“1，2，34！”

With the neat slogans of the sailors, the Viking longships slowly slid away.

One by one, the old sailors quickly boarded the ship, found their seats through the deck, pulled out a wooden oar from the wooden trough, and put it on the paddle seat with the slurry mouth outstretched.

Boom~

The oars made a large splash, and the Viking ships left the harbor in an orderly manner.

The slender hull with its square-shaped sails sails sailed into the Norwegian Sea in concert with wind and manpower.

A platoon of more than thirty people was on a boat.

The deputy platoon commander is also the boatswain, responsible for supervising the paddlers, maintaining the order of the paddling, and boosting the morale of the paddlers.

The platoon commander served as the captain and lookout, responsible for observing the flag signals, and at the same time paying attention to the revelations of the sages, and cooperating with the movement of the entire fleet of the Southern Expedition.

Experienced veteran non-commissioned officers served as trumpeters, sat down in the middle of the aisle, and controlled the rhythm of the paddle according to the instructions of the platoon commander.

Each company will be accompanied by a special reconnaissance ship, and the company commander, company missionaries, and company commanders will stay on it, and they will be responsible for observing and reporting the enemy's situation.

In addition, the company will be equipped with cargo ships, and logistics personnel will take them.

Compared to the dragon longship, the hull of a cargo ship is tall and wide, and the hull is also heavy, so it can remain stable when navigating with heavy loads in rough seas.

In general, the fleet of this southern expedition is composed of different types of ships, such as transport ships, combat ships and reconnaissance ships, which play their respective advantages in different tasks and work together, improving the efficiency and flexibility of the fleet, which is also the traditional tactic of large Viking fleets.

They are experts in large-scale collective free trade.

Also because of the good preparations in advance, the Southern Expeditionary Fleet left the port without any accidents.

Call~

The sky was cloudless, and seabirds were circling and chirping.

Vondolph stood at the bow of the ship, admiring the small sail battleship at his feet.

There is no shortage of top-quality shipbuilding trees in Northern Europe, but the timber used to build large ships takes time to dry in the shade.

Relying on the happy climbing machine to train the soldiers, the manpower of the soldiers was used to drive the fan in the drying room to rotate, and the ventilation was circulated in the drying kiln to achieve the effect of uniform drying and shorten the time of wood drying.

But that's not enough.

Fortunately, as a pirate port, there is a ready-made shipbuilding timber in Kirkenes Port, and there is no shortage of giant masts.

Shipbuilders, professional carpenters, and shipbuilding timber were concentrated, and Slude was arranged to be the foreman.

Rubbed her the waves.

After using his own specialty bonuses and building buffs, he finally completed the first Valkyrie-class sail battleship.

The blueprint for the first machine is a reference to the Caravel sailing ships that prevailed in the 15th century, and is characterized by a high level of balance, speed and maneuverability.

Weighing about 100 tonnes, the three-masted galleon is lighter than the large Carrick and has a shallower waterline, making it more suitable for coastal and river explorations, reducing the burden on the boat.

In terms of sails, the rudder performance of the jib has become higher, the sail is more prone to puff up, and it is better at sailing against the wind, and the speed has been greatly increased.

Circumnavigate the Cape of Good Hope and arrive in India to discover the Americas...... Famous seafaring adventurers such as Dias, da Gama and Columbus set sail for the unknown with Caravel sailboats, and were known as excellent scuds and good helpers in discovering the world.

Compared with jumping directly to a thousand-ton warship, the economy, universality, steering and speed of such a small sailing ship are more suitable for Feng Dolph at this stage.

Because of the need to accumulate experience for shipwrights, carpenters and other workers, all those who do not use advanced technologies such as flying scissors bow, tilting bow, and iron ribs are afraid of taking it for granted with a pat on the head, and then overturn the cart.

Feng Daofu took fifty guards and ascetics to the deck, and a tall figure approached: "Good day, Sage." ”

He is about thirty or forty years old, in his early eights, wearing a white military uniform, with a straight body and upright and majestic facial features, which perfectly conforms to the image of an old professional soldier.

On the chest are neatly hung platinum skill badges and three rows of seniority badges, marking the status of ability and battalion-level officers.

This old subordinate of the Blood Axe King, who is said to have been born on the ship, saluted seriously: "It's an honor to fight with you!" ”

Vondolph smiled back: "Good day, Douglas, do you have time to introduce me to this ship?" ”

"No problem!"

Douglas led the way in front: "The Valkyrie class has a total capacity of 100 people, and according to the weather observed before the war, a two-shift system is currently implemented. ”

"If it's after September, because it starts to cool down, the westerly wind will be stronger."

"At that time, we will need to be on duty in three shifts around the clock to safely and effectively serve the ships and cope with the unpredictable climate of the Norwegian Sea."

A short and clear introduction from the old captain.

There is a handsome spirit that has been working at the grassroots level for 30 years without being promoted, but is still conscientious.

This knowledge of nautical meteorology has been passed down from generation to generation by Viking navigators.

Vondolph collected and studied it, evoking knowledge from other fields, recalling that it was called the North Atlantic Warm Current.

Due to the uneven distribution of solar radiation on the surface, decreasing from low to high latitudes, there is an uneven heat and cold disparity.

This prompts atmospheric movements, combined with the Earth's rotation, to create a global atmospheric circulation – the triple circulation.

The seawater on the surface of the earth's oceans will flow steadily along a certain direction on a large scale all year round, and is the main regulator of the earth's surface thermal environment.

- To put it simply: because of the radiation of Tokyo heat, coupled with the automatic rotation of the blood, under the action of autobiography and warm flow, the blood will cause the heat to swell somewhere, and at the same time, the brain will have insufficient blood supply, which is the dynamic balance of heat, which can also be called the relativity theory of Fudi Demon.

The sea and coastal areas through which the warm current flows are generally warmer than other sea areas at the same latitude, with humid air and abundant rainfall.

The North Atlantic Current warms and humidifies the west coast of Europe, creating a temperate oceanic climate in western Europe.

On the other side of the sea, in the eastern part of North America, the eastern seaboard is barren due to the dehumidification of the Labrador cold snap.

Obviously, they are neighbors on both sides of the sea, but because of the different ocean currents, the climate and geography have become different.

Another example is the northern latitude of Spain, which is equivalent to the capital of the hometown, but Spain has a temperate maritime climate.

Germany's latitude is equivalent to the northeast Longjiang in its hometown, but Germany is obviously much more suitable because of the assistance of the North Atlantic Current.

With this in mind, Vondolph knew that the North American route he had envisioned was not going to work.

The earth, a basin of feet, is dangling from west to east.

To sail all the way west, against the warm North Atlantic current to North America, it would be too difficult to navigate, and the improved Valkyrie-class would be choking enough—the textbook description of Columbus was miserable.

Vondolph has a heart that loves to study.

The front door was blocked and he was not allowed to enter, so he slipped out the back door.

The back door doesn't work, then you can still open the window!

There are always more ways than difficulties.

Combined with the experience of the old captains, he found the East Greenland cold current, and he should be able to follow this current!

"This is called treating labor with raze, and governing the ocean with foreign!"

Feng Daofu said in his heart: "If you can succeed, you will be given the name of a foreign power immortal." ”

The Viking route should also be here.

Speaking of which, it has something to do with the Blonde King.

Because of the oppressive rule of the Blonde King, many Norwegians were exiled to Iceland, and Iceland was overcrowded, and their children and grandchildren fled to Greenland, and when Greenland could no longer live, the children and grandchildren of their children and grandchildren went further westward and finally arrived in North America.

I don't know what the blonde king will think.

Douglas is already introducing sailors.

Vondolf followed, took off his armor and handed it to his personal bodyguard, Ava, and shook hands with each sailor: "Brothers, it's a pleasure to fight with you!" ”

"Io bless us from one victory to the next!"

The Sage was so charming that the sailors cheered feverishly.

"Long live the Sage!"

"Long live the Sage!"

The sail battleship boiled, but the bodies of the sailors remained at their posts and did not move.

Ever since receiving his officer training at Vondolph, Douglas has become a big fan of Von's military training.

Not only did he break all his past vices and strive to improve, but after he stood out among countless competitors and became the first Valkyrie-class captain, he also had strict requirements for the sailors of the first sailing battleships.

Vondolph understands and appreciates such a new atmosphere of the army.

It was not in vain that he looked at the panels one by one, carefully selected a batch of high-quality soldiers, and gave him salary and benefits beyond ordinary troops.

If you have land and resources, you have to start internal purification.

The future will inevitably be dominated by the sea, sail warships are a new thing, and they need to be cultivated again, and this new batch of sailors is the seed of the new army, and it is the starting point for saying goodbye to the bandits of the past.

Douglas also played a good role in leading by example, training by example, and showing the most steadfast faith in proselytizing, even taking the initiative to accept penance baptism on vacation days.

If it weren't for the captaincy, he would have fulfilled the requirements to become a Sage Guard, a Plate Ascetic.

"Douglas, good job."

Feng Dolph affirmed Douglas's achievements, which made the old captain's eyes a little excited, and took the initiative to ask: "Sage, the Valkyrie-class is the fastest ship, and I want to lead the reconnaissance ship in front." ”

"If you encounter the Blonde King's fleet, only the Valkyrie and the scout ship will not alarm these cunning sea wolves, and you can lead them to fool."

"With the range of the little boy's ballista, we can deal them a heavy blow from the safest distance, clear out a group of the Blonde King's navy, and reduce the risk of pirate attacks on the Norwegian Sea Route in the future."

Douglas was keen to prove that the Sage's huge investment was worth it.

Feng Daofu thought about it and nodded in agreement.

Not for meritorious service, it's also good to test the performance

The Valkyrie level has gone through many sea trials, but because he has been busy with other things, he has not personally led the team to try the performance after the full buff bonus.

The firepower had already been determined, and there were eight 5,000-pound Boy-class modified naval ballistae.

Three seats are installed on each side of the ship, and two seats are installed on the front.

The combination of sideboard and frontal firepower makes the layout very compact, and it does not affect the space of action too much for the Valkyrie class, which is about 23 meters long and 7 meters wide.

The 5,000-pound Little Boy ballista uses 521 grams of crossbow arrows, an average muzzle velocity of 93.8 m/s, a maximum range of 750 meters for a 55-degree projectile, and an energy of 2,291 joules.

Such performance can be called the top of the marine ballista, reducing the dimensionality of the strike.

The Valkyrie-class eight ballistas are composed of firepower and range, which is enough to sling more than ten times the ordinary Viking longship.

No matter how bad it is, it will run away completely.

If you have the aura of the mentally handicapped, relying on the advantage of ballista range and speed, you can also fly kites while running, and eat a fleet of boats.

Just eat, not sink.

Ballistas are not cannons, common Viking ships are not only solid oak, but also like to hang a row of round shields on both sides, such a hard wooden hull, as long as it is geophysics, will not appear like the dragon mother's fleet in the game of power, which is destroyed by the scorpion crossbow and turned into a pool of rotten wood under a few rounds of fire.

The Valkyrie-class can't sink a ship, but it can greatly demoralize and defeat the captives easily.

Overall, the advantage is mine!

After receiving the Sage's approval, the Valkyrie began to speed up, taking the scout ship out of the way.

Half a day later, the ultimate speed was measured.

"Trigger Legacy - Plunder Level 1, Naval Speed +20%"

"Trigger Building - Armillary Sphere, Naval Speed +10%"

The average speed measured in the first sea trial was about 10 knots, or 18.52 kilometers per hour.

After many additions, the speed was stable to 13 knots, almost comparable to that of the early scissor sailing boats.

According to Douglas and the old sailors, the voyage became smoother and the sailors worked together more tacitly.

The old captain said, "The wind is starting to get better. ”

This is already much faster than other scout ships, almost twice as fast as ordinary Viking longships.

If there is really a naval battle, the power advantage of this machine will be much greater.

Vondolph, after taking into account the opinions of other old captains, decided that he could be a little more radical.

Don't slow down and wait for other reconnaissance ships, one ship will take the lead, and go around the waters near Bergen first.

"Let's get off to a good start."

Vondolph's anticipation lasted for two days before it became boring.

Norway is 1,750 kilometres long, and almost half of Norway is crossed from Kirkenes Harbour to Bergen.

This journey took Ingrid more than half a month.

Even if the Valkyrie was twice as fast, it would take a week or two to arrive.

"A week or two."

Vondolph smacked his lips, a little sorry for underestimating the boredom of sailing, and didn't take Ingrid with him.

When the idle eggs hurt, Feng Dolph vented his excess energy on the sailors and took them to practice.

Beep beep –

"You are glorious sailors, and you are destined to be great! Destined to be extraordinary! ”

"Long live the Sage!"

In the calm Norwegian Sea, young sailors are circling on the deck of the Valkyrie.

A shrill whistle and a shout of all power pierced through the sky.

Start training in the morning, run around the deck, combat training, sail climbing, sail manoeuvring. Most of the training is related to sail ropes.

This is a highly technical task, and the most manpower required by the sail warship is also the sail liner who serves the three-masted sail rigging.

A three-masted sail warship has a total of eleven sails in the first four, four in the middle, and three in the rear, and these riggings have to be repeated eleven times.

These require at least 99 rigging, not counting spare rigging and some double rigging that requires additional load.

Only those experienced sailors can find the corresponding rigging in the complex and changeable wind direction and weather at the first time and adjust it to the best position.

If the technology, experience, and coordination are poor, the performance of the ship will not be able to be brought into full play in real naval battles.

It's like playing a competitive game with a delay of 200, no matter how powerful the player is, the reaction is always more than one beat slower, and the fried fish pond may be slapped twice by the fish.

Feng Daofu has a training bonus, and he trains troops very quickly.

The positive feedback is strong, and everyone is practicing energetically.

After lunch, the sailors can begin a relatively relaxed shooting practice, including ballista operation and ballistic math lessons.

There was no rest after dinner, and the decks had to be scrubbed, each cable had to be knotted, and the sails were folded and mended.

Even if the Valkyrie is a young girl and doesn't need much maintenance, the procedures that should be followed must also be followed.

"It is up to you to revise the future sailors' code of conduct!"

"Imagine that countless children look up to you as heroes, because of you, the children who aspire to be sailors on sailboats, and when they join the Navy, they will also learn the skills and experience you have discovered. Isn't it motivating to think about it? ”

Feng Dolph finally came to the real cake: "Good performance in the evening with a meal bonus!" ”

"Ulla!"

On a busy day, the sailors lay on the floor in cramped cabins, and the pacesetters who performed well in training were qualified to sleep on rope beds.

Put a set of nets on the hook, and they can eliminate the harassment of black hands and black feet, black guns, sway, and sit back and relax.

Müller is an excellent pacesetter.

He listened to all kinds of grinding teeth and snoring, carefully took out the pen and paper rewarded by the sage, and began to write a letter to his family in the deep night illuminated by the small porthole.

"Honey, today is the 7th day of going to sea."

"I won another excellent pacesetter today, the Sage sees everything, I believe that I will soon have the opportunity to be promoted to a non-commissioned officer, and I am already desperate to meet the pirates under the command of the Blonde Mad King."

"Life at sea is quite boring, every day is to line up for exercises, clean decks, train classes, check if there are any cables to break, there are no sea monsters and no mountains in the sea, but I catch a lot of big fish."

"Speaking of fishing, my dear, I'm going to tell you an interesting story."

"I'm on the third post tonight, probably in the wee hours of the morning, when I just woke up to work, I suddenly heard a noise in the stern of the boat, and I was startled."

"I ran over to look, only to realize that it was the Sage who was using a ballista."

"The Sage said that he had just arrived, and he wanted to fish, but suddenly he saw some Innsmouth octopus in the sea, and he was worried about the safety of the crew before firing the ballista."

"I looked at the dew reflecting the moonlight on the Sage's body and said I believed it."

"But I actually know that the Sage is angry that he can't catch a fish again."

"(smiley) Even if it's a sage, it's too"

Knock knock!

Footsteps were heard.

Mueller reflexively turned his head, and a blonde man stood beside him and smiled brightly at him: "The Sage admires you very much, and plans to cultivate you from tonight onwards, give you strength, come with me." ”

Muller looked surprised and hurriedly finished writing the end of his letter.

"The Sage is going to promote me!"

"That's all for the letter, I miss you."

"Love your husband."

Vomit!

Mueller was retching on his stomach and his sword fell to the side.

Feng Daofu cheered him up with enthusiasm: "Come on, show your momentum of catching three fish in a row!" ”

Mueller tried, but his body was sore: "Already, I don't have a little bit of physical strength......"

"Have you reached the limit, then take a break, come, give him a massage."

Vondolph nodded in understanding.

Just when Mueller breathed a sigh of relief, he saw the sage's sunny smile: "I'm not a devil either. ”

"When you're tired, you can practice your brain again, come, do the math problems here"

"Sage!"

Douglas's voice came: "Enemy ships found!" ”

Thanks to the 'Book Friend 20200218090104568' for the 100 points of the long-haired carrot.

Something happened at night, I wrote a bit in a hurry, and there was a lot of popular science, sorry!

The next chapter will get to the point.,Tomorrow will be based on the battle.,Continue to work hard and get more fifteen thousand a day!

Why didn't the ancients come up with the idea of increasing the number of crossbow arms to increase power like the scorpion crossbow in Game of Thrones, and embarked on the road of relying on torsion springs?

Because if there are several sets of bow arms, and each set of bow arms has different tension and rebound speed - it is difficult to achieve exactly the same level of craftsmanship in ancient times - the final power is likely to be mainly the set of bow arms with the fastest rebound speed, and it is difficult to form an effective resultant force.

The final solution took shape in the Song Dynasty, with the three sets of bow arms of the three-bow bed crossbow joined together by a set of ropes and pulleys.

Directly powered by one set of main bows and one bowstring, the other two sets of bowbows act as auxiliaries to speed up the rebound speed and strength of the bowstring.

Such a structural principle is already similar to that of modern compound bows, which can be said to be very advanced.

Although the scorpion crossbow in the Game of Thrones series also has at least three sets of crossbow arms, it does not have any structure similar to the three-bow bed crossbow, and it is difficult to compare with the three-bow bed crossbow in the Song Dynasty in terms of technical level and power.

In other words, the scorpion crossbow of Game of Thrones should only be the product of imagination, and in terms of technical level, it cannot catch up with the ballistae of ancient Rome and the bed crossbow of China.

However, why is this scorpion crossbow, which is not of high technical level, so powerful in the plot?

If you want to ask, just ask the screenwriters of this season.

(End of chapter)