Vienna, Royal Gardens.

Franz and Friedrich, the two of them simulate war with plates and food.

Friedrich was very interested in Franz's special operation, a small force took advantage of the darkness to paralyze the enemy's important batteries, attack the enemy's arsenal, or prepare in advance in the enemy's city, and cooperate with the large army to cooperate with the outside world, although it is somewhat despicable, but it is indeed direct and effective.

As for the tactics of the steam ships, they should be mainly based on attacking and harassing and killing and injuring the crew.

Therefore, guns should be added to the bow and stern of the ship to facilitate pursuit and escape.

At the same time, the broadside firepower should be dominated by flowering shells and grapeshot shells, the purpose of which is to kill and injure the deck personnel of the enemy ship, ignite the deck and destroy the sails, so as to achieve the purpose of causing confusion to the enemy ship.

As for sinking, and jumping gang battles, forget about the Austrian Navy.

The Venetian sailors are indeed very capable of fighting, but it is better to wake up and expect a group of professional drunkards to deal with a group of professional soldiers.

The main thing is the steam-powered ships of the current modification, the tonnage is still too small to be suitable for these two tactics.

In addition to being fast, steam-powered ships can also add additional armor to the exterior, that is, ironclad ships.

But there is still a big difference between the ironclads of this era and the ironclads that we are familiar with in later generations.

At this time, the ironclad ships were just wrapped in a layer of iron hulls on the wooden hull, and some ships even hung a few cast iron plates on both sides of the ship to prevent artillery.

As for the power source, it is also chaotic, there are only steam power, and there are also steam sail hybrids.

In particular, the warships that Austria has converted from merchant ships and cargo ships are usually only 500 to 1,000 tons, which can only be regarded as the level of cruisers, and they are really powerless in the face of those capital ships that often exceed 2,000 tons.

As for wanting to rely on such a small ship, it is even more impossible to sink a 3,500-ton first-class battleship.

"Franz, I think you're saying it very well. If the Marines can really get there, the kind of level you're talking about. Then the war will be too easy, maybe we will be able to complete a battle that the ancients could not have imagined without losing even a single battleship. ”

Friedrich wanted to make a fuss, but the technique was clumsy, and Franz had to pretend to accept it.

"When will your steam battleship be launched?"

"Well," said Friedrich, after a moment's thought, "three or five years." ”

"So long?" Franz was a little surprised, in fact, he thought that just a pile of wood and a layer of iron sheets should be about the same in a month or two.

"It's fast, it's still going to be built in Venice, and if you are in Trieste, if you don't have an experienced old boatman, you won't be able to go into the water for five years." Friedrich emphasized.

Franz felt that something was wrong and said.

"How many classes of battleships are you talking about?"

"My flagship, of course, is a first-class battleship!"

"I'm trying to ask when a regular capital ship will be built."

Looking at Friedrich's contemplative appearance, Franz felt that the third class battleship must not need to be built for so long.

"Two to three years."

"Is it so slow to build?" Franz was still a little confused.

"Unless, of course, you want him to sink with one shot." Friedrich laughed.

"One shot sinks?" Franz was a little puzzled, because when he chatted with Friedrich before, he knew that the efficient way to sink a battleship during this period was actually to ramming.

However, the violent impact is very likely to cause both sides to sink together.

Suppose you want to sink the opponent's warship with artillery, it is difficult to do it without half an hour of fighting, unless it is crushed by tonnage firepower.

"The Americans on the other side of the continent once built a third-class battleship called the USS America in order to thank France for helping them get rid of British rule, but due to cutting corners, it sank as soon as it reached France."

Friedrich laughed and broke the news about America's black history.

In fact, on November 9, 1776, the Continental Congress approved the construction of three 74-gun battleships, which was the first time that the United States built battleships independently, and the America mentioned by Friedrich was among them.

On September 3, 1782, the U.S. Congress decided to gift the USS America to France.

On November 5, 1782, the hull was launched.

On June 24, 1783, it was completed and set sail for France. and arrived on July 16.

In 1786, the French Navy inspected the ship's timber and found it to be rotten and could not be repaired, so it was scrapped.

It took the Americans six years to build a rotten ship, and then gave it to the French, which is called "gift", which is really the old American style.

"Friedrich, how long will it take to build three steam-powered ironclads of the first rank?"

"God knows! I haven't even built a single one! You ask me how long it will take me to build three? I'll wait until my flagship is launched. ”

Franz did not know how to build ships and could only ask Friedrich, who did not want to answer Franz's question at all, because he did not have an answer either.

What's even more embarrassing is that Franz rejected several of Friedrich's ideas based on the experience of later generations, so the latter seemed a little irritable and desperate to win back some face, but Franz was a person who was used to enjoying the convenience of the Internet in later generations, and was quite unsuitable for the life of not being able to get answers as soon as possible, and the atmosphere at the dinner table seemed more awkward for a while.

Adjani saw that something was wrong with the atmosphere in front of her, so she said.

"Archduke Franz, you and Archduke Friedrich don't have dessert yet, why don't you let him taste the double skin milk you invented?"

Adjani deliberately walked between Franz and Friedrich and picked up the dishes on the table.

"Double skin milk? Franz, you're still a foodie, huh? ”

It's not that Friedrich is too out of step and easy to be led astray by Adjani.

It's that Adjani is very good at dealing with this kind of thing, voice, expressions, body language, and it is easy to lure people into her rhythm.

It's just that she usually deals with jealousy between men, not children, but in her eyes, there is no difference.

"I didn't invent it, it's a practice that came from the East, but I just happened to see it in a book." Franz replied.

In fact, since the day Adjani was in charge of Franz's diet, sugar has never left Franz's recipes.

The Viennese diet itself is on the sweet side, Adjani and Talia hit it off when it comes to adding sugar, what syrup pork chops, honey ham, sweet cabbage, honey chicken soup. And the coffee that is more than lethal sweet.

If Franz didn't make some food to eat by himself, he was afraid that he would have developed diabetes early.

"I really admire you, you have read so many books. I have only read the Gallic Wars and the Army Drill Code at your age. ”

It can be seen that Friedrich is sincere, but this Franz is really deserved, because he is a human being in two lives, so he can be like this, and when he was seven years old in his last life, he was still watching gourd babies and cat and mouse.

"No, you're very good, at least I haven't read "Gallic Wars" and "Army Drill Codex", I read some idle books." Franz explained.

"Franz, I've always had a question. We, the Austrian Empire, where to find people who know Arabic? If you want to infiltrate secretly, you can't let our people speak German or Italian. ”

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