his weight in Da Chu is probably heavier than His Majesty Chu Ren.

General Shi was polite and sat down to speak. "Renault naturally doesn't put on a show, he can find a way to make better weapons and ships, but he always needs to be used by people.

The Divine Engineer Army is only an experimental force, and he does not want the Divine Engineer Army to become the main force against the Austrians.