Now Xiao Man doesn't dare to doubt it, even if he has countless doubts in his heart, he has to hold it first, originally he thought that it was impossible for the iron ship to float.

"Mozi, this iron boat is so slow, can it really be used?" It's inconvenient to ask Master Lei, you can ask others, he has already seen that the two most important people in the craftsman camp of the Shengong Temple are Zhang Tan and Mozi.

On weekdays, the young Mozi Shenlong saw the head but not the tail, and he only saw it twice in a month.

Mozi is not only young, but also taciturn, and does not speak easily, but no matter where he goes, everyone respects him, which shows that this person has a good status here.

"Oh, it shouldn't be slow, it's the hull that is being built now. Mozi looked at Xiao Man with a surprised gaze.

Hull!

What does this mean?

Mozi didn't want to say more, this time he came to the ship tungsten to measure the size of Shitong No. 2 on the spot, to verify the location of the steam engine, as well as the arrangement of coal tanks and maintenance cabins, and the most important counterweight issue.

Experiment No. 1 is just an iron shell, and the test items are mainly based on floating, balance, and wind and wave resistance, but Laboratory No. 2 is different, this is the real steamship, although it is still not big enough to be really used, but it can run, and it will have to go through at least 3,000 to 10,000 miles of sea trials.

The drawings of Experiment 3 have been completed, and they are still only on paper, and after the sea trials of Experiment 2, they will enter the casting process, which is generally a 60-meter-long battleship.

This length is a second-class battleship of the Dachu standard, with a load of 1,500 materials and 180 sailors.

In addition to the personnel and load, there was also the armament component, and Renault was hesitating whether to use artillery or bed crossbows.

With the current scientific and technological capabilities of the Shengong Temple, there is not much problem in manufacturing artillery, not to mention that the problem of barrel exhaust bubbles has been solved, even if there are a few bubbles, it will not have a big impact, after all, the metal here is different from the earth, and the alloy used to produce the barrel is no problem at all for casting this level of artillery.

The problem is that the shell, the flowering shell has just completed the initial test, and the effect is still successful, but there are many problems, and the explosion rate of the trigger fuse is less than 30%, so such a shell cannot be used. Ten shots, only three shots can be fried, that's still a ghost.

You know, handmade shells are worth a lot of money, even if there is no cost on Renault's side, labor always costs money.

In fact, the money is of little use in Shengong City, here is the rationing system, you can earn labor points, labor points are better than gold coins, if you can exchange it for success, then it will be a cattle batch, and even the ground monkey meat can be exchanged.

Da Chu's bed crossbow is actually not bad, and it is quite easy to transform, and now there is a special experimental group in the laboratory to transform Da Chu's various bed crossbows, and the effect is much faster than that of the artillery experimental group, and the effect is quite obvious.

Not only can the firing range reach 300 zhang, but the accuracy is also very high, and experienced gunners can accurately predict the time of explosion by intercepting the length of the fuse without triggering the fuse at all.

This thing is more convenient than artillery, which needs to be loaded with propellant, cleared, and cooled......

Not only is it troublesome, but the firing speed of the artillery may not be comparable to the bed crossbow, and the bed crossbow with a ratchet is wound at the same speed as the artillery, or even slightly faster.

It was a long process for musket artillery to replace bow crossbows, and for a long time, artillery was really not as good as bed crossbows.

"Let's use the bed crossbow first, and do more explosives bag delay training, so that every crossbowman knows how to cut the fuse. In the end, Renault decided to use the bed crossbow.

The reason for this is that bed crossbows are now faster to manufacture than artillery, weigh at least five times lighter, have fewer personnel than artillery, and can operate a bed crossbow with just five people. In the early days of artillery, at least eight people were on the lookout.

This is still on a battleship, if it is a land battle, a cannon weighing thousands of pounds, as many as 30 or 50 people are used for transportation, and a large number of pack horses are added.

The bed crossbow can not only be used on naval warships, as long as the wheels are added, a horse can be dragged and run, plus a supply vehicle, ten people can easily do it.

"Sir, the Austrians have landed in Chunjiang Province, just as you predicted. Cui Qing hurriedly got into the RV, holding the latest battle report.

This is not the official report of Da Chu, the speed of that thing is too slow, and the delivery range, excluding the Nanzhang region, has been specially prepared for Shengong City, and it can only be picked up by yourself, otherwise I don't know how long it will take to be delivered here.

The battle report was brought back by the airship troops, and as the number of airships increased, every half month, an airship unit would travel back and forth between Los Angeles and Shengong City. In addition to transporting some daily necessities, the most important thing is to pass on information. After all, in the Nanzhang area, information is too closed.

After receiving the battle report, Renault looked at it carefully from the beginning, because it was a war report from the military department, so the content was very detailed, including the general's statement, analysis, summary, and the statements of the parties involved in the battle.

The first battle was started by the Charge, naturally in the battle report, there was her statement, Renault had no doubts about the outcome of the battle, he had already guessed it, but he didn't expect that the Northern Naval Army of Great Chu would be so rotten.

Degree.

Of course, there are naturally things that catch his attention, such as the fact that the Austrian battleships have artillery, and there are quite a few of them.

As for that battle, the only bright spot was the result of the Charge, one sinking and two wounded, with one enemy and three defeats, and the battle was victorious.

But in the war report, I saw the summary of the Shangguan and the instructions of the military department, and the result was completely opposite, at this time, Lan Bing had been imprisoned, and the charges were very clear, and he lied about the military situation. Although there is merit, it is greater.

Lan Bing's problem can only be put aside now, and the people are locked up, but they are not completely convicted, after all, they rushed up with the Charge to meet the Austrian fleet, took the initiative to fight, and the results made the entire Northern Navy face gloomy.

If you win the war, but you are guilty, where can you justify this?

But this is the case, after receiving the battle report, the northern navy dispatched half of the warships, but more than 100 ships were sunk and more than 200 were wounded.

And the reason for all this is attributed to Lan Bing's lying about the military situation. If you break a battleship, you can defeat three enemies in one fight, although you are killed or wounded, but you have won after all.

According to this battle report, the generals of the Northern Navy made military comparisons, thinking that with the same number of warships, they should be able to easily defeat the Austrian level, which is not wrong with the logic.

"Interesting, Lan Bing, the daughter of Lan Guangzu, is now fourteen years old, temporarily taking the position of captain of the Stormtroopers. Fourteen years old, only fourteen years old......" Renault read the battle report, quite speechless, the Great Chu people are really precocious, fourteen years old is still a junior high school student, people dare to lead nearly two hundred masters, facing the fleet of hundreds of thousands of Austrians.

"Immediately send an airship unit, go to the Los Angeles military headquarters first, get people out, and then fly to Chunjiang Mansion, up and down the Charge, as long as there are no dead people, I want the disabled, and their families, all brought here. Renault fell in love at a glance, Lan Bing was good, and the sailors on the Charge were also first-class.

It took him a few months to build a ship, and according to the current progress, at most half a year, the ironclad ship will be launched, the ship is there, and the weapons are not a problem, but there is no one in him, let alone the navy, not even the civilian boats.

Leaning on the seashore, only under the command of Renault dared to go out to sea to fish, let them go out on their own, even along the coastline, they dared to sail to the dark ......

"Yes. "This kind of trivial matter, even Cui Qing doesn't have to come forward, as long as the signboard of Shengong City is displayed, a little steward can handle it.

In fact, Lan Bing is not guilty, there is no problem with what they did, first send a clipper to deliver the letter, and then face the Austrian warship, and use a warship to meet the Austrian fleet, how much courage does it take.

In fact, even if he turned around and fled after reporting the letter, no one could say anything. But you have one enemy and three enemies, and you have cleaned up the faces of the northern navy, who will you clean up if you don't clean up?

Chu Ren is a good emperor, Chu Xingyun was dying, and he handed over the Great Chu Jiangshan to him, in Renault's opinion, he chose well

After receiving the military report of the landing of the Austrian fleet, Chu Ren sent an order to send nearby troops to harass the Austrian army as soon as possible, not to kill the enemy, at least not to let the Austrians build a camp comfortably.

At the same time, with the landing site as the center, all the soldiers and civilians were relocated, and within a thousand miles, the walls were cleared, not a grain of grain was allowed to be left for the Austrians, all the houses were burned down, and the wells were filled and the roads were broken......

In particular, livestock, not even a donkey can be left for the Austrians.

Chu Ren didn't know much about military affairs, but he was extremely smart, and after the guidance of several generals, he already had his own opinions on military affairs.

As soon as the battle report began, he found out the weaknesses of the Austrians. In fact, this group of Austrian elite tax pioneers not only has more than 150,000 people, but also has the most sophisticated equipment, and the rear materials are in short supply, but their grain and grass have not decreased at all.

There is only one thing that cannot be solved, and that is the war horse. Not to mention war horses, not even pack horses. Not only are there no vanguards, but there are also no Romans Islands. Although the area of the Solomon Islands is not small, there are no horses there.

In fact, even if there are horses in the Lomon Islands, they can only be transported in small quantities, after all, horses are creatures that are not suitable for navigation, and they need much more space than people, and they also need more fodder.

This vanguard force is all infantry, and even the carts that transport supplies can only be pulled by manpower.

In addition to the first three days of landing, more than 2,000 Great Chu people were captured nearby, and in the following days, not to mention the people of Chu, even the Great Chu army could not be seen.

The scouts sent out also have no horses, so they can't be fast, they can't even travel hundreds of miles a day, and the scouts are not faster than anyone else, you have to stop and reconnoitre.

On the tenth day of the Austrian landing, the farthest scout was already 500 miles away, and the battle report sent back was quite a headache.

What the Aons were most worried about still happened, the Chu people used the strategy of clearing the wilderness, leaving not a grain of rice, and not seeing a single person.

More than 2,000 Chu people have not been killed, but among them, there are less than 400 young and strong, and the rest can only waste food, worry!

Before the start of the war, the Austrians naturally made various predictions, and the situation that appeared in front of them was the worst one. It is precisely because of this concern that enough food and grass will be brought for the vanguard troops.

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