Chapter 433: Seal-class sailboat
In a gentle shoal in Triangle Bay, three wooden three-masted galleons are resting on the beach, and workers are nervously loading their weapons on them.
This is Li Yang's three armed merchant ships, three layers of wooden deck, the hull is forty-four meters long, 11.5 meters wide, and the load can reach 1,200 tons, Li Yang's bracelet has better wooden battleships, even the overlord of the sailing era, he can exchange huàn here, but he doesn't need the kind of battleship with the same body as a hedgehog, what he needs is this kind of armed merchant ship, which can reach a speed of ten knots when the wind is downwind, and sail very steadily at sea.
But this kind of wooden ship, but can not resist too strong recoil, those smoothbore guns in the huàn set or something, are centuries ago iron cast cannons, can only fire solid bullets and simple grenades, Li Yang can't look down on it at all, directly against the huàn naked ship without weapons, the upper and lower decks are installed medium mortars, recoilless guns and heavy machine guns, this kind of armament, is enough to suppress the demon.
When Li Yang had not yet formed the port, he used the three sailing ships named the seal class to be used in the next attack on Hongyuan Castlevania.
On the one hand, to give an explanation to the officers and soldiers who have been clamoring for on-the-spot training and boats in the naval school, on the other hand, it is also because Hongyuan Castlevania is completely facing the sea, if you use a boat, the earth demon clan that is reckless on land is completely a live target, and a large number of heavy machine guns with turntables are installed on the deck, which can effectively defend against the small wing demon and those air forces in all directions without dead ends.
"After some engineers studied the hull, we preliminarily designed a weapon installation method, twelve recoilless guns were installed on one side of the middle deck, four on one side of the upper deck, and with reference to the parameters, sixteen 120 mm mortars were installed, and we used a special chassis to spread the recoil on the hull as evenly as possible, as long as it was not fired at the same time, there was no damage to the hull at all, and there were eight six-seven type 7 evenly distributed on the upper deck. 62 mm heavy machine guns, and two twin 12s were installed in the bow and stern. 7-mm anti-aircraft machine gun, this is already arming such a wooden ship to the extreme. "This engineer from the machine shop reports on their final assembly standards.
"No problem, as long as you can carry out continuous bombardment of Hongyuan Castlevania, it is enough."
"It's a pity, we can't build ironclads, and if there are some ironclads at this time, we don't have to worry about recoil at all." The old engineer said with emotion.
Li Yang also knows, but now the boiler problem is plaguing the machinery factory, Gao Chengwu has a mouth full of blisters, and he can't solve it, he is engaged in mechanical lathes, not old-fashioned boilers.
The ships that Li Yang can exchange for huàn now are also wooden ships, and if you want to exchange huàn ironclad ships, it is estimated that you have to upgrade at least one level to exchange huàn bracelets.
"I have already asked two artillery factories that are about to be completed to produce small-caliber naval guns, and when the time comes, there will be no need to use recoilless guns with such a short range to support the scene."
Li Yang is already very satisfied, although in addition to mortars, the firing range is only two kilometers to the end, but it is enough, Hongyuan City is built near the sea, it is not big, and it is still a low flat building, and when the time comes, the continuous shelling on the sea will cause substantial harassment to the demons of Hongyuan City.
As for the origin of these three ships, everyone is silent.
After the establishment of the navy, he screened sailors from the Pingyang army and civilians who had sailor experience, as for the so-called naval school graduates, there were a few, and Li Yang didn't pay much attention to it, because the current sea battle was fundamentally different from their previous things, what he needed was more old sailors who could stand firm on the deck like fish in the water, rather than the naval officers who talked about it, there were three naval schools that had just graduated, and they actually wanted to be officers, so Li Yang, who knew the news, kicked them out directly, Even the marines didn't give them a chance.
Flying such a ship requires an experienced navigator, not an academic who only looks at radar and instruments!
The Navy's salary is the same as that of the Army, but there is a subsidy for going to sea, although the Army also has a salary and the like, but on the whole, the same rank, the Navy is about 40% more than the Army.
This is also why the Navy has just been formed, and if it is not given good treatment, why should people be transferred from the army with a bright future to the navy?
Li Yang's initial plan is to quickly train a group of sailors who can really leave the land to survive on the sea, this time to cooperate with the army is the best opportunity, Li Yang's newly established troops, Li Yang will always give them a relatively safe environment for them to gradually familiarize themselves with, just like when Li Yang first established the Nirvana Regiment, and like the dragoons in the first battle, there was a whole cavalry regiment for them to plunder.
Li Yang will give his newly formed army a stage of adaptation, and there will be no unnecessary casualties.
Looking at those who sweated in front of the beach, since the establishment of the naval school, a camp was set up with marching tents on a highland cliff in this triangle bay, as a temporary land for the school, they did all kinds of swimming, diving, simulating sailing, steering and other things that sailors should do every day, in order to train their sense of balance at sea, several rafts were tied to the rocks with ropes, and they were washed by the waves on the sea, they were all good, he had no reason to let them train so hard, so, a few days ago, These three ships were made, and in the past few days, it was the hull transformation and the hoarding of supplies on the ships, and the officers and men of the Naval Academy had a three-day vacation, and after this vacation, they were about to go to the battlefield.
And now on the beach, there is a group of unconcerned bachelors, not to mention Li Yang's army, that is, under the entire rule of Pingyang, such single soldiers account for a large part, after all, it is 3 million people out of 30 million people, one-tenth, it is already a gift from God to be alive.
The Navy tentatively determines the establishment of a brigade, without a regimental level, and sets the establishment according to the ships in service, and the position of this naval brigade commander is an elderly man named Ling Haoxing, he is a maritime academic, he has been in the navy for ten years, but in fact he is more like a scholar than a soldier, everyone knows that Li Yang uses this Ling Haoxing is to see that he has created several shipping companies, has been a captain for many years, and has a better understanding of the sea, they are all directly led by Li Yang, and there is a staff department with only the power to command. R1148