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"My lord, don't be kidding, I'm not going to do this, it's better to let me go to the battlefield to fight. Pen~Fun~ Pavilion www.biquge.info I'm either guarding prisoners or working as overseers for so long, I'm about to rust. Li Bing hurriedly complained to Fang Ruitao, this year has really made him feel aggrieved.

Fang Ruitao said: "I'm not joking, you fought the battle, but are you willing to change the military branch?"

"I only know what a military branch is. Li Bing was a little confused.

"Yes, I intend for you to form the first navy in my territory, just like the difference between cavalry and infantry in the army, and the difference between the branches of the army, but the difference is that the previous troops fought on land, and the navy fought on the sea. Fang Ruitao explained in as much language as he could understand.

"How to fight with a boat and who to fight" Fang Ruitao had told him the shape and use of the boat before, Li Bing was no stranger to this, but he didn't have any idea of how to fight.

Fang Ruitao said: "Fighting with a boat is naturally to fight the other party's ship, at present, there are several ways to fight a ship war, the first is that the distance between the two sides is very far, we use ballistas and trebuchets, when the two sides approach, we can install a ramming angle in the bow of the ship to smash the opponent's ship, or use a cable to swing to the opponent's ship directly in close combat." ”

"It seems that I haven't heard that anyone on the mainland can build a ship, if the young master can build it, it will definitely be the only one in the entire continent, whose ship are we going to fight" Li Bing was very puzzled.

Fang Ruitao said: "Technology will always be leaked, especially if we are going to use a ship to carry goods, which will soon attract the attention of people with intentions." There is not much difficulty in building a ship, as long as there are good enough carpenters, after a period of exploration, everyone can build it. At this time, we need to use force at sea to protect our own ships, and the navy will come in handy, and I believe that this day will not be long. ”

"I understand, my lord, I am willing to form a navy, but what should we do first" Li Bing did not understand the construction of the navy at all.

Fang Ruitao said: "First of all, you must be proficient in swimming, if the navy can't swim, then it will be a big joke." Once the ship is built, you'll need to learn how to handle it from the orcs. Fang Ruitao pointed to Master Aken, who had just walked by.

"Orcs, aren't they the race of the Demon God Continent, why do they appear here. Li Bing had just seen an orc again at this time, and he immediately asked in surprise.

Fang Ruitao patted him on the shoulder and said, "The orc ancestors are good at manipulating ships, if it weren't for this, they wouldn't have been able to come from the Demon God Continent to the Heavenly God Continent. Moreover, these orcs have pledged their allegiance to me, and they swear by the goddess of the heavenly beasts that they revere the most, and they will never betray them in the future. However, these orcs are too dazzling to operate on the Celestial God Continent, unless I control the absolute power, and I don't want to tell the truth for the time being. So they can only help in secret, the navy on the surface must be you, not to mention that I would prefer to let your own people like you control the navy, you don't want me to disappoint. ”

"Yes, my lord, I promise to train a good navy for my lordship. Li Bing was excited, and he expressed his determination to Fang Ruitao.

The next morning, after handing over the defense to Xiao Jinchen, Li Bing and one of his brigade of soldiers began to learn to swim at the beach. These soldiers are all landlubbers, in order to learn to swim, they hold the wood and flutter in the water, or consult those orcs, with Li Bing leading by example, everyone is very enthusiastic about learning to swim.

Li Bing led the team to learn to swim, and Fang Ruitao led the team to the shipyard. As Fang Xiaoyu's son, Fang Ruitao has a deep affection for the navy, after all, his grandfather is a naval engineer, so his brothers and sisters have some research on the navy.

Although Fang Ruitao didn't do anything at the beginning, he still knew a lot about the structure and materials of various ships with his ability to never forget, especially the result of his unprofessional performance in this aspect, that is, he was not only interested in those modern warships, but also in ancient ships, so he went down to the small boats made of reeds by the Egyptians to the latest maritime technology before the era of space development, he had some understanding, and it was no problem to build a few sailing ships.

With Fang Ruitao's memory, Fengyun 19 can still draw drawings, so Fang Ruitao's drawings have already been prepared. Taking out the drawings, everyone was stunned by the huge hull, and they knew that it was not unreasonable for Fang Ruitao to build such a large dock in the shipyard.

Dockyard shipbuilding was a way of building ships that only existed after the Age of Discovery, and under his explanation, the carpenters quickly understood the manufacturing process and precautions. With the help of a few students who were very good at drawing, the concerted efforts of five hundred carpenters, and the help of several orc shipbuilding masters, Fang Ruitao estimated that the first ship could be built in a month.

This is because they are not skilled enough, and when these carpenters become skilled shipbuilders, the construction speed will be faster, and when they are all skilled, these carpenters can be separated to work in several docks, and some new people will be replenished, so that several large ships can be built at the same time.

Naturally, the first time to build a ship, it should not be too difficult, so Fang Ruitao gave them the drawings of the Kirk-style sailing ship. The main reason why Fang Ruitao chose the drawings of this kind of boat, in addition to its suitability for ocean navigation and durability, is that the Kirk sailing ship uses lap joints to construct the plank, which makes the sailboat impossible to build too large, but avoids a more realistic problem.

There are no saws on the Celestial Continent, and carpenters use axes to make planks, which makes the planks not too accurate, and such planks cannot be bridged by direct splicing, and if more advanced flat jointing methods are used, the hull will leak.

Today's carpenters are accustomed to using axes, and if they were to switch to saws, it would take a long time just to get used to the tools. Now Fang Ruitao is waiting for the boat, naturally he can't wait patiently for the carpenters to learn step by step, so he decided to let them use their existing technology to build a lap Kirk-style sailboat.

The use of existing technology and resources can greatly shorten the construction period so that his merchant fleet can be built as quickly as possible. Although the tonnage of the Kirk galleons could never exceed two hundred tons at the level of these carpenters, they were already very safe to sail at sea, and much larger than the canoes of the orcs.

In addition to being surprised, those orc shipbuilders devoted themselves to the shipbuilding work with great enthusiasm, their strength was greater, and they could easily install the keel in place, seeing these Fang Ruitao found another benefit of the orcs, with them, the speed of shipbuilding will be increased a lot.

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